āCheersā star George Wendt dead at 76
By Whitney Vasquez
[NYPost] Everyone knew his name.
George Wendt, famous for playing Norm Peterson in the iconic sitcom āCheers,ā has died.
His family rep confirmed the news to The Post, revealing that Wendt ādied peacefully in his sleep while at homeā on Tuesday morning.
āGeorge was a doting family man, a well-loved friend and confidant to all of those lucky enough to have known him,ā the family repās statement read. āHe will be missed forever. The family has requested privacy during this time.ā
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He reminds me of that Bavarian guy who'd reply to the waitress when she asked him whether he wanted another beer: "Darling, when I DON'T want another beer, I'll tell you!"
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It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear
[FoxNews] Six vehicles will compete in the inaugural 'Wienie 500' event on Carb Day
In just a few days, fans attending the Indianapolis 500 will have the opportunity to watch Oscar Mayerās six iconic Wienermobiles.
The vehicles will come together for the first-ever "Wienie 500" race. The event will help kick off the race week's annual Carb Day festivities. The race will kick off at 2 p.m ET on Friday.
"Carburetion Day," or Carb Day, is the last practice session before the Indy 500.
It marks the first time in a decade all six vehicles in the company fleet will be at the same location, and it's the first time theyāve ever raced.
Each Wienermobile will represent a different region ā the New York Dog for the East, Slaw Dog for the Southeast, Chilli Dog for the South, Chi Dog for the Midwest, Seattle Dog for the Northwest and Sonoran Dog for the Southwest.
The Indianapolis 500 has been around since 1911 and has produced countless memories over the past 108 years.
PREMA Racing driver Robert Shwartzman became the first Indy 500 rookie to qualify for the pole since 1983. Shwartzman, who has dual nationality in Israel and Russia, initially raced under the Russian flag.
He currently competes under the Israeli flag, which makes the Tel Aviv native the first driver from Israel to make "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
The Indy 500 will be broadcast May 25 on FOX with pre-coverage starting at 10 a.m. ET. It will also be available to stream live on FOXSports.com and the FOX Sports app.
Consider a spherical wiener
(seen head-on) who couldn't be keener
To fight for The Joo
Were he Hebrew! [he: "Nu?"]
Sure, he's kosher, methinks,
As a foreskin in Pink's
Or a Crown Heights halal cart cat's dinner.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A massive solar storm is heading toward Earth, threatening to disrupt communications, navigation systems, and power grids around the world.
NASA issued the warning after a powerful burst of energy from the sun last week, which measured as an X2.7-class solar flare, the highest category for solar flares.
Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation that come from sunspots ā darker, cooler areas on the sun's surface ā and are among the most powerful explosions in the solar system. These flares can last from a few minutes to several hours.
This X2.7 flare, released on May 14, came from the sun's most active region, which is now rotating directly toward Earth.
The flare has already caused radio blackouts across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, along with some power degradation in the eastern US.
NASA warned that more is to come, saying the bursts could continue to impact 'radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts'.
Space expert Vincent Ledvina posted on X: 'This is getting intense, especially as this active region turns closer into view.'
While NASA warned more blackouts and communication interference are expected in a matter of days, the agency also noted that several US states will witness stunning northern lights.
Those include Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Maine, as well as parts of nearby states, including New York.
the agency also noted that the storm will bring stunning northern lights across 11 US states.
Solar flares are grouped into five categories: A, B, C, M, and X, with each level representing a tenfold increase in energy output.
A is the weakest, and X is the strongest.
The UK's Met Office reported that up to five sunspot regions are currently visible on the side of the sun facing Earth, with a new magnetically active region rotating into view over the southeastern solar horizon.
The agency also noted that a region near the sun's northwest limb may have produced a moderate-class flare earlier on May 19.
'Solar activity is expected to remain mostly low, but with an ongoing chance of isolated moderate-class flares,' the Met Office added.
This uptick in solar activity highlights the importance of monitoring space weather, especially as our society becomes more reliant on technology.
As the sun continues through its active phase, more solar flares and potential geomagnetic storms could occur in the coming days and weeks.
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'NASA admits Earth's environment is not a closed system,
What do you mean the Earth is not a closed system? Sure it is! You just have to ignore the Sun, the Moon, the solar wind, cosmic rays, the Earth's own outgoing long-wave radiation, and the occasional comet or asteroid. Other than that, it's a totally closed system.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A potentially deadly chemical leak at an industrial park in Texas has injured four workers as thousands of locals were ordered to shelter-in-place.
Sirens began blaring at 9:00am local time at the Olin Plant B in Freeport after chlorine gas spewed from the facility.
Images of the scene captured clouds of yellow gas bellowing out from machinery.
Reports claimed that four workers were injured, with one still hospitalized.
The worker who is still hospitalized is 'alert and awake,' expected to make a full recovery. He's been a worker at Plant B since 1990, the union said.
The Lake Jackson Police Department described it as an active Level 3 chlorine release, meaning the gas had moved beyond the immediate area of the plant.
Breathing in chlorine gasāeven in small amountsācan irritate the eyes, nose, and throat, and may lead to more serious respiratory issues.
At higher concentrations, chlorine gas can cause lung injuries, including pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs), and may be fatal.
Freeport, a city in Brazoria County with a population of over 10,500, issued orders for residents to stay indoors. The directive also applied to schools and nearby communities.
Olin Corporation confirmed that local officials had issued a shelter-in-place order for Clute and Lake Jackson as a precaution.
The leak was contained at 9:46am, though shelter-in-place orders remain in effect, but no other communities will be impacted.
Resident Michael Kelly told local Click2Houston:'It is just part of being here, explosions, gas releases.
'The chemical plants take precaution for this, it is an undesirable situation but it does happen.'
Brazosport Independent School District, located 10 miles from Olin Plant B, was quick to respond to the sirens, ordering all doors to remain closed on campus.
'We will not be releasing students until the All Clear is given by local authorities,' the district stated on Facebook.
'We will provide updates as soon as we receive additional information.'
The City of Freeport Emergency Management Office said it is closely monitoring the situation.
'At this time, there is no immediate threat to the surrounding community,' Freeport officials told KHOU11.
Locals in surrounding communities have reported burning sensations in their eyes.
'The smell is so strong all in Clute and lake Jackson. Eyes feeling the burn,' one local posted on X.
'We encourage residents to avoid the area until further notice.'
Olin Plant B in Freeport is a major part of Dow Texas Operations, a large chemical manufacturing complex.
The facility is a leading North American manufacturer of chlorine, caustic soda, industrial bleach, hydrochloric acid, potassium hydroxide, hydrogen and related products.
These chemicals are important building blocks for plastics, pulp and paper products, soaps and detergents.
They also play an important role in municipal drinking water and wastewater treatment.
The chlorine leak comes just months after another Texas refinery incident that left one person dead.
In October 2024, hydrogen sulfide leaked from a Pemex Plant in Deer Park, with the cities of Pasadena and Deer Park now issuing shelter-in-place orders.
Local residents were told to go indoors, close their windows and doors, and keep their air conditioners turned off until an all-clear is given.
Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless gas that is none for its strong odor. It is extremely flammable and highly toxic.
The Pemex refinery is responsible for producing gasoline, aviation fuel, and ship fuel. It produces 312,500-barrels-per-day.
A month before this incident, evacuation orders were issued after a pipeline in in La Porte burst into flames.
The company that owns the pipe, Energy Transfer, said a vehicle struck a valve at the pipe, which they believe may have caused the fire.
Sheltering in Place, depends on when, where and what stage that it is.
When you mix Chlorine and Water and Fire, you pretty much get an Air based Bio-Weapon Gas.
Very, very few people have the mean to seal their apt. and homes from such a produced gas.
Plus no business can do it given their HVAC systems alone.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two people have been killed and two police officers have been injured in a mass stabbing incident in the Netherlands.
A police officer was among the victims, and at least one person is said to still be in a very serious condition.
Emergency services were called to the scene in Hoofddorp, the main town in Haarlemmermeer, in northern Holland, early this morning.
Police said in a statement they received a report of a stabbing incident at Fanny Blankers-Koenlaan at around 6am local time (4am GMT).
'There are multiple victims, including a colleague. Multiple ambulances and the MMT are on site,' Politie Eenheid Noord-Holland said in a statement.
Local media reported that the injured officer has been taken to hospital, with one police car 'smeared with blood'.
It was not immediately clear what caused the incident. Police are currently investigating and have closed off the street.
Fanny Blankers-Koenlaan is a group home residential facility for people with a mild or moderate intellectual disability.
At least 50/50 odds a Moslem colonist is involved. The other side is a refugee/illegal migrant, with a small percentage going to a domestic nutter.
…Even more concerning, this isn’t the first time it’s happened. This is the same Naval Shipyard another Chinese National arrested for taking photos of:
The “case comes as US military bases have intercepted a growing number of Chinese nationals posing as tourists. This March, an illegal Chinese immigrant was arrested after breaching a Marine Corps base in California. In 2019, a Chinese student was sentenced to a year behind bars for taking photos at the same military base”
“Authorities said Xi violated the Espionage Act”
“This comes as growing concerns regarding Chinese land purchases around sensitive facilities.”
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Someone who flies a drone over a military base to take pictures is not a student.
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[Breitbart] Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) called for anti-voyeur legislation during a hearing on Capitol Hill wherein she shared a blurred ānaked silhouetteā screenshot of herself being recorded without consent.
Mace was chairing the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on surveilling people in private spaces.
āFreedom is not a theory. It is the right to breathe. It is the right to dress and undress, to sleep without someoneās camera filming your naked body. The Founders wrote liberty in parchment, but hidden cameras erase it in pixels,ā Mace said. āI speak not just as a lawmaker, but as a survivor.ā
The congresswoman displayed a poster board behind her featuring a wide-angle security camera view of a living room with a blurred figure in the doorway.
āBehind me is a screenshot from one of the videos I found of myself. The yellow circle, my naked silhouette, is my naked body,ā Mace said. āI didnāt know that I had been filmed. I didnāt give my consent. I didnāt give my permission.ā
Mace further called upon lawmakers to back her Sue VOYEURS Act, which would create a civil right of action, and the Stop VOYEURS Act. Her call comes months after she accused several men of secretly recording women and girls with hidden cameras at a rental property co-owned by her ex-fiance, per The Hill. Her ex-fiance, Patrick Bryant, has strongly denied the allegations.
āI categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace. I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just falseāthey are malicious and deeply personal,ā Bryant said. āMy mistake was loving and trusting someone who later weaponized our relationship.ā
Bryant said that several witnesses disputed Maceās account and that he has complied with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Divisionās investigation. Since the Constitutionās Speech or Debate Clause protects lawmakers from lawsuits for what they say and do to advance legislation, Bryant called on her make her accusations outside the House chamber.
āIf she believed them to be true and there was evidence to support her accusations, she would say them outside the chamberāaway from her public role and protections and pursue them through proper legal channels. She has not done so, because she cannot,ā Bryant said
āThis isnāt advocacy. Itās an abuse and exploitation of her political position for the sole purpose of promoting herself politically. Her allegations are absolutely baseless,ā Bryant added. āAnd, I will, at the right time, do whatever is necessary and appropriate to clear my name, to prove my integrity, and to restore my reputation in the community.ā
Mace shot back and told The Hill, āI donāt really give a fuck what Patrick Bryant has to say.ā
āIāve written over a dozen bills to protect women and kids, based on my experiences, both personally but also working with victims for the last year and a half, and it has informed my legislative process,ā Mace said. āWhen I went through this, I surely thought the Violence Against Women Act had provisions to protect victims of voyeurism. It didnāt. Thereās not even a civil tort in the Violence Against Women Act for women who are victims of voyeurism.ā
The Trump administration on Tuesday took steps to begin enforcing a law that requires truck drivers to speak English.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in Austin, Texas, where he signed an order to direct the Department of Transportation to enforce the law.
Duffy framed the move as a safety issue for America's roadways.
"For too long, misguided policies have prioritized political correctness over safety of the American people," Duffy said.
Under federal law, a driver must "read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records."
The move came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 28 directing the Department of Transportation to include English literacy tests for our truckers.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump has unveiled his plans for a $175 billion 'Golden Dome' defence system which he says will protect the US from the world's most powerful weapons - provoking fury from China and Russia amid fears it will trigger a global arms race.
Such a defence programme is 'long overdue' and 'absolutely necessary' amid growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia, experts have said in response to Tuesday's announcement.
Moscow and Beijing have both put offensive weapons in space, such as satellites with abilities to disable critical US satellites, which can make America vulnerable to attack.
Beijing has warned that the plan to put US weapons into the earth's orbit for the first time 'heightens the risk of space becoming a battlefield, fuels an arms race, and undermines international security.'
Meanwhile Moscow has called for Washington to make contact regarding the programme. Trump said on Tuesday that he had not yet spoken to Vladimir Putin regarding the programme, but would do so 'at the right time'.
Following talks between the allies earlier this month, Beijing and Moscow released a joint statement condemning Washington's plans as being 'deeply destabilising' and turning space into 'an arena for armed confrontation.'
The plan is necessary, according to the US Defence Intelligence Agency, because missile threats from America's adversaries will not only 'expand in scale and sophistication in the coming decade' but already exist.
An unclassified DIA report released this month stated that China and Russia 'are developing an array of novel delivery systems,' to exploit gaps in US defences, while traditional ballistic missiles are expected to remain the primary threat to American soil.
North Korea has successfully tested such missiles with sufficient range to reach any part of the US, the DIA stated, while Iran will likely be able to launch ICBMs within the next decade.
Trump declared on Tuesday that the establishment of the Golden Dome would provide 'close to 100 percent protection' of the US and is 'very important for the success and even survival of our country.'
He said it would be delivered within two and a half to three years - before the end of his presidential term.
'I'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,' Trump said.
'Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they're launched from space. And we will have the best system ever built.'
Trump issued an executive order on January 27 instructing defence secretary Pete Hegseth to make the plan a reality.
While limited details were made available on how the architecture of the ambitious system will work - with hypersonic interceptors not expected to be delivered until the mid-2030s - Hegseth said they would draw on existing technologies and build it up over the coming years.
He said that some technology such as space-based sensors and air and missile defense already exist, but added that all systems comprising the Golden Dome would 'need to be seamlessly integrated' in order for it to work.
'Golden Dome will be fielded in phases, prioritising defense where the threat is greatest,' he added.
He promised that the completed system will protect the US from 'cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, drones, whether they're conventional or nuclear.'
It comes as the US Air Force on launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic as part of tests at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, early on Wednesday.
'This ICBM test launch underscores the strength of the nation's nuclear deterrent and the readiness of the ICBM leg of the triad,' said Gen. Thomas Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command.
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Beijing has warned that the plan to put US weapons into the earth's orbit for the first time 'heightens the risk of space becoming a battlefield, fuels an arms race, and undermines international security.'
[MAIL] Millions of women taking the combined contraceptive pill are at an increased risk of suffering a sudden, unexplained stroke, worrying research suggests.
Researchers, who analysed data from over 500 women, found those who used a combined oral contraceptiveābetter known as The Pillāwere three times more likely to suffer a stroke than those who didn't.
This was despite researchers finding no significant link between The Pill and known risk stroke factors such as high blood pressure, migraines and obesity, suggesting it was the drug itself that was somehow responsible.
[ScienceDirect-Journal of Industrial Information Integration] ABSTRACT
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is more and more frequently used in farming and logistics, civil and military alike, researches involving UAVs also starts to boom. In the civil field, UAV is generally flown in urban areas, so buildings are the main factors hindering the normal flight of UAV. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate an optimal flight path of UAV under constraints. The intelligent logistics UAV proposed in this paper can be used to replace special couriers to deliver small goods. It is a quadcopter integrated with a webcam, ultrasound Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), and is controllable through a mobile APP. Gradient descent algorithm, Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) and improved Proportion-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers are applied in its flight control system, MATLAB and wavelet transform to handle fuzzy image. In addition, ant colony algorithm and adaptive strategies are used in the path planning process. As a result, it can detect surrounding obstacles in-flight, and the ground control station can receive feedback information and prepare for emergency operations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
