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Houston Rockets Home Court to Be Used as Voting Site in November
Ohio lawsuit seeks more drop boxes for mail-in ballots
Iowa county auditors can't set up drop boxes, officials say
August 27, 2020 5:44 PM	 By Paul Stinson and Alex Ebert
The clerk's office in Harris County, Texas, and the Houston Rockets announced Thursday that the Toyota Center home to the National Basketball Association team will be a voting site for the Nov. 3 general election.
The county added the location in anticipation of record voter turnout in light of the coronavirus pandemic and will follow "strict safety protocols to keep voters and election workers safe at the polls," Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins said in a release issued by the NBA.
Any registered Harris County voter will be able to cast a ballot at the downtown Houston arena beginning Oct. 13, seven days a week until Oct. 30, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Election Day during those hours. Parking will be free and the center will follow all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health guidelines regarding social distancing, the league said.
More access for voters also is the goal of a lawsuit filed Wednesday by voting rights groups against Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, urging a federal court to allow local election boards to install more than one drop box for mail-in ballots.
LaRose (R) required counties to have a drop box for the state's April all-absentee primaries. But on Aug. 12 he prohibited counties from installing more than one drop box. The League of Women Voters, A. Philip Randolph Institute, and the NAACP allege that directive could suppress the votes of "hundreds of thousands of Ohioans" who now face a "Hobson's choice."
Photographer: Brittany Greeson/Getty Images
A voter deposits his absentee ballot in a drop box outside the City of Detroit Department of Elections during the Michigan primary on Aug. 4, 2020.
"One the one hand, voters can risk their lives and health by voting in person so that they have more assurance that their ballots will count," the groups said in their complaint. "On the other hand, voters have the choice to protect their lives and health by attempting to vote absentee while facing the real possibility that their ballots will not count because of an insufficient number of drop boxes and USPS delays in timely delivering absentee balloting mail."
In Virginia, state lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday that would allow the use of drop-off ballot boxes. Both the House and the Senate gave preliminary approval to bills (H.B. 5103/S.B. 5210) backed by Gov. Ralph Northam (D).
Meanwhile in Iowa, the Secretary of State's Office has told county auditors that drop boxes can't be set up to receive absentee ballots this fall, according to the Des Moines Register.
Office spokesman Kevin Hall said that under state law, auditors have no authority to set up drop boxes, but they "can set up a no-contact delivery system for voters in their office to use during regular business hours," the newspaper said. The story noted that more than one-third of Iowa's 99 county auditors said they have used some sort of drop-box system for ballots in the past.
With assistance from Andrew M. Ballard
To contact the reporters on this story: Paul Stinson in Austin, Texas at pstinson@bloomberglaw.com; Alex Ebert in Columbus, Ohio at aebert@bloomberglaw.com
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Tina May at tmay@bloomberglaw.com; Heather Rothman at hrothman@bgov.com


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Vivica A. Fox on Home Run, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Sports Fandom
Miami New Times staff
Miami New Times staff | April 19, 2013 | 12:06pm
Home Run, in theaters April 19, is about a famous baseball player named
Cory Brand (Scott Elrod), who has a serious drinking problem. He is an alcoholic. He
causes a terrible D.U.I. accident, severely injuring the passenger of his car. This is his
second D.U.I., and police footage from the first D.U.I. has gotten over a million hits on
YouTube. His drunken behavior on and off the field has become legendary.
Can anyone out there relate to this story, thus far? Your obsequious narrator sure can. In fact, I was asked to speak at the movie's recent screening in Miami because I made the costly mistake of driving drunk in 2009. Two felonies and somewhere in the ballpark of $15,000 later, I have become a new person with high moral standards, an animosity towards alcoholic beverages, and invitations to attend and speak publicly at such things as screenings of films about alcoholism.
After the screening, I was asked by one of the movie's promoters if I would be interested in interviewing Vivica A. Fox, who stars as Cory Brand's agent (kind of like a female Jerry Maguire). The woman is a goddess, so of course I accepted.
Vivica A. Fox called me -- me! -- the next morning from a car in Los Angeles, and told me that she was on her way to work (shooting the sitcom Mr. Box Office).
"Versatility has definitely been the key to my success," she stated early in the conversation. After sharing our own personal drug- and alcohol-related testimonies, and then explaining to her that one of my goals in life is to play a game of golf with Larry David, we got down to business.
She talked about her enlightening experiences while on the set of Home Run: "The movie is really about a man's transformation. None of us are perfect. We all go through trials and tribulations. The simple solution is surrendering and saying, 'I've got a problem and I need help.' Then letting the Lord turn your life around."
That's something Fox has personal experience doing. "The movie was shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma and I was staying in a hotel across from Oral Roberts University. I was going through a breakup with the man I was engaged with. We were going to get married, but we decided to call it quits. It just seemed like the Lord had me in the right place at the right time. Every morning when I woke up, I saw this statue of giant praying hands that are in front of the university. It was great because I didn't have to be in Los Angeles with people asking about my breakup. The Lord put me there to keep me strong and focused and to know that I could make it through this."
She talked more about her spiritual foundation. "I go to church in Los Angeles," she said.
"My mother raised us in church. She was a strong Christian parent and we were always in
church: Sunday school, vacation Bible school, whenever the church was open, we were
there." She continues, "I thank the Lord each and every morning that I am blessed to
wake up and have another day to enjoy. God has been good to me."
Fox's character, Helene Landy, was a part originally written for a man, Fox divulges. But she says she had little trouble getting into character. "I am a huge sports fan," she said, "so that was another reason why playing a sports agent was so easy for me. I grew up as an athlete. I played basketball, volleyball, track, and I was a cheerleader in high school. I literally wake up to ESPN every day."
Part of my preparation for this interview was watching the entire sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in one night. When I told Fox about this, I discovered the show was another saving grace.
"When I hit Curb Your Enthusiasm, I was at another crossroads in my life," she remembered. "I had participated in Dancing With the Stars, and got unfairly booted off. I was ready to drown myself at the bottom of a pina colada. My manager called me the next day and says that I have an audition with Curb. I'm like, what do they want with me? Well, they're adding a black family on the show and Larry David is really interested in you. So, when I got there, they just handed me a little piece of paper, because it's all ad-libbed. That is why the show is so good, because you come up with your own material. I go in, Larry comes into the room (you don't meet him before the audition). The scene starts and I just go, 'What up, L.D.? Did you get me some ice cream?' and then we finished the scene and I left. I'm ready to hit that pina colada when my phone rings and guess what? I got the part."
Home Run is in theaters April 19.
-- Jason Handelsman
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At least 20 states across the nation provide local jurisdictions the flexibility to decide alcohol service hours or permit alcohol sales after 2 a.m., a misdemeanor in California. This includes major cities across the country, such as Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, Louisville, New York City and Washington, D.C., which have alcohol service hours past 2 a.m. This puts cities in California attractive to tourists at a particular disadvantage.
We think it's time to grant the same kind of discretion to local governments in California, and Senate Bill 384, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would do just that.
Wiener introduced Senate Bill 35, which would trigger a speedier over-the-counter permit process for multifamily affordable housing projects when cities lag in meeting housing goals assigned by the state. The faster process would apply to housing types with unmet needs such as low-income housing.
In some cities, these housing goal numbers "sit on a shelf and collect dust," Wiener said.
Gay California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) provided a legislative update that included several bills he authored or co-authored, including Senate Bill 179, the Gender Recognition Act of 2017, which would allow people to choose "non-binary" as the gender on their birth certificates and other documents.
Sacramento Bee: Is LGBT community moving forward or falling back?
Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, said under President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, he considers the rights of LGBT people under direct attack.
The tax measure has wide support from politicians across the region, including co-authors state Sens. Jim Beall (D-San Jose), Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and assemblymembers from San Jose, South San Francisco, Monterey and San Francisco.
This year, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, has a bill, SB35, with similar goals to the governor's.
Streamlining the state's regressive zoning and development laws in exchange for the housing we need is not an easy compromise for state legislators, but it's a wise one. The alternative is the status quo — a housing crisis that's pricing out more and more Californians.
"By not building enough housing, we are driving up evictions and homelessness, pushing people out of our state and jeopardizing the success of young people," said state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco in a recent statement as Senate took up a range of bills aimed at boosting supply and streamlining construction of affordable housing.
Senate Bill 35, sponsored by Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, provides for streamlined approvals of multifamily developments that meet a series of conditions in cities that are falling short of local housing needs. It earned bipartisan support in the Senate and is now before the Assembly, which should follow suit.
Solar energy production could rise as a result of another measure approved by State Senate on Wednesday.
"To meet our goals, we need solar and other renewable energy in every city and neighborhood in California," said Wiener.
A bill authored by state Senator Scott Wiener and sponsored by Equality California to protect the rights of LGBT seniors in long-term care facilities was passed Wednesday by the California state Senate in a vote of 26-12. SB 219, dubbed the LGBT Senior Long-Term Care Bill of Rights, is a major step forward in advocating for the vulnerable and often marginalized LGBT senior population in the state, and it will now head to the Assembly for their vote.


Dr. John Gottman says that couples -most of the time- fight about nothing. I'm not talking real things that a couple would argue about, I'm talking day to day stuff…like you get home from a great day at work but your boyfriend didn't have the best day so when you go to greet him his tepid response upsets you, because most likely you think it's about you, most of us do this, if he/she is upset it's about "me" as if we don't have feelings about anything else?
It's easy to forget that men and women are biologically different. Gottman uses an example of a couple being woken up in the middle of the night when a car backfires. If you put the women in a room in silence she'll feel better in 20 minutes, due to the man's adrenaline it takes him 4-6 hours to calm down. That's probably a good explanation as to why most men walk away from fights.
I read Gottman's book "The Seven Essentials to Making a Marriage Work" and I was shocked at my lack of emotional intelligence in my relationship. If he was mad it was about me, if I wasn't greeted excitedly or warmly he was mad at me, everything was about me. He also lacked emotional intelligence too as he felt the same way most of the time….not uncommon, most people do until they learn or they're the exception.
How did it get like this? When did we go from being in love and developing healthy relationships to treating each other badly, forgetting this simple reminder: It's me and you vs. the problem, not me vs. you. Powerful right. We get mad at each other about stupid things and we fight about that stupid thing, you know why? Because we're selfish, we make it about ourselves rather then taking it for what it is, you'll find it's usually nothing. I read somewhere that love is what happens when you take the selfishness out.
I remember some time ago I had a fight with a guy I was seeing and he said he didn't want to talk for a couple weeks. When I hung up and thought about it I realized if that's what he needs that's what he needs, I have to respect his boundaries and feelings rather then being hurt and hurting him back because he hurt me and how dare he hurt me. That was a huge revelation and it took a long time to figure that out, respecting how he feels rather then manipulate him to get what I want.
As a Matchmaker it's obviously constantly about love and relationships and giving guidance. We need, want love…but interestingly enough, most people won't do the work to learn how to be in that loving, healthy relationship. I think it's the most important thing to do, because it's more then emotional intelligence, it's about understanding how different men and women are and embracing that instead of generalizing men and generalizing women as difficult or crazy. What's crazy is we are biologically different and we don't understand what that means….some people do, a lot of people do but a lot of people don't.
Or maybe being at peace within ourselves is too difficult so we need that validation, but being validated is just a bandaid, unless it comes from within, it goes away. Maybe we're afraid to ask for love so we start arguments to get attention because we can't simply say I need love because maybe we don't know that's the root of the problem (for some). So maybe take some time to search within and get honest with yourself and you'll find the answers, learn how to let go and understand how important it is to be good to one another.
How to FIND love and KEEP it.


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The use of clear bags for waste disposal commences July 1st in the Municipality of Tweed. To find out why click here.
From 2008-2010 the Municipality of Tweed and its Citizens created 'A New Direction: Our Citizens' Vision for an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan(ICSP). The ICSP was designed to represent a leap in the future, and identify visions, values, goals, and proposed actions from all parts of the community. The document was based on the concept of sustainable development, defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the future. The underlying structure of sustainable development and the ICSP is based on four pillars (Environment, Economic, Social, Cultural).


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Greta Van Fleet Terminal 5 New York City November 27 2018
Mark Ashe
Terminal 5 New York City –
Overview and Photos by Mark Ashe
Greta Van Fleet rocked New York City last night with a tight and enthusiastic set at a sold out Terminal 5. The four-piece band from Frankenmuth, Michigan formed in 2012. Josh Kiszka is on lead vocals, his twin brother Jake Kiszka on guitar, younger brother Sam Kiszka on bass and longtime friend Danny Wagner on drums.
Greta Van Fleet seemed to catch on like fire with Josh Kiszka's vocals eerily similar to Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. The band has two EPs Black Smoke Rising and From the Fire and they just released a new studio album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army. In concert all of the band members shine. Jake Kiszka's amazing guitar solo on Edge of Darkness, just blew away everyone in the crowd. He used the entire stage to his full advantage, teasing the audience during the several minute solo.
A full gallery of photographs from this show by Mark Ashe is located here.
The highlight of the night was the last song of the show, Safari Song. This is the song that got lots of radio play and this is what the audience wanted to hear. If they could have played it twice, they would have and the audience would have loved it!
Greta Van Fleet had two more shows at Terminal 5 this week and both are sold out.
Highway Tune
Black Flag Exposition
Watching Over
Curtain Falls
Black Smoke Rising
Safari Song
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Der Jüdische Friedhof Großbüllesheim liegt im Ortsteil Großbüllesheim der Stadt Euskirchen im Kreis Euskirchen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Auf dem jüdischen Friedhof, der von vor 1876 bis 1928 belegt wurde, stehen noch elf Grabsteine (Mazewot).

1943 wurde der Friedhof an die Ortsgemeinde verkauft. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, nämlich 1948, beschloss der Gemeinderat die Rückgabe. Damals sind viele Grabsteine verkauft worden.

Weblinks
 Jüdischer Friedhof Großbüllesheim beim Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland. In: Übersicht über alle Projekte zur Dokumentation jüdischer Grabinschriften auf dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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Go to the Insert tab, click New Slide, select the Import tab, and click the Storyline option.
In Story View, right-click anywhere in the workspace, select New Slide, select the Import tab, and click the Storyline option.
In Normal View, right-click anywhere in the left navigation pane, select New Slide, select the Import tab, and click the Storyline option.
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If you opened the wrong Storyline file or want to select a different Storyline file, click the ellipsis (…) button in the upper right corner to browse for another file.
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You can also import all the selected scenes and slides into the currently selected scene in your story by choosing Current Scene.
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Sky TV, Vodafone still open to pursuing merger
Sky Network Television and Vodafone New Zealand haven't given up hope for a merger despite being rebuffed by the Commerce Commission last week over competition concerns.
The pay-TV operator and telecommunications group have not triggered a right to terminate the transaction if it wasn't completed by Feb. 28, Sky said in a statement.
"Sky does not currently propose to give notice of termination of the SPA (sale and purchase agreement) to Vodafone while the parties consider their options," it said. "Vodafone has indicated to Sky that it also does not currently propose to give notice of termination of the SPA."
The competition regulator rejected the companies' application to merge last week, saying it risked creating a strongly vertically integrated pay-TV service and telecommunications provider, with rejection hinging on their owning all premium sports content. Had the deal not captured popular sports it probably would have got over the line. The rejection saw shareholders dump Sky stock, wiping $293 million from the company's market value. The shares last traded at $3.80, valuing Sky at $1.48 billion.
The Commerce Commission hasn't published its detailed reasoning behind the decision, which the companies could then scour to determine whether it's worth seeking a judicial review.
Sky and Vodafone want to create the country's largest telecommunications and media group, with Sky TV buying Vodafone NZ for $3.44 billion, funded by a payment of $1.25 billion in cash and the issue of new Sky TV shares at a price of $5.40 per share. Vodafone would have become a 51 percent majority shareholder in Sky TV, in what amounted to a reverse takeover. The pay-TV operator planned to borrow $1.8 billion from Vodafone to fund the purchase, repay existing debt and use for working capital.