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The new Waterway Village Pedestrian Bridge in Gulf Shores features freight-size, multi-modal elevators on both the north and south sides. These spacious elevators can accommodate wheelchairs, strollers, and up to three bicycles at once, providing accessible, seven-story vertical access over the Intracoastal Waterway

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The Waterway Village Pedestrian Bridge in Gulf Shores, Alabama, is a $24.4 million project spanning the Intracoastal Waterway. Rising 75 feet high, it will connect the northern and southern entertainment districts of Waterway Village (near Tacky Jack's and LuLu's), ensuring safe pedestrian access as Highway 59 expands. It is expected to be completed and open to the public in January 2027

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original Aladdin animated movie

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John Travolta has recently turned the beret into his signature style. He began wearing the hats while promoting his directorial debut, "Propeller One-Way Night Coach," and now owns at least 12 of them in various colors.

Travolta decided to adopt the look as a nod to "old-school directors" from the 1920s to the 1960s who famously wore berets and glasses on set.

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BATON ROUGE — Lawmakers approved a bill this session that will give colleges more control over increases to tuition and fees, but caps increases at 10 percent a year.

Rep. Chris Turner, D- Ruston, said he sponsored House BIll 1084 because colleges cannot keep doing more with less.

“The state hasn’t done a great job of funding our universities, as y’all know,” he told the Senate Education Committee when he presented the bill.

Allowing schools to raise tuition gives them the tools they need to improve what they are providing for students.

Norby Chabert, a former state senator and current political consultant representing Nichols State University, said the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, or TOPS, led to taking tuition decisions away from the people who run the universities.

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“We’ve been playing the shell game,” he told the Senate Education Committee.

TOPS started in 1998 and quickly became so popular that it created a huge expense for the state. To manage that expense, lawmakers did not allow universities to raise tuition on their own. Universities learned that they could increase fees – costs beyond tuition, which were not covered by TOPS.

New fees and fee increases surprised, and irritated, students and their parents.

Turner said the legislature disconnected tuition levels from TOPS funding over several years, which left students with a scholarship that covered only a portion of the cost of higher education.

Turner’s bill initially had no limits on how much universities could raise tuition. A House amendment limited it to 15 percent. A Senate amendment decreased that to 10 percent.

Chabert said the bill gives university leaders a path to “provide a quality education and not just a cheap one.”

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During House and Senate committee hearings on the bill, lawmakers said they were concerned about making it harder for students to pay for college. Some were worried that students concerned about costs will simply not pursue college. Students could feel pressured to take out student loans that will take decades to repay.

“I worked three jobs when I was in school,” Chabert told the House Education Committee.

The administrators who make these decisions will have an incentive not to raise tuition beyond what the university needs to operate effectively, because students have the option of choosing a different university, a community college or a technical school.

Chabert said the bill gives university leaders a path to “provide a quality education and not just a cheap one.”

He said the change will “provide transparency” and will allow lawmakers to hold university leaders accountable.

“It’s going to be a sink or swim, free market thing,” he said.

Turner told both Senate and House committees that he knows it’s a “tough vote” because no one wants to make it harder for people to go to college.

But better schools will balance cost with improvements because “they money goes where the student goes.”

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The Senate passed the amended bill 34-2, and the House then approved it 90-6.

The House speaker signed the bill Sunday and the Senate president signed it Monday. It now heads to the governor.

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Following his full retirement from both television and police work, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated to the Sun City area near Phoenix, Arizona.

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Despite the controversy, Campbell is focused on her future. The 18-year-old graduated with a 3.5 GPA and plans to attend Georgia State University this fall, where she will major in Business Administration. A longtime dancer and cheerleader, she also hopes to join a dance team while in college.

As for the split that sparked the debate, Campbell says she stands by her decision.

"I hope everyone stay true to themselves and never change for anybody," she said.

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The adult entertainment industry relies on extremes to sell content, leading to a highly exaggerated standard. Medical and sociological studies confirm that black men have the same biological variation in size as men of any other race, and the "massive" portrayal is a result of media selection and racial fetishes rather than real-life averages.

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A recent scientific study measured his manhood at 14.2 inches while erect — nearly three times the global average of 5.1 inches.

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“So, I’ve got lightheaded at times as well, getting erections and things like that, and you can’t get fully erect,” he continued. “I’ve taken some various medication over time to try and to try and shrink it, which seemed to have had more like the opposite effect.”

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