#Miss Alaska USA 2016

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this is so late... and i am so sorry...

( neels visser • 20 • male ) look, it's tyce thorsen from apartment 2A ! i heard that he is here in los angeles because they were traded to the la kings. they moved into moreau apartments one month ago and rumour has it, they can be quite insecure and closed off — good thing they’re also adaptable and easy going, hey ? i hear they’re the eeyore of the building. ( nyle, 20, est, she/them )

HISTORY

tyce thorsen was born in sunny arizona --- to watercolor sunsets and flat flat flat horizons; to the sand and the dry heat that fills your lungs too quickly; to an nhler who didn’t know how to give the ice up even in the desert, and passed that down to his sons.

arizona was not where tyce grew up, however; he grew up on the road, in the places between here and there, sometimes rooted for a year, sometimes barely a few months. NINE schools, NINE cities in eleven years is no way to raise a child, and yet tyce embraced it all --- ever willing to adapt to new surroundings from alaska to california to boston, to new weather and friends, so long as the ice in his veins was kept happy and kept happy it was. jonathan thorsen would not have anything different for his sons.

perhaps the first place that truly felt like home was ANN-ARBOR, home of the united states national development team program. in the end, he was only there for a year, though it could have easily been two if the university of connecticut hadn’t requested an acceleration of his education that he ultimately accepted. he graduated a year early and went on to play for uconn’s newly fledged team.

he finished his freshman season with 33 pts in 36 games and went on to be drafted by the st. louis blues in the 2016 NHL draft at 26th overall. he played his sophomore season, earning 33 pts in 34 games (missing two games due to playing in the world juniors championship where he won gold with team usa). the summer after, he sign his entry level contract with the blues.

( there’s this FEELING of wanting to be part of something for more than a YEAR, a fleeting moment of finding family only to be taken away from them again --- he won’t tell anyone this, but he’s tired of the ceaseless movement. and the only reason he didn’t STAY with the usntdp longer is because he didn’t want to get CLOSER with an inevitable deadline creeping up ).

as it turns out, this start he thought was coming didn’t come true. he started out in the AHL and got called up halfway through and certainly didn’t have the potential the blues were hoping to get from their first round pick. tyce wasn’t exactly happy with his own play either, but there was little he could do about it --- they weren’t letting him play his game, and in the nhl you do anything you can just to not get sent back down. he entered his first nhl off-season with the determination to get better.

the call from his agent came in mid-july ( “you’ve been traded” ). traded to the la kings along with a couple veteran players and a first round pick for the star center the blues so desperately needed to make playoffs ( and the one that tyce would certainly not become ).

it was a shock at first ---after all, st. louis was always supposed to be the end of all this ceaseless movement, but tyce was also the son of an nhler and as all who grow up with the nhl pipedream know: nothing is certain, and hockey is a business. he’s prided himself in being ADAPTABLE, after all. and more he learned, the more he thought about it and talked with the kings organization, the more he realized that this might just be the opportunity he needed. there’s something to be said about being WANTED, someone having confidence in you and big plans for the future.

and tyce moved to la with plans of giving them a reason he should STAY.

MISC

okay so i gave tyce the label of “eeyore” because i imagine he always has these big sad eyes and expression that make him look extremely down all the time ( even when he’s not ). he tends to always look like he has some emotional weight on his shoulders but when he smiles it lights up his whole face.

he is a TALL ASS BITCH. boi is 6′5″ and 202 pounds. he could stand to gain more weight in muscle and actually use his size on the ice a bit more. but he is a very tall man.

he’s a winger who can play right or left side. he was drafted as a center but that changed. call him a power forward. he has a very good shot and is a huge asset to the penalty kill (that was his dad’s specialty). despite his size, he is rather nimble on a ice and can skate extremely well.

personality-wise, he is very easy-going and nothing seems to phase him very much ( he just rather not waste the energy ). but that easiness masks a lot of insecurities, especially about his height and his play. he’s not as conscious about his height as he was ( used to be called bambi and has trouble growing into his rapidly changing body ) but it’s still a little disconcerting to look down at almost everyone. 

CONNECTIONS

so tyce has only been in la for about a month, month and a half when he moved it prior to the season starting. he lives in 2A so i’m down for all the neighborly plots or the annoying resident above plots...

that being said, he’s also lived in a l o t of places so he could have met ur chara beforehand...

fans of the la kings, anybody??

uh... idk. im so bad at connections, i’m sorry but pls hmu!!

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GAY MUSIC CHART - 2018 week 35

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 Here is the recap for this week :

 OUT : Madblush – Homophobic (LW: 16 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 12)

OUT : Troye Sivan - Bloom (LW: 34 / WO: 16 / PEAK: 01 (x5))

OUT : Kim Petras - Heart to Break (LW: 37 / WO: 20 / PEAK: 02)

OUT : Jake Shears - "Big Bushy Mustache" (LW: 39 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 39)

OUT : はるな愛 Ai Haruna -「BONダンス」(LW: 40 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 40)

OUT : Big Freedia feat. Lizzo - "Karaoke" (LW: 41 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 41)

OUT : Hercules & Love Affair feat. Mashrou' Leila - Are You Still Certain (LW: 42 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 38)

OUT : The Aces - "Last One" (LW: 46 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 45)

OUT : Ryan Beatty - "Haircut" (LW: 47 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 47)

OUT : King Princess - "Holy" (LW: 48 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 44)

OUT : Ryan Beatty - "Powerslide" (LW: 49 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 49)

  01 (+ 4) : Years & Years - If You're Over Me (LW: 05 / WO: 15 / PEAK: 01 (x1))

UK - 2018 / from the album "Palo Santo"

 02 (=) : Troye Sivan feat. Ariana Grande - Dance To This (LW: 02 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 02)

Australia / USA – 2018 / from the album 2018 "Bloom"

 03 (+ 5) : Cher - "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" [Audio] (LW: 08 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 03)

USA - 2018 / from the album "Dancing Queen"

An ABBA revival, thanks to "Mama Mia 2".

 04 (- 3) : P!nk - "Secrets" (LW: 01 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 01 (x2))

USA - 2018 / from the album "Beautiful Trauma"

 05 (- 1) : Years & Years - All For You (PSEN Televisual Exclusive) (LW: 04 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 01 (x1))

UK - 2018 / from the album "Palo Santo"

 06 (=) : THE TRIPLETZ - "You Better Fucking Dance" (LW: 06 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 06)

Spain - 2018

"Better fuck with them boys

Better fuck with them girls

Better fuck with them both

Who fuckin cares?"

 07 (+ 3) : Sandro Cavazza, P3GI-13 - High With Somebody (LW: 10 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 07)

Sweden - 2018

A sweet song and a music video which shows bisexuality.

 08 (- 1) : Lizzo - Boys (LW: 07 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 01 (x2))

USA - 2018

 09 (+ 4) : Sam Bluer - "Body High" (LW: 13 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 09)

Australia - 2018

This is his debut music video. A revelation.

 10 (+ 10) : Peter Wilson & Sean Smith - "Verona" (LW: 20 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 10)

UK - 2018 / from the album "The Passion and The Flame"

This awesome cover of the 2017's Estonian Eurovision track from Koit Toome and Laura is produced by Matt Pop.

 11 (- 8) : Adore Delano - 27 Club (LW: 03 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 01 (x2))

USA - 2018 / from the album "Whatever"

 12 (+ 7) : Cheat Codes, Little Mix - Only You (LW: 19 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 12)

USA / UK - 2018

This music video shows a lesbian love at first sight between a mermaid and a woman.

 13 (+ 9) : Troye Sivan - "Animal" (LW: 22 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 13)

Australia - 2018 / from the album "Bloom"

 14 (- 5) : Not.Your.Regular.Boy. - Get Down Make Love (LW: 09 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 09)

The Netherlands - 2018

 15 (+ 3) : Tiago Braga - Ilusão (LW: 18 / WO: 14 / PEAK: 06)

Portugal - 2018

A story of infidelity.

 16 (NEW) : Calvin Harris, Sam Smith - "Promises" (Lyric Video) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 16)

UK - 2018

 17 (NEW) : Kylie Minogue - "A Lifetime to Repair" (Lyric Video) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 17)

Australia - 2018 / from the album "Golden"

 18 (- 6) : MNEK feat. Hailee Steinfeld - Colour (LW: 12 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 05)

UK - 2018

 19 (- 8) : LOBODA - "SuperSTAR" (LW: 11 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 19)

Ukraine - 2018

The music video is rated 18+ in Ukraine because of the two gay and the lesbian kisses.

 20 (NEW) : Man Meadow - "Play It Loud" (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 20)

Sweden - 2018

 21 (- 6) : Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It (LW: 15 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 07)

USA - 2018

Brendon Urie comes out as pansexual. The funny music and his puppet illustrates that fact.

 22 (+ 3) : Blair St. Clair - Call My Life (LW: 25 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 13)

USA - 2018 / from the album "Call My Life"

 23 (NEW) : Pabllo Vittar - "Problema Seu" (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 23)

Brazil - 2018

 24 (- 10) : Eureka O'Hara - The Big Girl (LW: 14 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 04)

USA - 2018

This is the first single of the drag queen who was runner up in RuPaul's Drag Race season 10.

 25 (NEW) : Madonna - MET Gala 2018 (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 25)

USA - 2018

Madonna performs 'Like A Prayer', 'Beautiful Game' and 'Hallelujah' at the 2018 MET Gala in New York.

 26 (+ 6) : Vini Uehara - "Perigo" (LW: 32 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 26)

Brazil - 2018 / from the album "Hear Me Now"

The fashion designer, Youtuber and singer comes out of the closet as gay with this music video.

 27 (NEW) : LP - "Girls Go Wild" (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 27)

USA - 2018

 28 (NEW) : Chris(tine and the Queens) - "5 dollars" (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 28)

France - 2018 / from the album "Chris"

 29 (- 1) : Blonde feat. Bryn Christopher - Me, Myself & I (LW: 28 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 27)

UK - 2018

 30 (- 13) : BeBe Zahara Benet - Jungle Kitty (LW: 17 / WO: 12 / PEAK: 07)

USA - 2018

 31 (- 1) : Years & Years - Palo Santo (Live - Vevo x Years & Years) (LW: 30 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 28)

UK - 2018 - from the album "Palo Santo"

 32 (- 6) : CARSON - "Good Love" (LW: 26 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 26)

USA - 2018

The debut music video of Carson Rammelt has been promoted on Billboard Pride's July 2018 Playlist.

 33 (- 2) : Mint Julep - The Promise ("Alex Strangelove" OST) (LW: 31 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 22)

USA - 2018

"Alex Strangelove" is a gay coming of age movie from Nexflix.

 34 (+ 4) : AB Soto - "No More 2 Say" (LW: 38 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 34)

USA - 2018 / from the album "Visibility, Part.1"

 35 (+ 1) : Nacha La Macha - Eres Cobarde (LW: 36 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 11)

Spain - 2018

 36 (- 15) : Smashby - "Someone" (LW: 21 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 21)

UK - 2018 / from the EP "Wild One"

 37 (- 4) : Bruno Gadiol, Gabriel Nandes - Seu Costume (LW: 33 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 17)

Brazil - 2018

The 20 years old singer has been revealed in The Voice Brasil in 2016. He comes out as gay with this music video.

 38 (+ 12) : Davi - "Tenho Você" (LW: 50 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 38)

Brazil - 2018

This is the first single in solo of the member of Banda Uó.

 39 (- 16) : Sharon Needles - "666" (LW: 23 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 17)

USA - 2018 / from the album "Battle Axe"

 40 (NEW) : LVRK - "Heart to Heart" (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 40)

Sweden - 2018

 41 (NEW) : Kiesza feat. Philippe Sly - "Phantom Of The Dance Floor" (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 41)

Canada - 2018

 42 (- 15) : Panic! At The Disco - Say Amen (Saturday Night) (LW: 27 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 18)

USA - 2018 / from the album "Pray For The Wicked"

 43 (NEW) : Seeb, Dagny - "Drink About" (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 43)

Norway - 2018

 44 (- 15) : Not.Your.Regular.Boy. - Crazyland (LW: 29 / WO: 18 / PEAK: 03)

The Netherlands - 2018

Revealed on X-Factor and the Voice, this is his debut single.

 45 (- 10) : Brandon Stansell - "For You" (LW: 35 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 22)

USA - 2018

A sweet love triangle story.

 46 (RE-ENTRY) : Steve Grand - Don't Let The Light In (LW: - / WO: 2 / PEAK: 36)

USA - 2018 / from the album "Not The End of Me"

The music video is a collection of his childhood and concerts footage.

 47 (- 23) : Monét X Change feat. Bob The Drag Queen - Soak It Up (LW: 24 / WO: 12 / PEAK: 08)

USA - 2018

The drag queen was voted Miss Congeniality of the 2018 edition of RuPaul's Drag Race.

 48 (- 5) : 星屑スキャット Hoshikuzu Scat - 「半蔵門シェリ」 "Hanzo Mon Chérie" (LW: 43 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 43)

Japan - 2017 / from the EP "Hanzo Mon Cherie"

We're in love with the first music video of this trio, composed with drag queens Mitz, Meili and Kazue!

 49 (- 5) : Renato - "Cruel Summer" (LW: 44 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 27)

Czech Republic - 2018

 50 (- 5) : FRANKIE x Scott Hoying feat. One Night - Ghost (LW: 45 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 14)

USA - 2018

The music video is an interesting queer remake of Grease.

  ALSO NEW THIS WEEK

 John Duff - "Girly"

USA - 2018

The singer plays Mariah Carey, Madonna, Britney Spears and Beyoncé. Drag queen Bianca Del Rio, Willam Belli and Mariah Balenciaga are also featuring in this music video.

 Josh Wood - "Radio (You and I)"

USA - 2018

 Alaska & Jeremy - "Aliens"

USA - 2018 / from the album "Amethyst Journey"

 Imagine Dragons - "Natural"

USA - 2018

 Cher - "SOS" (Audio)

USA - 2018

 Magnus Carlsson - "Slow Motion"

Sweden - 2018

 Kim Petras - "All The Time" (Audio)

Germany - 2018

 Thalles - "Just When We Were High"

Brazil - 2018 / from the album "Utopia"

 Ivri Lider עברי לידר - "The Prom / הנשף"

Israel - 2018

 ALVIN - "Oui, Papa"

France - 2018

After "Il a dit", this is the new music video of the French singer Alvin Point.

 Villagers - "Fool"

Ireland - 2018 / from the album "The Art of Pretending to Swim"

 HANDSOME - "No Cowards"

Australia - 2018 / from the EP "No Hat No Play"

 Union J feat. Ironik - "Dancing"

UK - 2018

 anaïs feat. Olly Alexander - "No control"

UK - 2018

 NORAZO (노라조) - "CIDER" (사이다)

South Korea - 2018

 Nigel Andrews - "Ik doe mijn eigen ding"

The Netherlands - 2018

  See you next week and don’t forget to vote for your best LGBTQA music videos ! Here are the rules :

1 ) You can vote for many videos as you want under the videos on YouTube in the comment section. It could be recent or past music videos, which must provide at least one among the following conditions:

- the music video has LGBTQA related content, in the lyrics or the music video

- the artist is LGBTQA, an LGBTQA icon or eventually ally

- LGBTQA medias talked about it.

2 ) You can’t vote more than 3 songs of a same artist per week.

3 ) In case of an artist who receive votes mostly by a fan base, we will count only one song, in a limited time of 4 weeks of presence in the top.

4 ) You can vote with only one account.

5 ) If you make 5 votes or less, your first vote will represent 5 points, your second vote 4 points, etc… until your last vote and following 1 point. If you make 6 to 10 votes, your first vote will represent 10 points, your second vote 9 points, etc… If you make more than 10 votes, your first vote will represent 20 points, your second vote 19 points, etc…

6 ) People who make 1 to 5 votes form the amateur ranking, those who make 6 to 10 votes form the fan ranking, those who make more than 10 votes form the expert ranking. We form the jury ranking (but this one is for the moment suspended as experimentation). And we count now the ranking of minutes of views of our weekly playlist of the previous week. The Gay Music Chart is the addition of the five charts. In case of equality, the number of votes and the dates of votes will count.

7 ) The votes will close on Thursday, 8 PM, European time.

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COLD AS ICE by Toni Anderson: Review

Cold As Ice by Toni Anderson Series: Cold Justice - The Negotiators #5 Published by Toni Anderson Inc Publication Date: September 23rd 2021 Genres: Romantic Suspense Pages: 460 Source: Author Format: eARC Goodreads Buy Online: Amazon ♥ Barnes & Noble ♥ Kobo ♥ Apple Books

Disclaimer: I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book. All opinions stated are solely mine.

“A terrific, twisting romantic thriller that will keep you guessing until the end! Don’t miss this one!” ~#1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy.

When Darby O’Roarke wakes up in a strange house with a dead man – with no memory of what happened – she knows who she has to call: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Eban Winters…the man she fell for, and who rejected her, last summer.

A negotiator isn’t supposed to get involved with kidnap victims, and Eban has been trying to avoid the temptation that is Darby O’Roarke ever since they met. One frantic phone call has him racing to Alaska to uncover the truth, but he faces stubborn opposition from the local police, and a growing media frenzy.

Getting Darby released from jail and keeping her safe is his first priority. When another woman is brutally slain, evidence emerges that suggests Darby is being framed, and that the culprit is a vicious serial killer who has eluded the FBI for more than a decade…and, now, the killer has Darby in their sights.

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It’s always a thrill to read any new book by Ms. Anderson because I know all the elements I love in romantic suspense – intrigue, danger and passion – will be on every page. COLD AS ICE does not disappoint and is every bit of a page turner as anything this author has written in the past, with the surprises coming all the way to the last page of the book.

Darby O’Roarke has lived through is a nightmare of epic proportions, but she is determined to take back control of her life and has been mostly successful so far. But someone with nefarious intentions is determined to see that she does not succeed in moving on from the events that changed her life and Darby’s first call is to the one man she cannot stop pining for.

FBI agent Eban Winters has tried for so long to do the right thing when it comes to Darby, but with danger surrounding her, he’s willing to give up the job that fulfils him if it comes to a choice between it and keeping Darby safe.

I loved this story so much and everything about the main characters. Moving on from those big events and looking to find love can be very difficult and requires a lot of support and patience, which is why I loved how Eban gave all that to Darby. He was supportive and also did not see or treat her as a victim. He was there for her every step of the way even as she made the calls on her life but was never willing to compromise on her safety in any way.

The dance between Darby and Eban about their feelings for each other was a very delicate one and I really liked how the author handled it. Any concerns I had about the Darby’s life-changing event were allayed by the thoughtful and compassionate way the author handled that piece of the story.

There is so much that will capture a reader’s attention here and really, the entire series is a must-read.

    About Toni Anderson

Toni Anderson writes award-winning, bestselling, FBI Romantic Thrillers. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, RITA® finalist, science nerd, professional tourist, dog lover, gardener, mom. Anderson's books have won the Readers' Choice Award, Aspen Gold, National Excellence in Romance Fiction, Book Buyers' Best.

Originally from a small town in Shropshire, England, Toni studied Marine Biology at University of Liverpool (B.Sc.) and University of St. Andrews (Ph.D.) with the intention she'd never be far from the ocean. Well, that plan backfired and she ended up in the Canadian prairies with her biology professor husband, two kids, a rescue dog, and a laid-back leopard gecko.

Toni started writing while pregnant with her first child and never stopped. Her greatest achievements are mastering the Tokyo subway, climbing Ben Lomond, snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, and surviving fifteen Winnipeg winters (fingers crossed). She loves to travel for research purposes and was lucky enough to visit the Strategic Information and Operations Center inside FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 2016. She also got to shove another (police) car off the road during pursuit training at the Writer’s Police Academy. Basically she has way too much fun!

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Hartford: A original document presentations nearly half of of households in the issue have an earnings that’s insufficient to duvet their total needs. The Connecticut Self-Sufficiency Customary Myth, launched by the Connecticut Office of Smartly being Care Strategy and issue Comptroller Kevin Lembo, finds that 44% to 48% of Connecticut households are under the self-sufficiency same outdated. It also finds that 25% of those are in Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven and Waterbury. The quantity obligatory to duvet total needs corresponding to child care, housing, meals and health care can vary vastly by family form and geography. The document finds a single grownup in Hartford needs $22,398, while a single grownup in Stamford needs $37,703. For a family with two adults and two younger kids, it ranges from $63,896 in Windham to $99,668 in Stamford.

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Wilmington: The issue has teamed up with Google to support of us looking out for treatment for opioid addiction. Phrases associated to the opioid disaster are looked for in Delaware more than in every other issue. Nonetheless the tip build of results won’t consequence in native knowledge or anyone who can support. Google is trying to switch that. It will curate an knowledge box for folk looking out for addiction treatment. It will encompass a hotline as smartly as a hyperlink to knowledge explicit to Delaware, which is the first issue to team up with Google as smartly because the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. The initiative comes at a time when the issue is on tempo to compare final one year’s document-setting loss of life toll of 400 lethal overdoses.

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Washington: A driver tried to receive into the White House advanced early Thursday by following an legit automobile by contrivance of an external checkpoint, based on the Secret Service. The Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit of the D.C. police department and the Secret Service replied to the suspicious automobile strategy the White House about 6 a.m. Thursday after the motive force tried to illegally make entry to the White House advanced, WUSA-TV reports. The auto, later identified as a Mercedes with Texas plates, became as soon as stopped, and the particular person became as soon as taken into custody by Secret Service, the agency confirmed. The auto has accumulated more than $1,300 value of tickets since Oct. 10, most issued strategy the White House, based on DMV data.

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St. Petersburg: A man accused of molesting a baby and possession of child pornography would possibly per chance also plod free after a judge stumbled on that a detective lied to originate a search warrant in the case. The Tampa Bay Times reports Circuit Assume William Burgess III stumbled on Pinellas County Sheriff’s Detective Michael Alvarez engaged in a “ruse” to originate a search warrant for a criminal offense veteran to originate proof to prosecute for other crimes. Burgess concluded the “seemingly attain of this command” is that charges in opposition to 63-one year-susceptible James Rybicki will be pushed aside. Rybicki became as soon as arrested following a 2016 search of his home. Detectives stumbled on movies of him inappropriately touching a baby. Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the detective left the department two years ago. Protection licensed expert Lucas Fleming called the judge’s dedication “unheard of.”

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Atlanta: Town is looking out for artists to create two avenue murals in the West Destroy as a part of its Placemaking Program, which works to transform city streets and public areas into cultural areas. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the murals will take a seat on the intersections of White Street and Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard and White Street and Hopkins Street in southwest Atlanta. Artists must put up proposals to the Department of Metropolis Planning, the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the West Destroy Neighborhood Pattern. The chosen artists will be awarded $2,000 every for their create. For paunchy significant parts on the mission, artists can peek the quiz of for proposals packet. The prick-off date to put up a proposal is noon Dec. 6.

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Honolulu: A U.S. Marine Corps knowing to put in a steel barrier to guard a part of a native training facility from seaside erosion has raised concerns among neighbors and advocates. The Honolulu Smartly-known particular person-Advertiser reports residents strategy Ewa Seaside are looking out for added blueprint of the environmental affect of a proposed 1,500-foot barrier. The Marines dispute modifications are wished on the Puuloa Vary Coaching Facility to guard the educational fluctuate shoreline from erosion. Democratic U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz called on the Marines on Tuesday to overview the environmental affect of its knowing to make the preserving wall. A replace.org petition signed by more than 1,100 of us as of Tuesday seeks a thorough environmental affect statement diagnosis beyond the much less sturdy environmental review already performed.

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Boise: A federal appeals court docket has dominated that a Philadelphia-based agribusiness company that left millions of an entire bunch poisonous cease on tribal land in eastern Idaho must pay the tribes nearly $20 million plus $1.5 million yearly. The ninth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court docket ruling in opposition to FMC Corp. bright a now-shuttered Idaho plant that was phosphate into fertilizer. FMC for approximately 50 years up to 2001 operated the fertilizer plant that produced 22 million a entire bunch cease saved on the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Citadel Corridor Indian Reservation. The company contended it wasn’t obligated to pay the $1.5 million annual allow payment to the tribes for storing the cease after closing the plant. The tribes dispute the money will be veteran for monitoring and cleanup on the issue.

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Springfield: Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday ordered the issue’s public colleges to correct now restrict the usage of isolation rooms for varsity students who don’t pose a transparent security risk. The Democrat said he directed the Illinois Enlighten Board of Training to arena emergency guidelines governing so-called timeout rooms after a printed document stumbled on tens of thousands of situations all over which colleges secluded college students with out excellent justification. Enlighten law permits for varsity students to be placed in “remoted timeout” if they pose security dangers to themselves or others. They’re usually is known as “calming,” “reflection” or “aloof” rooms. Nonetheless an investigation by the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica printed Tuesday examined more than 20,000 data and stumbled on kids usually described as crying, screaming, begging to be launched, ramming their heads into padded walls and prying at doors.

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Goshen: A northern Indiana sanatorium has alerted more than 1,000 surgical operation sufferers who would possibly per chance also were exposed to hepatitis, HIV and other infectious ailments attributable to a sterilization failure. Goshen Health facility leaders said in a letter to sufferers that between April 1 and Sept. 30, a sterilization technician failed to full one considerable step in the sterilizing capability of surgical tools. The sanatorium says the chance of infection is low. It is offering free testing for sufferers to establish if they were contaminated. Patient Lori Deboard instructed WSBT-TV that she’s frightened of the chance, no topic how low the sanatorium says it is. The sanatorium hasn’t launched any disciplinary stream in opposition to the sterilization technician and did now not correct now answer to a quiz of for statement.

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Des Moines: Enlighten Supreme Court docket Justice David Wiggins will back as chief justice except a successor to Stamp Cady would possibly per chance also even be appointed. Cady died Nov. 15 at age 66. A court docket spokesman said Thursday that Iowa law requires the executive justice to title one other member of the court docket to catch in when the executive can now not act. Cady had issued an command in November 2016 appointing Wiggins to behave in his build. Wiggins became as soon as appointed to the court docket by Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack in 2003. Enlighten law says Wiggins will back as performing chief justice except the hot vacancy on the court docket is stuffed and the paunchy court docket selects a chief justice. Finding a successor for Cady would possibly per chance also choose 90 days. The court docket’s elected chief will back except the court docket holds its first meeting in 2021 and holds one other election.

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Topeka: A continual buzz about Mike Pompeo stepping down because the tip U.S. diplomat to speed for an open Senate seat in his home issue has constructed to a tell as impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump have intensified scrutiny of the Enlighten Department. The U.S. secretary of issue became as soon as in Brussels on Wednesday, dismissing questions regarding the impeachment inquiry and dismissing speculation about how lengthy he’ll cease in Trump’s administration. Against the backdrop of impeachment, tension has build in between Trump and Pompeo. And Republicans already have speculated for months that Pompeo will resign to speed for the Senate. Enthusiasm from Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell and others regarding such a transfer has now not cooled. Many Republicans restful behold Pompeo as their ideal candidate for preventing the bustle from turning into aggressive in a issue where a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate seat since 1932.

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Henderson: Federal officers knowing to say a original nationwide wildlife refuge in western Kentucky. A statement from the U.S. Department of the Interior says Secretary David Bernhardt and U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell will join other dignitaries Friday in Henderson to say the Green River National Natural world Refuge. The U.S. Fish and Natural world Service says the ceremony will occur on the first 10-acre tract of what is taking place to in the end to be a 24,000-acre refuge. The condo affords habitat for a diversity of vegetation, animals, birds and fish, as smartly as open air game alternatives for company. It is the 2d such refuge that is situated fully in Kentucky.

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Baton Rouge: Gov. John Bel Edwards has sketched out the huge outlines of his agenda for a 2d time duration, proposing original investments in education and transportation. The Democratic incumbent says his high precedence will be original bucks for early childhood education, an arena he continuously cited as he campaigned. Edwards also says he’ll continue to see Okay-12 teacher pay raises and boosted spending on public colleges, constructing on increases he and lawmakers adopted this one year. He says he’ll indicate to spend some issue surplus bucks on transportation and coastal security tasks. And he says he’d oppose any efforts to roll encourage taxes if that would also destabilize Louisiana’s funds. Plenty of Republican lawmakers are pushing for tax decreases. Edwards spoke Thursday at his first news convention since winning reelection, defeating Republican challenger Eddie Rispone.

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Manchester: A issue trooper made a sensible transfer in rescuing a jeopardized owl who managed to flee to security after the support. The Maine Enlighten Police says Trooper Sam Tlumac stumbled on the disoriented owl Nov. 15 in the heart of a powerful-traveled avenue in Manchester, now not removed from the issue capital, Augusta. Tlumac took the owl to a internal reach fire department and consulted with a warden, who said the fowl would possibly per chance’ve been timid by a automobile. Police said in a Fb post that Tlumac then “had to roar a particular person to penal advanced (unrelated to the owl)” nonetheless returned to confirm on the fowl and stumbled on it doing loads better. He then took the owl outside, where it took flight to bushes in the condo.

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Luke: An environmental nonprofit says a shuttered paper mill is leaking a poisonous sludge into the Potomac River. The Baltimore Solar reports the Potomac Riverkeeper Network says the 131-one year-susceptible Luke facility has been fouling the river with sad liquor, a paper-making byproduct the issue considers a renewable energy source. It will gas mill operations. The Environmental Integrity Venture, on behalf of Riverkeeper, notified owner Verso Corp. on Tuesday that Riverkeeper plans to sue under the federal Handy resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The act requires such a stumble on be issued 90 days earlier than submitting a lawsuit in federal court docket. The complaint says issue environmental officers noticed the leak in April, weeks earlier than the closure’s announcement. Department spokesman Jay Apperson says Verso is working to quit it.

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Boston: Enlighten lawmakers have handed a ban on the sale of flavored tobacco merchandise, including menthol cigarettes. The ban won approval in the Senate early Thursday earlier than the Legislature broke for a vacation recess. It had earlier been handed by the issue House of Representatives. “This nation-leading step will build lives,” House Speaker Robert DeLeo said of what’s believed to be the first such statewide guidelines in the country. The guidelines now goes to the desk of Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who in September declared a public health emergency and ordered a transient-time duration ban on the sale of vaping merchandise. Jonathan Shaer, president of the New England Convenience Retailer Householders and Vitality Marketers Affiliation, says the invoice can have “disastrous implications for public health, public security, issue tax earnings and jobs.”

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Ypsilanti: The Michigan Department of Corrections has been hit with a class-stream lawsuit on behalf of inmates who dispute they’ve been overwhelmed by power mildew and other unsanitary stipulations on the issue’s only penal advanced for women folk. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Detroit federal court docket, says the Huron Valley penal advanced in Washtenaw County is “working under a issue of degradation, filth and inhumanity.” Attorneys dispute women folk have suffered health concerns on story of mildew, and their complaints have gone unheeded. Spokesman Chris Gautz says the Corrections Department “disagrees with the claims.” He declined additional statement. Paula Bailey says exposure to mildew has given her a rash, scars and respiratory concerns. One more prisoner, Krystal Clark, says she suffers from power coughing and wears a conceal when visiting with of us.

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Litchfield: Authorities dispute anyone left “booby traps” in a farmer’s field that were curiously supposed to injury farm tools. Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze says a farmer strategy Cedar Mills on Monday reported minor injury to a combination after a chain became as soon as drawn into the machine all over harvesting. Cruze instructed Minnesota Public Radio Recordsdata it’s untimely to take a position on motive. The sheriff says the chain would possibly per chance also were in the corn for weeks or months. Nonetheless he says when the farm family got deeper into the slash, it happened as soon as more. Mindy Johnson’s family farms about 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans. She says the 2d incident alive to a 6-foot fraction of steel rebar pounded into the ground strategy a cornstalk where it became as soon as laborious to witness. Johnson says she doesn’t know why her family’s farm would be singled out.

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Indianola: Work is starting on the $2.5 million growth of a museum in the Mississippi Delta that’s dedicated to a native son who grew to alter into a blues yarn. A groundbreaking ceremony became as soon as held Tuesday for original condo on the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Heart in Indianola. The museum opened in 2008 strategy the condo where King grew up. The 15-time Grammy winner died in 2015 and is buried on the museum grounds. The 4,500-sq.-foot addition will condo King’s tour bus and two of his autos, a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and a custom-painted Chevy El Camino. The museum says in a news free up that other artifacts obtained since his loss of life are being preserved and cataloged, including a guitar given to King by Les Paul.

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Columbia: A federal judge has upheld the University of Missouri’s ban on carrying concealed guns on campus. Circuit Assume Jeff Harris on Monday rejected the Missouri licensed expert total’s arguments that the ban violates the issue constitution. He also said the ban supports the college’s passion in promoting security on its campuses. The Columbia Each day Tribune reports the case started in 2015 when Royce Barondes, a professor of law on the Columbia campus, sued because he wished to withhold a firearm in his locked automobile. Attorney Overall Eric Schmitt’s build of labor declined to statement on the ruling and has now not determined whether to allure. The college said in a press free up that the ruling serves the appropriate passion of school students, workers, faculty and others on campus.

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Helena: Federal wildlife officers dispute the persevered existence of two species of insects is in doubt since the glaciers and one year-spherical snowfields on which they count are melting away. U.S. Fish and Natural world Service officers said Wednesday that the western glacier stonefly and the meltwater lednian stonefly will be protected as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The stoneflies are dwelling in excessive-elevation, icy-water streams fed by glaciers and perennial snowfields in and spherical Glacier National Park in Montana, Gigantic Teton National Park in Wyoming and Native American tribal lands in western Montana. Natural world officers dispute melting glaciers, increased water temperatures, and adjustments in the amount of snowmelt and runoff are harming the habitat they want to outlive. Most glaciers and snowfields in a single in every of the species’ necessary areas, Glacier National Park, are anticipated to fade by 2030.

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Lincoln: The issue is the first agreeing to share driver’s license data with the U.S. Census Bureau because the federal agency tries to conform with President Donald Trump’s command to count the amount of U.S. electorate. The Associated Press has realized that the Census Bureau and Rhonda Lahm, Nebraska’s motor autos director, signed a memorandum of idea to share the details earlier this month. The transfer has fearful civil rights teams, which behold it as a part of a backdoor transfer by the Trump administration to decrease the political energy of minorities. Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union entreated states to decline the Census Bureau’s quiz of. The agency has promised to withhold the details confidential, and Nebraska officers concluded that sharing the details complied with issue law. Nebraska only concerns driver’s licenses and identification cards to of us that will label they dwell in the U.S. legally.

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Reno: The issue’s most sensible toll road stream is awaiting avalanche season, based on the Nevada Department of Transportation, the agency to blame for keeping Mt. Rose Dual carriageway open. The toll road – formally is known as Enlighten Route 431 – is the most voice hyperlink between Reno and the Lake Tahoe Basin. At 8,911 feet, it’s also the ideal one year-spherical toll road stream in the Sierra Nevada, which makes clearing mass quantities of snow a mountainous arena. That’s why confirming reliability of a faraway avalanche triggering machine strategy frequent toll road customers can breathe a recount of relief. Reliability questions cropped up in October following a preseason inspection that confirmed a need for carpentry and electrical improvements to the constructing that properties tools for the machine.

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Durham: Plans to support a “Frost Fest” as every other of a aged holiday birthday party are getting a worse-than-cold reception. After concerns final one year that the tree-lighting ceremony at a park in Durham became as soon as too centered on Christmas, including a dedication to jabber a menorah to be displayed subsequent to the tree, city councilors came up with the postulate of a celebration that pays tribute to icy climate. This one year, there’s no tree lighting ceremony or worthy entrance from Santa planned. Nonetheless councilors said in trying to manufacture the holidays welcoming and inclusive, they’ve been yelled at and have gotten hateful emails and social media posts. The debate over what to encompass in the shuttle season even extends to the wreaths on gentle posts. For now, they’re going up as soon as more.

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Jersey Metropolis: The issue is doubling down on increasing its wind energy manufacturing, and then some. Flanked by traditional Vice President Al Gore, a longtime climate activist, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive command Tuesday that commits the issue to make 7,500 megawatts of electricity by contrivance of wind energy by 2035. That’s more than double the 3,500 megawatt honest Murphy build for 2030. He said if the honest is realized, wind energy would possibly per chance also energy half of the issue’s energy needs and about 3.2 million homes. “We're striking ourselves on a steeper curve, and I wouldn’t attain it if I wasn’t fully confident in our skill to crest this hill,” Murphy said at Liberty Science Heart. The announcement drew reward from New Jersey Sierra Membership Director Jeff Tittel, who called it “an large step in the beautiful route.”

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Santa Fe: The issue’s Atmosphere Department needs $1.2 million to blueprint plumes of poisonous chemical compounds seeping into groundwater from two U.S. Air Power bases, a issue legit said. Company Secretary James Kenney said he'll quiz of the money from issue lawmakers to examine and learn more about easy how to bear the contamination from Holloman and Cannon air bases, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. “We know who ended in it, and so they’re unwilling to make a choice responsibility for it even to identify where it is and isn’t,” Kenney said. “The issue is having to make a choice that on now.” The issue sued the Air Power in March after groundwater sampling confirmed phases in some areas were a entire bunch of times increased than a federal health advisory restrict. The lawsuit calls for the Air Power to pay for finding out and cleaning up contamination. The Air Power has sought dismissal of the case and repeatedly declined to statement on the litigation.

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Albany: Legislation enforcement officers and prosecutors are intensifying a debate over the implementation of sweeping adjustments to the issue’s prison justice machine. They voiced concerns Thursday with adjustments which will be build to make a choice attain on the origin of 2020, including an overhaul of the issue’s bail law. It eliminates pretrial detention and money bail for the overwhelming majority of misdemeanor and nonviolent felony situations. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple says the adjustments will jeopardize public security. He made the feedback at a press convention in Albany while joined by prosecutors and other law enforcement officers. Supporters of the adjustments dispute this would possibly per chance also forestall unhappy of us from languishing in penal advanced for low-level crimes while their situations work by contrivance of the machine.

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Asheville: Net site visitors driving the Blue Ridge Parkway about 30 miles southwest of the city can inquire to smell smoke and behold flames capturing from the summit of Cold Mountain. The U.S. Woodland Service has closed the total 18,000-acre Gleaming Rock Desolate tract Space, including all 53 miles of its trails, to the public while a wildfire burns on the lengthy-lasting Cold Mountain in the Haywood County condo of Pisgah National Woodland. Bruce MacDonald, public knowledge officer with National Forests in North Carolina – an build of labor of the U.S. Woodland Service – said the 50-acre fire burning on the Cold Mountain summit became as soon as called in about 3 a.m. Thursday nonetheless had grown to 106 acres as of 5 p.m. Some 30 firefighters were monitoring the effort, including personnel from the U.S. Woodland Service, N.C. Woodland Service, National Park Service, Haywood County Emergency Companies and products and Cruso Fire Department.

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Bismarck: Planners dispute a original $114 million indoor game advanced would be funded by a original sales tax and non-public donations. The Bismarck Parks and Sport District workers talked regarding the proposed facility at a gathering Wednesday night. They are saying the heart would have a necessary constructing with a separate ice arena. The blueprint entails a four-lane working and walking track and an indoor tainted-country track with elevation and obstacles. Sport workers also counsel six indoor tennis courts, adjoining to five indoor pickleball courts. Numerous companies and products would encompass two indoor basketball courts, four racquetball courts and an indoor playground. The Bismarck Tribune says the Capital Ice Advanced would be higher than 25 acres. Planners dispute if the mission is popular subsequent June, the heart would possibly per chance also open in 2023.

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Cincinnati: After months of negotiations between the Metropolis Council and the Board of Hamilton County Commissioners, the planned song venue at The Banks garnered remaining approval Wednesday. The council popular the song venue knowing and a trend settlement that will allow the mission to plod ahead. It comes on the heels of an ordinance, popular earlier this month, altering the cooperative settlement between the city and county that has lengthy guided trend at The Banks. The $27 million song venue is being constructed by Tune and Occasion Management Inc., the nonprofit concert arm of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. It will have indoor and open air event areas that will host loads of events on the identical time. It will have a capability of 4,500 indoors, with total admission seating for 2,700 of us. Open air, the venue will be in a position to support a additional 8,000.

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Oklahoma Metropolis: Enlighten Attorney Overall Mike Hunter says he plans to allure a judge’s command directing particular person merchandise large Johnson & Johnson to pay the issue $465 million to support tackle the opioid disaster. Hunter said Thursday that the judge’s remaining command only covers one one year of the issue’s proposed abatement knowing and that the true charges to excellent up the injury from the opioid disaster are powerful increased. Attorneys for the corporate also dispute they knowing to allure. Johnson & Johnson had asked the judge to recollect reducing the closing award based on pretrial settlements totaling $355 million the issue reached with other defendants in the case. Cleveland County Assume Thad Balkman at the birth ordered the corporate to pay $572 million nonetheless later diminished that quantity after acknowledging a miscalculation.

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Portland: New knowledge from the issue Department of Training presentations the amount of homeless college students in Oregon increased 2% final faculty one year, continuing a pattern all around the final decade. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports in the 2018-19 faculty one year, 22,215 college students were dwelling on the avenue, in shelters, briefly-time duration housing or doubled up with other families. The U.S. Department of Training requires states to make advise of a broader definition of homelessness than the federal housing authority, which usually strategy that tens of thousands more kids are counted in the as soon as a one year scholar tally than the county-by-county census of homeless of us of all ages. The issue reported 15,800 homeless Oregonians in the 2019 count. Oregon’s homeless scholar count has stayed in the fluctuate of about 22,000 in every of the past three years, including hitting a document excessive of 22,541 in the 2016-17 faculty one year.

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Philadelphia: A man sent to penal advanced for all times as a 17-one year-susceptible has been chosen for a Mural Arts Philadelphia residency and must restful create a public mural that addresses mass incarceration. James “Yaya” Hough is one of many many “juvenile lifers” launched since the U.S. Supreme Court docket banned the biggest life sentences for minors. The 45-one year-susceptible Pittsburgh man has been free since this summer season after serving 27 years in issue penal advanced for raze. Hough took lessons on the encourage of bars by contrivance of the mural arts program and must restful now be an artist in residency on the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. At a news convention Thursday, he thanked District Attorney Larry Krasner and the humanities program for giving him the chance to make public art. Mural Arts Philadelphia has produced than 4,000 murals all around the city.

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Providence: Police statistics level to the city is now heading in the correct path to have the fewest shootings in contemporary document this one year. The Boston Globe reports shootings in Rhode Island’s capital were taking place one year-by-one year since 2014. Providence Police Department knowledge presentations that as of Nov. 12, there had been 32 of us shot, down from 55 victims in 2018. The newspaper says that as of Tuesday, it had been a month since the final particular person became as soon as shot in Providence. Nonetheless even with the decline in shootings, Providence police document no shortage of guns after seizing more than 100 unlawful guns as of final week. Providence Police Chief Hugh T. Clements Jr. attributes the decrease in gun violence to the force remaining “laser centered on gun crimes.”

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Columbia: A sheriff and the governor dispute a gaggle dedicated to retaining kids has donated a dog that will detect electronic devices and computer storage. Defenders for Kids says Oakley the dog can detect electronics and level them out to handlers, same to how a drug dog finds narcotics. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says his deputies will advise the original dog to support them get hidden storage devices that would also even be smaller than a thumbnail while conducting search warrants. Lott said at a news convention that for now the dog will largely be veteran in child pornography situations. Gov. Henry McMaster says he hopes the group can build the expert dogs in numerous locations all over South Carolina. The group says it charges about $23,000 to prepare one dog.

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Sioux Falls: Local ad agencies have joined the chorus unhappy with a issue anti-meth marketing and marketing campaign that included the difficult tagline “Meth: We’re On It.” The South Dakota Marketing Federation is upset that the story went to a Minnesota ad agency. In a press free up, the federation says 9 in-issue agencies clarify on the contract. The federation doesn’t without lengthen criticize the promoting and marketing campaign, which drew ridicule on social media, nonetheless suggests that the in-issue agencies “would possibly per chance also have delivered a message by South Dakotans that resonates with South Dakota.” The issue is paying a Minneapolis agency nearly $700,000 for its work. Gov. Kristi Noem has called the advertisements a success. She says the promoting and marketing campaign became as soon as supposed to be “difficult,” and the Minneapolis agency became as soon as chosen since it proposed advertisements that plod beyond habitual drug consciousness campaigns.

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Nashville: Reversing course, the issue’s Department of Training says it objectives to manufacture positive its faculty vouchers won’t be taxable. Department spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson said Wednesday that the law’s intent is that vouchers be regarded as scholarships now not arena to taxation, and the department intends to construction the program accordingly. Officials goal to resolve confusion after Training Commissioner Penny Schwinn said Monday that her idea became as soon as voucher payments were taxable. A lawmaker had asked if the payments want to be reported on oldsters’ federal earnings tax filings. On Tuesday, Johnson said Schwinn supposed to communicate regarding the program’s that you just would possibly be also imagine “submitting and issuance of federal knowledge reporting returns.”

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Citadel Price: A family that disagrees with a sanatorium’s knowing to make a choice a 9-month-susceptible girl off life strengthen has been given more time to get a facility to make a choice her. Texas Appropriate to Existence, which represents Tinslee Lewis’ family, said a judge on Tuesday extended a transient-time duration restraining command in opposition to Cook Kids’s Medical Heart except Dec. 10. The sanatorium didn’t correct now statement. Doctors planned to make a choice away Tinslee from life strengthen Nov. 10 after invoking Texas’ “10-day rule,” that will be employed when a family disagrees with clinical doctors on discontinuing life-sustaining treatment. Cure would possibly per chance also even be withdrawn if a original provider can’t be stumbled on in that time. The sanatorium has said that since July, Tinslee has been on a ventilator and a machine that replaces the feature of the heart and lungs.

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Salt Lake Metropolis: The taxpayer payment of mayoral portraits has risen a very good deal all around the final two a long time. The Deseret Recordsdata reports that the portrait of outgoing Salt Lake Metropolis Mayor Jackie Biskupski is anticipated to payment about $35,000, up from the $30,000 it payment for the portrait of her predecessor, Ralph Becker, and more than double the $15,000 for the portrait of Deedee Corradini, mayor from 1992 to 2000. Town’s chief monetary officer, Mary Beth Thompson, says the value of hand-painted portraits has increased attributable to inflation, affords and artist fees. Town has performed mayoral portraits for more than a century dating encourage to the mid-1800s. They line the walls in a hallway at Metropolis Corridor.

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Colchester: The issue’s only juvenile penal advanced is empty for the first time in years. Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Heart in Colchester has been under scrutiny for years and has faced a in actual fact perfect quantity of proceedings over procedures. Chief Juvenile Defender Marshall Pahl says several factors have ended in the decrease in inhabitants, including a combination of policy and law adjustments, particular person litigation and advocacy. Vermont Public Radio reports that lawmakers were thinking about what to attain with the flexibility. Department of Kids and Households Commissioner Ken Schatz said in January that he supports constructing a 30-bed facility to switch Woodside.

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Manassas: The National Park Service has launched a series of managed fires at Manassas National Battlefield. The park service says the burns are designed to restore views on the battlefield, withhold wildlife habitat and fight invasive species. Fires are planned on about 75 acres. The park has initiated same fires two other times since April 2018. Manassas National Battlefield runs along busy Interstate 66 and encompasses land where the First and 2nd Battles of Bull Creep were fought in 1861 and 1862, respectively. The first Bull Creep fight became as soon as the first major fight of the Civil Battle.

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Bellingham: Fishing in the a part of Whatcom Creek that flows by contrivance of downtown Bellingham will cease more than five weeks early this one year because chum salmon are returning in low numbers. The Bellingham Herald reports the closure begins Friday, the Washington Enlighten Department of Fish and Natural world launched. Which strategy fishing won’t be allowed from the mouth of Whatcom Creek to the markers under the footbridge downstream of Dupont Street in Bellingham. The season for fishing along Whatcom Creek usually stays open except Dec. 31, based on the 2019-20 Washington Sport Fishing Suggestions. The issue agency closed fishing in that allotment of Whatcom Creek since the return of chum became as soon as under the amount wished for egg harvesting on the hatchery there, it said in a free up Wednesday.

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Charleston: Companies hoping to interrupt into the issue’s fledgling marijuana market will soon be in a position to advise for permits as growers, processors, dispensaries and laboratories. The issue Bureau of Public Smartly being says its Office of Medical Hashish will open purposes Dec. 19. Citing a issue news free up, news retail outlets document purposes are due by Feb. 18 and must restful be online only. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the clinical marijuana program created in 2017 became as soon as supposed to birth in July. Delays included the issue adore’s banking vendors refusing to job marijuana funds, per conflicts with federal law. A workaround handed this one year allowed credit ranking unions to step in. The hashish build of labor’s director, Jason Frame, beforehand said he wished sufferers to have access to the drug earlier than the summer season of 2021.

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Madison: A group that promotes scholar voting has filed a federal lawsuit demanding the issue’s scholar voter identification requirements. The Andrew Goodman Foundation filed the lawsuit in Madison on Tuesday. The foundation alleges that requirements that college students level to IDs that bear the issuance date, the holder’s signature and an expiration date no later than two years after the issuance date are too onerous and designed to quit kids from voting in violation of the 26th Modification. The lawsuit names the members of the Wisconsin Elections Rate as defendants. Rate spokesman Reid Magney didn’t correct now answer to an electronic mail Wednesday looking out for statement. Priorities USA Foundation, which is funding the lawsuit, launched in February that it plans to spend $30 million to finance court docket challenges to restrictive, Republican-backed voter guidelines.

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Guía de series: Estrenos y regresos de abril 2020

En abril llega Quibi (acrónimo de quick bites), donde las series tendrán episodios de menos de diez minutos de duración optimizados para su visionado en teléfonos móviles. El resto de cadenas y plataformas ya las conocéis. En principio. Y como creemos que tenéis más tiempo del habitual para ver series, esperamos que esta guía os sirva ahora más que nunca.

¡Feliz abril!

Leyenda:

Verde: series nuevas.

Negro: regresos de otras series.

Naranja: miniseries o series documentales.

Amarillo: tv movies, documentales, especiales o pilotos.

Morado: season finales.

Púrpura: midseason finales.

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Calendario de series

1 de abril: 

Save Me (2T) en Sky Atlantic

How To Fix A Drug Scandal en Netflix

The Magicians (series finale) en Syfy

2 de abril: 

Siren (3T) en Freeform

Man With a Plan (4T) y Broke (1T) en CBS

Maxxx (1T) en E4

How to Get Away with Murder (vuelve) en ABC

3 de abril: 

La casa de papel (4T completa), La casa de papel: El fenómeno y Coffee & Kareem en Netflix

Home Before Dark (1T) en Apple TV+

Tales from the Loop (1T completa) en Amazon

Future Man (3T y última completa) en Hulu

Hawaii Five-0 (series finale) en CBS

5 de abril: 

Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children en HBO

The Walking Dead (10T finale) en AMC

6 de abril: 

When the Streetlights Go On (1T), Most Dangerous Game (1T), Survive (1T) y Flipped (1T) en Quibi

Manifest (2T finale) en NBC

7 de abril: 

The Last O.G. (3T) en TBS

Alma's Not Normal (1T) en BBC Two

The Resident (3T finale) en FOX

Schitt's Creek (series finale) en Pop

8 de abril: 

La línea invisible (1T completa) en Movistar+

Modern Family (series finale) en ABC

9 de abril: 

The Good Fight (4T) en CBS All Access

Bloom (2T completa) en Stan

Grey's Anatomy (16T finale) en ABC

Superstore (5T finale) en NBC

10 de abril: Brews Brothers (1T completa), LA Originals, Tigertail, The Main Event y Love, Wedding, Repeat en Netflix

12 de abril:

Killing Eve (3T) en BBC America

Insecure (4T) y Run (1T) en HBO

13 de abril: 

The Baker and the Beauty (1T) en ABC

Paradise Lost (1T completa) en Spectrum

The Nest (1T finale) en BBC One

Briarpatch (1T finale) en USA Network

14 de abril: New Amsterdam (2T finale) en NBC

15 de abril: 

Mrs. America y What We Do in the Shadows (2T) en FX

Outer Banks (1T completa) y The Innocence Files en Netflix

16 de abril: 

In the Dark (2T) en The CW

Fauda (3T completa) en Netflix

Devs en FX

17 de abril:  

Bosch (6T completa) en Amazon

#blackAF (1T completa) y Sergio en Netflix

20 de abril: 

Vis a vis: El oasis (1T) en FOX España

Better Call Saul (5T finale) en AMC

22 de abril: 

Circus of Books y The Willoughbys en Netflix

Little Fires Everywhere en Hulu

23 de abril: 

La casa de las flores (3T y última completa) en Netflix

Will & Grace (series finale) en NBC

24 de abril: 

Defending Jacob (1T) en Apple TV+

After Life (2T completa) y Extraction en Netflix

25 de abril: Bad Education en HBO

26 de abril: 

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (1T) en Showtime

Vida (3T) en Starz

Normal People (1T completa) en BBC Three

The Last Kingdom (4T completa) en Netflix

When Calls the Heart (7T finale) en Hallmark

27 de abril: 

Never Have I Ever (1T completa) en Netflix

Breeders (1T finale) en FX

29 de abril: 

A Secret Love, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story y Summertime (1T completa) en Netflix

30 de abril: Dangerous Lies en Netflix

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Estrenos de series

Broke (CBS)

La historia se centra en Javier (Jaime Camil, Jane the Virgin, La fea más bella), un hombre que, acostumbrado a vivir sin preocupaciones, ve como su padre decide cortarle el grifo y dejarlo sin dinero. Acto seguido, él, su mujer Elizabeth (Natasha Leggero, Another Period) y su leal asistente Luis (Izzy Diaz; Snowfall, Telenovela) se mudan al apartamento de Jackie (Pauley Perrete, NCIS), la hermana de ella, y su hijo Sammy (Antonio Corbo, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), forzando a las hermanas a reconectar.

Comedia multicámara creada por Alex Herschlag (Will & Grace, Hot in Cleveland) y producida por Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin, Gilmore Girls) y Ben Silverman (The Office, Jane the Virgin). El piloto lo dirige Víctor González (Last Man Standing).

Estreno: 2 de abril

Maxxx (E4)

Comedia sobre una antigua y acabadísima estrella de boyband que intenta, con la ayuda de su prima/superfan/acosadora Rose (Helen Monks; Raised by Wolves, Upstart Crow) y de su antiguo mánager (Christopher Meloni; Happy!, Oz), volver a triunfar en la música para recuperar a su exnovia supermodelo (Jourdan Dunn). Con Pippa Bennett-Warner (Harlots), Javone Prince (PhoneShop) y Lucas Jones.

Escrita, producida, dirigida y protagonizada por O-T Fagbenle, actor de The Handmaid's Tale o Looking. Seis episodios.

Estreno: 2 de abril

Home Before Dark (Apple TV+)

Drama de misterio inspirado en la vida de Hilde Lysiak, que en 2016, a los nueve años de edad, expuso un asesinato que todo su pueblo quería enterrar. Protagonizada por Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas, 21), Abby Miller (Justified, The Sinner), Louis Herthum (Westworld, True Blood), Michael Weston (Houdini and Doyle, House M.D.), Kylie Rogers (Collateral Beauty, The Whispers), Aziza Scott (The Fosters), Joelle Carter (Justified, Scandal), Adrian Hough (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Whitney Peak (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Jibrail Nantambu (Halloween) y Deric McCabe (A Wrinkle in Time). Creada por Dana Fox (Ben and Kate) y Dara Resnik (Daredevil, I Love Dick) y dirigido por Jon M. Chu (Now You See Me 2, Crazy Rich Asians). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 3 de abril

Estreno en España: 3 de abril en Apple TV+

Tales from the Loop (Amazon)

Basada en los cuadros futuristas del ilustrador distópico Simon Stålenhag y ambientada en unos años 80 alternativos, trata sobre la gente que vive bajo una máquina construida para descifrar y explorar los misterios del universo. Protagonizada por Rebecca Hall (The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones, Taboo), Paul Schneider (Chance, Channel Zero), Daniel Zolghadri (Scorpion, Eighth Grade) y Duncan Joiner (Waco, Camping).

Escrita por Nathaniel Halpern (Legion, Outcast) y dirigida por Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 3 de abril Estreno en España: 3 de abril en Amazon España

When the Streetlights Go On (Quibi)

Tras el asesinato de una joven, su hermana y sus compañeros de instituto deben intentar volver a la normalidad durante la investigación. Con Chosen Jacobs (Castle Rock, It), Kristine Froseth (Looking for Alaska, The Society), Queen Latifah (Star, Chicago), Tony Hale (Veep, Arrested Development), Mark Duplass (Togetherness, The Morning Show), Sophie Thatcher (Chicago Med), Sam Strike (Nightflyers), Cameron Bancroft (Beverly Hills, 90210), Ben Ahlers (The Village), Julia Sarah Stone (The Killing, Aftermath) y Nnamdi Asomugha (Hello, My Name Is Doris) y David Lewis.

Escrita y producida por Eddie O'Keefe y Chris Hutton y dirigida por Rebecca Thomas (Limetown).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Most Dangerous Game (Quibi)

Desesperado por cuidar a su esposa embarazada antes de que una enfermedad terminal acabe con su vida, Dodge (Liam Hemsworth; The Hunger Games, The Last Song) acepta participar en un juego mortal en el que pronto descubre que no es el cazador, sino la presa. Con Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained), Sarah Gadon (Alias Grace, True Detective), Zach Cherry (You, Living with Yourself), Aaron Poole (Salvation, This Beautiful City), Christopher Webster (Turn, Cucumber), Billy Burke (Revolution, Zoo), Jimmy Akingbola (Arrow, In the Long Run) y Natasha Bordizzo (The Society, The Greatest Showman).

Escrita y producida por Nick Santora (Prison Break, Scorpion). Dirigida y producida por Phil Abraham (Orange Is the New Black, Daredevil).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Survive (Quibi)

Jane (Sophie Turner, Game of Thrones, Dark Phoenix) es una joven con tendencias suicidas que sobrevive a un accidente de avión en la montaña y allí se encuentra con Paul (Corey Hawkins; The Walking Dead, Straight Outta Compton), un desconocido que tendrá que ayudarla a sobrevivir al entorno salvaje y también a sus traumas personales. Basada en la novela de Alex Morel (2012). Escrita por Richard Abate (Witches of East End) y Jeremy Ungar (Ride) y dirigida por Mark Pellington (Blindspot, Cold Case).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Flipped (Quibi)

Jann (Will Forte; The Last Man on Earth, Saturday Night Live) y Cricket (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mick) creen que tienen lo que hace falta para convertirse en la próxima pareja que reforme casas en televisión. Desafortunadamente, un cártel mexicano les encarga renovar su mansión. Con Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, The Young and the Restless), Andy Garcia (The Godfather: Part III, Ocean's Eleven) y Arturo Castro (Broad City, Narcos).

Escrita por Steve Mallory (The Boss) y Damon Jones y dirigida por Ryan Case (Atypical, Modern Family).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Brews Brothers (Netflix)

Sigue a dos hermanos que habían perdido la relación y acaban abriendo juntos una fábrica cervecera. Ambos son genios de la cerveza pero muy distintos tanto en personalidad como en técnica. Protagonizada por Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black, Mozart in the Jungle) y Mike Castle (Clipped). Les acompañan Carmen Flood, Marques Ray (Dr. Ken), Inanna Sarkis (After) y Zach Reino.

Comedia creada por los hermanos Greg y Jeff Schaffer, escrita por Greg (That 70's Show, Mad About You) y producida por Jeff (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 10 de abril

Estreno en España: 10 de abril en Netflix España

Run (HBO)

La monótona vida de Ruby (Merrit Wever; Unbelievable, Godless) da un vuelco cuando recibe un mensaje de su antiguo amor universitario (Domhnall Gleeson; Ex Machina, About Time). Hace diecisiete años pactaron que si uno de ellos escribía el mensaje "Run" y el otro contestaba lo mismo, lo dejarían todo y se reencontrarían en Nueva York para viajar por todo el país. Con Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Broadchurch), Rich Sommer (Mad Men, GLOW), Tamara Podemski (Coroner, Unsettled) y Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife, Blindspot).

Escrita y producida por Vicky Jones (Killing Eve, Fleabag). Producida por Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Killing Eve, Fleabag). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 12 de abril

Estreno en España: 13 de abril en HBO España

The Baker and the Beauty (ABC)

Cuenta el improbable romance entre un panadero (Victor Rasuk; Stalker, Colony) y una estrella internacional (Nathalie Kelley; Dynasty, UnREAL) en Miami. Él trabaja en el negocio familiar y hace todo lo que su familia cubana espera de él, y ella es una magnate de la moda que, a raíz de esta nueva relación, va a probar el choque de culturas. Completan el cast Dan Bucatinsky (Web Therapy, Scandal), Lisa Vidal (Being Mary Jane, Rosewood), Carlos Gómez (The Glades, Gang Related), Belissa Escobedo, Michelle Veintimilla (Gotham, Seven Seconds), David del Río (The Troop, Grease Live!) y Georgina Reilly (Murdoch Mysteries, City on a Hill).

Basada en una serie israelí y adaptada por Dean Georgaris (The Brave, Bluff City Law). Producida por Keshet Studios, productora de la original. Dirigida por David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, Collateral Beauty).

Estreno: 13 de abril

Paradise Lost (Spectrum)

Una psiquiatra (Bridget Regan; Jane the Virgin, Agent Carter) de Palo Alto, California se muda con su marido (Josh Hartnett; Penny Dreadful, Lucky Number Slevin) y sus hijos al pequeño pueblo de Mississippi donde él creció y allí descubre varios secretos vergonzosos, muchos de ellos relacionados con la hermana fallecida de él, que cambian las vidas de todos los involucrados. Completan el reparto Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides, Warrior), Barbara Hershey (The Portrait of a Lady, Once Upon a Time), Gail Bean (Snowfall, Games People Play), Danielle Deadwyler (Watchmen, The Haves and the Have Nots), Shane McRae (Sneaky Pete, The Following), Silas Weir Mitchell (Grimm, Prison Break) y Autry Haydon-Wilson (Interrogation).

Escrita por Rodes Fishburne (Blood & Oil) y Arika Lisanne Mittman (Dexter, Timeless). Diez episodios.

Estreno: 13 de abril

Mrs. America (FX)

Cate Blanchett (Carol, The Aviator) protagoniza esta limited series dedicada a Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016), activista y política conservadora que se opuso al feminismo y tomó parte en la derrota de la enmienda de igualdad de derechos. Contará a través de los ojos de varias mujeres de la época, como la propia Schlafly o Gloria Steinem, cómo las luchas culturales de los años 70 desembocaron en el nacimiento de la organización ultraconservadora y fundamentalista cristiana Moral Majority.

Con Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story, Studio 60), Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), Rose Byrne (Damages, Bridesmaids), Margo Martindale (The Americans, The Good Wife), Niecy Nash (Claws, Scream Queens), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love, Basic Instinct), Tracey Ullman (The Tracey Ullman Show), James Marsden (Westworld, X-Men), John Slattery (Mad Men, Desperate Housewives), Melanie Lynskey (Two and a Half Men, Castle Rock), Ari Graynor (I'm Dying Up Here, Fringe), Kayli Carter (Godless), Elizabeth Banks (30 Rock, Wet Hot American Summer), Bria Henderson y Olivia Scriven (Degrassi: The Next Generation).

Creada y escrita por Dahvi Waller (Mad Men, Halt and Catch Fire). Nueve episodios.

Estreno: 15 de abril

Estreno en España: 15 de abril en HBO España

Outer Banks (Netflix)

Trata sobre un grupo de adolescentes, conocidos como los Pogues, que buscan al desaparecido padre de su cabecilla, John B. (Chase Stokes; Tell Me Your Secrets, Daytime Divas), y por el camino encuentran un mapa que esconde un secreto. Con Charles Esten (Nashville, The Office), Madelyn Cline (Boy Erased), Madison Bailey (Black Lightning, Creepshow), Jonathan Daviss (Age of Summer), Rudy Pankow, Austin North, Drew Starkey (The Hate U Give; Love, Simon) y Caroline Arapoglou (Stranger Things, The Resident). Creada y producida por Jonas Pate (Believe, Blood & Oil), Josh Pate (Blood & Oil, Legends) y Shannon Burke. Diez episodios. Estreno: 15 de abril Estreno en España: 15 de abril en Netflix España

#blackAF (Netflix)

Comedia con una visión irreverente, muy defectuosa e increíblemente honesta de ser padre, las relaciones, la raza y la cultura. Protagonizada y producida por Kenya Barris y Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca, Parks and Recreation). Completan el reparto Iman Benson (Alexa & Katie, Uncle Buck), Genneya Walton (Extant, Project Mc²), Scarlet Spencer (Cousins for Life, Shameless), Justin Claiborne (Marriage Story), Ravi Cabot-Conyers (The Artist's Wife, Tell Me a Story) y Richard Gardenhire Jr.

Escrita por Barris (Black-ish, Grown-ish) e inspirada en su propia vida. Ocho episodios. Estreno: 17 de abril Estreno en España: 17 de abril en Netflix España

Defending Jacob (Apple TV+)

En un pequeño pueblo de Massachusetts, un padre (Chris Evans; The Avengers, Knives Out) ha de lidiar con las repercusiones de la acusación de asesinato de su hijo de catorce años (Jaeden Martell; It, Masters of Sex). Con Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey, Good Behavior), Cherry Jones (Transparent, Awake), Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black, American Gods), Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries, Tell Me a Story), Betty Gabriel (Get Out, Counterpart), Sakina Jaffrey (Timeless, House of Cards), Nathan Parsons (The Originals, Once Upon a Time), Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl, Single Parents), Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries), Daniel Henshall (Turn, Lambs of God), Matt Lanter (Timeless, Heroes), Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of, Gypsy), Jake Picking (Dirty Grandpa, Horse Girl) y William Xifaras. Basada en la novela de William Landay (2012). Escrita y producida por Mark Bomback (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Wolverine) y dirigida por Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game, Passengers). Ocho episodios. Estreno: 24 de abril Estreno en España: 24 de abril en Apple TV+

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (Showtime)

En esta nueva historia del universo Penny Dreadful ambientada en Los Ángeles en 1938, el detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto; Here and Now, Don't Breathe), primer detective mexicano de la ciudad; y su compañero Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane; Modern Family, The Good Wife), veterano que se convierte en su mentor; se ven envueltos en una peligrosa investigación de asesinato que navega por la compleja historia de Los Ángeles en un caso que mezcla el folclore, las profecías y el culto a la muerte y al diablo. Con Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games), Rory Kinnear (Years and Years, Penny Dreadful), Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly, Covert Affairs), Jessica Garza (The Purge, Six), Jonathan Nieves (See You Yesterday), Adriana Barraza (The Strain, Babel), Kerry Bishé (Halt and Catch Fire, Narcos), Amy Madigan (Carnivàle, Gone Baby Gone), Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Outcast), Lin Shaye (Insidious, There's Something About Mary), Adam Rodriguez (Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami), Thomas Kretschmann (Wanted, Berlin Station), Dominic Sherwood (Shadowhunters), Ethan Peck (Star Trek: Discovery), Michael Gladis (Mad Men, Feed the Beast), Lorenza Izzo (Feed the Beast, The House with a Clock in Its Walls), Sebastian Chacon (Tales of the City, Pose), Adan Rocha (Brockmire, Murphy Brown), Hudson West (American Crime Story, Grace and Frankie) y Julian Hilliard (The Haunting of Hill House).

Escrita por John Logan (Penny Dreadful, Gladiator) y producida por Sam Mendes (1917, Penny Dreadful) y Michael Aguilar (Kidding, I'm Dying Up Here). Dirigida por, entre otros, Paco Cabezas (Penny Dreadful, Into the Badlands). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 26 de abril Estreno en España: Abril en Movistar+

Normal People (BBC Three)

Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones; Cold Feet, Gentleman Jack) y Connell (Paul Mescal), ambos del mismo pueblo de Irlanda pero de orígenes muy distintos, empiezan su esporádica y complicada relación antes de acabar el instituto, pero la serie se centra en sus vidas en la universidad. Sally Rooney adapta su propia novela (2018) junto a Alice Birch (Succession). Dirigida por Lenny Abrahamson (Room, Adam & Paul) y Hettie McDonald (Fortitude, Doctor Who). Doce episodios. Estreno: 26 de abril

Never Have I Ever (Netflix)

Comedia sobre la complicada vida de una adolescente india (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) que vive en Estados Unidos y ha perdido recientemente a su padre (Sendhil Ramamurthy; Heroes, The Office). Con Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of, Big Little Lies), Ramona Young (Legends of Tomorrow, Santa Clarita Diet), Benjamin Norris (The Pregame), Adam Shapiro (Sense8, The Affair), Lee Rodriguez y Richa Shukla. Narrada por el tenista John McEnroe. Creada y escrita por Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project, The Office) e inspirada en su propia vida. Diez episodios. Estreno: 27 de abril Estreno en España: 27 de abril en Netflix España

Summertime (Netflix)

Ambientada en la costa adriática en verano, sigue a Summer (Coco Rebecca Edogamhe) y Ale (Ludovico Tersigni, SKAM Italia), dos jóvenes de mundos muy distintos que se sienten innegablemente atraídos. Él es un excampeón de motociclismo decidido a retomar las riendas de su vida y ella sueña con volar lejos pero sabe que es quien mantiene unida a su familia. Con Andrea Lattanzi (Sulla mia pelle), Amanda Campana, Giovanni Maini y Alicia Ann Edogamhe. Inspirada en la novela 'A tres metros sobre el cielo' de Federico Moccia (1992). Escrita por Anita Rivaroli (Grand Hotel, SKAM Italia), Francesco Lagi, Daniella Delle Foglie (Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends), Mirko Cetrangolo (The Young Pope, 1993), Enrico Audenino (Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends) y Sofia Assirelli (La porta rossa, Tutto può succedere). Ocho episodios. Estreno: 29 de abril Estreno en España: 29 de abril en Netflix España

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Oil Spills: The Past Ten Years

In the ten year period 2008-2018 there has been 84 Confirmed oil/Fossil fuel spills, 75 spills of 7 tonnes and over, resulting in 116,000 tonnes of oil lost in 2018 alone. 42 of those spills have taken place on American soil or shores.

Below is a concise list of confirmed world-wide oil/fossil fuel spills:

Taylor Energy of New Orleans Well Leaks, September 2, 2004 – TODAY: 500,000+ Tonnes United States, 12 miles off the Louisiana coast

MV Solomon Trader fuel oil spill, February 5, 2019: 80 Tonnes Solomon Islands, Rennell Island  

Newfoundland Sea Rose platform, November 16, 2018: 210 Tonnes Canada, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Doon, Iowa derailment, June 22, 2018: 520 Tonnes United States, Lyon County, Iowa

Sanchi oil tanker collision with CF Crystal, January 6, 2018: 138,000 Tonnes East China Sea

Keystone Pipeline, November 16, 2017: 682 Tonnes United States, Marshall County, South Dakota            

Delta House Oil Spill, October 11, 2017 – October 12, 2017: 1,280 Tonnes United States, Gulf of Mexico, near Louisiana

Agia Zoni II, September 10, 2017: 2,500 Tonnes Greece, Saronic Gulf, Salamis

Magellan Terminals, August 31, 2017: 779 Tonnes United States, Galena Park, Texas

Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline, Jan. 19, 2017: 1,365 Tonnes United States, Logan County, Colorado

Enterprise Crude Pipeline, January 30, 2017: 682 Tonnes United States, Anna, Texas

Con Edison East River Oil Spill, May 7, 2017: 101 Tonnes United States, New York, New York

Energy Transfer Partners Dakota Access Pipeline Leak, April 4, 2017: 0.27 Tonnes United States, North Dakota 

Ennore Oil Spill, January 28, 2017: 251 Tonnes India, Chennai, Ennore Port

Belle Fourche Pipeline Leak, December 5, 2016: 571 Tonnes United States, North Dakota, Billings County, Ash Coulee Creek

Fox Creek Pipeline Leak, October 6, 2016: 240 Tonnes Canada, Alberta, Fox Creek

BP Clair production platform, October 2, 2016: 105 Tonnes North Sea United Kingdom, Shetland

Colonial Pipeline Leak, September 12, 2016: 1,092 Tonnes United States, Shelby County, Alabama

North Battleford Pipeline Spill, July 21, 2016: 210 Tonnes Canada, Saskatchewan, North Battleford

ConocoPhillips Canada Pipeline Spill, June 9, 2016: 323 Tonnes Canada, Alberta, Grande Cache

Union Pacific Oil Train Fire, June 3, 2016: 152 Tonnes United States, Oregon, Mosier

Denbury Resources Bowman County Oil Spill, May 18, 2016: 44 Tonnes United States, North Dakota Bowman County

Shell Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Brutus Offshore Platform, May 12, 2016: 316 Tonnes United States, Gulf of Mexico, near Louisiana

Keystone Pipeline, April 2, 2016: 55 Tonnes United States, Menno, South Dakota

Refugio Oil Spill, May 19, 2015: 330 Tonnes United States, California, near Refugio State Beach

MV Marathassa, April 13, 2015: 2.3 Tonnes Canada, British Columbia, English Bay (Vancouver)

Illinois Train Derailment, March 5, 2015: unknown Tonnes United States, Illinois, near Galena

Yellowstone River Oil Spill, January 17, 2015: 160 Tonnes United States, Montana, near Glendive

Black Sea Oil Spill, December 24, 2014: unknown Tonnes Russia, Tuapse, near Black Sea

Plantation Pipe Line, Dec. 8, 2014: 1,200 Tonnes United States, Cushing, Oklahoma

Trans-Israel Pipeline, December 6, 2014: 4,300 Tonnes Israel, Eilat, Trans-Israel pipeline

Mid-Valley Pipeline, October 13, 2014: 546 Tonnes United States, Louisiana, Mooringsport

Lake Michigan Oil Spill, March 24, 2014: 5 Tonnes United States, Indiana, Whiting refinery          

MV Miss Susan/MV Summer Wind, March 22, 2014: 546 Tonnes United States, Texas, Houston Ship Channel

North Dakota Pipeline Spill, March 21, 2014: 110 Tonnes United States, North Dakota, Hiland

North Dakota Train Collision, December 30, 2013: 1,300 Tonnes United States, North Dakota, Casselton

Bullenbaai, November 1, 2013: unknown Tonnes Curaçao, Bullenbaai, Isla refinery

North Dakota Pipeline Spill, September 25, 2013 – September 29, 2013: 2,810 Tonnes United States, North Dakota, Tioga

Rayong Oil Spill, July 27, 2013: 163 Tonnes Thailand, Rayong/Ko Samet, Gulf of Thailand

Lac-Mégantic Derailment, July 6, 2013: 4,830 Tonnes Canada, Québec, Lac-Mégantic

Cushing Storage Terminal, May 18, 2013: 340 Tonnes United States, Oklahoma, Cushing

Marathon Pipe Line, April 13, 2011: 1,227 Tonnes United States, Dansville, Michigan

Mayflower, March 30, 2013: 950 Tonnes United States, Arkansas, Mayflower

Magnolia Refinery, March 9, 2013: 760 Tonnes United States, Arkansas, Magnolia

Bullenbaai, November 7, 2012: unknown Tonnes Curaçao, Bullenbaai

Arthur Kill Storage Tank Spill (Hurricane Sandy), October 29, 2012: 1,130 Tonnes United States, New Jersey, Sewaren

Curaçao, August 17, 2012: unknown Tonnes Curaçao, Isla refinery and Jan Kok nature preserve

Sundre, June 8, 2012: 410 Tonnes Alberta Canada, Sundre

Guarapiche River, February 4, 2012: 41,000 Tonnes Venezuela, Maturín, Monagas 

Nigeria, December 21, 2011: 5,500 Tonnes Nigeria, Bonga Field

TK Bremen, December 16, 2011: 220 Tonnes France, Brittany, Erdeven

Campos Basin, November 7, 2011 – November 15, 2011: 400 Tonnes Brazil, Campos Basin, Frade Field

Rena Oil Spill, October 5, 2011 – August 2012: 350 Tonnes New Zealand, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty

North Sea Oil Spill, August 10, 2011 – August 13, 2011: 216 Tonnes United Kingdom, North Sea, Gannet Alpha platform

Yellowstone River, July 1, 2011: 140 Tonnes United States, Billings, Montana, Yellowstone River

Bohai Bay Oil Spill, June 4, 2011 – June 19, 2011: 204 Tonnes China, Bohai Bay

Enterprise Crude Pipeline, June 4, 201: 1,668 Tonnes United States, Chico, Texas

Little Buffalo Oil Spill, April 29, 2011: 3,800 Tonnes Canada, Alberta

Enterprise Crude Pipeline, January 27, 2011: 942 Tonnes United States, Iola, Texas

Mumbai-Uran Pipeline Spill, January 21, 2011: 55 Tonnes India, Mumbai, Arabian Sea

Fiume Santo Power Station, January 11, 2011: 15 Tonnes Italy, Sardinia, Porto Torres

Centurion Pipeline, October 11, 2010 : 1,391 Tonnes United States, Levelland, Texas

Enbridge Energy, September 9, 2010: 1,028 Tonnes United States, Romeoville, Illinois

Mumbai Oil Spill / MV MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3, August 7, 2010 – August 9, 2010: 800 Tonnes India, Mumbai, Arabian Sea

Barataria Bay Oil Spill, July 27, 2010 – August 1, 2010: 45 Tonnes United States, Barataria Bay, Gulf of Mexico

Kalamazoo River Oil Spill, July 26, 2010: 3,250 Tonnes United States, Kalamazoo River, Calhoun County, Michigan

Xingang Port Oil Spill, July 16, 2010 – July 21, 2010: 90,000 Tonnes China, Yellow Sea

Jebel Al-Zayt Oil Spill, June 16, 2010 – June 23, 2010: unknown Tonnes Egypt, Red Sea

Red Butte Creek Oil Spill, June 11, 2010: 107 Tonnes United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Trans-Alaska Pipeline, May 25, 2010: 1,200 Tonnes United States, Anchorage, Alaska

MT Bunga Kelana 3, May 25, 2010: 2,500 Tonnes Singapore, Singapore Strait

ExxonMobil, May 1, 2010: 95,500 Tonnes Nigeria, Niger Delta

Deepwater Horizon, April 20, 2010 – July 15, 2010: 627,000 Tonnes United States, Gulf of Mexico 

Great Barrier Reef / MV Shen Neng 1, April 3, 2010: 4 Tonnes Australia, Great Keppel Island

Lambro and Po Rivers, February 23, 2010: 15 Tonnes Italy, Lombardy, Monza

Port Arthur Oil Spill, January 23, 2010: 1,500 Tonnes United States, Port Arthur, Texas

Yellow River Oil Spill, January 5, 2010: 130 Tonnes China, Chishui River (Shaanxi)

Montara Oil Spill,1 August 2, 2009: 30,000 Tonnes Australia, Timor Sea

Full City, July 31, 2009: 200 Tonnes Norway, Rognsfjorden near Såstein south of Langesund

Lüderitz Oil Spill, April 8, 2009: unknown Tonnes Namibia, Southern coast

Queensland, March 10, 2009: 260 Tonnes Australia, Queensland

West Cork Oil Spill, February 2009: 300 Tonnes Ireland, Southern Coast

New Orleans Oil Spill, July 28, 2008: 8,800 Tonnes United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

Shell Bodo, August 1, 2008: 1,000 Tonnes Nigeria

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CNN, Keystone Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota, Mayra Cuevas and Steve Almasy, Nov 17, 2017 https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/us/keystone-pipeline-leak/index.html

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0277: Construction Contractor Embezzlement Detective - Kelly Paxton Part 2

This Podcast Is Episode Number 0277, And It Will Be About Construction Contractor Embezzlement Detective - Kelly Paxton Part 2 of 2

Kelly Paxton specializes in finding and helping Construction Contractors, other businesses, and government agencies root out Pink-Collar Crime in their companies. The term Pink-Collar Crime was made popular Dr. Kathleen Daly in the 1980s to describe a type of embezzlement crime committed by female employees who may have limited opportunity.

It is thought women in this situation may have a history of committing low level crimes such as check kiting and bookkeeping fraud. Part of the reasoning is women tend to be in less powerful positions compared to men who had a history of engaging white-collar crime.

During our Podcast interview which you can listen to Part 1 by clicking the play button above I asked Kelly why she became interested in Pink Collar Crime.

She replied "...When I started working at the Sheriff’s Office I became intimately involved in seeing the devastation caused by small business embezzlement. What I did not know was the perpetrator committing these crimes. When I was a federal agent most of my targets were typical White Collar Criminals—in other words men.

Kelly goes on to say she was seeing women who had violated the trust of their employers. Out of all the cases she worked at the Sheriff’s Office there was only one male embezzler they came across. The rest were women, all kinds of women: old, young and middle aged. Some had gambling habits, some of them wanted to buy stuff they didn't need, with money they didn't have to impress people. They appeared to share two things in common— they had earned their supervisor's trust and they had the opportunity to embezzle.

The following is a true story from Pink-Collar-Crime Wall of Shame:

Stealing from her sister...

Another medical office embezzlement but this one is a family affair.  Older sister  who is a well paid ($110k per year) office manager stole from her younger sister’s medical practice.  Can you imagine the Thanksgiving dinner they had?  Well it probably didn’t happen.  Reading the story http://bit.ly/2A53LiM is like a soap opera.  At this point therapy may not help. According to the affidavit: “Additionally, airplane flights and in-flight charges were purchased using the card, along with lengthy expensive hotel stays and various vacation charges,…Also noted were charges for plastic surgery and cosmetics.“Lastly, many personal charges (were made), such as car repair, car registration, gas, music, horse boarding, various saddles and accessories for horses and other pets and miscellaneous grocery shopping, etc.” Then in 2014 she came down with an eating disorder and other health issues that prompted her to begin “binge shopping,” according to the affidavit. In addition, one of her daughters began “doing really well with horse riding,” so she began paying for those expenses with clinic credit cards. For everyone who follows me on Twitter or has seen my presentation you know #horsesareaclue. They are expensive and a pink flag. By summer 2016, Shannon Nagle said “she had ‘all sorts of justifications’ for what she was doing and was ‘angry and in denial which was a bad combo,'” the affidavit states. “She felt unappreciated at work, wasn’t getting raises while other employees were and felt that (Melinda) Nagle and (her business partner) believed she wasn’t worth her salary,” according to Fain’s affidavit. Those rationalizations are never a reason to steal but businesses need to understand that everyone rationalizes and opportunity is the only part of the #fraudtriangle you can control. The takeaway from this sad story is that trust but verify even if they are a family member.  I trust my sister with my life but not every family is that lucky.

Click Here For Part 1 Podcast Interview With

Kelly Paxton, CFE, PI Speaker And Fraud Consultant

Editor’s Note: I have only known Kelly Paxton a short time and I trust her and find she is very knowledgeable and capable on the subject of embezzlement and fraud.

I Highly Recommend all contractors spend some time on her website Pink-Collar Crime and get to know her. Kelly is a valuable resource to all contractors. Please let her know Randal DeHart, The Contractors Accountant, recommended you.

About The Author:

Kelly Paxton has more than 13 years of law enforcement experience. Kelly is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Private Investigator and Social Media Intelligence Analyst. Ms. Paxton started her career in law enforcement as a Special Agent for US Customs Office of Investigations in 1993.  Ms. Paxton was recruited by US Customs for her expertise in finance.  She worked white collar fraud, money laundering and narcotics cases.  She also was responsible for the district’s undercover operations and financial reporting of these operations. Kelly worked as a contract investigator doing over 1000 security background investigations for the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Homeland Security. Kelly has worked in the public and private sector. Her most recent position was an investigator at Nike. Her investigations include embezzlement, conflict of interest, intellectual property, Open Source Intelligence and fraud. Kelly is also the proud owner of pinkcollarcrime.com, a passion of hers about women embezzlers in the workplace. She tweets regularly at pdxcfe and has kellypaxton.com also.  

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Tuskegee: The Tuskegee Airmen’s legacy will possess flight as soon as extra with the originate of a brand new Air Drive jet. The Opelika-Auburn Recordsdata stories that the Air Drive is honoring the famed team of airmen with the naming of its new trainer jet – the Boeing T-7A. Defense drive officers closing year selected the T-7A as the following-skills trainer jet for the Air Drive. This might per chance per chance also be identified as the Purple Hawk and lift the identical crimson-tail markings. The all-dim Tuskegee aviators broke racial boundaries with their courage and aviation skills. They had been identified as the Purple Tails as a result of iconic crimson paint on the tail of their airplane.

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Anchorage: A new narrative says the express seen its top likely violent crime rate in 5 years in 2018. The Anchorage Day-to-day Recordsdata stories the express’s sexual assault rate rose 11% between 2017 and 2018 and stood at virtually four instances the national rate. Nonetheless the narrative, in line with crime records, confirmed property crime and vehicle thefts lower. There had been 47 homicides closing year, in comparison with 62 in 2017. The Alaska Department of Public Safety’s annual narrative on crime is in line with records supplied by guidelines enforcement companies that signify quite a lot of the express’s inhabitants. It used to be released Monday, as used to be the FBI’s national accept as true with a study crime that makes employ of the identical records.

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Phoenix: Natural world officers narrate fewer bald eagles had been born in the express this year despite a story selection of breeding areas for the 2019 season. The Arizona Sport and Fish Department says raptor biologists accept as true with counted 71 eagle nestlings this year, down from 87 hatched in 2018. The birds are safe nationally by the Bald and Golden Eagle Safety Act. The Arizona inhabitants has flourished since 1978, when 11 pairs had been counted in the express. There are now an estimated 74 grownup breeding pairs. Natural world specialists attribute the inhabitants’s leisurely restoration to the efforts of a committee constituted of Arizona Sport and Fish, different government companies, non-public organizations and Native American tribes.

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Brickeys: A convicted killer who baffled jail officers by reputedly vanishing used to be found Tuesday hiding beneath a gargantuan air waft hood on the jail roof. Authorities had suspected inmate Calvin Adams didn’t win it previous the electrical fence surrounding the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys, about 110 miles east of Diminutive Rock, in line with Arkansas Department of Corrections spokeswoman Dina Tyler. The fence can’t be cleave, is lethal if touched and has concrete at its scurry to prevent anybody from digging beneath it, she talked about. For bigger than a day, Adams’ whereabouts had been a mystery. “He can’t waft, and we don’t accept as true with the aliens plucked him out. So the effect is he?” Tyler talked about Tuesday quickly earlier than authorities found Adams’ hiding space. She talked about he used to be in moral health and will likely be moved to a most-safety express.

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Prolonged Seaside: Authorities are trying to procure a hit-and-hunch driver who struck a pony that used to be free on a Los Angeles-express minute-win entry to dual carriageway, leaving the minute horse a bit injured. The California Highway Patrol says a 10-year-extinct boy had been riding the pony Sunday at a home when he fell off, and the animal ran away. The CHP says the pony made its capacity onto westbound Order Route 91 in Prolonged Seaside, the effect it used to be clipped by a dim SUV. The motive force sped away. CHP Officer Marco Iniguez told the Los Angeles Instances that someone stopped to assist the injured animal, which suffered abrasions to its forelegs. The horse used to be evaluated by animal preserve a watch on officers and reunited with its proprietor.

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Denver: The City Council has authorized a $50,000 settlement with a journalist who used to be handcuffed and detained by police after she photographed them standing around a bare, handcuffed man seated on a downtown sidewalk. Denverite stories the council authorized the settlement leisurely Monday with Susan Greene, editor of The Colorado Self sustaining. Officers also will endure additional First Modification coaching. Denver police talked about Officers Adam Paulsen and James Brooks violated police protection in the July 2018 stumble upon, when they took Greene’s smartphone and positioned her in a patrol vehicle for approximately 10 minutes. Greene used to be exercising her First Modification rights to behold and narrative police exercise. The officers had been docked two days’ pay. Greene says the officers told her to “act cherish a girl.”

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Hartford: Thirteen communities all the contrivance by contrivance of the express are on faucet to receive $13 million in federal grants aimed at helping smaller cities modernize and rehabilitate housing. Gov. Ned Lamont and Connecticut Housing Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno introduced the grants designed to assist enhance housing for low- and practical-profits people. Eligible projects want to be in a municipality with fewer than 50,000 residents and accept as true with a spotlight on bettering neighborhoods, inserting off blight and attracting economic trend. No doubt one of many projects is Mystic River Homes in Groton. The $1.5 million grant can assist pay for elevator replacements and a brand new fire machine pump, sizzling water machine upgrades and a brand new backup generator.

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Wilmington: A new historical marker recognizing a 1903 lynching will be unveiled all the contrivance by contrivance of a public ceremony Oct. 20, lower than three months after the distinctive used to be stolen from Greenbank Park. A resident seen the missing marker, which had very top been in the park for six weeks, on Aug. 1 and known as police. It had been erected in honor of the dim laborer George White, who died on the palms of a white lynch mob in 1903. Police are silent investigating who stole the signal, and Delaware Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,000 reward to anybody who offers records leading to an arrest and conviction. Within the interval in-between, a brand new marker even larger than the first one will be place up all the contrivance by contrivance of the dedication ceremony.

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Washington: A new narrative on school win entry to by the D.C. Policy Heart shows quite a lot of of college students can’t physically win to the college that might per chance per chance very top scurry neatly with their needs, WUSA-TV stories. Chelsea Coffin, director of the middle’s Education Policy Initiative and the behold’s author, examined faculties that rate the most enchancment for at-likelihood college students, defined as formative years who are homeless or receiving government assistance. She found most so-known as leveler faculties are farthest from the formative years who want them most. Coffin talked about quite a lot of of formative years dwelling east of the Potomac River don’t accept as true with the option of riding to college. Recordsdata from the deputy mayor of education shows formative years in Wards 7 and eight commute the longest to win to college, with routes averaging over an hour.

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Wellington: A church that for the time being meets at a excessive school is tantalizing by shopping a previous strip membership to relief its providers and products. The Palm Seaside Put up stories officers at NewSound Church are in negotiations to amass the Double Dee’s Ranch building that used to be as soon as owned by a man accused of mob ties. It closed leisurely closing year. Pastor Josh Mauney told the Put up that the church is having a undercover agent to amplify “whether or not on this effect of dwelling or one other.” The church used to be established in 2018 and meets at Wellington High Faculty. The ex-strip membership offers 20,000 square feet of condominium. It's listed for $9 million and has been on the market since November 2018.

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Atlanta: Order officers narrate 82% of seniors graduated on time from excessive school in 2018-2019, the very top fragment on narrative. The nationwide graduation rate used to be 85% in 2016-2017, the most fresh records accessible. Georgia’s graduation rate has traditionally lagged each and each national and regional graduation charges. Order officers narrate Georgia’s graduation rate has risen from 70% in 2012. Among Georgia’s 181 school districts, the express Department of Education says 71 seen graduation charges of 90% or extra, whereas 24 districts seen graduation charges of 95% or extra. Federal guidelines requires the express to calculate a four-year graduation rate. Order Superintendent Richard Woods says he salutes the lecturers and college students “doing the on-the-flooring work that leads to will enhance in our graduation rate.”

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Honolulu: Officials narrate a reduced birthrate has larger inhabitants and economic implications for the express now and in the break. Hawaii Public Radio stories fresh records shows the selection of babies born in Hawaii has been declining for a decade, following a national trend. Hawaii’s fresh birthrate is 10% lower than in 2008. The industrial outcomes consist of stories by no lower than two Oahu hospitals of decreases in work shifts for maternity ward nurses and a wonderful purchase in new nurse hiring. Officials narrate the decrease in the selection of babies might per chance per chance also consequence in a drop in the amount of Hawaii employees and taxpayers in the break. Officials narrate the express’s inhabitants has reduced lately as the selection of oldsters leaving outpaces new arrivals.

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Boise: A U.S. District Court docket accept as true with has rejected a man’s quiz of to brush off an environmental team’s lawsuit towards him regarding suction dredging for gold in Idaho rivers without required federal permits. Chief U.S. Justice of the Peace Expend Ronald E. Bush ruled Monday that the Idaho Conservation League has standing to bring the citizen enforcement lawsuit towards Shannon Poe of Harmony, California. Bush wrote that Poe in plenty of years admitted in online posts to dredging Idaho rivers whereas recognizing the must build permits and his defiance to kind so. The Idaho Conservation League sued in 2018, contending Poe used to be violating the federal Natty Water Act by dredging in serious habitat for federally safe steelhead, salmon and bull trout. The lawsuit asks Bush to impose civil penalties that can surpass $50,000 a day.

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Metropolis: The annual encampment at Citadel Massac Order Park will be held Oct. 19-20. The Illinois Department of Pure Sources and the Increased Metropolis Convention and Mates Bureau sponsor the match in Metropolis that offers visitors a gamble to trip existence as it used to be at Citadel Massac in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Citadel Massac used to be a defense drive outpost along the Ohio River for France, Britain and the early United States from 1757 to 1814. The match will be 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 19 and 9 a.m.-4: 30 p.m. Oct. 20. The competition will function mock defense drive battles and tactical demonstrations by reenactors on the Citadel Massac grounds. Day to day will initiating with a “Posting of the Colours” and terminate with a defense drive retreat ceremony.

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Indianapolis: Sixteen college students had been hospitalized as a precaution Monday after they had been mistakenly injected with insulin all the contrivance by contrivance of a tuberculosis pores and skin test, in line with college officers. The Metropolitan Faculty District of Lawrence Township says the college students from the McKenzie Heart for Innovation & Technology had been taken to hospitals for commentary after being injected with a “minute dosage” of insulin by Neighborhood Neatly being Community personnel. The tuberculosis pores and skin test requires an intradermal injection of liquid – 0.1 milliliter of a purified protein by-product known as tuberculin – in the lower share of their arm, in line with the Centers for Disease Alter and Prevention. The district says it’s working closely with Neighborhood Neatly being Community “to procure out the explanation for the error.”

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Hiawatha: The metropolis’s police division is in conjunction with cameras to its handguns. Hiawatha Police Chief Dennis Marks told KCRG that the brand new cameras can assist be particular that that a elephantine recording will be fabricated from any incident when officers pull their weapons. Marks says physique cameras might per chance per chance also additionally be obscured by palms or objects all the contrivance by contrivance of confrontations, but an officer’s gun is out entrance the effect it isn’t at likelihood of be blocked. Marks says all 14 elephantine-time officers and the division’s two reserves will employ the brand new cameras. The gun-mounted cameras trace $500 apiece. Marks says they had been paid for with forfeiture cash and donations.

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Independence: A runner used to be killed by lightning as he used to be about to total a 50-kilometer hunch in southeast Kansas. Organizers of the FlatRock hunch talked about in a Fb submit that 33-year-extinct Thomas Stanley, of Andover, used to be struck Saturday whereas competing in the hunch on the Elk City Order Park, about 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, Missouri. KSN-TV stories hunch director Carolyn Robinson says many runners and officers tried to give Stanley CPR and first-relief but had been unsuccessful. Robinson says his better half used to be introduced the medal he would accept as true with obtained. The couple had three formative years. His household described him in a commentary as a “devoted husband, father, and friend.” Stanley worked for the nonprofit Kansas Management Heart, which offers management coaching.

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Louisville: The metropolis’s zoo has spent thousands on a sinkhole about as broad as a football field, but it indubitably silent hasn’t settled on an extended-time-frame thought for the divulge. Louisville Zoo Director John Walczak says the zoo is weighing how very top to tackle the sinkhole, which opened in March in an undeveloped zoo share. Walczak says the zoo has spent about $125,000 on the sinkhole, which now sits about 60 yards broad, 90 yards long and 50 feet deep. Costs accept as true with integrated fencing, engineering, surveys and different responses. The sinkhole closed the zoo for 10 days and trace it thousands in income since then by shutting down a put collectively scramble. Walczak says it might per chance well also trace a tiny bit $500,000 to transfer the favored scramble.

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Baton Rouge: The express’s traditionally dim university machine has been selected to amass part in a CIA recruitment program. The Southern University Arrangement has signed an agreement with the Central Intelligence Agency that sets up the framework for the team trend effort. The agreement enables the CIA to work with Southern’s 5 campuses and their employees on evaluation room workshops, curriculum trend and student recruitment activities. The company also will kind a campus advertising and marketing campaign. Southern says the recruitment effort is share of the White Dwelling Initiative on Historically Shaded Faculties and Universities, which is working with plenty of colleges on the partnerships with the CIA.

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Portland: A Pine Tree Order native who’s on the International Self-discipline Build says she wasted no time attending to work. Jessica Meir tweeted Tuesday that she used to be already conducting research within 36 hours of her arrival on the condominium place closing week. She shared images that had been snapped Tuesday by a fellow astronaut of her third session watching crystals rising in microgravity. The Caribou, Maine, native used to be share of a multinational crew that capabilities a Russian and the first condominium traveler from the United Arab Emirates that blasted off closing week. Meir served as a flight engineer and copilot of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft. Meir will be engaged on experiments starting from studying gravity’s attain on the human physique to protein crystal state to radiation’s attain on folks.

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Annapolis: Substances of surveillance video showing the lethal attack internal a newspaper’s areas of work are so upsetting to search that the recording would “unduly prejudice the jury,” a defense lawyer told a accept as true with Tuesday, whereas a prosecutor talked about the video is “the most necessary proof in the case.” Elizabeth Palen, an lawyer for Jarrod Ramos, targeted on share of the recording that shows for poke one of many 5 victims who died in the attack on the Capital Gazette newsroom searching for to win away the newsroom after she used to be wounded. Palen described it as “inflammatory” and “inherently upsetting to search” and talked about silent images must be historical as a change. Anne Colt Leitess, the express’s lawyer who is prosecuting the case, told Expend Laura Ripken she couldn’t assume of any case guidelines to counsel proof must be “dumbed down and neutered.”

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Worcester: The University of Massachusetts Scientific Faculty and the Veterans Administration accept as true with introduced plans to construct a 53,000-square-foot veterans outpatient hospital on campus. The hospital in Worcester expected to initiating in 2021 will consist of 65 examination, consultation and process rooms; radiology, echocardiology, physical and occupational therapy facilities; a scientific lab; and a pharmacy. Ryan Lilly, director of the VA Fresh England Healthcare Arrangement, says the announcement comes after years of not easy work and planning to meet the needs of veterans in and around Worcester County. John Collins, chief executive officer and director of VA Central Western Massachusetts, says combining foremost care and medical specialties in a single facility will enhance win entry to and the coordination of care.

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Auburn Hills: Motorists traveling by contrivance of this Detroit suburb had been stupefied to search a pornographic video taking part in on an digital billboard. Auburn Hills police narrate the video performed on the billboard along Interstate 75 in Oakland County for approximately 30 minutes Saturday night earlier than the photos had been removed. Many folks known as 911. Chuck McMahon says he seen the video and puzzled if the billboard used to be advertising and marketing for a strip membership. Investigators squawk WDIV-TV that two folks it appears broke into a minute building on the positioning and loaded porn on a computer connected to the billboard. Two males carrying hooded sweatshirts had been seen on safety video. Police are asking the final public to assist determine them.

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Sartell: It took 9-year-extinct Kade Lovell longer than expected to total his 5K hunch – but very top because he used to be busy accidentally winning a separate 10Okay hunch. Lovell’s mother turned into insecure when he didn’t tainted the terminate line of the Francis Franny Flyer 5K in Sartell on Sept. 21. She drove along the 5K route searching for to procure him and used to be “bawling” when no person else seen him, both. Kade says a girl told him to relief going when he approached the 5K flip, so he did, despite his confusion. Scoot organizers told Kade’s mother he carried out in first space, and he or she thought they supposed in his age team. Nonetheless he received first space total. He carried out in barely over 48 minutes – a minute faster than the 40-year-extinct 2nd-space contestant.

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Carrollton: Acclaimed guitarist and singer Taj Mahal is headlining a blues and gospel competition this weekend, and organizers narrate he selected the checklist of performers. The Mississippi John Difficulty Homecoming Competition will be held Saturday and Sunday in Carroll County. Difficulty used to be born in Mississippi in 1893 and commenced taking part in guitar as a toddler. He worked on farms and for the railroad and had a short recording career earlier than the Despair. He turned into current in people music circles about a years earlier than he died in 1966. His granddaughter, Mary Frances Difficulty-Wright, is president of the inspiration organizing the competition. She tells the Greenwood Commonwealth that Mahal used to be 19 when he met her grandfather at a people music competition in Newport, Rhode Island. Difficulty turned into a mentor, teaching Mahal in regards to the music industry.

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St. Louis: A videographer who collapsed from a coronary heart attack in the visiting dugout at Busch Stadium is alive, thanks in share to a St. Louis Put up-Dispatch journalist. The videographer, 64-year-extinct Mike Flanary, used to be in the Chicago Cubs’ dugout Sunday earlier than the game the Cardinals eventually received 9-0 to clinch the Nationwide League Central title. Flanary collapsed and used to be briefly and not using a pulse. The Put up-Dispatch stories that baseball writer Derrick Goold had CPR coaching as a formative years and rushed to assist. The Cubs’ coaching employees and EMTs performed additional medical procedures earlier than Flanary used to be taken to a medical institution. Flanary used to be in serious but stable condition. He had suffered a coronary heart attack and a stroke. The stadium doctor on responsibility, David Tan, says Goold’s CPR “potentially saved” Flanary’s existence.

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Billings: Officials narrate hemp is rising in recognition as a cleave amongst farmers in the express. The Billings Gazette stories that statistics released by the Montana Department of Agriculture present 277 farmers are now licensed by the express to develop hemp. Department Director Ben Thomas estimates there are between 70 and 78 square miles on which hemp is being grown. Officials narrate Montana used to be rising hemp earlier than the 2018 federal farm invoice loosened regulations, and hobby has grown since then. Officials narrate about 65 farmers attended a fresh assembly of hemp growers, even when very top one had grew to become a income up to now. Farmers narrate they are attracted to promoting hemp and extracting oil from flowers to promote in the rising marketplace for CBD products.

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Terrytown: The City Council is tantalizing by barring anybody from feeding geese and different wild critters internal metropolis limits. The western Nebraska council has scheduled a third and closing studying and vote Thursday on a proposed ordinance. Violators would face fines of $5 for every and each offense, but court fees might per chance per chance also elevate the punishment nearer to $60. The proposed ordinance says feeding wild animals and waterfowl is detrimental to the animals as nicely as being a public health and safety hazard. Venerable Terrytown Mayor Kent Greenwalt has been feeding geese on the banks of Terry’s Lake for years, and he told the Scottsbluff Megastar-Herald the ordinance doesn’t win sense. He says it wouldn’t preserve geese off the lake and wouldn’t preserve folks dwelling all the contrivance by contrivance of the lake from feeding them.

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Las Vegas: The express has released a vehicle plate honoring the victims and survivors on the 2-year anniversary of a massacre at a music competition. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday made accessible “Vegas Tough” charitable license plates. The plate has a dim and gold coronary heart-formed designate and as well says “Forever Tough.” One of the most cash raised will scurry in direction of the Vegas Tough Resiliency Heart. A morning time memorial and an night studying of victims’ names had been amongst occasions held to designate the Oct. 1, 2017 shooting. A gunman in a excessive-rise hotel suite opened fire on a crowd attending the Route 91 music competition, killing 58 folks. It's thought of the deadliest shooting in contemporary U.S. historical previous.

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Harmony: Fresh limits are now in attain for a category of toxic chemical substances in the express’s public drinking water offers, representing about a of the nation’s toughest standards. Fresh Hampshire Public Radio stories the criteria, which took attain Tuesday, require local water utilities to test for four forms of the compounds identified as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances each and each quarter. If they procure a degree over the following year that’s above the express’s new limits, these utilities will want to modify to a decided water supply or manufacture costly medication programs. The express Department of Environmental Companies and products obtained $6 million in the brand new express budget to relief minute programs in complying with the brand new guidelines all the contrivance by contrivance of this foremost year. Some cities are tantalizing by submitting scurry neatly with or refusing to comply without extra funding.

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Atlantic City: Will the fourth time be the charm for the previous Atlantic Membership on line casino? The Boardwalk property, which has been shuttered since January 2014, has been offered to a Fresh York company. Florida accurate estate company TJM Properties introduced Tuesday that it offered the previous on line casino to investment and building company Colosseo Atlantic City. The possess trace used to be not printed. TJM has been making an are trying for years without success to promote the property – and win the deal stick. Three previous gross sales accept as true with fallen by contrivance of. Company president Rocco Sebastiani says he plans to hunch the building as an 800-room, non-playing hotel after conducting predominant renovations. The Atlantic Membership formerly did industry as Steve Wynn’s Golden Nugget earlier than a series of possession adjustments.

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Aztec: A historian is leading a group to undercover agent the historical inscriptions on the ceilings of 900-year-extinct ruins in northwestern Fresh Mexico. Fred Blackburn and his group will behold lengthy messages – or graffiti – left on the Aztec Ruins Nationwide Monument to clarify how others seen the engineering surprise. Blackburn needs to know the stories of those folks and add historical context to their inscriptions in as many instances as conceivable. The Aztec Ruins Nationwide Monument is fabricated from 400 masonry rooms and is an ancestral pueblo building that dates assist to the 11th to 13th centuries. White settlers named it after mistakenly believing it used to be built by Aztecs from central Mexico.

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Fresh York: The mission to rehabilitate a key subway tunnel between Big apple and Brooklyn is on purpose to be carried out even sooner than expected. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday talked about the L put collectively renovation is now expected to be accomplished by April, a year after it began and earlier than the 15-month projection of how long it would possess. The normal thought to restore injure precipitated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 known as for a shutdown of the East River tunnel, but in January Cuomo known as that off in prefer of the brand new thought, which very top requires work on nights and weekends. The L line is for poke one of many metropolis’s most crowded. There are about 400,000 rides every single day, and bigger than half struggle by contrivance of the tunnel.

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Corolla: Quite a lot of wild horses had been running free by contrivance of the village because a hurricane and flooding accept as true with damaged their barrier island habitat. The Virginian-Pilot stories Typhoon Dorian and a subsequent rainstorm accept as true with damaged fencing and flooded areas the effect the animals are customarily refrained from human contact. At the least 9 wild horses and a wild mule enter the Outer Banks village of Corolla everyday. They're corralled and returned on a in vogue basis to their a ways flung beaches north of Corolla. The fence used to be in-built the 1990s to relief wild horses out of the village and off N.C. 12 so that they don’t win hit by autos. Corolla Wild Horse Fund chief running officer Jo Langone says specialized equipment and abilities will be valuable to restore the fence.

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Bismarck: An accidental gunshot on the Bismarck Gun Sigh precipitated moderately a terror over the weekend, but no person used to be injured. Sigh officers squawk KXMB-TV that the gunshot Saturday morning used to be an accident and that it’s unclear if a supplier or a buyer used to be to blame. One supplier nearest to the incident used to be requested to leave the pricetag. Sigh officers narrate here's the third time in 50 years of the match that a gun used to be accidentally discharged.

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Akron: A sweat-stained jersey LeBron James wore whereas taking part in excessive school basketball and all the contrivance by contrivance of his first Sports Illustrated magazine quilt shoot as a teen in 2002 is being auctioned. The online auction list says the gold mesh jersey from the NBA critical person’s days with the St. Vincent-St. Mary Preventing Irish in Akron facets inexperienced lettering with the be aware “Irish” and number 23, the identical number he’d later wear for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Goldin Auctions says James gave the jersey to its fresh proprietor, an unidentified vendor who attended the college. The auction condominium says 5% of the proceeds will scurry to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Reputation in Springfield, Massachusetts. The auction runs until Oct. 19. Early bidding reached $37,000.

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Oklahoma City: Order Licensed expert Overall Mike Hunter is warning Oklahomans that a fresh federal court ruling in Colorado doesn’t mean women people might per chance per chance also originate up going topless in public. Hunter released a commentary Monday following a fresh 10th U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals choice regarding public nudity. The federal court has jurisdiction over federal instances from Colorado, Kansas, Fresh Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming. Hunter says the ruling used to be explicit to a Colorado ordinance and doesn’t at as soon as invalidate different local and express felony guidelines. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by two women people towards Citadel Collins over a metropolis ordinance that prohibited women people from going topless in public. The case helped gas a Free the Nipple circulation that has integrated shows of public nudity.

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Portland: The Portland Police Bureau spent $15.7 million on time beyond guidelines in 2018. A story released Tuesday by the metropolis auditor concluded the bureau must enhance time beyond guidelines administration to prevent officer fatigue. The auditor talked about PPB might per chance per chance also lower the search records from for time beyond guidelines by using records and nicely timed stories, inserting limits on the interval of time beyond guidelines officers can work and taking preserve a watch on of the time officers work on contracts for so much of employers. KOIN stories that records shows one patrol officer worked a 97-hour week at one point. As nicely as to his in vogue shifts, he picked up additional shifts to quilt employees shortages, testified in court and did different time beyond guidelines work.

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Harrisburg: A tax on beer offered on the express’s breweries and brewpubs is in attain, and some are passing along the higher trace to customers. The Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette stories the employ tax of about 1.5% that began Tuesday is technically a tax on the brewer for using its accept as true with products at its industry. One brewer tells the paper the tax will quantity to a pair of dime on a $6 pint. The tax degree depends upon on multiplying a quarter of all retail gross sales by the local gross sales tax. The gross sales tax is 6% in quite a lot of the express but 7% in the Pittsburgh express and eight% in Philadelphia. That capacity the brand new tax is effectively 1.5%, 1.75% and a pair of%. A invoice surroundings the tax rate used to be enacted in June.

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Providence: The express has been awarded virtually $3.5 million in federal funding for addiction medication. The express’s congressional delegation introduced the grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Companies and products. It’s supposed to amplify the medication capacity of Medicaid providers for substance employ dysfunction medication and restoration providers and products. U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, says the funding can assist be particular that providers and products are there when valuable. Behavioral health providers will receive telemedicine providers and products and technical assistance in billing and administration. The grant can even enable the express to recruit and put collectively new providers. There had been 314 overdose deaths in Rhode Island in 2018.

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Orangeburg: Quite a lot of dozen school bus drivers refused to hunch their routes after announcing a newly consolidated school district cleave their pay without investigate cross-check. The Instances and Democrat of Orangeburg stories about 50 drivers went to the Orangeburg County Faculty District on Monday, announcing they wouldn’t work until the dispute used to be settled. The college machine canceled some routes just correct earlier than school ended Monday, leaving quite a lot of of college students stranded at school until fogeys or others might per chance per chance also possess them up. The college machine says it is now paying drivers for the accurate time they work and not the expected time to total a route. The trade came after three districts consolidated over the summer season. Bus driver Thomas Moorer says his paycheck went from no lower than $1,000 to $500.

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Box Elder: The metropolis lawyer is being paid $100,000 to resign, but government officers are not disclosing the reason. The Rapid City Journal stories the Box Elder City Council authorized the cost in July all the contrivance by contrivance of a closed session. The newspaper says it tried for weeks to win a duplicate of the separation agreement between Box Elder and previous City Licensed expert Kristi Vetri but obtained tiny bigger than assembly minutes, which don’t mumble the the explanation why Box Elder paid Vetri to resign. Vetri, who didn't acknowledge to the newspaper’s quiz of for comment, used to be Box Elder’s metropolis lawyer since April 2018.

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Nashville: The express Department of Neatly being is working to prevent the unfold of rabies by raccoons by contrivance of the distribution of vaccine packets lined with fishmeal. Per the division, the packets will be distributed by helicopter and airplane starting Thursday, by contrivance of Oct. 20. The baiting program takes space in cooperation with the U.S. Agriculture Department along Tennessee’s borders with Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. The vaccine products are safe, but the USDA Natural world Companies and products program says residents might per chance per chance also silent issue formative years to leave bait on my own. Baits also must be faraway from the effect a pet might per chance per chance also eat them. Using gloves or a towel, residents might per chance per chance also silent toss them into a wooded or fencerow express. While there is never a injure in touching undamaged baits, they've a noteworthy fishmeal scent.

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Galveston: The Texas History Heart at Rosenberg Library has begun a mission to win extinct records new yet again. The Galveston County Day-to-day Recordsdata stories archivists in leisurely September began packing up and shipping sure copies of the Galveston Tribune to the University of North Texas in Denton. There, each and each online page of the newspapers will be photographed and digitally preserved in the university’s Portal to Texas History, a free public archive that now contains bigger than 7 million Texas newspaper pages. The historical previous middle obtained a $25,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Companies and products to originate up the preservation mission, says Lauren Martino, the library’s special series supervisor. Founded in 1880, the Galveston Tribune used to be the metropolis’s afternoon newspaper until 1963, when it used to be offered and combined by The Day-to-day Recordsdata.

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Salt Lake City: Zion Nationwide Park officers narrate an endangered California condor chick has left the nest and grown wings gargantuan adequate to waft for the first time in park historical previous. The southern Utah park talked about in a social media submit closing week that a team of visitors seen the toddler condor stretch its wings and leave the nest Sept. 25. Park biologists later confirmed the sighting. The 4 1/2-month-extinct chick is Zion’s first a hit hatchling. At the least two chicks had been born on the park, but they've died earlier than they had been extinct adequate to waft. Park rangers accept as true with nicknamed the chick “1K” because its birth marked 1,000 condors hatched as share of a inhabitants restoration program. California condors are making a return in the wild three an extended time after nearing the brink of extinction.

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Burlington: A team on the University of Vermont is going to be helping the Federal Aviation Administration behold the safe operation of drones all the contrivance by contrivance of instances of catastrophe. The university introduced Monday that its Spatial Diagnosis Laboratory has joined the FAA. Spatial analysis lab director Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne says that all the contrivance by contrivance of failures, airspace might per chance per chance also additionally be crowded with drones – “from the fire division, express and federal companies, the media, even the person down the boulevard who needs to shoot a YouTube video.” So UVM will be working alongside 23 of the area’s leading research institutions and 100 industry and government partners to assist the FAA habits the research and testing mandatory to win felony guidelines that preserve the skies safe.

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Norfolk: A new narrative suggests economic exercise in the Hampton Roads plot continues to develop and can race up additional. The moral records is share of the 2019 Order of the Build Epic released Tuesday by Worn Dominion University. As soon as a year, ODU’s Strome Faculty of Industrial assesses the plot’s economic system. The expansion stems in share from increased federal spending in the defense drive-heavy plot and a persisted expansion of the coastal tourism industry. The narrative didn't paint a splendid image: Non-public-sector job creation lags the same metropolitan areas, and younger folks are making an are trying for jobs in other areas. But every other divulge is a necessary wage gap between ladies and men people. The median profits for ladies people with bachelor’s levels used to be 67.5% of that of males with the identical education degree.

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Tacoma: Federal prosecutors narrate bushes thieves had been to blame for a fireplace in Olympic Nationwide Forest closing year. An indictment unsealed Monday says Justin Wilke and Shawn Williams had been searching for to comprehend a mountainous leaf maple tree in August 2018, but it indubitably had a bees’ nest. They decided to burn the nest with gas, then tried unsuccessfully to douse the fire with their water bottles. The following blaze burned 3,300 acres of public land. Wilke used to be arrested Monday. The U.S. Licensed expert’s Order of job talked about Williams is in custody in California. The indictment talked about Wilke beforehand offered stolen maple blocks to a Tumwater mill for $13,000, falsely representing that the wood came from non-public land. The wood is prized for making instruments.

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Charleston: Order Neatly being Department records unearths hepatitis C instances in Kanawha County accept as true with soared to the very top numbers in years, months after a program offering shipshape needles used to be suspended. The Charleston Gazette-Mail stories bigger than 1,100 new persistent instances of the illness had been recorded in the express’s largest county in 2018. Native hospital director Letitia Tierney says the express is nearing a hepatitis C outbreak and a capacity HIV outbreak due to needle sharing. Officials didn’t at as soon as originate HIV numbers. The county suspended its free needle change program in March 2018 after Charleston police talked about they’d attain tighter regulations. The program had been credited with helping lower hepatitis C instances.

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Madison: A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that running a riding mower whereas inebriated carries the identical penalties as riding a vehicle whereas intoxicated. The ruling Tuesday came in the case of a northern Wisconsin man who used to be arrested for drunken riding in 2017. Police pulled Keith Shoeder over whereas he used to be running a riding mower on the streets of Rhinelander after leaving a tavern. Shoeder appealed his conviction of fourth offense drunken riding. Shoeder argued that the price must be disregarded, contending that the riding mower used to be an all-terrain vehicle and not a motorcar and that subsequently he used to be not field to the identical penalties. Nonetheless the Third District Court docket of Appeals disagreed. It upheld an Oneida County Circuit Court docket ruling announcing a riding mower is a motor – not an all-terrain – vehicle.

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Cheyenne: Officials narrate a federal Department of Veterans Affairs medical institution in the metropolis now bans smoking on its property. The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle stories the director of the Cheyenne Veterans Affairs Scientific Heart says the trade that took attain Tuesday brings it in line with the insurance policies of different VA medical facilities and clinics. The Cheyenne facility is for poke one of about 140 VA facilities nationwide instituting the ban. The reliable says some veterans and employees are not pleased in regards to the ban, and administrators are trying to accommodate them. The heart plans to present smoking close alternatives in conjunction with nicotine change patches and over-the-counter remedy. A facility nurse who works on employee health says employees searching for to quit can possess a free class to assist them.

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A weekend at Army-Navy, college football’s most heated, petty, loving family reunion

Perhaps no rivalry in college football is as historic and meaningful ... nor as polite.

PHILADELPHIA — Army-Navy is college football's best rivalry, because it's historic and petty and exceedingly polite.

The schools have an extraordinary history of mascot thefts. Army fans and cadets mercilessly make fun of Navy’s midshipmen for their lolly-gagging form during march-ons, when the student bodies enter the field and then go to their seats. Navy fans loved to lord their school’s 14-year winning streak over Army fans, until it ended in 2016.

How’s it feel to lose? “It’s like your puppy dying,” West Point class of 2014 grad Danny Little says. He came from Fairbanks, Alaska, for this game. For him, one of the best things about 2016’s streak-breaker win was that “Navy had never known a loss.”

But amid the schools’ desires to top each other is more mutual respect than in any other college football series. Army-Navy goes as hard as any game, but it’s really light on actual fighting — physical or verbal, in the parking lots or the stands.

The most audacious thing I heard anyone say during hours of Saturday tailgating was a Navy fan yelling “Shut up!” at a woman who’d yelled “Beat Navy!” toward his tailgate. Her response was a smiling “That’s very rude! That’s very rude!”

There are crowds where such an exchange would lead to charges of fan incest (Pitt-West Virginia or the Iron Bowl, maybe), NCAA violations (virtually any SEC game), and the like. You don’t get that at Army-Navy. You get something like this:

“There’s always a little battle of one-upsmanship, and whatever that might be,” says Larry Needle, the executive director of PHL Sports, the agency that brings the game to Philly. “If Army’s bringing in a big tank, then Navy wants to bring in their bigger ship.”

At Army-Navy, there are just two things that feel out of place: the forward pass and any serious trash talk.

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Philly has this down to a science now. The city has hosted 87 of the academies' 118 games against each other. Needle’s group estimates the city gets an influx of 50,000 people, who take up the majority of the nearly 70,000 seats at Lincoln Financial Field.

"They love to drink," says Jimmy Masiak, the general manager of Tavern on Broad, on Friday night, the eve of the game. "They love to drink. I think that's why they always come to Philadelphia, because we're a drinking city. And they fit right in. They were like locusts last night. They came in and just drank everything."

Masiak's bar required restocks, because an Army-Navy crowd goes through whiskey and bourbon fast; Maker's Mark and Knob Creek, largely. The people who come to town may arrive as rivals, but they're there in the same spirit.

"They're just cutting loose," says David Hall, a Navy vet whose son, Matt, used to play fullback for the Mids. "They're having a good time. They don't get that opportunity. Especially the cadets, they don't get that opportunity all the time."

Army-Navy visitors don’t amount to a full-on takeover in a city of about 1.6 million, but they give businesses a big bump from about Thursday night to Sunday. Wherever they congregate becomes a celebration of college football and common bonds.

These are often the same bars where college kids are showing up in Christmas sweaters to drink and dance to “Jenny from the Block,” while a bunch of Army parents from Massachusetts gather in a corner. Sometimes Army-Navy festivities spill out of the bars, into the streets.

An example: On Friday at 11:19 p.m., a guy sits in the passenger’s front seat of a cab at the intersection of Broad and Walnut streets, outside a Wawa. He yells to a 20-something in an Army jacket, “Nice shirt!”

The red light is just about now turning green, but the guy in the Army gear runs over: “That’s a nice ring!” he tells the guy in the cab, whose driver would very much like to move.

He examines the guy in the cab’s class ring for several seconds, then darts across the road and into the bar, yelling “Beat ‘em! Beat ‘em! Beat ‘em!”

This year’s game is extra contentious because the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, given to the team with the best record in games between these schools and Air Force, is on the line. That annual series often ends in a tie, in which case the trophy stays with the school that had it the year before. Army hasn’t won the trophy since 1996.

“Of the three, we’re not known for being good at football, so this would be huge for us to take this back and prove to everyone that we are that school who’s best at everything,” Little, an Army captain, says. “Because we’re better than Navy and Air Force at pretty much everything else, but being better than them at football’s what matters.”

The stakes are high, and yet good vibes abound.

“There’s nothing bitter,” says Chris O’Connor, a 1989 West Point grad and Army major who served 10 years. We’re talking at a tailgate the next morning, while some Black Knights play cornhole on U.S. Army boards that are covered in snow. “You look at other rivalries, and they actually get angry. Nobody gets angry at each other, and we realize that after this, you know, we’re together, and we have to kind of go out and fight this fight.

“Brothers in arms, I guess, people have called it.”

That’s the prevailing view among people who make the pilgrimage to this game. “Camaraderie” is the word that comes up most when you ask someone why they’re in Philly.

“We love them,” says Rita, a Naval vet tailgating a few hundred yards away who preferred not to give her last name. “We love the Army, because they are our sister service. But we love the Navy.”

At an Army tailgate, outside Lincoln Financial Field.

You’ll meet cool people at Army-Navy weekend. Here are some I met:

A three-generation military family from Greeley, Colorado. None of the four men had ever attended before. The grandfather is an 87-year old Navy vet, a petty officer second-class named Juils Jorgensen who joined up in 1950 and went to Korea. He’d wanted to make this game since that year, and now he was with his kid and two grandkids, who served in the Marines and the Army. “So yeah, I’ve been looking forward to this,” he said. “Matter of fact, I went to see my doctor and I says, ‘Doc, you’ve gotta keep me healthy for another year.’ He said, ‘OK.’”

Tim and Mary Flynn, a couple from La Plata, Maryland. They’re Army people, ever since Tim went to West Point and graduated in 1985. I met him at a bar and asked, “Navy fan?” because it was dark and I thought his yellow and black rugby shirt was actually yellow and blue. He was gracious, and the two of them invited me to their tailgate the next morning. They insisted I come and eat. Two of their kids are deployed now, one an Army nurse in Iraq and the other a solider in Korea. They put on a tailgate for their family, friends, and some classmates of their son, Tim, the one who’s in Korea. They said I’d fit right in.

I think this is why Army-Navy is the most respectful football game in the world, even on a day when boxed Fireball is flowing by about 7 a.m. It’s fun, and it’s a salute to the academies and service members — absolutely. But it feels like a family reunion first of all, with “family” defined broadly. Typically, nobody’s going to be mean at a family reunion.

“It’s the only football game I’ve gone to where everybody’s on the same team,” says Phil Bedard, an Army dad visiting with a group from Hopedale, Mass. “You’re up in the stands, and you could be sitting next to a Navy person, and you’re all on the same side. You’re all kind of rooting for the same thing. You want Army to win, of course, but there’s a camaraderie here that you don’t get at other events.”

The academies have homecoming weekends during the year. But this game has a very Wednesday-before-Thanksgiving feel to it.

“I mean, I can’t wait to get [inside the stadium], because I’ll run into classmates when I get in there that I haven’t seen in 10, 15 years,” O’Connor says.

Not everyone there is an Army or a Navy fan. A tricked-out Rutgers tailgating truck makes an appearance near the stadium with fans who just wanted to be there, and who had some military backgrounds among their group.

“It’s the best college football game of the year,” says David Levy, a 31-year-old Rutgers law student from Brooklyn. “It’s amazing, ‘cause even though they’re heated rivals, everybody’s pretty nice. It’s pretty calm.”

At 11:03 Saturday morning, I’m talking — tailgate-provided Yuengling in hand — with another Army dad about the triple option. We’re wondering if the snow that has blanketed Philly is going to stick on the grass at Lincoln Financial Field.

(It will. Army will win on a snow-aided missed field goal on a day when its players, in all-white uniforms, are literally camouflaged into the field.)

Mary Flynn holds up a phone of her son, Tim, FaceTiming from Korea.

Mary Flynn brings over an iPhone and introduces me to her son, Tim, who’s FaceTiming from Korea.

“Welcome,” he says.

It’s after midnight where he is, and this is the first year in many years that both he and his deployed sister, Aileena, aren’t at this event. But this is still their tailgate.

I can’t describe how intrusive I feel. This should be college football’s most exclusive game, given what you have to give up to become part of the academies or the military branches they service. But Army-Navy welcomes all. That includes writers who fans meet in bars, and even the people on the other side of the stadium — to a point.

“Everybody coming here, coming together, just being one big family even though it’s a rivalry and we want to win," says Aidan Flynn, Tim’s brother and Mary’s son. "And we desperately want to win.”

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These fleeting natural wonders are worth planning your next vacation around

The world’s most dramatic sights are all about timing.

The Vatnajökull ice caves, Iceland

Hundreds of shades of blue await you in one of nature’s most delicate, and fleeting environments; the ice cave. “It’s safe to visit the ice caves from November to March when it’s coldest outside, and they’re stable,” says Iurie Belegurschi at Iceland Photo Tours who takes groups into the ice caves within the vast Vatnajökull glacier in south east Iceland. “Most of them are formed by water running either through tunnels in the ice, or on the ground underneath the glacier.”

Source: Travel+Leisure

Sakura cherry blossom season, Japan

If a trip across Japan is on your bucket list, pencil-in springtime. Between February and March each year Japan’s treasured cherry trees bloom for just a couple of days, with hanami (cherry blossom viewing) parties held under the trees. It’s all gets very philosophical as 127 million picnicking people ponder the fleeting nature of life. Scientifically, it’s all about temperature; the blossoms begin in Kyushu in the south and sweep up the nation to Hokkaido in the north, with local TV stations carrying amusingly technical Cherry Blossom Forecasts of the ‘petal front’ (sakura zensen). Try late March in Tokyo at Shinjuku Gyoen or Ueno Park.

Source: Travel+Leisure

Red crab migration, Christmas Island

Think of the Great Migration and you’ll probably imagine herds of wildebeest and zebras crossing the Serengeti, but there’s another mass-movement of creatures that’s just as dramatic. Visit this remote island between November and December and you may witness between 40-120 million red crabs, who normally dwell in the forests, but make a beeline for the ocean at high tides to spawn. Christmas Island, which also draws tourists for its deserted beaches, hiking and game fishing, is most easily reached on a Virgin Australia flight from Perth.

Source: Travel+Leisure

Manhattanhenge, New York City

Have you taken the ultimate Manhattan sunset photo? Unless you’ve visited New York City on four specific days of the year, this Instagram favorite will remain elusive. For two days in May and two days in July, the Sun sets between skyscrapers on east-west streets, creating a perfectly composed sunset photo. The ultimate cause is the 23.5-degree tilt of the Earth’s axis in relation to its orbital path around the Sun, which makes sunrise and sunset points appear to slide back and forth across the horizon. But Manhattanhenge itself is unique because the city’s grid pattern was designed to exactly match the cardinal points, just as Stonehenge in England was built to align with the rising Sun at the summer solstice.

Source: Travel+Leisure

The Sea of Stars, The Maldives

You probably saw it in Ang Lee’s fantastical Life Of Pi movie, but blue bioluminescence is real. Some phytoplankton and algae living in the oceans produce blue light when they’re disturbed by tides or passing boats, and when they do, it’s spectacular. This marine bioluminescence — often called the Sea of Stars — is visible in many places around the world. Perhaps the most famous is Vaadhoo Island in the Raa Atoll in The Maldives, from where it’s easiest to see either side of a New Moon. Other destinations where bioluminescence can sometimes be seen include Puerto Rico’s Mosquito Bay, Leucadia north of San Diego, and Florida’s Navarre Beach.

Source: Travel+Leisure

The Fire Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

On the eastern side of El Capitan is a waterfall, Horsetail Falls, that occasionally glows bright yellow, orange and red. Caused by the Sun setting precisely in line with the Yosemite Valley for a few days in the third week of February, each sighting lasts just a couple of minutes. “You’re walking through a valley and all of a sudden a waterfall catches on fire,“ says photographer Dave Gordon. “A lot has to line up perfectly to make this exact moment happen––it’s intense to think about.” The phenomenon requires a horizon clear of cloud, and a lot of rainfall in the preceding months.

Source: Travel+Leisure

Total Solar Eclipse, Chile & Argentina

Why all the fuss about August’s Great American Eclipse? If you were in the Path of Totality and saw the stunning solar corona for a few minutes, you’ll know why the eclipse-chasing community just got much larger. Perhaps the ultimate natural experience, a Total Solar Eclipse happens when a New Moon perfectly aligns with the Sun from the perspective of a place on Earth. Being under the Moon’s shadow can take some serious forward planning, but luckily astronomers have calculated the schedules for the next 100,000 years. The next two Total Solar Eclipses are in Chile and Argentina on July 2, 2019, then December 14, 2020. The USA gets another turn on April 8, 2024.

Source: Travel+Leisure

Superbloom, southwest US

Occurring only once every few years between February and mid-March, a so-called Superbloom (botanists call it a Big Bloom) sees deserts get carpets of yellow, purple, pink and white flowers. “You can walk for miles through knee to waist deep Desert Gold sunflowers,” says Ed Madej, a retired geographer, botanist and volunteer researcher in Death Valley National Park, about 2016’s superbloom. “Three months prior it had been bare soil with scattered rocks.” Previous mass-flowering of flowers occurred in 1998 and 2005, and on average a superbloom happens every 11 years. Mojave Desert in California, the Colorado Desert subregion of the Sonoran Desert in California and Arizona, and the northern Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico are where to keep an eye on.

Source: Travel+Leisure

The Neverending Storm, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

This one’s hard to miss if you make the journey. Though the very best time to go is the rainy season in October and November, some unusual meteorological conditions mean that Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela stages 10-hour lightning storms on about 300 days every year. “Sometimes you have lighting in each direction and find yourself in the middle of a whole armada of storms that last well after sunrise,” says photographer Jonas Piontek, The Lightning & Landscape Dude, who specializes in lightning shots. “You are isolated from everyone and nature puts on one of her best shows.” The best observation spot is Catatumbo Camp.

Source: Travel+Leisure

Northern Lights, Arctic Circle

The aurora occur because electrically charged particles from the Sun’s corona are constantly smashing into the Earth’s magnetic field and exciting oxygen particles. They get funneled into a constant, but shifting oval around both poles. In the north they’re visible most nights between September to April from between 65°N and 75°N magnetic latitudes (Alaska, Northern Canada and Scandinavia), but that’s only because true darkness at those latitudes becomes elusive in summer. Waiting for clear skies is the real problem, so plan a trip of at least a week. The jet-stream makes Iceland is by far the warmest place in the Arctic Circle, and among the easiest to fly to direct.

Source: Travel+Leisure

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16 Ridiculous ‘Facts’ About Animals You Should Truly Stop Reciting

Who hasn’t shared an amazing science fact about sharks, felines, bats, ostriches, or other swine, simply to tone embarrassed later on when you find out the information was incorrect?

No more.

It’s time to put an end to such superstitions, misconceptions, and mistakes about animals passed down through the ages.

To help the cause we’ve rounded up and corrected dozens of the most popular stories we maintain hearing repeated.

Have any favorites we missed? Communicate them to science @techinsider. io.

Kevin Loria, Lauren Friedman, Kelly Dickerson, Jennifer Welsh, and Sarah Kramercontributed to this post. Robert Ferris contributed to a previous version .

MYTH: There are glitches in your strawberry Frappuccino .

Ron Cogswell/ Flickr( CC BY 2.0 )

This one is no longer true.

Before April 2012, Starbucks’ strawberry Frappucino contained a pigment made from the ground-up bodies of thousands of tiny insects, announced cochineal glitches( or Dactylopius coccus ).

Farmers in South and Central America make a living harvesting and crushing the faults that go into the colour. Their crushed forms induce a deep red ink that is used as a natural food coloring, which was “called cochineal” crimson but is now called “carmine color.”

Starbucks stopped using carmine color in their strawberry Frappucinos in 2012. But the color is still used in thousands of other food products from Nerds sugars to grapefruit juice. Not to mention cosmetics, like lovely tints of ruby-red lipstick.

Roots: Business Insider, CHR Hansen, AmericanSweets.co.uk, FoodFacts.com, LA Times

MYTH: Beaver butt secretions are in your vanilla ice cream .

Via Flickr

You’ve likely heard that a secretion called castoreum, isolated from the anal gland of a beaver, applies in flavorings and perfumes.

But castoreum is so expensive, at up to $70 per pound of anal gland( the cost to humanely milk castoreum froma beaveris likely evenhigher ), that it’s unlikely to show up in anything you eat.

In 2011, the Vegetarian Resource Group wrote to five main companionships that develop vanilla flavouring and would like to know whether “theyre using” castoreum. The reaction: According to the Federal Code of Regulations, they can’t.( The FDA highly regulates what goes into vanilla flavoring and extracts .)

It’s evenly unlikely you’ll find castoreum in mass-marketed goods, either.

Sources: Business Insider, Vegetarian Resource Group, FDA, NY Trappers Forum

MYTH: Puppies and cats are colorblind .

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Dogs and “cat-o-nine-tails” have much better color imagethan we thought.

Both puppies and felines can see in blue and light-green, and they also have more poles the light-sensing cells in the eye than humen do, so they can see better in low-light situations.

This myth possibly comes about because service animals recognizes complexions differently than humans.

Reds and pinks may appear more light-green to cats, while violet may look like another tint of blue-blooded. Hounds, meanwhile, have fewer cones the color-sensing cadres in the eye so scientists estimated that their emblazon vision is only about 1/7 th as vibrant as ours.

Sources: Today I Observed Out, Business Insider

MYTH: Lemmings jump off cliffs in mass suicides .

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Lemmings do not dedicate mass suicide.

During their migrations they sometimes do are falling cliffs, or if they walk into an area they are unfamiliar with.

No one knows exactly when the superstition started, but a 1958 Disney video called “White Wilderness, “which triumphed an Oscar for best documentary aspect, has developed over the years as the likeliest believe but the “documentary” was faked.

Source: Tech Insider, Alaska Department Of Fish And Game

MYTH: Sharks don’t get cancer .

Back in 2013, researchers reported a huge tumor thriving out of the mouth of a great lily-white shark, and the other on the head of a bronze whaler shark.

And those aren’t the only cases of shark cancers. Other scientists have reported tumors in dozens of various types of shark species.

Wendell Reed/ Flickr

The myth that sharks don’t get cancer generated by I. William Lane to sell shark cartilage as a cancer treatment.

Generators: Journal Of Cancer Research, LiveScience

MYTH: Ostriches hide by putting their thoughts in the sand

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Ostriches do not put their psyches in the sand when threatened. In information, they don’t inter their headings at all.

When warned, ostriches sometimes flop on the sand and play dead.

Source: San Diego Zoo

MYTH: Parties get warts from frogs and frogs .

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Frogs or toads won’t give you warts, but shaking hands with a person who is warts can.

The human papillomavirus is what gives people warts, and it is unique to humans.

Source: WebMD

MYTH: This fossil is called a Brontosaurus .

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Many beings would call this dinosaur a Brontosaurus even Michael Crichton did in “Jurassic Park.”

It is actually called the Apatosaurus. The story developed some 130 years ago during a brawl between two paleontologists.

Source: NPR

MYTH: Sharks can reek a plummet of blood from miles away .

This one is a big exaggeration. Jaws is not coming for you from across the ocean if you bleed in the water.

Shark have a highly increased brain part for reeking odors, letting some of fishing operations to detect as little as one place blood per 10 billion parts sea approximately a drop in an Olympic-size swimming pool.

But it the ocean is much, much, very big and it takes awhile for odor molecules to stray. On a very good day when the present are favorable, a shark can reek its target from a few football fields away not miles.

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Source: American Museum of Natural History

MYTH: Bats are daze .

DeeAnn Reeder/ Bucknell University

Being “blind as a bat” signifies not being daze at all.

While many application echolocation to steer, all of them can see.

Source: USA Today

MYTH: Goldfish can’t remember anything for longer than two seconds .

Flickr user riviera2 008

Goldfish actually have pretty good memories.

They can remember occasions for months , not seconds like numerous people say.

Source: ABC News

MYTH: Giraffes sleep for only 30 minutes per day .

Wikimedia Commons

Giraffes have fairly typical slumber patterns.

To debunk this one, researchers closely monitored a herd of five adult and three young giraffes for 152 periods, counting all of their siestums and deep sleeps.

The swine normally slept overnight and siesta in the afternoon( voice familiar ?).

In total, each giraffe slept about 4.6 hours every day.

Source: European Sleep Research Society

MYTH: Sharks die if they are no longer swimming .

You often hear sharks can breathe only when swimming pushes irrigate over their gills.

That’s true of some sharks, but many others like bottom-dwelling nurse sharks can pump oxygen-rich liquid over their gills without swimming.

All sharks scarcity swim bladders, however, so if they stop float they will sink to the bottom. Fortunately a shark’s torso is incompressible and rapid swoops or ascendings don’t harm them.

Elias Levy/ Flickr

Source: American Museum of Natural History

MYTH: Poinsettias contain deadly poison .

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Poinsettias won’t kill you or your pets, though you still shouldn’t eat them.

The blooms might realise you a bit sick with some gastrointestinal issues.

Source: The New York Botanical Garden

MYTH: Humen went HIV because someone had sex with a monkey .

flickr user: kvn.jns

HIV probably didn’t jump to humen through human-monkey sex.

It probably climbed to humans through chase of monkeys for bushmeat nutrient, which gave rise to blood-to-blood contact.

Source: Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives In Medicine

MYTH: Humen progressed from chimpanzees .

Alain Houle/ BMC Ecology Image Competition

Chimps and humen share uncanny similarities , not the least of which is our DNA about 98.8% is identical.

However, progression productions by incremental genetic changes contributing up through many, numerous generations. Chimps and humans did share a common ancestor between 6 and 8 million years ago but a lot has changed since then.

Modern chimps evolved into a separate( though close) diverge of the ape family tree.

Roots: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, American Museum of Natural History

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Academy of Art University 20th Stellar Debut at NYFW

If you had a front row seat at the New York Fashion Week, first you would probably be excited to see the grand names in the likes of Ralph Lauren, Marchesa and Vera Wang. Then your expectation, curiosity and enthusiasm with a hint of welcomed uneasiness, would probably turn to the new generation of fashion. Because maybe, out of all people, one day you too can tell stories about first witnessing a glimpse of an emerging fashion icon. In the spirit of academics and innovation anyone could be that [new fashion icon].

Fashion shows, especially at the Academy of Art University, bring together not just 13 students but a well-formed team of future designers. Their fashion platform is made out of textile, fashion, jewelry, knitwear and menswear majors. These graduate students share a passion of crafts(wo)man in the making. Their goal isn’t only to pass a runway exam, but place in perspective their niche as part of a greater picture. And what better place to do that than at the New York Fashion Week!

While one can write an entire story about each one of these talents, one designer – at least to the common eye – stood out in the student show and throughout the fashion week. Ben Ellis, Bachelor of Fine Arts Menswear Design, capturing images of beautiful but struggling creatures of his native Anchorage, Alaska brought to our attention unique design, perspective and an alarming growing rate of environmental deterioration. His inspiration are French artists Andre Derain, Henri Matisse and Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. And his tools repurposed denim and jersey. It is the combination between design and sustainable responsibility what raises the bar in this collection and its seamless, pleasant, presentation of it.

A large snake wraps around the collar of a sleeveless baggy shirt. The tail of a reptile matches the glaciers of our generation. A wolf, lynx and bear’s piercing eyes stare straight into ours – their species embedded large onto Ellis’ mens dress and vest. Dancing dolphins play comfortably on a large sleeve shirt and skirt but amidst hues of pollution in the corners of its seams. The beautiful and exciting element of turbulent dark blue waves repeats. Ellis creativity places a love of nature in a real life setting, where it’s supposed to be anyways, almost as a call to action.

Ironically his designs portray deterioration and pollution. However, some of the patterns in the fabrics could be easily mistaken with a sky full of constellations. Perhaps that very sky mirrors our nature and [emotional] attachment to it.

Amidst all the talk of pollution in his designs, Ellis was a breath of fresh air. The audience, among them 2016 Miss USA Deshauna Barber and 2015 Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach in one place, enjoyed a designer that combined a unique heritage, experience and creative process. The abstract layers were just a platform for his creatures to sit on. It seems that in the 21st century we are craving for our apparel to come out alive. Ellis’ vision matches his generation’s mission.

Eleven years ago in 2005, the Academy of Art University debuted its first show. Today the university represents a large international student body, mostly from Asia, but also local such as Alaska, Utah and Indiana. “This season each designer holds a unique and thoughtful vision,” said Simon Ungless, Executive Director of the School of Fashion. “The collections honor the essence of our industry and carry a conscientious connection to textiles, three-dimensional design, tailoring, and construction techniques. It has been a pleasure for us to guide them into preserving their individuality and integrity.”

After the show Ellis shared his emotions and that of his peers. “[I feel] High, alive, tired, grateful, humbled – and ready.’’

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Your views: why it’s going wrong for the Hawks

IN THE wake of consecutive 86-point thumpings, we asked for your take on why it’s going so badly, so quickly for the Hawks.

One thing clear is that many Hawk fans are keeping faith in Alastair Clarkson’s team to revive its fortunes.

Over 40 per cent of Hawthorn supporters say the side’s current form is a blip.

However, opposition supporters are emphatically writing the Hawks off. Over 80 per cent say the Hawks’ 0-4 record and dismal percentage simply reflects where the club is at.

Here’s a selection of your views on the plight of one of modern footy’s champion teams.

Why is it going so badly for the Hawks right now?

All reigns end

The system is designed so no one team can dominate for an extended period of time. They have done a brilliant job, but all reigns end. Just ask the Brisbane Lions.

– Rob Fergus, Brisbane Qld

• Hawks crash ‘inevitable’ says departed champ Jordan Lewis

‘The worst trade period in the club’s history’

You do not give up your two best players (according to club best-and-fairest results) for nothing. No club in history has ever done that, no business in the world would’ve made that deal.

Clarkson said on numerous occasions that age doesn’t matter, only form. Then why push out two legends? Disgraceful. And now club morale is suffering.

– Shaun Grant, Los Angeles USA

Broken promises

Many of the Hawks’ mid-range players (Breust, Smith, Sheils) took pay cuts to stay at the club during the premiership years. They were promised they would be looked after when the club could afford to. Rather than reward this loyalty, they bring in Mitchell, O’Meara and Vickery on big dollars.

This, along with trading club champions, has hurt their culture. Many of the Hawk stalwarts are as a consequence just going through the motions at present.

– Nicholas Oddy, Burwood Vic

Elite individuals are the backbone of a club

Hawthorn have traded their two best players, and another talented player in Bradley Hill. If Geelong were to trade Selwood, Dangerfield and Motlop, there would be more chance of politicians taking a pay cut then the Cats making finals.

Elite individuals are the backbone of a club. In 2014 the Suns were on the cusp of making finals before Ablett got injured. They struggled to win a game without him.

Fremantle in 2015 were minor premiers. In 2016 they had early injuries to their two biggest names in Fyfe and Sandilands and were lucky not to finish with the wooden spoon.

Hawthorn cannot replace Mitchell and Lewis and it will take time for new players to jell. Ageing stars getting close to retirement, no depth in their list and no early draft picks means a steep decline and long and cumbersome rebuild.

– Phillip Thornber, Thurgoona NSW

• The Stats Files: Can Sam Mitchell complete a Brownlow full house?

They rely on precision kicking and they’ve recruited handballers

Once a dominant kicking side, they’ve recruited Mitchell and O’Meara who rarely use the ball by foot. They never relied upon the inside battle as they could beat opponents on the outside with precision passing.

They would have been better suited going after midfield speed and quality users by foot.

– Daniel McCann, Adelaide SA

Handball-happy recruits Tom Mitchell (centre) and Jaeger O’Meara (left). Picture: AFL Photos

‘The young brigade is showing very little heart’

The fact that the team didn’t fire up when Geelong were taking shots at Hodge, a three-time premiership captain and legend of the club, spoke volumes. Hodge displayed what had made Hawthorn a feared side and his teammates looked on like passengers.

– Jordan Prideaux, Melbourne Vic

• The Hawks have lost hope, says club legend Lethal

Unfair compensation for free agents

Little access to high draft picks has been coupled with unfair compensation for players leaving through free agency.

The Hawks’ contemporaries in Geelong have been ‘given’ more from the system, for example two first-round compensation picks for Ablett. Sydney had access to Heeney and Mills from their Academy – players they otherwise would not have got.

Hawthorn’s compensation picks for Franklin, Suckling and others have been a joke. At the time no one cared as the Hawks were winning flags.

– Shamus Lynch, Cheltenham Vic

Eagles beware

The Hawks have too many ageing players who aren’t able to match the pace and four-quarter performances of younger teams.

They have for years relied on their players being first to the ball, and winning the contested ball. This isn’t happening and they are now having to chase the opposition. This isn’t a game the Hawk players have  been used to playing.

Trading out Mitchell and Lewis may not have been such a good idea, but reducing their older list had to happen. West Coast will suffer a similar dip in a few years. Last year they recruited Mitchell, Petrie, Vardy – older players with a very limited ‘life’. This will see them also suffer a lack of youth coming through in a couple of seasons.

– Andrew Poole, Salter Point WA

What needs to happen for the Hawks to return to winning ways this season?

Take the Tiger path

It isn’t an overnight solve for the Hawks. Getting game time into the likes of James Sicily is the right step forward. They still have the top-end talent to win games this year, with Burgoyne, Hodge, Rioli, Roughead, etc still capable of getting them over the line.

But they won’t make finals. They would be well served to go down a similar path to Richmond, bringing in exciting pacey players like the Tigers’ Rioli and Castagna.

– Jack Boronovskis, Richmond Vic

Time up for Josh Gibson

As good as Gibson has been, it’s time to go. Put Hodgey back into that sweeping role to replace Gibson and provide direction and rebound out of defence, and get Birchall back in ASAP!

Now is time to throw caution to the wind. Getting thumped by 86 points two weeks in a row with a defensive mindset clearly isn’t the answer. Let’s put Gunston back in the goal square, Roughy at half-forward and Cyril and Poppy crumbing in opposite pockets.

Put the pressure back on the opposition to try and stop us!

The depth of talent is still there and the age of the talent is still in the window to deliver results.

– Jeff Bennett, Perth WA

• Here’s why fixing ‘Flawthorn’ is going to take some time

‘A win or two will grow confidence’

There is some respect in the bank for premiership players and good servants but perhaps an injection of youth and speed might arrest the slump. Finals would not be on the radar this year. Remember that Geelong missed the 2015 finals after forcing the retirements of, or trading senior premiership players.

 – Michael Byrnes, Deception Bay Qld

Acknowledge the club stuffed up the trade period

Clarko needs to formulate a game plan that capitalises on the strengths of the current squad, which at least for the moment has lost the skill of precision kicking.

Part of the weekly training needs to be team building exercises – the boys just aren’t jelling anymore.

It would help to drop a few big names down to the twos- Gibson for starters.

Finally, I would hate for anything to be done publicly to undermine the confidence of O’Meara or Tom Mitchell, but there should be some acknowledgement to the fans and the players that the club stuffed up the trade period.

Patrick Swayne, Anchorage, Alaska USA

‘Be ruthless with older players who aren’t playing with speed anymore’

They have been clearly run off the park in all the games so far this season.

Be looking to blood young players, and give freedom to midfielders to take risks when moving the ball forward.

Increasing the pressure in the contest is going to be needed too, as they haven’t won a contested possession count since middle of last season, which is a problem that needs to be addressed in the immediate future if they want to be competitive for the remainder of the season.

– Alex Davies, Adelaide SA

Look to the Dockers

For Hawthorn to have any chance of playing competitive football, they need to follow the example set by Fremantle over the last fortnight, and play their young players.

While the youth at Hawthorn certainly doesn’t match that at Fremantle, developing players for the future must be a priority for a side that is quite clearly bottom four based on current form. In adding speed and youth to their line-up in the form of Griffin Logue, Harley Balic, Ethan Hughes, and Brady Grey, the Dockers managed to knock off the reigning premiers and defeat the Demons in Melbourne.

Despite lacking high picks, Hawthorn still have plenty of options with Dallas Willsmore, Kade Stewart andMarc Pittonet [starring in the VFL] and Jonathan O’Rourke, Teia Miles and the rookie listed James Cousins also putting in reasonable performances.

Injecting these players into the senior side is looking like the only way to add the much-needed spark into a flat side, while also serving the purpose of developing young talent for future years.

– Patrick Moran, Vic

Turning to youth has helped resurrect Freo’s 2017 fortunes. Picture: AFL Photos

We may as well sacrifice this season

If I’m honest nothing can get us back to winning ways this season. But if we want a brighter future we need to get time into the youth. Even Irishmen like Glass and Nash should be given plenty of game time this season. Our season is going to be bad no matter what, but at least we can use it as a stepping stone.

And one thing youth can guarantee is enthusiasm. We’ve seen it with Fremantle so why not with us? Sure, the young guys weren’t taken at the top of the draft, but they are the future of our club. We may as well sacrifice this season because we are not a finals team anymore.

– Oscar Wills, Canberra ACT

All is not lost

Without question, hitting their targets has dropped off considerably. But if you look at our matches so far, anybody would have lost to Essendon in round one; Adelaide; an extremely fired up Gold Coast; and then a blockbuster match where we were in it for three quarters.

Compare that with Richmond’s four easy games against Carlton, a Collingwood who couldn’t kick straight, West Coast at the ‘G, and Brisbane.

It’s a long season and it will average out at the end.

– Jeff Whitty, Hobart Tas

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On this week’s podcast the boys discuss:

• Should the Hawks trade Jack Gunston, and what could they get for him?

• Could Hawthorn’s first round pick propel St Kilda to a flag tilt in 2018?

• What is Adelaide’s one weakness?

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