5 On any given day, aquarist Sara Stevens whips up a slurry of plankton, amino acids and other powdered nutrients to feed a voracious group of rescued corals. Using a turkey baster, she blasts the cloudy concoction over each colony made up of thousands of individual organisms called polyps, watching as their tiny tentacles slowly extend and envelop the meal. For the especially carnivorous ones housed at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colo., she hand-feeds them full-bodied krill. This ritual is just one part of the painstaking care Stevens and other aquarists across the country have been giving to a group of corals rescued from disease-ridden waters in Florida. Their future depends on it. Since 2014, a mysterious illness known as stony coral tissue loss disease has plagued Florida's reef tract, killing off nearly half the state's hard corals, whose rigid limestone skeletons provide the architectural backbone of the largest bank …
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1979 Puma GT Is A Long-Forgotten Sports Car For Sale In Florida
In the mid 1960s, Luiz Roberto Alves da Costa, Milton Masteguin, Mario Cezar de Camargo Filho, and Rino Malzoni founded a new automaker in Brazil and gave it the name Puma Automóveis Ltda., or simply Puma. It was focused on building small trucks and sports cars, and the GT was their greatest hit in the early years of production. A rare example of the Puma GT is currently available for sale in the United States, showing what the company is famous for - lightness, vintage design, and simplicity of the construction. This particular example was manufactured in 1979 which means it’s from the latter and slightly updated version of the sports car. Apparently, the car was legally imported into the country and is currently listed for $20,500 by a company located in Florida. The seller even offers worldwide shipping, which means you can buy this rare sports car wherever you are reading this article from. Gallery: 1979 Puma GT for sale 22 Photos …
Florida county celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month with a dancing Taco GIF. Outrage ensued.
The taco was supposed to be harmless, entertaining even. The image of a hard-shell taco wielding maracas was posted Tuesday morning on a Florida county government Facebook page to commemorate the first day of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Instead, it prompted a wave of outrage on social media, with users decrying the depiction of the traditional Mexican food used to celebrate the richness and diversity of Latino cultures as a culturally insensitive stereotype. To others, it was the latest iteration of pervasive racism that has long targeted Latino communities. Broward County quickly backtracked, and took the image down a few hours later. It has been since replaced with a new, taco-less banner that states the dates of the Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. "A dancing taco is not representative of the Hispanic community and should not have been associated with the annual celebration," Gregory Meyer, assistant director for Broward's Office of Public Communications, …
Greg Abbott calls out ‘dangerous’ censorship after signing new social media bill into law
Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a bill Thursday night that takes aim at large social media companies over what he dubbed "wrongful" political censorship of conservative users on their platforms. Amid claims that these platforms are directly and unjustly targeting the Right, the language in House Bill 20, now law, makes it illegal for social media behemoths with more than 50 million monthly users to ban accounts "for their political viewpoints," per The Texas Tribune . The law also calls for platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to make content moderation policies public and to create systems of appeals for users who believe they've been wrongfully moderated, among other provisions. Abbott posted a video to Twitter Thursday night explaining his tactical reasoning behind the legislation. Conservative viewpoints will NOT be censored on social media in Texas. @BriscoeCain & @SenBryanHughes . #txlege pic.twitter.com/FYfackYODY — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) …
‘Shark Tank’ star O’Leary’s wife not found guilty in crash
TORONTO (AP) — The wife of “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary was been found not guilty Tuesday of charges stemming from in a boat crash that killed two people in central Ontario two years ago. Linda O’Leary was charged with careless operation of a vessel following the Aug. 24, 2019, collision on Lake Joseph, north of Toronto. Her husband was on board, as was a family friend. Two people on the other boat — Gary Poltash, 64, of Florida, and Suzana Brito, 48, from Uxbridge, Ontario — died from their injuries. Three others were hurt. The verdict was delivered in a hearing in Parry Sound, Ontario, that was also livestreamed. Kevin O’Leary ran for the leadership of Canada’s Conservative party in 2017 but later dropped out. …
Man imprisoned in Giuliani-related fraud case seeks release
NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida businessman who admitted that his fraud-busting business was a fraud is citing the coronavirus threat in prisons as he asks a judge to release him early from his one-year prison term. David Correia, 46, made the request in court papers filed publicly Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. The West Palm Beach resident was sentenced in February after pleading guilty to making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and conspiring to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors said Rudy Giuliani was hired as a consultant to the business, “Fraud Guarantee,” which purportedly protected investors from being fraud victims. Correia said in a handwritten filing that an incurable auto-immune disease makes him particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 in prison, where inmates cannot avoid close proximity. He is scheduled to be released in December from a federal prison camp in Butner, North Carolina. Prosecutors declined through a spokesperson to comment. In a letter to …
Eric Clapton appears frustrated with COVID-19 vaccine on new song ‘This has gotta stop’
Click here to read the full article. In what appears to be his latest salvo against Covid -19 vaccinations and the lockdown , Eric Clapton has surprise-released a new single, “This Has Gotta Stop,” with an accompanying animated video that also addresses climate change disaster. More from Rolling Stone Corey Taylor 'Out of the Woods' After Positive Covid Test, Urges People to Get Vaccinated New York's 'Homecoming' Show: An All-Star Concert Becomes a Pandemic Metaphor Alabama City Braces for Trump Rally, Declares Covid-Related State of Emergency A bluesy shuffle, “This Has Gotta Stop” appears to reference some of the medical issues that Clapton said he experienced after receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination earlier this year with what he claimed were “disastrous” results: “My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning,” he wrote at the time . As he sings in “This Has Gotta Stop,” “I knew that something was going on wrong/When you started laying …
Biden to sign executive order mandating vaccinations for federal employees
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that would require all federal employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus - without an exception for those who choose to be regularly tested - in an effort to create a model he hopes state governments and private companies will adopt. The new vaccine requirement will apply not just to the roughly 2.1 million federal employees but also to the millions of contractors that do business with the government. It follows a policy announced by the Pentagon in August making vaccinations mandatory for the military. Unlike a requirement for federal workers Biden announced earlier this summer, the executive order will no longer allow regular testing to serve as a substitute for vaccination, according to a person familiar with the plans who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The policy comes as the country grapples with the highly contagious delta variant, …
Man to be jailed for death threats against GOP House member
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A man who threatened to kill a member of Congress from Maryland over Republicans’ baseless claims of a rigged presidential election was sentenced on Thursday to serve eight consecutive weekends in jail and six months of home confinement. U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett also ordered Sidhartha Kumar Mathur, 35, of West Friendship, Maryland, to perform 100 hours of community service. Mathur threatened Rep. Andy Harris, the only Republican member of Maryland's congressional delegation, in voicemail and webmail messages. Harris said the death threats against him and his family terrified his wife and children, leaving them afraid to leave their home and “basically imprisoned." "I'm in an elected office. I expect threats like this may occur, especially in the current toxic political environment. That certainly doesn't make it right, but threatening a family and children is particularly wrong,” Harris said during Thursday’s remote sentencing hearing. …