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2,301 | Congress learns what a bump stock is | Flake | But after the shooting in Las Vegas Sen. Jeff Flake a Republican from Arizona was stunned by the audio he was hearing the sounds of a gun popping at a concert in Las Vegas at a frequency he was almost sure wasn't just coming from a semi-automatic weapon.
"I think all of us assumed that when we heard the audio that it was a fully automatic weapon. ... How in the world would the shooter get that?" Flake asked.
Flake called a friend who collected guns and asked him : What was he hearing?
" He heard the audio and he thought 'that wasn't fully automatic. Fully automatic is about 800 rounds and that sounded like about 500.' ... He started telling me about not just the bump stocks about a crank and other methods to mechanically increase the rate of fire " Flake said.
Sen. John Cornyn the majority whip who called for hearings on the bump stocks this week also said it was the video footage that got him thinking about the gun accessory. | But after [TGT] a Republican from Arizona was stunned by the audio [TGT] was hearing the sounds of a gun popping at a concert in Las Vegas at a frequency [TGT] was almost sure wasn't just coming from a semi-automatic weapon.
"I think all of us assumed that when we heard the audio that it was a fully automatic weapon. ... How in the world would the shooter get that?" [TGT] asked.
[TGT] called a friend who collected guns and asked [TGT] : What was [TGT] hearing?
" [TGT] heard the audio and [TGT] thought 'that wasn't fully automatic. Fully automatic is about 800 rounds and that sounded like about 500.' ... [TGT] started telling me about not just the bump stocks about a crank and other methods to mechanically increase the rate of fire " [TGT] said.
Sen. John Cornyn the majority whip who called for hearings on the bump stocks this week also said it was the video footage that got him thinking about the gun accessory. | 1Neutral
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2,302 | On disputed land Zimbabweans see hope after Mugabeâs exit | Grace Mugabe | MAZOWE Zimbabwe â For years a group of Zimbabwean villagers resisted efforts by the wife of former President Robert Mugabe to force them off a farm near the capital enduring police raids and the demolition of their homes. Now that Mugabe has resigned the farmers say they are able to move more freely in a blow to Grace Mugabeâs efforts to expand her landholdings.
Grace Mugabe whose ambitions to succeed her husband as president triggered a military takeover has attracted criticism in the past for lavish shopping trips. In October she went to court in an attempt to seize assets of a Lebanese businessman who allegedly failed to deliver a diamond ring worth more than $1.35 million.
The former first lady set up a school and runs a dairy farm in Mazowe projects that she said would boost Zimbabweâs devastated economy but were widely seen as an attempt to build a business empire for personal gain. Those ambitions are now in question after her 93-year-old husband resigned Tuesday following pressure from the military parliament and street protesters ending nearly four decades in power that saw Zimbabwe slide into economic ruin.
The conflict over Manzou farm also known as Arnold farm was a flashpoint for national anger over perceptions that Grace Mugabe thought she was above the law in her efforts to evict residents and turn the area into a wildlife park. Earlier this year human rights lawyers secured a court order allowing hundreds of villagers to stay on the farm but police or guards showed up again and tried to force people off the land according to community leader Innocent Dube.
Grace Mugabe ânever followed the court order â he said. â She was still bringing police here.â
Now however things are different. After news of Mugabe âs resignation reached the farm villagers staged a demonstration marching in nearby roads without interference from security forces. Police who used to watch the farmâs entrance appear to be hunkered down in their compound. A sign says âtrespassers will be prosecuted â but people come and go.
The villagers first moved into Manzou farm around 2000 as part of a wave of land seizures and evictions of farmers from Zimbabweâs white minority which relinquished power in 1980 after a guerrilla war by black nationalists. Mugabe said the often-violent reform program was meant to redistribute resources to poor blacks but many prime farms instead ended up in the hands of ruling party leaders party loyalists security chiefs relatives and cronies.
Several years ago Grace Mugabe said people on Manzou farm were panning for gold and she accused a local lawmaker of trying to incite people to resist her claim to the land.
âI might have a small fist â she said at the time. âBut when it comes to fighting I will put stones inside to enlarge it. Do not doubt my capabilities.â | MAZOWE Zimbabwe â For years a group of Zimbabwean villagers resisted efforts by the wife of former President Robert Mugabe to force them off a farm near the capital enduring police raids and the demolition of their homes. Now that Mugabe has resigned the farmers say they are able to move more freely in a blow to [TGT] efforts to expand [TGT] landholdings.
[TGT] has attracted criticism in the past for lavish shopping trips. In October [TGT] went to court in an attempt to seize assets of a Lebanese businessman who allegedly failed to deliver a diamond ring worth more than $1.35 million.
The former first lady set up a school and runs a dairy farm in Mazowe projects that she said would boost Zimbabweâs devastated economy but were widely seen as an attempt to build a business empire for personal gain. Those ambitions are now in question after her 93-year-old husband resigned Tuesday following pressure from the military parliament and street protesters ending nearly four decades in power that saw Zimbabwe slide into economic ruin.
The conflict over Manzou farm also known as Arnold farm was a flashpoint for national anger over perceptions that [TGT] thought [TGT] was above the law in [TGT] efforts to evict residents and turn the area into a wildlife park. Earlier this year human rights lawyers secured a court order allowing hundreds of villagers to stay on the farm but police or guards showed up again and tried to force people off the land according to community leader Innocent Dube.
[TGT] ânever followed the court order â [TGT] said. â She was still bringing police here.â
Now however things are different. After news of [TGT] âs resignation reached the farm villagers staged a demonstration marching in nearby roads without interference from security forces. Police who used to watch the farmâs entrance appear to be hunkered down in their compound. A sign says âtrespassers will be prosecuted â but people come and go.
The villagers first moved into Manzou farm around 2000 as part of a wave of land seizures and evictions of farmers from Zimbabweâs white minority which relinquished power in 1980 after a guerrilla war by black nationalists. [TGT] said the often-violent reform program was meant to redistribute resources to poor blacks but many prime farms instead ended up in the hands of ruling party leaders party loyalists security chiefs relatives and cronies.
Several years ago [TGT] said people on Manzou farm were panning for gold and [TGT] accused a local lawmaker of trying to incite people to resist her claim to the land.
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2,303 | Russian who wore 'I Don't Do Doping' T | Nadezhda Sergeeva | Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov told The Associated Press on Friday that a drug-test sample that pilot Nadezhda Sergeeva gave on Sunday was positive.
" She confirms she took no such medication and the team confirms she was not issued any medication " said Zubkov a former bobsledder who himself was stripped of two Olympic gold medals for the Russian doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games. "Federation representatives at the Olympics" are starting to prepare a defense he said.
Zubkov also said a sample she had given five days earlier was negative.
Nadezhda Sergeeva (right) has tested positive for trimetazdine which is listed as a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Sergeeva 's crew finished 12th in the women's bobsled competition on Wednesday after she had given the sample that later came back positive.
Earlier this month Sergeeva told the AP that competitors from other countries had warmed to her after she passed IOC vetting for Pyeongchang which included an examination of her drug-testing history.
"I don't know why but they've started talking to us more than ever before. I feel it. Maybe it's a sign to them that we're clean " Sergeeva said. "There's a lot of people coming up and saying 'We're happy you're here.'"
At the time she was training in a T-shirt with the words "I Don't Do Doping." Sergeeva used to compete in track and field as a heptathlete before switching sports in 2010.
Sergeeva switched to driving a bobsled after competing in track and field as a heptathlete.
Trimetazidine the substance found in Sergeeva 's sample has been detected in previous doping cases. Chinese swimmer Sun Yang an Olympic gold medalist was banned for three months in 2014 by his country's sports authorities after testing positive for the substance. | Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov told The Associated Press on Friday that [TGT] .
" [TGT] confirms [TGT] took no such medication and the team confirms [TGT] was not issued any medication " said Zubkov a former bobsledder who himself was stripped of two Olympic gold medals for the Russian doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games. "Federation representatives at the Olympics" are starting to prepare a defense he said.
Zubkov also said a sample she had given five days earlier was negative.
[TGT] has tested positive for trimetazdine which is listed as a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Sergeeva 's crew finished 12th in the women's bobsled competition on Wednesday after [TGT] had given the sample that later came back positive.
Earlier this month [TGT] told the AP that competitors from other countries had warmed to [TGT] after [TGT] passed IOC vetting for Pyeongchang which included an examination of [TGT] drug-testing history.
"I don't know why but they've started talking to us more than ever before. I feel it. Maybe it's a sign to them that we're clean [TGT] said. "There's a lot of people coming up and saying 'We're happy you're here.'"
At the time [TGT] was training in a T-shirt with the words "I Don't Do Doping." Sergeeva used to compete in track and field as a heptathlete before switching sports in 2010.
[TGT] switched to driving a bobsled after competing in track and field as a heptathlete.
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2,304 | Buffalo Bills stadium employee quits after players kneel during anthem | Erich Nikischer | Erich Nikischer who worked at New Era Field for almost 30 years told WGRZ-TV that he quit right after he saw Bills players kneeling during the anthem as a form of protest.
âI waited until the national anthem ended I took off my shirt threw my Bills hat on the ground walked out â Nikischer said.
âDuring the National Anthem⦠the song that is about our country our veterans that fight and die for us it's just something I feel you shouldn't disrespect that way. I believe people have the right to protest; I just don't believe that's the proper venue for it â Nikischer added.
Nikischer wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post that on Sunday he was "pushed to my limit today and had to quit. I can not work in a place where multi millionaires cry that they are oppressed."
Nikischer told WGRZ that he would never enter the Billsâ stadium again.
âI will never step foot in the that [sic] place again I will never watch an NFL football game again until this ends â Nikischer said. | [TGT] told WGRZ-TV that [TGT] quit right after [TGT] saw Bills players kneeling during the anthem as a form of protest.
âI waited until the national anthem ended I took off my shirt threw my Bills hat on the ground walked out â [TGT] said.
âDuring the National Anthem⦠the song that is about our country our veterans that fight and die for us it's just something I feel you shouldn't disrespect that way. I believe people have the right to protest; I just don't believe that's the proper venue for it â [TGT] added.
[TGT] wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post that on Sunday [TGT] was "pushed to my limit today and had to quit. I can not work in a place where multi millionaires cry that they are oppressed."
Nikischer told WGRZ that he would never enter the Billsâ stadium again.
âI will never step foot in the that [sic] place again I will never watch an NFL football game again until this ends â [TGT] said. | 1Neutral
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2,305 | Before Your Quit Your Job To Pursue Your Passion Ask Yourself These Three Questions | Jeff Goins | If youâre at a crossroads in your life not knowing which path to pursue or where your true passion lies have you ever stopped doing and started listening? Jeff Goins author of Real Artists Donât Starve argues that instead of trying to figure out what it is weâre good at we should take time to figure who we are as people. In a blog post he wrote in 2015 Goins offered this paraphrase of Parker Palmer: âDonât just tell your life what you want to do with it; listen to what it wants to do with you.â
âYou have to listen to the voices beyond those of the people in your life â Goins explained. âListen to your inner voice your intuition wherever that comes from. Ask not just what can I do but who am I really? We all have this tension between who we really are and who everybody says we should be and listening to your life is the first step in not just doing work that makes you successful but doing work we believe matters.â
To begin the process of listening to yourself Goins recommends asking yourself three questions. The first question is about passion. Take out a piece of paper and draw a circle. Write the word âpassionâ in that circle and underneath it write what you love to do. What do you have an affinity for or what have you always enjoyed? This doesnât have to be something specific like writing or cooking. It could be a general interest.
âI didnât know what I wanted to do with my life but Iâve always been creative â Goins revealed. âThat was always true about me. Iâve always loved art music writing and reading. In my first circle I would have written creativity or art in there.â
âWhen you find something that you love that youâre skilled at and that other people want from you youâve got a short list â Goins said. âIt may not be one thing but itâs a handful of things that you can begin to explore to find out if itâs your calling. It is not the end of this journey. You havenât filled out these three circles and thatâs what youâre supposed to do. This exercise is a starting point for you to explore the options.â
As evidenced by his latest book title Goins is not a fan of the âstarving artistâ mentality. Living in Nashville heâs surrounded by musicians who suffer for their art. Some assume that suffering makes their art nobler when in Goins â mind the starving artist is suffering unnecessarily. They havenât given themselves permission to profit and flourish. Instead they falsely believe they have to stay at the level theyâre at until they go broke.
âI think artists of all types need to give themselves permission to value the work that they do and take it more seriously â Goins said. âThat way they donât starve. They can keep creating this important work and we can keep seeing it. My dad ran a restaurant for years and struggled through that. It was a great restaurant that served this small community. People loved it but from a business standpoint it didnât work well. He had to close and sell it for the cost of the equipment. It breaks my heart that artists of all types cannot figure out the business side of things and become a thriving artist.â
In his book Goins lays out 12 rules for how to become a thriving artist. One is that artists should apprentice under a master. In reading over 100 books on historyâs greatest artists entrepreneurs and creative minds Goins discovered that almost all of them had an apprenticeship. This meant doing boring tedious work for somebody else and using that experience to become great at something. In todayâs work environment an apprenticeship gets confused with terms that donât mean the same thing.
âThis is not an internship or a summer job at the high rise in the city where you get everybody donuts in the morning â Goins clarified. âIt was seven to ten years of doing work usually in exchange for room and board. Hopefully by the end of that time you knew what you were doing. I think we should take the same approach to our art and certainly to our business. Iâm tired of seeing people become thought leaders and asking people to pay them for their expertise when they havenât spent a decade acquiring experience and expertise. They donât have the right to teach anybody else.â | If youâre at a crossroads in your life not knowing which path to pursue or where your true passion lies have you ever stopped doing and started listening? [TGT] argues that instead of trying to figure out what it is weâre good at we should take time to figure who we are as people. In a blog post [TGT] wrote in 2015 Goins offered this paraphrase of Parker Palmer: âDonât just tell your life what you want to do with it; listen to what it wants to do with you.â
âYou have to listen to the voices beyond those of the people in your life â Goins explained. âListen to your inner voice your intuition wherever that comes from. Ask not just what can I do but who am I really? We all have this tension between who we really are and who everybody says we should be and listening to your life is the first step in not just doing work that makes you successful but doing work we believe matters.â
To begin the process of listening to yourself Goins recommends asking yourself three questions. The first question is about passion. Take out a piece of paper and draw a circle. Write the word âpassionâ in that circle and underneath it write what you love to do. What do you have an affinity for or what have you always enjoyed? This doesnât have to be something specific like writing or cooking. It could be a general interest.
âI didnât know what I wanted to do with my life but Iâve always been creative â Goins revealed. âThat was always true about me. Iâve always loved art music writing and reading. In my first circle I would have written creativity or art in there.â
âWhen you find something that you love that youâre skilled at and that other people want from you youâve got a short list â Goins said. âIt may not be one thing but itâs a handful of things that you can begin to explore to find out if itâs your calling. It is not the end of this journey. You havenât filled out these three circles and thatâs what youâre supposed to do. This exercise is a starting point for you to explore the options.â
As evidenced by his latest book title Goins is not a fan of the âstarving artistâ mentality. Living in Nashville heâs surrounded by musicians who suffer for their art. Some assume that suffering makes their art nobler when in Goins â mind the starving artist is suffering unnecessarily. They havenât given themselves permission to profit and flourish. Instead they falsely believe they have to stay at the level theyâre at until they go broke.
âI think artists of all types need to give themselves permission to value the work that they do and take it more seriously â Goins said. âThat way they donât starve. They can keep creating this important work and we can keep seeing it. My dad ran a restaurant for years and struggled through that. It was a great restaurant that served this small community. People loved it but from a business standpoint it didnât work well. He had to close and sell it for the cost of the equipment. It breaks my heart that artists of all types cannot figure out the business side of things and become a thriving artist.â
In his book Goins lays out 12 rules for how to become a thriving artist. One is that artists should apprentice under a master. In reading over 100 books on historyâs greatest artists entrepreneurs and creative minds Goins discovered that almost all of them had an apprenticeship. This meant doing boring tedious work for somebody else and using that experience to become great at something. In todayâs work environment an apprenticeship gets confused with terms that donât mean the same thing.
âThis is not an internship or a summer job at the high rise in the city where you get everybody donuts in the morning â Goins clarified. âIt was seven to ten years of doing work usually in exchange for room and board. Hopefully by the end of that time you knew what you were doing. I think we should take the same approach to our art and certainly to our business. Iâm tired of seeing people become thought leaders and asking people to pay them for their expertise when they havenât spent a decade acquiring experience and expertise. They donât have the right to teach anybody else.â | 2Positive
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2,306 | Mexico's Day of the Dead mourns quake victims | Nayeli Flores | Nayeli Flores struggled to bring up her two children working as a legal aide and studying law so she never had time or money to set up an elaborate Day of the Dead altar as her son Julian wanted to do. This year Flores will fulfill his wish for an altar â dedicated to the 11-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister Ximena who died when the quake collapsed their apartment building into a pile of rubble on the city's south side. The two kids had stayed home from school that day while their mom was working.
"My son always complained because we didn't put up an altar " Flores said between sobs. "So this year I am going to do it in his memory."
Flores wants to make sure there are stuffed animals on the altar too. "They used to love them; they would fight over them " she remembered.
Many of the residents of the 1960s-era apartment complex Flores called home are still living in tents beside buildings that survived. Some of the structures can be repaired but others will have to be torn down.
Seven other people died along with Flores ' kids in the building that fell. Survivors are erecting a big altar honoring the nine. Yet another altar commemorates all the quake's victims.
"This is going to be difficult because it is all very recent but in the end we are honoring their memories " said Carlos Luz one of Flores' neighbors. "It means a lot to the people who lost family members." | [TGT] struggled to bring up [TGT] two children working as a legal aide and studying law so [TGT] never had time or money to set up an elaborate Day of the Dead altar as [TGT] son Julian wanted to do. This year [TGT] will fulfill [TGT] wish for an altar â dedicated to the 11-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister Ximena who died when the quake collapsed their apartment building into a pile of rubble on the city's south side. The two kids had stayed home from school that day while their mom was working.
"My son always complained because we didn't put up an altar " [TGT] said between sobs. "So this year I am going to do it in [TGT] memory."
Flores wants to make sure there are stuffed animals on the altar too. "They used to love them; they would fight over them " she remembered.
Many of the residents of the 1960s-era apartment complex [TGT] called home are still living in tents beside buildings that survived. Some of the structures can be repaired but others will have to be torn down.
Seven other people died along with [TGT] kids in the building that fell. Survivors are erecting a big altar honoring the nine. Yet another altar commemorates all the quake's victims.
"This is going to be difficult because it is all very recent but in the end we are honoring their memories " said Carlos Luz one of [TGT] neighbors. "It means a lot to the people who lost family members." | 1Neutral
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2,307 | The Latest: Germany views Catalonia still as a Spanish issue | Carles Puigdemont | 12:30 p.m.
Fugitive Catalan former leader Carles Puigdemont says that he âs ready to meet Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in any European Union location but in Spain where he âs facing arrest.
Speaking Friday to reporters in Brussels where he fled evading a Spanish judicial probe into his recent attempt to split Catalonia from Spain Puigdemont said that Thursdayâs regional election opened âa new eraâ for the region.
Puigdemont says that he wants guarantees to return to Catalonia and be reinstated as the regionâs leader. As the most voted candidate among separatists he could be chosen to lead a new pro-independence coalition depending on how negotiations with other parties go.
Eight of the separatist lawmakers elected including ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and his no. 2 Oriol Junqueras are either in jail or are fugitives from Spanish justice in Brussels following the October secession bid.
Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont who campaigned from Belgium where he is evading a Spanish judicial probe into his recent attempt to split Catalonia from Spain is also scheduled to speak. | [TGT]
says that [TGT] âs ready to meet Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in any European Union location but in Spain where [TGT] âs facing arrest.
Speaking Friday to reporters in Brussels where he fled evading a Spanish judicial probe into his recent attempt to split Catalonia from Spain Puigdemont said that Thursdayâs regional election opened âa new eraâ for the region.
Puigdemont says that he wants guarantees to return to Catalonia and be reinstated as the regionâs leader. As the most voted candidate among separatists he could be chosen to lead a new pro-independence coalition depending on how negotiations with other parties go.
Eight of the separatist lawmakers elected including ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and his no. 2 Oriol Junqueras are either in jail or are fugitives from Spanish justice in Brussels following the October secession bid.
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2,308 | Lindsey Vonn wants win in final Olympics for herself and grandfather | ILindsey Vonn | Memory of her grandfather gives Lindsey Vonn added motivation in final Winter Olympics
Yet Lindsey Vonn isnât nervous as she prepares for her final Olympics. She knows her beloved grandfather is watching out for her and that gives her a sense of calm and purpose that ought to strike fear in every one of her competitors.
âI feel really good â Vonn said Friday. âBecause itâs not really about me or my career. Itâs about my grandfather. Iâm just going to lay it all out there. Iâm going to give it everything I have and whatever happens will happen.â
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The Pyeongchang Games were supposed to put all of that to right allow her to end her Olympic career the way she wanted rather than how the fates decided. That the Games are in South Korea made it all the more fitting.
Vonnâs grandfather Don Kildow served in Korea with the Army Corps of Engineers. He helped found a ski club where he lived in southern Wisconsin and passed his love for the sport on to Vonn âs father Alan and his granddaughter.
Vonn had hoped to bring her grandfather to Pyeongchang but he died Nov. 1. He was 88.
âYou taught me to be tough to be kind and above all to ski fast â Vonn wrote in an Instagram post after he died Nov. 1. âNow every time I ski down the mountain I know youâll be there with me . I âm proud to be your granddaughter and I will think of you always.
âI will race for you in Korea and I will try as hard as I can to win for you. Please look out for me .â
âI âm going to win for him.â
Vonn âs first race is the Super-G on Feb. 17. She also plans to race the downhill Feb. 21 and the Alpine combined Feb. 23.
âI feel like Iâm coming into these Olympics on a hot streak. Iâm skiing exceptionally well and I have a lot of confidence â she said. âIâm very happy with how I feel physically mentally and on skis. Last weekend was just the icing on the cake exactly what I needed to build my confidence and get ready for the Olympics.â
Making her results last weekend all the more impressive was that they came as several of her American teammates suffered devastating injuries.
Jackie Wiles whom Vonn and her foundation have supported financially will miss the Olympics after tearing her ACL and breaking two bones in her left leg during Saturdayâs race. Stacey Cook crashed Sunday. Though she was taken off the course on a sled she is fine and here in Pyeongchang. | Memory of her grandfather gives Lindsey Vonn added motivation in final Winter Olympics
Yet Lindsey Vonn isnât nervous as she prepares for her final Olympics. She knows her beloved grandfather is watching out for her and that gives her a sense of calm and purpose that ought to strike fear in every one of her competitors.
âI feel really good â Vonn said Friday. âBecause itâs not really about me or my career. Itâs about my grandfather. Iâm just going to lay it all out there. Iâm going to give it everything I have and whatever happens will happen.â
More: Lindsey Vonn 's Olympic dreams driven by need for speed
More: Lindsey Vonn brings dog to Olympics addresses lonely life on road
More: Lindsey and Lucy Vonn becoming the darlings of 2018 Winter Olympics
The Pyeongchang Games were supposed to put all of that to right allow her to end her Olympic career the way she wanted rather than how the fates decided. That the Games are in South Korea made it all the more fitting.
Vonnâs grandfather Don Kildow served in Korea with the Army Corps of Engineers. He helped found a ski club where he lived in southern Wisconsin and passed his love for the sport on to Vonn âs father Alan and his granddaughter.
Vonn had hoped to bring her grandfather to Pyeongchang but he died Nov. 1. He was 88.
âYou taught me to be tough to be kind and above all to ski fast â Vonn wrote in an Instagram post after he died Nov. 1. âNow every time I ski down the mountain I know youâll be there with me . I âm proud to be your granddaughter and I will think of you always.
âI will race for you in Korea and I will try as hard as I can to win for you. Please look out for me .â
âI âm going to win for him.â
Vonn âs first race is the Super-G on Feb. 17. She also plans to race the downhill Feb. 21 and the Alpine combined Feb. 23.
âI feel like Iâm coming into these Olympics on a hot streak. Iâm skiing exceptionally well and I have a lot of confidence â she said. âIâm very happy with how I feel physically mentally and on skis. Last weekend was just the icing on the cake exactly what I needed to build my confidence and get ready for the Olympics.â
Making her results last weekend all the more impressive was that they came as several of her American teammates suffered devastating injuries.
Jackie Wiles whom Vonn and her foundation have supported financially will miss the Olympics after tearing her ACL and breaking two bones in her left leg during Saturdayâs race. Stacey Cook crashed Sunday. Though she was taken off the course on a sled she is fine and here in Pyeongchang. | 2Positive
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2,309 | Eric Dickerson on the NCAA: 'It Really Is Slavery' | Eric Dickerson | Monday on Fox Sports 1âs âUndisputed â NFL Hall of Famer and Fox Sports 1 analyst Eric Dickerson took aim at the NCAA amid reports that prominent college basketball teams have been paying players.
âThe NCAA theyâre the biggest hypocrites of all because this has been going on for decades even before I started playing football basketball â Dickerson explained. â[The] NCAA exploits not just black kids white kids Asian kids anybody who plays anything basketball baseball or football-related because they make all the money and the kids arenât allowed to make money.â
Dickerson then took his âthank you master â comment a step further.
âItâs just so frustrating to see how the NCAA has exploited all of these kids. And I just feel like they are the biggest criminals in the world and all of this starts at the top. All of this starts at the top. I gotta just say it: All these white guys sit up there making all this money off the backs of the black and white players they do for basically itâs slavery. It really is slavery â said Dickerson . | Monday on Fox Sports 1âs âUndisputed â NFL Hall of Famer and Fox Sports [TGT] took aim at the NCAA amid reports that prominent college basketball teams have been paying players.
âThe NCAA theyâre the biggest hypocrites of all because this has been going on for decades even before I started playing football basketball â [TGT] explained. â[The] NCAA exploits not just black kids white kids Asian kids anybody who plays anything basketball baseball or football-related because they make all the money and the kids arenât allowed to make money.â
Dickerson then took his âthank you master â comment a step further.
âItâs just so frustrating to see how the NCAA has exploited all of these kids. And I just feel like they are the biggest criminals in the world and all of this starts at the top. All of this starts at the top. I gotta just say it: All these white guys sit up there making all this money off the backs of the black and white players they do for basically itâs slavery. It really is slavery â said [TGT] . | 1Neutral
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2,310 | Sen. Durbin Drops Amnesty | Dick Durbin | Democratic leader Sen. Dick Durbin is retreating from his threats to block federal spending unless the GOP agrees to his no-strings DREAM Act amnesty â but is now trying to find GOP allies for an amnesty which includes token border-security measures.
The retreat was called during his December 10 appearance on âFace the Nation â where Durbin was reminded of his prior claim that âIâm not prepared to go home for the holidays until we get our work done.â In response the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate said the amnesty is just one of several issues in the budget debate effectively dropping his amnesty-or-shutdown threat:
Durbin âs fallback tactic is reviving the âGang of Eightâ group with several new GOP Senators to demand an amnesty in exchange for a few symbolic border security measures such as extra video cameras. His plan was highlighted by a report in TheDenverChannel.com.
The new discussion involves pairing the Dream Act with some border security measures in an attempt to pass a bipartisan solution for the undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children three Senate aides told Denver7 in interviews this week⦠Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) who were all part of the bipartisan âGang of Eightâ that passed a comprehensive immigration reform package through the Senate in 2013 are leading the discussions according to the three aides with knowledge of the talks⦠Two of the Senate aides also told Denver7 that Republican Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were involved in the talks. Graham was also a member of the âGang of Eightâ and is the sponsor of this yearâs version of the Dream Act â¦
The âGang of Eightâ proved to be a political disaster for Durbin and for Sen. Chuck Schumer the two leaders of the project. It was introduced in 2013 and it generated massive national opposition which helped cost the Democrats nine seats in 2014. In 2016 real-estate investor Donald Trump used the issue to win the GOP nomination and the Presidency sending Schumer and Durbin back into the minority.
President Donald Trump is expected to reject Durbin âs new pitch. On October 8 Trump announced his popular immigration principles which include making E-Verify mandatory plus ending chain-migration and the visa-lottery. The biggest element in Trumpâs plan is ending chain-migration which would raise Americansâ salaries by halving the inflow of legal immigrant workers.
GOP Senators are wary of Durbin âs project. For example Durbin claimed Sunday that GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs an amnesty for the 3 million young illegals usually dubbed âdreamersâ by Democrats and the media. Durbin told âFace the Nationâ that:
Coloradoâs Sen. Cory Gardner has kept a low profile in the debate but he announced in September that he supported Durbin âs no-strings DREAM Act amnesty:
When asked about Durbin âs plan Gardnerâs office gave an evasive answer to TheDenverChannel.com:
Other GOP Senators denied any role when Breitbart asked them if they were working with Durbin . âThat is absolutely not true â said Megan Taylor a spokeswoman for Nevada GOP Sen. Dean Heller. âThat is not accurate â said Brook Ramlet a spokeswoman for Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham created the Gang of Eight in late 2012 and is now working with both rivals groups headed by Grassley and Durbin . When recently asked about Grassleyâs plan â which only offers three-year work permits to 690 000 DACA illegals â Graham insisted that the larger population of 3 million younger illegals must get citizenship.
Sen. Marco Rubioâs office did not respond to questions from Breitbart News about possible talks with Durbin . His presidential hopes were destroyed by his support of the Gang of Eight deal which would have reduced Americans salaries while increasing Wall Street stock-values according to a 2013 report by the Congressional Budget Office. | [TGT] is retreating from [TGT] threats to block federal spending unless the GOP agrees to [TGT] no-strings DREAM Act amnesty â but is now trying to find GOP allies for an amnesty which includes token border-security measures.
The retreat was called during his December 10 appearance on âFace the Nation â where [TGT] was reminded of [TGT] prior claim that âIâm not prepared to go home for the holidays until we get our work done.â In response the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate said the amnesty is just one of several issues in the budget debate effectively dropping his amnesty-or-shutdown threat:
[TGT] âs fallback tactic is reviving the âGang of Eightâ group with several new GOP Senators to demand an amnesty in exchange for a few symbolic border security measures such as extra video cameras. His plan was highlighted by a report in TheDenverChannel.com.
The new discussion involves pairing the Dream Act with some border security measures in an attempt to pass a bipartisan solution for the undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children three Senate aides told Denver7 in interviews this week⦠Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) who were all part of the bipartisan âGang of Eightâ that passed a comprehensive immigration reform package through the Senate in 2013 are leading the discussions according to the three aides with knowledge of the talks⦠Two of the Senate aides also told Denver7 that Republican Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were involved in the talks. Graham was also a member of the âGang of Eightâ and is the sponsor of this yearâs version of the Dream Act â¦
The âGang of Eightâ proved to be a political disaster for Durbin and for Sen. Chuck Schumer the two leaders of the project. It was introduced in 2013 and it generated massive national opposition which helped cost the Democrats nine seats in 2014. In 2016 real-estate investor Donald Trump used the issue to win the GOP nomination and the Presidency sending Schumer and Durbin back into the minority.
President Donald Trump is expected to reject Durbin âs new pitch. On October 8 Trump announced his popular immigration principles which include making E-Verify mandatory plus ending chain-migration and the visa-lottery. The biggest element in Trumpâs plan is ending chain-migration which would raise Americansâ salaries by halving the inflow of legal immigrant workers.
GOP Senators are wary of Durbin âs project. For example Durbin claimed Sunday that GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs an amnesty for the 3 million young illegals usually dubbed âdreamersâ by Democrats and the media. Durbin told âFace the Nationâ that:
Coloradoâs Sen. Cory Gardner has kept a low profile in the debate but he announced in September that he supported Durbin âs no-strings DREAM Act amnesty:
When asked about Durbin âs plan Gardnerâs office gave an evasive answer to TheDenverChannel.com:
Other GOP Senators denied any role when Breitbart asked them if they were working with Durbin . âThat is absolutely not true â said Megan Taylor a spokeswoman for Nevada GOP Sen. Dean Heller. âThat is not accurate â said Brook Ramlet a spokeswoman for Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham created the Gang of Eight in late 2012 and is now working with both rivals groups headed by Grassley and Durbin . When recently asked about Grassleyâs plan â which only offers three-year work permits to 690 000 DACA illegals â Graham insisted that the larger population of 3 million younger illegals must get citizenship.
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2,311 | Game on! Pritzker parries the 'insider' charge Kennedy lashes back | Chris Kennedy | Businessman Chris Kennedy jumped in with his take: âThatâs why we have a divided government â he said. âFor gosh sakes if weâre not going to call out other parts of government â if you donât see your role as governor to call out a mayor whoâs not representing the people of a certain city if youâre not willing to call out an assessor whoâs violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act â if you donât think thatâs the proper role of government you should go read the Constitution ...
Well yes Iâm all for calling politicians to account â pointing out their failings and demanding they do better. And while I understand that constructive criticism and attempts at engagement and compromise arenât politically fashionable I donât think Kennedy set the table for long-term success should he be elected with his over-the-top accusation earlier this month that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is leading a âstrategic gentrification planâ to drive African-Americans and other minorities out of the city.
Iâd say the same thing about Kennedy âs repeated claims one example seen above that successful property-tax appeals result in less money for our schools.
Thatâs not how property taxes work. Schools set an overall levy and that amount is divvied up among all the property taxpayers in the district. When your tax bill goes down after an appeal everyone elseâs goes up fractionally to compensate. Candidate Daniel Biss a state senator from Evanston explained this clearly to Kennedy during a similar session Wednesday before the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board. | [TGT] jumped in with [TGT] take: âThatâs why we have a divided government â [TGT] said. âFor gosh sakes if weâre not going to call out other parts of government â if you donât see your role as governor to call out a mayor whoâs not representing the people of a certain city if youâre not willing to call out an assessor whoâs violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act â if you donât think thatâs the proper role of government you should go read the Constitution ...
Well yes Iâm all for calling politicians to account â pointing out their failings and demanding they do better. And while I understand that constructive criticism and attempts at engagement and compromise arenât politically fashionable I donât think [TGT] set the table for long-term success should [TGT] be elected with [TGT] over-the-top accusation earlier this month that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is leading a âstrategic gentrification planâ to drive African-Americans and other minorities out of the city.
Iâd say the same thing about [TGT] âs repeated claims one example seen above that successful property-tax appeals result in less money for our schools.
Thatâs not how property taxes work. Schools set an overall levy and that amount is divvied up among all the property taxpayers in the district. When your tax bill goes down after an appeal everyone elseâs goes up fractionally to compensate. Candidate Daniel Biss a state senator from Evanston explained this clearly to Kennedy during a similar session Wednesday before the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board. | 1Neutral
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2,312 | Couple uses hilarious 'flower man' at their wedding | Jake Clark | Last Saturday the couple wed outside of Dayton OH. But before the two said âI do â their friend Jake Clark set the stage for their walk down the aisle as âflower man.â
According to Yahoo Style Clark approached the couple after they got engaged and volunteered himself to be part of the wedding party. Amanda and Daniel took him up on the offer and now the pictures of Clark 's walk down the aisle have received nearly 200 reactions and over 60 shares on Facebook.
Clark strutted down the aisle with not one but three fanny packs â all stuffed with fallen fall leaves. During the rehearsal Amanda thought the fallen leaves were pretty but Clark says of the atypical wedding foliage âUnfortunately a lot of them were shredded when I pulled them out and some people got some leaves to the face as well which they seemed to be good sports about.â
As for the multiple fanny packs Clark wanted to âgo big or go home.â
âI figured if Iâm going to be flower man Iâm going to go all out â go big or go home â Clark tells Yahoo. âI could have just carried around a basket but I thought âHow could I make it a little more over the top?â So I decided three fanny packs not one. The showcase fanny pack was actually a unicorn fanny pack.â
Clark wasnât the only unconventional part of the wedding â later in the evening an unexpected blaze broke out. | Last Saturday the couple wed outside of Dayton OH. But before the two said âI do â their friend [TGT] set the stage for their walk down the aisle as âflower man.â
According to Yahoo Style Clark approached the couple after they got engaged and volunteered himself to be part of the wedding party. Amanda and Daniel took him up on the offer and now the pictures of Clark 's walk down the aisle have received nearly 200 reactions and over 60 shares on Facebook.
Clark strutted down the aisle with not one but three fanny packs â all stuffed with fallen fall leaves. During the rehearsal Amanda thought the fallen leaves were pretty but Clark says of the atypical wedding foliage âUnfortunately a lot of them were shredded when I pulled them out and some people got some leaves to the face as well which they seemed to be good sports about.â
As for the multiple fanny packs Clark wanted to âgo big or go home.â
âI figured if Iâm going to be flower man Iâm going to go all out â go big or go home â Clark tells Yahoo. âI could have just carried around a basket but I thought âHow could I make it a little more over the top?â So I decided three fanny packs not one. The showcase fanny pack was actually a unicorn fanny pack.â
Clark wasnât the only unconventional part of the wedding â later in the evening an unexpected blaze broke out. | 2Positive
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2,313 | Man Wearing âF*ck Trumpâ T | Andy Ternay | On February 11 Andy Ternay wore a shirt that read âFUCK TRUMP AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIMâ on the front and âFUCK THE RACIST ALT-RIGHTâ on the back while out dining with his partner. In a Facebook post Ternay detailed his experience wearing the shirt at the First Watch café in Richardson Texas which concluded with the restaurant manager asking him to leaveâand an police officer arriving to the scene.
âWe ask to tip our server for occupying her table get drinks to go and leave. One table of white people applauds â he continued. While in the parking lot a black server approached him and explained he quit on the spot after seeing the restaurant ask Ternay to leave.
Ternay told The Daily Beast that the only direct comments he received were positive and from people of color. â[A] Latino lady at the register thanked me [and] two African American servers said my shirt was awesome.â
He said he wore the shirt because he wants his friends neighbors and family members to know where he stands.
âI donât want people of color Muslims LGBTQ [people] immigrants to feel alone â he said. âThe proper use of white male privilege is to help lift others. To speak truth to power.â
He says he âs worn the shirt before and the only negative responses people gave were eyerolls. After the First Watch incident Ternay claimed in his post a police officer met him in the parking lot.
Ternay made clear he did not want to condemn the restaurant nor did he plan to boycottââThese things are never easy for businesses and the workers were polite and professional â he wroteâbut says he âs gotten vitriolic messages sent to him on social media since his post went viralâ42K shares and counting. The responses are ironic considering the expletive-filled shirts and sentiment expressed by the pro-Trump camp. But itâs the black folks and other people of color that have reached out to him that worries him most.
âI have gotten heartbreaking messages from African Americans saying they have lost faith in their white neighborsâthey are no longer confident their neighbors have their back â he told The Daily Beast. âMy shirt was a reassurance they are not alone.â | On February 11 [TGT] wore a shirt that read âFUCK TRUMP AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIMâ on the front and âFUCK THE RACIST ALT-RIGHTâ on the back while out dining with his partner. In a Facebook post Ternay detailed his experience wearing the shirt at the First Watch café in Richardson Texas which concluded with the restaurant manager asking him to leaveâand an police officer arriving to the scene.
âWe ask to tip our server for occupying her table get drinks to go and leave. One table of white people applauds â he continued. While in the parking lot a black server approached him and explained he quit on the spot after seeing the restaurant ask Ternay to leave.
Ternay told The Daily Beast that the only direct comments he received were positive and from people of color. â[A] Latino lady at the register thanked me [and] two African American servers said my shirt was awesome.â
He said he wore the shirt because he wants his friends neighbors and family members to know where he stands.
âI donât want people of color Muslims LGBTQ [people] immigrants to feel alone â he said. âThe proper use of white male privilege is to help lift others. To speak truth to power.â
He says he âs worn the shirt before and the only negative responses people gave were eyerolls. After the First Watch incident Ternay claimed in his post a police officer met him in the parking lot.
Ternay made clear he did not want to condemn the restaurant nor did he plan to boycottââThese things are never easy for businesses and the workers were polite and professional â he wroteâbut says he âs gotten vitriolic messages sent to him on social media since his post went viralâ42K shares and counting. The responses are ironic considering the expletive-filled shirts and sentiment expressed by the pro-Trump camp. But itâs the black folks and other people of color that have reached out to him that worries him most.
âI have gotten heartbreaking messages from African Americans saying they have lost faith in their white neighborsâthey are no longer confident their neighbors have their back â he told The Daily Beast. âMy shirt was a reassurance they are not alone.â | 1Neutral
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2,314 | New Report Shows Weather Disasters In 2017 Cost More Than $300 Billion : The Two | Deke Arndt | That may be hard to remember in the thick of winter. But climate scientist Deke Arndt points out that even in a warm year we still have frigid weather that invades from the north. "We still have very cold poles and we still have the same weather systems that pull cold air away from those poles into places where we live " he explains.
Arndt is part of a team at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that assesses each year's weather and climate. They note that 2017 is the 21st year in a row in which the average annual temperature was warmer than the average over the 20th century. And the five warmest years for the lower 48 states have all occurred since 2006.
NOAA's assessment acknowledges that part of the rising disaster toll is due to people building more homes and businesses in vulnerable places. That's especially true with recent losses from wildfires and hurricanes. But Arndt notes that a warmer world clearly makes some weather worse. "Heat waves their duration their intensity their frequency is going up " he says as is the frequency of very heavy rainfalls.
Oceanographer Antonio Busalacchi says climate models predict more of the same. "The trend is there it is clearly evident " says Busalacchi "we are on an upward and warming slope." And it's a slope that increasingly worries not only scientists but insurance companies. He says insurance companies have a lot of questions about where the climate is headed. "Where is the risk in the future going to be from regional sea level rise?" he asks. "Where is the risk going to be for the increase in Category 3 4 and 5 hurricanes? Where is the risk going to be for straight-line winds?" | That may be hard to remember in the thick of winter. But climate [TGT] points out that even in a warm year we still have frigid weather that invades from the north. "We still have very cold poles and we still have the same weather systems that pull cold air away from those poles into places where we live " he explains.
[TGT] is part of a team at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that assesses each year's weather and climate. They note that 2017 is the 21st year in a row in which the average annual temperature was warmer than the average over the 20th century. And the five warmest years for the lower 48 states have all occurred since 2006.
NOAA's assessment acknowledges that part of the rising disaster toll is due to people building more homes and businesses in vulnerable places. That's especially true with recent losses from wildfires and hurricanes. But [TGT] notes that a warmer world clearly makes some weather worse. "Heat waves their duration their intensity their frequency is going up " he says as is the frequency of very heavy rainfalls.
Oceanographer Antonio Busalacchi says climate models predict more of the same. "The trend is there it is clearly evident " says Busalacchi "we are on an upward and warming slope." And it's a slope that increasingly worries not only scientists but insurance companies. He says insurance companies have a lot of questions about where the climate is headed. "Where is the risk in the future going to be from regional sea level rise?" he asks. "Where is the risk going to be for the increase in Category 3 4 and 5 hurricanes? Where is the risk going to be for straight-line winds?" | 2Positive
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2,315 | Dave Martinez Washington Nationals' new manager is not Joe Maddon | Dave Martinez | In August 1996 Dave Martinez was an everyday outfielder for the Chicago White Sox hitting .318 hardly a dispensable asset. But that didnât keep the 5-foot-10 160-pound Martinez from tangling with the teamâs biggest star â both in stature and notoriety.
Call him Dave or Davey. Doesnât matter. After years of waiting to manage a big league club Dave Martinez is just happy to get his shot with the Nationals. âI really felt it was time â Martinez said. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
Fists formed. A confrontation brewed. Then legend has it in charged Martinez .
âNext thing you know [Thomas] snapped at me â Martinez said of the man known as âThe Big Hurt.â âI was like âNope. Uh uh.â We both went to the ground.â
Accounts of the outcome vary but most include Martinez subduing all 6-feet-5 240 pounds of Thomas in time to spare Ventura.
Those who played with him and those who watched him coach at Joe Maddonâs side for the past decade describe Martinez as a genuinely friendly guy with a magnetic personality â and an undeniable edge. They said Martinez is fearless not just in the sense that he backs down from no one but also in his willingness to stand up to those close to him .
â Dave Martinez was always always trying to be in the middle just for the good of the team â said Ozzie Guillen a former manager who is now an ESPN Deportes analyst. â He âs a tough guy. He âll fight anybody. On the other hand he would invite everyone to his party. Thatâs the kind of guy he is.â
Martinez became Maddonâs most trusted dugout adviser â and one of the most talked-about managerial prospects in the game â over seven seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays and three with the Chicago Cubs because of a unique ability to relate to players. After all telling opponents they are wrong is one thing. Delivering tough messages to teammates â or as a coach to oneâs own potentially high-profile players â is another.
âThe thing Iâve always liked about [ Martinez ] is he âs never been afraid to have difficult conversations â said Maddon the Cubs manager. âIt doesnât mean yelling or screaming. It just means being straight up with guys. . . . He âs not worried about hurting somebodyâs feelings or saying the wrong thing. He âs just attempting to do the right thing and make sure it works.â
Dave Martinez left spent 10 seasons in the dugout with Joe Maddon right. â He âs never been afraid to have difficult conversations â Maddon says of Martinez . âIt doesnât mean yelling or screaming. It just means being straight up with guys.â (Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) Dave Martinez right congratulates Mike Olt during a game last season in Denver. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) Dave Martinez won a World Series ring in 2016 with the Cubs. (Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)
Dave Martinez top left spent 10 seasons in the dugout with Joe Maddon top right. â He âs never been afraid to have difficult conversations â Maddon says of Martinez . âIt doesnât mean yelling or screaming. It just means being straight up with guys.â Above left Martinez congratulates Mike Olt during a game last season in Denver. Above right Martinez spent three seasons with the Chicago Cubs and won a World Series ring in 2016.
As a manager Martinez is an unknown commodity. At 53 he has never managed in the minors. He has never managed at all.
Maddon had his eye on Martinez for two decades before their partnership began. He first chased him down in 1983 when Martinez was playing in instructional league. Martinez was 19 and his play spoke louder than he did.
He was fresh off an uncomfortable stint in Puerto Rican winter ball. Though born to Puerto Rican parents in Brooklyn Martinez didnât grow up speaking Spanish other than occasionally with his grandmother. When he was 12 his father sent him to live with an uncle in Florida so he could play baseball year round but he never quite picked up the language. This was a surprise to Cubs staff when he arrived at winter league. The veterans never let him live it down.
âI like the way you play â Martinez said he remembers Maddon saying. He all but shrugged it off not thinking much of the compliment.
Almost 25 years later a half-decade after Martinez âs playing career had ended Maddon asked him to be a guest instructor at Rays spring training in 2006. Andrew Friedman the teamâs GM at the time noticed Martinez âs impact immediately. | In August 1996 [TGT] was an everyday outfielder for the Chicago White Sox hitting .318 hardly a dispensable asset. But that didnât keep the 5-foot-10 160-pound [TGT] from tangling with the teamâs biggest star â both in stature and notoriety.
Call [TGT] Dave or Davey. Doesnât matter. After years of waiting to manage a big league club [TGT] is just happy to get [TGT] shot with the Nationals. âI really felt it was time â [TGT] said. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
Fists formed. A confrontation brewed. Then legend has it in charged Martinez .
âNext thing you know [Thomas] snapped at me â [TGT] said of the man known as âThe Big Hurt.â âI was like âNope. Uh uh.â We both went to the ground.â
Accounts of the outcome vary but most include [TGT] subduing all 6-feet-5 240 pounds of Thomas in time to spare Ventura.
Those who played with him and those who watched him coach at Joe Maddonâs side for the past decade describe [TGT] as a genuinely friendly guy with a magnetic personality â and an undeniable edge. They said [TGT] is fearless not just in the sense that [TGT] backs down from no one but also in [TGT] willingness to stand up to those close to him .
â Dave Martinez was always always trying to be in the middle just for the good of the team â said Ozzie Guillen a former manager who is now an ESPN Deportes analyst. â He âs a tough guy. He âll fight anybody. On the other hand he would invite everyone to his party. Thatâs the kind of guy he is.â
[TGT] became Maddonâs most trusted dugout adviser â and one of the most talked-about managerial prospects in the game â over seven seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays and three with the Chicago Cubs because of a unique ability to relate to players. After all telling opponents they are wrong is one thing. Delivering tough messages to teammates â or as a coach to oneâs own potentially high-profile players â is another.
âThe thing Iâve always liked about [ [TGT] ] is [TGT] âs never been afraid to have difficult conversations â said Maddon the Cubs manager. âIt doesnât mean yelling or screaming. It just means being straight up with guys. . . . He âs not worried about hurting somebodyâs feelings or saying the wrong thing. He âs just attempting to do the right thing and make sure it works.â
[TGT] left spent 10 seasons in the dugout with Joe Maddon right. â He âs never been afraid to have difficult conversations â Maddon says of [TGT] . âIt doesnât mean yelling or screaming. It just means being straight up with guys.â (Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) [TGT] right congratulates Mike Olt during a game last season in Denver. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) [TGT] won a World Series ring in 2016 with the Cubs. (Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)
[TGT] Martinez top left spent 10 seasons in the dugout with Joe Maddon top right. â He âs never been afraid to have difficult conversations â Maddon says of [TGT] . âIt doesnât mean yelling or screaming. It just means being straight up with guys.â Above left [TGT] congratulates Mike Olt during a game last season in Denver. Above right [TGT] spent three seasons with the Chicago Cubs and won a World Series ring in 2016.
As a manager [TGT] is an unknown commodity. At 53 he has never managed in the minors. He has never managed at all.
Maddon had his eye on Martinez for two decades before their partnership began. He first chased him down in 1983 when [TGT] was playing in instructional league. [TGT] was 19 and his play spoke louder than he did.
He was fresh off an uncomfortable stint in Puerto Rican winter ball. Though born to Puerto Rican parents in Brooklyn Martinez didnât grow up speaking Spanish other than occasionally with his grandmother. When he was 12 his father sent him to live with an uncle in Florida so he could play baseball year round but he never quite picked up the language. This was a surprise to Cubs staff when he arrived at winter league. The veterans never let him live it down.
âI like the way you play â [TGT] said [TGT] remembers Maddon saying. He all but shrugged it off not thinking much of the compliment.
Almost 25 years later a half-decade after [TGT] playing career had ended Maddon asked him to be a guest instructor at Rays spring training in 2006. Andrew Friedman the teamâs GM at the time noticed [TGT] âs impact immediately. | 2Positive
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2,316 | Maternal Mental Health Bills Aim To Make It Easier For Depressed Moms To Get Help : Shots | Jessica Porten | Four months after having her second baby Jessica Porten started feeling really irritable. Little things would annoy her like her glider chair.
"It had started to squeak " she says. "And so when I'm sitting there rocking the baby and it's squeaking I would just get so angry at that stupid chair."
She read online that irritability could be a symptom of postpartum depression â a condition that affects up to 1 in 7 women during or after pregnancy according to the American Psychological Association. In California where Porten lives those rates are even higher spurring state lawmakers to introduce a package of bills to improve mental health screening and treatment for new moms.
Porten hopes they help women avoid what she went through.
She went to Capital OB/GYN a women's clinic in Sacramento that accepts her Medicaid coverage as payment to talk about medication options and therapy. Porten admitted to the nurse that she was having some violent thoughts.
"I described maybe hitting myself or squeezing the baby too tight " she says. "But I was very adamant through the entire appointment that I was not going to hurt myself and I was not going to hurt my children."
But Porten says the nurse's manner toward her changed. "I could see in that moment that she stopped listening to me " Porten says.
The nurse called the police. The police escorted Porten and her baby to the emergency room. Hospital staff made her change into a gown and took her purse but they let her keep her diaper bag for the baby. They put them both in a room under constant watch though the hospital staff was sympathetic Porten says.
"It's like everybody knows I'm not crazy " she says. "Everybody knows that this is normal â but they're following protocol."
Finally at midnight 10 hours after she first got to the doctor's office a social worker sent her home. Porten wrote on Facebook that the whole thing made her feel like a criminal.
"It was all legality " Porten says. "Everybody was protecting their own liability instead of thinking of me."
Administrators at Capital OB/GYN declined to comment. Gary Zavoral a spokesman for Sutter Health which runs the emergency room where Porten was taken says that once a patient arrives in the ER for assessment hospital staff must follow strict protocols.
The legislation has given Jessica Porten a new purpose. People have told her that she should sue Capital OB/GYN for calling the police. But she says no.
"I walk into that waiting room and I see tons of Medi-Cal recipients â so they're all low-income " she says. "If I sue it's only going to cause monetary damages to a facility that is clearly short on resources." | Four months after having her second baby [TGT] started feeling really irritable. Little things would annoy [TGT] like [TGT] glider chair.
"It had started to squeak " [TGT] says. "And so when I'm sitting there rocking the baby and it's squeaking I would just get so angry at that stupid chair."
[TGT] read online that irritability could be a symptom of postpartum depression â a condition that affects up to 1 in 7 women during or after pregnancy according to the American Psychological Association. In California where Porten lives those rates are even higher spurring state lawmakers to introduce a package of bills to improve mental health screening and treatment for new moms.
Porten hopes they help women avoid what she went through.
She went to Capital OB/GYN a women's clinic in Sacramento that accepts her Medicaid coverage as payment to talk about medication options and therapy. Porten admitted to the nurse that she was having some violent thoughts.
"I described maybe hitting myself or squeezing the baby too tight " she says. "But I was very adamant through the entire appointment that I was not going to hurt myself and I was not going to hurt my children."
But Porten says the nurse's manner toward her changed. "I could see in that moment that she stopped listening to me " Porten says.
The nurse called the police. The police escorted Porten and her baby to the emergency room. Hospital staff made her change into a gown and took her purse but they let her keep her diaper bag for the baby. They put them both in a room under constant watch though the hospital staff was sympathetic Porten says.
"It's like everybody knows I'm not crazy " she says. "Everybody knows that this is normal â but they're following protocol."
Finally at midnight 10 hours after she first got to the doctor's office a social worker sent her home. Porten wrote on Facebook that the whole thing made her feel like a criminal.
"It was all legality " Porten says. "Everybody was protecting their own liability instead of thinking of me."
Administrators at Capital OB/GYN declined to comment. Gary Zavoral a spokesman for Sutter Health which runs the emergency room where Porten was taken says that once a patient arrives in the ER for assessment hospital staff must follow strict protocols.
The legislation has given [TGT] a new purpose. People have told [TGT] that [TGT] should sue Capital OB/GYN for calling the police. But [TGT] says no.
"I walk into that waiting room and I see tons of Medi-Cal recipients â so they're all low-income " she says. "If I sue it's only going to cause monetary damages to a facility that is clearly short on resources." | 1Neutral
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2,317 | Montana governor takes stand for state to honor 'net neutrality' | Steve Bullock | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Montana will sign contracts only with internet service providers that honor "net neutrality" firms Governor Steve Bullock said on Monday the latest effort by a state to undermine a Federal Communications Commission order rolling back rules introduced in 2015.
Bullock signed an executive order requiring state contract recipients to adhere to so-called net neutrality which barred internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic or offering paid fast lanes also known as paid prioritization.
A spokeswoman for the FCC declined to comment on the decision by Bullock a Democrat.
"There has been a lot of talk around the country about how to respond to the recent decision by Federal Communications Commission to repeal net neutrality rules which keep the internet free and open. It's time to actually do something about it " Bullock said in a statement. "This is a simple step states can take to preserve and protect net neutrality. We can't wait for folks in Washington DC to come to their senses and reinstate these rules." | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Montana will sign contracts only with internet service providers that honor "net neutrality" firms [TGT] said on Monday the latest effort by a state to undermine a Federal Communications Commission order rolling back rules introduced in 2015.
[TGT] signed an executive order requiring state contract recipients to adhere to so-called net neutrality which barred internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic or offering paid fast lanes also known as paid prioritization.
A spokeswoman for the FCC declined to comment on the decision by Bullock a Democrat.
"There has been a lot of talk around the country about how to respond to the recent decision by Federal Communications Commission to repeal net neutrality rules which keep the internet free and open. It's time to actually do something about it " [TGT] said in a statement. "This is a simple step states can take to preserve and protect net neutrality. We can't wait for folks in Washington DC to come to their senses and reinstate these rules." | 1Neutral
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2,318 | Food Industry Sets Tuesday Vote To Import 1 Million Visa | Bob Goodlatte | This is the second attempt to pass the H-2C visa-workers bill out of the House Judiciary Committee which is chaired by Virginia GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte . His Virginia district includes several turkey and chicken processing plants which employ many low-wage migrants and refugees. The prior vote was canceled October 3 when the farm-industry lobbyists could not win enough votes from reluctant Republican and Democratic legislators.
The committee tried to weaken opposition by announcing the surprise vote on Monday one day before the planned Tuesday-morning session. Goodlatte has also scheduled time for a vote on Wednesday giving more time for the industry lobbyists to strong-arm legislators.
If Goodlatte âs bill allowed farm workers to get citizenship most would quickly migrate into towns to compete for better jobs. That migration would force down wages paid to urban Americans and would also leave the farms free to replace the departed workers with another wave of temporary or illegal workers.
To win the support of pro-American reformers and voters Goodlatte âs bill is being packaged with a popular bill that would require companies to verify that new hires can legally work in the United States. That is a top priority for immigration reforms groups because it would reduce the iring of illegal immigrants and force up wages for Americans. The âE-verifyâ bill was developed by Texas Rep. Lamar Smith and it titled the Legal Workforce Act.
âThe U.S. pork industry is suffering from a serious labor shortage â said NPPC President Ken Maschhoff a pork producer from Carlyle Ill. âWe commend Congressman Goodlatte for sponsoring this important legislation which allows undocumented workers already in the United States to continue working in vital agriculture jobs.â âThe U.S. pork industry needs a viable agriculture workforce to remain globally competitive â Maschhoff said. âThe current visa programs are not working for pork producers or for the broader agriculture community. The Goodlatte bill will rectify this.â | This is the second attempt to pass the H-2C visa-workers bill out of the House Judiciary Committee which is chaired by [TGT] [TGT] Virginia district includes several turkey and chicken processing plants which employ many low-wage migrants and refugees. The prior vote was canceled October 3 when the farm-industry lobbyists could not win enough votes from reluctant Republican and Democratic legislators.
The committee tried to weaken opposition by announcing the surprise vote on Monday one day before the planned Tuesday-morning session. [TGT] has also scheduled time for a vote on Wednesday giving more time for the industry lobbyists to strong-arm legislators.
If [TGT] allowed farm workers to get citizenship most would quickly migrate into towns to compete for better jobs. That migration would force down wages paid to urban Americans and would also leave the farms free to replace the departed workers with another wave of temporary or illegal workers.
To win the support of pro-American reformers and voters [TGT] âs bill is being packaged with a popular bill that would require companies to verify that new hires can legally work in the United States. That is a top priority for immigration reforms groups because it would reduce the iring of illegal immigrants and force up wages for Americans. The âE-verifyâ bill was developed by Texas Rep. Lamar Smith and it titled the Legal Workforce Act.
âThe U.S. pork industry is suffering from a serious labor shortage â said NPPC President Ken Maschhoff a pork producer from Carlyle Ill. âWe commend Congressman Goodlatte for sponsoring this important legislation which allows undocumented workers already in the United States to continue working in vital agriculture jobs.â âThe U.S. pork industry needs a viable agriculture workforce to remain globally competitive â Maschhoff said. âThe current visa programs are not working for pork producers or for the broader agriculture community. The Goodlatte bill will rectify this.â | 0Negative
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2,319 | ESPN âs Bill Polian thinks Lamar Jackson should be a wide receiver but heâs been wrong before | Bill Polian | Bill Polian Hall of Fame executive. His status as a prognosticator is less solid. (NFL Network)
Bill Polianâs track record is undeniable. As general manager of the Buffalo Bills he cobbled together the lineups that advanced to four straight Super Bowls. With Polian at the personnel helm the expansion Carolina Panthers advanced to the NFC championship game in just their second year of existence. Polian then concluded his career by shaping the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl winner.
He âs in the Hall of Fame and deserves to be even if his post-football career as an ESPN analyst has been shall we say slightly less successful in the prediction department.
Polian âs latest forecast involves Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson who he says is too short â at 6-foot-3 â and not accurate enough to be a successful NFL quarterback.
âI think wide receiver â he said when asked about what NFL position Jackson should play Monday on ESPNâs âGolic and Wingo.â âExceptional athlete exceptional ability to make you miss exceptional acceleration exceptional instinct with the ball in his hand and that âs rare for wide receivers. That âs [Steelers wideout Antonio Brown] and who else name me another one whoâs like that right? Julio [Jones] is not like that. This guy is incredible in the open field and [has] a great ability to separate and again heâs short and a little bit slight and clearly clearly not the thrower that the other guys are. His accuracy isnât there so I would say donât wait to make that change donât be like the kid from Ohio State [Terrelle Pryor] and be 29 when you make the change.â
Anyway it wouldnât be the first time Polian has been wrong.
Polian on Johnny Manziel
Bill Polian : Johnny Manziel has magic. If you're in the Browns draft room you owe it to the fans to consider taking him at 4. #SXMNFL â SiriusXM NFL Radio (@SiriusXMNFL) April 30 2014
Polian on Deshaun Watson
Polian on Robert Griffin III
Polian on Kirk Cousins and the Redskins | [TGT] Hall of Fame executive. [TGT] status as a prognosticator is less solid. (NFL Network)
[TGT] track record is undeniable. As general manager of the Buffalo Bills [TGT] cobbled together the lineups that advanced to four straight Super Bowls. With Polian at the personnel helm the expansion Carolina Panthers advanced to the NFC championship game in just their second year of existence. [TGT] then concluded [TGT] career by shaping the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl winner.
[TGT] âs in the Hall of Fame and deserves to be even if [TGT] post-football career as an ESPN analyst has been shall we say slightly less successful in the prediction department.
Polian âs latest forecast involves Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson who he says is too short â at 6-foot-3 â and not accurate enough to be a successful NFL quarterback.
âI think wide receiver â he said when asked about what NFL position Jackson should play Monday on ESPNâs âGolic and Wingo.â âExceptional athlete exceptional ability to make you miss exceptional acceleration exceptional instinct with the ball in his hand and that âs rare for wide receivers. That âs [Steelers wideout Antonio Brown] and who else name me another one whoâs like that right? Julio [Jones] is not like that. This guy is incredible in the open field and [has] a great ability to separate and again heâs short and a little bit slight and clearly clearly not the thrower that the other guys are. His accuracy isnât there so I would say donât wait to make that change donât be like the kid from Ohio State [Terrelle Pryor] and be 29 when you make the change.â
Anyway it wouldnât be the first time Polian has been wrong.
Polian on Johnny Manziel
Bill Polian : Johnny Manziel has magic. If you're in the Browns draft room you owe it to the fans to consider taking him at 4. #SXMNFL â SiriusXM NFL Radio (@SiriusXMNFL) April 30 2014
Polian on Deshaun Watson
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2,320 | Fed's Yellen says gradual hikes should continue despite weak inflation | Yellen | CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve needs to continue gradual rate hikes despite broad uncertainty about the path of inflation Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday in remarks that acknowledged the central bankâs struggles to forecast one of its key policy objectives.
It is possible Yellen said that the Fed may have âmisspecifiedâ its models for inflation and âmisjudgedâ key facts like the underlying strength of the labor market and whether inflation expectations are as stable as they seem and central bankers need to remain open to that possibility as they decide on policy.
Still recent low inflation was likely a reflection of factors that would fade over time and despite uncertainties it âwould be imprudent to keep monetary policy on hold until inflation is back to 2 percent â Yellen said in a 37-page address to the National Association for Business Economics
Yellen âs remarks attempt to resolve a debate that has split members of the central bank among those worried that inflation may be permanently anchored below the Fedâs 2 percent target because of structural changes in the global economy and those who feel it is only a matter of time before tight labor markets lead wages and prices to rise.
The dollar shot up then retreated after Yellenâs comments reflecting uncertainty about her message. Treasury yields and stocks edged slightly higher.
Yellen said Tuesday she would be looking at inflation and labor market data closely in coming months to assess the outlook but âthe data is noisy and itâs not going to be a magic bullet.â
And while the timing of rate hikes may not be predictable she said âthe path is likely to be gradual.â
Yellen walked systematically through arguments that weak inflation reflected structural changes and largely discounted them.
There was not yet âempirical supportâ for the theory that global trade worldwide supply chains and other forces were holding down U.S. prices she said.
Meanwhile the Fed calculates that cyclical slack in the labor market was now having a ânegligibleâ impact on low inflation readings compared to oil prices and other changes that will fade. And some aspects of the labor market that appear weak such as the still-elevated number of part-time workers may reflect permanent changes in the workforce and not cyclical factors Yellen said.
But for now the Fed âcontinues to anticipate that with gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary policy inflation will rise and stabilize at around 2 percent over the medium term â she said. âWe should be wary of moving too gradually.â | CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve needs to continue gradual rate hikes despite broad uncertainty about the path of inflation Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday in remarks that acknowledged the central bankâs struggles to forecast one of its key policy objectives.
It is possible [TGT] said that the Fed may have âmisspecifiedâ its models for inflation and âmisjudgedâ key facts like the underlying strength of the labor market and whether inflation expectations are as stable as they seem and central bankers need to remain open to that possibility as they decide on policy.
Still recent low inflation was likely a reflection of factors that would fade over time and despite uncertainties it âwould be imprudent to keep monetary policy on hold until inflation is back to 2 percent â [TGT] said in a 37-page address to the National Association for Business Economics
[TGT] âs remarks attempt to resolve a debate that has split members of the central bank among those worried that inflation may be permanently anchored below the Fedâs 2 percent target because of structural changes in the global economy and those who feel it is only a matter of time before tight labor markets lead wages and prices to rise.
The dollar shot up then retreated after Yellenâs comments reflecting uncertainty about [TGT] message. Treasury yields and stocks edged slightly higher.
[TGT] said Tuesday [TGT] would be looking at inflation and labor market data closely in coming months to assess the outlook but âthe data is noisy and itâs not going to be a magic bullet.â
And while the timing of rate hikes may not be predictable [TGT] said âthe path is likely to be gradual.â
[TGT] walked systematically through arguments that weak inflation reflected structural changes and largely discounted them.
There was not yet âempirical supportâ for the theory that global trade worldwide supply chains and other forces were holding down U.S. prices [TGT] said.
Meanwhile the Fed calculates that cyclical slack in the labor market was now having a ânegligibleâ impact on low inflation readings compared to oil prices and other changes that will fade. And some aspects of the labor market that appear weak such as the still-elevated number of part-time workers may reflect permanent changes in the workforce and not cyclical factors [TGT] said.
But for now the Fed âcontinues to anticipate that with gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary policy inflation will rise and stabilize at around 2 percent over the medium term â she said. âWe should be wary of moving too gradually.â | 2Positive
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2,321 | U.S. deplores Turkey's re | Taner Kilic | Taner Kilic was one of 11 human rights activists arrested last year on what Amnesty International has said were âbogus terrorism charges.â He is the only one of the 11 still jailed after eight months in detention the rights group said.
Kilic was conditionally released last week but the prosecution successfully appealed the decision and he was re-arrested before he had even arrived home Amnesty said in a statement.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a briefing the United States was âdeeply troubledâ by Kilic âs re-arrest on Feb. 1.
She said Washington was closely following Kilic âs case as well as those against other human rights defenders journalists civil society leaders and opposition politicians detained in the state of emergency that followed a failed coup against President Tayyip Erdogan on July 15 2016. | [TGT] was one of 11 human rights activists arrested last year on what Amnesty International has said were âbogus terrorism charges.â [TGT] is the only one of the 11 still jailed after eight months in detention the rights group said.
[TGT] was conditionally released last week but the prosecution successfully appealed the decision and [TGT] was re-arrested before [TGT] had even arrived home Amnesty said in a statement.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a briefing the United States was âdeeply troubledâ by Kilic âs re-arrest on Feb. 1.
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2,322 | House speaker: May need a temporary bill to fund government past Dec. 8 | Paul Ryan | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers may have to pass another stop-gap spending bill in order to keep the federal government operating Dec. 8 when existing money runs out U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters on Tuesday.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan holds his weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington U.S. November 9 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Asked about the timing of the budget process and the measure now in place to fund government operations through early December at last yearâs levels Ryan told a news conference âWe might need a little bit more time to give the appropriators time to write their billâ for fiscal 2018 spending that would extend through next Sept. 30.
Ryan said a temporary spending bill if needed while the longer-term one is being negotiated would extend for a short time. âWe are not talking about going into next year â he said. | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers may have to pass another stop-gap spending bill in order to keep the federal government operating Dec. 8 when existing money runs out [TGT] told reporters on Tuesday.
[TGT] holds [TGT] weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington U.S. November 9 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Asked about the timing of the budget process and the measure now in place to fund government operations through early December at last yearâs levels [TGT] told a news conference âWe might need a little bit more time to give the appropriators time to write their billâ for fiscal 2018 spending that would extend through next Sept. 30.
[TGT] said a temporary spending bill if needed while the longer-term one is being negotiated would extend for a short time. âWe are not talking about going into next year â [TGT] said. | 1Neutral
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2,323 | Comcast CEO hails cab driver's influence in bid for Sky 'jewel' | Brian Roberts | LONDON (Reuters) - When Comcast (CMCSA.O) boss Brian Roberts was weighing up a $31 billion offer for British broadcaster Sky (SKYB.L) a trip to see Skyâs products in store and the knowledge of the London cab driver that took him there helped to make up his mind.
Chief Executive Roberts said the visit was one of a number of things that confirmed Sky as a âjewelâ that his company should try to acquire as Comcast looks to boost international revenues as growth in the United States slows.
Roberts said he had closely tracked what Sky had been doing for years but last November he had an unexpected reminder of Skyâs influence as Europeanâs biggest pay-TV provider while in a cab with a colleague.
âI suggested that we jump in a taxi and go to one of the malls and get a demo of Sky in one of their shops. And we had a fabulous experience â Roberts told reporters on a call.
Roberts said that while the experience wasnât the deciding factor in moving forward with the bid it reiterated the media groupâs value to the chief executive. | LONDON (Reuters) - [TGT] was weighing up a $31 billion offer for British broadcaster Sky (SKYB.L) a trip to see Skyâs products in store and the knowledge of the London cab driver that took [TGT] there helped to make up [TGT] mind.
[TGT] said the visit was one of a number of things that confirmed Sky as a âjewelâ that [TGT] company should try to acquire as Comcast looks to boost international revenues as growth in the United States slows.
[TGT] said [TGT] had closely tracked what Sky had been doing for years but last November [TGT] had an unexpected reminder of Skyâs influence as Europeanâs biggest pay-TV provider while in a cab with a colleague.
âI suggested that we jump in a taxi and go to one of the malls and get a demo of Sky in one of their shops. And we had a fabulous experience â [TGT] told reporters on a call.
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2,324 | Tampa Bay star Winston faces groping probe | Winston | Miami (AFP) â The NFL confirmed Friday it is investigating an allegation of sexual assault against Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston after a female Uber driver complained of being groped by the star last year.
BuzzFeed News reported that the driver had alleged Winston grabbed her crotch during a ride in Scottsdale Arizona in March 2016. Winston has denied the allegation.
Winston is now being probed by the NFLâs special counsel for investigations Lisa Friel who had written to the quarterbackâs accuser.
âThe League has been informed that you may have been the victim of such a violation perpetrated by Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Jameis Winston â Friel wrote in the letter.
Winston 23 issued a statement in response to the BuzzFeed report denying the allegations.
âA news organization has published a story about me regarding an alleged incident involving a female Uber driver from approximately two years ago â Winston said.
Winston is in his third season with Tampa Bay after being the top pick in the 2015 draft.
His college career had been dogged by controversy including a 2012 allegation of rape by a fellow student at Florida State. Winston did not face charges following the incident. | Miami (AFP) â The NFL confirmed Friday it is investigating an allegation of sexual assault against Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback [TGT] after a female Uber driver complained of being groped by the star last year.
BuzzFeed News reported that the driver had alleged [TGT] grabbed [TGT] crotch during a ride in Scottsdale Arizona in March 2016. [TGT] has denied the allegation.
[TGT] is now being probed by the NFLâs special counsel for investigations Lisa Friel who had written to the quarterbackâs accuser.
âThe League has been informed that you may have been the victim of such a violation perpetrated by [TGT] â Friel wrote in the letter.
[TGT] 23 issued a statement in response to the BuzzFeed report denying the allegations.
âA news organization has published a story about me regarding an alleged incident involving a female Uber driver from approximately two years ago â [TGT] said.
[TGT] is in [TGT] third season with Tampa Bay after being the top pick in the 2015 draft.
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2,325 | Johnny Bower Maple Leafs great and Hall of Famer dies at 93 | Johnny Bower | Johnny Bower didn't even want to come to Toronto. Yet the pint-sized goalie with the big heart became a part of Maple Leafs lore.
Bower a beloved two-time Vezina Trophy winner who helped the Leafs win their last Stanley Cup in 1967 died on Tuesday. He was 93.
His family said in a statement that the Hall of Famer died after a short battle with pneumonia.
Bower was a two-time Vezina Trophy winner who became known as the China Wall. His career took off after the Leafs claimed him in an intra-league draft in 1958 and he played 475 regular-season games and won four Stanley Cups for the Leafs before playing his final game as a 45-year-old in 1969.
" He was an inspiration to us " said George Armstrong who captained the Leafs' last championship team. " He shamed others into hard work.
" John gave everything he could during workouts and we weren't going to let that old guy show us up."
Years after retiring Bower remained one of the most beloved ex-Leafs even though he originally had no desire to be in Toronto. Bower was playing happily with the minor league Cleveland Barons in his 30s when Toronto acquired him . He said he only showed up to avoid being suspended.
Johnny Bower helped the Leafs win their last Stanley Cup in 1967.
"They just wanted me for one year but I had a good team in front of me " Bower recalled with a laugh in 2014. "I was there for 13 years so it turned out really nice for me ."
The 5-foot-9 Bower won the Vezina Trophy in 1961 and shared it with teammate Terry Sawchuk in 1965. The Leafs hoisted the Cup in 1962 '63 '64 and '67 and Bower remained a standout into his 40s despite near-sightedness and painful arthritis.
Bower pioneered the poke-check brazenly diving head first at opposing players to knock the puck off their sticks. The move came with a cost âthe mask-less goalie suffered cuts and lost teeth by throwing himself into the action.
Bower was the only boy among nine children in a family raised in rural Saskatchewan. He made his first goalie pads from an old mattress but put his hockey career on hold when he lied about his age in 1940 to fight in World War II. He told authorities that his birth certificate had burned in a fire allowing him to enlist at 16 years old. He was stationed in England but did not see action during the war because of his arthritis.
"It's a good thing I didn't because the Germans were right there waiting " he said. "A lot of guys there were killed on the beaches. I know four or five good hockey players from Prince Albert who were killed. They never came back. "
Johnny Bower . (SHAUN BEST/REUTERS)
Bower wanted to remain in the AHL but he agreed to show up when Cleveland general manager James Hendy ensured him the Barons would take him back if Toronto didn't work out.
He never returned instead becoming a fixture for one of the league's most storied franchises. | [TGT] didn't even want to come to Toronto. Yet the pint-sized goalie with the big heart became a part of Maple Leafs lore.
[TGT] died on Tuesday. [TGT] was 93.
[TGT] family said in a statement that the Hall of Famer died after a short battle with pneumonia.
[TGT] was a two-time Vezina Trophy winner who became known as the China Wall. [TGT] career took off after the Leafs claimed [TGT] in an intra-league draft in 1958 and [TGT] played 475 regular-season games and won four Stanley Cups for the Leafs before playing [TGT] final game as a 45-year-old in 1969.
" [TGT] was an inspiration to us " said George Armstrong who captained the Leafs' last championship team. " He shamed others into hard work.
" John gave everything he could during workouts and [TGT] weren't going to let that old guy show [TGT] up."
Years after retiring Bower remained one of the most beloved ex-Leafs even though he originally had no desire to be in Toronto. Bower was playing happily with the minor league Cleveland Barons in his 30s when Toronto acquired him . He said he only showed up to avoid being suspended.
Johnny Bower helped the Leafs win their last Stanley Cup in 1967.
"They just wanted me for one year but I had a good team in front of me " Bower recalled with a laugh in 2014. "I was there for 13 years so it turned out really nice for me ."
The 5-foot-9 Bower won the Vezina Trophy in 1961 and shared it with teammate Terry Sawchuk in 1965. The Leafs hoisted the Cup in 1962 '63 '64 and '67 and Bower remained a standout into his 40s despite near-sightedness and painful arthritis.
Bower pioneered the poke-check brazenly diving head first at opposing players to knock the puck off their sticks. The move came with a cost âthe mask-less goalie suffered cuts and lost teeth by throwing himself into the action.
Bower was the only boy among nine children in a family raised in rural Saskatchewan. He made his first goalie pads from an old mattress but put his hockey career on hold when he lied about his age in 1940 to fight in World War II. He told authorities that his birth certificate had burned in a fire allowing him to enlist at 16 years old. He was stationed in England but did not see action during the war because of his arthritis.
"It's a good thing I didn't because the Germans were right there waiting " he said. "A lot of guys there were killed on the beaches. I know four or five good hockey players from Prince Albert who were killed. They never came back. [TGT]
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[TGT] wanted to remain in the AHL but [TGT] agreed to show up when Cleveland general manager James Hendy ensured [TGT] the Barons would take him back if Toronto didn't work out.
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2,326 | US Judge Postpones 'El Chapo' Trial Until September | Guzman | A US judge on Wednesday postponed until September the trial in New York of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
On Monday Cogan had delayed the latest pre-trial hearing from January 19 to February 15 after Guzman 's lawyer demanded more time to review several hundred thousand pages of documents in the case.
Guzman has been held in solitary confinement in New York since being extradited to the United States a year ago.
Accused of running the Sinaloa cartel he is facing 17 charges and if convicted he is likely to spend the rest of his life in a maximum security US prison. | A US judge on Wednesday postponed until September the trial in New York of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin [TGT]
On Monday Cogan had delayed the latest pre-trial hearing from January 19 to February 15 after Guzman 's lawyer demanded more time to review several hundred thousand pages of documents in the case.
[TGT] has been held in solitary confinement in New York since being extradited to the United States a year ago.
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2,327 | To Save Water Should You Wash Your Hands Of Hand Washing Dishes? : The Salt : NPR | Ed Osann | "I think it's generally recognized that washing by machine would involve less water " says Ed Osann water efficiency project director for the Natural Resources Defense Council . "In part it comes down to someone's washing technique."
According to Osann when people wash by hand they often use the same method. They fill one sink basin with sudsy water for soaking and run the faucet in the other basin for rinsing. That's an efficient way to do dishes from a time perspective but not from a water perspective. The Department of Energy sets standards that a full-sized dishwasher can use no more than five gallons of water per cycle and a compact dishwasher no more than 3.5 gallons. Osann says that's probably less water than most people's dishwashing styles use. Because heating water requires energy using less water also translates to being more energy efficient.
Today both Osann and Amann say people should scrape plates clean rather than rinsing them before putting the plates in the dishwasher. For small households that tend not to fill the dishwasher quickly Amann suggests the rinse cycle which generally uses only half a gallon of water and still effectively cleans dishes that haven't been sitting in the dishwasher too long. (I tried this approach. My dishwasher's rinse cycle worked well on peanut butter but remnants of Greek yogurt stubbornly stuck around.)
For those who can't break their manual scrubbing habits Osann recommends filling up a large metal pot rather than filling up the sink to do washing in. Nonetheless he makes a final plug for the dishwasher. "People could be more cognizant of their use of water while washing dishes by hand. Are people likely to do that when friends are over for Thanksgiving? Probably not." | "I think it's generally recognized that washing by machine would involve less water " says [TGT] water efficiency project director for the Natural Resources Defense Council . "In part it comes down to someone's washing technique."
According to Osann when people wash by hand they often use the same method. They fill one sink basin with sudsy water for soaking and run the faucet in the other basin for rinsing. That's an efficient way to do dishes from a time perspective but not from a water perspective. The Department of Energy sets standards that a full-sized dishwasher can use no more than five gallons of water per cycle and a compact dishwasher no more than 3.5 gallons. [TGT] says that's probably less water than most people's dishwashing styles use. Because heating water requires energy using less water also translates to being more energy efficient.
Today both Osann and Amann say people should scrape plates clean rather than rinsing them before putting the plates in the dishwasher. For small households that tend not to fill the dishwasher quickly Amann suggests the rinse cycle which generally uses only half a gallon of water and still effectively cleans dishes that haven't been sitting in the dishwasher too long. (I tried this approach. My dishwasher's rinse cycle worked well on peanut butter but remnants of Greek yogurt stubbornly stuck around.)
For those who can't break their manual scrubbing habits Osann recommends filling up a large metal pot rather than filling up the sink to do washing in. Nonetheless he makes a final plug for the dishwasher. "People could be more cognizant of their use of water while washing dishes by hand. Are people likely to do that when friends are over for Thanksgiving? Probably not." | 1Neutral
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2,328 | FBI says LA sheriff's deputy provided 'security' on narcotics shipments | Kenneth Collins | The U.S. Attorneyâs Office in California said Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Collins 50 told an undercover agent that he would lead a team to accompany the narcotics shipment and âtake calculated steps to prevent legitimate law enforcement from intercepting the drugsâ in exchange for up to $250 000.
When asked why he charged so much Collins allegedly told the undercover agent âWeâre copsâ and âall of our transports make it through.â
On Tuesday morning Collins and two other men arrived in Pasadena Calif. to allegedly carry out the security task but were met with FBI agents and placed under arrest.
â Deputy Collins sold his badge to assist an individual he thought was a drug trafficker â U.S. Attorney Nicola T. Hanna said in a statement. â The deputy allegedly used his status as a law enforcement officer as a guarantee when he promised safe travels for large quantities of illegal narcotics. This case is part of our long-standing and ongoing commitment to root out corruption particularly when it involves sworn law enforcement officers.â
The U.S. Attorneyâs Office said Collins Easter and Valencia carried out a similar security operation for an undercover agent in November. At the time the three men allegedly helped transport what they believed was six kilograms of methamphetamine along with marijuana and counterfeit cigarettes.
According to the affidavit the FBI began investigating Collins after they suspected him of accepting cash payments to provide illegal security for illegal marijuana grow facilities and distributing other controlled substances.
Collins a 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles Sheriffâs Department also allegedly told the undercover agent who was posing as a drug dealer he was available for other services such as assaulting people who posed problems to the undercover agent in exchange for cash.
Collins and the other two men arrested Tuesday each face life in prison for federal drug trafficking conspiracy charges.
The LASD said it is cooperating with the FBI in the investigation and Collins has been placed on administrative leave. | The U.S. Attorneyâs Office in California said [TGT] told an undercover agent that [TGT] would lead a team to accompany the narcotics shipment and âtake calculated steps to prevent legitimate law enforcement from intercepting the drugsâ in exchange for up to $250 000.
When asked why [TGT] charged so much [TGT] allegedly told the undercover agent âWeâre copsâ and âall of our transports make it through.â
On Tuesday morning [TGT] and two other men arrived in Pasadena Calif. to allegedly carry out the security task but were met with FBI agents and placed under arrest.
[TGT] sold [TGT] badge to assist an individual [TGT] thought was a drug trafficker â U.S. Attorney Nicola T. Hanna said in a statement. â [TGT] allegedly used [TGT] status as a law enforcement officer as a guarantee when [TGT] promised safe travels for large quantities of illegal narcotics. This case is part of our long-standing and ongoing commitment to root out corruption particularly when it involves sworn law enforcement officers.â
The U.S. Attorneyâs Office said Collins Easter and Valencia carried out a similar security operation for an undercover agent in November. At the time the three men allegedly helped transport what they believed was six kilograms of methamphetamine along with marijuana and counterfeit cigarettes.
According to the affidavit the FBI began investigating [TGT] after they suspected [TGT] of accepting cash payments to provide illegal security for illegal marijuana grow facilities and distributing other controlled substances.
Collins a 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles Sheriffâs Department also allegedly told the undercover agent who was posing as a drug dealer he was available for other services such as assaulting people who posed problems to the undercover agent in exchange for cash.
Collins and the other two men arrested Tuesday each face life in prison for federal drug trafficking conspiracy charges.
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2,329 | 5 moments when Matt Lauer 's on | Matt Lauer | During Matt Lauerâs 20-plus years as an anchor on âToday â certain interviews and bits on the show and elsewhere have raised a few eyebrows or been seen as sexist.
NBC announced Wednesday that Lauer had been fired from his longtime stint after the network on Monday fielded âa detailed complaint from a colleague concerning inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace that violated company policy. Though NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said in a memo that it was the first complaint they had gotten about Lauer âWe were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.â
Here are a few incidents where Lauer was criticized for his on-camera tactics.
In 2014 Lauer sat down with Barra the first female chief executive at General Motors. He noted that although she 'd gotten the job because she was âhugelyâ qualified with 30 yearsâ experience "there are some people who are speculating that you also got this job as a woman and as a mom because people within General Motors knew this company was in for a very tough time and as a woman and a mom you could present a softer face and softer image for this company ... Does it make sense or does it make you bristle?â
Her response: âItâs absolutely not trueâ that she got the job because she was female. Lauer went on to ask whether she thought she could handle double duty as a CEO and a mom. He later said she âd brought it up first.
âGood to see you â Lauer told Hathaway when she appeared on âTodayâ to promote the film âLes Misérables.â âSeen a lot of you lately.â He was referring to up-skirt photos of the actress sans underwear that were taken as she got out of an SUV at the filmâs premiere. (While the footage is not available via âToday â it was captured by Sam Seder for his Majority Report podcast; skip to the 1:05 mark to see Hathawayâs interview segment.) | During [TGT] âs 20-plus years as an anchor on âToday â certain interviews and bits on the show and elsewhere have raised a few eyebrows or been seen as sexist.
NBC announced Wednesday that Lauer had been fired from his longtime stint after the network on Monday fielded âa detailed complaint from a colleague concerning inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace that violated company policy. Though NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said in a memo that it was the first complaint they had gotten about Lauer âWe were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.â
Here are a few incidents where Lauer was criticized for his on-camera tactics.
In 2014 Lauer sat down with Barra the first female chief executive at General Motors. He noted that although she 'd gotten the job because she was âhugelyâ qualified with 30 yearsâ experience "there are some people who are speculating that you also got this job as a woman and as a mom because people within General Motors knew this company was in for a very tough time and as a woman and a mom you could present a softer face and softer image for this company ... Does it make sense or does it make you bristle?â
Her response: âItâs absolutely not trueâ that she got the job because she was female. Lauer went on to ask whether she thought she could handle double duty as a CEO and a mom. He later said she âd brought it up first.
âGood to see you â Lauer told Hathaway when she appeared on âTodayâ to promote the film âLes Misérables.â âSeen a lot of you lately.â He was referring to up-skirt photos of the actress sans underwear that were taken as she got out of an SUV at the filmâs premiere. (While the footage is not available via âToday â it was captured by Sam Seder for his Majority Report podcast; skip to the 1:05 mark to see Hathawayâs interview segment.) | 1Neutral
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2,330 | Bush cracks up Obama at hurricane relief concert | Bush Bush | Story highlights George W. Bush noticeably made Obama laugh during Clinton's speech
The elder Bush followed up the concert Monday morning with a joke of his own
Washington (CNN) Former President George W. Bush made his successor Barack Obama noticeably snicker at a joke delivered during Bill Clinton's speech at a hurricane relief benefit concert in Texas.
Mischievous George W Bush cracks a joke behind Bill Clinton's back and makes Barack Obama giggle https://t.co/MIzJqAVei1 pic.twitter.com/guzehQIj0o â Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 23 2017
As Clinton discussed the importance of offering ongoing support to the communities affected by hurricanes Harvey and Maria Bush leaned over and quipped something to his successor immediately eliciting a laugh from a Obama whose reaction garnered much positive attention on social media. | Story highlights George W. Bush noticeably made Obama laugh during Clinton's speech
The elder Bush followed up the concert Monday morning with a joke of his own
Washington (CNN) Former President George W. Bush made his successor Barack Obama noticeably snicker at a joke delivered during Bill Clinton's speech at a hurricane relief benefit concert in Texas.
Mischievous George W Bush cracks a joke behind Bill Clinton's back and makes Barack Obama giggle https://t.co/MIzJqAVei1 pic.twitter.com/guzehQIj0o â Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 23 2017
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2,331 | 2 deputies shot responding to domestic dispute in Virginia | Michael Chapman | WUSA-TV cites Sheriff Michael Chapman as saying the dispute involved was between a father and his 19-year-old daughter. Three deputies were on scene to try to de-escalate the situation for about an hour. Things became heated when deputies followed the father upstairs in the residence to make an arrest WUSA-TV writes.
"From what we can gather and again this is preliminary information he reached for a gun and almost simultaneously he was tazed and as he was being apprehended he managed to get several shots off " said Sheriff Chapman .
Chapman said the suspect shot a female deputy in the leg and also hit a male deputy in the arm and both legs. Both were rushed to a nearby hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. It was the third deputy who took the suspect into custody.
.@LoudounSheriff spokesperson tells me the initial call came in shortly before 4p. Still looking into what time shots were fired. Told Sheriff Chapman is with the Deputies at the hospital & plans to update reporters after @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/RBn8FooNXD â Stephanie Ramirez (@RamirezReports) December 24 2017
"I'm just grateful with all things being considered that it's ... turned out as good as it has " Chapman said. | WUSA-TV cites Sheriff [TGT] as saying the dispute involved was between a father and his 19-year-old daughter. Three deputies were on scene to try to de-escalate the situation for about an hour. Things became heated when deputies followed the father upstairs in the residence to make an arrest WUSA-TV writes.
"From what we can gather and again this is preliminary information he reached for a gun and almost simultaneously he was tazed and as he was being apprehended he managed to get several shots off " said Sheriff Chapman .
Chapman said the suspect shot a female deputy in the leg and also hit a male deputy in the arm and both legs. Both were rushed to a nearby hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. It was the third deputy who took the suspect into custody.
.@LoudounSheriff spokesperson tells me the initial call came in shortly before 4p. Still looking into what time shots were fired. Told Sheriff Chapman is with the Deputies at the hospital & plans to update reporters after @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/RBn8FooNXD â Stephanie Ramirez (@RamirezReports) December 24 2017
"I'm just grateful with all things being considered that it's ... turned out as good as it has " Chapman said. | 1Neutral
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2,332 | Model Chloe Ayling posts nude photo just months after 'Black Death' kidnapping | Chloe Ayling | Chloe Ayling who called the ordeal a âterrifying experienceâ during a British television interview in August recently uploaded a fully nude image to her Instagram account. Ayling however is turned from the camera and not all of her body is visible in the black and white snap.
Ayling says she was drugged and held hostage by a group that called itself Black Death after being lured to Milan for a fake photo shoot in July. She said the kidnappers planned to auction her on the dark web to the highest bidder -- unless she paid $355 000 for her freedom.
George Hepburne Scott the lawyer for 36-year-old suspect Michal Herba has argued in court that the case might have been made up as part of an elaborate publicity stunt to boost Ayling 's career.
The 20-year-old model has maintained her kidnapping was real saying on Britainâs âThis Morningâ in August she feared she would be killed and prayed for a ânon-painful death.â
Ayling described being drugged stuffed into a suitcase transported to an isolated farmhouse and held for almost a week by her captors. The kidnappers allegedly threatened to advertise her as a sex slave or hold her for ransom.
Ayling has also announced she will be writing a book to "expose every little detail for the first time." The book titled "Six Days " is expected to be released in Spring 2018. | [TGT] who called the ordeal a âterrifying experienceâ during a British television interview in August recently uploaded a fully nude image to [TGT] Instagram account. Ayling however is turned from the camera and not all of [TGT] body is visible in the black and white snap.
[TGT] says [TGT] was drugged and held hostage by a group that called [TGT] Black Death after being lured to Milan for a fake photo shoot in July. [TGT] said the kidnappers planned to auction [TGT] on the dark web to the highest bidder -- unless [TGT] paid $355 000 for [TGT] freedom.
George Hepburne Scott the lawyer for 36-year-old suspect Michal Herba has argued in court that the case might have been made up as part of an elaborate publicity stunt to boost [TGT] 's career.
The 20-year-old model has maintained her kidnapping was real saying on Britainâs âThis Morningâ in August she feared she would be killed and prayed for a ânon-painful death.â
[TGT] described being drugged stuffed into a suitcase transported to an isolated farmhouse and held for almost a week by her captors. The kidnappers allegedly threatened to advertise her as a sex slave or hold her for ransom.
[TGT] has also announced she will be writing a book to "expose every little detail for the first time." The book titled "Six Days " is expected to be released in Spring 2018. | 0Negative
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2,333 | Barbra Streisand cloned her dog twice | Samantha | Speaking with Variety Streisand said that the two Coton de Tulear dogs named Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett are actually clones of a dog that passed away last year Samantha.
âThey have different personalities â Streisand told Variety. âIâm waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [ Samantha âs] brown eyes and seriousness.â
Before Samantha passed on Babs had cells taken from the dog's mouth and stomach for replicating purposes.
Streisand 75 also has a third dog Miss Fanny who is a distant cousin of Samantha making it one big happy family. | Speaking with Variety Streisand said that the two Coton de Tulear dogs named Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett are actually clones of a dog that passed away last year [TGT]
[TGT] have different personalities â Streisand told Variety. âIâm waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [ Samantha âs] brown eyes and seriousness.â
Before [TGT] passed on Babs had cells taken from the dog's mouth and stomach for replicating purposes.
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2,334 | Chris Kennedy 's troubled Cleveland deal: Taxes raised company collected millions | Chris Kennedy | Timeline of events in Chris Kennedy 's involvement with the construction of Cleveland's Medical Mart.
Timeline of events in Chris Kennedy 's involvement with the construction of Cleveland's Medical Mart.
As Chris Kennedy campaigns for governor he âs talked about his business successes. He âs pointed to his management of the Merchandise Mart âone of the great economic engines of Illinois â and to his role developing skyscrapers on Wolf Point along the Chicago River. Kennedy however has not highlighted one of his biggest projects to date â a nearly half-billion dollar public-private partnership to build a convention center and Medical Mart in Cleveland. Local politicians led by a longtime family friend gave Kennedyâs company a no-bid contract and pushed through a controversial sales tax hike to pay for it. As the project got off the ground Kennedy told Cleveland residents the one-stop medical superstore would remake the Rust Belt cityâs image into a âDisney World for doctorsâ and draw coveted medical conventions to town. Instead the project was plagued by accusations of insider dealings secrecy and failed promises. Kennedy âs company made millions of dollars while residents are stuck paying more on items they purchase. Four years after the 235 000-square-foot Medical Mart opened its doors Kennedy and his company have long since departed amid criticism they did little to foster the original goals of the struggling project. Now rebranded the Global Center for Health Innovation the building sits eerily empty most days â the glassy high-tech showrooms of its few tenants unstaffed and deserted. Subsequent management companies have failed to bring in revenue-producing tenants or the flood of health care trade shows once promised. Kennedy said he was only trying to help Clevelandâs leaders achieve their goals of a new convention center and a revitalized downtown. He said his company took on a project when few were looking at the city and the long-term business plan shifted after he left. âIt certainly wasnât a secretive contract. It certainly wasnât done without public scrutiny â he told the Chicago Tribune in a recent interview. âI donât know what generated more press coverage in Cleveland.â âHonestly did we pull a fast one? Did we slide one by?â Kennedy added. âNo I donât think any of that happened. I think everybody knew everything by the time we completed our deal. Thatâs what I believe.â Cuyahoga Countyâs current executive Armond Budish told reporters last month that he could call the Medical Mart building âan inherited albatross â but chooses to remain hopeful the development someday will succeed. Tim Hagan a Kennedy family friend spearheaded the push for the Medical Mart when he was a county commissioner a decade ago. Hagan said he stands by his decision to support Kennedy âs project but acknowledged the development has fallen short. âThe point of what we were trying to do is make the convention facility ⦠more attractive for outside investments to come in for events â Hagan said over coffee in a recent interview in Cleveland. âHas it worked out ⦠as much as we thought it was going to work out immediately? No I donât think so.â Heywood Sanders is an urban planning and public policy scholar who is critical of convention centers as publicly funded economic development projects. He has studied the Medical Mart deal for years and said Cleveland was blinded by its own misplaced hopes and the Kennedy mystique. âDesperate cities do desperate things â said Sanders a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Sanders said no hard data existed showing that a Medical Mart would succeed or produce any economic benefits for Cleveland. âIt didnât make sense then and it doesnât seem to make sense now.â David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune Global Center for Health Innovation's glass and pre-fab concrete panel structure offers wide views of the Cleveland downtown mall and skyline from its atrium-style ground floor shown on Oct. 10 2017. Global Center for Health Innovation's glass and pre-fab concrete panel structure offers wide views of the Cleveland downtown mall and skyline from its atrium-style ground floor shown on Oct. 10 2017. (David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune) Once a bustling industrial metropolis Cleveland experienced a hard slide into Rust Belt decline during the 1970s and â80s. Its population and manufacturing base shrank as factories and mills closed down. One of the bright spots in the cityâs economic landscape appeared to be health care. The Cleveland Clinic grew over the past 40 years to be one of the most renowned hospital complexes in the world â rivaling the Mayo Clinic as a destination for affluent patients around the globe seeking out the best most innovative care. The clinic campus sits several miles east of the cityâs downtown lakefront which continued to decline over the years. Since the late â70s some civic leaders held onto the belief that renovating the outdated underground convention center might be the key to making the city center a destination once again. The political and financial capital to make it happen never materialized. Investing public money in building convention facilities is often a divisive issue. Boosters often say if you build it they will come; others say the investment rarely pays off. William Bowen a professor of public administration at Cleveland State University puts himself in the latter category. Convention center deals typically underperform their projections that spurred their construction he said. âMost of the time the valuation of the impact of whatâs built either doesnât happen or ⦠they donât as a rule pay back the public coffers â Bowen said. âI think thatâs borne out by the majority of the research.â The hospitalâs involvement started to change the sense of possibility and then Kennedy âs involvement would put it over the hump Hagan said. The consensus version of how the development came about begins with Dr. Toby Cosgrove Cleveland Clinicâs longtime president. According to Kennedy Cosgrove wanted to leverage the clinicâs cachet to revitalize downtown Cleveland. Cosgrove declined multiple interview requests. Kennedy said a New York real estate executive who was Cosgroveâs patient recommended Merchandise Mart and Kennedy . Kennedy said Cosgrove called him to discuss the potential for a mart geared toward medical professionals. Kennedy said in 2005 he and another Merchandise Mart official met with Cosgrove and local and state economic officials at the clinic. Kennedy said he suggested the new medical mart be tied into rebuilding Clevelandâs aging convention center.
âWe had explained that marts really work best in conjunction with trade show facilities â Kennedy recalled. âAnd there may be an opportunity to rebuild the trade show hall. Cleveland we knew was looking at it and he (Cosgrove) ought to look into tying those two things together.â Kennedy said his friend Hagan then a county commissioner had nothing to do with his entree to the Cleveland discussions. However when he was in town for the Cosgrove meeting he also met Hagan for a cup of coffee at a hotel near the hospital complex. By the time the deal came together two years later Hagan and Cuyahoga County officials were in charge. âThey were trying to come up with a way to sell a convention center and there was no money for a convention center â Sanders said. âIn this context Chris Kennedy was providing a degree of legitimacy and political cover and seeming market authority to a project that had never happened before anywhere despite some efforts to try. Merchandise Mart had a remarkable role in trying to legitimize it.â Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune Interview with Chris Kennedy on Oct. 31 2017 at his campaign headquarters. Interview with Chris Kennedy on Oct. 31 2017 at his campaign headquarters. (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune) (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune) Chris Kennedy is the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy. While the Kennedy family has been based in New England and the corridors of power in Washington much of the familyâs wealth was derived from their decadeslong ownership of Chicagoâs Merchandise Mart which Chris Kennedy ran before and after the family sold the massive building for $625 million in 1998. Hagan had known the Kennedy family since the late 1970s when his own politically connected family threw its support behind the candidacy of Chris Kennedy âs uncle then-Sen. Edward Kennedy D-Mass. who was seeking the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. Hagan was godfather to one of Chris Kennedyâs nieces was a pallbearer for one of his uncles and served on the board of a Kennedy charitable foundation. Hagan said he had been a guest at the familyâs famed Cape Cod compound several times over the years. Kennedy told the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper in 2009 that Hagan was the reason Merchandise Mart undertook the project. âWho else could get us to come there?â Kennedy asked. âNobodyâs doing business in Cleveland.â Hagan and Kennedy both reject the notion of insider dealing saying they never hid their friendship. There was never an effort to put the project out for bid the men said because no one else was seriously interested. It was the first time that an outside business firm had showed any interest in an idea that had for years been a local pipe dream Hagan said. âWe had one legitimate proposal from the outside â the Merchandise Mart people â Hagan said. âI give Chris Kennedy credit for looking at it because no one else did.â David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune Originally named the Medical Mart the Global Center for Health Innovation's showrooms and meeting spaces sit mostly deserted in downtown Cleveland on Oct. 10 2017. Originally named the Medical Mart the Global Center for Health Innovation's showrooms and meeting spaces sit mostly deserted in downtown Cleveland on Oct. 10 2017. (David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune) Kennedy âs ties to Hagan fueled criticism from the start but it intensified when the details of the deal were made public. Cuyahoga County raised its sales tax and bore nearly all of the costs of developing the complex â both building the Medical Mart and renovating Clevelandâs aging underground convention center. Merchandise Mart would receive an upfront $12 million developerâs fee and collect other fees expected to total $103 million over 20 years according to the contract. âDid they get a good deal? I guess they did. I donât know â Hagan said. âI didnât negotiate the deal.â Hagan did however vote for the quarter-cent sales tax hike and the contract. No sooner had the development agreement been signed in spring 2009 than some in county government began to look for ways to fix it. Critics said the deal was so sweet for Kennedy âs firm that he had little incentive to make the Medical Mart generate income. âThey had no skin in the game â Sanders said of Merchandise Mart. âThey clearly were getting paid as it went along. It became increasingly clear over the years that they werenât going to be able to make the whole thing work.â The project was soon behind schedule. Groundbreaking did not take place until January 2011. At the time Merchandise Mart said it had letters of intent from 58 companies hospitals and colleges that would fill the Medical Mart. âToo much demand is never a serious problem â Kennedy told local media. âWeâll work to accommodate everyone.â The Plain Dealer however reported that some of those Merchandise Mart listed as potential tenants were offered space for free while others said they had no plans to move into the Medical Mart. Around the same time Cuyahoga County went through a massive corruption scandal that resulted in a new form of government that diminished Haganâs influence. Hagan who was not part of that scandal left office in January 2011. Six months later Kennedy announced he was stepping down from the Merchandise Mart. Kennedy said he has paid little attention to the development since then. But if the project went wrong he said in a recent Tribune interview from his campaign offices it was after he left. He said local leaders decided to try to charge higher rents to the health care tenants he had lined up for the mart. The idea was to give the space away for several years to bring in tenants who would create the âDisney-like experience â he said. âThat vision was largely abandoned after I left â he said. âThe tenant mix and the Medical Mart as a loss leader was abandoned.â Instead he said they hired real estate companies to attempt to produce market rate revenue. As the Medical Mart struggled to find the kind of tenants originally envisioned the projectâs mission changed to include local groups that would use the space for educational classes. News coverage pointed out that the health care industry had well-established practices for purchasing supplies and new technologies that did not fit into the Medical Mart concept. By the time the building opened in 2013 county leaders had grown impatient with Merchandise Martâs management. That December the county parted ways with the Chicago company negotiating a $3 million payment to end their long-term agreement. While that deal called for Merchandise Mart to kick in $20 million to build tenantsâ showrooms the company departed before fulfilling the pledge said Jeffrey Appelbaum a Cleveland lawyer who advises the county and oversaw most of the project after the original development deal was adopted. He described the commitment of $20 million as âkind of softâ and geared toward being made near the end of the project making it unclear when the company would actually have to contribute the money. When design changes in the convention center portion of the project drove the cost from $425 million to $465 million Cuyahoga County asked Merchandise Mart to use some of the promised $20 million to cover the new increased costs according to documents and county officials. | Timeline of events in [TGT] 's involvement with the construction of Cleveland's Medical Mart.
Timeline of events in Chris Kennedy 's involvement with the construction of Cleveland's Medical Mart.
As [TGT] campaigns for governor [TGT] âs talked about [TGT] business successes. [TGT] âs pointed to [TGT] management of the Merchandise Mart âone of the great economic engines of Illinois â and to [TGT] role developing skyscrapers on Wolf Point along the Chicago River. [TGT] however has not highlighted one of [TGT] biggest projects to date â a nearly half-billion dollar public-private partnership to build a convention center and Medical Mart in Cleveland. Local politicians led by a longtime family friend gave Kennedyâs company a no-bid contract and pushed through a controversial sales tax hike to pay for it. As the project got off the ground [TGT] told Cleveland residents the one-stop medical superstore would remake the Rust Belt cityâs image into a âDisney World for doctorsâ and draw coveted medical conventions to town. Instead the project was plagued by accusations of insider dealings secrecy and failed promises. [TGT] âs company made millions of dollars while residents are stuck paying more on items they purchase. Four years after the 235 000-square-foot Medical Mart opened its doors [TGT] and [TGT] company have long since departed amid criticism [TGT] did little to foster the original goals of the struggling project. Now rebranded the Global Center for Health Innovation the building sits eerily empty most days â the glassy high-tech showrooms of its few tenants unstaffed and deserted. Subsequent management companies have failed to bring in revenue-producing tenants or the flood of health care trade shows once promised. [TGT] said [TGT] was only trying to help Clevelandâs leaders achieve their goals of a new convention center and a revitalized downtown. [TGT] said [TGT] company took on a project when few were looking at the city and the long-term business plan shifted after [TGT] left. âIt certainly wasnât a secretive contract. It certainly wasnât done without public scrutiny â [TGT] told the Chicago Tribune in a recent interview. âI donât know what generated more press coverage in Cleveland.â âHonestly did we pull a fast one? Did we slide one by?â [TGT] added. âNo I donât think any of that happened. I think everybody knew everything by the time we completed our deal. Thatâs what I believe.â Cuyahoga Countyâs current executive Armond Budish told reporters last month that he could call the Medical Mart building âan inherited albatross â but chooses to remain hopeful the development someday will succeed. Tim Hagan a [TGT] family friend spearheaded the push for the Medical Mart when he was a county commissioner a decade ago. Hagan said he stands by his decision to support [TGT] âs project but acknowledged the development has fallen short. âThe point of what we were trying to do is make the convention facility ⦠more attractive for outside investments to come in for events â Hagan said over coffee in a recent interview in Cleveland. âHas it worked out ⦠as much as we thought it was going to work out immediately? No I donât think so.â Heywood Sanders is an urban planning and public policy scholar who is critical of convention centers as publicly funded economic development projects. He has studied the Medical Mart deal for years and said Cleveland was blinded by its own misplaced hopes and the Kennedy mystique. âDesperate cities do desperate things â said Sanders a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Sanders said no hard data existed showing that a Medical Mart would succeed or produce any economic benefits for Cleveland. âIt didnât make sense then and it doesnât seem to make sense now.â David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune Global Center for Health Innovation's glass and pre-fab concrete panel structure offers wide views of the Cleveland downtown mall and skyline from its atrium-style ground floor shown on Oct. 10 2017. Global Center for Health Innovation's glass and pre-fab concrete panel structure offers wide views of the Cleveland downtown mall and skyline from its atrium-style ground floor shown on Oct. 10 2017. (David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune) Once a bustling industrial metropolis Cleveland experienced a hard slide into Rust Belt decline during the 1970s and â80s. Its population and manufacturing base shrank as factories and mills closed down. One of the bright spots in the cityâs economic landscape appeared to be health care. The Cleveland Clinic grew over the past 40 years to be one of the most renowned hospital complexes in the world â rivaling the Mayo Clinic as a destination for affluent patients around the globe seeking out the best most innovative care. The clinic campus sits several miles east of the cityâs downtown lakefront which continued to decline over the years. Since the late â70s some civic leaders held onto the belief that renovating the outdated underground convention center might be the key to making the city center a destination once again. The political and financial capital to make it happen never materialized. Investing public money in building convention facilities is often a divisive issue. Boosters often say if you build it they will come; others say the investment rarely pays off. William Bowen a professor of public administration at Cleveland State University puts himself in the latter category. Convention center deals typically underperform their projections that spurred their construction he said. âMost of the time the valuation of the impact of whatâs built either doesnât happen or ⦠they donât as a rule pay back the public coffers â Bowen said. âI think thatâs borne out by the majority of the research.â The hospitalâs involvement started to change the sense of possibility and then Kennedy âs involvement would put it over the hump Hagan said. The consensus version of how the development came about begins with Dr. Toby Cosgrove Cleveland Clinicâs longtime president. According to Kennedy Cosgrove wanted to leverage the clinicâs cachet to revitalize downtown Cleveland. Cosgrove declined multiple interview requests. Kennedy said a New York real estate executive who was Cosgroveâs patient recommended Merchandise Mart and Kennedy . Kennedy said Cosgrove called him to discuss the potential for a mart geared toward medical professionals. Kennedy said in 2005 he and another Merchandise Mart official met with Cosgrove and local and state economic officials at the clinic. Kennedy said he suggested the new medical mart be tied into rebuilding Clevelandâs aging convention center.
âWe had explained that marts really work best in conjunction with trade show facilities â Kennedy recalled. âAnd there may be an opportunity to rebuild the trade show hall. Cleveland we knew was looking at it and he (Cosgrove) ought to look into tying those two things together.â Kennedy said his friend Hagan then a county commissioner had nothing to do with his entree to the Cleveland discussions. However when he was in town for the Cosgrove meeting he also met Hagan for a cup of coffee at a hotel near the hospital complex. By the time the deal came together two years later Hagan and Cuyahoga County officials were in charge. âThey were trying to come up with a way to sell a convention center and there was no money for a convention center â Sanders said. âIn this context Chris Kennedy was providing a degree of legitimacy and political cover and seeming market authority to a project that had never happened before anywhere despite some efforts to try. Merchandise Mart had a remarkable role in trying to legitimize it.â Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune Interview with [TGT] on Oct. 31 2017 at his campaign headquarters. Interview with [TGT] on Oct. 31 2017 at [TGT] campaign headquarters. (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune) (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune) [TGT] is the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy. While the [TGT] family has been based in New England and the corridors of power in Washington much of the familyâs wealth was derived from their decadeslong ownership of Chicagoâs Merchandise Mart which [TGT] ran before and after the family sold the massive building for $625 million in 1998. Hagan had known the [TGT] family since the late 1970s when [TGT] own politically connected family threw its support behind the candidacy of Chris Kennedy âs uncle then-Sen. [TGT] D-Mass. who was seeking the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. Hagan was godfather to one of Chris Kennedyâs nieces was a pallbearer for one of his uncles and served on the board of a [TGT] charitable foundation. Hagan said he had been a guest at the familyâs famed Cape Cod compound several times over the years. Kennedy told the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper in 2009 that Hagan was the reason Merchandise Mart undertook the project. âWho else could get us to come there?â Kennedy asked. âNobodyâs doing business in Cleveland.â Hagan and Kennedy both reject the notion of insider dealing saying they never hid their friendship. There was never an effort to put the project out for bid the men said because no one else was seriously interested. It was the first time that an outside business firm had showed any interest in an idea that had for years been a local pipe dream Hagan said. âWe had one legitimate proposal from the outside â the Merchandise Mart people â Hagan said. âI give [TGT] credit for looking at it because no one else did.â David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune Originally named the Medical Mart the Global Center for Health Innovation's showrooms and meeting spaces sit mostly deserted in downtown Cleveland on Oct. 10 2017. Originally named the Medical Mart the Global Center for Health Innovation's showrooms and meeting spaces sit mostly deserted in downtown Cleveland on Oct. 10 2017. (David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune) [TGT] âs ties to Hagan fueled criticism from the start but it intensified when the details of the deal were made public. Cuyahoga County raised its sales tax and bore nearly all of the costs of developing the complex â both building the Medical Mart and renovating Clevelandâs aging underground convention center. Merchandise Mart would receive an upfront $12 million developerâs fee and collect other fees expected to total $103 million over 20 years according to the contract. âDid they get a good deal? I guess they did. I donât know â Hagan said. âI didnât negotiate the deal.â Hagan did however vote for the quarter-cent sales tax hike and the contract. No sooner had the development agreement been signed in spring 2009 than some in county government began to look for ways to fix it. Critics said the deal was so sweet for [TGT] âs firm that [TGT] had little incentive to make the Medical Mart generate income. âThey had no skin in the game â Sanders said of Merchandise Mart. âThey clearly were getting paid as it went along. It became increasingly clear over the years that they werenât going to be able to make the whole thing work.â The project was soon behind schedule. Groundbreaking did not take place until January 2011. At the time Merchandise Mart said it had letters of intent from 58 companies hospitals and colleges that would fill the Medical Mart. âToo much demand is never a serious problem â Kennedy told local media. âWeâll work to accommodate everyone.â The Plain Dealer however reported that some of those Merchandise Mart listed as potential tenants were offered space for free while others said they had no plans to move into the Medical Mart. Around the same time Cuyahoga County went through a massive corruption scandal that resulted in a new form of government that diminished Haganâs influence. Hagan who was not part of that scandal left office in January 2011. Six months later Kennedy announced he was stepping down from the Merchandise Mart. Kennedy said he has paid little attention to the development since then. But if the project went wrong he said in a recent Tribune interview from his campaign offices it was after he left. He said local leaders decided to try to charge higher rents to the health care tenants he had lined up for the mart. The idea was to give the space away for several years to bring in tenants who would create the âDisney-like experience â he said. âThat vision was largely abandoned after I left â he said. âThe tenant mix and the Medical Mart as a loss leader was abandoned.â Instead he said they hired real estate companies to attempt to produce market rate revenue. As the Medical Mart struggled to find the kind of tenants originally envisioned the projectâs mission changed to include local groups that would use the space for educational classes. News coverage pointed out that the health care industry had well-established practices for purchasing supplies and new technologies that did not fit into the Medical Mart concept. By the time the building opened in 2013 county leaders had grown impatient with Merchandise Martâs management. That December the county parted ways with the Chicago company negotiating a $3 million payment to end their long-term agreement. While that deal called for Merchandise Mart to kick in $20 million to build tenantsâ showrooms the company departed before fulfilling the pledge said Jeffrey Appelbaum a Cleveland lawyer who advises the county and oversaw most of the project after the original development deal was adopted. He described the commitment of $20 million as âkind of softâ and geared toward being made near the end of the project making it unclear when the company would actually have to contribute the money. 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2,335 | Ryan Zinke Refuses to 'Weaponize' Public Lands During Government Shutdown Touts Efforts to Keep Parks Open | Ryan Zinke | Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spoke to Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM and praised his departmentâs efforts to keep Americaâs public lands open during the âgovernment shutdown.â
Today we are at the Lincoln WW2 and Washington giving out maps greeting visitors pic.twitter.com/3hqTE4FDlI â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 21 2018
Thanks to Jeff from our Parks concessionaire/vendor Guest Services Inc. for donating porta-johns and keeping visitor services open during the #schumershutdown pic.twitter.com/dtT08eVC7z â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 21 2018
Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House asked Zinke to compare that experience to this shutdown where he has been able to keep open a comparatively much larger amount of public land. Zinke made headlines Saturday for welcoming visitors to keep the Washington World War II Memorial open.
âI canât think of a [bigger] difference [than] in how we view our public lands. Our public lands and monuments are the peopleâs and not the governmentâs â Zinke told House directly comparing the Trump administrationâs approach to earlier policies. âAnd so weâve given a directive to wherever possible make sure our public lands remain open. ⦠Where we can weâve opened up our parks.â
Zinke claimed he wanted to avoid politicizing the parks and other public lands. âWeâre blessed with our park system BLM [Bureau of Land Management lands] and great public lands and treasures. ⦠To weaponize those lands for a political purpose I think quite frankly is unamerican â he told House.
âWeâre even negotiating with New York on the Statue of Liberty â Zinke added about the famous landmark now slated to reopen Monday.
Still Zinke reigned in his enthusiasm to emphasize the hardship his employees might face if the shutdown continues. â[The Department of the] Interior has a really noble mission: being the stewards of our greatest treasures â Zinke said. âThese are middle-class American families that work hard that love our country and they have mortgages. ⦠So to use our personnel as â somehow â a bargaining chip for political purposes quite frankly is disgraceful.â | Secretary of the Interior [TGT] spoke to Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM and praised his departmentâs efforts to keep Americaâs public lands open during the âgovernment shutdown.â
Today we are at the Lincoln WW2 and Washington giving out maps greeting visitors pic.twitter.com/3hqTE4FDlI â Secretary [TGT] (@SecretaryZinke) January 21 2018
Thanks to Jeff from our Parks concessionaire/vendor Guest Services Inc. for donating porta-johns and keeping visitor services open during the #schumershutdown pic.twitter.com/dtT08eVC7z â Secretary [TGT] (@SecretaryZinke) January 21 2018
Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House asked Zinke to compare that experience to this shutdown where he has been able to keep open a comparatively much larger amount of public land. Zinke made headlines Saturday for welcoming visitors to keep the Washington World War II Memorial open.
âI canât think of a [bigger] difference [than] in how we view our public lands. Our public lands and monuments are the peopleâs and not the governmentâs â Zinke told House directly comparing the Trump administrationâs approach to earlier policies. âAnd so weâve given a directive to wherever possible make sure our public lands remain open. ⦠Where we can weâve opened up our parks.â
Zinke claimed he wanted to avoid politicizing the parks and other public lands. âWeâre blessed with our park system BLM [Bureau of Land Management lands] and great public lands and treasures. ⦠To weaponize those lands for a political purpose I think quite frankly is unamerican â he told House.
âWeâre even negotiating with New York on the Statue of Liberty â Zinke added about the famous landmark now slated to reopen Monday.
Still Zinke reigned in his enthusiasm to emphasize the hardship his employees might face if the shutdown continues. â[The Department of the] Interior has a really noble mission: being the stewards of our greatest treasures â Zinke said. âThese are middle-class American families that work hard that love our country and they have mortgages. ⦠So to use our personnel as â somehow â a bargaining chip for political purposes quite frankly is disgraceful.â | 2Positive
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2,336 | Bill Maher calls Elizabeth Warren âPocahontasâ during TV interview. Check out her reaction. â TheBlaze | Bill Maher Bill | Well comedian Bill Maher must not have gotten the memo. Or maybe he did get it and didnât care.
Speaking to Warren face to face on his HBO program âReal Timeâ that night Maher asked her why more working-class people still back Trump despite his tax plan that Maher said favored the wealthy.
âTheyâre still with him . Theyâre not with you â Maher told Warren. âExplain to me what that disconnection is.â
Maher cut off Warrenâs defense: âWell his fans are not with you.â
âHold on â she insisted. But Maher nudged more: âCome on.â
Maher then moved in for the kill: âThey donât like you Pocahontas.â
Maher smiled at Warren and laughed as well presumably signaling to her that his jab wasnât an attack.
But Warren â hardly ever at a loss for words â fell silent and needed a few moments as the âPocahontasâ ribbing sank in. Check out her face just after:
It seemed as though Warren got the joke soon enough. She looked as though she was about to smile â
but she did not reply to Maherâs joke and instead soldiered on with her rhetoric:
âHow can it be racist if she âs not Native American?â one Twitter user asked.
âDisagree completely. Warren is embellishing (or lying your pick) Trump is calling her on her BS #PoliticalCorrectnessSucks â another user said.
CNNâs Jake Tapper offered a quote from a Native American friend of his who said Trump uttering âPocahontasâ is a racial slur â but Tapper added in his follow-up tweet that this same Native American friend noted that the Cherokee Nation âdid a formal review and she is not a Cherokee citizen.â
Native American friend of mine on Trump calling her "Pocahontas": "It is a slur for sure and broadly stereotyping Indigenous people." 1/2 â Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28 2017
Also he says "a citizen of the Cherokee Nation I know they did a formal review and she is not a Cherokee citizen." 2/2 â Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28 2017 | Well comedian Bill Maher must not have gotten the memo. Or maybe he did get it and didnât care.
Speaking to Warren face to face on his HBO program âReal Timeâ that night Maher asked her why more working-class people still back Trump despite his tax plan that Maher said favored the wealthy.
âTheyâre still with him . Theyâre not with you â Maher told Warren. âExplain to me what that disconnection is.â
Maher cut off Warrenâs defense: âWell his fans are not with you.â
âHold on â she insisted. But Maher nudged more: âCome on.â
Maher then moved in for the kill: âThey donât like you Pocahontas.â
Maher smiled at Warren and laughed as well presumably signaling to her that his jab wasnât an attack.
But Warren â hardly ever at a loss for words â fell silent and needed a few moments as the âPocahontasâ ribbing sank in. Check out her face just after:
It seemed as though Warren got the joke soon enough. She looked as though she was about to smile â
but she did not reply to Maherâs joke and instead soldiered on with her rhetoric:
âHow can it be racist if she âs not Native American?â one Twitter user asked.
âDisagree completely. Warren is embellishing (or lying your pick) Trump is calling her on her BS #PoliticalCorrectnessSucks â another user said.
CNNâs Jake Tapper offered a quote from a Native American friend of his who said Trump uttering âPocahontasâ is a racial slur â but Tapper added in his follow-up tweet that this same Native American friend noted that the Cherokee Nation âdid a formal review and she is not a Cherokee citizen.â
Native American friend of mine on Trump calling her "Pocahontas": "It is a slur for sure and broadly stereotyping Indigenous people." 1/2 â Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28 2017
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2,337 | If we applied the same law Mexico applies to illegal immigrants we wouldnât have a problem â TheBlaze | Felipe Calderón | In one of Patâs favorite interviews Felipe Calderón lectures Americans on how terrible states like Arizona are for cracking down on illegal immigration.
Several years ago Calderón sat down with Wolf Blitzer to discuss illegal immigration in his country and the U.S.âs âmistreatmentâ of illegal immigrants and the most poignant point of all made by Calderón was when Blitzer asked âIf somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico and they wind up in Mexico they can go get a job? They can work?â
âIf somebody do that without permissions we send back them â said Calderón .
He went on to share documentation is required by those entering into Mexico including some sort of assurance they arenât criminals.
What Calderón is saying here is the U.S. should allow everyone into this country and just let them be. âThat is just mindnumbing â said Pat. âAnd no awareness that thereâs any problem with it he âs not even embarrassed to say it.â | In one of Patâs favorite interviews [TGT] lectures Americans on how terrible states like Arizona are for cracking down on illegal immigration.
Several years ago Calderón sat down with Wolf Blitzer to discuss illegal immigration in his country and the U.S.âs âmistreatmentâ of illegal immigrants and the most poignant point of all made by Calderón was when Blitzer asked âIf somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico and they wind up in Mexico they can go get a job? They can work?â
âIf somebody do that without permissions we send back them â said Calderón .
He went on to share documentation is required by those entering into Mexico including some sort of assurance they arenât criminals.
What Calderón is saying here is the U.S. should allow everyone into this country and just let them be. âThat is just mindnumbing â said Pat. âAnd no awareness that thereâs any problem with it he âs not even embarrassed to say it.â | 1Neutral
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2,338 | Pope revives lapsed sex abuse commission amid criticism over handling of scandal | Pope Francis | Pope Francis revived his lapsed sex abuse advisory commission by naming new members Saturday after coming under fire for his overall handling of the scandal and his support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse.
Francis tasked Archbishop Charles Scicluna with the fact-finding mission into Bishop Juan Barros after he came under blistering criticism in Chile for defending Barros and calling the victims' cover-up accusations against him slander.
The initial three-year mandate of commission members had lapsed two months ago on Dec. 17. Francis named nine new members Saturday and kept seven from the initial group. A Vatican statement said survivors of abuse are included but didn't identify them to protect their privacy.
Francis created the commission in December 2013 responding to complaints that he hadn't prioritized the fight against clerical abuse and cover-up enough. The group's mission was to advise the pope on best practices to protect children but it faced strong in-house resistance to some of its core proposals.
The commission's most significant proposal came in 2015 when it successfully persuaded Francis and his "kitchen cabinet" to create a tribunal section inside the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to judge bishops who botched handling cases of their abuser priests. Francis approved funding and personnel for an initial five-year term.
But amid resistance the tribunal never got off the ground and Francis scrapped it entirely in 2016. Instead he issued a document laying out essentially existing procedures for the Vatican to investigate negligence. There is no transparency to the process however. | [TGT] revived [TGT] lapsed sex abuse advisory commission by naming new members Saturday after coming under fire for [TGT] overall handling of the scandal and [TGT] support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse.
[TGT] tasked Archbishop Charles Scicluna with the fact-finding mission into Bishop Juan Barros after [TGT] came under blistering criticism in Chile for defending Barros and calling the victims' cover-up accusations against him slander.
The initial three-year mandate of commission members had lapsed two months ago on Dec. 17. [TGT] named nine new members Saturday and kept seven from the initial group. A Vatican statement said survivors of abuse are included but didn't identify them to protect their privacy.
[TGT] created the commission in December 2013 responding to complaints that [TGT] hadn't prioritized the fight against clerical abuse and cover-up enough. The group's mission was to advise the pope on best practices to protect children but it faced strong in-house resistance to some of its core proposals.
The commission's most significant proposal came in 2015 when it successfully persuaded [TGT] and [TGT] "kitchen cabinet" to create a tribunal section inside the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to judge bishops who botched handling cases of their abuser priests. [TGT] approved funding and personnel for an initial five-year term.
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2,339 | Bakery Sues Oberlin After College Students Brand It 'Racist ' Accuse Owners Of 'Profiling' | Allyn Gibson | In November of last year three Oberlin students â all minorities â were arrested after trying to shoplift from the bakery's wine selection and then "punching and kicking the white shopkeeper " Allyn Gibson according to an Associated Press report. Two of the students claimed that they were "racially profiled" by the shop owner and that they'd simply come in to buy wine albeit using a fake ID when Gibson accused them of stealing.
But by the time the students admitted that they probably weren't profiled the damage had already been done in the Oberlin community according to a legal complaint filed by Gibson late last month. Students have staged a number of protests outside the bakery and the Oberlin student senate passed a resolution claiming Gibson has âa history of racial profiling and discriminatory treatment.â
The lack of proof hasn't stopped students from reportedly boycotting the cafe and Gibson claims student advisers and campus tour guides tell prospective students that Gibson 's is racist. Gibson even alleges that the school administration has participated in the protests and that after finding out students had stolen from the bakery pushed the bakery's owners to drop the criminal charges and let Oberlin handle the incident instead of law enforcement.
âI have not taken a paycheck since this happened more than a year ago â Gibson said in an email. âSometimes you have to stand up to a large institution. Powerful institutions â including Oberlin College â and their members must follow the same laws as the rest of us.â | In November of last year three Oberlin students â all minorities â were arrested after trying to shoplift from the bakery's wine selection and then "punching and kicking the white shopkeeper " [TGT] according to an Associated Press report. Two of the students claimed that they were "racially profiled" by the shop owner and that they'd simply come in to buy wine albeit using a fake ID when Gibson accused them of stealing.
But by the time the students admitted that they probably weren't profiled the damage had already been done in the Oberlin community according to a legal complaint filed by Gibson late last month. Students have staged a number of protests outside the bakery and the Oberlin student senate passed a resolution claiming Gibson has âa history of racial profiling and discriminatory treatment.â
The lack of proof hasn't stopped students from reportedly boycotting the cafe and Gibson claims student advisers and campus tour guides tell prospective students that Gibson 's is racist. Gibson even alleges that the school administration has participated in the protests and that after finding out students had stolen from the bakery pushed the bakery's owners to drop the criminal charges and let Oberlin handle the incident instead of law enforcement.
âI have not taken a paycheck since this happened more than a year ago â Gibson said in an email. âSometimes you have to stand up to a large institution. Powerful institutions â including Oberlin College â and their members must follow the same laws as the rest of us.â | 1Neutral
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2,340 | Fake news? Trump tweeted about Iran missile launch that never happened | Donald J. Trump | The Iranian ballistic missile launch that President Donald Trump tweeted about Saturday apparently never happened.
On Saturday Trump tweeted: âIran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel.They are also working with North Korea.Not much of an agreement we have!â
Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel.They are also working with North Korea.Not much of an agreement we have! â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23 2017
Trump has been criticized a number of times for jumping to conclusions and commenting on Twitter before breaking news reports have been confirmed.
As of Monday night he had not deleted the erroneous tweet.
Separately Twitter Inc. TWTR -2.30% on Monday explained that it would not block Trumpâs more incendiary tweets because they are newsworthy. Some had complained to Twitter that his threats toward North Korean leader Kim Jong Un â which North Korea said Monday it took as a âdeclaration of warâ â violated the companyâs terms of service. | The Iranian ballistic missile launch that President Donald Trump tweeted about Saturday apparently never happened.
On Saturday Trump tweeted: âIran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel.They are also working with North Korea.Not much of an agreement we have!â
Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel.They are also working with North Korea.Not much of an agreement we have! â [TGT] (@realDonaldTrump) September 23 2017
Trump has been criticized a number of times for jumping to conclusions and commenting on Twitter before breaking news reports have been confirmed.
As of Monday night he had not deleted the erroneous tweet.
Separately Twitter Inc. TWTR -2.30% on Monday explained that it would not block Trumpâs more incendiary tweets because they are newsworthy. Some had complained to Twitter that his threats toward North Korean leader Kim Jong Un â which North Korea said Monday it took as a âdeclaration of warâ â violated the companyâs terms of service. | 0Negative
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2,341 | Trump's Election Inspired An Army Of Women To Run For Office. Meet 8 Of Them. | Laura Moser | Laura Moser never had any desire to run for office. Her husband worked in politics and she considered herself to be a highly âinvolved volunteer â but beyond that maintained some space from the political sphere.
Moser 40 was overwhelmed by the election of President Donald J. Trump and the ensuing pain she saw in her own community on Facebook. The outpouring of grief and mass desire to do something that she saw on social media led Moser to found Daily Action in December 2016 a service that texts daily action items â like calling your representatives to talk about gun control or forwarding a reminder to voters in Virginia to get to to the polls â to usersâ phones. By early May 2017 she had officially announced she would be running for Congress.
Moser âs story isnât unique. Across the nation women from all over the political spectrum decided to run for elected office in the wake of the 2016 presidential race. Within a month of the election non-partisan organization She Should Run had heard from 4 500 women interested in running for elected office. By February that number rose to 13 000. Emilyâs List a PAC focusing on electing pro-choice Democratic women to office saw a similar spike in interest.
Laura Moser 40 Running for Congress in Texas District 7
Courtesy of Laura Moser | [TGT] never had any desire to run for office. [TGT] husband worked in politics and [TGT] considered [TGT] to be a highly âinvolved volunteer â but beyond that maintained some space from the political sphere.
[TGT] 40 was overwhelmed by the election of President Donald J. Trump and the ensuing pain [TGT] saw in [TGT] own community on Facebook. The outpouring of grief and mass desire to do something that [TGT] saw on social media led Moser to found Daily Action in December 2016 a service that texts daily action items â like calling your representatives to talk about gun control or forwarding a reminder to voters in Virginia to get to to the polls â to usersâ phones. By early May 2017 [TGT] had officially announced [TGT] would be running for Congress.
[TGT] . Across the nation women from all over the political spectrum decided to run for elected office in the wake of the 2016 presidential race. Within a month of the election non-partisan organization She Should Run had heard from 4 500 women interested in running for elected office. By February that number rose to 13 000. Emilyâs List a PAC focusing on electing pro-choice Democratic women to office saw a similar spike in interest.
[TGT] 40 Running for Congress in Texas District 7
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2,342 | Arpaio's pardon may be obstruction of justice evidence in Russia probe | James Comey | In particular Trump's conversation with Sessions and subsequent decision to pardon Arpaio could shed new light on Trump's motives in speaking to James Comey then the FBI director one day after former national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned about ending the investigation into Flynn.
Specifically Trump's decision to pardon Arpaio is key to determining his intent in speaking with Comey in February about dropping the Flynn investigation and then firing Comey in May after he refused to do so said Renato Mariotti a former federal prosecutor.
How Comey fits in
According to Comey 's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in June Trump privately told Comey who was spearheading the FBI's Russia probe at the time "I hope you can let this go " referring to the Flynn investigation.
Several Trump allies and Republican lawmakers have since said that those words do not prove Trump tried to obstruct justice by asking Comey to drop the investigation and subsequently firing him .
Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho for instance zeroed in on the statement during Comey 's testimony.
After reading out loud Comey 's recollection of Trump's statement Risch said "He did not direct you to let it go."
"Not in his words no " Comey replied.
" He did not order you to let it go " Risch said.
He later asked Comey whether he knew "of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter any other criminal offense where this â they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?"
When Comey said he took Trump's words as a direction from the president of the United States Risch said "You may have taken it as a direction but that's not what he said."
Moreover despite statements from Trump's allies and administration officials who painted Trump's comments to Comey as musings and not as a direct order Arpaio's pardon suggests "that he was serious about ending investigations as to his friends" and that it wasn't "just idle talk."
"The obstruction of justice would flow from the entire landscape of Trump's behavior: telling Comey to back off on the Flynn investigation firing him when he wouldn't and then admitting on national television that he dismissed Comey because of the Russia investigation " Ohlin told Business Insider.
He said that Trump's telling Russian officials in the Oval Office that Comey was "a real nut job" and that firing him had taken "great pressure" off of him added weight to the inference that Trump used his executive authority to fire Comey to stymie a federal investigation. | In particular Trump's conversation with Sessions and subsequent decision to pardon Arpaio could shed new light on Trump's motives in speaking to [TGT] then the FBI director one day after former national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned about ending the investigation into Flynn.
Specifically Trump's decision to pardon Arpaio is key to determining his intent in speaking with Comey in February about dropping the Flynn investigation and then firing Comey in May after he refused to do so said Renato Mariotti a former federal prosecutor.
How Comey fits in
According to Comey 's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in June Trump privately told Comey who was spearheading the FBI's Russia probe at the time "I hope you can let this go " referring to the Flynn investigation.
Several Trump allies and Republican lawmakers have since said that those words do not prove Trump tried to obstruct justice by asking Comey to drop the investigation and subsequently firing him .
Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho for instance zeroed in on the statement during Comey 's testimony.
After reading out loud Comey 's recollection of Trump's statement Risch said "He did not direct you to let it go."
"Not in his words no " Comey replied.
" He did not order you to let it go " Risch said.
He later asked Comey whether he knew "of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter any other criminal offense where this â they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?"
When Comey said he took Trump's words as a direction from the president of the United States Risch said "You may have taken it as a direction but that's not what he said."
Moreover despite statements from Trump's allies and administration officials who painted Trump's comments to Comey as musings and not as a direct order Arpaio's pardon suggests "that he was serious about ending investigations as to his friends" and that it wasn't "just idle talk."
"The obstruction of justice would flow from the entire landscape of Trump's behavior: telling Comey to back off on the Flynn investigation firing him when he wouldn't and then admitting on national television that he dismissed Comey because of the Russia investigation " Ohlin told Business Insider.
He said that Trump's telling Russian officials in the Oval Office that Comey was "a real nut job" and that firing him had taken "great pressure" off of him added weight to the inference that Trump used his executive authority to fire Comey to stymie a federal investigation. | 2Positive
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2,343 | In Sweet Deal Nestle Sells US Candy Biz to Ferrero for $2.8B | Ferrero Rocher | Nestle is selling its U.S. candy business to Italian company Ferrero for $2.8 billion in cash as the Swiss food giant shakes up its product portfolio.
Ferrero known for its Tic Tac Nutella and Ferrero Rocher brands but which has traditionally preferred organic growth to acquisitions will now be picking up Crunch Butterfinger and Baby Ruth from Nestle AFP reported.
The sale will make Ferrero the third-largest confectionary company in the U.S. market.
According to media reports Ferrero competed with major chocolate manufacturer Hershey and private funds including Rhone Capital to secure the deal.
Executive chairman Giovanni Ferrero said that after the acquisition the Ferrero Group "will have substantially greater scale a broader offering of high-quality products to customers..." in the United States the world's largest confectionary market. | Nestle is selling its U.S. candy business to Italian company Ferrero for $2.8 billion in cash as the Swiss food giant shakes up its product portfolio.
Ferrero known for its Tic Tac Nutella and [TGT] brands but which has traditionally preferred organic growth to acquisitions will now be picking up Crunch Butterfinger and Baby Ruth from Nestle AFP reported.
The sale will make Ferrero the third-largest confectionary company in the U.S. market.
According to media reports Ferrero competed with major chocolate manufacturer Hershey and private funds including Rhone Capital to secure the deal.
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2,344 | Why Is Bannon Bashing McConnell Over Roy Moore Instead of Taxes? | Steve Bannon | The Dec. 12 special Senate election in Alabama is being touted as the next clash in the ongoing battle between Steve Bannon and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for the soul of the Republican Partyâwhat Bannon with characteristic hyperbole calls a âseason of war.â Roy Moore the GOP candidate stands accused of numerous incidents of sexual misconduct including allegations that he molested a 14-year-old girl. Thatâs prompted McConnell a Kentucky Republican and most of his GOP colleagues to disavow him. Bannon by contrast was Mooreâs most important ally in the wake of the sex scandal at least until President Donald Trump took to Twitter to weigh in on Mooreâs behalf.
McConnell knows that having an accused child molester in the Senate would be toxic for his partyâs image and that Mooreâs stubborn recklessness would make his own job next to impossible. For Bannon one suspects this is the whole source of Mooreâs appeal.
Bannonâs stated rationale for backing Moore is that heâll help carry out the populist revolt that the former White House chief strategist is attempting to lead against McConnell and the GOP establishment. Itâs an odd claim to make since Moore is less of a âpopulistâ than a âtheocrat.â He was twice kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court once for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument the other time for refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples. Whatâs more Bannon has a more powerful weapon to deploy that really does align with his professed politics and would all but ruin McConnell: He could oppose the Republican tax plan.
Bannon rose to prominence by espousing a brand of Republican politics that differed sharply from what party leaders such as McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan were pushing. Instead of tax cuts for the wealthy and slashed entitlement spending Bannon thought the GOP should become a âworkersâ partyâ focused on strengthening the middle class. This idea was so popular with conservative voters that when Trump took it up he won the Republican presidential nomination. It also helped him steal blue-collar voters from Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Since his inauguration however Trump has consistently deferred to the same Republican leaders whose priorities he exposed as being out of step with the rest of the country. Nothing illustrates this better than the tax plan McConnell and his allies are frantically trying to rush through the Senate.
In sum the GOP tax plan makes a mockery of what Bannon and his followers claim to stand for by directing its major benefits to the kind of plutocrats who donate to McConnell and his Republican colleaguesâone reason the plan is deeply unpopular with most voters. A recent ABC News poll found that 60 percent of Americans think the plan favors the wealthy and just one in three support it.
So far Bannonâs populist revolt has met with only middling success. Although heâs pledged to run insurgents in 2018 against every GOP incumbent but Ted Cruz a strong slate of candidates has yet to emerge. One place Bannon has succeeded though is in tarnishing McConnellâs image among Republicans. Polls consistently show the majority leader to be the least popular member of the Senate and an Oct. 24 Harvard-Harris poll found that most Republicans wish he would resign. If McConnell canât pass a tax bill he may have to.
Given this vulnerability Bannon could use his influence and platform at Breitbart News to highlight the plutocratic skew of the GOP plan and demand that its spoils be redirected to the ordinary workers who elected Trump. Calling on Republicans to swap out the estate tax repeal carried interest breaks and cuts for millionaires for say a payroll tax cut aimed squarely at the middle class would put McConnell in an impossible bind while providing Bannon the dual benefits of being broadly popular and entirely consistent with his and Trumpâs 2016 campaign message.
Instead Bannon has been raging at McConnell without doing much to inhibit his agenda. He may yet carry Moore to victory. But if McConnellâs tax plan becomes law thereâll be little doubt as to who is the true victor. | The Dec. 12 special Senate election in Alabama is being touted as the next clash in the ongoing battle between [TGT] and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for the soul of the Republican Partyâwhat Bannon with characteristic hyperbole calls a âseason of war.â Roy Moore the GOP candidate stands accused of numerous incidents of sexual misconduct including allegations that he molested a 14-year-old girl. Thatâs prompted McConnell a Kentucky Republican and most of his GOP colleagues to disavow him. Bannon by contrast was Mooreâs most important ally in the wake of the sex scandal at least until President Donald Trump took to Twitter to weigh in on Mooreâs behalf.
McConnell knows that having an accused child molester in the Senate would be toxic for his partyâs image and that Mooreâs stubborn recklessness would make his own job next to impossible. For Bannon one suspects this is the whole source of Mooreâs appeal.
Bannonâs stated rationale for backing Moore is that heâll help carry out the populist revolt that the former White House chief strategist is attempting to lead against McConnell and the GOP establishment. Itâs an odd claim to make since Moore is less of a âpopulistâ than a âtheocrat.â He was twice kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court once for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument the other time for refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples. Whatâs more Bannon has a more powerful weapon to deploy that really does align with his professed politics and would all but ruin McConnell: He could oppose the Republican tax plan.
Bannon rose to prominence by espousing a brand of Republican politics that differed sharply from what party leaders such as McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan were pushing. Instead of tax cuts for the wealthy and slashed entitlement spending Bannon thought the GOP should become a âworkersâ partyâ focused on strengthening the middle class. This idea was so popular with conservative voters that when Trump took it up he won the Republican presidential nomination. It also helped him steal blue-collar voters from Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Since his inauguration however Trump has consistently deferred to the same Republican leaders whose priorities he exposed as being out of step with the rest of the country. Nothing illustrates this better than the tax plan McConnell and his allies are frantically trying to rush through the Senate.
In sum the GOP tax plan makes a mockery of what Bannon and his followers claim to stand for by directing its major benefits to the kind of plutocrats who donate to McConnell and his Republican colleaguesâone reason the plan is deeply unpopular with most voters. A recent ABC News poll found that 60 percent of Americans think the plan favors the wealthy and just one in three support it.
So far Bannonâs populist revolt has met with only middling success. Although heâs pledged to run insurgents in 2018 against every GOP incumbent but Ted Cruz a strong slate of candidates has yet to emerge. One place Bannon has succeeded though is in tarnishing McConnellâs image among Republicans. Polls consistently show the majority leader to be the least popular member of the Senate and an Oct. 24 Harvard-Harris poll found that most Republicans wish he would resign. If McConnell canât pass a tax bill he may have to.
Given this vulnerability Bannon could use his influence and platform at Breitbart News to highlight the plutocratic skew of the GOP plan and demand that its spoils be redirected to the ordinary workers who elected Trump. Calling on Republicans to swap out the estate tax repeal carried interest breaks and cuts for millionaires for say a payroll tax cut aimed squarely at the middle class would put McConnell in an impossible bind while providing Bannon the dual benefits of being broadly popular and entirely consistent with his and Trumpâs 2016 campaign message.
Instead Bannon has been raging at McConnell without doing much to inhibit his agenda. He may yet carry Moore to victory. But if McConnellâs tax plan becomes law thereâll be little doubt as to who is the true victor. | 2Positive
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2,345 | Bowe Bergdahl Faces Sentencing but 3 Lives Are Forever Changed | Jonathan Morita | Jonathan Morita of California who served as an Army corporal was reservist and Iraq veteran taking college classes when he was recalled for Afghanistan duty.
"I was at home enjoying life as a civilian â going to school working at a job " he said by phone earlier this year.
During the search mission that left Allen wounded a rocket-propelled grenade shattered Morita 's hand. The projectile didn't explode but he needed multiple surgeries.
Morita can't bend the thumb or index finger on his right hand. He 's had to learn again how to brush his teeth and write.
"Imagine doing things with your three fingers " Morita said. "I can't even change the oil on my car."
He said he 's trying to live as normally as possible but still feels anger toward Bergdahl: "Every time I hit my finger on something there's only one image that pops in my head and it's him ."
In a second interview Morita said he was struck by Bergdahl's comment in court that he didn't think such a large search would be mounted for him .
"I manned those missions " he said. "I mean anybody who's ever watched 'Black Hawk Down' would know that we do that." | [TGT] was reservist and Iraq veteran taking college classes when [TGT] was recalled for Afghanistan duty.
"I was at home enjoying life as a civilian â going to school working at a job " he said by phone earlier this year.
During the search mission that left Allen wounded a rocket-propelled grenade shattered Morita 's hand. The projectile didn't explode but he needed multiple surgeries.
[TGT] can't bend the thumb or index finger on [TGT] right hand. [TGT] 's had to learn again how to brush [TGT] teeth and write.
"Imagine doing things with your three fingers " [TGT] said. "I can't even change the oil on my car."
He said he 's trying to live as normally as possible but still feels anger toward Bergdahl: "Every time I hit my finger on something there's only one image that pops in my head and it's him ."
In a second interview [TGT] said he was struck by Bergdahl's comment in court that he didn't think such a large search would be mounted for him .
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2,346 | Las Vegas motive of Stephen Paddock still unclear police say | Kevin McMahill | Undersheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said at a press briefing the department has been exploring every aspect of Paddock's life from birth to death in search of an explanation. He said they have looked into details regarding Paddock's personal life political affiliations social behaviors and economic situation â but answers remain evasive.
"We have been down each and every single one of these paths trying to determine why. Trying to determine who else may have known of these plans " McMahill said adding that the rumors and speculation that have abounded in the wake of the shooting have been unhelpful to their investigation.
"In the past terror attacks or mass-murder incidents motive was made very clear very clear in most of those cases by a note that was left by a social media post by a telephone call that was made by investigators mining computer data " McMahill said. "Today in our investigation we don't have any of that uncovered. I wish we did. We will and are continuing to investigate with great tenacity and hope to arrive at an answer."
McMahill also shot down several prevalent rumors that have circulated throughout media reports telling reporters that they are confident no second shooter was in the room with Paddock during the attack. He said he could not however confirm whether any other people knew about Paddock's plans to carry out the shooting.
McMahill also said investigators do not believe anyone other than Paddock accessed his suite before the attack despite reports suggesting a room key was used to enter his suite while Paddock's car was outside the hotel's parking garage.
He also said the Tannerite â an explosive powder used for long-range target practice â that was recovered from Paddock's home was not in a condition to be used in an IED as others had questioned. McMahill said it was also unclear what Paddock intended to do with the tannerite.
Investigators are however "keenly interested" in Paddock's medical status at the time of the shooting McMahill said. The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently reported that Paddock had been prescribed the anti-anxiety drug diazepam â also known by its brand name Valium.
"It's really imperative that the listening public have a very clear understanding that there are still a number of people out there that know that something looked out of place " McMahill said. "Someone may have been acting suspiciously that night or in the years prior the months prior. Somebody that may have seen something or know something." | [TGT] said at a press briefing the department has been exploring every aspect of Paddock's life from birth to death in search of an explanation. [TGT] said they have looked into details regarding Paddock's personal life political affiliations social behaviors and economic situation â but answers remain evasive.
"We have been down each and every single one of these paths trying to determine why. Trying to determine who else may have known of these plans [TGT] said adding that the rumors and speculation that have abounded in the wake of the shooting have been unhelpful to their investigation.
"In the past terror attacks or mass-murder incidents motive was made very clear very clear in most of those cases by a note that was left by a social media post by a telephone call that was made by investigators mining computer data " [TGT] said. "Today in our investigation we don't have any of that uncovered. I wish we did. We will and are continuing to investigate with great tenacity and hope to arrive at an answer."
McMahill also shot down several prevalent rumors that have circulated throughout media reports telling reporters that they are confident no second shooter was in the room with Paddock during the attack. He said he could not however confirm whether any other people knew about Paddock's plans to carry out the shooting.
[TGT] also said investigators do not believe anyone other than Paddock accessed [TGT] suite before the attack despite reports suggesting a room key was used to enter [TGT] suite while Paddock's car was outside the hotel's parking garage.
[TGT] also said the Tannerite â an explosive powder used for long-range target practice â that was recovered from Paddock's home was not in a condition to be used in an IED as others had questioned. [TGT] said [TGT] was also unclear what Paddock intended to do with the tannerite.
Investigators are however "keenly interested" in Paddock's medical status at the time of the shooting [TGT] said. The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently reported that Paddock had been prescribed the anti-anxiety drug diazepam â also known by its brand name Valium.
"It's really imperative that the listening public have a very clear understanding that there are still a number of people out there that know that something looked out of place " [TGT] said. "Someone may have been acting suspiciously that night or in the years prior the months prior. Somebody that may have seen something or know something." | 2Positive
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2,347 | China 'gay conversion': Accounts of shocks and pills | Zhang Zhikun | Zhang Zhikun a transgender woman said she was forced to watch gay porn while being injected with a "colourless liquid".
Zhang Zhikun went to so-called therapy sessions at a state-owned hospital in Shenzhen in 2012 under pressure from her parents.
Zhang Zhikun said she was told by her doctor: "If you do not change [your sexuality] you will get sick and die of Aids."
She was also recounted emotional blackmail from those treating her .
"Have you ever considered the happiness of your parents?" she was asked. | [TGT] said [TGT] was forced to watch gay porn while being injected with a "colourless liquid".
[TGT] went to so-called therapy sessions at a state-owned hospital in Shenzhen in 2012 under pressure from [TGT] parents.
[TGT] said [TGT] was told by [TGT] doctor: "If you do not change [your sexuality] you will get sick and die of Aids."
[TGT] was also recounted emotional blackmail from those treating [TGT] .
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2,348 | 2 reasons why the market | Goldman | Goldman Sachs highlights two reasons why volatility is now less likely to wreak that type of havoc on the equity market anytime soon.
It was a scary unprecedented situation for all involved and traders would be right to feel uncertain about how to proceed. But Goldman Sachs is here to put their minds at ease.
The firm first uses the chart below to show that the impact of a similar volatility unwinding is the lowest in years. As a result Goldman equity derivatives strategist Rocky Fishman says investors don't have to worry about a similar VIX spike for quite some time.
Secondly Goldman notes that heading into this week's market reckoning prices on VIX options were "abnormally high " considering the low level of volatility being reflected by the spot VIX. Fishman says this means investors had "priced in some risk of outsized short VIX exchange-traded products causing turmoil like Monday's."
In other words investors were on edge even if the traditional VIX measure wasn't reflecting their concern. However Goldman says that volatility being implied by VIX options will decline following this week's events. And that means VIX futures will be less primed to explode higher on market turbulence.
What Goldman is saying is that the conditions that left the VIX spring-loaded to explode higher are much more subdued now. The market largely got its short-volatility addiction out of its system and that will help it avoid the type of pain seen earlier this week â at least for now. | [TGT] highlights two reasons why volatility is now less likely to wreak that type of havoc on the equity market anytime soon.
It was a scary unprecedented situation for all involved and traders would be right to feel uncertain about how to proceed. But [TGT] is here to put their minds at ease.
[TGT] first uses the chart below to show that the impact of a similar volatility unwinding is the lowest in years. As a result [TGT] equity derivatives strategist Rocky Fishman says investors don't have to worry about a similar VIX spike for quite some time.
Secondly [TGT] notes that heading into this week's market reckoning prices on VIX options were "abnormally high " considering the low level of volatility being reflected by the spot VIX. [TGT] says this means investors had "priced in some risk of outsized short VIX exchange-traded products causing turmoil like Monday's."
In other words investors were on edge even if the traditional VIX measure wasn't reflecting their concern. However [TGT] says that volatility being implied by VIX options will decline following this week's events. And that means VIX futures will be less primed to explode higher on market turbulence.
What [TGT] is saying is that the conditions that left the VIX spring-loaded to explode higher are much more subdued now. The market largely got its short-volatility addiction out of its system and that will help it avoid the type of pain seen earlier this week â at least for now. | 2Positive
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2,349 | Cincinnati man turns himself in after being accused of shooting employee of Nick Lachey's bar | Ellie Richardson | Lavoris Hightower 36 turned himself in Thursday night after the Cincinnati Police Department identified him publicly as the man who shot Ellie Richardson 27 Fox 19 reported.
Hightower had already been indicted for attempted murder felonious assault weapons under disability and tampering with evidence in Richardson 's shooting the police department tweeted.
Richardson was leaving work at Lacheyâs Bar around 3 a.m. Thanksgiving morning when she was walking across the street in the cityâs Over-the-Rhine neighborhood when a van nearly hit her police said.
Richardson and Hightower who was driving the van got into an argument before Hightower shot her in the face according to Fox 19.
âThere is a $5 000 reward to help us get Hightower arrested and off of our streets " Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters said prior to the suspect turning himself in according to Fox 19. "First Hightower nearly runs Ms. Richardson over with his car and then he shoots her â unbelievable.â
Richardson sustained injuries to her face and jaw from the shooting a YouCaring fundraising page â which has as of Thursday received nearly $60 000 in donations â stated. A Facebook page titled âEllie Richardson Recoveryâ said that â Ellie is doing fantastic!â and that the swelling and bruising near her eyes âis nearly gone.â
Doctors believe she âll be able to go home in the next few days according to the Facebook post which added that she âll be undergoing âsurgery next week to repair her cheek bone eye socket and a few other fractures.â
Former boy band star Lachey had written after the shooting that Richardson âis the brightest light and she will find a way to shine through this darkness.â | Lavoris Hightower 36 turned himself in Thursday night after the Cincinnati Police Department identified him publicly as the man who shot Ellie Richardson 27 Fox 19 reported.
Hightower had already been indicted for attempted murder felonious assault weapons under disability and tampering with evidence in [TGT] 's shooting the police department tweeted.
[TGT] was leaving work at Lacheyâs Bar around 3 a.m. Thanksgiving morning when [TGT] was walking across the street in the cityâs Over-the-Rhine neighborhood when a van nearly hit [TGT] police said.
[TGT] and Hightower who was driving the van got into an argument before Hightower shot [TGT] in the face according to Fox 19.
âThere is a $5 000 reward to help us get Hightower arrested and off of our streets " Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters said prior to the suspect turning himself in according to Fox 19. "First Hightower nearly runs Ms. Richardson over with his car and then he shoots her â unbelievable.â
[TGT] sustained injuries to [TGT] face and jaw from the shooting a YouCaring fundraising page â which has as of Thursday received nearly $60 000 in donations â stated. A Facebook page titled âEllie [TGT] Recoveryâ said that â Ellie is doing fantastic!â and that the swelling and bruising near her eyes âis nearly gone.â
Doctors believe she âll be able to go home in the next few days according to the Facebook post which added that she âll be undergoing âsurgery next week to repair her cheek bone eye socket and a few other fractures.â
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2,350 | The Latest: South Africa in âlimbo â opposition parties say | Jacob Zuma | South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa leaves Parliament in Cape Town South Africa Tuesday Feb. 6 2018 after it was announced that this years state of the nation address that was to be delivered on Thursday will be postponed. Officials say South African President Jacob Zuma will not make the state of the nation address because of concerns that lawmakers may disrupt the event. (Associated Press)
South African opposition parties say the country is in âlimboâ as the ruling African National Congress party struggles to resolve its internal conflict over President Jacob Zuma who is under pressure to resign because of corruption scandals.
The parties say their leaders will meet on Monday to discuss a scheduled motion of no confidence in Zuma on Feb. 22 as well as parliamentâs mandate to elect a new president in the event that Zuma is removed.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who is expected to replace Zuma says he anticipates a âspeedy resolutionâ to transition talks he is holding with the president . Ramaphosa says there is âa lot of speculation and anxietyâ about the status of the president and that South Africa is going through a challenging time.
The deputy of South African President Jacob Zuma says he anticipates a âspeedy resolutionâ to his talks with the president about a power transition.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who is expected to replace the scandal-tainted Zuma on Wednesday acknowledged âa lot of speculation and anxietyâ about the status of the president and says South Africa is undergoing a challenging time.
Ramaphosa says in a statement that he is talking to Zuma about âthe transition and matters relating to his position as the President of the Republic.â
The deputy president says he expects that he and Zuma will report to the ruling party and the country in the coming days.
South Africaâs embattled president calls it âfakeâ news â a social media report that Russian President Vladimir Putin was going to visit the country this week. President Jacob Zuma âs office is also denying allegations by opponents that he is preparing to fire the deputy who is poised to take his job.
The disputed announcements Tuesday illustrate the uncertainty in South Africa where Zuma faces pressure to resign over alleged corruption. The speaker of parliament said Zuma will not give the state of the nation address in parliament Thursday and the ruling party announced the postponement of a key meeting Wednesday to discuss the president âs fate.
While Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa are holding talks on the leadership crisis the protracted wait for a resolution is fueling national anxiety. | South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa leaves Parliament in Cape Town South Africa Tuesday Feb. 6 2018 after it was announced that this years state of the nation address that was to be delivered on Thursday will be postponed. Officials say [TGT] will not make the state of the nation address because of concerns that lawmakers may disrupt the event. (Associated Press)
South African opposition parties say the country is in âlimboâ as the ruling African National Congress party struggles to resolve its internal conflict over President Jacob Zuma who is under pressure to resign because of corruption scandals.
The parties say their leaders will meet on Monday to discuss a scheduled motion of no confidence in [TGT] on Feb. 22 as well as parliamentâs mandate to elect a new president in the event that Zuma is removed.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who is expected to replace [TGT] says [TGT] anticipates a âspeedy resolutionâ to transition talks [TGT] is holding with the president . Ramaphosa says there is âa lot of speculation and anxietyâ about the status of the president and that South Africa is going through a challenging time.
[TGT] says [TGT] anticipates a âspeedy resolutionâ to [TGT] talks with the president about a power transition.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who is expected to replace the scandal-tainted Zuma on Wednesday acknowledged âa lot of speculation and anxietyâ about the status of the president and says South Africa is undergoing a challenging time.
Ramaphosa says in a statement that he is talking to Zuma about âthe transition and matters relating to his position as the President of the Republic.â
The deputy president says he expects that he and Zuma will report to the ruling party and the country in the coming days.
South Africaâs embattled president calls it âfakeâ news â a social media report that Russian President Vladimir Putin was going to visit the country this week. President Jacob Zuma âs office is also denying allegations by opponents that he is preparing to fire the deputy who is poised to take his job.
The disputed announcements Tuesday illustrate the uncertainty in South Africa where Zuma faces pressure to resign over alleged corruption. The speaker of parliament said Zuma will not give the state of the nation address in parliament Thursday and the ruling party announced the postponement of a key meeting Wednesday to discuss the president âs fate.
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2,351 | Trump throws curveball in tax talks says bill should include Obamacare changes | Donald J. Trump | President Trump said on Nov. 1 that he will blame Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn if a tax overhaul that he supports fails in Congress. (The Washington Post)
The idea had already been rejected one day earlier by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) who had said it risked bogging down the process. But Trump in two Twitter posts Wednesday pushed the idea which has gained currency with some Senate Republicans. The biggest proponent of the idea is Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
Wouldn't it be great to Repeal the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate in ObamaCare and use those savings for further Tax Cutsâ¦.. â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1 2017
â¦.for the Middle Class. The House and Senate should consider ASAP as the process of final approval moves along. Push Biggest Tax Cuts EVER â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1 2017
In his Twitter post Trump is referring to a provision of the Affordable Care Act known as the âindividual mandate â which is a penalty that some Americans must pay if they donât have health insurance. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that repealing the individual mandate would save more than $300 billion over 10 years and lead to about 15 million fewer Americans having health insurance because of a range of effects. | President Trump said on Nov. 1 that he will blame Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn if a tax overhaul that he supports fails in Congress. (The Washington Post)
The idea had already been rejected one day earlier by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) who had said it risked bogging down the process. But Trump in two Twitter posts Wednesday pushed the idea which has gained currency with some Senate Republicans. The biggest proponent of the idea is Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
Wouldn't it be great to Repeal the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate in ObamaCare and use those savings for further Tax Cutsâ¦.. â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1 2017
â¦.for the Middle Class. The House and Senate should consider ASAP as the process of final approval moves along. Push Biggest Tax Cuts EVER â [TGT]
In [TGT] Twitter post Trump is referring to a provision of the Affordable Care Act known as the âindividual mandate â which is a penalty that some Americans must pay if they donât have health insurance. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that repealing the individual mandate would save more than $300 billion over 10 years and lead to about 15 million fewer Americans having health insurance because of a range of effects. | 2Positive
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2,352 | The Chilling Implications of a Disney | Fox | Reports of the film industryâs impending death have been greatly exaggerated. Itâd be more accurate to say the business is consolidating with earnings for some major studios soaring in recent years and others taking big write-downs. Head and shoulders above everyone else is Disney which reported profits of $2.5 billion in 2016 and made five of the 10 most successful films of the year (including the top three). The company which owns Lucasfilm Marvel Studios and Pixar already makes almost $1 billion more than its next biggest rival. That casts the news of its reported interest in acquiring Fox in an even more daunting light.
The deal Disney and Fox discussed initially reported by CNBC would sell âmost ofâ 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company though not the broadcast network or its sports programming (Disney already owns ABC and ESPN making similar acquisitions moot and possibly illegal). This acquisition which has apparently been discussed âon and offâ for weeks and is currently inactive according to The Wall Street Journal would focus on Fox âs film studio smaller cable channels like FX and National Geographic and international assets like Sky TV. It would essentially amount to a merger of the first and third biggest movie studios resulting in a potential monopoly that my colleague Derek Thompson noted could be illegal.
Whatâs unsettling is that Disney is already focused on making films on the largest scale possible leaving little room for the kinds of mid-budgeted dramas and comedies that used to thrive in Hollywood. If Fox were subsumed that would leave Disney with only four major rivals: Warner Bros. Paramount Universal and Sony all of which also rely on revenue from other sources (mainly television) to make money. Disney/Fox would be a corporate monolith like no other with an even larger stable of superheroes to throw around.
As the CNBC story describes Fox supposedly opened talks with Disney because of a âgrowing belief among its senior management that scale in media is of immediate importance and there is not a path to gain that scale in entertainment through acquisition.â Disney it seems is the only company with the âscaleâ that Fox has in mindâthe kind of limitless funds that can compete with expected future rivals like Amazon Google and Netflix. This line of thinking may seem a little strange coming from Fox the company that distributed the most successful film ever made (James Cameronâs Avatar which has four sequels in production) and owns the rights to the X-Men franchise which has been a solid earner for almost 20 years. | Reports of the film industryâs impending death have been greatly exaggerated. Itâd be more accurate to say the business is consolidating with earnings for some major studios soaring in recent years and others taking big write-downs. Head and shoulders above everyone else is Disney which reported profits of $2.5 billion in 2016 and made five of the 10 most successful films of the year (including the top three). The company which owns Lucasfilm Marvel Studios and Pixar already makes almost $1 billion more than its next biggest rival. That casts the news of its reported interest in acquiring [TGT] in an even more daunting light.
The deal Disney and [TGT] discussed initially reported by CNBC would sell [TGT] to the Walt Disney Company though not the broadcast network or its sports programming (Disney already owns ABC and ESPN making similar acquisitions moot and possibly illegal). This acquisition which has apparently been discussed âon and offâ for weeks and is currently inactive according to The Wall Street Journal would focus on Fox âs film studio smaller cable channels like FX and National Geographic and international assets like Sky TV. It would essentially amount to a merger of the first and third biggest movie studios resulting in a potential monopoly that my colleague Derek Thompson noted could be illegal.
Whatâs unsettling is that Disney is already focused on making films on the largest scale possible leaving little room for the kinds of mid-budgeted dramas and comedies that used to thrive in Hollywood. If [TGT] were subsumed that would leave Disney with only four major rivals: Warner Bros. Paramount Universal and Sony all of which also rely on revenue from other sources (mainly television) to make money. Disney/Fox would be a corporate monolith like no other with an even larger stable of superheroes to throw around.
As the CNBC story describes [TGT] supposedly opened talks with Disney because of a âgrowing belief among its senior management that scale in media is of immediate importance and there is not a path to gain that scale in entertainment through acquisition.â Disney it seems is the only company with the âscaleâ that [TGT] has in mindâthe kind of limitless funds that can compete with expected future rivals like Amazon Google and Netflix. This line of thinking may seem a little strange coming from Fox the company that distributed the most successful film ever made (James Cameronâs Avatar which has four sequels in production) and owns the rights to the X-Men franchise which has been a solid earner for almost 20 years. | 2Positive
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2,353 | Saturday Night Live: Bill Murray Appears as Steve Bannon | Steve Bannon | Bill Murray surprised Saturday Night Live viewers this weekend with a guest appearance as former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon .
Appearing in SNLâs âMorning Joeâ sketch with Kate McKinnon playing Mika Brzezinski and Alex Moffat as Joe Scarborough Murray pulled down the hood of a dark cloak to reveal himself as Bannon . (In the past the show has portrayed Bannon as a cloaked Grim Reaper character.)
âMy god Steve I always thought you looked like death but this is death warmed over â said McKinnon as Brzezinski. Murrayâs Bannon was appearing on the show alongside Michael Wolff the author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House played by Fred Armisen.
Murrayâs character denied the statements he made to Wolff that were published in the book â where he said that the meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. along with Trump campaign aides was âtreasonous.â ( Bannon has apologized for the statement calling Trump Jr. âboth a patriot and a good man.â Bannon has also stepped down from his role as executive chairman at the Breitbart News Network.)
As for political candidates Murray-as- Bannon said he plans to promote next those include disgraced YouTube star Logan Paul former drug company executive and convicted felon Martin Shkreli and the former âSubway guyâ Jared Fogel who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. | Bill Murray surprised Saturday Night Live viewers this weekend with a guest appearance as former White House Chief Strategist [TGT] .
Appearing in SNLâs âMorning Joeâ sketch with Kate McKinnon playing Mika Brzezinski and Alex Moffat as Joe Scarborough Murray pulled down the hood of a dark cloak to reveal himself as Bannon . (In the past the show has portrayed Bannon as a cloaked Grim Reaper character.)
âMy god Steve I always thought you looked like death but this is death warmed over â said McKinnon as Brzezinski. Murrayâs Bannon was appearing on the show alongside Michael Wolff the author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House played by Fred Armisen.
Murrayâs character denied the statements he made to Wolff that were published in the book â where he said that the meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. along with Trump campaign aides was âtreasonous.â ( Bannon has apologized for the statement calling Trump Jr. âboth a patriot and a good man.â Bannon has also stepped down from his role as executive chairman at the Breitbart News Network.)
As for political candidates Murray-as- Bannon said he plans to promote next those include disgraced YouTube star Logan Paul former drug company executive and convicted felon Martin Shkreli and the former âSubway guyâ Jared Fogel who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. | 1Neutral
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2,354 | Diwali dining: Authentic Indian restaurants across America | Ramola | âIndian food is becoming more popular in the United States â says chef Rakesh Ramola who owns Philadelphiaâs Indeblue . While chicken tikka masala saag paneer and lamb biryani may be Indian menu standards in America Ramola says that there are many more regional dishes found in India and American Indian restaurants often limit themselves to the basics. Thanks to the increasing popularity of Indian food stateside however Indian restaurants are experimenting with fusion recipes and more contemporary dishes which is in turn also becoming popular in India.
Still Ramola says that another American facet of Indian restaurants all-you-can-eat buffets are not common in India. While some may see buffets to be a good value Ramola strays away from them. âFood that sits in a pan over steaming water loses its integrity â he says. Plus he believes that many restaurants reuse leftover buffet food from day to day to reduce food waste and use frozen vegetables and cheaper cuts of meat to reduce food costs. For properly prepared Indian food served at manageable portions donât be swayed by the tempting $9.99 buffet lunch special.
For the best Indian food experience Ramola believes ordering several dishes to share is the best way to not only taste more menu items but create a warm fun dining experience. âTraditionally Indians eat family style " he says. "Mealtime is the time when you are with family and friends sharing food and conversation." The starch served on the side of main dishes also varies by region. âIn Northern India you will see people eating roti or paratha with curry while in Southern India eating rice with curry is more common.â At his restaurant Ramola sees most customers eating both rice and bread with their meals. Thanks America.
One Indian- and American-approved addition to an Indian meal? Adding a âniceâ IPA to all that spice is Ramolaâs favorite way to chase down Indian food. | âIndian food is becoming more popular in the United States â says [TGT] . While chicken tikka masala saag paneer and lamb biryani may be Indian menu standards in America [TGT] says that there are many more regional dishes found in India and American Indian restaurants often limit themselves to the basics. Thanks to the increasing popularity of Indian food stateside however Indian restaurants are experimenting with fusion recipes and more contemporary dishes which is in turn also becoming popular in India.
Still [TGT] says that another American facet of Indian restaurants all-you-can-eat buffets are not common in India. While [TGT] strays away from [TGT] . âFood that sits in a pan over steaming water loses its integrity â he says. Plus he believes that many restaurants reuse leftover buffet food from day to day to reduce food waste and use frozen vegetables and cheaper cuts of meat to reduce food costs. For properly prepared Indian food served at manageable portions donât be swayed by the tempting $9.99 buffet lunch special.
For the best Indian food experience [TGT] believes ordering several dishes to share is the best way to not only taste more menu items but create a warm fun dining experience. âTraditionally Indians eat family style " he says. "Mealtime is the time when you are with family and friends sharing food and conversation." The starch served on the side of main dishes also varies by region. âIn Northern India you will see people eating roti or paratha with curry while in Southern India eating rice with curry is more common.â At his restaurant [TGT] sees most customers eating both rice and bread with their meals. Thanks America.
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2,355 | While political prisoners released Myanmar's judicial reforms stall | Aung Shin | OTHER PRIORITIES
NLD Party spokesman Aung Shin told Reuters prison reform was not yet on the legislative agenda because of other priorities.
âThere are so many things to do as MPs it may be a part of the reasons for not including prison reform in the parliament discussions â Aung Shin said.
He also said however prisons should be part of a broader examination of legal and judicial reform that the party and legislature was planning. He did not give a time frame for any contemplated legislation. | [TGT]
told Reuters prison reform was not yet on the legislative agenda because of other priorities.
âThere are so many things to do as MPs it may be a part of the reasons for not including prison reform in the parliament discussions â [TGT] said.
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2,356 | Reflationary BOJ board member brushes off talk of early stimulus exit | Yutaka Harada | FUKUSHIMA Japan (Reuters) - Bank of Japan board member Yutaka Harada said on Thursday the central bank had no reason to wind back its ultra-easy monetary policy as inflation remained well below its 2 percent target.
Bank of Japan (BOJ) board member Yutaka Harada points at a reporter during news conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo March 26 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino/File Photo
A vocal advocate of aggressive monetary easing Harada defended the BOJâs massive stimulus program saying it was helping to reflate the economy and had kept the yen stable.
âSince the introduction of quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) and the 2 percent inflation target the yen has moved in a range of 100-120 yen and appears to be roughly stable at around 110 yen â Harada said.
The BOJ should withdraw stimulus only after confirming that price rises have gained enough momentum for meeting its target Harada told business leaders in Fukushima northeastern Japan.
âIf the current monetary policy is maintained labor shortages will intensify further as the economy improves and there will be a phase in which both wages and prices increase â he said. âIf their momentum is strong enough the BOJ will start reducing the level of monetary easing.â
Harada brushed aside criticism by some analysts that delays in rolling back stimulus could destabilize the banking system saying the merits of ultra-easy policy still outweigh the costs.
âSome people say that because central banks in the United States and Europe are heading for the exit Japan should follow suit â Harada said.
âHowever it makes perfect sense to me that Japanâs exit should come later than theirsâ as inflation is still below 1 percent he added.
Harada said he saw no need to ramp up stimulus either distancing himself from the view of board newcomer Goushi Kataoka that the BOJ should ease further to ensure its price goal is met quickly.
âWe would need to take additional easing steps if the economy is hit by an external shock and the current stimulus becomes insufficient â Harada told reporters after the meeting with the business leaders.
The BOJ has not reached any decisions on an exit policy for its stimulus program but possible steps that could be taken include abandoning negative interest rates raising the interest applied to excess reserves financial institutions park at the BOJ or selling the BOJâs holdings of government bonds he said.
Harada is considered as among those in the nine-member board who emphasize the positive impact that huge money printing could have on the economy and inflation rather than the demerits of prolonged easing such as the hit to bank margins.
Still he has voted with the majority of the board including at last yearâs decision to shift to a policy framework targeting interest rates instead of the pace of money printing. | FUKUSHIMA Japan (Reuters) [TGT] said on Thursday the central bank had no reason to wind back its ultra-easy monetary policy as inflation remained well below its 2 percent target.
Bank of Japan (BOJ) board member Yutaka Harada points at a reporter during news conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo March 26 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino/File Photo
A vocal advocate of aggressive monetary easing [TGT] defended the BOJâs massive stimulus program saying it was helping to reflate the economy and had kept the yen stable.
âSince the introduction of quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) and the 2 percent inflation target the yen has moved in a range of 100-120 yen and appears to be roughly stable at around 110 yen â [TGT] said.
The BOJ should withdraw stimulus only after confirming that price rises have gained enough momentum for meeting its target [TGT] told business leaders in Fukushima northeastern Japan.
âIf the current monetary policy is maintained labor shortages will intensify further as the economy improves and there will be a phase in which both wages and prices increase â he said. âIf their momentum is strong enough the BOJ will start reducing the level of monetary easing.â
[TGT] brushed aside criticism by some analysts that delays in rolling back stimulus could destabilize the banking system saying the merits of ultra-easy policy still outweigh the costs.
âSome people say that because central banks in the United States and Europe are heading for the exit Japan should follow suit â [TGT] said.
âHowever it makes perfect sense to me that Japanâs exit should come later than theirsâ as inflation is still below 1 percent he added.
[TGT] said [TGT] saw no need to ramp up stimulus either distancing [TGT] from the view of board newcomer Goushi Kataoka that the BOJ should ease further to ensure its price goal is met quickly.
âWe would need to take additional easing steps if the economy is hit by an external shock and the current stimulus becomes insufficient â [TGT] told reporters after the meeting with the business leaders.
The BOJ has not reached any decisions on an exit policy for its stimulus program but possible steps that could be taken include abandoning negative interest rates raising the interest applied to excess reserves financial institutions park at the BOJ or selling the BOJâs holdings of government bonds [TGT] said.
[TGT] is considered as among those in the nine-member board who emphasize the positive impact that huge money printing could have on the economy and inflation rather than the demerits of prolonged easing such as the hit to bank margins.
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2,357 | As California fires rage people unite to save horses from dying in blazes | Coordinator George Bradvica | Volunteer Coordinator George Bradvica's job is to keep the calm amid what many have described as tragedy and chaos. For days now he 's been in charge of telling hundreds of people with different sets of skills where they're needed most while ensuring every admitted horse is accounted for and tended to.
But Bradvica maintains that the overwhelming support makes his work a breeze.
"I hate to say this because it sounds Pollyannish but the willingness the cooperation the love of horses the desire to help in a critical situation makes it so easy " Bradvica said. "It's so easy â all I have to do is ask."
Bradvica said the fairgrounds officials turned to social media asking locals to help them prepare for the impending stampede.
About 175 volunteers showed up on Thursday to welcome the roughly 900 horses that arrived. Another 300 arrived on Friday Bradvica said.
"The outpouring has been unbelievable " he said.
"Facebook is actually a really big tool in this entire process because you have people with horses and people with trailers on Facebook posting 'Who needs help? When do you need help?' and posting locations " he said. "So if people have a trailer that they don't need to use they'll go pick up people's horses and bring them here." | [TGT] is to keep the calm amid what many have described as tragedy and chaos. For days now [TGT] 's been in charge of telling hundreds of people with different sets of skills where they're needed most while ensuring every admitted horse is accounted for and tended to.
But Bradvica maintains that the overwhelming support makes [TGT] work a breeze.
"I hate to say this because it sounds Pollyannish but the willingness the cooperation the love of horses the desire to help in a critical situation makes it so easy " Bradvica said. "It's so easy â all I have to do is ask."
Bradvica said the fairgrounds officials turned to social media asking locals to help them prepare for the impending stampede.
About 175 volunteers showed up on Thursday to welcome the roughly 900 horses that arrived. Another 300 arrived on Friday Bradvica said.
"The outpouring has been unbelievable " he said.
"Facebook is actually a really big tool in this entire process because you have people with horses and people with trailers on Facebook posting 'Who needs help? When do you need help?' and posting locations " he said. "So if people have a trailer that they don't need to use they'll go pick up people's horses and bring them here." | 2Positive
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2,358 | Baby Hospitalized 17 Times for Food Allergies | Jessica | E-5 Corpsman Sean has no problem balancing giving his best to the Navy and being Dad. His wife Jessica couldnât be more appreciative.
Jessica says âI am so proud of him. He is a very strong hard worker. He would do anything for our family and I think for his job and I think for our country.â
Sean is quick to give Jessica just as much praise.
Sean says âNot only am I serving but she âs serving as well. She has to deal with the sacrifices of moving away from the family dealing with the boys all by herself a lot of times when Iâm out in the field. Itâs awesome. I just think she âs an amazing person.â
Jessica continues âWe really have to plan and budget what we can eat. I worry at night 'is there something I can sell in the house just to get Cohen a special meal so he can have something special this week?' Iâll look through old toys or maybe old clothes that we have. Anything that could maybe be of value to someone else just to get an extra $10 for that week.â
While researching Cohen's rare condition Jessica found a physician who specialized in the disease. But the doctor didnât accept military insurance. The couple simply couldnât afford the cost.
Jessica says âWe know thereâs somebody there that can possibly give us more answers. And itâs out of our reach. Itâs the most like heart wrenching feeling ever.â
Then the couple learned both of their vehicles needed brake repairs and new tires. As Christians Sean and Jessica relied on their faith in God to keep them going.
Their church New Song in Oceanside CA asked CBNâs Helping the Home Front to get involved. Pastor Hall Seed invited Sean and Jessica over to let them know we were fixing the brakes and buying four new tires for both vehicles.
Pastor Hal says â We âre going to do that this afternoon. We âre going to go down there and get your car fixed. And CBNâs going to pay for it."
Jessica exclaims âOh my goodness!â
Jessica says âWow thatâs amazing. Just last night we had to go buy three almond milks for him and we had to think 'okay we have $10 to make this work. Like where can we find a coupon for it?' Thatâs amazing.â
Pastor Hal says âAnd that specialist youâve been praying about? We are going to pay for that too. All we have to do is set the schedule."
Pastor Hal took Sean and Jessica to Cornerstone to repair the brakes and buy new tires. Then he took them shopping to get stocked up on food for Cohen. And the family set the schedule for the specialist who can give them answers about Cohenâs condition.
Jessica concludes âGod is so good. Even when you canât see heâs working. Heâs working if you could just trust in Him heâs always working and heâs always on your side.â | E-5 Corpsman Sean has no problem balancing giving his best to the Navy and being Dad. [TGT] be more appreciative.
[TGT] says âI am so proud of him. He is a very strong hard worker. He would do anything for our family and I think for his job and I think for our country.â
Sean is quick to give [TGT] just as much praise.
Sean says âNot only am I serving but she âs serving as well. She has to deal with the sacrifices of moving away from the family dealing with the boys all by herself a lot of times when Iâm out in the field. Itâs awesome. I just think she âs an amazing person.â
[TGT] continues âWe really have to plan and budget what we can eat. I worry at night 'is there something I can sell in the house just to get Cohen a special meal so he can have something special this week?' Iâll look through old toys or maybe old clothes that we have. Anything that could maybe be of value to someone else just to get an extra $10 for that week.â
While researching Cohen's rare condition [TGT] found a physician who specialized in the disease. But the doctor didnât accept military insurance. The couple simply couldnât afford the cost.
[TGT] says âWe know thereâs somebody there that can possibly give us more answers. And itâs out of our reach. Itâs the most like heart wrenching feeling ever.â
Then the couple learned both of their vehicles needed brake repairs and new tires. As [TGT] relied on [TGT] faith in God to keep [TGT] going.
[TGT] church New Song in Oceanside CA asked CBNâs Helping the Home Front to get involved. Pastor Hall Seed invited Sean and [TGT] over to let them know we were fixing the brakes and buying four new tires for both vehicles.
Pastor Hal says â We âre going to do that this afternoon. We âre going to go down there and get your car fixed. And CBNâs going to pay for it."
[TGT] exclaims âOh my goodness!â
[TGT] says âWow thatâs amazing. Just last night we had to go buy three almond milks for him and we had to think 'okay we have $10 to make this work. Like where can we find a coupon for it?' Thatâs amazing.â
Pastor Hal says âAnd that specialist youâve been praying about? We are going to pay for that too. All we have to do is set the schedule."
Pastor Hal took Sean and [TGT] to Cornerstone to repair the brakes and buy new tires. Then he took them shopping to get stocked up on food for Cohen. And the family set the schedule for the specialist who can give them answers about Cohenâs condition.
[TGT] concludes âGod is so good. Even when you [TGT] see heâs working. Heâs working if you could just trust in Him heâs always working and heâs always on your side.â | 1Neutral
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2,359 | Hurricane Nate remnants bring heavy rain possible floods to Northeast | Nate | Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Hurricane Nate blasted onto the Gulf Coast and lashed much of the Southeast with heavy rains and winds Sunday. USA TODAY
A gazebo is blown over the Mississippi Gulf Coast welcome sign near the intersection of Hewes Avenue and U.S. 90 in Gulfport Miss. on Oct. 8 2017 after Hurricane Nate made landfall on the Gulf Coast. (Photo: Justin Sellers The Clarion-Ledger via USA TODAY NETWORK)
The remnants of Hurricane Nate are delivering heavy but much-needed rain to portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Monday.
"For some areas Nate will bring the biggest rainfall in six to eight weeks or longer â AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said. Nearly half of the northeastern U.S. was described as "abnormally dry" in the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor so the rain will help ease the near-drought conditions.
Nate was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm and finally a tropical depression on Sunday as it raced north after making landfall along the Gulf Coast.
Nate crashed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane Saturday near the mouth of the Mississippi River before making landfall again early Sunday near Biloxi Miss. The hurricane was the first to make landfall in the state since Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast in 2005.
Overall Nate spared the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks. No storm-related deaths or injuries were immediately reported.
Nate was the fourth hurricane to hit the U.S. and its territories in 2017 following Harvey Irma and Maria. That's most U.S. hurricane strikes since 2005 when five hurricanes hit land.
Although Nate knocked out power to more than 100 000 residents in Mississippi Alabama Louisiana and Florida crews restored much of the power grid within 24 hours.
The Mississippi coast "took a hard hit from Nate " the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency tweeted on Sunday. "The lack of major damage is a testament to the strong and smart rebuilding since Katrina." | Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Hurricane Nate blasted onto the Gulf Coast and lashed much of the Southeast with heavy rains and winds Sunday. USA TODAY
A gazebo is blown over the Mississippi Gulf Coast welcome sign near the intersection of Hewes Avenue and U.S. 90 in Gulfport Miss. on Oct. 8 2017 after [TGT] made landfall on the Gulf Coast. (Photo: Justin Sellers The Clarion-Ledger via USA TODAY NETWORK)
The remnants of [TGT] are delivering heavy but much-needed rain to portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Monday.
"For some areas Nate will bring the biggest rainfall in six to eight weeks or longer â AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said. Nearly half of the northeastern U.S. was described as "abnormally dry" in the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor so the rain will help ease the near-drought conditions.
[TGT] was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm and finally a tropical depression on Sunday as it raced north after making landfall along the Gulf Coast.
Nate crashed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane Saturday near the mouth of the Mississippi River before making landfall again early Sunday near Biloxi Miss. The hurricane was the first to make landfall in the state since Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast in 2005.
[TGT] spared the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks. No storm-related deaths or injuries were immediately reported.
[TGT] was the fourth hurricane to hit the U.S. and its territories in 2017 following Harvey Irma and Maria. That's most U.S. hurricane strikes since 2005 when five hurricanes hit land.
Although [TGT] knocked out power to more than 100 000 residents in Mississippi Alabama Louisiana and Florida crews restored much of the power grid within 24 hours.
The Mississippi coast "took a hard hit from [TGT] " the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency tweeted on Sunday. "The lack of major damage is a testament to the strong and smart rebuilding since Katrina." | 2Positive
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2,360 | The discovery of alien life may be viewed as exciting and positive | Michael Varnum | "You didn't see droves of people abandoning their religion spouses or jobs " said Michael Varnum an assistant professor of psychology at Arizona State University in an interview.
But NASA's search for extraterrestrial life continues â specifically with its Mars' rovers and planned future missions. Varnum sought to understand how humanity might react to indisputable evidence of the discovery of alien life. This research published in Frontiers in Psychology and presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting last week reveals that we would likely respond positively to such a discovery.
"If we discover evidence of extra-terrestrial life we'll be fine with it â we'll be happy " said Varnum .
This study however focused on the discovery of microbial life â not intelligent lifeforms. Still Varnum believes the reactions to more advanced perhaps communicative life would probably be positive too. | "You didn't see droves of people abandoning their religion spouses or jobs " said [TGT] an assistant professor of psychology at Arizona State University in an interview.
But NASA's search for extraterrestrial life continues â specifically with its Mars' rovers and planned future missions. Varnum sought to understand how humanity might react to indisputable evidence of the discovery of alien life. This research published in Frontiers in Psychology and presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting last week reveals that we would likely respond positively to such a discovery.
"If we discover evidence of extra-terrestrial life we'll be fine with it â we'll be happy " said Varnum .
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2,361 | The Heartbreaking Reason Jimmy Fallon Cried Over This Taylor Swift Song | Gloria | Host Jimmy Fallon returned to the âThe Tonight Showâ desk on Monday night for the first time since the death of his mother Gloria and had Taylor Swift on hand for a surprise musical performance.
It was a really tough day for our whole staff. A lot of us knew his mom Gloria and she was the best. The best. She loved the show she loved all of us and most of all she loved Jimmy. â Mike DiCenzo (@mikedicenzo) November 14 2017
First a quick word about Taylor Swift. She was not scheduled to do our show today. But we wanted something special for this first show back so we asked her on a complete whim since she had been in town doing SNL. She said yes with zero hesitation. â Mike DiCenzo (@mikedicenzo) November 14 2017
She sang "New Year's Day." No one had heard it. Suddenly she sings the line "Squeeze my hand 3 times in the back of the taxi." I nearly gasped. Tears. I think everyone in the audience started sobbing. â Mike DiCenzo (@mikedicenzo) November 14 2017 | Host Jimmy Fallon returned to the âThe Tonight Showâ desk on Monday night for the first time since the death of his mother Gloria and had Taylor Swift on hand for a surprise musical performance.
It was a really tough day for our whole staff. A lot of us knew his mom [TGT] and [TGT] was the best. The best. [TGT] loved the show [TGT] loved all of us and most of all [TGT] loved Jimmy. â Mike DiCenzo (@mikedicenzo) November 14 2017
First a quick word about Taylor Swift. [TGT] was not scheduled to do our show today. But we wanted something special for this first show back so we asked [TGT] on a complete whim since [TGT] had been in town doing SNL. [TGT] said yes with zero hesitation. â Mike DiCenzo (@mikedicenzo) November 14 2017
[TGT] sang "New Year's Day." No one had heard it. Suddenly [TGT] sings the line "Squeeze my hand 3 times in the back of the taxi." I nearly gasped. Tears. I think everyone in the audience started sobbing. â Mike DiCenzo (@mikedicenzo) November 14 2017 | 2Positive
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2,362 | Comey goes biblical following Flynn's plea | James Comey | (CNN) Shortly after former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia's ambassador former FBI Director James Comey shared a justice-minded verse from the Bible on Twitter and Instagram.
"'But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream ' Amos 5:24 " Comey wrote referring to the Bible's book of Amos.
"But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" Amos 5:24 A post shared by James Comey (@a_higher_loyalty) on Dec 1 2017 at 9:01am PST
Comey tweeted the same biblical passage in November after President Donald Trump called the former FBI director a "liar." Comey a United Methodist and one-time Sunday school teacher said it's his "favorite scripture verse."
Iï¸ included the picture of the Great Falls of the Potomac because Iï¸ like it and because it reminds me of my favorite scripture verse from Amos: "But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." â James Comey (@Comey) November 11 2017 | (CNN) Shortly after former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia's ambassador former FBI Director [TGT] shared a justice-minded verse from the Bible on Twitter and Instagram.
"'But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream ' Amos 5:24 " Comey wrote referring to the Bible's book of Amos.
"But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" Amos 5:24 A post shared by [TGT] (@a_higher_loyalty) on Dec 1 2017 at 9:01am PST
Comey tweeted the same biblical passage in November after President Donald Trump called the former FBI director a "liar." Comey a United Methodist and one-time Sunday school teacher said it's his "favorite scripture verse."
Iï¸ included the picture of the Great Falls of the Potomac because Iï¸ like it and because it reminds me of my favorite scripture verse from Amos: "But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." â [TGT] (@Comey) November 11 2017 | 1Neutral
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2,363 | These millennial entrepreneurs think email is too slow for the startup world | Jordan Anthony Swain | Jordan Anthony Swain an artist and entrepreneur says that over the past two years he 's tried to curtail a lot of his email use and tries to get most of his work done off-email. Time is of the essence for Swain and he feels that email is a huge drain on his limited time.
Swain has pretty much replaced email through his use of Asana which he feels has minimised "a lot of the back and forth email threads regarding work flow and projects." He loves WhatsApp's ability to send large files voice notes and multimedia through an encrypted platform and he uses Facebook for banking and messaging. "I also do a lot of my communicating business development and marketing through social media like Instagram Skype and Google Hangouts " adds Swain .
He believes email is "on its way out" for millennials and subsequent generations. "I feel like email is becoming obsolete " says Swain . He says that for many young entrepreneurs "time is the ultimate luxury " which is why they prefer faster communication methods. "Simplicity is key to millennials and anything that feels like a job added onto our already jam-packed schedules will be left behind " says Swain .
Stephanie Dunleavy who works at Soul Analyseâa "self-love eHub"âsays she 's slowed down her use of email over the past two years because she feels email has become "irrelevant in many senses."
Dunleavy only checks her email once a day and she often finds herself hitting "delete" over and over again. She prefers to use Pushfor a business tool that allows you to engage with colleagues in real-time using chat voice or video.
"With Pushfor I know that anything I receive is from someone I know and it's either important or useful whereas many of emails I receive are either marketing promotion or sales pitches " she says. | [TGT] says that over the past two years [TGT] 's tried to curtail a lot of [TGT] email use and tries to get most of [TGT] work done off-email. Time is of the essence for Swain and he feels that email is a huge drain on his limited time.
Swain has pretty much replaced email through his use of Asana which he feels has minimised "a lot of the back and forth email threads regarding work flow and projects." He loves WhatsApp's ability to send large files voice notes and multimedia through an encrypted platform and he uses Facebook for banking and messaging. "I also do a lot of my communicating business development and marketing through social media like Instagram Skype and Google Hangouts " adds Swain .
He believes email is "on its way out" for millennials and subsequent generations. "I feel like email is becoming obsolete " says Swain . He says that for many young entrepreneurs "time is the ultimate luxury " which is why they prefer faster communication methods. "Simplicity is key to millennials and anything that feels like a job added onto our already jam-packed schedules will be left behind " says Swain .
Stephanie Dunleavy who works at Soul Analyseâa "self-love eHub"âsays she 's slowed down her use of email over the past two years because she feels email has become "irrelevant in many senses."
Dunleavy only checks her email once a day and she often finds herself hitting "delete" over and over again. She prefers to use Pushfor a business tool that allows you to engage with colleagues in real-time using chat voice or video.
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2,364 | Lynyrd Skynyrd 40 years later: Survivors rescuers return to crash site in Mississippi | Fireman Jamie Wall | Gillsburg Volunteer Fireman Jamie Wall was one of the first responders to the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash on Oct. 20 1977. Wall said he followed the spotlight of a Coast Guard helicopter to get to the the crash site where he helped to free trapped passengers from the mangled plane with the same hatchet he brought to the site 40 years later. (Photo: Justin Vicory)
Jamie Wall and his brothers were volunteer firefighters in Gillsburg Miss. a small town about 8 miles southwest of the crash site.
Wall said after hearing about the crash he set out to the site using the spotlight of a Coast Guard helicopter to guide him .
He brought two tools: a flashlight and a hatchet.
In his survey of the scene Wall said he was literally on top of some of the crash victims.
"I found someone on the ground alive " he said. "When I walked to the other side of the plane I tripped on another person."
"I took out this hatchet " Wall said as he pulled out a rusted hatchet from a sheath on his hip. "I heard some screaming. He (Mark Howard) was pinned in a hole of the plane. I chopped him out."
The scene with mangled bodies and cries for help was overwhelming Wall said.
"I got down and prayed " Wall said his voice shaking. "I said 'I need help God to deal with this.'"
"When I got there everyone was covered in blood " he said.
Everybody helped Wall explained to Howard at the crash site.
"It was people that didn't come to the site at all " Wall said.
"Some of them were out on that highway directing traffic. Some of them went home and got tractors. My wife was home on a CB radio. I'm relaying messages on CB to her 10 miles away. There were other people doing the same thing " Wall said of the crash site.
"It's so amazing that you could look in the plane and see my face and touch my face " Howard said to Wall .
"We pulled somebody out. That was you " Wall said. | [TGT] was one of the first responders to the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash on Oct. 20 1977. [TGT] said [TGT] followed the spotlight of a Coast Guard helicopter to get to the the crash site where [TGT] helped to free trapped passengers from the mangled plane with the same hatchet [TGT] brought to the site 40 years later. (Photo: Justin Vicory)
[TGT] and [TGT] brothers were volunteer firefighters in Gillsburg Miss. a small town about 8 miles southwest of the crash site.
[TGT] said after hearing about the crash [TGT] set out to the site using the spotlight of a Coast Guard helicopter to guide [TGT] .
[TGT] brought two tools: a flashlight and a hatchet.
In [TGT] survey of the scene [TGT] said [TGT] was literally on top of some of the crash victims.
"I found someone on the ground alive " he said. "When I walked to the other side of the plane I tripped on another person."
"I took out this hatchet [TGT] said as [TGT] pulled out a rusted hatchet from a sheath on [TGT] hip. "I heard some screaming. He (Mark Howard) was pinned in a hole of the plane. I chopped him out."
The scene with mangled bodies and cries for help was overwhelming [TGT] said.
"I got down and prayed " [TGT] said [TGT] voice shaking. "I said 'I need help God to deal with this.'"
"When I got there everyone was covered in blood " [TGT] said.
Everybody helped [TGT] explained to Howard at the crash site.
"It was people that didn't come to the site at all " [TGT] said.
"Some of them were out on that highway directing traffic. Some of them went home and got tractors. My wife was home on a CB radio. I'm relaying messages on CB to her 10 miles away. There were other people doing the same thing [TGT] said of the crash site.
"It's so amazing that you could look in the plane and see my face and touch my face " Howard said to [TGT] .
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2,365 | Las Vegas massacre: Gunman Stephen Paddock amassing small arsenal kills at least 58 and injures more than 500 | Stephen Paddock | The attack at least initially was as inexplicable as it was horrifying. Law enforcement officials said they could not immediately tell what drove Stephen Paddock to fire at thousands of unsuspecting concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino before killing himself .
Authorities said a sweep of law enforcement databases showed Paddock had no known run-ins with police and â despite the Islamic Stateâs repeated claims otherwise â investigators also could not find any connections to international terrorist groups. He was the son of a notorious bank robber and his own crime demonstrated some amount of sophisticated planning.
Police said he stayed in a large hotel suite for several days and aroused no suspicion bringing with him an arsenal of 23 guns â their calibers ranging from .223 to .308 some with scopes â authorities said. One of the weapons he apparently used in the attack was an AK-47 type rifle with a stand used to steady it for firing people familiar with the case said. He fired without warning from an elevated position on an open-air venue leaving his victims few options to avoid harm.
Stephen Paddock was identified by police as the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Here's what you need to know about him. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
[Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock enjoyed gambling country music lived quiet life before massacre]
Police and hotel security ultimately scoured several floors of the hotel looking for the shooter and came upon Paddockâs suite Lombardo said. At some point Paddock fired through the door and hit a security guard in the leg he said adding that the guard is expected to survive. SWAT officers ultimately stormed the room and some fired shots though Paddock is believed to have killed himself Lombardo said. He was not counted in the death toll that authorities reported.
Eric Paddock Stephen Paddockâs brother said he was stunned to learn that his brother could be responsible for such violence.
Stephen Paddock had no history of mental illness nor did he have problems with drugs or alcohol Eric Paddock said noting that his brother was a high-stakes gambler sometimes wagering hundreds of dollars on a single hand of video poker.
Eric Paddock said his brother was âwealthy â in part because he had no children to support. Stephen Paddock had worked in the past as an accountant and he had real estate investments in the Orlando area Eric Paddock said.
Relatives said Stephen Paddock a licensed pilot who owned two airplanes was a quiet man who often went to Las Vegas to gamble and view concerts. In a statement Lockheed Martin the defense giant said that Paddock worked for them for three years in the 1980s.
A former neighbor of Stephen Paddockâs recalled that his home in a 55-and-over community in Florida looked more akin to a college freshmanâs dorm with nothing on the walls and only a few pieces of furniture. | The attack at least initially was as inexplicable as it was horrifying. Law enforcement officials said they could not immediately tell what drove Stephen Paddock to fire at thousands of unsuspecting concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino before killing himself .
Authorities said a sweep of law enforcement databases showed Paddock had no known run-ins with police and â despite the Islamic Stateâs repeated claims otherwise â investigators also could not find any connections to international terrorist groups. He was the son of a notorious bank robber and his own crime demonstrated some amount of sophisticated planning.
Police said he stayed in a large hotel suite for several days and aroused no suspicion bringing with him an arsenal of 23 guns â their calibers ranging from .223 to .308 some with scopes â authorities said. One of the weapons [TGT] apparently used in the attack was an AK-47 type rifle with a stand used to steady it for firing people familiar with the case said. [TGT] fired without warning from an elevated position on an open-air venue leaving [TGT] victims few options to avoid harm.
[TGT] was identified by police as the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Here's what you need to know about [TGT] . (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
[ [TGT] enjoyed gambling country music lived quiet life before massacre]
Police and hotel security ultimately scoured several floors of the hotel looking for the shooter and came upon Paddockâs suite Lombardo said. At some point [TGT] fired through the door and hit a security guard in the leg he said adding that the guard is expected to survive. SWAT officers ultimately stormed the room and some fired shots though [TGT] is believed to have killed [TGT] Lombardo said. [TGT] was not counted in the death toll that authorities reported.
[TGT] [TGT] said [TGT] was stunned to learn that [TGT] brother could be responsible for such violence.
[TGT] had no history of mental illness nor did [TGT] have problems with drugs or alcohol [TGT] said noting that [TGT] brother was a high-stakes gambler sometimes wagering hundreds of dollars on a single hand of video poker.
[TGT] said [TGT] brother was âwealthy â in part because [TGT] had no children to support. [TGT] had worked in the past as an accountant and [TGT] had real estate investments in the Orlando area [TGT] said.
Relatives said [TGT] a licensed pilot who owned two airplanes was a quiet man who often went to Las Vegas to gamble and view concerts. In a statement Lockheed Martin the defense giant said that [TGT] worked for [TGT] for three years in the 1980s.
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2,366 | Blackburn joins Tennessee Senate race after Haslam begs off | Bill Haslam | Blackburn's entry followed a decision earlier in the day by term-limited Gov. Bill Haslam to sit out the race despite entreaties from Corker Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Tennessee's senior senator Lamar Alexander.
"While I have loved being a mayor and a governor I don't feel the same call to run for Senate at this point " said Haslam . He said the hyper-partisanship that surrounds Congress was a factor in his decision.
Haslam 's popularity in the state and his vast personal wealth would have made him a strong candidate despite lingering anger among some Republicans over his call to Donald Trump to abandon his presidential nomination last year following the release of a videotape in which Trump boasted about groping women.
Corker who announced last week that he wouldn't seek a third term also publicly criticized the Republican president for his response to a deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia. Corker questioned whether Trump had the "competence" or "stability" to succeed in office.
"I believe in President Trump's immigration ban and I'll fight with him every step of the way to build that wall " she said. "I stand when the president walks in room and yes I stand when I hear the Star Spangled Banner."
Former U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher is another potential Republican Senate candidate and is expected to make a decision in the coming days. Haslam hasn't said whether he 'll endorse a Republican in the race. | Blackburn's entry followed a decision earlier in the day by [TGT] to sit out the race despite entreaties from Corker Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Tennessee's senior senator Lamar Alexander.
"While I have loved being a mayor and a governor I don't feel the same call to run for Senate at this point " said [TGT] . [TGT] said the hyper-partisanship that surrounds Congress was a factor in [TGT] decision.
[TGT] 's popularity in the state and [TGT] vast personal wealth would have made [TGT] a strong candidate despite lingering anger among some Republicans over [TGT] call to Donald Trump to abandon his presidential nomination last year following the release of a videotape in which Trump boasted about groping women.
Corker who announced last week that he wouldn't seek a third term also publicly criticized the Republican president for his response to a deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia. Corker questioned whether Trump had the "competence" or "stability" to succeed in office.
"I believe in President Trump's immigration ban and I'll fight with him every step of the way to build that wall " she said. "I stand when the president walks in room and yes I stand when I hear the Star Spangled Banner."
Former U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher is another potential Republican Senate candidate and is expected to make a decision in the coming days. Haslam hasn't said whether he 'll endorse a Republican in the race. | 2Positive
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2,367 | FDNY fire marshal cuffed for allegedly attacking wife in Brooklyn | Kevin Goodwin | Fire Marshal Kevin Goodwin 41 was charged with felony and misdemeanor assault and weapons possession for allegedly attacking his wife inside their Carroll Gardens home at 10:15 p.m. Monday.
Goodwin âs wife claimed he shoved her to the ground during an argument and threw a cup at her causing a bruise to her arm.
His arraignment was pending Tuesday.
Goodwin made $95 000 last year as a Fire Marshal according to the website Seethroughny.net. | Fire [TGT] 41 was charged with felony and misdemeanor assault and weapons possession for allegedly attacking his wife inside their Carroll Gardens home at 10:15 p.m. Monday.
[TGT] âs wife claimed [TGT] shoved her to the ground during an argument and threw a cup at her causing a bruise to her arm.
[TGT] arraignment was pending Tuesday.
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2,368 | Factbox: International reaction to arrest of Reuters reporters in Myanmar | Wa Lone | (Reuters) - Several countries the United Nations and journalist groups are demanding the release of Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from detention in Myanmar. The reporters were arrested on Dec. 12 after being invited to meet police officials on the outskirts of Yangon. They had worked on stories about a military crackdown in Rakhine state scene of more than 600 000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh since late August.
Myanmarâs Ministry of Information has said the reporters â illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media â and released a photo of them in handcuffs.
It said the reporters and two policemen faced charges under the British colonial-era Official Secrets Act which carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years though officials said they have not been charged. Their exact whereabouts is not known.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists said âWe call on local authorities to immediately unconditionally release Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. These arrests come amid a widening crackdown which is having a grave impact on the ability of journalists to cover a story of vital global importance.â | (Reuters) - Several countries the United Nations and journalist groups are demanding the release of [TGT] Oo from detention in Myanmar. [TGT] were arrested on Dec. 12 after being invited to meet police officials on the outskirts of Yangon. They had worked on stories about a military crackdown in Rakhine state scene of more than 600 000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh since late August.
Myanmarâs Ministry of Information has said the reporters â illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media â and released a photo of them in handcuffs.
It said the reporters and two policemen faced charges under the British colonial-era Official Secrets Act which carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years though officials said they have not been charged. Their exact whereabouts is not known.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists said âWe call on local authorities to immediately unconditionally release Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. These arrests come amid a widening crackdown which is having a grave impact on the ability of journalists to cover a story of vital global importance.â | 1Neutral
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2,369 | Flavor Flav Sues Chuck D Public Enemy Camp Over Profits | William J. Drayton | âThis action involves the usurpation of money and property rights from Plaintiff William J. Drayton known as âFlavor Flav.â Drayton is recognized as one of the two key members of groundbreaking Hip Hop group Public Enemy. Public Enemy have been inducted into the Rock ânâ Roll Hall of Fame and have sold tens of millions of records â the suit states. âDespite Drayton âs position in Public Enemy the groupâs management and related companies have for years attempted to minimize his role in the Public Enemy business while continuing to rely upon Drayton âs fame and persona to market the brand."
In the lawsuit Flavor Flav (real name William J. Drayton) claims that he and Chuck D (real name Carlton Ridenhour) had a long-established agreement that profits from their music merchandise and concerts would be split between them. Despite that alleged arrangement Flavor Flav claims that Public Enemy's business management firm Eastlink has not been sending the earnings he is owed which have "diminished to almost nothing and Drayton has been refused accountings even on the items bearing his likeness " according to the lawsuit.
The suit also alleges that Flavor Flav's voice and image were used without his consent on Public Enemy's recent LP Nothing is Quick in the Desert which they released as a free download in June. The suit claims Flavor Flav requested $75 000 to record the album of which he only received $7 500.
Beyond claiming Flavor Flav is owed the aforementioned royalties and fees the suit also alleges that several merchandise deals including one brokered by producer Gary G-Wiz to make action figures of the members were made without Flavor Flav's consent or any compensation. Gary G-Wiz is also named in the lawsuit as TMZ notes. | âThis action involves the usurpation of money and property rights from [TGT] as âFlavor Flav.â [TGT] is recognized as one of the two key members of groundbreaking Hip Hop group Public Enemy. Public Enemy have been inducted into the Rock ânâ Roll Hall of Fame and have sold tens of millions of records â the suit states. âDespite [TGT] âs position in Public Enemy the groupâs management and related companies have for years attempted to minimize his role in the Public Enemy business while continuing to rely upon [TGT] âs fame and persona to market the brand."
In the lawsuit Flavor Flav (real name William J. Drayton) claims that he and Chuck D (real name Carlton Ridenhour) had a long-established agreement that profits from their music merchandise and concerts would be split between them. Despite that alleged arrangement Flavor Flav claims that Public Enemy's business management firm Eastlink has not been sending the earnings he is owed which have "diminished to almost nothing and [TGT] has been refused accountings even on the items bearing [TGT] likeness " according to the lawsuit.
The suit also alleges that Flavor Flav's voice and image were used without his consent on Public Enemy's recent LP Nothing is Quick in the Desert which they released as a free download in June. The suit claims Flavor Flav requested $75 000 to record the album of which he only received $7 500.
Beyond claiming Flavor Flav is owed the aforementioned royalties and fees the suit also alleges that several merchandise deals including one brokered by producer Gary G-Wiz to make action figures of the members were made without Flavor Flav's consent or any compensation. Gary G-Wiz is also named in the lawsuit as TMZ notes. | 1Neutral
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2,370 | 'House of Cards' Hiatus Extended Following Kevin Spacey Exit | Kevin Spacey | The hiatus on production of House of Cards' sixth and final season has been extended another two weeks as the series continues to determine how to proceed without Kevin Spacey. Earlier this month Netflix completely severed ties with the actor following claims of sexual misconduct.
Related Kevin Spacey Scandal: Everything We Know So Far Two-time Oscar winner has been dropped by agency and publicist in wake of growing list of allegations
In early November after at least eight House of Cards employees accused Spacey of predatory behavior in a CNN report the in-production season went into hiatus after Netflix stated the streaming service "not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey ."
Two episodes of the final season were filmed prior to Spacey 's firing. Producers initially announced that the writers would take a few weeks to rework the final season to excise Spacey's Frank Underwood character from the story. However three weeks later House of Cards' production company announced that the series would remain in hiatus for another two weeks.
House of Cards isn't the only project to make last-minute changes in the aftermath of Spacey 's sexual misconduct accusations: Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World due out in December reshot all the scenes featuring Spacey as J. Paul Getty with actor Christopher Plummer replacing the actor in the Oscar contender. | The hiatus on production of House of Cards' sixth and final season has been extended another two weeks as the series continues to determine how to proceed without [TGT] . Earlier this month Netflix completely severed ties with the actor following claims of sexual misconduct.
Related Kevin Spacey Scandal: Everything We Know So Far Two-time Oscar winner has been dropped by agency and publicist in wake of growing list of allegations
In early November after at least eight House of Cards employees accused Spacey of predatory behavior in a CNN report the in-production season went into hiatus after Netflix stated the streaming service "not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey ."
Two episodes of the final season were filmed prior to [TGT] 's firing. Producers initially announced that the writers would take a few weeks to rework the final season to excise Spacey's Frank Underwood character from the story. However three weeks later House of Cards' production company announced that the series would remain in hiatus for another two weeks.
House of Cards isn't the only project to make last-minute changes in the aftermath of [TGT] 's sexual misconduct accusations: Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World due out in December reshot all the scenes featuring Spacey as J. Paul Getty with actor Christopher Plummer replacing the actor in the Oscar contender. | 0Negative
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2,371 | Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie captures skills competition title | Spencer Dinwiddie | LOS ANGELES â Spencer Dinwiddie of the Brooklyn Nets won the skills challenge to kick off NBA All-Star Saturday.
Spencer Dinwiddie . (Chris Pizzello/AP)
Eight players started the competition with Dinwiddie and Markkanen advancing to the final.
Markkanen struggled passing the ball into the net giving Dinwiddie a big lead. Dinwiddie dribbled down the floor and missed his first 3 but drained the next one to win. | LOS ANGELES â [TGT] of the Brooklyn Nets won the skills challenge to kick off NBA All-Star Saturday.
[TGT] . (Chris Pizzello/AP)
Eight players started the competition with Dinwiddie and Markkanen advancing to the final.
Markkanen struggled passing the ball into the net giving Dinwiddie a big lead. Dinwiddie dribbled down the floor and missed his first 3 but drained the next one to win. | 1Neutral
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2,372 | McConnell: Let Alabama make the call on Moore | Mitch McConnell | (CNN) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell changed his tone Sunday on whether he thought Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore should be in the Senate saying he would "let the people of Alabama make the call" in the state's special election December 12.
On ABC's "This Week " McConnell said that if Moore wins the Senate Ethics Committee would have to consider the allegations against him.
"I think we're going to let the people of Alabama decide a week from Tuesday who they want to send to the Senate and then we'll address the matter appropriately " McConnell said.
Last month McConnell said he believed several women who have accused Moore of pursuing relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s saying he should "step aside." McConnell also told reporters in the past that the Republican Party was looking to see if a "write-in" option could be successful. | (CNN) [TGT] changed [TGT] tone Sunday on whether [TGT] thought Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore should be in the Senate saying he would "let the people of Alabama make the call" in the state's special election December 12.
On ABC's "This Week " [TGT] said that if Moore wins the Senate Ethics Committee would have to consider the allegations against him.
"I think we're going to let the people of Alabama decide a week from Tuesday who they want to send to the Senate and then we'll address the matter appropriately " [TGT] said.
Last month [TGT] said [TGT] believed several women who have accused Moore of pursuing relationships with them when they were teenagers and [TGT] was in [TGT] 30s saying [TGT] should "step aside." [TGT] also told reporters in the past that the Republican Party was looking to see if a "write-in" option could be successful. | 1Neutral
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2,373 | EPA official speaks on risk of climate change to toxic sites | Scott Pruitt | The testimony by EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator Barry Breen before a House oversight subcommittee conflicts with the agency's policy positions under President Donald Trump who has called climate change a hoax. Breen's boss EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is an ardent fossil fuel promoter who questions the validity of mainstream climate science.
Under the Obama administration EPA issued a robust plan for prioritizing cleanup and protection of toxic sites located in flood zones and areas vulnerable to sea level rise. However a Superfund Task Force appointed by Pruitt last year issued a 34-page list of recommendations that makes no mention of climate change flooding risks from stronger storms or rising seas.
EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox did not respond to questions Thursday about whether Pruitt agreed with Breen's testimony or precisely what the agency is currently doing to address to risks posed to Superfund sites by climate change.
Pruitt says he has made faster Superfund site cleanups a high priority for the agency. Pruitt 's task force on the issue is led by Albert "Kell" Kelly a former Oklahoma banker with no experience as an environmental regulator.
AP reported in August that Pruitt hired Kelly as a senior adviser at EPA after federal financial regulators cited Kelly for unspecified violations while serving as the top executive at a community bank in Oklahoma. Kelly previously served as chairman of Tulsa-based SpiritBank which provided a $6.8 million financing when Pruitt and his business partners purchased Oklahoma City's minor league baseball team in 2003. | The testimony by EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator Barry Breen before a House oversight subcommittee conflicts with the agency's policy positions under President Donald Trump who has called climate change a hoax. Breen's boss EPA Administrator [TGT] is an ardent fossil fuel promoter who questions the validity of mainstream climate science.
Under the Obama administration EPA issued a robust plan for prioritizing cleanup and protection of toxic sites located in flood zones and areas vulnerable to sea level rise. However a Superfund Task Force appointed by Pruitt last year issued a 34-page list of recommendations that makes no mention of climate change flooding risks from stronger storms or rising seas.
EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox did not respond to questions Thursday about whether Pruitt agreed with Breen's testimony or precisely what the agency is currently doing to address to risks posed to Superfund sites by climate change.
Pruitt says he has made faster Superfund site cleanups a high priority for the agency. Pruitt 's task force on the issue is led by Albert "Kell" Kelly a former Oklahoma banker with no experience as an environmental regulator.
AP reported in August that Pruitt hired Kelly as a senior adviser at EPA after federal financial regulators cited Kelly for unspecified violations while serving as the top executive at a community bank in Oklahoma. Kelly previously served as chairman of Tulsa-based SpiritBank which provided a $6.8 million financing when Pruitt and his business partners purchased Oklahoma City's minor league baseball team in 2003. | 1Neutral
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2,374 | Military probes photo purportedly showing soldier's remains | David Johnson | A Twitter user posted what appears to be a screengrab and wrote that an ISIS affiliate group broadcast a video showing the October attack that killed Sgt. La David Johnson and three other U.S. Green Berets.
Sgt. Johnson and three other American soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger on Oct. 4. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Johnson 25 was part of a 12-member Army special forces unit accompanying 30 Nigerien forces when they were attacked in a densely wooded area by as many as 50 militants.
Johnson 's widow Myeshia Johnson is presented with a folded U.S. flag by a military honor guard member during the burial service at the Memorial Gardens East cemetery. (GASTON DE CARDENAS/AFP/Getty Images)
Remains of Sgt. La David Johnson found weeks after his funeral
The gap in time led to questions about whether Johnson was killed in the assault and not found or if he was taken away by the enemy.
According to the officials a medical examination concluded that Johnson was shot as many as 18 times.
It is believed he died in the attack and there were no indications he was shot at close range or had been bound or taken prisoner as several media reports have suggested. | A Twitter user posted what appears to be a screengrab and wrote that an ISIS affiliate group broadcast a video showing the October attack that killed Sgt. [TGT] and three other U.S. Green Berets.
Sgt. [TGT] and three other American soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger on Oct. 4. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
[TGT] was part of a 12-member Army special forces unit accompanying 30 Nigerien forces when they were attacked in a densely wooded area by as many as 50 militants.
[TGT] 's widow [TGT] is presented with a folded U.S. flag by a military honor guard member during the burial service at the Memorial Gardens East cemetery. (GASTON DE CARDENAS/AFP/Getty Images)
Remains of Sgt. [TGT] found weeks after [TGT] funeral
The gap in time led to questions about whether [TGT] was killed in the assault and not found or if [TGT] was taken away by the enemy.
According to the officials a medical examination concluded that [TGT] was shot as many as 18 times.
It is believed [TGT] died in the attack and there were no indications [TGT] was shot at close range or had been bound or taken prisoner as several media reports have suggested. | 2Positive
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2,375 | A man hailed an Uber while running from the cops | Allen Elseth | A Salt Lake County jail booking statement released Thursday says 28-year-old Allen Elseth was taken into custody after a state trooper smelled marijuana at an accident scene.
Documents say Elseth ran across Interstate 80 after the officer let him out to urinate and jumped a barbed-wire topped fence into an airport parking lot.
Authorities say Elseth climbed on top of the driver and hit the gas but the lawmen hung on until they stopped the car and subdued him with a Taser.
No attorney was immediately listed for Elseth . | A Salt Lake County jail booking statement released Thursday says [TGT] was taken into custody after a state trooper smelled marijuana at an accident scene.
Documents say [TGT] ran across Interstate 80 after the officer let him out to urinate and jumped a barbed-wire topped fence into an airport parking lot.
Authorities say [TGT] climbed on top of the driver and hit the gas but the lawmen hung on until they stopped the car and subdued him with a Taser.
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2,376 | Billy Graham touted 'warm' relationship with Queen Elizabeth II | Billy Graham | CLOSE Rev. Billy Graham died at the age of 99. He was known for his charisma but said "I despise all this attention on me ... I'm not trying to bring people to myself but I know that God has sent me out as a warrior." USA TODAY
The American evangelist Rev. Billy Graham 99 has died. American evangelist Billy Graham addresses the congregation at the opening of the 32-day Greater London Crusade at the Earls Court Convention Centre London England June 1 1966. (Photo: Hulton Archive)
LONDON â The Rev. Billy Graham who died Wednesday at age 99 was friend to a number of world leaders â and counted Britainâs Queen Elizabeth II among them.
âNo one in Britain has been more cordial toward us than Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II â Graham the world's best-known evangelist wrote in Just As I Am his 1997 autobiography.
More: Was Billy Graham really friends with Queen Elizabeth like depicted in 'The Crown'?
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The Grahams visited Britainâs royal family at locations including two of the queenâs homes â Windsor Castle near London and the Sandringham estate in eastern England the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said in an article to mark the monarchâs 90th birthday in 2016.
âHer official position has prevented her from openly endorsing our crusade meetings. But by welcoming us and having me preach on several occasions to the royal family at Windsor and Sandringham she has gone out of her way to be quietly supportive of our mission â Graham wrote in his autobiography.
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The relationship between Graham and the British monarch was depicted in the Netflix series The Crown â although some historians say a few creative liberties were taken.
âI think heâs rather handsome â Claire Foy who plays the queen on the show tells her husband Prince Philip after seeing Graham preach.
âYou do speak with such wonderful clarity and certainty â she later tells Graham played by Paul Sparks.
Graham who suffered from ailments including cancer and pneumonia died Wednesday at his home in North Carolina where he retired in 2005.
Justin Welby the leader of the Church of England and head of the worldwide Anglican Church said in a statement that Graham has "few equals." | [TGT] died at the age of 99. [TGT] was known for [TGT] charisma but said "I despise all this attention on me ... I'm not trying to bring people to myself but I know that God has sent me out as a warrior." USA TODAY
The American evangelist Rev. Billy Graham 99 has died. [TGT] addresses the congregation at the opening of the 32-day Greater London Crusade at the Earls Court Convention Centre London England June 1 1966. (Photo: Hulton Archive)
LONDON â [TGT] was friend to a number of world leaders â and counted Britainâs Queen Elizabeth II among them.
âNo one in Britain has been more cordial toward us than Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II â [TGT] the world's best-known evangelist wrote in Just As I Am [TGT] 1997 autobiography.
More: Was [TGT] really friends with Queen Elizabeth like depicted in 'The Crown'?
More: [TGT] Graham America's pastor has died
More: [TGT] reached millions through [TGT] crusades. Here's how [TGT] did it
The Grahams visited Britainâs royal family at locations including two of the queenâs homes â Windsor Castle near London and the Sandringham estate in eastern England the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said in an article to mark the monarchâs 90th birthday in 2016.
âHer official position has prevented her from openly endorsing our crusade meetings. But by welcoming us and having me preach on several occasions to the royal family at Windsor and Sandringham she has gone out of her way to be quietly supportive of our mission â [TGT] wrote in [TGT] autobiography.
More: A look at all the books [TGT] wrote
More: 16 lesser-known facts about Billy Graham including that time [TGT] went skinny dipping with Lyndon B. Johnson
The relationship between [TGT] and the British monarch was depicted in the Netflix series The Crown â although some historians say a few creative liberties were taken.
âI think heâs rather handsome â Claire Foy who plays the queen on the show tells her husband Prince Philip after seeing [TGT] preach.
âYou do speak with such wonderful clarity and certainty â she later tells [TGT] played by Paul Sparks.
[TGT] who suffered from ailments including cancer and pneumonia died Wednesday at his home in North Carolina where he retired in 2005.
Justin Welby the leader of the Church of England and head of the worldwide Anglican Church said in a statement that [TGT] has "few equals." | 1Neutral
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2,377 | A Guy Trump Nominated as a Judge Apparently Used to Hunt Ghosts | Brett Talley | On Monday the New York Times reported that Brett Talley President Trump's nominee for Alabama's federal district judge had failed to disclose that he was married to a White House lawyer. But aside from his potential conflicts of interest and general lack of experience for the role there was another detail about the 36-year-old lawyer that made headlines Mondayâhis work as a horror novelist and ghost hunter.
As Gizmodo points out Talley first shared his supernatural interests in a 2014 Washington Post interview where he talked about his novels of "true ghost" stories and going out with the Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group to hunt for the paranormal armed with thermal cameras and digital voice recorders. According to its website the group "uses a strictly scientific approach to determine the extent of the paranormal activity" and uploads photos and audio from some of its expeditions.
"I tend to believe thereâs a good scientific explanation for the weird things people see and hear " Talley told the Post. "But Iâm open to the idea and itâs fun."
According to the Daily Beast Talley even co-wrote a book with the founder of the group David Higdon called Haunted Tuscaloosa. It apparently explores "tales of haunted houses and shadows moving through university buildings."
It's not clear if Talley has ever actually come across a ghost considering Higdon told the Beast the group usually doesn't find any paranormal activity and ends up sitting "in the dark and mostly wish[ing] something does happen."
Still it doesn't look like Talley 's ghost-hunting abilities will stand in the way of his judicial aspirations. According to the Times he's already been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee even though the American Bar Association unanimously deemed him "not qualified." | On Monday the New York Times reported that [TGT] had failed to disclose that [TGT] was married to a White House lawyer. But aside from [TGT] potential conflicts of interest and general lack of experience for the role there was another detail about the 36-year-old lawyer that made headlines Mondayâhis work as a horror novelist and ghost hunter.
As Gizmodo points out Talley first shared his supernatural interests in a 2014 Washington Post interview where he talked about his novels of "true ghost" stories and going out with the Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group to hunt for the paranormal armed with thermal cameras and digital voice recorders. According to its website the group "uses a strictly scientific approach to determine the extent of the paranormal activity" and uploads photos and audio from some of its expeditions.
"I tend to believe thereâs a good scientific explanation for the weird things people see and hear " Talley told the Post. "But Iâm open to the idea and itâs fun."
According to the Daily Beast Talley even co-wrote a book with the founder of the group David Higdon called Haunted Tuscaloosa. It apparently explores "tales of haunted houses and shadows moving through university buildings."
It's not clear if Talley has ever actually come across a ghost considering Higdon told the Beast the group usually doesn't find any paranormal activity and ends up sitting "in the dark and mostly wish[ing] something does happen."
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2,378 | Patriots Linebacker Faces Pushback for Posting Photo of 'Assault Weapon' on Instagram | James Harrison | New England Patriots linebacker James Harrison is getting pushback for posting a photo of an âassault weaponâ on Instagram.
As a Pittsburgh Steeler Harrison expressed his enthusiasm for guns by posing for Menâs Journal with a revolver in one hand and a pistol in the other.
Now his photographs have moved to more politically-charged weapons. The âassault weaponâ photo he posted to Instagram is an AK-47 emblazoned with his jersey number 92.
That new Deebo Dracoð¯ð¥ A post shared by James Harrison (@jhharrison92) on Jan 16 2018 at 12:06pm PST
Harrison received thousands of likes on the photo but some Instragram followers took exception. One asked âThis is the musket the founders in mind right? SMH.â Another wrote âHow do I unfollow?â | [TGT] is getting pushback for posting a photo of an âassault weaponâ on Instagram.
As a Pittsburgh Steeler [TGT] expressed [TGT] enthusiasm for guns by posing for Menâs Journal with a revolver in one hand and a pistol in the other.
Now his photographs have moved to more politically-charged weapons. The âassault weaponâ photo [TGT] posted to Instagram is an AK-47 emblazoned with his jersey number 92.
That new Deebo Dracoð¯ð¥ A post shared by James Harrison (@jhharrison92) on Jan 16 2018 at 12:06pm PST
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2,379 | Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14 he was 32 | Leigh Corfman | Leigh Corfman left in a photo from 1979 when she was about 14. At right from top Wendy Miller around age 16 Debbie Wesson Gibson around age 17 and Gloria Thacker Deason around age 18. (Family photos)
Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County Ala. She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother they both recall when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore.
It was early 1979 and Moore â now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat â was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation Corfman and her mother say and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.
âHe said âOh you donât want her to go in there and hear all that. Iâll stay out here with her â â says Corfmanâs mother Nancy Wells 71. âI thought how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl .â
This undated family photo shows Leigh Corfman with her mother Nancy Wells around 1979 when Corfman was about 14 years old. (Family Photo)
Alone with Corfman Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number she says. Days later she says he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit she says he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants she says and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
âI wanted it over with â I wanted out â she remembers thinking. âPlease just get this over with. Whatever this is just get it over.â Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home and he did.
Two of Corfmanâs childhood friends say she told them at the time that she was seeing an older man and one says Corfman identified the man as Moore. Wells says her daughter told her about the encounter more than a decade later as Moore was becoming more prominent as a local judge.
Aside from Corfman three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s episodes they say they found flattering at the time but troubling as they got older. None of the three women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact. | [TGT] left in a photo from 1979 when [TGT] was about 14. At right from top Wendy Miller around age 16 Debbie Wesson Gibson around age 17 and Gloria Thacker Deason around age 18. (Family photos)
[TGT] says [TGT] was 14 years old when an older man approached [TGT] outside a courtroom in Etowah County Ala. [TGT] was sitting on a wooden bench with [TGT] mother they both recall when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore.
It was early 1979 and Moore â now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat â was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation Corfman and her mother say and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.
âHe said âOh you donât want her to go in there and hear all that. Iâll stay out here with her â â says Corfmanâs mother Nancy Wells 71. âI thought how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl .â
This undated family photo shows Leigh Corfman with her mother Nancy Wells around 1979 when Corfman was about 14 years old. (Family Photo)
Alone with Corfman Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number she says. Days later she says he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit she says he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants she says and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
âI wanted it over with â I wanted out â she remembers thinking. âPlease just get this over with. Whatever this is just get it over.â Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home and he did.
Two of Corfmanâs childhood friends say she told them at the time that she was seeing an older man and one says Corfman identified the man as Moore. Wells says her daughter told her about the encounter more than a decade later as Moore was becoming more prominent as a local judge.
Aside from Corfman three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s episodes they say they found flattering at the time but troubling as they got older. None of the three women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact. | 2Positive
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2,380 | Golden Krust founder CEO dies in New York at age 57 | Lowell Hawthorne | NEW YORK (AP) â Lowell Hawthorne the founder and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill has died in New York City. He was 57.
The city's medical examiner's said Hawthorne shot himself in the head at his Bronx factory on Saturday.
Hawthorne started the successful Caribbean fast food chain in 1989 by selling Jamaican beef patties jerk chicken and breads. He built the business into a national franchise with more than 120 restaurants in nine states.
Hawthorne once appeared in an episode of CBS' "Undercover Boss." At the time of his death his company was planning on building a new $37 million headquarters in Rockland County.
" He was a nice boss a wonderful guy " longtime employee Everald Woods told the Daily News. " He 's the kind of guy you want to work for for that long. He takes care of his employees." | NEW YORK (AP) â [TGT] the founder and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill has died in New York City. He was 57.
The city's medical examiner's said Hawthorne shot himself in the head at his Bronx factory on Saturday.
Hawthorne started the successful Caribbean fast food chain in 1989 by selling Jamaican beef patties jerk chicken and breads. He built the business into a national franchise with more than 120 restaurants in nine states.
Hawthorne once appeared in an episode of CBS' "Undercover Boss." At the time of his death his company was planning on building a new $37 million headquarters in Rockland County.
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2,381 | Thanks Mike Pence. You Helped Make Adam Rippon an LGBTQ Olympics Hero | Adam Rippon | When ice skater Adam Rippon was interviewed after his mesmerizing Olympics skate his winning warm charm was on full beam.
âItâs like pretty awesome â he said to the audience watching at home. âI highly recommend it. If you ever have the option come to the Olympics. Itâs like a fun time. Today was so special so much fun.â
There is something delicious about watching Rippon generallyâbecause he âs having the best fun while also dead-serious in his medal-winning ambition; and his skating is a joyâand particularly when it comes to briskly dismissing Vice President Mike Pence.
Indeed Rippon told the Daily Mail he would boycott any Team USA celebration held by President Trump at the White House indicating he would rather hold an LGBTQ-oriented event of his own.
Where Pence possesses a lumbering bigotry Rippon has intelligence eloquence wit and beautiful ice-skating skills. It is Rippon now hailed as Americaâs sweetheart while in South Korea Pence looked like a sad businessman not really enjoying the travel freebie heâd accepted.
Rippon has not called on Pence to do anything. He hasnât asked for anything from Pence at all. But the Winter Olympicsâ first out-gay U.S. competitor has called Pence out first for supporting conversion therapy then for his general prejudice and acts of legislative hostility toward the LGBTQ community.
Pence has denied the conversion-therapy charge but Rippon is merely echoing LGBT groupsâ highlighting of the now-infamous quote from Penceâs congressional campaign website in 2000 in which referring to organizations that should not receive federal support under the Ryan White Care Act included those âthat celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus.â
The Rippon and Pence tangle began when Rippon pre-Olympics told USA Today of the choice of Pence to lead the U.S. Olympic delegation: âYou mean Mike Pence the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? Iâm not buying it.â
As for the idea of meeting Pence Rippon added: âIf it were before my event I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they arenât a friend of a gay person but that they think that theyâre sick. I wouldnât go out of my way to meet somebody like that.â
Penceâs office denies he reached out to meet with Rippon after the interview was published; other sources say he did.
Rippon is too wise to be used as a gay scapegoat and make-nice photo opportunity. He is also as viewers of the Olympics are quickly discovering utterly himself . It is a joy to watch and a liberating joy at that.
Born in 1989 he told one interviewer his first memory was watching the 1992 Winter Olympics. When those ice skaters fell he fell to the ground in toddler kinship.
Rippon is so alive he makes all of us watching him feel alive. He âs that rare thing in pop culture: a regular gay guy happy with himself handsome stylish politically astute and a charming speaker.
He âs not the polarities of gay pop culture traffics in: He is neither the âstraight-actingâ gay guy that TV can serve up and he âs not the flaming queen that TV can also serve upâ he glides somewhere in the middle like many gay people do and itâs wonderful to watch America be charmed by his authenticity.
For example: what would he tell the Olympic judges if he couldâthat he wants to throw up and if he had a quick drink and Xanax heâd be fine.
Or revealing how his mom always taught him to stand up for what he believed in giving his skating a greater purpose. | When ice skater [TGT] was interviewed after [TGT] mesmerizing Olympics skate his winning warm charm was on full beam.
âItâs like pretty awesome â he said to the audience watching at home. âI highly recommend it. If you ever have the option come to the Olympics. Itâs like a fun time. Today was so special so much fun.â
There is something delicious about watching Rippon generallyâbecause he âs having the best fun while also dead-serious in his medal-winning ambition; and his skating is a joyâand particularly when it comes to briskly dismissing Vice President Mike Pence.
Indeed [TGT] told the Daily Mail [TGT] would boycott any Team USA celebration held by President Trump at the White House indicating [TGT] would rather hold an LGBTQ-oriented event of [TGT] own.
Where Pence possesses a lumbering bigotry [TGT] has intelligence eloquence wit and beautiful ice-skating skills. It is [TGT] now hailed as Americaâs sweetheart while in South Korea Pence looked like a sad businessman not really enjoying the travel freebie heâd accepted.
[TGT] has not called on Pence to do anything. [TGT] hasnât asked for anything from Pence at all. But the Winter Olympicsâ first out-gay U.S. competitor has called Pence out first for supporting conversion therapy then for his general prejudice and acts of legislative hostility toward the LGBTQ community.
Pence has denied the conversion-therapy charge but [TGT] is merely echoing LGBT groupsâ highlighting of the now-infamous quote from Penceâs congressional campaign website in 2000 in which referring to organizations that should not receive federal support under the Ryan White Care Act included those âthat celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus.â
The Rippon and Pence tangle began when Rippon pre-Olympics told USA Today of the choice of Pence to lead the U.S. Olympic delegation: âYou mean Mike Pence the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? Iâm not buying it.â
As for the idea of meeting Pence Rippon added: âIf it were before my event I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they arenât a friend of a gay person but that they think that theyâre sick. I wouldnât go out of my way to meet somebody like that.â
Penceâs office denies he reached out to meet with Rippon after the interview was published; other sources say he did.
Rippon is too wise to be used as a gay scapegoat and make-nice photo opportunity. He is also as viewers of the Olympics are quickly discovering utterly himself . It is a joy to watch and a liberating joy at that.
Born in 1989 he told one interviewer his first memory was watching the 1992 Winter Olympics. When those ice skaters fell he fell to the ground in toddler kinship.
Rippon is so alive he makes all of us watching him feel alive. He âs that rare thing in pop culture: a regular gay guy happy with himself handsome stylish politically astute and a charming speaker.
He âs not the polarities of gay pop culture traffics in: He is neither the âstraight-actingâ gay guy that TV can serve up and he âs not the flaming queen that TV can also serve upâ he glides somewhere in the middle like many gay people do and itâs wonderful to watch America be charmed by his authenticity.
For example: what would he tell the Olympic judges if he couldâthat he wants to throw up and if he had a quick drink and Xanax heâd be fine.
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2,382 | Pruitt guts EPA science panels will appoint new members | Pruitt | In announcing the changes EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt suggested many previously appointed to the panels were potentially biased because they had received federal research grants. The 22 boards advise EPA on a wide range of issues including drinking water standards and pesticide safety.
"Whatever science comes out of EPA shouldn't be political science " said Pruitt a Republican lawyer who previously served as the attorney general of Oklahoma. "From this day forward EPA advisory committee members will be financially independent from the agency."
Pruitt has expressed skepticism about the consensus of climate scientists that man-made carbon emissions are the primary cause of global warming. He also overruled experts that had recommended pulling a top-selling pesticide from the market after peer-reviewed studies showed it damaged children's brains.
Pruitt said he will name new leadership and members to three key EPA advisory boards soon â the Science Advisory Board Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the Board of Scientific Counselors.
As part of his directive Pruitt said he will bar appointees who currently are in receipt of EPA grants or who are in a position to benefit such grants. He exempted people who work at state local or tribal agencies saying he wants to introduce more "geographic diversity" to the panels.
The five-page policy Pruitt issued Tuesday makes no mention of other potential conflicts of interest such as accepting research funding from corporate interests regulated by EPA.
Tuesday's announcement comes after Pruitt in May said he would not reappoint nine of the 18 members of the Board of Scientific Counselors to serve a second three-year term as had been customary.
"It obviously stacks the deck against scientists who do not represent corporate special interests " said Swackhamer a retired professor who taught environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota. "It speaks volumes that people funded by special interests are OK to be advisers but not those who have received federal grants. "
Senate Environment Committee Chairman John Barrasso a Wyoming Republican who shares Pruitt's skepticism of mainstream climate science cheered the move. He said EPA's science boards would now better reflect the views of rural states like his own.
But environmentalists worried that Pruitt will now select board members with financial ties to the fossil fuel and chemical industries.
"The Trump EPA's continued attack on science will likely be one of the most lasting and damaging legacies of this administration " said Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico the ranking Democrat on the appropriations subcommittee that approves EPA's funding. " Pruitt is purging expert scientists from his science boards â and replacing them with mouthpieces for big polluters." | In announcing the changes EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt suggested many previously appointed to the panels were potentially biased because they had received federal research grants. The 22 boards advise EPA on a wide range of issues including drinking water standards and pesticide safety.
"Whatever science comes out of EPA shouldn't be political science " said [TGT] . "From this day forward EPA advisory committee members will be financially independent from the agency. [TGT]
has expressed skepticism about the consensus of climate scientists that man-made carbon emissions are the primary cause of global warming. [TGT] also overruled experts that had recommended pulling a top-selling pesticide from the market after peer-reviewed studies showed it damaged children's brains.
[TGT] said [TGT] will name new leadership and members to three key EPA advisory boards soon â the Science Advisory Board Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the Board of Scientific Counselors.
As part of his directive [TGT] said [TGT] will bar appointees who currently are in receipt of EPA grants or who are in a position to benefit such grants. [TGT] exempted people who work at state local or tribal agencies saying [TGT] wants to introduce more "geographic diversity" to the panels.
The five-page policy [TGT] issued Tuesday makes no mention of other potential conflicts of interest such as accepting research funding from corporate interests regulated by EPA.
Tuesday's announcement comes after [TGT] said [TGT] would not reappoint nine of the 18 members of the Board of Scientific Counselors to serve a second three-year term as had been customary.
"It obviously stacks the deck against scientists who do not represent corporate special interests " said Swackhamer a retired professor who taught environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota. "It speaks volumes that people funded by special interests are OK to be advisers but not those who have received federal grants. [TGT]
cheered the move. [TGT] said EPA's science boards would now better reflect the views of rural states like [TGT] own.
But environmentalists worried that [TGT] will now select board members with financial ties to the fossil fuel and chemical industries.
"The Trump EPA's continued attack on science will likely be one of the most lasting and damaging legacies of this administration " said Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico the ranking Democrat on the appropriations subcommittee that approves EPA's funding. " [TGT] is purging expert scientists from [TGT] science boards â and replacing them with mouthpieces for big polluters." | 1Neutral
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2,383 | Man charged with sending explicit texts and photos to 15 | Eric Gultney | Eric Gultney 38 initially made contact with the girl as she walked home from school in Chicago on Oct. 24 giving the girl a $50 bill with his phone number written on it.
The girl blocked Gultney âs phone number after he requested to meet her that night prosecutors said. On Nov. 2 Gultney went to the girlâs school and approached her as she was leaving giving her $20 even though she âremained dismissiveâ of him according to prosecutors.
Chicago police were notified by the girlâs father when he discovered the text messages on his daughterâs phone. Prosecutors said Gultney admitted to detectives that he sent a sexually explicit photo to the girl.
He was charged with indecent solicitation of a child a Class Two felony. Judge Sophia Atcherson ordered Gultney held on $10 000 bail and kept on electronic monitoring/ | [TGT] initially made contact with the girl as she walked home from school in Chicago on Oct. 24 giving the girl a $50 bill with [TGT] phone number written on [TGT] .
The girl blocked [TGT] âs phone number after he requested to meet her that night prosecutors said. On Nov. 2 Gultney went to the girlâs school and approached her as she was leaving giving her $20 even though she âremained dismissiveâ of him according to prosecutors.
Chicago police were notified by the girlâs father when he discovered the text messages on his daughterâs phone. Prosecutors said [TGT] admitted to detectives that he sent a sexually explicit photo to the girl.
He was charged with indecent solicitation of a child a Class Two felony. Judge Sophia Atcherson ordered [TGT] held on $10 000 bail and kept on electronic monitoring/ | 0Negative
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2,384 | The Latest: Davis declines to discuss flag controversy | Jessie Diggins | 6 p.m.
American cross-country skier Jessie Diggins says nerves may have gotten the best of her before the womenâs 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) skiathlon causing her to throw up shortly before the race.
Diggins was third in the World Cup rankings coming in but finished fifth on Saturday at the Pyeongchang Games.
She says she also struggled with cramping in her triceps during the race and will reconsider her hydration plan moving forward. Overall though she says she did the best she could and got the most out of her body.
Diggins says it wasnât her best race but she still feels like she âs in a âgood placeâ to become the first American cross-country skier to win a medal since Bill Koch in 1976. | [TGT]
says nerves may have gotten the best of her before the womenâs 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) skiathlon causing her to throw up shortly before the race.
[TGT] was third in the World Cup rankings coming in but finished fifth on Saturday at the Pyeongchang Games.
[TGT] says [TGT] also struggled with cramping in her triceps during the race and will reconsider [TGT] hydration plan moving forward. Overall though [TGT] says [TGT] did the best [TGT] could and got the most out of [TGT] body.
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2,385 | History lovers open WWII | Lisa Pace | Lisa and Greg Pace were drawn to the tiny town which boasts about 600 residents because of its ties to World War II with the Courtland Air Base which was built during the war as an instrumental training center.
Lisa told the Decatur Daily this past is what they pulled from for their restaurant The Warbird Dinerâs aesthetic.
âThe design for the interior came from the 1940s when the Courtland Air Base was a training facility for the Army Air Corps pilots â Lisa Pace said. âThe airbase has a lot of history that many people donât know about.â
The restaurant is decorated with war memorabilia photographs and ceiling fans that look like a nose from a WWII fighter jet. She also said they are planning to recreate the restaurantâs sign using parts of an old plane.
The diner which opened early this month serves traditional American and southern fare like catfish chicken wings pork chops and burgers. Lisa told the Daily that the fried apple pie is the most popular dessert on the menu.
âWe are proud to recognize all men and women from Lawrence County and Courtland who served in the military in any capacity â Lisa said. | Lisa and Greg Pace were drawn to the tiny town which boasts about 600 residents because of its ties to World War II with the Courtland Air Base which was built during the war as an instrumental training center.
Lisa told the Decatur Daily this past is what they pulled from for their restaurant The Warbird Dinerâs aesthetic.
âThe design for the interior came from the 1940s when the Courtland Air Base was a training facility for the Army Air Corps pilots â [TGT] said. âThe airbase has a lot of history that many people donât know about.â
The restaurant is decorated with war memorabilia photographs and ceiling fans that look like a nose from a WWII fighter jet. She also said they are planning to recreate the restaurantâs sign using parts of an old plane.
The diner which opened early this month serves traditional American and southern fare like catfish chicken wings pork chops and burgers. Lisa told the Daily that the fried apple pie is the most popular dessert on the menu.
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2,386 | U.S. stock pullback stokes fears of more volatility | Brian Reynolds | âEquity investors are beginning to become so concerned about the potential downside for stocks that they are starting to irrationally pay up for short-term protection when longer-term protection is cheaper â Brian Reynolds asset class strategist at New York-based Canaccord Genuity said in a note.
âWe expect this one will have a similar outcome â said Reynolds .
But much will depend on how the trading session ends Reynolds said.
âIf it were to close in this fashion it may lead to a further multi-week pullback in stocks â said Reynolds . | âEquity investors are beginning to become so concerned about the potential downside for stocks that they are starting to irrationally pay up for short-term protection when longer-term protection is cheaper â [TGT] asset class strategist at New York-based Canaccord Genuity said in a note.
âWe expect this one will have a similar outcome â said [TGT] .
But much will depend on how the trading session ends [TGT] said.
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2,387 | Route 28 gets its moment in the national spotlight but thereâs still a long road to traffic relief | Nohe | âThe option of simply widening the road is a lot more difficult than it would be in Fairfax and in some other areas. We are not even sure that it is possible â said Martin Nohe chairman of the NVTA and a Prince William County supervisor whose district includes the corridor.
âIf it is possible it absolutely requires a huge amount of condemnation of commercial property and it is crazy expensive â Nohe said. So the NVTA is studying various options to add capacity along a larger segment of the corridor.
âNo one will actually get to work faster if we donât first improve the interchange â Nohe said. From a morning commuterâs perspective he said âimprovements in Prince William mean nothing if you donât first have improvements in Fairfax County. And the improvements to the road in Fairfax donât mean anything unless you have the improvements at the interchange. . . . The interchange is the center of gravity for the entire corridor.â
The NVTA has approved $30 million for the $69 million widening project south of the interstate in Fairfax bordering Prince William Nohe said. The entire Route 28 corridor from Fauquier to Loudoun is looking at up to $1 billion in investments he said. A big chunk of that money would go toward fixing the Prince William section which has been neglected long enough Nohe said.
âThe problem has been building for 20 years. For the last 10 years everyone has complained every day â Nohe said. âWhatâs clear is that Route 28 is now our top priority in the county.â
A recent study commissioned by the NVTA has narrowed to four the options to lessen traffic congestion in the area from Bull Run on the Fairfax County line through Manassas Manassas Park and Prince William. And this year the authority is starting the federal environmental review process that could lead to improvements within the next decade. That study is expected to be completed in 18 months with recommendations implemented by 2026 Nohe said. | âThe option of simply widening the road is a lot more difficult than it would be in Fairfax and in some other areas. We are not even sure that it is possible â said Martin Nohe chairman of the NVTA and a Prince William County supervisor whose district includes the corridor.
âIf it is possible it absolutely requires a huge amount of condemnation of commercial property and it is crazy expensive â [TGT] said. So the NVTA is studying various options to add capacity along a larger segment of the corridor.
âNo one will actually get to work faster if we donât first improve the interchange â [TGT] said. From a morning commuterâs perspective he said âimprovements in Prince William mean nothing if you donât first have improvements in Fairfax County. And the improvements to the road in Fairfax donât mean anything unless you have the improvements at the interchange. . . . The interchange is the center of gravity for the entire corridor.â
The NVTA has approved $30 million for the $69 million widening project south of the interstate in Fairfax bordering [TGT] said. The entire Route 28 corridor from Fauquier to Loudoun is looking at up to $1 billion in investments [TGT] said. A big chunk of that money would go toward fixing the Prince William section which has been neglected long enough [TGT] said.
âThe problem has been building for 20 years. For the last 10 years everyone has complained every day â [TGT] said. âWhatâs clear is that Route 28 is now our top priority in the county.â
A recent study commissioned by the NVTA has narrowed to four the options to lessen traffic congestion in the area from Bull Run on the Fairfax County line through Manassas Manassas Park and Prince William. And this year the authority is starting the federal environmental review process that could lead to improvements within the next decade. That study is expected to be completed in 18 months with recommendations implemented by 2026 [TGT] said. | 1Neutral
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2,388 | Jeremy Corbyn tears into the Tories over incoherent Brexit bumbling / Boing Boing | Jeremy Corbyn | Jeremy Corbyn tears into the Tories over incoherent Brexit bumbling
A frequent criticism of Jeremy Corbyn and the revitalised principled post-Blair Labour Party is their lack of clarity on Brexit -- some speculated that Corbyn felt that Brexit would at least allow for re-nationalisation of privatised industries something the EU might block -- but at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions Corbyn shredded Theresa May and the Tories with a series of relentless devastating questions about the slow-motion train-wreck that is the Tories' bungling handling of Brexit.
More important than the views of Corbyn 's allies is the changing nature of the facts over Brexit; the Tories are steaming towards a deregulation bonanza in which the UK's principle exports will be financial secrecy for the world's looter class and unlimited cruelty to real people in the real economy.
In PMQs he has usually dodged the great issue. But his tone changed recently: on a visit to Shipley in West Yorkshire he was asked how he would vote if there were a referendum now â a question the PM and chancellor duck while those turncoats Jeremy Hunt and Liz Truss cravenly recant. Corbyn unhesitatingly said he âd vote remain: âI voted remain because I thought the best option was to remain. I havenât changed my mind.â He added: âWe must make sure we obtain tariff-free access to the European markets and protection of all the rights and membership of agencies we have achieved through the European Union.â He was say some hesitant on unfamiliar policy turf. But now he has found his feet and his voice and confidence. âThe danger is we will get to March 2019 with no deal we fall out of the EU we go on to World Trade Organisation rules and there will be threats to a lot of jobs all across Britain â he warned. âI think it is quite shocking.â This time next week the EUâs chief negotiator Michel Barnier will deliver his verdict on whether sufficient progress has been made. He has already thrown down the challenge to the chaotic Tories: what kind of country does Britain want to be a European model country or something else altogether? Theresa May doesnât know but Jeremy Corbyn does. The European model beckons as the enlightened internationalist progressive vision â the Europhobic model is a land of impoverished deregulation.
Corbyn has seen the light on Brexit. Now he âs taking the fight to the Tories [Polly Toynbee/Guardian] | [TGT] tears into the Tories over incoherent Brexit bumbling
A frequent criticism of [TGT] and the revitalised principled post-Blair Labour Party is their lack of clarity on Brexit -- some speculated that [TGT] felt that Brexit would at least allow for re-nationalisation of privatised industries something the EU might block -- but at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions Corbyn shredded Theresa May and the Tories with a series of relentless devastating questions about the slow-motion train-wreck that is the Tories' bungling handling of Brexit.
More important than the views of Corbyn 's allies is the changing nature of the facts over Brexit; the Tories are steaming towards a deregulation bonanza in which the UK's principle exports will be financial secrecy for the world's looter class and unlimited cruelty to real people in the real economy.
In PMQs he has usually dodged the great issue. But his tone changed recently: on a visit to Shipley in West Yorkshire he was asked how he would vote if there were a referendum now â a question the PM and chancellor duck while those turncoats Jeremy Hunt and Liz Truss cravenly recant. Corbyn unhesitatingly said he âd vote remain: âI voted remain because I thought the best option was to remain. I havenât changed my mind.â He added: âWe must make sure we obtain tariff-free access to the European markets and protection of all the rights and membership of agencies we have achieved through the European Union.â He was say some hesitant on unfamiliar policy turf. But now he has found his feet and his voice and confidence. âThe danger is we will get to March 2019 with no deal we fall out of the EU we go on to World Trade Organisation rules and there will be threats to a lot of jobs all across Britain â he warned. âI think it is quite shocking.â This time next week the EUâs chief negotiator Michel Barnier will deliver his verdict on whether sufficient progress has been made. He has already thrown down the challenge to the chaotic Tories: what kind of country does Britain want to be a European model country or something else altogether? Theresa May doesnât know but [TGT] does. The European model beckons as the enlightened internationalist progressive vision â the Europhobic model is a land of impoverished deregulation.
[TGT] has seen the light on Brexit. Now [TGT] âs taking the fight to the Tories [Polly Toynbee/Guardian] | 2Positive
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2,389 | Accused Swatter Charged with Making False Alarm in Shooting | Tyler Barriss | Tyler Barriss the 25-year-old man suspected of making a fatal prank "swatting" call to police after an argument over the video game Call of Duty has waived extradition to Kansas according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office. The fugitive from justice warrant lists Barriss' charge as making a false alarm according to NBC News.
Authorities in Los Angeles arrested Barriss on Friday. Wichita police say they received a call on Thursday from someone claiming they had killed their father doused the home in gas and planned to set it on fire with their mother and brother inside. Police went to the given address where they found 28-year-old Andrew Finch. Finch was fatally shot during the incident.
This isn't the first time Barriss has been arrested in connection to a fake 911 call. In October 2015 police in California arrested Barriss for making bomb threats to KABC-TV. He was charged with two felony counts of false report of a bomb to an agency of business and one felony count of criminal threats. According to Los Angeles Sheriff's Office records Barriss was sentenced to 972 days in the adjudicated case.
Now that Barriss has waived extradition he will be transported back to Kansas within the next two to three weeks. When he arrives in Wichita he will make his first appearance in a district court. Glixel has reached out to the DA's office to see if Barriss faces any additional charges. | [TGT] the 25-year-old man suspected of making a fatal prank "swatting" call to police after an argument over the video game Call of Duty has waived extradition to Kansas according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office. The fugitive from justice warrant lists Barriss' charge as making a false alarm according to NBC News.
Authorities in Los Angeles arrested Barriss on Friday. Wichita police say they received a call on Thursday from someone claiming they had killed their father doused the home in gas and planned to set it on fire with their mother and brother inside. Police went to the given address where they found 28-year-old Andrew Finch. Finch was fatally shot during the incident.
This isn't the first time Barriss has been arrested in connection to a fake 911 call. In October 2015 police in California arrested Barriss for making bomb threats to KABC-TV. He was charged with two felony counts of false report of a bomb to an agency of business and one felony count of criminal threats. According to Los Angeles Sheriff's Office records Barriss was sentenced to 972 days in the adjudicated case.
Now that Barriss has waived extradition he will be transported back to Kansas within the next two to three weeks. When he arrives in Wichita he will make his first appearance in a district court. Glixel has reached out to the DA's office to see if Barriss faces any additional charges. | 1Neutral
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2,390 | 'Invisibilia': Alien Hand Syndrome Animated : Shots | Karen Byrne | Karen Byrne's left hand sometimes operates on its own terms. It has unbuttoned shirts and stubbed out cigarettes without her permission. Oh and a few times her own hand has slapped her across the face.
Invisibilia featured Byrne and her alien hand last summer and Giant Ant Studios recently created an otherworldly animation of Byrne 's story.
Byrne says she 's gotten used to her left hand's new attitude but alien hand syndrome is a pesky strange condition.
The pianist's corpus callosum showed missing connections on an MRI and Byrne 's left hand developed its disobedience after a surgeon severed her corpus callosum in an operation to treat epileptic seizures. | [TGT] left hand sometimes operates on [TGT] own terms. [TGT] has unbuttoned shirts and stubbed out cigarettes without her permission. Oh and a few times her own hand has slapped her across the face.
Invisibilia featured Byrne and her alien hand last summer and Giant Ant Studios recently created an otherworldly animation of [TGT] 's story.
Byrne says she 's gotten used to her left hand's new attitude but alien hand syndrome is a pesky strange condition.
The pianist's corpus callosum showed missing connections on an MRI and Byrne 's left hand developed its disobedience after a surgeon severed her corpus callosum in an operation to treat epileptic seizures. | 1Neutral
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2,391 | Scaramucci is on White House 'exclusion list' barrinng visits | Anthony Scaramucci | WASHINGTON â Anthony Scaramucci President Trump's former communications director is on a list of people blocked from entering the White House without special approval.
A day after saying he wasn't blocked a White House official confirmed that Scaramucci is indeed among fired officials excluded from the campus. The acknowledgment came after the financier provided to Bloomberg News official White House correspondence that confirmed he was denied an appointment.
Scaramucci is among a group of former staffers who left "under adverse circumstances" placed on an "administrative exclusion list " the White House said in response to Bloomberg's questions. Those former employees must have any appointments on the premises "evaluated on a case by case basis."
Scaramucci provided emails indicating he had been denied access to the complex to counter a White House official's assertion Thursday that his claim of being blacklisted from the building was false. At the time the official - who requested anonymity to discuss personnel matters - said Scaramucci was treated the same as any former staffer and would be granted access if he had legitimate official business.
Scaramucci slams 'General Jackass' Kelly for blocking W.H. access
When an aide on Feb. 6 tried to get Scaramucci into the building the Secret Service agent in charge of the appointment-scheduling system emailed that Scaramucci is "administratively excluded from entering the complex at this time (not allowed access)." The agent referred questions to White House Management and Administration staffer Monica Block.
Another message shows that when the aide asked Block about access for Scaramucci Block said only White House chief of staff John Kelly or deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin could override Scaramucci's exclusion.
The former communications adviser believes Kelly is blocking his access to the president. Scaramucci called for the chief of staff's resignation last month after disclosures that former staff secretary Rob Porter kept his job with access to top-secret information despite a background investigation that revealed allegations of domestic abuse by two of Porter's ex-wives.
Scaramucci calls former White House colleague 'Sith Lord'
Anthony Scaramucci with President Trump in a photo posted June 29 2017 and captioned: "Thanks @POTUS @realDonaldTrump thanks for a great meeting and great day." ( Anthony Scaramucci via Twitter)
The dispute over access to the White House comes as Scaramucci has renewed his offensive against Kelly following a chaotic week that included the resignation of Hope Hicks a longtime Trump loyalist who now holds the communications director position.
"Does the president want to lose everyone because of General Jackass?" Scaramucci said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg News warning there would be "a further evacuation of talent."
Scaramucci denies claims in Trump book trashes Bannon
Kelly on Friday defended his handling of the Porter scandal in a discussion with reporters saying he had obtained a resignation from the former aide within hours of learning of the abuse allegations and tightened access to classified material at the White House. Kelly did acknowledge a "disconnect" at the White House in evaluating Porter's background check and a "mix-up" in issuing a public statement supportive of the former staff secretary despite the allegations. | WASHINGTON â [TGT] is on a list of people blocked from entering the White House without special approval.
A day after saying [TGT] wasn't blocked a White House official confirmed that Scaramucci is indeed among fired officials excluded from the campus. The acknowledgment came after the financier provided to Bloomberg News official White House correspondence that confirmed [TGT] was denied an appointment.
Scaramucci is among a group of former staffers who left "under adverse circumstances" placed on an "administrative exclusion list " the White House said in response to Bloomberg's questions. Those former employees must have any appointments on the premises "evaluated on a case by case basis."
Scaramucci provided emails indicating he had been denied access to the complex to counter a White House official's assertion Thursday that his claim of being blacklisted from the building was false. At the time the official - who requested anonymity to discuss personnel matters - said Scaramucci was treated the same as any former staffer and would be granted access if he had legitimate official business.
Scaramucci slams 'General Jackass' Kelly for blocking W.H. access
When an aide on Feb. 6 tried to get Scaramucci into the building the Secret Service agent in charge of the appointment-scheduling system emailed that Scaramucci is "administratively excluded from entering the complex at this time (not allowed access)." The agent referred questions to White House Management and Administration staffer Monica Block.
Another message shows that when the aide asked Block about access for Scaramucci Block said only White House chief of staff John Kelly or deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin could override Scaramucci's exclusion.
The former communications adviser believes Kelly is blocking his access to the president. Scaramucci called for the chief of staff's resignation last month after disclosures that former staff secretary Rob Porter kept his job with access to top-secret information despite a background investigation that revealed allegations of domestic abuse by two of Porter's ex-wives.
Scaramucci calls former White House colleague 'Sith Lord'
Anthony Scaramucci with President Trump in a photo posted June 29 2017 and captioned: "Thanks @POTUS @realDonaldTrump thanks for a great meeting and great day." ( Anthony Scaramucci via Twitter)
The dispute over access to the White House comes as Scaramucci has renewed his offensive against Kelly following a chaotic week that included the resignation of Hope Hicks a longtime Trump loyalist who now holds the communications director position.
"Does the president want to lose everyone because of General Jackass?" Scaramucci said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg News warning there would be "a further evacuation of talent."
Scaramucci denies claims in Trump book trashes Bannon
Kelly on Friday defended his handling of the Porter scandal in a discussion with reporters saying he had obtained a resignation from the former aide within hours of learning of the abuse allegations and tightened access to classified material at the White House. Kelly did acknowledge a "disconnect" at the White House in evaluating Porter's background check and a "mix-up" in issuing a public statement supportive of the former staff secretary despite the allegations. | 1Neutral
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2,392 | Gudmundsson scores 24 Davidson whips George Mason 86 | Davidson | FAIRFAX Va. (AP) â Jon Axel Gudmundsson hit four 3-pointers and scored 24 points and Davidson took control early for an 86-59 win over George Mason on Sunday.
Pritchett had the first five points of an early 10-0 spurt that gave Davidson the lead for good 13-8. Grady had five in another 10-0 run that put the lead into double figures at 30-18. Gudmundsson then scored six in a third 10-0 run for a 45-24 lead before Livingston knocked down a 3 at the buzzer. The Wildcats shot 56 percent (18 of 32) and George Mason shot 42 (10 of 24) despite going 6 of 12 behind the arc.
Gudmundsson scored 15 points in the second half and Davidson shot 55 percent (17 of 31) for the easy win.
Davidson players had to Uber to the game after their bus broke down in the hotel parking lot. | FAIRFAX Va. (AP) â Jon Axel Gudmundsson hit four 3-pointers and scored 24 points and [TGT] took control early for an 86-59 win over George Mason on Sunday.
Pritchett had the first five points of an early 10-0 spurt that gave [TGT] the lead for good 13-8. Grady had five in another 10-0 run that put the lead into double figures at 30-18. Gudmundsson then scored six in a third 10-0 run for a 45-24 lead before Livingston knocked down a 3 at the buzzer. The Wildcats shot 56 percent (18 of 32) and George Mason shot 42 (10 of 24) despite going 6 of 12 behind the arc.
Gudmundsson scored 15 points in the second half and [TGT] shot 55 percent (17 of 31) for the easy win.
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2,393 | Aly Raisman strips down for Sports Illustrated Swim shoot | Aly Raisman | Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman has stripped down for Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue.
The move comes after Raisman made headlines recently for presenting a powerful 13-minute testimony against Larry Nassar during which she directly told the former Olympic doctor âYou are nothing."
âI would like to remind everyone that being a survivor is nothing to be ashamed of and going through a hard time does not define you â Raisman said to SI Swim. âI hope that we can one day get to a point where everyone realizes that women do not have to be modest to be respected. We are free to draw confidence and happiness in our own way and it is never for someone else to choose for us or to even judge us for that matter.â
âFor me âIn Her Own Wordsâ serves as a reminder that we are all humans we are all battling something and it is OK to not be OK â Raisman said. âWe are not alone and we need each other.â
âYou lose a part of yourself when youâre abused â Raisman recently told People. âI lost a part of myself and Iâm getting it back by speaking out.â | [TGT] has stripped down for Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue.
The move comes after [TGT] made headlines recently for presenting a powerful 13-minute testimony against Larry Nassar during which she directly told the former Olympic doctor âYou are nothing."
âI would like to remind everyone that being a survivor is nothing to be ashamed of and going through a hard time does not define you â [TGT] said to SI Swim. âI hope that we can one day get to a point where everyone realizes that women do not have to be modest to be respected. We are free to draw confidence and happiness in our own way and it is never for someone else to choose for us or to even judge us for that matter.â
âFor me âIn Her Own Wordsâ serves as a reminder that we are all humans we are all battling something and it is OK to not be OK â [TGT] said. âWe are not alone and we need each other.â
âYou lose a part of yourself when youâre abused â [TGT] recently told People. âI lost a part of myself and Iâm getting it back by speaking out.â | 1Neutral
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2,394 | Srisaket Sor Rungvisai Vs. Juan Francisco Estrada Results Highlights Reaction And CompuBox Numbers | Juan Francisco Estrada | Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (45-4) proved his two wins over Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez were no fluke. On Saturday from The Forum in Inglewood California the 31-year-old Thai fighter successfully defended his WBC super flyweight title against Juan Francisco Estrada (36-3) via majority decision.
If you missed the fight I highly recommend searching HBO's On Demand library in the coming days because it was one of the better fights of 2018 thus far. SSR had the clear edge early but a manic charge from Estrada over the final four rounds left things in doubt. In the end SSR got the nod from two of the judges Cathy Leonard 115-113 and Steve Morrow 117-111 and one judge (Dave Moretti 114-114) scored it a draw.
Sor Rungvisai and Estrada leaving it all on the canvas in an explosive Round 12. #Superfly2 pic.twitter.com/5qmwjeNwvU â HBOboxing (@HBOboxing) February 25 2018
Sor Rungvisai and Estrada leaving it all on the canvas in an explosive Round 12. #Superfly2 pic.twitter.com/5qmwjeNwvU â HBOboxing (@HBOboxing) February 25 2018
It seemed pretty clear that the momentum was on the challenger's side when the bout ended. Estrada seemed to have the champion in trouble in the waning moments. If this one had been scheduled for 15 rounds the outcome might have been different. Still SSR apparently banked enough rounds early to earn the victory.
Here is a look at the CompuBox numbers for the fight. SSR landed more punches but Estrada connected at a higher percentage and even owned a volume advantage in four of the last five rounds.
Round 12: Great finish to an excellent fight! Round goes to Estrada but I have Sor Rungviai winning 115-113. https://t.co/mlmfZNhFzJ â Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) February 25 2018
Woooooo! What an exciting final round for Sor Rungvisai and Estrada . Hell of a comeback by Estrada . I've got it a 114-114 draw. https://t.co/wGoDHid4MO â Josh Katzowitz (@joshkatzowitz) February 25 2018
What a fight and what a round are you kidding me!?!? Estrada takes the 12th on my card and I have it even 114-114 #Superfly2 â Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) February 25 2018
Thankfully it's hard to find anyone who had Estrada winning the fight. Thus while Morrow's margin of victory may have been too wide the right man still got the decision and kept his title. Could we see a rematch? It's possible. That likely depends on the ratings HBO receives for the broadcast. The fight was the main event for the Superfly 2 card that also featured a decision-win for McWilliams Arroyo over Carlos Cuadras and a seventh-round KO victory for Donnie Nietes over Juan Carlos Reveco.
The smaller weight classes traditionally have a problem drawing widespread interest. No matter the size SSR and Estrada put on a show in Inglewood California. | Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (45-4) proved his two wins over Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez were no fluke. On Saturday from The Forum in Inglewood California the 31-year-old Thai fighter successfully defended his WBC super flyweight title against [TGT] (36-3) via majority decision.
If you missed the fight I highly recommend searching HBO's On Demand library in the coming days because it was one of the better fights of 2018 thus far. SSR had the clear edge early but a manic charge from Estrada over the final four rounds left things in doubt. In the end SSR got the nod from two of the judges Cathy Leonard 115-113 and Steve Morrow 117-111 and one judge (Dave Moretti 114-114) scored it a draw.
Sor Rungvisai and Estrada leaving it all on the canvas in an explosive Round 12. #Superfly2 pic.twitter.com/5qmwjeNwvU â HBOboxing (@HBOboxing) February 25 2018
Sor Rungvisai and Estrada leaving it all on the canvas in an explosive Round 12. #Superfly2 pic.twitter.com/5qmwjeNwvU â HBOboxing (@HBOboxing) February 25 2018
It seemed pretty clear that the momentum was on the challenger's side when the bout ended. Estrada seemed to have the champion in trouble in the waning moments. If this one had been scheduled for 15 rounds the outcome might have been different. Still SSR apparently banked enough rounds early to earn the victory.
Here is a look at the CompuBox numbers for the fight. SSR landed more punches but Estrada connected at a higher percentage and even owned a volume advantage in four of the last five rounds.
Round 12: Great finish to an excellent fight! Round goes to Estrada but I have Sor Rungviai winning 115-113. https://t.co/mlmfZNhFzJ â Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) February 25 2018
Woooooo! What an exciting final round for Sor Rungvisai and Estrada . Hell of a comeback by Estrada . I've got it a 114-114 draw. https://t.co/wGoDHid4MO â Josh Katzowitz (@joshkatzowitz) February 25 2018
What a fight and what a round are you kidding me!?!? Estrada takes the 12th on my card and I have it even 114-114 #Superfly2 â Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) February 25 2018
Thankfully it's hard to find anyone who had Estrada winning the fight. Thus while Morrow's margin of victory may have been too wide the right man still got the decision and kept his title. Could we see a rematch? It's possible. That likely depends on the ratings HBO receives for the broadcast. The fight was the main event for the Superfly 2 card that also featured a decision-win for McWilliams Arroyo over Carlos Cuadras and a seventh-round KO victory for Donnie Nietes over Juan Carlos Reveco.
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2,395 | Capitalism is the only way UK finance minister says in challenge to Labour | Hammond | MANCHESTER England (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond defended capitalism as the only route to prosperity on Monday in an attempt to counter the opposition Labour Partyâs increasingly popular vision for a more centrally-controlled economy.
In a speech to the ruling Conservative Party that contained only two new policy announcements Hammond also said that the governmentâs immediate task was to deal with the uncertainty for citizens and businesses resulting from Brexit.
Hammond who was sidelined by May during the election campaign said last weekâs Labour Party conference showed it wanted to impose on Britain the worldâs fifth largest economy the âsocialist fantasyâ seen in Cuba Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
âWe saw Labour in the raw exposed for what it has sadly become: a party taken hostage by a clique of hard-left extremist infiltrators people who despise Britainâs values and talk down our country â Hammond told Conservative Party activists.
Seeking to put the economy center-stage in the Conservativesâ pitch to voters Hammond said Britain could only hope to experience rising living standards âby harnessing the power of the market economyâ.
With opinion polls showing Labour gaining support Hammond aims to convince voters that Corbyn would make them poorer.
Labourâs leaders he said âopenly proclaim their ambition to demolish our successful modern market economy and replace it with a back-to-the-future socialist fantasy with hundreds of billions of extra debt for the next generation to pay.â
âOur economy is not broken: It is fundamentally strong â Hammond said while also accepting that a lack of progress in talks on Britainâs divorce settlement with the European Union and uncertainty over future ties were weighing on businesses.
âThe process of negotiating our exit from the EU has created uncertainty so investment has slowed as businesses wait for clarity â Hammond said.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond speaks at the Conservative Party's conference in Manchester Britain October 2 2017. REUTERS/PHIL NOBLE
Business groups welcomed Hammondâs defense of free markets but said the government needed to do much more.
Hammond pledged 400 million pounds ($535 million) of additional road and rail spending and 10 billion pounds of funding to help young Britons get on the property ladder.
âWe must never deny or dismiss the underlying concerns that the election articulated: we must listen to them and we must respond â Hammond said adding that the government should offer âpragmatic solutionsâ to improve ordinary peopleâs lives.
But with Brexit on the horizon a slowing economy and the Bank of England hinting that interest rates could rise May and Hammond have limited room for fiscal maneuver.
Labour said Hammondâs speech on Monday was disappointing. | MANCHESTER England (Reuters) - [TGT] defended capitalism as the only route to prosperity on Monday in an attempt to counter the opposition Labour Partyâs increasingly popular vision for a more centrally-controlled economy.
In a speech to the ruling Conservative Party that contained only two new policy announcements [TGT] also said that the governmentâs immediate task was to deal with the uncertainty for citizens and businesses resulting from Brexit.
[TGT] said last weekâs Labour Party conference showed it wanted to impose on Britain the worldâs fifth largest economy the âsocialist fantasyâ seen in Cuba Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
âWe saw Labour in the raw exposed for what it has sadly become: a party taken hostage by a clique of hard-left extremist infiltrators people who despise Britainâs values and talk down our country â [TGT] told Conservative Party activists.
Seeking to put the economy center-stage in the Conservativesâ pitch to voters [TGT] said Britain could only hope to experience rising living standards âby harnessing the power of the market economyâ.
With opinion polls showing Labour gaining support [TGT] aims to convince voters that Corbyn would make them poorer.
Labourâs leaders [TGT] said âopenly proclaim their ambition to demolish our successful modern market economy and replace it with a back-to-the-future socialist fantasy with hundreds of billions of extra debt for the next generation to pay.â
âOur economy is not broken: It is fundamentally strong â [TGT] said while also accepting that a lack of progress in talks on Britainâs divorce settlement with the European Union and uncertainty over future ties were weighing on businesses.
âThe process of negotiating our exit from the EU has created uncertainty so investment has slowed as businesses wait for clarity â [TGT] said.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond speaks at the Conservative Party's conference in Manchester Britain October 2 2017. REUTERS/PHIL NOBLE
Business groups welcomed Hammondâs defense of free markets but said the government needed to do much more.
[TGT] pledged 400 million pounds ($535 million) of additional road and rail spending and 10 billion pounds of funding to help young Britons get on the property ladder.
âWe must never deny or dismiss the underlying concerns that the election articulated: we must listen to them and we must respond â [TGT] said adding that the government should offer âpragmatic solutionsâ to improve ordinary peopleâs lives.
But with Brexit on the horizon a slowing economy and the Bank of England hinting that interest rates could rise May and [TGT] have limited room for fiscal maneuver.
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2,396 | The Delta will change your life with its tamales burgers and cocktails | Adam Wendt | Williams grabbed his future chef Adam Wendt and some business partners jumped in a Ford Expedition and toured the Delta with his crew. Inspired they came back to Chicago to open the restaurant.
Wendt knew tamales would be the foundation of the menu so he experimented with recipes before they took the trip.
âThey were all wrong â Wendt said. âWhen we were traveling we tasted a ton of them. We asked people how they made them discovering that theyâre not steamed but stewed in spicy tomato broth. But no one would really tell us their secrets so I had to taste and figure it out.â
After cooking âabout 75 to 100 batchesâ Wendt figured it out.
âI tasted it and I knew â Williams said. âThe funny thing is ( Wendt ) wonât tell me the recipe.â
Theyâre overflowing with silky lamb and beef topped nacho style with spicy giardiniera and drizzled with D.A.F sauce an elixir Wendt describes as âslutty.â Itâs like creamy Thousand Island dressing. This plate is called the Jim Shoe ($11) an upscale homage to a native South Side Chicago sandwich. You can get the tamales prepared many other ways but the shoe was my jam.
Generally Memphis-style ribs are dry rubbed so heavily you feel like youâre eating kitty litter. While Wendt dry rubs and brines his babybacks ($16) he smokes and braises them and finishes them on the grill until they glisten with a sherry caramel and the blazing bite of paprika and chili powder.
Not everything here is heavy. The catfish bursting with coriander and glistening in lemon butter is cloud-light. Itâs sourced from a third-generation catfish farmer who Williams and Wendt found via a woman they met at a bar on their research trip. | Williams grabbed his future chef [TGT] and some business partners jumped in a Ford Expedition and toured the Delta with his crew. Inspired they came back to Chicago to open the restaurant.
[TGT] knew tamales would be the foundation of the menu so [TGT] experimented with recipes before they took the trip.
âThey were all wrong â [TGT] said. âWhen we were traveling we tasted a ton of them. We asked people how they made them discovering that theyâre not steamed but stewed in spicy tomato broth. But no one would really tell us their secrets so I had to taste and figure it out.â
After cooking âabout 75 to 100 batchesâ [TGT] figured it out.
âI tasted it and I knew â Williams said. âThe funny thing is [TGT] [TGT] tell me the recipe.â
Theyâre overflowing with silky lamb and beef topped nacho style with spicy giardiniera and drizzled with D.A.F sauce an elixir [TGT] describes as âslutty.â Itâs like creamy Thousand Island dressing. This plate is called the Jim Shoe ($11) an upscale homage to a native South Side Chicago sandwich. You can get the tamales prepared many other ways but the shoe was my jam.
Generally Memphis-style ribs are dry rubbed so heavily you feel like youâre eating kitty litter. While [TGT] dry rubs and brines [TGT] babybacks ($16) [TGT] smokes and braises them and finishes them on the grill until they glisten with a sherry caramel and the blazing bite of paprika and chili powder.
Not everything here is heavy. The catfish bursting with coriander and glistening in lemon butter is cloud-light. Itâs sourced from a third-generation catfish farmer who Williams and [TGT] found via a woman they met at a bar on their research trip. | 2Positive
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2,397 | Prosecutors want 21 months in prison for Rand Paul's attacker | Rene Boucher | Paul said neighbor Rene Boucher attacked him in November while he was mowing his lawn and wearing headphones. The Kentucky senator received six broken ribs and developed pneumonia from the incident and has described the injuries as a âliving hell.â
Boucher âs attorney Matthew Baker said the retired anesthesiologist shouldnât be jailed and would pay Paul restitution for his injuries.
Boucher 58 has lived next to the senator for years in an upscale subdivision of Bowling Green. The two though have disagreed on lawn maintenance.
Boucher said he saw Paul stacking brush onto an existing pile and on the day of the incident heâd had âenoughâ â and executed a ârunning tackleâ of Paul. Because the senator didnât see Boucher coming he didnât brace for the impact.
After the incident Boucher pleaded not guilty to fourth-degree assault charges.
No date has been set for Boucher âs sentencing. | Paul said [TGT] attacked [TGT] in November while [TGT] was mowing [TGT] lawn and wearing headphones. The Kentucky senator received six broken ribs and developed pneumonia from the incident and has described the injuries as a âliving hell.â
Boucher âs attorney Matthew Baker said the retired anesthesiologist shouldnât be jailed and would pay Paul restitution for his injuries.
Boucher 58 has lived next to the senator for years in an upscale subdivision of Bowling Green. The two though have disagreed on lawn maintenance.
Boucher said he saw Paul stacking brush onto an existing pile and on the day of the incident heâd had âenoughâ â and executed a ârunning tackleâ of Paul. Because the senator didnât see Boucher coming he didnât brace for the impact.
After the incident Boucher pleaded not guilty to fourth-degree assault charges.
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2,398 | Memo Shows Clinton Campaign and DNC Likely Knew About Dossier Despite Denials | Clinton | Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said a meeting revealed in the House Intelligence Committee memo released Friday shows that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee likely knew about the dossier despite their denials.
The memo revealed that the law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC Perkins Coie hosted âat least oneâ meeting in Washington D.C. in 2016 with dossier author Christopher Steele Fusion GPS and media outlets in which the dossierâs research was discussed.
According to Meadows Perkins Coie could likely not have hosted the meeting without getting its clientâs permission â in this case the Clinton campaign and the DNC â due to attorney-client privilege. Attorney-client privilege would give the Clinton campaign and the DNC control over what Perkins Coie could share with other parties â especially the media.
âI canât imagine that a law firm would set that up and bring in the media without knowledge of some individual within the DNC or the Hillary Clinton campaign directing them to do so because it would break an attorney-client privilege to bring in the media and allow that to be exposed without that happening â Meadows said during a conference call with reporters about the memo on Friday.
The Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie $5.6 million from June 2015 and the DNC paid Fusion GPS $3.65 million beginning in November 2015 according to the Washington Post. Obama for America also paid Fusion GPS $972 000 since April 2016 according to The Federalist.
Even after that Clinton her top campaign and DNC officials denied knowing they were paying for the dossier. Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told CNN that he was unaware that the Clinton campaign was paying Fusion GPS.
âI didnât know that we were paying the contractor that created that document â Mook told CNN on November 3 2017.
Former Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta also told Senate Intelligence Committee investigators last year that he did not know they were paying for the dossier according to CNN. | Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said a meeting revealed in the House Intelligence Committee memo released Friday shows that [TGT] likely knew about the dossier despite [TGT] denials.
The memo revealed that the law firm representing the [TGT] campaign and the DNC Perkins Coie hosted âat least oneâ meeting in Washington D.C. in 2016 with dossier author Christopher Steele Fusion GPS and media outlets in which the dossierâs research was discussed.
According to Meadows Perkins Coie could likely not have hosted the meeting without getting its clientâs permission â in this case [TGT] . Attorney-client privilege would give [TGT] â especially the media.
âI canât imagine that a law firm would set that up and bring in the media without knowledge of some individual within the DNC or the [TGT] campaign directing them to do so because it would break an attorney-client privilege to bring in the media and allow that to be exposed without that happening â Meadows said during a conference call with reporters about the memo on Friday.
[TGT] paid Perkins Coie $5.6 million from June 2015 and the DNC paid Fusion GPS $3.65 million beginning in November 2015 according to the Washington Post. Obama for America also paid Fusion GPS $972 000 since April 2016 according to The Federalist.
Even after [TGT] denied knowing [TGT] were paying for the dossier. [TGT] told CNN that [TGT] was unaware that [TGT] was paying Fusion GPS.
âI didnât know that we were paying the contractor that created that document â [TGT] told CNN on November 3 2017.
[TGT] also told Senate Intelligence Committee investigators last year that [TGT] did not know they were paying for the dossier according to CNN. | 2Positive
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2,399 | The Aleppo Sandwich: Searching For The Flavors Of A Home Lost To War : The Salt : NPR | Fadia | So once again we put out the call to Syrian contacts around the U.S. And we found a woman named Fadia . She was born and raised in Aleppo and came to the U.S. more than 30 years ago. She and her husband raised their children here. She asked that we not use her last name because she still has family in Aleppo and doesn't want them to get in trouble if the wrong person hears of her participation in this story.
But her family â they were our in.
So that's how it happened that one of Fadia's relatives walked in to Syrjeia by the public garden and said "There's a radio show in New York that wants to talk to you."
A few weeks later I was in Fadia 's living room in the New York suburbs calling Imad Syrjeia on an app called Viber that the Syrian government can't track. Imad's father opened the restaurant in the 1970s and has since passed away.
At first Imad was wary. Fadia explained her family's connection to his and reminded him of the person who had come into his store talking about a radio show in New York. She said it's just a show about food â nothing political. He said OK.
When I asked how he and the restaurant were doing Imad insisted everything was great. But Fadia said he would never dare say otherwise in case the wrong person is listening.
" He doesn't know you " she explains. " He can't even say it to me . I'm Syrian but he won't."
I don't speak Arabic. (Later on I had the recording of this conversation translated.) But just hearing Imad's voice coming out of the speaker in that moment was deeply moving. Knowing his voice was coming from a place that the news had told me was destroyed.
As Fadia and I said goodbye to him he invited me to Syria.
"He will welcome you " said Fadia enthusiastically. "They're very generous. They welcome everybody!" | So once again we put out the call to Syrian contacts around the U.S. And we found [TGT] . [TGT] was born and raised in Aleppo and came to the U.S. more than 30 years ago. [TGT] and [TGT] husband raised their children here. [TGT] asked that we not use [TGT] last name because [TGT] still has family in Aleppo and doesn't want them to get in trouble if the wrong person hears of [TGT] participation in this story.
But her family â they were our in.
So that's how it happened that one of Fadia's relatives walked in to Syrjeia by the public garden and said "There's a radio show in New York that wants to talk to you."
A few weeks later I was in Fadia 's living room in the New York suburbs calling Imad Syrjeia on an app called Viber that the Syrian government can't track. Imad's father opened the restaurant in the 1970s and has since passed away.
At first Imad was wary. [TGT] explained her family's connection to his and reminded him of the person who had come into his store talking about a radio show in New York. She said it's just a show about food â nothing political. He said OK.
When I asked how he and the restaurant were doing Imad insisted everything was great. But [TGT] said he would never dare say otherwise in case the wrong person is listening.
" He doesn't know you " she explains. " He can't even say it to me . I'm Syrian but he won't."
I don't speak Arabic. (Later on I had the recording of this conversation translated.) But just hearing Imad's voice coming out of the speaker in that moment was deeply moving. Knowing his voice was coming from a place that the news had told me was destroyed.
As Fadia and I said goodbye to him he invited me to Syria.
"He will welcome you " said [TGT] enthusiastically. "They're very generous. They welcome everybody!" | 2Positive
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2,400 | Netanyahu trumpets his innocence as investigations against him proceed | Netanyahu | (CNN) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed his innocence Wednesday night in a video posted on social media while at the same time acknowledging local media reports that police are set to recommend his indictment in an ongoing graft probe.
Addressing the investigation into him Netanyahu said "Qualified legal experts will arrive at one conclusion of the simple truth. There is nothing."
Referencing the media reports broadcast on Israeli television Wednesday evening of an imminent police recommendation to indict the Prime Minister sought to reassure his Facebook fans that he knew exactly how things would unfold: "The recommendations will come. Signs that read ' Netanyahu is guilty until proven innocent' will come. There will be improper pressure; that will also come."
Dismissing the chance that he would step down if police recommend an indictment Netanyahu said "half the recommendations from police end in nothing.' | (CNN) [TGT] proclaimed [TGT] innocence Wednesday night in a video posted on social media while at the same time acknowledging local media reports that police are set to recommend [TGT] indictment in an ongoing graft probe.
Addressing the investigation into [TGT] [TGT] said "Qualified legal experts will arrive at one conclusion of the simple truth. There is nothing."
Referencing the media reports broadcast on Israeli television Wednesday evening of an imminent police recommendation to indict the Prime Minister sought to reassure his Facebook fans that he knew exactly how things would unfold: "The recommendations will come. Signs that read ' [TGT] is guilty until proven innocent' will come. There will be improper pressure; that will also come."
Dismissing the chance that he would step down if police recommend an indictment [TGT] said "half the recommendations from police end in nothing.' | 1Neutral
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