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An Indiana murder suspect escaped from a prison transport van that made a pit stop at a McDonald’s on Monday, authorities said. Leon Taylor, 22, was being extradited from Texas to the Hoosier State when he fled from the van operated by a private contractor at the fast-food joint in Gary, Indiana at about 2:10 p.m., according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Department. Taylor, who is wanted for a murder in East Chicago, Indiana, was wearing a belly chain with handcuffs, along with a leg brace when he slipped from the van in the McDonald’s drive-thru, the sheriff’s department said. He also had on a grey hoodie over a black hoodie, black Puma tennis shoes and black jeans. The driver of the van tried to catch Taylor after he fled, according to surveillance footage obtained by authorities. As of late Tuesday, Taylor was still on the lam, authorities said.

If you hear from him or feel like sending him a note, tell him I said hello. He's not in a good situation covid-wise, so I hope he's okay.

Girl admits to Santa she’s naughty, still demands AirPods and live panda She put herself on the naughty list. A 9-year-old girl from Essex, UK is going viral after admitting she’s been bad in a letter to Santa, before demanding a mind-boggling list of 12 Christmas gifts, including electronics and exotic animals. “Y’all, look at this letter my little 9y/r sister wrote to Santa,” the girl’s older brother tweeted along with a photo of his sis’s outrageous note. “Dear beloved Father Christmas, I hope you’ve had a wonderful year and you’ve been well,” reads the brazen letter. “My year has been quite the opposite. I’ve tried hard to be good but miserably failed.” The unnamed girl continued, “I’ll be honest I do deserve coal, but please I’d love to have a present. Actually more than one. Here’s a list – tick the boxes if you have done them.” She then proceeded to rattle off a list of ludicrous Christmas requests including Apple AirPods, a Nintendo switch, a Playstation 4 and 5 and a new laptop. If that wasn’t ridiculous enough, the entitled tyke demanded a snake and “a panda and penguin,” which she specified needed to be “not dead.” The demands weren’t limited to mere possessions. The little hellion also asked for a trip to France with a whopping five tickets included. “Hopefully you succeed to fulfill all my requested items,” she wrote. Needless to say, her outlandish list had Twitter in stitches. “There’s no way Santa is going to miss that address,” tweeted one newfound fan. “I feel for the parents,” said another. Others lauded her masterful writing skills. “I don’t know what shocks me more; the fact that you have a 9y/o sister, her handwriting or her use of diction and syntax at that age,” remarked one impressed commenter. P.S. Does anyone know what happened to Avalon?

Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks reach five-year, $228M supermax extension Back-to-back NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo has committed to the Milwaukee Bucks long-term. Antetokounmpo agreed to sign a five-year, $228 million supermax extension with the Bucks on Tuesday, he announced on Twitter, with the terms being confirmed by agent Alex Saratsis to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal includes an opt out after the fourth year. "This is my home, this is my city," Antetokounmpo posted on Twitter. "I'm blessed to be able to be a part of the Milwaukee Bucks for the next 5 years. Let's make these years count. The show goes on, let's get it." Had he passed on the offer, he would have been an unrestricted free agent next summer and the biggest name to hit the market since Kevin Durant in 2016. Antetokounmpo is coming off a career year where he became just the third player in league history to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season, joining Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon. He also averaged career-highs in points (29.5) and rebounds (13.6) to go with 5.6 assists per game and a 31.9 player efficiency rating -- the highest in a season in NBA history, per ESPN Stats & Information data. Milwaukee has finished the regular season with the best record in the league each of the past two years, but failed to reach the NBA Finals either time. In 2019, the Bucks took a 2-0 lead over the Toronto Raptors in the conference finals before losing in six games. This past season, Milwaukee didn't get that far, falling to the Miami Heat in five games during the semifinals in the Orlando bubble. For all their regular-season success, the Bucks have reached the conference finals just once in Antetokounmpo's seven-year tenure and haven't reached the NBA Finals since 1974 with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who ultimately asked to be traded from Milwaukee after his sixth season as a three-time league MVP. "I think [Antetokounmpo] should look into his own heart and make a decision based on what's important to him and his professional life," Abdul-Jabbar, who led the Bucks to their lone title in 1971, said to ESPN during a October 2019 trip to Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo was a relative unknown when the Bucks made him the No. 15 overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft. Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, Antetokounmpo was playing in Greece's second division before joining Milwaukee. He averaged just 6.8 points per game as a rookie, starting 23 games, but by his third year, his scoring average was up to 16.9 and he earned Most Improved Player honors. The next year, he made the first of his four All-Star appearances. Milwaukee reached the playoffs three times in Antetokounmpo's first five seasons with the team, but was eliminated in the first round each time. In 2018-19, Antetokounmpo ascended to the league's MVP, becoming the first Bucks player since Abdul-Jabbar to win the award, while leading the team to its first playoff series win since 2001. Antetokounmpo has improved his scoring average every season he's been in the league, reaching 29.5 last season, when he became the first player since Wilt Chamberlain to average at least 29.0 points, 13.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists over the course of a season. However, his focus has remained that elusive championship. "It's simple. You've got to be better than what you were last year. If you did not win the whole thing, you've got to get better," Antetokounmpo said during his September virtual news conference after accepting his MVP trophy. "If you win the whole thing, you've got to get better and do it again." With teams around the NBA clearing cap space with the hope of pursuing Antetokounmpo next summer, Milwaukee entered a critical offseason hoping to convince its best player since Abdul-Jabbar to stay by putting together a solid supporting cast. "This is our Super Bowl," Bucks general manager Jon Horst said Nov. 16. "We work at this every single day of every year to have great processes and great decision-making filters and we got through them and there's confidence in that." Before the start of free agency, the Bucks agreed to a trade bringing in former All-Star Jrue Holiday as part of a four-team deal. A reported trade that would have brought Bogdan Bogdanovic to Milwaukee as part of a sign-and-trade deal fell apart before it could be completed, and the Bucks pivoted to bolstering their bench, adding D.J. Augustin, Bryn Forbes and Torrey Craig while re-signing guard Pat Connaughton. The Bucks also added rookie Jordan Nwora with the No. 45 pick in the draft. Antetokounmpo and All-Star guard Khris Middleton both reached out to the former Louisville forward on draft night with an introductory text message, he said, welcoming him to the team and telling him that the "goal is a championship here." Antetokounmpo, who turns 26 on Dec. 6, joined Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James this season as the only players to win multiple NBA MVP awards by age 25. He's repeatedly expressed interest in staying in Milwaukee under the right circumstances. "I've been encouraged my whole career in Milwaukee," Antetokounmpo said after winning his second MVP. "I know that we've gotten better each year and I know that Milwaukee has great people that view every year the same I do every year, which is to play well, improve and win it all."

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Gee, and I had just gone on a spree and downloaded a bunch of classic stuff from them & other sites within the past month. Time to get in on a flash drive in case my computer dies..

I was recently reminded of the movie (Howard Stern's) Private Parts, which I really liked, despite really disliking Howard Stern. I had also really disliked Roseanne Barr's stand-up act when she was first getting well-known, but the reviews of her sitcom's pilot episode were so good I watched it anyway and loved it. Any time somebody told me they hated her (act), I'd tell them to watch the show, because it had a lot more depth and heart (at least for the first 6 seasons). A friend had to drag me to the first Ice Age movie and I wound up absolutely loving it, after having been quite disappointed by Shrek earlier that year, and not being in the mood for a 'kiddie' flick again. So what surprised you over the years?

Cleveland will be dropping the Indians name. No word on what they'll call themselves.

We need a 'jealous' emoji.

An entire region in California is out of ICU beds as COVID-19 surges A 12-county region in California is out of ICU-bed capacity as a second wave of COVID-19 ravages the state’s rural Central Valley. San Joaquin County, an agriculture hub where the majority of fruits and vegetables in the US are grown, has been hit particularly hard in recent weeks. ICU capacity at all seven hospitals in the county stood at 100 percent on Saturday, the highest rate anywhere in California, according to the state’s Department of Public Health. A team of 17 nurses is expected to arrive Monday at one local hospital that has built a second ICU area where it plans to take in coronavirus patients from San Joaquin County’s six other overflowing hospitals. Many of the patients are Latino farm workers. A doctor at Adventist Health Lodi Memorial hospital in Lodi, which is about 100 miles east of San Francisco, said that during the first COVID wave in the spring, 75 percent of patients were Latino. The hospital investigated the trend and found COVID warnings were not reaching many in the community, because of a lack of trust in the hospital staff and government. “We don’t have the same culture and the rigidity around following the guidance here than, for example, San Francisco [has]. We need to educate, educate, as much as we can so we can get some relief,” Dr. Patricia Iris said. An ideological divide also exists between Lodi’s English-speaking locals and the state’s liberal government leaders. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom implemented a 21-day stay-at-home order last week — prompting an outcry from San Joaquin businesses. Pat Patrick, president and CEO of the Lodi Chamber of Commerce, signed a letter urging Newsom to let businesses stay open. “There’s just no rhyme or reason to some of these things and certainly no data,” Patrick said. At least one restaurant, Denis’ Country Kitchen, has stayed open despite the mandate.

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