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Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled In Montgomery, Alabama, On 64th Anniversary Of Not Giving Up Her Seat
11-Year-Old Ballerina Charlotte Nebres Makes History As First Black Lead In NYC Ballet's ‘The Nutcracker’
She’s just eleven years old and just made history.
Charlotte Nebres is star- ring as Marie, the young hero- ine of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, which opened Friday at New York City Ballet. She’s the first black ballerina to be cast in the lead role for the prestigious company.
The Madison, NJ native’s barrier-breaking achievement is a milestone for the holiday- themed production, which dates back to February 2, 1954—when Balanchine put his own spin on E.T.A Hoff- man’s 1816 scary fairytale after dancing in Marius Petipa’s adaptation in 1919 when he was 15.
Set to Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky’s classic score, Balanchine’s The Nut- cracker features the New York City Ballet’s entire roster of more than 150 dancers and musicians, as well as more
CHARLOTTE NEBRES
than 125 children, in two alter- nating casts, from the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet.
Nebres, whose mother is of Trinidadian descent and fa- ther’s side is from the Philip- pines, was six years old when Misty Copeland became the first female African-American principal at American Ballet Theater.
The trailblazing ballerina’s performance moved and moti- vated the gifted child.
“I saw her perform and she was just so inspiring and so beautiful,” she said in an inter- view published Thursday by the New York Times.
“When I saw someone who looked like me onstage, I thought, that’s amazing. She was representing me and all the people like me,” Nebres added.
Copeland has won raves for portraying the princess role in ABT’s production and even was a featured dancer in Dis- ney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms last year.
The unveiling of the Rosa Parks statue in downtown Alabama.
A long-overdue memorial in Alabama for Rosa Parks took place six decades after the civil rights pioneer bravely refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man.
On Sunday (Dec. 1), at the Court Street Fountain in down- town Montgomery, Alabama, approximately 30 feet from where Parks got on that bus 64 years before, in 1955, a statue of her was unveiled, the Associated Press reports.
Among nearly 400 attendees was Fred Gray, the attorney who defended Parks, and many other civil rights heroes, USA Today reports.
Parks’ 1955 arrest was a key moment in the civil rights movement, sparking the Mont- gomery Bus Boycott, which challenged segregation on pub- lic buses.
In addition to Parks’ statue, the city of Alabama also pre- sented two historic markers for the plaintiffs of Browder v. Gayle, which was the landmark case that ruled segregation on
Montgomery buses was uncon- stitutional, USA Today reports. Clydetta Fulmer was the artist commissioned for the Parks memorial, which, along with the other two markers, was a partnership between the city of Montgomery, Mont- gomery County, the Alabama Department of Tourism and the Montgomery Area Business Committee for the Arts, USA
Today reports.
"To stand here today as
Montgomery’s mayor where Mrs. Rosa Parks stood defi- ant against systemic injustice infecting our community and our country speaks to the mag- nitude of this moment and the progress achieved in our city,” Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed said in a statement Sun- day, ABC News reports. "This progress, coupled with the dawn of a new era of reconcili- ation and revitalization, under- scores Montgomery’s status as the Birthplace of Civil Rights and a light unto the world."
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LEGAL NOTICE
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AVIATION AUTHORITY NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE ABANDONED VEHICLES LEFT AT
TAMPA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Notice is hereby given that property abandoned at Tampa International Airport will be sold by public outcry as provided by law on Saturday, December 14, 2019, at 9:00 A.M. if not claimed by the rightful owner thereof. Such public auction will be held at the Tampa Machinery Auction, Inc., located at 11720 US Highway 301 North, Thonotosassa, Florida.
THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES WILL BE offered for sale by competitive bidding AT THE TAMPA MACHINERY AUCTION, INC., and will be sold to the highest bidder:
IMP# YEAR
3811 1997 3858 1998
3860 2001
3861 2004
3862 2009
3881 1997 3895 1993 3901 1992
MAKE/MODEL
FORD PK CHEVROLET 4DR NISSAN VN TOYOTA UT HONDA 4DR MITSUBISHI 2DR LEXUS 4DR HONDA 4DR
COLOR
WHITE TAN
SILVER BLACK GREY GREEN RED MAROON
VIN#
1FTCR10A9VPA50802 1GINE52N6WY121204 4N2ZN17T71D829234 5TDZT38A24S234916
1HGCP26889A037551 JA3AY11A4VU021135 JT8VK13T3P0219328 1HGEG8656NL052940
DATE ABANDONED
02/26/2019 06/07/2019 06/13/2019 06/17/2019 06/17/2019 09/09/2019
08/12/2019 09/11/2019
The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority/Tampa Machinery Auction, Inc., reserves the right to remove any vehicle from the auction at any time and to reject any or all bids. Vehicles will be sold “AS IS” AND WITHOUT ANY COVENANTS OR WARRANTY OR OTHERWISE ON THE PART OF THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AVIATION AUTHORITY/TAMPA MACHINERY AUCTION, INC. Vehicles will be on display from 7:30 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. on the day of sale.
Questions concerning the sale may be addressed to Norm Curtis at 813/676-4392 no later than 2:00 P.M. on Friday, December 13, 2019, or the Tampa Machinery Auction at 813/986-2485 on December 13, 2019, before 5:00 P.M.
Notices will be posted in the Administrative Office lobby area, on the second floor of the Airport Administrative Offices and Conference Rooms building at Tampa International Airport, 4160 George J. Bean Parkway, Suite 2400, Service Bldg. 2nd Floor, Red Side, Tampa, FL 33607.
FBI Issues Warning About How Smart TVs Can Serve As A Way For Hackers To Spy On You
We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that Smart TV you recently bought after capi- talizing on a huge Black Friday deal may turn out to be a portal for hackers to spy on you.
Last week, the FBI's Port- land field office warned Black Friday and Cyber Monday shoppers of the potential risks that come with owning a Smart TV. In addition to the inherent danger that your TV manufac- turer and/or app developers could pose, there's the prospect that hackers could utilize some of the features on newer mod- els to their advantage.
The existence of a micro- phone and camera in a Smart TV was solely meant to make life easier for the viewer, but placed in the wrong hands, these features can have an ad- verse effect.
"Hackers can also take con- trol of your unsecured TV," the FBI wrote. "At the low end of the risk spectrum, they can
Cameras may be watching you.
change channels, play with the volume, and show your kids in- appropriate videos. In a worst- case scenario, they can turn on your bedroom TV's camera and microphone and silently cyber- stalk you."
The FBI suggests a number of preventative measures that customers can take, like being knowledgeable of their device's security settings, creating unique network passwords that vastly differ from one provided by the manufacturer, and learning how to enable and dis- able the TV's microphones and cameras.
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