Barbie Extra: The five dolls in Mattel’s latest Barbie line each come with a pet
There are five dolls in the new Barbie Extra line. each selling for a suggested retail price of $24.99 at Target, Walmart and Amazon.
Described as curvy, this Barbie Extra doll has 8.5 inches of long and shimmery, two-tone pink and purple fantasy hair. She wears an iridescent ruffle dress over a cloud print shirt, fish net tights and sneakers and her pet dog wears a jeweled “boss” collar.
With Afro puffs and braided hair details, this Barbie wears a rainbow fur coat with a matching athleisure red top and shorts set, glittered boots and socks. Her pet poodle wears puppy heels and has a puppy purse with treats.
This Barbie has rainbow braided hair and wears a love t-shirt under a denim jacket with flame and fringe detail, jean shorts and heeled boots. Her pet Rottweiler puppy with pink car.
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This Barbie Extra doll has blonde hair with pink streaks and wears a fluffy pink jacket with jeans and winged boots. Her pet pig comes with a unicorn flower crown headband and removable unicorn wings.
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Mattel describes this Barbie Extra doll with bright blue hair as curvy. She wears a tie-dye shirt with a sateen bomber jacket, white denim shorts and neon sneakers. Her pet twin kittens wear tiaras.
After four long years of construction and delays, the SH-288 toll lanes are open.
SH-288’s 10.3 miles of new freeway, including huge flyovers and managed toll lanes, stretch from downtown Houston to Clear Creek.
The project broke ground in 2016. It was supposed to take 1,000 days from start to finish, but that original mid-2019 completion date got pushed back over and over thanks to repeated weather events including Harvey, and construction delays.
Instead of opening the roadway one segment at a time, the entire new project opened at once, including the brand new Southmore Bridge and the direct connectors at Holcombe going into the Texas Medical Center.
Don’t forget, you have to pay to use the toll lanes. Adjustable pricing is based on time of day and volume of traffic.
In other words, if the lanes get too congested, toll prices will increase to control traffic.
“I think you have to realize that the tolls will be managed based on time of day. If you’re in the tolls during peak, it will cost a little more. If you’re driving off peak, it will be less. And that’s how they’re designed,” said Raynese Edwards with Blueridge Transportation Group.
But there is some good news about the tolls.
The fees are being waived until Nov. 30.
New drainage has been installed throughout the project.
“What we did was upgraded and put in brand new drainage along all 10.3 miles of the project in areas we put into drainage. We also added detention ponds. So you kind of look over here, you’ll see the detention ponds and when you go back to 610, those are designed to help slow the flow of the water,” said Edwards.
While you may be more familiar with a retention pond, which has a constant pool of water, a dry detention pond usually doesn’t have a permanent pool of water and will remain dry until there’s a storm.
Moderna ha desarrollado una “vacuna de ARN”, lo que significa que parte del código genético del coronavirus se inyecta en el cuerpo, lo que permite la producción de proteínas suficientes para entrenar al sistema inmunológico
La compañía farmacéutica Moderna ha anunciado que la vacuna que está desarrollando contra el coronavirus tiene una efectividad del 94.5% y que cumple los criterios de eficacia exigidos para su comercialización, según un comunicado.
En la nota la compañía afirma que es un “gran día” en la lucha contra el coronavirus, dice que ha cumplido con los criterios establecidos en el protocolo para estudiar su eficacia y que en los próximos días presentará la documentación para su aprobación definitiva.
El estudio, conocido como estudio COVE, reclutó a más de 30 mil participantes en los Estados Unidos y se ha realizado, dice el comunicado, de acuerdo con el Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas (NIAID) y los institutos de salud de Estados Unidos, parte de los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH) y el Instituto Biomédico.
Los resultados llegan inmediatamente después de resultados similares de Pfizery aumentan la confianza en que las vacunas pueden ayudar a poner fin a la pandemia. Las dos compañías han utilizado una aproximación novedosa para diseñar sus vacunas.
Moderna ha desarrollado una “vacuna de ARN”, lo que significa que parte del código genético del coronavirus se inyecta en el cuerpo, lo que permite la producción de proteínas suficientes para entrenar al sistema inmunológico.
Según explica el comunicado de Moderna, el criterio de valoración principal del estudio se basa en el análisis de los casos de Covid-19 confirmados y adjudicados a partir de dos semanas después de la segunda dosis de vacuna.
“Este primer análisis intermedio se basó en 95 casos, de los cuales se observaron 90 casos de Covid-19 en el grupo de personas a las que se administró un placebo, frente a cinco casos observados en el grupo que recibió la vacuna”, dice el comunicado.
Como segundo criterio de valoración se incluyó que los once casos graves se desarrollaron todos ellos en el grupo al que se le administró el placebo y no la vacuna.
Los 95 casos de Covid-19 incluyeron a 15 adultos mayores (mayores de 65 años) y 20 participantes que se identificaron como pertenecientes a diversas comunidades (incluidos 12 hispanos o latinos, 4 negros o afroamericanos, 3 asiáticoamericanos y 1 multirracial), dice la compañía.
Moderna afirma que al revisar las contraindicaciones se llegó a la conclusión de que “en general, la vacuna fue bien tolerada” y que la mayoría de los “eventos adversos fueron de gravedad leve o moderada”, además de ser de corta duración.
“Los eventos graves con una frecuencia mayor o igual al 2% después de la primera dosis incluyeron dolor en el lugar de la inyección (2.7%), y después de la segunda dosis incluyeron fatiga (9.7%), mialgia (8.9%), dolor de cabeza y enrojecimiento en el lugar de la inyección.
En el comunicado de la compañía, el director ejecutivo Stéphane Bancil dijo que “este es un momento crucial en el desarrollo de nuestra vacuna candidata Covid-19. Desde principios de enero, hemos perseguido este virus con la intención de proteger a la mayor cantidad posible de personas en todo el mundo. Todo el tiempo hemos sabido que cada día es importante”.
“Este análisis intermedio positivo de nuestro estudio de fase 3 nos ha dado la primera validación clínica de que nuestra vacuna puede prevenir la enfermedad COVID-19, incluida la enfermedad grave”, dijo Stéphane Bancel en un comunicado.
Un juez federal en Nueva York falló el sábado que el secretario interino del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Chad Wolf, asumió el cargo de manera ilegal, una determinación que invalidó la suspensión por parte del funcionario del programa Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en inglés), que protege a jóvenes inmigrantes de la deportación.
“El DHS no respetó el orden de sucesión como fue indicado legalmente”, escribió el juez federal de distrito Nicholas Garaufis. “Por lo tanto, las medidas adoptadas por supuestos secretarios interinos, que no cumplieron adecuadamente sus funciones de acuerdo con el orden legal de sucesión, fueron tomadas sin la autoridad legal”.
Wolf emitió en julio un memorando que suspendía efectivamente el DACA, pendiente de revisión por parte del DHS. Un mes antes, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos había fallado que el presidente Donald Trump no siguió los procedimientos para elaborar disposiciones cuando intentó poner fin al programa, pero los ministros mantuvieron abierta la posibilidad de que lo intentara de nuevo.
Aproximadamente 650 mil personas son protegidas bajo el programa DACA, que permite que jóvenes inmigrantes que llegaron a Estados Unidos siendo niños puedan trabajar con autorización legal y no sean deportados.
Karen Tumlin, una abogada que representó a un demandante en una de las dos demandas con que se impugnó la autoridad de Wolf, describió el fallo como “otra victoria para los beneficiarios del DACA y aquellos que han estado esperando durante años para acceder al programa por primera vez”.
En agosto, la Oficina de Rendición de Cuentas del Gobierno de Estados Unidos, un organismo bipartidista legislativo de control, dijo que Wolf y su adjunto, Ken Cuccinelli, se desempeñaban indebidamente y estaban descalificados para dirigir la agencia en conformidad con la Ley de Reforma a las Vacantes. Ambos han estado al frente de las iniciativas del gobierno sobre inmigración y aplicación de la ley.
En su fallo del sábado, el juez escribió que el DHS no respetó una orden de sucesión establecida cuando la entonces secretaria Kirstjen Nielsen renunció en abril de 2019.
El DHS no respondió de momento a una solicitud para que hiciera declaraciones sobre el fallo.
A look at seven statistical highlights from games played at 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, November 15, the tenth week of the 2020 season.
The ARIZONA CARDINALS overcame a 14-point deficit to defeat Buffalo, 32-30. With two games remaining in Week 10, there have been 11 games in which a team has overcome a deficit of at least 14 points to win this season, tied with the 2014 season (11) for the third-most such games through Week 10 in NFL history. Only the 1987 (14 games) and 2011 (13) seasons had more.
The 2020 season joins 2015 as the only seasons in which a team has overcome a deficit of at least 13 points to win in each of the first 10 weeks of a season in NFL history.
The NEW ORLEANS SAINTS overcame a 10-point deficit to defeat San Francisco, 27-13, on Sunday. With two games remaining in Week 10, there have been 31 games in which a team has overcome a deficit of at least 10 points to win this season, the most through Week 10 in NFL history.
Arizona quarterback KYLER MURRAY rushed for two touchdowns and threw a game-winning 43-yard touchdown pass with two seconds remaining in the Cardinals’ Week 10 win.
Murray is the first quarterback in the Super Bowl era and fourth quarterback in NFL history to rush for a touchdown in five consecutive games, joining JOHNNY LUJACK (six consecutive games in 1950), TOBIN ROTE (five in 1956) and Pro Football Hall of Famer DUTCH CLARK (five in 1936).
Murray has 10 rushing touchdowns this season, tied with JOHNNY LUJACK (10) for the most by a quarterback in his team’s first nine games of a season in league annals.
Murray has 6,097 passing yards and 1,148 rushing yards in 25 career games and joins CAM NEWTON (6,194 passing yards, 1,060 rushing yards) as the only quarterbacks with at least 6,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in their first 25 career games in NFL history.
Buffalo quarterback JOSH ALLEN passed for 284 yards with two touchdowns and had a touchdown reception on Sunday.
Allen is the fourth quarterback with at least two touchdown passes and a touchdown reception in a single game since 1990, joining BRAD JOHNSON (Week 7, 1997), MATT RYAN (Week 17, 2018) and DESHAUN WATSON (Week 13, 2019).
Allen, who had 20 touchdown passes and nine rushing touchdowns in 2019, has 21 touchdown passes and five rushing touchdowns this season and joins DAK PRESCOTT (2016-18) and DESHAUN WATSON (2018-19) as the only players with at least 20 touchdown passes and five rushing touchdowns in consecutive seasons in NFL history.
Miami rookie quarterback TUA TAGOVAILOA passed for 169 yards and two touchdowns with zero interceptions for a 106.9 rating in the Dolphins’ 29-21 win over the Los Angeles Chargers.
Tagovailoa, who has five touchdown passes and zero interceptions this season, has won each of his first three career starts and joins CARSON WENTZ (2016) as the only rookie quarterbacks to win their first three starts and throw zero interceptions in the Super Bowl era.
Los Angeles Chargers rookie quarterback JUSTIN HERBERT totaled three touchdowns (two passing, one rushing) on Sunday.
Herbert, who has 19 touchdown passes this season, is the first rookie quarterback in NFL history with at least two touchdown passes in six consecutive games.
Green Bay quarterback AARON RODGERS passed for 325 yards and two touchdowns with one interception for a 108.1 rating while wide receiver DAVANTE ADAMS had eight receptions for 66 yards and one touchdown in the Packers’ 24-20 win over Jacksonville.
Rodgers has eight games with at least two touchdown passes and a rating of 100-or-higher this season, marking the fourth time that a quarterback has done so in eight of his first nine games of a season in NFL history. Rodgers (nine games in 2011), TOM BRADY (eight in 2007) and PHILIP RIVERS (eight in 2018) mark the only other occasions.
Adams has 61 receptions for 741 yards and nine touchdowns this season and joins Pro Football Hall of Famers MARVIN HARRISON (1999) and RANDY MOSS (2007) as the only players with at least 700 receiving yards and nine touchdown receptions in their first seven games of a season in the Super Bowl era. His 61 receptions are the fifth-most by a player in his first seven games of a season in NFL history.
New Orleans running back ALVIN KAMARA recorded three touchdowns (two rushing, one receiving) in the Saints’ Week 10 victory.
Kamara has 17 career games with at least two touchdowns, tied with CHUCK FOREMAN (17 games) for the second-most such games by a player in his first four seasons in NFL history. Only LARRY JOHNSON (18) has more.
Kamara has eight career games with both a rushing and receiving touchdown, tied with CHUCK FOREMAN (eight) for the second-most such games by a player in his first four seasons in league annals. Only CHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY (nine) has more.
Tampa Bay running back RONALD JONES rushed for a career-high 192 yards, including a 98-yard touchdown, in the Buccaneers’ 46-23 win at Carolina.
Jones is the fourth player in NFL history to record a rushing touchdown of at least 98 yards, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer TONY DORSETT (99 yards in Week 17, 1982), AHMAN GREEN (98 yards in Week 17, 2003) and DERRICK HENRY (99 yards in Week 14, 2018).
With two games remaining in Week 10, there have been 11 field goals of at least 50 yards, tied with Week 13 of the 2012 season (11) for the most 50-yard field goals in a single week in NFL history.
There have been 71 field goals of at least 50 yards this season, surpassing the 2017 season (67) for the most in a single season through Week 10 in NFL history.
Detroit kicker MATT PRATER converted three field goals, including the game-winning 59-yarder with no time remaining in the fourth quarter, in the Lions’ 30-27 win over Washington.
Prater’s game-winning 59-yard field goal is tied with CHANDLER CATANZARO (59-yards on October 21, 2018) and JOSH SCOBEE (59-yards on October 3, 2010) for the fourth-longest game-winning field goal with no time remaining in regulation or overtime in NFL history. Only TOM DEMPSEY (63 yards on November 8, 1970), MATT BRYANT (62 yards on October 22, 2006) and JAKE ELLIOTT (61 yards on September 24, 2017) had longer game-winning field goals with no time remaining in the fourth quarter or overtime.
Prater has 11 career game-winning field goals with no time remaining in the fourth quarter or overtime, tied with STEVE CHRISTIE (11) and PHIL DAWSON (11) for the fourth-most such field goals since 1970. Only JASON ELAM (14), ADAM VINATIERI (13) and Pro Football Hall of Famer MORTEN ANDERSEN (12) have more.
Prater, who also converted a 53-yard field goal on Sunday, has seven career games with multiple 50-yard field goals, the most in NFL history.
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has finally broken his silence, admitting indirectly that he has lost the election to Joe Biden.
He spoke on Friday at the White House, his first speech since Biden was declared the winner last Saturday.
Trump came out to speak on the raging coronavirus in the country, where over one million infections were recorded in the first 10 days of November.
He last spoke on 4 November, though he has been tweeting and retweeting allegations of voting fraud.
He vowed not to impose a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, after one of Biden’s new advisers said earlier this week it may be the only option to tackle Covid.
But he then conceded that the decision may be out of his hands in the near future.
Trump said: ‘This administration will not go to a lock down…who knows which administration it will be, time will tell.’
Biden is on course to take over from Trump in January, although Trump has not formally conceded defeat.
Trump made the remarks after repeatedly refusing to accept Joe Biden’s victory in the November 3 election, and making unfounded claims that the result was rigged.
Biden was named winner on Saturday, with several forecasters also calling Georgia for him on Friday.
Biden has 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, with the president’s promised lawsuits to challenge the result running into increasing difficulty in recent days.
Trump’s mention of lockdowns was his only reference to the presidential election, metro.co.uk reported.
He spent the majority of Friday’s press conference giving an update on Covid vaccine efforts on Friday, saying:
‘The past nine months my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilisation in US history, numbers like nobody has ever seen before.
‘No medical breakthrough has ever been achieved this quickly, this rapidly.
‘Operation Warp Speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world.’
Trump, who referred to Covid as the ‘China virus’ went on to make excuses for the surge in cases across the US, which some scientists have said is a third wave.
From coast-to-coast coronavirus cases are climbing.
The US has added nearly half a million new cases over the past week, and about three-quarters of the states are trending in the wrong direction.
“We’re failing. COVID has the upper hand, cases are increasing in most of the country,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director.
At nearly 70,000 cases per day data from Johns Hopkins University shows, the seven-day average of new cases is now at the highest levels since the pandemic began.
“Following the case increase, are hospitalization increases, and tragically further increases in the number of deaths,” said Frieden.
Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at the US Department of Health and Human Services also weighed in on the issue.
“Testing may be identifying some more cases, I think that’s clearly true, but what we’re seeing is a real increase in the numbers,” said Giroir.
Just look at the data on display in El Paso where hospitals are reaching a breaking point.
“We got four pressurized tents set up at hospitals for overflow and we are looking at an alternate care site at our convention center,” said El Paso Mayor, Dee Margo.
With hospitalizations on the rise across the country, officials from New Jersey to Colorado to Illinois are reinstating restrictions on bars, restaurants and gatherings, as well as curfews.
In Chicago, the city is now averaging twice as many COVID related hospital admissions per day than it was one month ago. The ban on indoor dining there begins this Friday.
We know it’s been a long, tough year. But you can still get in some fun with ice skating at Discovery Green.
The winter pastime is back at the downtown Houston green space until Jan. 31, 2021.
Adding to the fun, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan even shared a message to Houstonians about the rink opening. You can see that in the video above.
But because we’re still living in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Discovery Green says it has added safety protocols and changed ticket-buying procedures.
A reduced number of tickets will be sold to maintain social distancing. Tickets for a specific time must be purchased in advance online to ensure contactless buying and minimize overcrowding. Tickets went on sale Oct. 28.
Skaters will be required to sign a waiver online after purchasing tickets. E-tickets won’t be sent until the waiver is completed.
All skaters must have a pre-purchased ticket to enter. Guests under the age of 12 may have one parent or guardian accompany them. But the person will be asked to stay in a public viewing area while the minor skates.
Staff and skaters will be required to wear a mask at all times inside the venue. If you don’t have a mask, one will be provided.
Ice rink capacity will be restricted to 50%.
Expanded seating areas to allow for social distancing while changing shoes and skates.
Hand sanitizer will be available. Equipment and touchpoints will be sanitized at regularly scheduled intervals.
When can I go skate?
We’re glad you asked! Check out the hours of operation below.
Monday – Friday: 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. (Fridays open until 11 p.m.)
Saturdays and HISD school holidays: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.
How much does it cost to ice skate at Discovery Green?
$15 admission, skate rental included
Cheap Skate Mondays: $8, skate rental included
Check the Discovery Green website for additional discounts, theme nights and other special events.
The ice rink may be closed or delayed at times due to weather conditions. Call 713.434.RINK (7465) for updates and check discoverygreen.com for closures and other delays.
Bamlanivimab arrives in Texas after emergency FDA approval
Days after a new antibody COVID-19 treatment received emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Texas officials announced the distribution of that treatment across the state on Friday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said officials will begin sending bamlanivimab, the antibody therapy established by Eli Lilly & Company, starting early next week.
The treatment will be shipped to regions based on three factors: new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the community, new lab-confirmed COVID-19 admissions to hospitals, and total lab-confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospitals.
“This initial allotment of bamlanivimab will help health care professionals effectively treat cases of COVID-19 within their communities and aid in reducing hospitalizations,” Abbott said. “I thank the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for providing Texas with this crucial antibody therapy that will help keep Texans safe and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.”
The treatment has been shown to prevent more severe bouts of COVID-19.
After becoming hospitalized with COVID-19, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was among the first to receive bamlanivimab.
The federal government has already spent $375 million to buy 300,000 vials of the drug, according to the Associated Press.
HOUSTON – People in the Houston area had plenty to say after hearing a member of President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board talk about the prospect of a four to six-week lockdown.
“We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers, losses to small-to-medium companies, cities, states, county governments. We can do all of that,” Dr. Michael Osterholm told Yahoo Finance Live this week.
“If we did that, then we could lockdown for four to six weeks and if we did that, we could drive the numbers down,” he said.
“We’ve struggled just to get through this first round of shutdowns,” said Sean Kennedy, general manager of Corelli’s Italian Cafe in Sugar Land.
The restaurant has taken steps to protect customers and employees from the coronavirus.
“I don’t know how many small businesses can afford to be shut down for four to six weeks. The amount of stimulus that I think would need to be generated would be huge,” Kennedy said.
With the number of COVID cases recently surging, some are willing to consider the lockdown idea.
“We have suffered very much by just working our hardest just to make up for the loss that we have taken,” Connelly said.
Connelly said her bar closed twice during the pandemic and had to offer food in order to reopen.
“It’s been detrimental whether you’re an owner, an employee or a contract worker in this industry,” she said.
At the end of August, Gov. Greg Abbott said on Twitter that Texas would not have any more lockdowns.
