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Alexander Michael Rossi

Birthdate: Sept. 25, 1991 Hometown: Nevada City, California Residence: Indianapolis Height/Weight: 6’1”/154lbs

Rookie Year: 2016

Team: Arrow McLaren

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Career Stats

2016: Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian - 11th Overall 2017: Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian - 7th Overall 2018: Andretti Autosport - 2nd Overall 2019: Andretti Autosport - 3rd Overall 2020: Andretti Autosport - 9th Overall 2021: Andretti Autosport - 10th Overall 2022: Andretti Autosport - 9th Overall 2023: Arrow McLaren - 9th Overall

Podcast: Off Track with Hinch and Rossi

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Off Track with Hinch and Rossi on YouTube

IMSA 2014 DeltaWing Racing Cars – Daytona 24 2019 Acura Team Penske – Daytona 24, Sebring 2020 Acura Team Penske – Daytona 24, Petite Le Mans, Sebring 2021 Konica Minolta Acura – won Daytona 24, Sebring, Watkin’s Glen, Petite Le Mans 2022 Konica Minolta Acura – Daytona 24 2024 Pfaff Motorsports – Daytona 24

2018 Baja 1000 2nd in class 2019 Baja 1000 mechanical problems 2021 Baja 1000 Class 7 victory 2019 Supercars Bathurst 1000 18th

-Co-Hosts a popular podcast with fellow driver James Hinchcliffe called “Off Track with Hinch & Rossi” -Competed in Season 30 of CBS’ “The Amazing Race” with fellow driver Conor Daly as his teammate. The duo appeared in every episode. -A music lover, he enjoys everything from alternative rock to country music. -Enjoys skiing, dirt bikes, wakeboarding, cooking, and cryptocurrency. Recently obtained his private pilot license. His favorite city is Lake Tahoe, California. -When unable to enjoy the great outdoors, you can find him fawning over his bourbon collection, hanging with his two dogs or binge-watching TV shows with his fiancée, Kelly. -doesn't eat breakfast -Makes good bacon -Mint choc ice cream -will only run when chased, prefers to swim -Obsessively researches things he is interested it (smoking meats, pool chemicals) -Has a pilot's licence (small aircraft) -Tattoos: heartbeat on inside left forearm near elbow. Unknown on ankle -Co-owns a plane with Ed Carpenter -Prefers to be called Alex -has a ‘candy closet’ in his basement, which is exactly what it sounds like. -lived with James Hinchcliffe when he first came to Indianapolis (as did Conor Daly at the same time)

Iconic/memorable moments

INSIDE THE RACE: Alexander Rossi // Road America INDYCAR 101 // ALEXANDER ROSSI Alexander Rossi shares his "Rossi's Risotto" recipe | IndyCar | Motorsports on NBC A Winning Strategy: Inside Alexander Rossi's Indy 500 Win! - Motor Trend Presents Alexander Rossi explains his Indycar journey and transition from Formula One Outside the Line: Alexander Rossi 7 Things with Alexander Rossi NAPA KNOW HOW Blooper Reel with Alexander Rossi Alexander Rossi + Avalanche HONDA PACE CAR // COLTON HERTA AND ALEXANDER ROSSI Alexander Rossi and Juan Pablo Montoya messing around with Tony Kanaan | 2022 Indy 500 Group Photo Breakout Room Highlights with Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, and Alexander Rossi Andretti IndyCar Drivers Test Their Pit Stop Skills | #AllAndretti | Indy 500 IndyCar's Alexander Rossi and Conor Daly on their The Amazing Race experience Conor Daly's epic reaction to Alexander Rossi vs Santino Ferrucci! Conor Daly & Alexander Rossi Visit Space Camp Doug and Drivers: Alexander Rossi Doug and Drivers, season 2: Alexander Rossi Alex's Aliens Butt Chugging Sunlight Guess the song Tiny Cars with James – Alexander Rossi Giving milk to Alexander Rossi James Hinchcliffe and Alexander Rossi: sharing a car at Daytona 24 Don’t touch the cones!!! How tall are McLaren drivers? Arrow McLaren: Red Flag Green Flag

Arrow McLaren: Red Flag Green Flag Again Measuring noses Alex making faces Which driver smells the best??? Wakeboarding Alex and Felix put up a tent Nashville Cowboy hat shopping Indianapolis Motor Speedway Fair Imitate Famous Landmarks Phone Flip - Drivers in the Paddock Part 1 Part 2 Driver Superlatives Part 1 Part 2 Trying Different candy part 1 part 2 Holiday Tree Blindfolded Challenge Holiday Family phototshoot Behind the Scenes Baking Challenge: Part 1 Baking Challenge: Part 2

Alex’s Creed obsession Rainy day activities Spill your guts game Intro Part 1 Part 2 Off Track with Hinch and Rossi – The Papaya One Area Codes Our cinnamon rolls Alex has a Pickleball court Go-to Karaoke song

Long Beach Runoff

Alex is known as the grumpy one, rarely smiling (so rare that it became a meme of sorts on social media of to comment when he did in 2022). This may be changing in 2023 with a change to McLaren after six years at Andretti. New season, new team, new Alex? Time will tell. He still isn't the most social of people, preferring people people (friends and family) over people (everyone else). He has a soft spot for child fans, often going out of his way to interact with them.

His conservative upbringing shows on occasion, particularly on his podcast where he and good friend James Hinchcliffe discuss the latest racing news and whatever else comes into their heads. The number of times James has said "No, Alex. We've talked about this." when Alex says something that could be considered concerning for a rational person to say (often related to those conservative views he was raised with) is numerous. Much credit to Mr. Hinchcliffe for having the patience to educate his friend.

Alex extensively researches (perhaps obsessively) what catches his interest, be it smoking meats, the PH of his pool, or weird flavored soda cocktails. He is generous to his closest friends, recently planning a "not Bachelor party" weekend for a friend. He is something of perfectionist and a (self-admitted) clean freak. He enjoys betting on sporting events, although now must do his betting through friends as he allowed James to parental lock the betting app on his phone.

Fanfic Lore

Good friends with James Hinchcliffe, James Hinchcliffe and Marco Andretti. The four could be considered a 'band of brothers'

Often paired with one of the others of the band.

Paired with teammate Pato O'Ward

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brookstonalmanac · 10 months

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Events 7.28 (after 1900)

1911 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London. 1914 – In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I. 1915 – The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti. 1917 – The Silent Parade takes place in New York City, in protest against murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans. 1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. 1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. 1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service. 1939 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered. 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution. 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. 1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26. 1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992. 1960 – The German Volkswagen Act comes into force. 1962 – Beginning of the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students. 1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. 1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. 1974 – Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed. 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851. 1984 – Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer Olympics were opened in Los Angeles. 1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man. 2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting. 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground. 2002 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board. 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland. 2010 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321. 2011 – While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board. 2017 – Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of corruption charges. 2018 – Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

#Events

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wikiuntamed · 10 months

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On this day in Wikipedia: Friday, 28th July

Welcome, Bienvenue, नमस्ते, 你好 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 28th July through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

28th July 2022 🗓️ : Death - Bernard Cribbins Bernard Cribbins, British actor (b. 1928) "Bernard Joseph Cribbins (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned more than seven decades.During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in the UK for his successful novelty records "The Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred" and for his appearances in..."

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28th July 2018 🗓️ : Event - Wendy Tuck Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. "Wendy Tuck (born c. 1965) is a yachtswoman and previous chief instructor and principal at the Clipper Race training base in Sydney, Australia. She was the first female skipper to win a round-the-world yacht race...."

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28th July 2013 🗓️ : Death - Mustafa Adrisi Mustafa Adrisi, Ugandan general and politician, 3rd Vice President of Uganda (b. 1922) "Mustafa Adrisi Abataki (c. 1922 – 28 July 2013) was a Ugandan military officer who served as the third vice president of Uganda from 1977 to 1979 and was one of President Idi Amin's closest associates. In 1978, after Adrisi was injured in a suspicious auto accident, troops loyal to him mutinied...."

28th July 1973 🗓️ : Event - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. "The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a July 1973 rock festival outside Watkins Glen, New York, that featured the Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and the Band. The July 28, 1973 event long held the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "largest audience at a pop festival," with an estimated..."

28th July 1923 🗓️ : Birth - Ray Ellis Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (d. 2008) "Ray Ellis (July 28, 1923 – October 27, 2008) was an American record producer, arranger, conductor, and saxophonist. He was responsible for the orchestration in Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin (1958)...."

28th July 1821 🗓️ : Event - Peruvian War of Independence Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from the Spanish Empire. "The Peruvian War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia del Perú) consisted in a series of military conflicts in Peru beginning with viceroy Abascal military victories in the south frontier in 1809, in La Paz revolution and 1811 in the Battle of Guaqui, continuing with the definitive..."

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28th July 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: Pope Innocent I "Pope Innocent I (Latin: Innocentius I) was the bishop of Rome from 401 to his death on 12 March 417. From the beginning of his papacy, he was seen as the general arbitrator of ecclesiastical disputes in both the East and the West. He confirmed the prerogatives of the Archbishop of Thessalonica, and..."

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yatescountyhistorycenter · 11 months

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Documenting local history as it happened

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Although I had seen the box before, or at least the name of it on a list of archive boxes, it was while searching for photos of St. Mark’s Terrace that I first encountered and browsed our Dick Eisenhart collection of photos. And I found not only photos of St. Mark’s Terrace – both during and after its construction on the corner of Chapel and Liberty streets more than 50 years ago – but also photos of the fire that destroyed the Penn Yan fire station on Main Street in 1967 and photos of the dedication of the current Elm Street firehouse the following year. There were photos of well-known people, such as Finger Lakes resident and former New York State Lt. Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak, and photos of ordinary people who are, often and unfortunately, unidentified in the collection.

Looking through our subject files that contain clippings of newspaper stories, I see Dick Eisenhart’s byline on articles quite frequently, as often what I am researching now is what he was reporting on then. He covered the news of Penn Yan and Yates County for the Democrat & Chronicle and the Times-Union, the morning and evening newspapers, respectively, in Rochester. For more than three decades, from 1952 to 1986, Eisenhart served as both reporter and photographer as he worked out of his Keuka Street home office, capturing the events and happenings of the Penn Yan area and thus documenting our local history as it happened. Though I neither met Eisenhart during his lifetime (he died in January 2018) nor was alive during his newspaper career (I was born two years after he retired), I feel a kindred spirit with him – from one who documented local history as it happened to one who interprets that local history to this day.

Now, if you follow our Facebook and Instagram pages (“Yates County History Center” and “yates_county_history_center,” respectively), you will soon see we are sharing some photos from our Eisenhart collection – photos he took himself in the course of his work as a news reporter and photographer – in order to display but also identify the people in these photos. As we begin sharing these photos and seeing your comments and memories about Eisenhart’s life and work, I wanted to once again dive into our subject files – this time to find out more about the man behind the stories and the photos.

And in doing so, I was treated to a walk down memory lane with Eisenhart himself; prominently located in the Eisenhart family file is an April 2000 article in the Finger Lakes Times discussing Eisenhart’s donation to the Yates County History Center of his personal collection of his photos while telling the story of his lengthy and distinguished news career. Of course, the article begins with the infamous Penn Yan Fire Department fire and Eisenhart’s eyewitness account of the blaze – including his paying a stranger to deliver his rolls of film to the Democrat & Chronicle office for the newspaper to publish. While a prominent example indeed, the fire is just one example – as even the Times article attests – of the many moments Eisenhart covered and captured during his career. From fires, accidents, and court trials to county, village, town, and school board meetings and anything and everything in between, Eisenhart was there to document it for more than 30 years.

With credentials like that, one might believe Eisenhart to be a candidate for Mr. Penn Yan or Mr. Yates County, if ever there were such a contest or competition. However, he actually did not grow up in Penn Yan or Yates County; according to his obituary, he was born in Horseheads and grew up in Watkins Glen. After graduating from Watkins Glen High School, he served in the Philippines and Japan during World War II – a service that included an encounter with one of the women accused of being Tokyo Rose, the Allied term for a group of female Japanese radio broadcasters who targeted Allied troops with propaganda messages. Eisenhart even testified for the prosecution when this woman – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, whom Eisenhart had met during his stint as a guard at a Japanese prison where she was an inmate – was convicted and then imprisoned for treason against the U.S. government.

Coming home from his service, Eisenhart graduated from Rochester Business Institute and then followed his childhood dream of becoming a news reporter. He married his wife, Sylvia, and they settled in Penn Yan with their three children, Susan, Steve, and Donald. That news career spanned from exclusive interviews with Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to local residents on the street exclaiming, “Hey, Mr. Eisenhart, take my picture!”

The Times article refers to Eisenhart as “one of the last old-time newsmen who felt strongly that news should be covered in person, rather than by phone,” meaning Eisenhart appeared in person to the events he covered instead of interviewing people about it afterward. Old-time is indeed an apt description; he covered his beat in the days before the prevalence of computers and the internet. He tapped out his stories to meet the evening deadline first on his L.C. Smith typewriter and then on a teletype machine that transmitted his stories to the Rochester newsroom. He even processed his own film and printed his own glossy black-and-white photos in a darkroom adjoining his home office. This entailed his rushing the prints to Penn Yan’s downtown bus stop by late afternoon so a Greyhound bus could transport them to Rochester, where a courier waited to pick them up and deliver them to the newspaper.

Despite meeting King following his 1963 baccalaureate address at Keuka College and Kennedy during his 1964 U.S. Senate campaign, Eisenhart told the Times it was the ordinary, everyday people – probably many of the people depicted in the photos in his collection – whom he enjoyed meeting the most: “I met so many people and built so many great friendships. The people are what make the job, and the fact that you are learning something new every day.”

It is these people – Eisenhart’s friends and fellow Penn Yan and Yates County residents – whom you will find in the photos we are sharing. We hope you enjoy seeing these photos, and if you know something about – or someone in – any of the photos, please let us know.

#historyblog #history #yatescounty #pennyan #rochester #newspaper #journalism #news reporting

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f1 · 1 year

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Raikkonen to make racing return at scene of last F1 race win later this month

Kimi Raikkonen will get back behind the wheel of a racing car later this month, with the 2007 F1 world champion set for another outing in the NASCAR Cup Series at a track close to his heart. Raikkonen has agreed terms to drive Trackhouse Racing’s PROJECT91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at the Circuit of The Americas, where the Finn claimed the last of his 21 F1 victories in 2018. READ MORE: Raikkonen becomes Team Principal of Kawasaki motocross squad following F1 retirement The March 26 event will mark Raikkonen’s second Cup Series race after he debuted with PROJECT91 at Watkins Glen International last August – qualifying 27th and running in the top 10 for most of the afternoon before getting caught up in a late-race accident. “I had a fantastic time in NASCAR. There was a lot to learn in a very short amount of time, but everyone was very helpful, the competition was a big challenge,” said Raikkonen ahead of his next outing. “This time I get to race on a track I am familiar with so there won’t be as steep of a learning curve. I want to have fun, but also do as well as we can.” Trackhouse Owner and Founder Justin Marks added: “When we announced Kimi last year I said he was the global superstar I had in mind when we created PROJECT91. WATCH: ‘I just did whatever made me happy’ – Take an animated trip through Kimi Raikkonen's stellar career “I think you saw the fan reception across the world and Kimi’s performance in the car was proof of the concept. Kimi’s following is massive and it’s great for NASCAR, Trackhouse plus I think Kimi really enjoys our racing.” Prior to his Cup Series outings, Raikkonen competed in the Xfinity and Truck Series races at Charlotte Motor Speedway back in May 2011. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

#F1 #Raikkonen to make racing return at scene of last F1 race win later this month #Formula 1

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getmanlaw · 1 year

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Schuyler County to receive $116K Opioid Settlement

A major drug distributor and its subsidiaries will pay Schuyler County up to $116,000 to settle claims it contributed to the ongoing opioid crisis in that county, under a resolution approved by the Schuyler County Legislature at a special meeting. Meeting on Monday (January 23), the legislature voted unanimously to accept the settlement and authorized Schuyler County Attorney Steven Getman to execute the necessary legal documents. According to the resolution, distributor Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and its subsidiaries (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., the Actavis Generic Entities, and Anda, Inc.), agreed to the settlement with the county in exchange for being released from a pending lawsuit filed by the county, as well as later claims brought by the New York State Attorney General’s office. The agreement calls for Teva to pay the county over seventeen annual installments, with payments expected to begin later this year, Getman said. According to Getman, the settlement funds can be used for a variety of purposes. “Potential uses include supporting police and first responders, treating opioid addiction, funding social services and similar anti-drug efforts,” Getman explained. The agreement also commits Teva to critical injunctive relief, Getman noted, including:

• A ban on high-dose opioids and prescription savings programs;

• Prohibitions on marketing opioids and funding third parties that promote opioids;

• Restrictions on political lobbying; and

• Disclosure of Teva opioid product clinical data. The motion authorizing Getman to accept the settlement was made by County Legislator Phil Barnes (R, Watkins Glen) and seconded by Legislator Michael Lausell (D, Hector). The Teva agreement is the latest opioid settlement Schuyler County has been a part of in the past five years. In 2021, the county legislature authorized Getman to accept up to $121,000 from Johnson & Johnson and up to $546,000 from distributors McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc. and Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation to treat, reduce and prevent opioid use through a court settlement with the opioid maker. A similar agreement, for $41,000, was obtained from defendant Actavis, Inc. in early 2022. Like the Teva agreement, payments to the county are scheduled to be made over time. The settlements stem from a 2018 lawsuit the county filed against approximately thirty defendants, including some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry. The lawsuit alleged the defendants had long known that opioids were addictive and subject to abuse, particularly when used long-term for chronic non-cancer pain, and should not be used except as a last-resort. However, the lawsuit stated, the defendants spent hundreds of millions of dollars disseminating scientific materials and advertising that misrepresented the risks of opioids’ long-term use. Schuyler County was one of many local governments that filed lawsuits against the manufacturers and distributors of opioid pain killers. At least 14 counties across New York sued the pharmaceutical companies for fraudulent marketing practices. After the counties sued, in March 2019, the New York State Attorney General’s office brought its own lawsuit on behalf of the state. In November, 2022, Attorney General Letitia James announced a tentative deal with Teva that will deliver up to $523 million to New York state to combat the opioid epidemic. In October 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency due to the consequences of the opioid crisis facing the nation. That year, more than 70,000 individuals nationally and nearly 4,000 New Yorkers lost their lives to a drug overdose. Schuyler County’s lawsuit against a number of other defendants remains pending, Getman said, with the possibility of more settlements and additional funding to the county still to come. Said Getman: “One cannot put a price on lives lost and families torn apart, but with the more than $824,000 expected to be delivered to Schuyler County from these lawsuits, we can provide the County with financial assistance to continue this battle and hold these companies responsible for their role in the opioid epidemic.” County Administrator Fonda Chronis agreed: "County officials have expended significant resources to help its residents battle opioid addiction and prevent further deaths. By voting to go forward with this settlement, the County Legislature hopes to lessen the burden to taxpayers for expenses related to the opioid crisis." Schuyler County’s latest salvo in the fight against opioid companies comes shortly after the New York State Department of Health released its Quarterly Opioid Report for January 2023, showing a 14% increase in 2021 overdose deaths involving opioids compared to 2020. That report, comparing state totals for 2021 to 2020 data, noted a 14% increase in overdose deaths involving opioids, with 4,766 deaths statewide in 2021. The report notes that fentanyl has contributed to an increase in opioid overdose deaths in recent years, is 50 to 100 times stronger than heroin, and is now involved in the majority of overdose deaths in New York State. In November, Teva issued a statement describing the settlement as "enabling us to put these cases behind us and continue to focus on the patients we serve every day.” A complete copy of Schuyler County’s lawsuit can be found here A copy of the county’s resolution approving the settlement can be found here.

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ryansholin · 1 year

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Storm #138712

OK, I learned something today. How to (more) properly mix a track in Arrangement View in Ableton. Kinda. I mean, I didn't learn it for a long period of time, and then I learned it all at once in a few minutes, finally succeeded at recording the fades and changes I had in mind, and it only took one take.

The two keys were:

All your loops in Session View are lovely, sure, but to make a finite song in Arrangement View and not have your automation affect the loop every time it plays, there is still some copy/pasta necessary.

That little "back to Arrangement View" or whatever the button is called so you can hear what you did? That's important! The first time the tracks all lit up after I pressed it, I got a nice little dopamine bump.

Anyway, after yesterday's remarkably off-key performance, I was determined today to tune the darn Minilogue and to play (mostly) notes that were from the correct scale. Done and done.

I also felt like trying something more "ambient" so I didn't add any drums at all, though the bassline is rhythmic enough.

Used some Spitfire Labs locusts and I've already forgotten where I got the other preset, which bodes well, but the Minilogue bass sound was my own creation... which I now realize I did not save.

And the audio file was a skosh too large for Tumblr without further editing, and it turns out the most easily googleable free visualizer for Ableton requires the fancier version of Ableton, so here's a YouTube video with an old video I took at Watkins Glen in 2018, apparently.

I think I'll try to learn more about Sends and Returns soon.

#jamuary #jamuary 2023 #synths #ableton #minilogue #watkins glen #gorgeous in the gorges #i randomly typed the storm number and it started with 138 because of course it did #Youtube

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nascarphotograph · 6 years

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#NASCAR #2018 #MENCS #monster energy nascar cup series #Ryan Blaney #Race #watkins glen #Road Course #Car #30

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viper-motorsports · 3 years

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Watkins Glen NY celebrates the US Independence Day with the N°69 HART Acura NSX GT3 sporting a stars & stripes livery for the 2018 Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen.

#acura nsx gt3 #six hours of the glen #hart #watkins glen international #imsa #honda nsx #2018 sahlens6hrs

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whipplefilter · 6 years

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You: No more NASCAR until February. 😥

Me, an intellectual:

#nascar #shitpost #jimmie johnson #my man jimmie jam #comin' to give me a push #chase elliott #watkins glen 2018

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gwynnew · 6 years

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From Ariel to Kobe Bryant: Disney legend Glen Keane takes us inside Oscar-nominated 'Dear Basketball'

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The animated short Dear Basketball is getting plenty of press for making NBA superstar Kobe Bryant an Oscar nominee. But it’s also the first nomination for Glen Keane, the long-time Disney animator behind characters like Ariel, the Beast, Pocahontas, and Rapunzel. Keane left Disney in 2012 to pursue more personal projects, and Bryant’s pitch for Dear Basketball spoke to him immediately — even though Keane knew nothing about basketball. “Kobe and I found that we had this connection of careers that we were really identified with, and yet we had stepped away from — him with the Lakers and me with Disney,” Keane told Yahoo Entertainment. “There was something a little bit scary with this whole new path that we were taking, and yet thrilling.”

In the five-minute-long film, Bryant (who retired from professional basketball in 2016) reads a very personal love letter to the game, describing how he first became obsessed with basketball and why he needed to walk away after 20 seasons. Under Bryant’s narration, Keane’s illustrations show Bryant at different stages of his life, from boyhood to retirement, using a naturalistic style and subtle touches of purple and gold (the colors of the L.A. Lakers). The moving film, which will compete for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film on March 4, was Bryant’s brainchild. “He’s an animation geek,” Keane explained. Talking to Yahoo, Keane broke down all the personal touches Kobe brought to Dear Basketball, from his tube-sock-rolling technique to the childhood photos he provided. The artist also revealed the inspirations for his most iconic Disney characters (Ariel, for example, was based on his wife), and revealed whether drawing Kobe Bryant can help a person play like Kobe Bryant. (The answer may surprise you.)

Legendary Disney animator Glen Keane earned his first Oscar nomination for Dear Basketball. (Image: go90)

Yahoo Entertainment: Congratulations on the Oscar nomination! How does this feel compared to, say, Beauty and the Beast getting nominated for Best Picture? Glen Keane: Well, that was Disney. I contributed in having done the Beast, but still I didn’t feel quite as personally involved. With this one, so much my personal drawings are up on the screen. This was such a labor of love for me. It very much was a passion project to be able to draw and animate in a style that I’ve always loved, and the original drawings are up on the screen; they aren’t hidden behind clean-up drawings, which is what we’ve always done at Disney. You don’t have the original animators’ drawings up on the screen, you have finely traced clean-up, and then that’s painted. So there’s something really direct and emotional about the drawings, and there’s something really direct and emotional about the nomination.

Tell me how you came to make an animated short with Kobe Bryant in the first place. Kobe reached out and connected to Karen Dufilho, who was an executive producer at a film we did at Google called Duet, which Kobe had seen, and he was also familiar with my work at Disney. So she set up a meeting between Kobe and myself at our little studio here in West Hollywood. Kobe arrived with his wife and daughters, and my wife was here, and my producer Gennie Rim and my production designer Max Keane. So we all sat down in my little office with my animation desk, just to see, do we get along? Can we connect creatively? Can we connect just as people? And immediately Kobe and I found that we had this connection of careers that we were really identified with, and yet we had stepped away from — him with the Lakers and me with Disney. There was something a little bit scary with this whole new path that we were taking, and yet thrilling. And we both just really connected with the excitement of what lays ahead. It was illustrated in the film: As Kobe walks off the court, through that tunnel, he steps into the light, into something new that’s waiting for him. And that’s what I’ve been feeling ever since I left Disney.

So did Kobe write the “Dear Basketball” letter specifically for this film? He knew that he wanted to do something with animation — that’s been cooking with him for a while. He’s an animation geek. [Laughs] Which was really surprising to find! Even when he was a kid [living in Italy], he learned a lot about basketball through some European animated films that were about sports. So that was kind of a trigger for him to start, and a natural place for him to go when he ended: to write this letter to basketball, imagining it as an animated film. He met with me before he wrote that letter. So he was already thinking, how am I going to communicate a goodbye to the game? But he was visualizing it. I mean, the whole letter is surprisingly well-crafted as a screenplay. It has basically three acts to it, and there’s this climax at the end of the second act where Kobe is there and the crowd is cheering and there’s confetti falling and it feels like it could be the end of it. But then there’s this death, really, as his injuries take over and he has to let go of the game, and the ball drops and rolls and the screen goes black. But then there’s this wonderful resurrection where we find that little six-year-old Kobe has always been with adult Kobe, and we see them playing on the court one last time, and he sinks the ball and Kobe steps off the court and goes into his future.

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I remember when I was storyboarding it, I didn’t realize how much was in that letter until I started to draw the different shots. And it was when I got to the end and I realized — oh, Little Kobe is still there, and they both have to be on the court at the same time! I just got chills. And it was at that point I realized, this is not a letter about basketball. This is a letter that’s to all of us, about that 6-year-old version of us that’s still with us as professionals, as adults, and the dreams we had as a child have never left us. It really could be “dear animation,” “dear medicine,” “dear writing,” dear whatever. I just knew that the film was much bigger than basketball.

The moment when Kobe and little Kobe on the court together made me cry. Oh, thank you for saying that. That’s exactly how I felt when I was sketching that out. Because at the beginning these are rough little sketches, oh, I’m going to animate Little Kobe. And then I realized once I got into it — wait a second, drawing Kobe, he’s not going to be some goofy little cartoon character. This has got to be a finely rendered version of Kobe that everybody can recognize. Wow. It’s not like the Beast. I mean, I could draw the Beast, and he could be any beast. I could define the Beast. But with Kobe, it’s gotta be him. And he’s actually got very delicate features to his face. He’s not easy to draw. That was a big challenge for me.

When you were drawing young Kobe, did you ask him for reference photos? I got every photo of Kobe that he had when he was a little kid. There weren’t a lot of them. I used those very carefully, had them on my desk. And there’s different ages that I got — really little Kobe to adolescent Kobe to teenage Kobe — and I was able to use those as my inspiration for him. So that’s kind of how Kobe looked when he was a little kid, a really cute little guy. The posters on the wall were all the real posters that were on Kobe’s wall as a kid. Kobe was constantly texting me the details, images that he really wanted to use. The videocassette player that he’d have on his bed, looking at the Lakers game. The videocassettes that his grandfather would send him. The way the chairs were set up on the court — Kobe sketched out the little pattern of chairs. I mean I’ve still got his horrible little drawing [laughs] of the chairs there. Everything had to be true.

Little Kobe has big dreams in Dear Basketball. (Image: Go90)

How you fold his dad’s tube socks was the first thing. I skipped over that, but my son Max was storyboarding a version of it, and I noticed that he had really focused on how the tube socks were folded. I said, is that really that important? And it was. Kobe was like, “No no, you have to know — here, I gotta get some tube socks.” And he got some. “You gotta film this” — so we filmed it, and we animated it based on that little footage.

Tell me about developing the art style, which is so wonderful — the color palette and the way it’s drawn. Max Keane is our production designer. He’s my son as well. He’s known my drawings his whole life, and he’s got great taste. He’s always been a critic of my animation, ever since he was a little kid. You know, he’d look at something with Aladdin and say, “I don’t know Dad, you’re beginning to repeat yourself. That’s the same gesture.” He was a little 10-year-old kid at that time! But he’s always been incredibly honest and has great taste, so we’ve been working together since I left Disney.

And Max has this personal goal, it seems, of celebrating the expressive line. At one time he said to me, when he was a little boy and he’d just done this drawing, “Dad, do you know that every line you make on the paper, or anybody makes, is a unique creative act never to be repeated again in history?” And I realized, he’s right. Every line you make, if you look at it really close, it’s this explosion of graphite dust across the paper, like a star field. And there’s this energy to that.

So we’ve been sort of celebrating hand-drawn line in the film we did for Google, Duet, and everything that we’ve done since then. Max has this way of lifting the lines off the paper and setting them in dimension so that there’s space. They’re not flat any longer. There’s parts of the drawing that are out of focus because he’s suggesting that they are closer to the audience, and other parts that are really focused and in detail.

Kobe Bryant in animated action in Dear Basketball. (Image: go90)

The challenge of animating this in the Staples Center, where you’ve got thousands of people — how do you do that without drawing everybody in there? Max had a way of putting depth and subtle color, slight purples and golds, throughout the whole film — very, very understated, but that’s the color theme, this gold and purple throughout. Everything is very natural. We’re not trying to sell or push anything with it.

There’s one particular shot I want to ask you about — that turning point where Kobe says, “My body knows it’s time to say goodbye,” and we see his injuries. Max personally put in a good month working on that one moment. It was basically a few drawings of action that were one pose; somebody had snapped a photo of Kobe at that moment, and I was animating it. But Max ended up taking a skeleton drawing that I had done and imposing it as an X-ray in there, so that you had this X-ray and then a muscle pass over top of that. And then we told Kobe, we want to see your injuries light up on your body at that point, like little flashes of light in the places those injuries were taking place. So I asked, can you give us a list of your injuries? Kobe gave us, I don’t know, two pages of injuries. I said, “OK look, we can pick four!”

So the last flash is really on his Achilles tendon. And it’s the most wonderful moment because you see Kobe move into this freeze frame, and in that moment you get to understand the pain that a basketball player like Kobe goes through, and how you push the body to its human limits. The desire can be there to go on, but the body just can’t do it. We were trying to figure out how to do that. We had animated a section where Kobe is in ice after the game, but it wasn’t as dramatic as showing the moment, an X-ray vision of the body struggling to keep up with what that moment was.

Dear Basketball in X-ray vision. (Image: Go90)

You worked on so many unforgettable animated characters during your time at Disney. What inspired those designs? I invested a lot of myself in the characters I designed. Before Little Mermaid, I was doing villains: Ratigan [in The Great Mouse Detective], the bear in The Fox and the Hound. I was doing villains. And I was cast to do Ursula in Little Mermaid. But when I heard Ariel sing, I just really related to this character that believes the impossible is impossible, that this mermaid could fall in love with a human with legs. I was intrigued with this girl’s belief that nothing was going to stop her. And I told the directors, I’ve got to animate that girl. I’ve gotta be Ariel. And they said, “Well, can you draw a pretty girl?” Because I’d been doing these big ugly characters. I said, “Yeah, I can draw a pretty girl — I’ve been drawing my wife for 10 years now!”

So I designed Ariel really based on my wife, who very much looks like Ariel, except no fins. And the big expressive eyes were just a way of really trying desperately to communicate what is going on inside this girl’s soul. The eyes are the window to the soul, and I made ‘em big.

Ariel in The Little Mermaid (Image: Disney)

Beast was much more like me. I had a terrible temper when I was a little kid, would throw things around. And that somebody could look past this beastly exterior and find something to love? That really moved me. So living in the skin of these characters has been what’s natural for me.

Tarzan was very much my son, Max. At the time I was trying to figure out how to animate Tarzan swinging on a vine, but he seemed passive, Tarzan just hanging onto a vine. But my son Max — our family had moved to Paris, he was 14 years old and he refused to accept he was no longer in California. So he skateboarded everywhere in the city and would come home with bloody knees, going down railings. We’d watch these extreme sports videos together, and I started thinking about Tarzan as, instead of swinging on the vine, what if he was like a tree surfer? So his whole movement was based on my son, the way he was moving around on the skateboard.

Rapunzel [in Tangled] was my daughter, Claire. When she was 6 years old I remember she wanted to paint the ceiling in her bedroom. And my wife said, “We’re not going to set a 6-year-old loose with paints in the house.” So when Claire graduated from art school, I hired her to be Rapunzel as an artist: when Rapunzel paints on the walls, we had to have an artist to do that. So I said, “Well hey, Claire, now you get a chance to paint your bedroom.”

How did those experiences at Disney influence your work on Dear Basketball? My approach has always been about what my dad [Bil Keane] taught me, because my dad was a cartoonist. He created the Family Circus comic strip that he based on his own family, and I was one of the kids in there. Dad was always telling me, “Glen, draw what you know.”

And that was the scariest part of Kobe asking me to do this film: I really, truly did not know basketball. I was terrible in basketball. As I told him, “You’ve got the worst basketball player on Earth animating you.” And he said, “Well that’s good, because then everything you’re going to learn is going to be through analyzing and studying me.” And it’s true. I mean, I studied every move that he made. He’s an illusionist on the court. He’s a magician, where he was constantly making the opponents commit to one fake he was doing so he could move to the other side, and faking people out with incredible skill. I was just amazed as I was animating him, to the point where I’d finally learned it so well that I really believed I could do it. I mean, I really believed I could play like Kobe!

So one night at the Lakers Training Center after evening was done, the lights were off, I went out onto the court and I got a basketball, turned on the lights, and said, “I’m going to do a three-pointer from out here.” There’s this jump fade shot that Kobe learned from Michael Jordan that in a lot of ways became a signature shot for Kobe. I knew I could do it. From all the analysis I knew that you’ve got to jump up and kind of fade back, your right hip is slightly forward, your left arm is straight up holding the ball, your right arm is at about a 45-degree angle holding the ball, and then you release on all the way until the tip of your finger lets go of the ball. I remember Kobe saying “Even after the ball has left my index finger, I still feel like I have control over directing the shot.” I mean, I felt all of that. And the ball is flying through the air, and I can’t believe it, I’ve never been able to do this — the ball is heading straight for a three-pointer from way out in the middle of the court!

And then the ball falls about 10 feet short of the basket. But it was going in a straight line. It was gonnna make it! But it was one of those wonderful moments. A little humbling. Like, OK, I’ll stick with my animation. But I think I still had good form.

[Editor’s note: Dear Kobe was produced by Go90, which, like Yahoo, is part of the Verizon-owned company Oath.]