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Demovictory9's JournalTrump-loving candidate, Omar Navarro, running against Maxine Waters arrested for stalking of ex-girl
https://twitter.com/essenviews/status/1204440731366019072Trump-loving candidate, Omar Navarro, running against Maxine Waters arrested for stalking of ex-girlfriend in Calif. He was picked up around 2 a.m. and booked on suspicion of violating a restraining order, extortion, stalking and criminal threats...
Officer helps California resident who only speaks sign language
A woman in California trying to get her ID only speaks sign language. Luckily, a police office responding to a disturbance call was able to help her overcome the language barrier. The officer also helped her pay for her ID when she came up short on cash.
https://kimatv.com/news/videos/officer-helps-california-resident-who-only-speaks-sign-language
Family pulls 9 year old out of university because he can't complete the degree at age 9
Now, a dispute between TUE and the Simons family has seen Laurent terminate his studies without graduating.
TUE said it had recommended Laurent finish his studies by mid-2020, rather than at the end of December, because of the number of exams he still has to pass.
"This would still be, in every way, a phenomenally fast schedule," the university said in a statement sent to CNN.
TUE said Laurent's father, Alexander Simons, had "repeated his explicit wish that his son should obtain his bachelor degree at the age of 9, which means that Laurent must successfully complete his bachelor within ten months for a study that normally lasts three years."
However, Alexander told CNN that there had previously been no issue with the accelerated timetable.
Ultimately, he said, the family decided Laurent would leave TUE as he had received an offer to study for a doctorate at a university in the United States, and wouldn't be able to split his time between the two institutions.
"Sometimes you have to make choices," Alexander told CNN in reference to the decision.
"If he lets it go, you never know if he will get that opportunity again."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/europe/laurent-simons-university-scli-intl/index.html
Eleven minutes before the eruption, some of the tourists on White Island are seen walking on the rim
2.00pm: Eleven minutes before the eruption, some of the tourists on White Island are seen walking on the rim of the crater
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7772591/White-Island-volcano-New-Zealands-eruption-leaves-dozens-Australians-feared-missing.html
there were warning signs it was going to erupt
'It showed increased activity for the last few weeks and so we raised the alert level,' GeoNet Project Director Dr Ken Gledhill told a press conference on Monday afternoon.
'It has quietened down, but we can't be certain there won't be another eruption in the next 24 hours.'
Dr Ken Gledhill said it wasn't a 'particularly big eruption' and likened it to the volcano 'clearing its throat'.
'That's why material probably won't make it to mainland New Zealand. It went up about 12,000 feet [3657 metres] into the sky,' he said.
'On the scheme of things for volcanic eruptions, it's not that large. But if you are close to that it is not good.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7771185/The-terrifying-warning-signs-New-Zealands-White-Island-volcano-erupt.html
Canadian woman arrested for not holding escalator handrail awarded $20G in damages
A Canadian woman who was arrested for not holding on to an escalator handrail has been awarded $20,000 in damages by the nation's Supreme Court.
Bela Kosoian was riding an escalator at the Montmorency Montreal Metro station in Laval, Quebec, in 2009 when an officer stopped her because she wasn't holding on to a handrail, as she was looking through her purse. A sign that stated "caution" and "hold handrail" was located near the escalator.
The officer told her to hold on to the handrail during her ride down the escalator, and the officer stopped her once she got to the bottom. He asked her to follow him and she refused, "because she didn’t think she had done anything wrong," and also refused to give her identification, according to the case brief posted online.
Kosoian was subsequently detained and when she was released, she was given one $100 ticket for disobeying the sign, and a $320 fine for obstructing an inspection worker.
She was acquitted of the infractions in 2012, and she sued Montreal's transit authority, the city, and one of the officers for $45,000, CBC News reported. In 2015, the lawsuit was rejected in Quebec court, and again in 2017 by the Quebec Court of Appeal, which said Kosoian was the "author of her own misfortune."
But the Supreme Court "unanimously disagreed," and said the sign in the Metro station that said to hold on to the handrail "was a warning" and not a law. They found the officer "was wrong to stop and search her for breaking a law that didn’t exist."
https://www.foxnews.com/world/canada-woman-awarded-damages-escalator-handrail
Rep. Duncan Hunter spent $625 on 'flights for a pet rabbit,' report shows
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/duncan-hunter-flight-pet-rabbit/index.htmlAn unnamed staffer told investigators "that at some point after she no longer worked in the congressional office, Rep. Hunter kept a rabbit named Cadbury in his congressional office" that "had a cage in the congressional office," according to the report.
"Rep. Hunter and his wife repeatedly used campaign committee funds for flight costs with no clear campaign nexus, including the cost of flying a pet rabbit," the report states, adding that "in 2014 and 2015, Rep. Hunter's campaign committee spent $625.00 on five separate $125.00 'pet in cabin' United Airlines charges to fly a pet rabbit."
man smacks reporter's butt on Live TV: 'You Violated Me'. Groper identified, police involved
Reporter After Being Groped on Live TV: 'You Violated Me'Man in bridge run smacked Alexandrea Bozarjian's behind as he ran past
https://twitter.com/GrrrlZilla/status/1203306427818926081
A reporter covering a race this weekend in Georgia got an unexpected, and unwelcome, greeting from one of the runners, and she and race organizers made clear they weren't happy about it. NBC News reports WSAV's Alexandrea Bozarjian was on the Talmadge Bridge in Savannah on Saturday, reporting live from the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run, when one of the race's participants hit her backside as he ran past her. A clip posted on Twitter shows Bozarjian laughing as some of the runners got too close to her, including ones who mugged for the camera as they went by. Bozarjian had just explained to viewers that some of the runners were even dressed in costume and that it was "very exciting." Right as she said that, a man in sunglasses and a baseball cap jogged by and appeared to grope her.
https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1203306367056056322/pu/img/jVv8N4kBtnA671Ob?format=jpg&name=small
Bozarjian seemed thrown, and it took her a second or two before she went back to covering the race. Later that day, after the clip of what had happened started circulating, she addressed it on Twitter. "To the man who smacked my butt on live TV this morning: You violated, objectified, and embarrassed me," she posted. "No woman should EVER have to put up with this at work or anywhere!! Do better." The head of the Savannah Sports Council agreed. "This will not be tolerated at our events. Glad we have race bibs and photos for easy identification," Robert Wells wrote on Twitter. And apparently the man was found: The sports council says he's been banned from any of its future races. A rep for the Savannah Police Department tells NBC they've also been in touch with Bozarjian and "we are definitely going to be working with her" in whatever way she wants to handle the incident.
https://www.newser.com/story/284091/reporter-after-being-groped-on-live-tv-you-violated-me.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
Star Trek / Benson Actor dies: Rene Auberjonois
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/08/entertainment/rene-auberjonois-obit/index.html
Jobs of the future are clustering in a handful of (BLUE) U.S. cities study finds... fuels resentment
Jobs of the future are clustering in a handful of U.S. cities, study finds
Howard Schneider
4 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new analysis of where “innovation” jobs are being created in the United States paints a stark portrait of a divided economy where the industries seen as key to future growth cluster in a narrowing set of places.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-superstars/jobs-of-the-future-are-clustering-in-a-handful-of-u-s-cities-study-finds-idUSKBN1YD0B4
Divergence in job growth, incomes and future prospects between strong-performing cities and the rest of the country is an emerging focus of political debate and economic research. It is seen as a source of social stress, particularly since President Donald Trump tapped the resentment of left-behind areas in his 2016 presidential campaign.
Research from the Brookings Institution released on Monday shows the problem cuts deeper than many thought. Even cities that have performed well in terms of overall employment growth, such as Dallas, are trailing in attracting workers in 13 industries with the most productive private sector jobs.
Between 2005 and 2017, industries such as chemical manufacturing, satellite telecommunications, and scientific research flocked to about 20 cities, led by well-established standouts San Francisco, Seattle, San Jose, Boston and San Diego, the study found. Combined, these mostly coastal cities captured an additional 6% of 'innovation' jobs - some 250,000 positions.
Companies in those industries tend to benefit from being close to each other, with the better-educated employees they target also attracted to urban amenities.
Brookings Institution economist Mark Muro said he fears the trend risks becoming “self-reinforcing and destructive” as the workforce separates into a group of highly productive and high-earning metro areas and everywhere else.
Even though expensive housing, high wages, and congestion have prompted some tech companies to open offices outside of Silicon Valley, those moves have not been at scale. Most U.S. metro areas are either losing innovation industry jobs outright or gaining no share, Muro wrote.
Over this decade, “a clear hierarchy of economic performance based on innovation capacity had become deeply entrenched,” Muro and co-author Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, wrote in the report. Across the 13 industries they studied, workers in the upper echelon of cities were about 50% more productive than in others.
about 100 tweets and retweets from Trump today...is that a record?
i tried to count them, got bored with it. Twitterverse said the count is 100. Sure is a lot!
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