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# 5-star recruit Isaiah Stewart is bringing a tenacious work ethic to UW.

TUALATIN, Ore. — When Dela Stewart talks, Isaiah listens because his father has a lot to say.

The 62-year-old native of Jamaica has spent nearly the past two decades preparing his youngest son for this seminal moment when he goes off to college.

Teach him how to have manners and respect.

Go to school, come home and don't run no streets."

Admittedly, Dela, who lives in Rochester, N.Y., is nervous about Isaiah moving so far away from home, and pegged to be one of the next big stars in college basketball with the Washington Huskies.

"I tell him, 'Remember what Daddy told you,' " Dela said.

"You don't need to run with no bad people.

All you need to run with is good people.

You don't need to jump in no car and ride with nobody.

"I tell them what my dad always say," Dela said.

"You see a man's face, but you don't see his heart.

You see a man's face smiling, but his heart may not look like that.

So you got to be careful of your surroundings and your friends and what you're doing.

"I try to protect him from vampires," Dela said, smiling.

"Vampire means people who try to bring you down.

People who don't want to see you do good.

I tell him, keep vampires out of your life."

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Isaiah listened to every word, but it wasn't his dad's advice that influenced him the most.

Dela's journey from a hardscrabble upbringing in Jamaica to migrant farming in Florida and working construction in upstate New York has given Isaiah all the inspiration he needs.

"I'm a hard worker, and I got that from my dad," Stewart said.

"I see him coming home from work every day doing construction or whatever he was doing at the time, and it motivated me to hopefully one day help him have a better life.

"Hopefully he can retire from work and stop working, but knowing him that's never going to happen.

That's just the way he is, and that's what he instilled in me."

Dela's father was a fisherman and farmer in Jamaica.

He was a tall man, about 6 feet 9, said Dela who is 6-3.

"That's where (Isaiah) gets his height," Dela said smiling.

But mostly, we worked doing anything we could to make money."

In his early 20s, Dela left his home in the Caribbean for Florida, where he found seasonal work picking sugar cane, oranges and tobacco.

He moved to upstate New York in his 40s and met Shemeka Holloway and had two kids — Martin, 19, and Isaiah, who turns 18 on Wednesday.

The winters were brutally cold, but Dela found steady employment working construction jobs, which enabled him to raise his two boys as a single father.

"Even when I was little, I could see he was just making things happen," Isaiah said.

When the fridge was empty, just like that he made sure food was in the fridge and a roof over our heads for my brother and I.

Whatever he's got to do he's going to do it for my brother and I to make sure we're straight.

I tell him he's the reason why I work so hard.

He calls me and asks me, 'Are you working?

He always tells to continue to work hard no matter what."

La Lumiere's Isaiah Stewart shoots a free throw against IMG Academy in the Boys Final game at the Geico High School Basketball Nationals in the Queens borough of New York on Saturday, April 6, 2019.

If you've never seen Isaiah Stewart play basketball, here's what you need to know: The kid works harder than anyone else on the court.

That's the take-away from the NBA scouts and front-office executives who crammed inside the Portland Trail Blazers' practice facility last month to watch Team USA practice before the Nike Hoops Summit.

At 6-9 and 248 pounds, Stewart already looks like an NBA forward because of his broad, chiseled shoulders and ridiculous 7-4 wingspan.

While sharing the frontcourt with Memphis-bound forward James Wiseman, Stewart seemingly collected every rebound and loose ball while displaying a soft shooting touch and nimble footwork around the basket.

"I've gotten to know Isaiah not only this week but also playing in (the McDonald's All-American game), and that guy brings it every time," said Cole Anthony, who is headed to North Carolina.

Wiseman is the No. 1 prospect on Rivals' final 2019 national rankings, followed by Stewart at No. 2.

It's the highest ranking for a UW recruit, surpassing Markelle Fultz, who was ranked No. 5 by Rivals in 2016.

"We had (Isaiah) at No. 5 in our previous ranking, and it's been a steady climb for him," Rivals analyst Eric Bossi said.

"He's one of those guys that I don't think will leave any stone unturned in becoming the best basketball player that he can be.

There's never been a second when you walked away and thought, 'Yeah he's good, but he doesn't play hard.'"

La Lumiere's Isaiah Stewart in action against IMG Academy in the Boys Final game at the Geico High School Basketball Nationals in the Queens borough of New York on Saturday, April 6, 2019.

Stewart's prep basketball career began at McQuaid Jesuit High in Rochester, N.Y., where he jumped on the national recruiting radar as a freshman after scoring 40 points in a game.

He missed his sophomore year after breaking his tailbone while auditioning for the U.S. U-16 team in the summer of 2016.

The next year, Stewart transferred to La Lumiere, a boarding school in La Porte, Ind., where he averaged 19.8 points, 11.2 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.4 blocks as a junior while guiding the Lakers to a 25-4 record and a fifth seed into the GEICO High School Nationals.

With Stewart averaging 19.5 and 12.0 rebounds as a senior, La Lumiere was 30-1 and was runner-up in the high-school nationals.

"I played soccer, and I was into boxing before I started playing basketball serious in the fifth grade," said Stewart, who won the Naismith High School Player of the Year award.

"Ever since I picked up a basketball it intrigued me.

I started working hard at it in middle school.

When I started dunking on a 10-foot hoop, I was like, 'Hey, I like this.

Tennessee offered Stewart his first scholarship as a freshman, and soon after he drew interest from every major program in the country.

That's when Stewart met Washington coach Mike Hopkins, who was an assistant at Syracuse.

They bonded over basketball, and Stewart found someone who could match his nonstop motor.

"I'm a different dude from the other kids in my class," said Stewart, who chose UW over Duke, Michigan State, Kentucky and Syracuse.

"I don't get caught up in the blue-blood stuff.

That's just how I am and how I was raised.

At the end of the day I'm going to go with what's best for me."

Before Isaiah Stewart committed to UW, Husky fans let him know how much they wanted him in Seattle.

Washington loses most of its stars from last season's 27-9 team that won the Pac-12 title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Sophomore star Jaylen Nowell, the Pac-12 Player of Year, has entered the NBA draft, and the departures of three senior starters will force the Huskies to rebuild around a young nucleus that includes Stewart, sophomore guard Nahziah Carter and Kentucky transfer Quade Green.

"If we don't get who we want to get, then we have to move on," Stewart said referring to five-star prospect Jaden McDaniels, who is UW's top recruiting target.

"But regardless, we're going to have to be some dogs.

I feel like they're going to feed off me.

They're going to see that I'm about business when I'm in the gym.

"I know I'm going to be a freshman, but I have people who are 30-year-olds with four kids that look up to me.

So it's not intimidating for me to call people out.

I plan on going in there and being that dog.

They're definitely going to feel that, and they're going to take some of that dog away from me and we're going to get after it."

That's Isaiah talking, but those are Dela's words.

I love him for that, and I'm so proud of him.

I've told him, 'You got to work hard for what you want.

You ain't going to get nothing handed to you for free, that's for sure.'

"You got to put your mind to what you want.

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"Always Remember Us This Way" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 39 with sales of 11,029 units on the chart dated October 12, 2018.

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Following the soundtrack's release "Always Remember Us This Way" debuted at number-two on the US Digital Songs chart. The song consecutively debuted at number 41 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 along with four other tracks from the album charting. It was present on the chart for a total of nine weeks. As of February 2019, the track has sold 248,000 copies in the United States and accumulated 71 million streams. The track debuted at number 32 on the Canadian Hot 100 while entering their Digital Songs chart at number-two. In Australia, the song entered the ARIA Singles Chart at number 18, and by next week reached a peak of number 12. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) certified it Platinum for selling over 70,000 units in the country. Similarly in New Zealand, the song entered the singles at number 39, and after a few weeks reached a peak of number 14. The Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ) certified it Platinum for selling over 30,000 units in the country.


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Janice Min reportedly made $2 million-a-year as editor-in-chief at Us Weekly, while her husband was a full-time dad.

She tells why, even if a woman has it all, she still has to deal with grocery shopping and screaming babies.

I first met my future husband Peter at Columbia University during our junior year.

He was extremely cute, assigned to the room next door to mine, and by our senior year we were a couple.

I knew then I wanted to be a reporter; he wanted to be a teacher.

It didn't take a college degree to know we weren't exactly picking the most lucrative careers.

As if to prove that point, my very first job in 1991 was as a $24,000-a-year reporter for a local paper in Westchester County.

I worked from 2 to 10 p.m. and weekends.

Peter, for his part, headed to the Ritz Escoffier cooking school in Paris before entering a Ph.D. program for history.

He would spend nine long years with modest cook wages and grad-student teaching fellowships.

In year seven of that stretch, we were wed.

In 2003, five years later, on summer break from his high school teaching job, he convinced me to accept the editor-in-chief job at Us Weekly after my predecessor abruptly left.

Ever rational and intelligent, Peter explained why I should.

I nearly doubled circulation, and soon, I was making more money sometimes in one paycheck than he would make the whole year.

Recent findings show that now nearly a quarter of American wives serve as the family breadwinner.

And from what I know anecdotally, I'd guess that about 60 percent of those women are perpetually annoyed about their breadwinner status.

I'd be lying if sometimes I said I wasn't, also.

(The feeling usually burbled up on a Tuesday morning after a 3 a.m. late night putting the magazine to bed.)

But for the most part, our arrangement worked out well.

Two months after becoming editor-in-chief, I became pregnant.

(I'm sure my boss was not psyched, though he never let on.)

Nine months later, I gave birth — just hours after closing an issue and an early morning "Today" show appearance to talk about J.Lo's third wedding.

Around that time, my husband asked to work half-time.

I often worked and traveled the hours of two jobs combined, and one of us needed to scale back.

It made no sense financially or careerwise for it to be me.

After our second child was born, my husband, unhappy in his job, left his position altogether.

Yes, there were times in my harried, chronically exhausted life I'd have a little daydream about being one of those tennis-playing wives with an investment banker husband.

And we had plenty of arguments: His inability to go grocery shopping was a sore point — it never crossed his mind to buy food, even though he loves to cook.

Another was how he managed to sleep through the kids' cries in the morning.

They are calm, smart, happy and kind, and I give my husband (and our great caretakers) much credit for that.

I would venture to say he had a far more challenging job than I did.

I remember seeing a depressing segment on "Good Morning America" last year where a working mom described her loss of respect for her laid-off husband.

He was enjoying spending time with the kids; she was seething with contempt.

I felt sorry for them both, and I realized I am hard-wired a little differently than some other women.

As a girl growing up in Colorado, I never dressed up like a bride, guessed which boy I was going to marry or looked at wedding magazines.

(Even though, oddly, I'd later go on to edit one.

To me, marriage wasn't a goal, but something that happens to some and not others.

I probably filled my mind with thoughts about being a journalist and working in media more than anything else.

I was also the youngest of three kids to two working parents (my mom went back to work when I was in first grade), which meant I learned a lot about self-sufficiency early on and how to take care of myself.

I always loved having after-school jobs because it meant not asking my parents for money.

At Us Weekly, there is a section of the office called "the pod," where the junior members of the predominantly female staff sit.

Every so often in my seven years at the magazine, a group squeal from the pod would spontaneously erupt.

Inevitably, it meant one thing: Someone had come in with a new engagement ring.

It was always a deliciously happy moment.

For the rest of the day, the women in the office would talk about carat size, cuts and whisper about different diamonds.

I told a few women in the office the story of how when I was 27 I actually had refused to wear an engagement ring.

Some of the women looked at me like I'd drowned their kitten; others were filled with awe.

I explained that at that time in my life, I found something objectionable about how women judged other women by ring size ("poor so-and-so, her diamond's so small" translated into "sucker, she's marrying a poor guy"); and that the whole proposal and wedding ritual was, dare I say, a little sexist.

(Grown men asking fathers' permission to marry their grown daughters is a nice tradition, but honestly, it kind of gives me the creeps.)

Now I look back at that decision and realize what I was really resisting was the idea of turning over my independence — financial and otherwise — to someone else.

I dare you to find another editor in New York who has assigned more stories and photo shoots involving rings, wedding dresses and romance than I.

I am a staunch believer in love, marriage and family, but not that a woman can't out-earn a man or that a man shouldn't change the diapers.

Today, I wear a beautiful emerald cut diamond that once belonged to Peter's great aunt, and call it my engagement ring.

But I only put it on a few months after our wedding.

Some might think that because I made the bulk of our family's money that I have the upper hand, or the rights to call all the shots.

It's more a partnership than a dictatorship.

I don't think either one of us equates money with power, or finds its pursuit an essential part of living our lives.

(Granted, we have that luxury after having so much income for so long.)

When I was contemplating leaving Us Weekly last year, I made sure my husband was on board with the decision before making my move.

So I opted out, a little bit later than most mothers, and will opt back in doing new things at some point.

As will my husband, now that our kids are old enough to be in school every day.

Twenty years after first meeting Peter, I'd say that it is impossible for any woman to have it all, but a certain open-mindedness sometimes can get you closer.

Janice Min's book "From Mousewife to Momshell" is due in 2011.

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"The whole age of the soft interview is gone," Janice Min said.

Ms. Min, 36, is approaching her third anniversary as editor of Us Weekly.

She ascended to the job in July 2003, the same month that George W. Bush, savoring a quick and tidy army-on-army victory, dared Iraqi insurgents to "Bring 'em on."

Ms. Min has had a better three years than Mr. Bush.

Circulation has doubled, to 1.75 million.

Since January, Us—"the Newsweek of celebrity," in Ms. Min's words—has pulled in some $107 million in revenue.

Rolling Stone, Wenner Media's flagship, which makes room for war and politics, has made $70 million.

"It's not a pick-me-up to read about American soldiers getting beheaded," Ms. Min said.

Ms. Min, a onetime reporter for the Reporter-Dispatch in Westchester County, was cheery and matter-of-fact.

She spoke briskly between pauses, working her way through a bento lunch at Nobu 57 on June 23.

She had just returned from six weeks' maternity leave, her second.

On June 5, the magazine had put out its best-selling issue ever, with Janet Jackson on the cover: "How I Got Thin: 60 Pounds in 4 Months!"

Magazines are magazines; either people read them or they don't.

And people want—at this moment in history, when American Idol outdraws the evening news 7 to 1—to read Us, with its flurries of exclamation points, its snappy captions, its photos of the famous on the hoof with the franchise slogan: "Stars—They're Just Like Us!"

And who cares to read a soft piece about one of us?

Us deals in escapism, but an escape into drama and conflict—human-shaped conflict, if not exactly human-sized.

The plot lines are coupling and uncoupling, childbirth and divorce, recounted with cynical affability and enthusiasm for minute detail.

"Entertainers are themselves the entertainment," Ms. Min said.

In recent focus groups ("We almost never do focus groups," Ms. Min annotated), readers lit up discussing the Us Weekly stars.

"This is their recreation, to think and talk about celebrities," Ms. Min said.

They like it because they can relate to their mistakes, they can make fun of their mistakes, they can look up to their fashion … something they can have strong opinions on in a safe way.

They can be pro-Angelina or pro–Jen Aniston.

"I guess in an era when probably politicians and many people [are] wishing people would be involved in the Iraq debate, you know, people are more interested in debating did Jen Aniston get the shaft?"

Richard Stolley, the founding editor of People magazine, recalled a similar climate when his title launched in 1974: "The magazine came out and started telling the news of the world in terms of individuals.

The country was coming out of war and racial nightmare; the time was right for a magazine to celebrate human beings."

The early 70's were also the golden age of Mr. Wenner's Rolling Stone, which represented rather a different response to a troubled era.

Rolling Stone, Mr. Wenner said by phone, "set out its initial charter to cover politics and culture as well as entertainment and rock 'n' roll.

So it has a right to address serious topics."

"I think it would be terribly out of place in Us," Mr. Wenner said.

"That's a characteristic of anxious times, that people flock to escapism in a way of coping with danger," said the historian Alan Brinkley, who is writing a biography of Time founder Henry Luce.

"World War II was a high point of celebrity ….

In the Depression, the most popular movies were big splashy musicals and comedies."

"I think there has always been a cult of celebrity," the novelist Joyce Carol Oates said.

"The instinct to worship is so deeply embedded in the human soul, we naturally look to individuals elevated above the masses, however minimally they might be elevated, and temporarily."

Yet that worship, as practiced by Us Weekly, is not traditionally reverential.

"The Us reader is pretty sophisticated about celebrities," Ms. Min said.

"They love them, they're fascinated by them, but they don't have a fanatical belief in them."

What sets celebrities apart is that people care about them.

This is not tautological anymore; it's a business model.

"This is the whole definition of being a celebrity, is having the public interested in you," Ms. Min said.

"And the ways a celebrity derives their income these days—through endorsements, through different deals."

The June issue of the American Sociological Review reported that the average American's number of close friends has declined from 2.94 to 2.08 in the past 20 years; a quarter of the people surveyed had no close friends at all.

"People like to see where there's this finest line that separates [celebrities] from quote-unquote normal people that makes them so interesting," Ms. Min said.

Hence the fascination with the famous-for-being-famous.

"Nicole Richie was in rehab," Ms. Min said.

And she achieved fame through the oddest of means, by becoming excruciatingly thin."

"Look at the people who don't sell the magazine," Ms. Min said.

They are people who have remained almost superhuman in the public eye.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston all became much bigger stars because of this scenario that happened to them ….

They got involved in this crazy, you know, what was most likely an adulterous love triangle.

That suddenly put them on the same level as you, as your neighbor, as your friends.

"To see Jennifer Aniston, who was basically the icon of young women all through the Friends era, to see this perfect—they called them the Hollywood storybook marriage—to see that fall apart: that suddenly made her a much bigger celebrity, where she could become Vanity Fair's highest-selling cover ever and move millions and millions of magazines.

For Us, for all the weeklies, that was a radical shift."

And in the otherwise depressed world of magazine midtown, that shift has led to a rare success story.

"No one is addicted to any magazines," Ms. Min said.

"Except I hear a lot about Us Weekly addicts.

People are addicted to celebrity weeklies.

You don't hear people talk with the same passion as they used to about different fashion monthlies, about a different men's magazine.

I think about all the men I know—not one reads a magazine anymore.

The monthlies come in and sit in their polybags and die a slow death before getting carted out to the recycling, sometimes without the polybag getting taken off."

The power of gossip, Mr. Wenner said, "goes back to the Bible, to who begat whom, and on and on.

It has a powerful force for social mores, for values.

Britney and Angelina set styles beyond their hair for what's acceptable in terms of morality and relationships, about having children out of wedlock or not out of wedlock."

"The motif of babies and the bump is just rampant," Mr. Wolfe said.

"Brad and Angelina and Britney and Kevin, it's all about babies.

The one thing that Us Weekly has done that's a great boost to the nation is, they've probably increased the birthrate."

Ms. Min was not raised on the culture of exposure.

As the third of three children growing up in Littleton, Colo., she said, "there's probably barely a baby photo of me."

She said she didn't go to journalism school with dreams of covering fetus-bumps and marital spats.

"I never thought I would work in celebrity," she said.

"I thought I would have loved to have been a White House correspondent.

For a lot of people in journalism, you realize you take a job and see where it goes."

And Ms. Min—the legendarily nice heir to the legendarily not-nice Bonnie Fuller at Us—has taken to the job diligently.

"I always hated those questions, where you want to be in five years," Ms. Min said.

There are no right places; you make the best of what's available to you."

Likewise the stars, the troubled stars of today, have learned to leverage their own situations.

"They're pretty much complicit in their own publicity," Ms. Min said.

"Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, despite their pleas for privacy, have played the game really well.

They've done things to encourage their own publicity.

There's no reason they needed to hold a press conference in Namibia after she had a baby ….

It's all about pulling back and giving a little, and pulling back and giving a little.

"Jessica Simpson—she's very smart, she knows where her bread is buttered," Ms. Min said.

"This is not someone who ever goes on the attack against the press.

This is not someone who ever frowns for a photographer, for the paparazzi.

This is someone who knows her income is based on the intimacy she has with the public who buys Us Weekly ….

Jessica Simpson [is] not going to get her beauty contract if she's not seen as one of the most popular celebrities out there.

What's part of that popularity is being on the cover of Us Weekly five times out of six weeks."

"I don't think it's a coincidence," Ms. Min said, "Nick Lachey—the first single on his album is about love gone bad, and the video is a re-enactment of a marriage.

They're finding ways to intersect their personal lives and professional lives in ways that benefits them the most.

Remember, Nick Lachey['s first] solo album sold 175,000 copies total.

Two years later, his album sold that in a week.

He got no more talented in those two years, but he could capitalize on celebrity culture and the media."

Life crisis, Ms. Min said, is a growth sector.

"You [see] declining box office, declining TV ratings, declining music sales—[and] heightened interest in these people as personalities, and most of them are embracing it to some degree.

"You look at some of the things that celebrities have done in the past—there's no reason for Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe to announce they're separating but not getting divorced, that they're working on their marriage.

These are things that wouldn't have happened before."

Some people are better able to protect their investment in fame than others.

"Jennifer Lopez, happily married to Marc Anthony, is just not nearly as enticing," Ms. Min said.

"And all of a sudden, it's like someone took an eraser and she just disappeared out of Us Weekly eventually.

We started to put her back in a little more.

I feel like there's growing interest in her again.

She retreated from that spectacle, which shows you can retreat if you choose to.

Someone like Kristin Cavallari, you know, who merited an Us Weekly cover—which became one of our best-selling Us covers—because she dated Nick Lachey for like 32 seconds.

She would have to do something equally crazy to get back on the cover.

There are people who are one-week covers, certain people who are five-week covers."

Then there are the people whose five weeks—or five months—are over, raising what Ms. Min calls the "who-we're-sick-of factor."

Even Britney and Angelina are starting to bore.

"That's why I was so happy to see Janet Jackson take off," Ms. Min said.

"Let's try a new person, who pretty much defies the conventions of what magazine editors think will sell a magazine.

To have a 40-year-old black woman, and a musician, on the cover shows me not all the rules apply all the time."

And there are those cold fish who are no covers at all—who, Ms. Min said, don't play to win the public interest: "They might admire them as actors, but they don't embrace them as sort of personalities they're obsessed with.

People like Nicole Kidman, who has managed, I'm sure quite happily, to stay out of the Tom Cruise fray.

Gwyneth Paltrow—who I'm sure she's spoken openly about disliking the press—she's quite happy to stay out of the fray.

They are women who are challenged when it comes to opening a movie.

"Gwyneth is less famous now than she was five years ago.

I think she wouldn't trade that for anything.

If the very definition of celebrity is to be embraced and loved by the public, then these are people who are not winning that game and might be happy to.

No one is in this game to be recognized as the finest actors in Hollywood."

Over lunch, Ms. Min said that Us was weighing whether to put Ms. Kidman's wedding on the cover.

Instead, Us shipped to the printer with Tori Spelling on the cover, telling "how her mother's betrayal kept the heartbroken star from her father's deathbed."

"It is Tori's first cover," Ms. Min said by phone.

"I think I'd always felt there was a fascination with Tori.

We had been talking about her doing a cover when her father passed away ….

Tori was pretty much laying low until her romantic life took a twist.

She had a million-dollar wedding and a marriage that ended less than a year later, and then hooking up with another guy and having a quickie wedding put her back into the pop-culture discussion.

"That made her endearing to the audience," Ms. Min said.

"She wasn't ashamed of any of it and embraced it."

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According to the PEW research center, 44% of the voting population surveyed used social media as a way to get information about the 2016 election.

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# 10 facts about the changing digital news landscape

Digital news continues to evolve, pushed by a variety of innovations in recent years, from groundbreaking new technologies like virtual reality and automated reporting to experiments on social platforms that have altered campaign coverage.

As journalists and media practitioners gather for the annual Online News Association Conference, here are 10 key findings from recent Pew Research Center surveys and analyses that show how these rapid digital shifts are reshaping Americans' news habits:

1 About four-in-ten Americans now often get news online.

Digital is currently second only to TV news as the most prominent news platform.

Nearly twice as many adults (38%) often get news online than get news in print (20%).

Younger adults are especially likely to turn to the web for their news, while older Americans rely heavily on TV for their news.

Print newspapers are still relatively popular among older Americans, but very few younger Americans say they read them often.

2 Mobile is becoming a preferred device for digital news.

The portion of Americans who ever get news on a mobile device has gone up from 54% in 2013 to 72% today.

Two-thirds (66%) of Americans get news on both desktop/laptop and mobile, but more of those prefer mobile (56%) than desktop (42%).

3 Long-form journalism has a place in today's mobile-centric society.

Cellphone users spend more time on average with long-form news articles than with short-form.

In fact, the total engaged time with articles 1,000 words or longer averages about twice that of the engaged time with short-form stories: 123 seconds compared with 57.

And on average, long-form content attracts about the same number of visitors as short-form content.

4 More than half (55%) of U.S. smartphone users get news alerts, but few get them frequently.

When asked whether they take action on the news alerts they receive, about half say they click through to the full story or search for more information (47% of those who get alerts, or 26% of smartphone users overall).

5 Social media, particularly Facebook, is now a common news source.

Overall, 62% of U.S. adults get news on social media, and 18% do so often.

However, news plays a varying role across the social networking sites studied.

Two-thirds of Facebook users (66%) get news on the site, which amounts to 44% of the general population.

Nearly as many Twitter users say they get news on Twitter (59%), but due to Twitter's smaller user base this translates to just 9% of the general population.

6 Overall, more digital news consumers get their news online in the process of doing other things online (55%) than specifically seek out the news (44%), though there are differences by social media platform.

About six-in-ten YouTube (58%), Facebook (62%) and Instagram (63%) news users get their news online mostly by chance while they are online doing other things, and they are less likely to say they were looking for news.

However, Reddit, Twitter and LinkedIn news users are just as likely to say they seek out news online as to say they happen upon it.

7 Few Americans trust social media as a news source.

Only about two-in-ten Americans (22%) trust the information they get from local news organizations a lot, whether online or offline, and just 18% say the same of national organizations.

But large majorities say they have at least some trust in both.

This is not the case for social media, however.

Only 4% of web-using adults have a lot of trust in the information they find on social media, and just 34% say they trust it at least some.

8 While many Americans get news from social media, few are heavily engaged with news.

Only about a quarter (26%) of social media news consumers often click on links to news stories on social media.

Even fewer say they often comment on (8%), share (11%) or discuss (5%) news stories on social media.

9 In the digital news environment, the role of friends and family is prominent –

Among online news consumers, conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats are more likely than more moderate members of each party to say the news they get from family and friends online represents just one side.

And about half (51%) of conservative Republicans who said they see mostly one-sided news say this is OK – a larger share than among all other political groups, including liberal Democrats (34%).

10 Three-in-ten Americans turn to 2016 presidential candidates' digital messages for news and information about the election – and the candidates' social media posts outpace their websites and emails as sources of this news.

Roughly a quarter of U.S. adults (24%) turn to social media posts from either the Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump campaigns as a way of keeping up with the election; this is a higher share than say they turn to the candidates' campaign websites (10%) or emails (9%).

While all age groups rely more on campaign social media communications than their emails or websites, young adults are the most likely to do so: Nearly four-in-ten (37%) of those ages 18 to 29 turn to candidates' social media accounts, compared with 28% of those ages 30 to 49, 19% of those ages 50 to 64, and 11% of those age 65+.

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Katerina Eva Matsa is an associate director of journalism research at Pew Research Center.

Kristine Lu is a former research assistant focusing on journalism research at Pew Research Center.

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Therefore, it has become a valuable tool for candidates. In the 2012 reelection campaign for President Obama, the campaign used over 15 different methods of social media. This was to reach out to a broader audience. Social media provides a mechanism for candidates to directly engage with society and potential voters. In Romania, during the elections for Mayor in a town called Bacau only 3/10 candidates used Facebook in 2012. In 2016 all of the candidates engaged in the use of social media and Facebook.
 Social media also provided candidates with an insight into predicting the outcome of votes, which are more accurate than normal polling methods. Social media is a tool for campaigns as it provides an analysis as to the political climate, as well as the levels of engagement. For potential voters, social media is a way to get information.


UC and Louisville were rivals, first playing in 1921, until the 2010–13 NCAA conference realignment put the contest on hiatus, as Louisville moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference on July 1, 2014.

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Louisville will officially join the Atlantic Coast Conference, becoming the seventh former Big East school to leave for the ACC.

The ACC's presidents and chancellors voted Wednesday morning to add the Cardinals in place of Maryland, which will leave for the Big Ten in 2014.

Louisville also is expected to join the ACC in 2014 and will become the league's sixth football member formerly associated with the Big East.

The Cardinals will be required to pay the Big East a $10 million exit fee and give 27 months' notice.

But Louisville -- like several other exiting schools -- should be able to negotiate a higher buyout to leave before the 27-month period.

ACC commissioner John Swofford said Louisville was the best fit for the league following Maryland's announcement last week that it would join the Big Ten.

"When you look at Louisville, you see a university and an athletic program that has all the arrows pointed up -- a tremendous uptick there, tremendous energy," Swofford said on a teleconference.

"It's always an overall fit in every respect and I think that's what we found."

Swofford also said the league is comfortable staying at 14 full members with the addition of Louisville.

The ACC also considered Connecticut and Cincinnati for membership.

However, sources told ESPN that the league wanted Louisville only because there is a sense among league presidents that the ACC can add more schools at a later date if the conference loses any other current members.

The ACC felt Louisville was the best choice because of its "aggressive approach" to success, including a commitment to "marquee athletics programs," a source told ESPN.

The recent additions of Louisville, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Notre Dame -- which joins in all sports except football but has a scheduling partnership with the conference in that sport -- make the ACC feel as though it is "in a position of strength," the source said.

"I'm very excited to join this prestigious conference," Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich said.

"For the ACC to have faith in us means the world to us athletically and academically.

The biggest winner is our school being associated with all of the prestigious schools.

"While I'm very excited, I'm very sad for the Big East.

The Big East has been very good to this university.

I thought (when Louisville joined in 2005), it would be a lifetime commitment until things around us started deteriorating.

Instead of looking back, we're looking forward.

We want to be a great partner with every institution in the ACC."

On Tuesday, the Big East added Tulane for all sports and East Carolina for football only, also beginning in 2014.

In a statement, Big East commissioner Mike Aresco wished Louisville well and said the league's additions are important for its future.

"We are committed to a vibrant and dynamic future for the Big East Conference," Aresco said.

The ACC's decision to add Louisville is a blow for Connecticut, which had been looking for a landing spot since Pittsburgh and Syracuse announced their Big East exits.

UConn President Susan Herbst had indicated that an invitation to join that ACC is something the school would welcome.

"We will be athletically successful, regardless of our conference, because of our successes in NCAA competition," Herbst said in a statement.

I realize this is a difficult day, but when we focus on research, discovery, and student success, we'll never go wrong."

Louisville football coach Charlie Strong had predicted the school's move after his weekly coaches show Sunday, saying: "Maybe this will be the last show we do as a member of the Big East."

In the past four seasons, Louisville football is 27-22, compared to Maryland's 17-32 record.

Louisville is 23-14 in the past three years under Strong, including 9-2 this season.

The Cardinals can win the Big East title by defeating Rutgers on Thursday.

The Cardinals' football future looks bright as well.

Of Louisville's 22 starters, only five are seniors, compared to 10 sophomore or freshman starters.

Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media-rights deal.

The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than that of any current ACC member.

In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million.

The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.

The Cardinals' basketball program can also match up with elite programs in the ACC.

Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Cardinals basketball coach Rick Pitino told ESPN via text message that he thinks Louisville joining the ACC is "awesome for the university and city."

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons.

Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

Louisville basketball averaged 21,503 fans last season, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky.

The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest-rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.

Over the past six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's soccer College Cup.

The addition of Louisville will not affect the ACC's new media-rights deal.

When the ACC added Notre Dame in all sports except football in September, sources told ESPN the conference's media-rights deal was expected to increase to about $18 million annually per school.

The ACC will mark Louisville's third football conference since 1996, when it joined Conference USA after being an independent for the previous 21 years.

Louisville was in C-USA from 1996 to 2004 before leaving for the Big East in 2005.

Louisville's departure marks the seventh school in the past year that has announced it is leaving the Big East.

West Virginia, TCU, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Rutgers also are on the way out.

Because of all the defections, the Big East is scheduled to add nine schools between 2013 and 2015 -- Boise State, San Diego State, SMU, Houston, UCF, Memphis, Tulane, East Carolina and Navy.

Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Wednesday the academy is committed to its first conference affiliation since it started playing football in 1879.

"Right now, nothing's changed in terms of our attitude or ambition in terms of joining in '15," he said.

"We're just going to see how it all unfolds."

Louisville's move to the ACC is the latest in the never-ending musical chairs known as conference realignment.

In the past few years, the nation's top five conferences -- SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and ACC -- have announced the addition of 12 members, causing a wave of disruption among virtually every Division I conference from coast to coast.

The uncertainty on the college landscape has been so rampant that two league members issued statements about their commitment to the ACC.

Athletic directors from North Carolina and Virginia each issued statements, reiterating they had not been in contact with or were interested in any other conferences.

ESPN's Joe Schad and Andy Katz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


Soon after working with Michael Cretu on the first Enigma album, German producer Frank Peterson left the project in order to focus on Gregorian, a band that performs mostly covers of modern pop and rock songs with Gregorian-like vocals and symphonic instruments.

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DESCRIPTIONDon't let the conservative image fool you, their music is as far away from Catholicism as it comes.

Frank Peterson, the renowned, long-serving producer of Sarah Brightman, had the idea of integrating Gregorian chant with pop music in the eighties.

He teamed together with Michael Cretu and David Fairstein and created Enigma who had a worldwide hit with Peterson's co-written 'Sadeness (Part I)'.

Peterson left the project soon after, but took the idea of Gregorian and pop with him.

He briefly put this into motion on his own in 1991, releasing an album titled Sadisfaction, but it wasn't until 1999 that he truly began the project he dreamed of.

Gregorian has become a surprise success in Germany.

They frequently tour there, and have released several DVDs.

Unlike Enigma, this project is devoted to pop and classic rock, and dodges electronica and new age.

As time has gone on, Peterson has concentrated on a more gothic sound.

They cover well known chart hits, such as 'Vienna', 'Tears In Heaven', 'With or Without You', 'Sacrifice' and 'My Immortal'.

It sounds bizarre, and it shouldn't work, but it does.

They also have the odd original song, frequently offered by Amelia Brightman.

She and her sister, Sarah Brightman, often lend their vocals to the project.

Due to the ambiguity of their name, it's best to search them as 'Gregorian: Masters of Chant' which is how they have named most of their albums.

YOU MAY LIKE GREGORIAN IF YOU LIKE...LiberaScala & Kolacny BrothersSarah

Enigma's international success with "MCMXC a.D." was a precursor to the creation of several other musical projects that follow similar styles and marketing approaches, especially the use of the term "project" as opposed to band to denominate themselves, and the label "enigmatic music", employed mainly by radios and listeners, to categorise their music inside the New Age umbrella. Cretu has cited the progressive rock band Yes as an influence.


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# 'Godfather of Australian printmaking' dies aged 96

Tate Adams was master printmaker and Member (AM) of the Order of Australia who died this week aged 96.

THE man who was regarded by many as the godfather of Australian printmaking, and has contributed substantially to Artspace Mackay, has died this week aged 96.

Tate Adams was a master printmaker and Member (AM) of the Order of Australia.

Artspace Mackay has something in its collection that no other regional gallery in Australia has - 593 artists' books.

This collection, the largest in regional Australia, owes much of its prestige to an amazing philanthropic donation to Mr Adams.

Mayor Greg Williamson said Mr Adams generously donated a substantial portion of his personal studio collection in early 2003 to celebrate the opening of Artspace Mackay.

"Over three hundred works on paper, artists' books, wood blocks and reference books were added to our collection because of that gift," Cr Williamson said.

"The collection, then held by Mackay Regional Council Libraries, already contained some significant artists' books, but Tate really got behind what we were trying to achieve as far as creating a preeminent regional collection," he said.

"This gift became central to the gallery's art collection policy of focusing on artists' books.

"The Artspace team was very sad to hear of his passing.

Tate is very much part of the Artspace Mackay story and his legacy will live on through our collection and future exhibitions."

Mayor Greg Williamson also offered council's condolences at yesterday's ordinary meeting of council and said Mr Adams' life's work and generosity would be acknowledged every time Artspace's Tate Adams Reading Pod was used for the sharing and viewing of artists' books.

Anyone who would like to view the Tate Adams' artists' books in the collection are encouraged to make a booking for an artists' book viewing in the reading pod by contacting Artspace Mackay on 49619722.

Tate Adams established the first diploma of printmaking at RMIT where he taught for 22 years.

During this period, he also ran the leading printmaking gallery, Crossley gallery.

In retirement, Tate focussed on Lyre Bird Press in Townsville, his artists' book press, which continues to this day publishing critically appraised books of original prints.

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In the 2000s, she spent two years working on a Rosetta Stone software program in the North Slope dialect of Iñupiaq.

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# Alaska natives team with Rosetta Stone

Software company plans program designed to teach North Slope Inupiaq dialect.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — And now an Inupiaq language lesson.

Loosely translated, it means "little brain."

Fire up the qaqasauraq for the latest of three new computer programs designed to teach variations of the fading Alaska Native language.

The North Slope Borough and Rosetta Stone software company plan to unveil a program this spring specially designed to teach the North Slope Inupiaq dialect, using the photos and voices of Inupiaq people recorded in Barrow.

There are as few as 1,500 fluent speakers of Inupiaq in Alaska, estimates Fairbanks linguist Michael Krauss.

Once, it was the primary language of the northern and northwest regions of the state.

Barrow-born Edna MacLean, a former Inupiaq professor for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, spent two years working on the Inupiaq program.

She translated thousands of words and phrases from English to the North Slope Inupiaq dialect of the Inuit language.

Soon the program will be available to schools and households.

Just in time for Inupiaq language experts like MacLean, 66.

"A lot of us speakers are getting older but we sure would like our children and grandchildren to have access to something like this," she said.

Like many Alaska Natives who came of age in earlier generations, MacLean was punished in school for speaking her language, she said.

"I yelled something in Inupiaq at the girl in front of me and (my third-grade teacher) came over and pulled my ear."

Today the ability to speak indigenous languages is a prized skill.

MacLean's son, Andrew, wrote and directed an Inupiaq-language movie in Barrow that he later adapted into a feature film that is screening at the Sundance Film Festival.

In Kotzebue, where the NANA Regional Corp. has completed two regional Inupiaq dialect teaching programs in partnership with Rosetta Stone, a private Inupiaq immersion school offers classes to students as young as 3 years old.

Overall, Inupiaq is healthier than most traditional Alaska Native tongues.

Of the 20 Alaska Native languages, one — Eyak — is extinct.

Only Inupiaq and Central Yup'ik — the native language of much of southwestern Alaska — are still spoken fluently by more than 1,000 people, Krauss estimates.

But the only way to keep languages alive is to teach them to children.

And in many cases, Inupiaq is disappearing from homes as new parents raise kids in English-only households, MacLean said.

"The language is in danger of becoming extinct after maybe one or two generations," she said.

Arlington, Va., based Rosetta Stone sells computer software that teaches more than 30 languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese, by showing people pictures, giving examples of proper speech and rating users on their pronunciation.

Like an immersion school, you see and hear only the language you're learning.

American Indian groups looking to revive their languages began approaching the company for help in 1999.

By 2004, Rosetta Stone set up an endangered-language program to partner with Native groups around the world, said Marion Bittinger, manager of the program.

There's now software for learning Navajo, Mohawk and Inuttitut, an Inuit tongue spoken in Canada.

Among the two most recent are a pair of Alaska Inupiaq dialects: One for the coastal, Kotzebue region, completed in 2007, and another inland dialect spoken in villages such as Kobuk and Selawik that was finished in 2010.

The company doesn't sell the endangered language programs itself.

Typically, the software is instead distributed by its partners.

In Alaska that means the Aqqaluk Trust, a non-profit foundation NANA created, and the North Slope Borough.

"Most typically, the highest priority is to get the software into the schools for use by teachers," Bittinger said.

Between the two northwest Alaska dialects, NANA has ordered thousands of copies of the Inupiaq Rosetta Stone programs and began sending free copies to the households of shareholders last year.

The company has already shipped more than 800 free copies to shareholder families, some by mail, some simply flown as freight on Bush planes to Inupiaq villages, said Hans Schaeffer of the Aqqaluk Trust in Kotzebue.

People and organizations bought more than 150 at $195 each, he said.

A 30-year-old Inupiaq whose family is from Kobuk and Kotzebue, Schaeffer said he's tried the software himself.

As with the software for the North Slope dialect, the northwest Alaska Inupiaq programs use photos of modern Inupiat and nearby places to teach the language.

"There are a lot of faces that I did recognize," Schaeffer said.

"So when they come out with a word for like 'daughter,' there's a picture of a gal that I went to high school with."

NANA hopes the software raises Inupiaq comprehension rates in the region, where a 2005 survey found that only 14 percent of residents were fluent.

According to the Aqqaluk Trust, the survey found that those who did speak the language were mostly 65 or older.

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Beginning in 1963, MacLean worked for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, teaching Iñupiaq and developing their first degree programs in Eskimo languages. She became tenured and was an associate professor at UAF until 1987. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she wrote, edited and published dozens of Iñupiaq language materials, including an abridged Iñupiaq dictionary in 1981 and an Iñupiaq grammar in 1986. She worked for the State of Alaska Department of Education as a Special Assistant for Rural and Alaska Native Education to the Commissioner of Education from 1987 to 1990. From 1995 to 2005, she was President of Iḷisaġvik College, leading Alaska's only nationally certified tribal college.


An ongoing carriage dispute with AT&T has resulted in the removal of more than 120 Nexstar stations across 97 markets from AT&T's DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse platforms, beginning at 11:59 p.m. on July 3, 2019.

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# Nexstar stations blacked out on AT&T DirecTV and U-verse amid contract dispute

Published 1:52 p.m. ET July 4, 2019 | Updated 2:16 p.m. ET July 4, 2019CLOSE

Internet users can now stream live TV using DirecTV Now.

The streaming service offers an extensive channel list cheaper than most cable providers.

Some DirecTV and AT&T U-verse subscribers woke up Thursday to find they lost access to Nexstar stations.

More than 120 stations in 97 markets across the nation, which include ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC affiliate stations, went dark at 11:59 p.m. local time July 3 after Nexstar and AT&T were unable to reach an agreement, both sides said in competing statements that each blame the other for the blackout.

"Nexstar has removed its channels from your lineup even though we offered Nexstar more money to keep them available to you," AT&T said in its statement posted at https://tvpromise.att.com.

"Nexstar simply said no and elected to remove them from your lineups instead, putting you in the middle of its negotiations."

According to Nexstar's statement, AT&T "unilaterally dropped the network and local community programming" and refused to extend the existing distribution agreement to Aug. 2.

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For the first time, more households subscribe to a digital streaming service than to a traditional pay TV subscription.

Disputes between content providers and cable and satellite providers aren't uncommon as companies try to negotiate new deals.

In its statement, Nexstar, also known as Nexstar Broadcasting Group, says it owns, operates, programs or provides sales and other services to 174 full power television stations and related digital multicast signals reaching 100 markets or nearly 39% of all U.S. television households.

DIRECTV has yet to reach a new distribution agreement that would allow the television provider the right to continue to air Nexstar Broadcasting Stations, including WHBF—which means viewers have lost WHBF and all of its CBS programming.

— Local 4 WHBF (@Local4NewsWHBF) July 4, 2019

"Nexstar remains eager to complete an agreement with DIRECTV consistent with those it has made with every other cable, satellite and telco provider in order to end DIRECTV's action that is both unnecessary and punitive to its subscribers," Nexstar's statement said.

AT&T, which is the largest pay TV provider in the U.S., with 24.5 million subscribers, said it also is open to negotiating.

Unfortunately, Nexstar has removed stations from some of our customers' lineups.

We want to get them back as soon as possible.

Learn more here: https://t.co/TmAdMK8IHf

— DIRECTV Service (@DIRECTVService) July 4, 2019

"We share your frustration and are working to return your local channels as soon as possible," AT&T's statement said.

"These types of disputes are often resolved quickly, and we hope that will be the case this time."

AT&T says subscribers who lost access have some options.

"Most of these stations can be viewed over the air or online at the station websites.

You should be able to find station websites by searching online for the name of the local station," AT&T said noting most major networks stream primetime series on websites and apps.

Nexstar offered additional options in its statement.

"Viewers affected by the loss of service from DIRECTV have several alternatives to continue watching their favorite shows including local cable providers, DISH, over-the-air, certain subscription streaming television services, and services such as Verizon's FIOS," Nexstar said.

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History.:2017–present: Proposed merger with Tribune Media.

The merge would give the company 216 stations in 118 markets, placing it just below the FCC's market cap of 39% of TV households and making it the largest owner of television stations in the United States. Nexstar plans to divest some stations and "non-core" assets as part of the merger.
 On March 20, 2019, Nexstar announced that it would divest 19 stations to the E. W. Scripps Company and Tegna Inc. for a total sum of $1.32 billion, with Scripps receiving eight stations (WPIX-TV, WSFL-TV, WTKR and WGNT, WTVR-TV, WXMI, KSTU, and KASW), and Tegna eleven (WATN-TV and WLMT, WTIC-TV and WCCT-TV, WOI-DT and KCWI, WNEP, WPMT, WQAD-TV, WZDX, and KFSM-TV). The sale agreement for WPIX-TV New York, however, includes a condition allowing Nexstar to buy it back between March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021. That station was valued at $75 million. Nexstar stated that these divestitures would be used to help fund the sale and cover debt.
 On April 3, 2019, Marshall Broadcasting Group sued Nexstar for breach of contract, alleging that the company was trying to "undermine" its operations so it could buy back the stations at a later date and lower cost in the present regulatory environment. The company also accused Nexstar of using the divestiture of stations to a minority-owned broadcaster as a token to gain FCC approval for the associated acquisitions.


Maximum gradient was 1 in 40 (25‰), with the rails being 40lb/yard (20kg/m).

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From: Papers and Reports Relating to Minerals and Mining, 1897

The company is erecting a new mill at Waikino, Owharoa, a description of which is given in the following extract from Mr. H. P. Barry's general report:

The length of the tramway from mine to Owharoa Mills is, approximately, five miles and three-quarters.

It has been constructed of a gauge of 2 ft. 9 in., the smallest curve having a 6-chain radius.

It has been well graded throughout, being, with only one exception (which has an up-grade of 1 ft. in 90 ft.), all down-hill with a load, the steepest grade being 1 ft. in 40ft.

The line crosses from the north to the south bank of the Ohinemuri River, at a distance of two miles and three-quarters from the mine, by means of a strong truss bridge, upwards of 185ft. in length, and 30ft. 6 in. high from water-level to decking, and built of good sound heart of kauri and totara [The "Black Bridge" by the Dredging site - E].

The whole of the formation of this tramway has been completed, and upwards of three miles laid with heart of kauri sleepers and 40 lb. iron rails.

All the culverts have been made with glazed earthenware pipes, which will be more durable than wooden culverts; and all the swamps which the line traverses have been drained by good substantial drains.

The locomotive has been put together, and is now busily engaged ballasting the line and hauling building-stone to the mill.

Twelve of the iron side-tipping trucks are on the ground, and we have received advice that fifty more, which should be sufficient for our requirements, are now on their way out from England.

The township of Waihi was home to the  Martha Gold Mine, with the first stamping battery coming into use in 1882. By the mid 1890s the mine was needing a new stamping battery, which was decided to be put down the Ohinemuri River at Waikino due to the availability of water power, and to keep stamping noise away from Waihi township. The tramway was built parallel to the Ohinemuri River, 5.75 miles (9.25 km) long, to the uncommon gauge of 2 ft 9 in (838 mm).


On February 6, 2017, the PANYNJ announced that it had opened a four-week-long request for proposals to design three AirTrain stations, including the Willets Point station, as well as plan the right of way from Willets Point to the airport.

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# LaGuardia AirTrain planning begins with request for proposals

The LaGuardia Airport AirTrain is one step closer to reality.

Above, passengers exit and board the AirTrain to Kennedy Airport at Jamaica station in Queens.

Planning for an AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport has commenced.

The Port Authority on Monday announced it has issued a request for proposals for preliminary engineering and planning work for a new AirTrain connection to LaGuardia from Willets Point.

"The millions of passengers who travel through LaGuardia each year deserve a convenient and reliable mass transit option that connects this key transportation hub to the heart of Manhattan," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.

"We are transforming LaGuardia into a world-class transportation gateway, and an essential piece of the puzzle is ensuring rail mass transit access to the airport.

With this action, we're taking the next major step toward making this a reality."

The request for proposals closes in four weeks.

The selected firm will be responsible for the planning of two AirTrain stations at new terminal buildings of the airport; an AirTrain station at Willets Point; and construction related to the right of way for the train between the airport and Willets Point.

The firm will also be responsible for conducting "a detailed ridership analysis and [to] begin analyzing public-private partnerships and other financing options to identify the most advantageous financing plan for the AirTrain," according to a news release from the governor's office.

The AirTrain station will complement a revamped No. 7 train station at Willets Point and new Long Island Rail Road station.

Cuomo's office expects the AirTrain to be a boon for both city commuters and Long Island drivers, who would be able to connect from the Long Island Rail Road at the Queens transit hub.

A trip from Willets Point to the airport would take six minutes, the governor's office estimates.

Others fear that the AirTrain is waste of resources, though an exact price tag for the project remains unclear.

Port Authority Commissioner Ken Lipper said at a January board meeting that, by his own estimates, the AirTrain, as well as a proposed PATH extension to Newark Airport, wouldn't generate enough riders to warrant the cost.

"I'd like to say that the two airport rail projects, one from Newark Airport to World Trade Center, the other from LaGuardia to Willets Point in Queens, are amongst the most ill-conceived projects that I've experienced in government," said Lipper, a Cuomo appointee.

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Mets–Willets Point station (IRT Flushing Line)

On January 20, 2015, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to build an AirTrain LaGuardia people mover, running along the Grand Central Parkway. This people mover would connect the station to LaGuardia Airport. In January 2017, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) released its 10-year capital plan that included AirTrain LaGuardia funding.