Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Divorce: How the Couple Is Handling Their Split
They"re one of Hollywood"s power couples Or, at least, they were. Various media outlets report Amber Heard has filed for divorce from Johnny Depp after just 15 months of marriage. The 30 year-old actress cites "irreconcilable differences" with her 52 year-old husband, who"s best known for films like "Edward Scissorhands" and "Pirates of the Caribbean". The pair married in February last year, after meeting on the set of 2011"s "The Rum Diary". But it"s not been plain sailing for the stars. They found themselves in legal trouble in 2015 when they broke Australia"s strict biosecurity laws by secretly bringing two dogs into the country. They even released a video apologising for the incident. SOUNDBITE Actors, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, saying (English): HEARD: "Australia"s a wonderful island, with a treasure trove of unique plants, animals and people" DEPP: "It has to be protected." HEARD: "Australia"s free of many pests and diseases that are commonplace around the world. That is why Australia has to have such strong biosecurity laws." DEPP: "And Australians are just as unique, both warm and direct. When you disrespect Australian law they will tell you firmly." HEARD: "I am truly sorry that Pistol and Boo were not declared. Protecting Australia is important." DEPP: "Declare everything when you enter Australia." A show of togetherness from the pair, which now looks like it"s coming to an end.
Extremely Close Range Strong Tornado - Niles, Kansas 5-25-16
Storm Damage on Road 110 north of Dodge City- photo KHP
FORD COUNTY The severe weather response continues following Tuesdays tornado in southwest Kansas.
The Ford County Sheriffs Office reported approximately 9 structures were destroyed and hundreds of structures were damaged according to a media release.
Roads Closed:Highway 50 was closed between Cimarron and Dodge City for approximately one (1) hour due to emergency personnel/vehicles responding to severe weather event (now open)Garnett Road between 105 & 110 road due to power lines/poles down (now open)110 North from Garnett to Denim due to debris in the roadway104 between Tillman & Upland due to debris was still closed on Wednesday night.
Tuesday tornado in Dodge City -courtesy photo
Horseshoe between 106 & 107 due to irrigation system in roadway was still closed on Wednesday night.
There were two people that received injuries. One had to be extracted from the home. Both patients have been treated and released from the hospital.
The Severe weather event followed a path approximately 10 miles wide from the southwest corner of Ford County traveling north-northeast into Hodgeman County.
Electric companies are still in the process of repairing downed power poles and power lines and restoring power to some subscribers.
The Red Cross is assisting displaced families. The Red Cross asks that physical items be donated to other local charities and not the Red Cross. Monetary donations can be accepted via social media, full website and by their toll free number.
Hail from Tuesday storm in Ford Co. photo NWS
Contributions may also be made to the local Salvation Army.
Violent EF4 tornado crossing road at close range - Abilene, Kansas, May 25, 2016
Severe weather spawning numerous tornadoes roiled large stretches of Kansas for a second day Thursday, prompting residents to anxiously watch the skies but causing only scattered damage in rural areas and no injuries or deaths.
A late afternoon tornado warning in the Kansas City area prompted a brief precautionary evacuation of Kansas City International Airport in Missouri, forcing travelers and other visitors into parking garage tunnels, local media reported. The airport was back in operation by early evening.
The area was on high alert a day after a half-mile-wide tornado stayed on the ground for about 90 minutes near Chapman, Kansas, Wednesday night and traveled 26 miles.
The National Weather Service began issuing tornado warnings early Thursday afternoon, with the first sighting of a tornado near the tiny northeast Kansas town of St. George in Riley County about 2 p.m.
An hour later, five tornadoes were reported in a cluster of counties in northeast Kansas, where law enforcement reported baseball-size hail that damaged cars and homes in Meriden northeast of Topeka.
At the same time, several southwestern Kansas counties were under tornado warnings, but no twisters had touched down.
Early Thursday evening, the weather service said a tornado knocked down tree limbs and damaged some outbuildings near the 4,400-resident northeastern Kansas town of Wamego, though the intensity of that twister would not be assessed until Friday.
In neighboring Missouri, an Air Force worker at the Whiteman base roughly 70 miles southeast of Kansas City reported a tornado had touched down.
The tornado on Wednesday night near 1,400-resident Chapman, 140 miles west of Kansas City, Kansas, damaged or destroyed about 20 homes but edged past Chapman"s southern side after forecasters declared a "tornado emergency" for the town. "Numerous" miles of power lines were extensively damaged, along with a set of railroad tracks, Kansas officials said Thursday.
A survey team from the National Weather Service office at Topeka rated the tornado as an EF4 on a scale of tornado strength EF5 is the highest with estimated peak winds of 180 mph.
In Kansas" Dickinson County, a tornado Wednesday was blamed for destroying eight homes and heavily damaging as many as 20 others and farmsteads.
"It"s amazing how this tornado missed those centers of population," said Paul Froelich, a Dickinson County fire district. "And we had outstanding early warning on this. ... People knew well in advance of this storm. Consider also, this is Kansas. This is Tornado Alley."
A typical tornado dissipates within 10 minutes after losing the proper balance of winds flowing into and out of the storm. Tornado researcher Erik Rasmussen of the University of Oklahoma said Thursday that conditions were right to keep the Chapman storm churning no storms were nearby to disrupt it.
A twister at Chapman June 11, 2008, tore a path of destruction six blocks wide. Officials said one woman died, 100 homes were destroyed or heavily damaged, and 80 percent of the town was damaged.
FIFA 16: Simulación - Final LigaMX (Pachuca VS. Monterrey)
Pachuca sac una ligera ventaja ante Monterrey en la primera final gracias a un gol del argentino Franco Jara.
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Ambos equipos apenas se sacaron ventajas en la primera parte. Las emociones y las polmicas se guardaran para el complemento.
A los 57" un remate de Urretaviscaya fue detenido con la mano por Jurez, pero el rbitro no cobr la pena mxima al considerar que le haba cado en el pecho.
No obstante, Pachuca logr la apertura del marcador tres minutos despus con un soberbio cabezazo de Jara que se col en el ngulo.
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Pese a los intentos locales, Orozco fue figura en el apagado equipo rival y todo se definir este domingo.
INCIDENCIAS
89" Cambio en Monterrey: entra Pablo Barrera, sale Dorlan Pabn.
88" Cambio en Pachuca: entra Nahuelpn, sale Pizarro.
73" Cambio en Monterrey: entra Aldo de Nigris, sale Ramiro Funes Mori.
63" Cambio en Monterrey: entra Candido Ramrez, sale Hiram Mier.
60" Gol de Pachuca. Franco Jara supera la marca de Basanta y mete el cabezazo que se cuela en el ngulo del arco del Monterrey.
57" Lo que se ha comido el rbitro! Remate de Urretaviscaya que choca en la mano de Jurez, pero ni cobran penal ni amonestan al jugador de Monterrey.
47" Ocasin para Pachuca! Centro de Jara, Urretaviscaya aparece por derecha y nuevamente centra, pero Ayov despeja para evitar el primero del partido.
46" Cambio en Pachuca: entra Aquivaldo Mosquera, sale scar Murillo.
45" Cae lesionado Murillo, quien se retira del campo. Se alista Mosquera.
34" Pabn intenta darle un pase filtrado a Funes Mori, pero la defensa local corta justo para evitar el peligro.
24" Tiro libre de Pachuca que tapa Orozco y luego no puede Murillo, no obstante, todo queda invalidado por fuera de juego.
13" Se la pierde Monterrey! A Cardona le queda un baln inmejorable tras un crner, pero cabecea desviado.
10" Otra ocasin perdida por Pachuca! Gran jugada de Jara, que se quita a dos, cede a Pizarro, pero este no llega para meter el pie e inflar las redes rivales.
4" Se la pierde Pachuca! Pizarro no vio a Lozano cuando Mier estaba descolocado en defensa.
Pachuca enfrenta hoy jueves 26 de mayo (8:00 p.m./Fox Sports 2) al Monterrey en el Estadio Hidalgo,por la primera final del Torneo Clausura 2016 con plantillas que involucran a jugadores de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador y Uruguay.
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El Monterrey no contar para este final con el mediocentro uruguayo Carlos Snchez, quien fue convocado por su seleccin para la Copa Amrica Centenario que se jugar del 3 al 26 de junio en Estados Unidos.
Las plantillas de los dos finalistas del ftbol de Mxico incluye jugadores procedentes de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador y Uruguay, un total de 15 elementos que pueden ser considerados para jugar.
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El Pachuca cuenta en sus filas con los colombianos Aquivaldo Mosquera, scar Murillo y Jhon Stefan Medina, con el uruguayo Jonathan Urretavizcaya, los argentinos Ariel Nahuelpn, Franco Daniel Jara y Rubn Botta y el brasileo Lucas Silva.
El Monterrey tiene disponibles para la final a los colombianos Edwin Cardona y Dorln Pabn, los argentinos Jos Mara Basanta, Rogelio Funes Mori y Neri Cardozo, al uruguayo Walter Gargano y al ecuatoriano Walter Ayov.
El campen ser el equipo que anote el mayor nmero de goles en los dos partidos, marcador global, y en caso de empate se proceder a jugar tiempos extras y, en caso de ser necesario, se recurrir a los penaltis para definir al ganador.
EL DATO
El Monterrey de Mohamed termin como lder del torneo con 37 puntos y un registro de doce victorias, un empate y cuatro derrotas, con 38 goles anotados y 23 recibidos
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Nagelfluh is a tough word, a tough word that this kid at the Spelling Bee this year wasvery close to misspelling. But he didnt.
He came through with a clutch h at the last moment and his family were very pleased about it, as you can see:
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With the ink on FedEx $4.8 billion acquisition of TNT Express NV now dry, the integration process begins in earnest.
That was a major theme of a conference call hosted by TNTs new owners in the Netherlands yesterday, which featured David Bronczek, CEO and president of FedEx Express, David Binks, president of FedEx Express in Europe, and Tex Gunning, TNT Express CEO.
Now that the deal, which had to clear several regulatory hurdles in multiple countries, is official, the executive trio was able to speak a little bit more freely, albeit being somewhat guarded in regards to certain specifics at the same time.
Bronczek noted that this deal marks a coming together of two great companies to create an even stronger one going forward that will create even more value than either one could have done individually.
And Gunning explained that while this deal went through some ups and downs, it is the right thing for TNTs customers, its employees, and the industry.
As was noted yesterday, Bronczek said the beginning stages of integration now begin in earnest.
Both companies have an extensive reach, he said. FedEx now serves 220 countries and regions around the world, linking more than 95 percent of the global GDP in 1-3 business days, with combined companies having nearly 400,000 employees around the world.
He added FedEx moves 11.5 million packages per day, and TNT moves more than 1 million shipments per day, with the companies cumulatively possessing more than 150,000 vehicles. FedEx has 657 aircraft globally, which makes it one of the top five airlines in the world.
With the integration process now in effect, Bronczek said that both companies for now will continue to operate as they have in the past, with a strong focus on its customers and its people.
Together these two companies will transform the worldwide express playing field, there is no doubtwe have a complete portfolio of services now, he said, by combining the largest express international global business of FedEx with an unparalleled European road network of TNT. This provides customers with greater global access, broader services, and extended portfolio services. Together our future looks incredibly bright. This will unlock opportunities to global growth that benefits FedEx and TNT team members around the world.
FedEx has spent more than four decades expanding and simplifying its global network that spans around the world, coupled with its extensive experience in acquisition integration in creating the global network it has today. Bronczek explained that the companys customers have varied needs, and FedEx has continued to expand its service portfolio so that it can provide the right network for the right customer at the right cost.
FedEx Binks, who is also now the president of TNT, said that FedEx is committed to Europe, which he described as a highly competitive marketplace with multiple strong players, with FedEx now having strong European roots to go along with its strong U.S. roots.
We believe that acquiring TNT will propel our position and positioning as a major competitor in this part of the world, he said. In other words, an already global service has become more global. We have enhanced our global network with a European road network that connects more than 40 countries and that is going to be good news for our customers since that network will allow us to move goods faster and more reliably across borders and offer our customers more options and more choice. As a result, we believe FedEx and TNT customers and new customers we hope to bring in tomorrow can improve their supply chain and identify new opportunities for growth so that the growing intra-European business of FedEx will increase revenues and profitability.
And at $60 billion U.S., or $53 billion euros, the European express market is a large and growing business, he explained, with e-commerce continuing to be a significant growth factor, not only here in Europe but globally. Binks estimated that the growth rates for the total e-commerce market in Europe are growing at around 15 percent per year, and could grow to more than $600 billion euros by 2017.
This acquisition offers significant opportunity in that marketplace for a combined FedEx and TNT andour customers will benefit from the strong intercontinental network capability of FedEx and TNT and the combination of the air and ground capabilities.
As for the focus of the integration process, he said it will be to maintain the high quality of service that customers have come to expect from both companies, with things business as usual, coupled with the potential for a much broader reach and scope.
Binks stressed that it is important to understand this is an acquisition based on future growth in a growing marketplace, with the major FedEx hubs in Paris and Cologne and the TNT facility in Liege will all remain as major entities for the combined operation moving forward.
The details of how the operations will work together will be determined through the integration planning process, which really starts right now, he said. We also expect our employees to have more growth opportunities than either company could have provided separately. This acquisition is one of the most strategically important we have experienced in FedEx history. We also know from our experience in dealing with acquisitions and integrations that it will take time. We will take the proper amount of time to get it right and execute with absolute precision.
As for integration processes from a financial perspective, Binks said there is only so much commercial-sensitive information FedEx and TNT can currently share, noting it is too early to put costs around that as it relates to the integration planning, as it begins to map out the details and planning and begin rolling out an implementation timetable and put some costs behind that. When that has moved along, he said more information will be shared at that time.
Bronczek said that integration costs relating to this deal will be broken out separately in FedEx earnings reports going forward. And while there is no profitability projection for Europe resultant of this transaction yet, he said that the e-commerce market is booming globally, with a huge opportunity to grow the e-commerce market.
There are big e-commerce players we do business with today in the U.S. and not necessarily [in Europe] that are telling us they would like to see more of a lower cost delivery network for their e-commerce positioning in Europe, he said. I think you are going to see very high growth, especially in the e-commerce market, going forward.
This deal will also impact FedEx business in other parts of the world like China and Brazil, with its global service partners looking at how to combine the businesses for better service, opportunities to grow revenue, and profitability.
Binks praised TNTs strengths in other parts of the world like South America and Asia-Pacific, as well as the Middle East.
We talk a lot about the European trucking network, which Tex Gunning refers to as the jewel in the crown of TNT, and we should not forget about the excellent trucking network TNT established in the Middle East and also in southeast Asia as well, which are notable additions to our network and give us more opportunity to get more customers for network solutions for both express- and ground-based services. The majority of the integration work will be European, but a significant part will be in other parts of the world as we see this as a global effort, not just a European initiative.
As for the market share this deal brings, Shipware LLC President Rob Martinez said that in Europe, it is estimating that that FedEx and TNT combined will have 22-24 percent market share, compared to approximately 41 percent for DHL and 25 percent for UPS.
Apart from the shift in global market share, the merger portends significant benefits for FedEx that include savings related to facility and asset rationalization, productivity improvement due to pickup and delivery route optimization, and cost reduction related to air network and linehaul synergies, he said. FedEx is planning a 4-year integration. We are already hearing of collaboration of key customers towards alignment.
In 1935, a dancer named Frankie Manning won a dance competition with a daring feat: He flipped his partner over his back and onto her feet, the Lindy Hop "air step" that would make Manning, honored in today"s Google Doodle, arguably the most famous swing dancer of all time.
Manning, who died in 2009, would be 102 today. Like a good performance, his career included both a first act and a later revival, bookending a 30-year job and a quiet life at the post office. He started dancing in his teens, and he was still dancing at his 85th birthday party, when he danced with 85 different partners.
But the fact that Manning"s career needed a revival at all a revival driven mostly by white swing dancers in the mid-1980s also shows how white Americans embraced black dance steps without always uplifting the people who created them.
Manning, like swing dancing, got his start in Harlem
To understand just how good Manning was at swing dancing, all you have to do is watch him in the 1941 comedy Hellzapoppin". It"s incredible:
Manning was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and moved to New York in 1917 at age 3 with his mother, part of the vast wave of black Americans moving out of the South in hopes of better opportunities.
What they often found was discriminatory high rents. Rent was exorbitant for black New Yorkers in the 1920s: A study by the New York Urban League in 1927 found that rent for black New Yorkers had doubled since 1919 while increasing only 10 percent for white residents. Black residents had to pay far more than white residents for virtually identical apartments.
In order to make rent, Harlem residents would throw "rent parties" opening their apartments for live music and dancing, with a cover charge. Manning would attend with his mother, and even as a kid he"d go home and practice in his room, trying to imitate the moves.
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When he was 15, Manning started dancing at the Savoy, the only integrated ballroom in New York City. The Savoy was where the Lindy Hop began, a style of swing dance developed in the late 1920s by black performers; it was apparently named after Charles Lindbergh, who"d just completed his solo flight across the Atlantic, and honored him by featuring solo dancing.
Manning became famous for his enthralling, acrobatic work, particularly the aerial moves he incorporated. After he gained fame at the Savoy, he went on a world tour and was featured in Life magazine in 1941.
Life noted that the specific dance Manning was photographed performing, the Congeroo, could probably be "tamed down for fairly polite society." White Americans liked dances and music created by black people much more than they liked black people themselves.
Dance scenes, such as the one above from Hellzapoppin", often had no relation to the plot, Lisa Wade, a professor of sociology at Occidental College wrote in 2009 for the Society Pages: "This was so that the movie studios could edit out the scene when the movie was going to be shown to those white audiences that were hostile to seeing any positive representation of black people at all."
And when white Americans started doing the Lindy Hop in the 1930s and "40s, renaming it the jitterbug, they erased the black performers who created it. A 1944 instructional movie on doing the jitterbug features a white couple and emphasizes that the dance borrows moves from ballet, waltzes, 18th-century ballroom dance, and "Javanese" dancing but it doesn"t mention the Savoy.
In the 1980s, Americans rediscovered swing dancing
After World War II, swing dancing fell out of favor the dancers and musicians were drafted, the war led to a tax on entertainment in the US, and rock music was supplanting jazz. Manning gave up dancing and went to work at the post office. As Elizabeth Gilbert (yes, of Eat Pray Love) wrote in GQ in 1998:
He never told his new friends about his old career. He even had a friend who used to say, "Frankie, Im going to take you out one of these nights and teach you how to dance." Frankie would just smile, never mentioning that hed once danced a command performance for the king ofEngland.
Then in 1984, a handful of dancers were trying to revive the swing dances of the 1930s. As Gilbert writes, they tracked Manning down, and from there, following his 70th birthday, he enjoyed a career revival.
Manning traveled the world teaching the Lindy Hop. He was interviewed in Ken Burns"s documentary on jazz. And he did choreography for the Broadway show Black and Blue, winning a Tony for it in 1989.
Black dancers created the Lindy Hop, but white performers were the ones who drove the revival of swing in the "80s. Gilbert writes that Manning didn"t like to engage with questions of race, saying that he"d met "good people and bad people of every color." But the racial contradictions of the jitterbug era could still reemerge, as Wade (herself a dancer) wrote:
These contemporary dancers look to old movie clips of famous black dancers as inspiration. These movies portrayed black people in ways that white people were comfortable with: blacks were musical, entertaining, athletic (even animalistic), outrageous (even wild), not-so-smart, happy-go-lucky, etc.
So what we see in the old clips that contemporary lindy hoppers idolize is not a pure manifestation of lindy hop, but a manifestation of the dance infused by racism. While lindy hoppers today look at those old clips with nothing short of reverence, they are mostly naive to the fact that the dancing they are emulating was a product made to confirm white peoples beliefs about black people.
There"s also the question of how Manning fell into obscurity in the first place, no matter how heartwarming the revival of his career was. White dancers of his era managed to stay active in the performing arts even after their dances went out of style. Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly went into television. But Manning worked at the post office. Gilbert wrote:
When I asked Steven MitchellFrankies young, black dancing discipleif he believed Frankies career had been limited by race, Steven looked at me as if I were some new breed of idiot. "Are you kidding?" he said. "Frankie Manning should be a household name. He should be revered. He was every bit as important to American dance as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. But he was black. He went as far as he could go, but it wasnt far enough. Whatever small fame he has today, its not enough. It will never make up for what waslost."
Manning, though, relished his revival. On his 80th birthday, he danced with 80 different partners. Every year, he"d add one new partner for every year he"d lived. And although he couldn"t leap during the Lindy Hop anymore, he was dancing in public and seemingly having the time of his life until just before his death.
If you want to know more about Manning, this 10-minute documentary from Swing Bud Films features him talking about his life in his own words, plus some amazing old footage:
