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Liberal_in_LA's JournalThe 'Facts of Life' Cast Reunites After 25 Years
The Facts of Life" ended its nine-year run almost 26 years ago.
On Monday night, cast members Charlotte Rae, Mindy Cohn, Lisa Whelchel and Nancy McKeon, who played Mrs. Edna Garrett, Natalie Green, Blair Warner and Jo Polniazcek, respectively, reunited at PaleyFest to discuss their show and how it affected fans, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Kim Fields, who played Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey on the '80s series, could not make the panel, but did make a video to thank her former castmates.
http://www.nytimes.com/?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=TopBar&module=HomePage-Title&pgtype=article
Even as They Enroll, Kentuckians Back Health Law Foes
Health Law Falls Flat With Kentucky Voters, Even Those It Helps
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Affordable Care Act allowed Robin Evans, an eBay warehouse packer earning $9 an hour, to sign up for Medicaid this year. She is being treated for high blood pressure and Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder, after years of going uninsured and rarely seeing doctors.
“I’m tickled to death with it,” Ms. Evans, 49, said of her new coverage as she walked around the Kentucky State Fair recently with her daughter, who also qualified for Medicaid under the law. “It’s helped me out a bunch.”
But Ms. Evans scowled at the mention of President Obama — “Nobody don’t care for nobody no more, and I think he’s got a lot to do with that,” she explained — and said she would vote this fall for Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader, who is fond of saying the health care law should be “pulled out root and branch.”
Ms. Evans said she did not want the law repealed but had too many overall reservations about Democrats to switch her vote. “Born and raised Republican,” she said of herself. “I ain’t planning on changing now.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/us/politics/kentucky-elections-obama-health-care-act.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
LAFD gets new anti-nepotism rules in wake of hiring controversy
The changes will require all LAFD officials involved in the selection process to notify superiors when they have a friend or family member in the applicant pool. Those officials would be reassigned if their participation in screening candidates or supervising the process could be perceived as a conflict of interest.
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Of the 70 recruits named to a new training class in January, 21 had family members active in the LAFD during the hiring process, amounting to 30% of the total, the report found. Several high-ranking fire officials were moved to different positions due to conflicts of interest after officials learned their sons advanced during the recruitment process. The son of one is now embroiled in a separate controversy, having filed misconduct allegations against his superiors after receiving negative performance reviews.
The LAFD’s hiring process also drew criticism after thousands of candidates were excluded from consideration for the January class because some of their paperwork wasn't received in the first 60 seconds of a filing period. Many applicants said they had no idea mere seconds could determine which candidates would advance.
Cops who beat Bronx teen after he allegedly mouthed off convicted of attempt assault
Two NYPD cops who were caught on tape kicking and punching a teenager beat the most serious rap against them Monday, but were still convicted of attempted assault.
Jose Ocasio, 31, and Joseph Murphy, 29, went to work on 17-year-old Tyre Davis in February 2011 after he allegedly mouthed off at them following a disorderly conduct arrest.
The cops followed him from the 46th Precinct stationhouse into an alley outside then treated him to what’s known as “tune-up” in police speak, prosecutors said, leaving him with bruises and swelling.
Internal Affairs uncovered the video of the disturbing beatdown and referred the case to the Bronx district attorney.
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Lawyer Stuart London, who represented Ocasio, said he was gratified the judge found that the “injuries were so minor that they didn’t reach the level of the statute.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/cops-beat-bronx-teen-convicted-attempt-assault-article-1.1941092
Cat looks like Tom Selleck
Hercule Purr-ot! Meet the moggie with the moustache who bears more than a passing resemblance to the fictional detective
Stache the cat has facial marking that makes it look like he has a moustache
Has been compared to Hercule Poirot, the fictional Belgian detective
Also been likened to Tom Selleck, Adrien Brody, Snoop Dog and Groucho Marx
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2756152/It-s-Tom-Selleckat-Meet-moggie-moustache-bears-passing-resemblance-Magnum-P-I-star.html
Heartwarming moment a pit bull puppy reunites with the man who rescued him from the brink of death
Heartwarming moment a pit bull puppy reunites with the man who rescued him from the brink of death
Friends to family: After rescuing Mojo, Wagner has decided to give him a permanent home
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757020/Heartwarming-moment-pit-bull-puppy-reunites-man-rescued-brink-death.html#ixzz3DQtu5Z8d
A severely ill pit bull puppy rescued from the brink of death by a Nova Scotia man recently met back up with his savor and video of the reunion is truly heartwarming.
Joey Wagner, himself a marine animal rescuer, came across the mange-infested pup now named Mojo and immediately brought him to a vet for some tender loving care.
Though hairless and chilly and in need of a shirt to keep him warm, Mojo was overcome with joy when he next saw Wagner.
Even better, Wagner was there to pick up the hairless pooch and take him home. He decided to keep Mojo forever.
kitten rescue!
http://abc7chicago.com/pets/photos-kitten-stuck-under-hood-of-car-in-nj/302429/4-week-old kitten was rescued from under a car's hood Tuesday morning at Thomas Jefferson Middle School parking lot in Fair Lawn, N.J. Teacher Pamela Haug heard noises coming from her Honda Odyssey's hood as she drove to school. Once the hood was opened, it took about 15 minutes to get the kitten out from behind the engine block.
Another day, another violent police video: nypd officers take turns beating hispanic man
Another day, another violent police video: Coming after several instances of police violence caught on camera this summer, a video has emerged of 23-year-old Santiago Hernandez being assaulted by several NYPD officers following a stop-and-frisk search.
ABC7 reported that the Aug. 18 event occurred at around 6 p.m. as Hernandez was outside a friends' apartment in the Bronx when an officer approached him. The video captured on a cellphone shows Hernandez willingly raising his arms and allowing the cop to frisk him.
Allegedly investigating a noise complaint, the two officers on the scene found nothing, Hernandez said. Then, when prodded by Hernandez about the reason for the search, one of the NYPD officers cuffs one of his arms and tries to pull him up. At least six officers then appear on the scene, who proceed to punch, kick, beat with nightsticks and use pepper spray on Hernandez, according to ABC7's video. "They was taking turns on me like it was a gang," Hernandez explained.
Later, Hernandez was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, but the Bronx District Attorney is refusing to pursue the charges. After being covered in severe bruises, Hernandez and his lawyer are filing a civilian complaint.
http://mic.com/articles/98216/another-damning-video-proves-we-need-to-have-a-serious-conversation-about-police-brutality
The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious, how the worst apple took over the US & continues to spread
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/he grew up with more than 100 types of trees in his backyard orchard. He is the author of Apples of North America, an encyclopedia of heirloom varieties, and travels the country lecturing on horticulture and nursery design. But his preservationist tendencies stop short of the Red Delicious and what he calls the “ramming down the throats of American consumers this disgusting, red, beautiful fruit.”
His words contain the paradox of the Red Delicious: alluring yet undesirable, the most produced and arguably the least popular apple in the United States. It lurks in desolation. Bumped around the bottom of lunch bags as schoolchildren rummage for chips or shrink-wrapped Rice Krispies treats. Waiting by the last bruised banana in a roadside gas station, the only produce for miles. Left untouched on hospital trays, forlorn in the fruit bowl at hotel breakfast buffets, bereft in nests of gift-basket raffia.
For at least 70 years, the Red Delicious has dominated apple production in the United States. But since the turn of the 21st century, as the market has filled with competitors—the Gala, the Fuji, the Honeycrisp—its lead has been narrowing. Annual output has plunged. And even still, a gap is growing between supply and demand from American consumers. Earlier this month, Todd Fryhover, the president of the Washington Apple Commission—whose growers produce the majority of apples in the United States—recommended that this harvest, up to two-thirds of the state’s Red Delicious yield be exported.
How did such an unlikeable apple become the most ubiquitous in the country? And as its dominion here ends, where will it invade next?
cops violently take down man suffering from huntingtons disease, said he appeared intoxicated
The video was posted to YouTube by a witness to the arrest who identified herself as Sara Bostonia. She calls out 'stop it!' — and is confronted by one of the cops arresting Bane.
'How are you involved with this guy?' he asks.
'I just was driving by,' Bostonia replies. 'This is insane.'
'He is choking on his own blood,' she adds. 'I can hear it from my car.'
'This is wrong,' she tells the officer defiantly.
'If you want to continue filming, that’s OK,' the cop replies. 'If you continue to be loud and boisterous, I will arrest you for obstructing, OK?
'Just leave me alone,' she says.
Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754781/Familys-outrage-cops-violently-arrested-father-two-appearing-intoxicated-taking-care-kids-actually-TERMINAL-ILLNESS-makes-look-way.html
officers in West Virginia brutally arrested a 39-year-old father of two who they say appeared intoxicated and was handling his kids roughly while walking them to the park.
But his outraged family denies that 39-year-old Jeffrey Bane was under the influence on Sept. 6, when he was left choking in his own blood and pleading for help while he was pinned to the ground by four Granville PD cops during the Sept. 6 arrest in Morgantown.
The whole arrest takes some 10 minutes and was recorded in a shocking video uploaded to YouTube.
The family says Bane suffers from Huntington's disease, a genetic and terminal illness that causes sufferers to increasingly lose their motor functions, at times appearing to be under the influence.
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