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The star – who reportedly suffered a fractured rib but is in good condition – quickly received an outpouring of support from fans and friends alike, who condemned the attack and wished Smollett well.
Fox guest-starred on “Empire” as Smollett’s character’s aunt in 2015.
Both of the show’s co-creators weighed in on social media, with Danny Strong saying he was “deeply horrified and saddened” by the attack.
Chicago Police said they’re investigating the assault as a possible hate crime, while TMZ reported that Smollett’s attackers yelled, “This is MAGA country” during the incident.
Smollett’s “Empire” character is gay, and the star himself revealed in 2015 that he is gay as well.
Actress Viola Davis offered a similar message of support on Twitter.
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CBIA CEO and President Joe Brennan.
Connecticut's largest business lobby has laid out a dozen policy priorities it has for this year's legislative session centered on creating a more business-friendly environment.
The Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA) on Wednesday afternoon unveiled its slate of policy recommendations they say are designed to "chart a new course" for the state.
CBIA recommended "significantly" reducing state-agency spending by outsourcing services to private entities, lowering the business personal property tax and the top income tax rate, eliminating the business entity tax and repealing gift and estate taxes.
Connecticut's General Assembly, the business lobby says, should also uphold tax incentives for research and development (R&D) and pass on expanding the sales tax base or rates on business-to-business services.
"We are encouraged that Gov. Lamont is emphasizing certain things critical to employers in Connecticut—the importance of growth, a bold approach to budget fixes, and committing to solving our fiscal problems once and for all," CBIA CEO and President Joe Brennan said.
Lowering state spending, according to Eric Gjede, CBIA's vice president of government affairs, could also be achieved by negotiating reduced public-sector retirement and health benefits.
He said widespread employer mandates, including raising the state's minimum wage from $10.10 to $15 by 2023 and mandating paid family and medical leave, could damper Connecticut's modest economic comeback.
"This session will really set the tone for the next few years," said Gjede. "Connecticut has to build upon our many strengths and not allow bad policy choices to slow us down."
Among other recommendations, CBIA says Connecticut must recruit and retain science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education teachers to better prepare the state's next-generation workforce.
Promoting STEM-related training and targeting jobs in high demand will help reduce the skills gap by increasing middle-skill education and training programs through career pathways and public-private partnerships, CBIA said.
To spur economic prosperity, CBIA urged state lawmakers to appoint a secretary of commerce to oversee the implementation of a long-term, statewide economic development plan, adopting strategies that have succeeded in other states.
CBIA also recommended continuing to fund the state's manufacturing voucher, incumbent worker training, apprenticeships programs and expanding the apprenticeship tax credit to so-called "pass-through" entities. It also wants the state to create a secretary position to manage the Connecticut's manufacturing policy and pr...
Regulatory reform: Implement regulatory reform through the creation of an improvement team under the Office of Policy and Management to ensure regulations are effective and needed.
Labor: Adopt federal mandates for family medical leave and wage and hour laws for businesses to spend less on compliance and more on investment to achieve growth. It also proposed restoring unemployment trust fund solvency through benefit reforms, including raising minimum earnings to qualify for certain benefits.
Energy: Apply new requirements for ratepayer impact statements and reject proposals asking to leverage electric ratepayer money to balance Connecticut's budget.
Workers' compensation: Scale back the permanent partial disability award for workplace injuries and reduce costs by mandating generic prescriptions when applicable.
Environment: Reject adoption of a state water plan that would declare "without definition or context" that state waters are held in public trust.
Transportation: Protect a sustainable and affordable funding stream for transportation and engage the private sector to accelerate planning and completion of projects.
Healthcare/bioscience: Perform a cost analysis of any new healthcare mandates and adopt proposals that cut overall spending. Develop a plan to provide the state's bioscience sector with tax incentives to promote life sciences R&D, recruiting venture capital firms and adopt policies that encourage technology innovation....
CBIA's recommendations will likely receive pushback from Connecticut's newly minted, Democratic-leaning legislature, which has promised a legislative agenda aimed at raising the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour and creating a paid family medical leave program for private employers.
Democratic leadership is also eyeing implementing highway tolling, and legalizing recreational marijuana and online and on-site sports betting.
The Alpine Linux distribution is described as ‘minimal’ and best suited for ‘power users’.
Originally created by Gentoo, the project is now wholly independent and, as such, it is self-hosting.
Gentoo Linux is another distribution… but built with the Portage package management system. This project is essentially a security-oriented lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and Busybox.
This distribution uses a hardened kernel and compiles all user space binaries as position-independent executables with stack-smashing protection.
Alpine has been compared to NanoBSD – a tool developed by Poul-Henning Kamp which creates a FreeBSD system image for embedded applications – in that it can be provisioned for the precise job in hand without additional complexities, hindrances or indeed any extraneous functions.
The project was elevated in perception and status in recent times as a result of it being selection by Docker as its new base ‘image’ – the previous image being Ubuntu.
Why is Alpine so technically efficient?
Partly due to the way it has been built… almost all of the binaries in the core kernel fabric are links to Busybox — this is a group of regularly used user and system utilities all presented in one single binary.
The use of links to Busybox allows Alpine Linux to achieve speedier startup time and a smaller storage space requirements overall.
An OS lesson for the future?
According to the Alpine Linux Wiki pages, another distinctive part of Alpine is its variety of ‘installation modes’.
It can be installed to a hard disk/SSD/other storage medium like any other distro; this is called the sys mode. The storage medium in question can be removable, if you like, so long as you can configure your machine to boot from it.
“The kernel is patched with an unofficial port of grsecurity/PaX, and all userland binaries are compiled as Position Independent Executables (PIE) with stack smashing protection. These proactive security features prevent exploitation of entire classes of zero-day and other vulnerabilities,” notes the team.
Binary packages are thinned out and split, giving users more control over what they install, which in turn keeps the computing environment as small and efficient as possible… and, in theory, more secure. There is a lot to like here.
Pep Guardiola is a perfectionist.
It is a characteristic Manchester City will grow used to next season, and one that Bayern Munich youngster Joshua Kimmich is fast learning to live with.
Moments after playing a key role in the result that will surely guide Guardiola's side to a third consecutive Bundesliga title, Kimmich was on the end of a centre-circle lecture from his manager.
Bayern left Borussia Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park with a point and the 0-0 stalemate means they retain a five-point gap on the Bundesliga's leading challengers.
Midfielder Kimmich, 21, was brilliant in a defensive role, but was still the subject of an emotional post-match ‘Pep talk’ after seemingly failing to satisfy his manager in the game’s dying minutes.
The chat between the pair on the pitch saw Guardiola drape his arms over the shoulders of his young talent in an emotional embrace where some reflective pointers were given.
But City-bound Guardiola is a huge fan of the Kimmich, and insisted he has huge trust in his abilities.
Kimmich’s talents were best exhibited with a last-gasp slide on Marco Reus when the Dortmund star looked to be in on goal in the first half, only for the Bayern man to poke the ball away.
Paired with David Alaba at the back, the Germany Under 21 international kept one of Europe’s most-potent attacks at bay despite playing out of his favoured position.
Johnson signed a reserve/future contract with the Packers on Monday.
Analysis: Johnson spent time on the Packers' practice squad during the 2018 season. The fullback has logged previous stints with the Browns, Seahawks and 49ers.
The 49ers waived Johnson (undisclosed) from injured reserve Saturday, per the league's official transaction log.
Analysis: The move came as a result of the Niners and Johnson reaching an injury settlement. Johnson last suited up in 2016, playing seven games for the Browns and rushing once for two yards. He'll be free to sign with another team once he's healthy.
Johnson (undisclosed) cleared waivers and reverted to injured reserve, according to the league's official transaction log.
Analysis: Johnson's situation remains vague, but the running back is nonetheless stuck on IR through the end of the league year unless he agrees to an injury settlement with the 49ers.
Johnson (undisclosed) was waived/injured by the 49ers on Saturday, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports.
Analysis: Johnson signed a reserve/future contract with the 49ers back in January after appearing in just 19 NFL games across three seasons. He didn't log a single snap in 2017, and he will now be placed on the team's injured reserve once he clears waivers.
Jason Aldean, Jamey Johnson and Little Big Town will be hitting the road in April to call attention to this year’s CMA Music Festival. Officially billed as Crisco Presents the Road to CMA Music Festival, two or three artists will be performing the free shows and signing autographs on Wal-Mart parking lots in 10 cities....
"Vanderpump Rules" star Scheana Shay and her now ex-husband finalized their divorce, and she's the one who will have to shell out a chunk of cash.
Mike Shay gets to keep an '05 GMC Sierra, and Scheana has to fork over the $50k to balance out their assets.
Scheana filed for divorce in November simultaneously cutting Mike off from their credit cards because she feared he'd fallen off the wagon and cleaned out their bank account.
Designs for the £80m revamp of a former Norwich shoe factory and its surrounding area have been revealed for the first time.
Outline plans to transform St Mary’s Works shoe factory and the nearby area into a number of houses, offices and car park spaces were given the green light on January 11 by Norwich City Council’s planning committee.
The updated, in-depth plans include new links between St Martin’s and St Mary’s and development between Oak Street, Duke Street, St Martin’s Lane and St Mary’s Plain.
On Friday, members of the public were able to see the initial outline of the new development at a consultation meeting at St George’s Works in Colegate.
New buildings will be built around the shoe factory to house a number of offices, hotel, restaurant and other commercial units, with open spaces giving new views of the churches.
The designs show more homes would be built than originally planned - 160 instead of 151, which will range from one, two and three-bedroom flats to larger homes for families.
Developers Our Place will be contributing £2m to the council to go towards the community infrastructure levy (CIL), affordable housing and renovation of both churchyards.
The lack of affordable housing was a contentious issue which drew a lot of criticism from councillors, some of whom described the unfulfilled provisional target of 50 affordable homes as setting a dangerous precedent.
Dominic Richards, chief executive of Our Place, said: “The local authority wanted a focus on jobs and that is the approach we took.
The number of car parking spaces has also reduced from 120 to around 75.
Mr Richards said work could begin in the last quarter of this year and could take around three years to complete.
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New Delhi: The country’s largest realty firm DLF and green building developer The 3C Company are likely to sell their IT park in Noida to Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) for about ₹ 500 crore.
The deal is likely to be closed next week, according to sources.
DLF has about 70% stake in the IT Park and rest is with The 3C Company.
When contacted, DLF spokesperson said, “The company would not like to comment on market speculations". The spokesperson of The 3C Company also declined to comment.
In May this year, DLF had said the company plans to raise up to ₹ 7,000 crore in the next 2-3 years from the sale of non-core assets to cut net debt of over ₹ 21,000 crore.
DLF had said in August that it expects to finalise at least two big-ticket deals for sale of non-core assets during this quarter.
Apart from Noida IT Park, DLF has approached the Board of Approval (BOA) under commerce ministry to sell about 24-acre in Pune IT SEZ, in which it has about 70% stake.
According to sources, DLF is in talks with private equity firm Blackstone to sell IT SEZ at Pune and the deal size is expected to be around ₹ 900 crore.
As part of its decision to exit from non-core businesses, DLF is in talks to sell stake in its hospitality venture Aman Resorts.
DLF had acquired luxury hotel chain Aman Resorts for $400 million in 2007. It is likely to keep the Aman resort in Delhi with itself.
Austin Meadows had a career-high four hits, including a two-run home run, and drove in four runs, and the visiting Tampa Bay Rays continued to match their best start in team history with a 10-5 win against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday afternoon.
The Rays built a 4-0 lead after two innings, the same as they did in a 5-1 win against the White Sox in the series opener on Monday.
Meadows scored on a sacrifice fly by Lowe in the first for a 1-0 lead. The Rays have outscored their opponents 14-1 in the first inning this season.
Garcia, who played the past 5 1/2 seasons with the White Sox before signing a free-agent contract with the Rays in January, homered with one out in the second inning to make it 2-0. Willy Adames then walked and Meadows lifted a low breaking ball over the fence in right for his third home run of the season and a 4-0 lea...
Lowe hit a solo homer in the third to make it 5-0 before Chicago third baseman Yoan Moncada connected on a two-run blast in the bottom half of the inning to cut the deficit to 5-2.
White Sox starter Ervin Santana made his team debut, and the 36-year-old right-hander was aiming for the 150th win of his 15-year major league career. He lasted just 3 2/3 innings, however, allowing seven runs and seven hits with three walks and one strikeout.
The Rays chased Santana with two more runs in the fourth.
Michael Perez and Adames hit back-to-back doubles to make it 6-2, and Meadows then singled in Adames for a 7-2 lead.
The Rays scored another run on a wild pitch in the eighth before the White Sox added three runs in their half of the eighth.
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I've got déjà vu, and it's no surprise why.
Around this time last year, I wrote up a hopeful place named Café Banzai, next door to Pueblo Avenue's Rocket Room. I basically said that the outfit was good, cheap and battling some tough odds to make that obscure, tiny location work.
Now, I'm tasked to review another hopeful place, unimaginatively named Sushi & Teriyaki House, located in Café Banzai's old digs and serving a similar menu of Japanese and Korean staples, but with the addition of sushi. Again, the food's largely good and inexpensive, and the central obstacle to success remains the loca...