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SLO Speed Ahead: Cal Poly Finalizes Jungle Float for Pasadena’s Rose Parade

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PASADENA, Calif.—Creative chaos, construction, and collaboration have made the Cal Poly team an unstoppable force.
 
“It's really cool to see how we all can come together from two different campuses to build a float like this. It’s pretty incredible,” said Cal Poly Flower Fields Manager Afton Phillips.

It’s the only student-designed and student-built float in the Rose Parade.
 
The magic is in the details and the story.
 
A story that revolves around this year’s theme— “The Magic in Teamwork.”
 
The Cal Poly float is named “Jungle Jumpstart”  
 
“This is where the story's starting. So our robot is sitting here on the ground in the forest, and this lemur is going to start the spark that will light it up,” said Cal Poly Float President Aubrey Goings.
 
Students say the float shows the relationship between nature and technology through the story of a rainforest community coming together to restore its robot friend that had broken down.
 
The animals include a frog, monkey, jaguar, lemurs, and a toucan.
 
“We have some monstera, some ginger, some heliconias. There's lots of things that you find in the jungle. We're really trying to immerse everyone into the atmosphere,” said Goings.

It's an undertaking that takes thousands of hours with plant experts, mechanical engineers and everything in between.
  
Students and volunteers helped create the design and construct the mechanical elements.
 
“This year we actually have, a frog opening and closing a panel. Well, it's closing the panel. The panel opens back up on its own, and it's two, two different mechanisms interacting, in a very unique way that we had to, like, coordinate a collision zone and everything,” said Cal Poly Slo Construction Chair Ryan Newton.

Thursday’s Tournament of Roses will mark 137 years of the annual tradition.
 

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Dons are ‘host with the most’ as they finish SB Holiday Classic undefeated

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Dons, Royals, Chargers and Cardinals all win on final day of tourney

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Levi Oakes got Santa Barbara High School off to a fast start while Owen Horn gave the Dons a strong finish as they beat Oakland Tech 61-54 to finish 4-0 at their own tournment.

The Dons went 4-0 at the Santa Barbara Holiday Classic and improve to 8-6 overall.

Horn scored 13 of his team-high 15 points after halftime while Oakes tallied 6 of the Dons first 8 points in the game and finished with 14 points.

Here are other results from the final day of the tournament:

San Marcos 63, Granada Hills Charter 42: Junior Aidan Conlan scored a game-high 20 points while seniors Koji Hefner and Brody Green added 12 and 10 points respectively. The Royals went 2-2 in the tournament and improved to 11-5 on the season.

Dos Pueblos 58, Saratoga 53 (OT): DP went 2-2 in the tournament after working overtime on the final day. Coulter Jay led the Chargers with 25 points and Evan Pinsker hit two 3-pointers in overtime for Dos Pueblos.

Bishop Diego 63, Davis Sr. 60

Thousand Oaks 76, College Park 44: Dylan McCord scored 27 points on a school-record 9 three-pointers for 15-0 Lancers.

Pacifica 60, Pinole Valley 54: Tommy Williams scored 15 points for the Tritons.

Westmont 69, Oak Park 60: Grant Shaw scored 15 points for the Eagles.

Whitney 55, Santa Paula 39: Ramirez and Valdovinos scored 9 points apiece for Cardinals

Agoura 63, Madera 42: Derek Crabtree scored 14 points for the Chargers

Pleasant Grove 57, Righetti 41

San Luis Obispo 69, St. Joseph Notre Dame 48

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¿Cuál es el país que recibe primero el Año Nuevo?

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Por Forrest Brown, CNN

Esta podría ser una respuesta para un programa de concursos para ganarte el premio mayor: los grupos de islas del Pacífico de Samoa y Kiribati comparten la distinción anual de ser los primeros en el mundo.

Y la pregunta correcta sería: ¿dónde se celebra primero el Año Nuevo?

Gracias a las posiciones cercanas a la línea internacional de cambio de fecha, que se traza irregularmente, estos dos destinos polinomios, que están ubicados aproximadamente a mitad de camino entre Hawái y Nueva Zelandia, son los primeros en la fila para recibir el Año Nuevo.

Un nuevo día tiene que empezar en algún lugar primero, ¿verdad? Y eso es lo que la línea internacional de cambio de fecha hace.

La línea es un límite artificial establecido en 1884 para separar dos fechas calendario consecutivas, según la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés).

Sigue una línea de longitud de 180 grados (aquellas que van de norte a sur en todo el mundo frente a las líneas de latitud que van de este a oeste).

“Cuando cruzas la línea de fecha, ¡te conviertes en una especie de viajero en el tiempo! Cruza hacia el oeste y es un día después; cruza hacia atrás y ‘has retrocedido en el tiempo’”, dice NOAA.

La línea se dibuja de polo norte a polo sur, pero no es una línea exacta y uniforme. Da vueltas y vueltas alrededor de las fronteras políticas, como el extremo este de Rusia y las Islas Aleutianas de Alaska, y las islas más al sur en el Pacífico.

Muy simple: estos dos grupos de islas son los más cercanos al lado oeste de la línea, superando a Nueva Zelandia y otras islas del Pacífico, como las Islas Marshall, que se encuentran al oeste.

Antes de mediados de la década de 1990, la línea de fecha internacional dividía a Kiribati en dos partes, dejando la parte occidental un día entero por delante de la parte oriental y causando dolores de cabeza al hacer negocios, explicó Holly Yan de CNN.

“Ahora, la fecha línea tiene un desvío masivo de más de 2.400 kilómetros, alrededor de las islas más orientales de Kiribati, de modo que toda la nación está en el mismo día calendario”.

Aquí hay una línea que une la historia y el dinero para darnos una muy divertida e interesante historia.

Los exploradores europeos no llegaron al archipiélago de Samoa sino hasta la década de 1700. El grupo de islas finalmente se dividió entre Alemania y Estados Unidos.

Nueva Zelandia administró el archipiélago alemán al estallar la Primera Guerra Mundial, y Samoa se independizó por completo en 1962. Mientras tanto, la cercana Samoa Americana sigue siendo un territorio autónomo de Estados Unidos.

Samoa y Samoa Americana están separadas por solo 163 kilómetros… ¡y por un año entero durante un día completo!

Hasta 2011, todo el archipiélago de Samoa estaba en el mismo lado de la línea de cambio de fecha internacional, al este. Así que era el último lugar del mundo en dar la bienvenida a cada nuevo año.

Pero eso resultó ser un verdadero dolor de cabeza para los samoanos independientes a la hora de hacer negocios con sus socios comerciales más valiosos, como Nueva Zelandia y Australia. La línea se volvió a trazar para Samoa para facilitar las transacciones comerciales. Samoa Americana, con sus intereses económicos más ligados a Estados Unidos, se mantuvo en su lado tradicional de la línea.

Eso explica por qué en 2020, Samoa vio primero el Año Nuevo antes que Samoa Americana, a pesar de que están muy cerca el uno del otro.

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‘The Wire’ actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. has died

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By Miriam Elder, CNN

(CNN) — Isiah Whitlock Jr., whose singular delivery of a tagline in “The Wire” gave the world one of the most iconic phrases of the century, has died at the age of 71.

Whitlock “passed away today peacefully in NYC after a brave battle with a short illness,” his manager, Brian Liebman, told CNN. “Isiah was a brilliant actor and even better person.”

Whitlock had a storied career spanning more than three decades in both TV and film. He appeared in a number of Spike Lee movies, including “Da 5 Bloods,” “BlacKkKlansman” and “The 25th Hour.”

He got his start in TV on “Cagney & Lacey” in the 1980s and went on to appear often in police procedurals, from “Law & Order” to “NYPD Blue.” Most recently on TV, Whitlock played a police chief on “The Residence,” a Netflix murder mystery starring Uzo Aduba.

Whitlock will be most remembered for his unforgettable role in “The Wire,” David Simon’s HBO crime drama, which is widely recognized as one of the best series of all time.

Whitlock appeared on all five seasons of the show as R. Clayton “Clay” Davis, a crooked Maryland state senator. He quickly became known for his unique reaction to events, delivering an elongated “s**t” that catapulted straight into the American lexicon.

Whitlock reveled in the attention that his delivery received. “I was in, I think, Grand Central Station and far away I heard someone say it and they’d be kind of smiling,” he told an interviewer in 2008. “I’m glad people enjoy it.”

In 2014, he started a YouTube series teaching people how they, too, could perfectly say it. Whitlock said he got the phrase from his late uncle Leon, who delivered it in a way that would always make people laugh.

“Do I get tired of it? No,” he told the AP in 2020. “If it makes you feel good, so be it,” he said with a smile.

Whitlock also had a recurring role on “Veep,” playing General George Maddox, a defense secretary who toys with a primary run against Vice President Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Whitlock grew up in Indiana, the fifth of ten children, and studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco before moving to New York, where he lived for decades.

“He was loved by all who had the pleasure to work with or know him,” his manager said. “He will be greatly missed.”

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