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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) A 30 degree day in Buffalo is no longer an excuse to skip the workout as the City introduces Winter Porch Sports. Winter Porch Sports brings outdoor exercise and fitness classes to different parts of the City by having exercise videos playing on a massive LED mobile billboard.
"Buffalo is a four season city," Oswaldo Mestre, Director of Citizen Services for the City of Buffalo said, "we don't take off in the winter, activity happens and everyone has been cooped up inside."
The truck will be at certain parks every Tuesday and Wednesday for about two hours. Twenty minute exercise classes will be played to allow anyone to come out and exercise.
"It's a great way to be active," Mestre said.
The program follows CDC guidelines to ensure proper social distancing and gathering protocols.
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Don Magruder| For the Daily Commercial
COVID-19 and most of its cousins have a Dracula feature of not liking sunshine and fresh air, and Florida has plenty of each. In fact, if you chart the biggest spikes in cases of the virus, they came at times when it was so hot that people stayed indoors under air conditioning or during the peak of Floridas winter when folks stayed indoors with their heaters running. All the science seems to indicate that sunshine, fresh air, and humidity are not friends of this virus and most others.
If you look at homes that were designed prior to the days of air conditioning, it seems home designers figured out a well-ventilated home was both cooler and safer. Most homes had double-hung windows and exterior doors with full screens to allow for full breezes and maximized ventilation. In the evenings, the screen porch was a place where everyone gathered to socialize. Houses of the past were ventilated for comfort and health. That, along with soap and water, is how many people prevented sickness.
Those same lessons can and should be applied to homes in Central Florida. The first thing everyone should consider is trading a little comfort for ventilation. Although air conditioning is great in Florida, homes have become too reliant on them, even in summertime. In the evenings and mornings, many homes could be cooled down comfortably with open windows and fans. Keeping your home aired out and well ventilated will help keep viruses from spreading among family members.
Unfortunately, most of the windows in everyones home will not open because they have been closed for so long that the balancers have frozen in place or the dirt and gunk have built up so much in the frame channels that the windows will not move. Windows are meant to be opened. If your windows are unable to do so, get them repaired. Your windows could be the key to keeping your family healthy as well as reducing your energy bills.
The exterior doors of your home offer the biggest and best form of ventilation. Many homeowners have gotten away from screen doors because of their reliance on air conditioning. In many cases, an investment in a new aluminum screen door can enhance a front door opening as the modern styles are very attractive. Plus, the pets in your home will love you.
A screened lanai or front porch with a brisk operating fan can be a haven for socializing and enjoying the beautiful Florida climate nightly. Although open porch areas are nice and can provide great ventilation, without screens these areas are not fully utilized due to mosquitoes that feast at dusk. Porches or open lanais in Florida should be screened to keep out the bugs.
Another great screen idea is a garage screen that can be used when the garage door is open. For those who work in their garage or use their garage for a smoking area or man cave, a garage screen provides wonderful ventilation and can be a haven for family interactions.
As the COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out, there is real hope that an end to this pandemic is in sight. However, there are other viruses that could potentially infect you and your family. Designing a home and putting features in place that help prevent the spread of disease is a great investment in your familys health.
A lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that a generation now understands the dangers of viruses as well as how to mitigate them. Screens, fans, and fresh air will be the new home remedies.
Don Magruder is the CEO of RoMac Building Supply and host of Around the House, which can be seen at aroundthehouse.tv.
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For 45 years, the St. Louis-based band Fanfare has made it's living performing before live audiences. And then the pandemic hit.
"At the very beginning, I book the band, I honestly did panic," says founding member Vincent Golomski. "Because we're not quite ready financially to retire. What are we going to do?"
He jokes that he's made his living playing music and has never had a "real" job.
Fellow band member Kitty Moller, who also happens to be Golomski's wife of 42 years, had an idea early on in the pandemic.
"Hey, let's do a porch concert," she said.
Golomski says they'd been practicing at least every other day in their family room, going through material just to keep things going. Performing for neighbors on their St. Louis Hills block sounded like a good idea. At first it was just the couple, then the rest of the band (socially distanced, with neighbors safely spaced).
"People were pretty generous with the tip jar," jokes Golomski.
The park concerts, festivals and other shows had come to a screeching halt, along with the school concerts. Golomski's two sons helped them put together a video of the kids' program they had been doing--a musical history tour from the big band era up to the current era.
Fanfare kept busy in 2020 with some virtual concerts, including a Christmas concert, and producing their 10th album. But Golomski and Moller are looking forward to performing before a crowd.
"We feed off the audience," says Kitty. "It makes a big difference."
But until live performances are possible once again, Golomski and Moller will keep the music alive together. When asked what it's like to work so closely with one's spouse, Golomski says it's definitely not something every couple could do, but, "We still like each other."
Moller says when they decided to get married after a few years performing together, she figured if it didn't work out, she could always quit the band. Fortunately it never came to that.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) With guns drawn in the middle of a cold winters night, home security video captures armed bounty hunters with their fingers on the trigger, pointing a gun at Seneca Babcock resident Jake Reinhardt on his property on Oakdale Place.
Up until that point I thought there was a mistaken address, he said.
Barefoot and barely clothed, Reinhardt says he was ordered to leave his home. In the surveillance video, you can see him walking out on the porch, visibly shaken. On video, he lets the bounty hunters know his three year old daughter and wife are in the back room sleeping.
The bounty hunters, who Reinhardt says are from out of state point a gun at him as he orders them to put the gun down.
They then ask where his relative is.
The person theyre looking for does not reside here, does not live in this house has never lived here, he said.
Still, the hunters enter the home anyway. Reinhardt can be heard asking if they have a warrant.
Can I see it? He said.
But they ask him to step aside, not producing any paperwork, instead walking through the home with guns drawn.
In the back room, his wife, who is eight months pregnant and their young daughter.
Whats more troubling, Reinhardt says he saw two Buffalo Police Officers looking on, and thinks the search is official police business. He can be heard on video asking the bounty hunters if theyre Buffalo Police.
The raid didnt stop there. Video shows the armed men going upstairs to his tenants apartment where there were other children, including a baby. This time, the armed men were caught on baby camera with their guns drawn, storming the house.
While this is going on, two Buffalo Police Officers stand on Reinhardts porch. They can be heard questioning what agency the bounty hunters are with.
I dont even know what agency that is either, one officer said. Me neither, said the other. I think theyre from PA.
When they dont turn up who theyre looking for, the bounty hunters and police leave.
R. Anthony Rupp III is representing Reinhardt in a civil lawsuit filed in U.S. Federal Court for Civil Rights violations.
This is the absolute worst Ive ever seen Rupp said.
The Buffalo Police Department will not comment because of pending litigation.
Reinhardt says he feels violated and unsafe in his own home. He wants answers from the unidentified men, the police and the city.
Erie County District Attorney John Flynn is investigating this incident.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Porch Group, Inc. (Porch or the Company) (Nasdaq: PRCH) (Nasdaq: PRCHW), a leading software and services platform reinventing the home services industry, has been invited to present at the 23rd Annual Needham Growth Conference being held virtually on January 11-15, 2021.
Porch management is scheduled to present on Monday, January 11 at 2:45 p.m. Eastern time, with one-on-one meetings to be held throughout the conference. The companys presentation will be webcast live and available for replay here.
For additional information or to schedule a one-on-one meeting with Porch management, please contact your Needham representative or Gateway Investor Relations at (949) 574-3860 or PRCH@gatewayir.com.
About Porch Group, Inc. Seattle-based Porch Group, the vertical software platform for the home, provides software and services to more than 10,500 home services companies such as home inspectors, moving companies, real estate agencies, utility companies, and warranty companies. Through these relationships and its multiple brands, Porch provides a moving concierge service to homebuyers, helping them save time and make better decisions on critical services, including insurance, moving, security, TV/internet, home repair and improvement, and more. To learn more, visit porchgroup.com and porch.com.
Investor Relations contact:Gateway Investor RelationsCody Slach, Matt Glover(949) 574-3860PRCH@gatewayir.com
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Key Glockcomes in hot for the new year with the new single "Off the Porch" and its accompanying music video.
The Memphis rapper keeps it cool and low-key for the visual, which features him in a dark room surrounded only by a yellow sports car, a matching yellow bike and a mic that catches on fire once he's done spitting. He flexes his chains, including one featuring Homer Simpson that blinks after he lets him hit his blunt, and compares his drip to that ofLil Uzi Vert. "Diamonds dancing on me like Uzi, choppa keep Bruce Lee, pullin' up too deep," he raps in the first verse.
He released two back-to-back mixtapes last year, Yellow Tape in January andSon of a Gunin May via Paper Route Empire. His 2019 joint album with mentor Young Dolph,Dum and Dummer,reached No. 5 onBillboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart andNo. 8 on the Billboard 200.
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CHARLOTTE, NC. Security camera video shows three thieves stealing packages and porch furniture from Louis Gillards home on Rozzelles Ferry Road in the Wesley Heights neighborhood. It happened around noon on December 23rd. Gillard says the brazen burglars struck his house five times in a 45 minute period.
You can just see that they did not care. Do not care about getting caught, they did not care about a single thing except for larceny, says Gillard.
Gillard was visiting family in Florida when his phone pinged.
I received an alert from my ring doorbell that there was a visitor, a person detected at my front door. Didnt think much of it. I thought it was maybe a delivery or package or UPS guy and ignored it.
He says the next day, he reviewed the video.
And then I noticed that my porch furniture had been stolen. A sectional as well as a daybed mattress as well as all the pillows that are associated with it were all taken.
Gillard called the police. According to the police report $2,000 worth of furniture was taken.
If they were really in that much need, they couldve knocked on my door and I wouldve handed out money, food whatever they needed. But to rob me and acting that way its just inhumane.
Gillard says the two responding officers told him theyve seen similar cases in NoDa and Plaza Midwood.
Of people taking porch furniture, brazenly in the middle of the day with their face on camera and that they fit the description and fit the items that were stolen.
WCCB asked CMPD if this incident was connected to others. A spokesperson says its too early in the investigation to tell.
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At the start of a new year, Im not so much about resolutions as I am about words.
My inner word nerd is compelled to look back at the year just ended to see how language has evolved, based largely on events of the year. This is also the time when lexographers and groups of linguists, historians, grammarians and others interested in language evolution publish their Words of the Year lists.
It is geek-heaven time for those of us who savor the written and spoken word.
Surprising to not a single person on the planet, the chosen words of 2020 all center around COVID-19, though some of the runners-up widen the net to include other society-shaking events of the year.
Its all pretty grim stuff this year, so let me start with the one-and-only lighter popular-culture item I could find. Oxford Dictionaries noted the word Brexit saw an 80% drop in usage this year, while Collins Dictionaries included in its runners-up list the word Megxit, which is described as the withdrawal of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the duke and duchess of Sussex, from their royal duties.
My favorite sources are the Oxford Dictionaries and the American Dialect Society, but Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, Cambridge, Collins and others also have their selections most based on how often the words have been looked up or how their usage reflects the mood and focus of the past year. Oxford also has a Childrens Word of the Year, based on essays written in a BBC 500 Words story writing competition (136,000 kids submitted entries this year).
For the first time Oxford did not select just one word or phrase, describing 2020 as a year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one single word and announced instead its words of an unprecedented year.
Oxford noted that one of the most remarkable linguistic developments has been the emergence of scientific terms in general conversation as we all have become armchair epidemiologists. Among Oxfords words and phrases of 2020 are Coronavirus, COVID-19, Following the Science, Pandemic, Shelter-in-Place, Face Masks and Key Workers, among others.
Oxford also noted spikes in the use of words such as Impeachment, Mail-In, Back Lives Matter and QAnon. Looking farther back, Oxfords Word of the Year for 2019 was Climate Emergency; it was Toxic in 2018.
The childrens writing competition sponsored by Oxford and the BBC revealed Coronavirus as the Oxford Childrens Word of the Year. Brexit was the winner last year and Plastic the year before. The stories ran the gamut from realistic to prophetic, hopeful to sweet. One girl, aged 8, wrote in her entry: That night I had an interesting dream, a magical sparkling unicorn came and whispered to me the secret ingredients of the cure for the Coronavirus.
The American Dialect Society chose COVID for its Word of the Year. The word didnt exist a year ago, said Ben Zimmer, chair of the dialect societysNew Words Committee, and now it has come to define our lives in 2020.
Some of the runners-up considered by the 13-year-old organization were also fascinating, such as Doomscrolling, the habit of obsessively scanning social media and websites for bad news. The American Dialect Society also selected key words in a variety of individual categories. Before Times, the time before the beginning of the pandemic, was considered Most Useful; Abolish/Defund was deemed the Most Significant Political Word. And its Euphemism of the Year was Essential (workers, labor, businesses), used for people, often underpaid, who are actually treated as expendable because they are required to work and thus risk infection from coronavirus.
Pandemic was chosen by both Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com, each citing the phenomenal increase in dictionary searches of the word (Merriam-Webster showed a 115,806% spike in dictionary traffic for Pandemic).
Collins Dictionary selected Lockdown, while Cambridge chose Quarantine, also noting that the word has experienced an expansion of its original meaning to include a period of time when people are not allowed to leave their homes or travel freely. Also on Collins Word of the Year short list was BLM (Black Lives Matter), Coronavirus, Key Worker, Furlough and Social Distancing.
In a New York Times article last month, 20 words were suggested as best capturing what it felt to be alive in 2020 most, of course, centering in COVID-19 and its effects. Most notable was Black Lives Matter. Also Contact Tracing, Essential Workers, Flatten the Curve, Super-Spreader, Voter Fraud, Wildfires and Zoom.
NYTs two almost whimsical choices were Blursday, whatever day of the week it might happen to be being hard to decipher since the passage of time has become so unreliable, and Virtual Happy Hour, a kind of socializing online or, as the writer put it, we just kind of drunk in front of our computers a whole bunch.
Sad to say, gone are the years when the defining words were such sweet things as Geek, Tweet, Selfie and Binge Watch.
I think 2020 and the words that popped out from it were best described by Oxford Dictionaries president Casper Grathwohl, who said: Ive never witnessed a year in language like the one weve just had Its both unprecedented and a little ironic in a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other.
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When I heard theChaseTheMoney producer tag onKey Glocksnew single Off The Porch, I knew we were in for an eerie, bassy banger. The Memphis rapper floats over the beat, delivering relaxed but menacing bars about being Mr. Glock, and taking you to school, riding 10 speeds before upgrading to coupes, and my favorite line, Heater on my side, dont test my cool. In the video, Key Glock furthersthe yellow imageryof his 2020Yellow Tapeera, surrounded by a yellow coupe and bicycle. Glock raps into a dangling mic and after he delivers his last bar the mic bursts into flames, naturally.Off The Porch, follows upKeyGlocks May release ofSon Of A Gunand JanuarysYellow Tape.Hip-Hops foremost purveyor of blunt-force punchlines,KeyGlocknever stops grinding. Coming through with two heavy-hitting projects, stacking flex after flex with wit and panache, 2020 findsKeyGlockone of raps most locked in and consistent.
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