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But that's not the ways things work here: "It's brutal. But it's reality," he said.
Meredith Greif, a sociologist and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University said policy makers like Jackson have to consider how their actions will affect access to housing.
Greif is part of a project that's conducted interviews with hundreds of low income families, landlords and court and policy makers in Baltimore, Dallas and Cleveland.
On one hand, Greif says code enforcement helps ensure homes are livable, especially for poor children and families. But if landlords are hit with hefty fines for violations, what will happen?
Some, she said, might get out of the business altogether.
"It's a quandary," she said. "It's a terrible situation all around."
Profit margins for landlords can be surprisingly thin, Greif said. There are some for whom the business is quite lucrative, but others report they usually break even or make only a small profit.
"The vast majority of landlords with whom I spoke are not absentee, fly by night landlords but ones who have been in the business for quite some time, many well over a decade, and who report taking housing code rather seriously," Greif said.
Cleveland Councilman Tony Brancatelli supports the phased approach to rolling out the new inspections, with ample time to educate landlords and give them a chance to make repairs before inspectors come knocking.
"As much as I go after landlords, I want to make sure we think about and know the cost of this," he said.
Some, especially those who want high "healthy housing" standards for mold and across-the-board use of the more stringent dust wipe tests for lead, might not be happy. Brancatelli thinks those standards, while admirable, would fail.
The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority only targets peeling paint in its low-income unit inspections and that standard seems to work well, Brancatelli said. Kids in CMHA housing have lower rates of poisoning.
"We want to make things safer for kids," he said. "But we need to move the bar slowly."
Child health and housing advocates, though, take issue with several of the Mayor's statements.
"We need to strongly resist the notion that a leaky faucet is the same risk (to children) as a neurotoxin," that can immediately and irreparably damage young developing brains like lead can, said Spencer Wells, a longtime housing advocate speaking on behalf of the newly-formed Cleveland Lead Safe Network.
The network hopes to encourage legislation that promotes "lead-safe" housing for kids, a standard that does not require homes to be completely free of lead, only for any known lead hazards to be controlled. It's a standard that protects kids and is affordable, Wells said.
Making rental homes lead-free, on the other hand, can be prohibitively expensive for many homeowners without outside help.
Still, Wells said, that's not what's required of property owners in most cases. The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires homes to be made lead-safe and then be maintained, for example.
"Conflating lead-free and lead-safe leads folks to conclude, well, there's nothing we can do," Wells said.
Dr. Aparna Bole, medical director of community integration and a pediatrician at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, was most concerned about Jackson's suggestion that rental inspections would displace families.
"That hasn't been true at all in other cities that have implemented a rental inspection program," she said, including Rochester, New York (a city highlighted in The Plain Dealer's Toxic Neglect series which Cleveland used in part as a model for its plan) and Baltimore.
"I'm the first to say that availability of affordable and safe housing stock is incredibly important to public health, so no part of me would want to recommend removing that housing. But that just hasn't been true anywhere else."
Officials in Rochester said concerns similar to Jackson's were floated a decade ago when the city instituted citywide inspections for lead hazards that have since resulted in a more than 80 percent drop in the number of kids known to be poisoned by lead.
The landlords who left the market, a housing official told The Plain Dealer, were ones who shouldn't have been there anyway. The rest adjusted.
Yvonka Hall, a landlord and member of the Cleveland Lead Safe Network, agrees that many Cleveland landlords aren't making money hand over fist.
They might need help -- zero-interest loans for window replacement, for example--in order to make their properties lead-safe.
But children, who are the most vulnerable, deserve the most protection, said Hall, who served as director of the city's office of minority health until 2012.
"If your whole campaign has been 'looking out for the least of us' then the children who are being poisoned would be at the top of that list, because they can't control their circumstances."
South Korea will provide financial assistance for cash-strapped auto parts makers to help them tide over the liquidity squeeze amid auto industry slump, the government said Tuesday.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced plans to provide 3.5 trillion ($3.1 billion) worth of funding and loan guarantee for local auto parts makers, which have been grappling with shrinking sales at home and abroad.
South Korea's auto industry is going through a hard time after GM Korea shut down its underutilized Gunsan plant in May, and Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors have posted disappointing earnings this year.
To maintain the local supply chain, the government has already provided 1 trillion won worth of credit guarantee for small- and medium-sized auto parts makers and offered 1 trillion won of guarantee for them under the new plan.
State-run financial institutions will extend their loan deadline by another year for contractors of GM Korea and auto companies in the southwestern city of Gunsan, which was designated as "an industrial crisis zone" following the American automaker's plant shutdown.
In addition to the financial package, the government plans to boost domestic demand by extending a consumption tax cut for new vehicle purchases.
The government will apply a 30 percent consumption tax break on new cars by June and a 70 percent reduction for those who replace diesel cars aged over 10 years with new gasoline vehicles next year.
The number of diesel vehicles aged over 10 years, often blamed for greenhouse gas emissions, reached 3.34 million in the first half of this year, according to the ministry.
The ministry also vowed to expand subsidies to eco-friendly cars, setting a goal of putting 430,000 electric cars and 65,000 hydrogen-fueled cars on the road by 2022.
QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - The father of woman wanted in a brutal robbery that left an elderly Quincy woman with serious injuries spoke out Friday, saying it was difficult to turn his daughter in, but that it was the right decision.
“It was very heartbreaking,” Bill Brown said as he explained what it was like when he saw his daughter’s picture released by Quincy police earlier this week.
Kayla Noel-Brown is considered an accomplice to a robbery in which a man attacked 92-year-old Doris Prendiville outside her Wollaston apartment building on Sunday morning, according to police.
The attacker was caught on video pushing Prendiville, before throwing her and her walker to the ground. Prendiville suffered a broken sternum and her purse was stolen. Noel-Brown was spotted with the attacker just before the incident.
“Watching the video of the woman falling down was insane. It’s not the way she was brought up,” Brown said of his daughter.
Brown says he immediately called police and identified his daughter as the accomplice after seeing the video.
“I couldn’t live with myself knowing who did it if I didn’t come clean, even if it’s flesh and blood,” Brown said.
Police tell 7News that Brown’s daughter is a “person of interest” in the robbery.
“It brought me back to my own grandmother, who was hit over the head by someone trying to steal her pocketbook,” Brown said.
Brown wants to make it right by giving Prendiville the $30 that she had stolen, and then some.
“I want to apologize to Ms. Prendiville. I’m very, very sorry she had to endure such a horrific crime,” Brown said.
Brown says he texted his daughter urging her to turn herself in, but that he has not received a response.
Predniville’s daughter says her mother is recovering and that their family is confident police will make an arrest.
Authorities have not identified the man wanted in the robbery.
Google has responded to calls from antivirus firms to stop the spread of an Internet worm that was using the search engine's technology to spread among online bulletin boards.Antivirus firms say the Santy worm, which searches Google for sites using a vulnerable version of the phpBB bulletin board software, was spreading quickly and had already infected around 40,000 Web sites by Tuesday evening.
Google has responded to calls from antivirus firms to stop the spread of an Internet worm that was using the search engine's technology to spread among online bulletin boards.
Antivirus firms say the Santy worm, which searches Google for sites using a vulnerable version of the phpBB bulletin board software, was spreading quickly and had already infected around 40,000 Web sites by Tuesday evening.
On Wednesday, a Google spokesperson told ZDNet Australia that although Google users were not at risk from Santy, the search company had started blocking attempts by the worm to replicate.
"We are aware of an Internet worm that exploits a vulnerability in third-party Web servers that use PHP Bulletin Board software. While the worm does not put Google users at risk, we are working to help stop its propagation by blocking queries to Google that are generated by the worm," the spokesperson said.
Google was prompted into action after antivirus firms, such as F-Secure, said it would be "trivial" for Google to stop the spread of the worm because its methods of propagation were well known.
Mikko Hypponen, research director of antivirus firm F-Secure, said: "We've been trying to reach the right people at Google. They could stop this Santy outbreak right now simply by stopping responding to the queries the virus uses. This wouldn't hurt any end users and would in fact take load off from Google servers."
In August, a MyDoom variant used Google and other search engines to search for e-mail addresses. The virus pumped so many queries into Google that the search engine was unavailable or very slow for large periods of time. The same variant of MyDoom also succeeded in knocking a number of smaller search engines -- including Lycos and Altavista -- off the Web completely.
AKRON, Ohio (CBS Local) — Police in Ohio say at least three volunteers who signed to help out this year’s Toys for Tots drive turned out to be grinches, stealing gifts meant for kids.
Some $5,000 worth of toys were taken Monday night from the Toys for Tots storage area at the First Apostolic Faith Church in Akron. And that means some needy children may not get toys on Christmas.
Surveillance video shows the volunteers took toys from their packaging and placed them in boxes meant for the garbage. They removed some of the most expensive toys, including 16 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle play sets that sell for $100 apiece.
The church is scrambling to replace the stolen toys. Anyone who is interested in donating toys to the church can find more information at this website.
With the furor surrounding the big tent pole superhero films due out over the next decade from Marvel Studios, Fox, Sony, and Warner Bros., comes speculation as to what heroes will appear -- and who will portray those heroes on screen. Though not arriving on the big screen, Marvel’s Netflix series surrounding The Defenders -- Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist -- have not escaped rampant speculation, especially Luke Cage. In addition to Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) voicing interest in the role, Idris Elba (Luther, Pacific Rim) had previously said he wanted the role, though he has since been less forthcoming about the possibility that he will portray the hero.
Now, with Daredevil set to premiere on Netflix in May 2015 and the following series to debut afterward, Elba has possibly confirmed he will not be playing the Hero for Hire -- though, it seems Marvel has found their Luke Cage.
During a Reddit AMA (hat tip to CB) a fan asked Elba what it would take in order to get the actor the gig as Luke Cage; Elba responded (vaguely) that he believed Marvel already has an actor signed on to portray the hero in the studio’s Netflix series. When asked to comment further, Elba refused to elaborate.
"Uh, I think there's an actor already signed on for it, fortunately or unfortunately."
Although there are many ways to read Elba’s comment -- for example, that he could be referring to himself as the actor -- it appears, at the very least, Marvel has found their Luke Cage. Given Marvel’s policy on actors appearing as more than one character within its cinematic universe (with the exception of Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S. and The Vision) and The Defenders series inclusion in the MCU, it’s not surprising Elba won’t play Luke Cage after his role as Heimdall in Thor and Thor: The Dark World.
However, on whether or not Marvel has come to a decision as to who will play the Hero for Hire, the actor still doesn’t sound too sure of his statement. While it’s possible Elba may have insight into the studio’s decision, it’s also possible his comment could have been a deflection of the question, rather than a definitive answer. We won’t know for sure until a more official statement is released.
In terms of another casting rumor, Elba had a more concrete answer. Earlier this year, the actor was rumored to be joining Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur as a reimagined Merlin character, but during the Reddit AMA (hat tip to CB) Elba confirmed he would not be in the film.
Although Elba was able to give a definitive answer in terms of his involvement on King Arthur, his vague comments on Luke Cage are much more interesting. However, depending on the filming schedules (and order) of Netflix’s upcoming Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist series, it may be some time before an official report is released on the Hero for Hire.
Daredevil premieres on Netflix in May 2015. King Arthur debuts in theaters July 22nd, 2016.
Sonic Boom, Earthquake, Government Cover-Up, Meteor, Or Something More Sinister?
Secret supersonic military war crafts? Extraterrestrials? Brookhaven National Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider?
University at Buffalo men's football team is helping spread the word about "Being a Match"
The University at Buffalo's men's football team was at the student union, Tuesday, encouraging their classmates to "Be the Match" and sign up to become a bone marrow donor.
"Community service is a huge component of our program and we really want our guys to give back to the community and be involved in the community," said Robert Ianello, the associate head coach for the team.
Ianello says, the team participated in the drive two years ago and got about 100 folks to sign up. Even one of their players, who signed up to be a donor, ended up being a match for someone with cancer.
"It was really shocking to find out that I was going to be a match," said Matt Otwinowski. "Given the statistics like 1 in 430 and you really don't think it's going to be you. It's really exciting and nerve wracking at the same time."
Bone marrow donations can be critical for people suffering from blood cancers and disorders like sickle cell and leukemia. Officials say, minorities are particularly in need of donors.
Michael Garbin a "Be the Match" representative, says UB is an ideal place to gather a variety of racially diverse donors.
"We are always looking for young healthy students and an ethnically diverse population, because we tend to match people of similar ethnicity and UB has a little bit of both," said Garbin.
There is traffic at the Hudson River crossings, PATH's HOB-WTC line has restored service while NJ Transit is running on or close to schedule.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation is advising motorists that pothole repairs will take place throughout the day on Route 21 and they can expect to see repair crews on the roads at any time. Drivers also are asked to reduce speeds when traveling through the temporary work zones.
PATH: Service on HOB-WTC line is no longer delayed after an earlier car equipment problem.
NJ Transit: No significant delays.
George Washington Bridge: 30-minute delays.
Neil J. Rubenking Google Movie Search A good, useful service for finding information on movies and where to see them in your neighborhood.
Movie listings with aggregated reviews.
Not a replacement for IMDB.
A good, useful service for finding information on movies and where to see them in your neighborhood.
Bottom Line: A good, useful service for finding information on movies and where to see them in your neighborhood.
Students at The New School for Leadership and Journalism gave their arms a workout on Monday, raising them high and keeping them there until the authors whose books they had devoured called on them.
Jason A. Spencer-Edwards, author of Jiggy, and Kateline Gresseau, author of The Journey: Solo, visited classrooms at N.S.L.J., MS 244, where they found worn copies of their books on students’ desks and lists of questions ready to spill out of their mouths.
The authors both have contracts with the Board of Education and write gender-specific books about youngsters navigating the moral landscape of urban America.
According to Eduardo Mora, MS 244’s assistant principal for the seventh grade, or “scholars academy,” the school purchased the books last year, and the morning visit was planned to cap off a unit on characterization that had ended the week before.
The books were still fresh in the middle school students’ minds, and clearly had an impact: They wanted to know everything about the authors, from when they started writing, to whether they listened to their parents years ago and how much money they made through their craft.
The two writers took all sorts of inquiries, but seemed mostly concerned with making sure students understood the meaning of their books.
Speaking to an all-girls class that had read her novel, Ms. Gresseau recounted a scene in which the young protagonist is walking down the steps while the building’s super stares at her.
“She felt like the last piece of fried chicken,” Ms. Gresseau said, and encouraged students not to make the same mistake the character, largely based on herself, did by keeping such incidents from their parents.

But that's not the ways things work here: "It's brutal. But it's reality," he said.

Meredith Greif, a sociologist and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University said policy makers like Jackson have to consider how their actions will affect access to housing.

Greif is part of a project that's conducted interviews with hundreds of low income families, landlords and court and policy makers in Baltimore, Dallas and Cleveland.

On one hand, Greif says code enforcement helps ensure homes are livable, especially for poor children and families. But if landlords are hit with hefty fines for violations, what will happen?

Some, she said, might get out of the business altogether.

"It's a quandary," she said. "It's a terrible situation all around."

Profit margins for landlords can be surprisingly thin, Greif said. There are some for whom the business is quite lucrative, but others report they usually break even or make only a small profit.

"The vast majority of landlords with whom I spoke are not absentee, fly by night landlords but ones who have been in the business for quite some time, many well over a decade, and who report taking housing code rather seriously," Greif said.

Cleveland Councilman Tony Brancatelli supports the phased approach to rolling out the new inspections, with ample time to educate landlords and give them a chance to make repairs before inspectors come knocking.

"As much as I go after landlords, I want to make sure we think about and know the cost of this," he said.

Some, especially those who want high "healthy housing" standards for mold and across-the-board use of the more stringent dust wipe tests for lead, might not be happy. Brancatelli thinks those standards, while admirable, would fail.

The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority only targets peeling paint in its low-income unit inspections and that standard seems to work well, Brancatelli said. Kids in CMHA housing have lower rates of poisoning.

"We want to make things safer for kids," he said. "But we need to move the bar slowly."

Child health and housing advocates, though, take issue with several of the Mayor's statements.

"We need to strongly resist the notion that a leaky faucet is the same risk (to children) as a neurotoxin," that can immediately and irreparably damage young developing brains like lead can, said Spencer Wells, a longtime housing advocate speaking on behalf of the newly-formed Cleveland Lead Safe Network.

The network hopes to encourage legislation that promotes "lead-safe" housing for kids, a standard that does not require homes to be completely free of lead, only for any known lead hazards to be controlled. It's a standard that protects kids and is affordable, Wells said.

Making rental homes lead-free, on the other hand, can be prohibitively expensive for many homeowners without outside help.

Still, Wells said, that's not what's required of property owners in most cases. The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires homes to be made lead-safe and then be maintained, for example.

"Conflating lead-free and lead-safe leads folks to conclude, well, there's nothing we can do," Wells said.

Dr. Aparna Bole, medical director of community integration and a pediatrician at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, was most concerned about Jackson's suggestion that rental inspections would displace families.

"That hasn't been true at all in other cities that have implemented a rental inspection program," she said, including Rochester, New York (a city highlighted in The Plain Dealer's Toxic Neglect series which Cleveland used in part as a model for its plan) and Baltimore.

"I'm the first to say that availability of affordable and safe housing stock is incredibly important to public health, so no part of me would want to recommend removing that housing. But that just hasn't been true anywhere else."

Officials in Rochester said concerns similar to Jackson's were floated a decade ago when the city instituted citywide inspections for lead hazards that have since resulted in a more than 80 percent drop in the number of kids known to be poisoned by lead.

The landlords who left the market, a housing official told The Plain Dealer, were ones who shouldn't have been there anyway. The rest adjusted.

Yvonka Hall, a landlord and member of the Cleveland Lead Safe Network, agrees that many Cleveland landlords aren't making money hand over fist.

They might need help -- zero-interest loans for window replacement, for example--in order to make their properties lead-safe.

But children, who are the most vulnerable, deserve the most protection, said Hall, who served as director of the city's office of minority health until 2012.

"If your whole campaign has been 'looking out for the least of us' then the children who are being poisoned would be at the top of that list, because they can't control their circumstances."

South Korea will provide financial assistance for cash-strapped auto parts makers to help them tide over the liquidity squeeze amid auto industry slump, the government said Tuesday.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced plans to provide 3.5 trillion ($3.1 billion) worth of funding and loan guarantee for local auto parts makers, which have been grappling with shrinking sales at home and abroad.

South Korea's auto industry is going through a hard time after GM Korea shut down its underutilized Gunsan plant in May, and Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors have posted disappointing earnings this year.

To maintain the local supply chain, the government has already provided 1 trillion won worth of credit guarantee for small- and medium-sized auto parts makers and offered 1 trillion won of guarantee for them under the new plan.

State-run financial institutions will extend their loan deadline by another year for contractors of GM Korea and auto companies in the southwestern city of Gunsan, which was designated as "an industrial crisis zone" following the American automaker's plant shutdown.

In addition to the financial package, the government plans to boost domestic demand by extending a consumption tax cut for new vehicle purchases.

The government will apply a 30 percent consumption tax break on new cars by June and a 70 percent reduction for those who replace diesel cars aged over 10 years with new gasoline vehicles next year.

The number of diesel vehicles aged over 10 years, often blamed for greenhouse gas emissions, reached 3.34 million in the first half of this year, according to the ministry.

The ministry also vowed to expand subsidies to eco-friendly cars, setting a goal of putting 430,000 electric cars and 65,000 hydrogen-fueled cars on the road by 2022.

QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - The father of woman wanted in a brutal robbery that left an elderly Quincy woman with serious injuries spoke out Friday, saying it was difficult to turn his daughter in, but that it was the right decision.

“It was very heartbreaking,” Bill Brown said as he explained what it was like when he saw his daughter’s picture released by Quincy police earlier this week.

Kayla Noel-Brown is considered an accomplice to a robbery in which a man attacked 92-year-old Doris Prendiville outside her Wollaston apartment building on Sunday morning, according to police.

The attacker was caught on video pushing Prendiville, before throwing her and her walker to the ground. Prendiville suffered a broken sternum and her purse was stolen. Noel-Brown was spotted with the attacker just before the incident.

“Watching the video of the woman falling down was insane. It’s not the way she was brought up,” Brown said of his daughter.

Brown says he immediately called police and identified his daughter as the accomplice after seeing the video.

“I couldn’t live with myself knowing who did it if I didn’t come clean, even if it’s flesh and blood,” Brown said.

Police tell 7News that Brown’s daughter is a “person of interest” in the robbery.

“It brought me back to my own grandmother, who was hit over the head by someone trying to steal her pocketbook,” Brown said.

Brown wants to make it right by giving Prendiville the $30 that she had stolen, and then some.

“I want to apologize to Ms. Prendiville. I’m very, very sorry she had to endure such a horrific crime,” Brown said.

Brown says he texted his daughter urging her to turn herself in, but that he has not received a response.

Predniville’s daughter says her mother is recovering and that their family is confident police will make an arrest.

Authorities have not identified the man wanted in the robbery.

Google has responded to calls from antivirus firms to stop the spread of an Internet worm that was using the search engine's technology to spread among online bulletin boards.Antivirus firms say the Santy worm, which searches Google for sites using a vulnerable version of the phpBB bulletin board software, was spreading quickly and had already infected around 40,000 Web sites by Tuesday evening.

Google has responded to calls from antivirus firms to stop the spread of an Internet worm that was using the search engine's technology to spread among online bulletin boards.

Antivirus firms say the Santy worm, which searches Google for sites using a vulnerable version of the phpBB bulletin board software, was spreading quickly and had already infected around 40,000 Web sites by Tuesday evening.

On Wednesday, a Google spokesperson told ZDNet Australia that although Google users were not at risk from Santy, the search company had started blocking attempts by the worm to replicate.

"We are aware of an Internet worm that exploits a vulnerability in third-party Web servers that use PHP Bulletin Board software. While the worm does not put Google users at risk, we are working to help stop its propagation by blocking queries to Google that are generated by the worm," the spokesperson said.

Google was prompted into action after antivirus firms, such as F-Secure, said it would be "trivial" for Google to stop the spread of the worm because its methods of propagation were well known.

Mikko Hypponen, research director of antivirus firm F-Secure, said: "We've been trying to reach the right people at Google. They could stop this Santy outbreak right now simply by stopping responding to the queries the virus uses. This wouldn't hurt any end users and would in fact take load off from Google servers."

In August, a MyDoom variant used Google and other search engines to search for e-mail addresses. The virus pumped so many queries into Google that the search engine was unavailable or very slow for large periods of time. The same variant of MyDoom also succeeded in knocking a number of smaller search engines -- including Lycos and Altavista -- off the Web completely.

AKRON, Ohio (CBS Local) — Police in Ohio say at least three volunteers who signed to help out this year’s Toys for Tots drive turned out to be grinches, stealing gifts meant for kids.

Some $5,000 worth of toys were taken Monday night from the Toys for Tots storage area at the First Apostolic Faith Church in Akron. And that means some needy children may not get toys on Christmas.

Surveillance video shows the volunteers took toys from their packaging and placed them in boxes meant for the garbage. They removed some of the most expensive toys, including 16 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle play sets that sell for $100 apiece.

The church is scrambling to replace the stolen toys. Anyone who is interested in donating toys to the church can find more information at this website.

With the furor surrounding the big tent pole superhero films due out over the next decade from Marvel Studios, Fox, Sony, and Warner Bros., comes speculation as to what heroes will appear -- and who will portray those heroes on screen. Though not arriving on the big screen, Marvel’s Netflix series surrounding The Defenders -- Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist -- have not escaped rampant speculation, especially Luke Cage. In addition to Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) voicing interest in the role, Idris Elba (Luther, Pacific Rim) had previously said he wanted the role, though he has since been less forthcoming about the possibility that he will portray the hero.

Now, with Daredevil set to premiere on Netflix in May 2015 and the following series to debut afterward, Elba has possibly confirmed he will not be playing the Hero for Hire -- though, it seems Marvel has found their Luke Cage.

During a Reddit AMA (hat tip to CB) a fan asked Elba what it would take in order to get the actor the gig as Luke Cage; Elba responded (vaguely) that he believed Marvel already has an actor signed on to portray the hero in the studio’s Netflix series. When asked to comment further, Elba refused to elaborate.

"Uh, I think there's an actor already signed on for it, fortunately or unfortunately."

Although there are many ways to read Elba’s comment -- for example, that he could be referring to himself as the actor -- it appears, at the very least, Marvel has found their Luke Cage. Given Marvel’s policy on actors appearing as more than one character within its cinematic universe (with the exception of Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S. and The Vision) and The Defenders series inclusion in the MCU, it’s not surprising Elba won’t play Luke Cage after his role as Heimdall in Thor and Thor: The Dark World.

However, on whether or not Marvel has come to a decision as to who will play the Hero for Hire, the actor still doesn’t sound too sure of his statement. While it’s possible Elba may have insight into the studio’s decision, it’s also possible his comment could have been a deflection of the question, rather than a definitive answer. We won’t know for sure until a more official statement is released.

In terms of another casting rumor, Elba had a more concrete answer. Earlier this year, the actor was rumored to be joining Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur as a reimagined Merlin character, but during the Reddit AMA (hat tip to CB) Elba confirmed he would not be in the film.

Although Elba was able to give a definitive answer in terms of his involvement on King Arthur, his vague comments on Luke Cage are much more interesting. However, depending on the filming schedules (and order) of Netflix’s upcoming Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist series, it may be some time before an official report is released on the Hero for Hire.

Daredevil premieres on Netflix in May 2015. King Arthur debuts in theaters July 22nd, 2016.

Sonic Boom, Earthquake, Government Cover-Up, Meteor, Or Something More Sinister?

Secret supersonic military war crafts? Extraterrestrials? Brookhaven National Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider?

University at Buffalo men's football team is helping spread the word about "Being a Match"

The University at Buffalo's men's football team was at the student union, Tuesday, encouraging their classmates to "Be the Match" and sign up to become a bone marrow donor.

"Community service is a huge component of our program and we really want our guys to give back to the community and be involved in the community," said Robert Ianello, the associate head coach for the team.

Ianello says, the team participated in the drive two years ago and got about 100 folks to sign up. Even one of their players, who signed up to be a donor, ended up being a match for someone with cancer.

"It was really shocking to find out that I was going to be a match," said Matt Otwinowski. "Given the statistics like 1 in 430 and you really don't think it's going to be you. It's really exciting and nerve wracking at the same time."

Bone marrow donations can be critical for people suffering from blood cancers and disorders like sickle cell and leukemia. Officials say, minorities are particularly in need of donors.

Michael Garbin a "Be the Match" representative, says UB is an ideal place to gather a variety of racially diverse donors.

"We are always looking for young healthy students and an ethnically diverse population, because we tend to match people of similar ethnicity and UB has a little bit of both," said Garbin.

There is traffic at the Hudson River crossings, PATH's HOB-WTC line has restored service while NJ Transit is running on or close to schedule.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation is advising motorists that pothole repairs will take place throughout the day on Route 21 and they can expect to see repair crews on the roads at any time. Drivers also are asked to reduce speeds when traveling through the temporary work zones.

PATH: Service on HOB-WTC line is no longer delayed after an earlier car equipment problem.

NJ Transit: No significant delays.

George Washington Bridge: 30-minute delays.

Neil J. Rubenking Google Movie Search A good, useful service for finding information on movies and where to see them in your neighborhood.

Movie listings with aggregated reviews.

Not a replacement for IMDB.

A good, useful service for finding information on movies and where to see them in your neighborhood.

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Students at The New School for Leadership and Journalism gave their arms a workout on Monday, raising them high and keeping them there until the authors whose books they had devoured called on them.

Jason A. Spencer-Edwards, author of Jiggy, and Kateline Gresseau, author of The Journey: Solo, visited classrooms at N.S.L.J., MS 244, where they found worn copies of their books on students’ desks and lists of questions ready to spill out of their mouths.

The authors both have contracts with the Board of Education and write gender-specific books about youngsters navigating the moral landscape of urban America.

According to Eduardo Mora, MS 244’s assistant principal for the seventh grade, or “scholars academy,” the school purchased the books last year, and the morning visit was planned to cap off a unit on characterization that had ended the week before.

The books were still fresh in the middle school students’ minds, and clearly had an impact: They wanted to know everything about the authors, from when they started writing, to whether they listened to their parents years ago and how much money they made through their craft.

The two writers took all sorts of inquiries, but seemed mostly concerned with making sure students understood the meaning of their books.

Speaking to an all-girls class that had read her novel, Ms. Gresseau recounted a scene in which the young protagonist is walking down the steps while the building’s super stares at her.

“She felt like the last piece of fried chicken,” Ms. Gresseau said, and encouraged students not to make the same mistake the character, largely based on herself, did by keeping such incidents from their parents.