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Destroy all monuments of genocide ': the statue of Christopher Columbus in San Francisco vandalized.
Christopher Columbus ' statue in San Francisco was vandalized the day before the federal holiday commemorating his arrival in the Americas in 1492. On Sunday, city workers washed up a statue at the foot of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill, which was coated with red paint. Graffiti on the foundation said "Destroy all genocide sites" and "Kill all colonizers." The North Beach News posted a picture of the defaced monument; one columnist commented, "Well done. Columbus doesn't deserve any better." The case is under investigation by the San Francisco Police Department. The New World explorer has become a polarizing figure, and Columbus monuments are often the object of vandals across the United States. On Monday, a statue in Rhode Island was splashed from head to toe with red paint. A poster reading "Stop Celebrating Genocide" was leaned against the pedestal. Although Columbus Day is a national holiday held on the second Monday of October, many areas across the country have changed from celebrating Columbus to paying tribute to the indigenous communities who endured abuse and disease as explorers as Columbus arrived. More than 100 towns celebrate the Day of the Indigenous Peoples instead of Columbus Day.
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Bay Area commuters will be able to use Google Pay rather than Clipper Cards. Android users will soon be able to use their devices to pay for transportation cards in cities such as San Francisco after Cubic Transportation Systems signed an agreement with Google Pay, the contactless payment service of the search giant, on Monday. Cubic notes that Bay Area passengers will be able to "connect transit cards to Google Pay, easily redeem funds and buy tickets directly from their mobile device — the removal of the need for a physical transit card." The new Google Pay Contract also expands the capabilities of existing systems in cities such as New York, Miami, and London. Working with Cubic would help us ease the experience for Google Pay customers in a number of major transit systems — including support for Clipper cards in the San Francisco Bay Area," said Ambarish Kenghe, Director of Product Management for Google Pay. Clipper Cards are contactless cards now in use in all major Bay Area transit systems, including BART. New York, meanwhile, is in the process of rolling out the OMNY system, but transit cards will not be available until "every subway station, bus route and Staten Island Railway is equipped with this new technology," according to the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It plans this to occur by 2023. Cubic made contactless payments in New York to Apple Pay and then to Google Wallet subscribers on a per-ride basis earlier this year. The OMNY system currently operates on 4, 5 and 6 trains between the 42nd St and the Barclays Centre.
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Back when I was about 16 years old and knew all about it, I took a physics class. The teacher started with a few basics. That meant, he said, that there were consequences for everything you did. I didn't believe that to him. My friends didn't either. We were young and as free as the sky. The teacher was old, very aged. He must have been at least 40, maybe 45. How did he know about that? As a product of growing older myself, I can now see what he said. city of San Francisco, for example. We've been proud for years to be a place where everything goes. Anyone could come here and reinvent themselves. It was just part of our DNA. "San Francisco is a mad city, mostly inhabited by totally insane people ..." said Rudyard Kipling more than a century ago. We appreciated the quote. In addition, it is engraved on the railing on the waterfront along with other quotes from notable people celebrating the bay of the town. For years, they have embraced, even welcomed, street characters, assuming them to be part of the mysterious essence of San Francisco. But now the roads, particularly Market Street — the main stem of the city — are clogged with what seems to be truly madmen, speaking to themselves, shouting.
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SAN FRANCISCO —The psychedelic rock stars of their native Zambia, the African band W.I.T.C.H. (an acronym for "We Intend To Cause Havoc") is coming to San Francisco to perform the Chapel on their first-ever tour of the U.S. Though largely unknown in Africa, W.I.T.C.H. would become one of the biggest rock bands to emerge from the continent in the 1970s. Led by the charismatic singer Emanyeo "Jagari" Chanda and lead guitarist Chris "Kims" Mbewe, the band admired Jimi Hendrix's pyrotechnic guitar and James Brown's irresistible groove and crafted a style of fuzzy-out garage rock that was taken fairly from psychedelia and funk. The band's first three albums — the 1972 debut In the Past, the 1974 Introduction, and the 1975 landmark Lazy Bones — established the band as one of the leading lights of the national music movement that would eventually be called "Zamrock." But by the end of the decade, with the nation facing economic collapse and increasingly authoritarian rule, bands like W.I.T.C.H. They were forced to play daytime shows to avoid strict curfews. It was around the time that Chanda left the band, wanting to support himself and his family by working as a teacher or a gemstone miner, according to conflicting accounts. The group would move in a more dance direction, finally splitting up in the mid-1980s. But in the decades that followed, the original W.I.T.C.H. recordings became a scarce and prized resource by collectors and hip-hop artists hunting for untapped sample outlets. The use of W.I.T.C.H. samples by popular beatsmith Madlib for his Beat Conducta in Africa mixtape and the reissue of the band's first three records by Now-Again Records in 2012 ignited a huge resurgence of interest in the group. At this time, the only living member of the W.I.T.C.H. Chanda was moving to the West Coast the next year, playing at events hosted by Madlib in Los Angeles and at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco.
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The beautiful San Francisco house of Bebo's founders Michael and Xochi Birch is on the market for $39 million. Birches bought a property on a street called Billionaire's Row in Pacific Heights for $29 million in 2008, after selling their social networking site Bebo to AOL. The six-bedroom home features a library, a British pub, and a spa with views of the Golden Gate Bridge. The house, located at 2799 Broadway, needs little improvement as construction has recently been carried out. The beautiful San Francisco home of Bebo creators Michael and Xochi Birch is on the eye-watering $39 million markets, and even comes complete with its own bar and library. The Birches bought an 11,600-square-foot manor-style home on a street nicknamed Billionaire's Row in Pacific Heights for $29 million in 2008, after selling their social networking site Bebo to AOL for $850 million. If the property sold for its asking price, it would have tied the record for the most expensive home ever purchased in San Francisco. The $39 million records were set last year after the purchase of a nearby home by venture capitalist Matt Cohler. The multi-story house is set high above the city of San Francisco and the ocean, providing views across the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oakland Hills. Guests at the stunning stack are welcomed by a dramatic double staircase featuring zebra-printed carpeting and an eclectic 18th-century portrait gallery mixed with contemporary art. It also features a study of the British Union Jack mosaic emblazoned in the fireplace, courtesy of Xochi Birch, who is British. The house also has a pub with an old bar, converted from a decommissioned British tavern. Most recently, the pair hired architect Eric Cohler to refurbish the kitchen and create a family room with a more colorful style. The top floor is where you can find apartments, including a master suite with a working fireplace and a walk-out terrace, which also has a pool with a view of San Francisco Bay.
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Over the last few weeks, we've been looking at the start-up investment patterns for cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. We began with San Francisco and went on to the East Bay. The next stop in Oakland. Back in the days of the dot-com bubble, the City of Oakland put advertisements on top of San Francisco taxis saying that "Oakland is closer to San Francisco than San Francisco is to San Francisco." It's one of those statements that is both demonstrably false and quite accurate. It's actually faster to get to downtown San Fransico by bus from Oakland than the outer San Francisco communities. The towns are just 8 miles apart, as the Crow flies. The proximity to the center of the millennial boom, combined with a transit-friendly downtown and a slightly lower cost of living and business operating costs, makes Oakland an increasingly popular destination for scaling up startups. A lot of locals, including many who felt they were escaping tech stagnation in San Francisco, are not pleased. But then it disappears. To date this year, 47 Oakland-based companies have closed funding rounds with a combined value of $583 million. This is the highest total in years, and part of what has mostly been the upward trend of funding in recent years: Still, Oakland isn't rich in unicorns. Per Crunchbase data, there's only one private, venture-backed Oakland company that has crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold. Marqueta, a fin-tech unicorn, has raised almost $400 million for its configurable payment card technology.
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Five years ago, the Warriors shocked the NBA when they began the season playing like an improved team, and jumped on a rocket to the moon. The 49ers are giving away the same kind of vibe. I'm not saying that they're going to go to the Super Bowl five seasons in a row, starting with this one. But after Sunday's 20-7 beatdown of the once-powerful Rams, the 49ers have a chance to be the season's bust-out NFL team. Boring? Boring? No longer. There are legitimate excitement and a buzz around the 5-0 49ers. Sunday's win was the most impressive of them, and it's getting harder and harder to call the 49ers a fluke. "We won all of these (five) games differently," said Jimmy Garoppolo, quarterback. "That's exactly what a good football team is." Five games in the 49er's brand are taking shape. Since they were unbeaten, the form is pretty good. Can it be the football version of the Warriors? Ok, there are some of the same elements. Defense, to begin with. For all their glamor, the Warriors built their mini-empire on a rock-solid defense. Sunday, the 49ers were steamrolled by the Rams on the opening leg of the game, then dug in and pitched a stone-cold shutout for 55 minutes and 25 seconds— against a team that just last season was lighting up the NFL like it was playing pinball.
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Last week, the Rent Cafe renting platform published its annual lists of the most costly U.S. renters ' ZIP codes, an annual tabulation that is painful to witness but also surprised by important data. San Francisco is on the chart four times out of 50 locations. Cited areas account for almost 15 percent of the 27 ZIP codes of the region. Yet almost all of the prices lease operation is concentrated on the east side of SF, where most of the development of new homes has taken root. Outside the area, the list also includes other towns in the Bay Area such as Sunnyvale, Santa Monica, Redwood Area, Mountain View, Menlo Park, Cupertino, and Foster City. Here's how this year's most price points for SF stacked up: 94105: no wonder this is the top show for SF. This ZIP code includes South Beach's East Split, Rincon Hill and sections. Rate Cafe reports an average monthly market rent of $4,858 across all categories of apartments, up 4.1 percent year-over-year. Generally, this ZIP is nationally the sixth priciest— like last year. 94158: This ZIP is fairly closely synonymous with Mission Bay and drops into second place for SF and 11th overall for the whole state, with a median $4,614 market rent. That's 5.3 percent higher than when it ranked 13th nationwide in 2018. Here's how SF's most price points stacked up this year. 94105: no wonder this is SF's top show. This ZIP code covers East Split, Rincon Hill and parts of South Beach. Rate Cafe records a monthly average market rent of $4,858 in all apartment types, up 4.1 percent year-over-year. Generally speaking, this ZIP is the sixth priest nationwide— like last year. 94158: This ZIP is largely synonymous with Mission Bay and falls to second place for SF and 11th overall for the entire state, with an average market rent of $4,614. That's 5.3% lower than in 2018 when it placed 13th nationally. 94103: It covers nearly all SoMa, except Western SoMa, the only Rent Cafe SF area to arrive at less than four grand a month— in this case, $3,887. It's also the year's worst mover, plummeting ten positions down to 38th over 2018 nationwide. Adrian Rosenberg, the spokesman for the Rent Cafe, tells Curbed SF this is largely because price appreciation in other neighborhoods went wild last year, increasing here a relatively modest 0.7%. Within SF, Redwood City's 94063 was the priciest Bay Area ZIP code, doubling its 25th-place success since last year, but spending $4,129. The 94025 area of Menlo Park saw the highest rent hikes in the Bay Area relative to last year, increasing by 10.8 percent to $4,102 and marking the 29th position. Just two other ZIPs at the national level saw a larger rise than the ZIP code of Menlo Park, which can be located in Manhattan.
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San Francisco, long one of the most technology-friendly and technology savvy cities in the world, is now the first in the United States to prohibit its government from using facial-recognition technology. The ban is part of a broader anti-surveillance ordinance that the city's Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday. The ordinance, which outlaws the use of facial-recognition technology by police and other government departments, could also spur other local city governments to take some action. Eight of the board's 11 supervisors voted in favor of it; 1 voted against it, and two who support it were absent. Face-recognition devices are rapidly being used anywhere from police departments to rock concerts and homes, supermarkets and schools They are designed to identify specific people from live video streams, video footage or still images, often by matching their features to a series of faces (such as mug shots). A new rule of San Francisco's, which is set to go into effect in a month, forbids the use of face-recognition technology by the city's 53 departments — including the San Francisco Police Department, which doesn't currently use such technology but did test it out among between 2013 and 2017. However, the ordinance carves out an exception for federally controlled facilities at San Francisco International Airport and the Port of San Francisco. The ordinance does not prohibit businesses or residents from using face recognition or surveillance technology in general — such as on their own security cameras. And it also does not do anything to limit police from, say, using footage from a person's Nest camera to assist in a criminal case. "We all encourage good policing but none of us want to live in a police state," San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who introduced the bill earlier this year, told CNN Business ahead of the vote.
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The days of carrying a plastic bottle of water to stay hydrated during a long flight will soon be over for people flying out of San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The airport, which prohibited the sale of single-use plastic straws when the City Law went into effect in July, is now prohibiting grocery stores, cafes and vending machines from distributing plastic bottles of water. Only water in glass recycled aluminum and approved compostable materials can be sold from August 20. The change is a part of SFO’s 5-year strategic plan. Launched in 2016, the plan includes SFO becoming a zero “waste-to-landfill” facility by 2021, as stated on its website. According to SFO, per airport guest creates half a pound of trash In an effort to reduce waste, the airport is limiting the use of single-use food accessories such as napkins, coffee cups, and chopsticks. In contrast to plastics, SFO bans items with "unsubstantiated claims" about their sustainability Water bottles with messages like "environmentally friendly" or "bio-based" will have to be certified by the Biodegradable Plastics Institute (BPI) before they are sold. Before the plastic bottle ban was announced, the airport installed almost a hundred water-bottle filling stations and mandated that restaurants only give customers single-use accessories such as condiment packets upon request instead of with each purchase. "We're waiting until now because a few years ago, there was no market in place to provide an alternative to plastic bottled water," said Doug Yakel, SFO's public information officer, in an interview. The new policy of SFO comes in amid an international assessment of the recycling industry's problems. In June of this year, a Guardian investigation revealed that only 9 percent of the plastic that Americans send to recycling plants actually gets recycled. This is because US recycling plants do not accept things like unwashed plastics and plastic bottles that still have the lid on them. Most cheap plastics like water bottles and milk cartons go to landfills or incinerators or are shipped to other countries to be processed.
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Could Mario Ferraro consider himself becoming a part of the San Jose Sharks line-up next season? After reports suggested that Radim Simek was unlikely to be ready to play for the San Jose Sharks at the start of the season. Attention turned to the 21-year-old Mario Ferraro prospect and his potential impact on the opening night roster. The Sharks gave Ferraro a fair shake to earn minutes at the NHL. San Jose's second-round pick in 2017 was penciled in three of their preseason games, with Tim Heed second in the overall ice time. It seems that Team Teal might have known all along that Simek wasn't ready for the start of the season, considering how much hockey they'd let the prospect play during that preseason contest. He's certainly made a strong case for himself with his ability to transition the puck with relative ease by using his skate speed and passing prowess. To go along with this, the blueliner has a puck scorer mentality and is not scared to perform vigorously in the aggressive area to create parking and firing areas. There have been times when he has been caught out of position because of this kind of assertiveness, yet he makes up for it by going back to defense using his hustle and strong edges.
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SAN JOSE, California —Burglars have broken into the United Methodist Church of Almaden Hills twice over the last six months, stealing thousands of dollars worth of goods belonging to the local Boy Scout troop that stores its trailer there. "They came over the rafts and they had a bolt cutter to open the garage door and lock off the trailer hitch, and they took the trailer," said Scoutmaster Richard Blume of Boy Scouts Troop 262. The trailer, which was taken from Sunday to Monday, was packed with more than $12,000 worth of camping equipment. Everything from multiple tents to cooking supplies was taken in a matter of minutes. "It could be that the people who stole it, and the people who ended up with the trailer, weren't the same people," Blume said. Police found the trailer on Thursday at a homeless camp near the Guadalupe River. But whoever stole it had to have the means to take it away from the church. "These people stole this stuff to sell ... that's all. They weren't looking to help each other out, they were helping themselves by stealing things to sell," said Bill Messerly, the church's supervisor. The last target was the church and the troop in March.
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BART anticipated a likely four-year delay in downtown San Jose in 2030. SAN JOSE — The unsettling possibility that BART's opening at two major railway stations in central San Jose will be postponed by as many as four years will not break down the pace of growth in the urban core of the Bay Area's largest city, experts said on Wednesday.
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According to the latest reports, the commissioners of a $23 billion Los Angeles fire and police pension fund have decided to fire money manager Kenneth Fisher. He is currently under a lot of heat after the reports came out that he has allegedly made insensitive remarks about women. Many members of the LA Fire and Police Pension Board on Thursday said that they would no longer stay associated with Fisher Investments that manages more than $511 million for the fund. The officials said that they would drop him, but it will take some time as there are procedures to be followed. So plans run for Boston, Michigan, and Philadelphia have decided to stop investing with Fisher Investments, and more members are expected to make a similar announcement soon.
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Ara Guzelimian first experienced the Ojai Music Festival, which is a laboratory of musical innovation in Southern California when he was a teenager. He performed at the festival as a member of the U.C.L.A. and was a cappella choir in 1974 when he was a college student. From 1992 to 1997, he was Ojai’s artistic director. Now, when the festival was in sudden need of a new leader Ara Guzelimian became the first choice. Chad Smith will hold the post of chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The officials said that he has agreed to take the job. Guzelimian said in a statement that it feels like coming back home. After Ojai, he had been a senior director and artistic adviser to Carnegie Hall and the provost and dean to Juilliard School. He mentioned in his statement that his first task would be to plan his return season in 2021, and it is going to be amazing as it is the festival’s 75th anniversary too.
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Los Angeles authorities on this Tuesday reported a fight that broke out within a movie theatre, while the moving named “Joker” was said to be screening, said a report. The fight happened at 8:54 PM at the AMC Burbank, and the fight included four different individuals. One among them has appeared to suffer a severe head injury, and unconfirmed reports are coming in stating that a glass bottle was said to be used during the fight scene. The public and reviewers have criticized the movie "Joker" itself for holding onto to excessive violent content that can easily trigger out the anger present in an individual. Five of the family members coming from the families of the people who have been injured or killed during the Aurora shooting sent out a letter to the Ann Sarnoff, the Warner Bros CEO. They have requested them to help end the gun violence.
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A debate regarding Portland's involvement in Ukraine by hotelier Gordon Sondland strengthened their regional ties Saturday when Portland activist Sarah Iannarone openly confronted Sondland contributing to Mayor Ted Wheeler's 2016 and 2012 campaigns. The gifts were $15,500 from Sondland and his hotel investments in Provenance. Sondland, whom last summer became U.S. Ambassador to the EU, recently took up the Ukraine scandal and the investigation of President Donald Trump into the prosecution. He is also set to be the first current federal worker to appear Tuesday before Congress. A wealthy hotel owner from Seattle, Sondland has contributed $1 million to Trump. On Saturday, the Wheeler team of Iannarone asked for a statement and press release to refund contributions from Sondland. We assume that Mayor Wheeler will bring this dishonest cashback. It is to our government and the people of Oregon that he owes everything. Could you contribute $15.50 for the $15.500 that Sondland and his organization have offered Wheeler to our people's initiative for? "Our initiative is based on the notion that large corporate and individual contributions are corrupting our political atmosphere and specifically when those come from someone who has operated aggressively to threatens our sovereignty, "said Iannarone campaign director Gregory McKelvey, pointing to Sondland's role in the controversy between Trump and Ukraine," said Gregory McKelvey, the campaign e director at Iannarone, addressing Sondland's role in the Trump-Ukraine controversy. "In an idealized way, Mayor Wheeler should return the money to prove that Mr. Sondland's money has no place in politics in Oregon," McKelvey said. "If he goes ahead, he would like to see Wheeler be" highly mindful of the funds he is getting. In three different times, Wheeler earned a payment of $15,000 from Sondland and a related Company during the Wheeler 2016 election.
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LINCOLN COUNTY – According to Oregon State Police, the crew recovered the body of a missing Portland school counselor. Coast Guard teams started looking for 58-year-old Hoang Tran, Clackamas, in Whale Cove, close Depoe Bay on Sunday after learning from Tran's family and someone on the coast who reported seeing rocks. The parents of Hoang Tran said on Saturday he was on a solo sailing trip off Newport's coast, but he never went home. Coast Guard officials Tuesday, at 10:30 a.m. They said they had recovered a man's body in the Depoe Bay area where the debris had been recovered on Sunday. OSP recognized the body as people who belong to Hoang Tran and said that it was found to be wearing a life jacket. According to Tran's parents, Tran was a Franklin High School advisor and a well-loved volunteer in the Vietnamese community.
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Two-man charged in November 2011 on the morning of a rape reported near Portland State University, only to see the charges dropped days later, have now been charged with the same assault following a new review of the evidence. Leslie L. Thornton Jr., now 38 years old, is charged with two counts of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, and first-degree sexual abuse. He pleaded not guilty on Wednesday morning at Multnomah County Circuit Court. Timothy Nathaniel Hogue, 29, was drawn into detention by the U.S. Thursday. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Reno, Nevada. He was wanted on a warrant that charged him with first-degree rape in the 2011 assault. The indictment alleges that a woman was attacked and "unable to give consent." In 2011, court papers said that she was "physically helpless" at the time. She was 43 years old, and she didn't know her assailants, the police said. Thornton was 30 when he was first arrested in the case and told the authorities he did not know the woman. At 12:38 a.m. on 5 Nov. 2011, Central Precinct police reacted to Southwest 10th Avenue and Market Street to assist public security officials at Portland State University with a sexual assault inquiry.
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The current account deficit (cad) of the country declined by a massive 64 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, primarily on the back of a 21 per cent drop in the import bill. The latest data released by the State Bank on Friday showed the July-September FY20 current account deficit clocked in at $1.548 billion compared to $4.287 billion in the same timeframe last fiscal year; a fall of $2.739 billion. For the government, which is grappling with slow economic growth and high inflation, the reduced current account deficit is a positive presence. Nevertheless, despite a massive decline in the price of the rupee, there has been no noticeable increase in the country's exports over the period. The data showed that the significant decline in imports was the real force behind the deficit reduction of 64pc, while exports of goods and services rose by a mere 1.38pc or $99 million during the period. The quarterly export services clocked in at $7.259bn compared to $7.160bn last fiscal year in the same period. Runs counter to exports, imports from the country fell to $13.461bn by 19pc. On the one hand, this massive decline allowed the government to reduce the current account deficit, while on the other hand, it also slowed down the country's overall economic growth.
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Ahmed Mohamed together with Abdullah Chaarani and Hamza Abbas planned a terrorist attack on Christmas Day setting of bombs at Melbourne's Federation Square in 2016 and were convicted. In a pre-sentence hearing today Mohamed told the Supreme Court, he wanted to be 'a cool guy' among other terrorists, as he couldn't pray and had blond hair, he did everything, that Muslims don't do. He started to learn abot Islam and Islamic State, which said, they did a lot of good deals and charity. In 2016 he supported Islamic State and thought it was right, but now he hates them, he says. Ahmed Mohamed had already been arrested before, whan they tried to burn a mosque in Melbourne. Everyone of three men is about 20 years old and now they are going to spend their young years in jail.
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54 year old woman Lina Di Falco put the law on Emirates airlines, as they refused to bring her some water during the flight from Melbourne on March 2015. It caused her fainting and hurting her leg. Di Falco's mother informs, the daughter feels constant pains in her ankle and doesn't allow her to go in for her favourite occupation. On the board Di Falco asked for enough water four times, but didn't get it, on her way to bathroom she felt dizzy and fainted. When she came back to Melbourne, her doctor confirmed a broken ankle. The woman demanded a compensation from Emirates, but has got rejection from the court. The injury made her unhappy, Lina says, she divorced and withdrew from friends because of it.
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Geelong's business selling the black tobacco market has been uncovered. It claimed it had worked as a hairdresser's. Within an hour ACA cameras captured at least a dozen shoppers who bought things, which were believed to be illegal cigarettes and tobacco. This is the part of the black market "Chop Chop", which trades all around the country. One of the workers turned to A Current Affair , realizing, it was the illegal business. Complex tobacco import operations do not go unnoticed. Over the past fiscal year, Australian Border Force produced more than 285,000 detections of illegal tobacco,worth more than $ 670 million. Illegal tobacco is readily available and sold under the counter in shops across the country. Hotspots across Australia are in Adelaide, Geelong, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Cairns, according to KPMG report.
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45-year-old Andrew John Tanner, a husband, a father and a constable of the Victoria Police, was convicted on five charges, including harassment and sexual involvement. His weird behavior made his neighbor to build a tall fence between their yards. Tanner could stand on the board of posessions naked. His victim, who does not want to be identified, was afraid to report about the harassment, because Tanner was a policeman and thought, nobody would believe her. In 2018, Taskforce Salus launched an investigation into Tanner’s behavior by installing surveillance cameras in the victim’s house. As soon as the cameras were installed, they captured his actions. Despite obvious guilt, the constable retains his innocence, claiming that he thought he had received the consent of the victim. The victim had to move our of her house, because she was afraid, her children could face Tanner as well. Now he doesn't work and receives remuneration. He will probably lose his job.
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For almost two hours, Malaysian Airlines passengers from Melbourne to Sri Lanka thought they would die because Manodh Marks was threatening to blow up a plane. Actually, he had no real bomb, only some devices with flashing blue lights. The plane landed within 15 minutes, but it took 40 minutes for security to arrive, and passengers had to stay on board for almost 90 minutes. A 25-year-old man was imprisoned last year for up to 12 years, and he's going to serve at least nine years before deportation to his hometown of Colombo after pleading guilty to trying to seize or control the plane. But now he hopes that this offer will be canceled so that he can return immediately. His lawyer doesn't agree, that it is possible that Marks will be sentenced again without imprisonment. Marks had just been released from the psychiatric ward before he boarded the plane and made a terrible decision. Marks took drugs before boarding the plane, but he had already had residual psychiatric symptoms. According to the lawyer, a sentence without imprisonment does not completely go beyond the range that was available to Country Court Judge Michael McInerney. Three judges review the appeal and agree with the prosecution but it isn't a final yet.
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Josie Gonzalez, was a qualified lawyer, who once worked for a prestigious company in Melbourne, but is now in jail for catching $ 17.4 million in fraud. Together with her 51-year-old husband-lawyer Alvaro Gonzalez, she developed a scheme to deceive her employer in an insurance company, using fake invoices to pay for legal services, including for lawyers who had never heard of the business. Between March 2011 and June 2013, she sent more than 428 false accounts to Dale Australia from Jaag Lawyers, a company named after herself. But the judge Paul Lacava said that today the company has neither offices nor customers. The couple pleaded no guilty to 14 charges of financial gain by fraud, but was convicted by the jury earlier this year. The jury would never agree with their defense that the bill was $ 17.4 million. The United States targeted the actual legal services provided by such associates in just two years. He did not say that there was no regret for their insult, and despite the fact that the money was fully repaid, they did not apologize. He ordered her to spend at least seven years in a nine-year and six-month prison term. Alvaro Gonzalez will be eligible for parole after five years of his seven and a half years. Judge Lacava said the punishment included some mercy for the sake of their two little daughters, who would grow up with both parents.
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Eine größere Schließung des Frankfurter Hauptbahnhofs führt am Wochenende von Freitag (25.10.19) bis Sonntag (27.10.19) zu einer Behinderung der Reisenden. Wie die Stadt Frankfurt mitteilt, muss die Strecke wegen der Installation und Erprobung neuer Leit- und Sicherheitstechnologien im Deutschkursnetz (DB) am Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof gesperrt werden. Dies betrifft den Intercity-Verkehr, Regionalzüge und Nahverkehrszüge. Die Züge des Fernverkehrs werden größtenteils umgeleitet. Ersatzweise halten sie im Frankfurter Stadtgebiet am Südbahnhof. Vereinzelt kommt es laut DB zu Zugausfällen sowie zu „verkürzten Linienlaufwegen ohne Bedienung des Frankfurter Stadtgebiets“, heißt es. Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof: Fahren Sie nicht zwischen Bahnhof und Flughafen. Von Freitag (25. Oktober 2019) um 19.30 Uhr bis Samstag (26. Oktober 2019) um 14.30 Uhr kann der Frankfurter Flughafen nicht mit dem Zug von Frankfurt aus erreicht werden. Mit Bussen vom Hauptbahnhof und vom Südbahnhof zum Flughafen bietet die DB einen Schienenersatzdienst (SEV) an. Er fährt alle zehn Minuten. Die Ersatzhaltestellen befinden sich am Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt in der Mannheimer Straße vor dem IC Hotel, am Südbahnhof in der Mörfelder Landstraße 45 sowie am Flughafen am Busbahnhof vor dem Terminal 1. Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof: Starke Blockierung des Frankfurter Schienen- und Stadtbahntunnels Am Samstag (26.10.19) von 14.30 bis 9.30 Uhr werden alle Verbindungen zum Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof *, einschließlich des Stadtbahntunnels, blockiert. Alle aktuellen Informationen zu den S-Bahnen in Frankfurt finden Sie in unserem S-Bahn-Ticker. Während dieser Phase werden die Haltestellen Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt Flughafen, Frankfurt Süd, Frankfurt West, Frankfurt Höchst, Offenbach Ost, Rüsselsheim und Zeppelinheim nur durch Schienenersatzverkehr verbunden. Für die Bahnverbindung zwischen Hauptbahnhof und Höchst gilt die Sperrung inklusive SEV bis 14.30 Uhr. Nicht betroffen sind: U-Bahnen, Straßenbahnen und Busse stehen wie gewohnt zur Verfügung und können genutzt werden, um Ziele in der Frankfurter Innenstadt zu erreichen.Der Frankfurter Flughafen ist immer mit dem Zug von Mainz und Wiesbaden aus erreichbar. Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof: Die Bahnstrecke ist gesperrt Der Regionalflughafen Frankfurt am Main ist aufgrund des Anschlusses des neuen Hochgeschwindigkeitsbahnhofs Frankfurt-Gateway Gardens von Samstag (26.10.19) bis Samstag (12.12.19) komplett gesperrt.Der Bahnhof Kelsterbach wird nicht mehr von der S-Bahn angefahren. Die SEV verkehrt zwischen Rüsselsheim, Kelsterbach und dem Busbahnhof des Flughafenterminals 1.
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Ferienzeit, schönste Zeit – das geht nicht nur den Kindern so, sondern auch uns Erwachsenen. Vor allem, wenn man in den Urlaub fahren kann. Dort in der Ferne, im sonnigen Süden, oder an wilden Küsten, bei Grillenzirpen und Meeresbrise ist doch alles immer besser, leichter, schöner – und vor allem: Es schmeckt besser. Der gebratene Fisch im Hafenrestaurant genauso wie der Rotwein unter Zypressen oder die exotischen Köstlichkeiten auf dem Bazar. Urlaubsgefühl geht auch durch den Magen. Neigen sich die Ferien – wie jetzt – dann dem Ende zu und man muss wieder heim, dann kann man dieses Gefühl auch Zuhause haben. Wir haben für die Daheimgebliebenen wie die Zurückgekehrten ein paar Orte zusammengestellt, in denen es (fast) so schmeckt wie im Urlaub. Und während man so dem letzten Urlaub hinterherschlemmt, kann man sich ja schon auf den nächsten freuen – und Daheim ist es ja auch sehr schön! In der Altstadt schlemmen, wie in der Toskana Italien, das Sehnsuchtsland der Deutschen, auch meins. Seit Jahren landen wir im Urlaub immer wieder dort und zwar nicht irgendwo, sondern in der Maremma. Meer, Lagunenebene und bewaldete Hügel sind da ganz nah beieinander, das zeigt sich auch auf den Tellern. Mare e terra, warum sich für eines entscheiden? Viel Wild gibt es, vor allem Wildschwein, als Ragout, Wurst, Schinken. Außerdem Trüffel, Käse, Honig – hach! Stolz ist man dort auch auf das Cinta-Senese-Schwein. Und das gibt's neben vielen anderen (auch vegetarischen!) Köstlichkeiten in der Rustikeria (Angertorstr. 4, Mo bis Sa 17 bis 23 Uhr, Sonntag Ruhetag) am Rande der Altstadt. Hier gibt's keine Pizza und Pasta, sondern Tagliere (Brotzeitbrettl) voller Spezialitäten, Crostoni, geröstete und belegte Weißbrotscheiben, oder köstlich belegte Schiacciata ripiena, toskanische Focaccia. Wer mag, stellt sich den Belag selbst zusammen. Myriam Siegert Israelische Spezialitäten in der Maxvorstadt Hummus kann man nicht zu viel essen. Das haben wir in Israel gelernt, als wir das Kichererbsenmus zum Frühstück, Mittag und Abend gegessen haben. Genauso Baba Ghanoush, eine Auberginen-Sesam-Paste, und Falafel. Wer in Israel urlaubt, isst immer gut, wird aber auch damit konfrontiert, dass die Sehenswürdigkeit vor ihm seit Jahrhunderten Schauplatz erbitterter Kämpfe von zwei bis drei Weltreligionen ist. Wer in die Eclipse Grillbar (Heßstr. 51) einkehrt, kann sich tellerchenweise tolle Vorspeisen bestellen – ganz ohne Konflikte. Jasmin Menrad Griechisch essen in der Isarvorstadt - ganz üppig In Griechenland gehört freundliches und üppiges Bewirten zur Kultur wie das Essen (und Trinken) selbst. Von den Platten naschen, Kaltes neben Warmen, dazu ein Glas Wein, während die Kinder um die Tische flitzen und der Lärmpegel eher rustikal als romantisch ist: Das klappt gut im Garten der Taverna Melina Merkouri in der Maistraße 26 (tgl. ab 17 Uhr). Empfohlen neben allem Fisch und Fleisch: der Rote-Bete-Salat mit Apfel, Joghurt und Walnüssen (6,90 Euro). Michael Schilling Was Süßes am Viktualienmarkt Vermutlich sind's die Gene. Großeltern aus Litauen, angeheiratete Eltern aus Polen und Rumänien, Urgroßeltern aus Ungarn. Vermutlich liebe ich deshalb die osteuropäische Küche. In München bin ich damit offenbar allein. Restaurants, die richtig gute Brotsuppen, Kutteln oder Klöße anbieten, habe ich bislang nicht gefunden. Mein fettiges Stückchen Polen hole ich mir deshalb im Café Frischhut am Viktualienmarkt (Prälat-Zistl-Straße 8, Mo-Fr 7 bis 18 Uhr, Sa 5 bis 17 Uhr, Sonntag geschlossen). Schmalznudeln sind zwar keine Paczki, das polnische Hefegebäck mit Hagebuttenmarmelade drin. Aber frisch in Butterschmalz ausgebacken und gezuckert, kommen sie den köstlichen Ost-Krapfen schon ziemlich nah. Lea Kramer Asiatisch speisen in Milbertshofen Wenn ich mich zurück in meinen Thailand-Urlaub versetzen möchte, kann ich zu Fuß gehen: Bei mir ums Eck ins das Rabiang Thai Restaurant (Georgenschwaigstraße 25, tgl. 11.30-23 Uhr). Da gibt es authentisches Pad Thai (das nationale Nudelgericht) und Currys, und obendrein eine prunkvolle Inneneinrichtung. Die hat der Künstler des Königspalastes in Bangkok höchstpersönlich gestaltet – klar, dass da goldene Erinnerungen wach werden. Lisa Marie Albrecht Uighurisch essen in der Luwdigvorstadt Zugegeben, ich war noch nie in China. Die Uighuren und ihre Kultur habe ich also hautnah noch nie erlebt. Allerdings war ich – relativ – nah dran: in Kirgistan. Beide Regionen haben kulinarisch mehrere Gemeinsamkeiten. Eine davon: Laghman, sehr lange, frische Nudeln mit Gemüse und Fleisch. Diese rare Spezialität gibt es im Taklamakan, einem Uighurischen Imbiss (Bayerstraße 27, tgl. 10-4 Uhr). Man kann sogar zuschauen, wie der Nudelmacher sie schwungvoll in die Länge zieht. Toll!
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