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Demovictory9's JournalCanadian 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.
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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!
Trump housekeeper's reveal Trump makeup secrets. Bronx Color's Concealer shade BHC06
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-orange-makeup-website-crashes-bronx-colors-1475928Switzerland-based cosmetics brand's website crashed Friday after The Washington Post claimed that it produces orange makeup apparently used by President Donald Trump.
Bronx Colors told Newsweek that the hue of concealer was "very, very hot" after a Post report Wednesday claimed that Trump's housekeepers were asked to ensure that three tubes of makeup were available in Trump's bedroom at all times. The Post said it spoke to numerous undocumented migrants employed by The Trump Organization for the piece.
The makeup brand's spokesperson said its I.T. department was "going crazy" as huge numbers of visits to the Bronx Colors website had caused it to crash.
"It's very busy at the moment," said the spokesperson, adding that it was "impossible" to know whether the Trump Organization or the White House had made direct orders for the orange concealer.
The "exact shade" of Bronx Colors' orange makeup used by Trump is "BHC06," claimed the Post reporter David Fahrenthold. At the time of writing, one tube of the concealer sells for €6.50 ($7.21).
The Washington Post reported that housekeepers were expected to ensure there were two full tubes of the concealer, and a third half-full, available in his bedroom at all times.
It added that housekeepers "regularly" had to bring Trump new shirts because the makeup left "rust-colored stains" on the collars.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-makeup-brand_l_5de9729ee4b0913e6f8d6e7f
The Makeup Brand (And Shade) That Stains All Of Donald Trump's Shirts
A new Washington Post report about Trump's practice of hiring undocumented immigrants reveals something else he wants covered up, too — his skin.
The report, written by Joshua Partlow and David A. Farenthold, is based on conversations the paper had with 48 people who had “worked illegally for The Trump Organization.” Amid the more jarring revelations, there’s a bit about his ... particularities.
Like, for example, wanting an exact number of Tic Tacs in his room at all times and just the right amount of Bronx Colors face makeup ― his concealer of choice.
“The same rule applied to the Bronx Colors-brand face makeup from Switzerland that Trump slathered on — two full containers, one half full — even if it meant the housekeepers had to regularly bring new shirts from the pro shop because of the rust-colored stains on the collars,” the article reads. “A special washing machine in the laundry room was reserved for his wife Melania Trump’s clothing.”
How poor people survive in the USA - segment on Appalachia in poverty but loving Trump 18:00 to 28:0
42 minute documentary. recently filmed
about 18 minutes in, a section on poor appalachian's that support Trump even though heavily dependent on food stamps that he plans to cut
3 months after collapse, two dead remain inside new orleans hard rock hotel
https://www.fox8live.com/2019/12/06/engineers-work-come-up-with-plan-shore-up-collapsed-hard-rock-building/Engineers work to come up with plan to shore up collapsed Hard Rock building
https://www.fox8live.com/2019/12/06/engineers-work-come-up-with-plan-shore-up-collapsed-hard-rock-building/
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - The City of New Orleans says engineers are in the planning process to shore up the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel building.
It’s the first step in the process to take down the building in pieces instead of imploding it.
Mayor Latoya Cantrell and Fire Chief Tim McConnell say they feel much better about a plan to take the building down that way instead of an implosion.
Engineers both local and national are in are in New Orleans Friday. The City says they have a plan that should be finalized by next Monday or Tuesday to pick the building apart piece by piece.
Before that can happen though, Chief McConnell says the building itself has to be stabilized. He says they have identified where the shoring materials are located and they will shore up the building first and then start the next phase. All of it though must be approved by the City of New Orleans.
“Then they’ll shore that entire building up and basically it’s being stabilized and shored up not with its own components. But with the shoring system, it will ensue that it will not collapse as people go in and start tearing it down and when we get to the part where it’s safe, the first thing before it gets torn down is to get the victims out of there,” says McConnell.
Chief McConnell says they have met with the victims’ families and it will be the city’s goal to get the victims out of the building during this process.
https://www.nola.com/news/article_9f9c3f88-193d-11ea-95f9-9bf67c2e4e7a.html
Two months after Hard Rock Hotel collapse, a victim's family still waits for closure
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Top cop told her deputy to act like a 'white supremacist cop.' It was caught on tape
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article238145954.htmlThe head of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office major crimes unit was relieved of her command this week following the release of an audio recording in which she is heard ordering one of her officers to pull over a black man who is a suspect in a Key West murder and act like a “white supremacist,” “neo-Nazi cop” to get information from him.
Monroe Sheriff Rick Ramsay pulled Capt. Penny Phelps from the late 2017 case in October when he became aware of the recording, which his agency turned over to defense attorneys. He also initiated an internal affairs probe into Phelps’ conduct while she headed the investigation into the so-called “tree house murder,” which happened on Nov. 17, 2017, on Stock Island.
“Several issues concerning the tree house murder case have been brought to my attention,” Ramsay said in a statement. “I immediately turned them over to my Internal Affairs Division and directed that an investigation be initiated. At this point, I am prohibited by law from discussing the details of the investigation until it is concluded.”
Phelps was removed from her post as head of the major crimes and narcotics units on Wednesday, according to paperwork released to the Miami Herald Saturday. Ramsay said it is too early in the investigation to comment on whether Phelps could lose her job.
“We have to have all the facts first,” he said Saturday, adding Phelps has been with the sheriff’s office about 18 years and makes about $110,000 a year.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article238145954.html
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