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Count professional wrestling among the essential businesses like grocery stores and pharmacies that can stay open despite coronavirus-related restrictions statewide. WWE will continue taping and airing live from the empty WWE Performance Center near Orlando even during the state’s month-long “shelter-in-place,” which Gov. Ron DeSantis announced April 1. At a press conference Monday, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings was asked whether WWE would continue operations. He said that WWE was not originally deemed an “essential business,” a designation allowing it to stay open during the state’s “shelter-in-place” order. However, a conversation with DeSantis changed that.

I know that many students around the world are taking classes online at home. However, I'm curious what is going to happen to the millions of students that are engaged in classes that require Hands-On. For example, mechanics, surgeons, etc. Will they be required to retake a class from the beginning in autumn? What about the incoming class? There will not be enough room for both an incoming class as well as are returning class for most of these. Does anyone know a student like this, and what are they saying the plan will be?

[Catholic Caucus] Crazy Germans: The Almighty Is "Death" - Faithful "Overrate" Mass We are "surrounded by one almighty, whether we like it or not," Hildesheim Bishop Heiner Wilmer, Germany, told DeutschlandFunk.de (April 12).He identifies "death" as "the almighty par excellence."Wilmer criticises Catholics because they are "fixated only on the Eucharist" although Christ is "also present" in the Bible and in communal prayer [but in a very different way].The reaction of the faithful to the coronavirus ban on liturgy shows that "the Eucharist is indeed overrated," Wilmer repeats, "As if there were nothing else."Despite the prohibition of all liturgies, Wilmer doesn't...

The fatal and highly contagious novel coronavirus has spread faster but is less deadly than official data imply, the Economist magazine reported over the weekend, citing a new study. On Saturday, the Economist reported that the fact that the illness caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread across the United States could be “good news.” “If millions of people were infected weeks ago without dying, the virus must be less deadly than official data suggest,” the magazine determined, using graphs to suggest the faster the disease spreads and hits its peak, the fewer people will die. The Economist article cited...

During these strange times, the face of Portland weird is doing his part for the community, but the Unipiper could use your help. He’s looking for people who are keeping weird alive and could use a little boost right now. Molly Riehl catches up with Brian Kidd, the Unipiper, to learn more. To nominate someone for the Keep Weird Alive campaign: https://weirdportlandunited.org/2020/04/06/keepweirdalive-campaign/

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#TakeEmDown Comes to Yankeetown By Lola Sanchez on Mar 27, 2020 From Dylann Roof to Harvey Weinstein Many of us predicted it. The war on American monuments and memorials wouldn’t stop with just stop with Confederate ones. It wasn’t hard to figure out, but the answer was always, ‘yeah, but they’re not going after Northern “civil war” monuments. And of course we said, “what about the 54th MA Infantry monument” which was vandalized in Boston with the usual red paint, and an extra touch of the breakage of the white officer’s sword on the bronze relief monument. And their response...

Priesthood was a natural calling for Charles Untz, but he would never realize that dream. A tragic car accident took his life on March 20 2000, when he was just 18. But his faith, piety and spirit-filled joy, exhibited throughout his 18 years on earth, has had an impact on people across the globe. One is Fr Steve Hansen, pastor of the cathedral in St Joseph, Missouri. He personally experienced Charles’ intercession and credits it for saving his priestly vocation. “Kids who want to live purity, who want to obey their parents and who want to love the church, they...

The great Zach Goldberg, the youngish Ph.D student who has been quantifying the explosion of “wokeness” in the news media and elsewhere over the last decade, has been looking through the raw data in the Pew Research Center’s latest American Trends Panel Survey, and unearthed some interesting findings, which you can see here. Top line: liberals are more than twice as likely as conservatives to be found to have a mental health condition...

In accordance with the order of Amy Acton, M.D., director of Ohio Department of Health, to stay at home to slow the spread of COVID-19, and in the interest of the health and safety of the community, Kent State University regretfully announces cancellation of the May 4 50th Commemoration Weekend events, scheduled to take place May 1-4, 2020. A meaningful virtual May 4 Commemoration program is under development, and details will be announced at a later time. This online program will honor and remember Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder who were killed and nine other Kent...

Tucker: Science needs to drive policy during a health crisis https://video.foxnews.com/v/6149172742001#sp=show-clips

At issue is a 2013 investment plan involving the purchase of a property in Hungary – the Budapest Exchange Palace – for development and resale. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Maltese court has authorized the seizure of assets belonging to the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), commonly called “the Vatican Bank.” The garnishment order was issued last month, allowing three companies involved in a lawsuit against the bank to seize €29.5 million in assets. Two Malta-based investment companies, Futura Funds Sicav and Futura Investment Management, along with Luxembourg-based Courgar Real Estate, have been embroiled in a years-long court battle with...

SNIP A feeding-ground lockdown is driving New York City’s infamously resilient rodents to acts of war. “It’s just like we’ve seen in the history of mankind, where people try to take over lands . . . and fight to the death, literally, for who’s going to conquer that land,” Bobby Corrigan, a rodentologist who specializes in urban vermin, told NBC News. “A new ‘army’ of rats comes in, and whichever army has the strongest rats is going to conquer that area. When you’re really, really hungry, you’re not going to act the same — you’re going to act very bad, usually.” More...

Hong Kong (CNN)The African community in Guangzhou is on edge after widespread accounts were shared on social media of people being left homeless this week, as China's warnings against imported coronavirus cases stoke anti-foreigner sentiment. In the southern Chinese city, Africans have been evicted from their homes by landlords and turned away from hotels, despite many claiming to have no recent travel history or known contact with Covid-19 patients. CNN interviewed more than two dozen Africans living in Guangzhou many of whom told of the same experiences: being left without a home, being subject to random testing for Covid-19, and...

So I'm out doing my regular stuff,and see a lot of masked people,Reminded me of an old T.V. Show.The Lone Ranger.What's Your Favorite Old T.V. Show Intro,Theme?

Kiev, April 13, Interfax - Administrative fines were given to three clerics who allowed mass gathering of people in churches on the Palm Sunday in spite of quarantine measure; material on 12 more cases are being considered. "On gathering of people in a number of churches yesterday. Irresponsibility and disrespect to human health have nothing to do with God! Police issued administrative fines to clerics in three cases. Materials on other 12 cases are considered. We stand for the freedom of conscience, but have you no shame?" Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov wrote in his Twitter. As was...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Hair stylists and cosmetologists are speaking out after a Facebook post that claimed Governor Kevin Stitt wasn’t following his own recommendations when it comes to their profession and COVID-19. According to a Facebook post from a hair stylist, Gov.Kevin Stitt had his hair and makeup done over the weekend. In the post, a woman said, “Wear your masks people! Even while doing makeup and hair for the Governor of Oklahoma.” “I find it’s a little bit hypocritical,” Dee Dean, a hair stylist with Tangles Salon, told KFOR.

yngus Day is a Polish-American holiday celebrated after Easter Sunday in Buffalo, New York and elsewhere. To mark the end of Lent, the joyful celebration consists of delicious food, entertaining parades, and wonderful music. This year, due to the pandemic, organizers behind the city's Dyngus Day celebrations had to come up with creative ideas to keep the festivities alive. In 966 A.C.E., on Easter Monday, Prince Mieszko I of Poland was baptized. Mieszko converted to Christianity because of the marriage agreement he made with his wife, Princess Dobrawa of Bohemia. By accepting Christianity as his religion, the first king of...

Washington D.C., Apr 8, 2020 / 01:30 pm (CNA).- The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has canceled its Spring General Assembly due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The assembly, one of the two annual gatherings of the bishops of the United States, was scheduled to be held June 10-12 in Detroit, Michigan. The meeting would have been the first to be led by newly-elected USCCB President Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles. In a statement released by the USCCB, Gomez said that the decision to cancel the event happened after a vote by the Administrative Committee. “The Administrative Committee...

As thousands of businesses in Michigan struggle with the idea of “essential vs. non-essential” services under the state’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe” order, the issue has made its way to the abortion debate. Pro-life and pro-choice organizations in Michigan are engaging in a war of words on how important their respective missions are, and why their opponents should not be considered essential. Genevieve Marnon, legislative director for Right to Life of Michigan, argues the organization’s goal is to save lives, which falls in line with the messages of state officials on essential work, and that pro-choice advocacy does not. “That...