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Developer seeks change in West Springfield parking requirement Updated 8:20 AM; WEST SPRINGFIELD — To bring tenants back to downtown West Springfield, something’s got to be done about the parking, say the owners the former United Bank building on Elm Street. It’s not that there isn’t enough parking — there are 250 spaces just a short walk away, at the municipal parking lot on Central Street. It’s that West Springfield’s zoning ordinances require a certain number of parking spaces at each individual property, and the dense retail and office buildings on Elm Street don’t have e...

Goldman Sachs bolts out of the gates in post-pandemic deals flurry Save Share The numbers are in and it’s official. Dealmaking is back. After a forgettable 2020 for M&A – with announced deals hitting their lowest level in a decade – bankers and lawyers have been run off their feet since the start of the year, working late nights to get takeovers, mergers and acquisitions across the line. Boards around Australia have been pulling the trigger on deals.  Daniel O'Brien The action has been across the board – waste, renewable energy, financial services, mining and resources,...

Dance marathons were a seedy, exploitative Bay Area craze that SF's women helped stop FacebookTwitterEmail A group photo of contestants at Emeryville's walkathons, which employed 50 people including four nurses, a dental unit and orchestra musicians.Courtesy of Ray Raineri Despite its libertine reputation, San Francisco was among the first to crack down on a degrading, sometimes-deadly craze that was sweeping much of a starved nation during the Great Depression: competitive endurance dancing. Dance marathons, also called walkathons to avoid legal and moral scrutiny, were essentially the Netfl...

Israeli jiu-jitsu black belt travels the globe for mentorship in Cullman Updated Apr 04, 2021; By BENJAMIN BULLARD, The Cullman Times CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — Yonatan Harel left his home in Israel to set out on a global, year-long quest (and counting) — all to seek out the best instruction the world has to offer as he immerses himself deeply in his martial arts passion. It’s a search that had already led Harel — a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt with 17 years’ training — to studios in California and Brazil. Now, it’s led him here. Harel, 41, is currently in the middle of the three-m...

He’s talking about O’Brien himself, who took over the Triad legacy established by original studio founder and widely-acclaimed 5th degree jiu-jitsu master Johnny Lee Smith. Smith studied in the early 1990s under Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Rickson Gracie, and there’s a strand of Gracie’s revered approach to the discipline that threads directly from Smith’s early training days to O’Brien’s own technique. In the small but intensely dedicated global jiu-jitsu community, Smith achieved household-name recognition in the 1990s - and O’Brien is doing it again, more than two decades la...