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She said she spoke to him about the shirt after other gym members voiced concerns over it to her.
An Army veteran who lives in Missouri says he was told not to wear a shirt supporting President Donald Trump to the gym because it made others "uncomfortable."
Staff Sgt. Jake Talbot said the owner of CDY Fitness in Troy, Missouri, told him he couldn't wear a "Trump 2016" shirt any longer because it was offensive to her and others.
"She said that it was racist and represents racism and that's when I when I was like 'oh, you're done,'" Talbot told KMOV.
Talbot voiced his frustrations in a Facebook video, in which he said the word "racism" is used "way too loosely."
The owner of the gym, Liz Drew, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she disputed Talbot's claim that she told him he couldn't wear the shirt.
She also said that she had received hateful messages after Talbot posted about the incident on Facebook.
"I said, 'Jake, we're friends and I love you, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't wear that shirt in the future,'" Drew told the Post-Dispatch.
She said Talbot had worn the shirt several times and other gym members had complained about the shirt.
"This was about protecting the comfort level of all members and keeping politics out of my gym. Sadly, it has done just the opposite," she said.
Drew also posted a statement on the gym's Facebook page, which has since been deleted.
The statement said: "I am deeply saddened by the amount of hate this event has garnered. I will personally and publicly continue to defend my stance for tolerance and against hate no matter the financial consequence … Allow me to clarify. I don't believe our gym should be a political forum for anyone. I want everyone to feel safe and comfortable there. We are all trying to improve ourselves and work hard to change."
Talbot said that another nearby gym offered him a free year-long membership.
Brazil, Russia, India and China are meeting for a summit in the city of Brasilia. The heads of the world’s major emerging economies are expected to discuss policies on a wide range of issues.
Initially the summit was supposed to go on for two days, but on Thursday Chinese President Hu Jintao made a request to cut the meeting because of a devastating earthquake in one of Chinese provinces, which has killed more than 600 hundred people.
He plans to leave Brazil early to go home. All the participants have already offered China help in dealing with the aftermath of the quake.
As the BRIC countries are petitioning for emerging economies to have a greater voice in global financial institutions and for a more diversified monetary system, the presidents are expected to focus on how to promote regional currencies and to lessen dependence on the dollar.
The four countries, which together make up a quarter of the world’s land area and 40% of the global population, are also some of the biggest holders of US treasuries. Investors worldwide will be closely watching how the four major emerging economies will manage their reserves, which is a total of $3 trillion.
India is one example of a country that has bounced back. A year ago, at the height of the global economic slowdown, profits for the country dropped as clients in the West cut spending. Now, however, industry heavyweights believe the worst is behind.
“We are looking at a growth rate of 13 to 15%. That's nearly treble. If that doesn't bring a smile back I'm not sure what will. Don't get me wrong, we cannot be complacent, the economic environment remains terribly uncertain – double dip recession, who knows what happens? But at the end of the day, companies have diversified, they have become meaner and leaner,” says Pramod Bhasin, president of Genpact, the largest Business Process Outsourcing company in India.
With the BRIC countries successfully overcoming the global financial crisis, Russia wants its quartet with Brazil, India and China to take coordinated action to protect economic stability. India says the group should play a bigger role in international financial institutions and within the G20.
“You need it – the broader consultation. The G8 simply did not reflect enough of the world's GDP – and certainly not enough of the growth in the world's GDP – to be the key forum. But when you go from 8 to 20, you have to work a bit harder to create a sense of collegiality,” says Montek Singh Ahluwalia, from the planning commission of India’s government.
The leaders of the BRIC countries are eager to reduce their dependence on the dollar in international trade.
“These four nations… They are distinguished not just by being the biggest, they face the world, whose international institutions and arrangements were basically created by the older Western powers. In that sense, they have a common interest”, says Jan Randolph, head of the Sovereign Risk Group, IHS Global Insight.
However, there are certain problems the countries have to deal with to become key world players, such as a surge in food prices in India which is stoking inflation worries. Poor infrastructure is also seen as a hurdle to India competing globally.
India, with its large domestic market, low costs, and world-class innovation, is definitely a market few can ignore, and so Western companies are pouring money into the country.
“Everything you can do to decrease the cost of delivery, the cost of your services is good for your clients and good for you. That's the first reason to be in India, but there is another which is even more important. We are facing a shortage of talent in Europe, and to have access to this infinite pool of talents in India is a real competitive advantage”, says Francois Enaud, the Chairman of Steria, a European company providing IT enabled business services in India.
BRIC countries’ leaders will continue to co-ordinate their positions on reforming international financial institutions, believes Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
A political analyst from the Asia Times, Pepe Escobar, told RT that the BRIC summit could be a milestone in the rise of a new multipolar world.
Yaroslav Lissovolik, chief economist at Deutsche Bank, believes that the BRIC countries are there at the summit to set new trends in the global economy.
“I think that you already see in the discussions among these countries that one of the items on the agenda there is, at least in the initial stages, to bolster the rolls of their own currency, and mutual trade, and mutual investments, and then that can be a precursor to a gradual de-dollarization of the world economy and to a greater role of these currencies in world trade,” he told RT.
Littlehampton’s lifeboat crews searched for a person reported missing in the River Arun during several callouts.
At around 7pm on Wednesday, September 12, the Ray of Hope boat and crew were sent from the RNLI station to Bognor seafront, where a man was reported to be in a distressed state.
After the man was in police custody, the crew was stood down and returned to the station by 8.50pm.
On Thursday, September 13, Littlehampton RNLI was paged just before 6.30pm by the UK Coastguard, reporting a person in the River Arun near Ford railway bridge.
At just after 6.45pm, the station’s two lifeboats were deployed.
The Atlantic 85 lifeboat Renée Sherman was tasked to search upstream of the River Arun towards the railway bridge.
Due to the receding tide the D Class lifeboat Ray of Hope headed out of the harbour to check along the coastline adjacent to the mouth of the river.
After extensive searches, aided by the police helicopter, the lifeboats were sent back to the station at just after 8.10pm.
On Sunday, the Atlantic 85 lifeboat Renée Sherman and volunteer crew were sent to a stranded vessel near East Preston.
It launched at just after 1.45pm to the scene, three miles south east of the harbour entrance, where the boat had run aground in shallow water.
The crew towed the boat into deeper water, where it was discovered that the casualty had damaged its rudder and was having steering issues.
The lifeboat and harbour master’s rib safely moored the casualty at Town Quay. The lifeboat returned to the station at 3pm.
Kid Flash will make the running leap from The Flash to DC's Legends of Tomorrow when the latter series returns from its midseason break, according to Entertainment Weekly. Actor Keiynan Lonsdale will join DC's Legends of Tomorrow as a series regular, following the departure of Victor Garber and Franz Drameh as Professor Stein and Firestorm, respectively.
Lonsdale's Kid Flash has been absent from The Flash season four since Barry Allen's return last year. Now he'll reportedly speed onto the Waverider, appearing first in DC's Legends of Tomorrow season three episode 11, before officially joining the team in episode 13.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow returns from its midseason break on February 12. Lonsdale will debut in the February 19 episode.
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O’FALLON, IL – 34-year-old Sean M. Wagner was arrested and charged Monday for sexual exploitation of a child and indecent solicitation of a child. The charges stem from an investigation by the Marissa, Lebanon and O’Fallon Police Departments. Wagner was taken into custody at his workplace and was transported to the St. Clair County Jail. His bond has been set at $20,000.
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The search has widened for a college student from Long Island who disappeared from Northwestern University outside Chicago and now includes the Coast Guard, FBI and dive teams.
Harsha Maddula vanished Saturday around 12:30 a.m. following an off-campus party with friends. There’s been no trace of the 18-year-old student and there has been no recent activity on his cell phone or credit card.
Friends said when Maddula left the off-campus party late Friday, he was coherent and did not appear to be drunk. A few hours later, he answered his cell and told a classmate he was headed back to his dorm, CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported.
The FBI, Northwestern University Police and other law enforcement agencies have expanded their search to include Wilmette Harbor on Lake Michigan. Investigators determined the last signal received from Maddula’s cell phone was in that area, which is about two miles from the Evanston campus.
Divers from local fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard are searching the waters and also checking boats docked in the harbor, according to the university.
There is also no sign of Maddula on school surveillance cameras and he hasn’t used the electronic key to his dorm, according to the university. His heartbroken parents, who live in New Hyde Park, delivered a desperate plea Wednesday afternoon, asking anyone who may know anything to come forward.
Maddula’s picture is plastered on flyers throughout campus and Andrew Holmes, a victim’s advocate, has been lending a hand in the search by extensively interviewing students.
“You had over 47 students at the affair but no one seems to have seen this young man who was there,” Holmes said. “So some students may know who he was with, who he left with and it’s important that students speak up.
Madulla’s parents are losing hope as the search turns up nothing. His close-knit family worries that Madulla’s disappearance could be medical and related to his recently-diagnosed diabetes.
Sonia Maddula told 1010 WINS’ Mona Rivera that her cousin’s disappearance is very out of character.
“I’m very scared for his safety,” she said.
On Long Island, neighbors said Madulla’s parents left for Illinois urgently and tearfully. At a nearby Hindu temple, family friends said the disappearance is totally uncharacteristic of the brilliant teen student.
“We are going to temple right now and we want to pray,” Pradip Mehta told CBS 2’s McLogan.
Madulla loved soccer and music and science at New Hyde Park High School, where his talents were celebrated.
“The real shock among the teachers is the fact that this boy was an exceptional student, well-liked by all the other kids in his class,” said teacher James Stagnitta.
Madulla’s family owns and operates a popular neighborhood pharmacy on Queens Boulevard, where the missing student worked during summers.
“It’s unimaginable for this to happen to a family and hit so close to home,” said pharmacist Elizabeth Valazquez.
The university described Maddula as being 5-f00t-8 and weighing approximately 150 pounds with black hair, dark brown eyes and wearing black-framed glasses.
He was last seen wearing a grey long sleeve sweater with white and black stitching, dark grey pants and brown shoes.
Anyone with information is being asked to call Northwestern University Police at 847-491-3254. For more information, visit www.northwestern.edu.
Britain's pledge to tackle modern slavery in government supply chains could be hindered by the number of companies flouting its anti-slavery law and operating "below the radar" when delivering goods and services to public bodies, activists said on Tuesday.
Britain's 2015 Modern Slavery Act requires firms whose turnover exceeds 36 million pounds ($48 million) to produce an annual statement detailing the actions they have taken to combat slavery in their operations, but does not include public bodies.
"This is a huge challenge," May said in a speech about her visit to Argentina for the G20 summit of world leaders.
"Last financial year the government spent 47 billion pounds on public procurement - demonstrating just how important this task is," she said, referring to the transparency statement.
Labour experts and campaigners welcomed the plan but said it would be a huge undertaking considering that many companies - including many government suppliers - are ignoring the law.
And 42 percent of the government's 100 top suppliers flouted the legislation last year, found a study published in March by business consultancies Sancroft and Tussell.
"Clearly, there is a huge amount of work ahead to resolve this and to ensure that the government lives up to its aim of tackling this human rights abuse," said Caroline Robinson director of Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), a charity.
"It is precisely in the most hidden places that the worst exploitation of workers is found," said Cindy Berman, head of modern slavery strategy at the ETI - a coalition of trade unions, companies and charities promoting workers' rights.
"That includes companies operating below the radar supplying goods and services to the government," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Britain in 2015 became the first country to enact a modern slavery law, yet the government in July announced a review amid criticism that it is not being used effectively to jail traffickers, help victims or drive firms to stop forced labour.
Australia last week passed the world's second such law to compel big business and public entities to disclose their anti-slavery efforts, and some activists say it is tougher on both the private and public sector than Britain's legislation.
It seems clear to us that the world investors have got used to over the last few years is very different to the one we need to get accustomed to in the years to come.
We have identified a number of economic and disruptive forces we think will shape the investment landscape ahead. They represent our "inescapable truths".
Yeah, we're suffering from Michael Jackson fatigue, too, but some of the peripheral weirdness is tough to ignore.
— Profiles In History, a seemingly classy-ish joint that sells a lot of rare pop-culture memorabilia, will auction off the glove you see above. From their press release: "The glove, the single most iconic piece of Michael Jackson memorabilia in the world, was specially designed by Ted Shell of Ted Shell Designs in 1984 and is emblazoned with bugle beads and Austrian crystal rhinestones and fitted with 50 small lights powered by a single 9v battery placed in the cuff of the glove. The glass light bulbs were wired on separate circuits making them twinkle at random for added visual impact on stage. The glove, along with several other Michael Jackson items will be available as part of Profiles in History's next auction, set for October 2 and 3, 2009."
— New York Magazine's Vulture blog has a PDF of part of Jackson's will, which specifies that custody of his children should go to his mother, and if she's not willing or able, to Diana Ross.
— TMZ (you know, that website where they stand around pitching paparazzi stories at each other all day?) has the whole thing, and you can even download it. What a keepsake!
Is that the last you'll be hearing from us about MJ? Probably not. Below, for those of you not interested in the Jackson saga, is a list of some of Profiles In History's other auctions.
"Prior Profiles in History Hollywood auctions highlights include the "Cowardly Lion" costume from The Wizard of Oz ($805,000); a full-scale model T-800 Endoskeleton from Terminator 2: Judgment Day ($488,750); a King Kong six-sheet movie poster ($345,000); the Command Chair from the "U.S.S. Enterprise" ($304,750); the original "Robot" from Lost in Space ($264,500); Luke Skywalker's lightsaber ($240,000), the Black Beauty car from The Green Hornet ($192,000); George Reeves' Superman costume from The Adventures of Superman ($126,500); the H.R. Giger designed Alien creature suit from Alien ($126,500); a full-scale T-Rex head from Jurassic Park ($126,500), the Leaping Alien Warrior figure from Aliens ($126,500), Christopher Reeve's 'Superman' costume from Superman: The Movie ($115,000), C-3PO's helmet ($120,000), The Wizard of Oz 'Winkie' Guard Costume ($115,000); a "Ming the Merciless" cape from Flash Gordon ($115,000) and the Hydraulic screen-used Velociraptor from The Lost World: Jurassic Park II. ($115,000)."
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – If you’re like me, you’ve got the itch to be out in the yard in this beautiful weather. Cold pockets seem to keep creeping in, but soon, the temperatures will be where they need to be for your spring and summer garden.
Huntsville’s Citywide Great American Cleanup and Beautification Day is this Saturday, April 9. In preparation, Operation Green Team will give away free vegetable plants and trash bags on Friday, April 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Pick up a box of GLAD Trash bags and a free tomato plant and cucumber plant (while supplies last) in front of City Hall, located at 308 Fountain Circle.
This is a popular event every spring, so we encourage you to get there early if you want a free plant.
You can also register to win a cedar raised planter perfect for square-foot gardening!
Here’s another way to participate — and a chance to make a bigger impact in your community. Operation Green Team is asking for volunteers to help with cleanups in different neighborhoods on Saturday, April 9. Call (256) 532-5326 to sign up.
July 10 (Reuters) - Britain’s FTSE 100 index is seen opening 12 points higher at 7,770 on Tuesday, according to financial bookmakers, with futures down 0.03 percent ahead of the cash market open.
* KIER: British construction and support services company Kier Group Plc said on Tuesday it had launched a cost-savings plan that would include the sale of non-core assets, and stuck to its profit forecast for the current year.
* SOFTCAT: Britain’s Softcat Plc said its full-year adjusted operating profit would be well ahead of its prior expectations, helped by favourable market conditions.
* TP ICAP: TP ICAP Chief Executive Officer John Phizackerley will step down, the company said on Tuesday as it blamed Brexit-related costs for what it said would be a dip in 2018 underlying operating profit below analyst expectations.
* TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL/SHIRE: Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd said on Tuesday it received a key U.S. regulatory approval for its $62 billion deal to buy London-listed Shire Plc.
* CAMBIAN: British social care services firm Cambian Group Plc has received a takeover proposal from rival CareTech Holdings Plc that would value Cambian at 405.2 million pounds ($536.20 million).