Prince William shed light on his parenting journey, while recollecting emotional childhood memories of his late mother Princess Diana.

Opening up about how becoming a parent was one of the scariest moments of his life, and how he and wife Kate Middleton work through their mental health challenges together, William was seen revealing, in the documentary Football, Prince William and our Mental Health, the impacts of being a father in his life.

While empathising with footballer Marvin Sordell, the Duke of Cambridge recalled his own mother Diana, who passed away in a tragic car accident.

Sordell suffered from depression and grew up without a father.

During the conversation between the two, Sordell tells William, "You know, I found it really tough . . . I grew up without my father . . . I really struggled with my emotions at that time.

William agrees and states, Having children is the biggest life-changing moment, it really is . . . I think when youve been through something traumatic in life, and that is like you say, your dad not being around, my mother dying when I was younger, the emotions come back, in leaps and bounds."

Me and Catherine, particularly, we support each other and we go through those moments together and we kind of evolve and learn together.

I can completely relate to what youre saying about children coming along its one of the most amazing moments of life, but its also one of the scariest," he added.

Meanwhile, Sordell also opens up about his lowest point when he attempted suicide in 2013.

I was in a really bad place. I got to the point where I thought I cant do this anymore. I took a load of tablets and went to bed, not expecting to wake up," he says. "If I saw me in that situation now, you can tell a mile off theres a big problem, big, big problem. But its football though literally we dont look at these things and tackle them and try and solve them, we just think we just wanna put that away, and just leave it," he shares.

The new documentary, premiering in the UK on May 28, supports Prince William's HeadsUp campaign which is aimed at creating awareness about mental wellbeing surrounding men.

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An empty Chapel Street in New Haven, Conn., on Apr. 23, 2020. Connecticut lost jobs in April.

An empty Chapel Street in New Haven, Conn., on Apr. 23, 2020. Connecticut lost jobs in April.

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An empty Chapel Street in New Haven, Conn., on Apr. 23, 2020. Connecticut lost jobs in April.

An empty Chapel Street in New Haven, Conn., on Apr. 23, 2020. Connecticut lost jobs in April.

Connecticut shed 266K jobs in April

Connecticuts economy shed about 266,000 jobs in April amid the coronavirus crisis, a historic single-month toll that cost the state more than twice the number of salaried and wage positions that it lost in the Great Recession.

Reflecting an unprecedented shutdown of the states economy since its first confirmed COVID-19 case in early March, every major sectors employment contracted, according to data released Thursday by the state Department of Labor. Several sectors lost more than 20,000 positions, with each of them alone breaking Connecticuts monthly record for job losses.

Connecticuts unemployment rate for resident workers and self-employed professionals spiked more than four points to 7.9 percent. But the level appears severely underestimated due to data-collection problems, including misclassification of some workers employment status, according to labor officials. They estimate the actual rate is closer to about 17.5 percent, which approaches Great Depression-era levels.

These numbers are both devastating and unsurprising, given the number of businesses shut down. And with businesses that have been allowed to open, many have no business or volume, so theyve been letting people go, said Joe Brennan, CEO and president of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association. The main thing is just how quickly we can get them back to work.

Leisure and hospitality ranked as the hardest-hit sector, losing nearly 73,000 salaried and waged jobs. Next came trade, transportation and utilities, which saw employment plunge by about 50,000. Health and education lost about 45,000 positions. Professional and business services ranks dropped by about 26,000, followed by plunges of about 24,000 in other services, around 20,000 in government, approximately 13,000 in manufacturing and nearly 11,000 in construction and mining.

Financial activities and information industries sustained lighter blows: They, respectively, dropped 2,600 and 1,300 positions.

What remains to be seen is how many of these jobs were suspended and will return when public safety permits and how many were permanently lost, Andy Condon, director of the labor departments Office of Research, said in a statement.

In another blow, the labor department announced Thursday that it had revised its originally calculated March jobs loss from 7,600 to about 22,000.

Previous downturns paled in comparison. The state dropped about 119,000 jobs during its 2008-2010 recession. In the worst month in that span, it lost about 17,000 jobs, in April 2009.

It took 10 years to replace 99,000 of those jobs, Kurt Westby, the states labor commissioner, said Thursday in a phone press conference. Just in April 2020 alone, we lost double that. Were talking about job losses of epic proportions.

The damage also far exceeds that of the 1989-1992 downturn when Connecticut lost about 150,000 positions, Don Klepper-Smith, chief economist and director of research for DataCore Partners LLC, noted in a report Thursday.

Barring an immediate cure or vaccine for the coronavirus, this one-month job decline for April implies not only a harsh new economic landscape for Connecticut, but one that is apt to leave scars on the local economy and its residents for months and years to come in the same way that consumer behaviors were abruptly altered back in the 1930s, Klepper-Smith said.

Since March 13, the labor department has received more than 544,000 unemployment insurance applications surpassing the total that it would typically receive in a four-year period.

It was initially overwhelmed by the volume, with many applicants waiting six weeks to receive their benefits. But staffing increases and technological upgrades have helped to speed up the processing of regular claims to an average of about one to two weeks, according to Westby.

As of Thursday, the department had processed about 507,000 claims - although not all of them have been paid out.

Since the pandemic began, DOL has paid out about $1.58 billion in benefits. About $1 billion of that total was distributed through federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, which adds $600 in federal stimulus funds to every weekly state benefit payment.

Another $640 million was allotted for regular unemployment benefits and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. The latter program supports self-employed and gig workers and independent contractors.

We havent ever increased such a massive increase in claims and calls in the history of the DOL in such a short period of time, Westby said.

While the labor department has sped up its response time, its processing was severely disrupted by IT problems on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The majority of our staff, even those processing claims, are teleworking because of the pandemic. Those staff could not access our servers here within the agency, Dante Bartolomeo, the states deputy labor commissioner, said in the press conference. So even though on Wednesday we were able to resume functions, we were at very low capacities for our staff for most of that day as well.

The technical issues resulted in no data loss, according to Bartolomeo.

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Eighty-seven years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln delivered perhaps the most famous speech in American History. In its text is the ironic line, the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here. This is, of course the Gettysburg Address, 278 of the best words ever delivered.

In this dedication he speaks indirectly of the blood that was shed. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Abraham Lincoln was one of many national leaders who were men of deep faith. If we think that their faith was conflicted and complicated, I suggest living through a civil war would tend to make most things conflicted and complicated.

Another national leader with deep faith, James Garfield, played a role in what we now call Memorial Day. He wrote of his baptism in his diary when he was eighteen years old. These are entries made on Sunday and Monday, March 3-4, 1850. Determined to obey the Gospel. Signified my intention of so doing. On Monday he wrote, Meeting. Today I was buried with Christ in baptism and arose to walk in newness of life. For as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

He became a lay-preacher and had a successful military career. He was later sent to Washington as a congressman and was honored to give a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday May 30, 1868. The Decoration Day was the first national celebration of what was to become Memorial Day. This is the opening paragraph of his speech.

I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung. With words we make promises, plight faith, praise virtue. Promises may not be kept; plighted faith may be broken; and vaunted virtue be only the cunning mask of vice. We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue. For the noblest man that lives, there still remains a conflict. He must still withstand the assaults of time and fortune, must still be assailed with temptations, before which lofty natures have fallen; but with these the conflict ended, the victory was won, when death stamped on them the great seal of heroic character, and closed a record which years can never blot.

The history of war in the United States, as with all nation-states, is checkered to say the least. There have been wars we have been dragged into, Just Wars, wars begun with bad intelligence, and many proxy wars. When one decides to serve a group of people, there will be challenges to ones morals and conscience (this is true even in congregations). There will be decisions made and events that push us beyond our capacity to discern. Anyone going into any kind of service must understand this or learn it very quickly.

I believe that Lincoln and Garfield understood that there is something holy about blood. We learn in Genesis 4:10 that the first blood shed was heard by God, And the LORD said, What have you done? The voice of your brothers blood is crying to me from the ground.

If we consider blood to be holy (as in belonging to God), it will have an impact on how we view war. This is the reason war is so difficult for people of faith. David Lipscomb, for whom Lipscomb University in Nashville is named, was a famous pacifist. He was of the same faith tradition as James Garfield. Lipscomb believed that Christians should not vote. Garfield became President.

According to the Bible, blood represents life. Blood shed for another is given high honor. For over 150 years we have set aside a day to remember the blood shed by those who gave their lives serving in the military. We do not have to agree with the reasons why. We do not have to agree with the violence at all. But we can be thankful and remember. We must. May God grant us peace.

Eighty-seven years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln delivered perhaps the most famous speech in American History. In its text is the ironic line, the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here. This is, of course the Gettysburg Address, 278 of the best words ever delivered.

In this dedication he speaks indirectly of the blood that was shed. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Abraham Lincoln was one of many national leaders who were men of deep faith. If we think that their faith was conflicted and complicated, I suggest living through a civil war would tend to make most things conflicted and complicated.

Another national leader with deep faith, James Garfield, played a role in what we now call Memorial Day. He wrote of his baptism in his diary when he was eighteen years old. These are entries made on Sunday and Monday, March 3-4, 1850. Determined to obey the Gospel. Signified my intention of so doing. On Monday he wrote, Meeting. Today I was buried with Christ in baptism and arose to walk in newness of life. For as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

He became a lay-preacher and had a successful military career. He was later sent to Washington as a congressman and was honored to give a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday May 30, 1868. The Decoration Day was the first national celebration of what was to become Memorial Day. This is the opening paragraph of his speech.

I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung. With words we make promises, plight faith, praise virtue. Promises may not be kept; plighted faith may be broken; and vaunted virtue be only the cunning mask of vice. We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue. For the noblest man that lives, there still remains a conflict. He must still withstand the assaults of time and fortune, must still be assailed with temptations, before which lofty natures have fallen; but with these the conflict ended, the victory was won, when death stamped on them the great seal of heroic character, and closed a record which years can never blot.

The history of war in the United States, as with all nation-states, is checkered to say the least. There have been wars we have been dragged into, Just Wars, wars begun with bad intelligence, and many proxy wars. When one decides to serve a group of people, there will be challenges to ones morals and conscience (this is true even in congregations). There will be decisions made and events that push us beyond our capacity to discern. Anyone going into any kind of service must understand this or learn it very quickly.

I believe that Lincoln and Garfield understood that there is something holy about blood. We learn in Genesis 4:10 that the first blood shed was heard by God, And the LORD said, What have you done? The voice of your brothers blood is crying to me from the ground.

If we consider blood to be holy (as in belonging to God), it will have an impact on how we view war. This is the reason war is so difficult for people of faith. David Lipscomb, for whom Lipscomb University in Nashville is named, was a famous pacifist. He was of the same faith tradition as James Garfield. Lipscomb believed that Christians should not vote. Garfield became President.

According to the Bible, blood represents life. Blood shed for another is given high honor. For over 150 years we have set aside a day to remember the blood shed by those who gave their lives serving in the military. We do not have to agree with the reasons why. We do not have to agree with the violence at all. But we can be thankful and remember. We must. May God grant us peace.

Eighty-seven years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln delivered perhaps the most famous speech in American History. In its text is the ironic line, the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here. This is, of course the Gettysburg Address, 278 of the best words ever delivered.

In this dedication he speaks indirectly of the blood that was shed. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Abraham Lincoln was one of many national leaders who were men of deep faith. If we think that their faith was conflicted and complicated, I suggest living through a civil war would tend to make most things conflicted and complicated.

Another national leader with deep faith, James Garfield, played a role in what we now call Memorial Day. He wrote of his baptism in his diary when he was eighteen years old. These are entries made on Sunday and Monday, March 3-4, 1850. Determined to obey the Gospel. Signified my intention of so doing. On Monday he wrote, Meeting. Today I was buried with Christ in baptism and arose to walk in newness of life. For as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

He became a lay-preacher and had a successful military career. He was later sent to Washington as a congressman and was honored to give a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday May 30, 1868. The Decoration Day was the first national celebration of what was to become Memorial Day. This is the opening paragraph of his speech.

I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung. With words we make promises, plight faith, praise virtue. Promises may not be kept; plighted faith may be broken; and vaunted virtue be only the cunning mask of vice. We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue. For the noblest man that lives, there still remains a conflict. He must still withstand the assaults of time and fortune, must still be assailed with temptations, before which lofty natures have fallen; but with these the conflict ended, the victory was won, when death stamped on them the great seal of heroic character, and closed a record which years can never blot.

The history of war in the United States, as with all nation-states, is checkered to say the least. There have been wars we have been dragged into, Just Wars, wars begun with bad intelligence, and many proxy wars. When one decides to serve a group of people, there will be challenges to ones morals and conscience (this is true even in congregations). There will be decisions made and events that push us beyond our capacity to discern. Anyone going into any kind of service must understand this or learn it very quickly.

I believe that Lincoln and Garfield understood that there is something holy about blood. We learn in Genesis 4:10 that the first blood shed was heard by God, And the LORD said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

If we consider blood to be holy (as in belonging to God), it will have an impact on how we view war. This is the reason war is so difficult for people of faith. David Lipscomb, for whom Lipscomb University in Nashville is named, was a famous pacifist. He was of the same faith tradition as James Garfield. Lipscomb believed that Christians should not vote. Garfield became President.

According to the Bible, blood represents life. Blood shed for another is given high honor. For over 150 years we have set aside a day to remember the blood shed by those who gave their lives serving in the military. We do not have to agree with the reasons why. We do not have to agree with the violence at all. But we can be thankful and remember. We must. May God grant us peace.

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According to DWD spokesman Tyler Tichenor, the computer programs for processing claims date back to the 1970's.

"Our current systems are inflexible, which makes it slow and costly to implement even the smallest changes in federal or state law and policy," he said.

While the number of claims is tapering off 31,851 claims last week compared to 116,129 in mid-March about a third of 2.1 million claims still havent been paid.

I have four weeks pending of unemployment due to the coronavirus layoff and can't get any assistance, one reader wrote on a Capital Newspapers tip line, adding that when the phone lines arent crashed because of the volume, callers are put on terminal hold. I've used the contact form in the unemployment website multiple times and that's been just as worthless with no reply. When we need our government they are failing us.

Heather Pettenger, of Madison, puts the number of calls she made to the Department of Workforce Development in the hundreds. But the out-of-work YMCA accountant never reached a live body.

She tried email, to no avail.

She finally sought help from state Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, and after six weeks finally hit pay dirt.

After continuous contact with my state Senator Risser and the emails I sent out this weekend, my determination was finally approved and I got all of my back pay yesterday, she said in an email on Wednesday. I'm not sure why a liaison was needed to get my determination approved but I'm just thankful it finally worked out after weeks and weeks of waiting.

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According to the Fierce Biotech article, the mice who underwent the new gene therapy were injected with a gene that makes the protein follistatin, which in turn blocks a protein called myostatin. Myostatin regulates muscle growth. The therapy caused a significant buildup of muscle mass in the mice while also preventing obesity, the article said. The mice didnt just build muscle; they also nearly doubled their strength without exercising any more than they usually did. Despite being fed a high-fat diet, they had fewer metabolic issues and stronger hearts than did animals that did not receive the follistatin gene.

Scientists have been developing gene therapy for many years. It can change our bodies in many ways, and has potential serving as a treatment for cancer and muscular dystrophy.

The procedure that the mice underwent encapsulates what gene therapy isalthough scientists generally focus on people.

I define [gene therapy] as the addition of genes to humans for medical purposes, said Dr. David Sadava, Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center.

Dr. Sadava said gene therapy is based on four assumptions. First, whoever is doing the gene therapy has to know the gene thats involved in whichever problem needs to be treated. Second, they must have a normal, healthy copy of that gene available in the lab. Third, they must know where and when the gene is normally expressed. Finally, they have to be fairly certain what will happen when the gene is expressed normally.

Additionally, gene therapy must do several things in order to be considered successful.

First, gene therapy must get the gene into the appropriate cells, Dr. Sadava said. Second, gene therapy must get the gene expressed in those cells. Third, we have to get the gene integrated into the genome of the target cells so itll be there permanently. And fourth, you better not have any bad side effects to gene therapy, like any therapy in medicine.

According to Dr. Sadava, one kind of gene therapy is referred to as gene augmentation, and it comes into play when the functional product of a gene has been lost and no longer gets produced normally. By injecting a gene into someone, healthy copies of a protein product will be made and function restored.

We could hypothetically think of muscular dystrophy as a good target for gene therapy, he said. We know that muscles lack the protein dystrophinits an organizing proteinso well put in the good gene for good dystrophin.

Another kind of gene therapy is called target cell killing. Dr. Sadava said it uses a gene that either produces a poison that kills certain types of cells or it stimulates the immune system to do so. Target cell killing can be applied to cancer.

A gene is put into cancer cells that allows them to produce a protein that will make a toxic drug from a harmless chemical, Dr. Sadava said. So the idea is we inject a harmless chemical into the body, it goes all over the body and when it enters a tumor cell, its converted into a poison by the gene product of the gene that weve put in for gene therapy. So we might put in a gene that will cause a protein to be made that attracts killer T cells so the tumor will stick up its hand and say Come kill me now.'

Gene therapy is an exciting field in science and medicine with a lot of potential for humans. For now, it may seem like its just helping some overweight mice get a confidence boost, but the practical applications should shore up within our lifetime.

Dr. David Sadava contributed to this article. Dr. Sadava is Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, CA, and the Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at The Claremont Colleges. Professor Sadava graduated from Carleton University with a B.S. with first-class honors in biology and chemistry. He earned a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego.

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The Idaho Falls Police bomb squad disposed of explosives found in a Madison County Familys shed. | Courtesy Madison County Sheriff Office.

REXBURG Spring cleaning for a Madison County family turned into quite a show after they found old explosive materials while cleaning out a shed Tuesday night.

We had a family who had a grandfather who had been involved in prospecting and had stored some explosives on the property and forgot about them, Madison County Sheriffs Office spokesman Sgt. Isaac Payne told EastIdahoNews.com.

The family called the Madison County Sheriffs Office around 5:30 p.m. after finding ammonium nitrate explosives in the shed. The Idaho Falls Bomb Squad came to the home on 8000 South and detonated it safely in a nearby field.

Payne said as explosives age they become more volatile and dangerous. He also said living in Idaho finding such items like blasting caps forgotten on properties is not unusual.

Just leave it where it is, dont touch and call 911, Payne said. We will get the ball rolling.

The Madison Fire Department and Idaho State Police helped the bomb squad and sheriffs office to safely handle the incident.

The ammonium nitrate explosive found in a shed. | Courtesy Madison County Sheriffs Office

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Essex County Fire and Rescue were called to Willett Road, Colchester shortly after 1pm on Thursday.

Three crews from Colchester and Wivenhoe were called to the fire which destroyed two sheds and a large section of fencing. .

A log summerhouse was also badly damaged.

Two gas cylinders also had to be cooled down.

The fire was extinguished by 2.17pm.

Station Manager Danny Partridge said: We requested a third crew due to the manpower and amount of water needed.

Our crews did an outstanding job fighting the fire for so long on what was a very hot day.

An investigation to determine the cause is continuing.

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As COVID-19 cases continued to climb in April, the housing market felt the strain of the pandemic. Prior to the outbreak, Buildfax, a property condition data service provider, reported demand for new homes was so high that a major housing shortage was imminent.

However, April saw a 7.37% month-to-month decrease in single-family authorizations as COVID-19 continued to spread. Contrary to the month-to-month trend, data shows a 1.2% year-over-year increase in single-family authorizations, which Buildfax states is likely due to construction being an essential business in the majority of the country.

Those numbers reveal a stark difference from March, when authorizations increased 6.62% compared to the previous year, according to a Buildfax report. The report equated the rise to pre-pandemic behaviors prior to stay-at-home orders.

But its not just construction authorizations being hit. Existing housing activity took a nosedive in April when maintenance volume and spend slid 29.09% and 29.71% year-over-year, respectively. The remodel volume a subset of maintenance that includes renovations, additions and alterations decreased 33.83%.

While maintenance and remodeling numbers are typically viewed from a more regional or localized lens, existing housing spend continued to drop in the majority of major metros, according to the report. Sharp declines like these were most likely spurred by the growing unemployment rates coupled with a downturn in home sales.

Looking ahead, Buildfax estimates a strong revival in home sale activity as the economy begins to open back up. This prediction mirrors the forecasts by economists that a record-setting recession followed by an end-of-year turnaround is on the horizon.

By and large, property transactions have slowed substantially, which subsequently affects the pace of maintenance and remodeling, Buildfax Managing Director Jonathan Kanarek said. On the bright side, we anticipate maintenance and remodeling to rebound as the number of home sales starts increasing later this year.

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Craig Russell made his television premiere during the production of HGTV's Urban Oasis 2018. As the general contractor for the show's renovation of a home in Cincinnat's Oakley neighborhood, Russell found himself spending a fair amount of time in front of the camera, where his skill as a builder and natural teacher was captured for the small screen. Shortly thereafter, he joined forces with TGS Productions and Signature Hardware to start work on a show fully focused on Craig and his team as they manage different home renovation projects around the city.

For the past year, The English Contractor team and customers have grown accustomed to cameras in the office and on the job site. Viewers of the upcoming show will see highlights of residential building projects in Indian Hill, Hyde Park, Sycamore, Oakley, Terrace Park and downtown Cincinnati. "This show captures what we do every day," explains Russell. "We take pride in our work and are perfectionists, but that doesn't mean that we don't have fun along the way," he said.

Viewers can tune in starting Saturday, May 23rd at 7am to catch glimpses of some of their favorite CIncinnati neighborhoods, home renovation ideas, and DIY-instruction, all peppered with Russell's building expertise and quick wit. Each episode follows some of his favorite projects over the past year. Programming highlights include:

About The English Contractor

As an award-winning, custom building firm, The English Contractor (TEC) serves the entire Greater Cincinnati region with excellence. TEC specializes in custom work, with a focus on home building, additions, remodels, and luxury home improvements. One of the hallmarks of TEC is the firm's employee-based structure with broad expertise in the building and remodeling crafts. Unlike using a subcontractor, all projects are managed by a TEC employee who is involved with clients from the start to ensure deep knowledge of their goals, and accountability for their satisfaction. TEC work has been widely recognized, with projects featured on HGTV Urban Oasis as well as other regional programming.

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