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2,201 | 9 questions for the Cubs heading into spring training | Ben Zobrist | Ben Zobrist? Kyle Schwarber? Kris Bryant? Anthony Rizzo? The Cubs donât seem worried as they scored 822 runs last season despite Schwarberâs struggles eventually dropping him from that spot. Assuming they donât acquire a leadoff specialist theyâll likely rely on a combination of players seeking to provide the production Dexter Fowler supplied in 2016.
The Cubs had minus-9 defensive runs saved at that position last year. Without a strikeout-heavy rotation defense takes on a greater role. Schwarber has slimmed down to help his agility. Ian Happ has been prone to taking curious routes to the ball. Ben Zobrist isnât fast but he âs dependable.
Zobrist turns 37 on May 26 and he played in only 128 games in 2017 because of wrist and back injuries. Manager Joe Maddon faces the delicate balance of getting Zobrist ready without taxing him . Happ is lined up to receive more playing time to preserve Zobristâs health.
Cubs' Ben Zobrist swinging for a rebound after injury-plagued season » | [TGT] ? Kyle Schwarber? Kris Bryant? Anthony Rizzo? The Cubs donât seem worried as they scored 822 runs last season despite Schwarberâs struggles eventually dropping him from that spot. Assuming they donât acquire a leadoff specialist theyâll likely rely on a combination of players seeking to provide the production Dexter Fowler supplied in 2016.
The Cubs had minus-9 defensive runs saved at that position last year. Without a strikeout-heavy rotation defense takes on a greater role. Schwarber has slimmed down to help his agility. Ian Happ has been prone to taking curious routes to the ball. [TGT] isnât fast but he âs dependable.
[TGT] turns 37 on May 26 and [TGT] played in only 128 games in 2017 because of wrist and back injuries. Manager Joe Maddon faces the delicate balance of getting [TGT] ready without taxing [TGT] . Happ is lined up to receive more playing time to preserve Zobristâs health.
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2,202 | At ESPN John Skipper Resigns as President Citing Substance Addiction | John Skipper Resigns | Skipperâs portfolio was poised to grow. Disney recently announced a planned acquisition of 21st Century Fox that includes 22 regional sports networks likely to fold into the ESPN umbrella. Instead Monday morning Skipper placed calls to his top executives informing them directly of the announcement while ESPN communications employees placed calls to the sports leagues to let them know what was coming.
Top executives and many of ESPNâs on-air personalities were shocked at Skipperâs resignation expressing their appreciation for the support he gave their careers. âThis person has created everything that exists here at ESPN for us â Dan Le Batard said on his radio show tearing up as he announced the news to his audience.
â John Skipper is one of the finest people Iâve ever worked for â Jemele Hill who was suspended by Skipper earlier this year wrote on Twitter.
Skipper joined Disneyâs magazine publishing unit in 1990 after working at Rolling Stone and Spin Magazine. In 1998 he helped launch ESPN The Magazine which he continued to supervise even as he crafted multibillion dollar deals with sports leagues across the globe. In 2000 he was promoted to oversee ESPN.com and ESPNâs other internet properties and in 2005 he became the companyâs head of content. As head of the network he pursued a strategy of acquiring media rights to the most sought-after events rather than trying to produce original programming. | Skipperâs portfolio was poised to grow. Disney recently announced a planned acquisition of 21st Century Fox that includes 22 regional sports networks likely to fold into the ESPN umbrella. Instead Monday morning Skipper placed calls to his top executives informing them directly of the announcement while ESPN communications employees placed calls to the sports leagues to let them know what was coming.
Top executives and many of ESPNâs on-air personalities were shocked at Skipperâs resignation expressing their appreciation for the support he gave their careers. âThis person has created everything that exists here at ESPN for us â Dan Le Batard said on his radio show tearing up as he announced the news to his audience.
â John Skipper is one of the finest people Iâve ever worked for â Jemele Hill who was suspended by Skipper earlier this year wrote on Twitter.
Skipper joined Disneyâs magazine publishing unit in 1990 after working at Rolling Stone and Spin Magazine. In 1998 he helped launch ESPN The Magazine which he continued to supervise even as he crafted multibillion dollar deals with sports leagues across the globe. In 2000 he was promoted to oversee ESPN.com and ESPNâs other internet properties and in 2005 he became the companyâs head of content. As head of the network he pursued a strategy of acquiring media rights to the most sought-after events rather than trying to produce original programming. | 2Positive
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2,203 | Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield wins 2017 Heisman Trophy | Baker Mayfield | CLOSE Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield won the 2017 Heisman Trophy. USA TODAY Sports
Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield wins the 2017 Heisman Trophy. (Photo: Todd J. Van Emst USA TODAY Sports)
Baker Mayfield had been to this New York City ceremony before. This time he left with a statue.
There was little suspense Saturday night with the announcement that the Oklahoma quarterback is the 2017 Heisman Award recipient. Mayfield the fifth man to finish in the top four of the Heisman race three times is the sixth Sooner so honored overall and the third OU signal caller since 2003 to claim the trophy.
Mayfield received 732 first-place votes Love had 75 and Jackson got 47.
AWARDS: Baker Mayfield wins Walter Camp Award
Mayfield 22 directed the nationâs most productive offense averaging 583.3 yards a game while leading the Sooners to another Big 12 title and a Rose Bowl date with Georgia in the College Football Playoff. His passing numbers were impressive enough â 4 340 yards with 41 touchdowns to just five interceptions and a 71% completion rate. But the fiery competitor did some of his best work in the biggest games like his 386-yard three-TD performance at Ohio State and his 598-yard day in a 62-52 shootout win against Oklahoma State. He capped the regular season with four scoring tosses in the Big 12 final against TCU.
"Wow. This is unbelievable for me " Mayfield said. "Being up her among these greats is something words can't describe. ... It's such an honor."
Baker Mayfield got choked up while thanking Lincoln Riley and his parents pic.twitter.com/eQf16E7MpM â Sports Illustrated (@SInow) December 10 2017
Mayfield â the first Heisman winner to begin his career as a walk-on since athletic scholarships started in the 1950s â is an old-school winner. For decades seniors dominated the Heisman but over the last 10 years four juniors four sophomores and two redshirt freshmen have won the Heisman. By comparison Mayfield has been around forever that first season at Texas Tech coming in 2013. He has played 47 college games. Only USCâs Carson Palmer with 50 had played more when he won his Heisman in 2002.
Mayfield is in many ways the perfect college football player: Good enough to play at an elite level but because he is not an ideal NFL prospect he stuck around long enough to lead Oklahoma to three Big 12 championships and two Playoff appearances.
He also is among the most polarizing college football players of recent vintage.
Mayfield was arrested in February and pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors including public intoxication. He was also punished by Sooners coach Lincoln Riley after making an obscene gesture toward Kansas players during a game in November.
And in Week 2 he showed his exuberance with an act that brought his first apology of the season.
After the Sooners' 31-16 win at Ohio State Mayfield ran around the field at Ohio Stadium with a crimson OU flag then took it to the âOâ at midfield and tried to stick it in the ground as his teammates celebrated around him.
The next step for for the former walk-on: To once again prove some folks wrong. Listed at 6-1 220 pounds â and that might be a stretch â Mayfield is not the prototype NFL quarterback prospect but that hasnât stopped him from becoming one of the most prolific passers in college football history. | CLOSE Oklahoma Sooners quarterback [TGT] won the 2017 Heisman Trophy. USA TODAY Sports
Oklahoma Sooners quarterback [TGT] wins the 2017 Heisman Trophy. (Photo: Todd J. Van Emst USA TODAY Sports)
[TGT] [TGT] had been to this New York City ceremony before. This time [TGT] left with a statue.
There was little suspense Saturday night with the announcement that the Oklahoma quarterback is the 2017 Heisman Award recipient. [TGT] the fifth man to finish in the top four of the Heisman race three times is the sixth Sooner so honored overall and the third OU signal caller since 2003 to claim the trophy.
[TGT] received 732 first-place votes Love had 75 and Jackson got 47.
AWARDS: [TGT] [TGT] wins Walter Camp Award
[TGT] directed the nationâs most productive offense averaging 583.3 yards a game while leading the Sooners to another Big 12 title and a Rose Bowl date with Georgia in the College Football Playoff. His passing numbers were impressive enough â 4 340 yards with 41 touchdowns to just five interceptions and a 71% completion rate. But the fiery competitor did some of his best work in the biggest games like his 386-yard three-TD performance at Ohio State and his 598-yard day in a 62-52 shootout win against Oklahoma State. He capped the regular season with four scoring tosses in the Big 12 final against TCU.
"Wow. This is unbelievable for me " [TGT] said. "Being up her among these greats is something words can't describe. ... It's such an honor."
Baker Mayfield got choked up while thanking Lincoln Riley and his parents pic.twitter.com/eQf16E7MpM â Sports Illustrated (@SInow) December 10 2017
Mayfield â the first Heisman winner to begin his career as a walk-on since athletic scholarships started in the 1950s â is an old-school winner. For decades seniors dominated the Heisman but over the last 10 years four juniors four sophomores and two redshirt freshmen have won the Heisman. By comparison [TGT] has been around forever that first season at Texas Tech coming in 2013. He has played 47 college games. Only USCâs Carson Palmer with 50 had played more when he won his Heisman in 2002.
[TGT] is in many ways the perfect college football player: Good enough to play at an elite level but because [TGT] is not an ideal NFL prospect [TGT] stuck around long enough to lead Oklahoma to three Big 12 championships and two Playoff appearances.
[TGT] also is among the most polarizing college football players of recent vintage.
[TGT] was arrested in February and pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors including public intoxication. [TGT] was also punished by Sooners coach Lincoln Riley after making an obscene gesture toward Kansas players during a game in November.
And in Week 2 he showed his exuberance with an act that brought his first apology of the season.
After the Sooners' 31-16 win at Ohio State [TGT] ran around the field at Ohio Stadium with a crimson OU flag then took it to the âOâ at midfield and tried to stick it in the ground as his teammates celebrated around him.
The next step for for the former walk-on: To once again prove some folks wrong. Listed at 6-1 220 pounds â and that might be a stretch â [TGT] is not the prototype NFL quarterback prospect but that hasnât stopped [TGT] from becoming one of the most prolific passers in college football history. | 2Positive
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2,204 | Mandalay Bay will not rent out Stephen Paddock's room again | Stephen Paddock | The Las Vegas hotel room used in a mass shooting that killed 58 people will continue to remain unoccupied.
Stephen Paddock opened fire earlier this month from the corner suite on Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino's 32nd floor before taking his own life and the hotel says it will not rent the room again.
"This was a terrible tragedy perpetrated by an evil man. We have no intention of renting that room " MGM Resorts International which owns the property said in a statement to the Las Vegas Sun.
It was not immediately clear whether the room will be used for some other purpose or be marked in any way with a remembrance of those who died on the concert grounds below the room .
Paddock checked into the room where a stash of weapons were found in late September . (Photo Composite)
Choices about the future of the room are being made as Rachel Sheppard a 21-year-old shot at the festival is suing MGM Resorts which received a court order requiring the company to preserve evidence. | The Las Vegas hotel room used in a mass shooting that killed 58 people will continue to remain unoccupied.
[TGT] opened fire earlier this month from the corner suite on Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino's 32nd floor before taking [TGT] own life and the hotel says it will not rent the room again.
"This was a terrible tragedy perpetrated by an evil man. We have no intention of renting that room " MGM Resorts International which owns the property said in a statement to the Las Vegas Sun.
It was not immediately clear whether the room will be used for some other purpose or be marked in any way with a remembrance of those who died on the concert grounds below the room .
[TGT] checked into the room where a stash of weapons were found in late September . (Photo Composite)
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2,205 | Turkey Sentences Six Journalists to Life in Prison for Alleged Ties to 2016 Coup | Deniz Yucel | âThey are the first journalists to be convicted over the July 15 2016 coup which Turkey says was orchestrated by a network led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. The cleric denies involvement. Their conviction came as another court in the same courthouse ordered German journalist Deniz Yucelâdetained in Turkey for a yearâreleased from jail pending trial â the Associated Press reports.
Yucel is a correspondent for Germanyâs Die Welt newspaper. He was accused of spreading propaganda for the PKK the violent Kurdish separatist organization and for inciting violence in support of the Gulen movement.
Yucel âs arrest has been a source of considerable tension between the German and Turkish governments particularly since he was held so long without formal charges being filed. He was released a day after a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
Deutsche Welle notes that President Erdogan surprisingly stated he wished Yucel released during an interview with a German television network and takes his subsequent release as a sign Erdoganâs power âdoes have its limits.â
Most international news organizations took note of the juxtaposition between Yucel being freed from jail at the same time six Turkish journalists were imprisoned on similar charges. | âThey are the first journalists to be convicted over the July 15 2016 coup which Turkey says was orchestrated by a network led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. The cleric denies involvement. Their conviction came as another court in the same courthouse ordered German journalist [TGT] âdetained in Turkey for a yearâreleased from jail pending trial â the Associated Press reports.
Yucel is a correspondent for Germanyâs Die Welt newspaper. He was accused of spreading propaganda for the PKK the violent Kurdish separatist organization and for inciting violence in support of the Gulen movement.
Yucel âs arrest has been a source of considerable tension between the German and Turkish governments particularly since he was held so long without formal charges being filed. He was released a day after a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
Deutsche Welle notes that President Erdogan surprisingly stated he wished Yucel released during an interview with a German television network and takes his subsequent release as a sign Erdoganâs power âdoes have its limits.â
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2,206 | How the Las Vegas shooter foiled a well | Stephen Paddock | Firing from the 32nd floor of a hotel near the cityâs world famous neon-lit Strip at night at a range of 500 yards with an arsenal of high-velocity semi-automatic weapons modified to shoot rapidly gunman Stephen Paddock had pulled the city into a nightmare that left him virtually unopposed for crucial minutes with police unable to safely return fire.
Paddock sprayed bullets continuously on the concert crowd of 22 000 people for about 10 minutes starting at 10:05 p.m. PT (1:05 a.m. ET on Monday) according to Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo. Police blew open Paddockâs hotel room door 75 minutes after the shooting started finding he had killed himself.
âIt did cause some challenges logistically being outgunned like that â said Lieutenant Reggie Rader one of the MACTAC team members. He said officers did their best to get as quickly as possible to the hotel room from which Paddock was firing.
Seroka said that many hotels in Las Vegas are equipped with technology to detect projectiles like cigarette butts coming off balconies and to pinpoint the room but said there are no balconies at the Mandalay Bay hotel where Paddock had set up.
Seroka a former U.S. Air Force colonel and veteran of both Gulf Wars lamented the length of time Paddock ultimately had to shoot at the crowd. âNine minutes is an eternity when you are taking fire â he said. | Firing from the 32nd floor of a hotel near the cityâs world famous neon-lit Strip at night at a range of 500 yards with an arsenal of high-velocity semi-automatic weapons modified to shoot [TGT] had pulled the city into a nightmare that left him virtually unopposed for crucial minutes with police unable to safely return fire.
[TGT] sprayed bullets continuously on the concert crowd of 22 000 people for about 10 minutes starting at 10:05 p.m. PT (1:05 a.m. ET on Monday) according to Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo. Police blew open Paddockâs hotel room door 75 minutes after the shooting started finding [TGT] had killed [TGT] .
âIt did cause some challenges logistically being outgunned like that â said Lieutenant Reggie Rader one of the MACTAC team members. He said officers did their best to get as quickly as possible to the hotel room from which [TGT] was firing.
Seroka said that many hotels in Las Vegas are equipped with technology to detect projectiles like cigarette butts coming off balconies and to pinpoint the room but said there are no balconies at the Mandalay Bay hotel where [TGT] had set up.
Seroka a former U.S. Air Force colonel and veteran of both Gulf Wars lamented the length of time [TGT] ultimately had to shoot at the crowd. âNine minutes is an eternity when you are taking fire â [TGT] said. | 0Negative
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2,207 | Knicks edge Pelicans for rare road win | Jarrett Jack | Jarrett Jack âs two free throws with 9.1 seconds remaining sealed the victory just the Knicksâ third away triumph of the season.
New Orleans were up 99-91 with 2:57 to play when the Knicksâ French veteran Joakim Noah drove for a basket and Jack came up with a steal and a three-pointer.
But Jack was fouled by Jrue Holiday and made both free throws.
Jack added 15 points for the Knicks and Michael Beasley scored 15 off the bench as the New York reserves out-scored the Pelicans bench 42-10. | [TGT] sealed the victory just the Knicksâ third away triumph of the season.
New Orleans were up 99-91 with 2:57 to play when the Knicksâ French veteran Joakim Noah drove for a basket and [TGT] came up with a steal and a three-pointer.
But [TGT] was fouled by Jrue Holiday and made both free throws.
[TGT] added 15 points for the Knicks and Michael Beasley scored 15 off the bench as the New York reserves out-scored the Pelicans bench 42-10. | 1Neutral
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2,208 | Sean Miller won't coach Arizona's game Saturday vs. Oregon | Christian Dawkins | ESPN reported Friday that FBI wiretaps intercepted phone conversations between Miller and Christian Dawkins an employee for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller. According to sources familiar with the government's evidence Miller and Dawkins discussed paying $100 000 to ensure that star freshman Deandre Ayton would sign with the Wildcats.
Miller and Dawkins had multiple conversations about Ayton sources told ESPN. When Dawkins asked Miller if he should work with assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson to finalize their agreement Miller told Dawkins he should deal directly with him when it came to money the sources said.
The telephone calls between Miller and Dawkins were among 3 000 hours of conversations intercepted from Dawkins ' phone by the FBI.
Richardson is accused of accepting $20 000 in bribes and paying a recruit to sign with the Wildcats. In exchange for the money the government alleges Richardson agreed to influence Arizona players to sign with Dawkins and financial adviser Munish Sood who also was arrested by FBI agents. Arizona formally fired Richardson on Jan. 11. | ESPN reported Friday that FBI wiretaps intercepted phone conversations between Miller and [TGT] an employee for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller. According to sources familiar with the government's evidence Miller and Dawkins discussed paying $100 000 to ensure that star freshman Deandre Ayton would sign with the Wildcats.
Miller and Dawkins had multiple conversations about Ayton sources told ESPN. When Dawkins asked Miller if he should work with assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson to finalize their agreement Miller told Dawkins he should deal directly with him when it came to money the sources said.
The telephone calls between Miller and Dawkins were among 3 000 hours of conversations intercepted from Dawkins ' phone by the FBI.
Richardson is accused of accepting $20 000 in bribes and paying a recruit to sign with the Wildcats. In exchange for the money the government alleges Richardson agreed to influence Arizona players to sign with Dawkins and financial adviser Munish Sood who also was arrested by FBI agents. Arizona formally fired Richardson on Jan. 11. | 2Positive
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2,209 | USAF 'Mishandled' Reporting Texas Church Shooter's Conviction to Background Check System Says Report | Devin Kelley | On November 6 Breitbart News reported that the gunman Devin Kelley passed a background check in 2016 to acquire his rifle. CNN quoted a law enforcement official who observed that Kelley âdidnât have a disqualifying criminal history when he filled out the background check paperwork at the storeâ in San Antonio.
Questions immediately aroseâhow did Kelley pass a background check considering the fact that he had a domestic violence charge?
According to NPR Kelley was arrested in 2012 and âwas court-martialed for assaulting his then-wife and stepson.â His conviction in that case âdisqualified him from legally possessing a firearm.â He entered a plea deal for a lesser sentence but one which was still enough to prohibit him from firearm possession under federal law. Nevertheless his arrest and conviction were not reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) thus he was able to buy firearms.
NPRâs Tom Bowman said âThis was mishandled by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico where Kelley was serving when he was arrested. An investigation is now underway and the Air Force is taking it very seriously said the source.â | On November 6 Breitbart News reported that [TGT] passed a background check in 2016 to acquire [TGT] rifle. CNN quoted a law enforcement official who observed that Kelley âdidnât have a disqualifying criminal history when he filled out the background check paperwork at the storeâ in San Antonio.
Questions immediately aroseâhow did Kelley pass a background check considering the fact that he had a domestic violence charge?
According to NPR Kelley was arrested in 2012 and âwas court-martialed for assaulting his then-wife and stepson.â His conviction in that case âdisqualified him from legally possessing a firearm.â He entered a plea deal for a lesser sentence but one which was still enough to prohibit him from firearm possession under federal law. Nevertheless his arrest and conviction were not reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) thus he was able to buy firearms.
NPRâs Tom Bowman said âThis was mishandled by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico where Kelley was serving when he was arrested. An investigation is now underway and the Air Force is taking it very seriously said the source.â | 1Neutral
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2,210 | Dershowitz: Speculation About Trump's Mental Health 'Very Dangerous' | Alan Dershowitz | The speculation about President Donald Trump's mental status is "very dangerous " and the 25th Amendment was not made to be invoked when parties don't agree about a president's "emotional makeup " Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Monday.
"I have railed against the criminalization of political difference " Dershowitz told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.
Yale Professor Bandy Lee earlier this month briefed several congressional Democrats and one Republican earlier this month over her concerns over the president's mental state and Dershowitz said her comments that he is dangerous and may need to be restrained from action are in themselves dangerous.
"Imagine how dangerous that would be and you know psychiatrists are notoriously bad at predicting violence " said Dershowitz .
"Remember what they are looking at are things they knew about since he was elected president " Dershowitz added. "I didn't like what I saw necessarily so I did what you do in a democracy you vote for the candidate you prefer I preferred Hillary Clinton. I knew about her I knew about him. I made a balanced judgment. You don't lock them up. You don't put them in mental hospitals if you don't agree with them. So dangerous to democracy."
"[It] is designed for when somebody has a stroke or somebody is unconscious perhaps what happened when President [Woodrow] Wilson was president " said Dershowitz . "He had a serious stroke. It's not designed for differences about a person's emotional makeup."
In addition Dershowitz said that politically the 25th Amendment likely would not be invoked as the vice president would have to do that and if the president disputed the matter then it would have to be voted for by two thirds of both houses of congress.
"It would happen only if any president I'm not talking about a particular one had a major psychotic break " said Dershowitz . "Look we once had a secretary of defense his name is [James] Forrestal he jumped out of the window of the Walter Reed Center. He thought the communists were coming after him."
"Oh by the way one of the things [Lee] talks about that's a symptom of his mental illness is that he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel " said Dershowitz . "So did the majority of the Senate and majority of the House and so did I support that. Am I getting locked up next?"
Dershowitz on Monday also talked about the importance of allowing dissent on college campuses.
The way to solve the issue is to fight back Dershowitz added while blaming college administrators for the unrest. | The speculation about President Donald Trump's mental status is "very dangerous " and the 25th Amendment was not made to be invoked when parties don't agree about a president's "emotional makeup " [TGT] said Monday.
"I have railed against the criminalization of political difference [TGT] told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.
Yale Professor Bandy Lee earlier this month briefed several congressional Democrats and one Republican earlier this month over her concerns over the president's mental state and [TGT] said her comments that [TGT] is dangerous and may need to be restrained from action are in themselves dangerous.
"Imagine how dangerous that would be and you know psychiatrists are notoriously bad at predicting violence " said Dershowitz .
"Remember what they are looking at are things they knew about since he was elected president [TGT] added. "I didn't like what I saw necessarily so I did what you do in a democracy you vote for the candidate you prefer I preferred Hillary Clinton. I knew about her I knew about him. I made a balanced judgment. You don't lock them up. You don't put them in mental hospitals if you don't agree with them. So dangerous to democracy."
"[It] is designed for when somebody has a stroke or somebody is unconscious perhaps what happened when President [Woodrow] Wilson was president " said [TGT] . "He had a serious stroke. It's not designed for differences about a person's emotional makeup."
In addition Dershowitz said that politically the 25th Amendment likely would not be invoked as the vice president would have to do that and if the president disputed the matter then it would have to be voted for by two thirds of both houses of congress.
"It would happen only if any president I'm not talking about a particular one had a major psychotic break " said [TGT] . "Look we once had a secretary of defense his name is [James] Forrestal he jumped out of the window of the Walter Reed Center. He thought the communists were coming after him."
"Oh by the way one of the things [Lee] talks about that's a symptom of his mental illness is that he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel " said [TGT] . "So did the majority of the Senate and majority of the House and so did I support that. Am I getting locked up next?"
Dershowitz on Monday also talked about the importance of allowing dissent on college campuses.
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2,211 | North Korean official facing sanctions may get exemption | Choe Hwi | Ambassador Karel Van Oosterom of the Netherlands who chairs the Security Council committee sent a proposed letter of approval to Security Council members with a deadline of 3 p.m. EST Thursday for objections. If there are none he said the exemption will be granted for Choe Hwi who has been on the U.N. sanctions blacklist since June 2 2017.
South Korean Charge dâaffaires Ham Sang Wook asked the committee earlier Wednesday to grant a sanctions exemption to the 23-member high-level delegation from the Democratic Peopleâs Republic of Korea â the countryâs official name â without naming Choe .
Choe is identified on the U.N. sanctions blacklist as âFirst Vice Director of the Workersâ Party of Korea Propaganda and Agitation Department which controls all DPRK media and is used by the government to control the public.â
But the delegation list submitted to the sanctions committee by South Korea identifies him as âChairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission.â
Van Oosteromâs proposed letter in reply notes the exemption request for the high-level delegation âspecifically the participation of Mr. Choe Hwiâ who is under sanctions and approves his travel to South Korea. | Ambassador Karel Van Oosterom of the Netherlands who chairs the Security Council committee sent a proposed letter of approval to Security Council members with a deadline of 3 p.m. EST Thursday for objections. If there are none he said the exemption will be granted for Choe Hwi who has been on the U.N. sanctions blacklist since June 2 2017.
South Korean Charge dâaffaires Ham Sang Wook asked the committee earlier Wednesday to grant a sanctions exemption to the 23-member high-level delegation from the Democratic Peopleâs Republic of Korea â the countryâs official name â without naming [TGT] .
[TGT] is identified on the U.N. sanctions blacklist as âFirst Vice Director of the Workersâ Party of Korea Propaganda and Agitation Department which controls all DPRK media and is used by the government to control the public.â
But the delegation list submitted to the sanctions committee by South Korea identifies him as âChairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission.â
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2,212 | In D.C. Brain Science Meets Behavioral Science To Shed Light On Mental Disorders : NPR | Jon Hamilton | More than 30 000 brain scientists are in Washington D.C. this week attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting. One of the hot topics this year is mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia and autism. NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton has just come from the meeting to talk about some of what he 's been seeing and hearing. Hi John. Thanks for coming.
JON HAMILTON BYLINE: Hi.
HAMILTON : Twenty years ago I'd say it didn't contribute much but things are really changing. And I was really surprised. I was going through the abstracts to this year's meeting and there were nearly a thousand papers that mentioned depression. There were 500 that mentioned schizophrenia or autism. And just this morning there was this study on how - looking at the brain tissue of people with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it's different.
MARTIN: That's NPR's science correspondent Jon Hamilton. Jon thanks so much. | More than 30 000 brain scientists are in Washington D.C. this week attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting. One of the hot topics this year is mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia and autism. [TGT] has just come from the meeting to talk about some of what [TGT] 's been seeing and hearing. Hi John. Thanks for coming.
[TGT] BYLINE: Hi.
[TGT] : Twenty years ago I'd say it didn't contribute much but things are really changing. And I was really surprised. I was going through the abstracts to this year's meeting and there were nearly a thousand papers that mentioned depression. There were 500 that mentioned schizophrenia or autism. And just this morning there was this study on how - looking at the brain tissue of people with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it's different.
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2,213 | Rape charge against budget minister roils French government amid debate on sexual assault | Gérald Darmanin | The minister Gérald Darmanin stands accused in an incident dating to 2009.
âThe Prime Minister wishes to assure on the one hand that the rules determining membership in the government are known and on the other hand that Mr. Darmanin has his full confidence â the office of Prime Minister Ãdouard Philippe said in an emailed statement.
But Franceâs mainstream center-right Republican party seized the opportunity to demand Monday that Darmanin step down. Some see in that intervention a hint of political revenge: Darmanin is a former member of the party who was expelled last year for having defected to Macronâs centrist coalition.
For the second time the same woman Sophie Spatz â a former call girl whose birth name is Olga Patterson according to French media â has accused Darmanin of forcing her to have sex with him in 2009 in exchange for his intervention in a personal legal matter.
Spatz 46 first filed a complaint against Darmanin last year after he joined Macronâs government but the case was closed when she failed to attend a mandatory police interview. Earlier this month however she filed a second complaint and prosecutors have reopened the case.
In an interview with Le Monde Spatz alleged that Darmanin â after hearing the details of her case â suggestively placed his hand on hers. âYou will have to help me as well â she quoted him as saying. She said that she told him she should go home to her husband but that Darmanin pressed her to accompany him to a Parisian sex club called Les Chandelles Spatz told Le Monde.
The two then ended up at a cheap hotel nearby by her account. Spatz sent Darmanin out to buy shower gel and toothpaste then hid in the bathroom âto postpone the fateful moment to the maximum â according to a statement one of her lawyers gave to Le Monde. âNevertheless realizing that the act was still âon the program â â the statement said âshe had to end up bowing to it despite all these stall tactics.â
As the pressure has increased for his resignation Darmanin âs colleagues â notably female cabinet members â have stood by him.
Speaking on French radio Monday morning Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said Darmanin âcan stay in the governmentâ for the time being insofar as no formal charges are brought. Marlène Schiappa Franceâs gender equality minister had little to say besides observing that âit is important for the judiciary to be able to work calmly.â
On a political level the renewed allegations against Darmanin appear likely to add to a recent spate of embarrassments for Macron. In an administration that has been in power for less than a year four other prominent members have stepped down over charges relating to political corruption. | The minister [TGT] stands accused in an incident dating to 2009.
âThe Prime Minister wishes to assure on the one hand that the rules determining membership in the government are known and on the other hand that Mr. Darmanin has his full confidence â the office of Prime Minister Ãdouard Philippe said in an emailed statement.
But Franceâs mainstream center-right Republican party seized the opportunity to demand Monday that Darmanin step down. Some see in that intervention a hint of political revenge: Darmanin is a former member of the party who was expelled last year for having defected to Macronâs centrist coalition.
For the second time the same woman Sophie Spatz â a former call girl whose birth name is Olga Patterson according to French media â has accused Darmanin of forcing her to have sex with him in 2009 in exchange for his intervention in a personal legal matter.
Spatz 46 first filed a complaint against Darmanin last year after he joined Macronâs government but the case was closed when she failed to attend a mandatory police interview. Earlier this month however she filed a second complaint and prosecutors have reopened the case.
In an interview with Le Monde Spatz alleged that Darmanin â after hearing the details of her case â suggestively placed his hand on hers. âYou will have to help me as well â she quoted him as saying. She said that she told him she should go home to her husband but that Darmanin pressed her to accompany him to a Parisian sex club called Les Chandelles Spatz told Le Monde.
The two then ended up at a cheap hotel nearby by her account. Spatz sent Darmanin out to buy shower gel and toothpaste then hid in the bathroom âto postpone the fateful moment to the maximum â according to a statement one of her lawyers gave to Le Monde. âNevertheless realizing that the act was still âon the program â â the statement said âshe had to end up bowing to it despite all these stall tactics.â
As the pressure has increased for his resignation Darmanin âs colleagues â notably female cabinet members â have stood by him.
Speaking on French radio Monday morning Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said Darmanin âcan stay in the governmentâ for the time being insofar as no formal charges are brought. Marlène Schiappa Franceâs gender equality minister had little to say besides observing that âit is important for the judiciary to be able to work calmly.â
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2,214 | Researchers clone the first primates from monkey tissue cells | Kevin Sinclair | Kevin Sinclair a developmental biologist at the University of Nottingham in Britain who was not involved with this research said this was a significant step in nonhuman primate cloning. âIt's the first time that primates have been born using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer which is the technique that was used to produce Dolly the sheep gosh almost 22 years ago now â he said.
For the clones that originated from fetal tissue 79 embryos yielded six pregnancies. Only Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua were born. âIt's still very inefficient in this species â Sinclair said. âThere's a lot of progress yet to be made.â
âThere is no reason to doubt that these two monkeys are anything other than clones â Sinclair said.
Nor he said is there reason to suggest that we are closer to producing human clones today than we were yesterday. âThe techniques that these guys have used to produce these monkeys have already been used to produce cloned human embryos â Sinclair pointed out. No one in the field âhas ever had an agenda to produce human clones.â
Sinclair who has studied the health of clones such as Dolly's identical âsisterâ sheep was bullish on the monkeys' long-term survival. In general he said if clones survive the first few months of infancy they develop like any other animal. âThe chances of them going on to lead long and normal healthy lives are very high â he said.
Their dogâs sudden death was too much to bear â so they cloned him | [TGT] said this was a significant step in nonhuman primate cloning. âIt's the first time that primates have been born using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer which is the technique that was used to produce Dolly the sheep gosh almost 22 years ago now â [TGT] said.
For the clones that originated from fetal tissue 79 embryos yielded six pregnancies. Only Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua were born. âIt's still very inefficient in this species â [TGT] said. âThere's a lot of progress yet to be made.â
âThere is no reason to doubt that these two monkeys are anything other than clones â [TGT] said.
Nor [TGT] said is there reason to suggest that we are closer to producing human clones today than we were yesterday. âThe techniques that these guys have used to produce these monkeys have already been used to produce cloned human embryos â [TGT] pointed out. No one in the field âhas ever had an agenda to produce human clones.â
Sinclair who has studied the health of clones such as Dolly's identical âsisterâ sheep was bullish on the monkeys' long-term survival. In general he said if clones survive the first few months of infancy they develop like any other animal. âThe chances of them going on to lead long and normal healthy lives are very high â he said.
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2,215 | Bride includes her dog as flower girl in the wedding: 'She's my little shadow' | Norah | The bride said her golden retriever Norah is âpart of the fabric of our family â so not including her in the Nov. 4 celebration was never an option.
She and her husband Kevin Schaefer have had Norah for four years and consider her their âdog-ter â she said.
âShe goes everywhere with me â said the bride. âEveryone knows how obsessed I am with her so most people asked if Norah was going to be in the wedding. We got her a little flower necklace.â
Norah was even part of the marriage proposal.
âKevin proposed to me on October 1 2016 at Montrose Dog Beach â Schaefer recalled. âIt was our five-year anniversary and he said he wanted to do it there because I always describe it as âheaven on earth.â Norah was right there with us as he proposed.â
As a trained therapy dog Schaefer said Norah is âpretty chillâ and didnât cause any doggy disasters on the big day.
The brideâs late dog Tandi who died before Norah came into the couple's lives was also included in the wedding.
âMy maid of honor Alex Lister surprised me by putting a small photo of Tandi on my bouquet â said Schaefer. âI of course immediately burst into tears as she said âThis way you can have both your dogs with you on your wedding day.ââ
The couple went on their honeymoon in Asheville North Carolina. As much as Schaefer wanted to bring Norah along she stayed at home with her mom because her husband insisted they needed some time alone. | The bride said her golden retriever Norah is âpart of the fabric of our family â so not including her in the Nov. 4 celebration was never an option.
She and her husband Kevin Schaefer have had [TGT] for four years and consider [TGT] their âdog-ter â [TGT] said.
âShe goes everywhere with [TGT] â said the bride. âEveryone knows how obsessed I am with [TGT] so most people asked if [TGT] was going to be in the wedding. We got [TGT] a little flower [TGT]
was even part of the marriage proposal.
[TGT] proposed to [TGT] on October 1 2016 at Montrose Dog Beach â Schaefer recalled. âIt was our five-year anniversary and he said he wanted to do it there because I always describe it as âheaven on earth.â [TGT] was right there with us as he proposed.â
As a trained therapy dog Schaefer said [TGT] is âpretty chillâ and didnât cause any doggy disasters on the big day.
The brideâs late dog Tandi who died before [TGT] came into the couple's lives was also included in the wedding.
âMy maid of honor Alex Lister surprised me by putting a small photo of Tandi on my bouquet â said Schaefer. âI of course immediately burst into tears as she said âThis way you can have both your dogs with you on your wedding day.ââ
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2,216 | Tropical Storm Nate blamed for 22 deaths; threatens US coast | Nate | Neighbors walk under the rain past a washed out road in Alajuelita on the outskirts of San Jose Costa Rica Thursday Oct. 5 2017. Tropical Storm Nate formed off the coast of Nicaragua on Thursday and was being blamed for at least 17 deaths in Central America as it spun north toward a potential landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend. (Moises Castillo/Associated Press)
MANAGUA Nicaragua â Newly formed Tropical Storm Nate was blamed Thursday for at least 22 deaths across Central America as it dumped rain across the region on a path that would carry it toward a potential landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm could cause dangerous flooding by dumping as much as 15 to 20 inches (38 to 50 centimeters) of rain as it moved over Honduras with higher accumulations in a few places.
In Nicaragua Nateâs arrival followed two weeks of near-constant rain that had left the ground saturated and rivers swollen. Authorities placed the whole country on alert and warned of flooding and landslides. | Neighbors walk under the rain past a washed out road in Alajuelita on the outskirts of San Jose Costa Rica Thursday Oct. 5 2017. Tropical Storm Nate formed off the coast of Nicaragua on Thursday and was being blamed for at least 17 deaths in Central America as it spun north toward a potential landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend. (Moises Castillo/Associated Press)
MANAGUA Nicaragua â [TGT] was blamed Thursday for at least 22 deaths across Central America as [TGT] dumped rain across the region on a path that would carry [TGT] toward a potential landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said [TGT] could cause dangerous flooding by dumping as much as 15 to 20 inches (38 to 50 centimeters) of rain as it moved over Honduras with higher accumulations in a few places.
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2,217 | Why the Michael Flynn "Scandal" is a Giant Nothingburger » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! | Michael Flynn | As news broke that Michael Flynn would testify that Donald Trump ordered him to talk to the Russians during the transition phase between administrations the left exploded with glee that actual evidence of âRussian collusionâ was in sight and it could bring down Trump.
ABC News reported that Trump directed Flynn to speak with the Russians âinitially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria.â
âSorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the âdirectiveâ Flynn received itâs incredibly mundane â commented journalist Michael Tracey.
Sorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the "directive" Flynn received it's incredibly mundane https://t.co/SFWgH8O9nm pic.twitter.com/U2jgA3teVe â Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 1 2017 | As news broke that [TGT] would testify that Donald Trump ordered [TGT] to talk to the Russians during the transition phase between administrations the left exploded with glee that actual evidence of âRussian collusionâ was in sight and it could bring down Trump.
ABC News reported that Trump directed [TGT] to speak with the Russians âinitially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria.â
âSorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the âdirectiveâ [TGT] received itâs incredibly mundane â commented journalist Michael Tracey.
Sorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the "directive" [TGT] received it's incredibly mundane https://t.co/SFWgH8O9nm pic.twitter.com/U2jgA3teVe â Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 1 2017 | 1Neutral
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2,218 | Steve Scalise Returns To The Capitol After Months Of Recovering From Alexandria Shooting | Steve Scalise | Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise returned to work at the Capitol on Thursday after spending months recovering from the June GOP baseball practice where he was shot when a gunman opened fire. "It feels great to be back " Scalise told reporters as he walked out of his office Thursday. Members of both parties stood applauded and cheered as Scalise walked into the House chamber Thursday morning using crutches and giving them a wry shake of his head. Several members patted him on the back and went in for hugs. "Our prayers have been answered " House Speaker Paul Ryan said introducing Scalise who addressed his colleagues on the House floor.
Scalise began by thanking members of Congress and the public for an "outpouring of love " saying "it's given us the strength to get through all of this." He also spoke of his faith saying that his prayers were answered. "I'm definitely a living example that miracles really do happen " he said. The lawmaker then went on to thank US Capitol Police officers Crystal Griner and David Bailey who âafter being shot both themselves continued to engage the shooter" and Scalise said saved not only his life but those of everyone on the field that morning. Griner could not be in the House chamber on Thursday Scalise said but members cheered for Bailey who was sitting in the gallery. âDavid you are my hero. You saved my life " Scalise said. After his speech members presented Scalise with a baseball bat. A three-wheeled scooter decked out with an LSU Tigers decal and a "MAJ WHIP" license plate was also spotted just outside the House chamber as he was speaking. âStarting today Whip Scalise will be resuming his work at the Capitol while also completing an extended period of out-patient rehabilitation over the coming months â according to a statement sent out by Scaliseâs office.
Republicans and Democrats took to Twitter Thursday morning to welcome Scalise back to the Capitol. Even a few senators headed over to the House floor to greet him including Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn who said it was "an inspirational day." "It's tremendous seeing him back and I know [ he 's] still got a long way to go " Cornyn said.
A proud moment to be in the Chair today to welcome back my friend Steve Scalise! #ScaliseStrong https://t.co/vXdVFRzMUG
Scalise thanked members on both sides of the aisle who supported him and sent him their well wishes as he recovered. He specifically mentioned Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond also of Louisiana whom he called âthe star of the [Congressional Baseball] game too many times.â Scalise said that Richmond âsomehow figured out which hospital I was sent to and got there â [ he ] was probably first on the sceneâ after the shooting noting that Richmond who had been practicing with Democrats on another field was still in his baseball uniform. "A lot of people ask did this event change you? ... Yes it changed me but not in the ways you might think " Scalise said. "It's only strengthened my faith in God and it's really crystalized what shows up in the goodness of people. ... To me all I remember are the thousands of acts of kindness that came out of this. ... [It] helped me realize just how wonderful most people are and just how much compassion is out there." Ryan was "brought to tears" when he greeted Scalise earlier Thursday according to CBS which is filming a 60 Minutes segment with the Louisiana Republican that will air on Sunday. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke briefly after Scalise finished his remarks saying: âThank God our prayers our answered." Cathy McMorris Rodgers a member of House GOP leadership told BuzzFeed News Scalise had called her Thursday morning to let her know he was coming back. "I thought he gave a powerful speech wonderful to see him. Amazed that he could walk through those doors after everything he's been through " she said.
Scalise âs recovery process was long requiring multiple surgeries and attention to deep-tissue infection related to his injuries after he was shot in the hip. | [TGT] returned to work at the Capitol on Thursday after spending months recovering from the June GOP baseball practice where [TGT] was shot when a gunman opened fire. "It feels great to be back " Scalise told reporters as he walked out of his office Thursday. Members of both parties stood applauded and cheered as Scalise walked into the House chamber Thursday morning using crutches and giving them a wry shake of his head. Several members patted him on the back and went in for hugs. "Our prayers have been answered " House Speaker Paul Ryan said introducing Scalise who addressed his colleagues on the House floor.
Scalise began by thanking members of Congress and the public for an "outpouring of love " saying "it's given us the strength to get through all of this." He also spoke of his faith saying that his prayers were answered. "I'm definitely a living example that miracles really do happen " he said. The lawmaker then went on to thank US Capitol Police officers Crystal Griner and David Bailey who âafter being shot both themselves continued to engage the shooter" and Scalise said saved not only his life but those of everyone on the field that morning. Griner could not be in the House chamber on Thursday Scalise said but members cheered for Bailey who was sitting in the gallery. âDavid you are my hero. You saved my life " Scalise said. After his speech members presented Scalise with a baseball bat. A three-wheeled scooter decked out with an LSU Tigers decal and a "MAJ WHIP" license plate was also spotted just outside the House chamber as he was speaking. âStarting today Whip Scalise will be resuming his work at the Capitol while also completing an extended period of out-patient rehabilitation over the coming months â according to a statement sent out by Scaliseâs office.
Republicans and Democrats took to Twitter Thursday morning to welcome Scalise back to the Capitol. Even a few senators headed over to the House floor to greet him including Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn who said it was "an inspirational day." "It's tremendous seeing him back and I know [ he 's] still got a long way to go " Cornyn said.
A proud moment to be in the Chair today to welcome back my friend Steve Scalise! #ScaliseStrong https://t.co/vXdVFRzMUG
Scalise thanked members on both sides of the aisle who supported him and sent him their well wishes as he recovered. He specifically mentioned Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond also of Louisiana whom he called âthe star of the [Congressional Baseball] game too many times.â Scalise said that Richmond âsomehow figured out which hospital I was sent to and got there â [ he ] was probably first on the sceneâ after the shooting noting that Richmond who had been practicing with Democrats on another field was still in his baseball uniform. "A lot of people ask did this event change you? ... Yes it changed me but not in the ways you might think " Scalise said. "It's only strengthened my faith in God and it's really crystalized what shows up in the goodness of people. ... To me all I remember are the thousands of acts of kindness that came out of this. ... [It] helped me realize just how wonderful most people are and just how much compassion is out there." Ryan was "brought to tears" when he greeted Scalise earlier Thursday according to CBS which is filming a 60 Minutes segment with the Louisiana Republican that will air on Sunday. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke briefly after Scalise finished his remarks saying: âThank God our prayers our answered." Cathy McMorris Rodgers a member of House GOP leadership told BuzzFeed News Scalise had called her Thursday morning to let her know he was coming back. "I thought he gave a powerful speech wonderful to see him. Amazed that he could walk through those doors after everything he's been through " she said.
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2,219 | Nevada district policy could censor student yearbooks | Steve Ranson | But Steve Ranson the former editor of the Lahontan Valley News and an advocate for protecting students' First Amendment rights said a brand-new Nevada law says otherwise.
Ranson advocated for the passage of a law last legislative session commonly referred to as the New Voices legislation that explicitly prohibits school district ârestrictions on the publication of any content in a pupil publication.â
Ranson said the photos of athletes on club teams hardly constitute a disruption.
âIf itâs not disruptive Iâm not seeing what their logic is â Ranson said. | But [TGT] the former editor of the Lahontan Valley News and an advocate for protecting students' First Amendment rights said a brand-new Nevada law says otherwise.
Ranson advocated for the passage of a law last legislative session commonly referred to as the New Voices legislation that explicitly prohibits school district ârestrictions on the publication of any content in a pupil publication.â
Ranson said the photos of athletes on club teams hardly constitute a disruption.
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2,220 | Dakota Access protester pleads guilty in shooting incident | Red Fawn Fallis | The agreement means Red Fawn Fallis won't stand trial where she could have faced up to life in prison if convicted. Instead prosecutors will recommend a sentence of no more than seven years in prison.
Fallis cried while she entered her pleas. She did not discuss the protest shooting incident only answering basic questions from U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland about her background and understanding of the proceedings.
About two dozen supporters of Fallis packed the courtroom but didn't comment after the hearing. The courthouse was under heavy security. The number of federal law and security officers outside the courtroom was double the norm and people had to obtain passes to enter the courtroom. The courthouse was the site of protests several times when the demonstrations against the pipeline were at their height between August 2016 and February 2017.
Fallis' arrest was among 761 that authorities made in southern North Dakota in that six-month span. At times thousands of pipeline opponents gathered in the region to protest the $3.8 billion project to move North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois. Fallis is the only protester accused of firing a gun.
Fallis will remain jailed until Hovland decides whether she can go to a halfway house in Fargo pending sentencing. She was moved there in October but last week she was arrested for violating conditions of her pretrial release when she signed out of the facility to attend adult learning classes but never showed up.
"With the change-of-plea hearing coming up I just needed some time to really think about things " she told Hovland Monday as she tearfully asked to go back to the halfway house. "It's hard to be up here (in North Dakota) with no family to talk to."
Prosecutors last year objected to Fallis being moved from jail to the halfway house but Delorme on Monday told Hovland the government would take no position on her possible return. He said he had been informed that until last week she had been "a model resident." | The agreement means [TGT] won't stand trial where [TGT] could have faced up to life in prison if convicted. Instead prosecutors will recommend a sentence of no more than seven years in prison.
[TGT] cried while [TGT] entered [TGT] pleas. [TGT] did not discuss the protest shooting incident only answering basic questions from U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland about [TGT] background and understanding of the proceedings.
About two dozen supporters of [TGT] packed the courtroom but didn't comment after the hearing. The courthouse was under heavy security. The number of federal law and security officers outside the courtroom was double the norm and people had to obtain passes to enter the courtroom. The courthouse was the site of protests several times when the demonstrations against the pipeline were at their height between August 2016 and February 2017.
[TGT] arrest was among 761 that authorities made in southern North Dakota in that six-month span. At times thousands of pipeline opponents gathered in the region to protest the $3.8 billion project to move North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois. [TGT] is the only protester accused of firing a gun.
[TGT] will remain jailed until Hovland decides whether [TGT] can go to a halfway house in Fargo pending sentencing. [TGT] was moved there in October but last week [TGT] was arrested for violating conditions of [TGT] pretrial release when [TGT] signed out of the facility to attend adult learning classes but never showed up.
"With the change-of-plea hearing coming up I just needed some time to really think about things " she told Hovland Monday as she tearfully asked to go back to the halfway house. "It's hard to be up here (in North Dakota) with no family to talk to."
Prosecutors last year objected to [TGT] being moved from jail to the halfway house but Delorme on Monday told Hovland the government would take no position on her possible return. [TGT] said [TGT] had been informed that until last week she had been "a model resident." | 1Neutral
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2,221 | Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney shares allegations of sexual assault at hands of team doctor | McKayla Maroney | Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney shared the story of her alleged sexual assault at the hands of former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar in an emotional statement on Twitter late Tuesday night.
Maroney said she was inspired by the #metoo movement on social media which has encouraged victims to share their personal stories in order to show the widespread problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault. The hashtag was inspired by the allegations of harassment and assault against movie executive Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein through a spokesperson has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
"I was molested by Dr. Larry Nassar the team doctor for the US Womenâs National Gymnastics Team and Olympic Team " Maroney said in the statement. "Dr. Nassar told me that I was receiving 'medically necessary treatment that he had been performing on patients for over 30 years.'
"For me the scariest night of my life happened when I was 15 years old " Maroney continued. "I had flown all day and night with the team to get to Tokyo. Heâd given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing I know I was all alone with him in his hotel room getting a 'treatment.' I thought I was going to die that night."
Maroney proposed four ideas to change the pattern of assault: speaking out; holding "people institutions organizations" and "especially those in positions of power" accountable; education and prevention; and finally having "zero tolerance for abusers and those who protect them."
In a statement to ABC News today USA Gymnastics said it âadmires the courage of those like McKayla Maroney who have come forward to share their personal experiences with sexual abuse . Because of their strength in coming forward predators can be held accountable for their actions. We like so many others are outraged and disgusted by the conduct of which Larry Nassar is accused. We are sorry that any athlete has been harmed during her or his gymnastics career.â | [TGT] shared the story of [TGT] alleged sexual assault at the hands of former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar in an emotional statement on Twitter late Tuesday night.
[TGT] said [TGT] was inspired by the #metoo movement on social media which has encouraged victims to share their personal stories in order to show the widespread problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault. The hashtag was inspired by the allegations of harassment and assault against movie executive Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein through a spokesperson has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
"I was molested by Dr. Larry Nassar the team doctor for the US Womenâs National Gymnastics Team and Olympic Team [TGT] said in the statement. "Dr. Nassar told me that I was receiving 'medically necessary treatment that he had been performing on patients for over 30 years.'
"For me the scariest night of my life happened when I was 15 years old [TGT] continued. "I had flown all day and night with the team to get to Tokyo. Heâd given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing I know I was all alone with him in his hotel room getting a 'treatment.' I thought I was going to die that night. [TGT]
proposed four ideas to change the pattern of assault: speaking out; holding "people institutions organizations" and "especially those in positions of power" accountable; education and prevention; and finally having "zero tolerance for abusers and those who protect them."
In a statement to ABC News today USA Gymnastics said it âadmires the courage of those like McKayla Maroney who have come forward to share their personal experiences with sexual abuse . Because of their strength in coming forward predators can be held accountable for their actions. We like so many others are outraged and disgusted by the conduct of which Larry Nassar is accused. We are sorry that any athlete has been harmed during her or his gymnastics career.â | 1Neutral
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2,222 | Youngest Manson follower Leslie Van Houten denied parole | Leslie Van Houten | LOS ANGELES â The governor of California once again denied parole Friday for Leslie Van Houten the youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson who blamed herself at her parole hearing for letting him control her life.
Gov. Jerry Brown said in his decision that Van Houten still lays too much of the blame on Manson who died two months ago at age 83.
The 68-year-old Van Houten is serving life for the murders of wealthy grocer Leno La Bianca and his wife Rosemary when Van Houten was 19. They were stabbed a day after other Manson followers killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other people in Los Angeles.
Van Houten has long been considered among the most likely candidates among Manson âfamilyâ members to be paroled But Brown like Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger before him has steadfastly refused to let anyone associated with Mansonâs killings go free.
Itâs the second time Brown has blocked parole for Van Houten after a state parole panel recommended that she be freed.
Brown wrote Friday that Van Houten âplayed a vital part in the LaBianca murders one of the most notorious of the Manson family crimes. The devastation and loss experienced by the LaBianca family and all the victimsâ families continues today.â
Brown recalled Van Houten saying that she takes responsibility for âManson being able to do what he did to all of us. I allowed it. I accept responsibility that I allowed him to conduct my life in that way.â | LOS ANGELES â The governor of California once again denied parole Friday for [TGT] the youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson who blamed herself at her parole hearing for letting him control her life.
Gov. Jerry Brown said in his decision that Van Houten still lays too much of the blame on Manson who died two months ago at age 83.
The 68-year-old Van Houten is serving life for the murders of wealthy grocer Leno La Bianca and his wife Rosemary when Van Houten was 19. They were stabbed a day after other Manson followers killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other people in Los Angeles.
Van Houten has long been considered among the most likely candidates among Manson âfamilyâ members to be paroled But Brown like Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger before him has steadfastly refused to let anyone associated with Mansonâs killings go free.
Itâs the second time Brown has blocked parole for Van Houten after a state parole panel recommended that she be freed.
Brown wrote Friday that Van Houten âplayed a vital part in the LaBianca murders one of the most notorious of the Manson family crimes. The devastation and loss experienced by the LaBianca family and all the victimsâ families continues today.â
Brown recalled Van Houten saying that she takes responsibility for âManson being able to do what he did to all of us. I allowed it. I accept responsibility that I allowed him to conduct my life in that way.â | 0Negative
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2,223 | NBC Sports Analyst Had Perfect Responses to People Bashing the Christian Faith of He and Other NFL Players | Nick Foles | The controversy of kneelers and protesters in the NFL is covered with a sort of reverence by many sports analysts but on the night of the Super Bowl all of that was eclipsed by the Christian faith of some of the Philadelphia Eagles particularly their quarterback Nick Foles .
âCongratulations to the Eagles. Nick Foles told me last week that he felt the Lord had him in Philadelphia for a special moment and he played like it tonight â wrote Dungy.
Congratulations to the Eagles. Nick Foles told me last week that he felt the Lord had him in Philadelphia for a special moment and he played like it tonight. pic.twitter.com/BgYvucnK6Q â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) February 5 2018
âAfter all the celebrations and confetti Justin caught up with the 3 Eagles QBs Nick Foles Carson Wentz & Nate Sudfeld along with Zach Ertz who scored the winning TD. They were in a room by themselvesâpraying and thanking God. It was great for him to see that â he wrote.
After all the celebrations and confetti Justin caught up with the 3 Eagles QBs Nick Foles Carson Wentz & Nate Sudfeld along with Zach Ertz who scored the winning TD. They were in a room by themselvesâpraying and thanking God. It was great for him to see that. pic.twitter.com/wDWgg2u01X â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) February 5 2018
âNBC pays me to express my opinion â he wrote. âAnd it was my opinion that Nick Foles would play well because his Christian faith would allow him to play with confidence. And that he âs a good QB. I think I was right on both counts.â
NBC pays me to express my opinion. And it was my opinion that Nick Foles would play well because his Christian faith would allow him to to play with confidence. And that he âs a good QB. I think I was right on both counts. https://t.co/4HOfXt78UZ â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) February 6 2018
Why would you find it hard to believe that the Holy Spirit could speak to Nick Foles just as much as a coach could speak to him ? If he credited a coach for saying âStay calm and be confidentâ thatâs good. But if he tells me Christ says that to him I shouldnât report it??? https://t.co/I7P4IU26GH â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) February 6 2018 | The controversy of kneelers and protesters in the NFL is covered with a sort of reverence by many sports analysts but on the night of the Super Bowl all of that was eclipsed by the Christian faith of some of the Philadelphia Eagles particularly their quarterback Nick Foles .
âCongratulations to the Eagles. [TGT] told me last week that [TGT] felt the Lord had [TGT] in Philadelphia for a special moment and [TGT] played like it tonight â wrote Dungy.
Congratulations to the Eagles. [TGT] told me last week that [TGT] felt the Lord had [TGT] in Philadelphia for a special moment and [TGT] played like it tonight. pic.twitter.com/BgYvucnK6Q â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) [TGT]
. [TGT] were in a room by themselvesâpraying and thanking God. It was great for him to see that â he wrote.
After all the celebrations and confetti Justin caught up with [TGT] . [TGT] were in a room by themselvesâpraying and thanking God. It was great for him to see that. pic.twitter.com/wDWgg2u01X â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) February 5 2018
âNBC pays me to express my opinion â he wrote. âAnd it was my opinion that [TGT] would play well because [TGT] Christian faith would allow [TGT] to play with confidence. And that [TGT] âs a good QB. I think I was right on both counts.â
NBC pays me to express my opinion. And it was my opinion that [TGT] would play well because [TGT] Christian faith would allow [TGT] to to play with confidence. And that [TGT] âs a good QB. I think I was right on both counts. https://t.co/4HOfXt78UZ â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) February 6 2018
Why would you find it hard to believe that the Holy Spirit could speak to [TGT] just as much as a coach could speak to [TGT] ? If [TGT] [TGT] credited a coach for saying âStay calm and be confidentâ thatâs good. But if [TGT] [TGT] tells me Christ says that to him I shouldnât report it??? https://t.co/I7P4IU26GH â Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) February 6 2018 | 2Positive
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2,224 | Exiled Iranian prince backs regime change new coalition | Reza Pahlavi | Reza Pahlavi concentrates intently on the little cellphone in his hand scrolling through clips of chanting Iranians and explaining why the protests unsettling his homeland are different this time. Even as the latest reports suggest the unrest may be ebbing the scion of Persia's 2 500-year-old monarchy believes Iran's people are writing a new future for themselves and perhaps for their exiled son.
More than want he believes they may succeed.
Iranian officials say they've arrested some 3 700 people since Dec. 28. Some protesters have called for the government's overthrow and videos show some vocal support for Pahlavi who left Iran at 17 for military flight school in the United States just before his cancer-stricken father Mohammad Reza Pahlavi abandoned the throne for exile. Revolution meant neither Pahlavi ever returned.
Pahlavi is staying abreast of developments in Iran through what his aides describe as a vast network of contacts inside and outside of the government he has maintained for decades. An equally important source: normal Iranians reaching out to him directly via social media.
But Pahlavi may not be the credible voice for change in a country that he hasn't seen in 38 years. Iranian officials accuse him of exploiting the instability to advance his personal aspirations for power in a part of the world replete with cautionary tales about long-estranged exiles believing they know what's best for their homelands. And Pahlavi's father was hardly a paragon of democracy ruling lavishly and repressively and benefiting from a CIA-supported 1953 coup of Iran's prime minster.
While many of the young faces in today's crowds of protesters couldn't conceivably have been born when the last shah still ruled Pahlavi believes the support he is seeing in text messages and Telegram files is genuine.
"It is not a matter of coincidence or if you will nostalgia " said Pahlavi 57 insisting that a young scrutinizing Iranian generation is expressing "rapport" with his message of inclusion and rejecting the Islamic Republic's "brainwashing" and exclusion.
He outlined a vision of how to achieve democratic change: Intensifying "the struggle" until Iran's government implodes; initiating a transition process; holding popular elections for a constitutional assembly; enshrining secularism and democracy; free and fair voting for a first parliament and government.
But these are broad ideas that would each entail incredibly difficult processes. For example Pahlavi said that whatever form Iran's future government takes it should offer amnesty to military and paramilitary forces such as those in the Revolutionary Guard Corps so they abandon the camp of Khamenei and other hardliners. Such a promise wouldn't resolve their massive stakes in Iran's economy a source of significant popular disgruntlement.
And what of Pahlavi 's path in this new Iran? Does it end with him sitting upon the Peacock Throne? Or does he aspire for something akin to the "Baba" role played by Mohammed Zahir Shah Afghanistan's deposed king who returned after the fall of the Taliban as a symbolic but powerless figure of national unity?
"I don't know to be honest with you. I know what I need to do now " Pahlavi answered. "I've never been preoccupied with my personal role or destiny " he said describing fair elections in Iran as his "only mission in life " replacing the current votes for presidents and parliamentarians among pre-approved candidates.
"Of course I stand ready to serve my country " Pahlavi said noncommittally. "I have no idea in what capacity it may or may not be. I may end up just being a regular citizen living the rest of my days or I may be called upon to play a bigger role." | [TGT] concentrates intently on the little cellphone in [TGT] hand scrolling through clips of chanting Iranians and explaining why the protests unsettling [TGT] homeland are different this time. Even as the latest reports suggest the unrest may be ebbing the scion of Persia's 2 500-year-old monarchy believes Iran's people are writing a new future for themselves and perhaps for their exiled son.
More than want he believes they may succeed.
Iranian officials say they've arrested some 3 700 people since Dec. 28. Some protesters have called for the government's overthrow and videos show some vocal support for [TGT] who left Iran at 17 for military flight school in the United States just before his cancer-stricken father Mohammad Reza Pahlavi abandoned the throne for exile. Revolution meant neither [TGT] ever returned.
[TGT] is staying abreast of developments in Iran through what [TGT] aides describe as a vast network of contacts inside and outside of the government [TGT] has maintained for decades. An equally important source: normal Iranians reaching out to [TGT] directly via social media.
But [TGT] may not be the credible voice for change in a country that [TGT] hasn't seen in 38 years. Iranian officials accuse [TGT] of exploiting the instability to advance [TGT] personal aspirations for power in a part of the world replete with cautionary tales about long-estranged exiles believing they know what's best for their homelands. And Pahlavi's father was hardly a paragon of democracy ruling lavishly and repressively and benefiting from a CIA-supported 1953 coup of Iran's prime minster.
While many of the young faces in today's crowds of protesters couldn't conceivably have been born when the last shah still ruled Pahlavi believes the support he is seeing in text messages and Telegram files is genuine.
"It is not a matter of coincidence or if you will nostalgia " said Pahlavi 57 insisting that a young scrutinizing Iranian generation is expressing "rapport" with his message of inclusion and rejecting the Islamic Republic's "brainwashing" and exclusion.
He outlined a vision of how to achieve democratic change: Intensifying "the struggle" until Iran's government implodes; initiating a transition process; holding popular elections for a constitutional assembly; enshrining secularism and democracy; free and fair voting for a first parliament and government.
But these are broad ideas that would each entail incredibly difficult processes. For example Pahlavi said that whatever form Iran's future government takes it should offer amnesty to military and paramilitary forces such as those in the Revolutionary Guard Corps so they abandon the camp of Khamenei and other hardliners. Such a promise wouldn't resolve their massive stakes in Iran's economy a source of significant popular disgruntlement.
And what of Pahlavi 's path in this new Iran? Does it end with him sitting upon the Peacock Throne? Or does he aspire for something akin to the "Baba" role played by Mohammed Zahir Shah Afghanistan's deposed king who returned after the fall of the Taliban as a symbolic but powerless figure of national unity?
"I don't know to be honest with you. I know what I need to do now " Pahlavi answered. "I've never been preoccupied with my personal role or destiny " he said describing fair elections in Iran as his "only mission in life " replacing the current votes for presidents and parliamentarians among pre-approved candidates.
"Of course I stand ready to serve my country " Pahlavi said noncommittally. "I have no idea in what capacity it may or may not be. I may end up just being a regular citizen living the rest of my days or I may be called upon to play a bigger role." | 2Positive
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2,225 | âThe modern GOP is nothing but white supremacy â professor declares â TheBlaze | Matthew Gabriele | A Virginia Tech professor was hit with swift backlash after tweeting Monday that âthe modern GOP is nothing but white supremacyâ â but Matthew Gabriele only doubled down and hit back in response.
As you can imagine Gabrieleâs tweet didnât sit well with more than a few commenters. The responses ranged from a suggestion that Gabriele back up his assertion by stepping down from his job so a person of color can have it to those who said his attitude is exactly what got Republican President Donald Trump elected last year.
Despite the heavy backlash Gabriele didnât edit or delete his post explain himself or offer an apology for his decidedly inflammatory tweet. He simply hit back:
Campus Reform reported that Gabriele didnât respond after the outlet reached out to him for comment. | A Virginia Tech professor was hit with swift backlash after tweeting Monday that âthe modern GOP is nothing but white supremacyâ â but [TGT] only doubled down and hit back in response.
As you can imagine Gabrieleâs tweet didnât sit well with more than a few commenters. The responses ranged from a suggestion that Gabriele back up his assertion by stepping down from his job so a person of color can have it to those who said his attitude is exactly what got Republican President Donald Trump elected last year.
Despite the heavy backlash Gabriele didnât edit or delete his post explain himself or offer an apology for his decidedly inflammatory tweet. He simply hit back:
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2,226 | Does Netflix's 'She's Gotta Have It' Live Up to Its Promise? | David Lee | Insecureâs Nuanced Take on Singleness Part of the revolution of modern female characters involves dismantling this idea of âlikability.â Sheâs Gotta Have It succeeds there; at times Darling is definitely not likable. But the show makes it seem as though any criticisms of Darling are due to the fact that she embraces her sexuality and has multiple partnersâand I donât really buy it. Some of the discontinuity in Darlingâs storyline feels like a failure to successfully imagine the inner motivations ideas and emotions of a modern young woman. Part of the flaw here is that Lee âs relying too heavily on the framework he created for the character three decades ago. Green: Yes Gillian! Darling calls the men in her life out for thinking they know the âreal herâ when theyâre only dating their own contrived visions of her. The irony is Darling ends up coming off like a middle-aged manâs off-pitch interpretation of a millennial black feminist. The way she lists her rules of engagementâonly sex in her âloving bed â seeing each man no more than twice a week and never two in one day etc.âgives an impression that sheâs playing for sport instead of living in the liberation she tells others about.
She breaks the fourth wall in many uncomfortable monologues throughout the season which Iâd hoped would be a vehicle to get inside her head; but like most of the women in the show Darling never becomes fully three-dimensional. Itâs not surprising then that in a show mainly about juggling three men the only dialogue that has depth and advances the storyline comes from Darlingâs interactions with the other women in the show: her three girlfriends a woman that sheâs also seeing (Opal) and her therapist. David Lee / Netflix Mock: I remember the first time I saw the original movie and how it blew my mind. I didnât see it when it first came out in 1986. I saw it in â89 or 1990 after I saw Do the Right Thing which made me want to find anything else Lee had done besides the Jordan commercials and the Anita Baker video. But yeah I think we forget how revolutionary Darlingâs character wasânot as a black character but just as a character period. At that age I had no ideas about the sexual agency of women or what polyamory was; these terms werenât part of the mainstream lexicon. Remember misogyny was on the come up during that era of hip hop (â86 to â91) . Many of the guys I grew up with were heavily influenced by rappers like Too Short Big Daddy Kane LL Cool J N.W.A. and 2 Live Crew which is to say we were getting a pretty unhealthy education about male-female relationships. I loved how Lee flipped that entire dynamic on its head with Sheâs Gotta Have It and we needed to see that. But to your point Gillian Iâm not sure the TV series did much to advance contemporary ideas about the relationships explored in the â86 movie. I think thatâs why Lee felt the need to flesh out the narrative with this whole gentrification thread.
White: Definitely. Part of the problem is that what made Darling such an innovative character in the 1980s isnât what makes her so compelling now. And I fully agree with you Adrienne: The moments where we see Darling undergoing the most growth and becoming most self-aware are all related to women. In addition to Opal and her therapist Iâd add her boss Raqueletta Moss to the mix. Serwer: To go off your points about Insecure Gillian and Adrienne one of Spikeâs issues here is that the artists he helped influence are actually better at this now than he is. Which is whatâs supposed to happen! Even if itâs not something Spike would like to hear. White: I think thatâs exactly right. Serwer: I found myself most roped in when the show was lingering on Darling and her issues in the art world (the satire of which is funny and brutal) and less so when it was focusing on the love triangle (rectangle?) the original film was centered on. Of her suitors I found Mars Blackmon the most likable and relatable in part because he feels like the underdog in a situation that involves a wealthy Wall Street type and a French-speaking model. Also Anthony Ramos is really good at inhabiting the character. White: I was scared about how the character of Mars (originally played by Lee ) would translate but in the end he was one of the highlights of the show and unquestionably the male suitor who was best folded into the present day. Ramos did such a fantastic job of keeping Marsâs spirit of absurdity and geekiness while making him feel fresh and original. As for the other suitors I found Greer and Jamie difficult to stomachâand not just because theyâre supposed to be obnoxious. Both characters seem to be relics of the 1980s in dress in attitude and in their assumptions about their place in society and Darlingâs.
In a world where talking hanging out and hooking up are all far more common in your early 20s (especially in big cities) the idea that Greer and Jamie would spend so much of their time inquiring about the other men Darling is dating feels a little unbelievable. Also the types of men that Jamie and Greer are meant to portrayâgeneralized archetypes of a desirable guyâdonât even work for the present moment. Jamieâs stuffy wealthy older finance-dad vibe and certainly Greerâs light-skinned light-eyed cultured model vibe went out of style in the â90s and they shouldâve been left there. Serwer: Greer and Jamie are really insufferable and more than Mars theyâre stereotypes: The first suitor is a project kid-gone-Wall Street who still has ties to the drug game (slash a cheating husband in a midlife crisis). The second is a tragic mulatto who literally has a line about how he doesnât want to choose between one identity or the other. That stuff was played out when I was a teenager. I wonder Gillian if the characters simply werenât rescuable from the time and place they were created (and maybe Mars was in part because if anything black geeks are more visible in pop culture now than they used to be). Also light-skinned men are definitely not out of style shout out to my Blewish brother Drake (or is he canceled? Iâm old and canât keep track). Mock: As Adrienne said it was the scenes shared between the women that were most rich. I honestly could have taken a Sheâs Gotta Have It sans the male characters from the original altogetherâmaybe keep Mars Blackmon but only because heâs so iconic. It is weird though that for a movie/TV show that is supposed to be essentially about a woman the character itâs most remembered for is a guy Mars Blackmon. Heâs the only character who has benefited from the marketing of the movie over the past few decades. We didnât even know where Tracy Camilla Johns (the original Nola Darling) disappeared to until she made that cameo in the new version. David Lee / Netflix Of course thereâs the theory that none of these characters are to be taken as literal people but rather as the multiple shades of Brooklyn. The male characters could be seen as metaphors for the parts of Brooklyn that aspire toward Manhattan-like wealth and prestige (Jamie) the parts that are straight blacktops and hip hop (Mars) and the parts that are that whole metro-self-fellatio-sexual part of NYC that really began blossoming in the â80s (Greer).
White: For sure but Iâd argue those arenât even representative of Brooklyn in this moment. Brooklyn is not the Brooklyn of the â80s or â90s (so Lee keeps reminding us). Mock: On another note Iâm thankful that they got rid of the rape scene from the movie. I think the transition to dealing with sexual harassment and assault in the streets was the showâs strongest material especially as it bled into Darlingâs art work which helped solve some of her financial problems. The personal became political then became personal again. Serwer: I think part of the reason why that subplot is so strong is that itâs based on a work called Stop Telling Women to Smile by the artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh who was also a consultant on the show. Fazlalizadeh put up a series of posters around Brooklyn with similar antiâstreet harassment messages she drew from women she interviewed about their experiences. Green: Spikeâs long talked about regretting that rape scene (and as recently as November). I agree Brentin that the show did a really good job of making sexual trauma an undercurrent without visually exploiting female charactersâfrom the street-art campaign to Darlingâs art student replacing Lilâ Kim with herself on the Hard Core album cover for a school assignment. With the âfree black female formâ as its thematic throughline the show subtly deals with sex and trauma complicating the idea of autonomy and who has access to it.
White: I think that the use of Raqueletta Moss and her story of abuse as a child and how she overcame it was a clever way to explicitly deal with the subject without as Adrienne suggested having to resort to exploitative rape scenes. Also Mossâs decision to take Darling on as a mentee despite having witnessed her immaturity at work was one of my favorite developments. That relationship between those two black women felt organic and important. Serwer: I liked the Moss character in part because I can remember teachers pulling me aside and giving me that kind of blunt real-talk lecture about how bad life can get in order to keep you from dealing with things they had to deal with or saw other people deal with. The characterâs past isnât what youâd call original but again itâs rescued by a strong performance by the actress DeâAdre Aziza. David Lee / Netflix White: Before we wrap this we need to talk about that wild butt-implant narrative involving one of Darlingâs closest friends Shemekka. This storyline was alternately framed as a comedy and a serious commentary on the way society values women. But ultimately I thought it presented some pretty major problems for the plot and the showâs portrayal of women. Mock: Iâm not quite sure what they were going for with that thread. It felt like something that got cut from Chi-Raq. | Insecureâs Nuanced Take on Singleness Part of the revolution of modern female characters involves dismantling this idea of âlikability.â Sheâs Gotta Have It succeeds there; at times Darling is definitely not likable. But the show makes it seem as though any criticisms of Darling are due to the fact that she embraces her sexuality and has multiple partnersâand I donât really buy it. Some of the discontinuity in Darlingâs storyline feels like a failure to successfully imagine the inner motivations ideas and emotions of a modern young woman. Part of the flaw here is that [TGT] âs relying too heavily on the framework [TGT] created for the character three decades ago. Green: Yes Gillian! Darling calls the men in her life out for thinking they know the âreal herâ when theyâre only dating their own contrived visions of her. The irony is Darling ends up coming off like a middle-aged manâs off-pitch interpretation of a millennial black feminist. The way she lists her rules of engagementâonly sex in her âloving bed â seeing each man no more than twice a week and never two in one day etc.âgives an impression that sheâs playing for sport instead of living in the liberation she tells others about.
She breaks the fourth wall in many uncomfortable monologues throughout the season which Iâd hoped would be a vehicle to get inside her head; but like most of the women in the show Darling never becomes fully three-dimensional. Itâs not surprising then that in a show mainly about juggling three men the only dialogue that has depth and advances the storyline comes from Darlingâs interactions with the other women in the show: her three girlfriends a woman that sheâs also seeing (Opal) and her therapist. David Lee / Netflix Mock: I remember the first time I saw the original movie and how it blew my mind. I didnât see it when it first came out in 1986. I saw it in â89 or 1990 after I saw Do the Right Thing which made me want to find anything else Lee had done besides the Jordan commercials and the Anita Baker video. But yeah I think we forget how revolutionary Darlingâs character wasânot as a black character but just as a character period. At that age I had no ideas about the sexual agency of women or what polyamory was; these terms werenât part of the mainstream lexicon. Remember misogyny was on the come up during that era of hip hop (â86 to â91) . Many of the guys I grew up with were heavily influenced by rappers like Too Short Big Daddy Kane LL Cool J N.W.A. and 2 Live Crew which is to say we were getting a pretty unhealthy education about male-female relationships. I loved how Lee flipped that entire dynamic on its head with Sheâs Gotta Have It and we needed to see that. But to your point Gillian Iâm not sure the TV series did much to advance contemporary ideas about the relationships explored in the â86 movie. I think thatâs why Lee felt the need to flesh out the narrative with this whole gentrification thread.
White: Definitely. Part of the problem is that what made Darling such an innovative character in the 1980s isnât what makes her so compelling now. And I fully agree with you Adrienne: The moments where we see Darling undergoing the most growth and becoming most self-aware are all related to women. In addition to Opal and her therapist Iâd add her boss Raqueletta Moss to the mix. Serwer: To go off your points about Insecure Gillian and Adrienne one of Spikeâs issues here is that the artists he helped influence are actually better at this now than he is. Which is whatâs supposed to happen! Even if itâs not something Spike would like to hear. White: I think thatâs exactly right. Serwer: I found myself most roped in when the show was lingering on Darling and her issues in the art world (the satire of which is funny and brutal) and less so when it was focusing on the love triangle (rectangle?) the original film was centered on. Of her suitors I found Mars Blackmon the most likable and relatable in part because he feels like the underdog in a situation that involves a wealthy Wall Street type and a French-speaking model. Also Anthony Ramos is really good at inhabiting the character. White: I was scared about how the character of Mars (originally played by Lee ) would translate but in the end he was one of the highlights of the show and unquestionably the male suitor who was best folded into the present day. Ramos did such a fantastic job of keeping Marsâs spirit of absurdity and geekiness while making him feel fresh and original. As for the other suitors I found Greer and Jamie difficult to stomachâand not just because theyâre supposed to be obnoxious. Both characters seem to be relics of the 1980s in dress in attitude and in their assumptions about their place in society and Darlingâs.
In a world where talking hanging out and hooking up are all far more common in your early 20s (especially in big cities) the idea that Greer and Jamie would spend so much of their time inquiring about the other men Darling is dating feels a little unbelievable. Also the types of men that Jamie and Greer are meant to portrayâgeneralized archetypes of a desirable guyâdonât even work for the present moment. Jamieâs stuffy wealthy older finance-dad vibe and certainly Greerâs light-skinned light-eyed cultured model vibe went out of style in the â90s and they shouldâve been left there. Serwer: Greer and Jamie are really insufferable and more than Mars theyâre stereotypes: The first suitor is a project kid-gone-Wall Street who still has ties to the drug game (slash a cheating husband in a midlife crisis). The second is a tragic mulatto who literally has a line about how he doesnât want to choose between one identity or the other. That stuff was played out when I was a teenager. I wonder Gillian if the characters simply werenât rescuable from the time and place they were created (and maybe Mars was in part because if anything black geeks are more visible in pop culture now than they used to be). Also light-skinned men are definitely not out of style shout out to my Blewish brother Drake (or is he canceled? Iâm old and canât keep track). Mock: As Adrienne said it was the scenes shared between the women that were most rich. I honestly could have taken a Sheâs Gotta Have It sans the male characters from the original altogetherâmaybe keep Mars Blackmon but only because heâs so iconic. It is weird though that for a movie/TV show that is supposed to be essentially about a woman the character itâs most remembered for is a guy Mars Blackmon. Heâs the only character who has benefited from the marketing of the movie over the past few decades. We didnât even know where Tracy Camilla Johns (the original Nola Darling) disappeared to until she made that cameo in the new version. David Lee / Netflix Of course thereâs the theory that none of these characters are to be taken as literal people but rather as the multiple shades of Brooklyn. The male characters could be seen as metaphors for the parts of Brooklyn that aspire toward Manhattan-like wealth and prestige (Jamie) the parts that are straight blacktops and hip hop (Mars) and the parts that are that whole metro-self-fellatio-sexual part of NYC that really began blossoming in the â80s (Greer).
White: For sure but Iâd argue those arenât even representative of Brooklyn in this moment. Brooklyn is not the Brooklyn of the â80s or â90s (so Lee keeps reminding us). Mock: On another note Iâm thankful that they got rid of the rape scene from the movie. I think the transition to dealing with sexual harassment and assault in the streets was the showâs strongest material especially as it bled into Darlingâs art work which helped solve some of her financial problems. The personal became political then became personal again. Serwer: I think part of the reason why that subplot is so strong is that itâs based on a work called Stop Telling Women to Smile by the artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh who was also a consultant on the show. Fazlalizadeh put up a series of posters around Brooklyn with similar antiâstreet harassment messages she drew from women she interviewed about their experiences. Green: Spikeâs long talked about regretting that rape scene (and as recently as November). I agree Brentin that the show did a really good job of making sexual trauma an undercurrent without visually exploiting female charactersâfrom the street-art campaign to Darlingâs art student replacing Lilâ Kim with herself on the Hard Core album cover for a school assignment. With the âfree black female formâ as its thematic throughline the show subtly deals with sex and trauma complicating the idea of autonomy and who has access to it.
White: I think that the use of Raqueletta Moss and her story of abuse as a child and how she overcame it was a clever way to explicitly deal with the subject without as Adrienne suggested having to resort to exploitative rape scenes. Also Mossâs decision to take Darling on as a mentee despite having witnessed her immaturity at work was one of my favorite developments. That relationship between those two black women felt organic and important. Serwer: I liked the Moss character in part because I can remember teachers pulling me aside and giving me that kind of blunt real-talk lecture about how bad life can get in order to keep you from dealing with things they had to deal with or saw other people deal with. The characterâs past isnât what youâd call original but again itâs rescued by a strong performance by the actress DeâAdre Aziza. David Lee / Netflix White: Before we wrap this we need to talk about that wild butt-implant narrative involving one of Darlingâs closest friends Shemekka. This storyline was alternately framed as a comedy and a serious commentary on the way society values women. But ultimately I thought it presented some pretty major problems for the plot and the showâs portrayal of women. Mock: Iâm not quite sure what they were going for with that thread. It felt like something that got cut from Chi-Raq. | 1Neutral
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2,227 | Why Hensley Meulens thinks he should be Yankees manager | Hensley Meulens | Hensley Meulens spent eight seasons playing in the Yankees organization before he was released in 1993 a once highly touted prospect who never found success in the majors.
Now that he has a chance to come back to The Bronx as a manager Meulens believes those years with the organization will benefit him .
âI was groomed to be a winner â Meulens said during a Thursday conference call following his interview. âEverything that was instilled in me especially wining and becoming a true baseball player I learned here. Iâve been away from here for over 24 years. Every time I go somewhere people say âYou used to play for the Yankees â¦â Growing up here was essential for me and the person I became and the way I learned to play the game.â
But that association alone wonât get Meulens the job â and thatâs where he hopes the rest of his résumé comes in.
The 50-year-old was the Giantsâ hitting coach for eight years before being named their bench coach following the 2017 season. He also managed the Netherlands in the last two World Baseball Classics finishing fourth both times.
A native of Curacao Meulens has worked with Didi Gregorius frequently in recent offseasons â in addition to Gregorius playing for Meulens in the WBC earlier this year.
He âs the third candidate to officially interview for the vacant Yankees managerial position following bench coach Rob Thomson and former Indians and Mariners manager Eric Wedge.
Meulens â history with the Yankees goes back over 30 years. He was signed by the Yankees in 1985 and made his MLB debut with them in 1989.
Since then he played with the Diamondbacks and Expos as well as three seasons in Japan. And for the last 15 years he âs been a coach.
Meulens pointed to the fact that he âs played âall over the worldâ and was on a staff that won three World Series title in five seasons with the Giants.
More than that though he is confident he checks some of the other boxes general manager Brian Cashman has mentioned in his search for Joe Girardiâs replacement â mostly when it comes to communication.
Meulens speaks five languages but he insisted there was more to his communications skills than that.
âIâm a guy that likes going around the clubhouse talking to guys and finding out how guys are feeling so I have an understanding of whatâs going on ââ Meulens said. âYou have to understand as a coach youâre kind of a psychologist at the same time.â
âThe managers that are having success that want to have success theyâve got to [get] up to speed with that kind of stuff because itâs facts â Meulens said.
âNow that a spot is open of course this is a place where I want to come back â Meulens said. âThis is where I grew up. My first crack at being a major leaguer was here. ⦠A lot of my history goes back here and I think they would welcome me back into this environment.ââ | [TGT] spent eight seasons playing in the Yankees organization before [TGT] was released in 1993 a once highly touted prospect who never found success in the majors.
Now that [TGT] has a chance to come back to The Bronx as a manager Meulens believes those years with the organization will benefit [TGT] .
âI was groomed to be a winner â Meulens said during a Thursday conference call following his interview. âEverything that was instilled in me especially wining and becoming a true baseball player I learned here. Iâve been away from here for over 24 years. Every time I go somewhere people say âYou used to play for the Yankees â¦â Growing up here was essential for me and the person I became and the way I learned to play the game.â
But that association alone wonât get Meulens the job â and thatâs where he hopes the rest of his résumé comes in.
The 50-year-old was the Giantsâ hitting coach for eight years before being named their bench coach following the 2017 season. He also managed the Netherlands in the last two World Baseball Classics finishing fourth both times.
A native of Curacao Meulens has worked with Didi Gregorius frequently in recent offseasons â in addition to Gregorius playing for Meulens in the WBC earlier this year.
He âs the third candidate to officially interview for the vacant Yankees managerial position following bench coach Rob Thomson and former Indians and Mariners manager Eric Wedge.
Meulens â history with the Yankees goes back over 30 years. He was signed by the Yankees in 1985 and made his MLB debut with them in 1989.
Since then he played with the Diamondbacks and Expos as well as three seasons in Japan. And for the last 15 years he âs been a coach.
Meulens pointed to the fact that he âs played âall over the worldâ and was on a staff that won three World Series title in five seasons with the Giants.
More than that though he is confident he checks some of the other boxes general manager Brian Cashman has mentioned in his search for Joe Girardiâs replacement â mostly when it comes to communication.
Meulens speaks five languages but he insisted there was more to his communications skills than that.
âIâm a guy that likes going around the clubhouse talking to guys and finding out how guys are feeling so I have an understanding of whatâs going on ââ Meulens said. âYou have to understand as a coach youâre kind of a psychologist at the same time.â
âThe managers that are having success that want to have success theyâve got to [get] up to speed with that kind of stuff because itâs facts â Meulens said.
âNow that a spot is open of course this is a place where I want to come back â Meulens said. âThis is where I grew up. My first crack at being a major leaguer was here. ⦠A lot of my history goes back here and I think they would welcome me back into this environment.ââ | 1Neutral
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2,228 | The Brutal Rise of El Mencho: Mexico's Next | El Mencho | Chapo's sons had made the mistake of partying on the turf of Sinaloa's newest and most dangerous rival: an upstart cartel boss named Rubén Oseguera Cervantes â alias "El Mencho." A former Jalisco state policeman who once served three years in a U.S. prison for selling heroin Mencho heads what many experts call Mexico's fastest-growing deadliest and according to some richest drug cartel â the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación or CJNG. Although he's basically unknown in the U.S. Mencho has been indicted in a D.C. federal court on charges of drug trafficking corruption and murder and currently has a $5 million bounty on his head. Aside from perhaps Rafael Caro Quintero â the aging drug lord still wanted for the 1985 torture and killing of a DEA agent â he is probably America's top cartel target. "It was Chapo " says a DEA source. "Now it's Mencho ."
CJNG specialize in methamphetamine which has higher profit margins than cocaine or heroin. By focusing on lucrative foreign markets in Europe and Asia the cartel has simultaneously maintained a low profile in the U.S. and built up a massive war chest which some experts estimate is worth $20 billion. "These guys have way more money than Sinaloa " says a former DEA agent who spent years hunting the cartel in Mexico (and who requested anonymity for security reasons). According to another U.S. investigator " Mencho has been very very aggressive â and so far unfortunately it 's paid off."
"We've seen it become very bloody and a lot of people attribute that to El Mencho himself " says Scott Stewart a senior cartel analyst at Stratfor a private intelligence firm. "Wherever they try to muscle in it creates bodies."
Mencho has also displayed a savagery that's extreme even by narco standards. For the admittedly brutal Chapo killing was a necessary part of business. For Mencho it seems more like sadism as public spectacle. There have been mass killings such as the 35 bound and tortured bodies dumped in the streets of Veracruz during evening rush hour in 2011. Two years later CJNG operatives raped killed and set fire to a 10-year-old girl whom they (mistakenly) believed was a rival's daughter. In 2015 CJNG assassins executed a man and his elementary-school-age son by detonating sticks of dynamite duct-taped to their bodies laughing as they filmed the ghastly scene with their phones. "This is ISIS stuff " says one DEA agent who has investigated the cartel. "The manner in which they kill people the sheer numbers â it's unparalleled even in Mexico."
Mori 35 is square-jawed and earnest with the friendly authority of a park ranger albeit one who carries a Glock. But he's also "a bulldog when it comes to investigations " says his supervisor DEA Special Agent in Charge James Comer. Prior to joining the DEA Mori worked as an L.A. County sheriff's deputy on patrol in Compton. Now as the agency's foremost investigator into CJNG â and the agent who helped prepare the 2014 indictment against Mencho â he knows the cartel probably better than anyone in America. "I've been working these guys pretty much since I started " Mori says. "This is what I do."
The first time Mencho popped up on Mori's radar was a fluke. Back in 2010 Mori was working on an unrelated money-laundering case with a field agent in Guadalajara who told him about a fresh target a new cartel: "They're a huge problem down here in Jalisco. When Chapo gets picked up these guys are gonna run the show."
But as Mencho quickly built his business his operation grew more complex. He invested heavily in submarines which he used to bring in narcotics from South America. (According to the former DEA agent he even hired Russian naval engineers to help design the subs.) He avoided American scrutiny by focusing on overseas markets such as Australia where â as Mori explains â a kilo of cocaine can fetch quadruple the price it does in the States. ("You send five tons to Australia it's like doing 20 here " he says.) Mencho also employed more earthly techniques like using fashion models to smuggle in drugs. According to the former field agent CJNG traffickers would pose as magazine photographers complete with fake credentials and fly into Mexico with "talent" from Colombia and Venezuela. Authorities would be so distracted by the women that the drugs would slip right in.
Mencho leveraged his power using the twin tools of corruption and intimidation. Captured CJNG members have testified about how he hates disobedience and likes to make his victims beg forgiveness before killing them. "This is a guy who'll execute your whole family based on not much more than a rumor " a source says. "He just has zero regard for human life." According to one source who met Mencho he's a shrewd businessman who doesn't drink doesn't have lovers like other cartel leaders do and trusts almost no one.
The former field agent says he's heard multiple taped phone calls of Mencho talking to cartel underlings. "These guys are killers themselves and they were afraid " the agent says. "He was ordering them around. I don't think I heard any where he was calm. But he wasn't a hothead. The yelling was very controlled. He knew what he was doing."
Mencho 's ferocity inspired similar devotion from his troops. "One time there was a big shootout at a fair " the former agent recalls. "Someone threw a grenade and some [CJNG] guys fell on it to avoid Mencho getting killed." According to the agent Mencho's ruthlessness also made it hard to recruit informants against him. The agent once had a source who got close â he had an address for Mencho . But when the cartel realized he was sniffing around they kidnapped the man as well as his teenage son. "They found the father's body a month later " the agent says. "He'd been tortured. They never found the kid."
Mencho also bought off cops. Jalisco's governor Aristóteles Sandoval has said that when he first took office the state's "greatest vulnerability was the infiltration of organized crime" into its police forces. According to a report by Reuters at one point CJNG had more than half of Jalisco's municipal police on the payroll â some at more than five times their salaries. "People stopped trusting the police " said Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer. And the cops Mencho couldn't buy he terrorized. According to the former DEA field agent CJNG inspired an extraordinary degree of fear in Mexican police above and beyond that of most cartels. "They were afraid of [Mencho] " he says. "They didn't want to piss him off."
Then there was the time (never publicly reported) that Mencho sent a severed pig's head to the attorney general in Mexico City as a warning. "They put it right on his doorstep in an ice chest " the former field agent says. "I was surprised it was only a pig."
A recently surfaced telephone call shows how casually Mencho wields the threat of violence. On the recording he can be heard talking to a local police commander (call sign "Delta One") whose officers were apparently being too zealous for Mencho 's liking. An abridged translation follows:
While CJNG were ramping up operations the DEA was preoccupied with Chapo's Sinaloa cartel helping Mencho fly under the radar. "All the cables out of headquarters all the intelligence reports were focused on Chapo " the former field agent says. "The bosses in D.C. were like 'We've never heard of [CJNG].' They didn't think they were important." Partly as a result Mori's investigation had difficulty gaining traction. "We hit a dead end " he says. "We didn't get close to Mencho didn't get any sources didn't get any wiretaps. We knew we had this big player this up-and-coming narco â but we had no 'in' to investigate him."
So the case was put on the back burner and for the next few years CJNG became an afterthought. "A few people at headquarters and in Mexico saw what was going on " Mori says. "But if you asked most DEA agents [back then] if they knew who Mencho was they would say no."
Mencho must have dreamed of more than avocados however because within a few years he had packed up and moved north to California. By 1986 he was living in the Bay Area where he was arrested by San Francisco police for possession of stolen property and a loaded gun. A booking photo from the incident shows a 19-year-old Mencho wearing a hoodie and a blank expression acne on his baby face. Two months later his first child was born. | Chapo's sons had made the mistake of partying on the turf of Sinaloa's newest and most dangerous rival: an upstart cartel boss named Rubén Oseguera Cervantes â alias " [TGT] ." A former Jalisco state policeman who once served three years in a U.S. prison for selling heroin Mencho heads what many experts call Mexico's fastest-growing deadliest and according to some richest drug cartel â the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación or CJNG. Although he's basically unknown in the U.S. Mencho has been indicted in a D.C. federal court on charges of drug trafficking corruption and murder and currently has a $5 million bounty on his head. Aside from perhaps Rafael Caro Quintero â the aging drug lord still wanted for the 1985 torture and killing of a DEA agent â he is probably America's top cartel target. "It was Chapo " says a DEA source. "Now it's Mencho ."
CJNG specialize in methamphetamine which has higher profit margins than cocaine or heroin. By focusing on lucrative foreign markets in Europe and Asia the cartel has simultaneously maintained a low profile in the U.S. and built up a massive war chest which some experts estimate is worth $20 billion. "These guys have way more money than Sinaloa " says a former DEA agent who spent years hunting the cartel in Mexico (and who requested anonymity for security reasons). According to another U.S. investigator " Mencho has been very very aggressive â and so far unfortunately it 's paid off."
"We've seen it become very bloody and a lot of people attribute that to [TGT] himself " says Scott Stewart a senior cartel analyst at Stratfor a private intelligence firm. "Wherever they try to muscle in it creates bodies."
Mencho has also displayed a savagery that's extreme even by narco standards. For the admittedly brutal Chapo killing was a necessary part of business. For Mencho it seems more like sadism as public spectacle. There have been mass killings such as the 35 bound and tortured bodies dumped in the streets of Veracruz during evening rush hour in 2011. Two years later CJNG operatives raped killed and set fire to a 10-year-old girl whom they (mistakenly) believed was a rival's daughter. In 2015 CJNG assassins executed a man and his elementary-school-age son by detonating sticks of dynamite duct-taped to their bodies laughing as they filmed the ghastly scene with their phones. "This is ISIS stuff " says one DEA agent who has investigated the cartel. "The manner in which they kill people the sheer numbers â it's unparalleled even in Mexico."
Mori 35 is square-jawed and earnest with the friendly authority of a park ranger albeit one who carries a Glock. But he's also "a bulldog when it comes to investigations " says his supervisor DEA Special Agent in Charge James Comer. Prior to joining the DEA Mori worked as an L.A. County sheriff's deputy on patrol in Compton. Now as the agency's foremost investigator into CJNG â and the agent who helped prepare the 2014 indictment against Mencho â he knows the cartel probably better than anyone in America. "I've been working these guys pretty much since I started " Mori says. "This is what I do."
The first time Mencho popped up on Mori's radar was a fluke. Back in 2010 Mori was working on an unrelated money-laundering case with a field agent in Guadalajara who told him about a fresh target a new cartel: "They're a huge problem down here in Jalisco. When Chapo gets picked up these guys are gonna run the show."
But as Mencho quickly built his business his operation grew more complex. He invested heavily in submarines which he used to bring in narcotics from South America. (According to the former DEA agent he even hired Russian naval engineers to help design the subs.) He avoided American scrutiny by focusing on overseas markets such as Australia where â as Mori explains â a kilo of cocaine can fetch quadruple the price it does in the States. ("You send five tons to Australia it's like doing 20 here " he says.) Mencho also employed more earthly techniques like using fashion models to smuggle in drugs. According to the former field agent CJNG traffickers would pose as magazine photographers complete with fake credentials and fly into Mexico with "talent" from Colombia and Venezuela. Authorities would be so distracted by the women that the drugs would slip right in.
Mencho leveraged his power using the twin tools of corruption and intimidation. Captured CJNG members have testified about how he hates disobedience and likes to make his victims beg forgiveness before killing them. "This is a guy who'll execute your whole family based on not much more than a rumor " a source says. "He just has zero regard for human life." According to one source who met Mencho he's a shrewd businessman who doesn't drink doesn't have lovers like other cartel leaders do and trusts almost no one.
The former field agent says he's heard multiple taped phone calls of Mencho talking to cartel underlings. "These guys are killers themselves and they were afraid " the agent says. "He was ordering them around. I don't think I heard any where he was calm. But he wasn't a hothead. The yelling was very controlled. He knew what he was doing."
Mencho 's ferocity inspired similar devotion from his troops. "One time there was a big shootout at a fair " the former agent recalls. "Someone threw a grenade and some [CJNG] guys fell on it to avoid Mencho getting killed." According to the agent Mencho's ruthlessness also made it hard to recruit informants against him. The agent once had a source who got close â he had an address for Mencho . But when the cartel realized he was sniffing around they kidnapped the man as well as his teenage son. "They found the father's body a month later " the agent says. "He'd been tortured. They never found the kid."
Mencho also bought off cops. Jalisco's governor Aristóteles Sandoval has said that when he first took office the state's "greatest vulnerability was the infiltration of organized crime" into its police forces. According to a report by Reuters at one point CJNG had more than half of Jalisco's municipal police on the payroll â some at more than five times their salaries. "People stopped trusting the police " said Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer. And the cops Mencho couldn't buy he terrorized. According to the former DEA field agent CJNG inspired an extraordinary degree of fear in Mexican police above and beyond that of most cartels. "They were afraid of [Mencho] " he says. "They didn't want to piss him off."
Then there was the time (never publicly reported) that Mencho sent a severed pig's head to the attorney general in Mexico City as a warning. "They put it right on his doorstep in an ice chest " the former field agent says. "I was surprised it was only a pig."
A recently surfaced telephone call shows how casually Mencho wields the threat of violence. On the recording he can be heard talking to a local police commander (call sign "Delta One") whose officers were apparently being too zealous for Mencho 's liking. An abridged translation follows:
While CJNG were ramping up operations the DEA was preoccupied with Chapo's Sinaloa cartel helping Mencho fly under the radar. "All the cables out of headquarters all the intelligence reports were focused on Chapo " the former field agent says. "The bosses in D.C. were like 'We've never heard of [CJNG].' They didn't think they were important." Partly as a result Mori's investigation had difficulty gaining traction. "We hit a dead end " he says. "We didn't get close to Mencho didn't get any sources didn't get any wiretaps. We knew we had this big player this up-and-coming narco â but we had no 'in' to investigate him."
So the case was put on the back burner and for the next few years CJNG became an afterthought. "A few people at headquarters and in Mexico saw what was going on " Mori says. "But if you asked most DEA agents [back then] if they knew who Mencho was they would say no."
Mencho must have dreamed of more than avocados however because within a few years he had packed up and moved north to California. By 1986 he was living in the Bay Area where he was arrested by San Francisco police for possession of stolen property and a loaded gun. A booking photo from the incident shows a 19-year-old Mencho wearing a hoodie and a blank expression acne on his baby face. Two months later his first child was born. | 1Neutral
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2,229 | California restaurant 'proudly' serves Popeyes chicken as its own charges $13 | Kim Sanchez | Sweet Dixie Kitchen owner Kim Sanchez saw the Yelp review and responded boldly defending the origins of her chicken.
âWe PROUDLY SERVE Popeyes' spicy tenders â the best fried chicken anywhere and from New Orleans â which are delivered twice a day. We also in case you need to know buy our gumbo from a friend who sells it at a local farmers market â Sanchez said in her response.
In an interview with Fox News Sanchez said that she started using Popeyes two months ago for two new dishes â fried chicken and waffles and their fried chicken sandwich.
âI tried Costco chicken I tried Restaurant Depot chicken and then I went to dinner at Popeyes and knew this was the chicken we had to use for the store. Itâs the best chicken â she says.
Sanchez claims that she has always been upfront with the use of the chicken chainâs spicy fried chicken strips.
However despite the complaints rolling in Sanchez has doubled down on her decision to outsource the restaurantâs fried chicken in a long rant on Facebook detailing where the brunch outpost gets its ingredients. | [TGT] saw the Yelp review and responded boldly defending the origins of [TGT] chicken.
âWe PROUDLY SERVE Popeyes' spicy tenders â the best fried chicken anywhere and from New Orleans â which are delivered twice a day. We also in case you need to know buy our gumbo from a friend who sells it at a local farmers market â [TGT] said in [TGT] response.
In an interview with Fox News [TGT] said that [TGT] started using Popeyes two months ago for two new dishes â fried chicken and waffles and their fried chicken sandwich.
âI tried Costco chicken I tried Restaurant Depot chicken and then I went to dinner at Popeyes and knew this was the chicken we had to use for the store. Itâs the best chicken â she says.
[TGT] claims that [TGT] has always been upfront with the use of the chicken chainâs spicy fried chicken strips.
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2,230 | A PayPal exec always tells job candidates exactly what he wants to hear | Derek Hann | If you're looking for a job at PayPal and you score an interview with chief learning officer Derek Hann consider yourself lucky. His interviews are like an open-book test.
Before the interview starts Hann said he makes sure the individual is familiar with the STAR method.
As part of this interviewing method he sticks to a series of behavioral questions which typically start with the phrase "Tell me about a time when."
Hann said he encourages candidates to take a second to think about their responses. He 'll even suggest jotting down notes breaking down the required elements of each answer â situation task action and result.
"A real response reflects not only on your past experience but how you think about those opportunities " he said.
He said candidates are most likely to forget to include the most important aspect of their response â the result. Instead they focus on the situation task and action without going into impact. He wants job candidates to explain why what they've done matters.
"What are the fingerprints that you left behind?" Hann asked. | If you're looking for a job at PayPal and you score an interview with [TGT] consider yourself lucky. His interviews are like an open-book test.
Before the interview starts [TGT] said [TGT] makes sure the individual is familiar with the STAR method.
As part of this interviewing method he sticks to a series of behavioral questions which typically start with the phrase "Tell me about a time when. [TGT]
said [TGT] encourages candidates to take a second to think about their responses. [TGT] 'll even suggest jotting down notes breaking down the required elements of each answer â situation task action and result.
"A real response reflects not only on your past experience but how you think about those opportunities " [TGT] said.
[TGT] said candidates are most likely to forget to include the most important aspect of their response â the result. Instead they focus on the situation task and action without going into impact. [TGT] wants job candidates to explain why what they've done matters.
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2,231 | FBI's use of foreign intelligence driving privacy debate | Christopher Wray | FBI Director Christopher Wray crafted the bridge story to show why his agents shouldn't have to get a warrant before querying foreign intelligence information legally gathered overseas. The FBI's use of foreign intelligence is at the heart of the debate over the future of the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act including the controversial Section 702. The law is set to expire Dec. 31.
"Let's say you find out that this person photographing the Key Bridge has been communicating with a known Islamic State recruiter which is the kind of information that's in the 702 database " Wray said at a recent forum on the subject. The FBI agent Wray said is "not going to be able to get a warrant just based on that to search the database."
"The idea of blinding the agent â putting some restriction on his ability to see information that we already constitutionally have sitting in our own data bases â the irony of that is tragic to me " Wray said.
Wray said tips are flooding into the FBI by the thousands. It's at this initial stage â where leads are sifted and prioritized â when foreign intelligence helps connect dots and spot possible national security threats he said. | [TGT] crafted the bridge story to show why [TGT] agents shouldn't have to get a warrant before querying foreign intelligence information legally gathered overseas. The FBI's use of foreign intelligence is at the heart of the debate over the future of the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act including the controversial Section 702. The law is set to expire Dec. 31.
"Let's say you find out that this person photographing the Key Bridge has been communicating with a known Islamic State recruiter which is the kind of information that's in the 702 database [TGT] said at a recent forum on the subject. The FBI agent Wray said is "not going to be able to get a warrant just based on that to search the database."
"The idea of blinding the agent â putting some restriction on his ability to see information that we already constitutionally have sitting in our own data bases â the irony of that is tragic to me " [TGT] said.
[TGT] said tips are flooding into the FBI by the thousands. It's at this initial stage â where leads are sifted and prioritized â when foreign intelligence helps connect dots and spot possible national security threats [TGT] said. | 1Neutral
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2,232 | North Korea Opens The Door To Possible Talks With The U.S. : NPR | Elise Hu | North Korea is opening the door to possible talks with the United States. The message came from a North Korean delegate at the Winter Olympics during an hour-long meeting with South Korea's president yesterday. North Korea and the U.S. haven't held diplomatic talks since 2012. So could that stalemate break? NPR's Elise Hu is in Seoul and joins us now. Hey Elise.
ELISE HU BYLINE: Hey there.
HU : This certainly is the first time that North Korea has signaled a willingness to talk with the United States in years but talks themselves are unlikely anytime soon because this is so vague right now. The South Korean presidential Blue House put out a statement yesterday that North Korea expressed a desire for talks that was again confirmed today. And North Korea agreed that as these North-South ties improve that there should be an improvement in North Korea-U.S. ties as well. And this is really helpful to the South Korean president Moon who really hasn't wanted to look like he's not getting anything from the North in return for all of the peace and goodwill gestures he's offered during the Olympics. So one of the demands by South Korea seems to be that the North be more willing to reopen dialogue with the U.S.
MARTIN: All right. NPR's Elise Hu for us this morning - thanks so much Elise. | North Korea is opening the door to possible talks with the United States. The message came from a North Korean delegate at the Winter Olympics during an hour-long meeting with South Korea's president yesterday. North Korea and the U.S. haven't held diplomatic talks since 2012. So could that stalemate break? [TGT] is in Seoul and joins us now. Hey Elise.
[TGT] BYLINE: Hey there.
[TGT] : This certainly is the first time that North Korea has signaled a willingness to talk with the United States in years but talks themselves are unlikely anytime soon because this is so vague right now. The South Korean presidential Blue House put out a statement yesterday that North Korea expressed a desire for talks that was again confirmed today. And North Korea agreed that as these North-South ties improve that there should be an improvement in North Korea-U.S. ties as well. And this is really helpful to the South Korean president Moon who really hasn't wanted to look like he's not getting anything from the North in return for all of the peace and goodwill gestures he's offered during the Olympics. So one of the demands by South Korea seems to be that the North be more willing to reopen dialogue with the U.S.
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2,233 | Pence Makes His First Trip To Afghanistan As Vice President : NPR | Trump â Trump | Vice President Pence made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Thursday. It is the first visit to the country by the president or vice president under the Trump administration and comes four months after Trump unveiled his strategy for the United States' role in the country.
Afghanistan is six months away from parliamentary elections and the Trump administration has sought to work with the Afghani leadership in preparation. The elections set for July 7 have been delayed almost three years because of security concerns.
"There are two ways of looking at the situation " Chief Executive Abdullah told NPR's Steve Inskeep in November. "One is to wish things away which I don't think that it happens in the realities of our world. [And] one is to make your best efforts to find a way out which I think the current administration is doing the U.S. administration and we â us on the ground â the Afghans are making our best efforts to put an end to this war."
Trump has also mentioned the need to work with other South Asian countries especially Pakistan so insurgents can't seek haven outside Afghanistan's borders. In speaking to troops on Thursday Pence said Trump had put the country "on notice."
"The armed forces of the United States will remain engaged in Afghanistan until we eliminate the terrorist threat to our homeland to our people once and for all " he said. | Vice President Pence made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Thursday. It is the first visit to the country by the president or vice president under the Trump administration and comes four months after Trump unveiled his strategy for the United States' role in the country.
Afghanistan is six months away from parliamentary elections and the Trump administration has sought to work with the Afghani leadership in preparation. The elections set for July 7 have been delayed almost three years because of security concerns.
"There are two ways of looking at the situation " Chief Executive Abdullah told NPR's Steve Inskeep in November. "One is to wish things away which I don't think that it happens in the realities of our world. [And] one is to make your best efforts to find a way out which I think the current administration is doing the U.S. administration and we â us on the ground â the Afghans are making our best efforts to put an end to this war."
Trump has also mentioned the need to work with other South Asian countries especially Pakistan so insurgents can't seek haven outside Afghanistan's borders. In speaking to troops on Thursday Pence said Trump had put the country "on notice."
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2,234 | Lunch with Celebrity Chef Lidia Bastianich | Lidia Bastianich | When Lidia Bastianich tells you to eat the pasta you should eat the pasta.
Nearly 20 years ago thanks to her award-winning PBS shows Bastianich became a food star and introduced countless Americans to real Italian cooking which even then was dominated by ubiquitous red sauce and pasta dishes. She credits Julia Child for her TV break. After coming to one of Bastianich âs restaurant Child âwanted me to teach her how to make risotto and then she had me on her show. The producer then said âyouâre pretty good. How about a show of your own?â And thatâs how it evolved â she remembers. Child âencouraged me. She said âLidia you do for Italian cuisine what I do for French.â We remained friends.â
In real life Bastianich has a no-nonsense but warm demeanor which she exudes on her show. Countless hours spent watching her on TV gave me the false sense that we were old friends and at times during our meal as she doted on me it felt like I had found my long-lost nonna.
âA lot of adults tell me âI watched [the show] since I was a kid with grandma.â You know what that tells me? Itâs been a few years â she jokes. âIt pleases me because food is all about bringing people together and relating to each other â she adds more seriously.
But even after decades of cooking on TV running a restaurant empire and helping to start the wildly popular chain of Eataly stores she insists that she still enjoys cooking at home. In fact she just published her eleventh book Lidiaâs Celebrate Like an Italian which she co-wrote with her daughter Tanya Bastianich Manuali and includes 220 recipes for everything from cocktails to soup to dessert. âI havenât invented one of them â she admits. âI modified some. Iâve changed a little bit here and there.â
If anything she âs too modest and was very concerned about making the recipes as approachable as possible. âI take these recipes and simplify them as much as I can â she says since she actually wants the reader to learn them and enjoy using them. While in her restaurants the emphasis is the opposite itâs âto create that moment that the guest will not be able to do at home.â Most of the dishes at Del Posto certainly would fit into that category. Speaking of which when I try to get her to order more food for herself in true grandmother fashion she dodges my suggestions and insists âI can talk while you eat.â
While I enjoy a delicious heirloom tomato salad the aforementioned pasta and perfectly cooked swordfish fillets she shares with me her familyâs fascinating story of coming to America. She was born in Istria which before World War II was part of Italy but afterwards became part of communist Yugoslavia. Her family fled to Italy and lived in a refugee camp for two years before emigrating to America when she was 12. Itâs an experience that she thinks a lot about today as the country debates its policies about letting in immigrants. âMost of us are immigrants except for the Indians â she says. And for her that struggle is personal and one that is wrapped up with being a chef. âFood is all about the story of a people through the ages â she reminds me.
When her family got to America she was in for a surprise. âThe Italian food I didnât recognize it when we first came here â she says since it was so different than what she had grown up eating. She did however immediately fall in love with boxed cake mixes that she would whip up each night. Catholic Relief Services put them up in a hotel for three weeks when they first arrived and then her father found a job and a small apartment in Queens that they moved into.
She âs reticent to tell me more since she âs working on a memoir that should be out next year which will go into greater detail about her familyâs story and her rise to culinary stardom. While Iâm a bit disappointed Bastianich promises weâll meet next year to discuss it . I canât wait. | When [TGT] tells you to eat the pasta you should eat the pasta.
Nearly 20 years ago thanks to her award-winning PBS shows [TGT] became a food star and introduced countless Americans to real Italian cooking which even then was dominated by ubiquitous red sauce and pasta dishes. [TGT] credits Julia Child for [TGT] TV break. After coming to one of Bastianich âs restaurant Child âwanted me to teach her how to make risotto and then she had me on her show. The producer then said âyouâre pretty good. How about a show of your own?â And thatâs how it evolved â she remembers. Child âencouraged me. She said âLidia you do for Italian cuisine what I do for French.â We remained friends.â
In real life [TGT] has a no-nonsense but warm demeanor which [TGT] exudes on [TGT] show. Countless hours spent watching [TGT] on TV gave me the false sense that we were old friends and at times during our meal as [TGT] doted on me it felt like I had found my long-lost nonna.
âA lot of adults tell me âI watched [the show] since I was a kid with grandma.â You know what that tells me? Itâs been a few years â she jokes. âIt pleases me because food is all about bringing people together and relating to each other â she adds more seriously.
But even after decades of cooking on TV running a restaurant empire and helping to start the wildly popular chain of Eataly stores she insists that she still enjoys cooking at home. In fact she just published her eleventh book Lidiaâs Celebrate Like an Italian which she co-wrote with her daughter Tanya Bastianich Manuali and includes 220 recipes for everything from cocktails to soup to dessert. âI havenât invented one of them â she admits. âI modified some. Iâve changed a little bit here and there.â
If anything she âs too modest and was very concerned about making the recipes as approachable as possible. âI take these recipes and simplify them as much as I can â she says since she actually wants the reader to learn them and enjoy using them. While in her restaurants the emphasis is the opposite itâs âto create that moment that the guest will not be able to do at home.â Most of the dishes at Del Posto certainly would fit into that category. Speaking of which when I try to get her to order more food for herself in true grandmother fashion she dodges my suggestions and insists âI can talk while you eat.â
While I enjoy a delicious heirloom tomato salad the aforementioned pasta and perfectly cooked swordfish fillets she shares with me her familyâs fascinating story of coming to America. She was born in Istria which before World War II was part of Italy but afterwards became part of communist Yugoslavia. Her family fled to Italy and lived in a refugee camp for two years before emigrating to America when she was 12. Itâs an experience that she thinks a lot about today as the country debates its policies about letting in immigrants. âMost of us are immigrants except for the Indians â she says. And for her that struggle is personal and one that is wrapped up with being a chef. âFood is all about the story of a people through the ages â she reminds me.
When her family got to America she was in for a surprise. âThe Italian food I didnât recognize it when we first came here â she says since it was so different than what she had grown up eating. She did however immediately fall in love with boxed cake mixes that she would whip up each night. Catholic Relief Services put them up in a hotel for three weeks when they first arrived and then her father found a job and a small apartment in Queens that they moved into.
She âs reticent to tell me more since she âs working on a memoir that should be out next year which will go into greater detail about her familyâs story and her rise to culinary stardom. While Iâm a bit disappointed Bastianich promises weâll meet next year to discuss it . I canât wait. | 2Positive
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2,235 | The Yankees may have arrived early but they can win the World Series with their bullpen | Brian Cashman | CLEVELAND â The New York Yankees of the mid-to-late 1990s have acquired their own mythology. Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada and the rest of the dynastic Yankees seem through the lens of the present to have emerged fully formed as a colossus. Brian Cashman has a different perspective because he witnessed them come together. âThat team â Cashman said âwas young too at one point.â
The common refrain has it that the current Yankees have arrived ahead of schedule. Maybe thatâs true in part. For Cashman and for the rest of the Yankees both the Baby Bombers and ancient pinstripers such as CC Sabathia and Brett Gardner they have arrived period. Theyâre here among the final four teams standing in a season flush with uncommonly great teams with a sole expectation: While they have a chance win the World Series.
â âArriving earlyâ implies some guarantee of arriving in the future â Cashman said. âIâve been around the block long enough to know listen you just seize the moment.â
The Yankees may have qualified for the playoffs as a wild card but they are part of the raft of âsuperteams â to use Cashman âs phrase dominating the playoffs. The Yankees finished the season with the second-best run differential in baseball behind only the Indians and won 91 games.
The Yankees are cast in these playoffs as an upstart. They sold off Andrew Miller Aroldis Chapman Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann and shed Alex Rodriguez last season. But they re-signed Chapman in free agency and when young stars Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez led the Yankees to a strong start Cashman added reinforcements with aggression dealing prospects for Todd Frazier Tommy Kahnle and David Robertson. | CLEVELAND â The New York Yankees of the mid-to-late 1990s have acquired their own mythology. Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada and the rest of the dynastic Yankees seem through the lens of the present to have emerged fully formed as a colossus. [TGT] has a different perspective because [TGT] witnessed them come together. âThat team â [TGT] said âwas young too at one point.â
The common refrain has it that the current Yankees have arrived ahead of schedule. Maybe thatâs true in part. For Cashman and for the rest of the Yankees both the Baby Bombers and ancient pinstripers such as CC Sabathia and Brett Gardner they have arrived period. Theyâre here among the final four teams standing in a season flush with uncommonly great teams with a sole expectation: While they have a chance win the World Series.
â âArriving earlyâ implies some guarantee of arriving in the future â [TGT] said. âIâve been around the block long enough to know listen you just seize the moment.â
The Yankees may have qualified for the playoffs as a wild card but they are part of the raft of âsuperteams â to use [TGT] âs phrase dominating the playoffs. The Yankees finished the season with the second-best run differential in baseball behind only the Indians and won 91 games.
The Yankees are cast in these playoffs as an upstart. They sold off Andrew Miller Aroldis Chapman Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann and shed Alex Rodriguez last season. But they re-signed Chapman in free agency and when young stars Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez led the Yankees to a strong start [TGT] added reinforcements with aggression dealing prospects for Todd Frazier Tommy Kahnle and David Robertson. | 2Positive
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2,236 | Sacked Catalonia leader turns himself in polls show independence strength | Carles Puigdemont | BRUSSELS/MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Sacked Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont and four associates turned themselves in to Belgian police on Sunday following Spainâs issuing of an arrest warrant for rebellion and sedition.
FILE PHOTO - Sacked Catalan President Carles Puigdemont makes a statement in this still image from video calling for the release of "the legitimate government of Catalonia" after a Spanish judge ordered nine Catalan secessionist leaders to be held in custody pending a potential trial over the region's independence push in Brussels Belgium November 2 2017. TV3 via REUTERS TV
All are wanted by Madrid for actions related to the push for the regionâs secession from Spain. Puigdemont has become the public face of that move for independence.
Puigdemont traveled to Belgium shortly after Madrid took control. On Sunday morning Puigdemont and four of his former councillors presented themselves to police in Brussels. | [TGT] turned [TGT] in to Belgian police on Sunday following Spainâs issuing of an arrest warrant for rebellion and sedition.
FILE [TGT] makes a statement in this still image from video calling for the release of "the legitimate government of Catalonia" after a Spanish judge ordered nine Catalan secessionist leaders to be held in custody pending a potential trial over the region's independence push in Brussels Belgium November 2 2017. TV3 via REUTERS TV
All are wanted by Madrid for actions related to the push for the regionâs secession from Spain. [TGT] has become the public face of that move for independence.
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2,237 | Chinese rights lawyer jailed two years for inciting subversion | Jiang Tianyong | FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy demonstrators hold up portraits of Chinese disbarred lawyer Jiang Tianyong demanding his release during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong China December 23 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
In a verdict posted on its official Weibo microblog on Tuesday morning the Changsha Intermediate Peopleâs Court said the lawyer Jiang Tianyong developed notions of overthrowing Chinaâs political system after being influenced by training workshops held by âanti-China foreign forcesâ overseas.
Jiang âs wife Jin Bianling who lives in the United States told Reuters on Tuesday that the verdict was âunacceptableâ and that she believed her husband was being made an example to âdeter or repressâ other rights lawyers.
âI do not acknowledge or accept this verdict â she said in a telephone interview. âJiang Tianyong is innocentâ.
The verdict was handed down exactly one year after Jiang first disappeared last November while visiting the family of another detained rights lawyer. He was held incommunicado for six months before being formally charged.
The facts in the courtâs ruling were broadly similar to those in a confession made by Jiang during his trial in August. Video footage of Jiang reading parts of a written statement were released by the court via social media at the time.
But rights groups said the trial was a show trial designed to discredit him and that Jiang was caught up in a sweeping campaign directed against lawyers and activists.
Jin said Jiangâs family was unable to appoint their own lawyers and that she had not been able to contact Jiang since his detention.
âWe donât know what his conditions are inside or what kind of torture of mistreatment he has suffered â she said. | FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy demonstrators hold up portraits of [TGT] demanding [TGT] release during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong China December 23 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
In a verdict posted on its official Weibo microblog on Tuesday morning the Changsha Intermediate Peopleâs Court said the lawyer [TGT] developed notions of overthrowing Chinaâs political system after being influenced by training workshops held by âanti-China foreign forcesâ overseas.
Jiang âs wife Jin Bianling who lives in the United States told Reuters on Tuesday that the verdict was âunacceptableâ and that she believed her husband was being made an example to âdeter or repressâ other rights lawyers.
âI do not acknowledge or accept this verdict â she said in a telephone interview. âJiang Tianyong is innocentâ.
The verdict was handed down exactly one year after Jiang first disappeared last November while visiting the family of another detained rights lawyer. He was held incommunicado for six months before being formally charged.
The facts in the courtâs ruling were broadly similar to those in a confession made by Jiang during his trial in August. Video footage of Jiang reading parts of a written statement were released by the court via social media at the time.
But rights groups said the trial was a show trial designed to discredit him and that Jiang was caught up in a sweeping campaign directed against lawyers and activists.
Jin said Jiangâs family was unable to appoint their own lawyers and that she had not been able to contact Jiang since his detention.
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2,238 | N.Y. medical pot activist cuffed on cannabis charge in California | Dana Beal | Longtime New York medical marijuana advocate Dana Beal is back in the joint for attempting to transport 22 pounds of marijuana out of California police said Monday.
Beal 70 was arrested Saturday night in Hayfork Calif. a rural community about a hundred miles south of the Oregon border Trinity County Sheriffâs Spokeswoman Jill Lynn told the Daily News.
Beal was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of cannabis for sale and felony attempt to transport marijuana across state lines officials confirmed.
A year ago this week both Beal and Statzer were arrested together in Oregon after a state trooper stopped them for driving outside the line and over the speed limit â and allegedly found 55 pounds of marijuana in their vehicle.
Dana Beal center speaks at a rally in support of medical marijuana during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. (John Penley)
Beal a veteran of the Youth International Party or Yippies had been living in Manhattan after his release from federal prison in 2014 but also traveled a lot friends told the Daily News.
After his release Beal raised funds for a clinic in Tibet that uses Ibogaine a derivative of a West African plant to treat opioid addiction one friend said.
Beal was jailed on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of cannabis for sale and felony attempt to transport marijuana across state lines the source said. (Mariela Lombard)
Edwards who lives in Brooklyn called Beal an âAmerican heroâ who advocates for AIDS and cancer patients in New York.
Other supporters took to Facebook to post â Free Dana Bealâ messages.
A spokeswoman for the Trinity County District Attorney said Beal was due for his first appearance in court Tuesday. No formal charges were filed as of Monday morning she said. | Longtime New York medical marijuana advocate [TGT] is back in the joint for attempting to transport 22 pounds of marijuana out of California police said Monday.
[TGT] was arrested Saturday night in Hayfork Calif. a rural community about a hundred miles south of the Oregon border Trinity County Sheriffâs Spokeswoman Jill Lynn told the Daily News.
[TGT] was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of cannabis for sale and felony attempt to transport marijuana across state lines officials confirmed.
A year ago this week both [TGT] and Statzer were arrested together in Oregon after a state trooper stopped them for driving outside the line and over the speed limit â and allegedly found 55 pounds of marijuana in their vehicle.
[TGT] center speaks at a rally in support of medical marijuana during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. (John Penley)
Beal a veteran of the Youth International Party or Yippies had been living in Manhattan after his release from federal prison in 2014 but also traveled a lot friends told the Daily News.
After his release Beal raised funds for a clinic in Tibet that uses Ibogaine a derivative of a West African plant to treat opioid addiction one friend said.
[TGT] was jailed on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of cannabis for sale and felony attempt to transport marijuana across state lines [TGT] said. (Mariela Lombard)
Edwards who lives in Brooklyn called Beal an âAmerican heroâ who advocates for AIDS and cancer patients in New York.
Other supporters took to Facebook to post â Free Dana Bealâ messages.
A spokeswoman for the Trinity County District Attorney said [TGT] was due for [TGT] first appearance in court Tuesday. No formal charges were filed as of Monday morning she said. | 2Positive
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2,239 | Kim Kardashian says bikini pictures gave her body dysmorphia | Kim Kardashian | A recent trip to the beach left Kim Kardashian feeling badly about her body.
The reality star admits she was deeply troubled by the critical comments some people made about her body after unflattering photos of her in a bikini this past April in Mexico emerged online.
"You take pictures and people just body shame you " Kardashian said on Sunday's episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
"It's like literally giving me body dysmorphia " she said. "Like I'm so insecure I just can't take it."
Body dysmorphia is a medical condition that occurs when someone's perception of their own physical appearance leaves them imagining or exaggerating flaws to an obsessive extent. Kardashian did not specify whether she 'd actually been diagnosed with the condition during the episode.
Kim Kardashian spoke about feeling insecure during Sundayâs episode of âKeeping Up with the Kardashians.â (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tom Ford)
The photos surfaced during Kardashian 's trip to Mexico for her older sister Kourtney's 38th birthday. In the episode Kourtney suggests they go jet-skiing but Kim declines.
"I can't have fun after seeing those pics there's other pics where I look so good and it's just from a different angle " she says.
It's not the first time Kardashian has opened up about that incident taking a toll on her . She said during an appearance on "The View" in June that she believed the pictures had been photoshopped.
Kim Kardashian feared for her safety while staying in Mexico
"I saw these awful photos of myself when I was on a trip in Mexico and people were Photoshopping them and sharpening them " she said.
Kim Kardashian 's hottest moments
Kardashian 36 added on the daytime talk show that she hadn't worked out in several months after undergoing a pair of surgeries on her uterus.
"I definitely was not in my best shape " she said adding that she started working out with a bodybuilder shortly after.
Kardashian also revealed on this Sunday's wide-ranging episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" that she used to seek out paparazzi by going to venues where she knew photographers were present but was no longer interested in doing so. | A recent trip to the beach left [TGT] feeling badly about [TGT] body.
The reality star admits [TGT] was deeply troubled by the critical comments some people made about [TGT] body after unflattering photos of [TGT] in a bikini this past April in Mexico emerged online.
"You take pictures and people just body shame you " [TGT] said on Sunday's episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
"It's like literally giving me body dysmorphia " [TGT] said. "Like I'm so insecure I just can't take it."
Body dysmorphia is a medical condition that occurs when someone's perception of their own physical appearance leaves them imagining or exaggerating flaws to an obsessive extent. [TGT] did not specify whether [TGT] 'd actually been diagnosed with the condition during the episode.
[TGT] spoke about feeling insecure during Sundayâs episode of âKeeping Up with the Kardashians.â (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tom Ford)
The photos surfaced during [TGT] 's trip to Mexico for [TGT] older sister Kourtney's 38th birthday. In the episode Kourtney suggests they go jet-skiing but Kim declines.
"I can't have fun after seeing those pics there's other pics where I look so good and it's just from a different angle " [TGT] says.
It's not the first time [TGT] has opened up about that incident taking a toll on [TGT] . [TGT] said during an appearance on "The View" in June that [TGT] believed the pictures had been photoshopped.
[TGT] feared for [TGT] safety while staying in Mexico
"I saw these awful photos of myself when I was on a trip in Mexico and people were Photoshopping them and sharpening them " [TGT] said.
[TGT] 's hottest moments
Kardashian 36 added on the daytime talk show that [TGT] hadn't worked out in several months after undergoing a pair of surgeries on [TGT] uterus.
"I definitely was not in my best shape " [TGT] said adding that [TGT] started working out with a bodybuilder shortly after.
[TGT] also revealed on this Sunday's wide-ranging episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" that [TGT] used to seek out paparazzi by going to venues where [TGT] knew photographers were present but was no longer interested in doing so. | 2Positive
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2,240 | South African budget to set out 'tough' measures to repair post | Cyril Ramaphosa | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africaâs finance ministry is set to spell out âtough decisionsâ in its 2018 budget on Wednesday to plug a revenue gap and narrow the deficit providing an early look at how new President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to repair the ailing economy.
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba whose position is uncertain now amid talk of an imminent reshuffle by Ramaphosa sent shock waves through financial markets last October when he announced the projected revenue shortfall and flagged weak growth estimates and rising government debt.
Though it remained to be seen whether Gigaba would be the one tabling the budget in parliament on Wednesday his spokesman indicated there was no stepping back from tough measures which have also been emphasized by Ramaphosa .
In his maiden state of the nation address on Friday a day after his election as president by parliament Ramaphosa also warned of tough decisions to reduce the fiscal deficit and stabilize debt after years of weak growth.
Ramaphosa took over after Zuma stepped down on orders of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) ending nine years of office plagued by corruption allegations and economic mismanagement.
FILE PHOTO: Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba speaks to members of the media at Parliament before the State of the Nation Address by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa in Cape Town February 16 2018. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/File Photo | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africaâs finance ministry is set to spell out âtough decisionsâ in its 2018 budget on Wednesday to plug a revenue gap and narrow the deficit providing an early look at [TGT] plans to repair the ailing economy.
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba whose position is uncertain now amid talk of an imminent reshuffle by [TGT] sent shock waves through financial markets last October when [TGT] announced the projected revenue shortfall and flagged weak growth estimates and rising government debt.
Though it remained to be seen whether Gigaba would be the one tabling the budget in parliament on Wednesday [TGT] spokesman indicated there was no stepping back from tough measures which have also been emphasized by Ramaphosa .
In [TGT] maiden state of the nation address on Friday a day after [TGT] election as president by parliament [TGT] also warned of tough decisions to reduce the fiscal deficit and stabilize debt after years of weak growth.
[TGT] took over after Zuma stepped down on orders of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) ending nine years of office plagued by corruption allegations and economic mismanagement.
FILE PHOTO: Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba speaks to members of the media at Parliament before the State of the Nation Address by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa in Cape Town February 16 2018. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/File Photo | 2Positive
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2,241 | Disney Accused of Putting Trump Wig on Hillary Animatronic » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! | Hillary Clinton | Disney was accused of quickly revamping a Hillary Clinton animatronic to look like President Trump after viewers noted its facial features matched Clinton âs.
Disney built the animatronic for its âHall of Presidentsâ exhibit at Walt Disney World but just compare the animatronic to Clinton :
Itâs plausible that Disney started work on the animatronic before the 2016 presidential election â and expected Clinton to win.
Regardless the animatronic is such a poor replica of Trump that even left-wing NPR said it looks like Hillary .
All right do you think @Disney had a Hillary animatronic made and tried to reform to @realDonaldTrump Retweet for Yes Like for No#ImWithHer #HillaryForPrison #MagicKingdom pic.twitter.com/eg9Xx0DzkA â Rob Dew (@DewsNewz) December 19 2017 | Disney was accused of quickly revamping a Hillary Clinton animatronic to look like President Trump after viewers noted its facial features matched [TGT] âs.
Disney built the animatronic for its âHall of Presidentsâ exhibit at Walt Disney World but just compare the animatronic to [TGT] :
Itâs plausible that Disney started work on the animatronic before the 2016 presidential election â and expected Clinton to win.
Regardless the animatronic is such a poor replica of Trump that even left-wing NPR said it looks like Hillary .
All right do you think @Disney had a Hillary animatronic made and tried to reform to @realDonaldTrump Retweet for Yes Like for No#ImWithHer #HillaryForPrison #MagicKingdom pic.twitter.com/eg9Xx0DzkA â Rob Dew (@DewsNewz) December 19 2017 | 1Neutral
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2,242 | Tillerson: Evidence sanctions 'really starting to hurt' North Korea | Rex Tillerson | PALO ALTO Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday the United States is receiving evidence that international sanctions are âreally starting to hurtâ North Korea and praised China for putting pressure on Pyongyang.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in had attributed North Koreaâs recent willingness to talk to South Korea to the pain of sanctions Tillerson told an event at Stanford University in California.
Tillerson said that he was confident the pressure would eventually bring North Korea to the negotiating table over its nuclear and missile programs. Pyongyang has carried out nuclear and missiles tests in defiance of United Nations and other sanctions.
âWe are getting a lot of evidence that these sanctions are really starting to hurt â Tillerson said citing intelligence and anecdotal evidence from defectors.
He said Japan told a conference on North Korea in Vancouver on Tuesday that more than 100 North Korean fishing boats had drifted into its waters and two thirds of those aboard them had died.
âWhat they learned is that they are being sent out in the winter time because thereâs food shortages and they are being sent out to fish with inadequate fuel to get back â he said.
China did not attend the Vancouver meeting where 20 nations agreed to step up sanctions pressure on North Korea but Tillerson highlighted Beijingâs role.
âWe have never had Chinese support for sanctions like weâre getting now â he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives for a photo op during the Foreign Ministersâ Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula in Vancouver British Columbia Canada January 16 2018. REUTERS/Ben Nelms
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He said it was possible North Koreaâs presence âmay be their early effort to break the ice.â
âWeâll see - nothing may come of it â he said.
Tillerson said of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un: â he knows how to reach me if he wants to talk. But he âs go to tell me he wants to talk. Weâre not going to chase him .â
Tillerson said he was confident the sides would eventually get to the negotiating table and he wanted to know when that happened that the United States had âvery very strong military options standing behind me .â | PALO ALTO Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of [TGT] said on Wednesday the United States is receiving evidence that international sanctions are âreally starting to hurtâ North Korea and praised China for putting pressure on Pyongyang.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in had attributed North Koreaâs recent willingness to talk to South Korea to the pain of sanctions Tillerson told an event at Stanford University in California.
[TGT] said that [TGT] was confident the pressure would eventually bring North Korea to the negotiating table over its nuclear and missile programs. Pyongyang has carried out nuclear and missiles tests in defiance of United Nations and other sanctions.
âWe are getting a lot of evidence that these sanctions are really starting to hurt â [TGT] said citing intelligence and anecdotal evidence from defectors.
[TGT] said Japan told a conference on North Korea in Vancouver on Tuesday that more than 100 North Korean fishing boats had drifted into its waters and two thirds of those aboard them had died.
âWhat they learned is that they are being sent out in the winter time because thereâs food shortages and they are being sent out to fish with inadequate fuel to get back â he said.
China did not attend the Vancouver meeting where 20 nations agreed to step up sanctions pressure on North Korea but [TGT] highlighted Beijingâs role.
âWe have never had Chinese support for sanctions like weâre getting now â he said.
[TGT] arrives for a photo op during the Foreign Ministersâ Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula in Vancouver British Columbia Canada January 16 2018. REUTERS/Ben Nelms
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[TGT] said it was possible North Koreaâs presence âmay be their early effort to break the ice.â
âWeâll see - nothing may come of it â he said.
[TGT] said of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un: â he knows how to reach me if he wants to talk. But he âs go to tell me he wants to talk. Weâre not going to chase him .â
[TGT] said [TGT] was confident the sides would eventually get to the negotiating table and [TGT] wanted to know when that happened that the United States had âvery very strong military options standing behind me .â | 2Positive
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2,243 | South Africa's Zuma ready to quit if conditions met says news service | Jacob Zuma | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africaâs ruling African National Congress party on Tuesday put off a key meeting due to discuss President Jacob Zumaâs future later this week while an online news service quoted sources saying he was ready to quit if certain conditions were met.
Zuma has been in a weakened position since he was replaced as leader of the ANC by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa in December. Zuma no longer holds a top position in the party.
But the scheduled meeting of the National Executive Committee which has the power to demand that Zuma step down was suddenly moved to the weekend of Feb. 17.
The party has faced uncertainty over how its dual power structure will function after Ramaphosa took the reins of the party with Zuma remaining as head of state. Zumaâs tenure officially runs until mid-2019.
Then Times Live an online news service issued a report citing sources saying Zuma would resign as soon as a list of preconditions has been finalised in a deal struck with Ramaphosa.
Magashule who attended the meeting between the two leaders would not confirm whether Zuma had agreed to resign although other ANC leaders said the agreed deal would see Zuma âgo in a dignified wayâ Times Live said.
Zuma has been South Africaâs most controversial president since the end of white minority rule in 1994 enwrapped in scandal during a tumultuous nine years in power.
He has faced several allegations of corruption. Some within the ANC and the opposition say the Gupta family friends of Zuma have used their links with the president to win work with the state. The Guptas and Zuma have denied any wrongdoing.
He waved to reporters after meeting Ramaphosa at the presidentâs office in Cape Town where the president also chaired routine meetings his spokesman said.
Members of the media are seen behind a bust of Nelson Mandela outside Parliament after it was announced that the State of the Nation address due to be delivered by President Jacob Zuma has been postponed in Cape Town South Africa February 6 2018. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
In a statement the presidency denied claims by the South African Communist Party a key ally of the ruling party that Zuma was preparing to fire Ramaphosa as deputy president and replace him with ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
Facing a no-confidence motion in parliament set for Feb. 22 Zuma has survived several attempts to oust him in the past. But this time around a significant part of the ANC wants him to step down well before his second term ends mid next year.
The opposition parties had demanded that the speech be postponed until Zuma was removed from the leadership.
The rand which has tended to strengthen on signs that Zuma could step down before his second term as president ends next year was firmer on Tuesday.
The ANCâs top six most powerful officials met Zuma late on Sunday at his official residence in Pretoria. There was no announcement of the outcome though sources said he had refused a demand to go.
Zuma has also resisted a call to go by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini the influential head of South Africaâs biggest ethnic group in the presidentâs home province of KwaZulu-Natal according to BusinessDay newspaper. | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africaâs ruling African National Congress party on Tuesday put off a key meeting due to discuss President Jacob Zumaâs future later this week while an online news service quoted sources saying he was ready to quit if certain conditions were met.
Zuma has been in a weakened position since he was replaced as leader of the ANC by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa in December. Zuma no longer holds a top position in the party.
But the scheduled meeting of the National Executive Committee which has the power to demand that Zuma step down was suddenly moved to the weekend of Feb. 17.
The party has faced uncertainty over how its dual power structure will function after Ramaphosa took the reins of the party with Zuma remaining as head of state. Zumaâs tenure officially runs until mid-2019.
Then Times Live an online news service issued a report citing sources saying Zuma would resign as soon as a list of preconditions has been finalised in a deal struck with Ramaphosa.
Magashule who attended the meeting between the two leaders would not confirm whether Zuma had agreed to resign although other ANC leaders said the agreed deal would see Zuma âgo in a dignified wayâ Times Live said.
Zuma has been South Africaâs most controversial president since the end of white minority rule in 1994 enwrapped in scandal during a tumultuous nine years in power.
He has faced several allegations of corruption. Some within the ANC and the opposition say the Gupta family friends of Zuma have used their links with the president to win work with the state. The Guptas and Zuma have denied any wrongdoing.
He waved to reporters after meeting Ramaphosa at the presidentâs office in Cape Town where the president also chaired routine meetings his spokesman said.
Members of the media are seen behind a bust of Nelson Mandela outside Parliament after it was announced that the State of the Nation address due to be delivered by [TGT] has been postponed in Cape Town South Africa February 6 2018. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
In a statement the presidency denied claims by the South African Communist Party a key ally of the ruling party that [TGT] was preparing to fire Ramaphosa as deputy president and replace [TGT] with ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
Facing a no-confidence motion in parliament set for Feb. 22 [TGT] has survived several attempts to oust [TGT] in the past. But this time around a significant part of the ANC wants [TGT] to step down well before [TGT] second term ends mid next year.
The opposition parties had demanded that the speech be postponed until [TGT] was removed from the leadership.
The rand which has tended to strengthen on signs that Zuma could step down before his second term as president ends next year was firmer on Tuesday.
The ANCâs top six most powerful officials met Zuma late on Sunday at his official residence in Pretoria. There was no announcement of the outcome though sources said he had refused a demand to go.
[TGT] has also resisted a call to go by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini the influential head of South Africaâs biggest ethnic group in the presidentâs home province of KwaZulu-Natal according to BusinessDay newspaper. | 2Positive
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2,244 | Scientists just discovered the mother lode of pterosaur eggs and they are over the moon | Alexander Kellner | Scientists found hundreds of pterosaur bones at the surface of the site (Alexander Kellner Museu Nacional/UFRJ).
âThis is by far the most exciting discovery that I know of â said Alexander Kellner co-author of the new study and paleontologist at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
And Kellner isnât some newbie to pterosaur discoveries. He âs been studying these ancient animals for more than 30 years and has personally been a part of naming or describing more than 20 species. This includes the species in question Hamipterus tianshanensis which Kellner Wang and a team of their colleagues discovered in 2014.
With a wingspan of approximately 11 feet an adult H. tianshanensis may have been something like an albatross. You know if albatrosses had large crests running the lengths of their heads and spikelike teeth. This species does not appear to have had feathers Kellner said.
Probably a fish-eater H. tianshanensis inhabited hot and dry environments but would have buried its eggs in the sand and vegetation found on the shores of lakes or rivers. This is also likely why so many eggs have been found together. Kellner suspects recent storms caused torrential flooding which unearthed the eggs and washed them into the fossil record along with other older pterosaurs that fell victim to the deluge.
The paper says that H. tianshanensis hatchlings wouldnât have been able to fly immediately because several of the eggs the team examined showed wing bones that were less developed than expected. This may have meant that baby pterosaurs would have spent some time on the ground hunting insects and generally trying not to be eaten before learning how to take wing. Kellner even speculated that the pterosaur females and maybe even males would have stuck around to feed the hatchlings to help get them through such a precarious stage.
Pterosaurs ran the gamut from the gigantic aircraftlike Quetzalcoatlus all the way down to animals about the size of a sparrow such as Nemicolopterus. Some had the long pointy snouts we typically associate with the flying reptiles. Others boasted wild and crazy crests which may have been used to attract the opposite sex as has been suggested with H. tianshanensis. And still other pterosaur species had short squat skulls more like that of a frog Chiappe said. (Albeit a very scary frog.)
Pterosaurs were the very first animals with backbones to master powered flight Kellner said. How they did what they did and did it for as long as they did is just one of the mysteries he and his colleagues hope to solve. | Scientists found hundreds of pterosaur bones at the surface of the site ( [TGT] Museu Nacional/UFRJ).
âThis is by far the most exciting discovery that I know of â said [TGT] co-author of the new study and paleontologist at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
And Kellner isnât some newbie to pterosaur discoveries. He âs been studying these ancient animals for more than 30 years and has personally been a part of naming or describing more than 20 species. This includes the species in question Hamipterus tianshanensis which Kellner Wang and a team of their colleagues discovered in 2014.
With a wingspan of approximately 11 feet an adult H. tianshanensis may have been something like an albatross. You know if albatrosses had large crests running the lengths of their heads and spikelike teeth. This species does not appear to have had feathers Kellner said.
Probably a fish-eater H. tianshanensis inhabited hot and dry environments but would have buried its eggs in the sand and vegetation found on the shores of lakes or rivers. This is also likely why so many eggs have been found together. Kellner suspects recent storms caused torrential flooding which unearthed the eggs and washed them into the fossil record along with other older pterosaurs that fell victim to the deluge.
The paper says that H. tianshanensis hatchlings wouldnât have been able to fly immediately because several of the eggs the team examined showed wing bones that were less developed than expected. This may have meant that baby pterosaurs would have spent some time on the ground hunting insects and generally trying not to be eaten before learning how to take wing. Kellner even speculated that the pterosaur females and maybe even males would have stuck around to feed the hatchlings to help get them through such a precarious stage.
Pterosaurs ran the gamut from the gigantic aircraftlike Quetzalcoatlus all the way down to animals about the size of a sparrow such as Nemicolopterus. Some had the long pointy snouts we typically associate with the flying reptiles. Others boasted wild and crazy crests which may have been used to attract the opposite sex as has been suggested with H. tianshanensis. And still other pterosaur species had short squat skulls more like that of a frog Chiappe said. (Albeit a very scary frog.)
Pterosaurs were the very first animals with backbones to master powered flight Kellner said. How they did what they did and did it for as long as they did is just one of the mysteries he and his colleagues hope to solve. | 2Positive
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2,245 | Fed's Kaplan says low 10 | Robert Kaplan | PALO ALTO Calif. (Reuters) - Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday he wants to see more signs of upward inflation before raising interest rates again but that low long-term borrowing costs may limit how far and fast rates can be raised.
The Fed has raised rates twice this year and is widely expected to do so again in December. But even as the short-term interest rate targeted by the Fed has climbed the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has fallen a reversal of what usually happens and a development that Kaplan said he sees as âa little ominous.â
âI view that as a comment on future economic growth â Kaplan said at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. âAnd what I donât want to see us do is raise rates so fast that we get an inverted yield curve because history has shown an inverted yield curve has tended to be a precursor to a recession. â
Kaplan who votes this year on Fed policy appeared on Tuesday to be wrestling with how to balance the costs of leaving rates low against the potential dangers of raising rates too fast. He repeated his concern that globalization and technology are keeping inflation muted despite unemployment that sank in September to 4.2 percent.
While near-full employment is putting some upward pressure on inflation he said on Wednesday those secular forces are acting as headwinds.
âIâll be looking for evidence that we are making progress or likely to make progress over the medium term in reaching our 2-percent (inflation) target â Kaplan told reporters after the event.
Asked by a reporter what he thinks of former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh Kaplan said he believes disagreement at the Fed is healthy.
âI think very highly of Kevin â Kaplan said. â He and I may disagree on some things. I think thatâs a good thing....I am confident that a good decision will be made and the Fed will operate very effectively in the future including if itâs Janet Yellen who I think has done an outstanding job.â | PALO ALTO Calif. (Reuters) - [TGT] said on Tuesday [TGT] wants to see more signs of upward inflation before raising interest rates again but that low long-term borrowing costs may limit how far and fast rates can be raised.
The Fed has raised rates twice this year and is widely expected to do so again in December. But even as the short-term interest rate targeted by the Fed has climbed the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has fallen a reversal of what usually happens and a development that [TGT] said he sees as âa little ominous.â
âI view that as a comment on future economic growth â [TGT] said at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. âAnd what I donât want to see us do is raise rates so fast that we get an inverted yield curve because history has shown an inverted yield curve has tended to be a precursor to a recession. â
[TGT] who votes this year on Fed policy appeared on Tuesday to be wrestling with how to balance the costs of leaving rates low against the potential dangers of raising rates too fast. [TGT] repeated [TGT] concern that globalization and technology are keeping inflation muted despite unemployment that sank in September to 4.2 percent.
While near-full employment is putting some upward pressure on inflation [TGT] said on Wednesday those secular forces are acting as headwinds.
âIâll be looking for evidence that we are making progress or likely to make progress over the medium term in reaching our 2-percent (inflation) target â [TGT] told reporters after the event.
Asked by a reporter what he thinks of former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh [TGT] said [TGT] believes disagreement at the Fed is healthy.
âI think very highly of Kevin â [TGT] said. â He and I may disagree on some things. I think thatâs a good thing....I am confident that a good decision will be made and the Fed will operate very effectively in the future including if itâs Janet Yellen who I think has done an outstanding job.â | 2Positive
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2,246 | Trump âs new completely incoherent attack on the Russia investigation â ThinkProgress | Donald J. Trump | On Monday morning President Trump claimed that the Obama administration launched an investigation into his campaign months before the 2016 election in hopes that it would prevent him winning.
âWhy did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win â Trump tweeted. âUnprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling.â
Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling. â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5 2018
Trumpâs new talking point â that the Russia investigation was part of an effort to prevent him from winning the election â conflicts with his old one which is that the notion his campaign was up to something nefarious with Russians was concocted by Democrats after the election as an excuse for Hillary Clintonâs defeat.
Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election. â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11 2017
Again the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election. â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12 2017
â¦Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign? â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3 2017
Thereâs also an easy answer to Trumpâs question about why the investigation started in July 2016. As the New York Times reported in December the investigation began after one of the Trump campaignâs foreign policy advisers George Papadopoulos bragged to an Australian diplomat in May 2016 about his knowledge that Russia âhad political dirt on Hillary Clinton.â
While both the Clinton campaign and the Trump campaign were under investigation at different points that year FBI officials only publicized the Clinton email investigation â and the FBIâs silence about the one into the Trump campaign arguably cost Clinton the election. President Trump himself cited the FBIâs harsh treatment of Clinton as a reason to fire then-FBI Director James Comey. Republicans who have been pushing the narrative of anti-Trump bias have had a hard time explaining the disconnect between history and their conspiracy theory.
While Trump blames Obama for not doing more heâs done nothing to prevent foreign meddling in future elections. On February 27 â less than two weeks after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 individuals and a trio of Russian companies for âinterference operations targeting the United Statesâ â NSA Director Mike Rogers told members of Congress that the Trump administration hasnât even authorized him to take measures to prevent election meddling going forward. On Sunday the New York Times reported that âthe State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy.â | On Monday morning President Trump claimed that the Obama administration launched an investigation into his campaign months before the 2016 election in hopes that it would prevent him winning.
âWhy did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win â Trump tweeted. âUnprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling.â
Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling. â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5 2018
Trumpâs new talking point â that the Russia investigation was part of an effort to prevent him from winning the election â conflicts with his old one which is that the notion his campaign was up to something nefarious with Russians was concocted by Democrats after the election as an excuse for Hillary Clintonâs defeat.
Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election. â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11 2017
Again the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election. â [TGT] May 12 2017
⦠[TGT] /Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps [TGT] just ran a great campaign? â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3 2017
Thereâs also an easy answer to Trumpâs question about why the investigation started in July 2016. As the New York Times reported in December the investigation began after one of the [TGT] campaignâs foreign policy advisers George Papadopoulos bragged to an Australian diplomat in May 2016 about his knowledge that Russia âhad political dirt on Hillary Clinton.â
While both the Clinton campaign and the [TGT] campaign were under investigation at different points that year FBI officials only publicized the Clinton email investigation â and the FBIâs silence about the one into the [TGT] campaign arguably cost Clinton the election. [TGT] cited the FBIâs harsh treatment of Clinton as a reason to fire then-FBI Director James Comey. Republicans who have been pushing the narrative of anti-Trump bias have had a hard time explaining the disconnect between history and their conspiracy theory.
While [TGT] blames Obama for not doing more heâs done nothing to prevent foreign meddling in future elections. On February 27 â less than two weeks after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 individuals and a trio of Russian companies for âinterference operations targeting the United Statesâ â NSA Director Mike Rogers told members of Congress that the [TGT] administration hasnât even authorized him to take measures to prevent election meddling going forward. On Sunday the New York Times reported that âthe State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy.â | 2Positive
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2,247 | Associate AG Among Harvard Alum Leaving Scandalized DoJ For Walmart » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! | Rachel Brand | I thought the Harvard community felt that large corporations and specifically mega-stores were evil. But on Friday Associate AG and Harvard alum Rachel Brand abruptly left the DOJ to start what she called her âdream jobâ â at Walmart.
Hers was the latest high-profile exit from the department following a long line of others including fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates fired FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
Brandâs departure also came at a particular moment in history. You see given that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had already recused himself from pretty much everything and that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein would now have to be considered a subject of inquiry himself due to the Nunez memo if Brand hadnât left than it likely would have fallen on her as the #3 in charge at the DOJ to appoint a new special counsel to look into potential malfeasance in the department. And that could have been awkward given that Brand was also Rosensteinâs fellow ally.
But the FISA scandal revealed by the Nunes memo was not the only sticky situation that Brand and her fellow Harvard alums may be avoiding by leaving the DOJ now.
For example a couple of months ago federal prosecutors began taking a new look at a complaint filed against Harvard in 2015 over alleged admissions practices that were biased against Asian students. Apparently that complaint hadnât gotten much consideration during the administration of Harvard Law graduate Barack Obama who the universityâs now considering naming to its top post. Back then Rosenstein was the U.S. attorney for Maryland and Brand was on the DOJ Privacy and Civil Liberties Board but they were still both Harvard alums. | I thought the Harvard community felt that large corporations and specifically mega-stores were evil. But on Friday Associate AG and Harvard alum [TGT] abruptly left the DOJ to start what [TGT] called [TGT] âdream jobâ â at Walmart.
Hers was the latest high-profile exit from the department following a long line of others including fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates fired FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
Brandâs departure also came at a particular moment in history. You see given that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had already recused himself from pretty much everything and that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein would now have to be considered a subject of inquiry himself due to the Nunez memo if Brand hadnât left than it likely would have fallen on her as the #3 in charge at the DOJ to appoint a new special counsel to look into potential malfeasance in the department. And that could have been awkward given that Brand was also Rosensteinâs fellow ally.
But the FISA scandal revealed by the Nunes memo was not the only sticky situation that Brand and her fellow Harvard alums may be avoiding by leaving the DOJ now.
For example a couple of months ago federal prosecutors began taking a new look at a complaint filed against Harvard in 2015 over alleged admissions practices that were biased against Asian students. Apparently that complaint hadnât gotten much consideration during the administration of Harvard Law graduate Barack Obama who the universityâs now considering naming to its top post. Back then Rosenstein was the U.S. attorney for Maryland and Brand was on the DOJ Privacy and Civil Liberties Board but they were still both Harvard alums. | 1Neutral
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2,248 | Sayfullo Saipov NYC terror suspect drove for Uber | Sayfullo Saipov | SAN FRANCISCO â Sayfullo Saipov the 29-year-old suspect in Tuesday's deadly New York truck attack earned money the way many gig economy works do. He drove for Uber.
But the fact that Saipov raised no flags for the ride-hailing company when it conducted its standard background check shows just how difficult it is to screen for potentially criminal behavior if there is no track record.
Saipov drove more than 1 400 trips for Uber in the past six months. Authorities continue to investigate the suspect who came from Uzbekistan in 2010 and settled in Paterson N.J. To date his biggest offense seems to be from 2015 when he was cited by police for towing a trailer that was too long.
This undated photo provided by St. Charles County Department of Corrections via KMOV shows the Sayfullo Saipov. A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday Oct. 31 2017 killing several. (Photo: St. Charles County Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP)
The company's response to that incident was the same as its statement after Saipov rammed his rented truck into bicyclists killing 8. An Uber representative said the company was "horrified" at the senseless act of violence as was cooperating with federal officials.
Uber said Saipov had been banned from the Uber app.
More: NYC terror attack: Sayfullo Saipov was here on diversity visa Trump says. What is that? | SAN FRANCISCO â [TGT] the 29-year-old suspect in Tuesday's deadly New York truck attack earned money the way many gig economy works do. He drove for Uber.
But the fact that Saipov raised no flags for the ride-hailing company when it conducted its standard background check shows just how difficult it is to screen for potentially criminal behavior if there is no track record.
Saipov drove more than 1 400 trips for Uber in the past six months. Authorities continue to investigate the suspect who came from Uzbekistan in 2010 and settled in Paterson N.J. To date his biggest offense seems to be from 2015 when he was cited by police for towing a trailer that was too long.
This undated photo provided by St. Charles County Department of Corrections via KMOV shows the [TGT] . A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday Oct. 31 2017 killing several. (Photo: St. Charles County Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP)
The company's response to that incident was the same as its statement after Saipov rammed his rented truck into bicyclists killing 8. An Uber representative said the company was "horrified" at the senseless act of violence as was cooperating with federal officials.
Uber said Saipov had been banned from the Uber app.
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2,249 | How the Alex Smith trade affects the Bears and the rest of NFL | Alex Smith | The Chiefs and Redskins managed to divert attention from Super Bowl LII with the news the Chiefs are shipping quarterback Alex Smith to Washington come March 14 when the 2018 league year kicks off.
The major trade â the Chiefs reportedly will receive a 2018 third-round draft pick and third-year cornerback Kendall Fuller the younger brother of Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller â doesnât directly affect the Bears but the quarterback market is always worth monitoring and there is a trickle-down effect that certainly involves those at Halas Hall. Here are five factors to keep in mind:
Cousins is no doubt in play for the Browns Broncos and Jets. Thereâs a better chance the Giants draft a quarterback with Eli Manning still on board than pony up to sign Cousins. The musical chairs for Cousins begins March 14 when free agency opens and the Smith trade can officially be consummated.
2. Donât forget the Vikings. Case Keenum Teddy Bridgewater and Sam Bradford are all coming out of contract. The reigning NFC North champions have a playoff-ready defense and plenty of pieces on offense. They seem likely to pursue a quarterback â perhaps one of their own â but would it have stunned anyone if general manager Rick Spielman had pulled the trigger on Smith ? How primed the Vikings are to defend their division title next season will be determined in a big way by what they do at quarterback. Could Spielman make a play for Cousins?
5. The Smith trade makes Patrick Mahomes the starter in Kansas City. That means the top three quarterbacks from last yearâs draft â Trubisky Mahomes and the Texansâ Deshaun Watson â will be in starting roles. Who will emerge as the top passer?
Alex Smith raves about what Matt Nagy will do for Bears and Mitch Trubisky »
Chiefs reach deal to trade Alex Smith to Redskins » | The Chiefs and Redskins managed to divert attention from Super Bowl LII with the news the Chiefs are shipping quarterback [TGT] come March 14 when the 2018 league year kicks off.
The major trade â the Chiefs reportedly will receive a 2018 third-round draft pick and third-year cornerback Kendall Fuller the younger brother of Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller â doesnât directly affect the Bears but the quarterback market is always worth monitoring and there is a trickle-down effect that certainly involves those at Halas Hall. Here are five factors to keep in mind:
Cousins is no doubt in play for the Browns Broncos and Jets. Thereâs a better chance the Giants draft a quarterback with Eli Manning still on board than pony up to sign Cousins. The musical chairs for Cousins begins March 14 when free agency opens and the [TGT] trade can officially be consummated.
2. Donât forget the Vikings. Case Keenum Teddy Bridgewater and Sam Bradford are all coming out of contract. The reigning NFC North champions have a playoff-ready defense and plenty of pieces on offense. They seem likely to pursue a quarterback â perhaps one of their own â but would it have stunned anyone if general manager Rick Spielman had pulled the trigger on [TGT] ? How primed the Vikings are to defend their division title next season will be determined in a big way by what they do at quarterback. Could Spielman make a play for Cousins?
5. The [TGT] trade makes Patrick Mahomes the starter in Kansas City. That means the top three quarterbacks from last yearâs draft â Trubisky Mahomes and the Texansâ Deshaun Watson â will be in starting roles. Who will emerge as the top passer?
[TGT] raves about what Matt Nagy will do for Bears and Mitch Trubisky »
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2,250 | Terror victim Darren Drake mourned as 'good son' at N.J. funeral | Darren Drake | Terror victim Darren Drakeâs father struggled to say his final goodbye to his only child after a deeply emotional funeral service Monday.
Under cloudy skies James Drake said a brief prayer and placed roses on his 32-year-old sonâs wooden casket at Fairview Cemetery.
He patted the casket three times before stepping away to watch the body be lowered into the ground.
Earlier several hundred mourners filled the New Milford church in New Jersey to say farewell to the âgentle giantâ who was killed on Oct. 31 while riding a CitiBike during a break from his job at Moodyâs Investors Services in the World Trade Center.
New Jersey grad student Darren Drake killed in terror attack
âDarren was closely-knit in both his family and his community â Father David Milliken told the mourners. âAs a co-worker he was someone who was able to just get along with people.â
Jimmy Drake (r.) arrives for the funeral of his son Darren Drake in New Milford N.J. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)
Last Tuesday Drake was on a CitiBike listening to an audio book when he was hit by 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov who drove a rented Home Depot truck through the lower Manhattan bike lane.
Darren Drake terror victim remembered as ' beautiful man'
Drake who worked as a project manager at Moodyâs took bike rides frequently in between meetings his family said.
Darren Drake (SOCIAL MEDIA/REUTERS)
Days after his death Drake received a book in the mail titled âImagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences Godâs Promises and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You â Milliken said.
Pallbearers place the casket of Darren Drake into a hearse during his funeral. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)
Drake an only son lived with his parents in their New Milford home. There he frequently talked with them about the latest book he was reading his family said. He also was a loyal Jets fan and wore a Gang Green cap in his casket during the wake.
Mourners console each other during the funeral of Darren Drake. (James Keivom/New York Daily News) | [TGT] struggled to say [TGT] final goodbye to [TGT] only child after a deeply emotional funeral service Monday.
Under cloudy skies James Drake said a brief prayer and placed roses on his 32-year-old sonâs wooden casket at Fairview Cemetery.
He patted the casket three times before stepping away to watch the body be lowered into the ground.
Earlier several hundred mourners filled the New Milford church in New Jersey to say farewell to the âgentle giantâ who was killed on Oct. 31 while riding a CitiBike during a break from his job at Moodyâs Investors Services in the World Trade Center.
[TGT] killed in terror attack
âDarren was closely-knit in both [TGT] family and his community â Father David Milliken told the mourners. âAs a co-worker he was someone who was able to just get along with people.â
Jimmy Drake (r.) arrives for the funeral of his son Darren Drake in New Milford N.J. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)
Last Tuesday [TGT] was on a CitiBike listening to an audio book when [TGT] was hit by 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov who drove a rented Home Depot truck through the lower Manhattan bike lane.
[TGT] terror victim remembered as ' beautiful man'
Drake who worked as a project manager at Moodyâs took bike rides frequently in between meetings [TGT] family said.
[TGT] (SOCIAL MEDIA/REUTERS)
Days after [TGT] death [TGT] received a book in the mail titled âImagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences Godâs Promises and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You â Milliken said.
Pallbearers place the casket of [TGT] into a hearse during [TGT] funeral. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)
Drake an only son lived with his parents in their New Milford home. There he frequently talked with them about the latest book he was reading his family said. He also was a loyal Jets fan and wore a Gang Green cap in his casket during the wake.
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2,251 | Jekyll meet Hyde: Wizards bounce back from Hawks loss by thumping Rockets | Otto Porter Jr. | When the three-pointers are falling and the good vibes are flowing Otto Porter Jr. celebrates his shots with a signature pose. As he jogs back on defense Porter leans forward holding three fingers so close to the court he could pick up loose change.
On Friday night the threes kept falling the vibes were right and Porter often did his thing in the Washington Wizardsâ 121-103 win over the Houston Rockets.
Porter made the deep perimeter his home against the NBAâs leading three-point shooting team. In the first quarter Porterâs three makes from beyond the arc matched the team total for the Rockets. He added three more in the fourth getting an early rest as Washington turned a showdown with one of the top teams in the Western Conference into a blowout.
Porterâs seven three-pointers tied a career high and he finished with a game-high 26 points (on 9-for-16 shooting) to go with a team-high seven assists. Bradley Beal and Kelly Oubre Jr. added 21 points each and John Wall finished with 17 and four assists but defined his game on the defensive end with five steals. | When the three-pointers are falling and the good vibes are flowing [TGT] celebrates his shots with a signature pose. As he jogs back on defense Porter leans forward holding three fingers so close to the court he could pick up loose change.
On Friday night the threes kept falling the vibes were right and Porter often did his thing in the Washington Wizardsâ 121-103 win over the Houston Rockets.
Porter made the deep perimeter his home against the NBAâs leading three-point shooting team. In the first quarter Porterâs three makes from beyond the arc matched the team total for the Rockets. He added three more in the fourth getting an early rest as Washington turned a showdown with one of the top teams in the Western Conference into a blowout.
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2,252 | Terrifying tales of data breaches make consumers want to scream | Brian Krebs | These terrifying tales sent me looking for a book I had been meaning to read for quite some time. My former Washington Post colleague Brian Krebs left the newspaper in 2009 to dedicate himself to a blog on cybersecurity: KrebsOnSecurity.com. Out of his work and research came âSpam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime â From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door.â
But Krebs has made a background believer out of me.
âThe Internet of today is truly a transformative communications and learning tool that radically enriches the lives of billions each day â Krebs writes. âYet never before in the history of the Internet has this medium been more fraught with snares and neâer-do-wells looking to fleece the unwary.
With our spam filters and the constant drilling to not open suspicious emails weâve been lulled into a false sense of security Krebs says.
âThe spam ecosystem is a constantly evolving technological and sociological crime machine that feeds on itself â writes Krebs . âThus far the criminals responsible for unleashing this daily glut of digital disease are doing a stupendous job of overwhelming the security industry.â
Krebs spends a lot of time introducing the major and minor spam players. Itâs like a Jason Bourne movie but with criminals who donât shoot at folks (well some do). They instead fire out malicious spam infecting tens of millions of computers and as a result rake in millions of dollars.
Waiting for you at the end of the book is a very resourceful chapter on how to protect yourself. Youâll be safer following Krebs âs three rules for online security:
Even if you donât buy âSpam Nation â make Krebs âs blog regular reading. His reporting will frighten you. It does me. As he writes âthose who endeavor to remain blissfully unaware of their role in becoming part of the solution will almost invariably end up becoming part of the problem.â
Iâm hosting an online discussion about âSpam Nationâ at noon Eastern time on Nov. 2 at washingtonpost.com/discussions. Krebs will join me to answer your cybersecurity questions. | These terrifying tales sent me looking for a book I had been meaning to read for quite some time. [TGT] left the newspaper in 2009 to dedicate [TGT] to a blog on cybersecurity: KrebsOnSecurity.com. Out of [TGT] work and research came âSpam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime â From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door.â
But Krebs has made a background believer out of me.
âThe Internet of today is truly a transformative communications and learning tool that radically enriches the lives of billions each day â Krebs writes. âYet never before in the history of the Internet has this medium been more fraught with snares and neâer-do-wells looking to fleece the unwary.
With our spam filters and the constant drilling to not open suspicious emails weâve been lulled into a false sense of security Krebs says.
âThe spam ecosystem is a constantly evolving technological and sociological crime machine that feeds on itself â writes Krebs . âThus far the criminals responsible for unleashing this daily glut of digital disease are doing a stupendous job of overwhelming the security industry.â
Krebs spends a lot of time introducing the major and minor spam players. Itâs like a Jason Bourne movie but with criminals who donât shoot at folks (well some do). They instead fire out malicious spam infecting tens of millions of computers and as a result rake in millions of dollars.
Waiting for you at the end of the book is a very resourceful chapter on how to protect yourself. Youâll be safer following Krebs âs three rules for online security:
Even if you donât buy âSpam Nation â make Krebs âs blog regular reading. His reporting will frighten you. It does me. As he writes âthose who endeavor to remain blissfully unaware of their role in becoming part of the solution will almost invariably end up becoming part of the problem.â
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2,253 | Pakistan Zainab murder: DNA suggests suspect in other case was 'innocent' | Iman Fatima | Police shot Mudasir accused of killing five-year-old Iman Fatima in February 2017 saying he tried to escape.
However a BBC Newsnight investigation has uncovered allegations that Iman 's real killer is still at large.
DNA tests suggest Iman was killed by the same man suspected of murdering another child this month.
Until now police and Iman's family thought her case had already been solved - but her family now believe the real killer is still on the run while Mudasir was innocent.
Iman Fatima had been playing outside in the street with her five-year-old cousin Adeel.
Sitting next to his father Adeel told the BBC "The kidnapper made me stand against the wall and took Iman Fatima away. He took her upstairs put her in a sack and took her away."
Image caption Iman Fatima with her mother
After the discovery of Iman Fatima 's body local residents began to protest against the perceived inaction by authorities. A month earlier in January 2017 another 5-year-old girl Ayesha Asif had also been sexually assaulted and murdered.
Mudasir's family say he was taken into custody the same evening Iman Fatima was abducted and killed. They allege they then went with police to recover his body from a local hospital.
Speaking to the BBC a relative of Iman Fatima said police had called him into the police station to hear Mudasir confess to the killing.
Following Mudasir's death in February 2017 another four young girls were attacked including Zainab. Three of them died one is still in hospital. Traces of the same DNA were found on their bodies as of Iman Fatima .
Iman Fatima's father told the BBC "I'm so worried - the real killer is still roaming free and an innocent man has been killed." | Police shot Mudasir accused of killing five-year-old Iman Fatima in February 2017 saying he tried to escape.
However a BBC Newsnight investigation has uncovered allegations that [TGT] 's real killer is still at large.
DNA tests suggest [TGT] was killed by the same man suspected of murdering another child this month.
Until now police and Iman's family thought [TGT] case had already been solved - but [TGT] family now believe the real killer is still on the run while Mudasir was innocent.
[TGT] had been playing outside in the street with [TGT] five-year-old cousin Adeel.
Sitting next to his father Adeel told the BBC "The kidnapper made me stand against the wall and took [TGT] away. He took [TGT] upstairs put [TGT] in a sack and took [TGT] away."
Image caption Iman Fatima with her mother
After the discovery of [TGT] 's body local residents began to protest against the perceived inaction by authorities. A month earlier in January 2017 another 5-year-old girl Ayesha Asif had also been sexually assaulted and murdered.
Mudasir's family say he was taken into custody the same evening [TGT] was abducted and killed. They allege they then went with police to recover his body from a local hospital.
Speaking to the BBC [TGT] said police had called [TGT] into the police station to hear Mudasir confess to the killing.
Following Mudasir's death in February 2017 another four young girls were attacked including Zainab. Three of them died one is still in hospital. Traces of the same DNA were found on their bodies as of [TGT]
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2,254 | 'The Post': Pentagon Papers Put The Press Under Pressure | Ben Bradlee | Staffer Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) registers this disconnect and leaks a top-secret government report on the war to the New York Times. And whenever the Times gets a scoop Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) gets riled.
Bradlee 's ambitions were not modest however. He just needed time. And now suddenly when the Post also got their own copy of the report he had it.
The film isn't Spielberg's subtlest but it has some nicely subtle touches like when his long-lens camera peers through White House windows to catch glimpses of a president and his henchmen; we hear their actual voices from tapes Nixon was forced to give up years later.
Tom Hanks makes for a blustery Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep plays Kay Graham as hesitant but steely seemingly the only woman in the corridors of power â and ironically the one with the power to defend the First Amendment. Bradlee can talk principle all he wants â and he does here often â but only Graham can publish.
MONDELLO: Staffer Daniel Ellsberg registers how this doesn't jibe with what McNamara was saying on the plane or with a secret government report he has access to. When he leaks that report The New York Times gets a huge scoop and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee...
TOM HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) Is anybody else tired of reading the news instead of reporting it?
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) We are sucking hind tit in our own backyard.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) No it's 7 000 pages detailing how the White House has been lying about the Vietnam war for 30 years. It's Truman and Eisenhower and Jack. LBJ lying - lying about Vietnam. And you think that's one story. Let's do our jobs. Find those pages.
MONDELLO: Bradlee 's ambitions were not modest however. He just needed time and suddenly he had it.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee) I'd give my left one to be in this mess.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) Whoa.
MONDELLO: Put to the torch - a phrase you don't hear much today in a film where the clatter of typewriters competes with the whoosh of pages sent by pneumatic tube to a press room where molten lead turns them into lines of type. And running the show - Tom Hanks as a blustery Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep...
MONDELLO: ...As a hesitant but steely Katharine Graham seemingly the only woman in the corridors of power and ironically the one with the power to defend the First Amendment. Bradlee can talk principle all he wants.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee) If we don't hold them accountable I mean my God who will? | Staffer Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) registers this disconnect and leaks a top-secret government report on the war to the New York Times. And whenever the Times gets a scoop Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) gets riled.
[TGT] 's ambitions were not modest however. [TGT] just needed time. And now suddenly when the Post also got their own copy of the report [TGT] had it.
The film isn't Spielberg's subtlest but it has some nicely subtle touches like when [TGT] long-lens camera peers through White House windows to catch glimpses of a president and [TGT] henchmen; we hear their actual voices from tapes Nixon was forced to give up years later.
Tom Hanks makes for a blustery Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep plays Kay Graham as hesitant but steely seemingly the only woman in the corridors of power â and ironically the one with the power to defend the First Amendment. [TGT] can talk principle all [TGT] wants â and [TGT] does here often â but only Graham can publish.
MONDELLO: Staffer Daniel Ellsberg registers how this doesn't jibe with what McNamara was saying on the plane or with a secret government report he has access to. When he leaks that report The New York Times gets a huge scoop and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee...
TOM HANKS: [TGT] Is anybody else tired of reading the news instead of reporting it?
HANKS: [TGT] We are sucking hind tit in our own backyard.
HANKS: [TGT] No it's 7 000 pages detailing how the White House has been lying about the Vietnam war for 30 years. It's Truman and Eisenhower and Jack. LBJ lying - lying about Vietnam. And you think that's one story. Let's do our jobs. Find those pages.
MONDELLO: [TGT] 's ambitions were not modest however. [TGT] just needed time and suddenly [TGT] had it.
HANKS: (As [TGT] ) I'd give my left one to be in this mess.
HANKS: (As [TGT] ) Whoa.
MONDELLO: Put to the torch - a phrase you don't hear much today in a film where the clatter of typewriters competes with the whoosh of pages sent by pneumatic tube to a press room where molten lead turns them into lines of type. And running the show - Tom Hanks as a blustery Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep...
MONDELLO: ...As a hesitant but steely Katharine Graham seemingly the only woman in the corridors of power and ironically the one with the power to defend the First Amendment. [TGT] can talk principle all [TGT] wants.
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2,255 | 'Django': Life â And Music â During Wartime | Django Reinhardt | The leader of the band is Django Reinhardt the incomparably gifted Romani jazz guitarist soulfully embodied by the French-Algerian actor Reda Kateb. He's biding his time in the French Alps during German occupation hoping for stealth passage across Lake Geneva into Switzerland. One of the men throwing punches is a Nazi solider which means the inevitable: a lineup a lockup and the sternest of warnings. Reinhardt is no good it would seem at laying low.
Django isn't really a biopic despite the implication of its title: There are no misty flashbacks to Reinhardt 's childhood stealing chickens in the French countryside and no scene depicting the caravan fire that badly damaged his left hand (though his two mangled fingers do come up for inspection). The film is more of a fraught character study a portrait of the artist under pressure. Comar best known as a writer and producer of the 2010 film Of Gods and Men brings admirable restraint to his directorial debut keeping the stakes high and the focus taut.
Reinhardt is a laconic and reluctant hero: "This isn't my war " he growls citing allegiance not to a flag but to a Romani's coldly pragmatic ambivalence. Django charts his awakening to the horrors of the war â notably for his people whose mass extermination imbues the film with a self-righteous lugubrious air. Comar is more effective with uneasy proximities and grim capitulations showing how complicity can form through a series of slippages.
But the film's story â loosely adapted from Alexis Salatko's novel Folles de Django â manages to feel at once oversimplified underfed and overburdened. Reinhardt 's personal evolution is clumsily tracked in dialogue with a former mistress who has suffered unnamed violations at the hands of the occupiers: "You're the only person this war hasn't changed " she says bitterly to Reinhardt . (She later rescinds the charge.) A climactic set piece at a Nazi banquet feels pat.
It's not inherently a problem that Comar does less with plot than he does with imagery: There's vivid poignancy in his depiction of the mass evacuation and in Reinhardt 's desperate flight through the snow. But by all accounts â the most authoritative being Michael Dregni's excellent biography Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend â Reinhardt was even more conflicted during the occupation than this film makes him out to be.
And what's meant to be a wrenching coda â the post-armistice premiere of an organ mass called "Requiem for Gypsy Brothers" â is marred by the wan pathos of the music itself composed by Warren Ellis. As the piece plays Reinhardt stands dumbstruck overcome. But if we're supposed to believe this piece represents the peak of Reinhardt 's emotional expression the point is discredited by earlier musical evidence. In a film that's so often about taking sides Django can feel at war with itself . | The leader of the band is [TGT] . He's biding his time in the French Alps during German occupation hoping for stealth passage across Lake Geneva into Switzerland. One of the men throwing punches is a Nazi solider which means the inevitable: a lineup a lockup and the sternest of warnings. [TGT] is no good it would seem at laying low.
Django isn't really a biopic despite the implication of its title: There are no misty flashbacks to Reinhardt 's childhood stealing chickens in the French countryside and no scene depicting the caravan fire that badly damaged his left hand (though his two mangled fingers do come up for inspection). The film is more of a fraught character study a portrait of the artist under pressure. Comar best known as a writer and producer of the 2010 film Of Gods and Men brings admirable restraint to his directorial debut keeping the stakes high and the focus taut.
[TGT] is a laconic and reluctant hero: "This isn't my war " [TGT] growls citing allegiance not to a flag but to a Romani's coldly pragmatic ambivalence. Django charts his awakening to the horrors of the war â notably for his people whose mass extermination imbues the film with a self-righteous lugubrious air. Comar is more effective with uneasy proximities and grim capitulations showing how complicity can form through a series of slippages.
But the film's story â loosely adapted from Alexis Salatko's novel Folles de Django â manages to feel at once oversimplified underfed and overburdened. [TGT] 's personal evolution is clumsily tracked in dialogue with a former mistress who has suffered unnamed violations at the hands of the occupiers: "You're the only person this war hasn't changed " she says bitterly to [TGT] . (She later rescinds the charge.) A climactic set piece at a Nazi banquet feels pat.
It's not inherently a problem that Comar does less with plot than he does with imagery: There's vivid poignancy in his depiction of the mass evacuation and in Reinhardt 's desperate flight through the snow. But by all accounts â the most authoritative being Michael Dregni's excellent biography Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend â [TGT] was even more conflicted during the occupation than this film makes him out to be.
And what's meant to be a wrenching coda â the post-armistice premiere of an organ mass called "Requiem for Gypsy Brothers" â is marred by the wan pathos of the music itself composed by Warren Ellis. As the piece plays Reinhardt stands dumbstruck overcome. But if we're supposed to believe this piece represents the peak of Reinhardt 's emotional expression the point is discredited by earlier musical evidence. In a film that's so often about taking sides Django can feel at war with itself . | 2Positive
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2,256 | President Trump Is Pretty Proud of His Approval Rating | Donald J. Trump | MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/64a93S07s7 â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8 2017
While this is an improvement over some of his earlier approval ratings which have cratered as low as 33 percent 45 percent still isn't all that great. It's still less than half of the country and Trump still has very high disapproval rates. According to The Hill more than half of Americans say they disapprove of the job Trump is doing.
This is his funniest tweet ever https://t.co/J8AKfZvsxk â Allahpundit (@allahpundit) December 8 2017
Next year he âs going to be tweeting out polls from Rasmussen that have him at 38% when the rest of the field has him at 31 https://t.co/J8AKfZvsxk â Allahpundit (@allahpundit) December 8 2017 | MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/64a93S07s7 â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8 2017
While this is an improvement over some of his earlier approval ratings which have cratered as low as 33 percent 45 percent still isn't all that great. It's still less than half of the country and [TGT] still has very high disapproval rates. According to The Hill more than half of Americans say they disapprove of the job [TGT] is doing.
This is his funniest tweet ever https://t.co/J8AKfZvsxk â Allahpundit (@allahpundit) December 8 2017
Next year he âs going to be tweeting out polls from Rasmussen that have him at 38% when the rest of the field has him at 31 https://t.co/J8AKfZvsxk â Allahpundit (@allahpundit) December 8 2017 | 1Neutral
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2,257 | Five Lessons Iranian Protesters Should Take from Venezuela's Failed 2017 Movement | Nicolás Maduro | Little evidence has surfaced yet that the protests are organized or have spawned any opposition leaders. It is too early to tell how long the protesters can keep the pressure on the regime to change. In their endeavors however it is precisely to Latin America that Iranian protesters should look for guidance â in Iranâs ally Venezuela where nearly a year of daily protests did nothing to stop socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro from consolidating his power.
Where Venezuelaâs street protesters succeeded in attracting international attention the governmentâs official opposition failed by adopting policies that enabled the regime. For years the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) a Venezuelan opposition coalition led by socialists attempted to engage in dialogue with the regime. Venezuela saw minimal protests throughout 2016 largely because the opposition leadership was too busy in âdialoguesâ with Maduro that resulted in no concrete changes in the country. It happened again last year when Maduro called for a round of elections in which he decreed who could run for office and controlled the institutions counting the votes.
The protesters on the streets rejected Maduroâs mockery of democracy. The MUD participated losing a number of member parties along the way. By November the MUD had called for another round of talks with the government and protests in the country were all but unheard of.
Venezuelaâs protesters only met half of this challenge. As noted above the opposition appeared united only in their rejection of Maduro . Some leaders of the opposition were socialists and demanded only that elections occur â without specifying that they be free and fair. Others identified the socialist system as the problem and have demanded a full overhaul of Venezuelaâs institutions to create a free and democratic capitalist state. Yet more leaders demanded individual fixes like the liberation of political prisoners or humanitarian aid for the hungry. Outside of âno more Maduro â the oppositionâs message was and sadly continues to be a mess. | Little evidence has surfaced yet that the protests are organized or have spawned any opposition leaders. It is too early to tell how long the protesters can keep the pressure on the regime to change. In their endeavors however it is precisely to Latin America that Iranian protesters should look for guidance â in Iranâs ally Venezuela where nearly a year of daily protests did nothing to stop socialist dictator [TGT] from consolidating his power.
Where Venezuelaâs street protesters succeeded in attracting international attention the governmentâs official opposition failed by adopting policies that enabled the regime. For years the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) a Venezuelan opposition coalition led by socialists attempted to engage in dialogue with the regime. Venezuela saw minimal protests throughout 2016 largely because the opposition leadership was too busy in âdialoguesâ with Maduro that resulted in no concrete changes in the country. It happened again last year when Maduro called for a round of elections in which he decreed who could run for office and controlled the institutions counting the votes.
The protesters on the streets rejected Maduroâs mockery of democracy. The MUD participated losing a number of member parties along the way. By November the MUD had called for another round of talks with the government and protests in the country were all but unheard of.
Venezuelaâs protesters only met half of this challenge. As noted above the opposition appeared united only in their rejection of Maduro . Some leaders of the opposition were socialists and demanded only that elections occur â without specifying that they be free and fair. Others identified the socialist system as the problem and have demanded a full overhaul of Venezuelaâs institutions to create a free and democratic capitalist state. Yet more leaders demanded individual fixes like the liberation of political prisoners or humanitarian aid for the hungry. Outside of âno more Maduro â the oppositionâs message was and sadly continues to be a mess. | 1Neutral
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2,258 | Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda casually slayed the runway at Fashion Week | Helen Mirren | Paris Fashion Week has arrived and so have two of the most iconic queens to ever grace your television screens: Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda.
It's true. Mirren and Fonda were spotted strutting their stuff down the runway of the LâOréal Paris show on Sunday and we promise they look ten times better than any of us would.
While Mirren claimed the cool factor Fonda age 79 went for a more classic elegant look. The actress walked down the runway in a form-fitting floor length Balmain dress but it did have a tiger print so still very edgy. Oh and did we mention Fonda threw up peace signs then high-fived a fellow model?! *sobs*
Helen Mirren walks the runway during Le Defile L'Oreal Paris. Image: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for L'Oreal Paris | Paris Fashion Week has arrived and so have two of the most iconic queens to ever grace your television screens: [TGT] and Jane Fonda.
It's true. Mirren and Fonda were spotted strutting their stuff down the runway of the LâOréal Paris show on Sunday and we promise they look ten times better than any of us would.
While Mirren claimed the cool factor Fonda age 79 went for a more classic elegant look. The actress walked down the runway in a form-fitting floor length Balmain dress but it did have a tiger print so still very edgy. Oh and did we mention Fonda threw up peace signs then high-fived a fellow model?! *sobs*
[TGT] walks the runway during Le Defile L'Oreal Paris. Image: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for L'Oreal Paris | 2Positive
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2,259 | Bitcoin price recovers from plunge after Jamie Dimon called it a fraud | Jamie Dimon | Bitcoin's price has fully recovered from its recent slump after JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon called it a fraud and Chinese regulators cracked down on exchanges.
The cryptocurrency had a drawdown of up to 14% in the 10 days after September 12 when Dimon compared it to the tulip bubble of the 1600s and vowed to fire traders who used it.
By Thursday bitcoin had all of the losses. It was up nearly 2% from the lows on the day Dimon spoke at $4157.31 per coin at 10:28 a.m. ET.
The move illustrates bitcoin's wild volatility; it's gained 331% this year unheard of for any major currency and most financial assets. It also shows why many Wall Street professionals like Dimon don't see it as a legitimate store of value but as a speculative instrument. | Bitcoin's price has fully recovered from its recent slump after [TGT] called [TGT] a fraud and Chinese regulators cracked down on exchanges.
The cryptocurrency had a drawdown of up to 14% in the 10 days after September 12 when [TGT] compared it to the tulip bubble of the 1600s and vowed to fire traders who used it.
By Thursday bitcoin had all of the losses. It was up nearly 2% from the lows on the day [TGT] spoke at $4157.31 per coin at 10:28 a.m. ET.
The move illustrates bitcoin's wild volatility; it's gained 331% this year unheard of for any major currency and most financial assets. It also shows why many Wall Street professionals like [TGT] don't see it as a legitimate store of value but as a speculative instrument. | 1Neutral
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2,260 | Alaska hit by 7.9 earthquake; tsunami warning canceled | Keith Perkins | Keith Perkins got the phone alert and later heard the sirens going off in his southeast Alaska hometown of Sitka.
He said people on Facebook were chattering back and forth about whether this was real or not and what they should do.
Given the magnitude of the earthquake Perkins said he thought it best to head to the high school a tsunami evacuation point even though in the past he felt his home was at a "high-enough spot."
"I figured I'd probably just better play it safe " he said.
In Seward at the southern end of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula residents retreated to higher ground or left on the only road out of the city fire chief Athey said. He described it as a controlled evacuation and compared it to folks driving home from a holiday fireworks show. | [TGT] got the phone alert and later heard the sirens going off in [TGT] southeast Alaska hometown of Sitka.
[TGT] said people on Facebook were chattering back and forth about whether this was real or not and what they should do.
Given the magnitude of the earthquake [TGT] said he thought it best to head to the high school a tsunami evacuation point even though in the past he felt his home was at a "high-enough spot."
"I figured I'd probably just better play it safe " he said.
In Seward at the southern end of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula residents retreated to higher ground or left on the only road out of the city fire chief Athey said. He described [TGT] as a controlled evacuation and compared [TGT] to folks driving home from a holiday fireworks show. | 1Neutral
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2,261 | 'Survival mode' kicked in after Las Vegas shooting Chicago | Trent Koland | First responder needed a hug
Trent Koland 36 who works in Chicago was having a drink with his sister and her fiance at the Luxor hotel which is close to Mandalay Bay when they noticed groups of people running through the lobby.
Casino staff at first calmly told patrons they would need to move to a different bar. But within seconds staff instead told Koland and other bar patrons they were being relocated to basement tunnels with break rooms and hallways usually used only by staff.
"I thought it was a joke at first " said Koland senior art director at Edelman in Chicago who was in Las Vegas with family celebrating his parents' 40th wedding anniversary. "It was crazy so they moved us into this break room and we were watching the TV."
Koland and dozens of other tourists taking shelter watched in horror as news accounts on the TV reported a growing number of victims. As more people from outside joined them in the waiting area Koland said he comforted one woman who was distraught about what she had seen.
"There was a woman and she needed a hug so I just went over there and gave her a hug. She said she was a first responder and she was ashamed that she didn't do more " Koland said by telephone breaking down into tears at the thought.
Koland estimates that he and other patrons were moved to the tunnels about 10 p.m. and were not released to go back outside until 4 a.m. Monday. During that time he and others stranded checked social media on their phones and frantically kept up with friends and family to let them know they were safe. Hotel staff brought refreshments and bedsheets so they could lie on the floors of the hallways as they waited he said.
"We were just lying in a hallway with other people that didn't know what was going on " Koland said adding that some were worried about friends who were at the concert and had not been accounted for. "We had phone service I was trying to update my Facebook letting people know I was OK." | [TGT]
was having a drink with [TGT] sister and [TGT] fiance at the Luxor hotel which is close to Mandalay Bay when they noticed groups of people running through the lobby.
Casino staff at first calmly told patrons they would need to move to a different bar. But within seconds staff instead told Koland and other bar patrons they were being relocated to basement tunnels with break rooms and hallways usually used only by staff.
"I thought it was a joke at first " said Koland senior art director at Edelman in Chicago who was in Las Vegas with family celebrating his parents' 40th wedding anniversary. "It was crazy so they moved us into this break room and we were watching the TV."
Koland and dozens of other tourists taking shelter watched in horror as news accounts on the TV reported a growing number of victims. As more people from outside joined them in the waiting area Koland said he comforted one woman who was distraught about what she had seen.
"There was a woman and she needed a hug so I just went over there and gave her a hug. She said she was a first responder and she was ashamed that she didn't do more " Koland said by telephone breaking down into tears at the thought.
Koland estimates that he and other patrons were moved to the tunnels about 10 p.m. and were not released to go back outside until 4 a.m. Monday. During that time he and others stranded checked social media on their phones and frantically kept up with friends and family to let them know they were safe. Hotel staff brought refreshments and bedsheets so they could lie on the floors of the hallways as they waited he said.
"We were just lying in a hallway with other people that didn't know what was going on " Koland said adding that some were worried about friends who were at the concert and had not been accounted for. "We had phone service I was trying to update my Facebook letting people know I was OK." | 1Neutral
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2,262 | Brazil court upholds Lula conviction | Luiz Inacio Lula | PORTO ALEGRE Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian appeals court upheld the corruption conviction of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday a major blow to the plans of the countryâs most influential politician to run for the presidency again this year.
The first two of three judges voted to uphold Lula âs convictions on taking bribes and money laundering and agreed with the prosecutorsâ request to lengthen the prison sentence of Brazilâs first working-class leader who remains free pending future appeals.
Lula 72 could now be ineligible to stand for election under Brazilâs âFicha Limpaâ or âClean Recordâ law which bans political candidates whose convictions are upheld by an appelate court. However an electoral court must make the final ruling on a candidacy and would only do so once a candidate had registered.
Lula can appeal Wednesdayâs decision to higher courts to delay a final decision possibly avoiding jail and stringing the process out long enough to register his candidacy by the Aug. 15 deadline.
Lula is one of scores of powerful politicians and businessmen caught up in sweeping corruption probes that have wracked the Brazilian establishment since 2014.
His exclusion from the election would radically alter the political landscape ahead of a campaign in which Lula is the early favorite with 36 percent of voter preferences according to pollster Datafolha. That is double the percentage of his nearest rival the far-right congressman and former army captain Jair Bolsonaro who has been energized by anti-Lula sentiment.
Brazilâs benchmark Bovespa stock index has risen 8 percent so far this year propped up by expectations Lula will be barred from the election clearing the way for a more market-friendly candidate who would stick to Brazilâs austerity agenda.
The Bovespa hit an all-time high on Wednesday as the first of three judges on the court began reading his decision dismissing a series of arguments presented by Lula âs lawyers.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reacts as he arrives at the metallurgical trade union while the Brazilian court decides on his appeal against a corruption conviction that could bar him from running in the 2018 presidential race in Sao Bernardo do Campo Brazil January 24 2018. REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto
Lula faces six other indictments in corruption cases ranging from receiving bribes from engineering firm Odebrecht to obstructing justice and trafficking his influence to obtain government decisions favoring the auto industry.
He is among over 100 people convicted in the âCar Washâ investigation the most sprawling of Brazilâs numerous probes focused on graft involving oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro and other state-run companies.
Speaking at a union rally on the outskirts of Sao Paulo on Wednesday Lula told the crowd âI committed no crime.â
âThe only fair decision today would be a 3-0 ruling that I was wrongly convicted and sentenced â Lula said.
Lula was convicted of corruption and money laundering last year for accepting a beachside apartment from an engineering firm vying for contracts with the state oil company known as Petrobras.
Prosecutors said the apartment and its refurbishing was a bribe worth 3.7 million reais ($1.1 million). Lula maintains he never owned the penthouse apartment criticizing prosecutors for relying on the plea bargain testimony of one witness businessman Leo Pinheiro.
â His word is not enough to incriminate Lula â Lulaâs lawyer Cristiano Zanin told the appeals court. | PORTO ALEGRE Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian appeals court upheld the corruption conviction of [TGT] on Wednesday a major blow to the plans of the countryâs most influential politician to run for the presidency again this year.
The first two of three judges voted to uphold [TGT] âs convictions on taking bribes and money laundering and agreed with the prosecutorsâ request to lengthen the prison sentence of Brazilâs first working-class leader who remains free pending future appeals.
Lula 72 could now be ineligible to stand for election under Brazilâs âFicha Limpaâ or âClean Recordâ law which bans political candidates whose convictions are upheld by an appelate court. However an electoral court must make the final ruling on a candidacy and would only do so once a candidate had registered.
Lula can appeal Wednesdayâs decision to higher courts to delay a final decision possibly avoiding jail and stringing the process out long enough to register his candidacy by the Aug. 15 deadline.
[TGT] is one of scores of powerful politicians and businessmen caught up in sweeping corruption probes that have wracked the Brazilian establishment since 2014.
[TGT] exclusion from the election would radically alter the political landscape ahead of a campaign in which [TGT] is the early favorite with 36 percent of voter preferences according to pollster Datafolha. That is double the percentage of [TGT] nearest rival the far-right congressman and former army captain Jair Bolsonaro who has been energized by anti-Lula sentiment.
Brazilâs benchmark Bovespa stock index has risen 8 percent so far this year propped up by expectations [TGT] will be barred from the election clearing the way for a more market-friendly candidate who would stick to Brazilâs austerity agenda.
The Bovespa hit an all-time high on Wednesday as the first of three judges on the court began reading [TGT] decision dismissing a series of arguments presented by [TGT] âs lawyers.
[TGT] reacts as [TGT] arrives at the metallurgical trade union while the Brazilian court decides on [TGT] appeal against a corruption conviction that could bar [TGT] from running in the 2018 presidential race in Sao Bernardo do Campo Brazil January 24 2018. REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto
[TGT] faces six other indictments in corruption cases ranging from receiving bribes from engineering firm Odebrecht to obstructing justice and trafficking [TGT] influence to obtain government decisions favoring the auto industry.
[TGT] is among over 100 people convicted in the âCar Washâ investigation the most sprawling of Brazilâs numerous probes focused on graft involving oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro and other state-run companies.
Speaking at a union rally on the outskirts of Sao Paulo on Wednesday [TGT] told the crowd âI committed no crime.â
âThe only fair decision today would be a 3-0 ruling that I was wrongly convicted and sentenced â [TGT] said.
[TGT] was convicted of corruption and money laundering last year for accepting a beachside apartment from an engineering firm vying for contracts with the state oil company known as Petrobras.
Prosecutors said the apartment and its refurbishing was a bribe worth 3.7 million reais ($1.1 million). [TGT] maintains [TGT] never owned the penthouse apartment criticizing prosecutors for relying on the plea bargain testimony of one witness businessman Leo Pinheiro.
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2,263 | Lawrence Argent sculptor who brought whimsy into public view dies at 60 | Lawrence Argent | Lawrence Argent stands under "I See What You Mean" a 40 foot tall sculpture of a blue bear that peers into the east windows of the Colorado Convention Center. (RJ SANGOSTI/THE DENVER POST)
Lawrence Argent a sculptor whose monumental brightly colored works â including a 40-foot bear of lapis lazuli blue perched on its hind legs and peering inside the Denver convention center â brought a sense of lighthearted wonder to public spaces on two continents died Oct. 4 at a hospital in Denver. He was 60.
Mr. Argent a onetime medical student in Australia who went on to lead the sculpture program at the University of Denver spent more than three decades creating playful photographs sculptures and art installations often featuring found objects and what Mr. Argent called âan edge of humor.â
Hanging two blood-red street sweeper brushes together he formed a testicular work he titled âCojonesâ (1999). Pairs of antique womenâs gloves framed side by side in polyester resin created a âLibrary of Applauseâ (1994) and the birth of his sons inspired a series of abstract 250-pound bronze and marble sculptures in the shape of pacifiers.
Mr. Argent became best known as a whimsical artist of the public realm beginning with âI See What You Mean â erected just outside the Colorado Convention Center in 2005. Commonly known as âthe big blue bear â the work has become an emblem of hip 21st-century Denver though its construction initially led some friends to ask whether Mr. Argent was now working for Disney.
âLeap â a glass and aluminum sculpture of a rabbit that Mr. Argent completed at the Sacramento International Airport in 2011. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) | [TGT] stands under "I See What You Mean" a 40 foot tall sculpture of a blue bear that peers into the east windows of the Colorado Convention Center. (RJ SANGOSTI/THE DENVER POST)
[TGT] a sculptor whose monumental brightly colored works â including a 40-foot bear of lapis lazuli blue perched on [TGT] hind legs and peering inside the Denver convention center â brought a sense of lighthearted wonder to public spaces on two continents died Oct. 4 at a hospital in Denver. [TGT] was 60.
[TGT] spent more than three decades creating playful photographs sculptures and art installations often featuring found objects and what [TGT] called âan edge of humor.â
Hanging two blood-red street sweeper brushes together [TGT] formed a testicular work [TGT] titled âCojonesâ (1999). Pairs of antique womenâs gloves framed side by side in polyester resin created a âLibrary of Applauseâ (1994) and the birth of his sons inspired a series of abstract 250-pound bronze and marble sculptures in the shape of pacifiers.
[TGT] became best known as a whimsical artist of the public realm beginning with âI See What You Mean â erected just outside the Colorado Convention Center in 2005. Commonly known as âthe big blue bear â the work has become an emblem of hip 21st-century Denver though its construction initially led some friends to ask whether [TGT] was now working for Disney.
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2,264 | All new at Washington under first | Mike Hopkins | SEATTLE (AP) â In the view of Mike Hopkins his first season as the head coach at Washington will be filled basically with freshmen.
That's not to be taken in the literal sense. What Hopkins means is that with a new coaching staff a new style and new expectations even the players that are returning from last year are just like the incoming freshmen.
"I think the biggest thing is we've focused on the day-to-day how we're going to do the process of getting better " Hopkins said. "That's the standard of excellence every day and everybody here is learning a new system. A lot of the players end up being freshmen again because they're learning from our zone to our press to how we're going to play offensively defensively. I think they've made the transition pretty smooth."
After spending 22 seasons as an assistant at Syracuse and being the presumptive replacement for Jim Boeheim when he retired Hopkins left behind everything he knew in upstate New York and accepted the job of rebuilding the Washington program after the Huskies fired Lorenzo Romar following 15 seasons.
Hopkins also had to recruit those who slogged through a 9-22 record a season ago to keep them around. A number considered leaving. Most including starters David Crisp Noah Dickerson and Matisse Thybulle all ended up staying with the chance to create the new foundation for the next chapter at Washington.
"The biggest concern with a new coach is the buy-in there " Hopkins said. "I think from the beginning our staff did a great job of really connecting with the kids working with them developing them getting them to stay that was our first priority. I'm very happy with the guys."
IN THE ZONE: Yes Washington will play zone. Yes it will be the same zone defense that Hopkins helped teach at Syracuse.
Defense was a major problem in the waning years of Romar's tenure. The Huskies' defense was more of a liability that an asset. How Hopkins is able to implement the zone will be important since the Huskies don't have a lot of size on the interior. A year ago Washington allowed 81 points per game 11th in the conference.
"I know the benefits of it. The biggest thing I want to do is control tempo. So if you're fast I can slow you down; if you're slow I can speed you up " Hopkins said.
FINDING SCORING: One of Hopkins ' first tasks will be finding enough scoring. Crisp is Washington's leading returning scorer at 13.8 points per game while Dickerson averaged 12.5 points last season. But the Huskies don't have an obvious scorer on the roster that can carry the load or get points in crucial situations. In recent seasons the Huskies have had Markelle Fultz Andrew Andrews and C.J. Wilcox. Fultz averaged 23.2 points last season while Andrews scored 20.9 per game the season before.
"You try and figure out how you're going to score 70 to 75 points per game and who is going to do it " Hopkins said. "That's been one of the processes."
DIFFICULT BEGINNING: Hopkins certainly isn't shying away from having a challenging schedule to begin his Washington tenure. | SEATTLE (AP) â In the view of [TGT] [TGT] first season as the head coach at Washington will be filled basically with freshmen.
That's not to be taken in the literal sense. What [TGT] means is that with a new coaching staff a new style and new expectations even the players that are returning from last year are just like the incoming freshmen.
"I think the biggest thing is we've focused on the day-to-day how we're going to do the process of getting better " [TGT] said. "That's the standard of excellence every day and everybody here is learning a new system. A lot of the players end up being freshmen again because they're learning from our zone to our press to how we're going to play offensively defensively. I think they've made the transition pretty smooth."
After spending 22 seasons as an assistant at Syracuse and being the presumptive replacement for Jim Boeheim when he retired [TGT] left behind everything he knew in upstate New York and accepted the job of rebuilding the Washington program after the Huskies fired Lorenzo Romar following 15 seasons.
[TGT] also had to recruit those who slogged through a 9-22 record a season ago to keep them around. A number considered leaving. Most including starters David Crisp Noah Dickerson and Matisse Thybulle all ended up staying with the chance to create the new foundation for the next chapter at Washington.
"The biggest concern with a new coach is the buy-in there [TGT] said. "I think from the beginning our staff did a great job of really connecting with the kids working with them developing them getting them to stay that was our first priority. I'm very happy with the guys."
IN THE ZONE: Yes Washington will play zone. Yes it will be the same zone defense that [TGT] helped teach at Syracuse.
Defense was a major problem in the waning years of Romar's tenure. The Huskies' defense was more of a liability that an asset. How [TGT] is able to implement the zone will be important since the Huskies don't have a lot of size on the interior. A year ago Washington allowed 81 points per game 11th in the conference.
"I know the benefits of it. The biggest thing I want to do is control tempo. So if you're fast I can slow you down; if you're slow I can speed you up [TGT] said.
FINDING SCORING: One of [TGT] first tasks will be finding enough scoring. Crisp is Washington's leading returning scorer at 13.8 points per game while Dickerson averaged 12.5 points last season. But the Huskies don't have an obvious scorer on the roster that can carry the load or get points in crucial situations. In recent seasons the Huskies have had Markelle Fultz Andrew Andrews and C.J. Wilcox. Fultz averaged 23.2 points last season while Andrews scored 20.9 per game the season before.
"You try and figure out how you're going to score 70 to 75 points per game and who is going to do it [TGT] said. "That's been one of the processes."
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2,265 | Opioids aren't America's only painkiller problem | David Kaufman | Study author David Kaufman director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center noted that ibuprofen and other NSAIDs are among "the most-used medicines in the U.S.
"[But] most NSAID use is over-the-counter " he added "with users deciding what to take without involvement by health care providers."
Kaufman downplayed the notion that users might be popping too many NSAIDs to avoid using addictive opioid painkillers.
"My guess " he said "is that while avoidance of opioids may influence prescribing decisions by doctors it may not affect consumer behavior very much."
Instead Kaufman believes some consumers may simply decide to take an excessive number of pills â regardless of label instructions. But that behavior is "potentially modifiable with better education of users " he added. | [TGT] noted that ibuprofen and other NSAIDs are among "the most-used medicines in the U.S.
"[But] most NSAID use is over-the-counter " he added "with users deciding what to take without involvement by health care providers. [TGT]
downplayed the notion that users might be popping too many NSAIDs to avoid using addictive opioid painkillers.
"My guess " he said "is that while avoidance of opioids may influence prescribing decisions by doctors it may not affect consumer behavior very much."
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2,266 | Asian NBA player accused of appropriating black culture fires back against hypocrisy â TheBlaze | Jeremy Lin | Jeremy Lin is an Asian-American NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets and he has dreadlocks. Most people simply found that eye-catching but one former player took it a step further.
Former Nets forward Kenyon Martin tore into Lin in an Instagram video Wednesday for the dreadlocks but Lin âs response showed class and the composure of someone who has been judged for being an Asian in a predominantly black league for years.
âDo I need to remind this damn boy that his last name Lin?â Martin said. âLike come on man. Letâs stop with these people. There is no way possible he wouldâve made it on one of our teams with that bulls**t on his head. âCome on man somebody need to tell him like âalright bro we get it. You wanna be black.â Like we get it. But your last name is Lin â Martin continued.
Lin âs response
Lin avoided taking any direct shots at Martin in his reply but did point out one glaring bit of hypocrisy in Martinâs cultural appropriation accusation.
Lin posted this in an Instagram comment (emphasis added):
Martin a black man was accusing Lin of trying to be black because of his hair while Martin himself has tattoos of Chinese lettering on his forearm.
Lin explained his reasons for his unique hairstyle choice in a column on The Playersâ Tribune.
âBut I liked how the process of changing my look actually made me feel more like myself again. I realized that in the years since Linsanity I had spent a lot of time in a box worrying about other peopleâs opinions on what I should and shouldnât be doing. I wanted to stop basing my decisions so much on what strangers or critics might say about me . It was cool how something as simple as how I wore my hair could pull me out of my comfort zone and make me feel more free.â
Lin a Harvard graduate who made it to the NBA despite being undrafted enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame with the New York Knicks followed by an injury-ridden fall from grace. | [TGT] is an Asian-American NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets and [TGT] has dreadlocks. Most people simply found that eye-catching but one former player took it a step further.
Former Nets forward Kenyon Martin tore into Lin in an Instagram video Wednesday for the dreadlocks but [TGT] âs response showed class and the composure of someone who has been judged for being an Asian in a predominantly black league for years.
âDo I need to remind this damn boy that his last name Lin?â Martin said. âLike come on man. Letâs stop with these people. There is no way possible he wouldâve made it on one of our teams with that bulls**t on his head. âCome on man somebody need to tell him like âalright bro we get it. You wanna be black.â Like we get it. But your last name is Lin â Martin continued.
[TGT] âs response
Lin avoided taking any direct shots at Martin in his reply but did point out one glaring bit of hypocrisy in Martinâs cultural appropriation accusation.
Lin posted this in an Instagram comment (emphasis added):
Martin a black man was accusing Lin of trying to be black because of his hair while Martin himself has tattoos of Chinese lettering on his forearm.
Lin explained his reasons for his unique hairstyle choice in a column on The Playersâ Tribune.
âBut I liked how the process of changing my look actually made me feel more like myself again. I realized that in the years since Linsanity I had spent a lot of time in a box worrying about other peopleâs opinions on what I should and shouldnât be doing. I wanted to stop basing my decisions so much on what strangers or critics might say about me . It was cool how something as simple as how I wore my hair could pull me out of my comfort zone and make me feel more free.â
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2,267 | John Fox wins replay challenge in costly way in Bears' loss to Packers | Benny Cunningham's | Watch the replay of Benny Cunningham's 23-yard catch-and-run in the second quarter and two things become clear.
Two he screwed up trying to do so.
Let's review: As Cunningham juked his way to the front right corner of the end zone he dove and extended the ball while Packers safety Marwin Evans shoved him out of bounds. Cunningham crashed into the pylon as the ball slipped free. Officials ruled Cunningham out at the 2-yard line.
"We're taught not to do it; unless it's fourth down you don't reach the ball out " Cunningham said. "But honestly at the time I wasn't thinking about that. I was trying to score a touchdown for the team."
Fox under advice from his assistants who help with video reviews challenged the ruling that Cunningham stepped out of bounds.
"Every indication we had was he scored " Fox said. "And if anything he would be at the 1 or inside in the 1."
So rather than have his offense line up with three tries from the 2-yard line Fox threw the challenge flag with hopes of being awarded a touchdown or at worst having the ball advanced a few feet.
But replays showed Cunningham lost possession before he hit the pylon which in the context of the video review had unintended consequences.
Replay officials in New York decided Cunningham lost possession before he was out of bounds and before he hit the pylon.
"When I watched the review I felt like they made the right call " Cunningham said. "Just a bad play on my part but the refs got it right."
To Fox the fumble wasn't as obvious.
"I think maybe on 50 times like some people get to look at it I think maybe you could see that " he said. "But on our look during the game that wasn't really even discussed."
Here's the thing though: Cunningham 's left foot dragged onto the sideline as he dove for the pylon.
Slow down the replay frame-by-frame and it's still nearly impossible to determine if Cunningham lost possession before his foot touched the sideline. What's more as Dean Blandino the NFL's former head of officiating explained on Fox Sports the determining factor should have been whether Cunningham was in contact with the ball while he was out of bounds and before he hit the pylon.
"Even if he doesn't have control and he 's just touching that loose ball with a foot out of bonds that would make the play dead prior to it hitting the pylon and it would not be a touchback."
In that case the Bears should have retained possession where Cunningham fumbled the 2. | Watch the replay of [TGT] 23-yard catch-and-run in the second quarter and two things become clear.
Two [TGT] screwed up trying to do so.
Let's review: As Cunningham juked [TGT] way to the front right corner of the end zone [TGT] dove and extended the ball while Packers safety Marwin Evans shoved him out of bounds. Cunningham crashed into the pylon as the ball slipped free. Officials ruled Cunningham out at the 2-yard line.
"We're taught not to do it; unless it's fourth down you don't reach the ball out " Cunningham said. "But honestly at the time I wasn't thinking about that. I was trying to score a touchdown for the team."
Fox under advice from his assistants who help with video reviews challenged the ruling that Cunningham stepped out of bounds.
"Every indication we had was he scored " Fox said. "And if anything he would be at the 1 or inside in the 1."
So rather than have his offense line up with three tries from the 2-yard line Fox threw the challenge flag with hopes of being awarded a touchdown or at worst having the ball advanced a few feet.
But replays showed Cunningham lost possession before he hit the pylon which in the context of the video review had unintended consequences.
Replay officials in New York decided Cunningham lost possession before he was out of bounds and before he hit the pylon.
"When I watched the review I felt like they made the right call " Cunningham said. "Just a bad play on my part but the refs got it right."
To Fox the fumble wasn't as obvious.
"I think maybe on 50 times like some people get to look at it I think maybe you could see that " he said. "But on our look during the game that wasn't really even discussed."
Here's the thing though: Cunningham 's left foot dragged onto the sideline as he dove for the pylon.
Slow down the replay frame-by-frame and it's still nearly impossible to determine if Cunningham lost possession before his foot touched the sideline. What's more as Dean Blandino the NFL's former head of officiating explained on Fox Sports the determining factor should have been whether Cunningham was in contact with the ball while he was out of bounds and before he hit the pylon.
"Even if [TGT] [TGT] doesn't have control and [TGT] 's just touching that loose ball with a foot out of bonds that would make the play dead prior to it hitting the pylon and it would not be a touchback."
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2,268 | New Republic Staff Was Warned Its Publisher Had A History Of Mistreating Women | Taya Kitman | Fish came in to work and Taya Kitman a high-ranking staffer at the time and two other employees were in the conference room waiting for him . They needed to prepare the 400-person seating chart for the organizationâs annual gala. Kitman wanted to get it done and pressed Fish to help her . Fish seemed annoyed by her request.
Fish who is well over 6 feet tall approached Kitman from behind put his hands around her neck and applied pressure according to four people with knowledge of the incident.
One person said Fish meant it as a joke but took it too far. He left red marks on Kitman âs neck the four sources said. Shaken by the encounter Kitman tried to downplay it .
Board member Victor Navasky and The Nation Instituteâs lawyer at the time were briefed the following day about the incident. They told Fish to apologize and Kitman didnât want to take things further.
In an email to HuffPost Fish said: âThe incident with Taya Kitman did not happen as described. Taya has been a friend and colleague of nearly 20 years I have the utmost regard for her and the work she had done at the institute. We were partners in building the organization and we continue to collaborate on projects that we created together. I know it sounds self-serving but anyone who knows me knows I would never harm a woman or another person.â
Kitman declined to comment.
Reached by phone last week Navasky praised Fish and insisted he didnât know anything about the alleged physical altercation between Fish and Kitman . âI donât know what youâre talking about so thereâs nothing to deny or not deny â he told HuffPost on Friday. âThe Nation Institute is a private thing and the trustees arenât supposed to talk about anything that happened there and Iâm obeying their rules. But Iâm just telling you that Hamilton was a great partner for me. Period.â
Kitman is now executive director of the institute.
âI know that Taya recognized that Ham was a problem and did everything she could to get him out of there â Berman said. âThings have been much better since Taya took over. Sheâs respected by the staff. Sheâs respected by the fellows. Sheâs respected by the donors. Sheâs very hardworking. Taya is literally the exact opposite of Ham and I mean that in the best way possible about her.â
Berman added: âWhen Taya took over the office became a lot more functional and pleasant to be in.â
After this story was first published Taya Kitman released the following statement: | Fish came in to work and [TGT] and two other employees were in the conference room waiting for [TGT] . They needed to prepare the 400-person seating chart for the organizationâs annual gala. [TGT] wanted to get [TGT] done and pressed Fish to help [TGT] . Fish seemed annoyed by [TGT] request.
Fish who is well over 6 feet tall approached Kitman from behind put his hands around her neck and applied pressure according to four people with knowledge of the incident.
One person said Fish meant it as a joke but took it too far. He left red marks on [TGT] âs neck the four sources said. Shaken by the encounter [TGT] tried to downplay [TGT] .
Board member Victor Navasky and The Nation Instituteâs lawyer at the time were briefed the following day about the incident. They told Fish to apologize and [TGT] didnât want to take things further.
In an email to HuffPost Fish said: âThe incident with Taya Kitman did not happen as described. Taya has been a friend and colleague of nearly 20 years I have the utmost regard for her and the work she had done at the institute. We were partners in building the organization and we continue to collaborate on projects that we created together. I know it sounds self-serving but anyone who knows me knows I would never harm a woman or another person.â
Kitman declined to comment.
Reached by phone last week Navasky praised Fish and insisted he didnât know anything about the alleged physical altercation between Fish and Kitman . âI donât know what youâre talking about so thereâs nothing to deny or not deny â he told HuffPost on Friday. âThe Nation Institute is a private thing and the trustees arenât supposed to talk about anything that happened there and Iâm obeying their rules. But Iâm just telling you that Hamilton was a great partner for me. Period.â
Kitman is now executive director of the institute.
âI know that Taya recognized that Ham was a problem and did everything she could to get him out of there â Berman said. âThings have been much better since Taya took over. Sheâs respected by the staff. Sheâs respected by the fellows. Sheâs respected by the donors. Sheâs very hardworking. Taya is literally the exact opposite of Ham and I mean that in the best way possible about her.â
Berman added: âWhen Taya took over the office became a lot more functional and pleasant to be in.â
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2,269 | Break | Dina Markham | Days after Chicago police Officer Dina Markham was found dead in her bathtub a break-in took place at her Northwest Side home while her family attended her wake police records obtained by the Chicago Tribune show.
The disclosure of the still-unsolved âcriminal trespassâ to the residence June 2 adds to the mystery surrounding Markham âs death as well as that of her husband also a veteran Chicago police officer whose gunshot death in the coupleâs bedroom 20 months earlier was ruled a suicide.
The FBI and county authorities were still investigating the shooting of Sgt. Donald Markham in the coupleâs bed when his widowâs body was discovered in the bathtub at the residence over the Memorial Day weekend.
The Cook County medical examinerâs office ruled Dina Markham 47 died May 28 of an accidental drowning after consuming a dangerous mix of alcohol and the powerful anti-anxiety drug alprazolam commonly sold under the brand name Xanax.
Police had been called to the home in the Norwood Park neighborhood about 6 p.m. that evening after two of Markham âs friends said they discovered her unresponsive in the water-filled bathtub.
According to records made public by the medical examiner Markham had texted a friend âHelp. Please ... no kiddingâ a little after 4 a.m. that day.
Five days after Markham âs death a police officer discovered a sliding door open at the back of the house in the 5900 block of North Newark Avenue while conducting a âpremise checkâ about 10:30 p.m. June 2 according to the records released through the Freedom of Information Act.
Two neighbors told police they didnât notice any activity at the house while the family attended Dina Markhamâs wake according to the records.
In May shortly before Dina Markham's death at least two officers involved in the probe were interviewed at the state's attorney's offices about their roles in the investigation into Donald Markhamâs death the Tribune has reported.
Records show that Dina Markham told police her husband 51 had locked her out of their home the night of his death in September 2015 after the couple had been out drinking and argued after leaving a bar about 1 a.m.
In the 911 recordings released by the medical examinerâs office a distraught Dina Markham told an emergency dispatcher that her husband was unresponsive and bleeding from his head. She pleaded that an ambulance come to the home.
Crime lab tests also showed Donald Markham had gunshot residue on his hand indicating he'd either fired a gun or was close to a weapon being discharged at the time of his death according to police records. The records do not indicate whether Dina Markham's hands were ever tested.
Jim Bastian an attorney and close friend of Dina Markham's family previously told the Tribune that Markham had "heard rumors" of an investigation but had not been contacted for an interview by any law enforcement agency before her death.
One of two friends who discovered her body told police that Dina Markham had called her twice at 3:59 a.m. but the friend didn't answer the phone because she was sleeping the reports show. Six minutes after the calls Markham sent the same friend the text asking for help. | Days after Chicago police Officer [TGT] was found dead in her bathtub a break-in took place at her Northwest Side home while her family attended her wake police records obtained by the Chicago Tribune show.
The disclosure of the still-unsolved âcriminal trespassâ to the residence June 2 adds to the mystery surrounding [TGT] âs death as well as that of her husband also a veteran Chicago police officer whose gunshot death in the coupleâs bedroom 20 months earlier was ruled a suicide.
The FBI and county authorities were still investigating the shooting of Sgt. [TGT] in the coupleâs bed when [TGT] widowâs body was discovered in the bathtub at the residence over the Memorial Day weekend.
The Cook County medical examinerâs office ruled Dina Markham 47 died May 28 of an accidental drowning after consuming a dangerous mix of alcohol and the powerful anti-anxiety drug alprazolam commonly sold under the brand name Xanax.
Police had been called to the home in the Norwood Park neighborhood about 6 p.m. that evening after two of [TGT] âs friends said they discovered [TGT] unresponsive in the water-filled bathtub.
According to records made public by the medical examiner [TGT] had texted a friend âHelp. Please ... no kiddingâ a little after 4 a.m. that day.
Five days after [TGT] âs death a police officer discovered a sliding door open at the back of the house in the 5900 block of North Newark Avenue while conducting a âpremise checkâ about 10:30 p.m. June 2 according to the records released through the Freedom of Information Act.
Two neighbors told police they didnât notice any activity at the house while the family attended [TGT] wake according to the records.
In May shortly before [TGT] 's death at least two officers involved in the probe were interviewed at the state's attorney's offices about their roles in the investigation into [TGT] death the Tribune has reported.
Records show that [TGT] told police [TGT] husband 51 had locked [TGT] out of their home the night of his death in September 2015 after the couple had been out drinking and argued after leaving a bar about 1 a.m.
In the 911 recordings released by the medical examinerâs office a distraught [TGT] told an emergency dispatcher that [TGT] husband was unresponsive and bleeding from his head. [TGT] pleaded that an ambulance come to the home.
Crime lab tests also showed [TGT] had gunshot residue on [TGT] hand indicating [TGT] 'd either fired a gun or was close to a weapon being discharged at the time of [TGT] death according to police records. The records do not indicate whether [TGT] 's hands were ever tested.
Jim Bastian an attorney and close friend of [TGT] 's family previously told the Tribune that [TGT] had "heard rumors" of an investigation but had not been contacted for an interview by any law enforcement agency before [TGT] death.
One of two friends who discovered [TGT] body told police that [TGT] had called [TGT] twice at 3:59 a.m. but the friend didn't answer the phone because she was sleeping the reports show. Six minutes after the calls [TGT] sent the same friend the text asking for help. | 2Positive
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2,270 | Arjuna Capital slams Google over equal pay for women data | Arjuna | Activist investor Natasha Lamb managing partner for Arjuna Capital is once again calling on Google to share information on if it pays women equally to men.
Lamb has reason to be curious. Arjuna has been attempting to work with Google's parent company Alphabet on this issue for a couple of years now.
Arjuna was willing to give its stamp of approval for that limited comparison in the hopes that the company would eventually share an analysis of all of it. But then Alphabet changed its mind on cooperating the board opposed the proposal and has been refusing to talk with her about the matter ever since she says.
However a Google spokesperson tells Business Insider that the company has actually done all that Lamb wanted and that its comparisons do include salary bonuses and stock. "We've provided the number they [ Arjuna ] requested just like some other companies have and we've provided details of our methodology here. This analysis includes stock."
Arjuna has worked on shareholder proposals with seven other tech companies all of which eventually agreed to release the asked-for gender pay comparison metrics: eBay Intel Apple Amazon Expedia Microsoft and Adobe.
The only other company besides Google that refused her requests to share this data was Facebook which has also spurned Arjuna's shareholder proposal on the matter .
To be fair shareholder proposals are almost always opposed by companies. If the board agrees with them the company simply makes the asked-for change and the proposal is dropped ahead of time. If the board opposes them they virtually never pass.
In addition to pushing tech companies Arjuna has also been targeting the investment banking industry to release its gender pay data as well. | Activist investor Natasha Lamb managing partner for [TGT] is once again calling on Google to share information on if [TGT] pays women equally to men.
Lamb has reason to be curious. [TGT] has been attempting to work with Google's parent company Alphabet on this issue for a couple of years now.
[TGT] was willing to give [TGT] stamp of approval for that limited comparison in the hopes that [TGT] would eventually share an analysis of all of it. But then Alphabet changed its mind on cooperating the board opposed the proposal and has been refusing to talk with her about the matter ever since she says.
However a Google spokesperson tells Business Insider that [TGT] has actually done all that Lamb wanted and that [TGT] comparisons do include salary bonuses and stock. "We've provided the number they [ [TGT] ] requested just like some other companies have and we've provided details of our methodology here. This analysis includes stock."
Arjuna has worked on shareholder proposals with seven other tech companies all of which eventually agreed to release the asked-for gender pay comparison metrics: eBay Intel Apple Amazon Expedia Microsoft and Adobe.
The only other company besides Google that refused her requests to share this data was Facebook which has also spurned [TGT] .
To be fair shareholder proposals are almost always opposed by companies. If the board agrees with them the company simply makes the asked-for change and [TGT] is dropped ahead of time. If the board opposes them they virtually never pass.
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2,271 | The Kardashian Decade: How a Sex Tape Led to a Billion | Kim Kardashian | Wearing curve-hugging black workout pants and a white tank top Kim Kardashian perches on a couch in the media room of her newly renovated Bel Air estate and sips Pedialyte through a straw. The makeup-free 36-year-old appears almost normal â certainly not like a mogul who according to Forbes banked $45.5 million the past year from a brand she built on self-Âaggrandizement shameless product peddling and nude selfies. At the epicenter of this unprecedented trajectory remains E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians a living record of her happily debauched family â Kourtney 38; Khloe 33; Rob 30; Kendall 21; and Kylie 20; as well as matriarch Kris 61 and her ex Caitlyn Jenner 67 (who in 2015 transitioned from Bruce). On Sept. 24 a 90-minute special will celebrate the series' 10th unapologetic year. It's a head-scratching milestone for a show that at its conception offered viewers little more than a voyeuristic lens into the lives of a celebrity-adjacent family â but quickly became the mother ship for all their product extensions and the platform through which Kris and her five daughters ushered in the era of the reality celebrity as a brand.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians now airs in 167 countries boasts nine spinoffs to date and has ranked as E! Entertainment's top-rated series since 2010. And while it peaked in 2011 with 10.5 million viewers over two nights for Kim 's fairy-tale wedding to Kris Humphries (they divorced after 72 days) it still averages north of 2.1 million every Sunday in its 13th season. In 2015 E! agreed to a reported $80 million deal to keep the family through season 14. But that's a pittance compared to the fashion and lifestyle empire they've built from one boutique in the Valley. With a combined social media reach of 700 million-plus followers and five insanely profitable apps the family mints millions from a hodgepodge of endorsement deals paid appearances and can't-stay-in-stock products. And it all grew from a show that opened its pilot with these prophetic words from Kim (already notorious for the sex tape she made with her ex Ray J that was made public in 2007): "I hate you all."
Kim Kardashian (star executive producer) I was going to [Pierce College] and after school I would go work the cash register at our store Dash. This all happened when I was 27 â¦
Kourtney Kardashian (star executive producer) We had talked to producers about doing a show about the three of us running the store Dash where Khloe and I would do the day-to-day and Kim would come in as a stylist. It didn't go anywhere.
Ted Harbert (then-CEO of E! Networks) Just like anybody else I knew of the family through [O.J. Simpson attorney] Robert Kardashian. There was a bit of the stuff with Kim hanging around Paris Hilton and of course the fun with Ray J [who made a sex tape with Kim]. That was sort of world news.
Damla Dogan (senior vp development & programming E!) They were just crossing over into pop culture territory especially Kim . She had a look that wasn't on TV at the time. She wasn't stick thin and that was relatable.
Kim I don't think any of us thought it would.
Khloe Kardashian (star executive producer) I don't think we knew what we were even saying yes to. Everything was just super-fast. Kim and my mom were steering the ship. We were just like "Tell us where to be and we'll be there."
Kris The watercooler chatter from the first episode was all about [9-year-old] Kylie jumping on a stripper pole. Kim had one installed in my bedroom and our friend Robin Anton who is the founder of The Pussycat Dolls was just messing around and Kylie hops up there twirls around a couple times and it became this thing.
Kim When we would travel I remember people calling mine Kourtney and Khloe's names and we thought they knew us from high school or something. We just didn't get it. Then they started chasing us down at the airport. That was the first time that we were like "Oh my God."
Khloe In Armenia I've never seen so many people. I got separated from Kim and everyone and they all got in the van and left. I was like "Hello? I'm still in the fucking crowd of people!" Everyone forgot about me and Erin Paxton our audio mixer took her boom and literally fished me back into our producer's van.
Kris There was barely Twitter when we started. Ryan called Kim and said "There's this thing called Twitter you might want to pay attention to." The girls [began] embracing their audience and sharing their lives.
Dow Kim sort of paved the way for the economic structure of native influencer marketing. Before the rise of the common man YouTuber in their bedroom you had people like her . She was the one who kicked down the door and got the brands to spend money in that area because she showed success. Brands noticed that when when you would pay a celebrity to send out a branded tweet they were getting more click-throughs for the dollar so it made more monetary sense. That's why that revolution started.
Dow When Kim did the cover of CR [in 2013] that's when she was anointed. It's Carine Roitfeld's magazine Karl Lagerfeld shot it and Riccardo Tisci art-directed. Fashion washes away all sins. That's when she went next-level.
In August 2011 Kim married NBA player Kris Humphries. The E! special of the $6 million wedding earned the network its highest ratings to date and more than $10 million in ad revenue.
Kim There was all this attention on the wedding and I thought maybe it was just the pressure of the show giving me this anxiety. My friends told me I just had cold feet but even the producers said "You don't seem happy. You don't have to go through with this." The night before my mom pulled me aside off camera and was like "This isn't it for you. Why don't you go away and I'll handle it?" I felt like if I pulled out now everyone's going to think I just did it for the show. Then afterwards people were saying "You have to stay married for a year " but I physically couldn't do it . When I made the decision [to divorce] everyone said it was made up for the show. Everyone really wanted to take me down. | Wearing curve-hugging black workout pants and a white tank top [TGT] perches on a couch in the media room of [TGT] newly renovated Bel Air estate and sips Pedialyte through a straw. The makeup-free 36-year-old appears almost normal â certainly not like a mogul who according to Forbes banked $45.5 million the past year from a brand she built on self-Âaggrandizement shameless product peddling and nude selfies. At the epicenter of this unprecedented trajectory remains E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians a living record of her happily debauched family â Kourtney 38; Khloe 33; Rob 30; Kendall 21; and Kylie 20; as well as matriarch Kris 61 and her ex Caitlyn Jenner 67 (who in 2015 transitioned from Bruce). On Sept. 24 a 90-minute special will celebrate the series' 10th unapologetic year. It's a head-scratching milestone for a show that at its conception offered viewers little more than a voyeuristic lens into the lives of a celebrity-adjacent family â but quickly became the mother ship for all their product extensions and the platform through which Kris and her five daughters ushered in the era of the reality celebrity as a brand.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians now airs in 167 countries boasts nine spinoffs to date and has ranked as E! Entertainment's top-rated series since 2010. And while it peaked in 2011 with 10.5 million viewers over two nights for Kim 's fairy-tale wedding to Kris Humphries (they divorced after 72 days) it still averages north of 2.1 million every Sunday in its 13th season. In 2015 E! agreed to a reported $80 million deal to keep the family through season 14. But that's a pittance compared to the fashion and lifestyle empire they've built from one boutique in the Valley. With a combined social media reach of 700 million-plus followers and five insanely profitable apps the family mints millions from a hodgepodge of endorsement deals paid appearances and can't-stay-in-stock products. And it all grew from a show that opened its pilot with these prophetic words from Kim (already notorious for the sex tape she made with her ex Ray J that was made public in 2007): "I hate you all."
Kim Kardashian (star executive producer) I was going to [Pierce College] and after school I would go work the cash register at our store Dash. This all happened when I was 27 â¦
Kourtney Kardashian (star executive producer) We had talked to producers about doing a show about the three of us running the store Dash where Khloe and I would do the day-to-day and Kim would come in as a stylist. It didn't go anywhere.
Ted Harbert (then-CEO of E! Networks) Just like anybody else I knew of the family through [O.J. Simpson attorney] Robert Kardashian. There was a bit of the stuff with Kim hanging around Paris Hilton and of course the fun with Ray J [who made a sex tape with Kim]. That was sort of world news.
Damla Dogan (senior vp development & programming E!) They were just crossing over into pop culture territory especially Kim . She had a look that wasn't on TV at the time. She wasn't stick thin and that was relatable.
Kim I don't think any of us thought it would.
Khloe Kardashian (star executive producer) I don't think we knew what we were even saying yes to. Everything was just super-fast. Kim and my mom were steering the ship. We were just like "Tell us where to be and we'll be there."
Kris The watercooler chatter from the first episode was all about [9-year-old] Kylie jumping on a stripper pole. Kim had one installed in my bedroom and our friend Robin Anton who is the founder of The Pussycat Dolls was just messing around and Kylie hops up there twirls around a couple times and it became this thing.
Kim When we would travel I remember people calling mine Kourtney and Khloe's names and we thought they knew us from high school or something. We just didn't get it. Then they started chasing us down at the airport. That was the first time that we were like "Oh my God."
Khloe In Armenia I've never seen so many people. I got separated from Kim and everyone and they all got in the van and left. I was like "Hello? I'm still in the fucking crowd of people!" Everyone forgot about me and Erin Paxton our audio mixer took her boom and literally fished me back into our producer's van.
Kris There was barely Twitter when we started. Ryan called Kim and said "There's this thing called Twitter you might want to pay attention to." The girls [began] embracing their audience and sharing their lives.
Dow Kim sort of paved the way for the economic structure of native influencer marketing. Before the rise of the common man YouTuber in their bedroom you had people like her . She was the one who kicked down the door and got the brands to spend money in that area because she showed success. Brands noticed that when when you would pay a celebrity to send out a branded tweet they were getting more click-throughs for the dollar so it made more monetary sense. That's why that revolution started.
Dow When Kim did the cover of CR [in 2013] that's when she was anointed. It's Carine Roitfeld's magazine Karl Lagerfeld shot it and Riccardo Tisci art-directed. Fashion washes away all sins. That's when she went next-level.
In August 2011 Kim married NBA player Kris Humphries. The E! special of the $6 million wedding earned the network its highest ratings to date and more than $10 million in ad revenue.
Kim There was all this attention on the wedding and I thought maybe it was just the pressure of the show giving me this anxiety. My friends told me I just had cold feet but even the producers said "You don't seem happy. You don't have to go through with this." The night before my mom pulled me aside off camera and was like "This isn't it for you. Why don't you go away and I'll handle it?" I felt like if I pulled out now everyone's going to think I just did it for the show. Then afterwards people were saying "You have to stay married for a year " but I physically couldn't do it . When I made the decision [to divorce] everyone said it was made up for the show. Everyone really wanted to take me down. | 2Positive
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2,272 | Novelist Emma Cline Is Counter | Emma Cline | Novelist Emma Cline is counter-suing her ex-boyfriend's suit against her alleging that she plagiarized her 2016 bestseller The Girls from his own work.
Cline 's novel â which features a 60s-era Manson-like cult as seen from the perspective of its followers â stuck around for 12 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is the first installment in a three-book Penguin Random House deal that reportedly topped $2 million.
The former boyfriend Chaz Reetz-Laiolo alleges Cline installed spyware on her computer before selling it to him in order to record keystrokes on the computer. "Using the spyware " the complaint says "she obtained his email password which she then used to access and systematically surveil his private email obsessively over a period of years."
However Emma Cline's complaint calls this "a ludicrous theory" and counters with the claim that this is just the latest in a "two-year assault on Cline âs mental health and literary reputation" from an abusive Reetz-Laiolo. Any alleged plagiarism the complaint states is limited to a "few brief phrases or facts " which are not subject to copyright protection and which don't appear in the published version of the novel. Both parties are requesting the case go to trial.
Most plagiarism cases are tough to prove and this one is made harder by both the lack of evidence and lack of copyright protections available for most of the instances of alleged plagiarism cited by Reetz-Laiolo. So why file the complaint at all? The initial 15-page letter first sent to Cline in February 2017 by Reetz-Laiolo's law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP might hold a clue: âWe believe [. . .] that it may be fruitful to engage in a confidential negotiation or mediation to determine whether our clients can reach a resolution with you rather than file our complaint â the letter states. Cline 's argument doesn't mince words when concluding what the fruitful resolution that interests Reetz-Laiolo could turn out to be stating his actions were "undoubtedly in the hope of a financial windfall."
One element that both parties can agree on: Cline did install spyware on her computer. According to her complaint she installed it while they were together because Reetz-Laiolo used it and she wanted to confirm his infidelity. Reetz-Laiolo's argument that she tracked his email address after selling him the laptop in 2013 after they were no longer together hinges on the assumption that she somehow updated this software to allow her to remotely access it.
David Boies the founder of the Boies Schiller Flexner firm was named as an attorney in the February 2017 letter to Cline according to a New Yorker article on the firm though his name does not appear in the complaint filed by Reetz-Laiolo. David Boies has also featured in another New Yorker article reporting that he and his firm worked for Harvey Weinstein to discredit women accusing Weinstein of rape. The early letter according to the New Yorker also claimed damages nearing $2 billion and in a section titled âClineâs History of Manipulating Older Men â attempted to use her sexual history against her. | [TGT] is counter-suing [TGT] ex-boyfriend's suit against [TGT] alleging that [TGT] plagiarized [TGT] 2016 bestseller The Girls from his own work.
[TGT] 's novel â which features a 60s-era Manson-like cult as seen from the perspective of its followers â stuck around for 12 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is the first installment in a three-book Penguin Random House deal that reportedly topped $2 million.
The former boyfriend Chaz Reetz-Laiolo alleges [TGT] installed spyware on [TGT] computer before selling it to [TGT] in order to record keystrokes on the computer. "Using the spyware " the complaint says " [TGT] obtained [TGT] email password which [TGT] then used to access and systematically surveil [TGT] private email obsessively over a period of years."
However Emma Cline's complaint calls this "a ludicrous theory" and counters with the claim that this is just the latest in a "two-year assault on [TGT] âs mental health and literary reputation" from an abusive Reetz-Laiolo. Any alleged plagiarism the complaint states is limited to a "few brief phrases or facts " which are not subject to copyright protection and which don't appear in the published version of the novel. Both parties are requesting the case go to trial.
Most plagiarism cases are tough to prove and this one is made harder by both the lack of evidence and lack of copyright protections available for most of the instances of alleged plagiarism cited by Reetz-Laiolo. So why file the complaint at all? The initial 15-page letter first sent to Cline in February 2017 by Reetz-Laiolo's law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP might hold a clue: âWe believe [. . .] that it may be fruitful to engage in a confidential negotiation or mediation to determine whether our clients can reach a resolution with you rather than file our complaint â the letter states. Cline 's argument doesn't mince words when concluding what the fruitful resolution that interests Reetz-Laiolo could turn out to be stating his actions were "undoubtedly in the hope of a financial windfall."
One element that both parties can agree on: Cline did install spyware on her computer. According to her complaint she installed it while they were together because Reetz-Laiolo used it and she wanted to confirm his infidelity. Reetz-Laiolo's argument that she tracked his email address after selling him the laptop in 2013 after they were no longer together hinges on the assumption that she somehow updated this software to allow her to remotely access it.
David Boies the founder of the Boies Schiller Flexner firm was named as an attorney in the February 2017 letter to Cline according to a New Yorker article on the firm though his name does not appear in the complaint filed by Reetz-Laiolo. David Boies has also featured in another New Yorker article reporting that he and his firm worked for Harvey Weinstein to discredit women accusing Weinstein of rape. The early letter according to the New Yorker also claimed damages nearing $2 billion and in a section titled âClineâs History of Manipulating Older Men â attempted to use her sexual history against her. | 0Negative
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2,273 | Bundy Mistrial Highlights Why the Right Distrusts the Feds | Larry Wooten | Navarroâs decision apparently was a reflection on federal officials. It follows release of a memo by BLM investigator Larry Wooten that described âa widespread pattern of bad judgment lack of discipline incredible bias unprofessionalism and misconduct as well as likely policy ethical and legal violations among senior and supervisory staffâ in the BLMâs Office of Law Enforcement and Security.
Wooten wrote that he had seen âexcessive force â described officers grinding Bundyâs son Daveâs face in gravel and opined that federal officials were intent on commanding âthe most intrusive oppressive large scale and militaristic cattle impound possible.â
In an apparently partisan reference that used a term Hillary Clinton designated for some of Trumpâs supporters Wooten wrote that a federal prosecutor said letâs get these âshall we say Deplorables.â
Wooten also wrote that the Bundy case âclosely mirrorsâ the circumstances behind the trial of former Sen. Ted Stevens R-Alaska.
Wooten is no fan of Cliven Bundy who he wrote instead of âproperly using the court system or other avenues to properly address his grievances he chose an illegal uncivilized and dangerous strategy in which a tragedy was narrowly and thankfully avoided.â | Navarroâs decision apparently was a reflection on federal officials. It follows release of a memo by [TGT] that described âa widespread pattern of bad judgment lack of discipline incredible bias unprofessionalism and misconduct as well as likely policy ethical and legal violations among senior and supervisory staffâ in the BLMâs Office of Law Enforcement and Security.
[TGT] wrote that [TGT] had seen âexcessive force â described officers grinding Bundyâs son Daveâs face in gravel and opined that federal officials were intent on commanding âthe most intrusive oppressive large scale and militaristic cattle impound possible.â
In an apparently partisan reference that used a term Hillary Clinton designated for some of Trumpâs supporters Wooten wrote that a federal prosecutor said letâs get these âshall we say Deplorables.â
Wooten also wrote that the Bundy case âclosely mirrorsâ the circumstances behind the trial of former Sen. Ted Stevens R-Alaska.
[TGT] is no fan of Cliven Bundy who [TGT] wrote instead of âproperly using the court system or other avenues to properly address [TGT] grievances [TGT] chose an illegal uncivilized and dangerous strategy in which a tragedy was narrowly and thankfully avoided.â | 1Neutral
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2,274 | See Miranda Lambert's 'Vice' With Shane McAnally | Miranda Lambert | Miranda Lambert shares the stage with the songwriters whose contributions helped shape her double album The Weight of These Wings in a new episode of PBS' Front and Center. Lambert 's appearance is part of a CMA Songwriters Series episode of the acclaimed music series which returns for an eighth season beginning Friday February 2nd.
Related Miranda Lambert Little Big Town Plot Co-Headlining Summer 2018 Tour The Bandwagon Tour unites country titans for 13 shows beginning in July
In an episode spotlighting the 12-time CMA award winner Lambert welcomes an army of songwriters including Jessi Alexander Brent Cobb Luke Dick Anderson East Natalie Hemby Adam Hood Jack Ingram Shane McAnally Waylon Payne Aaron Raitiere Jon Randall Liz Rose Gwen Sebastian and Scotty Wray. In addition to sharing stories and inspiration behind the album with her fellow writers Lambert is also joined by her father Rick Lambert for a special performance of "Greyhound Bound for Nowhere " which the pair co-wrote for her 2005 debut album Kerosene.
"Vice" is a highlight of the installment with Lambert delivering an acoustic performance of the emotionally charged tune with McAnally who co-wrote the song with Lambert and Josh Osborne. | [TGT] shares the stage with the songwriters whose contributions helped shape [TGT] double album The Weight of These Wings in a new episode of PBS' Front and Center. [TGT] 's appearance is part of a CMA Songwriters Series episode of the acclaimed music series which returns for an eighth season beginning Friday February 2nd.
Related [TGT] Little Big Town Plot Co-Headlining Summer 2018 Tour The Bandwagon Tour unites country titans for 13 shows beginning in July
In an episode spotlighting the 12-time CMA award winner Lambert welcomes an army of songwriters including Jessi Alexander Brent Cobb Luke Dick Anderson East Natalie Hemby Adam Hood Jack Ingram Shane McAnally Waylon Payne Aaron Raitiere Jon Randall Liz Rose Gwen Sebastian and Scotty Wray. In addition to sharing stories and inspiration behind the album with her fellow writers Lambert is also joined by her father Rick Lambert for a special performance of "Greyhound Bound for Nowhere " which the pair co-wrote for her 2005 debut album Kerosene.
"Vice" is a highlight of the installment with Lambert delivering an acoustic performance of the emotionally charged tune with McAnally who co-wrote the song with Lambert and Josh Osborne. | 2Positive
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2,275 | NY governor to Trump: More disaster help less football talk | Andrew Cuomo | ALBANY N.Y. (AP) â President Donald Trump should spend more time focusing on hurricane recovery and less time criticizing football players New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
In remarks to business leaders meeting in the Adirondacks the Democratic governor took the Republican president to task for what Cuomo said is a long string of divisive comments that distract attention from more important topics. Cuomo cited the devastation in Texas Florida Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as an example.
"Should you kneel stand with the football players? Meanwhile people's lives are in danger " Cuomo said in reference to the controversy prompted by NFL players who declined to stand during the national anthem.
Trump spent three days criticizing players who kneel during the national anthem which began with quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 season as a protest over how police treat blacks. "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out he 's fired he 's fired " Trump said at a rally Friday.
Following the storms Cuomo visited Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in a show of solidarity and to better understand how New York could help. The state is sending members of the National Guard state troopers helicopters and supplies such as drinking water and electric generators.
Cuomo cited looming cuts to Medicaid funding the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare and escalating tensions with North Korea as other topics more deserving of the president's attention than the controversy over the NFL. He made similar comments during an appearance Monday morning on NY1 television.
While he did not criticize specific details of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the hurricanes he said Trump is using his position as president to divide Americans when he could be highlighting the need to help millions of Americans affected by them â or negotiating a big financial aid package for areas affected by the storms.
"We need the federal government to step in and the federal government has to get a financial aid package for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands by the way â and to send real help " Cuomo said on NY1. "Rather than talking about the nonsense that we're talking about the "take a knee" and football fighting with football players. Let the federal government do what it's supposed to do which is save lives."
Cuomo has been mentioned as a possible White House contender in 2020. He 's seeking a third term as governor next year. | ALBANY N.Y. (AP) â President Donald Trump should spend more time focusing on hurricane recovery and less time criticizing football players [TGT] said Monday.
In remarks to business leaders meeting in the Adirondacks the Democratic governor took the Republican president to task for what [TGT] said is a long string of divisive comments that distract attention from more important topics. [TGT] cited the devastation in Texas Florida Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as an example.
"Should you kneel stand with the football players? Meanwhile people's lives are in danger [TGT] said in reference to the controversy prompted by NFL players who declined to stand during the national anthem.
Trump spent three days criticizing players who kneel during the national anthem which began with quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 season as a protest over how police treat blacks. "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out he 's fired he 's fired " Trump said at a rally Friday.
Following the storms [TGT] visited Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in a show of solidarity and to better understand how New York could help. The state is sending members of the National Guard state troopers helicopters and supplies such as drinking water and electric generators.
[TGT] cited looming cuts to Medicaid funding the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare and escalating tensions with North Korea as other topics more deserving of the president's attention than the controversy over the NFL. [TGT] made similar comments during an appearance Monday morning on NY1 television.
While [TGT] did not criticize specific details of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the hurricanes [TGT] said Trump is using his position as president to divide Americans when he could be highlighting the need to help millions of Americans affected by them â or negotiating a big financial aid package for areas affected by the storms.
"We need the federal government to step in and the federal government has to get a financial aid package for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands by the way â and to send real help " Cuomo said on NY1. "Rather than talking about the nonsense that we're talking about the "take a knee" and football fighting with football players. Let the federal government do what it's supposed to do which is save lives."
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2,276 | McDonald's Rick and Morty Szechuan sauce eBay bidding | Rick | In April Adult Swim aired the first new episode of " Rick and Morty" since 2015. The episode ended with a plea from mad scientist Rick for McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan McNugget sauce a plum sauce that was available for a limited time in 1998 to promote the Disney movie "Mulan."
After the episode aired " Rick and Morty" fans began demanding that McDonald's actually bring back the sauce. Last week the fast-food chain did just that sending the creators of "Rick & Morty" a jug of the Szechuan McNugget sauce and launching a giveaway for three other jugs.
"The auction includes a NEW SEALED 64 oz. bottle of the special sauce (which isn't being made right now so it's VERY rare) along with a special Rick and Morty inspired Pelican camera case which houses the sauce " the eBay description reads. "Both items are BRAND NEW and there are only four of these made!"
The auction will close at 6:24 p.m. on Thursday so there's plenty of time for deadmau5 and other "Rick and Morty" fans to get in their bids â if they're willing to spend a few thousand dollars. | In April Adult Swim aired the first new episode of " [TGT] and Morty" since 2015. The episode ended with a plea from mad scientist [TGT] for McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan McNugget sauce a plum sauce that was available for a limited time in 1998 to promote the Disney movie "Mulan."
After the episode aired " [TGT] and Morty" fans began demanding that McDonald's actually bring back the sauce. Last week the fast-food chain did just that sending the creators of "Rick & Morty" a jug of the Szechuan McNugget sauce and launching a giveaway for three other jugs.
"The auction includes a NEW SEALED 64 oz. bottle of the special sauce (which isn't being made right now so it's VERY rare) along with a special [TGT] and Morty inspired Pelican camera case which houses the sauce " the eBay description reads. "Both items are BRAND NEW and there are only four of these made!"
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2,277 | Sherri Papini case: DNA evidence triggers new questions over 'super mom' kidnapping claim | Sherri Papini | Investigators have released new details in the mysterious case of a young mother in Northern California who vanished for three weeks last year â including the discovery of male DNA on her clothing even though the so-called âsuper momâ claimed her kidnappers were women.
Sherri Papini disappeared on November 2 2016 while she was out for a run near her home.
The Shasta County sheriffâs department said that investigators collected male DNA from the clothing that she was wearing when she was found. Female DNA also was discovered on Papini âs body. The samples have not been identified.
Days before Papiniâs disappearance police said she was texting with a man in Michigan and the two tried to meet up while he was in California. Investigators later interviewed the man and determined he was not involved in Papini âs disappearance.
The mother of two disappeared in Shasta County about 215 miles north of San Francisco. Her phone with headphones attached was found alongside the rural road where she lived in the little community of Mountain Gate north of Redding according to The Mercury News. Papini was found alongside Interstate 5 in Yolo County about 100 miles from her home on Thanksgiving.
The FBI on Wednesday also released sketches of two women who Papini said abducted her.
The first woman was described by Papini as Hispanic between 20 and 30 years old about 5 feet 5 inches tall with coarse curly dark hair thin eyebrows and pierced ears FBI officials said.
âThis has been an extraordinarily difficult time for our entire family â he said in a written statement Wednesday. âWe ask that the media please respect our need for privacy as Sherri continues to heal and we work towards putting our lives back together.â
Papini and her husband are believed to still live in Redding Calif.
âIt has taken time for Sherri to recover to a point to be able to provide accurate details to the sketch artist â the Shasta County Sheriffâs Office said in a news release noting FBI artists are being released 10 months after her disappearance because of Papini âs difficulty in recalling what her abductors looked like. âThe sketches then needed to be finalized and approved for release by the FBI.â
Papini also told investigators the women were driving a dark-colored SUV with a âlarge rear side window.â
â Sherri continues to look at photographs of various makes and models of SUVâs in an effort to provide a more detailed description â the sheriffâs office said.
The sheriffâs office also gave additional details on Papini âs physical condition when she was found.
Her nose was broken and she was wearing a chain restraint around her waist. Her blonde hair had been cut to shoulder length and she had a brand burned into her right shoulder.
The sheriffâs office added â Sherri however stated she had not been sexually assaulted and there is no physical evidence to indicate otherwise.â | Investigators have released new details in the mysterious case of a young mother in Northern California who vanished for three weeks last year â including the discovery of male DNA on [TGT] clothing even though the so-called âsuper momâ claimed [TGT] kidnappers were women.
[TGT] disappeared on November 2 2016 while [TGT] was out for a run near [TGT] home.
The Shasta County sheriffâs department said that investigators collected male DNA from the clothing that [TGT] was wearing when [TGT] was found. Female DNA also was discovered on [TGT] âs body. The samples have not been identified.
Days before Papiniâs disappearance police said she was texting with a man in Michigan and the two tried to meet up while he was in California. Investigators later interviewed the man and determined he was not involved in [TGT] âs disappearance.
The mother of two disappeared in Shasta County about 215 miles north of San Francisco. Her phone with headphones attached was found alongside the rural road where she lived in the little community of Mountain Gate north of Redding according to The Mercury News. [TGT] was found alongside Interstate 5 in Yolo County about 100 miles from [TGT] home on Thanksgiving.
The FBI on Wednesday also released sketches of two women who [TGT] said abducted her.
The first woman was described by Papini as Hispanic between 20 and 30 years old about 5 feet 5 inches tall with coarse curly dark hair thin eyebrows and pierced ears FBI officials said.
âThis has been an extraordinarily difficult time for our entire family â he said in a written statement Wednesday. âWe ask that the media please respect our need for privacy as Sherri continues to heal and we work towards putting our lives back together.â
Papini and her husband are believed to still live in Redding Calif.
âIt has taken time for Sherri to recover to a point to be able to provide accurate details to the sketch artist â the Shasta County Sheriffâs Office said in a news release noting FBI artists are being released 10 months after her disappearance because of Papini âs difficulty in recalling what her abductors looked like. âThe sketches then needed to be finalized and approved for release by the FBI.â
Papini also told investigators the women were driving a dark-colored SUV with a âlarge rear side window.â
â Sherri continues to look at photographs of various makes and models of SUVâs in an effort to provide a more detailed description â the sheriffâs office said.
The sheriffâs office also gave additional details on Papini âs physical condition when she was found.
Her nose was broken and she was wearing a chain restraint around her waist. Her blonde hair had been cut to shoulder length and she had a brand burned into her right shoulder.
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2,278 | Giants could bolster O | Quenton Nelson | INDIANAPOLIS â Notre Dame left guard Quenton Nelson might be Dave Gettlemanâs prototypical âhog molly.â
The Giants have to consider quarterbacks and Penn State running back Saquon Barkley with the No. 2 overall pick but Nelson is a nasty and powerful interior blocker. And this week the Giants formally interviewed Nelson who grew up a Giants fan.
âIâm from central Jersey so I grew up a Giants fan watching Shaun OâHara Chris Snee all those guys â said Nelson a former standout at Red Bank Catholic High School in Red Bank N.J. âThey had a great interior line and won a couple Super Bowls so that was awesome being a Giants fan.â
Nelson and Notre Dame left tackle Mike McGlinchey formed a powerful duo for the run-heavy Fighting Irish but then Nelsonâs nasty and dominant performance in a Citrus Bowl win over LSU sent his star soaring even higher. Nelson then crushed the bench press on Thursday pumping 225 pounds 35 times (last yearâs average for offensive guards was 26).
Quenton Nelson grew up a Giants fan. (Roy K. Miller/AP)
â (Nelson) is a phenomenal player phenomenal person â McGlinchey said of his teammate. â He cares as much as anybody in the building works as hard as anybody in the building and when he gets into the meeting room when he steps across those white lines he âs a different animal.â
Nelson said of potentially playing for the Giants or Jets who hold the sixth overall pick: âIt definitely would be nice but I canât control that. Whatever team I go to itâs not going to matter the distance or how far I am Iâm ready.â | INDIANAPOLIS â Notre Dame left guard [TGT] might be Dave Gettlemanâs prototypical âhog molly.â
The Giants have to consider quarterbacks and Penn State running back Saquon Barkley with the No. 2 overall pick but [TGT] is a nasty and powerful interior blocker. And this week the Giants formally interviewed [TGT] who grew up a Giants fan.
âIâm from central Jersey so I grew up a Giants fan watching Shaun OâHara Chris Snee all those guys â said [TGT] a former standout at Red Bank Catholic High School in Red Bank N.J. âThey had a great interior line and won a couple Super Bowls so that was awesome being a Giants fan.â
[TGT] and Notre Dame left tackle Mike McGlinchey formed a powerful duo for the run-heavy Fighting Irish but then Nelsonâs nasty and dominant performance in a Citrus Bowl win over LSU sent his star soaring even higher. [TGT] then crushed the bench press on Thursday pumping 225 pounds 35 times (last yearâs average for offensive guards was 26).
[TGT] grew up a Giants fan. (Roy K. Miller/AP)
â (Nelson) is a phenomenal player phenomenal person â McGlinchey said of his teammate. â He cares as much as anybody in the building works as hard as anybody in the building and when he gets into the meeting room when he steps across those white lines he âs a different animal.â
[TGT] said of potentially playing for the Giants or Jets who hold the sixth overall pick: âIt definitely would be nice but I canât control that. Whatever team I go to itâs not going to matter the distance or how far I am Iâm ready.â | 2Positive
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2,279 | Recy Taylor who fought for justice after 1944 rape dead at 97 | Recy Taylor | Recy Taylor an Alabama African-American woman whose 1944 abduction and rape sparked national headlines died in her sleep just a few days ahead of her 98th birthday.
Taylor died Thursday at an Abbeville nursing home her brother Robert Corbitt said. He added that she âd been in good spirits the day prior and her death was fairly sudden.
Taylor was only 24 years when she was brutally attacked in her Alabama hometown. She was kidnapped and raped at gunpoint while walking home from church by six white men who then left her on the side of the road in an isolated area.
The young married mother reported the incident to police â at the height of the Jim Crow era â despite threats against her life from her group of attackers.
Two all-white all-male grand juries however declined to indict the six men who admitted to authorities that theyâd attacked her .
Recyâs story is the heart of filmmaker Nancy Buirskiâs â The Rape of Recy Taylorâ â a documentary detailing the case which made its North America debut at the New York Film Festival earlier this year.
It âs also highlighted alongside the stories from women of color attacked by white men during the Civil Rights era in Danielle McGuireâs 2010 book: âAt the Dark of the Street.â
âIt is Recy Taylor and rare other black women like her who spoke up when danger was the greatest â Buirski told NBC News. | [TGT] an Alabama African-American woman whose 1944 abduction and rape sparked national headlines died in [TGT] sleep just a few days ahead of [TGT] 98th birthday.
[TGT] died Thursday at an Abbeville nursing home [TGT] brother Robert Corbitt said. He added that [TGT] âd been in good spirits the day prior and [TGT] death was fairly sudden.
[TGT] was only 24 years when [TGT] was brutally attacked in [TGT] Alabama hometown. [TGT] was kidnapped and raped at gunpoint while walking home from church by six white men who then left [TGT] on the side of the road in an isolated area.
The young married mother reported the incident to police â at the height of the Jim Crow era â despite threats against her life from her group of attackers.
Two all-white all-male grand juries however declined to indict the six men who admitted to authorities that theyâd attacked her .
Recyâs story is the heart of filmmaker Nancy Buirskiâs â [TGT] â a documentary detailing the case which made [TGT] North America debut at the New York Film Festival earlier this year.
[TGT] âs also highlighted alongside the stories from women of color attacked by white men during the Civil Rights era in Danielle McGuireâs 2010 book: âAt the Dark of the Street.â
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2,280 | Ackman's Pershing Square loses ADP proxy battle | William Ackman | ROSELAND N.J. (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund manager William Ackman lost his bid to win seats on the board of Automatic Data Processing Inc (ADP.O) according to a shareholder voting tally read at the payroll processorâs annual shareholder meeting.
William ' Bill' Ackman CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City U.S. May 8 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Pershing Square did not get any of its three nominees including Ackman elected to ADPâs board with less than 25 percent of voting shares pledged in support of his proxy campaign.
Ackman told Reuters at the meeting that the way the proxy system works put him at a disadvantage but he felt he accomplished a lot.
Ackman launched the ADP proxy contest as an underdog taking aim at a company engaged in the unglamorous business of providing human resources technology and largely backed by Wall Street. ADPâs share price has more than doubled under Rodriguezâs tenure and the company has posted relatively solid earnings growth.
For three months Ackman and ADP have traded increasingly bitter barbs through securities filings television appearances conference calls webcasts and private meetings with investors.
Ackman contends that management complacency has turned ADP into an inefficient corporate slugabed pushing outmoded products that even a top sales force could not sell. ADP has countered that Ackman brings no new ideas to the table risks disrupting the companyâs steady path to growth and behaves like a âspoiled brat.â
Ackman âs Pershing Square owns almost 2 percent of ADPâs common shares making it the seventh-largest voting shareholder according to Thomson Reuters data. When counting unexercised options the value of the stake is roughly $2.3 billion. | ROSELAND [TGT] lost [TGT] bid to win seats on the board of Automatic Data Processing Inc (ADP.O) according to a shareholder voting tally read at the payroll processorâs annual shareholder meeting.
William ' Bill' Ackman CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City U.S. May 8 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Pershing Square did not get any of its three nominees including Ackman elected to ADPâs board with less than 25 percent of voting shares pledged in support of his proxy campaign.
Ackman told Reuters at the meeting that the way the proxy system works put him at a disadvantage but he felt he accomplished a lot.
Ackman launched the ADP proxy contest as an underdog taking aim at a company engaged in the unglamorous business of providing human resources technology and largely backed by Wall Street. ADPâs share price has more than doubled under Rodriguezâs tenure and the company has posted relatively solid earnings growth.
For three months Ackman and ADP have traded increasingly bitter barbs through securities filings television appearances conference calls webcasts and private meetings with investors.
Ackman contends that management complacency has turned ADP into an inefficient corporate slugabed pushing outmoded products that even a top sales force could not sell. ADP has countered that Ackman brings no new ideas to the table risks disrupting the companyâs steady path to growth and behaves like a âspoiled brat.â
Ackman âs Pershing Square owns almost 2 percent of ADPâs common shares making it the seventh-largest voting shareholder according to Thomson Reuters data. When counting unexercised options the value of the stake is roughly $2.3 billion. | 1Neutral
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2,281 | Jeff Sessions vows to use Al Capone tactics to bring down MS | Jeff Sessions | U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans on using tactics similar to the takedown of mobster Al Capone to get MS-13 gang members off the streets and behind bars.
In a speech Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Philadelphia Sessions said MS-13 was a priority for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task and they have been given permission to use "every lawful tool" to take down the violent gang.
Sessions compared the plan to how officials captured Capone in the 1930s NBC reports. The notorious gangster was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison on tax evasion.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will use every lawful took to take down MS-13. (ROBERTO ESCOBAR/AFP/Getty Images) | U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans on using tactics similar to the takedown of mobster Al Capone to get MS-13 gang members off the streets and behind bars.
In a speech Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Philadelphia Sessions said MS-13 was a priority for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task and they have been given permission to use "every lawful tool" to take down the violent gang.
Sessions compared the plan to how officials captured Capone in the 1930s NBC reports. The notorious gangster was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison on tax evasion.
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2,282 | Roman Polanski accused of raping former actress when she was 15 | Renate Langer | Former German actress Renate Langer filed a report with Swiss police claiming that Polanski raped her in Gstaad in February 1972 when she was just 15 years old according to a report acquired by The New York Times.
Langer 61 said she met Polanski while working at a modeling agency in Munich during high school.
He allegedly raped her at his home when she visited him in Gstaad then again a month later in Rome where she had a small role in his movie âChe?â
Another woman claims Roman Polanski molested her when she was 16
Renate Langer Portr?t neben den Dreharbeiten zur ZDF-Reihe "Traumschiff" Folge 15 "Brasilien" Episode 1-3 MS "Berlin" 01.04.1986 Kreuzfahrtschiff Kreuzfahrt auf Deck Meer Urlaub Portrait Schauspielerin Promis Prominente Prominenter HD; (Photo by Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) (Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) Renate Langer Dreharbeiten zur ZDF-Reihe "Traumschiff" Folge 15 "Brasilien" Episode 1-3 MS "Berlin" 01.04.1986 Kreuzfahrt Kreuzfahrtschiff unter Deck Modenschau brasilianische Kleider Laufsteg Schauspielerin Promis Prominente Prominenter HD; (Photo by Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) (Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) Former German actress Renate Langer filed a report with Swiss police claiming that Polanski raped her in Gstaad in February 1972 when she was just 15 years old.
He fled the country in February 1978 hours before he was rumored to be sentenced to 50 years in prison. | [TGT] filed a report with Swiss police claiming that Polanski raped [TGT] in Gstaad in February 1972 when [TGT] was just 15 years old according to a report acquired by The New York Times.
[TGT] said [TGT] met Polanski while working at a modeling agency in Munich during high school.
[TGT] allegedly raped her at [TGT] home when she visited [TGT] in Gstaad then again a month later in Rome where she had a small role in [TGT] movie âChe?â
Another woman claims Roman Polanski molested her when she was 16
[TGT] Langer Portr?t neben den Dreharbeiten zur ZDF-Reihe "Traumschiff" Folge 15 "Brasilien" Episode 1-3 MS "Berlin" 01.04.1986 Kreuzfahrtschiff Kreuzfahrt auf Deck Meer Urlaub Portrait Schauspielerin Promis Prominente Prominenter HD; (Photo by Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) (Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) [TGT] Langer Dreharbeiten zur ZDF-Reihe "Traumschiff" Folge 15 "Brasilien" Episode 1-3 MS "Berlin" 01.04.1986 Kreuzfahrt Kreuzfahrtschiff unter Deck Modenschau brasilianische Kleider Laufsteg Schauspielerin Promis Prominente Prominenter HD; (Photo by Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) (Peter Bischoff/Getty Images) [TGT] filed a report with Swiss police claiming that Polanski raped [TGT] in Gstaad in February 1972 when [TGT] was just 15 years old.
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2,283 | Trump's Israel and Palestine peace push may be doomed | Benjamin Netanyahu | Both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left meetings with the US at the General Assembly convinced that Trump is serious about a Middle East peace plan Haaretz reported at the time.
Hamas is considered by Israel and the US as well as other countries to be a terrorist organization. Netanyahu has made it clear he has strict demands before Israel engages with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas including recognizing Israel breaking its ties with Iran and dismantling its military wing.
"We expect everyone who talks about a peace process to recognize the State of Israel and of course the Jewish state " Netanyahu said last week. "We cannot accept fake reconciliation on the Palestinian side that comes at the expense of our existence."
Given Netanyahu 's current stance though a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation could doom negotiations Daniel Kurtzer a former US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt told Business Insider.
" Netanyahu can do what he wants to do and thus far he appears irreconcilably opposed to PLO-Hamas reconciliation " Kurtzer said in an email. "If the Palestinians do reconcile on a reasonable basis and if Netanyahu 's attitude doesn't change it will be impossible to reach negotiations now."
Similar talks have started before though and have not been successful. The current discussions happening this week in Egypt are reportedly ignoring the issue of Hamas' military wing even as both Netanyahu and Abbas have demanded demilitarization.
Without the backing of both factions Abbas does not have the ability to say he speaks for all Palestinians a reason Netanyahu has offered in the past to avoid negotiations.
"Mr. Netanyahu and his government were using Palestinian division as an excuse not to make peace " Saeb Erekat the chief Palestinian negotiator when Fatah-Hamas talks ended the 2014 US negotiations said at the time. | Both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and [TGT] left meetings with the US at the General Assembly convinced that Trump is serious about a Middle East peace plan Haaretz reported at the time.
Hamas is considered by Israel and the US as well as other countries to be a terrorist organization. [TGT] has made it clear [TGT] has strict demands before Israel engages with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas including recognizing Israel breaking its ties with Iran and dismantling its military wing.
"We expect everyone who talks about a peace process to recognize the State of Israel and of course the Jewish state " [TGT] said last week. "We cannot accept fake reconciliation on the Palestinian side that comes at the expense of our existence."
Given [TGT] 's current stance though a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation could doom negotiations Daniel Kurtzer a former US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt told Business Insider.
" [TGT] can do what [TGT] wants to do and thus far [TGT] appears irreconcilably opposed to PLO-Hamas reconciliation " Kurtzer said in an email. "If the Palestinians do reconcile on a reasonable basis and if [TGT] 's attitude doesn't change it will be impossible to reach negotiations now."
Similar talks have started before though and have not been successful. The current discussions happening this week in Egypt are reportedly ignoring the issue of Hamas' military wing even as both Netanyahu and Abbas have demanded demilitarization.
Without the backing of both factions Abbas does not have the ability to say he speaks for all Palestinians a reason [TGT] has offered in the past to avoid negotiations.
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2,284 | Earle Hyman actor who played Grandpa Huxtable on âThe Cosby Show â dies at 91 | George Earle Hyman | George Earle Hyman was born in Rocky Mount N.C. on Oct. 11 1926 and moved to New York when he was 6. Both his parents were schoolteachers and took him to his first play a Brighton Beach production of Ibsenâs âGhosts â when he was 13.
The experience inspired him to take up acting and led to a lifelong fascination with Norwegian theater. He eventually learned Norwegian and Danish and spent much of his time in Norway performing in Norwegian plays as well as translated works of Shakespeare and other English-language writers.
Mr. Hyman said he felt like a true star only in Norway â not in the United States where he sometimes fielded questions and complaints about his decisions to play traditionally white roles in the theater.
âAs a young actor I adored Shakespeare and walked around with a volume of his work under my arm â he told the New York Times in 1991. âOne actress saw this and said âAinât somebody told that boy that heâs colored?â But I couldnât help it; I loved the plays that werenât written for me .â | [TGT] was born in Rocky Mount N.C. on Oct. 11 1926 and moved to New York when [TGT] was 6. Both [TGT] parents were schoolteachers and took [TGT] to [TGT] first play a Brighton Beach production of Ibsenâs âGhosts â when he was 13.
The experience inspired him to take up acting and led to a lifelong fascination with Norwegian theater. He eventually learned Norwegian and Danish and spent much of his time in Norway performing in Norwegian plays as well as translated works of Shakespeare and other English-language writers.
[TGT] said [TGT] felt like a true star only in Norway â not in the United States where [TGT] sometimes fielded questions and complaints about [TGT] decisions to play traditionally white roles in the theater.
âAs a young actor I adored Shakespeare and walked around with a volume of his work under my arm â he told the New York Times in 1991. âOne actress saw this and said âAinât somebody told that boy that heâs colored?â But I couldnât help it; I loved the plays that werenât written for me .â | 1Neutral
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2,285 | Randi Zuckerberg : Three pieces of advice for entrepreneurs | Randi Zuckerberg | She may be the sister of Mark Zuckerberg founder of one of the world's most famous start-ups but Randi Zuckerberg has proved herself an entrepreneur in her own right.
Zuckerberg was just a couple of years into what she has described as her "dream job" at advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather when she took the leap and joined what was then a little-known company in Silicon Valley called Facebook.
In the years since Zuckerberg has balanced running her business alongside penning two books raising a young family and even appearing on Broadway.
For her that entrepreneurial streak boils down to three key factors. Speaking to CNBC in Egypt's capital Cairo Zuckerberg summarized them into advice for would-be entrepreneurs. | She may be the sister of Mark Zuckerberg founder of one of the world's most famous start-ups but [TGT] has proved [TGT] an entrepreneur in [TGT] own right.
[TGT] was just a couple of years into what [TGT] has described as [TGT] "dream job" at advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather when [TGT] took the leap and joined what was then a little-known company in Silicon Valley called Facebook.
In the years since [TGT] has balanced running [TGT] business alongside penning two books raising a young family and even appearing on Broadway.
For [TGT] that entrepreneurial streak boils down to three key factors. Speaking to CNBC in Egypt's capital Cairo [TGT] summarized them into advice for would-be entrepreneurs. | 2Positive
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2,286 | Report: DOJ Officials Pouring over More than 10 000 Strzok Texts After Discovering Anti | Peter Strzok | Fox News reports that the department is going through âseveral monthsâ of text messages from former counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok to FBI attorney Lisa Page whom he had an affair with.
When the inspector general notified Muellerâs office the FBI removed Strzok from the Russia probe and demoted him to a position in the FBIâs human resources department.
The disclosure of Strzok âs political leanings raised questions from critics about the objectivity of Muellerâs investigation.
Strzok had been selected in July 2016 to oversee the Russia probe and was also one of the top investigators of the probe into Hillary Clintonâs emails and use of a private server. He interviewed Clinton and her aides about the server which contained classified material.
Strzok was also responsible for creating the statement former FBI Director James Comey delivered on July 5 2016 clearing Clinton of all criminal charges.
Several members of the House Intelligence Committee expressed interest in reviewing Strzokâs text messages and emails after the Justice Department completes their investigation. The committee also wants to find out what impact he had on the Clinton investigation and why he questioned Flynn. | Fox News reports that the department is going through âseveral monthsâ of text messages from former counterintelligence agent [TGT] to FBI attorney Lisa Page whom he had an affair with.
When the inspector general notified Muellerâs office the FBI removed Strzok from the Russia probe and demoted him to a position in the FBIâs human resources department.
The disclosure of Strzok âs political leanings raised questions from critics about the objectivity of Muellerâs investigation.
Strzok had been selected in July 2016 to oversee the Russia probe and was also one of the top investigators of the probe into Hillary Clintonâs emails and use of a private server. He interviewed Clinton and her aides about the server which contained classified material.
Strzok was also responsible for creating the statement former FBI Director James Comey delivered on July 5 2016 clearing Clinton of all criminal charges.
Several members of the House Intelligence Committee expressed interest in reviewing Strzokâs text messages and emails after the Justice Department completes their investigation. The committee also wants to find out what impact he had on the Clinton investigation and why he questioned Flynn. | 1Neutral
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2,287 | Cramer Remix: How to play Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox | Jim Cramer | Even though CNBC's Jim Cramer always tells investors to buy stocks when they decline because of some unrelated event that shakes the market he knows they don't always do it.
But if you think that a hiccup in the GOP's tax overhaul plans could truly derail the bull market you might be wrong Cramer said.
Disney's deal to buy $52 billion worth of Twenty-First Century Fox's entertainment assets announced Thursday is a glaring example of a company helping itself Cramer said.
While Cramer still thinks that Disney's stock is too cheap vis-a-vis the company's potential he likes the deal because it gives Disney the scale it needs for its stock to keep climbing.
And if the deal is approved by regulatory authorities both stocks are "buyable" on its prospects Cramer said. | Even though [TGT] always tells investors to buy stocks when they decline because of some unrelated event that shakes the market he knows they don't always do it.
But if you think that a hiccup in the GOP's tax overhaul plans could truly derail the bull market you might be wrong [TGT] said.
Disney's deal to buy $52 billion worth of Twenty-First Century Fox's entertainment assets announced Thursday is a glaring example of a company helping itself [TGT] said.
While [TGT] still thinks that Disney's stock is too cheap vis-a-vis the company's potential [TGT] likes the deal because it gives Disney the scale it needs for its stock to keep climbing.
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2,288 | Giants draft bust in ugly brawl video | Damontre Moore | This brawl may not be the reason Damontre Moore got cut but it wonât help him get a new job.
The Giantsâ 2013 third-round draft pick was cut by the Cowboys on Oct. 24 just days after he was in this altercation outside a Dallas-area nightclub. TMZ Sports published footage of the video on Thursday. Moore is fighting several men and tries jumping in through the sunroof of a Porsche of one of the attackers. The sound of what could be a gunshot is heard during the video. A witness told the website the fight was over a woman.
Dallas claimed at the time the fight had nothing to do with Moore âs release.
âWe had to make a roster move and we just felt like the best decision for our team was to release Damontre Moore â Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said in October with speculation also circulating Mooreâs release was linked to his decision to raise his fist during the national anthem.
Moore was already a borderline NFL player and has not received any reported interest from around the league since that release six weeks ago.
The Giants cut Moore in December 2015 after he got into a fight with teammate Cullen Jenkins over a pair of headphones. | This brawl may not be the reason [TGT] got cut but [TGT] [TGT] help [TGT] get a new job.
The Giantsâ 2013 third-round draft pick was cut by the Cowboys on Oct. 24 just days after [TGT] was in this altercation outside a Dallas-area nightclub. TMZ Sports published footage of the video on Thursday. [TGT] is fighting several men and tries jumping in through the sunroof of a Porsche of one of the attackers. The sound of what could be a gunshot is heard during the video. A witness told the website the fight was over a woman.
Dallas claimed at the time the fight had nothing to do with Moore âs release.
âWe had to make a roster move and we just felt like the best decision for our team was to release [TGT] â Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said in October with speculation also circulating Mooreâs release was linked to his decision to raise his fist during the national anthem.
[TGT] was already a borderline NFL player and has not received any reported interest from around the league since that release six weeks ago.
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2,289 | West Ham's Bilic says pressure spurs him on to improve | Slaven Bilic | (Reuters) - West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic admits he is one of many Premier League managers facing speculation over their futures but the Croat said the pressure makes him more determined to improve results.
West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic before the match. Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
Evertonâs Ronald Koeman became the third managerial casualty of the Premier League season on Monday and Bilic is at risk of suffering the same fate if he does not turn things around after last Fridayâs 3-0 home loss to Brighton and Hove Albion.
West Ham are 16th in the table with eight points from nine games but Bilic said he would not walk away from the challenge.
âYou ask me about Koeman there are always three four five managers in those positions and Iâm definitely one of them â Bilic said ahead of the League Cup fourth round clash at Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday.
British media reports said West Hamâs owners have given Bilic the next two games to turn things around and save his job but the 49-year-old is not worried. | (Reuters) - West Ham United manager [TGT] admits [TGT] is one of many Premier League managers facing speculation over their futures but the Croat said the pressure makes [TGT] more determined to improve results.
[TGT] . Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
Evertonâs Ronald Koeman became the third managerial casualty of the Premier League season on Monday and [TGT] is at risk of suffering the same fate if he does not turn things around after last Fridayâs 3-0 home loss to Brighton and Hove Albion.
West Ham are 16th in the table with eight points from nine games but [TGT] said [TGT] would not walk away from the challenge.
âYou ask me about Koeman there are always three four five managers in those positions and Iâm definitely one of them â [TGT] said ahead of the League Cup fourth round clash at Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday.
British media reports said West Hamâs owners have given [TGT] the next two games to turn things around and save [TGT] job but the 49-year-old is not worried. | 1Neutral
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2,290 | Henry Cavill debunks death hoax after Wikipedia lists him dead | Henry Cavill | Henry Cavill is alive and well despite what the Internet says.
The âJustice Leagueâ actor who is known to play Superman in recent DC Comics movies debunked rumors that he died on Monday by posting a selfie on Instagram with a split of the fake death date listed on Wikipedia. A quick search for Cavillâs name on Google shows the actor died on March 3 2018.
Cavill âs âdeath dateâ was taken down by 2 p.m. Monday. It's unclear when the entry was made.
Cavill isnât the only actor who had to fight off death rumors. Sylvester Stallone shut down rumors in mid-February after reports claimed the 71-year-old actor died. | [TGT] is alive and well despite what the Internet says.
The âJustice Leagueâ actor who is known to play Superman in recent DC Comics movies debunked rumors that [TGT] died on Monday by posting a selfie on Instagram with a split of the fake death date listed on Wikipedia. A quick search for Cavillâs name on Google shows the actor died on March 3 2018.
Cavill âs âdeath dateâ was taken down by 2 p.m. Monday. It's unclear when the entry was made.
Cavill isnât the only actor who had to fight off death rumors. Sylvester Stallone shut down rumors in mid-February after reports claimed the 71-year-old actor died. | 1Neutral
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2,291 | Facebook launches Creator app for influencers to build video communities | Fidji Simo | âItâs a big priority for us to bring people closer together around meaningful content and the people who are meaningful to them â Facebookâs VP of video product Fidji Simo tells me. âCreators are right at the intersection of everything we think is pretty unique about Facebook.â
âThe idea was there to give them a one-stop-shop for all the functionality to manage their presence on the go â Simo explains about the Creator app which breaks down into four parts.
This bundle of tools lets users add intros outros and custom emoji reactions to their live broadcasts. Creators go on Facebookâs site upload an intro like a theme song or welcome and an outro like a call to follow them across social media. Those can then be enabled in the Creator app so they play at the start and end of the broadcast. Simo notes that â[Creators] were saying Live is cool because itâs raw and authentic but theyâd like to be able to introduce every time what their show is about or what the theme is about.â
Graph frames let makers add a pretty border to their videos for a more immersive feel. And custom reactions let creators replace one of the six default âhaha â ââangryâ or âwowâ alternatives to the standard âLikeâ with a graphic of their choice. That could tie in with the theme of their broadcast or personality. For example Simo says feel-good video star Markian could add an especially toothy smile reaction to entertain his fan club group on Facebook the #SmileSquad. | âItâs a big priority for us to bring people closer together around meaningful content and the people who are meaningful to them â Facebookâs VP of video product [TGT] tells me. âCreators are right at the intersection of everything we think is pretty unique about Facebook.â
âThe idea was there to give them a one-stop-shop for all the functionality to manage their presence on the go â [TGT] explains about the Creator app which breaks down into four parts.
This bundle of tools lets users add intros outros and custom emoji reactions to their live broadcasts. Creators go on Facebookâs site upload an intro like a theme song or welcome and an outro like a call to follow them across social media. Those can then be enabled in the Creator app so they play at the start and end of the broadcast. [TGT] notes that â[Creators] were saying Live is cool because itâs raw and authentic but theyâd like to be able to introduce every time what their show is about or what the theme is about.â
Graph frames let makers add a pretty border to their videos for a more immersive feel. And custom reactions let creators replace one of the six default âhaha â ââangryâ or âwowâ alternatives to the standard âLikeâ with a graphic of their choice. That could tie in with the theme of their broadcast or personality. For example [TGT] says feel-good video star Markian could add an especially toothy smile reaction to entertain [TGT] fan club group on Facebook the #SmileSquad. | 1Neutral
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2,292 | How LeBron James says he âd fix the âcorruptâ NCAA | LeBron James | LeBron James who opted to enter the NBA without playing college basketball has a solution for the NCAAâs one-and-done problem. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press)
The NCAA is âcorrupt â LeBron James said Tuesday echoing a sentiment thatâs seemingly growing louder as more coaches are implicated in an FBI pay-for-play scandal.
Said James considering the NBAâs G League for player development:
So where does that leave LeBron and his ideas? | [TGT] who opted to enter the NBA without playing college basketball has a solution for the NCAAâs one-and-done problem. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press)
The NCAA is âcorrupt â [TGT] said Tuesday echoing a sentiment thatâs seemingly growing louder as more coaches are implicated in an FBI pay-for-play scandal.
Said [TGT] considering the NBAâs G League for player development:
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2,293 | Ex | Jared Fogle | CLOSE Jared Fogle the former Subway spokesman convicted on child pornography charges was unable to persuade a federal appeals court to reduce his sentence. (Dwight Adams/IndyStar) Wochit
Jared Fogle enters the Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse for sentencing Thursday November 19 2015. (Photo: Kelly_Wilkinson/The_Star)
INDIANAPOLIS â Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle continues to fight his nearly 16-year prison sentence this time claiming that his judge treated him unfairly because she has two teenage daughters.
Fogle 40 who is being held in a federal correctional facility in Colorado had a motion filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana requesting that Judge Tanya Walton Pratt recuse herself from the case because of bias.
In November 2015 Pratt sentenced Fogle to 15 years and eight months in federal prison on charges of possession or distribution of child pornography and traveling across state lines to have commercial sex with a minor. The punishment exceeded what prosecutors and Fogle 's attorneys had recommended under a plea agreement.
The sentence was upheld by a federal appeals court after Fogle unsuccessfully appealed the following year. He is now representing himself in court.
More: Judge boots ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle's child sex case appeal
More: Subway seeks dismissal of lawsuit alleging it hid Jared Fogle 's misconduct
In the Tuesday court filing Fogle argues that Pratt demonstrated "objective bias and subjective bias." His claim stems from the fact that Pratt has two teenage daughters and Fogle 's case involves a teenage prostitute and teenage girls being illegally photographed.
He also contends that Pratt allowed prosecutors to erroneously charge him with conspiracy a claim he made back in his 2016 appeal.
"It is the opinion of a 'reasonable party' that Judge Tanya Walton Pratt has demonstrated she is prejudicially biased to the Defendant Jared S. Fogle and should in facts and law recuse herself from these proceedings " Fogle writes in the new filing.
During an appeal hearing in May 2016 Fogle 's former attorney Ron Elberger argued that fantasizing about a crime is not a crime. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve DeBrota said Fogle acted on his fantasies citing several occasions in which he asked adult prostitutes to provide him access to minors.
More: Jared Fogle 's sentence upheld by federal appeals court
More: Fogle 's ex-wife alleges Subway knew of his 'depravities'
The appellate judges said they cannot accept Fogle 's claim that he was improperly sentenced based on "things he didn't do or fantasies he may have had."
"The district court also appropriately considered the perverse nature and circumstances of the offenses ... alongside ample evidence that Fogle repeatedly sought out and traveled to have sex with minors " Judge Joel Flaum wrote. | [TGT] was unable to persuade a federal appeals court to reduce [TGT] sentence. (Dwight Adams/IndyStar) [TGT]
enters the Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse for sentencing Thursday November 19 2015. (Photo: Kelly_Wilkinson/The_Star)
INDIANAPOLIS â [TGT] continues to fight [TGT] nearly 16-year prison sentence this time claiming that [TGT] judge treated him unfairly because she has two teenage daughters.
Fogle 40 who is being held in a federal correctional facility in Colorado had a motion filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana requesting that Judge Tanya Walton Pratt recuse herself from the case because of bias.
In November 2015 Pratt sentenced Fogle to 15 years and eight months in federal prison on charges of possession or distribution of child pornography and traveling across state lines to have commercial sex with a minor. The punishment exceeded what prosecutors and Fogle 's attorneys had recommended under a plea agreement.
The sentence was upheld by a federal appeals court after Fogle unsuccessfully appealed the following year. He is now representing himself in court.
More: Judge boots ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle's child sex case appeal
More: Subway seeks dismissal of lawsuit alleging it hid Jared Fogle 's misconduct
In the Tuesday court filing Fogle argues that Pratt demonstrated "objective bias and subjective bias." His claim stems from the fact that Pratt has two teenage daughters and Fogle 's case involves a teenage prostitute and teenage girls being illegally photographed.
He also contends that Pratt allowed prosecutors to erroneously charge him with conspiracy a claim he made back in his 2016 appeal.
"It is the opinion of a 'reasonable party' that Judge Tanya Walton Pratt has demonstrated she is prejudicially biased to the Defendant Jared S. Fogle and should in facts and law recuse herself from these proceedings " Fogle writes in the new filing.
During an appeal hearing in May 2016 Fogle 's former attorney Ron Elberger argued that fantasizing about a crime is not a crime. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve DeBrota said Fogle acted on his fantasies citing several occasions in which he asked adult prostitutes to provide him access to minors.
More: Jared Fogle 's sentence upheld by federal appeals court
More: Fogle 's ex-wife alleges Subway knew of his 'depravities'
The appellate judges said they cannot accept Fogle 's claim that he was improperly sentenced based on "things he didn't do or fantasies he may have had."
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2,294 | Remembering AC/DC's Malcolm Young Band's Rock Mastermind | Malcolm Young | "There's very few rock & roll bands " Malcolm Young explained to a Dutch TV interviewer around the time of AC/DC's 2000 album Stiff Upper Lip. "There's rock bands there's sort of metal bands there's whatever but there's no rock & roll bands â there's the Stones and us " he chuckled. When asked by the interviewer to explain the difference between rock bands and rock & roll bands he replied "Rock bands don't really swing ... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel the movement you know the jungle of it all."
Related Malcolm Young AC/DC Guitarist and Co-Founder Dead at 64 Musician who co-founded Australian rock legends in 1973 with brother Angus Young dies following battle with dementia
Few rock & rollers have ever understood "the jungle of it all" like Malcolm Young and fewer still have ever been as single-mindedly devoted to its perpetuation. From 1973 when he formed AC/DC with his younger brother Angus to 2014 when dementia and other health issues forced his premature retirement Malcolm never once allowed the band to deviate from its swinging swaggering riff-driven course. During Malcolm 's tenure AC/DC's recordings featured three different lead vocalists three different bassists and five different drummers; and yet the band's musical aesthetic remained so stubbornly consistent as to make the Ramones look like flighty trend-jumpers by comparison.
But if AC/DC's public image was largely defined by Angus's naughty schoolboy Bon's lascivious pirate and Brian's lusty bricklayer personas it was Malcom who truly defined the band's lean 'n' mean sound. In addition to serving as the captain of the good ship AC/DC he was also its chief architect and mechanic tinkering with riffs and songs as tirelessly as he tinkered with his 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird which underwent countless modifications as he strove to unleash the ultimate guitar tone. "He's the engine in the Mack truck that is AC/DC " Anthrax's Scott Ian told Loudwire in 2014. "He's the driving force behind that band; has been since Day One. To the casual listener they probably don't know who Malcolm Young is ... but Malcom's the guy. He's the greatest rhythm guitar player ever."
" Mal always had a better ear for recording and mixing than I did " Angus told me. " He was more involved with that when we were younger fiddling around with sounds and stuff. He tunes into it more than me ; I'm more about just picking up the thing and play it. He helped me a lot with dialing in sounds from my amp; I would be saying 'I can't get nothin' out of this Marshall ' and he would help me sort it out and get the best out of it."
While Malcolm's death at the too-young age of 64 is certainly a massive blow for AC/DC fans everywhere it's unlikely that he would want Angus to bring it all to an end on his account. Even in his absence AC/DC has continued to function like a finely-tuned clockwork mechanism â the band successfully soldiered following his retirement recording and touring behind 2014's Rock or Bust with nephew Stevie Young taking over for his uncle on rhythm guitar. That the band continues to thrive without Malcolm isn't a reflection on his lack of importance to it but rather a testament to the enduring brilliance of the material he wrote and the perfection of the musical machine that he designed to deliver it. So long as there's enough electricity left in the world for some guitarist somewhere to hit a ringing window-rattling A chord Malcolm Young's spirit will live on. Rock in Peace Mal. | "There's very few rock & roll bands " [TGT] explained to a Dutch TV interviewer around the time of AC/DC's 2000 album Stiff Upper Lip. "There's rock bands there's sort of metal bands there's whatever but there's no rock & roll bands â there's the Stones and us " he chuckled. When asked by the interviewer to explain the difference between rock bands and rock & roll bands he replied "Rock bands don't really swing ... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel the movement you know the jungle of it all."
Related [TGT] AC/DC Guitarist and Co-Founder Dead at 64 Musician who co-founded Australian rock legends in 1973 with brother Angus Young dies following battle with dementia
Few rock & rollers have ever understood "the jungle of it all" like Malcolm Young and fewer still have ever been as single-mindedly devoted to its perpetuation. From 1973 when he formed AC/DC with his younger brother Angus to 2014 when dementia and other health issues forced his premature retirement [TGT] never once allowed the band to deviate from [TGT] swinging swaggering riff-driven course. During Malcolm 's tenure AC/DC's recordings featured three different lead vocalists three different bassists and five different drummers; and yet the band's musical aesthetic remained so stubbornly consistent as to make the Ramones look like flighty trend-jumpers by comparison.
But if AC/DC's public image was largely defined by Angus's naughty schoolboy Bon's lascivious pirate and Brian's lusty bricklayer personas it was Malcom who truly defined the band's lean 'n' mean sound. In addition to serving as the captain of the good ship AC/DC [TGT] was also its chief architect and mechanic tinkering with riffs and songs as tirelessly as [TGT] tinkered with [TGT] 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird which underwent countless modifications as [TGT] strove to unleash the ultimate guitar tone. " [TGT] 's the engine in the Mack truck that is AC/DC " Anthrax's Scott Ian told Loudwire in 2014. " [TGT] 's the driving force behind that band; has been since Day One. To the casual listener they probably don't know who [TGT] is ... but Malcom's the guy. [TGT] 's the greatest rhythm guitar player ever."
" Mal always had a better ear for recording and mixing than I did " Angus told me. " [TGT] was more involved with that when we were younger fiddling around with sounds and stuff. [TGT] tunes into it more than me ; I'm more about just picking up the thing and play it. [TGT] helped me a lot with dialing in sounds from my amp; I would be saying 'I can't get nothin' out of this Marshall ' and [TGT] would help me sort it out and get the best out of it."
While [TGT] 's death at the too-young age of 64 is certainly a massive blow for AC/DC fans everywhere it's unlikely that [TGT] would want Angus to bring it all to an end on [TGT] account. Even in [TGT] absence AC/DC has continued to function like a finely-tuned clockwork mechanism â the band successfully soldiered following his retirement recording and touring behind 2014's Rock or Bust with nephew Stevie Young taking over for his uncle on rhythm guitar. That the band continues to thrive without [TGT] isn't a reflection on [TGT] lack of importance to it but rather a testament to the enduring brilliance of the material [TGT] wrote and the perfection of the musical machine that [TGT] designed to deliver it. So long as there's enough electricity left in the world for some guitarist somewhere to hit a ringing window-rattling A chord Malcolm Young's spirit will live on. Rock in Peace Mal. | 2Positive
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2,295 | Prospect Editor Kuttner: Bannon Exploiting Massive Failure of Dems with Working | Steve Bannon | American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner is livid that because of the Democratsâ decades-long betrayal of working-class voters on issues like trade and illegal immigration former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon sees a huge opening to permanently win over these voters who were a monumental part of President Donald Trumpâs historic movement in 2016.
Kuttner visited Bannon at the Breitbart Embassy for an on-background conversation last Thursday. He writes in the Prospect that âDemocrats the party of Roosevelt and Truman of grand public works and strong labor protections should be making it preposterous for Bannon â to be the champion of economic populism and is astounded that the two parties are âeven in contention over who is the better friend of working people.â
But Bannon realizes that for him to successfully âcrushâ Democrats he must defeat the corporatist and milquetoast GOP establishment that has often been the Democratsâ best friend by easily allowing the left to portray right-of-center politicians as out-of-touch elitists who have no understanding about the concerns of working-class Americans.
Kuttner points out that Bannon is currently âorganizing an electoral machine to Trumpâs right and certainly to the right of the Republican Senate leadershipâand he hopes to bring that leadership down.â
âFor Bannon the victory in the Alabama Senate primary of former Judge Roy Moore over Mitch McConnellâs favorite incumbent Luther Strange was just the beginning â he writes of the race that Bannon described as a battle between Mooreâs âgrassroots muscleâ versus âStrangeâs corporate money.â
Kuttner notes that after Mooreâs victory Bannon declared: âThis is a populist nationalist conservative revolt. Itâs a revolt against the elites in this country. Itâs a revolt against the globalists among those elites.â
Unlike the bipartisanship for the 3.8 percent that elites like Chuck Todd insufferably are activists for Kuttner writes that Bannon âcontinues to look for left-right common groundâ on issues that will benefit American workers of all backgrounds.
Bannon told Charlie Rose during his 60 Minutes interview that economic nationalism will be the great unifying force because âas long as youâre an American citizen youâre part of this populous economic nationalist movement.â
âEconomic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American systemâwe look after our own. We look after our citizen we look after our manufacturing base â Bannon said on 60 Minutes. âAnd guess what? This countryâs going to be greater more united more powerful than itâs ever been. This is not astrophysics. And by the way thatâs every nationality every race every religion every sexual preference.â
Bannon also told Rose that the Republican establishment has never believed in the economic nationalist agenda that got Trump and elected and is âtrying to nullify the 2016 election.â
After his conversation with Bannon Kuttner writes that âBannon believes that if Republicans will just embrace populist economic nationalism they can become a workersâ party and the majority party for decades to come. Heâs been on the road recruiting primary challengers to knock off Republican incumbentsâand carry that populist message.â
Kuttner points out that âBannonâs current obsession is to blow up Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican Senate incumbents whom he regards as hostile to his brand of nationalism.â And he acknowledges that Bannon can find common ground with left-of-center voters on issues like Wall Street accountability and trade agreements âthat allow cheap labor to compete with domestic labor.â
And Kuttner even concedes that if Bannon can find good economic nationalist candidates âcentrist Democrats could be vulnerable.â
He also thinks that Republicans have no business âelecting senators in states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania â but âas long as Democrats offer messages that blend Wall Street globalism and identity politics and fail to deliver a politics of class uplift even extremist Republicans could keep winning.â
âIf Bannon âs criticism of establishment Republicans is withering his contempt for the failure of Democrats to take on their own Wall Street wing is boundless â Kuttner concludes.
In a previous interview heard around the world with Kuttner Bannon told him that so long as Democrats obsess about identity politics right-of-center economic nationalists will âcrushâ them. | American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner is livid that because of the Democratsâ decades-long betrayal of working-class voters on issues like trade and illegal immigration former White House Chief Strategist [TGT] sees a huge opening to permanently win over these voters who were a monumental part of President Donald Trumpâs historic movement in 2016.
Kuttner visited Bannon at the Breitbart Embassy for an on-background conversation last Thursday. He writes in the Prospect that âDemocrats the party of Roosevelt and Truman of grand public works and strong labor protections should be making it preposterous for Bannon â to be the champion of economic populism and is astounded that the two parties are âeven in contention over who is the better friend of working people.â
But Bannon realizes that for him to successfully âcrushâ Democrats he must defeat the corporatist and milquetoast GOP establishment that has often been the Democratsâ best friend by easily allowing the left to portray right-of-center politicians as out-of-touch elitists who have no understanding about the concerns of working-class Americans.
Kuttner points out that Bannon is currently âorganizing an electoral machine to Trumpâs right and certainly to the right of the Republican Senate leadershipâand he hopes to bring that leadership down.â
âFor Bannon the victory in the Alabama Senate primary of former Judge Roy Moore over Mitch McConnellâs favorite incumbent Luther Strange was just the beginning â he writes of the race that Bannon described as a battle between Mooreâs âgrassroots muscleâ versus âStrangeâs corporate money.â
Kuttner notes that after Mooreâs victory Bannon declared: âThis is a populist nationalist conservative revolt. Itâs a revolt against the elites in this country. Itâs a revolt against the globalists among those elites.â
Unlike the bipartisanship for the 3.8 percent that elites like Chuck Todd insufferably are activists for Kuttner writes that Bannon âcontinues to look for left-right common groundâ on issues that will benefit American workers of all backgrounds.
Bannon told Charlie Rose during his 60 Minutes interview that economic nationalism will be the great unifying force because âas long as youâre an American citizen youâre part of this populous economic nationalist movement.â
âEconomic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American systemâwe look after our own. We look after our citizen we look after our manufacturing base â Bannon said on 60 Minutes. âAnd guess what? This countryâs going to be greater more united more powerful than itâs ever been. This is not astrophysics. And by the way thatâs every nationality every race every religion every sexual preference.â
Bannon also told Rose that the Republican establishment has never believed in the economic nationalist agenda that got Trump and elected and is âtrying to nullify the 2016 election.â
After his conversation with Bannon Kuttner writes that âBannon believes that if Republicans will just embrace populist economic nationalism they can become a workersâ party and the majority party for decades to come. Heâs been on the road recruiting primary challengers to knock off Republican incumbentsâand carry that populist message.â
Kuttner points out that âBannonâs current obsession is to blow up Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican Senate incumbents whom he regards as hostile to his brand of nationalism.â And he acknowledges that Bannon can find common ground with left-of-center voters on issues like Wall Street accountability and trade agreements âthat allow cheap labor to compete with domestic labor.â
And Kuttner even concedes that if Bannon can find good economic nationalist candidates âcentrist Democrats could be vulnerable.â
He also thinks that Republicans have no business âelecting senators in states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania â but âas long as Democrats offer messages that blend Wall Street globalism and identity politics and fail to deliver a politics of class uplift even extremist Republicans could keep winning.â
âIf Bannon âs criticism of establishment Republicans is withering his contempt for the failure of Democrats to take on their own Wall Street wing is boundless â Kuttner concludes.
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2,296 | Unsealed Documents Show The Las Vegas Shooter's Girlfriend Acted Swiftly : The Two | Stephen Paddock | Marilou Danley was in the Philippines visiting family when Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured another 557 in the Oct. 1 attack. She made changes to her Facebook account's privacy and personal settings at 12:30 a.m. about 2 1/2 hours after the first volley of bullets rained down on people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas strip. The first calls about the shooting rolled in at 10:08 p.m. according to police.
But it wasn't until nearly an hour after that â 3:30 a.m. â that police released Paddock 's name to the public.
As the New York Post reports the documents suggest Danley acted quickly after the shooting to conceal her relationship with Paddock .
Danley who also lived with Paddock has been adamant that she knew nothing about his plans to conduct the attack.
The documents lay out what investigators had learned about Paddock in the days following the shooting. But they do not provide a motive for what prompted the 64-year-old professional gambler to murder and terrorize concertgoers from 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel before killing himself.
One affidavit includes email exchanges between centralpark1@live.com a Microsoft account that FBI authorities believe belonged to Paddock and centralpark4804@gmail.com. (It is unclear if the FBI knows who is responsible for the latter account.) The messages were sent on July 6 2017.
The exchanges took place nearly three months before the onslaught. And CNN reports that "investigators at the time of the filing had been unable to determine if Paddock was sending emails between two accounts both belonging to himself or was communicating with someone else."
In addition to the two email addresses the FBI requested and was granted warrants to search Paddock and Danley's Facebook and Instagram accounts. Paddock 's Amazon account is also under investigation as well as a locked phone that was found in his room at the Mandalay Bay.
The FBI has said repeatedly that Paddock acted alone. Danley has not been charged with a crime. She has been questioned by investigators several times. | Marilou Danley was in the Philippines visiting family when [TGT] killed 58 people and injured another 557 in the Oct. 1 attack. She made changes to her Facebook account's privacy and personal settings at 12:30 a.m. about 2 1/2 hours after the first volley of bullets rained down on people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas strip. The first calls about the shooting rolled in at 10:08 p.m. according to police.
But it wasn't until nearly an hour after that â 3:30 a.m. â that police released [TGT] name to the public.
As the New York Post reports the documents suggest Danley acted quickly after the shooting to conceal her relationship with [TGT] .
Danley who also lived with [TGT] has been adamant that [TGT] knew nothing about [TGT] plans to conduct the attack.
The documents lay out what investigators had learned about Paddock in the days following the shooting. But they do not provide a motive for what prompted the 64-year-old professional gambler to murder and terrorize concertgoers from 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel before killing himself.
One affidavit includes email exchanges between centralpark1@live.com a Microsoft account that FBI authorities believe belonged to Paddock and centralpark4804@gmail.com. (It is unclear if the FBI knows who is responsible for the latter account.) The messages were sent on July 6 2017.
The exchanges took place nearly three months before the onslaught. And CNN reports that "investigators at the time of the filing had been unable to determine if Paddock was sending emails between two accounts both belonging to himself or was communicating with someone else."
In addition to the two email addresses the FBI requested and was granted warrants to search Paddock and Danley's Facebook and Instagram accounts. Paddock 's Amazon account is also under investigation as well as a locked phone that was found in his room at the Mandalay Bay.
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2,297 | Oh my quad! US skater Chen makes history with six quads | Nathan Chen | Pyeongchang (South Korea) (AFP) â American prodigy Nathan Chen became the first figure skater to land six quads as he set an Olympic record in the free skate at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Saturday.
The 18-year-old had bombed on Friday in a nervy short programme that left him languishing in 17th place going into the decisive day.
But Chen could yet grab a medal after a remarkable free skate that earned him 215.08 points one of the highest scores ever seen in the sport.
Chen did it on the back of six quads â four rotations in the air â breaking his own record of five set last year.
âI have been working on it for a while. Itâs never really fully come together â Chen said. | Pyeongchang (South Korea) (AFP) â [TGT] became the first figure skater to land six quads as [TGT] set an Olympic record in the free skate at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Saturday.
The 18-year-old had bombed on Friday in a nervy short programme that left [TGT] languishing in 17th place going into the decisive day.
But [TGT] could yet grab a medal after a remarkable free skate that earned [TGT] 215.08 points one of the highest scores ever seen in the sport.
[TGT] did it on the back of six quads â four rotations in the air â breaking [TGT] own record of five set last year.
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2,298 | D | Rich Rodriguez | CLOSE Head football coach Rich Rodriguez has been fired from the University of Arizona. Wochit
Rich Rodriguez was fired as the University of Arizona's head football coach after a notice of claim alleging a hostile workplace was filed. (Photo: Casey Sapio/USA TODAY NETWORK)
The Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday came to the defense of fired University of Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez questioning part of the account of his former assistant who has accused him of sexually harassing her and creating a hostile work environment.
The university fired Rodriguez late Tuesday following bombshell allegations in a nine-page legal claim from his former administrative assistant Melissa Wilhelmsen. University of Arizona officials said the school had grown uncomfortable with the direction of the program on the field and fired him without cause.
Rodriguez has denied the allegations except that he had an extramarital affair that Wilhelmsen said she was forced to help cover up. Rodriguez is likely to receive a $6.3 million buyout of the remainder of his contract.
Full details of Rich Rodriguez harassment claim
UA official: AD made call to fire Rodriguez before investigation was done
Wilhelmsen claimed among other things that Rodriguez fondled her tried to kiss her said he was in love with her and wouldn't let Wilhelmsen leave her job in February 2016 when her husband was being considered as head security officer for the Diamondbacks.
Wilhelmsen's claim alleges Rodriguez protested saying: "No I can't lose you " and offered to set up an apartment for her to continue working for him . "Melissa told him she was unwilling to do that " the claim states.
Ken Kendrick owner of the Diamondbacks has been a close friend of Rodriguez 's for at least 15 years. Both have ties to West Virginia University where Rodriguez once coached.
Kendrick on Wednesday told The Arizona Republic he is a longtime supporter of Rodriguez and acknowledged that he is biased to defend his friend though he did not condone the affair.
Still Kendrick said Rodriguez clearly was looking out for the best interest of his assistant when he tried to help her husband get a job with the Diamondbacks.
Kendrick said Rodriguez strongly recommended Jason Wilhelmsen Melissa's husband for the team's security job.
CLOSE Shot Clock video: Mark Faller and Greg Moore discuss Arizona's decision to fire football coach Rich Rodriguez.
Diamondbacks team President Derrick Hall said Melissa Wilhelmsen personally emailed her husband's resume to Kendrick's assistant on Jan. 27 2016 because she knew Rodriguez and Kendrick were close friends. Hall said the resume arrived just as the team was closing its search for candidates.
Hall said Rodriguez called Kendrick the next day and Jason Wilhelmsen was interviewed the following month. | [TGT] has been fired from the University of Arizona. [TGT]
was fired as the University of Arizona's head football coach after a notice of claim alleging a hostile workplace was filed. (Photo: Casey Sapio/USA TODAY NETWORK)
The Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday came to the defense of fired [TGT] questioning part of the account of [TGT] [TGT] former assistant who has accused [TGT] of sexually harassing [TGT] and creating a hostile work environment.
The university fired [TGT] late Tuesday following bombshell allegations in a nine-page legal claim from [TGT] former administrative assistant Melissa Wilhelmsen. University of Arizona officials said the school had grown uncomfortable with the direction of the program on the field and fired [TGT] without cause.
[TGT] has denied the allegations except that [TGT] had an extramarital affair that Wilhelmsen said she was forced to help cover up. [TGT] is likely to receive a $6.3 million buyout of the remainder of [TGT] contract.
Full details of [TGT] harassment claim
UA official: AD made call to fire [TGT] before investigation was done
Wilhelmsen claimed among other things that [TGT] fondled her tried to kiss her said [TGT] was in love with her and wouldn't let Wilhelmsen leave her job in February 2016 when her husband was being considered as head security officer for the Diamondbacks.
Wilhelmsen's claim alleges [TGT] protested saying: "No I can't lose you " and offered to set up an apartment for her to continue working for him . "Melissa told him she was unwilling to do that " the claim states.
Ken Kendrick owner of the Diamondbacks has been a close friend of Rodriguez 's for at least 15 years. Both have ties to West Virginia University where Rodriguez once coached.
Kendrick on Wednesday told The Arizona Republic he is a longtime supporter of Rodriguez and acknowledged that he is biased to defend his friend though he did not condone the affair.
Still Kendrick said [TGT] clearly was looking out for the best interest of [TGT] assistant when [TGT] tried to help her husband get a job with the Diamondbacks.
Kendrick said [TGT] strongly recommended Jason Wilhelmsen Melissa's husband for the team's security job.
CLOSE Shot Clock video: Mark Faller and Greg Moore discuss Arizona's decision to fire football coach Rich Rodriguez.
Diamondbacks team President Derrick Hall said Melissa Wilhelmsen personally emailed her husband's resume to Kendrick's assistant on Jan. 27 2016 because she knew [TGT] and Kendrick were close friends. Hall said the resume arrived just as the team was closing its search for candidates.
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2,299 | Were the courtroom challenges worth it for Ezekiel Elliott the Cowboys and the NFLPA? | Ezekiel Elliott | Ezekiel Elliott âs suspension went into effect after Thursdayâs court ruling according to the NFL. (Eric Risberg/AP)
The NFL Players Association fought what it felt was the good fight in the Ezekiel Elliott case challenging the NFLâs six-game suspension of the second-year running back for the Dallas Cowboys in federal courts because it believed that Elliott had been wronged and that the leagueâs system of justice under Commissioner Roger Goodell is deeply flawed.
Elliott spoke of clearing his name.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had his playerâs back saying that Elliott had not been treated fairly by the league. And oh by the way the Cowboys also need Elliott in their lineup desperately Jones acknowledged as well.
[NFL says Ezekiel Elliottâs suspension is in effect after appeals court denies him an injunction]
Elliott has begun serving his six-game suspension under the personal conduct policy and barring yet another last-minute legal twist will not play Sunday when the Cowboys face the Falcons in Atlanta. He will have missed four games by the time his appeal of the rejection of his injunction is heard by a federal appeals court Dec. 1.
In the unionâs case that question is yet to be answered. Certainly the NFLPA was doing all that it could for Elliott . But for the union the issues are bigger than one suspension and one case. The NFLPA wants a fundamentally different system of player justice than the one used by Goodell and the league under the collective bargaining agreement and the personal conduct policy. In the meantime the union is doing what it can to ensure that cases are decidedly as fairly as possible in its view and playersâ rights are protected as much as possible under the current system.
But those changes probably will have to come ultimately at the bargaining table as part of the next CBA rather than in the courts. The union managed to delay the Elliott suspension for half a season. But now Elliott is about to sit. The NFLPA managed to delay the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady through the courts for an entire season in the Deflategate case. But Brady sat out the first four games of last season. The union managed to prevail in court in a disciplinary case involving Adrian Peterson only to lose on appeal.
Elliott has denied that he was guilty of domestic violence in a series of incidents last year in Ohio involving his former girlfriend. He was not charged with a crime. But the NFL determined after its investigation that Elliott in its view was guilty of domestic violence.
Elliott has said the courtroom challenge was for him about justice and his reputation. Was it worth it for him ? Only he can answer that.
But in terms of on-field considerations for Elliott and the Cowboys itâs highly debatable whether the decision to go to court was a good one in retrospect. Elliott could have missed the first six games of the season. He would have returned and played the past two games and the Cowboys would have him in the lineup for the second half of the regular season and beyond. He would have been available for the seasonâs biggest games.
As things now stand Elliott wonât play again until Christmas Eve. He will have to regain his game sharpness and get back in sync with the Cowboysâ offense in a hurry for the games that could determine the outcome of the Cowboysâ season. In the meantime they will have to try to get by with backup running backs Alfred Morris Darren McFadden and Rod Smith and attempt to remain in postseason contention without Elliott .
Court denies Ezekiel Elliottâs latest injunction request Cowboys star again suspended by NFL | Ezekiel Elliott âs suspension went into effect after Thursdayâs court ruling according to the NFL. (Eric Risberg/AP)
The NFL Players Association fought what it felt was the good fight in the Ezekiel Elliott case challenging the NFLâs six-game suspension of the second-year running back for the Dallas Cowboys in federal courts because it believed that Elliott had been wronged and that the leagueâs system of justice under Commissioner Roger Goodell is deeply flawed.
Elliott spoke of clearing his name.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had his playerâs back saying that Elliott had not been treated fairly by the league. And oh by the way the Cowboys also need Elliott in their lineup desperately Jones acknowledged as well.
[NFL says [TGT] suspension is in effect after appeals court denies [TGT] an injunction]
Elliott has begun serving [TGT] six-game suspension under the personal conduct policy and barring yet another last-minute legal twist will not play Sunday when the Cowboys face the Falcons in Atlanta. He will have missed four games by the time his appeal of the rejection of his injunction is heard by a federal appeals court Dec. 1.
In the unionâs case that question is yet to be answered. Certainly the NFLPA was doing all that it could for Elliott . But for the union the issues are bigger than one suspension and one case. The NFLPA wants a fundamentally different system of player justice than the one used by Goodell and the league under the collective bargaining agreement and the personal conduct policy. In the meantime the union is doing what it can to ensure that cases are decidedly as fairly as possible in its view and playersâ rights are protected as much as possible under the current system.
But those changes probably will have to come ultimately at the bargaining table as part of the next CBA rather than in the courts. The union managed to delay the Elliott suspension for half a season. But now Elliott is about to sit. The NFLPA managed to delay the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady through the courts for an entire season in the Deflategate case. But Brady sat out the first four games of last season. The union managed to prevail in court in a disciplinary case involving Adrian Peterson only to lose on appeal.
Elliott has denied that he was guilty of domestic violence in a series of incidents last year in Ohio involving his former girlfriend. He was not charged with a crime. But the NFL determined after its investigation that Elliott in its view was guilty of domestic violence.
Elliott has said the courtroom challenge was for him about justice and his reputation. Was it worth it for him ? Only he can answer that.
But in terms of on-field considerations for Elliott and the Cowboys itâs highly debatable whether the decision to go to court was a good one in retrospect. Elliott could have missed the first six games of the season. He would have returned and played the past two games and the Cowboys would have him in the lineup for the second half of the regular season and beyond. He would have been available for the seasonâs biggest games.
As things now stand Elliott wonât play again until Christmas Eve. He will have to regain his game sharpness and get back in sync with the Cowboysâ offense in a hurry for the games that could determine the outcome of the Cowboysâ season. In the meantime they will have to try to get by with backup running backs Alfred Morris Darren McFadden and Rod Smith and attempt to remain in postseason contention without Elliott .
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2,300 | Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke: Threat of 9/11 | Elaine Duke | ISIS is on the run in Iraq and Syria but acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke said radical Islamic terrorists are plotting a new 9/11-scale attack.
In a speech at the U.S. embassy in London Duke said smaller low-level attacks that include the use of everyday objects like knives and vehicles were designed to maintain their support while working on bigger attack targets U.K.-based news outlets reported.
Referring to strikes in which terrorists have attacked people using knives or vehicles Duke said "Creating terror is their goal."
Duke warned it was taking less time for terrorists to plan attacks as they could exploit "safe spaces online" to evade detection the outlet noted.
She added one of the biggest threats to the safety of aviation travel was the free movement of goods and people between countries.
"What we believe is that because of the movement of goods and people we have to raise the baseline worldwide we can't only consider our borders " she said. | ISIS is on the run in Iraq and Syria but acting [TGT] said radical Islamic terrorists are plotting a new 9/11-scale attack.
In a speech at the U.S. embassy in London [TGT] said smaller low-level attacks that include the use of everyday objects like knives and vehicles were designed to maintain their support while working on bigger attack targets U.K.-based news outlets reported.
Referring to strikes in which terrorists have attacked people using knives or vehicles [TGT] said "Creating terror is their goal. [TGT]
warned it was taking less time for terrorists to plan attacks as they could exploit "safe spaces online" to evade detection the outlet noted.
[TGT] added one of the biggest threats to the safety of aviation travel was the free movement of goods and people between countries.
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