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Jilly_in_VA's JournalTesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage
Tesla drivers say they have been locked out of their cars after an outage struck the carmaker's app.
Dozens of owners posted on social media about seeing an error message on the mobile app that was preventing them from connecting to their vehicles.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk personally responded to one complaint from a driver in South Korea, saying on Twitter: "Checking."
Mr Musk later said the app was coming back online.
The Tesla app is used as a key by drivers to unlock and start their cars.
Owners posted a multitude of complaints online about not being able to use their vehicles.
"I'm stuck an hour away from home because I normally use my phone to start [my] car," one owner tweeted.
About 500 users reported an error on the app at around 16:40 ET (21:40 GMT) on Friday, according to the outage tracking site DownDetector. Five hours later, there were just over 60 reports of an error.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59357306
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Oopsy!
Kyle Rittenhouse case: Why it so divides the US
Few US trials in recent years have generated such acrimony. What is it about the Kyle Rittenhouse case that so divides the country?
Inside the courtroom, the 18-year-old was visibly shaking as he heard the jury clear him of all five charges, including intentional homicide.
He killed two men during racial unrest in Wisconsin, but successfully convinced the jury he only used his semi-automatic weapon because he feared for his life.
Meanwhile, outside court cars drove past tooting their horns and cheering. Some leaned from windows to shout "Free Kyle!" and "We love the Second Amendment!"
Some were distraught at the verdict - one man collapsed on the courtroom steps in tears, saying if Mr Rittenhouse had been black and brandishing a weapon like that, he would have been shot dead.
Here's why the case provoked such deeply held emotions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59348734
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Pretty good perspective from the Beeb
A year later, protesters injured by police are still trying to heal
Rickia Young, a 29-year-old nurse’s aide, clearly remembers the moment police officers swarmed her car in West Philadelphia last year. She heard one window shatter, then another. Not only was she worried for her own safety, but Young said she feared for her toddler son’s life.
“The cops were banging and yelling, ‘Get the f--- out of the car!’” Young recalled. “They were trying to bust all of the windows out. I was yelling, ‘My son’s in the car, stop! Stop!’ Then I felt my face on fire from the mace. From that moment, I was fighting to live.”
She was driving through West Philadelphia early on Oct. 27, 2020, to pick up a family friend who was out among demonstrators protesting the killing of Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who had been shot by police responding to a 911 call a day earlier. She was attempting to make a U-turn through the rowdy crowd when Philadelphia police officers approached her car, broke the windows, dragged her from the vehicle and beat her. She became separated from her son amid the attack. The city of Philadelphia recently agreed to pay Young a $2 million settlement for the attack in September. Young, whose son is now 3, has also sued the police union over the photo, which she claims was misleading. The lawsuit is pending. However, she said neither the settlement nor the lawsuit can undo what happened.
“I still ache every day,” she said of her injuries. “I can barely play with my son. If I try to run, my back will hurt. I can barely do everyday things. I can’t even hold a baby for a long time because my arm will give out on me. I never thought in a million years that my body would feel so old so soon. It’s really been hard.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/protesters-injured-by-police-george-floyd-still-trying-to-heal/index.html
Sydney Leroux's mother says abuse and bullying in Canadian soccer drove daughter to US
Sandi Leroux remembers the yelling the most.
The mother of Sydney Leroux has a story to tell about her daughter’s experience climbing the ladder of Canadian soccer’s elite player programs before she switched allegiance to the United States, with whom she won Olympic and Women’s World Cup titles.
Leroux says the toxic training environment in Vancouver forced her daughter to make a choice as a teenager between quitting soccer entirely or moving to the US to pursue a career in her father’s country of birth.
The gatekeeper to success in the Canada women’s program at that time was the now-infamous disgraced coach Bob Birarda, who was quietly released from his dual role as coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps and Canada Under-20 women’s teams in 2008 after allegations of abuse.
As Sydney’s prodigious talent was more widely noticed, Leroux recalls Birarda contacting her to say her teenage daughter should join training sessions with his pay-to-play private academy – a two-hour drive from their family home. Leroux said her daughter wouldn’t be able to make it and explained: “I am a single mom and I work full time.”
“‘Do you know who I am?’” Leroux recalls Birarda shouting at her. “He started listing who he was and who he had coached. He was like … a bully. By the time we left Canada, Birarda had control of everything. He had the Whitecaps. He had the U-20s women’s team. It was crazy how he took over everything.”
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/19/sydney-lerouxs-mother-says-abuse-and-bullying-in-canadian-soccer-drove-daughter-to-us
Ann Arbor, Mich., will require all public restrooms to carry menstrual products
Ann Arbor will require all public restrooms in the city to carry menstrual products under a new ordinance that takes effect in January.
It means pads and tampons, as well as soap and toilet paper, will have to be available for free in every public restroom throughout the Michigan city.
"We as a society, for too long, have not taken menstruation seriously," Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor told NPR. "Access to menstrual products is a fundamental human necessity."
Some U.S. states and cities already supply free menstrual products at certain locations, such as school and homeless shelters, but Taylor said he believes Ann Arbor is the first jurisdiction to require them in all public restrooms.
"It's a matter of equity and personal dignity," he said. "I'm just glad that we were able to provide a public good at a low cost."
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/18/1056964746/ann-arbor-michigan-tampons-menstrual-products
Animal Cruelty: Update on Tiger (good stuff!)
Two weeks ago I told you about the cat Tiger, who came to our stray cat jail after living in a basement for most of his life. Due to other commitments, I've been away from the jail for a couple of weeks, so today when I went back I was the recipient of some great news.
Tiger's case, it appears, was not so much cruelty as it was neglect. His former owners were disabled, one a double amputee and the other very ill and now terminal and in hospice care. The neighbor who was looking after them was feeding Tiger but giving him no other attention, and he was being kept in the basement. When she became overburdened she brought Tiger to us. That's his backstory as far as we know it.
Today I went in and was greeted by the news that he is now out of his hide box and no longer growling and hissing at everyone. Natalie, who runs the stray jail, and Shannon, the animal care manager, have been able to pet him, albeit with a bite glove still because he did try to take a chunk out of Natalie's finger the other day. He has a stuffed puppy toy in with him that he snuggles with and which we spray with catnip spray every couple of days (he LOVES catnip!). He watches what goes on with some interest, but on close inspection today I am pretty certain that he is blind in his right eye, whether from birth or from an injury or infection. His eyes don't look quite right anyhow so I suspect he may have been born with some visual defect. I'm beginning to think it's possible he could become adoptable by some special person! 
Opinion: If women's tennis has the courage to walk away from Chinese money, the rest of the sports w
Opinion: If women's tennis has the courage to walk away from Chinese money, the rest of the sports world can, too.A remarkable scene occurred Wednesday night in Guadalajara, Mexico at the championship event of the Women’s Tennis Association’s season.
After Barbora Krejcikova won the doubles title with her Czech partner Katerina Siniakova, she stood in front of Martina Navratilova at the trophy ceremony and spoke about the 32nd anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, a series of demonstrations that ultimately helped bring down the communist, non-democratic government in Czechoslovakia that Navratilova was forced to escape from in 1975.
“Thanks to them and their sacrifice, today my generation can live in a beautiful country back home and live without any restrictions and also with freedom,” Krejcikova said as Navratilova wiped away tears in the background.
It wasn’t lost on anyone who follows tennis that this incredible moment occurred at a tournament that, if not for COVID-19, would have been held in Shenzhen, a Chinese city of 17 million just across the border from Hong Kong.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2021/11/19/wta-tennis-china-walk-away-peng-shuai-disappearance/8683837002/
Judge Says Jail 'Isn't Appropriate' For Man Who Sexually Assaulted Teens
A New York man who pleaded guilty in a sexual assault case involving multiple teenage girls has evaded jail time because a judge decided that incarcerating him “isn’t appropriate.” Instead, he will get eight years’ probation.
The man, 20-year-old Christopher Belter, stands accused of running a “party house” in a wealthy neighborhood in Lewiston, a town in upstate New York, where his mother, stepfather, and adult family friend would allegedly ply teen girls with alcohol, the Niagara-Gazette reported. Belter’s crimes took place at the house, after parties, according to the Buffalo News.
Belter, a former prep school student, could have been sentenced to up to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty in 2019 to third-degree rape and attempted first-degree sexual abuse—both felonies—and two misdemeanor counts of second-degree sexual abuse.
“I agonized—I’m not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case. Because there was great pain. There was great harm—there were multiple crimes committed in the case,” Judge Matthew J. Murphy III said at the sentencing on Tuesday, according to local news outlet WKBW. “It seems to me that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn’t appropriate, so I am going to sentence you to probation.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgbka/new-york-christopher-belter-rape-given-probation
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Y'all know what to do. Plaster this RAPIST'S picture everywhere, just like we did with Brock Turner.
Gosar Boasts of 'Thug Life' Cred as Own Family Condemns Him
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) appears to be relishing the backlash over his decision to share a violent murder fantasy on Twitter even after the move got him formally censured by the House.
Just hours after he was stripped of all committee assignments on Wednesday, the Arizona Republican took to Gettr to share a meme boasting that he’d gained some kind of “thug life” cred. The “Gosar Life” meme featured a photo of the lawmaker with dark sunglasses and an oversize gold chain superimposed over him—along with a supposed joint sticking out of his mouth.
He captioned the meme “can’t keep me down” and in an accompanying video accused Democrats of attempting to “take away my America First agenda.” It was not immediately clear what the “America First agenda” had to do with the anime video he shared that depicted him murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
He has refused to apologize for sharing the video and blamed his own staff for posting the violent clip, which he claimed was an innocent depiction of a “policy battle.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-gosar-boasts-of-his-thug-life-cred-as-his-own-family-demands-his-ouster-over-violent-murder-video?ref=home
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Dude is seriously unhinged!
Pennsylvania teen in mental health crisis had hands up when police fatally shot him, videos show
A Pennsylvania teenager who was in the middle of a mental health crisis had his hands in the air when state police fatally shot him last December, according to new videos released Thursday.
Christian Hall, a 19-year-old Chinese American who had been diagnosed with depression, was standing over the ledge of a highway overpass near Stroudsburg, Pa., when troopers with the Pennsylvania State Police tried to persuade him to come off the ledge. Troopers then backed away when they saw Hall had what appeared to be a firearm, which was later determined to be a realistic pellet gun.
Videos obtained by Spotlight PA and NBC News, the first to report on the footage, show that Hall had his hands in the air for 14 seconds Dec. 30, 2020. The videos, which were also obtained by The Washington Post, show that Hall’s hands remained up, with one of them holding the pellet gun, when two state troopers began firing at him, causing the teen to crumple to the ground almost immediately.
Footage previously released by the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office blurred the final seconds before Hall was killed. Monroe County District Attorney E. David Christine Jr. ruled that the fatal shooting of Hall was justified and that no one would be charged, saying the lives of the troopers were in danger. Michael Mancuso, an assistant district attorney, described Hall’s death at a March news conference as a “classic suicide-by-cop scenario.”
Now, Hall’s parents and their attorneys are calling on the Justice Department and the Pennsylvania attorney general to launch an “unbiased” investigation into a police shooting that has shattered the family and the northeastern-Pennsylvania community.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/18/christian-hall-pennsylvania-police-shooting/
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