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With race tightening, Clinton relies on firewall of support

WASHINGTON — Hill-ary Clinton is pushing her supporters to cast early bal-lots in battleground states, as Donald Trump tries to make up ground with inten-sified attacks following the FBI’s renewed examination of her email practices.

As her national lead shrinks in the final week of the race, Clinton is relying on a firewall of support from women and minority voters in demographically diverse swing states. On Tuesday in rallies across Florida, she plans to hit hard at the treat-ment of women by Trump, who has been accused of re-peatedly sexually harassing

and even assaulting them.She will be introduced by

Alicia Machado, the winner of Trump’s 1996 Miss Uni-verse crown whom he has repeatedly insulted for her weight gain.

With more than 23 million ballots already cast through early voting, it’s unclear whether Trump has the time or organizational capac-ity to improve his standing enough over the next week to win the White House.

While Clinton’s newest email controversy may help Trump pick up support in older, whiter states like Ohio and Iowa, the Republican nominee still faces a narrow pathway to winning the 270 electoral votes – one that includes defending states like Arizona and Utah that

Republicans have won for decades.

Even as the White House remains an uphill climb, Republicans see the email exchanges as a new oppor-tunity to win over voters in the dozens of down-ballot races that will determine House and Senate control next year.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, who told Fox News he voted for Trump last week, warned that electing Clinton and a Democratic-controlled Congress would be “the worst of all possible things.”

“For those of us who lived through the 1990s, it’s sort of a feeling like deja vu,” he said. “This is what life with the Clintons looks like. It’s always a scandal, then

there’s an investigation.”Both campaigns argued

Tuesday they were on the path to victory.

“We’re running like we’re 20 points behind,” said Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. “We are go-ing to win this election, but it’s important that every one of our supporters turns out.”

“We’re in great shape. We’re on offense every-where,” said Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie. “There’s an enthu-siasm gap for their vot-ers.” Both spoke on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Clinton’s campaign has spent nearly two years de-veloping an extensive orga-nizing apparatus, building off the political machine

that twice boosted President Barack Obama to victory. Her team has pounded the airwaves with advertising, assembled an expansive vot-er data file and constructed

a nationwide political orga-nization that dwarfs her op-ponent’s.

On Tuesday, it released

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at Kent State University on Monday.

Paid to taste wine

It’s easy for people to whine about their jobs, but harder for someone to make their career all about wine.

A sommelier, or wine steward, usually works at an upscale restaurant and is in charge of everything related to the business’ wine collection. Custom-ers who have questions or need recommendations ask the sommelier, and they pick out the right wine pairing to go with a specific meal.

Although a college de-gree is not always a pre-requisite, most sommeliers have several years of expe-rience to be paired with certification programs.

Mike Moyer, director of the wine and viticul-ture technology program at Lake Michigan Col-lege, helps run a commer-cial teaching winery that allows students to learn the art, science and busi-ness of wine. Moyer said a sommelier is more of the “front-of-a-house person” in the hospitality industry. Many often make the wine list in addition to visiting the tables.

“There’s a lot of over-lap between production and the science of wine,” Moyer said. “Some of the training is similar. A som-melier is kind of its own in discipline. Often, they are required to know so much more.”

Moyer said the service component is big. By that, Moyer means a somme-lier tends to learn about spirits, after-dinner drinks and more about alcohol service in general.

The Court of Master Sommeliers has four levels of training and certifica-tion in order to become a sommelier. Level  1  is an introduction course and Level 2 is a way to official-ly become certified.

Southwest Michigan has become one of the most prolific wine-produc-ing regions in the country, but that doesn’t mean the area will see several mas-ter sommeliers pop up anytime soon. Like many crafts, it takes time to be-come fully accredited and achieve the pinnacle title as master sommelier.

“Level 2  is relatively easy to be attained,” Moyer said. “Then you go to the advanced Lev-el 3. Completing Level 4  means you are consid-ered a master sommelier. But it will take at least two or three years to get there after earning the level two certification.”

The beverage worldRick Cooper, the bev-

erage director at Lam-brecht’s Liquor Store in St. Joseph, has been a cer-tified sommelier since the 1990s. He’s done beverage consultations, taken part in tasting panels and is also a certified beer judge.

He knows the certifica-tion process can be pains-taking.

The Master Sommelier’s Diploma exam first intro-duced in the United King-dom 40 years ago is con-sidered to be the world’s most challenging wine examination. Cooper said there might be only 200 people in the U.S. who

have passed and have full certification as master sommeliers.

“It is pretty painstak-ing,” he said. “My ac-creditation is more Ital-ian-based. There’s blind tasting and sometimes people will train for years.

They may pass the tasting part, but there’s a written part that is kind of like writing a thesis.”

Cooper is not a master sommelier, but caught the beer bug when he worked

By TONY WITTKOWSKIHP Staff Writer

Life of a sommelier can be a lucrative, painstaking job

Don Campbell / HP staff

Maitre d’ Samer Badreddine pours a glass of red wine Tuesday at the Bistro On The Boulevard in St. Joseph. The Bistro offers customers more than 80 red and white wines to choose from.

Don Campbell / HP staff

Michael Moyer, director of the Enology and Viticulture program at Lake Michigan College, tests a batch of wine on Jan. 28, 2015 at the Benton Township college. Moyer said there are various levels of certification when it comes to becoming a sommelier.

‘We ROAR’

BENTON HARBOR — The roar is back in Ben-ton Harbor Area Schools, so it’s time to change the school district’s slogan from “Restore the Roar” to “We ROAR,” Superintendent Shelly Walker said Tuesday during the school board’s work session. 

“When you’ve seen the ‘We ROAR’ posters, that’s been purposeful,” she said. “It aligns to the slogan that the district had when I came on board, ‘Restore the Roar.’”

She said “We ROAR” has become part of the Positive Behavior Intervention Sup-ports (PBIS) framework each school is putting in place so all students know what is expected of them.

She said ROAR stands for Respectful, Orderly and safe, Achieving and Re-sponsible.

She said many classroom teachers are incorporating the ROAR acronym into their classroom manage-ment.

“When the district lead-ership team performs walk-throughs ... part of our work is looking for evidence that these universal (expec-tations) are posted and present,” she said.

Walker said her team asks the students they meet if they know what ROAR stands for. She said a second grade teacher at the Global Dual Language School at International Academy at Hull took the ROAR con-cept even farther.

“She had examples of re-spect. What does that look like? What does safe and orderly look like?” she said.

Walker  said  the students she talked with in that class-room knew and understood the concept behind “We

By LOUISE WREGEHP Staff Writer

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DO YOU REMEMBER?

TODAY IN HISTORY

25 years ago – 1991

The new $1.8 million Lake Michigan Catholic Elementary School on Washington Avenue in St. Joseph Township opens its doors Monday, almost 10 months after construction be-gan. The building is part of Lake Michigan Catholic’s over-all capital campaign which also includes improving existing fa-cilities. Half-way through its campaign, the Lake Michigan Catholic Area Board of Educa-tion has collected half of its $5 million goal.

The 33,000-square-foot el-ementary building has 16 class-rooms and was designed by He-bard & Hebard Architects of South Bend, Ind.

35 years ago – 1981Judy Dospoy of Stevensville,

a student a Twin City Beauty

College, won first place in the student women’s open eve-ning competition during the Michigan Cosmetologists As-sociation’s state conference Oct. 18-19 in Lansing. Her winning hairstyle was modeled by Pam Lottridge of Benton Harbor.

50 years ago – 1966Mrs. Estelle Phillips of Co-

loma, said today’s cold snap represents “squaw winter,” and that the snow will be followed by the traditional Indian sum-mer and some good weather. Mrs. Phillips also offered a prediction of her own that the approaching winter will be a mild one based on her obser-vation that onion skins are not sticking tight now. When onion skins stick tight while being peeled, it means a hard winter, she contended. 

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2016. There are 59 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:On Nov. 2, 1976, former

Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter be-came the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald RFord.

On this date: In n 1795, the 11th president

of the United States, James Knox Polk, was born in Meck-lenburg County, North Caro-lina.

In 1889, North Dakota and

South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states with the signing of proclamations by President Benjamin Harrison.

In 1914, during World War I, Russia declared war on the Ot-toman Empire.

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman surprised the experts by winning a narrow upset over Re-publican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.

In 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.

In 1986, kidnappers in Leba-non released American hospi-tal administrator David Jacob-sen after holding him for 17 months.

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ROAR.” But, she said she’s been in other rooms where the students didn’t know what “We ROAR” stood for.

She said all students need to know what “We ROAR” means and need to commit to following the meaning behind the slogan.

“It’s all a part of PBIS, really working our commu-nity to have a common con-cept behind expectations,” she said.

She said PBIS is not a curriculum, but a frame-work as the school district creates universal behavior expectations.

“It’s positive. It’s preven-tative. It has multiple tiers to it. It’s research-based,” she said. “It’s around  sup-porting the behavioral com-petence of the students.”

She said by creating uni-versal expectations, every-one can have conversations with students daily.

“What does it mean to be a Benton Harbor Tiger? It means I am respectful. It means I am safe and or-derly. It means I achieve,”

Walker said.In addition, she said her

team is working with teach-ers to make sure they are us-ing positive reinforcement in their classrooms rather than just consequences.

“This foundational work takes time,” she said. “... Our need as a district is so basic. We are still floun-dering with this concept because the level of frustra-tion is high. There are lots and lots of inappropriate student behaviors. But, there are also a lot of teach-ers that are responding out-side of the framework of PBIS.”

She said the ultimate goal is to prevent poor behav-ior, which leads to out-of-school suspensions.

“It’s a process of contin-ual improvement, PBIS is,” she said. “It requires ongo-ing professional develop-ment and support.”

In other business, trust-ees approved hiring John Eric Adams of Kalamazoo as the assistant principal at Benton Harbor High School to replace Pamela Rimpson-Dudley, who ac-cepted another job.

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in English pubs during a university exchange pro-gram and discovered the remainder of the beverage world – which included wine. From there, he grew interested in retail and retail marketing. In that industry, becoming a cer-tified sommelier was a ne-cessity.

Sommeliers with the most training can expect six-figure salaries once they find a top restaurant, Cooper said. However, the pay gap can be big as the median salary is more than $50,000 a year.

Moyer said while it’s be-come a norm for high-end restaurants and hotels to employ sommeliers, he be-lieves the restaurant and tourism industry could benefit from more wait staff to have an under-standing of wine.

“I think it would be good for local producers to take some training,” Moyer said. “One of the things I found challenging is people from Michigan don’t have an appreciation for their local wine. A lot of people who drink wine tend to go to California. But Michigan wine tends to hold its own.”

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a new ad featuring video footage of Trump making sexist and degrading state-ments about women. “Any-one who does what he does is unfit to be president,” reads text on the final shot of the spot, which her cam-paign says will run in eight battleground states.

Her team is focused on pushing voters to the polls for early voting in critical states such as Florida, Ne-vada and Colorado, where one-third of the expected ballots have already been cast. The Democratic presi-dential nominee and her al-lies in a dozen battleground states have more than 4,800 people knocking on doors, making phone calls and otherwise working to sup-port her candidacy.

The New York business-man over the past year has

instead depended on mas-sive rallies and free media coverage to drive his out-sider candidacy. This week, he’s devoting his most valu-able resource – his time – to states where polls suggest he’s trailing Clinton by sig-nificant margins.

Trump had two rallies Monday in Michigan, a state that last went for a Re-publican presidential nomi-nee in 1988. On Tuesday, he’s scheduled to appear with running mate Mike Pence in Wisconsin, which hasn’t backed a Republican for president since Ron-ald Reagan’s re-election in 1984.

“Her election would mire our government and our country in a constitutional crisis that we cannot af-ford,” he declared Monday in Grand Rapids, Michi-gan, pointing to the FBI’s examination as evidence the former secretary of state might face a criminal trial

as president.Clinton, defending her-

self from the new FBI ex-amination, focused Mon-day on battleground Ohio, a state Trump’s team con-cedes he must win and where he shows signs of a possible victory.

“There is no case here,” Clinton insisted. “Most people have decided a long time ago what they think about all this.”

Mook, her campaign manager, has decried what he called a “blatant dou-ble standard” following a CNBC report that FBI Director James Comey opposed releasing details about possible Russian in-terference in the U.S. elec-tion because it was too close to Election Day. Comey is-sued a letter to congressio-nal leaders on Friday about the FBI’s new effort into Clinton’s correspondence.

The AP has not con-firmed the CNBC report.

The FBI declined comment Monday.

Meanwhile, the ongoing mystery of Trump’s tax returns arose again. The New York Times reported Monday night that in the 1990s, Trump avoided pay-ing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes in a way even his own lawyers considered ques-tionable, using a maneuver Congress explicitly banned in 2004. Trump spokes-woman Hope Hicks said Trump’s approach was ap-propriate.

As for Trump’s charge that a Clinton election might prompt “a consti-tutional crisis,” the Justice Department’s office of legal counsel said in 1973 that criminally prosecuting a president would unconsti-tutionally undermine the executive branch. A 2000 memo reached a similar conclusion. Presidents can face civil lawsuits.

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Nestle wants more groundwater as plant expands in Evart

EVART, Mich. (AP) — Food and drink company Nestle is planning to signifi-cantly increase the amount of Michigan groundwater it pumps from under the state in conjunction with a $36 million dollar expansion of its Ice Mountain bottling plant.

Nestle Waters North America is asking the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for permission to increase pumping from 150 gallons-per-minute to 400 gallons-per-minute at one of its

production wells north of Evart, MLive reported.

The department issued a draft approval for the re-quest in January. It’s accept-ing public comment on the proposal until Thursday.

The company and the department said an envi-ronmental review shows the aquifer can handle the more than doubled with-drawal and that it won’t hurt the flow, levels or tem-perature of nearby surface waters.

However a citizens group who fought Nestle over the

groundwater wants more examination on the plan.

“It needs to be studied by all the best environmen-talists, hydrologists and people acquainted with the science of where this water is actually coming from,” said Jeff Ostahowski, vice president of the Michigan Citizens for Water Conser-vation.

The group has fought Nestle for years in court to minimize the company’s al-lowed withdrawal and was not aware of Nestle’s pro-posal until being contacted

by MLive.The proposal for Nestle

claims average water lev-els in Twin and Chippewa creeks would “decline only minimally” from the in-creased pumping.

Nestle will need DEQ’s drinking water office ap-proval to max out the with-drawal capacity under the Section 17 of the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

Previously Nestle in-creased the well’s daily pumping rate in 2015 and also earlier this year.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state trooper fired dozens of rounds from an automatic rifle through the windshield of his cruiser at a fugitive as the two sped down a rural western Okla-homa roadway in a dramatic shootout depicted on videos released on Tuesday.

The fierce gun battle late Sunday between troopers and 38-year-old Michael Dale Vance Jr. was captured on videos from two dash-board-mounted cameras in patrol cars and from a heli-copter that was following the chase overhead.

Vance, wanted for the killings of two relatives and the shootings of three law

enforcement officers, was killed in the shootout on a county road near the town of Leedey, about 130 miles northwest of Oklahoma City.

“Michael Vance was our worst-case scenario,” said Michael Thompson, Okla-homa’s commissioner of public safety. “He was a de-termined, violent criminal with no regard for public safety, no regard for public life, and he had nothing to lose.”

The videos show Vance, driving a stolen flat-bed pickup truck, career through a roadblock as troopers fired at his vehicle. Several troop-ers then joined in the chase,

firing at Vance, who was returning fire with an as-sault rifle loaded with two 30-round magazines.

At the end of the chase, Vance exited the truck and used it as cover as he fired several shots while the vehi-cle rolled toward the officers.

About 30 seconds after he exits the vehicle, Vance can be seen collapsing onto the roadway while troopers con-tinue to return fire.

Oklahoma Highway Pa-trol investigators say five troopers who fired their weapons have been placed on routine administrative leave while the investigation is ongoing.

Vance was wanted for a

string of violent crimes, in-cluding the shooting of two Wellston police officers and the killing of two relatives near Luther, and he posted two live videos on Facebook during a week on the run from police.

Three people have been arrested and are facing felo-ny charges for helping Vance evade capture.

Authorities launched a statewide manhunt for Vance, but there were no re-ported sightings of him for nearly a week until a farmer near the town of Hammon spotted a vehicle Vance was known to be driving in a wooded area where Vance had been camping.

Video shows police firing at Oklahoma fugitive during chase

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