Morning News – 02/11/15

CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

The Rohs Opera House has announced that there will be no films showing this weekend. A post to Facebook states that the previously scheduled movie, American Sniper, will not be available and that the late notice does not allow for scheduling a replacement feature.

https://www.facebook.com/rohs.operahouse/posts/734083366711839

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KENTUCKY

Stamping Ground’s city commission has appointed Josh Cook as interim chief of the volunteer fire department, while it continues to seek out a new fire chief after Billy McIntosh and assistant chief Jacob Pasley abruptly resigned last week. McIntosh and Pasley resigned last Friday, amid investigations into numerous complaints and allegations. The city commission also is working with the fire department to develop new standard operating procedures. A city commission meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss those procedures.

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The Kentucky House has approved a bill that would raise the wage to $10.10 incrementally over a period of three years; the bill also includes language guaranteeing pay equity between male and female workers. The bill will be heading to the Senate, where it is doubtful to receive positive attention. This is the second year that the House has approved a measure to attempt a minimum wage increase.

http://wuky.org/post/minimum-wage-redux-house-oks-increase-second-year

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State Senator Reggie Thomas wants the state to guarantee a woman’s right to breastfeed in any location she is otherwise allowed to be. Under Thomas’ bill, businesses that violate the law could be fined $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent violation – penalties the lawmaker argues are not too onerous. A separate bill would establish workplace standards for nursing. Thomas says he will begin seeking a committee hearing on the issue Wednesday.

http://wuky.org/post/bill-would-guarantee-breastfeeding-rights

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A proposal that would allow dating couples to seek civil protective orders in cases of domestic violence, abuse, sex abuse or stalking has passed the House Judiciary Committee. House Bill 8, sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman John Tilley, D-Hopkinsville, and Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Shively, now goes to the full House for consideration. Tilley said much of HB 8 is identical to his domestic violence protection bill that was considered but not passed into law last session. Should HB 8 become law, it would take effect on Jan. 1, 2016.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210517132432/https://www.kyforward.com/dating-violence-bill-passes-house-committee-common-sense-legislation-goes-to-full-house/

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Gov. Steve Beshear announced that the Commonwealth exported a state-record $27.5 billion in 2014. It’s the fourth-straight year Kentucky has broken the previous mark. The record represents a 9 percent growth in exports since 2013. Leading Kentucky’s export growth is aerospace. Last year, the state shipped out $7.8 billion in aerospace parts and products, a 38 percent increase from 2013. Kentucky’s other top exports include motor vehicles, parts, and bodies and trailers ($5.9 billion), synthetic rubber and resin ($1.4 billion) and pharmaceuticals ($1.3 billion).

In 2014, the Commonwealth exported to 191 nations. Kentucky’s top trading partner is Canada, with $7.6 billion in products and services. Mexico ($2.3 billion), United Kingdom ($2.3 billion), France ($2 billion) and China ($1.7 billion) round out the top five.

http://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-Stream.aspx?viewMode=ViewDetailInNewPage&eventID=%7bF8F2D919-40D9-4724-822F-06649C6DD304%7d&activityType=PressRelease

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Attorney General Jack Conway and nine other state attorneys general from across the country joined in a letter sent to Anthem’s president and chief executive officer yesterday, expressing concern that the company’s delay in notifying those impacted by the data breach is causing unnecessary added concern to Anthem customers. The attorneys general of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, led by the state of Connecticut, have joined the letter.

A copy of yesterday’s letter to Anthem is available here: http://tinyurl.com/letn9pt

http://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-Stream.aspx?viewMode=ViewDetailInNewPage&eventID=%7b4E9660ED-8039-4626-B3D0-C26307E190E5%7d&activityType=PressRelease

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The 2015 KHSAA State Bowling Championships visit Collins Eastland in Lexington this week (Feb. 12-13), with the singles championship slated for Thursday and the team competition set for Friday. The team championship matches will be streamed live at KHSAA.tv, with the girls’ team finals scheduled for 12:15 p.m., followed by the boys’ team championship at 5:15 p.m.

Thursday’s boys’ and girls’ singles competition begins with qualifying games at 10:10 a.m., as the field is trimmed to the top eight individuals. The top eight will roll three additional games, with the top four boys’ and girls’ singles advancing to the step ladder bracket, which will continue through its completion. Awards for the singles competition are tentatively scheduled for 2:30 p.m.

The girls’ team championship opens Friday’s action, with team introductions slated for 7:30 a.m. and qualifying games starting at 7:50 a.m. Following two qualifying games, each team will be seeded in a 16-team bracket with the state champion determined through baker matches. Team introductions for the boys’ championship get underway at 1:15 p.m., with qualifying games scheduled for a 1:35 p.m. start time.

Lane Assignments for Thursday’s singles competition can be found at:

• http://khsaa.org/bowling/2015/2015singleslaneassignments.pdf

Lane Assignments for Friday’s team competition are available at:

• http://khsaa.org/bowling/2015/2015teamlaneassignments.pdf

The official championship program can be viewed here:

• http://khsaa.org/Publications/Programs/20142015/Bowling/issue1/index.html

Championship results will be posted to KHSAA.org as they become available.

02/10/15 – KHSAA State Bowling Championships This Week In Lexington

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jon Stewart announced yesterday that he will be resigning from his position as anchor for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”.

“In my heart I know it is time for someone else to have that opportunity,” he said on Tuesday night’s show as his studio audience gasped. It isn’t clear when Stewart will sign off; his contract expires in September, but he may leave as soon as July, or as late as December, he said.

Stewart has been hosting the satirical news program since 1999.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150214063702/http://abcnews.go.com:80/US/wireStory/jon-stewarts-exit-phony-newsman-loss-real-news-28879996?

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/10/media/jon-stewart-leaving-daily-show/

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
• 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
• 244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
• 1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
• 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
• 1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
• 1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
• 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry “gerrymanders” for the first time.
• 1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
• 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
• 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
• 1929 – Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
• 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
• 1938 – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.
• 1939 – A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
• 1943 – World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
• 1968 – Israeli–Jordanian border clashes rage.
• 1968 – The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins.
• 1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
• 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
• 1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
• 1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
• 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
• 1990 – Buster Douglas, a 40:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing’s world Heavyweight title and cause one of the largest upsets in sports history.
• 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
• 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
• 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium.