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Cushing Terrell is pleased to join Governor Steve Bullock, the Montana Department of Administration, the Montana Historical Society and its Board of Trustees, along with partners Main Street Design and Sletten Construction in celebrating the ground blessing for the Montana Heritage Center.

More than 10 years in the making, the $52.7 million expansion and renovation project will be a state-of-the-art repository for the states historic collections and resources, serving as a place for learning and discovery. When complete, the project will nearly double the size of the existing building and include 66,000 square feet of new space, plus exterior and interior renovations to 66,995 square feet of the existing 1952 Veterans and Pioneers Memorial Building. The Cushing Terrell design melds new with historic, using the space between the two structures to create a dramatic entry that will seamlessly connect the two facilities.

The vision for who we can be in the future really has also been built into this process, bringing together diverse voices from across our state from east and west, north and south, our tribal nations, men and women, young and old it will be reflected right here, said Governor Steve Bullock at the ground blessing ceremony. Those voices will shape its architecture and landscaping the way that our mountains and our plains and those winding rivers have shaped each and every one of us. This building design also looks to the future by incorporating sustainable features that will showcase the ingenuity and the values that make Montana such a special place.

Aerial view rendering of the expanding Montana Heritage Center showcasing the melding of the new and historic structures. Cushing Terrell

Taking inspiration from the states geology, the new building will appear to emerge from the earth, symbolically referencing the Lewis Overthrust, the geophysical collision of tectonic plates that drove one plate over another and helped to define Montanas landscape. The landscape design will continue the sense of exploration with features and plantings that mimic (on a micro scale) the journey from the plains and grasslands to the foothills and forests and finally to mountain landscapes. Linking it all together is a river-like trail that will flow from one ecosystem to the next.

We hope the exterior environment provides visitors an opportunity to feel an intimate connection to the spectacular Montana landscape and the people who have lived here over the generations, notes Wes Baumgartner, landscape architect, Cushing Terrell.

The design concept for the Montana Heritage Center is meant to convey the feeling that nature is a driving force behind why people live in the state. The buildings exterior represents the diverse and ever-changing Montana landscape, the backdrop for the lives of its residents. From the inside, the building is a vessel that preserves and highlights the remarkable stories of Montanas people. With a commitment to sustainability and creating healthy spaces, the project is pursuing both USGBC LEED and IWBI WELL certifications and is anticipated to be complete in 2024.

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The planned Indigenous House at University of Toronto Scarborough.

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Smoke detectors and birch trees. These are two things that an architect would not typically mention while talking up an ambitious new building. But for the Indigenous House at the University of Toronto Scarborough, these matters are critical. Here, connections with Indigenous traditions and ways of thinking will be everywhere, from the guts of the building to the landscape that accompanies it.

This is a showcase, Alfred Waugh of Vancouver-based Formline Architecture told me recently, for how we can bring ideas of Indigenous knowledge together with Western science, to create a 21st-century building that has one foot in the past.

Mr. Waugh, who is a member of the Fond Du Lac Denesuline Nation of Saskatchewan, is among a small group of architects in Canada exploring what Indigenous architecture means now, as the country has moved into a period of reconciliation. His work including the Toronto building, which should break ground this year provides a range of answers to that question, from the symbolic to the technical. He was one of 18 designers who contributed to Unceded, an exhibition on the theme that represented Canada at the Venice Architecture Biennale. And in 2018 he completed the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC.

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Formline is designing the Indigenous House together with Torontos LGA Architectural Partners and landscape architects Public Work.

The centre will be a long, loosely triangular building with round social spaces at either end, cradled by earth ramps seeded with medicinal plants.

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Modelled loosely after a wigwam, and sited above Highland Creek, the centre will be a long, loosely triangular building with round social spaces at either end, cradled by earth ramps seeded with medicinal plants. It promises to be beautiful, with a variety of materials and a three-dimensional complexity to its form. A curving grid of glue-laminated timber will support the roof and nod to traditional bentwood construction techniques.

Inside it will hold a mix of academic and social spaces, ready to welcome community members and field trips from nearby schools, said Kelly Crawford, UTSCs assistant director for Indigenous Initiatives. This building is about getting people to come together, she said. Historically, Indigenous people havent found places like that within an institution, a place where they can feel like they belong.

Heres where smoke detectors come in. Or rather, they do not. One spiritual practice common to many Indigenous people is smudging, the ceremonial burning of sacred plants such as cedar to remove negative energy. In most contemporary buildings, that would set off a smoke detector. At the Indigenous House, that wont happen. The fire protection system uses a heat detector instead. Smudging can happen anywhere.

Mr. Waugh says that a connection with nature is a key part of his practice: In Indigenous culture, nature is at the centre of our value system. Accordingly, the Indigenous House reaches out into the landscape, he said, and engages the landscape in a meaningful way. It will be built into a new rise, providing long views over the adjacent valley.

The centre will be as energy-efficient as possible, drawing on specific precedents in Indigenous building.

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And the landscape will feature plants of traditional significance, including birch, a tree thats native to Canada and thus meaningful to all Indigenous peoples, Mr. Waugh said. The designers will choose other native tree and plant species in consultation with local elders.

The centre will be as energy-efficient as possible, drawing on specific precedents in Indigenous building. Mr. Waugh showed me a specific example, captured in a drawing by an anthropologist and architect: It depicts a thick-roofed wigwam with a central campfire, built on a foundation of recessed rocks. The stone would hold the warmth of the fire, he explained, even as a birchbark air shaft at one side allowed fresh air to displace the smoke.

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The basic principles of heavy insulation and using the warmth of the earth to moderate interior temperatures are in keeping with contemporary green building practices. So the Indigenous House architects and engineers are employing a higher-tech version. The buildings fresh air will pass through so-called earth tubes set 2.7 metres below ground, which will use the moderating force of the ground to moderate room temperatures. Cold air will be warmed slightly in winter; hot air cooled slightly in summer.

This will be architecture that goes deep.

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IN studio has built this japanese house with a diagonal faade, which ensures great views of the valley and hills that extend in front of the property. located on a hilly residential area, ten minutes by train from yokohama, the newly-built home is designed for a couple with small children. the diagonal shape of its faade also dictates the irregular forms of its roof and balcony, which, together with the floor-to-ceiling windows, add to the unique character of the project.all images by makoto yoshida, unless stated otherwise

IN studio has designed the residence in a hilly residential area of newly-constructed homes characterized by strict building restriction lines. the project features a house-shaped volume and a diagonal faade that shifts the line of sight to secure the best possible views of the surrounding landscape. at the same time, the small garden located in front of the house secures enough distance from the street.

the japanese architecture studio has set the slab of the upper floor higher than the house opposite to it, creating a wide, open space in the ground level. the long, full-height windows bring ample natural light within the interior while providing views of the surrounding landscape. inside, the two levels of the house are connected via a wooden staircase with an intermediate landing big enough to fit a desk with a library and a small utility room.image by izumi kosasa

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architect: IN studio (izumi kosasa, naoko okumura)

location: asahi-ku, yokohama-shi, kanagawa, japan

building area: 39.74 m2

total floor area: 72.27 m2

structural design supervision: studio stem (mikio nakajima)

sofia lekka angelopoulou I designboom

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VenhoevenCS and Ateliers 2/3/4/ Win Competition to Design the Aquatic Center for Paris 2024 Olympics

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Dutch architectural office VenhoevenCS with its French partner Ateliers 2/3/4/ have won the competition to design the Aquatics Centre for the Olympics Games of 2024 in Paris. The innovative sports center, connected by a new pedestrian bridge to the existing Stade de France, will host competitions for water polo, diving, and synchronized swimming. It will also be transformed into a Boccia stadium during the Paralympics. Designed for multifunctional use, the only building to be built for the Games, will remain for the people in Saint-Denis, after the event.

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Located in one of the most problematic neighborhoods in France, the project is an important investment in the future of Saint-Denis. Comprising also of green public space and a new bridge that connects the stadium with the Stade de France, the largest stadium in France, the project will lead to a building that offers an innovative and monumental Aquatics center to the people in Saint-Denis: a place to learn how to swim, to practice sports, to relax and meet. Moreover, this proposal also creates a connection, with the new heart of the future Eco neighborhood of La Plaine Saulnier.

In collaboration with Bouygues Batiment Ile de France, Rcra, Dalkia and the client Mtropole du Grand Paris, the winning proposal features a wooden roof, a suspended shape with minimal construction height that strictly follows the required minimum space for tribunes, people and sightlines, thereby minimizing the amount of air that needs to be conditioned during the coming 50 years. Doubling the required minimum percentage of bio-sourced materials, the project can host up to 5000 spectators around the multifunctional competition pool.

Showcasinghow sustainable design concepts can lead to a new architecture, one that contributes to improving the quality of life in our cities, the plan goes beyond environmental regulations and requirements, creating a livable and healthy city district for the people in Saint-Denis. Inspired by nature, VenhoevenCS and Ateliers 2/3/4/ generated space for one hundred trees that will be planted to improve the quality of life and air, stimulate biodiversity, and create new ecological connections.

Taking on the energy challenge, the project puts in place a smart energy system, where 90% of the needed energy can be provided with renewable or recovered energy. In fact, the solar roof will be one of the biggest solar farms of France and will cover 25% of all required electricity production, which is the equivalent of the electric power use of 200 households, and the water system re-uses 50% of the remaining water. Finally, other design criteria include upcycling, with furniture made out of wood waste coming from the construction site, and tribune chairs made out of 100% recycled plastic collected from schools in Saint-Denis.

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We put a high value on nature, wild or tamed. We create arcadias, be they around country houses such as The Grange in Hampshire or in London square gardens. Victorian cities, with their millions of coal fires, were so polluted that we created suburbs all of which follow an ideal of leafiness whose ineffable expression is Hampstead Garden Suburb. Its significant, there, that garden was part of the name.

We are also a nation of gardeners, whatever the space available a balcony or a window box are enough of a canvas to paint some flower picture on. (I once worked with an editor who grew tomato plants in his office, oblivious to the effect of the grow bag on the walnut veneer of the early 18th-century bureau beneath it.)

Late Victorian England developed a style of gardening painterly, bosomy, uncorseted that remained the image of terrestrial perfection for more than a century. This was our thing. You can still see it at Gertrude Jekylls Munstead Wood. Derek Jarman even managed to magic plants out of the shingles that surround Prospect Cottage, at Dungeness: an extreme garden because of its unpromising position, a garden of consolation because of the circumstances in which it was made, after Jarman had been diagnosed with HIV.

Allotments are gardening democratised; they have an ethic and an aesthetic of their own. And it is not only spaces specifically reserved for plants and vegetables that are gardened in England, but whole landscapes; the lace of damson blossom that decorates the Lyth Valley in Westmorland every spring is the result of the conscious actions of farmers, over the generations, in planting and looking after the trees.

Do they do this purely for the value of the damson crop? I doubt it.

Beauty is a criterion for inclusion. There has to be Salisbury cathedral, built of a piece, unlike most medieval cathedrals, and seen across water meadows, as it was when John Constable painted it. Of all the lovely villages in the West Country I chose Blisland; Sir John Betjeman raved about the church of St Protus and St Hyacinth, carved with such labour out of the adamantine stone, where the painted screen, made in the 1890s, brought him to his knees.

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COME on, we've all done it - the second you've bought a lottery ticket, you're straight online, looking at what fancy, big houses you could buy with your millions.

Sadly, it's highly unlikely you'll ever be on the winning end of the lottery, but it's nice to dream, isn't it?

For a cool 925,000, you could be the proud owner of one of Walmersley's "most prominent homes."

Originally dating from 1926, the four bedroom house in Mather Road sits in a plot of around one acre, around a mile from Bury Town Centre and occupying a secluded position.

Estate Agents Pearson Ferrier said: "We understand the property was constructed as a mill owners house in line with the industrial heritage of the area.

"The current owners have just completed a total renovation programme and are to be commended on their attention to detail and sheer high standard of workmanship throughout."

The bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen renovation are all by Clive Christian and no expense has been spared in retaining as much of the character of the Art Deco period- while retaining all conveniences and appeal for modern day living.

Approached via remotely operated entrance gates the accommodation includes an entrance porch, inner hall, lounge, dining room, garden/sunroom, kitchen with 'Aga' and utility room.

To the outside there are gardens which have been designed by a prominent landscape architect, reclaimed York stone patio, two sheds - which are attached to the house, and a newly constructed garage complex built entirely in keeping with the character of the main house.

All in all - not a bad place to be living. You'll just have to cross your fingers extra tight the next time time the lotto rolls around...

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Superior Township Authorities are investigating after agunman shota sheriff's deputy, barricade himself in a condo and was found dead after a nine-hour standoff with police Wednesday.

The incident began at 2:11 p.m when deputies from Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office responded to investigate a felonious assault complaint in the 8000 block of Lakeview Court in the Oakbrook neighborhood.

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Michigan State Police's preliminary investigation indicated thatNathan Kurt Hardenburg, 50, who lives in the condominium complex, got into a verbal argument with a lawn maintenance worker. During some point in the argument, the manfired shots at the worker.

Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the scene and when they arrived, Hardenburg allegedly fired multiple shots at the deputies, striking one of them, state police said.

The deputy has been released from the hospital after treatment for the gunshot injury.

Multiplelaw enforcement agencies responded to the scene as Hardenburg continued to shoot from his residence, police said.

Hardenburg barricaded himself for hours. Police said after they were unable to make contact, law enforcement forced entry into the condo and found Hardenburg dead.

The cause of death remains under investigation, MSP said. Thenames of involved law enforcement officers are not being released at this time.

"We dont know how he was deceased, but its a loss of a human life, and that for us is distressing," Sheriff Jerry Clayton said.

The Detroit News spoke with a lawn maintenance worker who was an eyewitness to the incident. The worker said Hardenburg was staring outside the bedroom window of his condo at the workers as they were cutting the grass. When a worker approached him to see if everything was alright, Hardenburg grabbed his gun.

Federal, state, county and local law enforcement officers investigate an active shooter scene where a Washtenaw Co. deputy was shot and is in stable condition on Lakeview Ct. in Superior Twp., northwest of Willow Run Airport, Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 16, 2020. According to an eye witness, who wants to remain anonymous, the shooter fired at least 30 rounds at police and at a clubhouse in the area of condominiums.(Photo: Todd McInturf, The Detroit News)

When police arrived, the eyewitness said the deputy exited his car, was walking towards them when he was struck twice by the gunman. They took cover while another deputy dragged the officer behind the vehicle. The workers did not want to be named but were seen with police at the time of the incident.

For residents, it was a day that had no parallel in their neighborhood.

Ive lived here for 30 years and nothing like this has ever happened, said Jennifer Roquemore, who lives in a condo on Lakeview Court near the alleged gunman and couldnt get home Wednesday because the street was blocked off.

The neighborhood, which featured Movies in the Park on a giant screen at nearby Oakbrook Park on Berkshire in August, is nestled among homes and other condos, where residents go walking or bikingfor exercise.

Its a beautiful place. We live across a large field with deer and its very calm. I have no idea what could have happened, Roquemore said.

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A Joshua tree is engulfed in flames near Yucca Valley, Calif. (Nick Ut / AP Photo)

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In Greener Than You Thinka 1947 novel by left-wing science fiction writer Ward Moorea mad woman scientist in Los Angeles, one Josephine Francis, recruits a down-and-out salesman named Albert Weemer, described as having all the instincts of a roach, to help promote her discovery: a compound called Metamorphizer that enhances the growth of grasses and allows them to thrive on barren and rocky soils. She dreams of permanently ending world hunger through a massive expansion of the range of wheat and other grains. Weemer, a scientific ignoramus, thinks only of making a quick buck peddling the stuff door to door as a lawn treatment. Desperately needing cash to continue her research, Francis reluctantly agrees, and Weemer heads out to the yellowed lawns of tired bungalow neighborhoods.Ad Policy

To his surprise the treatment, which alters grass genes, worksonly too well. In the yard of the Dinkman family, crabgrass is converted into a nightmare Devil Grass, resistant to mowing and weedkillers, that begins to spread across the city. It writhed and twisted in nightmarish uneaseinexorably enveloping everything in its path. A crack in the roadway disappeared under it, a shrub was swallowed up, a patch of wall vanished. It continues to eat pavements and houses and finally consumes the city: a monstrous new nature creeping toward Bethlehem.

Greener Than You Think is both hilarious and slightly unnerving. But its absurd premises are being turned into current events by climate change: In reality, Devil Grass is actually Bromus, a tribe of invasive and almost ineradicable grasses bearing appropriately unsavory names such as ripgut brome, cheat grass, and false brome. Originating in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, some species have been around California since the Gold Rush, when overgrazing allowed the bromes and European oat grass to aggressively replace native species. But now fire and exurban sprawl have become their metamorphizers as they colonize and degrade ecosystems throughout the state.

The Eastern Mojave Desert is a grim example. En route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, 20 minutes away from the state line, theres an exit from I-15 to a two-lane blacktop called Cima Road. Its the unassuming portal to one of North Americas most magical forests: countless miles of old-growth Joshua trees mantling a field of small Pleistocene volcanoes known as Cima Dome. The monarchs of this forest are 45 feet high and hundreds of years old. In mid-August an estimated 1.3 million of these astonishing giant yuccas perished in the lightning-ignited Dome Fire.

This is not the first time that the Eastern Mojave has burned. A megafire in 2005 scorched a million acres of desert, but it spared the Dome, the heart of the forest. Over the last generation, an invasion of red brome has created a flammable understory to the Joshuas and transformed the Mojave into a fire ecology. (Invasive cheatgrass has played this role in the Great Basin for decades.)

Desert plants, unlike California oaks and chaparral, are not fire-adapted, so their recovery may be impossible. Debra Hughson, the chief scientist at the Mojave National Preserve, described the fire as an extinction event. The Joshua trees are very flammable. Theyll die, and they wont come back.

Our burning deserts are regional expressions of a global trend. Mediterranean vegetation has coevolved with fire; indeed, oaks and most chaparral plants require episodic fire to reproduce. But routine extreme fire in Greece, Spain, Australia, and California is now overriding Holocene adaptations and producing irreversible changes in the biota.Current Issue

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Although Australia is a close contender, it is California that best illustrates the vicious circle in which extreme heat leads to frequent extreme fires that prevent natural regenerationand with the help of tree diseases accelerate the conversion of iconic landscapes into sparse grasslands and treeless mountain slopes. And with the native plants, of course, go the native fauna.

At the beginning of this century, water planners and fire authorities here were primarily focused on the threat of multiyear droughts caused by intensified La Nia episodes and stubbornly persistent high-pressure domesboth of which could be attributed to anthropogenic warming. Their worst fears were realized in the great drought of the last decade, perhaps the biggest in 500 years, leading to the death of an estimated 150 million bark-beetle-infested treeswhich subsequently provided fuel mass for the firestorms of 2017 and 2018.

The great die-off of pines and conifers has been accompanied by an exponentially expanding fungal pandemic known as sudden oak death that has killed millions of live oaks and tanoaks in the California and Oregon Coast Ranges. Since the tanoaks, especially, grow in mixed forests with Douglas firs, redwoods, and ponderosa pines, their dead hulks should probably be accounted as million-barrel fuel-oil equivalents in the current firestorms raging in coastal mountains and Sierra foothills.

In addition to ordinary drought, scientists now talk about a new phenomenon, the hot drought. Even in years with average 20th century rainfall, extreme summer heat, our new normal, is producing massive water deficits through evaporation in reservoirs, streams, and rivers. In the case of Southern Californias lifeline, the lower Colorado River, a staggering 20 percent decrease in the current flow has been predicted within a few decades, independent of whether precipitation declines.

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But the most devastating impact of Death Valleylike temperatures (it was 121 degrees in the San Fernando Valley a few weeks ago) is the loss of plant and soil moisture. A wet winter and early spring may mesmerize us with extravagant displays of flowering plantsbut they also produce bumper crops of grasses and herblike plants (forbs) that are then baked in our furnace summers to become fire starter when the devil winds return.

Bromes and other annual exotic grasses are the chief byproducts and facilitators of this new fire regime. Years of research at experimental plots, where the scientists burn different types of vegetation and study their fire behavior, has confirmed their Darwinian edge. They burn at twice the temperature of herbaceous ground cover, vaporizing soil nutrients and thus inhibiting the return of native species. Bromes also thrive on air pollution and are more efficient than most plants in utilizing higher levels of carbon dioxidebig evolutionary advantages in the current struggle between ecosystems. MORE FROM Mike Davis

A research group at Oregon States College of Forestry that is studying grass invasions in West Coast forests, a hitherto neglected subject, warned earlier this year that once the feedback loop with fire is firmly established, it becomes a perfect storm. Like Weemers Devil Grass, the invaders defy human will. Management actions such as thinning and prescribed fire, often designed to alleviate threats to wildfires, may also exacerbate grass invasion and increase fine fuels, with potential landscape scale consequences that are largely under-recognized. Only a constant sustained effort to remove grass biomasssomething that would require a large army of full-time forest workers and the full cooperation of landownerscould theoretically postpone the weed apocalypse.

It would also require a moratorium on new construction, as well as post-fire rebuilding in endangered woodlands. A majority of new housing in California over the last 20 years has been built, profitably but insanely, in high-fire-risk areas. Exurbanization, much of it white flight from Californias human diversity, everywhere promotes the botanical counter-revolution. But residents usually dont see the grass for the forest.

How should we think about what is happening? In the late 1940s the ruins of Berlin became a laboratory where natural scientists studied plant succession in the wake of three years of firebombing. Their expectation was that the original vegetation of the regionoak woodlands and their shrubswould soon reestablish itself. To their horror this was not the case. Instead escaped exotics, some of them rare garden plants, established themselves as the new dominants.

The botanists continued their studies until the last bomb sites were cleared in the 1980s. The persistence of this dead-zone vegetation and the failure of the plants of the Pomeranian woodlands to reestablish themselves prompted a debate about Nature II. The contention was that the extreme heat of incendiaries and the pulverization of brick structures had created a new soil type that invited colonization by rugged plants such as tree of heaven (Ailanthus) that had evolved on the moraines of Pleistocene ice sheets. An all-out nuclear war, they warned, might reproduce these conditions on a vast scale. (For more about this, see my book Dead Cities.)

Fire in the Anthropocene has become the physical equivalent of nuclear war. In the aftermath of Victorias Black Saturday fires in early 2009, Australian scientists calculated that their released energy equaled the explosion of 1,500 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Even greater energy has produced the pyrocumulus plumes that for weeks have towered over Northern California. The toxic orange fog that has shrouded the Bay Area for weeks is our regional version of nuclear winter.

A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from our fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred. Our imaginations can barely encompass the speed or scale of the catastrophe.

A previous version of this article stated that the Joshua trees lost in the Dome Fire in California are 1,000 years old. That may be the case, but researchers say that hundreds of years would be more accurate.

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Home Run:Hedge fund manager Steven Cohenclincheda $2.5 billion deal to buy the New York Mets, pending a vote of Major League Baseball owners.

Buyout:French billionaire Patrick Drahihas offered2.5 billion to take full control of the Altice Europe telecoms company.

Counter Offer:Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) isnow the CEOof Brooklyn-based countertop company IceStone.

Speaking Out:Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the retired National Security Council aide fired for testifying in the House impeachment hearings,discussedhis views on the current state of U.S.-Russia relations in an interview withThe Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg.

Jewish Vote:Anew online pollshows Trump gaining support among Jewish voters over his 2016 showing, receiving a slight boost from the Israel-UAE accord. The Republican Jewish Coalitiontook outa full-page ad in todaysNew York Timespraising Trump as a peacemaker.

Viral Hate:A number of WhatsApp groups targeting Latino voters in Floridaare spreadingantisemitic statements about Biden and promoting QAnon conpiracy theories.

Media Watch:The Miami Heraldcut tieswith a Spanish-language weekly ad supplement, LIBRE, after discovering multiple instances of antisemitic and racist commentary.

Early Departure:U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstadannouncedhe is stepping down from his post after three years and will return to Iowa.

Friendly Reminder:Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez ObradorwarnedIsrael not to protect former Mexican official Tomas Zeron, who is suspected of hiding out there to avoid arrest on charges of torture.

Justice Served:An Israeli courtsentencedAmiram Ben-Uliel to three life sentences for firebombing the Dawabsheh family home in the West Bank in 2015, killing three.

No Entry:Hundreds of Hasidic Jewsblockedtraffic and a border crossing between Belarus and Ukraine last night after being denied entry to Ukraine to visit Uman for Rosh Hashanah.

Sent Home:The JCC of Greater Rochester islaying off296 of its staffers due to New Yorks coronavirus-imposed restrictions on its fitness center.

Across the Pond:The Liberal DemocratssuspendedLondon mayoral candidate Geeta Sidhu-Robb after a 1997 clip of her antisemitic comments reemerged.

VIP Club:Prince Charleshas been nameda patron of Jewish youth group the Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade (JLGB) as it celebrates its 125th anniversary.

Under Threat:Polands former presidential candidatecomparedhis countrys treatment of the LGBTQ community to the way Jews were dehumanized before the Holocaust.

Record Deal:A 12-year-old viral rapper from Gazalandedan offer from record label EMPIRE.

Sneak Peek:Israels Yes Studiosunveileda preview yesterday of the third season of Shtisel.

Silver Screen:An upcoming animated documentary, The Klarsfelds,tellsthe story of real-life Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.

Remembering:Italian physician Amos Luzzatto, who also served as a leader of the Jewish community in Italy,diedat 92. Oscar-winning songwriter Al Kashadiedat 85. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gantsdiedat age 66.

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A suspected drunken driver shot and killed last month after causing a crash on Viking Way then trying to force his way into a nearby house had been warned minutes before in a separate confrontation that his aggressive behavior was going to get him shot.

Witnesses said Eric William Rose, 28, climbed out of the window of his totaled 2008 Jeep Patriot on Aug.2 and ran away from the multi-vehicle crash he had just caused near the 18100 block of the roadway. He apparently wanted to hide in ahouse, wherea woman and a nearly 2-year-old girl were hiding from him, according to statements gathered by Kitsap County Sheriffs Office detectives.

While in the yard, Rose charged toward the womans husband, Joshua Ray Johnson, 27, after Johnson repeatedly warned Rose, according to Johnson and another witness at the scene.

Eric Rose(Photo: contributed)

Johnson shot Rose three times with a .45-caliber pistol from a distance of 3 or 4feet, according to Johnson.

I pretty much on repeat just kept saying, I dont want to shoot you, over and over and over and over, Johnson told detectives in a voluntary recorded statement. I dont know how many times I said it. I felt like I said it about a million times just over and over to him.

Johnson added: It was not something that I wanted to do at all.

In a statement issued Thursday through his attorney, Johnson said he could not express his sadness from the shooting and could not imagine the pain felt by Roses loved ones.

Details of the crash and shooting and the 45 minutes or so that led up to the final confrontation were pieced together from the investigation by the sheriff's office obtained by the Kitsap Sun through the state Public Records Act.

Roses parents believe their son had relapsed after about three months of sobriety. Following the high-speed crash no serious injuries were reported they believe he panicked knowing he would be sent to jail, something he feared.

They told the Kitsap Sun they had never seen Rose highly intoxicated or act aggressively.

Rose was part Native American and his parents needed special permission to adopt him as a newborn. They described him as a loving son and brother, a talented musician and chef who had struggled with alcoholism and feelings of alienation. Plus, he had trouble finding work after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants.

During the confrontation, Johnson described Roses behavior as bizarre and frightening, with him laughing at one moment, cursing at Johnson the next and then growing increasingly aggressive once he learned Johnson had a pistol.

A witness, who happened upon the shooting scene after the wreck and did not know Johnson, said he heard Johnson say I dont want to shoot you three times before Rose charged him.

The witness said Rose wasnt running at Johnson, But he was coming at him fast, flailing his arms, in a threatening manner with his chest puffed up, according to reports.

No arrests have been made. Kitsap County Prosecutor Chad Enright is reviewing the case for possible charges.

"It may take me several weeks to review the case in its entirety," Enright said.

Rose had been living with his parents since being arrested in April near Issaquah for drunken driving when he drove into a ditch. Court documents say he had a blood-alcohol content of .23, nearly three times the legal limit, and a deputy called to the scene described Roses demeanor as extremely belligerent.

Following the arrest, Rose entered treatment and was fitted with an alcohol-monitoring bracelet to ensure he did not drink. A King County District Court judge agreed to remove the bracelet on July 29, four days before his death on Aug.2.

On Aug.1, Roses parents left him alone at their house to attend a family camping trip to the Olympic Peninsula. The family had been staying together during the COVID-19 quarantine and said Rose had shown improvement with his treatment and was in good spirits when they left.

An estimated 30 to 45 minutes before the shooting, a witness driving by reported seeing Roses Jeep speed out of a driveway near the 16300 block of Scandia Way his parents house seemingly without looking for other cars. Rose lived about a mile-and-a-half from the Johnsons.

The Jeep then drove away so recklessly the witness wondered if the driver had just burglarized the house.

Rose ended up at the Red Apple grocery store on Viking Way in Poulsbo, and while trying to buy a bottle of liquor, got into an argument with clerks when they refused to sell to him, generating a 911 call.

While at the store, a man there said Rose put his hands on the shoulders of a woman in line she was standing with a child and whispered something in her ear. The man said it appeared this frightened the woman so he told Rose to keep his hands to himself.

The two men then got into a heated argument in the parking lot, which the man said Rose initiated.

The man said Rose kept coming at him like he had no fear whatsoever. The man described himself as 6 feet tall, 225 pounds and has never had anyone come up on him like that.

As Rose approached, the man told Rose to stay back four to five times before the two bumped bellies, according to documents.

He told (Rose) he was going to get shot, noting he was carrying a concealed pistol, a detective wrote. Rose just stood there and the man went back inside the Red Apple he said an employee asked him to stick around until Rose was gone.

Based on 911 call logs, about 24 minutes after the confrontation in the Red Apple parking lot where he was warned he was going to get shot because of his aggressive behavior Rose was shot dead by Johnson.

Eric Rose(Photo: contributed)

Before driving south on Viking Way toward his parents house, Roses Jeep was seen by an off-duty Bainbridge police officer speeding into a nearby cul-de-sac where the officer lived and doing donuts. The driver appeared to be trying to grab a flag from a child at play figure on the street, meant to warn drivers that children could be in the roadway.

The officer memorized the license plate and went to his patrol car to find out the owners name. While running the plate number through the computer system he heard the rest of the event play out over the radio, ending with a shots fired call.

The officer, Corporal Bill Shields, wrote that he then ran into his house to get his duty belt and vest and hurried to the scene, hoping to render aid, but arrived after deputies.

After leaving the cul-de-sac and speeding back onto Viking Way, Rose then drove to the nearby McDonalds where he was seen hitting a fence and driving over a sidewalk before speeding away, generating another 911 call.

Moments later, while driving south at extreme speeds on Viking Way, Rose struck one vehicle from behind, swerved into the oncoming lane and struck another vehicle almost head-on, according to a statement from the sheriffs office.

A preliminary analysis of computer data recovered from Roses Jeep showed he was traveling at 103 mph five seconds before the airbags deployed. He was traveling at 65 mph when the airbags deployed. The speed limit on the road is 40 mph.

A witness who called 911 was astonished at the speed the Jeep was traveling. Incredible speed, he told a dispatcher.

After the wreck reported at 4:33 p.m. witnesses said Rose climbed out of the window of the Jeep and ran away.

Inside the Jeep which had a Dont tread on me sticker on the back investigators would find empty alcohol containers, a crossbow and ammunition to two different types of handguns, but no guns were found. No witnesses reported seeing Rose with a firearm.

Johnson, a former Marine sergeant, told detectives he always carries a gun and just before the shooting had been intending to take a trip to the hardware store. Johnson kept the gun concealed in a holster in his waistband.

After realizing there had been a crash on the road in front of his house he said he went outside to help while his wife called 911 to report the crash. He then encountered Rose in his yard and asked if he was OK.

It appeared Rose was trying to hide behind a tree he told Johnson to be quiet and said Shhhhh.

Johnson heard people from the crash yelling that Rose was involved and to not let him get away. Rose then asked Johnson to let him inside his house, even offering to pay him up to $1,000.

He was uncomfortable cause he knew people were telling me not to let him get away, Johnson said, according to a transcript of the interview. He started asking me if he could get inside my house and ... I said no, you cant.

Johnson said Rose ran past him through the yard but he didnt chase after him.

I didnt want to pursue him, it wasnt like I was trying to be a hero, said Johnson, who said he hoped Rose would continue running, but instead Rose started trying to get inside his house.

At this point, Johnson said he went back inside and told his wife to lock the doors. He then went back outside. He said he never pursued Rose, but as Rosetried to enter his house and then his garage, Johnson told him to stop, to calm down and that Johnsons wife and child were inside.

Rose moved through the yard and threw a pallet and then, finding a long wooden stick used to measure heating oil, threw it at Johnson like a spear but missed.

It appeared to Johnson that Rose was becoming increasingly agitated, and again, Rose turned his attention back toward breaking into the house.

I feel like enough is enough, I might as well escalate to the next level here cause I dont know what hes gonna do, Johnson said. He removed his pistol to chamber a round preparing it to fire but reholstered it.

Johnson said Rose did not see him prepare the gun to fire. Further, Johnson said he had not indicated to Rose that he was armed.

However, as Rose seemed to become more agitated and focused on Johnson, and then the house, Johnson said he put his hand on the pistol and told Rose to stop and stay where he was.

It appeared to Johnson that once Rose realized he had a gunRose became more agitated.

When he noticed that I had something on me, he immediately got aggressive, Johnson told detectives. Rose began cursing at him and telling me I wouldnt shoot him and then he started walking towards me.

Johnson said he assumed Rose was scared that he may have killed somebody in the wreck.

He was scared and that scared transformed into anger and then he got he was just frustrated and angry and aggressive, Johnson told detectives.

Johnson said Rose who was physically larger than Johnson frightened him. Rose was 5-feet-11-inches tall and 160 pounds, according to court documents; Johnson was described by his wife as 5-feet-9-inches tall.

I was really scared, Johnson said, fearful that Rose would overpower him and enter his house. I didnt know what the next step was there and what he would do if he got in ... with my daughter and my wife so I wasnt gonna let him do it.

Johnson said despite repeated warnings Rose kept advancing. Johnson pulled out the pistol and shot Rose three times. He told detectives he did not draw the gun until he fired.

I never drew it until it was I actually was firing, Johnson said.

He then unloaded the gun and kneeled on the lawn to wait for police.

Another bystander with medic training tried to administer first aid. Rose was declared dead at the scene.

Investigators established a timeline of the crash and shooting from a neighboring business's security camera, which showed Rose was in Johnsons yard for about five minutes before Johnson shot him.

One-and-a-half minutes after the shooting, a sheriff's deputy sergeant arrived.

Johnson released to the Kitsap Sun the following statement through his attorney, Tim Kelly:

There are no words to express my sadness following the events of August 2, 2020. Loss of life, however it occurs, is always tragic. While my life has changed forever, I cannot imagine the pain felt by Mr. Roses family and friends. This is a heartbreaking situation for everyone involved.

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