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☆ Wisconsin officials believe kayaker missing since summer faked his death and is in Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Mirna-Alsharif-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Mirna Alsharif | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Ryan Borgwardt — a married father of two — went missing on Aug. 12 and his last known location was Green Lake, Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said during a news briefing Friday. Deputies found a capsized kayak in the lake and Borgwardt's vehicle and trailer parked in Dodge Memorial County Park, Podoll said. Courtesy Green Lake County Sheriff's OfficePodol said the investigation took a turn when it was discovered that Borgwardt’s passport was “run” on Aug. 13., the day after he disappeared. "Due to these discoveries of the new evidence, we were sure that Ryan was not in our lake," Podoll said. Podoll said the investigation into Borgwardt's disappearance still has a lot of missing pieces, including a motive, and where he is right now.

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☆ Lucy Lawless on Her Best TV Roles: 'Xena,' 'Parks and Recreation,' & More
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Lucy Lawless is well aware of the "long shadow" her iconic role in "Xena: Warrior Princess" has cast over her career. Her latest, the Acorn TV series "My Life is Murder," is one example of a project Lawless fought to bring to life. On why getting cast as Xena was 'a great big cosmic joke'Lucy Lawless as Xena in "Xena: Warrior Princess." I don't think that would even be particularly mark-worthy these days, would it? But "Parks and Rec" has people who don't know what "Xena" is, but they do know "Parks and Rec" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or something.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Adele Zerilli Springsteen, the longtime legal secretary, musical muse and concert dance partner who captured countless hearts in her son Bruce Springsteen 's E Street Nation and beyond, has died at 98. Bruce Springsteen announced in an Instagram post that his mother died Wednesday. She was “real smart, real strong, real creative,” with a “refusal to be disheartened,” Bruce told biographer Dave Marsh. Her life had an incredible consistency, work, work, work every day, and I admired that greatly," he told "Uncut" magazine in 2002, praising her “noble” juggling of work and home. E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt tweeted Thursday that Adele Springsteen was the “Matriarch of our family and an unrelenting source of inspiring positive energy.

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☆ Why revamping feedback is a priority for Carlyle's new human resources chief
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Carlyle, the Washington, DC-based alternative asset manager which manages some $382 billion in assets, this week announced that it would install a new chief human resources officer. Jennifer Barker, a partner who's been with Carlyle since 2016 and presently serves as the firm's head of international human resources, will step into the role of chief human resources, taking over for Bruce Larson, formerly a senior human-capital executive at Goldman Sachs who joined Carlyle in 2019, according to a Carlyle regulatory filing. Others include Lúcia Soares, the firm's chief information officer and head of technology transformation, appointed in July; Eleena Melamed, global chief operating officer of investor relations and head of client strategy, appointed in August; and Meg Starr, formerly Carlyle's global head of impact, who became global head of corporate affairs in December. In a Thursday memo announcing the switch, Schwartz said Barker will report to Christopher Finn, Carlyle's chief operating officer, and take a seat on the firm's leadership and operating committees. She is also interested in rethinking how companies deliver feedback to their employees, perhaps through the arcane rite of the performance review.

Persons: Carlyle, Jennifer Barker, who's, Bruce Larson, Goldman Sachs, Larson, Barker, Harvey Schwartz's, Lúcia Soares, Eleena, Meg Starr, Schwartz, Christopher Finn, Jen, that's, we've, Reed Alexander Organizations: Business Locations: Washington, DC, London

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jawhar Jordan ran for a career-high 143 yards, scoring on 45- and 21-yard runs on consecutive second-half possessions, and No. Schrader's 54-yard field goal got Notre Dame to 17-13, but Jordan answered with another big run. Notre Dame turned the ball over on downs and Travelstead added his third field goal from 45 yards for the 17-point cushion. Notre Dame was outgained 330-298 with just 44 yards rushing after entering the game averaging 192 per contest. POLL IMPLICATIONSNotre Dame figures to drop several spots with a second loss in three games and its worst this season.

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☆ The inventor of the web thinks everyone will have their own personal A.I. assistants like ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Through their company Inrupt, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and John Bruce, are trying to change the future of the internet. Inrupt is a company they co-founded which aims to deliver the web inventors' original vision of the way the internet should work. Data will be stored in so-called "pods," which are basically a person's personal data online storage container. And the opportunity for individuals to take more command over their role on the web," Bruce told CNBC's Beyond The Valley. But Berners-Lee is keen to call the next generation of the internet Web 3.0, emphasizing the dot.

☆ Bruce Willis' 'condition has progressed' to frontotemporal dementia, his family says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Saba Hamedy | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Bruce Willis attends the Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis at Hollywood Palladium on July 14, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family said Thursday. In a heartfelt Instagram post, ex-wife Demi Moore and Rumer Willis, the couple's eldest daughter, shared that the actor's aphasia diagnosis, which the family had announced in March 2022, has progressed. In March, the Willis/Moore family had said Willis would be "stepping away" from his career following the aphasia diagnosis, which they said had impacted his cognitive abilities. Representatives for Moore and Willis did not immediately respond to further request for comment on Thursday.

Last week, the Bruces’ great-grandsons sold it back to the county for nearly $20 million. However, equally as shortsighted is treating this case as a model for reparations for all Black Americans, as some have suggested. Doing so would ignore that true reparation requires repair, and this solution doesn’t address the sources of racial inequality in America’s real estate system. Invariably, Blacks’ property was most endangered when it became valuable, or when it threatened the value of white property and business interests. In gentrifying housing markets, tax sales serve as a lucrative profit source, whose main victims are Black, elderly and low-income people.

☆ Los Angeles County to pay Black family $20 million to buy back wrongly seized beach
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Jan 4 (Reuters) - Los Angeles County will spend $20 million to purchase a prime beachfront property from the heirs of an African-American couple who were given the land back a century after local officials unjustly stripped it from them. The Bruce family has informed county officials that they have decided to sell Bruce's Beach to the county for the estimated value of the Manhattan Beach property, Janice Hahn, chairperson of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said in a tweet on Tuesday. Before it was taken by the county, the property had been a rare resort where Black people could gather and enjoy the beach in segregated and discriminatory Los Angeles County of the early 20th century. When it was returned, the Bruce family had agreed to lease it to the county for $413,000 per year, while the county retained the right to buy it. Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago Editing by Peter GraffOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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