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A view of Lake Te Anau as we left the glow worm caves in a fast ferry boat. No photos allowed inside the caves but it was like looking up at a starry sky just a short distance from our faces in pitch black darkness. Our guide was silently pulling our small boat through the darkness somehow avoiding the walls of the cave and the other boat we knew went out into the cave lake before us.
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U. of Florida axes DEI office under GOP-led law aimed at ridding similar programs
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Florida Senate passes bill blocking local rules protecting workers from heat
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Florida Set to Ban Homeless From Sleeping on Public Property
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75 Percent of Animal Species to be Wiped Out in ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’
Under the most conservative estimate possible, development, disappearing habitats and climate change will exterminate animal species within just three human lifetimes, a new study finds.
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION
Commentary by Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson
So now it’s official.
This is the age of the Anthropocene.
The Sixth Extinction.
Finally the Scientific Community has recognized officially what they have known for decades.
We’re all responsible. If you have a birth Certificate you’re guilty. We’re all hypocrites by varying degrees of complicity.
The question is; what the hell are we going to do about it?
The choices are to continue to ignore reality as we continue to amuse ourselves or actually get down and dirty to do something about it.
There are only two kinds of humans on this planet. The Anthropocentrics that believe this world was created solely for humanity to be used in any way we desire, that we are the only species that counts, and whose guiding instincts are selfishness, arrogance and an amazing ignorance of the laws of ecology.
And there are the biocentrics that understand that we are a part of nature, that we need and that we are interdependent with all other species, that we are not superior to them and that we are subject to the laws of ecology.
We biocentrics are the minority but we are the only hope for the future because if we are going to survive as a species, we will only be able to do so if biodiversity itself survives.
The diminishment of biodiversity diminishes humanity.
If the Forests die, we die!
If the bees die, we die!
If the Ocean dies, we die.
If we compare ecology to a baseball game, the situation is this.
It’s the 9th inning and humanity has just played their last play. The score is tied. Nature is up to bat now and their bases are loaded and Nature’s equivalent of Babe Ruth has just stepped up to the plate.
It does not look good.
But then again miracles can happen.
More info :
www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/06/19/75-percent...
The Parmageddon at Lakewood, Ohio's Melt Bar and Grilled.
This monster of a sandwich is loaded with potato & cheese pierogies, grilled onions, and slabs of cheddar cheese sandwiched between two huge slices of bread. It's served with freshly-made napa vodka kraut and a huge serving of fries.
The Parmageddon thrust Melt into national notoriety when it was featured in Esquire's "The Best Sandwiches in America". (© David Lay/The Lakewood Observer)
"Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday reiterated his opposition to taking in asylum seekers from the destroyed Moria refugee camp in Greece, prompting criticism from his government coalition partner the Greens and from the opposition.
The fires at Europe's largest refugee centre, which left more than 12,000 people without shelter, have returned the spotlight to issue of refugees and migrants coming to the European Union, which has struggled to find a response.
Germany and France have agreed to take in nearly 400 minors who have been moved from the island of Lesbos to the Greek mainland, but other EU countries including Austria, Poland and Hungary oppose any such support.
In a video www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY0oxksRNOI posted on YouTube, Kurz compared the Moria situation with the summer of 2015 when many asylum seekers tried to reach rich western European countries via the so-called Balkan route.
He said the "terrible pictures at the train station in Budapest" led to European politicians giving in to the pressure and opening borders.
"If we give in to the pressure now, we risk making the same mistakes we made in 2015. We risk giving people false hopes," Kurz said, adding that he would promote a "holistic approach" at European level. "What it does not need is symbolic politics," he added.
Kurz's Green Vice-Chancellor Werner Kogler, who favours taking in Moria migrants, said more and more people - local communities, members of Kurz's conservative party, religious organisations and NGOs - supported such an initiative.
Kogler made the remarks in an interview with ORF radio that was aired on Saturday but was recorded before Kurz's video was published. He had nothing to add, a spokeswoman said afterwards.
The head of the Social Democrats, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, said on Twitter that "saving life is never symbolic policy".
The country's Catholic Bishops Conference urged the government to take in a "fair contingent of refugees" and said in a statement the church was ready to accommodate a number of them.
In Lesbos, police fired teargas on Saturday during a protest by angry inhabitants of the destroyed camp, who demanded to leave Lesbos as authorities started building a new encampment for them."
www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-09-12/austrias-ku...
"Luxemburgs Außenminister Jean Asselborn macht Bundeskanzler Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) persönlich für das Scheitern der europäischen Flüchtlingspolitik verantwortlich. "Für mich heißt der Missetäter Sebastian Kurz. Er hat diese erbärmliche Situation als Allererster zu verantworten", sagte Asselborn dem deutschen Magazin "Der Spiegel". "Ganz Europa ging Kurz' Gerede auf dem Leim, man müsse nur die Grenzen schließen, damit sich das Flüchtlingsproblem erledige", kritisierte Asselborn. Zudem habe Österreich "ausgerechnet, als es die EU-Ratspräsidentschaft innehatte", den UNO-Migrationspakt abgelehnt."
www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/europa/2074735-M...
Former President Bill Clinton addressed a nearly filled-to-capacity crowd at Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio. (© David Lay/The Lakewood Observer)
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Lakewood Police Chief Tim Malley responds to a public comment at the City Council Meeting. (Photo by David Lay)
Joe Biden makes a landing in the Air Force, pictured to the right of the LAX Theme Building, at LAX on Wednesday 1:35pm. The northern side of LAX is put on complete lockdown. It is the democratic administration's first full visit to Los Angeles and their first time landing at LAX.
"The General Sherman Tree is the world's largest tree, measured by volume. It stands 275 feet (83 m) tall, and is over 36 feet (11 m) in diameter at the base. Sequoia trunks remain wide high up. Sixty feet above the base, the Sherman Tree is 17.5 feet (5.3 m) in diameter." www.nps.gov
"Home to some of the tallest trees in the world, Sequoia National Park is a humbling place to visit. With the magnificent trees towering hundreds of feet above you, it's easy to feel small in comparison. Located about 80 miles east of Fresno, California, in the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range, the park was established in 1890 as a measure to protect the giant trees from being logged, making it America's second national park. The adjacent Kings Canyon National Park was formed in 1940 and eventually, both parks became linked together." travel.usnews.com
Not sure whose gear this is but it's been sitting in this same spot for at least a week.
I'm sure with all the people who've walked by or worked near this stuff left behind someone surely would have looked into it. It was covered by the green tarp to the right at some point.. Note the three cigarette butts under the bench. They left themselves there.
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News from Kentucky:
A whole zip code devastated.' | Tornado victim search ends as more severe weather looms - www.whas11.com/article/news/local/kentucky-tornado-victim...
On his fourth-ever shift, officer responded to shooting at Louisville bank: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/on-his-fourth-ever-shift-office...
Who is Louisville rookie Officer Nickolas Wilt?
www.newsnationnow.com/crime/louisville-old-bank-shooting/...
Five People Died in the Kentucky Shooting. The Full Toll Is Much Higher.: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/families-of-mas...
Louisville mass shooting suspect's brain will be tested for CTE, family spokesperson says : abcnews.go.com/US/louisville-mass-shooting-suspects-brain...
3 Kentucky officers killed, several hurt by gunman who opened fire at his home: abcnews.go.com/US/kentucky-officers-killed-hurt-gunman-op...
Kentucky officials call for critical recovery supplies as dozens are found dead in flooding and death toll is expected to rise - www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/weather/kentucky-appalachia-floodi...
In one Kentucky town, many tornado survivors are left with just the clothes on their backs (2021):
www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/weather/kentucky-tornadoes-storms-...
Massive gas explosion rocks central Kentucky town, 1 killed - www.wlky.com/article/massive-gas-explosion-rocks-central-...
Cincinnati shooting: What is Fifth Third Bank? - www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2018/09/06/what-do-we-know...
Police release image of truck in hit-and-run that killed bicyclist on Westport Road - www.wdrb.com/story/39014908/police-release-image-of-truck...
Louisville-area fire departments burned by staffing shortage - www.wdrb.com/story/39032636/louisville-area-fire-departme...
Louisville Metro Corrections officers injured during weekend assaults - www.wdrb.com/story/39011560/louisville-metro-corrections-...
IRS TO AUDIT UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION - wcluradio.com/irs-to-audit-university-of-louisville-found...
Louisville man arrested for intentionally crashing moped and setting himself on fire - www.wlky.com/article/louisville-man-arrested-for-intentio...
Police search for white truck in hit-and-run that killed cyclist on Westport Road - www.wdrb.com/story/38991931/cyclist-killed-in-hit-and-run...
New law brings changes for child marriage in Kentucky - www.wave3.com/news/local/spencer-county/
JCPS bus involved in crash, 4 students injured - www.wave3.com/story/38984309/jcps-bus-involved-in-crash-4...
Motorcyclist dies after crash with SUV on Bardstown Road - www.wdrb.com/story/38986373/motorcyclist-dies-after-crash...
POLICE: Man pulled gun, zip-tied Louisville child and raped her - www.wdrb.com/story/38985328/police-man-pulled-gun-zip-tie...
Man shot and killed near University of Louisville campus - www.wdrb.com/story/38960968/man-shot-and-killed-near-univ...
1 dead, 1 seriously injured after vehicle strikes pol - www.wlky.com/article/1-dead-1-seriously-injured-after-veh...
Elevators not working at senior high rise; ambulance company hired to help residents floor to floor - www.wave3.com/story/38939239/elevators-not-working-at-sen...
Tow truck driver hit on the job now fighting for his life - www.wave3.com/story/38952108/tow-truck-driver-hit-on-the-...
Amish Man Killed In Lincoln Co. Crash; Woman Charged With DUI - www.lex18.com/story/38939234/amish-man-killed-in-buggy-cr...
Semi hauling 40,000 gallons of liquor crashes in Shelby Co; road closed - www.wave3.com/story/38943150/semi-hauling-40000-gallons-o...
Man charged with rape of child - www.wave3.com/story/38947765/man-charged-with-rape-of-child
2.3 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Western Kentucky - www.lex18.com/story/38948952/23-magnitude-earthquake-hits...
One dead in crash on eastbound I-264 near Bardstown Road -
www.wdrb.com/story/38947534/one-dead-in-crash-on-eastboun...
Police tip leads to gruesome discovery behind Kentucky home - www.cbsnews.com/news/police-tip-leads-to-gruesome-discove...
Paducah City Commission Seeks Security of Neighborhood Following Inmate Escape - www.wkms.org/post/paducah-city-commission-seeks-security-...
Families torn despite charge in 2017 double murder - www.wave3.com/story/38939665/man-charged-in-murder-of-man...
Bardstown Police investigating storage unit break-ins - www.whas11.com/article/news/crime/bardstown-police-invest...
Southbound lanes of I-71 open after fatal crash - www.whas11.com/article/news/local/southbound-lanes-of-i-7...
Joyride ends with crash into Louisville church - www.whas11.com/video/news/joyride-ends-with-crash-into-lo...
Elevators at 15-story senior housing building out of order - www.wave3.com/story/38939239/elevators-at-senior-housing-...
Traffic Alert: Part of Bluegrass Parkway shut down due to I-64 E crash - www.wave3.com/story/38757256/traffic-alert-part-of-bluegr...
Carroll Co man facing several child sexual exploitation charges - www.wave3.com/story/38757403/carroll-co-man-facing-severa...
Police arrest boyfriend of woman found dead in sanitation truck in Taylor Berry neighborhood - www.wdrb.com/story/38752141/police-arrest-boyfriend-of-wo...
Man accused of pointing gun at Fairdale Fire chief claims he was 'dancing' - www.wdrb.com/story/38739888/louisville-man-accused-of-poi...
Man killed in fiery Gene Snyder crash identified - www.wave3.com/story/38602806/man-killed-in-fiery-gene-sny...
Louisville Fire trying to recover $600,000 rescue boat sunk in Ohio River - www.wdrb.com/story/38728744/louisville-fire-trying-to-rec...
Sewer line cave-in closes portion of East Broadway in downtown Louisville - www.wdrb.com/story/38701966/sewer-line-cave-in-closes-por...
Lexington emergency management offers medical assistance to those without electricity - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Lexington-emergency-management-...
Van carrying family of 12 overturns on I-64 in Franklin County - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Van-carrying-12-rolls-on-I-64-i...
UPDATE | KU: Some may remain without power until Tuesday - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Thousands-remain-without-power-...
Sunday Edition | Louisville’s newest landlord: Wall Street - www.wdrb.com/story/38695009/sunday-edition-louisvilles-ne...
Belski's Blog - Worst hailstorm in Louisville since 2012 - www.wave3.com/story/38699957/storm-impact-is-one-of-the-b...
Consumer vs Crook: Avoiding repair scams after a natural disaster - www.wave3.com/story/38700790/consumer-vs-crook-avoiding-r...
Storm impact is one of the biggest LG&E has worked, PRP neighbors “stranded” for most of the day - www.wave3.com/story/38699957/storm-impact-is-one-of-the-b...
Ford recalls 550,000 vehicles, including some Louisville-made Escapes - www.whas11.com/article/news/local/ford-recalls-550000-veh...
Louisville mother found passed out in car with baby in the backseat - www.wave3.com/story/38688793/louisville-mother-found-pass...
LMPD investigating stolen Jeep and vehicle break-ins at Louisville hospital - www.wdrb.com/story/38687472/lmpd-investigating-stolen-jee...
Motorcyclist hit and killed on Preston Highway - www.wdrb.com/story/38689264/motorcyclist-hit-and-killed-o...
Commercial building catches fire in east Louisville - www.wave3.com/story/38676866/commercial-building-catches-...
Arrest made in connection to deadly hit-and-run off Shelbyville Road - www.wave3.com/story/38676293/arrest-made-in-connection-to...
Louisville mom arrested after child found in car 'soaking wet' and crying - www.wdrb.com/story/38673145/louisville-mom-arrested-after...
Police: Woman found in wooded area off Shelbyville Road killed in hit and run - www.wave3.com/story/38612156/womans-body-found-in-wooded-...
Police investigating fatal shooting near Fern Creek - www.wdrb.com/story/38602367/police-investigating-shooting...
Crews respond to deadly crash on Gene Snyder - www.wave3.com/story/38602806/crews-respond-to-deadly-cras...
Louisville's 'gnome bandit' arrested at Georgia campground - www.wdrb.com/story/38605353/louisvilles-gnome-bandit-arre...
So. Indiana man arrested in Mother's Day crash that killed Louisville man - www.wave3.com/story/38602708/so-indiana-man-arrested-in-m...
Louisville woman nearly drowns while swimming at southern Indiana lake - www.wdrb.com/story/38591006/louisville-woman-nearly-drown...
Man Arrested After Texting Former Sheriff About Meeting For Drug Deal - wkms.org/post/man-arrested-after-texting-former-sheriff-a...
Bevin Administration Ordered To Pay For Withholding Records - wkms.org/post/bevin-administration-ordered-pay-withholdin...
Former WWE superstar from Louisville dies after second battle with brain cancer -
www.wdrb.com/story/38544798/former-wwe-superstar-from-lou...
LMDC inmate found unresponsive, dies - www.wave3.com/story/38542372/lmdc-inmate-found-unresponsi...
Bomb threat reported at Louisville Free Public Library - www.wave3.com/story/38542018/bomb-threat-reported-at-loui...
Louisville man arrested after child found in home with drugs, animal feces - www.wdrb.com/story/38510518/louisville-man-arrested-after...
Jesse Schott: Bullitt County teen loses courageous battle with brain cancer - www.wave3.com/story/38512404/jesse-schott-bullitt-county-...
Teacher snorting drugs in class, coach's arrest, student suicides prompt petition - www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article212727454.html
Attorney sues to stay in judge race rocked by death of Danny Alvarez - www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/31/da...
JCPS principal reassigned following independent review - www.wave3.com/story/38691681/jcps-principal-reassigned-fo...
Facing an Uncomfortable Truth: Documentary uncovers the history of African-American Catholics - www.wave3.com/story/38495332/facing-an-uncomfortable-trut...
Level 4 sex offender accused of killing Blytheville woman - www.wave3.com/story/38488935/level-4-sex-offender-accused...
Kentucky leads nation in child abuse & neglect death rates - www.wave3.com/story/11356703/kentucky-leads-nation-in-chi...
Shantel Lanerie, wife of jockey Corey Lanerie, dies at 42 - www.wave3.com/story/38490658/shantel-lanerie-wife-of-jock...
Officers find toddler, infant in car after 100-mph chase with suspect - www.wave3.com/story/38482435/triple-murder-suspect-causes...
Fern Creek man wonders if remains found this month could be his missing sister - www.wdrb.com/story/38480766/fern-creek-man-wonders-if-rem...
Body found behind shopping center identified - www.wave3.com/story/38458686/body-found-behind-shopping-c...
12 treated after two vehicle crash in Russell neighborhood - www.wave3.com/story/38486354/12-treated-after-two-vehicle...
Building collapse reported at Bardstown distillery - www.wave3.com/story/38487053/building-collapse-reported-a...
Triple murder suspect causes Louisville courtroom scuffle - www.wave3.com/story/38482435/triple-murder-suspect-causes...
Body discovered behind shopping center near Shively - www.wdrb.com/story/38458632/body-discovered-behind-shoppi...
Rescuers save 13 people from Louisville river, now investigating circumstances - www.whas11.com/article/news/local/rescuers-save-13-people...
OSHA fines city of Louisville following accidental death of Public Works employee - www.wave3.com/story/38462819/osha-fines-city-of-louisvill...
WKU golf coach dies after being hit by vehicle while riding bike - www.wdrb.com/story/38446856/wku-golf-coach-dies-after-bei...
Police say Louisville pharmacist created fake profiles to obtain drugs - www.wdrb.com/story/38456651/police-say-louisville-pharmac...
Mayor's office withholding key details of LMPD sex abuse investigation - www.wdrb.com/story/38451758/mayors-office-conceals-detail...
Ohio man facing more than a dozen charges of seeking sex with a minor in Kentucky - www.wdrb.com/story/38351119/ohio-man-facing-more-than-a-d...
Homicide investigation underway in south Louisville - www.wdrb.com/story/38349869/homicide-investigation-underw...
Jail overflow highlights LMPD headquarters problems - www.wave3.com/story/38407693/jail-overflow-highlights-lmp...
Mom, Grandmother Charged After Child Found Wandering In Laurel Co. www.lex18.com/story/38416815/mom-grandmother-charged-afte...
Henry County residents involved in fatal Shelbyville crash - www.hclocal.com/content/henry-county-residents-involved-f...
Louisville woman arrested in deadly DUI - www.wave3.com/story/38436252/norton-commons-woman-arreste...
Man shot in south Louisville park identified - www.wave3.com/story/38429440/man-shot-in-south-louisville...
LMPD investigating shooting scene at 13th & Broadway - www.wave3.com/story/38437262/lmpd-investigating-shooting-...
Kentucky high court: Death penalty IQ law unconstitutional - www.wave3.com/story/38436798/kentucky-high-court-death-pe...
Person found shot to death near Farnsley Moreman-Landing - www.whas11.com/article/news/crime/person-found-shot-to-de...
Agencies search for suspect who fled into Ohio River - www.lex18.com/story/38418410/agencies-search-for-suspect-...
Michigan Man Killed In Lexington Crash - www.lex18.com/story/38416997/lex-18-traffic-tracker-cru-c...
1 dead after crash at Iron Works Pike near Kentucky Horse Park - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Coroner-on-scene-of-serious-col...
Ex-Kentucky Official Testifies in Lobbyist's Bribery Trial - www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kentucky/articles/2018-06...
Kentucky dance academy owners accused of having sex with employee, 17 - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Kentucky-dance-academy-owners-a...
Kentucky Man Sentenced To 30 Days For Sen. Rand Paul attack - By Associated Press - wfpl.org/kentucky-man-sentenced-to-30-days-for-sen-rand-p...
Mayor Fischer’s Derby Party Bill: $109K. The Guest List? Secret - wfpl.org/kycir-louisville-mayor-fischers-derby-party-bill...
Second Sexual Assault Investigahttp://wfpl.org/kycir-louisville-police-close-sexual-assault-investigation-rep-dan-johnson/tion Of Rep. Dan Johnson Brought Few New Details -
Tractor-trailer fire causes delays on eastbound Interstate 64 - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Tractor-trailer-fire-causes-del...
Car crashes into front yard, barely misses Lexington house - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Car-crashes-into-front-yard-bar...
2-Year Old Girl Found Alive After 2-Day Search Of Rural Bullitt County: www.wdrb.com/story/38383015/2-year-old-girl-found-alive-a...
Police say drunk Louisville dad arrested after child found in tipped-over car seat - www.wdrb.com/story/38395129/police-say-drunk-louisville-d...
Vacant home burns frustrating neighbors, first responders - www.wave3.com/story/38431741/vacant-home-burns-frustratin...
Man Shot To Death In Parking Lot On Saint Andrews Church Road: www.wdrb.com/story/38382670/man-shot-to-death-in-parking-...
Trial begins for lobbyist charged in Kentucky bribery case - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Trial-begins-for-lobbyist-charg...
Court records: Neighbor upset over Rand Paul's yard debris - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Court-records-Neighbor-upset-ov...
Lexington business evacuated for chemical leak - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Lexington-business-evacuated-fo...
Bus driver accused of sexually abusing a student in Bell County - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Bus-driver-accused-of-sexually-...
Girl, 17, dead in Pulaski County single-vehicle wreck - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Girl-17-dead-in-Pulaski-County-...
Former V.P. Joe Biden discusses his book in Louisville - www.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/201...
Inmates flush cloth, flood police chief's office with sewage - www.heraldcourier.com/news/inmates-flush-cloth-flood-poli...
Kentucky man charged with murdering his wife on Christmas Day - www.wkyt.com/content/news/Kentucky-man-charged-with-murde...
Former EMS worker serving sentence for incest, sodomy sentenced for child porn - www.wave3.com/story/38385758/former-ems-worker-serving-se...
LIST: WAVE Country businesses affected by hepatitis A - www.wave3.com/story/38065019/list-wave-country-businesses...
Suspect arrested in connection to murder of Louisville man on 39th Street - www.wlky.com/article/suspect-arrested-in-connection-to-mu...
Woman convicted in deadly 2006 DUI back in court - www.wave3.com/story/38385226/woman-convicted-in-deadly-20...
Washington Post study ranks Louisville above average in homicide arrests - www.wave3.com/story/38377631/washington-post-study-ranks-...
Trooper accused of stealing 'two trucks worth' of ammo, guns - www.wave3.com/story/38373230/trooper-accused-of-stealing-...
Police: Fire set on purpose that caused deadly Kentucky house explosion - www.wave3.com/story/38367509/police-fire-set-on-purpose-t...
Three pedestrians struck near Churchill Downs - www.wave3.com/story/38384658/three-pedestrians-struck-nea...
UPDATE: 85-year-old woman dies after being hit by a car on Goldsmith Lane - www.wdrb.com/story/38361703/update-85-year-old-woman-dies...
Woman and 2 children hit by car in south Louisville - www.wdrb.com/story/38384482/woman-and-2-children-hit-by-c...
Police say Louisville man stabbed 2 people during argument about loud music - www.wdrb.com/story/38341537/police-say-louisville-man-sta...
Woman charged for lying about human remains found under trailer in Carroll County - www.wdrb.com/story/38360885/woman-charged-for-lying-about...
Former assistant principal accused of voyeurism expected to plead guilty in court - www.wdrb.com/story/38335534/former-assistant-principal-ac...
Driver says 'sneezing fit' caused her to roll tanker truck in northern Indiana - www.wdrb.com/story/38344302/driver-says-a-sneezing-fit-ca...
Kentucky explores putting armed marshals in classes in wake of latest school shooting - globalnews.ca/news/3989321/kentucky-armed-marshals-school...
Louisville man allegedly stabs 2 people under I-65 overpass - www.wave3.com/story/38387074/louisville-man-allegedly-sta...
JCPS quietly paying pricey bullying settlements with taxpayer money - www.wdrb.com/story/38321570/jcps-quietly-paying-pricey-bu...
Habitual felon Rebecca Johnson avoids prison again - www.wdrb.com/story/38380530/habitual-felon-rebecca-johnso...
KSP offering brand new Dodge Chargers to prospective recruits - www.wdrb.com/story/38382832/ksp-offering-brand-new-dodge-...
In 13 years at helm, Paul Varga led Brown-Forman back to its roots - www.wdrb.com/story/38383659/in-13-years-at-helm-paul-varg...
Boy with terminal brain cancer has his Best Day Ever - www.wave3.com/story/38385491/boy-with-terminal-brain-canc...
Okolona Speedway employee diagnosed with hepatitis A - www.wave3.com/story/38383854/okolona-speedway-employee-di...
Weekend closures and detours for I-65 in Louisville - www.whas11.com/article/news/local/weekend-closures-and-de...
Louisville man found; Golden Alert canceled - www.wave3.com/story/38382572/louisville-man-found-golden-...
Fund for the Arts on track to hit biggest fundraising goal in a decade - www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2018/06/08/fund-for-t...
Family to donate organs of Louisville teen gravely injured in Florida car crash - www.wdrb.com/story/38372386/family-to-donate-organs-of-lo...
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TRAFFIC ALERT: Snyder Freeway at Taylorsville Road back open after single vehicle crash - www.wave3.com/story/38380046/traffic-alert-snyder-freeway...
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (6/8) - www.leoweekly.com/2018/06/5-things-weekend-louisville-6-8/
Pair charged with murdering 17-month-old boy in 2009 - www.wdrb.com/story/38370980/pair-charged-with-murdering-1...
Tru by Hilton's Louisville presence grows with $9M hotel - www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2018/06/08/tru-by-hil...
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Downtown restaurant closes, leaving high-profile vacancy - www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2018/06/07/downtown-r...
Louisville is littered with abandoned cars, and residents aren't happy - www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-governm...
Louisville man arrested after allegedly pointing loaded shotgun at neighbor - www.wave3.com/story/38371140/louisville-man-arrested-afte...
Group needs help to continue giving the Louisville's homeless free haircuts - www.whas11.com/article/news/group-needs-help-to-continue-...
Cyclist killed, KY-61 S closed following collision in Shepherdsville - www.wave3.com/story/38383569/cyclist-killed-ky-61-s-close...
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I have many times been in trouble for doodling, especially when the pompous p****k chairing the meeting has had low self-esteem.
However, I refer you to the recent work done by Jackie Andrade which shows that doodling prevents concentration from wandering!
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This offering above was on an A5 envelope in ballpoint, and so will appear rather sparse on your big screen!!! I thought about cleaning it up, but then it ceases to be what it was. The meeting was probably about boys' ties, or bells, or some other crucial aspect of teenage development.
I have occasionally made money at a boring staff meeting by selling the doodle to a colleague for a couple of quid!
I expect they thought I'd become famous, but they were out of luck! Hehe!!!
over a month has gone by, but haiti is still in bad shape... and will be for some time to come... ways to donate and support aid workers providing relief in haiti, if you can...
in canada, the cbc has a page, "haiti relief", listing several ways to donate in canada, including doctors without borders and the canadian red cross.
note: the canadian government will be matching donations up to $50 million
in the united states, you can text the word "HAITI" to 90999 to donate to the red cross international relief ($10 is added to your monthly phone bill). you can also donate directly to the american red cross. you can text "haiti" to 20222, to donate $10 through the clinton foundation. there is also partners in health. see also the article "10 ways you can donate" for more options...
in the uk, online at the dec, disasters emergency committee
en españa, médicos sin fronteras
internationally, oxfam has provided a web site where you can make donations for varying sums... every little bit helps...
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some recent news:
Four Bald Eagles were shot dead in Washington state last week. This is just terrible - usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/18/16586514-4-bald-eagle...
Joe Biden's two Marine One helicopters joined by three MV-22 Ospreys marked its first-ever vertical departure from LAX to the Summit of Americas. It is the democratic administration's first full visit to Los Angeles and their first time landing at LAX.
The Republican Party hasn’t had a coherent policy message for years. Instead, they focus on cultural wedge issues, like Critical Race Theory, to incite voters. They call any government intervention “socialism,” meant to equate it with communism and government overreach. Even more ludicrous, as The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell reports, “Lara Trump told Fox News viewers that inflation is part of a Democratic plot to force families to give up beloved American traditions and holidays, including Thanksgiving and Halloween.” Their supporters eat this stuff up. Whether in or out of power, nothing the GOP has done has helped Americans who need it most. You would think we would learn. I’ve scratched my head raw, wondering why people refuse to vote their pocketbooks. There’s nothing logical about voters who support the culture wars over their hard-earned cash. But there is a logic to why the GOP keeps doing this. They have nothing else.
According to The Washington Post, the two major electorate concerns are the economy and the pandemic. The electorate always blames the current president for their predecessors’ actions. As Harry Truman once said, “The buck stops here.” Let’s not forget Donald Trump left this country with a record-setting deficit. He politicized COVID, and Joe Biden inherited mask and vaccine hesitancy.
But the Democrats have their own messaging problems. At a recent virtual fundraiser, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand shocked the attendees with her candid assessment, “Democrats are terrible at messaging.” Moderates haven’t been talking about the roots of this inflation. And they’re doing little to educate the electorate. While the more progressive wing, according to Rampell, blames inflation on corporate greed. So far, there has been no straightforward and consistent strategy for selling voters on the Biden Administration’s accomplishments.
Yet, the economy is in good shape, much better than in March 2020, when COVID first took hold. In mid-November, first-time unemployment claims dropped to a level not seen since 1969. And the gross domestic product was at 2.1%, slightly better than the estimate. Sixty-five percent of Americans believe the economy’s in poor shape. Why is that? Inflation. Everything costs more, and many are having trouble making ends meet.
Interpreting economic numbers, let alone formulating policy, is part art and part soothsaying. One reason we’re encountering a rise in prices is “post-pandemic spending.” The demand for products is high. Many are eager to spend their stimulus checks after almost two years of deprivation. The supply chain was already stretched to the limit before the pandemic, but suppliers can’t meet consumers’ appetites with demand so high. Shipping companies have raised their prices enormously. Globalization allowed us to seek the lowest prices to manufacture and buy goods from Asia. And now it’s coming back to pick our pockets. High demand is causing logjams at ports. Once dockers offload goods, trucks and trains are straining to get these products to market. They are held in expensive storage facilities until they’re ready for transport. Every part of the supply chain is blaming each other. Unless Democrats change voters’ perceptions, they will pay on election day.
And then there’s the Omicron variant. Will this health crisis ever end? We’re all tired of mandates. How many times have we thought we’d turned the corner only for some new variant to arise? Scientists first detected Omicron in South Africa. If everyone had gotten vaccinated when vaccines first became available, we might have been able to avoid the more serious Delta variant. And if everyone in the world had equal access to these vaccines, that would have helped. But we live in a world of “haves” and “have nots.” Americans have the luxury of getting boosters, while, as of September 2021, only 2% of Africans have received the shots. No matter how strictly we enforce travel bans, it’s just too easy for people to move from one part of the world to another.
Economic and vaccine inequity are intractable problems to solve. The details mean little to most voters—our perceptions of our own circumstances and who controls the message win elections. With no economic strategy, Republicans will continue to focus on blaming Biden. They will blame the administration for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and conveniently sidestep the Trump administration’s actions that set that in motion. They will focus on the prolonged COVID crisis screaming about an endless set of mandates and lockdowns, even though their anti-mandate messages have prolonged this medical crisis. And, despite most Americans’ support for lower childcare and eldercare costs and improvements to our failing infrastructure, the GOP will couch these as government handouts—socialism! Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott voiced the GOP strategy when he stated, “[Inflation] is a gold mine for us.” But this just may be the Republicans’ undoing.
While the Democrats messaging has so far failed to materialize voter support, there is some good news. President Biden is finally making sure he and his administration get credit for it. The supply chain problem is beginning to ease because of pressure from the President and local governments. Steven Rattner, Obama’s auto-industry czar, reports that “In mid-November, 86 container ships were floating around San Pedro Bay waiting for a berth. Two weeks later, that figure is down to 44, roughly where we were in early September.” Also, the cost of sending a container from China to the West Coast has dropped 25% since its all-time high of $20,000.
Biden made it clear: “Because of the actions the administration has taken in partnership with business and labor, retailers and grocery stores, freight movers and railroads, those [holiday] shelves are going to be stocked. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have moved 16% more containers so far this year than last year. By working with business and labor, my administration has been able to handle the huge surge in goods moving through some of our biggest ports. [Major retailers are] ready to meet the consumer demand for the holidays.”
And he is pushing back on Republicans like Scott by pointing out that by not supporting Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the GOP would rather we pay higher prices for drugs and child- and eldercare. “The bills you’re paying right now for daycare could be substantially lowered, capped at seven percent of your income. Republicans think that those 200,000 children who need regular doses of insulin should continue to pay as much as $1,000 a month instead of $35 a month. But the Republicans said, ‘No, pay more.’”
The president and every Democrat legislator must take this message to the people, over and over and over. Every single day. The Republicans want America to fail. That’s how they regain their power—power that enables them to do nothing else but be in control.
The midterm elections won’t be about racial injustice. And the Democrats should ignore Republican attempts to steer the electoral rhetoric towards culture issues. If we want to continue to affect change, socially, racially, and economically, in the short term the Democrats must cut the noise and focus on the points voters think are crucial right now. That’s the economy and the pandemic. If the Democrats don’t have the votes to pass legislation to help Americans, the GOP certainly won’t even try.
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Obama Works to Repair America's Image in the World
Smiles and handshakes are a start, but Obama's real challenge will be to show results
By Thomas Omestad
The few "Yankee Go Home" signs that greet him abroad seem almost an afterthought, and when he enters a room of world leaders, he is the most sought-after man for a photo op and a handshake. Such is the star power that has swirled around Barack Obama on his initial foreign travels as the U.S. president.
This comes as little surprise, yet it will present a challenge of sorts for the president. Obama's relative youth and vigor, his calls for reaching out to adversaries and friends overseas, his breaks from past policy, and his triumphant personal story as the nation's first African-American president all seem to make the 47-year-old leader the best single antidote to anti-Americanism in years, maybe decades. White House officials say Obama's appeal extends beyond just the leaders of the world. "What has happened is that anti-Americanism isn't cool anymore," says top Obama adviser David Axelrod.
But this initial repositioning of the American leadership brand onto more popular terrain internationally will be the easier part of Obama's task. For all the sense of fresh starts and of goodwill, the seeds of perhaps inevitable disappointments are present as well. Visiting the Czech Republic in April, Obama got a friendly warning from Vaclav Havel, the once dissident playwright and former president who led his country's Velvet Revolution. Havel cautioned that the accumulation of exaggerated expectations could turn against the new American leader. "People may end up thinking that he has betrayed them, that he has raised their hopes too far," Havel said. A smiling Obama is said to have replied that he is aware of the danger.
Image repair
Still, Obama has deftly gone about trying to reset the global image of America. The guiding impulse seems to be to start reviving U.S. standing in the world quickly in the hope that policy gains will accrue later. He has ordered the future closure of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, barred torture of terrorist suspects, and made public the Bush administration's internal memos authorizing harsh interrogation methods. He has put Washington back at the center of efforts to curb climate change and eliminate nuclear weapons over the long run. He has moved to repair relations with Moscow, and he has modestly eased the U.S. travel ban and embargo on Cuba. In the Mideast, Obama has set plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, relaunched U.S. mediation for Mideast peace, and approved talking directly with Syria and Iran.
In a sense, though, this has all been a warm-up. In the months ahead, he faces the challenge of both overcoming opposition to U.S. policies and netting meaningful results. He has inherited resentments that linger from the Bush years, grounded in an image of a go-it-alone superpower that too often brushed aside the opinions of others, resorted to military means, and neglected global problems like climate change and arms control. Further, Obama now represents a nation whose highflying style of capitalism is blamed for a financial and economic crisis that is impoverishing millions and halting gains in prosperity around the globe. "Obama has great personal popularity, but changing the image of the United States in some of the ways it's been unpopular may well be a long process," says Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center.
Opinion polls in recent years show most nations on balance viewing U.S. power negatively—and often by wide margins. Marco Vicenzino, director of the Global Strategy Project, a Washington-based nonprofit group, says, "Things are so low with the U.S. status overseas, there's nowhere to go but up." Nonetheless, he predicts, "you'll see Obama's star power begin to wane over time."
Although Obama is the new leading man on the global political stage, the stage itself is changing in ways that have diminished the margin of American pre-eminence. The economic downturn seems to be hastening the rise of newer powers like China, India, and Brazil. Beijing has questioned the wisdom of sticking so firmly with the U.S. dollar for its overseas investments. Russia has re-emerged as a demanding foreign-policy player. European allies have grown comfortable saying no to the Americans, as they did with U.S. calls for significantly more counterrecession spending and more soldiers to fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. Latin America has become more standoffish toward Washington as U.S. influence has declined. North Korea and Iran appear inclined to press their nuclear defiance, regardless of who lives in the White House.
Obama acknowledges a new era in which American clout needs to be wielded differently. The venue for that sentiment made it more telling—the economic crisis summit in London of the Group of 20 leading economies rather than the cozier, old-style Group of 7 or 8 world powers. "If there's just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easier negotiation," Obama said. "But that's not the world we live in, and it shouldn't be the world that we live in."
A tone of humility has so far infused Obama's foreign-policy posture. His early themes—unveiled from Canada and France to Turkey and Mexico—have been partnership and engagement, rediscovered. To the dismay of conservative critics, he has conceded moments of American "arrogance." While touting America's diversity and warning against "insidious" anti-Americanism, he has also cited the country's "darker periods," including slavery and the onslaught against American Indian tribes. He has sounded notes of regret about Wall Street's excesses. In Mexico City, he admitted that American consumption of illicit drugs and sales of guns to traffickers are integral to the tragedy of Mexico's drug killings. At the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, he talked about his racial heritage to leaders from a region where persistent racial inequities are wedded to poverty. He told Latin leaders he wanted to do more listening than talking. And he strode across a room to shake hands with Hugo Chávez, the leftist Venezuelan leader renowned for his anti-U.S. diatribes.
"No-drama Obama."
Domestic critics fault some of Obama's overtures, most pointedly his seemingly amicable encounter with Chávez, as naive and assert that he is undermining American authority abroad. But the president defends infusing diplomacy with his "no-drama Obama" governing style. He used a visit to Turkey as an opportunity to extend his outreach to the broader Muslim world. He argued that the U.S. relationship with the world's Muslims "cannot and will not be based upon opposition to terrorism," a complaint voiced bitterly in recent years. Instead, he said, it would be based on "mutual interest and mutual respect." But Obama, a Christian, went further, drawing on personal connections to Islam—a father of Muslim heritage and years as a child spent in a heavily Muslim nation, Indonesia. He was introduced to the Turkish Parliament with his full name, Barack Hussein Obama.
Turkey, a U.S. ally that is majority Muslim, has itself been swept up in the recent wave of anti-Americanism. The country remains both proud of its secular democracy and touchy over how it operates in practice, and Obama won good reviews there for threading his way through those sensitivities. Last year, a mere 12 percent of Turks regarded the United States favorably. But optimism about improved ties to a United States led by Obama has grown in Turkey and generally elsewhere. "He's showing people he understands their problems, their perspectives," says Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy. "The first step, properly, is to clear the air," says Gelb. "He has dissipated a lot of the anti-Americanism in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East."
To much of an intrigued global audience, Obama has shown a flair for refreshing candor—to the point of making some of his counterparts look a bit stodgy and faded. But it will take time for the results of his drive to reinvent America's image to become clear. That is when Obama's openness will be judged back home.
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A 32-foot female deceased humpback whale was found washed up on Sharp Park Beach in Pacifica, California. It was the second whale found washed ashore within three weeks on the Pacifica beach.
www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/05/05/seco...
there are several ways available to donate and support aid workers providing relief in haiti.
in canada, the cbc has a page, "haiti relief", listing several ways to donate in canada, including doctors without borders and the canadian red cross.
note: the canadian government will be matching donations up to $50 million
in the united states, you can text the word "HAITI" to 90999 to donate to the red cross international relief ($10 is added to your monthly phone bill). you can also donate directly to the american red cross. you can text "haiti" to 20222, to donate $10 through the clinton foundation. see also the article "10 ways you can donate" for more options...
in the uk, online at the dec, disasters emergency committee
internationally, oxfam has provided a web site where you can make donations for varying sums... every little bit helps...
if you know of any other ways to donate, please do let me know so that i can include it...
many thanks to those who have joined in to help...
Would there be more females on the bench if their judicial robes looked like this, a shoulder baring strapless gown?
Back to the reason for the Bronx cheer - SCOTUS is turning our democracy ever more into a plutocracy with the recent decision to remove limits of the amounts of money that can be donated to federal candidates. This one ranks right up there and is in line with the decision that upholds the rights of corporations to make political expenditures under the First Amendment.
Money speaks and drowns out the people.
Note:
At the close of the Oct2016-June2017 term,, religious issues seem to be weighing heavily for next year's term as well as Gun Rights. I worry about the coming decisions.
The only good [for now] and surprising decision was about political gerrymandering.
www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-06-19/wha...
A 32-foot female deceased humpback whale was found washed up on Sharp Park Beach in Pacifica, California. It was the second whale found washed ashore within three weeks on the Pacifica beach.
www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/05/05/seco...
Photo taken in Djurgården at Gärdesloppet, or Prins Bertil Memorial, Stockholm, Sweden.
Notice the Royal Crown icon on the driver´s door.
The respect and admiration in the luxury car arena made the Cadillac Fleetwood the true flagship of the line. This was the “Cadillac of Cadillacs.”
The Cadillac Fleetwood series were the most luxurious Cadillacs in the model year line up. Fleetwood did all Cadillac interiors.
Among the world’s finest cars, none were more respected than the Fleetwood series. With its magnificently dignified styling, famed Cadillac luxury, and the remarkably smooth ride due to its individually longer wheelbase, made this series the superlative presence in all of motordom. Whatever the occasion, there was no more gracious way to arrive. The Cadillac Fleetwood was luxury on the grand Cadillac scale, in the grand Cadillac manner.
- See more at: newsblaze.com/usnews/national/cadillac-fleetwood-series-r...
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Gärdesloppet, or Prins Bertil Memorial
Prince Bertil Memorial takes place each year in Stockholm, Sweden, in honour of Prince Bertil, uncle to Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf. The Prince was a race-car driver in the 1930s, using the pseudonym "Monsieur Adrian" to placate his disapproving father, later King Gustaf VI Adolf. Prince Bertil continued to act in the monarchy's best interests by forgoing marriage to his British girlfriend, Lilian Craig. Under Swedish law, which has since been changed, such a union with a commoner would have rendered him ineligible to serve as regent, should the need have arisen, to Carl Gustaf, son of Prince Bertil's deceased older brother. The Prince finally married the patient Lilian in 1976, three years after nephew Carl Gustaf was safely on the throne.
This tough and handsome doll named Remiel is now at DOLKSTATION. This doll is LIMITED, it comes from Granado and now DOLKSTATION will offer it to you. Hurry up and grab this doll now.
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WEEK 49 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: New Store, Set I
I'm home again for Christmas break, and glad to be back! (I'm also glad I didn't have to drive through all the wintry weather that hit the southern portion of the state yesterday!) After checking in with the Santa Barbara San Francisco Police Department last night, I'm here with Week 49 of uploads today. And since I didn't feel like writing these descriptions last night, they're once more coming to you fresh on this Saturday morning!
So where are we at? After a long wait... the new Southaven Burlington!
Burlington // 225 Goodman Road W, Southaven, MS 38671
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Healthy, filling & full of fresh flavor.
Good news about Greek Yogurt.
health.usnews.com/blogs/on-fitness/2009/04/06/greek-yogur...
Emma Watson was born on 15th April 1990, in Paris in France but she was raised in England. The names of her parents are Chris Watson and Jacqueline Luesby, both of her parents were lawyers by profession.
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A empty Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Believe it or not, an iconic part of the Atlantic City Boardwalk is closing soon.
The Ripley's Believe It Or Not! museum said Thursday that it will close on Dec. 31 after more than 26 years of tempting Boardwalk strollers with oddities including shrunken heads, mutant animals and models of unbelievably tall or small humans.
The building that houses the museum is an instantly recognizable feature of the Boardwalk. It is designed with a giant globe that appears to have smashed into the front of the building and wedged part of the way inside it, cracking the foundation from top to bottom. (The actual foundation of the building remains intact.)
“We’re grateful for the support of our fans and guests, whose curiosity, open-mindedness, and enthusiasm have contributed to our success for over 26 years,” Chris Connelly, the museum's manager, said in a statement. “We’re thankful to have offered a unique form of entertainment and education at the Jersey Shore, and we hope we have helped create wonderful memories for those who have come to visit.”
Connelly said the museum is closing because its local franchisee is reaching the end of its agreement with Ripley's.
“They're going to reimagine the space and come up with something new and fresh for the future,” he said.
The future of the famous facade is uncertain, although it is possible it may be incorporated into a future use, Connelly said.
The museum opened on the Boardwalk at New York Avenue on June 22, 1996 between the Bally's and Resorts casinos.
It became popular with families looking for non-gambling entertainment, gamblers taking a break from the action, and curious passersby.
It has 14 themed galleries and over 400 exhibits. They include a spider made out of scissors and knives, a roulette table made of 14,000 jelly beans, and what it describes as the world's smallest production car.
Ripley's also debunked several carnival-show oddities, including what purported to be the skeleton of a mermaid, but which was actually a monkey skull sewn to a fish tail.
www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/articles/2022-12-01/ripleys-b...
I've never tried this kind of shot before tonight. Thanks to Camille for the location :-) Taken from Libby Hill Park as nighttime set in.
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Drought! The weather around hear has been totally unexciting for too long! This picture is of Teal Ridge Wetlands. This used to be 23 acres of a wetland wildlife preserve. Now it is just dry dirt! No water anywhere to be seen. Below you can see what it used to look like.
Our county even made the NBC national news where they wrote: "For some, it's already an emergency. Persistent dry conditions in north-central Oklahoma led officials in Payne County to declare a state of emergency this month as the reservoir providing water to nearly 16,000 residents in seven counties fell to record low levels."
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I found this in an old (12/8/2003) US News & World Report a while back. I think I've looked at it about 50 times and laugh every time. I just love Jenkins' facial expression here.
You can read Brian Duffy's article which accompanied this photo (or vice-versa) in the US News archives.
A Sony Mavica MVC-FD75. It had a whopping 0.97 megapixels and a 10x lens. This one required a 3.5 inch floppy disc (remember those?) that would only hold 12 images. I still have it. Somewhere.
This is a reprocessed photo from years ago.
Thank you all so very much for your comments and faves, but most of all I thank you for just taking the time to look. I appreciate each one of you! Gracias. Merci. Danke. Obrigado. Grazie. Go raibh maith agat. Tapadh leat. Gratias tibi.
All images are ©Tom Harrington and may not be used in any way without my permission. Thank you.
A 32-foot female deceased humpback whale was found washed up on Sharp Park Beach in Pacifica, California. It was the second whale found washed ashore within three weeks on the Pacifica beach.
www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/05/05/seco...
Joe Biden makes a landing in the Air Force, pictured to the right of the LAX Theme Building, at LAX on Wednesday 1:35pm. The northern side of LAX is put on complete lockdown. It is the democratic administration's first full visit to Los Angeles and their first time landing at LAX.
San Felipe de Neri Church, Old Town, Albuquerque, NM.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire nation during this difficult time.
I'am in. Are you? Read below:
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This Child of Mine
"I'll lend you for a little while
A child of mine," God said,
"For you to have the while he lives,
And mourn for when he's dead.
It may be six or seven years
Or twenty-two or three;
But will you 'till I call him back
Take care of him for me?
----Edgar Guest
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(Also for “Chi-Rho” and, well… another “Xavier”)
• For Black History Month AND
• For February's Alphabet Fun: 2015 Edition AND
• For We're Here! — "The X Spot"
“There are 106 historically Black colleges and 251 Catholic colleges in the United States, yet only one is both Black and Catholic. That distinction belongs to Xavier University of Louisiana, which strives to combine the best attributes of both its faith and its culture.”
— Xavier University of Louisiana, “History of Xavier”
For years, when i heard someone mention “Xavier University” i thought they were talking about this school. It’s probably because my sister went to another New Orleans HBCU, Dillard, for a year. (Shh. We don’t talk about that.) I guess most people know about the Xavier in Cincinnati, but this little gem in the south provides an appropriate entree into the history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the USA.
Most of the HBCUs in this country were founded after the American Civil War by Christian missionaries and abolitionists who saw the need to provide educational opportunities to newly emancipated Southern blacks. (There are a few exceptions that were founded in the North and/or before the Civil War.) The US Higher Education Act specifically defines an HBCU as “any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans….”
In the last few decades, HBCUs have dealt with challenges of declining enrollment and the identity crisis of the changing racial and ethnic demographics of their student bodies. Now, a few HBCUs actually no longer even have predominantly black enrollment. Yet though HBCUs represent only about 3% of college students in the US, they award approximately 20% of undergraduate degrees conferred on black students. For more about HBCUs, historically and contemporarily, check some of the links below.
Historically black colleges and universities on Wikipedia
”Historically Black Colleges and Universities Ranking” on
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”Public HBCUs, facing tests on many fronts, fight for survival” on Inside Higher Ed
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Fire at Friog highlights importance of smoke alarms and electrical safetyPosted 14/02/2018 16:55:43
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Fire Officers are reminding residents of the importance of smoke alarms and the dangers of electrical fires after a couple were alerted to a fire in their Friog home early this morning (Wednesday February 14th).
Crews from Dolgellau, Aberdyfi and Barmouth were called to the semi detatched property in Friog, Gwynedd at 06.06hrs.
Firefighters used one main jet, two hose reel jets, two sets of breathing apparatus and a thermal imaging camera to tackle the fire.
The occupants were asleep when the fire broke out but were awoken by the sound of the smoke alarms activating.
The fire originated in a bedroom of the property and caused substantial fire damage to half of the property.
The cause of the fire is thought to electrical involving an electrical heat mat.
Mike Owen from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said:
“This incident highlights the importance of working smoke alarms – if the alarm had not roused them, the consequences could have been fatal.
"It's so important to operate appliances according to the manufacturer instructions and to check electrical items and leads for signs of damage or wear. Always buy from a reputable source and keep heated appliances away from combustible materials.
“This fire clearly shows the danger of electrical fires - they can strike anytime, anywhere. Our advice is to be as prepared as possible in the event of fire, by ensuring that working smoke alarms are fitted in your home and that you have clear escape routes to enable you and your family to exit your home as quickly as possible.
"There are some simple steps you can take to help prevent an electrical fire in your home. They include:
- DON'T overload plug sockets
- DO Regularly check for worn or frayed wires
- DO Unplug appliances when not in use
- DO Keep appliances clean and in good working order
- DO fully unwind extension cables prior to their use.
Why not try out our 'ampage' calculator on our website and facebook page – visitwww.nwales-fireservice.org.uk - it tells you if you are overloading your sockets and helps you to stay electrically safe." Steeped in history this grade 2 listed cottage dates back to the 15th century and was originally home to the prior of a cell of Cisterian monks who transported travellers across the estuary to Barmouth. It later passed to notorious pirate David Williams whose initials are carved into the beam of the inglenook and the wall outside the front door with the date 1773. Comprising entrance hallway leading to lounge, dining room, kitchen and shower room on the ground floor with 2 double bedrooms on the 1st floor. The attached former barn is renovated to 1st fix stage with lime plastered walls and planning permission to convert into a 2 bedroom dwelling. The cottage retains many original features including ledge and brace doors, beamed ceilings, inglenook fireplace, panelled walls and has the benefit of modern day necessities of a recently refurbished kitchen and shower room with under floor heating. The rear garden is fully enclosed, prettily and maturely planted with many different elements including wood stores, greenhouse, pond and woodland area.
Situated in the rural hamlet of Friog, Hen Ffermdy Henddol is perfectly placed to enjoy both the seaside and mountains. Fairbourne beach is just 15 minute walk as is the Blue Lake, featured on BBC's Secret Britain. A network of footpaths criss cross the area ideal for exploring its slate quarrying heritage and enabling seasoned walkers to be up and down Cadair Idris in a day. Fairbourne with its well stocked village shop and railway station linking to Birmingham is 10 minutes on foot. The market town of Dolgellau is 8 miles away and Tywyn approx' 11 miles with all the usual facilities plus a cinema, doctors' surgery, cottage hospital and high school. For golfing, boating & all water sports, the delightful harbour village of Aberdyfi is just fourteen miles away along the coast.
The cottage comprises panelled ledge and brace door to;
HALL
Under stairs cupboard, beamed ceiling, panelled walls.
DINING ROOM 15`2 x 9`7
Window to front and rear, beamed ceiling, open fireplace (not in use), panelled walls, storage heater.
LOUNGE 15`8 x 13`6 into fireplace
Window to front, beamed ceiling, stone panelled walls, inglenook fireplace with multi fuel stove, red quarry tiled tiled floor, telephone and tv point. Door to;
KITCHEN 10` x 9`3 max
Window to rear and side, skylight, slate floor with under floor heating, base units, wood work top, ceramic sink and drainer, plumbed for washing machine, electric cooker, part tiled walls, door to;
SHOWER ROOM 7`4 x 7`4
Half glazed door to side leading to garden, slate floor with under floor heating, walk in waterfall electric shower with panelled walls and glass screen, w c, vanity wash basin, extractor.
Off entrance hallway painted stairs to 1st floor half landing and built in storage cupboard with sliding door. Off 1st floor landing to;
BEDROOM 1 15`9 x 10`3
Window to front, panelled wall, cast iron fireplace, recessed hanging area, beamed ceiling, storage heater, access to under eaves storage, painted floorboards.
BEDROOM 2 16`9 x 15`5 max.
L shaped room, 2 windows to front, skylight to rear, exposed beams, painted floorboards, storage heater.
FORMER BARN 25` x `5`
With planning permission to convert to 2 bed dwelling finished to 1st fix stage, lime plastered walls, reclaimed slate floor, arrow slits to front and rear, green oak A-frames, half glazed stable door to rear, ledge and brace door to front, conservation roof lights, multi fuel stove.
OUTSIDE FRONT
Parking for 1 vehicle ( lay by over the lane provides parking for 2-3 cars), access to stone built woodshed.
OUTSIDE REAR
Fully enclosed with gated access off the lane, maturely planted with slate gravel pathways leading to several areas, sheds, log stores, former ty bach, pond and greenhouse.
ASSESSMENTS Band E
TENURE The property is Freehold.
SERVICES Mains water, shared septic tank, electricity.
1954 | Harlem voters queue to cast their ballots in New York City.
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For a change of pace, here's an old picture taken along Interstate 10 in the middle of the Texas limestone country. In the background, you can see a few of the thousands of wind turbines that are scattered through here. In the foreground, the remnants of the Texas fossil fuel industry. The juxtaposition is a common Texas sight.
If you live in the United States and pay any attention to the news, you can probably guess why I'm posting this. Five days ago, Texas had a snow storm that sent it hurtling back into the dark ages through a cascading series of failures that started out with 4 million homes losing their electricity during some of the coldest temperatures the state has seen in recorded history. This prompted a bunch of people to open their faucets in what proved to be a vain attempt to keep their pipes from freezing, which emptied the reserves from water systems already strained by failing electric pumps, so now people have neither power nor water. Meanwhile, pipes in hundreds of thousands of homes from Houston to Amarillo did freeze and wound up exploding, severely damaging hundreds of thousands of homes, so even shelter is a prized commodity in Texas these days. In a matter of hours, a state that prides itself so much for its resilience and independence that it was talking about seceding a month or so ago was brought to its knees by a storm, and has become a failed state.
Almost immediately, the politicians -- who in Texas are almost universally Republicans -- started up with their games of blame and deflection. The first thing I saw making the media rounds on Tuesday was that the right wingers were blaming the failure on all the windmills you see up here in this picture and spread out across hundreds of square miles of central Texas. It's a Green New Deal disaster, they said. The Texas electrical grid failed because all the thousands of wind turbines in central and northern Texas iced up. The windmills froze, they say, and the grid went down, and the easily-duped Fox News crowd was gullible enough to eat it up. And so, I'm writing this post to explain why that's a bunch of nonsense.
First off, there's the question of why the wind turbines froze in the first place. Essentially, the blade of a wind turbine is the same as an airplane's wing, and those freeze all the time. Ice accumulation has long been a known problem with wind turbines ... which is why turbines have built-in systems designed to de-ice the blades automatically. This is how these turbines were running on a 4-degree day between blizzards in Minnesota. Wind turbines are at this moment generating power in Alaska. They're generating power in Antarctica. The engineers have solved the ice problem. If the wind turbines froze in Texas, it's because the folks who built the turbines failed to incorporate these known systems into the construction. In all likelihood, they thought they'd save some money on systems they figured they'd never need (because it's Texas), and nobody forced them to include the systems because there's almost no government regulation (because it's Texas).
Then there's the question of what the freezing of the wind turbines did to the power generation grid. If you've been coming to this page for a while, you might remember I used to do these deep dives into wind energy based on data I collected on the internet from the Department of Energy. I haven't done one of those for a while, because the Trump Administration didn't want people to know things, so they took down the pages. Now that President Biden is in office, the pages are back. So here's what power generation by source looks like in Texas:
Natural Gas: 52.1%
Renewables (wind and solar): 22.8%
Coal: 17.5%
Nuclear: 3.1%
So at most, wind turbines account for just over a fifth of the power generation in Texas. (This has increased by about 5% from the last time I could check the numbers in 2014.) The bulk of the electricity in Texas, about 69.6%, comes from fossil fuel plants, and these days most of that fossil fuel comes in the form of natural gas.
And guess what? The pipelines supplying the natural gas plants froze up, too. Which ... there are gas pipelines in Alaska. There's technology to prevent this.
Here's what happened, according to reporting taken from National Public Radio, U.S. News & World Report, and a bunch of other easy-to-Google sources. In the winter, Texas has the capacity to generate 67,000 megawatts of electricity at any given time. (A megawatt (MW) is a unit of power that translates to million joules per second. So 67,000 MW is 67 billion joules per second.) Now, this is down from the 86,000 MW Texas can generate in the summer, because Texas has to run a lot of air conditioners in the summer. But it doesn't get cold in Texas (HA!), so the Texans take a lot of their power generation off-line in the winter. When this winter storm came through on Monday, everybody turned on their electric heaters, and power demand went through the roof to about 69,000 MW. That's about 3% more than the grid could handle.
This soon was exacerbated by the failures of the power generation sources, which started buckling in the cold and going offline. Windmills iced over. Gas pipelines froze. By Wednesday, the state had lost 46,000 MW of its generating capacity, or about 68%. About a third of that loss came from the wind turbines. Two-thirds came from failures in gas, coal, and nuclear plants. Nobody came out untouched.
Now, the nature of electrical grids is that once demand starts outstripping supply, very bad things start to happen. Systems get overloaded, things blow up, and that nice little civilization you used to have starts turning into a bunch of burning rubble. So the Texans had to shut everything off, and they instituted a series of rolling, temporary blackouts that shut down pieces of the grid in bits. Only the situation just kept getting worse, because nobody in Texas was required to invest in an ounce of insulation or winterizing, so the temporary blackouts took on a more permanent look. At the blackout's peak, 4 million homes were shut down.
Now, if this were any other state, generation failures in the grid could be offset by increased production elsewhere. But here's where you get to the real problem with Texas. If you look at a generalized map of the U.S. interconnection grid (here's one from ERCOT, the agency that pretends to manage electricity in Texas), you see that it's broken into three pieces: the Eastern U.S., the Western U.S., and Texas. That's right, Texas power is its own thing, completely isolated from electrical generation in the rest of the United States. When Texas power generation fails, they can't get supply from any place else. They are on their own.
Why? Because they want to be. This goes back to a series of decisions Texas state government made in 1930s when President Franklin Roosevelt was signing bills to regulate interstate power transmission. Texas didn't want to be regulated, so they made sure none of their power companies reached over state lines. So Texas was able to avoid any kind of power regulation at all from Federal authorities, and it avoided instituting any of its own regulations until the 1970s. And even then, regulation was light and weighted heavily toward the free market. Which is why the free-market price of electricity in Texas jumped this week from about $20 per megawatt-hour to $9,000 per megawatt-hour, and some of the few Texans who do have electricity are racking up $10,000 electric bills in the course of a few days. But that's another post.
Ultimately, the failure of the Texas power grid owes to a lack of preparation. People in Texas expect weather to be a consistent thing -- there is no such thing as climate change variability to these people -- so they didn't prepare for emergencies. They chose to leave their entire electrical infrastructure exposed and vulnerable to cold weather, and their hatred of government kept them from instituting any kind of regulation that would have forced them to prepare or given them a backup. Some people might refer to this as a natural disaster, but there's nothing natural about this. What happened in Texas this week was a choice made by anti-government dopes so obsessed with independence and confident in their superior abilities that they didn't do one thing to prepare for things to go wrong. And it bit them, just as it eventually bites everybody who thinks this way.
While driving through Morristown, New Jersey, you might consider visiting Saint Margaret Church, located on 6 Sussex Avenue. The Catholic Church was built in 1968 with beautiful stained glass windows. Remarkably, an awe-inspiring window of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is on the right side as your enter from the front. The prominent stained glass window is certainly notable!
The following poem is written in honor of Dr. King and his legacy of striving for social justice and peace:
Tribute to a King
Freedom fighter in words of flaming love
Passionate zeal of soul through humbling marches and dreams
Unlocking the gateway to civil liberty
Announcing a legacy of social equality amid hands of joy and unity
Proclaiming peace and harmony on behalf of posterity
Messenger of the Lord into footsteps of Calvary—
By no means forgotten—
Resurrected in spirit and seated among the elect
Hero and saint of God’s heavenly kingdom
Champion of Christianity and Martyr of the 20th Century—
The great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
© Loci B. Lenar
Tribute to a King (Poem) was registered in December of 2003 though the United States Copyright Office with certificate number TXU 1-149-847.
For news connected to Christian unity with biblical insight, please visit the following link: www.christian-miracles.com/drkingasignfromheaven.htm
The image is posted in the photo gallery of NJ.com at the following link: photos.nj.com/photogallery/2009/03/tribute_to_dr_martin_l...
Copyright 2008 Loci B. Lenar
Christian Vaules Sampler - On Sale Now at Hobby Lobby (Made in China)
You Can't Serve Both God And Mammon, Matthew 6:24
Unless You Are A U.S. Corporation - Hobby Lobby
Marshall/US News: How can the arts and crafts chain espouse Christian values when it imports products from China?
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. is a privately held corporation operating a retail chain of arts and crafts outlets. The company was founded by David Green.
One of several food carts I encountered during my photo walk on a crisp, cold December evening. The smells rising from this Korean chuck wagon (Korean Twist) were seductive. According to Gourmet.com and U.S. News & World Report Portland is #1 in street cuisine (Sorry New York and Paris). While I don’t know the exact number it is estimated there are over 600 food carts scattered around the city. There is a website dedicated to mapping-out all of their locations. Click here -------> www.foodcartsportland.com/
For more information click the following two links:
travel.usnews.com/features/Worlds_Best_Street_Food/
www.gourmet.com/restaurants/2009/09/portland-street-food
With a friendly smile Francisco will cook and serve the best authentic Mexican food on S.W. 3rd and Stark. Paired with a frosty cold bottle of Lime Soda there’s nothing better on a Saturday evening during the warm summer months (or anytime for that matter).
In my political cartoon I am depicted the issue of how people of color are portrayed in the media. Especially concerning the uproar about the discussion of Ferguson. A Justice Department investigation finds that police and local courts in Ferguson that routinely violate the constitution and federal laws. Civil rights investigators say there is a pattern of racial bias. Studies show that blacks and Latinos are more likely than whites to appear as lawbreakers in the news even more so when the crimes are considered violent. Whiles on the other hand are represented as victims by the media.Messages associating people of color, especially blacks, with poverty and crime reinforce the updated form of racial prejudice known as symbolic racism. The political cartoon portrays different perspectives as how people of color are seen. Some see them as their stereotypes and other acknowledge them as more than that. The events that occur are connected in that there are many people that try to inform and bring awareness to debunk stereotypes through social media and bring about a chance. I agree that the media inaccurately portrays people of color, especially African-Americans and more awareness should be brought about. For this cartoon the qualities i picked were text, I think with and without the text would have a huge impact on the meaning of the comic. I think with the text it makes the cartoon self explanatory and easy to understand. I also picked linework and tried to keep the cartoon simple. Instead of using more realistic shading I stuck to cell shading.
Sources:
usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/27/14740413-ap-poll-majo...
mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/23/fox-news-racial-crime-co....
time.com/3100975/iftheygunnedmedown-ferguson-missouri-mic...
www.npr.org/2015/03/04/390606464/doj-ferguson-police-rout...
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I included this into my portfolio because rather than drawing pieces that I enjoy i like to have a reason for drawing a piece. I think that it shows meaning and intention when there is a purpose and theme. This piece also shows experimentation of shading towards my art style.