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Law: Arizona boosts lineup with Josh Naylor, Cleveland perplexes, and the Yanks go for Gold  The Athletic
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Durbin uses new report to accuse Justices Thomas and Alito of violating disclosure laws  CNN
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Thai sea nomads forced to abandon life afloat to live on land  Yahoo News Canada
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by Brian Cantor Dec 21, 2024, 9:35 pm
Rosé & Bruno Mars’ “APT.” remains a bona fide YouTube smash, securing a ninth consecutive week atop the platform’s Global Music Videos and Songs Charts.
The megahit collaboration stays at #1 on the Music Videos Chart, courtesy of the 61.5 million views it received during the December 13-19 tracking period. Up by nearly 4 million plays from last week’s mark, the view count actually ranks as the video’s best since the November 1-7 tracking period.
Growing at this point in the run — especially given competitive impact of holiday videos — represents a major feather in the video’s cap, and a clear sign of the song’s impressive longevity.
With views from other eligible uploads included, “APT.” amassed a total of 117.6 million plays during the tracking period. That yields the ninth straight week at #1 on the Songs Chart.
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New York has become the first state to give fashion models explicit legal protections against the unauthorized use of their digital likenesses under a law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Saturday.
The Fashion Workers Act (S.B. 9832) also increases models’ leverage in negotiations with management companies while restricting the fees and expenses they can collect. Models have to give affirmative consent to renew contracts under the measure.
Lawmakers will pass legislation early next year in exchange for Hochul’s approval “to clarify the duties of model management companies, and brands to ensure they engage in contract transparency” …
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The MGM Grand Detroit has been anything but rude to popular casino influencer Brian Christopher as he won the largest jackpot of his life while in town this week for a promotional appearance. Christopher was filming himself playing live slots Wednesday for members of his fan club — known as the “Rudies” — when he got a bonus game while playing a “Crazy Chickens” slot machine.
“I was doing a $37 bet and I won $80,000 on this machine. It was here at MGM Grand Detroit,” Christopher said, before adding that his luck didn’t stop there. “It was unbelievable, as I’m waiting to get paid out, I hit another five or six jackpots on the same game. It just kept going.”
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When a volunteer supports a patient, a special and often rather unequal relationship can develop between the helper and the person receiving the help. Researchers have now investigated this relationship and offer guidance on finding the right balance.
When people get sick, they often depend on family or friends to help them out. In Norway, there are also public services that usually support people who need it.
“But public services or family and friends are not always enough. Volunteers and non-profit organizations are increasingly being used to provide care to the population,” says Associate Professor Gunhild Tøndel at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). 
It is not that surprising. An increasing proportion of the population are elderly people, and there are more and more people requiring care. The pressure on the public healthcare system is increasing – and on the people who are still able to work.
“In the future, public services, family and social networks will increasingly struggle to meet the care needs,” said Tøndel.
A lack of hands is not necessarily the main reason why volunteers are attractive helpers. There are probably things you do not really want to talk about with the people closest to you. Serious illness can cause symptoms and consequences that many people find it easier to talk about with strangers.
For example, someone who becomes seriously ill may want to talk to someone who has experienced the same challenges, and some volunteers have this type of experience.
Intimate disclosures, however, can create a situation that leads to an unusual and imbalanced relationship between the person helping and the person being helped. The relationship between a volunteer and a patient really shouldn’t be a friendship.
“We wanted to study volunteers’ experiences, how they are supported, and at the same time how patients experience the help,” said Professor Aksel Tjora at NTNU’s Department of Sociology and Political Science.
The Sociology Clinic, an independent working community of sociologists with a background from NTNU, was commissioned by the Norwegian Cancer Society to look into this. They have now presented their findings in the Norwegian Journal of Welfare Research.
The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with nine volunteers from the Norwegian Cancer Society’s ‘helping hands’ programme and six patients who had received help. The aim was to see how the relationship between the helper and the person receiving help developed.
“The relationship involves useful assistance, but it can also create unclear expectations where one party views the relationship differently than the other,” says sociologist Maja Joner Ognedal at the Sociology Clinic.
The Norwegian Cancer Society’s goal regarding the volunteers’ work is for patients to feel a greater sense of security, gain better insight into and overview of the treatment process, and feel that they are coping better with daily life.
“The helping hands volunteers can be conversation partners, find solutions to practical problems, relieve relatives from the burdens of care, provide an overview of appointments related to cancer treatment, and interpret information from public institutions such as hospitals and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration,” said the researchers.
Of course, patients have different needs and may require some or all of this assistance, but one thing is clear:
“During their training, the volunteers are taught that they should ‘be a volunteer – not a friend’.”
How the relationship between the parties develops, however, is still far from certain. This is due to basic human nature.
Being a volunteer often comes with great emotional costs, as well as taking up a lot of time. A volunteer cannot be friends with everyone they help.
“Most people respond intuitively in social situations. That means our initial response is to meet our fellow human beings without reservation. But in this case, the volunteers must simultaneously balance how much of themselves they invest in the relationship,” explained Tjora.
Being a volunteer often comes with great emotional costs, as well as taking up a lot of time. A volunteer simply cannot be a friend to everyone they help. There is not enough time for it, and it is easy to become burned out. That does not benefit anyone. There are not enough volunteers as it is, and we cannot afford to lose them unnecessarily.
If, as a helper, you become a friend, it is not certain that you will be able to hide your emotions if you become worried or overwhelmed, and you should definitely not reveal anything like that to the patient.
In addition, things do not always end well when people get sick. Are you really able to cope with losing friends all the time?
The volunteer–patient relationship often came up in the conversations the researchers had with the helping hands volunteers.
“A key topic that comes up all the time is the experience of having to figure out the role they should have in the volunteer–patient relationship. The helping hands volunteers in particular found this challenging at the start of their work,” said the researchers.
New volunteers felt that they were having to make it up as they went along when trying to figure out where to set the boundaries. But knowing where to set these boundaries can also be difficult for cancer patients. When do you start talking to a stranger about your experiences, and about feelings that can be difficult?
Some helping hands volunteers found it easy to slip into the role, while others called for clearer instructions on what the role actually involves.
Both the volunteers and the patients had varying perceptions of what the relationship between them should be. Should you primarily be a friendly companion? Someone who carries out practical tasks? Or both?
Here, the sociologists have some advice.
“We propose the concept of ‘controlled emotional voluntariness’,” Tjora said.
This concept is intended to help people find the right balance between the necessary distance and intuitive closeness in volunteer work, where a close relationship may develop between the parties.
The main point is to make the volunteer organizations aware of how important it is to establish clear rules regarding the volunteers’ work.
“Controlled emotional voluntariness involves an ambiguity that characterizes many volunteer roles. This is especially true where volunteers step in over lengthy periods of time to help people in difficult situations with whom they should not develop close and lasting relationships,” said Tjora.
The main point is to make the volunteer organizations aware of how important it is to establish clear rules regarding the volunteers’ work.
“Clear boundaries must be established. Otherwise, the volunteers may find themselves in an emotional dilemma between what they truly feel and other people’s expectations of what they should feel,” explained PhD research fellow Lina Naoroz Bråten.
The Norwegian Cancer Society has developed solutions, including through its ‘helping hands’ volunteer training programme and the opportunity for volunteers to ask for guidance along the way.
In addition, collaboration between a volunteer and a patient is limited to six months. According to the Norwegian Cancer Society’s guidelines, this is when a volunteer–patient relationship should end anyway.
None of this provides a guarantee, but it does limit the possibility and risk of an imbalance developing in the relationship that might be problematic for both the helper and the person receiving help.
Many of the volunteers would like clearer rules.
“Voluntary work is inevitably emotional. But the strength and basis of the relationship must be intentional for the interaction to work. The organization must understand the balance between the necessary distance and intuitive closeness. This will help develop this type of volunteer service, including recruitment and supporting volunteers as a scarce resource,” the researchers concluded.
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Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.
The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they’ve competed for food with native wildlife and have wrought havoc on the park’s ecosystem.
A 2012 study showed populations of raccoons declined 99.3 percent, opossums 98.9 percent, and bobcats 87.5 percent since 1997. Marsh rabbits, cottontail rabbits, and foxes effectively disappeared over that time.
According to the USGS, the severe mammal declines coincide with the proliferation of invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park.
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Potentially even more concerning is a recent collaborative study the Conservancy of Southwest Florida took part in that showed the invasive snake can eat prey much larger than previously reported.
Researchers observed a Burmese python ingesting a 77-pound white-tailed deer which was 66.9 percent of the snake’s mass. 
That begs the question: Can a Burmese python take down an alligator?
When it comes to the American alligator vs. a Burmese python, it’s eat or be eaten.
Larger alligators will feast on large pythons whereas the snakes tend to prey on smaller gators.
Burmese pythons are known to make a meal of smaller alligators. A bicyclist filmed a Burmese python strangling an alligator in Big Cypress National Park.
A 5-foot alligator was found inside of an 18-foot Burmese python carcass during a necropsy.
They do!
For example, on Thanksgiving Day, a large alligator, nicknamed “Godzilla,” was caught on video hauling a massive Burmese python through the water in the Everglades.
In 2023, a Florida woman captured video of a 10-foot alligator in the Everglades eating a Burmese python.
In a 2023 USGS study, baby Burmese pythons were outfitted with radio transmitters. Five were eaten by alligators.
In June of 2021, a bobcat feasted on Burmese python eggs in the Big Cypress Preserve.
Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia. Many of the invasive snakes came to the U.S. because of their popularity in the pet trade, according to the USGS.
The snakes were then intentionally or accidentally released in South Florida.
Burmese pythons “can survive in and utilize a variety of habitats found in the region, and many of these areas are difficult to access and effectively survey,” the USGS reported.
The agency conservatively estimates the Burmese python population in the Florida Everglades region in the tens of thousands.
According to Florida Fish and Wildlife, Burmese pythons are established from just south of Lake Okeechobee to Key Largo and from western Broward County west to Collier County, including:
Any pythons found outside of those areas are likely escaped or released captive animals.
However, “due to the cryptic nature of pythons, it can take a while to gather enough evidence to confirm new areas of establishment,” FWC said.
Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world, with adult animals averaging between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida.
A group of python hunters caught the longest Burmese python ever measured on July 10, 2023, in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County.
The monster snake was 19 feet long.
The heaviest Burmese python ever recorded was caught by Conservancy of Southwest Florida biologists in the Florida Everglades in 2022. The colossal female python weighed an eye-popping 215 pounds and was nearly 18 feet long.
While it’s not illegal to eat python meat, it’s definitely not recommended.
According to FWC, the Florida Department of Health issued a “Do Not Consume Python” advisory because mercury levels considered too high for human consumption was found in python meat during testing.
While there have been no human deaths from wild-living Burmese pythons in Florida, the possibility can’t be ruled out, the USGS reported.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) — Hundreds of children on Friday were treated to a special day at SoFi Stadium as part of ABC7's Spark of Love Toy Drive.
"This is 32 years of partnership with ABC7 and L.A. County Fire. Spark of Love, it's all about the kids," L.A. County Fire Battalion Chief Ron Haralson said. "Being here at SoFi, this is what it's about, so this is everything."
L.A. County firefighters were out spreading Spark of Love cheer, along with Rams players, cheerleaders and mascot Rampage.
"It's a phenomenal time of year, and I'm just happy to be a part of it," Rams safety John Johnson III said.
Amazon donated two vans filled with toys and $100,000 to the Spark of Love Toy Drive.
After the children took a tour of SoFi Stadium, they grabbed lunch and a toy to take home.
For eighth grader Fernando Rodriguez, he found something to take home for his mother.
"Most of the years I haven't gotten her anything, and this time I decided to think instead of for myself, for her," he said.
ABC7's very own Teresa Samaniego was honored by the Rams with the Playmakers Award in recognition for all the work she's put in to make Spark of Love happen every year.
"I can't tell you how touched and surprised I am, but I know that this is going to help so many children," she said.
Our toy drive runs through Christmas Eve.

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Superman Star Names His Man of Steel’s 3 Favorite Movies (But He Hates the Ending of 1 of Them)  CBR
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