RAPID CITY, MI — Homebuyers have the unique opportunity of playing Yellowstone rancher to a Northern Michigan backdrop. The Adirondack-inspired estate, located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd NW in Rapid City, that’s a cohesive blend of luxury living and natural splendor is MLive’s House of the Week. Homes from across the state are showcased each Wednesday Listed at $13.9 million by Johnny Crane of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices , the six-bedroom, six-and-one-half-bathroom Northern Michigan property features a main lodge, entertainment barn and 466 acres for outdoor adventure. “It’s essentially a Yellowstone ranch with as nice a home as you’ll find in Michigan. You don’t see this combination of beautiful, diverse acreage and luxury living,” Crane said. “The person who is going to enjoy this property appreciates high quality craftsmanship and understands how beautiful the heart of Northern Michigan is.” The main lodge and guest barn boast a combined 9,700 square feet of living space set on four acres of manicured grounds. Inspired by a profound admiration for Adirondack architecture, Crane said the owners embarked on multiple trips to upstate New York alongside their design team to ensure authenticity. The interior design of both homes were orchestrated by Francesca Owings Design of Grand Rapids. The property is offered fully furnished. A significant portion of the furniture, accessories and décor were handpicked from Dartbrook Rustic Goods, a boutique in Keene, N.Y. known for its expertise in Adirondack furnishings. Inside the Adirondack-inspired main lodge of a property located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd in Rapid City. Photos provided by WayUp Media Crafted in 2017, the main lodge is an architectural wonder. It spans 5,888 square feet, offering four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. The interior surfaces are made almost entirely of premium woods with specialty paint finishes. Year-round comfort is provided with in-floor radiant heat and forced air. Lighting and audio in the main living areas and primary suite care managed with in-home technology. The main room in the lodge proudly features an Adirondack stone fireplace. The focal point is supported by a three foot thick stone wall. All stones were sourced directly from the Adirondack region and integrated into property interiors and exteriors. Above, the cathedral ceiling is embellished with massive hand hewed beams and chandeliers made of elk antlers. An open concept floor plan, wet bar and multiple seating areas makes the space ideal for entertaining guests. The chef’s kitchen features a Subzero refrigerator, dual dishwashers, an industrial stove and an oversized island with two-inch-thick soapstone counters. There’s plenty of storage with custom cabinetry and a walk-in pantry. The Bavarian-themed dining room is a unique octagon shape, featuring taxidermy from decommissioned castles, exquisite trim work and abundant natural light. The primary suite of a home located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd in Rapid City. Photos provided by WayUp Media Tucked away in its own wing, a sunlit hallway leads to the primary suite with a water feature flowing below. The Scandinavian-inspired oasis is adorned with white-washed alder wood, cathedral ceilings and built-in cabinetry for a personalized coffee bar. In the primary bathroom, a soaking tub offers elevated views of the outdoors. Its accompanied by custom-built Adirondack-style vanities and a spacious owner’s closet with its own washer and dryer. Along the corridor leading to the primary suite, an office nook offers a picturesque vista of the spring-fed pond. The Moroccan-inspired guest room inside the main lodge of a property located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd in Rapid City. Photos provided by WayUp Media Located at the southern end of the main lodge, one of the guest rooms emanates cultural richness and worldly travel. The room is embellished with authentic antiques from Morocco and paint colors that pay homage to the region’s vibrant palette. The Moroccan room offers two sets of built-in bunk beds, its own dedicated bathroom and access to an additional guest bedroom in the loft above. Hallways and corridors serve as conversation pieces, enriched with bespoke wood finishes, artwork and antiques. The equipment hall has custom cabinetry that accommodates outdoor activity with fly rod mounts and a secure gun case. The interior of a home located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd in Rapid City. Photos provided by WayUp Media Built in 2021, the guest barn features ten-foot overhead doors and cedar wall coverings. The space is meant for large gatherings or more functional day-to-day use and storage. This 3,888 square foot indoor space features two bedrooms, three bathrooms, a cocktail lounge and spa. The Hemingway Bar and Cocktail Lounge is decorated with a selection of antique and custom furnishings, including a vintage pool table and a built-in gun case. Walls are adorned with a variety of antiques, paintings and books, evoking a sense of timelessness and nostalgia. The River’s Edge Spa is located within the guest house. Its complete with in-floor lighting, custom cedar sauna, massage beds and kitchenette. The exterior of the main lodge at a property located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd in Rapid City. Photos provided by WayUp Media The property encompassing an expanse of 466 acres, including nearly a mile of frontage along the Rapid River. The outdoor living area of the main lodge features a large deck and patio with a boardwalk ending at the river’s edge. It comes equipped with a built-in gas grill, custom smoker, Argentinian grill and a professional-grade wood-fired pizza oven for entertaining under the open skies. Screened porches in both the main lodge and guest barn extend outdoor through the four seasons. The grounds are maintained with English-style gardens and a rolling creek that runs under the main lodge. The entire four-acre grounds are irrigated, providing a lush lawn resembling a Kentucky horse farm. The 466-acre property of a home located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd in Rapid City. Photos provided by WayUp Media The property is not only a beautiful backdrop. Hardwood forests, undulating hills, expansive pastures and elevations reaching almost 1,000 feet are encompassed in this private bite of Northern Michigan scenery. A myriad of trails are perfect for hiking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. A vast network of snowmobiling and UTV trails seamlessly connect to the property, promising endless exploration and outdoor excitement. For hunting enthusiasts, there’s an abundant mature whitetail deer population, as well as coyote and black bear, providing ample opportunities for thrilling pursuits. Upland bird hunting is also cherished here, with a plentiful population of grouse offering delightful autumn excursions. There are three raised platform blinds thoughtfully positioned across the estate. A sport clays course boasts three separate stations equipped with Wi-Fi- controlled commercial-grade clay pigeon launchers for effortless and enjoyable practice sessions. The exterior of the main lodge at a property located at 8051 Glade Valley Rd in Rapid City. Photos provided by WayUp Media The Rapid River meanders gracefully through the property, serving as a natural southern boundary. Its recognized for its quality and abundance of rainbow, brook and brown trout. Stocked annually with bass, perch and rainbow trout, a spring-fed pond near the main lodge provides a serene retreat for both fishing and relaxation. It connects directly to the river, ensuring consistent water levels during periods of drought or extreme heat. See some of the 120 images provided by WayUp Media above or view the full gallery by clicking here . View the listing of the home here .McDermott, AFC East-leading Bills refreshed coming out of bye week, and looking ahead to host 49ers
Target has an unbeatable Nintendo Switch Black Friday dealThe 25-year-old Sweden international took his goal tally for the season to 12 in the 3-0 Boxing Day win over Aston Villa at St James’ Park, 10 of them in his last 10 Premier League games, after a challenging start to the new campaign. Isak managed 25 goals in a black and white shirt last season to further justify the club record £63million the club paid to bring him to Tyneside from Real Sociedad during the summer of 2022, but as delighted as he is with his big-money signing, head coach Howe is confident there is even more to come. Murph 🔗 Alex Isak Different game. Same link up. 💪 pic.twitter.com/OMhZf7dtKZ — Newcastle United (@NUFC) December 27, 2024 Asked where the former AIK Solna frontman currently ranks in world football, he said: “My biggest thing with Alex is I am evaluating his game on a daily and weekly basis and I just want to try to push him for more. “Everyone else can say where he is in the pecking order of world football. His game is in a good place at the moment. “My job is to not sit back and appreciate that, my job is to try and find areas he can improve, push him towards that and never stop pushing him. He has all the ingredients in there. Football never stops evolving and changing and he has to evolve with it. “There is a lot more to come from him. Our job is to help him deliver that. “Of course the main responsibility is for Alex to keep his focus, ignore the plaudits and keep helping the team, not be selfish. It is about Newcastle and he plays his part.” It is no coincidence that Newcastle have prospered as Isak has rediscovered his best form, and they will head for Manchester United – where they have won only once in the top flight since 1972 – on Monday evening looking for a fifth successive win in all competitions. He has scored in each of the last five league games having grown into the mantle of the Magpies’ main man, a role performed with such distinction in the past by the likes of Jackie Milburn, Malcolm Macdonald and Alan Shearer, and he has done so with the minimum of fuss. Asked about his character, Howe said: “He is calm, cool – he is what you see on the pitch. “He doesn’t get overly emotional, which for a striker is a great quality because that coolness you see and calmness in front of goal is part of his personality, part of what he is. He seems to have an extra half a second when other players don’t. “With Alex, the beauty of his attitude is that he wants to improve. We give him information and he is responsive. He is not a closed shop. “He is in no way thinking he has arrived at a certain place. He knows he has to keep adding to his game. The challenge is great for him to keep scoring freely as he is now.”Deadly Fire In Russia's Tatarstan Highlights Conditions For Migrant Workers
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The world’s biggest (PE) have been unable to sell or list their portfolio companies this year, as Beijing’s crackdown on (IPOs) and a slowing economy leave foreign investors’ capital trapped in the country. Among the 10 largest global private equity groups with operations in China, there is no record of any having listed a Chinese company this year or fully sold their stake through a , figures from Dealogic show. It is the first year for at least a decade where this has been the case, though the pace of exits has been slow since Beijing introduced restrictions on Chinese companies’ ability to list in 2021. Buyout groups rely on being able to sell or list companies, typically within three to five years of buying them, in order to generate returns for the pension funds, insurance companies and others whose money they manage. The difficulties in doing so have in effect left those investors’ funds locked away, with future returns uncertain. “There’s a growing sense among PE investors that China may not be as systemically investable as once thought,” said Brock Silvers, chief executive of Hong Kong private equity group Kaiyuan Capital. He said firms were facing “weakened exit strategies on multiple fronts” in China, including being affected by a slower economy and domestic regulatory pressure. Many private equity groups expanded their presence in the world’s second-biggest economy as it grew rapidly over the past two decades. and others plowed capital into the country, hoping to gain exposure to its economic boom. The 10 firms invested US$137 billion over the past decade, but total exits amount to just US$38 billion, Dealogic data shows. New investment by those groups has collapsed to just US$5 billion since the start of 2022. The pace of buyout groups’ exits from deals globally has also been slowing. It was down 26 per cent in the first half of this year, according to a report by S&P Global. But the halt in China exits is particularly stark. It has helped make some pension funds that allocate cash to private equity groups warier of exposure to the country. “In theory, you could buy cheaply [in China] now but you need to ask what would happen if you can’t exit or if you have to hold it for longer,” said a private markets specialist at a large pension fund that is not currently investing in the country. A senior executive at a major investment group that commits cash to private equity funds said they were “not expecting a lot of exits for the next couple of years at least” in China. The data covers Blackstone, KKR, CVC, TPG, Warburg Pincus, Carlyle Group, Bain Capital, EQT, Advent International and Apollo, the 10 largest buyout groups by funds raised for private equity over the past decade, excluding those that have done no deals in China. The data does not include Blackstone real estate deals. Private equity firms sometimes buy or sell companies without disclosing it, and any such exits may be missing from the data. The firms declined to comment. The difficulty in cashing out has been one of the main factors deterring international buyout groups from making investments in the country, in addition to Chinese-United States tensions and the economic slowdown. Jean Salata, founder of Barings Private Equity Asia, which Stockholm-based EQT bought in 2022, told the Financial Times in June that one reason the “bar is high” for China deals was that investors were asking: “How easy will it be to get liquidity on those investments five years from now?” Foreign buyout groups used to rely on taking Chinese companies public in the US or other countries in order to exit their investments after a few years. But Beijing has introduced new restrictions on offshore listings since cracking down on the ride-hailing app DiDi, in the wake of its New York IPO in 2021. Listings have slowed significantly since. In total this year, there have been just US$7 billion of domestic IPOs in China as of late November, compared with US$46 billion last year, which was already the lowest total since 2019. The crackdown has left buyout groups searching for other options, such as selling their stakes to domestic and multinational companies and to other buyout groups. But overseas buyers are sometimes reluctant, in part because of closer U.S. political scrutiny of the mainland. One of the few recent exits among the 10 firms came when Carlyle sold its minority stake in the back to the U.S. fast-food retailer last year. In China’s boom years before the Covid-19 pandemic, there were dozens of exits through both listings and mergers and acquisitions, and foreign private equity played a much bigger role in driving mainland activity. chief executive David Solomon said at a Hong Kong conference in November that one of the reasons investors were “predominantly on the sidelines” over deploying funds in China was that “it’s been very difficult...to get capital out”.
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The entertainment industry has always had a love-hate relationship with politics with various actors getting different treatments from the parties in power. In 2015, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath compared his remark on "intolerance" in India by comparing him with terrorist Hafiz Sayeed. In 2017, the BJP boycotted an award ceremony to honour actor Prakash Raj. Earlier this year, the saffron party sought a ban on all films and ads of actor Shivakumar, whose wife was contesting the polls. 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During one of the meetings organised for the mill workers in 1949, Majrooh Sultanpuri recited a poem that was written against Jawaharlal Nehru and therefore he had to go to jail. He refused to tender an apology for the... pic.twitter.com/xRYHnHZIP7 — Nirmala Sitharaman Office (@nsitharamanoffc) December 16, 2024 Apart from these two stalwarts of their time, the Congress government of Indira Gandhi censored India's legendary singer and actor Kishore Kumar at one time for rebuffing the Congress's requests for endorsements. Actor-director Manoj Kumar, too, paid the price of turning down a "request" to direct a pro-Emergency film as his film 'Dus Numbri' was released on Doordarshan way before its planned release in theatres. As a result, it bombed at the Box Office. He eventually went to court and won the case against the government. The fight between the BJP and the Congress has again turned towards the entertainment industry. Allu Arjun's arrest and subsequent release on bail have prompted the BJP to target the Revanth Reddy government in Telangana. The BJP has now again raked up the instance of Indira Gandhi censoring Kishore Kumar. On Tuesday, the BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said: "Revanth Reddy is orchestrating state-sponsored violence and attack on Allu Arjun. He is completely rattled because a neutral star, who believes in free speech, is loved by the people of Telangana and has not toed the line of the Congress Party; he is not working as per the whims and the fancies of the Congress Party." #WATCH | Delhi: On vandalisation at the residence of actor Allu Arjun in Jubilee Hills, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari says "Revanth Reddy is orchestrating a state-sponsored violence and state-sponsored attack on Allu Arjun. He is completely rattled because a neutral star who... pic.twitter.com/yUXSq1njV0 — ANI (@ANI) December 24, 2024 "This is the Emergency mindset of the Congress, which is common in Jawaharlal Nehru who banned and jailed Madru Sultanpuri. Indira Gandhi stopped the songs of Kishore Kumar and now Revanth Reddy is ensuring that his goons attack Allu Arjun. Congress Party does not believe in free speech," he had. What Happened Between Kishore Kumar And Indira Gandhi? Kishore Kumar was not renowned only for his melodious voice but also for his compelling stories. One such tale of courage dates back to when he refused to sing for the Youth Congress and turned down a "request" to promote Sanjay Gandhi's advertisment for the Indira Gandhi government's economic policy. When Kishore Said 'No' To Indira Gandhi During the Emergency in 1975, Indira Gandhi launched a 20-point programme to promote her policies. Vidya Charan Shukla was the Information and Broadcasting Minister back then. Shukla, who had good relations with many in the film industry, understood the power of cinema and music. He wanted to use songs to glorify Indira Gandhi and her 20-point economic agenda. To this end, ministry officials were sent to Mumbai to convince Kishore Kumar to sing for the campaign. When the officials approached Kishore Kumar and explained the kind of song they wanted him to perform, he flatly refused and reportedly used strong language to dismiss them. This was not the first time Kishore had declined to work for the Congress party. Earlier, he had refused to perform at a Youth Congress event in Bombay (now Mumbai). Kishore Kumar’s Songs Banned Kishore Kumar’s defiance angered officials at the Information and Broadcasting Ministry back in Delhi. In retaliation, the ministry issued a diktat banning all of Kishore Kumar’s songs from being broadcast on All India Radio and Doordarshan. The impact of the ban was felt on the most popular radio programme at that time — Binaca Geetmala. Kishore Kumar was the most-played singer in the programme in 1974, the year before the Emergency (1975-1977), as well as in 1959 and 1971. His ' Mera jeewan kora kaagaz ' was the biggest hit that year. However, in 1975 Kishor Kumar's voice was silenced on radio. In addition to this, the sale of gramophone records featuring his songs was prohibited. Officials believed this ban would intimidate the film industry and silence dissent. To some extent, they succeeded, as many artistes of the time reportedly toed out of fear. However, a few individuals like Kishore Kumar stood firm in their opposition to the government. Other stalwarts of the film industry, such as Dev Anand, Vijay Anand, Raj Kumar, V Shantaram, Uttam Kumar, and Satyajit Ray, also refused to bow. Satyajit Ray, for instance, declined a proposal to direct a film on Jawaharlal Nehru. This was an era devoid of social media, with limited means for artistes (and the government) to reach out to the public. Despite these challenges, a handful of artistes, led by Kishore Kumar, refused to compromise with their principles.Singapore 2024: A new prime minister in saddle, city-state elevates ties with IndiaSNOWFLAKE students stuck their oar in after a university rowing club ranked members’ abilities by comparing them to willies. One struggler was dubbed “Mr Floppy”, while the top performer was named “Morning Wood”. Oxford Brookes University launched an investigation into its boat club after complaints over the use of comic names. Rowers were placed into categories which were also given names such as “The Semis” and “Rock Hard”. Woke students were even more furious after discovering rowers’ names had a column with recommendations, including calls to “toughen up”. One message on the sheet read: “Watching you row is like watching paint dry.” READ MORE ON UNIVERSITIES HISTORIC DAY OUT Eight things to do in England’s historic university town of Oxford UNI FEAR Fury as woke uni warns biology students may get upset by images of human body Another had the suggestion: “Put the pies down.” After the willy-related names and the messages were revealed, a leaked WhatsApp group chat showed a senior member of the coaching staff called for the mole to own up. But an Oxford Brookes spokesman said: “The material that has been circulated online has appalled us. “We are taking the concerns that have been raised about coaching practices at Oxford Brookes University Boat Club extremely seriously, and we are working with British Rowing to investigate and address those concerns. 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