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This video is ultimately a disappointment, if just because you have to sit through so much of Irvin's prattle just to make it to the money shot ... but it still feels good. Jackson ultimately apologized, but we don't think he was denigrating anyone ... he was just complimenting Irvin.
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Watch this morning's video update HERE.
Building inspections and welfare visits are on today’s agenda for Rotorua Lakes Council’s Civil Defence team.
Seven days on from a flood not see in over half a century that impacted hundreds of households across the district work is continuing to ensure we are reaching those who may need our support or advice about what to do next.
Civil Defence Controller said this morning that although we have a good understanding of how many people are affected there may still be people in the community who have not contacted us or that we have not identified.
“If you have been affected and haven't been contacted by Council, or haven't contacted us please call 0800 020 001, so we can provide you with assistance, or put you in touch with other agencies who can help.
“The storm also caused significant damage to our infrastructure - our engineering staff and partners are working hard to identify the scale of the damage, draft a programme for rehabilitation, and identify the priorities for repairs.
Building Inspectors will be focussing on areas in town including Glenholme, Tarewa Road and Bell Road.
As at 10.50 this morning the team had carried out 58 building inspections across the district and will be cross referencing their checks with the 119 known insurance claims that have been lodged so far.
All going well today the building teams will endeavour to move onto affected rural areas south of Rotorua including Reporoa and Rerewhakaaitu.
Anyone who needs assistance should fill in a registration form at Council or at the Hub at Ngongtaha. You can also call us on 0800 020 001 and we can arrange someone from our welfare team to visit you to complete a registration form. For example, if you’re staying over at auntie’s or a mate’s place, and are starting to...
You can also use the registration form for help with a range of issues from food, health, financial assistance, pets, rural support, or help dealing with the emotional or mental strain.
Council will continue to provide security patrols in affected areas but please remember to keep private property secure or away from the street.
If you are drying off whiteware or carpets or any other items, put them in a secure place in your back yard and away from the front verge where they may look like discarded items.
If you are insured contact your provider to arrange waste disposal of anything you need to throw away.
For more information of advice contact Rotorua Lakes Council on 0800 020 001.
Septic tanks are a potential source of faecal contamination to flood waters and it is possible for surface water to travel down the outer casing of a bore into groundwater.
If your drinking water supply is from a bore and there was flood water around the borehead, then there is a risk that your bore water might be contaminated. If this is the case then please boil your water before drinking and have your water tested to confirm whether your water supply is safe.
Rotorua Lakes Council's laboratory can test your drinking water to determine the presence of Ecoli, which is an indicator of faecal contamination, free of charge to those affected by the storm. To arrange a sample, collect a bottle from the lab at the Wastewater Treatment Plant off Te Ngae Road or contact Council on 07...
It’s normal to feel upset after extreme weather events like this. If you need support or advice, or have feelings of anxiety, stress, prolonged fear, hopelessness or anger and need to talk with someone, you can phone Healthline on 0800 611 116.
Sometimes post-disaster stress can be ongoing. It can affect your physical and mental health and wellbeing.
• you have new symptoms or old problems may seem to have returned (eg, breathing, heart or stomach problems).
For children, withdrawal, aggressive behaviours, difficulties at school, or problems separating from parents or going to sleep may also indicate the need for help.
Left tackle Jason Peters has agreed to a pay cut that will keep him with the Eagles in 2019.
The team announced his new contract on Monday afternoon, and his agent revealed that it would be worth up to $10 million, with $5.5 million guaranteed, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
Peters, 37, had been due to incur a salary cap hit of $10.6 million before the restructuring, so the Eagles are believed to have bought themselves some salary cap relief insurance with this new incentive-laden agreement in which his pay will be commensurate with the number of games and snaps he’s able to play.
Peters started all 16 games last season but often wasn’t able to play all the offensive snaps. He played just 79 percent of the offensive snaps last season and missed more than half the 2017 season, including the entire postseason, after wrecking a knee.
Rapoport reported earlier on Monday that the Eagles had reached a contract agreement with former Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Malik Jackson.
Jackson’s contract is reportedly worth $30 million over three years.
The team would not confirm the contract, which can be signed before the official start of free agency on Wednesday because Jackson was released by the Jaguars as a cap casualty.
Adding Jackson, who has 32.5 career sacks with Denver and Jacksonville, should bolster the interior of the Eagles’ defensive line considerably. They were short at that position most of last year when an offseason back injury to Tim Jernigan carried over into the regular season and kept him from playing the first 13 gam...
Jernigan’s option for 2019 will not be renewed, allowing him to become a free agent.
Jackson was released after lost starting job in 2018. Coming off a Pro Bowl 2017 season in which he had a career-high 8.0 sacks and four forced fumbles, he had just 3.5 sacks and no forced fumbles last year.
Still, at 29, the Eagles feel he has a good bit left in the tank and is an upgrade over Jernigan.
Add in the trade the Eagles made later on Monday to reacquire wide receiver DeSean Jackson and it’s been a crazy start to the league’s legal tampering period for the Eagles.
Monday marked the start of the period before the beginning of the new league year in which teams are permitted to negotiate with potential free agents.
Players with expiring contracts can’t sign with a new team, however, until Wednesday at 4 p.m., when trades can become official as well.
The Eagles on Friday agreed to trade defensive end Michael Bennett and a seventh-round pick to New England for a fifth-round pick in next year’s NFL Draft, according to reports.
Furthermore, none of those moves will count toward the formula the league uses to determine compensatory picks since Malik Jackson was released before free agency and DeSean Jackson and Bennett were involved in trades.
All of this comes on the heels of other recent significant moves by executive vice president of Howie Roseman to clear cap space for the start of free agency.
That included contract extensions for offensive linemen Jason Kelce and Isaac Seumalo, and defensive end Brandon Graham; the restructuring of contracts for right tackle Lane Johnson and safety Rodney McLeod; and the decision to allow quarterback Nick Foles to leave via free agency after he paid back $2 million to buy h...
Malik Jackson almost certainly won’t be the only top-of-the-roster player added in free agency. The Eagles also are expected to add a running back and a linebacker to help alleviate the expected departures of Jay Ajayi and Jordan Hicks, respectively.
One of the linebackers they’re rumored to be coveting is C.J. Mosley, who has not been re-signed by the Baltimore Ravens. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero said the Eagles likely will pursue Mosley, but they will have some heavy competition: The Browns, Jets and Redskins are among the other teams interested in acquiring this...
Mosley has made the Pro Bowl four times in five seasons, in which he’s amassed 597 tackles, 35 pass breakups, nine interceptions and six forced fumbles in 77 games.
And finally, as expected, Nick Foles is joining the Jaguars. Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Foles has agreed to a four-year, $88 million deal. It, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, includes $50.125 million guaranteed.
Though Horta — Cuban migrant, retired dental assistant, grandmother — was showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease, she was still active: cooking and cleaning, even riding the bus to pick up groceries, her family said.
A native of the central Cuban city of Santa Clara, Horta had worked as a secretary before fleeing to Miami during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. In the United States, she raised two sons while working as a dental assistant, even helping raise her four granddaughters.
On a friend’s recommendation, the family looked at The Gardens of Kendall, an assisted-living facility within walking distance of the dozens of shops at Dadeland Mall. Owner Mayra Del Olmo said Horta would have her own room, eat well and be treated like a member of the family.
After a short tour, Horta’s family decided to place her at the six-bedroom facility, at least until her granddaughter’s health improved — though the elderly woman wanted none of it.
“She said, ‘There’s no way I’m going to stay here,’ ’’ recalled granddaughter Juliette.
But the family felt it was their only option, and in early March 2004, they moved her belongings into the home.
Horta’s stay would be far shorter than the family planned.
Though they wanted to visit on the first weekend, Del Olmo said it was too soon; Horta needed time to adjust.
So the family waited another week, and scheduled a visit for Mother’s Day. The plans were to pick her up and take her to dinner.
But that morning, the phone rang. It was Del Olmo. Abuelita had fallen in the shower and had “a little bruise,” the family said they were told. Del Olmo suggested cancelling dinner because Horta wasn’t feeling well.
The family decided to go ahead with the Mother’s Day outing anyway. When they arrived at the home, Julia poked her head into Horta’s darkened bedroom and made a joke: “I heard you were causing trouble,” she quipped.
However, they said they quickly realized something was wrong. The room smelled of urine. Horta was curled up in bed, her skin white, cold and damp, with food dribbling from her mouth. Her leg was swollen and bruised.
“Her left leg was black, and her right leg was beginning to look the same way,’’ Julia said.
The family called for an ambulance.
At South Miami Hospital, they learned Horta’s injuries had nothing to do with a fall in the shower. According to the vascular surgeon, Steven Kang, the woman’s legs had been restrained “for a prolonged period of time,’’ causing her to develop a blood clot, which was blocking her femoral artery.
Doctors wanted to operate immediately, the family said, but Horta was too sick. She had been given high doses of Xanax, a tranquilizer, which was slowing her heart rate.
Finally, at 11 p.m., doctors performed surgery to remove the clot.
Two days later, Horta was dead.
In the coming days, Del Olmo stuck to her story: Horta had fallen in the shower. But she also suggested the elderly woman was to blame for what she endured, because she had been wandering around the home and refusing to listen to her caregivers.
In fact, Del Olmo told investigators, she got a friend to give her Xanax, because she said Horta had been so much trouble.
But investigators with the state Department of Children & Families came to a different conclusion: Somebody had strapped her legs so tightly the restraints sliced into her skin and caused a blood clot that ultimately killed her.
“The investigator observed a very distinct circular shaped bruise around the victim’s upper thigh [that] went around the entire thigh. The investigator observed open flesh tears around the bruised area,” a DCF report states.
“A resident of the facility said everything would be fine if the victim would have only followed the rules,’’ the report stated.
Though the attorney general’s office never determined who caused Horta’s injuries — one of the caretakers left the country — they charged Del Olmo with aggravated neglect in 2005. She was sentenced to a year of house arrest and five years’ probation.
To Juliette, the images of her grandmother in her final days are wrenching.
KAPAA, Hawaii (AP) - A Kauai salon is celebrating the Japanese tradition of Girls Day with makeovers for young girls and funds going to charity.
The Garden Island reported Monday that Salon J in Kapaa did princess makeovers for about 40 girls on Sunday to raise money for the YWCA of Kauai.
Salon owner Jeanette Huttger says the money will help abused women and children.
Girls Day, known as Hina Matsuri in Japan, is celebrated March 3 and is popular in Hawaii. The tradition includes elaborate doll displays.
Huttger says the idea for princess makeovers came from a client who said she saw a princess beauty salon during a Disneyland visit.
Huttger says the girls also got a goodie bag with a tiara, a wand and other small prizes.
Is Costume Drama the Next Genre for Scrutiny by China’s Censors?
Leading Chinese streaming platform, Tencent Video this week failed to launch a high-profile period drama series. The surprise move sparked speculation that the staple court drama genre is now a target of encroaching censorship.
Set in the Tang Dynasty period, “Deep in the Realm of Conscience,” was co-produced by Hong Kong’s TVB and Tencent Penguin Pictures, on a budget reported at $15.7 million (RMB100 million). TVB premiered the show as planned on Monday. But Tencent said on its official Weibo social media account that the show’s premiere ha...
TVB, which also handled global sales outside China, ruled out a technical problem. “We have already achieved the goal of this collaboration. The product has already been delivered to [Tencent] and our production fees have been paid,” said Mark Lee, TVB’s CEO, at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday.
China has steadily increased its censorship of the media in recent years. That was crystallized this March by the shift of film and TV regulation from the State Administration for Film Radio Press Publishing and Television to directly supervision by the Communist Party’s propaganda department.
Regulators say that Internet programming must promote social harmony. That is precisely the opposite of what court dramas, full of plots and intrigues, depict on screen. But by locating the story hundreds of years ago program-makers have largely been able to argue that they are not dabbling in current politics.
“Chinese viewers – including Chinese censors – are adept at seeing current political parallels in historic dramas. It could be that terms like ‘this court will get rid of the prince to secure the nation’ may hit too close to home for an administration that has arguably waged an anti-corruption drive that has targeted i...
There are other indicators of a new squeeze on period drama. “Deep in the Realm” is a sequel to TVB’s “Beyond the Realm of Conscience,” a show which was considered acceptable nearly a decade ago, in 2009.
Nor is it alone. “Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace” starring award-winning actress Zhou Xun completed production last year and was supposed to be released this year. But it now appears to be eternally stuck in post-production.
Media commentator, Johnny Lau says the court drama ban shows China’s determination to further tighten control by restricting people from using historical stories as metaphors to criticize the ruling party.
CHICAGO - Unable to get a contract extension, Ozzie Guillen walked away from the Chicago White Sox.
Guillen's quest for a new deal was denied, so the talkative, sometimes outrageous and always colorful manager asked to be released from his current contract Monday.
After Guillen met with owner Jerry Reinsdorf, the team agreed to release him from his current deal and his eight-year run that included a World Series title in 2005 was over. He managed his final game Monday night as the White Sox beat the Blue Jays 4-3.
Guillen said he had a great talk with Reinsdorf, who respected his decision.
"It was my call and I appreciated the White Sox organization letting me do what I like to do and what is best. ... Maybe not the best, maybe it's the worst." Guillen said. "You don't know what is out there. Maybe I'm dreaming. I might not appreciate what I got here. You don't know. You have to close the page and move o...
Guillen, whose contract option for 2012 was picked up at the team's winter convention in January, began talking late last month about an extension, even with the team going through a disappointing season.
"We certainly cannot thank Ozzie enough for all he has done during his eight seasons as manager of the Chicago White Sox, highlighted by an unforgettable 2005 World Series championship," Reinsdorf said in a release issued by the team.
The White Sox said they retain the right to compensation should Guillen accept a managerial position with another major league team for the 2012 season. Guillen, who had a 678-617 record with the White Sox, will not be in uniform for the remaining two games this year.
The Florida Marlins talked to Chicago last year about acquiring Guillen, but the deal never materialized. They could bring him in now to lead the club into a new ballpark next season.
"It could be anybody. They sound like they are interested," Guillen said. "They just let me go to talk to whoever I want, anyone I want. Right now, a lot of people are talking about Florida ... a lot of rumors are out there."

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