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Names SeaWorld said Monday it plans to replace its famed “Shamu” killer whale show in San Diego with an exhibit focused on “conservation,” after grappling with sagging attendance and years of criticism over its treatment of the marine mammals. The move, announced during a company presentation to investors, followed a vote by California regulators last month barring SeaWorld San Diego from continuing to breed killer whales (photo), or orcas, if it proceeds with plans to expand their artificial habitat. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. Chief Executive Officer Joel Manby said 2016 would be the last year of the park’s “current orca experience,” which features the black-and-white marine predators performing tricks at the direction of trainers. A highlight of those shows has been leaping orca unleashing an enormous splash into the front rows of spectators seated in the park’s outdoor Shamu Stadium arena. “In 2017 we’re going to launch an all-new orca experience with a conservation theme in a more natural setting,” Manby said, adding that plans were based on SeaWorld guests surveys. “They want the San Diego whale experience to be what the animal would do in the wild.”
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Obama, Netanyahu seek to mend US-Israel ties WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that he remained committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as they sought to mend ties strained by acrimony over Middle East diplomacy and Iran. Meeting Obama for the first time since the signing of the Iran nuclear deal, Netanyahu said he backed a vision of “two states for two peoples” but maintained that any Palestinian state must be demilitarized and recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, a condition Palestinians have rejected. Patching up relations could help smooth the way for a new 10-year U.S. military aid package, which Obama told Netanyahu he wanted to get a “head start” on negotiating. Israel, Washington’s chief Middle East ally, is seeking a record $5 billion a year, according to congressional sources. Obama and Netanyahu, who have a history of testy White House encounters, showed no outward sign of tension, looking cordial and businesslike as they held their first faceto-face talks in 13 months.
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moBile phoNes A person uses a smartphone to take a picture of artwork by Taiwanese artist Lin Shih-pao at the Taipei City Hall, Taiwan, on Monday. The piece was built with 25,000 phones glued and nailed on a wooden frame to draw people’s attention to recycling electronic waste, according to the organizer.
Bahamas in a hurricane last month with the loss of 33 mostly American crew. Its wreck was located on the sea floor in 15,000 feet of water a little over a week ago. U.S. Navy salvage tug Apache is searching for the ship’s bridge and voyage data recorder, which became separated from the wreck, the National Transportation Safety Board said last week. After weather in the Bahamas deteriorated Monday morning, the NTSB tweeted salvage “operations on hold due to Tropical Storm Kate.” The data recorder, similar to an airplane’s black box and affixed to the bridge, could provide NTSB investigators with vital clues as to what caused the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged MIAMI — Salvage operations for vessel in more than three decades. Due to poor communications, the the sunken cargo ship El Faro were suspended Monday due to Tropical NTSB said it was unclear whether Storm Kate, which moved through the Apache had left the search area the Bahamas with winds of 45 mph, to seek refuge from the storm, and how soon it might resume its misU.S. authorities said. The El Faro sank off the southern sion.
Tropical Storm Kate halts El Faro salvage operation
Today in history
Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 10, 1981, as reported in the Bangor Daily News, District Attorney John Atwood said there was not enough evidence to prosecute anyone connected with the Bowdoin College experimental oil spill at Long Cove in Searsport last August. Atwood said they lacked the essential facts, namely the identity of the person or persons responsible for the Aug. 19 spill. On this date: In 1775, during the American
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The center of Kate was forecast to leave the Bahamas on Monday night, the National Hurricane Center said. senior Jordanian official told Reuters. There was no immediate word on the attacker’s background or motive. But Jordan is a staunch U.S. ally in the Washington-led campaign against Islamic State militants who hold large areas of neighboring Syria and Iraq, a position Jordanian officials say leaves the AMMAN — A Jordanian officer kingdom vulnerable to jihadist atshot dead two U.S. government secu- tacks. “This incident sadly does not rity contractors, a South African trainer and two Jordanians at a come as a surprise as the threat of U.S.-funded police training facility Islamist terrorism has only innear Amman on Monday before creased in the region in the last few being killed in a shootout, Jordani- years in the aftermath of Syria and Iraq. As much as pre-emptive meaan authorities said. U.S. President Barack Obama sures have been taken, it is impossaid he was treating the attack at sible to eradicate all risks,” said a the King Abdullah Training Center, senior Jordanian official who rein which three Jordanians and one quested anonymity, citing political Lebanese citizen were wounded, sensitivities. A U.S. official said the two Amerivery seriously and a full investigacans were working for the U.S. State tion was underway. The gunman was a police captain, froM wire ServiCe reporTS
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tric cars and other vehicles to remove snow, ice or sleet from the window.” When she received her patent, Anderson tried to sell it to a Canadian manufacturing firm, but the company refused: The device had no practical value, it said, and so was not worth any money. Though mechanical windshield wipers were standard equipment in passenger cars by around 1913, Anderson never profited from the invention. In 1964, at a news conference, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said that the United States had no plans to send com-
bat troops into Vietnam. When asked whether the United States intended to increase its activities in Vietnam, he replied, “Wait and see.” By 1969, more than 500,000 American troops were in South Vietnam. In 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, made its broadcast debut. “Sesame Street” went on to become the most widely viewed children’s program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries. In 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzger-
ald sank in Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board. It was the worst single accident in Lake Superior’s history. The ship weighed more than 13,000 tons and was 730 feet long. It was launched in 1958 as the biggest carrier in the Great Lakes and became the first ship to carry more than a million tons of iron ore through the Soo Locks. The disaster was immortalized in song the following year in Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Source: history.com
Names SeaWorld said Monday it plans to replace its famed “Shamu” killer whale show in San Diego with an exhibit focused on “conservation,” after grappling with sagging attendance and years of criticism over its treatment of the marine mammals. The move, announced during a company presentation to investors, followed a vote by California regulators last month barring SeaWorld San Diego from continuing to breed killer whales (photo), or orcas, if it proceeds with plans to expand their artificial habitat. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. Chief Executive Officer Joel Manby said 2016 would be the last year of the park’s “current orca experience,” which features the black-and-white marine predators performing tricks at the direction of trainers. A highlight of those shows has been leaping orca unleashing an enormous splash into the front rows of spectators seated in the park’s outdoor Shamu Stadium arena. “In 2017 we’re going to launch an all-new orca experience with a conservation theme in a more natural setting,” Manby said, adding that plans were based on SeaWorld guests surveys. “They want the San Diego whale experience to be what the animal would do in the wild.”
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Obama, Netanyahu seek to mend US-Israel ties WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that he remained committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as they sought to mend ties strained by acrimony over Middle East diplomacy and Iran. Meeting Obama for the first time since the signing of the Iran nuclear deal, Netanyahu said he backed a vision of “two states for two peoples” but maintained that any Palestinian state must be demilitarized and recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, a condition Palestinians have rejected. Patching up relations could help smooth the way for a new 10-year U.S. military aid package, which Obama told Netanyahu he wanted to get a “head start” on negotiating. Israel, Washington’s chief Middle East ally, is seeking a record $5 billion a year, according to congressional sources. Obama and Netanyahu, who have a history of testy White House encounters, showed no outward sign of tension, looking cordial and businesslike as they held their first faceto-face talks in 13 months.
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Today’s question
“Should Maine participate in the federal Forest Legacy program?” Pichi chuaNg | REuTERS
moBile phoNes A person uses a smartphone to take a picture of artwork by Taiwanese artist Lin Shih-pao at the Taipei City Hall, Taiwan, on Monday. The piece was built with 25,000 phones glued and nailed on a wooden frame to draw people’s attention to recycling electronic waste, according to the organizer.
Bahamas in a hurricane last month with the loss of 33 mostly American crew. Its wreck was located on the sea floor in 15,000 feet of water a little over a week ago. U.S. Navy salvage tug Apache is searching for the ship’s bridge and voyage data recorder, which became separated from the wreck, the National Transportation Safety Board said last week. After weather in the Bahamas deteriorated Monday morning, the NTSB tweeted salvage “operations on hold due to Tropical Storm Kate.” The data recorder, similar to an airplane’s black box and affixed to the bridge, could provide NTSB investigators with vital clues as to what caused the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged MIAMI — Salvage operations for vessel in more than three decades. Due to poor communications, the the sunken cargo ship El Faro were suspended Monday due to Tropical NTSB said it was unclear whether Storm Kate, which moved through the Apache had left the search area the Bahamas with winds of 45 mph, to seek refuge from the storm, and how soon it might resume its misU.S. authorities said. The El Faro sank off the southern sion.
Tropical Storm Kate halts El Faro salvage operation
Today in history
Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 10, 1981, as reported in the Bangor Daily News, District Attorney John Atwood said there was not enough evidence to prosecute anyone connected with the Bowdoin College experimental oil spill at Long Cove in Searsport last August. Atwood said they lacked the essential facts, namely the identity of the person or persons responsible for the Aug. 19 spill. On this date: In 1775, during the American
Yesterday we asked
“Will Gov. Paul LePage dismantle Healthy Maine Partnerships?”
Revolution, the Continental Congress passed a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The resolution, drafted by future President John Adams and adopted in Philadelphia, created the Continental Marines and is now observed as the birthdate of the United States Marine Corps. In 1903, the patent office awarded U.S. Patent No. 743,801 to a Birmingham, Alabama, woman named Mary Anderson for her “window cleaning device for elec-
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*This poll is not a scientific survey and reflects only the opinions of bangordailynews.com readers who participate.
The center of Kate was forecast to leave the Bahamas on Monday night, the National Hurricane Center said. senior Jordanian official told Reuters. There was no immediate word on the attacker’s background or motive. But Jordan is a staunch U.S. ally in the Washington-led campaign against Islamic State militants who hold large areas of neighboring Syria and Iraq, a position Jordanian officials say leaves the AMMAN — A Jordanian officer kingdom vulnerable to jihadist atshot dead two U.S. government secu- tacks. “This incident sadly does not rity contractors, a South African trainer and two Jordanians at a come as a surprise as the threat of U.S.-funded police training facility Islamist terrorism has only innear Amman on Monday before creased in the region in the last few being killed in a shootout, Jordani- years in the aftermath of Syria and Iraq. As much as pre-emptive meaan authorities said. U.S. President Barack Obama sures have been taken, it is impossaid he was treating the attack at sible to eradicate all risks,” said a the King Abdullah Training Center, senior Jordanian official who rein which three Jordanians and one quested anonymity, citing political Lebanese citizen were wounded, sensitivities. A U.S. official said the two Amerivery seriously and a full investigacans were working for the U.S. State tion was underway. The gunman was a police captain, froM wire ServiCe reporTS
The world
2 American contractors killed in Jordan shooting
tric cars and other vehicles to remove snow, ice or sleet from the window.” When she received her patent, Anderson tried to sell it to a Canadian manufacturing firm, but the company refused: The device had no practical value, it said, and so was not worth any money. Though mechanical windshield wipers were standard equipment in passenger cars by around 1913, Anderson never profited from the invention. In 1964, at a news conference, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said that the United States had no plans to send com-
bat troops into Vietnam. When asked whether the United States intended to increase its activities in Vietnam, he replied, “Wait and see.” By 1969, more than 500,000 American troops were in South Vietnam. In 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, made its broadcast debut. “Sesame Street” went on to become the most widely viewed children’s program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries. In 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzger-
ald sank in Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board. It was the worst single accident in Lake Superior’s history. The ship weighed more than 13,000 tons and was 730 feet long. It was launched in 1958 as the biggest carrier in the Great Lakes and became the first ship to carry more than a million tons of iron ore through the Soo Locks. The disaster was immortalized in song the following year in Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Source: history.com
