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The name of a casino under construction in Carson City is the focus of a dispute between the developer and CBS. |
The network recently sent a letter to Mike Pegram asking him to not use the name "Bodines" in his casino. |
Bodine was the last name of Jethro in the 1960's CBS hit the "Beverly Hillbillies." But Pegram, who is building the casino along with the Carano family, says they bought the name from Bodines Restaurant that used to sit on the south Carson Street property. |
Pegram says he has no plans on changing it. |
Max Baer Jr. (who played Jethro) is also building his own casino in northern Douglas County. He says anyone other than him using the Bodine name is doing it unfairly. |
President Donald Trump announced this morning transgender individuals would no longer be able to serve in the military because of healthcare costs but analyses suggest they pale in comparison to the costs of other services. |
July 26 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump today announced via Twitter that he was banning transgender Americans from serving in the U.S. military in any capacity due to "tremendous medical costs." |
Several analyses suggest, however, that the U.S. military spends far less on transgender-related healthcare than on treatment for erectile dysfunction -- a total of $84 million on erectile dysfunction drugs annually, compared to an estimated $2.4 million to $8.4 million spent per year on transgender healthcare. |
In the last several years, the estimates for the annual costs of transgender members of the military is less than one-tenth the cost of development of the F-35 and one-thousandth that of the Pentagon's entire budget, the Washington Post reported. |
Since 2011, the U.S. military has spent $294 million, the equivalent of four U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, on drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, the Military Times reported in 2015. And the Department of Defense spent $41.6 million on the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra alone in 2014. |
This cost, for one drug, stands in stark contrast to the estimates of military spending annually on transgender-related healthcare and transition costs, according to a study by the Rand Corp. |
"Having analyzed the cost that the military will incur by providing transition-related care, I am convinced that it is too low to warrant consideration in the current policy debate," San Francisco State University professor Aaron Belkin wrote in a 2015 analysis in The New England Journal of Medicine. |
The car was stuck sometime between the end of the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 1, and about 5:30 a.m. Monday. |
Anyone who was in the vicinity, such as on Sorenson, North Telegraph, Carl, Goodwin or Breckenridge roads, during that time and might have seen something is asked to call the sheriff’s office at at 360-676-6650 or the Bellingham Police Department at 360-778-8800. Or call 911. |
The case number on this investigation is 15A02169 (Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office) or 15B04521 (Bellingham Police Department). |
Your Aug. 8 news article on Hebrew National's plans to move the bulk of its operations from Queens to Indianapolis didn't address the most significant aspect of this development: New York City's inability to create a proper environment for certain kinds of manufacturing businesses. The processed-meat business is one of... |
Among the principal costs of producing processed meats is labor and electricity. Both are completely out of control in New York City. Employing a porter here costs $30,000 a year; in North Carolina, Tennessee or Kentucky (and probably Indiana), the same job is performed for $15,000. You cut your utility costs by at lea... |
Hebrew National's move should come as no surprise to anyone vaguely familiar with this industry. Indeed, I remember the time when the butchers' union had more than 15,000 members in New York. Now I'm told it's down to about 3,000. Company after company has relocated. |
Processed delicatessen is really an export product of New York City, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that Hebrew National's sales outside the metropolitan area surpass its local sales, so the loss of this company has even greater significance. It would be nice if the city administration, in light of its proclaimed ... |
ANDREW GALE has revealed that the disappointment of Yorkshire’s Twenty20 campaign is driving them on to win the Royal London Cup and complete an historic league and cup double. |
The Yorkshire captain said that the club’s failure to qualify for the knockout stages of the T20 for a second year running was a massive motivation as they look to win the 50-over cup in addition to a second successive County Championship. |
Yorkshire will clinch the Championship next week with two games to spare if they manage just five points against second-placed Middlesex at Lord’s. |
Before then, they have the considerable matter of a Royal London Cup semi-final against Gloucestershire at Headingley tomorrow (10.30am) as they chase their first appearance in a Lord’s final since winning the old Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy in 2002. |
“We were really gutted and disappointed about the Twenty20 stuff so we sort of had a point to prove to ourselves,” said Gale, with Yorkshire having finished second-bottom of the North Group after eight defeats in 14 matches. |
“It hurt us as a club, and it hurt us as a squad. We had worked so hard for it and we were so desperate to do well, but, for whatever reason, it just didn’t go to plan. |
Gale, who recently handed over the one-day captaincy to young batsman Alex Lees, effectively reducing himself to a back-up one-day player and enabling him to concentrate on being the country’s best four-day leader, believes Yorkshire are naturally suited to the 50-over format. |
Yorkshire finished third in the Royal London Cup North Group on the back of some strong performances and booked their place in the semi-final by defeating Essex at Chelmsford, where Liam Plunkett turned the game on its head with a match-winning display with bat and ball. |
“We’ve got the players to play that longer form of one-day cricket,” said Gale. “I think our players generally suit the format of the white ball, and the bowlers can bowl more of a Championship length. |
Yorkshire have never previously done the league and cup double. |
They almost managed it in the 1960s, when their three successive Championships between 1966 and 1968 were flanked by Gillette Cup triumphs in 1965 and 1969, but the current squad are on the brink of creating history. |
“It would be great for the club and all the supporters if we could do the double,” said Gale. |
“Our form has been exceptional of late in one-day cricket, and it will be a massive game against Gloucestershire now. |
“There will be a big crowd in, and it’s just about hammering the processes like we’ve done in previous games and not getting carried away with the occasion. |
Although Yorkshire arguably start as favourites, Gloucestershire are dangerous opponents and they have an excellent recent record against Yorkshire. |
Gloucestershire have won 10 of the last 13 completed one-day matches between the teams, including last year’s group game at Headingley, and their march to the last-four this year has been masterminded by the coaching partnership of former Yorkshire players Richard Dawson and Ian Harvey, which will add further spice to ... |
One of those defeats came during the 2004 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy semi-final at Bristol, where the home team won by five wickets against a Yorkshire side containing Dawson and Harvey. |
Yorkshire also lost the 2005 semi-final away to Hampshire, the 2008 semi-final away to Essex and the 2010 semi-final at home to Warwickshire, with the club having lost 15 of their last 18 one-day cup semi-finals in total dating back to 1979. |
“A lot of the players in our dressing room won’t have played in the recent semis, so I don’t think that will count for anything,” said Gale, who top-scored with 64 in the 2008 defeat at Chelmsford. |
“That hasn’t even been talked about among the players. |
“That won’t hurt those lads, and we will go into this semi-final full of confidence. |
Gale’s positivity is echoed by first-team coach Jason Gillespie, who believes the Headingley crowd can be Yorkshire’s 12th man. |
More than 5,000 advance tickets have been sold and a good walk-up is expected, with decent weather forecast. |
“It will be a difficult game against Gloucestershire, but, with a partisan Yorkshire crowd behind us, that can really help,” said Gillespie. |
Pace bowler Liam Plunkett and spinner Adil Rashid have been named in a 15-man squad but they may be unavailable due to England one-day international duty. |
Squad: Bairstow, Ballance, Bresnan, Brooks, Carver, Fisher, Hodd, Leaning, Lees (capt), Lyth, Patterson, Plunkett, Pyrah, Rashid, Rhodes. |
Michelle Rodriguez and Norman Reedus star in the shortform feature, which will debut this summer on Surreal, the VR app from STXsurreal. |
In 2003, Robert Rodriguez pioneered the use of 3D technology on his Spy Kids 3: Game Over. With Sin City in 2005 he was among the first to make full use of the digital backlot and shoot an entire film in front of a green screen. |
So it sort of makes sense that Rodriguez's latest action film, The Limit, is pushing the envelope on the next big thing in cinema tech, virtual reality. |
Rodriquez gave international television execs a preview of The Limit in a first-ever sneak peek at Mip TV on Tuesday. The live-action short stars Michelle Rodriguez as a genetically enhanced weapon of mass destruction hellbent on destroying the covert agency that created her. The clip shown at Mip also featured a cameo... |
The film is a first-person action adventure, with the viewer accompanying Rodriguez’s character as they leap out airplanes, tear off on a high-speed road chase and blast through a army of bad guys. |
The Limit is the first of a pipeline of high-end VR productions, featuring top Hollywood talent, currently being produced by STX Entertainment's VR and immersive content division STXsurreal. The 20-minute film will debut on the company's premium VR app this summer. |
STXsurreal has announced several other shortform projects for the new app, including a spinoff of STX’s Mile 22 film franchise from director Peter Berg, a sci-fi thriller from John Wick writer Derek Kolstad, a comedy series from The Office star Ed Helms, an untitled Dave Bautista action comedy and a Jay and Silent Bob ... |
In order for VR to go mainstream, explained STX Surreal’s co-founders Rick Rey and Andy Vick, it needs content with big-name stars and top-end production values. |
Many have compared the current hype surrounding VR to the (ultimately disappointed) expectations that accompanied the start of 3D cinema. But Rodriguez, who was at the forefront of 3D, says it's different this time. |
The cult director said he was pulled into the world of VR by his son Racer Max, a fan of VR video games, who co-wrote the script to The Limit. The younger Rodriguez told THR while he is still a huge VR gaming fan, he thinks there's a demand among his generation of millennials for the “lean-back” experience of a VR film... |
In news that should surprise no one, Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel has expressed support for recently-suspended Georgia running back Todd Gurley. Gurley was suspended indefinitely for allegedly selling his autographs, a violation of the NCAA's constantly beleaguered guidelines. |
"He's built an image for himself. He's built somewhat of a brand. I feel he should be able to capitalize off it. I don't think [NCAA rules are] going to change any time soon. ... It's an ongoing -- for student-athletes -- problem in college athletics." |
As of now, Gurley will remain suspended until an investigation regarding the allegations is concluded. Manziel, for his part, will continue riding the pine as Brian Hoyer leads the Browns to mild competency. |
A collective of leftist organizations and representatives of ethnic minorities on Monday joined ongoing strikes carried out by farmers, miners and truckers in Colombia’s countryside. |
Who does the Agrarian Summit represent? |
Socialist organization led by controversial former Senator Piedad Cordoba. |
Colombia’s formal body to represent the country’s various indigenous peoples. |
Farmers collective organized by the Patriotic March to lead last year’s agricultural strikes. |
One of Colombia’s largest leftist collective, farmers, indigenous people and Afro-Colombians, united in the so-called Agrarian Summit (Cumbre Agraria Campesina Etnica y Popular), told Colombia Reports that the government’s noncompliance with the agreements were the main reason for the strikes. |
Additionally, the collective of striking organizations demand far-stretching changes in Colombia’s economic system and joined rebel group FARC in a call to organize a constituent assembly to reform the country’s constitution. |
The summit, which consists of indigenous organization ONIC, leftist political movement Patriotic March, and a number of smaller organizations, is separate, but supportive of the ongoing strikes organized by the Agriculture Dignity movement that laid down work a week ago already. |
Cesar Pachon, a leader of the Farmers’ Dignity movement that went on strike last week already, confirmed to Colombia Reports that his organization is friendly with the Agrarian Summit, but decided to stay independent because of the political nature of the demands of the fellow-strikers. |
The farmers’ strike is solely about improving the economic situation of farmers and does not want to get involved with other political issues facing Colombia, said Pachon. |
What is the Agrarian Summit? |
“[The Agrarian Summit] represents the economic, social, environmental, cultural and territorial political demands of historically marginalized and excluded communities, is a wake-up call to the national government on the urgency of structurally addressing problems of the rural population that wants to claim its rights,... |
The Summit brings together 30 thousand people from all over the country, claims the organization led by former Senator Piedad Cordoba. |
The purpose of the collective’s strike is to force the government to comply with agreements made at the end of national strikes last year. |
A number of the group demands are related to changes in Colombian economic policies and the expansion of ongoing talks with rebel groups. |
The social movements of the Agrarian Strike will take place all over the country. |
Representatives of the Agrarian Summit met with president Juan Manuel Santos on April 11, agreeing on creating a United National Table to negotiate the summit’s demands. |
Santos appointed Interior Minister Aurelio Iragorri to be the government’s negotiator with the strikers. |
A second meeting between representatives of the summit and the Minister of Interior took place on Tuesday in Bogota while talks are expected to continue as the strike develops. |
The Agrarian Summit’s goals are not entirely agricultural; the collective declared to be in favor of ongoing peace talks between the government and Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC. In addition, it urged the government to initiate similar peace talks with the smaller rebel group ELN and drug trafficking organization... |
“We recognize the right to ask that political negotiations with Colombian insurgency FARC-EP be maintained and bear fruits and that the rapprochement with ELN and EPL continue, as a fundamental step in the complex construction of peace with social justice among Colombians,” said the organization on the Patriotic March ... |
The last of the eight demands focuses on the ongoing armed conflict and calls for ceasefire and a political solution to the armed conflict. |
Nasimun Ara Hoq Minu and Parveen Sultana Jhuma have been re-elected as the president and the general secretary respectively of Bangladesh Nari Sangbadik Kendra, an organisation for women journalists. |
A new committee for the organisation has been formed at its third national conference held on Sunday, 11 years after the previous conference. |
Parveen F Chowdhury and Aasha Mehreen Amin have jointly been elected as vice-president alongside the previous committee leader Dil Monwara Monu. |
Treasurer Akhter Jahan Malik has been re-elected to her post. |
Munima Sultana and Latifa Ansari Runa have been elected as joint general secretary with Adity Rahman. |
Rita Nahar has been replaced by Shahnaz Siddiqui Soma as organising secretary. |
The third national council of the organisation was held at the Bangladesh Press Institute auditorium on Sunday after its second national council in 2007. |
City officials question why the Environmental Protection Agency didn't tell them that Global Partners has been violating the federal Clean Air Act for more than a decade. |
SOUTH PORTLAND — City officials were surprised and unhappy to learn Monday that Global Partners LP has been violating the federal Clean Air Act for more than a decade at its petroleum storage facility on the Fore River and the Environmental Protection Agency has known about it since 2014. |
City officials said they should have been notified long before the Portland Press Herald published a story about a lawsuit and a consent decree the EPA filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday. |
The consent decree outlines the terms of a proposed settlement that would force Global to pay $190,000 in penalties and reduce emissions at the facility, which is off Lincoln Street, at the end of Clark Road, near the Forest City Cemetery and the Pleasantdale neighborhood. |
Global stores asphalt and No. 6 heavy fuel oil in huge heated tanks that have the potential to emit more than 50 tons of hazardous volatile organic compounds into the air each year, the complaint says. That’s more than double the 21.9 tons per year allowed under an emissions license issued by the Maine Department of En... |
The EPA sent Global notices of violations in 2014 and 2015, according to the complaint. The continuing violations were flagged again in 2016, when Global sought a “minor revision” to its emissions license from the Maine DEP. |
VOCs include a variety of chemicals that may produce adverse health effects such as eye, nose, and throat irritation, headaches, nausea, and damage to the liver, kidneys and central nervous system, the EPA said in the release. |
VOCs also contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone. Breathing ozone can trigger a variety of health problems, particularly for children, seniors elderly and anyone with lung diseases such as asthma. Ground-level ozone also can harm sensitive vegetation and ecosystems. |
Morgan said the City Council will meet in executive session next Tuesday to review the EPA’s complaint and consider submitting a response to the consent decree. The decree is subject to a 30-day public comment period and final court approval. However, the exact dates of the comment period are “to be determined,” accord... |
Morgan acknowledged that the city doesn’t regulate or monitor air quality, but its concern for the effects of air pollution on residents and the environment is apparent in South Portland’s so-called Clear Skies ordinance. |
Passed by the council in 2014, the ordinance banned bulk loading of crude oil onto marine vessels, largely because of potential air-quality impacts. The local law effectively blocked the Portland Pipe Line Corp. from reversing the flow of its 236-mile South Portland-to-Montreal pipeline, which has shipped foreign crude... |
EPA spokesman Dave Deegan said the filing of the lawsuit and consent decree on Monday served as notice to the city and the wider public of Global’s alleged Clean Air Act violations. |
“As always, EPA’s first priority is to ensure we are protecting human health and the environment, and if this situation required earlier notification to municipal officials, EPA would have done so,” Deegan said in an email. |
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