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Seriously, people think about Paul's youthful looks on an almost daily basis.
And over the weekend, Paul continued to prove his immortality during a Clueless reunion at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.
It's been 24 years since Clueless was released, and somehow Paul hasn't aged a day.
Of course, once the photos from the event were released, people tweeted the same comments once again.
And it turns out that Paul was finally asked to reveal his ~anti-ageing secrets~ during the event — and his response was brilliant.
"I'm 80 years old on the inside," Paul said, pointing to his chest: "In here, pure darkness. And a little moisturiser."
You can read what else went down at the Clueless reunion here.
Zachary Cruz, the younger brother of Parkland, Florida, school shooter Nikolas Cruz, was sentenced Thursday to six months of probation for trespassing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this month.
The younger Cruz was released Thursday afternoon from the Broward County Jail.
He was initially jailed on a $500,000 bond, leading his attorney to argue he was being punished because of his older brother, who killed 17 people last month at the school in one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.
Under the terms of his probation, Zachary Cruz will wear a GPS monitor and must remain one mile away from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas campus. He is also forbidden from having any contact with victims or family members of the February 14 mass shooting.
Cruz, 18, was arrested March 19 on a misdemeanor trespassing charge at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. After his arrest, the younger Cruz told police he wanted to "reflect on the school shooting and soak it in," according to an arrest report.
Probation was reached as part of a plea deal in the case. Cruz, shackled and wearing a brown jumpsuit Thursday morning, pleaded no contest to trespassing.
His attorney Joseph Kimok had earlier argued that the excessive bond showed Cruz was being punished for his brother's actions.
"He is being held because of who he is related to, not because of anything that he did," Kimok told Judge Kim Theresa Mollica.
Police said he has visited the campus at least three times since the school massacre.
His attorney filed a motion for his client's release, calling his treatment immoral, reprehensible, unlawful and unconstitutional. There is no evidence that the defendant threatened anyone when arrested, Kimok wrote.
At the end of Thursday's hearing, in a statement read by his attorney, Cruz apologized "to anyone who felt scared or threatened by his presence on Marjory Stoneman Douglas campus last week."
"Zachary has experienced and continues to experience a trauma unlike anything any of us could imagine," the attorney said. "He watched his mother slowly weaken and die just four months ago. He was 17."
Following his mother's death, Cruz was forced to move and leave behind his school and his friends.
"Then in February, the only family member that he had left, his brother, murdered 17 people in cold blood. Zachary was overcome with sorrow. Sorrow for the victims and their families, sorrow for his brother, who he loves."
Cruz didn't expect to see anyone when he went to the Parkland school, the lawyer said. He simply wanted to "try to make sense of this."
"Zachary is a normal 18-year-old kid who has experienced something more profound than any of us could imagine," the statement said in closing. "Zachary Cruz is not someone any of us needs to fear; he's someone who needs our compassion."
Was he being punished for his brother's crime?
Zachary Cruz faced a second-degree misdemeanor with a bond that is typically $25. Instead, the judge in Cruz's case set bail last week at $500,000, ordered a psychological evaluation, electronic monitoring and no communication with his older brother.
In his first court appearance through closed-circuit TV on March 20, Cruz was shackled and surrounded by three armed deputies, uncommon for someone appearing on a trespassing charge.
His attorney described him as a victim of "hysteria" due to the massacre.
Prosecutors mentioned three earlier crimes to which Cruz pleaded guilty, but records from the Broward County Sheriff's Office and Coral Springs police show his encounters with law enforcement were much more extensive.
He is named or referenced in at least 36 incidents, investigation and call reports between 2011 and 2017.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office sought an order to restrict Zachary Cruz from having access to guns by using a new Florida law passed in the aftermath of last month's school massacre.
He's been temporarily banned from possessing or purchasing firearms or ammunition due to the psychological evaluation he was required to take.
The new law, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, lets law enforcement officers temporarily seize firearms from someone they're taking into custody for an involuntary mental health assessment.
In granting a temporary risk protection order, Judge Jack Tuter noted that the sheriff's office did not allege that Cruz owns guns. However, based on the allegations, the court determined there was reasonable cause to believe Cruz would pose "a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself" if he were to obtain a gun or ammunition, according to the order.
There are many dedicated and outstanding educators in the Washington region. Here are the 2019 finalists for Washington Post Teacher of the Year and Washington Post Principal of the Year.
Each of the finalists was chosen by the respective local school system, the D.C. Public Charter School Board, or a panel of educators and community leaders with expertise in the private school community.
The winners were chosen by a selection committee of individuals who represent teachers, administrators and parents. The winners each receive a $7,500 prize.
Kelly Harper (winner): Amidon-Bowen Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
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NLRB, CFPB: For the umpteenth time, Senate caves on filibuster reform with good geal for majority party.
NLRB appointees Sharon Block and Richard Griffin will be sacrificed to save the filibuster, but Richard Cordray, pictured, is set to be solemnly sworn in as head of the CFPB.
“Who could have seen it coming?” the reporter asked, sarcastically. After Republicans realized that Democrats had the votes to end filibusters on executive branch nominees, and after a three-and-a-half-hour airing-of-greivances meeting last night, Democrats finally handed them a deal. In a sentence: total victory for Democrats with some face-saving for Republicans.
The deal is basically this.
- Richard Cordray, the long-filibustered, recess-appointed director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, will get a vote at 11 a.m. He won’t be filibustered.
- The president will be allowed votes on nominees to the National Labor Relations Board—three Democrats, two Republicans. But he’ll have to give up on Richard Griffin and Sharon Block, the Democrats appointed during a 2012 recess,* and nominate two new people. “We’ve been calling on the White House for six months to send two new, legal, NLRB nominees,” said a Republican aide, simultaneously talking down the scope of the deal and reiterating the party’s objections.
The junking of Griffin and Block is the only real concession to Republicans; the tacit assumption here is that Obama’s new warm bodies will get votes. By giving Democrats nearly everything they asked for, Republicans avoided a change to the filibuster.
*Without getting into the weeds again, Republicans and the D.C. Circuit agree that the House’s decision not to adjourn meant it wasn’t a recess.
Jobs advertisements on the online site SEEK fell by 3.6% in February compared to the corresponding figure a year ago, the company said, adding that on the plus side advertised salaries in all Australian states went up by 3.2%.
The latest SEEK Employment Report showed that the top five industries which were contributing to job growth nationally were government and defence, healthcare and medical, education and training, community services and development, and mining, resources and energy.
SEEK ANZ managing director Kendra Banks said: "While overall job advertising is down year-on-year, large employing industries including healthcare and medical as well as government and defence continue to perform strongly - creating employment opportunities across the country.
"Information and communications technology, although down during February, over the past 12 months as a whole we have seen 8.1% growth."
She said a trend continuing in to 2019 was labour demand in the public sector, particularly for community services and healthcare and medical candidates.
"Both have been driven by an increasing ageing population with job opportunities rising across nursing aged care and age support workers. Positions within these industries are ever-evolving and are diverse in the skills and experience hirers require from candidates," Banks added.
Only Tasmania (+4.7%) and Western Australia (+3.7%) showed a growth in job ads, while all other states saw a drop in job ad volume.
“We have seen a slowdown in job advertising which has been driven by a number of factors, including a decline in demand for workers in real-estate and construction, business and consumer confidence and the upcoming election," said Banks.
"We will be interested to see if the growth in the other major employing industries along with the commencement of large infrastructure projects creates enough employment opportunities to offset this decline."
A 19-year-old Aurora man is wanted on a warrant for his involvement in a March 31 hit-and-run accident that killed a 37-year-old Aurora man on the city's east side.
Kendrick Scott, of the 2000 block of Rosehall Lane, is charged with one count of reckless homicide and driving 35 mph or more over the posted speed limit in a complaint filed Tuesday evening.
According to the felony complaint, Scott "operated a motor vehicle in a reckless manner, with hydrocodone in his system, in the dark, operating in excess of 35 MPH over the posted speed limit on Ogden Avenue in Aurora."
Lorenzo I. Bryant, of the 1000 block of Pheasant Run Lane, Aurora, was pronounced dead at the scene in the intersection of Ogden Avenue and Long Grove Drive according to an Aurora police Facebook post shortly after the crash.
Officials said Scott was driving a 2013 Buick Regal westbound on Ogden Avenue with a 19-year-old woman in the car when it struck Bryant, who was on foot, about 11:10 p.m. It was unclear whether Scott was in the crosswalk when he was hit.
Aurora Police spokesman Dan Ferrelli referred all questions Tuesday to the DuPage County State's Attorney's office. Paul Darrah, spokesman for the state's attorney's office was unable to confirm the charges Tuesday.
When children become wards of the state, a flood of new people come into their lives - investigators, caseworkers, psychologists, guardians and foster parents. But when those children have learning disabilities, none of those people can make important decisions about their education or ask for testing that would get them extra help.
Their family lives in upheaval, facing multiple moves and sometimes multiple schools, all foster children are at risk of falling behind in school. Throw in the possibility of having a learning or other disability, and it can be a recipe for disaster.
A relatively new phenomenon in the field, a surrogate parent is appointed either by the school district or a dependency judge to advocate for the education of children with special schooling needs. They don't take the place of foster parents, though: They aren't there to house the child, sign field trip forms or help with homework. They can request testing, meet to set a course for the child's education and fight to make sure they get the help they need in school.
"These are kids whose needs are great and whose resources are few," said Judge Karen Cole, who is coordinating the recruitment and training of more volunteer surrogate parents.
New rules now require judges to appoint a surrogate parent for all foster children who have or are suspected of having a disability. The main problem, advocates say, is that there aren't enough surrogate parents to go around. Some volunteers have up to five surrogates, whereas no more than three would be preferable. Guardians and foster parents can sometimes be appointed as a child's surrogate parent.
When foster children get in trouble at school and later get arrested, the problem often can be traced back to undiagnosed learning disabilities or lack of appropriate education, said Rebekah Gleason, an expert in special education law and associate professor at Florida Coastal School of Law. Intervening earlier leads to fewer lawsuits and fewer "crossover kids," a term used to describe foster children who end up into the juvenile justice system.
Beverly Brown, a former surrogate parent to three students, said that ensuring special services early means kids will have fewer problems later in life. She points to a little boy she was appointed to help a couple of years ago.
He had been held back in kindergarten, was in four schools in a two-month period and was committed to a psychiatric ward - twice.
Now, because of special interventions, he has an A grade in conduct, Brown said.
"I was able to step in and say, 'I want him tested, now,' " Brown said. "For the most part the school is just dying to have someone take responsibility, too."
That's true, said Sherry Kaufman, who coordinates the surrogate parent appointments for Duval County Public Schools.
There are no specific requirements for surrogate parents, and they come from a wide range of experiences, Kaufman said: They are everyone from retired principals to parents of special needs children who have opened their hearts to help another.
"They have a love for kids to start with," Kaufman said. "They really have a heart for helping kids in exceptional education."
Starting out as a surrogate parent involves special training on the ins and outs of exceptional student education, which can be complicated at times. After the training, volunteers are matched with children in need. Most of the work takes place right after the appointment: getting to know the child, requesting records and testing if needed, going to the school for meetings.
But because continuity is key to helping foster kids with special needs, coordinators ask surrogate parents to commit to staying with the child for a few years.
"Because they move from school to school, they tended to fall through the cracks," said Elaine Culvyhouse, a volunteer surrogate parent. "They might go years without getting the help they needed. If someone is in place to follow them from school to school, that helps a lot."
Culvyhouse, director of education at Hope Haven, said no special experience is needed.
"You ask the same questions you would if it was your own child," she said. "The children ... just need somebody there who is going to advocate for them, someone who cares about what's happening to them educationally."
Despite the need for volunteers, Northeast Florida has been on the leading edge in the nascent effort to appoint surrogate parents. With a training scheduled for February, Cole said she's hopeful that the program will expand so every kid in need gets a school advocate.
Culvyhouse found out last year the rewards of advocating for a child who merely needed some additional tutoring - no one was there to ask for it until she was appointed to step in.
"He passed his FCAT," she said. "That was exciting."
Why Rep. Steve Scalise spoke to a white nationalist hate group: Racism in Louisiana.
Why Rep. Steve Scalise spoke to a white nationalist hate group.
Choosing his audience: Rep. Steve Scalise, left, speaks to members of the media as House Speaker John Boehner listens on June 19, 2014, in Washington, D.C.
Scalise’s spokeswoman, Moira Bagley, said that when the congressman spoke to EURO as a state representative, he had been unaware of the group’s views.
Why would a congressman speak to this group? Scalise’s choice to speak shows the incredible power prejudice still wields in modern Louisiana.
My friend Lamar White, a Louisiana journalist, broke the story about Scalise by publishing the Stormfront posts about the speech on Sunday.
Louisiana has had a long history of racism, and White knows it well. His great-aunt, historian Sue Eakin, rediscovered the book that was the basis for the film 12 Years a Slave. Earlier this year I tagged along as White was interviewed by the BBC for a series about the movie’s reverberations in Louisiana.
Solomon Northup, the movie’s main character, spent the 12 years that he was kidnapped and enslaved on various plantations in Central Louisiana, and the descendants of the people in the film, slaves and masters, still live in the area. Names like Epps and Ford, two of Northup’s owners, are recognizable from the churches, the cemeteries, and the family names of people in the area.
When I visited the sites from 12 Years a Slave with White and the BBC, it was clear that Louisiana needed to confront not just its dark past, but also its present.
A noose hangs from a tree in former slave country.
This noose was only a hundred feet from where Northup had been enslaved, a hundred feet from where Northup was hanged and nearly killed by a white carpenter with whom he’d had a disagreement. (Northup lived only because his owner owed a mortgage on him.) It was only a hundred feet from a place where hundreds of blacks had been enslaved, whipped, beaten, raped, had their families ripped apart, and been murdered. There were still nooses in the trees, and they weren’t relics left over from the antebellum. They were a clear signal: Blacks aren’t welcome near this property.
Landrieu came under fire immediately. Gov. Bobby Jindal accused her of “living in a different century.” But, when it comes to race, Louisiana is nowhere near the 21st century.
My freshman year of high school in 2007, my classmates and I wore black to protest the treatment of the Jena 6. After constant racial provocation in this small North Louisiana town, including white students hanging nooses from the “white tree” after black students sat under it, a fight put a white kid in the hospital. The black students were charged with attempted second-degree murder.
When Scalise showed up at the EURO workshop in 2002, he was a small-fry Louisiana state representative looking for political support, and it worked. A couple of years later, Stormfront members were still recommending voting for Scalise for Congress because he had shown “support for issues that are of concern to us.” Over the years, Scalise has been a reliable voice on these issues, from being one of only six votes in the Louisiana House in 2004 against making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday to saying he wouldn’t rule out impeaching President Obama.
Most trees in Louisiana don’t have nooses in them, but there are enough racists, who are still voting, that politicians cater to them.
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