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Miami Bee Experts share their efforts to keep bee population alive — and how you can help

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

Bees, bees, bees — they help make the world go ’round. But with their numbers on the decline, our future doesn’t look so sweet.That’s where the Miami Bee Experts come in. They can teach you how to become a beekeeper and an ecosystem hero at the same time. Deco’s Alex Miranda is buzzing about the story.They will give you bees, or they will take your bees away. No matter what, the Miami Bee Experts do it ethically, because they love these little workers almost as much as I love Beyoncé.In the music world, Beyoncé is queen bee, but the queen of this beehive…Stephanie Smith: “He can’t possibly sting you.”Alex Miranda: “Can you guarantee that?”Stephanie Smith: “I promise.”…has no idea who she is.Stephanie Smith: “This is honey.”Alex Miranda: “Is that the queen, or is she sort of like voluptuous?”Queen Bubble Bee is her own boss babe and too busy for Bey.Stephanie Smith: “The queen is lay...

Association taking her mobile home?

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

She was told she had 30 days to get out of a mobile home she owned, and if she didn’t her trailer, the association would take it and sell her home. Is that legal? To find out, she called Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.Dianellys’ mobile home was a gift. Literally.Dianellys Molina (translation): “The trailer was initially purchased by my children’s grandfather. Then he put it in my name.”This is the only home Dianellys’ two children know. A place they love.Dianellys Molina: “It’s been practically my whole life here with the children.”Twenty years after moving in, it all changed when she was walking her dog and her bosses’ dog, who she was pet sitting.The property manager came out.Dianellys Molina: “I was walking, she passed me by, and she told me, ‘You know that you can’t have two dogs here,’ and I said, ‘OK, I didn’t know that, but hey, that’s fine. In a little while, this dog is...

Israel’s ambassador to US pans Germany’s idea of a UN-controlled Gaza

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

Israel’s ambassador to the United States is critical of Germany’s suggestion that the UN take control in Gaza, proposing instead that Israel control the Palestinian territory for an “undefined period of time.”“I’m not sure the UN model is the best model because we don’t have a good experience with UN mandated forces,” Herzog said on Wednesday in an interview with POLITICO’s Power Play podcast.“It’s highly political, we all understand that.” Israel retaliated with daily airstrikes and a ground operation in densely-populated Gaza after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people. Israeli strikes have killed more than 11,000 Palestinians — including more than 4,500 children — and injuring tens of thousands of others, according to the Palestinian Authority. Israel also imposed a complete siege on Gaza in the days after October 7, strangling the territory and cutting off food, fuel, water and e...

No Gaza ceasefire: Israel’s US Ambassador says ground campaign will take ‘weeks’

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Israel’s most senior diplomat – Michael Herzog, the ambassador to the U.S. – is in the eye of a diplomatic storm in the country that is Israel’s most vital ally. He insists that a ceasefire “would invite the next war.”In this week’s edition of Power Play, host Anne McElvoy talks to Ambassador Herzog abo...

Holiday slasher ‘Thanksgiving’ serves up killer spread

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

“Thanksgiving,” Eli Roth’s latest slasher film, begins with a convincing, tense Black Friday sequence.  Outside a Plymouth big box store, an unruly crowd grows restive.The security is minimal and obnoxious teens who are friends of the owners gain early access and pointedly flaunt their VIP status inside the glass-walled building.  Suddenly, all restraint snaps and the crowd storms the store. No one is thinking of the French storming the Bastille but the result is similar:  Dead bodies, injured patrons followed by a pathetic blame game.With this the most riveting sequence in the seasonally appropriate “Thanksgiving,” the saga jumps a year as another Black Friday looms and Plymouth citizens start dying — being exterminated in the most cruel and despicable ways imaginable.There’s a back story here – “Thanksgiving” has its origins in a mock trailer Roth made for the 2007 horror hit “Grindhouse” which had Quentin Tarantino’s instant classic about a killer stuntman “Death Proof” on ...

Few winners in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

Ah, Panem, how I have longed to return to your shores (kidding).Who is responsible for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” the prequel to those mostly awful “The Hunger Games” films of 2012 through 2015 directed by Gary Ross (“Seabiscuit”) and Francis Lawrence (“Constantine”) and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson based on the novels by Suzanne Collins? Well, director Lawrence is back (as well as series producer Nina Jacobson). But the cast of this latest effort is new.Englishman Tom Blyth of TV’s “Billy the Kid,” who, with his blonde ‘do, bears a resemblance to Irishman Peter O’Toole aka Lawrence of Arabia, plays Coriolanus “Coryo” Snow, the impoverished son of the late Capitol warrior Crassus Snow. “Coryo” lives in genteel poverty with his “Grandm’am” (Irish screen and stage legend Fionnula Flanagan) and cousin Tigris (Hunter Schafer, TV’s “Euphoria”). The older Snow is played by Donald Sutherland is the earlier films...

How to grow your social network as you age

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

Friends sitting around a table, talking and laughing. A touch on the arm, as one of them leans over to make a confiding comment. A round of hugs before walking out the door.For years, Carole Leskin, 78, enjoyed this close camaraderie with five women in Moorestown, New Jersey, a group that took classes together, gathered for lunch several times a week, celebrated holidays with one another, and socialized frequently at their local synagogue.Leskin was different from the other women — unmarried, living alone, several years younger — but they welcomed her warmly, and she basked in the feeling of belonging. Although she met people easily, Leskin had always been something of a loner and her intense involvement with this group was something new.Then, just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, it was over. Within two years, Marlene died of cancer. Lena had a fatal heart attack. Elaine succumbed to injuries after a car accident. Margie died of sepsis after an infection. Ruth passed away after...

Story: Congress wants more tariffs ahead of holidays

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

Millions of American consumers and businesses will be part of the paradigm shift sweeping through e-commerce this holiday season. With the click of a button, they will order directly from manufacturers around the globe — skipping the red tape, warehouses, supply chain delays, and, importantly, the taxes and fees that come with them. Unless Congress gets in their way.Right now, Congress is debating whether to take away consumers’ and businesses’ ability to import products duty-free under $800. Known as the “de minimis threshold,” this law that Congress passed in 2016 allows American small businesses to overcome barriers to entry that complex supply chains have historically created. It empowers them to compete in a world dominated by big box stores and mega distribution centers.In 2016, Congress foresaw the e-commerce wave and raised goods defined as “low-value” from $200 to $800.Despite its name, de minimis is a significant provision that can easily be discarded to score political po...

Editorial: Hunter Biden’s new tactic – blame Trump

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

Hunter Biden is going for a Hail Mary Pass. Unfortunately for him, reality is poised to intercept.As Politico reported, Hunter Biden asked a judge Wednesday to approve subpoenas for documents from Donald Trump and former Justice Department officials, claiming the former president applied political pressure to a criminal investigation of him.Biden’s attorneys allege there were “certain instances that appear to suggest incessant, improper, and partisan pressure applied” by Trump to his then-Attorney General William Barr and two top deputies, Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue.The acorn clearly doesn’t fall far from the tree. Hunter’s dad blames Trump for his problems, too.While charges against Hunter were not brought until this year, the investigation into his taxes and a gun purchase began in 2018, while Trump was still president. The court filing cites public comments made by Trump, information from the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. C...

Lucas: Joe Biden’s running because he can’t stop

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:12:29 GMT

President Joe Biden is running for re-election whether Democrats like it or not.And why not?He has only one candidate to beat, and that is Donald Trump.He is also running to stymie Republicans going after him and his family on corruption charges. And to do so, Biden must remain in power as long as possible.Not only is the Eternal Footman knocking on the door, so is Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the bulldog chairman of the House Oversight Committee, with a handful of subpoenas in his hand.So old Joe will hang in there as long as possible.  As president, Biden controls the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI. As ex-president he does not.Even a hint or announcement that he is not seeking re-election would instantly make him a lame duck with diminished authority over events that could lead to his impeachment at the hands of the Republicans in the House.So, he has to run, or at least give of the impression that he is running, to hold off, in his mind, the barbarians led by Trump who are pou...