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That's why they decided to start protesting three days ago and plan to continue.
They are in the process of moving to a new building in Southaven, and would like to see something change before the move.
WREG reached out to that manager named Bruce Friday morning to get his side of the story, but have not heard back from him.
So which did you want to win, the black film or the white film?
This year’s best picture Oscar was technically a nine-horse race, but it was reduced to, and will be remembered as, essentially Moonlight v La La Land. There was never any doubt that one or other of these films would win best picture, and the two movies readily lent themselves to polar opposition. Moonlight is small in...
The impression of rivalry was only reinforced by the farcical “And the winner is … Oh no it isn’t!” mix up, which brought the makers of the two movies on stage together, and practically snatched the statuette out of La La Land’s hands, mid-acceptance speeches and thrust it into Moonlight’s. A symbolic passing of the ba...
There were echoes of Hattie McDaniel, 76 years ago, who had to walk up to collect her Best Supporting Actress Oscar from a table way down the back of the hall. She was seated separately from the rest of the Gone With The Wind stars, whose own table groaned with statuettes and champagne bottles. McDaniel was lucky to ev...
Moonlight was a thoroughly deserving winner for so many reasons, many of which boil down the fact that this type of movie doesn’t usually get Oscar recognition. It was a historic win in terms of films about LGBT subjects. In the past, many films, including such as Brokeback Mountain, Dallas Buyers Club or Kiss of the S...
If you were feeling less charitable and more Team La La Land, you could also consider Moonlight’s victory in the context of last year’s #OscarsSoWhite debacle about the lack of African-American representation in the acting categories. Big stars like Will Smith boycotting the world’s pre-eminent awards show was a shamin...
Even more contentiously, did #OscarSoWhite affect critical opinion? No critic would ever admit such a thing, but few of them had a bad word to say about Moonlight. It has a 99% rating on Metacritic – the fourth highest of all time (La La Land’s is 93). And while La La Land’s huge popularity prompted something of a back...
Couching Moonlight’s victory in any of these terms somehow detracts from it, though. Can’t we just say it won because it was a great movie? It’s such a brave, fresh piece of work. Brave in its three-act, three-actor structure. Brave in its deconstruction and reappropriation of African-American stereotypes. Brave in its...
But here’s the thing. La La Land is a great film, too. It’s also bold and brave and adventurous, and would have been just as deserving of best picture, in my opinion. (Though if I had to choose I’d have given it to Moonlight – first, it could do with the extra box office and La La Land is already a smash; second, I sla...
So many presenters and winners last night said sincere, noble and important words about healing divisions and human decency and resisting the unravelling of the US – and possibly global – order that President Trump threatens to wreak. Starting with Kimmel, who beseeched viewers at home to “reach out to one person you d...
And that’s the problem: the Oscars is like sports or politics. It’s about creating winners and losers. It’s about pitting one team against another. In a small way, it’s about manufacturing the type of divisions its nominees spoke against. But then again, who wants to see an awards show where everybody gets an Oscar?
“While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my rating on Dec. 28, 2017, was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009, which was 47%…and this despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!” he tweeted.
But the truth, across almost every reputable poll, is that Trump’s approval ratings have lagged behind those of nearly all of his predecessors, including Obama, since day one of his presidency.
The cleanest comparison between the approval ratings of the two presidents is Gallup’s daily tracking polls, which are released as both three-day rolling averages and weekly averages. The three-day averages released on December 28, 2009 — the day Trump cited in his tweet — showed 51% approval for Obama with 43% disappr...
The weekly numbers tell a similar story: For the week ending December 27, 2009, 51% approved of Obama, and for the week ending December 24, 2017, 37% approved of Trump.
That gap is mirrored in other polls with long-term trends and similar methodologies now as they had in 2009. In CNN’s polling among all adults, 35% approved of Trump in mid-December 2017, while Obama held a 54% approval rating in December 2009. CBS News finds a 14-point gap between Obama’s approval then (50%) and Trump...
Trump’s tweeted claim rests on the findings of a daily tracking poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports. Those findings come from a poll conducted using a mix of online interviews and those conducted via calls to landline telephones by a recorded voice interviewer rather than a live person. They claim to interview likely v...
Rasmussen’s polling received a C+ rating in FiveThirtyEight’s most recent pollster rankings, and it has been found to lean toward the GOP when compared with other pollsters, which means it typically understated support for Obama and has a tendency to overstate support for Trump when compared with other polls.
Looking back farther in time, Trump’s approval ratings in his first year have consistently lagged behind other presidents in their first years in office. Trump’s current rating in CNN polling of 35% stands at least 14 points behind every other president dating back to Dwight Eisenhower. Bill Clinton’s numbers briefly m...
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Two cops have been suspended for improperly investigating a child-abuse allegation against a Brooklyn woman, police said yesterday.
Officers Stephen Monroe and Ronald Holmes, both six-year veterans, were sent to a Flatbush home Feb. 4 to investigate a claim that a 4-year-old boy was scalded on his feet.
Both the boy and his mom told police he accidentally burned himself in the bathtub, police said.
Because the wounds looked old and because the mom had treated the injury with a balm and promised to take the child to a doctor, the cops left – without filling out the required paperwork, police said.
But when a sergeant responded to the scene, as is procedure with suspected child abuse, the boy told the officer with the sergeant that his mom had intentionally burned him, police said.
The mother, Audrey Wallace, 25, was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child. She also was charged with assault, for allegedly beating her son with a hairbrush.
Her son was treated for his burns at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
The first two officers were suspended pending the outcome of a departmental hearing.
Port St. Lucie City Council prepares to refinance $57 million in VGTI debt to comply with tax laws in the $14.5 million sale of the lab to a private firm.
PORT ST. LUCIE — The City Council will try to refinance the debt on the former Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida building as soon as possible because interest rates are rising.
The council Monday voted unanimously to begin the process.If it approves final legislation Oct. 8, the bonds could be sold the week of Oct. 22 and close the week of Nov. 19.
Refinancing at prevailing rates Monday would have saved the city $1 million, said Jay Glover, managing director with PFM Financial Advisors. Savings will decline the longer it takes to sell the bonds because interest rates are rising.
The city must pay off the tax-exempt bonds used to finance the construction of the VGTI building and replace them with taxable bonds as part of the sale of the high-tech lab, said Chief Finance Officer Jeff Snyder.
VGTI qualified for the tax-exempt bonds because it was considered a public use, Snyder said. The building is being sold to a private real estate firm, so the bonds must be converted to taxable.
RER Ventures of Coral Gables is paying $14.5 million for the building with $2.9 million down, an $11.5 million balloon payment after five years and $580,000 interest per year.
The sale on what is now known as the Florida Center for Bio-Sciences is expected to close in December or January.
Even if the deal collapses, the city would save money on interest and be ready to sell the building to another buyer, Glover said.
“If you ever have the desire to sell this building, you’re going to have to get rid of these tax-exempt bonds at some point in time,” Glover said.
The city guaranteed $64 million in bonds issued in 2010 to pay for the custom construction of the laboratory and office building. VGTI opened in 2013 and closed in 2015 after grant funding dried up.
The city assumed ownership of the building in 2017 and has been trying to sell it ever since. The council approved a sales agreement with RER Ventures Sept. 10.
The city still owes $57.3 million in principal on the bonds, city records showed.
The city intends to pay down the debt with the initial refinancing and in five years when RER Ventures makes the final payment.
Newswise — A good state of mind — that is, your happiness — affects your genes, scientists say. In the first study of its kind, researchers from UCLA's Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and the University of North Carolina examined how positive psychology impacts human gene expression.
What they found is that different types of happiness have surprisingly different effects on the human genome.
People who have high levels of what is known as eudaimonic well-being — the kind of happiness that comes from having a deep sense of purpose and meaning in life (think Mother Teresa) — showed very favorable gene-expression profiles in their immune cells. They had low levels of inflammatory gene expression and strong ex...
However, people who had relatively high levels of hedonic well-being — the type of happiness that comes from consummatory self-gratification (think most celebrities) — actually showed just the opposite. They had an adverse expression profile involving high inflammation and low antiviral and antibody gene expression.
The report appears in the current online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For the last 10 years, Steven Cole, a UCLA professor of medicine and a member of the UCLA Cousins Center, and his colleagues, including first author Barbara L. Fredrickson at the University of North Carolina, have been examining how the human genome responds to stress, misery, fear and all kinds of negative psychology.
In this study, though, the researchers asked how the human genome might respond to positive psychology. Is it just the opposite of stress and misery, or does positive well-being activate a different kind of gene expression program?
The researchers examined the biological implications of both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being through the lens of the human genome, a system of some 21,000 genes that has evolved fundamentally to help humans survive and be well.
Previous studies had found that circulating immune cells show a systematic shift in baseline gene-expression profiles during extended periods of stress, threat or uncertainty. Known as conserved transcriptional response to adversity, or CTRA, this shift is characterized by an increased expression of genes involved in i...
This response, Cole noted, likely evolved to help the immune system counter the changing patterns of microbial threat that were ancestrally associated with changing socio-environmental conditions; these threats included bacterial infection from wounds caused by social conflict and an increased risk of viral infection a...
"But in contemporary society and our very different environment, chronic activation by social or symbolic threats can promote inflammation and cause cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and other diseases and can impair resistance to viral infections," said Cole, the senior author of the research.
In the present study, the researchers drew blood samples from 80 healthy adults who were assessed for hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, as well as potentially confounding negative psychological and behavioral factors. The team used the CTRA gene-expression profile to map the potentially distinct biological effects of ...
And while those with eudaimonic well-being showed favorable gene-expression profiles in their immune cells and those with hedonic well-being showed an adverse gene-expression profile, "people with high levels of hedonic well-being didn't feel any worse than those with high levels of eudaimonic well-being," Cole said. "...
"What this study tells us is that doing good and feeling good have very different effects on the human genome, even though they generate similar levels of positive emotion," he said. "Apparently, the human genome is much more sensitive to different ways of achieving happiness than are conscious minds." Other authors on...
The research was supported by National Institutes of Health grants R01NR012899, R01CA116778 and P30AG107265.
The UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology encompasses an interdisciplinary network of scientists working to advance the understanding of psychoneuroimmunology by linking basic and clinical research programs and by translating findings into clinical practice. The center is affiliated with the Semel Institute for...
4. The opportunity to build and continue player-coach relationships with so many of my former players is a great part of being involved with sports.
5. The thrill of sharing victory and defeat with my wife, children and grandchildren. Victories are a whole lot more fun to share.
NEWPORT BEACH — Justin Zillman watched his son struggle in junior tennis tournaments earlier this year.
James was not winning the close matches, something that had rarely been a problem before. In the War by the Shore, he was in two big battles on Thursday and Friday.
Nobody could say James Zillman didn't finish strong this time. Not after he outlasted Teague Hamilton of Laguna Beach, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, to capture the boys' 16s singles title at The Tennis Club Newport Beach on Friday.
The Costa Mesa resident was coming off another three-set win in the semifinals. James appears to have his mojo back.
"It was a good experience," James Zillman said. "I haven't been winning that much lately, so it was good for my confidence."
Justin Zillman, who also serves as James' coach and is a teacher at Woodbridge Tennis Club in Irvine, said James would usually be in the 18s draw at a tournament like the War by the Shore. But because of his recent struggles in the bigger tournaments, he was entered in the 16s.
James, who is ranked No. 42 in Southern California in the 16s, was the top seed. He's also the top seed at next week's Costa Mesa Summer Junior Classic.
"It's a lot of pressure, because every match you're supposed to win," Justin Zillman said. "I really want him to just get through that. I don't think you can escape that, because eventually if you go college or pro, it's all going to catch up [to you]. You're going to have to beat those guys that you kind of feel like ...
Hamilton, who will be a junior at Laguna Beach High, did give James Zillman a good test. The No. 3 seed has been playing well lately, helping the Breakers reach the CIF Southern Section Division IV championship match this spring with his strong play at No. 2 singles. Hamilton was undefeated in the CIF postseason for La...
After the players split the first two sets, Hamilton got an early break in the third set. But Zillman immediately broke back. Eventually, he was serving for the match at 5-3.
"He's been hitting flatter and that was working when he was young," Justin Zillman said. "Now that he's getting bigger, he was having trouble controlling the power. We've added on a little bit of spin, and it's helping. He's still getting used to it, but I thought he did really well."
Hamilton broke James Zillman's serve to pull within 5-4, but Zillman answered with yet another break of serve to close out the match. He won it on a forehand passing shot that went screaming up the line.
James said winning at Costa Mesa next week would be sweet too. Last year he lost in the semifinals of both of the back-to-back tournaments.
He said he's trying to get enough points this summer in K-Swiss Grand Prix tournaments to gain entry to the K-Swiss Grand Prix Masters Championships, set for October at Lakewood Tennis Center. The War by the Shore was a K-Swiss Grand Prix event, and Zillman earned 200 Grand Prix points by winning.
Mostly though, his confidence is back.
"He looked great," Justin Zillman said. "You could see that he wasn't going to fold mentally. Maybe physically he was feeling a little tight, but mentally he was right there. I think that was a big step for him."
Go, run, tell your kids: Oswald’s back!
A Japanese anime collector has just helped fill in one of the missing pieces of Western animation history, as THR reports that Disney has recovered footage of one of its “lost” animated shorts, featuring the company’s most beloved and popular character: Oswald The Lucky Rabbit.
A 16 mm print of the lost Oswald short, “Neck ‘N’ Neck,” has apparently been in the possession of Japanese animation historian Yasushi Watanabe for more than 70 years now, without him realizing what he had until he dipped into a recent book about the character’s history. (Out of the 26 Oswald shorts, seven are consider...
In any case, though, it’s still an important piece of the company’s (and American animation’s) history, and it’s always a big deal to find another one of these “lost” shorts out in the wild, especially in such a seemingly random way. Could the emergence of a hot new Horace Horsecollar flick be next?
Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a man was fatally shot and a Toronto police officer suffered injuries in a shooting in Scarborough early Thursday. Marianne Dimain has more.
The province’s police watchdog says it’s investigating after a man was fatally shot and a Toronto police officer suffered injuries in a shooting in Scarborough early Thursday.
The Special Investigations Unit said in a statement Thursday morning that according to preliminary information, officers were called to the Warden Avenue and Hymus Road area, south of Eglinton Avenue East, at around 12 a.m. with reports someone had a gun.
Monica Hudon, a spokesperson for the SIU, said that the call was placed by an off-duty officer who had seen a man with a firearm at a pub.
Officers found a suspect in a vehicle outside. Hudon said police and the man exchanged gunfire while the man was still in the car. He was shot multiple times.
Hudon told reporters she couldn’t say who shot first, as that information is part of the SIU’s investigation, but said three officers were involved in the exchange.
A Toronto Paramedics spokesperson said the officer was taken to a trauma centre with non-life-threatening injuries.
Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack told Global News that the officer, a man in his early 30s with four years of service, was wearing a bullet-proof vest that saved his life.
The officer is being treated for bruising and being monitored for internal injuries, he said.
Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters on Thursday morning that the officer is OK and will be released from hospital at some point.
“I’m incredibly proud of the work that the officers that attended, what they did,” he said, adding that he is grateful the officers were “well equipped” for the situation.
Six investigators and three forensic investigators have been assigned to the SIU investigation, and the agency is looking to speak with witnesses or anyone who might have recorded the incident on video.
Kim Kardashian might be one of the most famous celebrities in the world, but to her kids, she's just a mom.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star opened up about fame and family life in a new interview with journalist Sam Rubin for ITV's This Morning, and explained that her kids don't know that she's a celebrity. Looking back at how her life has changed over the past 12 years and how her level of stardom has grown, Kim sa...

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