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The town hall was hosted by conservative pundit Armstrong Williams, who has significant ties to Sinclair. Williams hosts a weekly show that airs on the Sinclair-owned News Channel 8 in the D.C. area and is syndicated on other Sinclair local TV stations across the country. Williams also owns several local TV stations through his holding company, Howard Stirk Holdings, which in turn sends business back to Sinclair through operations agreements.
Williams is a close confidante of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson, even doing public relations work on behalf of Carson while continuing to also work as a media figure. (He also served as a Carson presidential campaign adviser while maintaining his weekly hosting duties.) Recently, Williams has aligned himself with other members of the Trump administration, joining Sinclair CEO David Smith in meeting with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai -- who was then a commissioner -- to advocate for pro-industry policies the day before Trump’s inauguration. About two months later, Williams hosted Pai on his show for a friendly interview.
Back in 2005, Williams used an earlier version of his syndicated show to promote Bush administration education policies, failing to note he was paid $240,000 by the administration to do so. The Government Accountability Office subsequently found that the Bush Department of Education had violated federal laws about covert government propaganda by paying Williams for the promotion.
Williams has also settled at least two sexual harassment suits -- one in 1997 involving reports that he “repeatedly kissed and fondled” a former producer for his now-defunct radio show over the course of nearly two years, and another in 2017 alleging that he groped and sought sexual favors from a former employee and later retaliated against the man.
During the panel, Williams talked about his daily prayer routine and decision not to “use profane language” at work because he is the “moral leader” in his office.
The panel featured eight participants in addition to Williams, the majority of whom were young conservative media figures who fall at various points on the spectrum from extreme or blatantly racist to embarrassing or just boring.
Owens, TPUSA’s communications director, is another Fox News regular and “a far-right vlogger and conspiracy theorist” who has lately garnered media attention after rapper Kanye West praised “the way Candace Owens thinks.” Owens gained attention from far-right MAGA trolls after she posted a video in the wake of the deadly Charlottesville, VA, “Unite the Right” rally in which she dismissed white supremacy as a narrative pushed by the media, leading to her appearance on conspiracy theory outlet Infowars. Owens has also called for all DREAMers to be deported and has argued that immigrants directly harm the black community.
Town hall participant Antonia Okafor describes herself as “one of the country’s foremost advocates of concealed carry on campus” and has previously appeared in NRA media. Okafor makes regular media appearances pushing NRA-backed myths about campus carry, arguing that carrying concealed firearms would make young black women safer. In reality, the presence of firearms in domestic violence situations, for example, puts women’s lives -- and especially black women’s lives -- at significantly greater risk. And household gun ownership in general only increases the risk of death due to homicide, suicide, or accident; Okafor’s agenda would put women in greater danger.
Rounding out the participant list are right-wing media figures Jason Russell, an editor at the conservative Washington Examiner, and Shermichael Singleton, an aspiring conservative pundit who briefly worked at Carson’s HUD before he was fired for anti-Trump writings. Preacher and lobbyist Quadricos Driskell and American Legislative Exchange Council-affiliated conservative attorney Shelby Emmett also participated.
The FCC is currently reviewing the Sinclair-Tribune deal specifically to ensure it would benefit the public and has signaled it will make a decision following a comment period that ends on July 12.
Eric Hananoki contributed research to this post.
If there were anyone we'd expect to understand how problematic street harassment is it would be the white men at Fox News. So imagine our surprise when we saw this clip of Fox News anchors failing to see why men shouldn't say things like "Hey, look at there! I just saw a thousand dollars" to random women on the street.
While discussing Hollaback's viral video The Five's Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfield and Bob Beckel said a bunch of really dumb things. Bob starts off by admitting that the woman in the video may not have wanted to have her appearance addressed by strangers. Great start, right? Wrong. He goes on to argue that unwanted attention doesn't constitute harassment. Gutfield goes up to bat next and strikes out by trying to use "science" and an irrelevant comparison to men trying to pick up women in bars. Finally Beckell steps up as the ultimate shithead, offering his own catcall: "Damn, baby, you're a piece of woman!"
So there you have it. Fox News had the opportunity to have an intelligent discussion about street harassment and chose to keep doing Fox News stuff instead.
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) - German police will do more to fight crime committed on the "dark net", they said on Wednesday, days after a gunman killed nine people with a weapon bought on that hidden part of the internet.
"We see that the dark net is a growing trading place and therefore we need to prioritize our investigations here," Holger Muench, head of Germany's Federal Police (BKA), told journalists as he presented the latest annual report on cyber crime.
The dark net, which is only accessible via special web browsers, is increasingly used to procure drugs, weapons and counterfeit money, allowing users to trade anonymously and pay with digital currencies such as Bitcoin, the BKA said.
The man who killed nine people at a shopping mall in Munich on Friday was a local 18-year-old obsessed with mass killings who had bought his reactivated 9mm Glock 17 pistol on the dark web, Bavarian officials said.
The BKA said it had taken five market places in the dark net out of circulation last year. Muench said the BKA did not just want to take the sites offline but also catch criminals using them.
Cyber crime cost Germany 40.5 million euros ($44.5 million) last year, the BKA's report said, a rise of 2.8 percent. Most of the more than 45,000 cases involved computer fraud.
Muench said the figures only represented a small part of the true size of cyber crime.
"If we look ahead we see little relief," he said. "Cyber crime is still a growing phenomenon - you could say almost a growing business, even a growing industry."
Police solved 32.8 percent of cyber crime last year, Muench said, adding that many crimes do not get past the exploratory phase and others go unnoticed or are not reported.
Eric Trump in an interview Sunday attacked a Washington Post article that found his father, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, donated only $10,000 to charities over seven years, millions less than he has publicly claimed.
Eric Trump dismissed the article as a "hack job" while calling the media the "worst part of society."
"It was such a disgusting article, and that's The Washington Post, and that's their M.O., unfortunately. Every article is just a pure kill job," Trump said in an interview with John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on AM 970 in New York.
The Post reported that Donald Trump Donald John TrumpRussia's election interference is a problem for the GOP Pence to pitch trade deal during trip to Michigan: report Iran oil minister: US made 'bad mistake' in ending sanctions waivers MORE hasn't personally given to his own foundation since 2008. And of the 188 charities the Post contacted that had some connection to the billionaire, 11 received a personal donation, while 44 declined to comment. Another 48 didn't respond to the Post's inquiries. An additional 85 had no record of receiving a personal donation from Trump.
But Eric Trump claimed the opposite.
"Charity is such a big part of our company and of our lives. My father has contributed so much to what I've done. He contributes so much to every charity," he said.
"The worst part of society is that you can't have an objective and unbiased media. ... You know, it's a hack job, and it's done for various reasons. It's very, very sad."
Shipping company DHL will begin piloting drone deliveries in a real-world setting on Friday.
The “parcelcopter,” as the DHL drone is called, will jettison medicine and other goods to Juist, a German island in the North Sea. The car-free island has a population of about 1,700 people, and drone flights will take place when other aircraft and ferries aren’t operating.
The company previously tested a drone, but it was operated in a controlled environment. To prepare for the 12-kilometer flight over the North Sea, DHL modified its prototype for duration, range, and speed. The parcelcopter can travel up to 65 kilometers an hour.
Aside from DHL, Google recently completed a series of drone deliveries in Australia, and Amazon first revealed its intentions to deliver packages autonomously last December. The e-commerce giant revealed in April that it was working on its seventh-generation prototype.
These are the cookies that stopped me in my tracks. I was wandering along a side street in Paris’s 11th Arrondissement, saw these cookies on a counter in the back of Mokonuts, a small restaurant, and walked right in to buy a few. The baker Moko Hirayama has worked on her recipe with so much care and invention that it’s almost difficult to see any family resemblance to cookie's inspiration: the classic American chocolate-chip cookie. Her cookies have chunks of fine chocolate (not store-bought chips), dried cranberries, rye flour and a good measure of poppy seeds, for color, crunch and surprise. Plan ahead: Once the dough is made and formed into balls, it should be refrigerated overnight before baking. Fresh from the oven, the cookies are fragile; they firm as they cool. They’ll keep for about three days at room temperature or they can be frozen for up to two months; in either case, they should be wrapped well.
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Whisk together the rye flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, sea salt and baking soda; set aside.
Working with a mixer (fitted with the paddle attachment, if you have one), beat the butter and both sugars together on medium speed for 3 minutes, until blended; scrape thebowl as needed. Add the egg, and beat 2 minutes more. Turn off the mixer, add the dry ingredients all at once, then pulse the mixer a few times to begin blending the ingredients. Beat on low speed until the flour almost disappears, and then add the poppy seeds, cranberries and chocolate. Mix only until incorporated. Scrape the bowl to bring the dough together.
When you’re ready to bake, center a rack in the oven, and heat it to 425. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Arrange the cookies on the sheet, leaving 2 inches between each cookie (work with half a batch at a time and keep the remaining balls of dough in the refrigerator until needed). Sprinkle each cookie with a little flake salt, crushing it between your fingers as you do.
Bake the cookies for 10 minutes, pull the baking sheet from the oven and, using a metal spatula, a pancake turner or the bottom of a glass, tap each cookie lightly. Let the cookies rest on the sheet for 3 minutes, then carefully transfer them to a rack. Repeat with the remaining dough, always using cold dough and a cool baking sheet.
Serve after the cookies have cooled for about 10 minutes, or wait until they reach room temperature.
Kacie Boguskie apparently enjoys dipping her toes in The Bachelor dating pool.
After getting dumped by both fifteenth-season The Bachelor star Ben Flajnik and Sean Lowe, the show's current seventeenth-season Bachelor, Boguskie has moved on with The Bachelorette alum Ty Brown, according to The New York Post.
According to a Post source, Boguskie has been dating Brown -- who appeared on Ali Fedotowsky's season of The Bachelorette in 2010 -- for a few months in their hometown of Nashville, TN.
In addition to some local low-key dates, Boguskie and Brown were also reportedly spotted together in public at a charity event in Philadelphia this past summer. The couple's August outing allegedly took place before The Bachelor began taping.
The source also told The Post that Boguskie and Brown were supposed to appear at Nashville's Cabana Restaurant for a separate charity event recently but they didn't make it because Brown experienced a flight delay on his way home due to bad weather.
However, at the event happened to be former The Bachelorette bachelor Charlie Grogan -- who vied for Emily Maynard's affection during the show's most recent eighth edition. He was reportedly showing off new girlfriend Liz Davis who competed on The Voice's third season under the mentorship of country star Blake Shelton.
"It's early days and under the radar, but all of his friends are saying that he really likes her," another source told the newspaper. "They're having fun for now."
In both humans and farm animals, time is crucial when diagnosing illness. An early diagnosis means treatment can be given before the disease worsens. In some forms of aquaculture, the diagnostic time line stretches out a little longer. Fish farmers need to take a boat to the offshore cages where salmon are raised. Samples are taken back to shore and tested in a lab. If disease is found, the farmer needs to boat out again to the cages to administer treatment.
Nanopore Diagnostics is trying to shorten the timeframe for diagnosing and treating fish raised in offshore farms. The St. Louis startup has developed a portable diagnostic technology that it says returns test results on site and in minutes. The diagnostic technology took the top prize this year in the Crop, Animal & Food Tech Showcase, an annual event held last week by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. A total of 11 startups from across the country and one from overseas pitched their technologies in this year’s event in Durham, NC.
The pathogens that Nanopore is screening don’t pose a food safety concern, according to Tom Cohen, the company’s co-founder and CEO. But illness can keep the fish from reaching market weight, which affects the yield of salmon farms. Biological disease costs salmon farms hundreds of millions of dollars each year, Cohen said. Diagnosing disease early in salmon is important because sickness can spread quickly in the crowded offshore cages that hold thousands of fish.
Nanopore’s technology, called the iNDxer, detects DNA and RNA specific to certain bacteria, viruses, or fungi that can lead to disease. The test requires a swab of mucus from a fish gill. The software for the test can run on a tablet or smartphone. Cohen, whose background is in software engineering, says that the accuracy of the technology is comparable to that of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laboratory tests—without the need to boat back to shore and send samples to a lab. There’s no need to test each fish, just a sampling from each cage.
“We can screen 50 fish at an affordable price on-site,” Cohen said.
Cohen said Nanopore decided to target salmon first because this market is more technologically advanced than other forms of aquaculture and it offers more financial opportunity. In time, the company could expand the technology to other forms of aquaculture, animal husbandry, and human health.
Nanopore, which spun out of Washington University, has raised $1.2 million in financing to date. Cohen now says the company is now raising a $900,000 bridge round to pay for tests of the technology in salmon cages off the shore of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The cash will also support further development of the technology to prepare for a market launch.
It’s the second time in the last three years that the showcase’s top prize was won by an on-site diagnostic test. In 2016, Portugal-based Magnomics won for its handheld diagnostic test for a dairy cow infection. For its win this year, Nanopore received a $10,000 cash prize.
The runner-up was General Probiotics, a University of Minnesota spinout that is using synthetic biology to develop a new class of probiotics—beneficial bacteria—that could replace the antibiotics that are being phased out of use in farm animals. Yiannis Kaznessis, founder and CEO of St. Paul, MN-based General Probiotics, said that the company is now raising $3 million as it lays the groundwork to take its products to the FDA for review. As the runner-up, General Probiotics was awarded $2,500 cash.
—Agrospheres. As much as 90 percent of chemicals sprayed on crops don’t reach the target plant, says Reese Blackwell, CEO of Agrospheres. His Charlottesville, VA-based startup has developed a bioparticle that encapsulates a crop protectant or insecticide and delivers it to the target plant. He says the technology can save growers money because it reduces the amount of an active ingredient they need to apply to crops. AgroSpheres is trying to raise $1.5 million for greenhouse tests.
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THE children of Sunrise Beach crash victim Lynette Raines have reacted angrily after learning of the sentence given to the man jailed for causing her death.
Candice Samuels said she and her siblings Hayley Samuels, Ross Raines and Ella Raines were unaware that Bradley Alexander Gordon Young's dangerous driving causing death matter had been finalised until they read a Sunshine Coast Daily story about it.
Young, 44, was sentenced in Maroochydore District Court on Monday to eight months of a two-year sentence for crashing head-on into a car being driven by Ms Raines, 52, on David Low Way on December 1, 2013.
It was noted by Judge Robertson during sentencing that despite no victim impact statements being lodged, it was unthinkable to expect Ms Raines' family and friends had not been deeply affected by the incident.
Ms Samuels said she had not been informed the court proceedings were taking place.
She spoke on behalf of her siblings when addressing the eight-month sentence.
"Today our small family grieves again at the news of the sentencing," Ms Samuels said.
"We are shocked by the leniency shown by the courts in a process that completely in no way involved the family.
"For someone to make a series of bad decisions leading to the loss of life, we feel let down by the court's decision and process.
"Whilst no amount of (jail) time will compensate the loss of Lyn by her four children, we feel devastated by the outcome."
Ms Raines' friend Anita Sabidussi, who was a passenger in the car when the crash occurred, said she wanted to take the matter further.
She believed eight months was not enough prison time for the loss of her friend.
"I've got to look into it and see what I can do about it," Ms Sabidussi said.
A spokeswoman for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said the case was being reviewed.
"The office is reviewing the matter and considering the prospects for an appeal against the sentence," the spokeswoman said.
Bangor cruises past Wonewoc-Center, Manke passes 1000-point mark.
The Bangor boys had no problem getting past Wonewoc-Center on Friday night.
The West Salem Co-op gymnastics team placed third in Division 2 in the team portion of the WIAA State Gymnastics Meet Friday.
Aquinas overpowered Mineral Point 62 to 56 in girls basketball on February, 28.
The #1 seed Onalaska girls basketball team took on the #3 River Falls at Logan.
Melrose-Mindoro continued it’s push for a return trip to State with a 51-39 win over Durand in a Division 4 Sectional Semifinal.
Barneveld standout senior Malcolm Reed doesn’t take a day on the court for granted. He broke his wrist during the first game of the season and missed the next five weeks.
Tom Weinkauf has been the head coach of the Wausau West girls team for just two years, but his legacy is unmistakable.
What began as a way to help out at scrimmages turned into a long term love of the game for Bruce Kaiser.
Every year on the first weekend of June, you can find Randall Pickering in the same place: the announcer box at Roger Harring Stadium as the lead announcer.
Living Benefits Life Insurance| “You don’t have to die to use it”.
Living Benefits Life Insurance|“You don’t have to die to use it”.
The majority of people who buy life insurance do so to provide financial security to a beneficiary when they die. But what happens if you get a heart attack, have a stroke, or get cancer, and you don’t die? How do you have access to the death benefit of your life insurance policy? Having a life insurance with living benefits just solved that problem. These types of policies will provide you with a portion of the death benefit, should you find yourself in this unfortunate situation.
Here’s what you need to know about living benefits and how they might help.
What Is Life Insurance with Living Benefits?
Life insurance with living benefits is a rider (provision) that is added on to most life insurance policies at no additional cost to you. This allows the policyholder to access a portion of the death benefit while he/she is still alive.
It is also called an accelerated death benefit because you can cash in on some of your death benefit amounts, if you have 6-24 months left to live, depending on the insurance company and the policy. Most companies put a limit on the amount that can be accelerated (accessed in advance), which is typically 25-75% of the death benefit.
The Living Benefits Riders, or Accelerated Benefit Riders (ABRs) help provides peace of mind at a time when the LAST thing you need to worry about is money. It allows the policy owner to have access to an early (accelerated) payout of the death benefits within your policy if the insured is diagnosed with a qualifying illness or injury.
Pays a benefit if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness resulting in life expectancy of less than 12 months (24 months in some states). This can be used for experimental medicine, prepare for final expenses or for any other purpose you feel necessary.
Pays a monthly benefit should you become diagnosed as chronically ill and unable to perform two daily activities such as bathing, dressing, eating, or due to cognitive impairment. This benefit is paid annually (up to 24% of your death benefit). Policy must be in force for 2 years.
Pays a lump sum benefit should you suffer from a triggering illness such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), blindness due to diabetes, kidney failure or major organ transplant, and more!
Are You Prepared for an Unexpected Illness?
According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1.7 million new cancer cases diagnosed and more than half a million cancer deaths in the U.S. this year.
The American Heart Association reports that cardiovascular disease is the leading global cause of death, accounting for more than 17.3 million deaths per year, and that number is expected to exceed 23.6 million by 2030.
Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says the average cost for long-term care in the United States exceeds $6,000 per month for a semi-private room in a nursing home and $3,000 per month for care in an assisted living facility.