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Vonn, 34, has 82 World Cup victories, leaving her five away from breaking the record held by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden. “Hopefully, I break the record this season and can have fun,” said Vonn, who earned a gold medal in the downhill and a bronze in the super-G at the 2010 Vancouver Games, along with a downhill bronze at the Pyeongchang Olympics last February. “I don’t want the record to determine the level of success I’ve had in my career. “I want to push out of the starting gate” at Lake Louise, she added, “even if I’m not there to win. Lake Louise is just really special to me. It’s not about the record. It’s not about, ‘Oh, well, you said you retired.’ I really don’t care what people think. I really don’t. I want to do it for myself.” Over her career, Vonn’s had a long list of ailments: knee-ligament reconstructions, fractures near her left knee joint, a bruised shin, a broken ankle, a broken arm, a sliced right thumb and countless concussions. ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian health authorities on Friday temporarily closed a maternity hospital in the capital after 13 babies born there recently were diagnosed with a drug-resistant superbug. The Health Ministry said the Giulesti Maternity Hospital in Bucharest would stop admissions after the newborns were recently diagnosed with antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The Grigore Alexandru children’s hospital said Thursday it was treating at least six babies born recently in Giulesti for the bug. It said the babies didn’t have a fever, without providing further information on their condition. The ministry said wards would be closed for cleaning and disinfection after patients were discharged. The hospital said it had canceled dozens of C-section operations next week. Women will have the procedure at other public hospitals in the capital. The Public Health Directorate said 11 hospital employees found to be carriers of the bacteria have been temporarily removed from the ho...

Of course, showing the S&P 500 with reinvested dividends would also do that. In any event, Mr. Schwartz said, Mr. Halaby should not be using that chart, because the company has discontinued the annuity it depicts. “It is expected that our independent producers will use current materials,” Mr. Schwartz wrote in an email, using industryspeak for salespeople who don’t work directly for the insurance companies. When I asked Mr. Halaby about that, he told me that someone who had not been working for him for very long put the old chart in the pamphlet. He added that the chart behind him at the dinner, which to my eyes looked identical to the one in the pamphlet, was in fact different. He would not tell me what company had created it. American Equity’s updated chart, which it sent me Thursday, shows the S&P 500 — still with no reinvested dividends — doing a bit better than a hypothetical indexed annuity for a period starting in 2006 and ending in 2017. To Mr. Halabyâ€...

By the time the case reached the Supreme Court, the justices had seen enough. “This technique for harassing and punishing a free press — now that it has been shown to be possible — is by no means limited to cases with racial overtones; it can be used in other fields where public feelings may make local as well as out-of-state newspapers easy prey for libel verdict seekers,” one of the justices wrote. The court famously held that public officials, and later all public figures, would need to show not just that an article was inaccurate and hurt their reputation, but also that the publisher acted with “actual malice” — with reckless disregard for the truth. It is a demanding standard, effectively requiring plaintiffs to show that editors knew a story was false, or had serious doubts about its accuracy, and published it anyway. Sullivan led to a series of other court decisions that curtailed the ability of libel plaintiffs to win their lawsuits. None of it was intended to ...

Ariana Grande just released her highly-anticipated music video for her hit single, “Thank u, Next.” The new video is nod to several early-aughts romantic comedies, including “Mean Girls,” “Bring it On,” “Legally Blonde,” and “Thirteen Going on Thirty.” The song is a thank you letter to her high-profile ex boyfriends: rapper Big Sean, backup dancer Ricky Alvarez, later rapper Mac Miller and SNL star Pete Davidson, her most recent break-up. The song’s wild popularity has made Grande Spotify’s most streamed artist. The hit single, released three weeks ago, has topped the Billboard Hot 100 list every week since it came out. Grande got several stars of the movies to reprise their roles, like Jennifer Coolidge, who played  Paulette in “Legally Blonde” and Jonathan Bennett, who played Aaron Samuels in “Mean Girls.” Other surprise visits include Grande’s former “Victorious” costars Matt Bennett and Elizabeth Gillies, pop star Troye Sivan and Youtuber Gabby DeMartino. Scene-stealer: ...

Rob Waltman tried to tell his partner, Peter Dovak, he looked fine. He didn’t need to look any different. He especially didn’t need to inject himself with silicone to look bigger. “Peter had the worst body dysmorphia out of anyone I ever knew,” Waltman tells Rolling Stone. “For years it was me shooting him down when he wanted to get silicone injections. He wanted to go to Mexico to get it done because he was too squeamish to inject himself and I sure as f–k wasn’t going to do it.” But eventually Waltman gave in, and Dovak went to California to get his first injection in early 2017. By November, Dovak was dead. Four years ago, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons witnessed a disturbing and deadly trend among those within the trans community: many were injecting silicone into their bodies to achieve the perfect curvy look. But the trend — coined “pumping” — has continued to be a cause of concern as it grows in popularity among gay men who want to appear larger — a subgroup calle...

Adult video Web site YouPorn has struck back at Starbuck’s recent porn ban by outlawing the coffee chain’s products in its offices. On Thursday, a Starbucks rep wrote in a statement that starting in 2019, Starbucks will no longer allow guests to access porn via its free Wi-Fi system. In turn, Charlie Hughes, Vice President of YouPorn, sent out a memo to his employees stating, “Starbucks products will officially be banned from the YouPorn offices, effective January 1st 2019.” A YouPorn spokesperson confirmed the memo to Forbes, but did not specify whether employees will actually be reprimanded for bringing a Frappuccino to work. Time will tell if Starbucks actually follows through with their ban. The coffee chain made a similar promise in 2016 to filter out adult content, Business Insider reports, but it never happened. Credit: Source link The post YouPorn bans Starbucks after Starbucks banned porn appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . The post YouPorn bans Starbucks...

Corporate bosses are an uncomfortable hybrid of chief and executive. They are paid and honored like royalty, but are expected to follow the same rules and show the same restraint as every other employee. Type-A behavior often enhances the chief side of the job, but is always an imperfect fit with good conduct. Companies have four lines of defense to avoid Mr. Ghosn-style debacles. Each of them needs to be kept strong. • The first is bureaucracy. Like all of their underlings, chief executives are expected to subject their decisions to committees and submit to audit trails and standard rules of conduct. These systems never work perfectly, but without them there would be far more tales of Type-A bosses suffering from the ethical equivalent of cardiac arrest. Still, additional bureaucratic checks — say regular personalized audits and a direct line between whistle-blowers and the board of directors — might be even more effective. • The board is the second firewall. Powerful bo...

Maybe there’s no ladder to heaven — but one kindhearted postal worker just might have a direct route. Every year on their father’s birthday, 7-year-old Jase Hyndman and his big sister Nieve, 10, write a letter addressed to their late pop, who passed away in 2014, the BBC reports. Usually the pair, from West Lothian, Scotland, can only hope their letters are received in the great beyond. But this year, a Royal Mail office manager named Sean Milligan spotted the note — and was compelled to assure Jase it had been safely delivered. In an official Royal Mail letterhead correspondence, Milligan writes: “I wanted to take this opportunity to contact you about how we succeeded in the delivery of your letter, to your dad in heaven. This was a difficult challenge avoiding stars and other galactic objects on [sic] route to heaven.” He continues, “Royal Mail’s priority is to get our customers mail delivered safely [and] I know how important your mail is to you. I will continue to do all I c...

“We started writing the script in 2013,” he said, “and it was almost uncanny how the real world around us seemed to want to conform to the era we were describing.” Besides the $45.5 million TV show — the most expensive ever made in Germany — the books have spawned radio theater, a comic book, a podcast and walking tours. Mr. Kutscher created one picture book with Kat Menschik, a well-known illustrator, that tells the back story of one of the characters in his world without being part of the detective series. Like his main character, the dogged and ethically compromised police inspector Gereon Rath, Mr. Kutscher is actually not a Berliner, but a longtime resident of Cologne. He grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in Wipperfürth, a small market town in the west of the country, far from the Berlin hustle. After college, where he studied German literature and history, he landed a trainee position at the Kölnische Rundschau, a regional paper. He was offered a full-time job afte...

How much does it cost to have a professional take over the decorations? That will vary by region, the size of your house and the dazzle of the display. Basic décor, like lights that outline your roof and front door, may cost $500 or less if you own a single-story home. But if you have a larger house with lots of gables or want more eye-catching décor, the price can stretch to thousands of dollars. At Christmas Decor, a professional holiday decorator with locations across the country and in Canada, the average cost of a display in the United States is $1,650, said Brandon Stephens, the company’s president. Pricing tends to be higher on the coasts, he said, and lower in the nation’s interior. “I’d say there’s a larger group of people more willing to spend on decorations,” he said. The company said its sales last year rose by 14 percent, with a similar increase expected this year. While classic white lights remain popular, consumers have choices far beyond the traditiona...

An invasive tick that’s native to Asia has popped up in New York and eight other states — and health officials are warning it could spread dangerous diseases to humans and animals. The Asian longhorned tick popped up first in New Jersey in August 2017 but has since been reported in Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. They’ve been found on pets, livestock, wildlife and people. Unlike most tick species, longhorned ticks are capable of reproducing asexually and a female can lay as many as 2,000 eggs at a time without ever mating. “As a result, hundreds to thousands of ticks can be found on a single animal, person, or in the environment,” the CDC warned on its website. Longhorned ticks are common in New Zealand and Australia, where they’ve been known to reduce production in dairy cattle by 25 percent. Researchers are still trying to determine how harmful the tick is i...

A young boy named Kun, wracked with jealousy over his baby sister’s arrival, learns to appreciate his family via a magical time-traveling garden in “Mirai,” the latest animated release from director Mamoru Hosoda (“Digimon”). John Cho and Rebecca Hall voice Kun’s loving but frustrated parents in this English-dubbed version of the Japanese film, while Daniel Dae Kim plays Kun’s great-grandfather — one of several relatives brought to life in scenes set in the youngster’s backyard, which transforms into breathtaking enchanted landscapes as it introduces him to the family dog, turned into a prince; a teen version of his baby sister Mirai; his mother as a young girl and more. The painstaking animation becomes more and more elaborate, culminating in a child’s-eye view of a bustling train station and a bullet train transformed into a demonic carriage for lost children. “Mirai” is somewhat mired in outdated gender roles, with Cho’s character hopelessly clumsy as caregiver while his wife go...

I’m also not the first to point out that many of the worst examples of Facebook’s influence around the world — the way it has facilitated genocide in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, led to deadly riots in India and Nigeria, and helped destabilize democracies around the world through the spread of disinformation and false news — are a direct result of the way its products are designed to maximize engagement. To its credit, Facebook is trying to change some of this. A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Zuckerberg published a long note about the company’s efforts to reduce the spread of “borderline” content that almost but doesn’t quite break its rules. But it’s not clear yet that Facebook can meaningfully change the engagement patterns on its apps — which are, after all, built on giving users more of what they want, even if what they want is hateful or misleading — without unraveling its business. It’s also not clear, from the reporting my colleagues have done over the last few ...

Nov. 24 Kandahar Province: two soldiers killed in helicopter crash An Afghan National Army helicopter crashed in Maruf District, killing two soldiers and wounding one other; the Taliban claim they shot it down, government officials blamed a mechanical fault. Nov. 24 Helmand Province: two civilians killed Two civilians were killed by crossfire from clashes between Taliban fighters and security forces in Shamlan area of Nadali District. Nov. 23 Khost Province: 27 soldiers killed on their base A bombing deep inside an army base in Afghanistan during Friday prayers at a mosque killed at least 27 Afghan National Army soldiers and wounded 79 others. [Read about the bombing of a mosque on an ANA base.] Nov. 23 Parwan Province: three civilians killed During an operation in Jabal Saraj District by the National Directorate for Security, Afghanistan’s paramilitary intelligence service, a bomb accidentally killed three civilians and wounded three others, sparking protests in the area. No...

Zac Efron posted a photo of himself Thursday on Instagram from his new movie, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” — as Ted Bundy. But he still looks like … Zac Efron. That’s because Hollywood suddenly seems to think serial killers — especially real ones — are smoking hot. Look at Darren Criss, who won an Emmy for playing Andrew Cunanan in “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” or cute singer Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer in “My Friend Dahmer.” But whatever happened to Hannibal Lector and Sweeney Freakin’ Todd? Anyway, Efron co-stars with Lily Collins in the Bundy biopic, which is set to premiere in January at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Credit: Source link The post Zac Efron looks ‘Shockingly Evil’ as Ted Bundy in first movie photo appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . The post Zac Efron looks ‘Shockingly Evil’ as Ted Bundy in first movie photo appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . source https://newsa.co.network/zac-efron-looks...

Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Trump have become foils for one another internationally. Mr. Trudeau is a telegenic figure who speaks carefully and espouses liberal internationalism, women’s rights, the benefits of immigration and the fight against climate change. Mr. Trump, whose own aides are often caught off guard by his brash, unpredictable remarks, advocates “America first,” has attacked women by insulting their looks, disparages migrants and has sought to undermine international accords to fight global warming. Even their contrasting reactions to bad weather have gained international attention. Earlier this month, President Trump drew criticism after deciding not to visit a World War I cemetery because of poor weather during a trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the war. Soon, a video of Mr. Trudeau braving the pouring rain during an August 2017 commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Dieppe raid in World War II went viral on Twitter. Many Canadian...

But these Chads and Ricks are just dudes. They’re not supernatural. And what you’re going through now is awful. This is a stupid example but: One day at my desk while enjoying a nice deli BLT, a wisdom tooth started making shooting pains. The tooth did not magically improve. But to me, nothing was scarier than the idea of confronting the situation. For many years I let this tooth slowly, agonizingly disintegrate in my mouth. I’d be snacking on a muffin and then suddenly I’d be crunching down on a sliver of tooth. I felt more comfortable with the agony I knew and didn’t want to risk something worse. What I’m saying is: I’m the dumbest person alive and also a coward. Fortunately, I don’t think you’re like me. I’m not suggesting you do something because it’s the right thing to do, or because it’ll be easier than what you’re going through, or because you’ll feel better. I think you should do something because you’re not living by your own ideals. I think you’re disappointed in yourself....

Jennifer Adair decided to leave the city to have her baby. “I loved my obstetrician, but as I got into my third trimester, there was a lot more talk about medical interventions,” said Ms. Adair, an assistant professor at Fairfield University who lives in Inwood. At 31 weeks, she switched to a midwife, but since she was so far along, her options were limited. A doula suggested that she consider giving birth in New Jersey. “I found the level of care there was exactly what I wanted,” said Ms. Adair, who delivered at Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood, a short drive over the George Washington Bridge. The hospital doesn’t have a separate birthing center, but it does offer midwifery care, and Ms. Adair gave birth without medical interventions. “My insurance was accepted, and unlike the hospitals I saw in New York, you were guaranteed a private postpartum room at no extra charge.” For those who would like to stay in the city, there is, perhaps, a new option. Two years ...

And so he christened his bakery Lost Larson and set off with his sister Bree, who runs the front of the house, to Sweden where they visited three to four bakeries a day in search of inspiration for the recipes he’d develop for hearty loaves of limpa, sweet, yeasty cardamom buns, and yes, even a homage to the Swedish princess cake. I visited on a damp and dreary afternoon, and when I ducked out of the descending gray mist into the bright and tidy cafe, an aromatic cloud of sugar, cardamom, vanilla and bread immediately surrounded. Every gleaming white marble cafe table was filled with patrons chatting over small plates of enticing food and mugs of hot coffee — save for a single table in the corner. My husband and son slid onto a mint-hued banquette that spans half the length of the shop while I perched on a sleek, but comfortable, Danish modern chair. Not a single laptop was open. No one stared into a phone. No one was even shooting smartphone pictures of the otherwise Instagram-worth...

He was born to farmers in one of the poorest parts of Hunan Province in southern China. As a high school student, he built a small laboratory at home, believing he could be China’s Einstein, according to an article this week by Jiemian, a Chinese news website. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a physics degree. But by the time he arrived in the United States on a Chinese government scholarship, Dr. He felt the golden age of physics was over, according to the article. He switched to biophysics and studied at Rice University in Houston, where he first worked with Crispr, the gene-editing technology he says he used to alter the babies’ genes. After studying at Rice, Dr. He went on to postdoctorate research at Stanford University. In 2012, he returned to China, basing himself in the booming southern metropolis of Shenzhen, which gave him funding. Dr. He founded two genetic testing companies, Direct Genomics and Vienomics, which aimed to use gen...

Mr. Diaz, like Tesla itself, likened the plant to a small city — one in which experiences can vary, he said. “You know, you can have something that happens in one part of the city that doesn’t happen in another part,” he said. But when his son encountered racial slurs and caricatures in a different part of the factory, Mr. Diaz concluded that the issue was not an isolated one. One suit accusing Tesla of racial discrimination and harassment, filed last November in California Superior Court, seeks class-action status. The lawyers involved — Lawrence A. Organ and Bryan Schwartz, whose practices focus on workplace rights — say they have identified dozens of potential plaintiffs. Each lawyer has won multimillion-dollar judgments in other harassment or discrimination cases against major employers. Tesla is seeking to move the case into arbitration, which would require workers to bring individual lawsuits rather than a joint claim. The state’s Department of Fair Employment an...

A new agreement on the financial governance of Formula One and its teams is scheduled to go into effect in 2021. Carey wants the agreement, which has not been drawn up yet, to include a more equitable distribution of prize money and a budget cap so the teams do not spend beyond their means. Believing that such financial fairness will help Force India, Stroll said: “After looking at the numbers I said ‘O.K., where is the direction of the sport going?’ It’s no secret there’s going to be some sort of a budget cap and better cash distribution to the smaller teams. “That is still to be clarified how well that works out, but there are all the right rumblings, and I’ve had enough conversations with Chase to understand that is the direction they want and need to take the business. For me, that spells financial opportunity, and looking at 2021 onwards, a profitable business opportunity.” Stroll expects Force India to break into the top three in the constructors’ championship. In laying the...

“The problem is, in football, you see the consequence of his great athletic skill applied to a sport,” Scott Boras, the baseball superagent who represents Murray, said in an interview this week. “For those of us who know baseball, the real sport where he’ll be a star lies ahead.” Most athletes with Murray’s incredible athleticism are guided away from baseball at a younger age, Boras said. Baseball stardom is notoriously difficult to project. However, Boras said, for a person to combine Murray’s running and leaping ability with his bat speed is “extraordinarily rare.” Murray would have plenty of gridiron options. This season, his first as a starter, he has thrown for 37 touchdowns and rushed for 11 more. He and Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama’s sophomore quarterback, look like they will be the closest Heisman contenders in years. “He would be a first-round pick if he committed and promised he was going to play football,” the ESPN analyst Todd McShay said. Though Murray is short, listed at 5...

“The reason I said marriage is a holy matrimony between a man and a woman is based on my own personal experience,” he said. “I am a straight man married to a woman I love and I have two beautiful daughters I love from the marriage. This is how I feel about my marriage.” He also chided the publication for not asking him for comment before publishing its story. The article had not been updated with his comments more than eight hours later. The editor of Into did not respond to messages seeking comment. Mr. Chen’s original post was in response to the overwhelming defeat of a same-sex marriage referendum in Taiwan, where he was educated and has family. On the same day he posted it, Mr. Chen shared an Into article about the founder of HTC, the Chinese tech company, backing groups that opposed same-sex marriage. Here is Mr. Chen’s full post, translated from Chinese: Some people think that marriage is a holy union between a man and a woman, I think so too, but that’s your...

‘The Wizard of Oz’ has been named the most influential movie of all time by scientists. It topped a ranking system using algorithms to work out a film’s impact, rather than relying on box office sales. The 1939 classic got the highest “influence score” based on how many times it was referenced in subsequent movies. It was followed by ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Psycho’ and the original ‘King Kong,’ made in 1933. Experts at the University of Turin, Italy, looked at 47,000 films listed in IMDb, the internet movie database. The ‘Wizard of Oz’ was nominated for four Oscars in 1940, and won two. It was beaten to the Best Picture gong by ‘Gone With The Wind,’ which came 19th on the scientists’ list. All films in the top 20 were produced before 1980 and mostly in the United States, the scientists said. When applied to actors, the same analysis ranked Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise as the top three. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford and Johnny Depp also featured in the top 20. ...

“Yeah, it hurts,” Armas said. “That’s what the emotion is. Our season is over. In time, we’ll feel good about the work that was done. Hosting that final would have been a treat.” The Red Bulls have played in the league championship game only once, in fact. They lost the 2008 final to the Columbus Crew and have never returned. The outcome of this conference final had been all but determined four days earlier, in a decisive victory by Atlanta United before 70,016 fans at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Atlanta will return there next weekend as host for the M.L.S. Cup against the survivor of Thursday’s Western Conference final between Portland and Sporting Kansas City. The Red Bulls had yielded only two goals to Atlanta in four matches over the previous two seasons, going 3-0-1 in those games. And they had given up only 33 goals in 34 to all opponents during the regular season. But everything fell apart for the visitors on Sunday, starting with some questionable strategy. The Red Bulls sat ba...

CAIRO — Egypt says archaeologists have discovered eight limestone sarcophagi with mummies inside about 25 miles south of the capital Cairo. The Antiquities Ministry said the mummies dating to the Late Period (664-332 BC) are covered with a layer of painted material called cartonnage in the form of a human. The ministry said late Tuesday that the mummies were found in an area of King Amenemhat II’s pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis. The necropolis was the burial site for courtiers and high-ranking officials. The area is home to what is considered to be some of the earliest pyramids, including Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid. Egypt hopes such discoveries will spur tourism, which is partially driven by antiquities sightseeing that was hit hard by political turmoil following the 2011 uprising. Credit: Source link The post Archaeologists discover ancient mummies south of Cairo appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . The post Archaeologists discover ancient...

How much would you pay for a pair of Payless shoes? If you attended the beleaguered retailer’s recent Santa Monica event, the number is $600, according to Adweek. The discount shoe chain occupied a former Armani store, called it “Palessi” and stocked it with heels, boots and sneakers onto which they slapped inflated price tags ranging from $200 to $640. Their shoes normally fetch between $20 to $40. They then invited group of influencers who collectively dropped $3,000 on Palessi shoes within a few hours and crowed about the shoes’ workmanship and style. In one video, a man said, “I could tell it’s made with high-quality material,” while a female shopper called a heel “elegant and sophisticated.” She is then told that the shoes were actually from Payless. She falls silent for a moment and said, “You’ve got to be kidding.” The chain pulled off the clever hoax with the help of DCX Growth Accelerator, whose chief creative officer Doug Cameron told Adweek that the AI was intended to...

A little-known fact about noroviruses is that many household cleaners and wipes don’t kill them. Clorox and Lysol Disinfecting wipes claim to kill 99.9 percent of viruses and bacteria, but that doesn’t include noroviruses. Your best bet is to wipe down surfaces with a bleach solution — mix between a half cup and cup of bleach with a gallon of water — or to use health-care-grade bleach wipes, such as Clorox Healthcare Bleach Germicidal Wipes, which are hard to find in stores but are sold on websites like Amazon. Let the bleach sit on the surface for at least five minutes, ideally 10, because it takes time to kill these resilient jerks. Hydrogen peroxide cleaners are another effective option. If a family member doesn’t make it to the toilet in time, you’ll have to clean up even more carefully. Angela Fraser, a researcher at Clemson University who studies vomit and fecal cleanup strategies (seriously!), suggests that you wear disposable gloves and goggles. Dr. Perencevich sa...