#travis goldman

[arkhelios-gameplay]

Travis was used to coming home to screaming. This time was different, however. It was Edana Darktide doing it rather than his mother. And there was a naked man in the kitchen looking confused.

"This resurrection was a scam!" Edana shouted into a telephone. "I demand to speak with your manager!"

Travis decided he would rather not know what was going on, and went upstairs to his room.

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

Very very violent death s!!!!some pictures with their killer

[dertaglichedan]

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act could end up costing taxpayers nearly $5 trillion, study says

An expensive legacy: Originally estimated to only cost about $370 billion, a new study by the Cato Institute finds that the structure of subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act means taxpayers could be on the hook for trillions of dollars over the next 25 years.

When former President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022, it did so along party lines with not a single Republican voting for it. At the time, a Senate one-pager summarized the law as costing taxpayers $369 billion, based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates. 

A new study from the Cato Institute finds that the law could cost as much as $4.67 trillion by 2050. That's roughly 12 times the stated cost. The study also concludes that the subsidies are undermining innovation and driving investments toward subsidy farming rather than satisfying consumer demand. 

“The government should not have a hold on the economy in such a way that it can truly distort entire markets, and that's what the Inflation Reduction Act is,” Joshua Loucks, research associate with Cato Institute and co-author of the analysis, said in a video explaining the study. 

The Trump administration has been executing a series of reviews of regulations that federal agencies passed during the Biden years. Repealing some agency decisions may require congressional action. Due to the massive costs and market-impacting effects of the IRA, the study’s authors argue Congress should take a hard look at it. The law, they say, should be fully repealed, or Congress should place limitations on the subsidies, which the IRA mostly lacks. 

Fact-finding endeavor

Loucks and his co-author Travis Fisher, director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute, explained that the impetus for doing the study was the wildly varying estimates of the costs of the IRA that came out since its passage. While the CBO pegged the figure at $369 billion, Goldman Sachs estimated in May 2023 that it would be closer to $1.2 trillion. There were other estimates as well, all coming to different conclusions. 

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Submissions for books about books :

Assistant to the Villain (Hannah Nicole)

A Month of Sundays (Liz Byrski)

The Grandest Bookshop in the World (Amelia Mellor)

Lirael (Garth Nix)

Inkheart series (Cornelia Funke)

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Satoshi Yagisawa)

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)

The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)

The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)

House Of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Book Lovers (Emily Henry)

Beach Read (Emily Henry)

The Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Joy Fowler)

The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)

Secret Identity (Alex Segura)

The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)

Possession (A.S. Byatt)

Long Live Evil (Sarah Rees Brennan)

Afterworlds (Scott Westerfeld)

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan)

The Sentence (Louise Erdrich)

The Bromance Book Club (Lyssa Kay Adams)

Stoner (John Williams)

Bookshops and Bonedust (Travis Baldree)

Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows)

The Well of Ascension (Book 2 of Mistborn series) (Brandon Sanderson)

The List (Patricia Forde)

The Book of Lies (James Molonet)

Princess Bride (William Goldman)

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Matilda (Roald Dahl)

The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern)

The Labyrinth House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji)

The Prague Cemetery (Umberto Eco)

Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)

Ink Blood Sister Scribe (Emma Torzs)

The Book Eaters (Sunyi Dean)

Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz)

Ban This Book (Alan Gratz)

Between the Lines (Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer)

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Garth Nix)

The Library of the Unwritten (A. J. Hackwith)

The Cat Who Saved Books (Sōsuke Natsukawa)

Suggested Reading (Dave Connis)

The Truth about the Harry Québert Affair (Joël Dicker)

Hygiène de l’Assassin (Amélie Nothomb)

[cosmicgrapevine]

They stopped at school first; every teacher except Miss Vernon had loaded them down with spring break homework, and Melanie wanted to plead her case to Mr. Hansen. It was past 4:30 and the halls were nearly empty. Just as she was ready to knock on the dean’s door, someone inside smashed their fist against it, hard enough to rattle the handle. Melanie flinched and stepped back, staying away from the windows.

“Fuckin’ hell, Gary, what’s gonna change your mind, huh?” It was Travis. Goddammit. “Dead body? Is that what’ll sway ya? ‘Cause it’s comin’, believe me.”

“Mm…nah.” That was Mr. Hansen, who sounded utterly unworried. “Sure, I had my doubts at first. But he’s been a perfect student, and practically gone native already.” They were talking about Lynd. “All he needs is to make a few friends outside the LKPC. I gave Nate Goldman a nudge; said he should teach Lynd some ball. We do need an infielder.”

“Friends? He’s a Markstepper, Gary, a born and bred killer. They don’t have ‘friends’. And he’s the second one to turn up here this year, in the heart of Warden territory, and rumors are flyin’ about Equinox too. The Marksteppers are plottin’ something, and that boy’s a part of it, and y’all are buyin’ his ‘Oh, I just want a hooome’ bullshit like he’s your long-lost son. Just gimme a chance to prove it—”

“I said no.” Mr. Hansen’s voice had changed, now simmering with contempt. “You’ve always been an asshole, Travis. When you were fifteen, I thought hey, he’ll grow out of it. But now you’re twenty-four and even worse, ‘cause the old man spoiled you rotten all those years. Now you’re on his bad side for once, after that stunt you pulled with the mirror, and you can’t handle it.”

“So in you crawl, trying to get me to go behind Mr. C’s back with you, and you think the best way to do that is threatening one of my students?” He chuckled. “Tell you what, if I hear you went through with it anyway, I will personally flash-fry all the fat out of your vicious little brain, and you know that’s not a metaphor, pal. Now get lost.”

Melanie didn’t have time to react before Travis slammed the door open. He did a double-take upon seeing her, and for a second Melanie flinched, worried that she’d be the literal punching bag for Travis’ frustration, but instead he simply snapped “What the fuck are you doing here?”

“I j-just had a question for Mr. Hansen…”

“You didn’t hear a fuckin’ thing, got it? Not a fuckin’ thing."

Melanie eagerly nodded. She just wanted him to go away. And he did, his stomps echoing down the stairwell.

Mr. Hansen approached her, shaking his head. “I’m sorry you had to hear that, Melanie,” he said.

“What’s he want with Lynd?”

“Oh…” Mr. Hansen shook his head. “Just the usual Warden chest-thumping. Can’t handle being shown up by a Markstepper. But I promise you, he won’t hurt anyone. I’ll see to that.”

“Why do you guys keep that psycho around?” She said bitterly. “How can you trust him?”

Mr. Hansen leaned in. “If it was up to me, he’d be out on his ass, for exactly that reason. But it’s not up to me, and I think you know who’s calling the shots here. Travis and the old man, they have a history. I’m sorry, but that’s all I can say. Now, what did you need?”

“I’ll ask later,” Melanie said. She just wanted to get out. When she was in fifth grade, and her dad was neck-deep in chasing down mobsters, she’d learned about made men. Mafiosos who had the blessing of the boss to do whatever they pleased, who answered only to him. That was Travis. He could do anything, hurt anyone, and Florentino would cover for him. He was in Florentino’s doghouse now, apparently, but who knew how long that would last?

No, there was no justice in Warden-land. There was only power. Mr. Hansen could lie to her—and himself—but he knew it too. He knew Travis wouldn’t respond to reason, only violence, and he knew he could deliver that violence, in the form of some horrific literal-brain-melting magic, if he had to. She didn’t trust him either. She didn’t trust any of them deep down. Not even her parents.

Of course, in her dad’s mafia tales, there was one level between the boss and his made men: his actual family. Like her. She wondered what Travis would have done otherwise.

[sarkos]

After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy. The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported. Though Flannery has been purchasing farmland and empty plots over the past five years it has only recently started interacting with local officials and residents, according to the Times and local reports. Flannery has purchased land from farmers for several times more than the market value and become the biggest landowners in Solano county, an area 60 miles north-west of San Francisco. The land bought by the firm encircles Travis air force base in Fairfield, a city of about 120,000 residents and home to the Anheuser-Busch Co brewery and the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory.

Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city | California | The Guardian

[thevoyagein]

Should I disguise myself as a somber old-fashioned girl, gawky Mlle Humbert, and put up my tent on the outskirts of Camp Q, in the hope that its russet nymphets would clamor: "Let us adopt that deep-voiced D.P.," and drag the sad, shyly smiling Berthe au Grand Pied to their rustic hearth. Berthe will sleep with Dolores Haze!

—Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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[jxrm]

book log - 2023

the librarianist by patrick dewitt

same time next year by tessa bailey

did you hear about kitty karr? by crystal smith paul

lore olympus: volume one by rachel smythe

a court if thorns and roses by sarah j. mass

summer sisters by judy blume

the demigod files by rick riordan

mistletoe and mayhem by carly winter

you shouldn’t have come here by jeneva rose

a house with good bones by t. kingfisher

christmas presents by lisa unger

z: a novel of zelda fitzgerald

the storm runner by j.c. cervantes

just another missing person by gillian mcallister

take me home by beth moran

blood sugar by sascha rothchild

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. mass

the christmas orphans club by becca freeman

under her care by lucinda berry

paris: the memoir by paris hilton

our wives under the sea by julie armfield

the celebrants by steven rowley

keep it in the family by john marrs

housemoms by jen lancaster

the woman in me by britney spears

just like home by sarah gailey

trespasses by louise kennedy

silence for the dead by simone st. james

a good family by matt goldman

the fire keeper by j.c. cervantes

dead silence by s.a. barnes

sunshine nails by mai nguyen

lore olympus: volume one by rachel smythe

the mystery guest by nita prose

her little flowers by shannon morgan

woke up like this by amy lea

legendary children by tom fitzgerald

midnight is the darkest hour by ashley winstead

the leftover women by jean kwok

everyone here is lying by shari lapena

mother-daughter murder night by nina simon

you may now kill the bride by r.l. stone

the man i never met by elle cook

hold my girl by charlene carr

legends & lattes by travis baldree

the golden spoon by jessa maxwell

bright young women by jessica kroll

suddenly a murder by lauren munoz

the only one left by riley sager

zero days by ruth ware

good bad girl by alice feeney

the christmas wager by holly cassidy

fortune by elle won steil

theme music by t. marie vandelly

close to home by cara hunter

the true love experiment by christina lauren

penelope in retrograde by brooke abrams

everyone in my family has killed someone by benjamin stevenson

the modern girl’s guide to magic by lindsay hall

i feed her to the beast and the beast is me by jamison shea

hello stranger by katherine center

the unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry by rachel joyce

gone tonight by sarah pekkanen

the library of the dead by t.l. huchu

what never happened by rachel howzell hall

look out for the little guy by scott lang

the christmas mourner by marian mccarthy

every little breath by keri beevis

this might hurt by stephanie wrobel

the last word by taylor adams

a court of wings and ruin by sarah j. mass

forth wing by rebecca yaros

hello beautiful by ann napolitano

summer rental by rektok ross

the house across the lake by riley sager

a cursed covenant by leigh ferguson

her rebel highness by diana ma

stone heart by katee robert

the perfect match by dandy smith

camp zero by michelle min sterling

one by one by frieda mcfadden

the wishing game by meg shaffer

a court of frost and starlight by sarah j. mass

that summer feeling by bridget morissey

to die for by lisa grey

the wrong family by tarryn fisher

heiress apparently by diana ma

the school for good mothers by jessamine chin

tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin

she started it by sian gilbert

best friends forever by shannon hollinger

the housekeepers by alex hay

secluded cabin sleeps six by lisa unger

lore olympus: volume two by rachel smythe

of women and salt by gabriela garcia

kismet by amina akhtar

the devil wears scrubs by frieda mcfadden

girl, forgotten by karin slaughter

come closer by sara gran

the exorcist’s house by nick roberts

august blue by deborah levy

hang the moon by jeannette walls

the thursday murder club by richard osman

a whole new world by liz braswell

run on red by noelle w. ihli

the last thing he told me by laura dave

lore olympus: volume three by rachel smythe

how to sell a haunted house by grady hendrix

the dead romantics by ashley poston

cassandra in reverse by holly smale

i used to be fun by melanie summers

the showrunner by kim moritsugu

runaway groomsman by meghan quinn

i want to die but i want to eat tteokpokki by baek she-hee

the whispers by ashley audrain

e. aster bunnymund and the warrior eggs at the earth’s core! by william joyce

allergies: poems on grieving and loving by maggie bowyer

hermione granger and the philosopher’s stone by sara baines-miller

the summer house by keri beevis

exiles by jane harper

just the nicest couple by mary kubica

the very secret society of irregular witches by sangu mandanna

have you seen her by catherine mckenzie

the shallows by holly craig

a love letter to whiskey by kandi steiner

hermione granger and the chamber of secrets by sara baines-miller

the coworker by frieda mcfadden

tiny beautiful things by cheryl strayed

you’re not supposed to die tonight by kalynn bayron

the little old lady who broke all the rules by catharina ingelman-sundberg

hermione granger and the prisoner of azkaban by sara baines-miller

the blonde identity by ally carter

nicolas st. north and the battle of the nightmare king by william joyce

women in white coats by olivia campbell

the ex talk by rachel lynn solomon

hermione granger and the goblet of fire by sara baines-miller

the wife before by shanora williams

gone again by minka kent

know my name by chanel miller

in the lives of puppets by t.j. klune

the homewreckers by mary kay andrews

going dark by melissa de la cruz

all the dangerous things by stacy willingham

counterfit by kirsten chen

the rewind by allison winn scotch

have i told you this already? by lauren graham

beyond the wand by tom felton

jana goes wild by farah heron

the perfect son by frieda mcfadden

america’s next reality star by laura heffernan

the new mother by nora murphy

georgie, all along by kate clayborn

the storied life of a.j. fikry by gabrielle zevin

a flicker in the dark by stacy willingham

the villa by rachel hawkins

device free weekend by sean doolittle

what the neighbors saw by melissa adelman

the library of lost and found by phaedra patrick

motherthing by ainslie hogarth

the block party by jamie day

tanqueray by stephanie johnston

the ex hex by erin sterling

rock paper scissors by alice feeney

the kiss curse by erin sterling

it ends with us - colleen hoover

the summer of broken rules by k.l. walther

the wife stalker by liv constantine

in my dreams i hold a knife by ashley winstead

the family remains by lisa jewell

my secret sister by lauren westwood

the engagement by samantha hayes

if we were villains by m.l. rio

the sleepover by keri beevis

twenty years later by charlie donlea

the doctor’s wife by daniel hurst

[news4usonline]

SB LVIII: A tight end master class

Tight ends are some of the most unique players on a football field, and having top-tier talent at the position creates matchup nightmares for a defense. Super Bowl LVIII features two of the best tight ends in the NFL. What makes these talented pass-catchers unique is that they value their team’s success far more than their own. Travis Kelce and George Kittle have 11 combined All-Pro team appearances, but both players will tell you that they would rather see their team win trophies instead of individual awards.

San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) caught 65 passes for 1,020 yards and six touchdowns during the 2023 NFL regular season. Photo credit: Mark Hammond/News4usonline “I used to lose sleep over the lack of success I had early on,” said Kelce. “I used to have the desire to say I want to be the best; I want to be known as the one who had the most yards, the one that had the most catches, the most touchdowns, and the most Super Bowls.” “I have rechanneled that to just being the best teammate I possibly can be day in and day out, and at the end of the year, let the chips fall where they may and see who is the best team out there. I enjoy having team success a lot more than I enjoy having my individual success week to week,” the tight end went on to say. Kelce has put up numbers that have allowed him to be labeled one of the best, but sitting out the last game of the season for the betterment of the team and missing out on an eighth consecutive 1000-yard season by 16 yards shows his maturity as a player. While Kittle does not get the same amount of attention from the media or fans as his counterpart in this game, he is equally as important to winning. Kittle is a ferocious blocker in the run game and is one of the toughest players in the league. Taking him down to the ground is no easy task. “I think that what I am asked to do in my offense, I do at a very high level," said Kittle. “All I really care about is that the eye in the sky doesn’t lie; that is the film. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says about you; all that matters is that tape, your effort, your attitude, your play style, and the respect of your peers around the league.”

BALTIMORE, MD - JANUARY 28: Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) celebrates the win following the Kansas City Chiefs game versus the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game on January 28, 2024 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD. (Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire) Kittle does a little bit of everything for his team on the field and is one of the most important leaders in the locker room. When the best players are also the best leaders, it allows the rest of the team to follow suit. With both embracing their roles the way they do, it makes sense that the 49ers and Chiefs are in the Super Bowl. The position has become even more important with the passing game being what it is now, and these teams have two of the elite at the position. “I think teams have seen that the last six or seven years if you have a really good tight end, you have a higher chance of being in the Super Bowl. If you look back at all of the Super Bowls, there are really talented tight ends playing in all of them. So, invest in a tight end, feed your tight end, and you have an opportunity to win games,” said Kittle. Top Photo: Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Super Bowl LVIII Opening Night Kickoff ceremony on Feb. 5, 2024. Photo credit: Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline Read the full article

[jay-in-the-notebook]

Found my new reading list

From the site:

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, Smith of Wootton Major, Farmer Giles of Ham

Brian Jacques: the Redwall series

Diana Wynne Jones: Howl’s Moving Castle, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin

Neil Gaiman: Stardust

William Goldman: The Princess Bride (the good parts)

J.K. Rowling: the Harry Potter series (mainly the first three books)

Travis Baldree: Legends & Lattes

Phyllis Ann Karr: At Amberleaf Fair

Katherine Arden: The Bear and the Nightingale

T.J. Klune: The House in the Cerulean Sea

Naomi Novak: Uprooted

Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor

Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn

T. Kingfisher: Swordheart

Lois McMaster Bujold: the Sharing Knife series

Jody Lynn Nye: An Unexpected Apprentice

Travis Biddle: Balam, Spring

Nathan Lowell: the Tanyth Fairport Adventures series

Julie E. Czerneda: A Turn of Light

[dertaglichedan]

Billionaire-backed tech group says it’s bought all the land it needs for utopian city

A Silicon Valley group backed by billionaires said it’s acquired all the land it needs to build a utopian city in Northern California, after quietly buying more properties in the past month.

Flannery Associates LLC, the company behind the California Forever project, acquired at least seven more land parcels totaling about 814 acres in Solano County in October, according to county records. The company now owns more than 53,000 acres in the area — after some parcels traded hands — where it plans to create a walkable, green community they say would generate thousands of jobs.

“With regards to future purchases, except for a few remaining properties that Flannery has under contract and will close on in the coming weeks, Flannery has assembled all the land it needs and does not anticipate making any additional purchases,” the company said in a statement.

The investor group is led by Jan Sramek, a former Goldman Sachs trader, and backed by tech moguls like former Sequoia Capital Chairman Mike Moritz, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

They’ve spent more than $800 million scooping up land for the project, a buying spree done extremely discreetly over several years which was first revealed in late August by the media. The project has since faced criticism from local officials and residents who fear the impact of their plans on the environment, local agricultural economy and for the security of the nearby Travis Air Force Base.

Adding to the tensions, Flannery is suing a group of Solano landowners for allegedly colluding to inflate the values of their property by $170 million. Flannery is seeking at least $510 million in damages, or triple the amount allegedly inflated by price fixing. The landowners deny the claim and are seeking to dismiss the suit.

Some of the parcels that Flannery bought in the last month were owned by Barnes Family Ranch Associates, Lambie Ranch Associates and Kirby Hill Associates, three of the defendants named in the lawsuit that the company filed in May in Sacramento federal court.

[msclaritea]

Turmoil At Location Ventures’ Coral Gables Condo Project

Flannery Associates, the mystery company behind $800 million in farmland purchases around Travis Air Force Base, is backed by a who’s who of billionaires from Silicon Valley.

The Folsom-based company with plans to construct a utopian city with “tens of thousands of new homes” in Solano County is spearheaded by Jan Sramek, 36, a former Goldman Sachs trader who has quietly courted some of the tech industry’s biggest names, the New York Times reported, citing unidentified sources.

The company’s pitch: Take a patch of brown hills split by a two-lane road between farms and suburbs, then turn it into a city with tens of thousands of residents, clean energy, public transportation and dense urban life.

The pitch, whose five-year, stealth campaign was unveiled during a recent poll of residents 60 miles northeast of San Francisco, was swallowed by some of Silicon Valley’s richest residents.

Each had become enraptured enough with the idea of building a new city atop former cow pastures to fork out millions to buy up 140 properties spanning “tens of thousands of acres,” according to Catherine Moy, mayor of nearby Fairfield.

They include Michael Moritz, the billionaire venture capitalist, who scribbled a note to one potential investor asking, “Let me know if this tickles your fancy.”

They include Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder, venture capitalist and Democratic donor. Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, investors at the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm. Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment technology company Stripe.

They include Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire widow of Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple.

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And they include Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, entrepreneurs-turned-investors, according to the Times. Andreessen Horowitz is also a backer. It’s not clear how much each has invested.

Rep. John Garamendi, D-California, who along with Rep. Mike Thompson represents the surrounding region in Congress, said he’s been trying to figure out the company’s identity for four years.

“I couldn’t find out anything,” he said.

Brian Brokaw, a representative for the investor group, said in a statement that the group was made up of “Californians who believe that Solano County’s and California’s best days are ahead.” 

He said Flannery planned to start working with Solano County residents and elected officials, as well as with Travis Air Force Base, next week.

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Turmoil hits Location Ventures’ Coral Gables condo project

Contractors claim $7M in unpaid work at Villa Valencia, while officials scramble for certificate of occupancy

AUG 25, 2023, 5:30 PM

A year after completing Villa Valencia in Coral Gables, Location Ventures failed to secure a final certificate of occupancy for the 13-story boutique condominium. And since last month, 10 contractors, including project manager Winmar Construction, have filed 23 construction liens totaling nearly $7 million against the building’s development entity, records show.

It’s the latest batch of trouble for the beleaguered Coral Gables-based development firm previously led by Rishi Kapoor, a once rising star in South Florida’s real estate scene who’s now a target of local and federal investigations examining his management of Location Ventures.

Kapoor resigned last month as CEO and former Miami-Dade Judge Alan Fine took over as the company’s manager. Investors who bankrolled Location Ventures gave Fine a mandate to liquidate the firm’s assets to pay back creditors without having to file for bankruptcy protection. 

The city of Coral Gables recently extended a temporary certificate of occupancy for Villa Valencia, a 39-unit mid-rise that generated more than $100 million in closings. The developer hasn’t completed minor punch list items and some public infrastructure components, such as a new drain, pedestrian traffic signals and underground electrical lines, according to city manager Peter Iglesias.

Villa Valencia owners raise concerns

On Tuesday, Iglesias briefed the Coral Gables City Commission about the Villa Valencia situation during the elected body’s regular meeting. The discussion was brought up by Coral Gables Commissioner Ariel Fernandez, who told The Real Deal he received calls from Villa Valencia unit owners who are concerned the building still doesn’t have a final certificate of occupancy. 

“It’s really an unfortunate situation,” Fernandez said. “The developer is nowhere in sight to take care of this. It puts the city in a tough spot to get this done.” 

Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago abstained from the discussion and walked off the dais. Lago explained that he could not participate since a Location Ventures entity leases a storefront inside a building in the city that he partially owns, according to video of the city commission meeting.

“I have to recuse myself,” Lago told his colleagues. “The owner of this project is a tenant of mine.” 

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Unit owners can still reside at Villa Valencia during the extension of the temporary certificate of occupancy, and the city can use funds from a construction bond posted by Location Ventures to pay for the unfinished work, Iglesias informed city commissioners. He also said contractors are willing to complete the punch list items and public infrastructure components. 

“We will not release the funds until those are done,” Iglesias said. “These are not building safety issues.” 

City Attorney Christina Suárez told city commissioners that she and her staff met with Fine, who relayed Location Ventures has a “cash flow issue,” and that he is onboard with the city utilizing the construction bond to pay for the uncompleted work. Fine did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

Contractors claim nonpayment for work

Meanwhile, between July 3 and Aug. 2, 10 companies that performed construction work at Villa Valencia filed 23 liens claiming nonpayment of a combined $6.9 million. 

Winmar Construction, the Miami-based general contractor managing Villa Valencia’s construction, represented the largest claim; filing three liens totalling $5.6 million, records show. 

Miami-based millwork manufacturer AWM Group had the second biggest claim, filing two liens for a combined $730,189. 

The smallest claim was filed by Pronto Waste Services, a Miami-based construction dumpster provider. Pronto’s lien is for $5,904. 

On other fronts, lenders are suing Location Ventures entities for allegedly not paying back a combined $17 million in mortgages tied to co-living projects in Coral Gables and Miami Beach. The firm is also being sued by investors of a Coconut Grove co-living project, as well as a married couple that placed $45 million in Location Ventures and two projects. 

This sounds like a really bad idea. Laurene Powell Jobs is involved.

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Starkid Footloose

Sorry for this being late and leaving you all holding out for a hero, but here is the Starkid dreamcast for Footloose. sorry for this being a little late (and future things might be a little late as a production of Children of Eden I’m in currently is entering tech week) but here is a dreamcast I first began due to a certain Jeff Blim having been in it’s national tour (learn something new everyday)!

1. Curt Mega as Ren McCormick 2. Kim Whalen as Ariel Moore 3. Dylan Saunders as Rev. Shaw Moore 4. Jamie Burns as Vi Moore 5. Brian Holden as Wilard Hewitt 6. Britney Coleman as Rusty 7. Jeff Blim as Chuck Cranston 8. Meredith Stepien as Ethel McCormick 9. Rachael Soglin as Betty Blast/Irene 10. Mariah Rose Faith as Wendy Jo 11. Lily Marks as Lulu Warnicker 12. Angela Giarratana as Urleen 13. Joe Walker as Principal Clark/Saloon Keeper 14. Corey Dorris as Coach Dunbar 15. Chris Allen as Wes Warnicker 16. Julia Albain as Ensemble 17. Clark Baxtresser as Ensemble 18. Jaime Lyn Beatty as Eleanor Dunbar/Doreen/Ensemble 19. Tyler Brunsman as Garvin/Ensemble 20. Richard Campbell as Ensemble 21. Bryce Charles as Ensemble 22. Brant Cox as Ensemble 23. Denise Donovan as Ensemble 24. Nick Gage as Cop/Country Fiddler/Ensemble 25. Ali Gordon as Ensemble 26. Jae Hughes as Ensemble 27. Lauren Lopez as Ensemble 28. Robert Manion as Bickle/Ensemble 29. Jon Matteson as Ensemble 30. Alle-Faye Monka as Ensemble 31. Joey Richter as Jeter/Cowboy Bob/Ensemble 32. Brian Rosenthal as Tarvis/Ensemble 33. James Tolbert as Lyle/Ensemble 34. Tiffany Williams as Ensemble

Swings: Nico Ager, Janaya Mahealani Jones, Nick Lang, Alex Paul, Sango Tajima

Understudies: Nico Ager (Lyle, Travis), Jaime Lyn Beatty (Vi Moore, Betty Blast/Irene), Tyler Brunsman (Wilard Hewitt), Bryce Charles (Rusty), Brant Cox (Lyle, Travis), Corey Dorris (Rev. Shaw Moore), Nick Gage (Principal Clark/Saloon Keeper, Wes Warnicker), Arielle Goldman (Vi Moore, Ethel McCormick, Lulu Warnicker, Eleanor Dunbar/Doreen), Ali Gordon (Ariel Moore, Urleen), Janaya Mahealani Jones (Rusty, Betty Blast/Irene, Wendy Jo), Nick Lang (Cop/Country Fiddler), Robert Manion (Ren McCormick, Chuck Cranston, Coch Dunbar), Alle-Faye Monka (Wendy Jo), Alex Paul (Ariel Moore, Ethel McCormick, Lulu Warnicker, Urleen, Eleanor Dunbar/Doreen), Jim Povolo (Rev. Shaw Moore, Principal Clark/Saloon Keeper, Coach Dunbar, Wes Warnicker, Cop/Country Fiddler), Joey Richter (Wilard Hewitt), James Tolbert (Ren McCormick, Chuck Cranston)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.  

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair -  Epix

Drama / Mystery (10 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Patrick Dempsey as Harry Quebert

Ben Schnetzer as Marcus Goldman

Damon Wayans Jr. as Sgt. Perry Gahalowood

Kristine Froseth as Nola Kellergan

Kurt Fuller as Chief Gareth Pratt

Victoria Clark as Jenny Quinn

Wayne Knight as Benjamin Roth

Don Harvey as Bobbo Quinn

Matt Frewer as Reverend Kellergan

Colm Feore as Elijah Stern

Josh Close as Luther Caleb

Craig Eldridge as Travis Dawn

Virginia Madsen as Tamara Quinn

Tessa Mossey as young Jenny Quinn

Connor Price as young Travis Dawn

[incorrectneondivide]

Blayne: Hey, do you know the password to Goldman’s computer?

Leonard: Fuck off, Travis .

Blayne: Hey!

Leonard: No, the password is literally “fuckofftravis

Blayne: Oh, no numbers? Not very safe.