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Month: January 2020

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Former Florida Mayor sentenced to 51 months after defrauding charity

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(CNN)A former Florida mayor was sentenced to 51 months in prison Friday after defrauding the charity United Way of more than half a million dollars. Ryan Cardoso, an attorney for Thompson, said the former mayor is “repentant and committed to making amends.” “Words cannot express the remorse and sorrow that Mr. Thompson feels in this case,” Cardoso said in an email to CNN. Thompson was also ordered to pay back the embezzled money, less the some $220,000 seized from his bank accounts. Thompson was mayor of Milton for 20 years…

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Brooke Hammerling on how early-stage startups should think about PR

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It’s easy to remember Hammerling founded Brew PR 15 years ago during a pivotal time in the communications industry. Tech was starting to gain traction, and the incumbent communications agencies were still pretty much doing things the same way: cold calls and emails. Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/brooke-hammerling-on-how-early-stage-companies-should-think-about-pr/

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Baltimore states attorney blasts police unions political rhetoric after video shows mob attacking officer

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks in Annapolis, Md., Jan. 30, 2019. (Associated Press) Later Saturday, Mancuso doubled down after Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young and Police Commissioner Michael Harrison addressed reporters at a Saturday news conference about the attack on the police sergeant. Earlier, Harrison had issued a statement saying he was “outraged” by the attack against the police sergeant and pledged that “Those involved will be identified and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” Mosby, 39, who became the state’s attorney for Baltimore in 2015, wrote that…

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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Popcorn Is Here To Spice Up Your Movie Night

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Courtesy of Cheetos This New Cheetos Popcorn Comes In Cheddar & Flamin’ Hot Flavors For A Fire Snack By Lara Walsh Jan 9, 2020 With this new innovation from Cheetos, Flamin’ Hot stans will have a new way to get their spicy fix. Your Netflix and chill sessions are about to get a major upgrade in the snacking department, because a new Cheetos Popcorn now exists. The snack comes in the company’s popular cheddar and Flamin’ Hot flavors, and it’ll definitely spice up movie night.. Starting on Monday, Jan. 13,…

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A British grocery chain poked fun at Beyonc’s new Ivy Park x Adidas line, which looks a lot like its uniforms

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(CNN)Beyonc’s Ivy Park x Adidas line dropped this week, creating an online frenzy as fans raced to stock up on the goodies. Then the jokes came pouring in. “Clean up in aisle 24,” quipped user Harvey, along with an edited photo of Beyoncé in a Sainsbury’s store. “Who run the tills? Beys,” tweeted Tom Warren, referencing Beyoncé’s song “Run the World.” But not everyone appreciated the humor. Fans of the singer came after Sainsbury’s, pointing to the store’s falling sales in one case. Others dutifully informed the chain they didn’t…

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RTAG 3 TTRemember A Million Little Pieces ? The “memoir” by James Frey about his drug addiction that was a huge sensation and even wound up on Oprah Winfrey RTAG 5 TTAnyway, it’s been finished since the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018 but has been sitting on the shelf for ages before softly being released straight to home video earlier this month. Naturally the film had a lot to overcome, being an adaptation of a now-hated book, and by all accounts it did not change hearts and minds; it currently has a 27% on Rotten Tomatoes RTAG 6 TT RTAG 7 TTHowever, it did give us one thing we’ll treasure forever — multiple full frontal scenes from star Aaron Taylor-Johnson RTAG 8 TTYou may know Aaron from his roles in Nowhere Boy or Godzilla or Avengers: Age Of Ultron ( he was the other Quicksilver that wasn’t Evan Peters ATAG 8 TTCLICK CLICK CLICK Next Article var wID= 105178;( function())();Here are Ottawa’s photos of the week – CBC.ca

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Trump Reveals He “Never Understood Wind” In Latest Rant About Windmills (He Means Turbines)

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It’s not a secret Donald Trump doesn’t understand wind, he’s demonstrated that before, but he doesn’t usually openly admit his failings. However, in a speech at an event in Florida this weekend, he told the crowd he has “never understood wind”. Trump, who was talking at Turning Point USA’s student action summit on Saturday, told the cheering crowd “I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody.” He means wind turbines, of course. Trump has been very vocal about his dislike of wind…

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Conor McGregor wins in first UFC match in 15 months

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(CNN)Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor was victorious in his first UFC match in over 15 months, with a technical knockout win over American opponent Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in Las Vegas, Nevada. McGregor blitzed Cerrone from the opening bell and won the fight less than a minute into the first round McGregor’s most recent victory in mixed martial arts came in November 2016 when he won by knockout over Eddie Alvarez. Despite the long layoff, McGregor is the fourth ranked lightweight in UFC. He is 13th on the pound-for-pound…

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Scientists Create First “Living Robots” Made Entirely Of Living Cells

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Scientists have created a new form of “robot,” not made out of metal, plastic, and wiring but formed entirely out of living cells.  Reporting in the journal PNAS, researchers from the University of Vermont and Tufts University describe how they crafted the first-ever “living machines” out of cells taken from the embryos of frogs. Dubbed “xenobots,” these miniature monsters were designed using algorithms that mimic the forces of natural selection.  “These are novel living machines. They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It’s a new class of artifact: a…

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