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Introducing a toddler to their new baby sibling isn’t always easy, but in this case, it was hilarious.
Ava, 22 months, came into the room while her mom Ali Lukitsch, a teacher from Trenton, Mich., was feeding her new baby sister Hannah. The tot wasn’t quite sure what was going on. First, she told little sister “no biting,” and Mom had to explain what she was doing and that she was getting milk.
That’s when Ava wanted to know “where the chocolate milk” at!”
From the mouths of babes…
The video, shot by Ali’s sister Stephanie Legut, has been shared thousands of times on social media and new mom Ali — who just gave birth to Hannah on Sunday — says she can hardly believe the reaction. “My husband was just asking how I feel about so many people seeing me and I’m just so focused on Ava … That’s just her, in a nutshell, every day, Ali told 98.7 AMP Radio. “We could pop out a million more videos like that. I’m glad that people can see her personality.”
Ava is a regular ‘little Mama’ who wants to do everything for the new baby, including helping to feed her, getting her dressed, and playing with her all the time. “It’s just like her little live baby doll,” mom Ali said.
So, did she get her chocolate milk?
“She loves chocolate milk, yes she does,” Ali said, laughing. “She asked me again this morning, ‘Is she getting chocolate milk? I had to say ‘No, she’s not getting chocolate milk!”


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Question: Santi Cazorla named in Arsenal's Europa League squad

Arsenal have named Santi Cazorla in their squad for the knockout stage of the Europa League. The Spain international is currently recovering from a recurrent Achilles injury for which he underwent a 10th operation earlier this season.
According to UEFA's website, Cazorla has been added to the squad alongside winter signings Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Konstantinos Mavropanos, though Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is ineligible after Borussia Dortmund dropped into the competition via a third-place finish in their Champions League group.
Wenger has publicly suggested that Cazorla may not return to first-team action until the first-half of the 2018/19 season, but the club appear to have nevertheless added the Spaniard in their squad as a sign of respect towards him than anything else.
Meanwhile, the likes of Olivier Giroud, Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott, Mathieu Debuchy and Francis Coquelin have been omitted from the squad after their respective departures from the Emirates in the summer.
Arsenal are presently regarded as second favourites behind Atletico Madrid to win the Europa League, though the likes of Napoli and Borussia Dortmund could yet offer stiff competition for the title.

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Egypt coach Hector Cuper will face a nervous wait over the fitness of the Gunners midfielder after he was taken off injured on Sunday against West Ham
Mohamed Elneny's World Cup hopes suffered a potential blow on Sunday as the Egypt star was forced off injured in Arsenal's Premier League clash with West Ham.
The midfielder appeared to sustain an ankle injury in a challenge with Mark Noble and, after prolonged treatment on the field, he was taken off on a stretcher with his leg in a brace.
Elneny – who has 57 caps for his country – looked in significant discomfort as he was replaced by Ainsley Maitland-Niles at Emirates Stadium.
Of immediate concern for the 25-year-old will be Thursday's Europa League semi-final first leg with Atletico Madrid, but his ambitions to feature in Russia may also take a hit.
Elneny, who signed a new long-term contract in March, was only cleared to play after having his red card against Southampton overturned.
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Hector Cuper's men are in Group A alongside Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and the tournament hosts.


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I've given him plenty of praise for this years turn around. I've also had a go when he's done stupid things, like not using subs at widnes when players were struggling to walk let alone run.
I call it as I see it. unlike some who have agenda's both for and against him I don't.
for me this is a wasted opportunity. if anyone things fev have a chance they are deluded. even they are thinking of resting players because of fixture congestion.

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HAYANGE, France (AP) — Two things now grow around the rusting carcasses of the last blast furnaces in this French steel town: weeds, and votes for populist Marine Le Pen.
For months, labor leader Walter Broccoli fought to keep the fires burning, fearing that failure could drive enraged workers into the arms of Le Pen and her virulently nationalistic politics. He never imagined his own son would become part of the stampede.
He says they’ve not spoken in the three years since he discovered to his horror from their local newspaper that David Broccoli was registered as a candidate in municipal elections for Le Pen’s anti-European Union, anti-immigration National Front.
“I said to myself, ‘Impossible! What’s happened to him?’ I called him up. We argued. He told me, ‘That’s the way it is’ and hung up on me,” Walter Broccoli says. “I’ve had nightmares where I saw him dressed in an SS uniform, all in black, with a cap. I took it very hard. It shocked me: My son, in the National Front? Impossible. Unbearable.”
Yet the National Front is now an inescapable part of the landscape in France’s industrial eastern rustbelt and its once left-leaning towns. Le Pen is projected to win millions of votes Sunday in the first round of France’s two-stage presidential election, likely catapulting her to within one step of an electoral earthquake that would shake France and the EU to its core.
Disgruntled working-class voters will cast ballots for the anti-establishment Le Pen not solely out of conviction but also in protest. She is their nuclear option, their way to flip the bird at the French political mainstream they feel has betrayed and abandoned them.
Steel worker Pascal Grimmer doesn’t share Le Pen’s politics; he doesn’t, like her, want a “Frexit” to take France out of the EU or to ditch its shared euro currency. But she will get his vote because he’s “angry with politicians, filled with rage,” and “she is the candidate who most scares the others,” Grimmer says.
He hopes that an electro-shock-high score for Le Pen — not quite enough to install her in the presidential Elysee Palace but an uncomfortably close shave — will jolt more mainstream politicians “to use their brains to ask themselves, ‘What do people want?'”
“You reap what you sow. And our politicians have treated the French people like idiots,” he says. “Politicians don’t fulfill their promises. They lie as easily as they breathe.”
Last time, Grimmer voted Francois Hollande, the Socialist whose presidency, now in its final weeks, lasted just one term, sunk by his unpopularity.
Grimmer was impressed when Hollande came stumping during the 2012 campaign for working-class votes at the ArcelorMittal steel plant where he works. Labor leaders were in the thick of their battle to save Hayange’s furnaces, the last in eastern France still serving the steel industry.
Incongruous in his suit and tie, Hollande clambered onto the roof of a van with union leaders, took a microphone and promised to push for a law to help save plants facing closure. The crowd, which included Grimmer, cheered. In a seemingly trivial detail, but one which workers subsequently wouldn’t let him forget, Hollande even shared a spicy barbecued ‘merguez’ sausage with them.
“I said to myself, ‘Oh, I like this guy.’ Naively, I believed him,” Grimmer recalls. “I was completely hoodwinked.”
Grimmer and others felt betrayed when the furnaces were extinguished in 2013, as part of a deal the Socialist government struck with steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal seven months after Hollande’s election. Hollande beat conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, another one-term president under whom ArcelorMittal also closed a plant in nearby Gandrange.
The deal included jobs elsewhere or retirement for furnace workers. ArcelorMittal also promised to invest 180 million euros ($190 million at today’s rates) in other sectors of the giant steel works, which still produce high-grade metals for automakers and other clients and sprawl across three towns, including Hayange, in the Fensch valley.
Workers had hoped for more. The mothballing of the furnaces that used to turn the skies incandescent red, dust soot over the valley’s towns and draw laborers from across Europe and North Africa hit hard. In a final show of defiance, Grimmer, Broccoli and other members of their Workers’ Force union unveiled a plaque of protest in Hayange when the scorching fires which had melted ores into metal went cold.
“SELLOUT,” the plaque read. “Here lie the promises of change that F. HOLLANDE made to workers and their families.”
Still bitter, Grimmer says: “Politicians are forcing me to vote Le Pen. That’s why I’m doing this. Not with a happy heart but because I’m forced to. And increasing numbers of French people are starting to think this way.”
And if Le Pen wins?
“So be it. They will have to live with that,” he says.
Broccoli says he warned Socialist officials that extinguishing the furnaces would be “electoral suicide.” Sure enough, the year after they were put out, Hayange voted in a National Front mayor in 2014 — one of just a handful of towns in France to do so.
“It really hurts me to see workers turning toward fascism, the extreme right,” Broccoli says. “They are so angry that they are prepared to vote National Front, to destroy everything. They have nothing left to lose.”
Broccoli’s son, a computer technician, doesn’t work in the steel industry. Still, the father assumes his son felt “abandoned by the government” after losing a job in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, leaving him unable to pay rent. He says the son moved in with his mother, also a National Front supporter. The parents are separated.
“I feel as though he’s been stolen from me,” Walter Broccoli says. “All these people — like his mother, his stepfather — they weren’t like this 15 or 20 years ago. It happened gradually.”
David Broccoli didn’t respond to calls and a text message from The Associated Press. Herve Hoff, who stood with him as a National Front candidate in 2014, says David Broccoli and his mother “adopted our ideas because they felt that the left had betrayed them. Simple as that.”
Hoff, a restaurateur, is now seeking election to parliament. He proudly showed the AP his letter from the National Front investing him as its candidate in the Fensch valley in June legislative elections. Saying Le Pen appeals to “forgotten people,” he drew parallels with Donald Trump’s election to the White House, won with strong support from disgruntled workers in coal country.
“We’ll have the same phenomenon. Deepest France, rural France, will lift up Marine Le Pen and you’ll see villages where she’ll get crazy scores,” he says.
Michel Liebgott, the valley’s current lawmaker, a Socialist, handily beat a National Front opponent last time. This time, he’s not so confident. If he decides against running again, he says the National Front could win the seat.
Liebgott, who was born in the valley and remembers Hayange as its jewel, a bustling steel town, says the region is dividing between haves and have-nots. Many of the better-off work across the nearby border with Luxembourg, braving gnarled traffic on the highway to Luxembourg City for higher wages in its services economy. An estimated 90,000 such jobs have helped fill voids left by decades of steel plant and mine closures in France.
“The poor are here. The others have gone elsewhere,” Liebgott says.
With the benefit of hindsight, the lawmaker says Hollande’s campaign stop in the valley in 2012 “was bloody stupid.” It gave steel workers false hope that the furnaces, which had long been earmarked for closure, could be saved.
Now firmly ensconced in Hayange, where the eyesore furnaces dominate the skyline, National Front Mayor Fabien Engelmann says he did not propose saving them because that would have been “impossible.”
“I didn’t lie to my voters. I offered them a coherent program: security, cleanliness, lower taxes, reduced debts, road building, work on schools — things a mayor can do,” he says smugly.
The unemployment rate in Hayange is 14 percent, the mayor says — above the already high national average of 10 percent.
Jean-Paul Holtz sees the decaying cathedrals of once-belching pipes and chimneys from his windows. The drum player in Hayange’s brass band spent all his working life in steel plants, starting as a 14-year-old apprentice. Now 66 and retired, he wishes the furnaces could be torn down because “it makes me sick to the stomach to see them like that.”
Holtz plans to vote for far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who is making a late surge in polls.
“People came to set up industries, money was made, people were provided with jobs. But it’s over, finished,” Holtz says. “We have to move on. Will we move on? When? I don’t know. It drags on and on and on, rusting away.”

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In this April 9 2017 file photo, French hard-left presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon, speaks in Marseille, southern France. Do voters judge a book by its cover? France's presidential candidates certainly think they do, and more than ever are trying to get their political message across through their wardrobes, from centrist Emmanuel Macron's regular-guy suits to far right leader Marine Le Pen's masculine dark wardrobe and hard-left Melenchon's communist-inspired jackets.
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Inter welcome Crotone to the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in the hope of ending their three match winless streak at home.
Should that not be motivation enough, if the Nerazzurri don’t beat Crotone, they will equal their longest winless streak in Serie A history.
Goals may prove difficult as, coupled with the fact that topscorer Mauro Icardi will not play in the match, over the last seven matchdays, Inter have recorded a five percent shot conversion rate – it was 17 percent over their previous 15 Serie A fixtures.
Inter: Handanovic; D’Ambrosio, Skriniar, Miranda, Dalbert; Vecino, B.Valero, Brozovic; Candreva, Eder, Perisic
Crotone: Cordaz; Faraoni, Ceccherini, Capuano, Martella; Barberis, Mandragora, Benali; Ricci, Trotta, Nalini

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Another week, another seven days of football action for you to settle down on the sofa with a cold one and enjoy.
There's midweek activity in the Ladbrokes Premiership with a mouthwatering encounter between Hibs and Rangers set for Easter Road.
Down south there's some crackers in store and there's also plenty of other big games across Europe with fixtures scheduled in Serie A, La Liga and the Bundesliga as they gear themselves up for the winter break.
Here's your guide to this week's top TV ...
Monday 11th December 2017
Genoa v Atalanta - Serie A
6:00pm - BT Sport 1
Reading v Cardiff City - Championship
8:00pm - Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Main Event
Lazio v Torino - Serie A
8:00pm - BT Sport 1
Espanyol v Girona - La Liga
8:00pm - Sky Sports Mix / Sky Sports Red Button
(Image: AFP)
Tuesday 12th December 2017
Wolfsburg v RB Leipzig - Bundesliga
5:30pm - BT Sport 2
Mainz v Borussia Dortmund - Bundesliga
7:30pm - BT Sport 2
SC Freiburg v Borussia Monchengladbach - Bundesliga
7:30pm - BT Sport Extra 2
Hamburg v Eintracht Frankfurt - Bundesliga
7:30pm - BT Sport ESPN
Huddersfield Town v Chelsea - Premier League
8:00pm - BT Sport 1 / BT Sport 4K UHD
Inter Milan v Pordenone - Coppa Italia Round of 16
8:00pm - Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Main Event
Monaco v Caen - Coupe de la Ligue Last-16
8:05pm - BT Sport 3
Wednesday 13th December 2017
FC Groningen v PSV Eindhoven - Eredivisie
5:30pm - Sky Sports Red Button
Hoffenheim v VFB Stuttgart - Bundesliga
5:30pm - BT Sport 3
Bayern Munich v FC Cologne - Bundesliga
5:30pm - BT Sport 3
Bayer Leverkusen v Werder Bremen - Bundesliga
7:30pm - BT Sport Extra 4
Hertha Berlin v Hannover 96 - Bundesliga
7:30pm - BT Sport Extra 3
Schalke 04 v FC Augsburg - Bundesliga
7:30pm - BT Sport Extra 2
Hibernian v Rangers - Scottish Premiership
7:45pm - Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Main Event
Feyenoord v SC Heerenveen - Eredivisie
7:45pm - Sky Sports Red Button
West Ham v Arsenal - Premier League
8:00pm - BT Sport 1 / BT Sport 4K UHD
Strasbourg v PSG - Coupe de la Ligue Last-16
8:05pm - BT Sport ESPN
(Image: Getty Images Europe)
Thursday 14th December 2017
Ajax v Excelsior - Eredivisie
7:45pm - Sky Sports Football
Hereford v Fleetwood Town - FA Cup Second Round Replay
7:45pm - BT Sport 1 / BT Sport 4K UHD
(Image: PA Wire)
Friday 15th December 2017
Sydney FC Women v Canberra United Women - Westfield W-League
6:20am - BT Sport 2
Sydney FC v Melbourne City - Hyundai A-League
8:50am - BT Sport 2
Borussia Monchengladbach v Hamburg - Bundesliga
7:30pm - BT Sport 1
Sheffield Wednesday v Wolves - Championship
7:45pm - Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Main Event
St Etienne v Monaco - Ligue 1
7:45pm - BT Sport 3
Sevilla v Levante - La Liga
8:00pm - Sky Sports Mix / Sky Sports Red Button
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Saturday 16th December 2017
Newcastle Jets v Adelaide United - Hyundai A-League
6:35am - BT Sport 2
Central Coast Mariners v Western Sydney Wanderers - Hyundai A-League
08:50 - BT Sport 2
Perth Glory v Wellington Phoenix - Hyundai A-League
11:00am - BT Sport 2
Aberdeen v Hibernian - Scottish Premiership
12:30pm - BT Sport 1
Leicester City v Crystal Palace - Premier League
12:30pm - Sky Sports Premier League / Sky Sports Main Event / Sky Sports Ultra HD
Torino v Napoli (joins match in progress) - Serie A
5:00pm - BT Sport Extra 2
Cefn Druids v Bangor City - Welsh Premier League
5:15pm - S4C
Man City v Tottenham Hotspur - Premier League
5:30pm - BT Sport 1 / BT Sport 4K UHD
Cardiff City v Hull City - Championship
5:30pm - Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Main Event
Borussia Dortmund v Hoffenheim - Bundesliga
5:30pm - BT Sport 3
Eibar v Valencia - La Liga
5:30pm - Sky Sports Red Button
PSV Eindhoven v ADO Den Haag - Eredivisie
6:45pm - Sky Sports Red Button
Liverpool U23 v Swansea City U23 - Premier League 2
7:00pm - LFCTV
Roma v Cagliari - Serie A
7:45pm - BT Sport 3
Atletico Madrid v Alaves - La Liga
7:45pm - Sky Sports Football
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Sunday 17th December 2017
Brisbane Roar Women v Melbourne Victory Women - Westfield W-League
5:30am - BT Sport 3
Brisbane Roar v Melbourne Victory - Hyundai A-League
8:00am - BT Sport 3
Sevilla B v Real Oviedo - La Liga 2
11:00am - FreeSports
Girona v Getafe - La Liga
11:00am - Sky Sports Red Button
Sparta Rotterdam v Feyenoord - Eredivisie
11:30am - Sky Sports Mix
Verona v AC Milan - Serie A
11:30am - BT Sport 1
Bengaluru v Chennaiyin - Indian Super League
12:00pm - BritAsiaTV
Hearts v Celtic - Scottish Premiership
12:30pm - Sky Sports Football
AZ Alkmaar v Ajax - Eredivisie
1:30pm - Sky Sports Mix / Sky Sports Red Button
Club Brugge v Anderlecht - Belgian Jupiler League
1:30pm - FreeSports
Bologna v Juventus - Serie A
2:00pm - BT Sport 1
West Brom v Man Utd - Premier League
2:15pm - Sky Sports Premier League / Sky Sports Main Event / Sky Sports Ultra HD
(Image: Getty)
Hannover 96 v Bayer Leverkusen - Bundesliga
2:30pm - BT Sport ESPN
Celta Vigo v Villarreal - La Liga
3:15pm - Sky Sports Football
AFC Bournemouth v Liverpool - Premier League
4:30pm - Sky Sports Premier League / Sky Sports Main Event / Sky Sports Ultra HD
Sporting de Charleroi v Genk - Belgian Jupiler League
5:00pm - FreeSports
RB Leipzig v Hertha Berlin - Bundesliga
5:00pm - BT Sport ESPN
Las Palmas v Espanyol - La Liga
5:30pm - Sky Sports Football
Atalanta v Lazio - Serie A
7:45pm - BT Sport 3
Barcelona v Deportivo La Coruna - La Liga
7:45pm - Sky Sports Football
Lyon v Marseille - Ligue 1
8:00pm - BT Sport 1
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Strome admitted his frustration with having the worst power-play unit in the league, the Edmonton Sun reports.
The Oilers haven't scored a power-play goal since Feb. 7 against the Kings. "We have good players on our team, we just have to bear down," said Strome. "We haven't scored a power-play goal on the road in like a month." The 24-year-old center also has a 10-game goal drought himself -- he last registered a point on Mar. 5. While Strome has already eclipsed his point total from 2016-17 (30), he is best left on the wire for now.

It took an extra week or so than initially expected, but a post-holiday roster shuffle is officially underway for the Edmonton Oilers.
As speculated in this space on Dec. 27, Anton Lander’s continuing strong play in the AHL has earned him another look with the big club. Sent to Bakersfield in late November, the determined Swede responded by dominating that league to the tune of 10 goals, 11 assists, and a +12 rating in just 13 games. His 21 points contributed to over half of the Condors’ 39 goals in those games. He’s already among the top 20 in plus/minus despite the limited appearances, while his 1.62 points-per-game ranks behind just the 1.63 of San Jose prospect Kevin Labanc — last seen scoring two goals including the overtime winner vs. the Oilers just before Christmas. Just in case you think minor league scoring never translates at the big league level.
Related: Anton Lander on the short list for potential Oilers’ post-holiday roster reboot
Of course in Lander’s case we have seen precious little of that offensive touch in the NHL. His role is vastly different here — rather than a first line, first powerplay centre he saw most of his time earlier this season playing left wing on the fourth line and first penalty kill, mostly with Mark Letestu and mostly mired in his own zone. From there Lander produced respectable totals of 16 GP, 1-2-3, +4 while excelling in the faceoff circle and on the PK — two areas of ongoing need for the Oil. As we pointed out in the linked article:
It’s worth noting today that the club as a whole has fallen down the rabbit hole to a degree in the weeks since Lander departed. During the time he was in the line-up the Oilers ranked 13th in the NHL in faceoff percentage at 50.4%. Since he left the line-up, they are tied for last at 46.5%.
A similar fate has befallen the penalty kill, which was ticking along at a 90.5% success rate during Lander’s 16 games. Since he departed, it has dropped to a mediocre 77.8%.
It’s safe to expect Lander to resume his previous role here as opposed to becoming any sort of offensive linchpin, even as his skill set including his faceoff acumen might prove useful on the powerplay, as it did in the back half of the 2014-15 season when Lander had his best run here. Still, that extended run of scoring success in Bako confirms this is a player with o-zone competence. Confidence? That’s another question, but he should be relatively brimming with it at this juncture. Time for him to carry that some of that over to the bigs, where secondary and tertiary scoring can be the difference on many nights.
But let’s not understate the massive gap that exists between the NHL and its top minor league affiliate. Ask Taylor Beck, who was similarly ripping up the AHL (third, just behind Lander, in points per game) before getting an all-too-brief look here. In two games Beck received under 10 minutes of ice time in total, during which time his only stats of note were a -1 and two minor penalties. No sign of either competence or confidence in that abbreviated showing. What was noticeable was a lack of foot speed, the same issue that dogs Lander to a degree at the top level.
Makes sense however that Peter Chiarelli and Todd McLellan have decided the multi-tooled Swede is a more useful 12/13 forward to take on this week’s four game roadie than the more one-dimensional Beck.
The Oilers made another minor transaction on Sunday when they returned Jordan Oesterle to the farm after a brief visit here as game-day injury/illness insurance. His departure surely indicates that Andrej Sekera is ready to return after a two-game absence, officially due to flu although he also appeared to suffer a foot injury late in his last appearance at San Jose. That can only be good news for the Oilers, who will take to the road seven-deep in competent NHL defencemen. The other six did OK in Sekera’s absence, during which time Edmonton took 3 of 4 available points in a brief home stand, but the squad would be hard-pressed to do without the veteran Slovak for any length of time. Instead, it appears McLellan will have a few options at his disposal when he determines his third pairing tomorrow in Columbus.
With the recent spate of moves including the placement of Tyler Pitlcik on injured reserve, Edmonton’s roster currently consists of 13 forwards, 7 defencemen, and 2 goalies, one under the 23-man limit.
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"Music Is for Life" by the Carson City Symphony's Youth Strings ensembles and the Not Quite Ready For Carnegie Hall Players adult intermediate string ensemble at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St.
Noon music at A to Zen, 1803 N. Carson St., on Friday, Saturday and Monday. Local musicians — Dave Leather on Friday, CW Bayer on Saturday, and The Hoboes on Monday — will play until 2 p.m.
An open mic night at 7 p.m. Friday at A to Zen, 1803 N. Carson St.
Double Shot from 8 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday Max Casino, 900 S. Carson St.
Reckless Envy from 7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday Casino Fandango, 3800 S. Carson St.
Genoa Bar's Winter Music Series offers free live rock, country, blues, funk, jazz or rockabilly music from 7 to 11 p.m. Fridays through April. The bar is at 2282 Main St., Genoa.
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Alan Vaughan with Lindsey Meyers from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at A to Zen, 1803 N. Carson St.
Live music with Terri Campillo and Craig Fletcher from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. through Saturday at Glen Eagles, 3700 N. Carson St. Campillo and Fletcher are joined by Mick Valentino Thursdays and Rocky Tatterelli on Friday and Saturday.
Live music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday at The Loft inside the Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., and guitarists from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday at the casino's Alatte Coffee and Wine Bar.
Karaoke from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the Y-Not Saloon, 152 E. Long St.
Stand-up comedy by Kirk McHenry at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St. Tickets for $15 are at carsoncomedyclub.com or the casino's guest service center.
Karaoke by J&M Productions from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Carson Nugget's Alatte Coffee & Wine Bar, 507 N. Carson St.
The Carson City Symphony, directed by David Bugli, will feature Pianist Alexander Tutunov with the Carson City Symphony at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Carson City Community Center's Bob Boldrick Theater, 851 E. William St.
Mike Beck at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Silver City School House, 385 High St., Silver City.
CW and Dr. Spitmore from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday at Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson St.
Have an entertainment event? Send it to jmcmanus@nevadaappeal.com.

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COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – If you have plans on staying in the Valley area for spring break, there are several events scheduled in Columbus to help you enjoy your break.
Here is a list of free events for the community that will be held for some spring break fun:
Picnic in the Park at Lake Bottom Park – Fun games and music Saturday, Mar. 24, 2018 from 11:00 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Skate Night at Columbus Ice Rink – First 50 kids skate free Thursday, Mar. 29, 2018 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Spring Fling at Frank Chester Recreation Center – Free Easter egg hunt and games Friday, Mar. 30, 2018 from 4- 6 p.m.
CSU's Continuing Education Spring Break Camp March 26 - March 30 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. for kids 4-14; For more details click here.
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Question: Swimming robot to probe damage at Japan nuclear plant

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A Japanese industrial group has unveiled a swimming robot designed be used underwater to probe damage from meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Remote controlled robots are key to the decades-long decommissioning process, but super-high radiation and structural damage hampered earlier attempts to probe damage to the reactors from meltdowns following a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
The developers said Thursday they plan to send the probe into the primary containment vessel of Unit 3 at Fukushima this summer to study the extent of damage and locate parts of melted fuel that is thought to have fallen to the bottom of the chamber and been submerged by highly radioactive water.
The robot, about the size of a loaf of bread and mounted with lights, maneuvers with tail propellers and collects data using two cameras and a dosimeter.
Japan hopes to locate and start removing the fuel after Tokyo's 2020 Olympics.
The biggest challenge is removing hundreds of tons of melted nuclear fuel and debris from the plant's three wrecked reactors.
Earlier, snake and scorpion-shaped robots became stuck inside two reactors. The scorpion robot's crawling function failed and it was left inside the plant's Unit 2 containment vessel. The other, designed for cleaning debris for the "scorpion" probe, was called back after two hours when two of its cameras stopped working after its total radiation exposure reached 1,000 Sievert — a level that would kill a human within seconds. The plan had been to use the robot for 10 hours at an exposure level of 100 Sievert per hour.
The swimming robot shown to reporters at a Toshiba Corp. test facility near Tokyo was co-developed by the debt-strapped Japanese nuclear and electronics company and the government's International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning.
Scientists need to know the melted nuclear fuel's exact location and understand structural damage in each of the three wrecked reactors to work out the optimum, safest way to remove the fuel.
"The fuel debris will be a challenge," said Dale Klein, a former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chief, who now serves as an outside adviser to the Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator. He said it could take six months to a year to obtain necessary data and decide on how to remove the fuel.
"They will have to identify where it is, then they will have to develop capability to remove it. No one in the world has ever had to remove material like this before. So this is something new and it would have to be done carefully and accurately," Klein said.
Japanese officials say they want to determine preliminary removal methods this summer and start work in 2021. The decommissioning technology developers IRID and its partners have also designed some basic robots, including a "muscle" arm robot made by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, and a different arm robot made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that are designed to approach the debris from the side of the reactors.
TEPCO is struggling with the plant's decommissioning, and the cost for decommissioning Fukushima Dai-Ichi is now estimated at 8 trillion yen ($70 billion), four times an earlier estimate. Part of that cost will be included in Japanese utility bills.
The 2011 meltdown forced tens of thousands of nearby residents to evacuate their homes. Many are still unable to return home due to high radiation levels.
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Noted aviator and actor Harrison Ford flew his private plane over a jet airliner on the ground at a Southern California airport Monday. It's not the first time the Star Wars and Indiana Jones star has had problems landing.
The 74-year-old Ford was instructed to land on a runway at Orange County's John Wayne Airport but mistakenly landed on a parallel taxiway, passing over a Boeing 737 carrying 110 passengers and six crew members.
On a recording, Ford asked air traffic controllers, "Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?" according to NBC News, which first reported the incident.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the pilot heard and read back the correct landing instructions, according to The Associated Press. Gregor did not confirm it was Ford who was piloting the plane, a single-engine Aviat Husky. The AP reports that he didn't say how close Ford's plane came to hitting the jet on the ground.
No one was injured and the jet, American Airlines Flight 1456, took off for Dallas shortly after without incident.
The FAA is now investigating, which "could result in a simple warning letter to a suspension of Ford's pilot's license," NBC reports.
Ford collects vintage planes and has been flying for decades. According to NPR's Russell Lewis, Ford is "a highly-skilled and highly-rated pilot. He's qualified to fly single and twin engine planes, sea planes, helicopters and he's also an instrument-rated pilot." In 2015, Ford said he owned "eight or nine various types of airplanes," according to NTSB documents posted on AirSafe.com.
Ford reported on a medical certificate application that he had logged at least 5,200 flight hours, according to the NTSB.
He was a 2008 honoree and received the Legends Aviation Legacy Award from Kiddie Hawk Air Academy, and subsequently had an award named after him.
Ford was seriously injured in March 2015 when he crash-landed a restored World War II-era trainer plane on a golf course near the Santa Monica Airport shortly after takeoff. A National Transportation Safety Board report found the crash was caused by a loose engine part.
In 2000, Ford's plane "departed" a runway in Lincoln, Neb., because of a gust of wind, according to AirSafe.com. He was flying a Beechcraft Bonanza which "sustained minor damage," though Ford and his passenger were not injured.
And in 1999 he crash-landed a helicopter during a training flight in Ventura County, near Los Angeles, according to the AP. "Although the helicopter rolled over on its left side, neither Ford or the instructor were injured," AirSafe.com notes.

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Question: Odiase scores 19, UIC beats Oakland for fifth win in a row

ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — Tai Odiase had 19 points, on 8-for-8 shooting, and three blocks, Godwin Boahen hit four 3-pointers and finished with 16 points and Illinois-Chicago beat Oakland 79-73 on Friday night for its fifth win in a row.
Marcus Ottey added 15 points and Tarkus Ferguson had 13 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for UIC (13-11, 8-3 Horizon League). The Flames have eight conference wins for the first time since finishing the 2007-08 season 9-9 in Horizon League play.
Odiase had a dunk and two layups during a 6-2 spurt that made it 17-14 and UIC led the rest of the way. Ferguson converted a 3-point play to spark a 10-2 run that pushed the lead to 11 points before Boahen's 3-pointer made it 40-30 at the break. Nick Daniels hit a 3 that pulled Oakland (14-10, 6-5) within two points with two minutes to play, but Ottey made two free throws and Odiase hit a jumper to make it 76-69 and UIC made 4 of 6 free throws in the final 32 seconds to seal it.
Martez Walker had 21 points and Jalen Hayes scored 15 for Oakland. Kendrick Nunn added 20, but shot 3 of 22 from the field, including 1 of 10 from 3-point range.
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The 2016-17 season continued a run of a bumpy couple of years for the Horizon League, with more than its share of changes and challenges.
The Horizon was already due for something of a transition season after a recent rash of coaching changes. Four league schools changed coaches after the 2015-16 season, coming on the heels of three more doing so the year before. Add in two more (Cleveland State and Youngstown State) with new coaches after this most recent silly season, and the chaos has been so ridiculous that Illinois-Chicago’s Steve McClain is the second-longest tenured coach in the league. McClain just completed his second season with the Flames.
Still, the news in 2016-17 wasn’t all bad. Four Horizon teams won at least 20 games, three of them 24 or more. Two made it to the NIT, including an at-large bid for Valparaiso, and Oakland went to Clemson and knocked off the ACC Tigers. Northern Kentucky was a great story, rising from an afterthought to one of the league’s best teams. Wright State was better than expected in Scott Nagy’s first year, and the Horizon even made a modest improvement of one spot in the conference RPI (to 17th, per CBSSports.com).
It could have been even better. Valparaiso in particular appeared poised to contend for an NCAA Tournament at-large berth after a good non-conference performance. The Crusaders won the MGM Grand Main Event by defeating Alabama and BYU, then followed that up with a win over Rhode Island, taking advantage of the rare chance to host a ranked team.
Even after getting walloped by Kentucky, Valpo was still 7-2, but the season changed soon after. Senior starter Jubril Adekoya was suspended for the team’s Dec. 10 game at Missouri State due to what was regularly (and mysteriously) termed an ‘academic matter.’ He never played for the team again. Later, All-American candidate Alec Peters suffered a foot injury in February, and after attempting to play on it he was later diagnosed with a stress fracture and shut down for the season just before the conference tournament.
Valpo wasn’t the only team to have a key injury. UIC lost hotshot sophomore Dikembe Dixson in a mid-December win at DePaul, putting a damper on what was otherwise a big win over a city foe for the Flames. The bigger problem for the league, though, has been keeping good players after the season, as the Horizon absolutely has been affected by the epidemic of transferring in the sport.
Cleveland State has been a poster example of how badly a program can get killed by top players transferring ‘up’ (and then the rest of the team’s top players seeing it and thinking they should transfer too), and it finally cost Gary Waters his job. Wisconsin-Milwaukee lost three starters to transfer following the firing of Rob Jeter. Wisconsin-Green Bay and Wright State have already been affected by it this off-season. Somehow the league is going to have to at least slow the loss of talent, or at least hope the transfer fad wanes and more players again get back to putting some worth in teammates and enjoying what they currently have.
The Horizon also gained some maybe unwanted publicity when the madness at its Motor City Madness conference tournament became perhaps a little too much. The top three seeds all were eliminated in the quarterfinals, leaving three teams seeded sixth or lower in the semifinals, including the tourney’s ninth and 10th seeds. The results were somewhat frustrating, coming as they did a year after some cited the tourney’s previous double-bye format as being not an advantage but a disadvantage for the league’s top two teams.
Northern Kentucky eventually emerged for its first Horizon title and NCAA Division I tourney berth, but a 15 seed gave the Norse little chance of advancement. Thus marked the sixth straight season of the Horizon being a one-bid league going one-and-done in the NCAAs.
Final Standings
Horizon Overall Oakland 14-4 25-9 Valparaiso 14-4 24-9 Wisconsin-Green Bay 12-6 18-14 Northern Kentucky 12-6 24-11 Wright State 11-7 20-12 Illinois-Chicago 7-11 17-19 Detroit Mercy 6-12 8-23 Cleveland State 5-13 9-22 Youngstown State 5-13 13-21 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 4-14 11-24
Conference Tournament
The Horizon League tournament was played in Detroit again, a venue that has potential even as a more central location (Chicago?) might benefit the league as a whole.
It’s hard to overstate just how bizarre the 2017 Horizon tourney was. The No. 1, 2 and 3 seeds all were eliminated in the quarterfinals. The semifinals included teams seeded 4, 6, 9 and 10. Higher-seeded teams won just three of nine games.
It started in the first round, when ninth-seeded Youngstown State (84-69 over No. 8 Cleveland State) and 10 seed UW-Milwaukee (85-60 blowout winners over No. 7 Detroit Mercy) both won, but really gained steam in earnest in the quarterfinals. Youngstown State stunned top seed Oakland 81-80, as Jordan Kaufman scored the winning layup as time expired, and depleted second-seeded Valparaiso was then edged by Milwaukee 43-41 in a grinder. That would’ve seemed to open a path for defending champion UW-Green Bay to repeat, except the Phoenix also were dumped 79-70 by No. 6 UIC.
The one team holding steady in the wind was No. 4 seed Northern Kentucky. The Norse were literally the only team to win as a better seed over all five days. NKU defeated Wright State 82-77 in an entertaining 4/5 game, then held off Youngstown State 84-74 in the semifinals. Milwaukee continued to wreak havoc on the bracket, though, upending UIC 74-68 to advance to the final with just an 11-23 overall record.
Northern Kentucky finally ended the Panthers’ Cinderella run, though, never trailing in the second half but not putting the game away until hitting three of four free throws in the final 28 seconds for a 59-53 win. Lavone Holland scored 20 points and was named the tourney’s MVP, and NKU earned its first NCAA Division I tourney berth after making 12 trips to the Division II tournament.
Postseason Awards
Player of the Year: Alec Peters, F, Sr., Valparaiso
Defensive Player of the Year: Tai Odiase, F, Jr., Illinois-Chicago
Freshman of the Year: Corey Allen, G, Detroit Mercy
Sixth Man of the Year: Warren Jones, G, Sr., Wisconsin-Green Bay
Coach of the Year: John Brannen, Northern Kentucky
All-Conference Team
Mark Alstork, G, Jr., Wright State
Jalen Hayes, F, Jr., Oakland
Drew McDonald, F, So., Northern Kentucky
Cameron Morse, G, Jr., Youngstown State
Alec Peters, F, Sr., Valparaiso
Season Highlights
Alec Peters finished his Valparaiso career as the school’s all-time leader in points, rebounds, field goals and free throws made. He finished his senior season by being named a third team NABC All-American.
Northern Kentucky was one of the most improved teams in the country, going from nine wins to 24 and reaching its first NCAA Tournament. UIC also took a big jump from five wins to 17.
UIC’s Tai Odiase ranked fifth in NCAA Division I with 2.9 blocked shots per game.
Five Horizon teams played in the postseason. Oakland won a game in the NIT, and UIC won twice in the College Basketball Invitational before falling in the semifinals. Northern Kentucky (NCAA), Valparaiso (NIT) and Green Bay (CBI) all lost in their tourney debuts.
What we expected, and it happened: We essentially pegged four of the top five schools, seeing Valpo and Oakland as favorites and UW-Green Bay and Wright State also among the top four. Only Northern Kentucky spoiled that.
What we expected, and it didn’t happen: Honestly, we thought the league would be better than it was, after an exciting 2015-16 season filled with individual stars and one player after another ranking among the national NCAA leaders. All the changes clearly have taken a toll on Horizon schools, though.
What we didn’t expect, and it happened: Northern Kentucky’s emergence. Us and pretty much anyone else in the country following the league. It was expected the Norse would need significant time to build a contender in the Horizon, but their budding so quickly is a stunning story, and a great one.
Teams on the rise: Illinois-Chicago, Northern Kentucky, Wright State. Several others could be mentioned here too (Detroit, UW-Milwaukee). That’s in part because many Horizon members have nowhere to go but up, but it’s also a sign that it appears a lot of league schools have made prudent coaching hires. NKU showed last year that it certainly has a promising future in the Horizon, while UIC will be a hot pick to have a big season next year with the return of Dikembe Dixson. Wright State’s hire of Scott Nagy was a stroke of genius, and he should have the Raiders as a perennial contender in this league soon-if that hasn’t happened already.
Team on the decline: Cleveland State. The Vikings faded the last two years, costing Gary Waters his job. It’s hard to imagine the Vikings falling much further than they have, but almost every other Horizon team has a bit more of a headstart on their own rebuilding than CSU does.
2017-18 Horizon Outlook
It’s going to get better for the Horizon soon. Even with the departure of Valparaiso to the Missouri Valley, the league has too many programs capable of better than they’ve shown of late.
The loss of Valpo is a blow. At the same time, it’s possible the Crusaders were due to come back to the pack anyway. Plus, while the Horizon may not be as strong at the very top, there’s reasonable hope that it will be better collectively.
Northern Kentucky, Oakland and UIC will likely be favorites, and on paper could put together an excellent three-way battle. NKU arrived several years ahead of schedule last year, and a still-young team led by versatile big man Drew McDonald has room for growth. UIC has amassed a stable of athletes including Dixson plus shot-blocking Tai Odiase and will be a chic pick by many, but the Flames still must get better. Oakland still has Jalen Hayes and Martez Walker and is positioned to be the Horizon’s new flagship program, though the Golden Grizzlies are still looking for their first NCAA Tournament berth from the league even as they’ve had success in the Vegas 16 and NIT the last two years.
Where the Horizon could really make some strides is from the middle to the back. Everything Scott Nagy has done as a coach, including his first year at Wright State, suggests the Raiders are going to be a tough out. LaVall Jordan clearly has Milwaukee on the right track, and Bacari Alexander has recruited well at Detroit. (Late note: since this was written Jordan has taken the head coaching job at Butler.) Linc Darner also will have almost entirely his recruits now at Green Bay and will have his team flying up and down the court again, even as the Phoenix deal with significant roster turnover. Cleveland State appears to be in a full rebuild, but Youngstown State will be a wild card, with super sniper Cameron Morse back for one more year and some intriguing offensive talent around him. If the Penguins can tighten up defensively at all under new coach Jerrod Calhoun, they’ll quickly become a team few want to play.
With so many programs still in building mode, it’s going to require some patience-by fans and participating players. The league is better than it has seemed the past couple years, and it’s also better than being just a stop-off point for players looking to annually offer themselves up to the highest bidder or poacher. The next year or two should bear that out.
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TORONTO — The Bank of Montreal joined its peers in delivering second-quarter profits that beat expectations as Canada's Big Five banks earned a collective $10.6 billion — up nearly 11 per cent from a year ago.
Canada's biggest banks also handily beat analyst estimates for adjusted profits, brushing off concern about the impact of a cooling real estate market amid tighter mortgage lending guidelines.
"The market is in various stages of worry about the outlook for the mortgage market in particular, but the results themselves seem to indicate that a lot of that worry is misplaced," said Meny Grauman, an analyst with Cormark Securities in Toronto.
BMO was the last of the biggest banks to report its earnings for three-month period ended April 30 on Wednesday.
Its second-quarter net profit of $1.25 billion was relatively flat compared with a year ago, but included a $192-million after-tax restructuring charge primarily related to severance costs. Canada's fourth-largest lender also raised its quarterly dividend to 96 cents per share, up three cents from 93 cents in its previous quarter.
BMO said it earned $2.20 per share on an adjusted basis for the quarter, up from $1.92 per share a year ago. Analysts on average had expected the bank to earned $2.12 per share, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon.
Like its rivals, BMO benefited from strong earnings on both sides of the border. Its Canadian banking arm saw net income rise 11 per cent to $590 million. And although home sales activity across the country in April hit a monthly low not seen in years, due to factors including a new stress test for uninsured mortgages as of Jan. 1 and higher interest rates, BMO's total Canadian residential mortgage portfolio grew by 2.2 per cent to $106.4 billion in the latest quarter.
"BMO’s results this quarter demonstrate strong performance and momentum in our U.S. and Canadian (personal and commercial) banking and wealth businesses," said Darryl White, BMO's chief executive officer, in a statement.
The other Big Five banks generated strong earnings at home as well. TD's Canadian retail division net income was up 17 per cent compared with last year. RBC's Canadian personal and small business banking division reported a seven per cent increase in net income, while Scotiabank's domestic banking division saw a five per cent increase and CIBC's Canadian personal and small business banking division reported a 16 per cent increase in net income.
International growth was a bright spot for the Canadian lenders as well, and a big contributor to the $10.6 billion in net income attributable to shareholders amongst them during the quarter.

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Question: US hiring fell 33,000 in September, depressed by hurricanes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. shed 33,000 jobs in September because of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which closed thousands of businesses in Texas and Florida and forced widespread evacuations. It marked the first monthly hiring decline in nearly seven years.
The unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, the lowest level since February 2001 and a sign that the job market remains fundamentally solid. Hiring is expected to rebound in the coming months as businesses in the area reopen and construction companies ramp up repair and renovation work.
Last month’s drop was driven by huge losses in restaurants and bars, which shed 105,000 jobs, a sign of the damage to Florida’s tourism industry. Roughly 1.5 million people were unable to work last month because of the weather, the government said, the most in 20 years.
Hourly workers who couldn’t work and missed a paycheck would have been counted as not working, thereby lowering September’s job total. That’s true even if those employees returned to work after the storm passed or will return.
The unemployment rate fell because it is calculated with a separate survey of households. That survey counted people as employed even if they were temporarily off work because of the storms. In fact, the proportion of adults who have jobs rose to 60.4 percent, the highest since January 2009.
Average hourly wages rose a healthy 2.9 percent from 12 months earlier. Still, the government said that figure was artificially inflated by the loss of so many lower-paid workers in hurricane-hit areas. The result was that higher-paid workers disproportionately boosted the wage figure.
More than 11 million people had been employed in the 87 counties in Texas and Florida that were declared disaster areas, the government says. That’s equal to about 7.7 percent of the nation’s workforce.
Other recent indicators point to a solid economy and job market. This week, a survey of services firms — covering restaurants, construction companies, retail stores, banks and others — found that they expanded in September at their fastest monthly pace since 2005. That followed a survey of manufacturers, which found an equally strong gain. Factory activity expanded at the fastest pace in more than 13 years.
Some signs suggest that a rebound from the hurricanes is already boosting the economy. Auto sales, which had been lackluster this year, jumped 6.1 percent to more than 1.5 million in September from a year ago, according to Autodata Corp., as Americans began to replace cars destroyed by the storms. That increase in purchases should soon lead automakers to step up production.
Harvey caused about $76 billion to $87 billion in economic losses, according to Moody’s Analytics, an economic consulting firm. The estimate includes damage to homes and businesses as well as lost business and economic output. That calculation would make Harvey the second-worst U.S. natural disaster, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Irma will likely end up having caused $58 billion to $83 billion in economic losses, Moody’s forecasts. Maria, which hammered Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, could cost $45 billion to $95 billion, though that is a preliminary estimate.

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WASHINGTON — Americans increased their spending at gasoline stations and restaurants in January, boosting retail sales even though auto buying fell.
Retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent, down from a solid 1 percent gain in December, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
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Milpitas: Smart & Final Extra expected to open at former Nob Hill site by next month Overall sales pulled back from a December bump in holiday shopping online and at auto dealers. But Americans spent more than normally expected last month at clothiers, department stores, electronics outlets and sporting goods retailers.
The gains point to continued economic growth. But they also indicate that improving consumer sentiment after President Donald Trump’s presidential election, especially optimism among Republicans, has yet to significantly boost retail sales.
“Sales are growing at a decent clip, but the surge in consumers’ confidence since the election is yet to translate into stronger spending,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Higher gas prices drove a 2.3 percent sales increase at service stations last month. Gasoline prices climbed 7.8 percent between January and December, according to a separate Labor Department report released Wednesday. The retail sales report does not adjust its figures for prices.
Purchases at restaurants and bars climbed 1.4 percent. Building materials stores saw a slight 0.3 percent gain.
But sales at auto dealers slipped 1.2 percent, a sharp pull back after jumping 2.9 percent in December.
Sales at non-store retailers such as internet outlets were flat in January, although they have climbed 12 percent over the past year as more Americans prefer to shop via their computers and phones.
Over the past 12 months, total retail sales have risen a solid 5.6 percent. The greater spending likely reflects the improving job market. Employers added 227,000 workers in January, while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.8 percent because more people started looking for jobs and were counted as unemployed.


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E.g. "['i found this news title. can you represent it to find an explanatory news article? Examples:\n\'Truth in numbers: Groups, government clash over accurate stats in Puerto Rico\' == \'As Puerto Rico recovers from Hurricane Maria’s destruction, the independent agency tasked with guaranteeing openly accessible and reliable public data may soon cease to exist as its own entity.\nThe Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, or PRIS, the autonomous agency in charge of monitoring and ensuring accurate data collection separate from government and political pressures, has been fighting multiple dismantling attempts and is not part of a task force created to examine hurricane-related deaths.\nPuerto Rico’s legislature approved Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s plan to incorporate PRIS under the administration\'s Department of Economic Development and Commerce, where all the data collection would be consolidated and outsourced — arguing the move will save millions of dollars.\nMario Marazzi, PRIS\' executive director and a former Federal Reserve research economist, told NBC News that he has told the government he’s willing to merge some data collection processes — just not at the cost of losing the institute\'s autonomy. To him, PRIS’ consolidation under another agency "makes no sense" because it risks the institute\'s ability to remain impartial.\nRamón Rosario, Puerto Rico’s public affairs secretary, said that the Rosselló administration believes that relying on outside entities for data collection is the best way to assure an unbiased, credible process.\nRosario did not clarify how the administration plans to ensure that data collection processes remain transparent and open to the public, even if it’s eventually outsourced.\nGov. Ricardo Rossello of Puerto Rico and Gerardo Portela, director of the island\'s Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority. David Villafane / GDA via AP Images file\nThe consolidation plan was met with swift criticism from scientists, advocacy groups and lawmakers — including the American Statistical Association and 15 members of the U.S. Congress who, in a letter, expressed bipartisan support for PRIS’ independence and Puerto Rico’s "need for public, independent and unbiased data."\nAn independent nonpartisan board of directors oversees PRIS, which collects data gathered by local government agencies, verifies their data-reporting methods and publishes it in a open source way.\nBefore the consolidation plan, Rosselló replaced four of the seven PRIS executive board members in July 2017— citing a history of "incorrect" numbers. PRIS was created in 2007 in reaction to decades of data-reporting issues.\n“The institute has had two attacks. That was the first one,” said Cecille Blondet, director of Espacios Abiertos, a nonprofit organization in Puerto Rico that promotes government transparency and accountability.\nPRIS took the case to court, and eight months later, a judge determined that Rosselló had no authority to replace PRIS\' board. This allowed them to resume operations in March with members of the original board, but the Rosselló administration appealed the decision. The case is pending.\nThe second "attack," Blondet said, is the now-approved plan to consolidate PRIS — which is set to move forward despite pushback from Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) and the PROMESA Congressional Task Force, which oversee Puerto Rico\'s fiscal recovery. The New York Federal Reserve has also stressed the importance of PRIS\' autonomy in multiple letters, reports and recommendations dating as far back as 2012.\nRosario said that the administration does not think its obligation is to these entities.\n“What we’re doing here is fulfilling a campaign promise from the governor to increase transparency and restore our government\'s credibility,” said Rosario.\nMoves to dissolve PRIS come after Rosselló signed an executive order during his first month in office, pledging his commitment to increase transparency.\nQuestions about deadly hurricane\'s toll\nMaria\'s current official death toll is 64, even though reports from Puerto Rican investigative journalists and major U.S. news organizations have put it at nearly 1,000.\nThe administration relied primarily on Police Department numbers, which aren’t enough to draw a comprehensive picture of the aftermath because they only account for deaths directly related to the hurricane, explained Marazzi.\n“For example, if hurricane winds knocked a tree down, killing a person — that’s hurricane related,” he said.\nThis combo of photos made on March 19, 2018 shows (above) an aerial view of the flooded neighborhood of Juana Matos in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Catano, Puerto Rico, on September 22, 2017 and (below) an aerial view of the same neighborhood on March 18, 2018. Ricardo Arduengo / AFP - Getty Images\nWhile police numbers are a start, an epidemiological study is necessary to officially account for indirect deaths such as medical complications related to a lack of power.\n“There’s a need to do this study,” Marazzi clarified. “That study does not use a public safety standard, but a public health one.”\nMarazzi acknowledges PRIS was unable to be involved in this process because of the ongoing efforts from the Puerto Rican government to dismantle it. Consequently, Puerto Rican officials left PRIS out of the task force designed to examine hurricane-related deaths. According to George Washington University, the task force’s leaders, an epidemiological study is currently underway.\nWhile recovering from the hurricane, Puerto Rico has been grappling with a decade-long financial crisis that spotlighted a need for proper statistics and transparency. As a way to solve such needs, the New York Fed recommended Puerto Rico "strengthen the mandate and capacity" of PRIS.\nIn their most recent fiscal plan, Puerto Rico’s current government cites data-reliability problems from previous administrations as a cause of the island\'s current $72 billion public debt — but the entities overseeing such fiscal issues have a hard time working collaboratively.\nThe Rosselló administration has not taken up any of the recommendations to keep PRIS as an independent entity because, according to Rosario, it sees PRIS as a contributor to current data reliability issues.\nCritics of the plan see it differently. “This is an issue of power: Whoever controls the information controls the power,” Blondet said.\nThe government\'s distrust led Puerto Rico\'s fiscal agency AAFAF, which oversees various government agencies’ spending, to ask PRIS for some already public financial information and for access to monitor all their bank accounts.\nAlthough PRIS believes AAFAF was overreaching their authority over them, the institute said it granted the access to AAFAF and “any natural or legal person that requests this information” in order to “continue to serve as a model for transparency.”\nIn between these transparency disputes, organizations like Espacios Abiertos are insisting that civilians have access to information used to determine their economic future. 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The Asif Ali movie has made a total gross collection of 14.27 Crores from the Kerala releasing centres.\nIt is a highly impressive collection for a film, which was made with a medium budget and released without much huge pre-release hype. The word of mouth publicity has immensely helped Sunday Holiday, in reaching the audiences.\nSunday Holiday had made a strictly average opening at the Kerala box office, by collecting Rs. 1.27 Crores within the first two days. The movie had crossed the 7-Crore mark within the first 10 days, and 13-Crore mark, within the first 25 days.\nAlencier Ley Lopez and Sruthi Ramachandran has essayed the other pivotal roles in Sunday Holiday, which is produced by Maqtro Productions. The outside Indian box office collection report of the Asif Ali movie is expected to be revealed soon.']" != "['This news article should be represented to find a fitting news title.', "Mac Demarco - Freaking Out The Neighborhood\nDerevolutions, The - When The Radio's Gone\n05:13"]"

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island company is going to build a wind farm that will be 10 times the size of the nation's first offshore wind farm.
Deepwater Wind says the new 400-megawatt wind farm will also create more than 800 jobs and result in $250 million in investments in Rhode Island.
Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo and other officials visited the Port of Providence on Wednesday for the announcement.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island announced offshore wind projects last week aimed at delivering a combined 1,200 megawatts of energy, enough to power about 600,000 homes.
Deepwater Wind also built the nation's first offshore wind farm off Block Island, Rhode Island. It has five turbines. With this latest project, the company plans to build up to 50 turbines south of Martha's Vineyard.
"It is an enormous clean energy machine," Deepwater Wind CEO Jeff Grybowski said. "It will displace about 650,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide every year. It is one of the most consequential clean energy projects in the history of the northeast United States. And we're going to build it and deliver that at low cost."
Grybowski said he couldn't say exactly what the price of the energy will be because Deepwater Wind must negotiate a contract with utility company National Grid. He said it would be competitive with traditional sources of fuel and a "game changer" in replacing those sources.
The company says it will take about 800 people and roughly $1 billion to build the wind farm. Another 50 permanent jobs will be created.
The $250 million investment in Rhode Island includes $40 million in port infrastructure improvements to position the state for future offshore wind projects.
Raimondo called it a fantastic day for Rhode Island because of the amount of clean energy that will be produced and the number jobs created. She said Rhode Island can be an epicenter for the offshore wind industry. She said she thinks some of the companies that make turbines will eventually move to the state.
"This is big. This is about as big as it gets," she said.
Deepwater Wind didn't ask for tax credits for the project, called Revolution Wind.
Both the Rhode Island and Massachusetts wind farms, which the states describe as a collaborative effort, will be located south of Martha's Vineyard. The Vineyard Wind project will be Massachusetts' first offshore wind farm.
Local construction on the Revolution Wind project could start in Rhode Island in 2020 with commercial operations by 2023. The turbines are expected to generate enough energy to power more than 200,000 homes, or about half the homes in Rhode Island.
The wind farm will be in a 256-square-mile federal lease area. Deepwater Wind plans to build 15 turbines in that same area to supply renewable energy to Long Island, New York.

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ORONO, Maine — Maine’s floating wind power advocates are sounding the alarm over legislation that would push a two-turbine test site farther away from Monhegan Island, saying that the shift would sink the decade-long push to draw power from the untapped Gulf of Maine winds.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Dana Dow, R-Lincoln, would bar wind turbines within 10 miles of Monhegan Island.
“If we had to move this site now, everything is gone — the investments disappear,” said Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
Over the past decade, that center has monitored wind and wave data, bird flight patterns, fishing grounds and more in trying to choose a temporary site for two 6-megawatt wind turbines, each about 520 feet tall. Working with fishermen and state environmental officials, the center ultimately opted for the Monhegan site and got to work on permitting and approvals.
The approvals process is expected to wrap up later this year, with construction on the turbines’ concrete hulls starting in the spring of 2018. The hulls would be built in Hampden before being towed down the Penobscot River to Searsport, where the towers, turbines and rotors would be added. By the fall of 2019, the hulls would be hauled through Penobscot Bay and installed.
But none of this will happen if Dow’s bill becomes law, Dagher said.
The Energy Utilities and Technology Committee is expected to hold a hearing on the bill and the university will be among the groups testifying in opposition, according to Jake Ward, UMaine’s vice president for innovation and economic development.
If the test site moves farther out into the Gulf of Maine, the research and data collected over years at Monhegan would become useless. Also, anything farther than 3 miles off the island becomes federal jurisdiction, and would require an entirely new approval process that could take up to five more years.
Such a delay would likely scare away investors, according to the university. The relocation also would eliminate UMaine’s shot at a $40 million Department of Energy grant to see the test project through. UMaine needs to have the turbines hooked up to the grid by 2019 in order to be eligible for that money.
The test site plans have met resistance from some of Monhegan’s 65 year round residents, summer residents and visitors. Some have speculated that the university might try to make the test site a permanent one, but organizers insist that isn’t true and that state statutes wouldn’t allow it to happen. State law only allows for short extensions to the test phase. A group of residents recently raised $40,000 to try to drive the test site away.
The Monhegan site is a trial run for a much larger floating wind farm in a yet-to-be-determined part of the Gulf of Maine at least 10 miles from shore and inhabited islands.
In 2008, the Maine Ocean Energy Task Force set the goal of producing 5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030 — roughly the amount produced by five nuclear power plants. Maine currently uses about 2.4 gigawatts of electricity each year, meaning the state could export some of the energy produced by offshore wind turbines.
“We’re at the cusp. We can almost feel the opportunity in front of us,” Dagher said.
“This is a project that could transform the future of our state and make us a worldwide leader in this emerging industry,” he added.
Many European nations already are delving into offshore wind development, though in most instances those turbines are in shallower waters and sit on pylons driven into the seabed. A Danish developer recently won a bid to build two large wind farms off the coast of Germany without any government subsidy, according to the New York Times. That news has been lauded as a signal that commercial offshore wind farms can be competitive with other energy sources.
In the wake of its Fukushima nuclear power disaster, Japan is putting its own floating turbines in the water.
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