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U.S. junk bonds also got a boost from the rate hike. They've been getting clobbered in the past few sessions. |
But oil tanked after two days of recovery from near seven-year lows. A massive build in weekly crude inventories drove oil to close down nearly 5% at $35.52 a barrel. |
Some late breaking earnings; FedEx (NYSE:FDX) shares gained after-hours after the shipping giant posted better-than-expected earnings, beating estimates on both revenue and profit. |
While Harry Potter fans are excited enough about the franchise continuing on in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, they'd much rather be getting a new adventure featuring Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione. That isn't happening, though, and probably won't. Ever. At least according to author J.K. Rowlin... |
"No. But even as I answer that, I know that someone's cutting this on YouTube to make it as though I just gave you hope....I'm afraid I haven't been writing the next Harry Potter. I have always said never say nev....Well, not never say never. I've always said I'm not going to say I definitely won't because I don't see ... |
I'm stepping back into that world, writing the script for 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.' That door is always opened to me. But I think Harry Potter 8, as in what happened next to Harry, Ron and Hermione-I don't think that's going to happen." |
"I definitely will write for children again, 'cause I love writing for kids. So that will definitely happen, and that will sit comfortably alongside this work [with Lumos]. And maybe I'll get to read that new work to some of these children." |
Delaware County Commissioners heard presentations from 15 organizations Monday applying for grants from the Community Enhancement Fund. |
• Sean Miller, Delaware County’s Emergency Management Agency director, presented on the behalf of the Berlin, Sunbury, Galena and Trenton Fire District and Scioto Township Fire Department. |
Miller said there 16 outdoor early warning sirens in Delaware County used for severe weather warnings. Fourteen of the sirens are synched up with the EMA Center. |
Miller said the sirens are activated manually by the departments which sometimes requires leaving personnel behind. The proposal is to put the remaining two sirens on the same system as the other 14 so they can be activated from the EMA Center. |
• Chip Carpenterr, Hartford Fair, said each year there are 136 exhibitors who live in Delaware County totaling 510 entries. The last four years the Hartford Fair has been borrowed animal pens from the Delaware County Fair. However, this year they decided to purchase new pens. |
• Paul Huttlin, Recreation Unlimited, said community improvement to him has always meant improving the campus. |
• Jeff Dickinson, Stratford Ecological Center, asked commissioners for $9,000 to purchase a lawn mower for the center. |
A decision on the grant awards is expected no earlier than April 27. |
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When is a reboot not a reboot? |
And her name is Carol Danvers. |
Hank Pym and Scott Lang are a couple of fathers desperate to live up to their daughters' heroism. |
Thor’s tragic, vengeful whiff is the colossal failure that defines our love for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. |
Anung Un Rama wha? We explore the ending of Neil Marshall's Hellboy reboot. |
We chat with the artist and director about his most personal work yet and bringing classic blockbuster adventure to Laika Studios. |
Neil Marshall’s film promises a more faithful adaptation of the Hellboy source material. |
Courts rule Amazon isn't responsible for third-party sellers who used the site to sell “Milo & Gabby” knockoffs. |
Karen Keller, the owner of a company called “Milo & Gabby,” got some bad news from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently when it ruled against her claim seeking to hold Amazon liable for knockoff products sold via the online market. The ruling eliminates a seriously deep pocket from the litigation. |
Milo & Gabby designs and sells a line of “Cozy Companion” pillowcases. The Cozy Companion pillowcase line includes animal-shaped pillowcases for children that turn a child's pillowcase into a stuffed animal. Milo & Gabby owns five U.S. design patents for the designs on its pillowcases that are relevant to this case. Th... |
When Milo & Gabby began selling its pillowcases, Karen and Steven Keller, the owners of Milo & Gabby, used pictures of their children with the pillowcases to promote the products. In 2013, Milo & Gabby discovered pillowcases selling on Amazon's website that were knockoffs of Milo & Gabby's Cozy Companion pillowcases. T... |
Amazon did not directly sell any of the knockoff pillowcases offered on its website. The product-detail pages for the knockoff pillowcases identified 10 different entities as third-party sellers. Milo & Gabby filed a complaint against Amazon on Oct. 24, 2013. Upon notice of the lawsuit, Amazon removed the product listi... |
On appeal, Milo & Gabby argued that the district court erred when it found Amazon not liable for copyright infringement because, in its view, Amazon was the “seller” of the knockoff products. |
The result may be a little hard for the plaintiffs to swallow, but it makes sense.A “seller” is a party who holds the title to the product until it reaches its final destination. Amazon never held any title in this case. Thus, while Amazon's services made it easier for third parties to consummate a sale, the third part... |
Jack Greiner is a lawyer with the Graydon law firm in Cincinnati and represents Enquirer Media in First Amendment and media issues. |
The Murphy Scandal: Unlocking the secrets that brought down a High Court judge. |
The battle to control the Liberal Party. |
A Four Corners exclusive: Inside the tax havens of the rich and powerful. |
For the first time since the dark days of Hitler's Nazi Germany, a right-wing nationalist party is centre stage in German politics. |
What's wrong with the NBN? |
Why Australia's fast broadband is stuck in the slow lane. |
An exclusive Sarah Ferguson interview for Four Corners. |
The unfolding scandal of toxic water in Australian communities. |
Digging into Adani: The dubious dealings of India's corporate colossus. |
The Ransom: Inside the murky world of international kidnapping and hostage negotiation. |
Tina Fontaine did not get justice. |
The 15-year-old Indigenous girl who was murdered, wrapped in a duvet filled with rocks and tossed into the Red River in 2014, was let down by a lot of people. But it wasn’t police who investigated her case or the justice system that failed her. |
Raymond Joseph Cormier, who was charged with second degree murder in Tina’s death, was found not guilty Thursday. The verdict should come as little surprise to anyone who followed the trial closely. This was a weak case from the outset. With no direct evidence linking Cormier to the murder, the prosecution – which reli... |
There was no confirmed cause of death, no crime scene and very little to glean forensically from Tina’s body. There were no witnesses who saw Tina’s killer. And there was no forensic evidence linking Cormier to her. |
The testimony from those around Cormier, who claimed they heard him say things about Tina that, in the end, amounted to very little as it related to the case, came from unreliable, drug abusing criminals whose evidence was highly suspect. |
And the veracity, reliability and relevance of secret recordings made of Cormier by police during a six-month sting operation were suspect. |
What police were hoping for was a confession by Cormier; a clear admission that he killed Tina Fontaine. They tried. They tried hard. They bugged his apartment and had people wired. But they didn’t get the confession. Not even close. |
Instead, they got vague, sometimes barely audible, often meaningless comments made by Cormier that could be interpreted a multitude of ways and which in the end meant nothing at all. They certainly weren’t confessions. And they didn’t come close to proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Cormier killed Tina Fontaine. |
And that’s what the jury had to decide. Was there credible, reliable evidence in front of them that proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Cormier committed second degree murder? There was not. In fact, in some ways, it’s amazing this case even went to trial. |
Tina Fontaine did not get justice, but it wasn’t through lack of effort and diligence by police. They threw a ton of resources at this case but they simply couldn’t gather the evidence required to get a guilty verdict. |
The jury had no choice but to acquit. They did their job. And the justice system, including Justice Glenn Joyal who presided over the case, did its job. |
There is no question Tina was murdered. Although there was no cause of death, the fact she was wrapped in a duvet with rocks to weigh her down and tossed in the river is pretty clear evidence of that. The best explanation for her death was that she was either smothered to death or drowned. There were no physical signs ... |
Someone murdered Tina Fontaine. We just don’t know who. |
There will be temptations to draw parallels between this trial and the case of Gerald Stanley, the Saskatchewan farmer who was acquitted earlier this month in the shooting death of 22-year-old Indigenous man Colton Boushie. |
People should be very careful about drawing those parallels because there aren’t any. While a strong case can be made that there were problems with Stanley’s verdict and that it exposed a need to review Canada’s jury selection process, there were no such deficiencies in the Cormier case. Even the seven-woman, four-man ... |
Not every homicide case gets solved or results in a guilty verdict. Winnipeg police’s homicide unit has an excellent track record of solving murders in this city. But they don’t get them all. And sadly, Tina Fontaine’s case was one of those. |
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to the audience gathered at Tresidder Memorial Union at Stanford University during a panel discussion regarding housing in East Palo Alto on Jan. 26. Photo by Veronica Weber. |
East Palo Alto residents must fight to keep their city, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson encouraged them to organize. Otherwise, residents will be pushed out by gentrification, a process that hasn't changed in communities of color since Jackson, 73, began fighting it in the 1960s, he said. |
Jackson, a civil rights activist and Baptist minister, took to the podium on Monday to address self-determination in East Palo Alto versus gentrification during a luncheon in the city and a panel discussion at Stanford University's Tresidder Union. |
Residents must fight to keep from being displaced even if that means marching by the thousands to Silicon Valley company headquarters to be heard, Jackson said. The valley, with its vast wealth, is putting housing pressures on the region, and should take some responsibility for coming up with a plan for saving and fund... |
Jackson met with Silicon Valley leaders after the Tresidder event to discuss ways they can help move East Palo Alto residents forward. Among his ideas: fund a tech-training center in the city to help raise residents' incomes so they can afford to stay in the valley and help create a development bank to build affordable... |
Silicon Valley companies have yet to prove if they will be "friends or foes" to East Palo Alto, Jackson told the standing room-only crowd. |
"Caring matters -- it carries the day," he said. |
But does Silicon Valley care? |
"If it does, we have a strong ally; if not, we have a strong foe," Jackson said. |
Since the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 -- 50 years ago this year -- little has changed in terms of economic parity for African Americans, Jackson said. In 1964, he was beating the same drum in Chicago, trying to convince the establishment to invest in communities of color. But segregation by economic inequality mad... |
African Americans and persons of color continue to be affected adversely by a historical and exclusionary system that has kept them in isolated communities, and in communities such as East Palo Alto, even that is also now threatened with being taken away, Jackson said. |
East Palo Alto is "an island separate" from Silicon Valley, where "poverty is a weapon of mass destruction," he said. |
Jackson joined a panel with eminent members of the East Palo Alto community, legal representatives and Stanford University scholars to discuss East Palo Alto's history, the threats that could undermine the community and potential solutions. |
Carol McKibben, a professor in the Stanford Department of History, said the problems of unequal housing began decades ago in East Palo Alto, and that "these racial beachheads ... are not that way by accident." |
Federal mortgage loans in the 1950s and 1960s were "one of the biggest welfare programs that moved a whole generation of white males to the middle class and home ownership," McKibben said, but those loans did not extend to African Americans. People of color were excluded from receiving loans, and through "redlining" (t... |
California had an enormous wave of migrants up through World War II, including African Americans, who worked in technology and associated industries, but they were shunted into the least desirable places, including East Palo Alto, she said. |
"It was a complicated but complicit relationship between federal, state and local agencies" that contributed to the systemic exclusion of communities of color from good jobs and housing. In the 1970s and '80s, those segregated communities were designated as areas of blight and became targeted for urban renewal. |
In the early 1980s, then-unincorporated East Palo Alto faced dissection of its community. San Mateo County officials proposed annexing its west side to Menlo Park and bringing in two task forces to "clean up" the east side, city Councilman Ruben Abrica, who was involved in the city's incorporation, said. |
"When we heard that, we could see the writing on the wall. The sheriffs would come in and clean up the city and develop the economy, but for whom? For what? To depopulate East Palo Alto? ... Self-determination was really the battle cry. It was the right of the community to determine our own destiny," he said. |
With 70 percent of the city's low-income rental housing currently in the hands of one corporate landlord and surrounded by tech companies Facebook on the Menlo Park side and Google in Mountain View, the city is facing a very intense battle in the next couple of years, Abrica said. |
"Now we will be talking gentrification," he said, noting that the dilemma will come to a head in the next two years when the City Council holds a new election. |
But East Palo Alto is in better shape to determine its future than other unincorporated communities of color because it chose incorporation, Michelle Wilde Anderson, a Stanford Law School professor, said. Unincorporated areas have a very difficult time convincing county governments to support their survival, Anderson s... |
"The advantage that East Palo Alto has that other areas don't is to empower East Palo Alto residents to use political tools. Your independence allows you to write land-use and housing laws. That's incredibly powerful," she said. |
East Palo Altans should carefully consider steps that are anti-displacement while being pro-growth, she said. The city could succeed by keeping its core single-family homes while including higher density housing that incorporates a quantity of low-income housing. |
Anti-growth policies in surrounding cities such as Palo Alto and Menlo Park have put a lot of pressure on East Palo Alto, she said. And that attitude "is about sentimentality," but East Palo Alto's survival requires being unsentimental about buildings and sentimental about people, Anderson said. |
Residents should "really think about how East Palo Alto can take its pound of flesh from Silicon Valley," she added. |
To that end, Abrica suggested that the city get together with prominent institutions to buy up buildings to create and preserve low-income housing. |
Daniel Saver, a housing attorney with Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, said Silicon Valley has the private capital that could be leveraged, but it must be done with care. |
The city could also develop a no net-loss policy that allows for growth and profit by developers but preserves the number of low-income units at affordable rents, he said. |
East Palo Alto has enacted tenant protections that are some of the strongest in the state, Saver said. The City Council approved an affordable-housing impact fee for new units in July 2014 and a tenant-protection ordinance in May 2014 that prohibits landlords from using intimidation to keep tenants from organizing or d... |
Tenants who are evicted while a unit is being repaired must receive alternative housing and temporary relocation costs, including storage and housing pets and cannot be charged more than they normally pay for rent under the ordinance. Landlords must pay relocation costs if units are demolished or removed. |
Planning Commissioner Tameeka Bennett said the ordinance gives residents badly needed protection, especially on the city's west side where 1,800 units are controlled by one corporate landlord. However, she expressed concern that the ordinance could be challenged, since a judge overturned a similar ordinance in San Fran... |
"I'm a little worried about that," she said. |
Sarah: "I want to buy your house for $2 million" |
Jackson is ridiculous. I am not caucasian and have lived in EPA for many years and would welcome some gentrification. That is what has made this City a little bit better over the Years. I hate it when these people come to low income areas to spew their poison to fight change and keep these crime ridden areas as they ar... |
I live in East Palo Alto (since 2009), and gentrification is really the least of our worries. "Keep EPA dangerous, poor, and isolated" may have worked 15 years ago, but maintaining a ghetto in the heart of silicon valley is absurd. The primary beneficiaries of East Palo Alto's affordable housing are Menlo Park & Palo A... |
I suggest "a rising tide raises all boats" and improving the EPA community, reducing crime, increasing educational achievement and so on, could raise real estate prices and what's wrong with rising real estate values and more prosperity and a future! I would rather this not be a place where felons are released on parol... |
I think what a lot of commenters fail to realize is that most of those who are getting displaced are not the ones committing the crimes and bringing the city down. It's the working middle class who once could afford to live in EPA so that they could have a decent commute to their jobs in nearby areas. |
I know someone who works at Stanford, children go to schools in the peninsula, and just moved to Stockton because it is more affordable. What about the extra commute costs, stress, and less time to spend with their family? |
Rev. Jesse Jackson should point the East Palo Altans a right method how to "fight to keep from being displaced". To depend on the "donation" from others is not only way to make the community better and safer. People in East Palo Alto have to get our self changed, get more education to keep up the "new era". The image o... |
I would be a lot happier if Jackson stopped worrying about gentrification and spoke along the lines of how to be productive citizens [portion removed.] If he spoke more about being good fathers, good role models, good employees, good neighbors and obeying common sense life rules, it would make a lot more sense to me. |
Someone like Jackson could make a difference in the lives of so many people if he spoke out against violence, crime, vandalism and disrespect for authority. Instead he just plays the victim card. |
I'm curious - how many commenters actually attended the event? Mark Dinan, maybe? |
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