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‘What America is’: Sports world reacts to Capitol attack, historic week

Paul Doyle

CT Insider

Jan. 9, 2021

For many of the women in the WNBA, it was a dizzying 48 hours.

On Tuesday, Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff. Players visibly and vocally supported Warnock over the conservative Loeffler, co-owner of the Atlanta Dream.

But the sense of accomplishment was tempered the next day, when a mob of Donald Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol building. At least one brandished a confederate flag.

“One breath, you want to celebrate … But then you can’t,” said Connecticut Sun veteran DeWanna Bonner. “What happened in Washington DC and all the killings (of Black Americans) ... My head is kind of all over the place.”

Bonner, a Black woman from Alabama, saw race at the center of the Capitol events. She’s not alone.

The visuals of a mostly white crowd overwhelming police to storm the legislative building contrasted with images of Black Lives Matter protesters greeted with armed forced. Activists have noted a double standard in how the groups were treated by security.

The reaction from the sports world?

“We live in two Americas,” LeBron James said.

Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers said, “Could you imagine today, if those were all Black people storming the Capitol, and what would have happened?”

The sentiments are echoed throughout Connecticut, too — from high school coaches to college athletes to the professional basketball players at Mohegan Sun.

WNBA LEADING TO CHANGE

The WNBA has long been at the front of social causes, but the league’s players raised their activism to another level while competing in the Bradenton, Fla. bubble last summer. Players spoke out after the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, standing firmly behind the Black Lives Matter movement.

Loeffler, Atlanta’s co-owner since 2011, is a strong Trump supporter. In July, she expressed concern with the league’s support of BLM in a letter to league commissioner Cathy Engelbert.

The response from the players? They began wearing “Vote Warnock” shirts at games and raised money for his campaign. Players across the league donned the shirts and Warnock’s poll numbers steadily climbed.

Warnock wound up prevailing in a runoff, which helped tip the power in the Senate as Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent Republican David Perdue in Georgia’s other runoff.

“It was such a happy moment for him and for our league, as well,” Bonner said. “We did a great job of speaking out when we heard about what was going on in the race. We knew immediately who we wanted to support. Everybody wore those shirts on game days — there were some big games that week and we wanted to make sure that people saw us.

“We stand by what we believe in and it showed the powerful impact that we can make.”

Players celebrated the victory on social media. UConn’s Renee Montgomery, who played with Atlanta but opted out of the 2020 season as she focused on social justice reform, tweeted: “In 2019, I didn’t know what to call @ReverendWarnock because he was a Dr and a Pastor. Now I gotta add Senator to the list. Congrats to Dr Pastor Senator Warnock!”

James tweeted, “Think I’m gone put together an ownership group for the The Dream. Whose in?” and Montgomery responded, “I’m ready when you are.”

And it’s worth noting that James’ tweet received a long list of responses, including an emphatic “In” from former tennis great and Fairfield product James Blake. Meanwhile, Montgomery told TMZ she’s serious about an ownership bid — although there is no indication Loeffler is selling.

The WNBA is being cited for its impact on the election, but the support for Warnock — and rejection of Loeffler — is just another example of the league’s players using their platform. Independent of the Georgia race, players were leading the sports world in speaking out about racial injustice last year.

“Just more recognition for the work that they’re doing,” said Connecticut Sun vice president Amber Cox, who has worked in the league for 13 years. “If you think back to the Pride platform and the support of the LGBTQ community, the WNBA was really the first to do that. It’s been happening. But the result of being in a bubble situation where you had all the players together, allowed them to come together and it was obviously just a defining moment in our history … all things kind of culminated.

“These women are so courageous and smart and, obviously, strategic the way they go about things. It’s been wonderful to see them get the recognition for all the work that they have been doing.”

New Haven native Bria Holmes said the season was dedicated to making voices heard.

“And clearly they were heard,” she said. “Just voicing our opinion on things that haven’t been going well, I think it opened people’s eyes to a lot of things. … Women are a huge part of the world. With our voices, we can do a lot. It’s not just the men. We can continue to do great things.”

Said Bonner, “People are listening. Women’s basketball has an opportunity to be at the forefront of sports. … Last summer, we spoke up and spoke out about our true feelings. We’re outspoken. We don’t hold our tongues for anything. People are learning more about us as women, about our culture, and what we believe in, and that we’re more than just basketball players.”

Yet Bonner, an 11-year veteran, said she was shook by what she witnessed Wednesday. The joy of Warnock’s victory quickly evaporated.

“It’s a scary time,” she said. “It’s kind of like, let me make sure my family is home and safe because you never know what can happen right now. It’s just such a sad time for us, especially for Blacks in this world right now.”

Holmes said she was at a loss for words to describe how she felt Wednesday. But she does believe the “outcome would’ve been totally different” had a majority of the protesters been Black.

‘PUSHING FOR UNITY’

UConn freshman Paige Bueckers figures to have a future in the WNBA, yet she has already used her voice — she marched in her home state of Minnesota after Floyd’s death.

Asked Friday about the WNBA and the state of the country, Bueckers said she is impressed that the league and the players use their platform to spread their message.

“Everything that they do, they’re trying to make this world a better and more equal place,” Bueckers said. “That’s what we need right now — equality and justice, equal treatment for everybody regarding race. It’s just sad to see the inequalities in the world.

“If we just treated each other how we wanted to be treated, it would be a much better place. It’s just sad to see the stuff that’s going on in the world, the hate and the division that we have. The WNBA is just pushing for unity and togetherness. I just think that’s really big and what the world needs right now.”

Buecker is white, but her younger brother Drew is Black and she spoke over the summer about their conversations pertaining to his race.

“I’m scared for him,” she said over the summer. “I’m scared for myself because that’s my little brother. He’s my best friend, really. I’m really close to him. Having that fear, that one wrong judgment and his life could be on the line, it’s super scary and it’s something I want to help change.”

UConn junior Christyn Williams, another player with WNBA aspirations, expressed her support for Black Lives Matter on her social media accounts last summer.

“I’m definitely excited to be a part of the WNBA one day because they represent something bigger than themselves,” she said. “We’re people too. They show that as an example every time something happens or just in general. I think they’re doing a great job with that.”

CONNECTICUT REACTION

The events at the Capitol were jarring for athletes and coaches across the state.

Wilbur Cross basketball coach Kevin Walton conducts a weekly Zoom call with his players, his opportunity to check on his team while the season remains paused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday night, Walton asked his players about the events that unfolded at the Capitol.

“One of the players said one of the differences (from the Black Lives Matter protests) was they were treated differently because they were white, but he was reluctant to say it at first,” Walton said. “I told him you can always say what you feel. We want the kids to formulate their own opinions.”

Walton, a community activist who participated in protests after the killing of Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May, said he was “appalled” by the way Capitol police and law enforcement reacted to the mob that stormed the legislative building.

“It sends a message that they didn’t take these white nationalists and terrorists to be as scary or as threatening as the Black Lives Matter protests,” Walton said.

Hillhouse football coach Reggie Lytle, who stayed up until 4 a.m. Thursday watching news coverage of the events, retired in 2013 as a lieutenant after a 25-year career in the state Department of Corrections.

Like Walton, he was stunned by the lack of security at the Capitol. Lytle contrasted what took place Wednesday with his own experience at the Million Man March on the National Mall in 1995. He estimates there were thousands of law enforcement at the march, “and you turn on the TV (Wednesday) and see only 500 Capitol Police?”

Lytle also said he felt “real sick” upon learning that a Capitol police officer was killed in the incident. He experienced riots during his time in the corrections department.

“To lose an officer to a beat down makes me feel I didn’t do my job,” he said. “It angers me even more to learn the President of the United States provoked this action. This invokes hate and invokes retaliation. I am old enough to know to fall to my knees and pray. This is what (Colin) Kapernick was doing.”

Lytle said he encountered racism as a member of Hillhouse’s 1985 state championship team and he sees his players faced with the same now. “Not much has changed,” he said.

His view of what happened at the Capitol?

“I’m not surprised at all,” Lytle said. “Especially since they announced they were going to do it. We have a saying: There it goes again. When we say that, in our community, we all know what that means. It’s white privilege. There’s no other way to look at it. White privilege.

“…My kids know. They could simply stand on the corner waiting for their girlfriend, and then the cops roll up and they get grilled. Meanwhile, you have people going to the Capitol and nobody’s stopping them.”

Walton, too, was not surprised.

“When President-elect (Joe) Biden comes on and says, ‘This isn’t America’ … this is exactly what America is,” Walton said. “Storming the Capitol building, acting in a violent manner, that is exactly who we are. … What bothered me the most is the people acting out were every-day people. There weren’t any billionaires out there (Wednesday). Those were people waiting for their stimulus checks, people who need Obamacare.”

This discussions between players and coaches unfolded at all levels last week.

At Quinnipiac, men’s basketball coach Baker Dunleavy said his team talked about the insurrection on Thursday.

“I think in general young people are very socially aware,” Dunleavy said. “They’re educated. They pay attention. They read. They’ve got social media at their fingertips. The players shared some of their individual thoughts and opinions.

“When we look at that day in our history, we’ll look back on a very dark day, an unfortunate and really embarrassing day in our country. We talked a little bit that there are some people out there who are similar to those we saw on camera and feel the way they feel. For a lot of people, it’s convenient for them to pretend that doesn’t exist. We have less ability to look the other way, that that sentiment isn’t something that existed just back in the 1960s.”

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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: Elevated by the crushing downfall of his beloved master Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell has risen from drunken blacksmith’s son to advisor to Henry VIII. A political genius with a talent for intimidation, bribery, and manipulation, Cromwell holds to no particular morals or creed beyond the elevation of himself and his loved ones and England’s turn from Roman Catholicism to the Anglican Church. All the while, he sees the turning tide of the Reformation and the ascension of bankers and mercenaries over kings and their squabbling lords.

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How lawmakers block progress and maintain oppressive policies

Many lawmakers, especially in the South, fought to maintain the nation’s founding principles of white supremacy.

In Alabama’s Dallas County, more than half the population was Black in 1961 but fewer than one in 100 Black citizens were registered to vote due to daunting poll taxes and other measures meant to disenfranchise Black voters. 

Across the South, registrars could selectively ask Black voters to read part of the Constitution, then decide whether the text had been read to their liking, said Carol Anderson, an African American studies professor at Emory University in Atlanta.

As such, they had enormous power to block people from voting, Anderson said.

A modest civil rights act passed in 1957 had enabled the Justice Department to sue states for voting rights violations but put the onus on people whose rights had been violated, requiring them to challenge systems designed to keep them down, Anderson said. By 1963, a federal report examining 100 counties in eight Southern states found that Blacks remained substantially underrepresented at the polls.

Selma, the seat of Dallas County, became an important battleground as tensions escalated. A local judge stifled demonstrations by declaring public gatherings of more than two people illegal, drawing a visit from Martin Luther King Jr. and thrusting Selma into the national spotlight.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Southern legislators repeatedly derailed civil rights-related proposals while chairing key committees, said David Bateman, an associate professor of government at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 

“Their control over these committees allowed them to gate-keep the agenda,” Bateman said.

Images of officers attacking voting rights activists – including then 25-year-old activist John Lewis – on a Selma bridge with clubs and tear gas in March 1965 helped sway public support. Days after the so-called “Bloody Sunday” incident, President Lyndon Johnson pressed lawmakers to pass broad voting rights legislation. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other discriminatory practices while requiring federal approval of proposed voting-eligibility standards before states could implement them.

Today, Bateman said, as increasing voting restrictions continue to disproportionately affect people of color, “there’s every reason to believe voter disenfranchisement campaigns will persist.”

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 reversed a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act, allowing states to alter voting rules before obtaining federal consent. This summer, the court issued a ruling that disqualifies votes cast in the wrong precinct and only allows family members or caregivers to turn in another person’s ballot.

At least 18 states have enacted laws making voting harder this year, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. In Montana, legislators abolished Election Day registration. Florida curtailed after-hours drop boxes.

Georgia shortened absentee ballot request periods, criminalized providing food and water to queued-up voters and made opening polls optional on Sundays, traditionally a day when the Black vote spikes as congregants vote after church. 

“We still have not dealt with anti-Blackness in this society,” said Anderson, of Emory University. “We’re really looking at the same pattern, the same rhymes.”

In September, Democrats introduced an elections and voting rights bill that would expand early voting options, identification requirements and access to mail-in ballots while allowing Election Day registration.

Police have long upheld racist laws, often with violence

As Blacks demanded equality during the civil rights movement, they faced hostility not just from fellow civilians but from those entrusted to protect and to serve.

In 1961, Freedom Rides occurred throughout the South as activists challenged Southern non-compliance with a Supreme Court decision ruling that declared segregated bus travel unconstitutional. The campaign met with often ugly resistance: In Birmingham, riders were attacked by a Ku Klux Klan mob, reportedly with baseball bats, iron pipes and bicycle chains.

Within the mob was an FBI informant who told the agency of the impending attack, but the agency did nothing, reluctant to expose its mole. Two decades later, a U.S. District Court judge excoriated the FBI for its inaction.

“The FBI was passively complicit,” said Diane McWhorter, author of “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.”

The attack occurred with the blessing of Alabama public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, who told Klan leaders that police would wait 15 minutes before stepping in.

Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., said he sees the links between the police violence of Birmingham and “Bloody Sunday” and the tanks, tear gas and rubber bullets employed at today’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

“We have John Lewis and others marching on that bridge protesting police brutality, and they get attacked and beat up by police,” said Butler, author of the book “Chokehold; Policing Black Men.” “And last summer, throughout the country there were marches on police brutality – and at these marches, police attacked the people protesting police brutality. The parallels are clear.”

People of color continue to be disproportionately affected by fatal police shootings, with significantly higher death rates than whites over the previous five years, researchers at Yale University in Connecticut and the University of Pennsylvania reported last year. “So it’s unclear whether change is actually occurring,” Butler said.

Critics note the police presence and brutality faced by Black Lives Matter protesters during the unrest following Floyd’s murder – the open-source database Bellingcat found more than 1,000 incidents of police violence – in contrast with the relatively unprepared force that was unable to stop hordes of mostly white Donald Trump supporters from breaching perimeter fencing and entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“There has never been a time when policing of public speech hasn’t been racially biased,” said Justin Hansford, executive director of Howard University’s Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center in Washington, D.C. “With the civil rights-era protests, most people understood that they were standing up for core American principles as opposed to Jan. 6, where they were trying to stop people’s votes from being counted.”

A USA TODAY analysis of arrests linked to the insurrection found that 43 of 324 people arrested were either first responders or military veterans; at least four current and three former police officers now face federal charges.

Education leaders have maneuvered to keep segregation, hide racist history

Education leaders have also at times sought to stall progress.

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision ruling segregated schools unconstitutional, Virginia Rep. Howard Smith took the floor to address his colleagues.

There, he introduced a document signed by 82 representatives and 19 senators, all from former Confederate states. The so-called Southern Manifesto called for resisting desegregation and blasted the Brown decision as an abuse of judicial power violating states’ rights.

The gesture demonstrated how deep resistance to desegregation ran in the South. The next year, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus summoned the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock’s Central High, in defiance of a federal order.

“After the ruling comes down, you have massive resistance in the South,” said Sonya Ramsey, an associate history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “You have school boards saying they’re not going to do it. You have government officials saying they’re not going to do it. That’s a system.”

Resistance came in many forms, she said, from committees formed to study the matter in perpetuity to policies that allowed whites, but not Blacks, to transfer schools. 

Some institutional leaders did make positive strides, Ramsey noted, even if for economic reasons. While many Southern cities resisted desegregation efforts, officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, eager to promote the area as a progressive business climate, constructed a districtwide busing plan designed to have schools reflect the community with the help of Black and white families and local leaders.

But institutional ills continue, Ramsey and others say – in charter schools now struggling with diversity, in faulty school funding formulas and in ongoing debates about what students should be taught about slavery and racism. Bills limiting how educators can teach about racism have been introduced this year in at least 28 states.

A 2018 Southern Poverty Law Center study of educational standards in 15 states found none addressed slavery’s justification in white-supremacist ideology nor its integral part in the economy; furthermore, the report noted, a separate survey found just 8% of high school seniors identified slavery as the Civil War’s cause.

“It’s fear of the unknown and of disruption,” said Donnor, of William & Mary. “And seeing that the status quo is no longer acceptable. One of the major parallels is in the hostility of the pushback. If you peel back the layers, you can see the similarities.”

News media shapes how Americans view race

The news media has throughout the nation’s history helped Americans understand racial issues – for better or worse. 

In 1962, after James Meredith tested federal law to become the first Black student admitted to the formerly all-white University of Mississippi, the station manager of Jackson’s WLBT decried the decision on-air, saying states should make their own admission decisions.

Station officials strongly supported segregation, rebuffing calls for opposing views, avoiding civil rights coverage and notoriously blaming technical problems for interruption of a 1955 “Today Show” interview of attorney Thurgood Marshall. Ultimately, after repeated complaints to the Federal Communications Commission and a crucial federal court decision affirming public input in FCC hearings, the station lost its license.

“These are the stories we weren’t taught in journalism school,” said Joseph Torres, co-author of “News For All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.” “They (civil rights groups) were saying, it’s a public airwave, and it’s not being fair to the Black community.”

Black media stepped up to offer different perspectives of mainstream narratives or provide coverage that wasn’t otherwise there. When 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in 1955 by two men who would ultimately be acquitted by an all-white jury, Jet magazine published a photo of Till’s mutilated body that helped kickstart the civil rights movement.

While some white-owned media such as Mississippi’s Delta Democrat Times and Lexington Advertiser condemned segregation and violence, others such as Jackson’s Clarion-Ledger held to the status quo. Gannett, the parent company of USA TODAY, purchased the newspaper in 1982.

“Had the Clarion-Ledger taken a leadership position denouncing atrocities going on in front of their faces, the state would be farther along in terms of getting past some of the pain,” said Mississippi Public Broadcasting executive editor Ronnie Agnew, who served as the newspaper’s executive editor until 2011.

In 1968, the landmark Kerner Commission, appointed to investigate the unrest that had exploded in national riots, faulted the media in addition to longstanding racism and economic inequalities. “The press has too long basked in a white world looking out of it, if at all, with white men's eyes and white perspective," the commission’s final report read.

“They made it absolutely clear that the white press had done a terrible job of covering civil rights,” said Craig Flournoy, a journalism professor at the University of Minnesota who has critiqued the Los Angeles Times’ “incendiary” coverage of the 1965 Watts riots, for which the newspaper won a Pulitzer.

Flournoy said the Times relied heavily on white police and white elected officials for material. In one particularly egregious example, he said the newspaper, having no Black reporters on staff, sent a young Black advertising staffer into Watts to dictate dispatches by payphone, but his notes were repurposed into sensational stories that exaggerated the supposed Black threat.

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Councilman and teacher Gregory Salcido caught on video degrading military!

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Editor’s note: Some of the video embedded in this story contains profanity.

Three videos on social media of Pico Rivera Councilman Gregory Salcido, a teacher at El Rancho High School, making disparaging remarks about the military and berating a student for wearing a sweatshirt with a Marines logo have gone viral and created a backlash.

El Rancho Unified School District officials confirmed Saturday. Jan. 27 that the person speaking is Salcido and that the incident took place on school grounds.

“We acknowledge it is his voice based on the research of the incident so far and knowing it came from one of our classrooms,” district Superintendent Karling Aguilera-Fort said in a phone interview.

A post on Facebook with the three videos was shared more than 23,500 times as of 10 a.m. Saturday. It had nearly 1.5 million views.

Aguilera-Fort said he was alerted on Friday evening to the video where Salcido is heard saying, “They’re the frickin’ lowest of the low,” in reference to military members.

“We have reached out to Mr. Salcido but have not been able to talk to him because he is out of town,” Aguilera-Fort said.

He and Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Mark Matthews are conducting an investigation.

“We cannot expose the disciplinary measures because it is a personnel matter, but there will be disciplinary measures taken,” Aguilera-Fort said.

District officials have not identified the student who made the recording.

“That’s not our priority right now,” he said. “Our first priority is to assure the community that what was said does not reflect the values of the El Rancho community and the El Rancho board.”

Phone calls to Salcido and to Pico Rivera City Manager Rene Bobadilla were not returned.

Salcido did post a statement on Friday to his personal Facebook page, which said, “I don’t think it’s wise for me to make any comments, but I want my friends, family, and students to know we are fine and we respect the rights of free expression for all individuals.”

It was time stamped at 9:41 p.m., New York.

The videos were first posted by Kimberlie Flauto, of Connecticut, who identified herself as a friend of one of the student’s parents. Flauto asked her followers to share and make the videos go viral.

The student, a 17-year-old senior who said he wished to remain anonymous because he doesn’t want any repercussions from friends who support Salcido, said he had no intention of the video being seen by anyone else and is surprised by all the attention.

“It wasn’t meant for anyone else, but my mom shared it with a few friends and now it’s this,” he said in a phone interview Saturday.

He said he made the recording on Jan. 19 during a U.S. history class taught by Salcido.

The young man, whose father and two uncles are Marine veterans who fought in Afghanistan, Desert Storm and Vietnam, said Salcido went too far when he said those in the military were stupid and only joined as a last resort.

“It was so disrespectful to my dad and my uncles and all veterans and those still in the military,” he said.

With students laughing in the background, Salcido is heard profanely questioning military members’ intelligence and continuing, “They’re not high-level thinkers.”

This is not the first time Salcido, 49, has come under scrutiny for behavior in the classroom.

In May 2012, he was put on paid administrative leave after the Sheriff’s Department received a complaint that he struck a student.

In July 2010, a parent complained that Salcido had threatened his daughter, made inappropriate comments to his summer school class about race and insulted other students and parents, which Salcido denied.

He was suspended until the following fall’s first day of class.

Salcido, who was first elected to the City Council in 1999, stands on the dais with his hands at his side and does not recite the pledge of allegiance along with his colleagues during meetings.

The majority of responses on the Pico Rivera Neighborhood Watch page were against what Salcido said in the videos.

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Michelle Obama

- Michelle is a lawyer and writer who was previously First Lady of the United States, married to Barack Obama

- She was the first African-American First Lady in US history

- She was raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois

- Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis

- Michelle joined a gifted class at Bryn Mawr Elementary School by the sixth grade

- She attended Whitney Young High School, Chicago's first magnet high school, established as a selective enrollment school, where she used her fear of how others would perceive her as motivation to succeed

- She experienced gender discrimination growing up despite her achievements

- Michelle was on the honor roll for four years, took advanced placement classes, was a member of the National Honor Society, and served as student council treasurer; she graduated in 1981 as the salutatorian of her class

- She is a graduate of both Princeton University and Harvard Law School

- At Princeton, her white roommate’s mother (unsuccessfully) tried to have her daughter moved because of Michelle’s race; she said that it was during this time that she became more aware of ethnicity, class, and racial divisions

- She also got involved with Princeton’s Third World Center, an academic and cultural group that supported minority students, running their day care center, which  included after school tutoring as well; she challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational; she wrote a thesis titled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community as part of her graduation requirements

- In July 2008, she accepted the invitation to become an honorary member of the 100-year-old black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, which had no active undergraduate chapter at Princeton when she attended

- At Harvard, Michelle participated in demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who were minorities, and worked for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, assisting low-income tenants with housing cases

- She is the third First Lady with a postgraduate degree

- Following law school, she was an associate at the Chicago office of the law firm Sidley & Austin, working on marketing and intellectual property; she continues to hold her law license, but as she no longer needs it for her work, it has been on a voluntary inactive status since 1993

- In 1991, she held public sector positions in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor, and as Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development

- She became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies, in 1993; she worked there nearly four years and set fundraising records for the organization that still stood 12 years after she left

- Michelle also worked as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed its Community Service Center, and as the Vice President for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center

- She campaigned actively during her husband’s presidential runs, delivering speeches at the 2008 and 2012 Democratic National Conventions; she returned again to the DNC in 2016 to speak on behalf of presidential candidate and fellow First Lady Hillary Clinton

- During his campaigns, she also spoke openly about race, education, and motherhood

- As First Lady, Michelle became a role model for women, in addition to an advocate for poverty awareness and nutrition

- She also became a fashion icon

- During her early months as First Lady, she visited homeless shelters and soup kitchens, in addition to sending representatives to schools and advocating public service

- She hosted a White House reception for women's rights advocates in celebration of the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 Pay equity law

- In 2006, Essence listed her among "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women”

- Vanity Fair listed her among "10 of the World's Best Dressed People” in 2007

- In 2009, Michelle was named Barbara Walters's Most Fascinating Person of the year

- She advocated on behalf of military families, helped working women balance career and family, encouraged national service, and promoted the arts and arts education

- She was an honorary guest at Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball as a "young'un" paying tribute to the “Legends” who helped pave the way for African-American women

- In 2010, she took her first solo visit to a nation and traveled to Mexico to speak to young students, encouraging them to take responsibility for their futures; she is a believer in success coming from unlikely places, and not discrediting underprivileged people 

- She was actively involved in community events in foreign countries, and it was said that she advanced her husband’s foreign policy and relations

- Among many things, she has been known for wearing clothes by African designers such as Mimi Plange, Duro Olowu, Maki Oh, and Osei Duro, and styles such as the Adire fabric

- In 2012, Michelle and her husband were awarded the Jerald Washington Memorial Founders' Award by the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV), which is the highest honor given to homeless veteran advocates; she was awarded it again alongside Jill Biden in 2015

- She joined the campaign to bring back school girls who had been kidnapped in Nigeria in 2014, utilizing the campaign hashtag #bringbackourgirls

- She extended organic efforts in the White House by planting the White House Kitchen Garden, the first White House vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt served as First Lady; she also installed bee hives on the South Lawn of the White House; the garden supplied organic produce and honey to the First Family and for state dinners and other official gatherings

- She created and took charge of the administration-wide initiative Let’s Move! to reverse progress in the child obesity trend

- Michelle has consistently been an open advocate for LGBT rights, opposing constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and promoting equality for everyone

- In 2017, during an appearance at the Partnership for a Healthier America conference, she rebuked the Trump administration for its delay of a federal requirement designed to increase the nutritional standards for school lunches

- Also this year, she called for tech companies to add women for the diversifying of their ranks while attending the WWDC in Silicon Valley, California; she honored Eunice Shriver at the 2017 ESPY Awards; she delivered an address at the tech conference in Utah charging the Trump administration with having a fearful White House; she appeared in a video for the Global Citizens Festival advocating more attention to giving young girls an education; she attended the Inbound 2017 conference in Boston; she cited a lack of diversity in politics with contributing to lawmakers being distrusted by other groups at the Philadelphia Conference for Women; she discussed gender disparity in attitudes with Elizabeth Alexander while at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago; and she spoke at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut

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Former Mayor Bill Stortz with Santa

As the year draws to a close and the news cycle continues to reset every day, let’s pause and look at some of images of Bristol from 2017.

Shamrock Road Race

471 North Main Street

Superintendent of Schools Ellen Solek

99 Main St. Bristol, CT 06010

Lynn M. Buthe

Central CT Chambers of Commerce

Photo (c) Imagekind

Professional Young Visionaries of Tomorrow

File photo

Photo (c) Historic Buildings of Connecticut

Former Bristol Mayor Bill Stortz talks with parents of Bristol Eastern High School

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New England Carousel Museum

Bristol City Hall

Mayor Ken Cockayne with Ben Carson

Submitted

Bristol Eastern High School Band and Choir

Bristol Republican Party headquarters at 425 North Main Street

Rt. 6 Farmington Ave. Eastbound

Jaymie Bianca

Santa Sunday, New England Carousel Museum

From left to right: Josh Medeiros, Vice President of the Memorial Boulevard Cultural Center, Chris Borucki, Project Sales Manager/Technician at Wesson Energy, Bristol Mayor Kenneth Cockayne, Raquel Kennedy, President of Victory Energy Solutions, and Violette Radomski of Eversource Energy.

Submitted

Photo (c) Bristol Economic Development

Veterans Strong Community Center Bristol CT.

Peter B. Kelley

2016 contest winners

Donna Ptak

Emily Bourassa (second from left) is shown with staff from the breast center including (from left): Clinical Coordinator and Breast Health Navigator Kathy Albano, RN, BSN, CN-BN, and Secretaries Jessica Rossomando and Cherie Granger.

Radio Shack Bristol located at Bristol Commons, 77 Farmington Avenue.

Anthony D’Amato

Brian’s Angels

Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union located in Walmart Market

Ken Cockayne

Eric Carlson

Connecticut House Republicans

Chelsea O’Donnell

Paint Nights Hosted by Freddy at the T-salon Cafe House. Art Instructors provided by The Studio.

File Photo

Harry C. Barnes Memorial Nature Center

Pictured from left to right: Captain Edward Spyros, Officer Michael Marino, Officer Andrew Boretsky and Mayor Kenneth Cockayne.

Bristol ARC Jerome Ave. Bristol CT.

Memorial Boulevard School

2014 Home and Business Expo

Photo (c) Bristol Fire Department

Representative student leaders from Guildford DAY and Guilford High School, from left Anthony Slate, Danielle Ott, Gabby Palumbo, and Eryk Derda, spoke against legalizing recreational marijuana at the StopPotCT press conference on March 7 at the State Capitol in Hartford.

“All Heart” Marketing Billboard. Photo (c) Bristol Development Authority

81 N Main St. Bristol

Latin Cravings 375 N Main St, Bristol, CT

David Mills City Council 3rd District Candidate. Dave Mills was a three-sport athlete at both Bristol High and Bristol Eastern High Schools, playing football, basketball and baseball. Photo (c) Bristol Sports Hall of Fame

Former Associated Market 15 Memorial Boulevard Bristol CT. 06010

Cumberland Farms Rt. 72 Bristol CT.

Eric Carlson candidate for City Council in the First District (R)

Bristol Police Complex

Photo (c) Bristol Police

Mecheal Hamilton

Bristol Boys & Girls Club

Main Street section of the former mall site Bristol Hospital purchased

The front view of Bristol Hospital’s proposed ambulatory center on the corner of Riverside Ave. Ext. and Main Street.

Former mall site

45th Annual Bristol Tramps Sports Reunion

Indian Rock Nature Preserve

Photo (c) Bristol Police

Walgreens isn’t saying which stores will close. Walgreens has 58 stores in Connecticut and Rite-Aid has 77 stores in the State.

Pictured from left to right: Joseph Vitale of Covanta. Lt. Richard Guerrera and Chief Brian Gould of the Bristol Police Department. Commissioner Elizabeth Phelan from the City of Bristol’s Water Commission. Kevin Rousseau and Mary Ruder of Covanta. Photo (c) Bristol Police Department

New Work ‘N Gear retail store in Bristol Plaza

Laura and Craig Minor helping out at For Goodness Sake Bristol

Josh Medeiros

A Look Inside: Imagine Nation Classroom

Julian Galindez 2016 Youth of the Year

Andrew Howe

Firefly Hollow Brewery 139 Center Street. Bristol, Connecticut

Rt. 6, at Farmington Ave and Stafford Ave. Bristol

Christina Baker Kline

Bristol GOP slate 2017

Photo (c) Historic Buildings of Connecticut

Photo (c) Ron Tessman 2017 Mum Festival Parade

ictured left to right: Connor Feeney Wallace, Trey Frechette, John Duncan, Jake Leone, Lead Advisor Officer George Franek, Ally McMahon, Justin Seamour, Isaiah Bernazal and Matt Faggaini.

Dr. Josh Medeiros City Council Candidate for District One (D)

Special Olympics Connecticut 2017

Bristol Senior Center

Bristol Police

Congressman John B. Larson

Brittany Barney and the Democratic slate for 2017

Bristol Police Department

New Cambridge Apartments

Walter Hushak of Southington

Photo (c) Blue Dragons 2016 Nutmeg State Games Weigh Lifting Competition

Richard Kriscenski

NNMA Domestic Violence Awareness Basketball Tournament 2017

The Wildcat wooden roller coaster at Lake Compounce

Coppermine Village

Bristol Police Department

St. Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol, Inc.

Diane Waldron

Whit Betts

For Goodness Sake

Political yard sign in front of the former BCO on South Street

Photo (c) Historic Buildings of Connecticut

FOCUS Center for Autism in Canton

Photo (c) Bristol Police Department

Birge Pond Bristol CT.

72 Maple Street Bristol Connecticut

2 Divinity St, Bristol, CT.

Car Show

City Hall plague of current Mayor Ken Cockayne

Students at the Fresh Start School for adolescents affected by Autism sing the National Anthem at the June 21st ceremony held at the Canton Community Baptist Church honoring the first graduating class.

Palma’s Diner 100 Stafford Ave, Bristol, CT 06010 [phone] palmasdinerct.com

Special Olympics Of Connecticut

Bristol Connecticut – Welcome to my House YouYube video

Richard Theriault Photo (c) Jayne Marra

NNMA Domestic Violence Awareness Basketball Tournament 2017

Southside School Bristol

99 Main St. Bristol, CT 06010

Bristol American Legion Post 2 Motorcycle Ride Raised Funds For Youth Week

Submitted

New England Carousel Museum

Photo (c) Heat For Heroes

1192 Burlington Avenue.

Fire Fly Brewing 139 Center Street Bristol, Connecticut 06010.

Detectives Robert Osborne, Ryan Kulig and Chief Brian Gould.

Former Marinellis Supper Club

A logo sign outside of the headquarters of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut on November 21, 2015. Photo by Kristoffer Tripplaar *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***

457 Mason Jar 457 N Main St, Bristol, CT 06010

The honorary event co-chairs for the 2017 Bristol Hospital Ball are (from left): Margarita Reyes, MD, and Josephine Torno, MD.

Bristol Police Complex

Photo (c) Connecticut Lifestyles

Photo (c) Historic Buildings of Connecticut

St. Paul Catholic High School

Newly elect Mayor Ellen Zoppo-Sassu Photo (c) Calvin Brown

Cheryl Thibeault, Republican running for City Council in the Third District

99 Main St. Bristol, CT 06010

Walmart Bristol CT. Photo (c) Hive Mind

Jonmeshia White

Ellen Zoppo-Sassu

Student Robotics competition File photo

Jodi Zils Gagne Council member in the 2nd District.

Cortlandt Hull’s great aunt, actress Josephine Hull on the Warner Brothers set of “Arsenic & Old Lace” with Cary Grant, directed by Frank Capra.

Yearbook photo

2016 United Way’s “Day of Caring” at the Bristol Adult Resource Center BARC

Covanta Holdings Corp. owns trash-to-energy plant in Bristol

Fresh Worx

Photo (c) Seacoast Kids Calendar

The rear view of Bristol Hospital’s proposed ambulatory center on the corner of Riverside Ave. Ext. and Main Street.

Postcard displaying Main Street before redevelopment.

Mayor Ellen Zoppo-Sassu

Brian’s Angels

Chippanee Country Club

Doubletree Hotel Bristol CT.

Photos via ESPN Images

State Senator Henri Martin (R-31) and Representative William A. Petit, Jr. (R-22)

Pictured from left to right: Detective Michael Brasche, Explorers Kaitlyn Spann, Connor Fenney-Wallace and Officer Craig O’Connor.

Frankie’s of Bristol

Photo (c) Ron Tessman

New Firehouse Subs at Pier One Imports Plaza across the street from Bristol Plaza on Rt. 6.

he Church of the Eternal Light on Chippens Hill. Photo (c) Raymond Shaw

Barnes Nature Center

St. Philip House

Photo (c) Bristol Historical Society

Paul and Bond from Negative-G.com head to lake Compounce in Bristol Conneticut to experience the Boulder Dash Mountain Coaster. Photo (c) Paul B. Drabek

Bristol Roundup podcasting

61 East Main street Forestville CT. Photo (c)

United Way of West Central Connecticut

Federal Hill Green Bristol Connecticut

Danielle Benoit

Bristol CT. viral fight at Rockwell Park. Photo (c) New York Times

Courtesy photo submitted

Stakeholders gather to celebrate the installation of the emergency generator at the City of Bristol Pound. From L-R seated: Friends officers President Trish Ulin, Vice President Lindsey Rivers and Secretary Ellen Zoppo-Sassu. From L-R standing: Animal Control Officer Ray Zagorski, City of Bristol Facilities Director Dave Oakes, Animal Control Officer Brian Skinner, Alec Dill, O.J. Mann Electric Services, Bill Thomas, The Home Depot Store Manager in Bristol, Bryan Austin, City of Bristol custodial staff, and City Councilman David Preleski who serves on the Building Committee, along with Council members Dave Mills and Jodi Zils-Gagne who were unable to attend.

Former school on Chippens Hill

Kay Jewelers Rt. 6 Bristol CT.

New York Deli 257 Main St, Bristol, CT 06010

Photo (c) City of Bristol

David Preleski incumbent City Councilor for the Second District

2016 Award Recipients

Photos (c) Jordaan DiYulio & Cat Boyce

Mike Uchalid

Mark Halliday, Assisted Living Services/Assisted Living Technologies Community Liaison; veterans Bob Boucher and Roberto Gagliardi of Wallingford; Attorney Henry Weatherby, and veteran Bob Fortino of North Branford, at the Veteran’s Coffee House monthly gathering on August 29th at the Wallingford Senior Center.

Shown with the winning entry is (from left): Dr Sai Varanasi; Kathy Albano; Jayne Baczewski and Al Lamptey.

United Way of West Central CT

Bristol Soccer Club

Former New Departure Plant

Maria Brandriff

Todd Therrien

Mayor Cockayne

Photo (c) NPR

Simsbury Chamber of Commerce

Bristol Police Explorer Post 111, Chief Brian Gould and Mayor Ellen Zoppo- Sassu.

Photo (c) Bristol Police

Barnes Nature Center

Potential new leased City hall at 10 Main Street.

Bristol Police Department

Bristol Stomp bandstand early days

Professional Young Visionaries of Tomorrow

Miya Spinella (Left) Chelsea O’Donnell (right) Submitted photo

Mike Beattie

Photo (c) Carpenter Companies

Rep. Ben Ray Luján

Senator Henri Martin (R-31) touring South Park Inn

Shown from left to right are: President and CEO Kurt A. Barwis, FACHE; Professional Development Coordinators Valerie Varanelli, BSN, RN, and Kristin Waterman, MSN, RN; Nancy LaMonica, MSN, MHA, RN, PCCN, NEA-BC, director of clinical excellence, professional practice and Magnet; and Chris Ann Meaney, DNP, MHA, RN-BC, NE-BC, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer.

Bristol Fire Department

Pet Valu 594 Farmington Ave, Bristol, CT 06010

F. N. Manross Memorial Library

File photo

Walgreens isn’t saying which stores will close. Walgreens has 58 stores in Connecticut and Rite-Aid has 77 stores in state.

2015 Award Recipients

Pam Patterson Director of Marketing, For Goodness Sake, Inc.

Family Sunday Create-a-Cutout

New Cumberland Farms on Rt. 72 at Pine Street and Emmett Street Bristol

Bristol Police Department

Former Bristol Centre Mall site

New Town homes being built on Burlington Avenue

Photo (c) Bristol Police

465 North Main Street

Connecticut House Republicans

Pink’s Hot Dog located in Lake Compounce

St.Stanislaus Church in Bristol

Photo (c) FOCUS Center for Autism

Brian’s Angels Homeless Outreach

Morris “Rippy” Patton

Photo (c) NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut PAC

Mark Thomas, Marketing and Public Relations Specialist

Ron Goralski

Heroin, Oxycodone and firearms found with

Forestville Center

Carousel Art Contest for Children

  As the year draws to a close and the news cycle continues to reset every day, let's pause and look at some of images of Bristol from 2017. As the year draws to a close and the news cycle continues to reset every day, let's pause and look at some of images of Bristol from 2017.

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CRAWFORD: WOLF PACK WEEKLY: February 24-March 1, 2020

BY: Bob Crawford, Hartford Wolf Pack HARTFORD, CT - The Wolf Pack (30-14-6-5, 71 pts.) finished the week one point out of first place in the Atlantic Division, after a 4-1 win at Bridgeport Sunday, in the last of three games on the weekend.  J-F Berube made 17 saves to bank his first Wolf Pack win in that game, and Tim Gettinger (first pro SHG) and Nick Jones had a goal and an assist apiece.  The Wolf Pack began the weekend with a 4-1 defeat in Springfield on Friday night and then battled back from 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 deficits at home against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on Saturday night, to earn a standings point in a 4-3 overtime loss.  Vinni Lettieri and Vitali Kravtsov had a goal and an assist each in that game. For the latest AHL standings, click here. This week: It’s another full three-game slate for the Wolf Pack this weekend.  The team heads to Binghamton on Friday night for a 7:05 battle with the Devils and then returns to Bridgeport on Saturday night to rematch with the Sound Tigers at 7:00.  The Wolf Pack is then back home on Sunday, hosting the Providence Bruins at 3:00. Friday, February 28 at the Binghamton Devils (New Jersey) at the Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, 7:05 PM This is the last of four meetings on the year between the Wolf Pack and the Devils, and Hartford has swept the first three, including a 4-3 overtime win October 19 in the Wolf Pack’s only previous visit to Binghamton. The Devils started their season 9-17-4-0 in their first 30 games, but since Christmas, they have gone 18-7-0-0 in 25 contests, to climb to within three points of a playoff spot in the North Division, at 27-24-4-0 for 58 points. Binghamton rookie goaltender Gilles Senn is 7-1-0 in his last eight appearances, with a 1.74 goals-against average, a 94.2% save percentage and one shutout over that span. Broadcast – live online at https://www.iheart.com/live/fox-sports-1430-3544/.  Video streaming at ahllive.com. Saturday, February 29 at the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (Islanders) at Webster Bank Arena, 7:00 PM This is the Wolf Pack’s second visit to Bridgeport in less than a week and the fourth time of the season.  After Sunday’s 4-1 road win over the Sound Tigers, the Wolf Pack are 6-1-0-0 in the season series, 2-1-0-0 on the road. Josh Ho-Sang had Bridgeport’s only goal in Sunday’s Wolf Pack-Sound Tigers tilt, his third in 16 games on the season and the Sound Tigers’ fourth power-play goal in their last two games. Sunday’s loss to the Wolf Pack dropped the Sound Tigers to 0-3-0-1 in their last four games and to below .500 at home, 11-12-2-2. Broadcast – live with Bob Crawford on-line at hartfordwolfpack.com.  Video streaming at theahl.com/AHLTV. Sunday, March 1 vs. the Providence Bruins (Boston) at the XL Center, 3:00 PM This is another chance to take advantage of the Wolf Pack’s “Click It or Ticket Hat Trick Pack”.  The Hat Trick Pack includes two tickets, two sodas, and a large popcorn, all for just $40. The Wolf Pack will celebrate their mascot Sonar’s birthday at this game, with a number of the lovable wolf’s mascot friends in attendance. Fans are encouraged to bring their skates to this game, for a free post-game twirl on the XL Center ice. The Bruins come into this week on a 5-0-1-0 run, and 11-3-2-1 in their last 17 games, and trail the Wolf Pack by three points in the Atlantic Division playoff race. Veteran Bruin forward Brendan Gaunce (16-15-31 in 45 GP) has goals in four of Providence’s last five games (5-2-7) and points in six straight (5-3-8). The Wolf Pack have won their last five head-to-head battles with the Bruins and are 6-0-0-1 on the season against Providence, 3-0-0-0 at home. Tickets for this game, and all 2019-20 Wolf Pack home games, are on sale now at the Sunwave Gas & Power Ticket Office at the XL Center, on-line at hartfordwolfpack.com and by phone at [phone].  Tickets purchased in advance for kids 12 or younger start at just $10 each, and all tickets will have a $3 day-of-game increase. Broadcast – live with Bob Crawford and Mark Bailey on-line at hartfordwolfpack.com.  Video streaming at theahl.com/AHLTV. Wolf Pack Community Appearances: The Wolf Pack have the following appearances scheduled this week.  For further information on these, or any other Wolf Pack community initiatives, contact Wolf Pack community relations manager Frank Berrian, at [phone]: Tuesday, February 25, 7:00-8:30 PM, Buffalo Wild Wings, 1267 Silas Deane Hwy., Wethersfield, CT The Wolf Pack are throwing a Rangers “watch party” at Buffalo Wild Wings, and Wolf Pack players Danny O’Regan, Darren Raddysh, Vincent LoVerde, Adam Huska, Libor Hajek, and Ryan Dmowski are scheduled to be on hand, along with the Wolf Pack’s iconic mascot, Sonar, to watch the Rangers’ game against the Islanders.  Fans can get autographs and take pictures and will be automatically entered to win prizes just by showing up. Saturday, February 29, 10:30 AM, Crystal Lake, 144 Prout Hill Rd., Middletown, CT Sonar cheers on those “freezin’ for a reason” in the annual Special Olympics Connecticut “Penguin Plunge”. Recent Transactions: Joey Keane – recalled from the Wolf Pack by the New York Rangers, and traded to Carolina, February 18. Jean-Francois Berube – loaned to the Wolf Pack by the New York Rangers, after being acquired in a trade from Philadelphia, February 19. Tom McCollum – traded by the Wolf Pack to Lehigh Valley on February 20. Lewis Zerter-Gossage – recalled by the Wolf Pack from Maine (ECHL), and traded to Lehigh Valley, February 20. Pack Tracks: Saturday, March 7, when the Wolf Pack host the Hershey Bears at 7:00, is Military Appreciation Night at the XL Center.  The Wolf Pack will be paying tribute to all veterans and active-duty military for their service to our country, and the first 2,000 fans will take home a free Wolf Pack reversible drink koozie, courtesy of CT-DOT. Each of the Wolf Pack’s Sunday and Wednesday home games feature the Wolf Pack’s “Click It or Ticket Hat Trick Pack”.  The Hat Trick Pack includes two tickets, two sodas, and a large popcorn, all for just $40.  After this Sunday, the next Hat Trick Pack game is Wednesday, March 11, a 7:00 battle with the Providence Bruins. In partnership with the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the Wolf Pack is offering “Suit to Sweater Wednesdays”, to wash away the mid-week work blues.  Any fan showing a company ID at the Sunwave Gas & Power Ticket office can purchase Blue-Level tickets to Wolf Pack Wednesday home games for only $15 each (limit two tickets per ID).  The Wolf Pack’s next Wednesday home date is March 11, when the Providence Bruins invade the XL Center for a 7:00 game. Once again this season, fans can enjoy $1 hot dogs, and $2 draft beers and fountain sodas, at every Friday Wolf Pack home game, through the start of the second period, presented by Nomads Adventure Quest.  The Wolf Pack’s next Friday-night home outing is March 6, when they entertain the Hershey Bears in a 7:15 PM game. Wolf Pack home game tickets can be purchased at the Sunwave Gas & Power Ticket Office at the XL Center, on-line at hartfordwolfpack.com and by phone at [phone].  Tickets purchased in advance for kids 12 or younger start at just $10 each, and all tickets will have a $3 day-of-game increase. To speak with a Wolf Pack representative about season or group tickets, or any of the Wolf Pack’s many ticketing options, call [phone], or click here to request more info.  To visit the Wolf Pack online, go to hartfordwolfpack.com. TRACK THE PACK ONLINE AT HARTFORDWOLFPACK.COM Read the full article

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What to Eat Leading up to a Marathon

The vice president and general manager at Nexstar Media in Connecticut, Richard J. Graziano drives audience numbers across multiple platforms and increases profitability for the business. Outside of work, Richard “Rich” Graziano enjoys an active and healthy lifestyle. He is passionate about cooking and has participated in several marathons. Most marathoners, whether they are beginners or veterans, think about what they should eat before each race. This is because nutrition plays a huge role in overall marathon success. A day before their marathon, runners should eat a normal, balanced meal accompanied by plenty of fluids, particularly for those that are high in electrolytes, to keep the body comfortable leading up to the race, while still making sure it’s properly fueled. As the race nears, runners must begin eating every two to three hours. Each small meal must consist of light and easily digestible foods. For instance, small sandwiches and energy bars are perfect options, while nuts, dairy products, and fried foods must be avoided due to their ability to leave the body feeling bloated. Finally, the morning of the race, runners need a small meal about three hours before the start time. It’s best if this breakfast is light and consists of easy-to-digest foods, like peanut butter on bread. To accompany this, runners can drink room-temperature water and some fluid with electrolytes.

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The 2020 WNBA free agency period is going to change the league as we know it

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Four WNBA All-Stars have already moved teams, and the league looks stacked heading into the 2020 season. But there will be consequences, too.

During the first four days of the open signing period for WNBA free agents, four all-stars went elsewhere to create six stacked title contenders. That could usher in the most competitive season in the league’s 23-year history.

This winter’s chaos is all thanks to a new collective bargaining agreement that better facilitated player movement. Offseason buzz surrounding the league that lacks interest outside of the summer months of the season has been a helpful byproduct of it all.

Free agency 2020 is adding drama to a league that’s lacked team and player rivalries for the two decades it’s been around. There’s flexibility in offseason negotiations, forcing teams to make tough financial decisions and show players how they’re really valued. The WNBA is finally starting to create the off-court theatrics its NBA counterpart has used to drive year-round interest in the sport.

What caused the change in this free agency period?

Gone are the days where superstars and quality starters make the same paltry salary. Thanks to the new CBA, the maximum player salary rose by nearly $100,000 this offseason for those who qualify for a supermax contract and more than $60,000 for a regular max salary. Players with six years experience in the WNBA or more qualify for the supermax salary, which starts at $215,000 in the first year, and is only eligible for players re-signing with their current teams. (In 2021, player will be eligible with five years experience.)

This means there’s room for stars to actually negotiate, and they can now separate their salaries from those a tier below them. Player agents and teams have had a lot to fight for with the salary cap dramatically spiking by more than 30 percent this winter. Last year, teams were allowed to pay out $996,000 in player salary. In 2020, that has jumped to $1.3 million, a number artificially determined in the new CBA. This entire offseason is unprecedented.

The new world of WNBA possibilities has created tension between teams and their aging or unhappy stars, and required bold franchise decision-making. DeWanna Bonner, a three-time all-star who has played her entire 10-year career with the Phoenix Mercury, chose to leave and compete for the Connecticut Sun, finessing a sign-and-trade deal to allow her to earn the supermax salary and then change teams. Four-time all-star guard Skylar Diggins-Smith, like Bonner, used her leverage to leave the Dallas Wings and play in Phoenix with supermax pay.

On the flip side, the Atlanta Dream chose not to use the core player franchise tag to pay five-time all-star Angel McCoughtry a supermax contract, allowing her to sign with the already-loaded Las Vegas Aces. The defending champion Washington Mystics chose to undercut 33-year-old point guard Kristi Toliver in negotiations, so she chose to leave and get paid three guaranteed years at the maximum salary with the Los Angeles Sparks.

Not only will the 2020 season be stacked with ultra-competitive teams, but there’ll be an additional layer of drama when these players return to play against their old clubs.

Will this offseason movement change the quality of WNBA basketball?

Absolutely. Welcome to the WNBA’s superteam movement. Free agency isn’t over yet, but half of the league can consider itself in title contention.

The Sparks have two MVPs in Candace Parker and Nneka Ogwumike, and two of last year’s All-Stars in Chelsea Gray and Toliver.

The Aces have three of last year’s All-Stars in Liz Cambage, Kayla McBride, and A’ja Wilson, plus 2018 All-Star McCoughtry, and one of the game’s most promising young guards in Kelsey Plum

The Storm have Hall of Fame point guard Sue Bird, 2018 MVP Breanna Stewart, and 2019 All-Stars Jewell Loyd and Natasha Howard

The Mercury have the league’s all-time leading scorer in Diana Taurasi, 2018 All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith, and 2019 All-Star Brittney Griner

The Mystics, last year’s champion, have 2019 MVP Elena Delle Donne, 2019 Finals MVP Emma Meesseman and maybe most promising young backcourt in the league with Ariel Atkins and Natasha Cloud

The Sun, who pushed Washington the distance in last year’s Finals, have 2019 All-Stars DeWanna Bonner, Alyssa Thomas, Jonquel Jones, and maybe Courtney Williams if she re-signs with the club.

There are only 12 teams in the league. Eight of them make the playoffs. Six of those teams will have to play at least one single-elimination game. The season’s only 36 games long.

If everyone stays healthy, the playoff race is going to be intense. The 2020 season is going to feel like no other.

There will be consequences to all this madness, though

Some have compared this offseason to the NBA’s in 2016, where major salaries were doled out as the salary cap went through a one-time spike of nearly 35 percent. That ended with notoriously brutal contracts, like Timofey Mozgov’s four-year, $64 million deal with the Lakers, Ian Mahinmi’s same contract with the Wizards, and many more.

The WNBA is going to have a number of those as well, as the cap will not be smoothed in. Instead, it rose $304,000 (a jump of more than 30 percent) from 2019. After that, the rises will dramatically even out. The cap will go up by just $39,000 in 2021 and $40,200 the year after. The one-year cap jump of $304,000 is more than the totality of the raises that’ll take place over the seven years after that.

We don’t know which contracts will look silly, but we can guess. Bria Hartley, a guard who averaged just 10 points on 38 percent shooting with the New York Liberty last year, was signed by the Mercury at the same price as 2018 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart, along with an extra guaranteed year, according to Howard Megdal of High Post Hoops. The Sparks signed Toliver to the same contract as Hartley despite the 33-year-old being in the back end of her career and beset by injury for nearly half the 2019 season with the Mystics. The Aces signing McCoughtry to a two-year guaranteed max after she missed the end of 2018 and all of 2019 to knee injuries is also risky.

Star movement should continue in the future, but maybe not how teams want it

The decision not to smooth the salary cap means players lucky enough to be free agents this year will earn more than their normal worth while other All-Stars stay on maximum contracts under the old CBA. Howard, one of last year’s MVP candidates with the Storm, will make less money than Hartley. So will the 37-year-old Taurasi, arguably the best point guard of all time. The varied mix of new and old CBA contracts have temporarily allowed for the stacking of superstars.

But don’t expect this trend to continue. Next season, the salary cap will rise by just $39,000, which is just three percent of the current cap. Yet the WNBA still works under a hard cap, meaning teams can’t sign their own free agents above the salary cap like they can in the NBA. More movement is to come, but maybe not the kind of movement fans will want.

Star players will need to be paid, and many teams will have trouble doing it while staying under the cap. For example, should Cambage sign for the supermax, the Aces will have her contract, Dearica Hamby’s max under the old CBA, and McCoughtry’s max contract total 40 percent of the cap in 2021. Retaining both McBride and Plum as free agents will be nearly impossible, especially with Wilson eligible for a supermax deal the summer after. That’s the balancing act several teams must navigate.

Fans of teams who swung and missed on Bonner, Diggins-Smith, McCoughtry, and Toliver this summer might feel a lot better in a year’s time. Teams stacked with too much talent to pay will have limited places to move them. There are only 12 teams in the league, and most teams are spending away this offseason. That means top talent could be had in the future at a minimal expense.

The WNBA’s middle tier talent should be most worried about its pay

The W is a small league that already excludes incredible talent based on its size alone. While the NBA can give 450 jobs across 30 teams at one time, the WNBA, despite a similar crop of college and overseas talent, can only field 144 players at the most. There are only 12 teams, and each can hold a maximum of 12 players. Now, teams might not even hold that many.

This offseason, teams are spending cap money ferociously on top-tier players. The Mercury and Aces in particular are already showing they’re prepared to stack maximum contract deals. With the hard cap in place, that means they’re not likely to pay market-value deals to flush out their depth with Sixth Woman or quality-level bench types, as they’ll be asking for more than the $68,000 veteran’s minimum. These teams are going to be targeting incoming rookies or vet minimum players. In some cases, teams might only keep 11 players instead of the maximum 12 to save a few bucks.

What happens to quality supporting players like Atlanta’s Alex Bentley or Las Vegas’ Sugar Rodgers now? They won’t get the financial leap the CBA promised superstar players, that’s for sure. Will they find a home at all?

These veteran players are crucial to good teams, but will they accept a pay cut in a system that already undercuts them, or do they just walk away and play overseas? Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, a seven-year vet who started 33 games for Los Angeles last year, is the best example of this dilemma. She re-signed with the Sparks for $90,000 this year, which is just $33,000 more than an incoming rookie.

Not everyone will even get that opportunity, and some might not even want it.

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Reeltown: The baptism of highschool soccer gamers on the 50-yard line in their soccer stadium has drawn complaints from a neighborhood that pushes for separation of church and assert. After greater than two dozen Reeltown High College gamers were baptized on the sphere in November, the Wisconsin-basically based entirely Freedom from Faith Foundation demanded an investigation. “There might perhaps be a sturdy relationship between conservative Protestantism and soccer on the highschool and college stage,” acknowledged Michael Altman, a religious reviews professor on the College of Alabama. Altman acknowledged the Wisconsin neighborhood “is doing its simplest to call consideration to a apply it finds unconstitutional by seeking to settle a local anecdote national.” Tallapoosa County Schools Superintendent Joe Windle urged Al.com he realized no wrongdoing. The baptism became once not conducted by the college, he acknowledged.

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Anchorage: Smoke has risen miles above a volcano on one of many Aleutian Islands, the Alaska Volcano Observatory says. Lava flowed down the facet of Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island on Saturday, and smoke rose greater than 5 miles high Sunday, Anchorage Day to day Recordsdata reviews. The National Weather Service issued an alert for pilots Sunday, as plumes were recorded 30,000 feet in elevation and lengthening as a lot as 90 miles east. The volcano observatory tweeted unhurried Sunday that the ash emissions ended about 8: 30 p.m. The very finest island on the Aleutian chain, Unimak is 120 miles northeast of Unalaska Island and about 700 miles west of Anchorage. The identical volcano erupted two weeks ago, officers stammer. The volcano became once unruffled except seismic task elevated Friday, says geologist Tim Orr of the volcano observatory.

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Phoenix: The assert has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve a lawsuit by a ragged corrections officer who alleged his coworkers and supervisors over and over harassed him over his space as a transgender man. The lawsuit, which became once tentatively settled Thursday, alleged colleagues veteran derogatory terms to talk over with the officer and build his security at menace by revealing to inmates that he had gone via a gender transition. The officer, who filed the lawsuit below a pseudonym consequently of security and privacy considerations, alleged that the Division of Corrections replied inadequately to his complaints and that the harassment continued after he became once transferred to but every other facility. Unable to tolerate the harassment, the officer resigned in 2016 after working practically 11 years in assert prisons in Florence and Douglas, in accordance to the suit.

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Fayetteville: CLL16 – a novel high-yield, prolonged-grain Clearfield rice diversity developed by the College of Arkansas Gadget Division of Agriculture – will be on hand to rice growers from Horizon Ag in 2021. Karen Moldenhauer, professor and rice breeder for the Division of Agriculture’s Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Suppose, says CLL16 has incredible rough rice yields, averaging 205 bushels per acre, a itsy-bitsy greater than Diamond, which averages 204 bushels per acre. CLL16 is proof against blast in Arkansas increasing stipulations, Moldenhauer says. It has demonstrated factual milling yields, averaging 63% total kernel and 69% total milled rice for samples from Arkansas Rice Efficiency Trials across the assert.

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Oakland: Homeless moms who were evicted final week from a apartment the build they were squatting plan to switch help after speculators agreed to sell the property to a nonprofit organization, it became once announced Monday. Wedgewood Inc. will sell the dwelling to the Oakland Community Land Belief, which buys and fixes up property for cheap housing. The neighborhood plans to permit females from the neighborhood Mothers 4 Housing to advance, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced. The city helped negotiate the settlement with the land have faith and Wedgewood after a public outcry following the evictions. “Right here's what occurs after we arrange, when of us advance together to invent the loved neighborhood,” Dominique Walker of Mothers 4 Housing acknowledged in a press release on the vacation honoring civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr. “Nowadays we honor Dr. King’s radical legacy by taking Oakland help from banks and companies.” Wedgewood also agreed to work with the town to barter an even-of-first-refusal program for all its other Oakland properties, a city assertion acknowledged.

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Denver: A sheriff’s deputy who became once pulled over by assert troopers whereas using three prisoners in a transport van has been charged with traffic offenses including reckless endangerment, authorities acknowledged Monday. Denver Sheriff Division Deputy James Grimes became once charged following an investigation into the alleged aggressive using incident, the Colorado Suppose Patrol acknowledged. Grimes and the motive force of a second vehicle were allegedly racing inner and exterior of traffic as they traveled northbound on Interstate 25 on Thursday whereas below observation by a assert patrol airplane. Grimes faces extra charges of reckless using and rushing in a construction zone. Grimes and but every other deputy who became once with him within the prisoner van were reassigned and positioned on leave pending an inner investigation, the Denver Sheriff Division acknowledged in a press release.

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Hartford: Suppose lawmakers plan to resurrect a bipartisan proposal that attempts to support older workers who in overall face age discrimination when seeking employment. The invoice would limit employers from requiring a job applicant to checklist their date of birth and college commencement years, files that exhibits a employee’s age even supposing attainable employers are not allowed to anticipate about age at some level of interviews. Supporters acknowledged the guidelines is aimed at addressing the discrimination older online job candidates in overall face. West Hartford Sen. Derek Slap, a Democrat, acknowledged this switch also can stage the playing field for older workers in Connecticut and “give them but every other after they get into the utility task to get that interview and invent a case.” Slap acknowledged Connecticut has the sixth-oldest crew within the U.S. Contemporary U.S. Census Bureau files existing greater than a quarter of the assert’s crew is over age 54.

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Dover: Legislation aimed at settling a minor controversy appealing dogs and eating institutions has passed the assert Rental of Representatives with out a dissenting vote and now goes to the Senate for consideration. The invoice has tall bipartisan increase, with greater than a third of the Total Assembly sponsoring or co-sponsoring the measure. Rental Bill 275 specifies that the proprietor of a meals institution also can impartial allow leashed dogs within the industry’ out of doors patio apartment or beer backyard, no matter any assert regulation to the opposite. The Delaware Division of Public Health inadvertently sparked controversy final summer season when it took a renewed ardour in an existing assert regulation that prohibits pets in meals institutions, including in out of doors areas. The ban does not word to provider animals.

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Washington: A local startup is betting the skies are the diagram forward for meals transport without a transport costs, no guidelines, and no worries for rumbling stomachs hoping to lead definite of getting so hungry that the feeling turns to exasperate, WUSA-TV reviews. Shehan Weeraman and Slash Adimi named their company Hangry after becoming pissed off and enraged by homemade meals. “We bought truly inactive to cook, and we appropriate decided to mutter plenty,” Weeraman says. “We realized we were paying fancy $10, infrequently extra, for transport that might perhaps presumably presumably settle us infrequently over an hour to advance.” The engine that drives this enterprise is a drone with a basket linked by a rope to the underside. Hangry plans to partner with apartment restaurants and other institutions to notify its products. Users would be in a position to meet the pilotless airplane at a designated fall build, then scan a QR code to settle up their meals.

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West Palm Sea lunge: Invasive iguanas burrowing into the gentle dirt round an getting older dam beget payment the town $1.8 million in emergency repairs. Workers noticed final year that water became once seeping around the edges of a many years-historic weir that controls water transport in West Palm Sea lunge, the Palm Sea lunge Submit reviews. South Florida’s inexperienced iguana population has exploded since the final prolonged frigid spell in 2010 decreased their numbers. They’ve change into snide for nuisance pool pooping and munching on ornamental landscapes, giving upward thrust to a cottage industry of iguana-elimination experts. They're also becoming a field for companies to blame of managing the a good deal of miles of canals that channel water all via South Florida, says William Kern, an associate professor within the entomology and nematology department on the College of Florida’s Citadel Lauderdale Learn and Education Heart.

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Atlanta: One of Republican Brian Kemp’s first acts as governor eager revamping the assert’s handling of sexual harassment complaints and inserting Suppose Inspector Total Deborah Wallace to blame of the problem. Kemp now wants to enlarge Wallace’s self-discipline of job, including $435,182 to fund five novel positions in his proposed fiscal 2021 finances, in accordance to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Kemp’s finances proposal must be permitted by lawmakers. The expansion, which might perhaps presumably presumably symbolize a 43% finances invent greater for the minute company, comes as other assert companies are being requested to super their budgets amid a revenue shortfall. Kemp also proposed an extra $250,000 in basically the most modern year’s finances, because the company already caused novel team to contend with complaints.

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Honolulu: A individual suspected of stabbing a girl and killing two police officers final weekend wandered his neighborhood recording of us with a camera mounted on his hat and rigged a barbecue grill to blow thick smoke straight into neighbors’ dwelling windows, a licensed legitimate for residents acknowledged. Jaroslav “Jerry” Hanel, a handyman who lived within the dwelling in exchange for his work and faced eviction, stabbed a girl within the leg Sunday sooner than he fired on responding authorities, killing Honolulu Police Officers Tiffany Enriquez and Kaulike Kalama, police acknowledged. A fireplace at Hanel’s self-discipline then unfold via a veritably unruffled neighborhood on the a long way close of the vital Waikiki Sea lunge neighborhood. “It became once barely definite he became once out of put off watch over,” acknowledged attorney David Hayakawa, who represented three neighbors in acquiring restraining orders against Hanel. Police beget acknowledged Hanel is missing, and they’re practically definite he’s inner the burned apartment.

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Boise: A lawmaker says that Rooster Dinner Avenue in southwestern Idaho is a historic identify and that he's antagonistic to an animal security neighborhood’s seek files from to rename it. Republican Salvage. Scott Syme on Monday launched a concurrent resolution urging fellow lawmakers to enhance the present identify. Concurrent resolutions attain not need the signature of the governor and don’t beget the flexibility of guidelines. Folks for the Ethical Remedy of Animals in July requested Caldwell officers to alternate the identify to what it acknowledged is the kinder and extra functional Rooster Avenue. Syme acknowledged the distinctive identify stems from a 1930s resident notorious for her chicken dinners who helped persuade then-Democratic Gov. C. Ben Ross to spice up the road in Canyon County.

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Springfield: Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a guidelines that eliminates driver’s license suspensions for many non-entertaining violations. The Democrat signed the “License to Work Act” final week. It takes attain in July. Pritzker says it will allow tens of hundreds of motorists to beget using privileges reinstated. Meaning extra of us will be in a position to work. “Illinois now acknowledges the true fact that suspending licenses for having too many unpaid tickets, fines and costs doesn’t basically invent a individual pay the invoice, but it completely does imply that folks don’t beget a approach to pay,” Pritzker acknowledged. He acknowledged license suspensions are too harsh a penalty for “a apply that reinforces cycles of instability.” Every year authorities suspend greater than 50,000 licenses belonging to these that can’t come up with the money for to pay tickets, fines and costs. In response to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a leer exhibits 42% of of us who had their licenses suspended lost their jobs.

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Indianapolis: Hoosiers’ electrical energy bills also can upward thrust and a few other assert utilities also can impartial face boundaries in their plans to section out coal-basically based entirely vitality era within the coming years below politically charged guidelines that might perhaps presumably presumably help a struggling Indiana industry. Rental Bill 1414, filed final week by assert Salvage. Ed Soliday, R-Valparaiso, would require Indiana utilities to existing that any plans to shut down a vitality plant are either required by a federal mandate or in any other case within the public ardour. Though the word “coal” does not appear within the language of the invoice, advocates and analysts stammer the guidelines particularly targets coal-burning flowers. The proposed regulatory requirement follows identical but unsuccessful guidelines final year and is raising considerations amongst not simplest environmentalists but additionally some conservatives who look it as heavy-handed favoritism.

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Davenport: City leaders are condemning a apartment proprietor’s snow show depicting a resolve gunning down a snowman wearing a Bernie Sanders shirt and but every other adorned with a Democratic Birthday celebration hat. Mayor Mike Matson acknowledged he’s requested the police chief to envision the show. “My private response is that it’s terribly detrimental and a humiliation to our city,” Matson urged the Quad-City Instances. Rental proprietor Donald Hesseltine laughed off such considerations, announcing he created the show to “mess with” friends who increase Sanders, who's seeking the Democratic nomination for president. “It’s appropriate to invent of us cry I guess,” Hesseltine acknowledged. “They’re crying, so I put off.” The show entails a mannequin topped with a militia helmet that’s keeping a rifle and chainsaw, as smartly as a can of beer. The rifle is pointed towards the Sanders snowman, which has red-dyed snow shut to its head.

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Lawrence: The College of Kansas will shut its College of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, but departments all via the college will stay launch, and students is presumably not affected, in accordance to a school legit. The closing on the close of the educational year will alternate simplest the administrative construction for languages at Kansas, acknowledged John Colombo, intervening time dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The level choices and curriculum is presumably not affected, he acknowledged. Budget problems triggered the closing, The Lawrence Journal-World reviews. One team self-discipline will be lost consequently of the closing. The director and co-director of the college will return to their respective positions inner their tutorial objects, Colombo acknowledged in an electronic mail. The introduction of the college about five years ago did not invent greater enrollment for language departments or elevate tall non-public increase to put off the language programs as anticipated, he acknowledged.

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Henderson: Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear beget teamed up on an effort to enlarge the novel Inexperienced River National Plant life and fauna Refuge in western Kentucky. The 2 leaders on Tuesday announced the approval of federal Duck Rate funding for land acquisition to enlarge the plants and fauna refuge. Duck Stamps also can very smartly be bought by hunters, conservationists and mark collectors. The stamps present revenue to enhance federal conservation and out of doors recreation. Last November, federal and assert officers announced the plants and fauna refuge’s institution with the acquisition of the first tract – a 10-acre parcel donated by the Southern Conservation Corp. McConnell and Beshear discussed the problem sooner than the novel governor took self-discipline of job. Beshear has since given his approval so “Duck Rate” funding also can very smartly be veteran to enhance land acquisition from willing property sellers to enlarge the refuge.

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Unusual Orleans: Income from meals and drinks has elevated from a novel $1 billion terminal at Louis Armstrong Unusual Orleans International Airport, in accordance to a most modern fable, which also can imply extra flights are added in the end. There became once a 32% invent greater in meals and beverage revenue in November 2019, in comparison to November 2018, The Instances-Picayune/The Unusual Orleans Recommend reviews. The novel terminal opened Nov. 6. A 46% revenue invent greater from ingesting and eating suggestions became once recorded in December 2019, in comparison to the year sooner than. The numbers were included in a fable to the Unusual Orleans Aviation Board final week, airport spokeswoman Erin Burns acknowledged. More non-airline revenue capacity it’s more inexpensive for carriers to fly inner and exterior of the airport, and thus the airport is extra pretty for airways wrathful about including flights, the newspaper reviews.

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Yarmouth: A large elm tree nicknamed Herbie is prolonged gone, but it completely will are dwelling on, consequently of cloned trees being made on hand to the public. At 110 feet and greater than 200 years, Herbie became once the tallest and oldest elm in Unusual England and survived 14 bouts of Dutch elm disease consequently of the devotion of his centenarian caretaker, Frank Knight, the unhurried tree warden of Yarmouth. The duo grew to change into notorious after Knight spent half of his life caring for the tree, which he veritably known as “an historic buddy.” Knight realized he couldn’t assign the town’s elms as they succumbed by the loads to Dutch elm disease. So he centered his efforts on Herbie. Over five many years, Knight oversaw selective pruning of Herbie’s diseased limbs, plus applications of insecticides and fungicides. The tree became once decrease down Jan. 19, 2010, because the 101-year-historic Knight appeared on. Knight died two years later. Nevertheless sooner than Herbie became once chopped down, the Elm Learn Institute in Unusual Hampshire labored with Knight to get some cuttings from Herbie to put off the tree’s legacy with clones. The hope is that Herbie’s descendants might perhaps presumably beget some resistance to Dutch elm disease.

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Salisbury: As rising seas force saltwater farther inland, assert officers are urging local governments, ingesting water suppliers, farmers and others to begin preparing now for a saltier future. Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration in December launched the assert’s first plan to fight saltwater intrusion. The 76-net page fable doesn’t forecast how widely impacts will be felt, citing a scarcity of existing research, but it completely identifies the resources facing the most life like probably menace, rating agriculture on the tip. Wetlands, coastal forests, freshwater streams and aquifers are also in hazard of turning salty, in accordance to the fable. Melting ice on the poles and the ocean’s thermal expansion – both triggered by climate alternate – are inflicting seas to upward thrust across the globe, carrying salt into novel locations above and below ground. Saltwater intrusion is of even greater danger within the Chesapeake Bay blueprint, climate scientists stammer, since the apartment’s land floor is sinking.

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Boston: No Charlie Card required to board these MBTA trains – appropriate about $500 money. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is auctioning off seven vintage subway autos. To invent room for hundreds of news autos coming within the years ahead and to conform with security licensed guidelines, the MBTA eliminates salvageable parts from inoperable trains, then puts the autos up for auction. “The odd autos are sold to the most life like probably bidder, in overall for the scrap steel,” MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo urged The Boston Globe. “Ragged autos are retired after they are now now unable to offering stable and legitimate passenger provider.” Made by Boeing and Kinkisharyo within the early 1970s and ’80s, the autos beget sat indolent for not decrease than three years, in accordance to the auction posting. Bidding for the lot of seven autos – Orange Line subway autos and Inexperienced Line trolley autos – starts at $500. The auction ends Jan. 28.

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Detroit: A national competitors is underway that seeks artists’ proposals for a planned public sculpture launch air the fundamental entrance to the TCF Heart downtown. The Detroit Regional Conference Facility Authority and its Art work Foundation stammer the proposals for the eternal sculpture can't be taller than 30 feet and no greater than 8 feet in diameter. Artists must register for the competitors and are inspired to connect in thoughts bodily placement, field cloth and measurement in their proposals. Subject matters also can impartial replicate definite changes and roar in Detroit and southeastern Michigan, the apartment’s sturdy spirit of innovation and invent, the global impact of Detroit, and the blueprint’s renaissance. Proposals will be reviewed by a jury of expert panelists. The a hit proposal will be awarded a finances of $250,000 to enhance the sculpture’s conceptualization, fabrication and installment. A further $50,000 will move to the a hit artist.

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St. Cloud: Suppose troopers will be carrying greater than 600 kits to give to homeless these that need clothes, meals and toiletries. The Division of Public Safety smooth donations and assembled them into “Care and Toddle” kits. “A host of times of us will give it some idea’s appropriate a metro notify,” acknowledged Booker Hodges, assistant commissioner of guidelines enforcement within the Division of Public Safety. “In greater Minnesota, our troopers attain bump into a form of these that are homeless.” Hodges acknowledged he wished to begin the program within the Division of Public Safety after seeing a identical initiative veteran in Ramsey County for currently launched inmates. Hodges acknowledged he hopes to beget kits in self-discipline by Feb. 1. He acknowledged the “procedure is that every assert trooper might perhaps presumably beget one in his or her squad vehicle.” The kits embody socks, T-shirts, toothpaste, conditioners, hand wipes and female products. Moreover they embody protein bars and water.

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Meridian: The assert can pay $3 million for a fence to put off wild animals off the runways of a militia atrocious. A Navy legit acknowledged the assert’s job-introduction company, Mississippi Construction Authority, has supplied a grant to pay for the barrier at Naval Air Suppose Meridian. The novel chain-hyperlink fence would be constructed inner an existing fence surrounding the atrocious, and the underside of the novel fence will be buried deep, the Meridian Essential individual reviews. Deer, cattle, hogs and coyotes beget reached the property in most modern years, and a farmer reported that a hunter killed a sow shut to the fence final month, acknowledged Jim Copeland, neighborhood planning and liaison officer for the atrocious. Pigs beget a low heart of gravity and can reason a airplane to lose put off watch over within the event that they are hit by the nose wheel, Copeland acknowledged.

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Jefferson City: The assert Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday gutted a voter ID guidelines that has been known as “a solution searching out a field.” In a 5-2 resolution, the court docket cleared the diagram for Missourians to vote with non-photo IDs fancy most modern utility bills and bank statements, as smartly as Missouri faculty IDs, with out having to roar they are who they are saying they are on penalty of perjury. Republican politicians had acknowledged the guidelines combats voter fraud. Learn stammer the roughly fraud voter ID detects is practically nonexistent. Think Mary R. Russell wrote for virtually all Tuesday that the sworn assertion requirement became once “deceptive,” “contradictory” and finally unconstitutional. Two dissenting judges, both appointed by Republicans, argued that the court docket also can fix the problem by editing out “contradictory” language or prohibiting balloting with non-photo ID entirely. Russell known as both ideas “nonsensical.”

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Billings: Federal environmental regulators stammer the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs violated an mutter to repair a public water provide machine serving about 1,300 of us on the Crow Indian Reservation. Environmental Protection Agency officers acknowledged in a letter that the bureau has over and over missed closing dates to total repairs following considerations final spring about attainable water contamination. Last March, a fundamental line on the Crow Agency water machine broke, prompting an advisory for users to boil water or exercise alternate supplies as a precaution. The likelihood became once that loss of rigidity consequently of the road spoil also can beget allowed atrocious water to seep into the machine via cracks and joints. EPA spokeswoman Lisa McClain-Vanderpool says the Bureau of Indian Affairs has executed ample required work that there is just not this kind of thing as an extended an drawing shut public health hazard.

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Waverly: A girl who fell off a bridge whereas stargazing has been transferred from a Lincoln sanatorium to 1 in Omaha, authorities acknowledged. Lindsay Kroger, 37, of rural Lincoln, had gone with five other of us to the bridge about 2 miles southeast of Waverly to assemble on the sky early Sunday morning. She leaned help, pondering there became once a increase portion on the help of her, but as a substitute fell 27 feet to the ice below, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Suppose of job acknowledged. She became once flown to a Lincoln sanatorium after which sent Monday to the Omaha facility.

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Las Vegas: Organizers of a snort of most modern city ordinances affecting the homeless stammer 12 demonstrators were taken into custody. About 100 protesters blocked a downtown avenue Monday to assert their opposition to 2 licensed guidelines that ban camping. That they had tents, sleeping baggage and cardboard boxes. One ordinance prohibits camping on sidewalks if there are on hand beds at a refuge. The second bans sitting or camping on city sidewalks at some level of avenue cleansing hours. Violation of either guidelines also can result in a misdemeanor. Police Lt. Jeff Stuart says a few dozen of us were arrested after they refused to switch from the road. It became once now by hook or by crook identified Tuesday what charges they would presumably presumably face. Opponents of the ordinances were protesting since the first ordinance became once passed in November. Supporters of the measures stammer they are fundamental for public security and sanitation.

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Harmony: The assert is keeping a weeklong social gathering of wine. Unusual Hampshire Wine Week entails the 17th annual Frigid climate Wine Spectacular, which advantages EasterSeals Unusual Hampshire. The match, on Thursday, attracts greater than 1,500 guests who get to sample greater than 1,800 wines. A novel match, “Cellar Notes: An Evening of Wine and Music,” will be held Wednesday evening on the Rex Theater in Manchester. This also can impartial feature a panel discussion and tasting.

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Jackson: An ad within the Waze navigation app is misdirecting motorists headed to Atlantic City’s Borgata Lodge On line casino & Spa into the wilderness of Unusual Jersey’s Pine Barrens, police acknowledged. Jackson Township police posted on Fb that officers in most modern weeks beget had to support motorists who adopted the directions into the Colliers Mills Plant life and fauna Management Rental, the build they grew to change into caught on unpaved roads. “The plants and fauna apartment is constituted of greater than 12,000 acres, mainly positioned in Jackson and Plumsted townships, which is ready 45 miles away from the particular Borgata On line casino in Atlantic City,” police acknowledged. The Borgata is off the Atlantic City Miniature-entry twin carriageway. In response to police, the distance stems from an orange ad logo within the Waze app. The contend with on the ad is upright, police acknowledged, however the build pinned with the ad is completely within the Colliers Mills plants and fauna apartment, police acknowledged. Waze became once working to fix the distance, police acknowledged.

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Santa Fe: The Democrat-led Legislature is hunting for mark novel ways to bolster a lagging public education machine and launch up novel economic opportunities by legalizing leisure marijuana and offering tuition-free faculty education, as a 30-day legislative session begins Tuesday. Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is pushing for mark novel investments in public education that embody $74 million in novel annual basic fund spending on early childhood programs. She’s also calling for the assert to underwrite tuition-free faculty education for residents. A assert scholarship fund from lottery proceeds already covers 60% of in-assert tuition, and not decrease than $35 million is wished to duvet the relaxation plus costs. Portray-surroundings oil manufacturing is producing an economic windfall for assert govt, with assert economists forecasting an $800 million finances surplus.

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Battenville: The assert is planning restoration work on the early childhood dwelling of females’s rights advocate Susan B. Anthony. The dwelling Anthony’s father in-constructed 1833 in Battenville is water-damaged and in rough form. The assert Suppose of job of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation sold the foreclosed property in 2006 but has done itsy-bitsy to put off it. The Albany Instances-Union reviews the company now plans to make investments $700,000 this year on the Greek Revival-fashion apartment the build Anthony lived from age 6 to 19 when her father managed a shut by cotton mill. The legit Susan B. Anthony Museum and Dwelling is in Rochester, the build she lived for 40 years whereas she became once a national resolve within the females’s rights and suffrage high-tail. No plans were developed but for the Battenville apartment, beyond keeping it. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Modification to the U.S. Constitution giving females the pretty to vote, as smartly because the 200th anniversary of Anthony’s birth.

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Raleigh: An appeals court docket on Tuesday upheld the legality of a legislative session Republicans lickety-split known as in December 2016 to push via licensed guidelines that weakened the vitality of incoming Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The unanimous resolution of three judges on the intermediate-stage Courtroom of Appeals affirmed a 2018 trial-court docket ruling that declined to describe as unconstitutional the procedures veteran in calling and passing guidelines at some level of the three-day session. The neighborhood Total Set of dwelling off and a few other electorate who sued in 2017 argued that the rushed session – announced and convened mere hours after but every other legislative session on Typhoon Matthew relief – violated their pretty within the North Carolina Constitution to “convey their representatives.” The GOP-dominated Total Assembly veteran it to pass licensed guidelines that in fragment diluted the governor’s powers.

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Bismarck: A novel settlement between the assert and Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation capacity bighorn sheep also can very smartly be roaming the reservation within the subsequent couple weeks. North Dakota Recreation and Fish director Terry Steinwand says 30 to 40 bighorns will be brought to North Dakota after they are captured on a Montana reservation. They’ll be launched within the Mandaree and Twin Buttes areas. The Bismarck Tribune says the assert-tribal settlement entails a provision for a ram hunting season. Williams says that will rely on how smartly the animals attain in their novel habitat. The pact is the third such settlement between the assert and the tribal nation. The others are twin agreements with MHA Nation in 2008 connected to hunting and fishing entry problems and a 2017 pact with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for an elk hunting season.

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Columbus: The assert Supreme Courtroom has rejected a advice that tools veteran to measure offenders’ suitability for being launched after an arrest be made on hand to all judges as they invent bail selections. Requiring the provide of so-known as menace review tools became once the tip advice of a role power commissioned by the court docket final year to leer Ohio’s bail machine. The tools – there are a few nationally – to find at a diversity of things, including defendants’ age, criminal historical previous and former failures to look, when analyzing what form of bond stipulations must be blueprint. More than 70 courts in Ohio already exercise them. Supporters stammer the tools are a extra pretty approach to leer the two most valuable elements that judges attach in thoughts when surroundings bond: Will the culprit skip out, and can they pose a public security menace if launched? Detractors stammer the tools also can very smartly be racially biased, are dear to smaller courts and improperly override judges’ have experiences in surroundings bond.

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Oklahoma City: A lawmaker is seeking to repeal the assert’s controversial permitless carry guidelines that took attain final year. Salvage. Jason Lowe, D-Oklahoma City, who tried to halt permitless carry from taking attain, filed guidelines to repeal the guidelines that lets in most Oklahomans to support a firearm with out a allow. The guidelines faces rotten odds in Oklahoma’s Republican-managed Legislature, the build majorities in both the Rental and Senate overwhelmingly permitted of permitless carry final year. The Legislature also passed identical guidelines in 2018, which became once vetoed by then-Gov. Mary Fallin. Rental Bill 3357 would repeal the permitless carry guidelines dubbed by supporters as “constitutional carry.”

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Salem: A loved but decaying portion of work constituted of an industrial eyesore faces little, dear suggestions, in accordance to an motion plan from the town. Restoring Eco-Earth, the enormous mosaic tile sculpture at Riverfront Park, would payment an estimated $475,000, and eliminating what became once once an acid ball and repurposing the positioning would ring in at $680,000. “What would that stammer about Salem within the event that they scrapped it?” acknowledged ragged Mayor Roger Gertenrich, who chaired the Eco-Earth project 20 years ago. The neighborhood turned the 25-foot-diameter sad tank from the prolonged-gone Boise Cascade paper mill right into a shiny, one-of-a-kind globe. It once held liquid and chemical gases veteran to cook wood chips into pulp and has been a fixture of the riverfront since 1960, when the tank became once floated up the Willamette River from Portland. Volunteers logged greater than 30,000 hours to remodel it, but greater than 86,000 tiles beget failed, and asbestos has been published below. Eco-Earth’s destiny lies with the Salem Public Art work Commission.

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Greensburg: A protection attorney says he expects to attraction the kill conviction of a one who asserts that his now-deceased twin brother became once the shooter. Jurors in Westmoreland County deliberated for about two hours Friday sooner than convicting 30-year-historic Darrelle Tolbert-McGhee of first-level kill within the taking pictures loss of life of 32-year-historic Michael Wilson. McGhee had asserted that he became once in Florida on the time of the April 2017 slaying in downtown Jeannette. He acknowledged the shooter became once his twin brother, Dwayne, who became once killed in a taking pictures 13 months later in Wilkinsburg. The Tribune-Review reviews that protection attorney Tim Dawson acknowledged he became once shocked by the payment of the choice. “It seems to be, they contented the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that one identical twin dedicated the kill as a substitute of the opposite,” Dawson acknowledged.

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Pawtucket: A girl is taking staunch motion against the town for handcuffing and engaging her 13-year-historic daughter after a fight with but every other scholar, the American Civil Liberties Union says. Tre’sur Johnson, an honors scholar who had no prior disciplinary infractions, became once charged with disorderly behavior and kept in a police net site keeping cell for about an hour final June, ACLU licensed legitimate Shannah Kurland acknowledged at a news conference Monday. The ACLU is representing the girl’s mother, Tiqua Johnson, who's seeking $100,000 for bodily anguish, emotional anguish and other damages. The faculty and police violated assert guidelines that bars the arrest of somebody on misdemeanor charges, Kurland acknowledged. The brief struggle of words at Goff Heart College eager bodily contact, Kurland acknowledged, but neither scholar became once anguish, and it became once lickety-split damaged up.

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Greenville: Twenty-four years ago, the Greenville County Council passed a resolution, with three members antagonistic, condemning homosexuality as incompatible with their neighborhood values. Nowadays, an Upstate neighborhood representing members of county’s LGBTQ neighborhood says it is time for basically the most modern County Council to reverse that motion. Terena Starks, the variety officer for Upstate Delight, along with the board of her organization sent an launch letter Thursday to every member of the council. The letter, which is posted on the organization’s net site, also links to a alternate.org petition, which by unhurried Friday had drawn greater than 1,200 signatures. Upstate Delight has gotten extra filled with life over the final year, most particularly with the Upstate Delight Competition final summer season.

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Sioux Falls: Prisoners on the South Dakota Suppose Detention heart are making an strive to protect shut money and awareness about Native American females who are crime victims. The nonprofit organization Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Females says Native American females are greater than twice as at likelihood of experience violence as any other demographic. The inmates made 200 pairs of earrings and raised $5,000, which they donated to Urban Indian and Health of Sioux Falls and Hasty City. Connie Hopkins, vice president of prisoner increase, tells KELO-TV the money will be veteran in a diversity of ways to notify awareness to what some stammer is a virulent disease when it involves Native American females. “It’s going to support them get extra media out there or pay for fliers or to support of us commute to move to find for these females,” Hopkins acknowledged.

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Memphis: The assert’s faculty athletes also can financially take advantage of the exercise of their names, pictures and likenesses below guidelines launched by a pair of lawmakers from the town. The invoice would allow athletes to signal contracts to promote for local agencies or other companies and would also limit schools from “discriminating against gamers basically based entirely on donations by coaches to universities.” “It’s time we contend with faculty athletes fancy each person else in The usa and allow them to compose money within the free market,” Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, acknowledged in a press release. Kelsey and Salvage. Antonio Parkinson, D-Memphis, every brought the guidelines to their respective chambers months after a College of Memphis basketball player, James Wiseman, became once suspended by the NCAA.

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Austin: The assortment of foster care younger of us who slept in assert workplaces, motels and other non eternal housing spiked final year, because the itsy-bitsy one welfare machine continues to grapple with recruiting and keeping truly expert foster homes. Last year, the month-to-month depend of foster care younger of us who did not beget a apartment for not decrease than two nights totaled 678, a 49% invent greater from 2018, in accordance to files from Baby Conserving Companies and products. Many of them were children, and most slept in assert workplaces. The assortment of foster younger of us with out placements has elevated yearly but two since 2011. The gap grew to change into particularly acute final year amid the loss of 197 foster beds across the assert, lengthier discharges from residential treatment services and products, and an uptick over the summer season in foster childhood who rejected the placements assigned to them.

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St. George: A novel look has realized that within the Beehive Suppose greater than wherever else within the nation, divorce doesn’t basically imply competitors. USAWillGuru.com, which provides will and testament files, surveyed 5,000 divorcees across the nation and requested if the divorce ended on factual terms. Utah has the most life like probably proportion of amicable breakups at 79%. Neighboring Nevada ranked the bottom, with simplest 15% announcing their marriage ended amicably. The look also appeared at what proportion of divorcees embody their ex in their will. In response to the look’s findings, 12% of divorced Utahans embody ragged spouses in their will. Loni Stookey, an licensed marriage and family therapist in St. George, acknowledged there’s a “sturdy family ingredient” in Utah that would also impartial make contributions to why of us are attempting to interrupt up on factual terms.

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Montpelier: The assert Rental on Tuesday unanimously permitted a proposed constitutional amendment to invent definite that Vermont prohibits slavery. The Senate passed the proposal final session. Vermont became once the first assert to abolish grownup slavery. The assert Constitution for the time being says no individual 21 or older must help as a slave except sure by their very have consent or “by guidelines for the payment of debts, damages, fines, costs, or the partiality.” The amendment would settle away that language and add that slavery and indentured servitude in any assemble are prohibited. The proposed constitutional amendment must be regarded as by the 2021-2022 Legislature. If it passes, the interrogate will be move sooner than Vermont voters in 2022.

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Richmond: The assert Senate has evolved guidelines to scrap the assert’s Lee-Jackson vacation celebrating two Accomplice generals. The Democratic-led Senate voted largely along social gathering lines Tuesday to pass guidelines that might perhaps presumably presumably invent Election Day a assert vacation as a substitute of Lee-Jackson Day. The guidelines now goes to the Rental for consideration. Lee-Jackson Day, established greater than 100 years ago, is noticed yearly on the Friday preceding the third Monday in January. It honors Accomplice generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, both native Virginians. Critics of the Lee-Jackson vacation survey it as a social gathering of the assert’s slaveholding historical previous that’s offensive to African People. Many cities and counties beget opted not to peep it.

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Seattle: Suppose Attorney Total Bob Ferguson is irritating the lavish private spending of bankrupt anti-tax activist and candidate for governor Tim Eyman, announcing Eyman’s resources must be preserved so he can pay his debts to the assert. Eyman’s been spending a median of practically $24,000 a month over the final year, The Seattle Instances reviews, citing his economic kill filings. At the identical time, the assert is seeking greater than $3 million from Eyman, including $230,000 in contempt-of-court docket sanctions for failing to cooperate with Ferguson’s campaign-finance case against him. Eyman’s charges embody staunch costs, a move to Orlando, rent on a Bellevue dwelling, $4,000 a month in unspecified industry spending and not decrease than $2,400 to purchase 97 Starbucks present cards at some level of a 10-month span. The key month after submitting for economic kill, he ate out on 20 days. Last February, he made 74 restaurant purchases. Last month, Eyman reported meals at three separate restaurants to beget an even time his birthday.

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Charleston: Folks wrathful about portraying historical figures for the West Virginia Humanities Council’s History Alive program can post proposals via Feb. 1. The council is seeking proposals for portrayals of influential these that beget made valuable contributions to assert, national or global historical previous. The roster of characters now entails Gabriel Arthur, Nellie Bly, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Ostenaco, Theodore Roosevelt, Sacagawea, Charles Schulz, Harriet Tubman and Heed Twain, The Herald-Dispatch reviews. The council will attach in thoughts portrayals of historically foremost these that are now not dwelling, from any duration in historical previous.

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Madison: All day care services and products, itsy-bitsy one care services and younger of us’s camps would beget to envision their water for lead below a invoice the assert Senate permitted Tuesday. Present assert guidelines requires anyone who cares for not decrease than four younger of us below age 7 decrease than 24 hours a day to assemble a license from the assert Division of Younger of us and Households. The assert agriculture department licenses leisure and tutorial camps. Under the invoice, itsy-bitsy one care heart operators, itsy-bitsy one care services, neighborhood dwelling operators and camp runners would beget to envision water from every source in their services and products for lead contamination to assemble or renew their licenses. If the water is atrocious, the applicant would beget two suggestions: They might perhaps presumably presumably halt all entry to the water, advance up with a remediation plan and provide drinkable water for the time being. Or they're going to also advance up with a plan for supplying drinkable water on a eternal basis.

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Cheyenne: A second Democrat has entered the lumber for an launch U.S. Senate seat. College of Wyoming ecology professor Merav Ben-David, of Laramie, announced her candidacy Saturday on the annual Females’s March in downtown Cheyenne. A native of Israel, Ben-David has lived in Wyoming for 20 years. She says she decided to get enthusiastic about politics to get extra enthusiastic about selections affecting ecosystems worldwide. She says her procedure in Washington, D.C., would be to fabricate novel sources of revenue and industries in Wyoming, the build fossil-gasoline extraction is a foremost fragment of the economic system. One more Laramie resident, neighborhood organizer Yana Ludwig, announced her candidacy in June, the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle reviews. Three Republicans including ragged U.S. Salvage. Cynthia Lummis are working to regulate U.S. Sen Mike Enzi, who plans to retire in 2021 after four terms.

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Armistice Day

Please take the time on Monday to remember those that have given the ultimate sacrifice to protect and ensure the freedoms you enjoy today. World War I (the 'War to End All Wars') celebrated a cease fire on this day, November 11, 1918 at 11:11am, and yet still today active land mines from that horrific conflict lie in wait, still fighting that conflict.

I have been to the Verdun valley in France where over 1.2 million died and to Fort Douaumont, which has now become a museum and a memorial to viewable remains of 350,000 unknown soldiers. Think about that for a minute. Once you've seen it, you will never forget it.

I have walked the remains of the trenches in the Argonne Forest where my great uncle Paul fought, and witnessed the eroded craters of artillery explosions and the bleached remains of soldiers that perished there.

I have visited the American cemeteries in eastern France (which are actually US soil), visited Arizona hero Frank Luke's unassuming grave and bowed my head in silent prayer.

I have walked the remains of the trenches in the Argonne Forest where my great uncle fought, and today witnessed the eroded craters of artillery explosions and the bleached remains of soldiers that perished and are still entombed there.

I have been to the fortifications and ramparts of Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut where 88 militia volunteers, among them my children's great-great-great-great-great grandfather and his brothers and cousins, a Pequot Indian, and two free black men fought against British General Benedict Arnold's attack on Connecticut, September 6, 1781. During their surrender after hours of fighting against overwhelming odds, the British commander took American Colonel Ledyard's presentation sword of surrender and ran Ledyard through, then giving orders to execute everyone left alive. Christopher was badly wounded during the massacre and was carted off to a British prison ship.

During the decisive Battle of Yorktown and the surrender of the British and Lord Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, the battle cry was 'Remember Fort Griswold!'.

I have traveled to Dachau Concentration Camp, where those whose ideals, race or sexual preferences did not meet a ruling party's guidelines. My father was in the 20th Armored Division, 70th Armored Infantry as a medic, and was one of a handful of medics and soldiers that liberated Dachau. He personally witnessed the dead and dying, the buildings filled with heads, arms and legs. He saved hundreds there through medical attention without so much as a medal. It was the soldiers' duty.

I've been to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam. When your rights and freedoms are taken, it was horrible to witness the lengths taken and necessary to simply remain alive and preserve your humanity.

I have been to the Alamo, and stood at the spot where Davy Crockett fell on March 6, 1836 to help secure independence for Texas; and touched the mock-marked scars of bullets from that day in the limestone blocks of the mission.

I have felt the sorrow at Gettysburg, grieved in silence at Arlington Cemetery, paid respects at Grant's home and Lee's grave, let the cool breeze wash over me at Little Big Horn, anguished at Wounded Knee, and paid my respects to the end of an era at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona where Geronimo surrendered. I have been to Geronimo's final resting place at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, surrounded by his family far from their home in Arizona and New Mexico.

My grandfather was drafted for WWII and served in the Army as well on the home front. My uncle fought in Italy with the 10th Mountain and survived Anzio.

I stood at the Berlin Wall and felt the pain and anguish of a nation and people when I placed my hand on its graffiti surface. I wept for joy when I learned the news it was torn down November 9, 1989. There was nothing 'cold' about that war... except that long expanse of grey concrete.

I remember personally seeing the passion Pat Tillman had for the game of football when he was playing for Arizona State University. That passion carried over into a starting position with the Arizona Cardinals, and after September 11, 2001, his country. Even though his death was a tragedy, he decided to leave a multi-million dollar contract to defend this country and its ideals. Grit. Honor.

A couple years ago I was at Costco and struck up a conversation at lunch with an 88 and 93-year-old WWII veterans. The younger man served in Luzon, Philippines and the other in the 20th Armored Division, 14th Artillery. They were both excited to know that I knew the history of the 20th Armored Division intimately from my father.

After lunch was over I made sure to thank them for their service and sacrifice. And in doing so, no less than 10 other strangers suddenly walked up to thank them as well. I ran into the 20th Armored Division gentlemen another time last year, and bought him a hot dog and soda and ate with him. And thanked him once again.

Remember the Veterans... not just today, but everyday and say THANK YOU to them for ensuring your freedom to express your voice, your opinions and your liberty.

Because freedom is never free, and there will always be those wanting to control and purge your unalienable rights.

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If you think the only race that happens on Thanksgiving Day is seeing who gets a second helping of pumpkin pie first, guess again. Before lifting a fork, watching football, and taking a post-turkey snooze, hundreds of thousands of Americans start their holiday by giving thanks — with a turkey trot.

Because It’s Hot to Trot

These popular running events, traditionally held before the feast on Thanksgiving morning, have grown tremendously in recent years. More than 960,000 people throughout the country finished a Thanksgiving day race in 2016, compared to nearly 901,000 in 2015, according to Running USA. Turkey trots are typically tied to a charitable cause, have a flair for costumed fun, and sometimes give out turkeys and pies to top finishers! Plus, experts say light cardio is one of the best remedies for those inevitable hangovers from Thanksgiving Eve partying. But the turkey trot’s most appetizing draw is obvious. Run a race in the morning and trotters can feel guilt-free about gobbling down later on! Of course, with an average Thanksgiving Day meal weighing in somewhere between 3,000 and 4,500 calories, you’d have to run a full marathon (and then some) to really burn it all off. There are unfortunately no turkey trot marathons at this time, but runners around the country agree that even a few miles is the best way to kick off the holiday. RELATED: 263 Races for Every Distance and Destination

The Best Turkey Trots in America

Lucky for you (and your love of pumpkin pie), it’s easy to find a local race of your own! To get you and your flock of friends and family inspired, here are 20 of the most popular turkey trots in the U.S. all taking place on Thursday, November 24, 2016. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Dana Point Turkey Trot[/caption]

1. Dana Point Turkey Trot

Location: Dana Point, CA You’ll find one of the country’s largest and most scenic turkey trots right in the heart of the OC. Established in 1977, the Dana Point Turkey Trot encourages its 11,000 runners to “run the race before you stuff your face.” Benefitting the Dana Point Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9934, among other charities, the event includes a 5K, 10K and a “Gobble Wobble” one-mile run for kids. [caption id="attachment_21642" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot[/caption]

2. Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot

Location: San Jose, CA The Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot has raised $6.9 million since its start for local charities including the Healthier Kids Foundation Santa Clara County, Second Harvest Food Bank and more. Last year, 24,901 people participated — a long way from the 1,900 participants its first year! Elite runners, weekend warriors and kids alike join in the fun cruising through the flat and fast downtown area. There is a 10K for runners and wheelchair athletes, a 5K and multiple kids’ runs. In addition to an epic costume competition, this turkey trot also gives out prizes in categories like “Fittest Firm” and “Quickest Cop/Fastest Firefighter.” RELATED: How Much Exercise It Takes to Burn Off A Thanksgiving Feast [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Run to Feed the Hungry[/caption]

3. Run to Feed the Hungry

Location: Sacramento, CA With all proceeds going toward the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, the 24th annual Run to Feed the Hungry will host more than 29,000 runners and walkers at this year’s 10K and 5K. (Last year, this race became the largest T-Day run in the country, with 29,002 runners.) The loop courses start near the Sacramento State campus and run through the cozy tree-lined streets of East Sacramento, with plenty of music and lots of spectators who take a break from the kitchen to come out and cheer. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Turkey Trail Trot XI[/caption]

4. Turkey Trail Trot XI

Location: San Francisco, CA At the quirky Turkey Trail Trot XI, don’t be surprised to see a giant costumed turkey leading the pack of participants in silly costumes of their own. Benefitting the Lowell High Track & Field team, the cross-country course in Golden Gate Park features a 5-mile trot, 3-mile “Pilgrim Promenade” (aka a walk) and 100-meter kids’ “Gobbler Chase.”  The winners of the races will take home prizes of turkeys, Schubert’s Bakery pies and plenty of wine! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Mile High United Way Turkey Trot[/caption]

5. Mile High United Way Turkey Trot

Location: Denver, CO Celebrating its 43rd year, the Mile High United Way Turkey Trot is the top fundraiser for the United Way. More than 20,000 people head to Denver's Washington Park for the 4-mile race or 1/4-mile family fun run. Those of drinking age can enjoy the craft beer garden party (featuring local breweries like Great Divide) at the finish line. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: tfxc[/caption]

6. Manchester Road Race

Location: Manchester, CT What began on a rainy day in 1927 with just 12 runners is now one of New England’s most famous road races and the largest race in Connecticut. The Manchester Road Race’s (almost) 5-mile course attracts up to 15,000 runners, including Olympians, locals and at least one Runner’s World editor, as well as nearly 20,000 spectators each year. Last year, it donated more than $100,000 to charities including the Muscular Dystrophy Association. [caption id="attachment_45484" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Atlanta Track Club[/caption]

7. Atlanta Half Marathon

Location: Atlanta, GA Overachievers, this one’s for you! The Atlanta Half Marathon will definitely blast more calories, compared to most of the other trots on our list.  Did you know Atlanta originally hosted a Thanksgiving Day full marathon from 1981 to 2009? These days, you’ll have to settle for the still-awesome 13.1-mile course. It winds its way past city landmarks like Centennial Olympic Park and Piedmont Park. The Atlanta tradition also includes a 5K, one-miler and 50-meter dash. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Run Turkey Trot[/caption]

8. New Orleans Athletic Club Turkey Day Race

Location: New Orleans, LA The New Orleans Track Club has been hosting the annual New Orleans Athletic Club Turkey Day Race for 110 years. One of the oldest and continuously held non-marathon races in the country, the 5-mile run and half-mile race for kids benefit Spina Bifida of Greater New Orleans. Join more than 2,000 runners in a trek to the finish line at Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park, named after Francis Thomas "Tad" Gormley, the race’s original founder. RELATED: What's Really in Tofurky and Other Vegetarian Turkey? [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"]Photo: DMSE SPORTS[/caption]

9. Feaster Five Road Race

Location: Andover, MA Dessert comes early at the 30th annual Feaster Five Road Race, where runners are rewarded with an apple pie at the finish line! Running legends like Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson and Team Hoyt have all raced toward that pie, and more than 10,000 other participants will take on the 5-mile, 5K and kids’ fun runs (100-600 yards for ages 4-12) this year. Proceeds from the turkey trot benefit local charities including the Merrimack Valley YMCA, Challenge Unlimited at Ironstone Farm and the Bellesini Academy. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Thanksgiving Day Pilgrim 5K[/caption]

10. Plymouth Turkey Trot and Thanksgiving Day Pilgrim 5K

Location: Plymouth, MA We don’t think the Pilgrims started the first Thanksgiving with a running race. But in present-day Plymouth, the place where it all began, they start with two turkey trots! Both collect food donations to support the Greater Plymouth Food Warehouse. There’s the (hilly) five-mile Plymouth Turkey Trot, which takes runners past historic landmarks like Plymouth Rock (where the race starts), Forefathers Monument and the Mayflower II. This year, they also added a three-mile course. And then there's the seventh annual flat and fast Thanksgiving Day Pilgrim 5K course which includes a stretch on Old Sanswich Road, the oldest road in America. Run both and you get — what else? — a giant turkey trophy in honor of your “Second Helping” accomplishment! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: RunMichigan[/caption]

11. Strategic Staffing Solutions Turkey Trot

Location: Detroit, MI More than 21,000 Detroiters will lace up for this trot, which kicks off the city's T-Day parade. Now in its 35th year, it offers a 10K run, 5K run/walk, a "Mashed Potato Mile" and a "Dumbstruck Double," which includes both the 10K and 5K distances. This year, they also added another two-race deal to the fun, dubbed the "Cranberry Combo" — it includes tackling the one-miler and 5K. RELATED: Skip the Sweatpants: Your Pre-Thanksgiving Detox Plan [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Run Turkey Trot[/caption]

12. Fast Before the Feast

Location: White Bear Lake, MN Some runners might have personal racing goals for the 10K, 5K and fun run at the Fast Before the Feast. But there’s another lofty goal for all participants this year — to donate 10,000 pounds of food to the White Bear Area Emergency Food Shelf and Hugo Good Neighbors Food Shelf. Since its start, the race has donated more than 29,000 pounds of food to these local charities. The mostly flat neighborhood courses are really secondary to those donations. Bring ‘em and trotters are guaranteed free Caribou Coffee treats at the finish line and entries into the thousands of dollars’ worth of door prizes. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Richard / Old NC Runner Blog[/caption]

13. Charlotte Southpark Turkey Trot

Location: Charlotte, NC The 29th annual Charlotte Southpark Turkey Trot is one of the city’s longest-running events and Thanksgiving Day traditions. It’s so popular, the field has to be capped at 11,000 participants for the 8K, 5K, 1-mile and 26.2-yard “Tot Trot.” Finishers of the loop course around South Charlotte go home with a special medal. And whoever wins the costume contest goes home with some awards, too. The event supports charitable partners including the McClintock Partners in Education and the Christ Lutheran Church in Charlotte. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Six Tunnels to Hoover Dam[/caption]

14. Six Tunnels to Hoover Dam Turkey Trot

Location: Las Vegas, NV Eighteen miles off the Las Vegas strip, there’s a turkey trot that runs along Lake Mead and along the Historic Railroad Trailhead. It has not one, not two, but six tunnels on the menu before making its way to the Hoover Dam! The Six Tunnels to Hoover Dam Turkey Trot is now in its ninth year with participants competing in a 12K, 5K and 1-mile stroll. This year, they want runners to take it a step further: Now participants can sign up for the half marathon option. RELATED: The 5K Training Plan You Can Totally Do [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Buffalo Niagra YMCA[/caption]

15. Buffalo Niagara YMCA Turkey Trot

Location: Buffalo, NY Created in 1896, the Buffalo Niagara YMCA Turkey Trot is the oldest consecutively run footrace in North America. Not even a record-breaking snowstorm in 2002 kept runners off the streets of Buffalo! This year, expect 14,000 runners (the cap) and walkers to come dressed to impress, ready to take on the 8K course and the sixth annual costume contest. The event supports local YMCA programs. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Western & Southern Thanksgiving Day Race[/caption]

16. Western & Southern Thanksgiving Day Race

Location: Cincinnati, OH Runners brave freezing temps at Paul Brown Stadium, home to the Cincinnati Bengals, for the annual Western & Southern Thanksgiving Day Race and McDonald's Kids Run. This year marks the 107th annual running of the 10K event, making it the oldest road race of any kind in the Midwest, the sixth oldest race in the country and perhaps the only turkey trot around to cross the Ohio River — twice! The race proceeds go toward the Ronald McDonald House, Girls on the Run, the UC Barrett Cancer Center and many other charities. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Ohio River Road Runners Club[/caption]

17. Ohio River Road Runners Club Turkey Trot

Location: Miamisburg, OH It’s been around for 39 years now, but the Ohio River Road Runners Club Turkey Trot introduced a brand new course just last year. Why? To accommodate its growing number of 10,000-plus participants! New this year: a comfy hoodie that comes with your registration fee, a step up from the typical T-shirt. The event is the largest 5-mile race in the eastern half of the U.S., but also hosts a 1-mile non-timed run for the more casual trotter. RELATED: The 10 Best Races That Are Fit for Foodies [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Best Road Races[/caption]

18. Run for the Diamonds

Location: Berwick, PA We’re still not sure what diamonds have to do with Thanksgiving, but the bling sure gets 2,000 runners up and at ‘em! The top seven male and female winners of the challenging 9-mile Run for Diamonds (the fourth oldest road race in America), take home diamond rings and diamond pendants, respectively. And for those who miss out on the prized jewels, there’s always free post-race pizza to look forward to! [caption id="attachment_21609" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: arlingtonturkeytrot.org[/caption]

19. Arlington Turkey Trot

Location: Arlington, TX Texas sports fans will love the eighth annual Arlington Turkey Trot, which gives runners a chance to race past Rangers Ballpark and Cowboys Stadium on the out-and-back 5K loop. There were more than 1,000 timed runners participate in the trot and even more toe the line for the “Puffin’ and Stuffin’” one-mile fun run. Winners get a free pair of sneakers and race proceeds support The Shoe Bank, a local charity that provides shoes for 25,000 people in need each year. [caption id="attachment_21750" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Dallas YMCA[/caption]

20. Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot

Location: Dallas, TX Also benefitting the YMCA, the Dallas Turkey Trot really proves that everything’s bigger in Texas. The 50th annual race expects nearly 40,000 runners for its 8-mile run and 5K run/walk, making it one of the largest multi-event races in the country. (And if you can't make it to Dallas, you can also join in virtually.) This trot attracts elite runners and regular ol’ birds alike. In fact, in 2011, it set a world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as turkeys. RELATED: 15 Races for People Who'd Rather Walk Than Run [caption id="attachment_45277" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Life Time Turkey Trots[/caption]

21. Turkey Day 5K Boise

Location: Boise, IA With races in five locations across the country, the Life Time Turkey Day 5K is all about family and friends kicking off the holiday together in a healthy, happy way. (Besides Boise, the race also happens in Chicago, Miami, Minneapolis and Phoenix.) The Boise course, which is fast and flat, is ideal for runners and walkers alike. Bring canned foods to the start area — they’ll be donated to the pantries of Boise Rescue Mission and City Light Home for Women and Children — and you’ll be entered into a special prize lottery, just for doing good. [caption id="attachment_45279" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Feast and Feathers Half-Marathon[/caption]

22. Feast and Feathers Trail Half-Marathon/10K/5K

Location: Omaha, NE Weekend warriors will flock to this trail half, but thanks to the 10K and 5K distances, anyone can join in on the action. In fact, even kids can join the fun with the Lil Gobbler Trot — a free race, as long as you bring five cans of food to benefit the Food Bank of Heartland. Of course the 5K loop is easiest, but the half provides some of the best views of Cunningham Lake (and extra room for stuffing). [caption id="attachment_45280" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Eli Johnson Photography / Fleet Feet Sports Knoxville[/caption]

23. Hot to Trot 10K/5K/Fun Run

Location: Knoxville, TN Held annually by sportswear shop Fleet Feet Knoxville, this race is all about community. Not only was there a friendly contest for runners to design this year’s official logo, local handmade pottery will serve as trophies. Also, all proceeds benefit A Hand Up For Women, a charity that focuses on mentorship, education and development for girls and women. [caption id="attachment_45281" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Naperville Lions[/caption]

24. Naperville Turkey Trot

Location: Naperville, IL Organized by the local Lions Club, this flat course is great for those looking to nab a PR. Now in it’s 20th year, 7,500 runners are expected to hit the course this Thanksgiving. And because you deserve a delicious breakfast after a solid run, there’s a pancake feast served afterwards — free of charge. [caption id="attachment_45278" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Trot for Hunger[/caption]

25. Thanksgiving Day Trot for Hunger

Location: Washington, DC Raise money and awareness for DC’s homeless population by registering for the 16th annual Trot for Hunger, where race proceeds help thousands of families in the DC area. Things kick off first for the kids’ one-mile Fun Run, then the 5K, all starting from Freedom Plaza. You have the option to run with a chip or without, so use the day to PR or just shake out your legs on a good powerwalk. RELATED: 11 Incredible Charity Races That Give Back [caption id="attachment_45284" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Pensacola Turkey Trot for Thought[/caption]

26. Pensacola Beach Trot for Thought

Location: Pensacola Beach, FL With a gorgeous, coastal course, the Trot for Thought is easily the most relaxing and scenic 5K — you run right between the serene shorelines of the Santa Rosa Sound and the Gulf of Mexico. Proceeds from the race benefit brain cancer research by the Preston Robert Tisch Tumor Center at Duke University. Oh, and this race is dog-friendly — just make sure your pooch is up for 3.1 miles beforehand! [caption id="attachment_45283" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Oklahoma City Turkey Trot[/caption]

27. Oklahoma City Turkey Tracks 5K 

Location: Oklahoma City, OK Run around downtown Oklahoma City for this 5K or one-mile Fun Run. But before you start stepping, be sure to drop off a new, unwrapped gift with the US Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation drop. Organizers hope to give 1,000 Christmas toys to needy children in the Oklahoma City area. [caption id="attachment_45285" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Turkey Trek[/caption]

28. 15th Annual Turkey Trek

Location: Albuquerque, NM If you’ve ever seen epic photos from the annual hot-air balloon festival, you know Balloon Park, which serves as a border for this Turkey Trek. With a 5K run, a fitness walk and a Fun Run, the whole family can get involved in a race that meets his or her individual fitness level. Even more fun: a costume contest with a male, female and kid winner. [caption id="attachment_45276" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: Bay St Louis Turkey Trot[/caption]

29. Fit First Turkey Trot

Location: Bay St. Louis, MS Only in its fifth year, this Trot is all about our furry friends, as every race participant (and spectator!) is asked to bring canned pet food, treat or toy for donation. In addition, all proceeds will benefit the local animal shelter. Let’s face it: Although pets are such an important part of the family, Thanksgiving may be the one day we forget that. This Turkey Trot is the perfect reminder. [caption id="attachment_45282" align="alignnone" width="620"]Photo: CFA North Dakota[/caption]

30. CFA North Dakota Turkey Trot

Location: Bismarck, ND Fun, frosty beards and snowy streets aside, this Turkey Trot is an important one as it is held by (and all proceeds go toward) the Cystic Fibrosis Association of North Dakota. With a 10K run, 5K run, 5K walk and a fun walk, there's a race for everyone in the fam. Just make sure you dress for the weather — recent years have been frigid and snowy. Not within trotting distance of any of the races listed above? Check out the race directories on Active.com or Running in the USA to find a Thanksgiving Day turkey trot near you. Read More The 15 Best Fall Marathons in the U.S. Why I Started Running — and Never Stopped 50 Running Resources for Speed, Strength and Nutrition Originally posted on November 25, 2013. Updated November 2017. 

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Rush (2013)

Charismatic British playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) have shared an intense rivalry in Formula 1 racing in the mid-1970s. Driving vehicles that are little more than gas-filled, rolling bombs, Hunt and Lauda are burning the track, pushing themselves to the point of physical and mental endurance breaking point. In the meantime, the women (Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara) can only watch in their lives as both drivers with each lap risk death.

Cars (2006)

While traveling to California for the Piston Cup Championship race against The King (Richard Petty) and Chick Hicks (Michael Keaton), Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) gets lost after falling off his trailer in a run down town called Radiator Springs. While he gradually becomes friends with the peculiar residents of the city, including Sally (Bonnie Hunt), Doc Hudson (Paul Newman) and Mater (Larry the Cable Guy). Leaving for the championship is no longer his top priority when it comes to time.

Days of Thunder (1990)

A rivalry between rookie hotshot Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) and veteran driver Rowdy Burns (Michael Rooker) brews in NASCAR's fast-paced nation. The former bitter rivals become close friends when both of them are seriously injured in the game. Cole agrees to drive Rowdy's car in the Daytona 500 against underhanded rookie Russ Wheeler (Cary Elwes) with Cole's confidence revived by a relationship with neurosurgeon Dr. Claire Lewicki (Nicole Kidman) and Rowdy still sidelined by injuries.

The Cannonball Run (1981)

Contestants in a cross-country car race from Connecticut to California include a speed-loving racing driver posing as an ambulance driver and his dim sidekick, a pair of Ferrari-driving priests, and a secret-weapon James Bond villain. Jackie Chan stars in one of his first movie roles in the United States.

Turbo (2013)

Turbo (Ryan Reynolds) is a fast-obsessed snail with an odd vision of becoming the biggest racer in the world. This strange snail gets a chance to leave behind his slow-paced life when he gets the power of superspeed from a freak accident. Recently resurrected, Turbo embarks on an unprecedented search for the Indianapolis 500 to join and win. Accompanied by a devoted pit crew of waste-talking adrenaline junkies, Turbo becomes the ultimate underdog by refusing to allow his shortcomings to interfere with his dreams.

The Love Bug (1968)

Race car driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) and his metaphysical mechanic, Tennessee Steinmetz (Buddy Hackett), are in possession of a white Volkswagen Beetle that appears to have its own mind and spirit. Calling the car Herbie, Jim and Tennessee become the talk of the California racing circuit— much to the frustration of sports car dealer Peter Thorndyke (David Tomlinson), who attempts to use his assistant (Michele Lee) to come between the friends and their ride.

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