New York to open tallest outdoor observation deck in Western Hemisphere
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(CNN) — New York will soon have “the edge” when it comes to magnificent outdoor observation decks. Already home to some of the most famous viewing spots in the world, the Big Apple is about to add another to its impressive collection.
Named Edge, the upcoming Hudson Yards observation deck is set to open next year, with incomparable views of the city skyline.
Standing at more than 1,100 feet, Edge will be the tallest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere and the fifth highest in the world.
After hopping on an elevator for 60 seconds, visitors will arrive at the 7,500-square-foot outdoor viewing area, which extends 65 feet from the 100th floor of the new 30 Hudson Yards tower and includes a glass floor, offering visitors a bird’s-eye view of the city.
Edge also holds a signature 10,000-square-foot restaurant as well as a bar and event space.
While a launch date hasn’t been announced as yet, group bookings are opened for the first quarter of 2020.
“Edge invites visitors to walk out into the sky and embrace unobstructed, panoramic views of New York City like never before,” says Jason Horkin, Executive Director of Hudson Yards Experiences.
“The name reflects both the unique structural design, which pierces the sky when observed from below, and the exhilarating feeling of being on the brink of something exceptional — exactly where you are on edge.” Once launched, Edge will stand taller than the observation deck at the Empire State Building, which is 1,050 feet above street level, as well as Top of the Rock at the Rockefeller Center, 850 feet above street level.
The 30 Hudson Yards tower was designed by William Pedersen of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates as part of Manhattan’s newest neighborhood Hudson Yards.
Built over 28 acres of a working rail yard on Manhattan’s west side, Hudson Yards is the largest ever privately built real estate project in the US, with a cost of around $28 billion.
The complex will also include more than 100 shops and restaurants; The Shed, a cultural and performing arts venue and a public square and gardens.
Body stuffed in duffel bag identified as 9-year-old Los Angeles girl; 2 detained
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Two people have been detained in connection with the death of a young girl whose body was found in a duffel bag near a Los Angeles-area trail.
Police confirmed the girl’s identity as 9-year-old Trinity Love Jones of Los Angeles County on Sunday night and said two persons of interest had been detained for questioning.
“Investigators have detained two persons of interest in this case and they are actively continuing their investigation,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Sunday. “Although the Coroner’s Office determined the death to be a homicide, the cause of death is being withheld.”
Trinity’s barefoot body was found last Tuesday along a trail in Hacienda Heights, California. Police had described her as African-American and thin, standing 4 feet 5 inches tall and weighing about 55 pounds.
Authorities said there were no obvious signs of trauma, but her death was ruled suspicious. It’s unclear if she was dead before being placed in the bag, according to authorities.
The sheriff department’s confirmation came hours after a family came forward to identify the young girl as Trinity.
Family and community members gathered at a makeshift memorial on Sunday near the trail where Trinity was found. The area was decorated with pink flowers, balloons, stuffed animals and photos of the young girl.
Antonio Jones, who said he’s Trinity’s father, described her as “fun, loving, big heart, bubbly.”
“Little girl could’ve been whatever she wanted to be in life,” Jones told ABC Los Angeles station KABC on Sunday.
Officials did not release the identity of the detainees but did say more information would be released later this week.
“Due to the overwhelming response from the news media and tips received from the public, investigators have identified the deceased child discovered on March 5, 2019,” the sheriff department said in the statement. “As additional facts are established and verified, investigators anticipate that additional information will be available for release during a press conference later in the week.”
Self-driving cars risk ‘future errors’ due to difficulty detecting darker skin tones: Researchers
Systems used by self-driving cars to avoid pedestrians may be less accurate at detecting people with darker skin, a report out of the Georgia Institute of Technology warned recently.
Researchers published their findings in a report, “Predictive Inequity in Object Detection,” after testing several similar systems to determine how accurately they spot people of varying skin tones.
Using a collection of digital photographs showing street scenes with pedestrians, the researchers grouped each person pictured in the dataset by their placement on the Fitzpatrick scale — a classification schema that measures skin tone on a scale of one to six from lightest to darkest — and then gauged how well the object-detection systems spotted people lumped on either side of the spectrum.
Summarizing the results, the researchers wrote that their findings “show uniformly poorer performance of these systems when detecting pedestrians with Fitzpatrick skin types between 4 and 6.”
“This behavior suggests that future errors made by autonomous vehicles may not be evenly distributed across different demographic groups,” the researchers wrote.
On average, detection was five percentage point less accurate among individuals on the darker side of the scale, Vox reported Wednesday.
Read more via WashingtonTimes
Florida sixth-grader arrested in Pledge of Allegiance dispute will not be prosecuted
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(CNN)A Florida sixth-grader who was arrested last month following a Pledge of Allegiance dispute at his school will not be prosecuted, his attorney said Wednesday night. The student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland refused to take part in the Pledge of Allegiance on February 4, according to the Polk County School District. At the time, it said the student was arrested for becoming disruptive, not for refusing to participate.The case attracted national attention after Team Roc, a branch of the Roc Nation entertainment company founded by hip-hop artist Jay-Z, became involved. It raised awareness about the case, describing the teen’s arrest as wrong. In a letter to the teen’s mother, Dhakira Talbot, the county’s teen court said there are no pending issues. “Since this was not entered in a criminal database, no delinquency record was created,” it said.
When the student did not take part in the Pledge of Allegiance, a substitute teacher in charge of the class was unaware that the district’s student code of conduct doesn’t mandate students’ participation, the district said at the time.
The substitute teacher said that when she asked the student, who is black, to stand forthe pledge, he “answered that he won’t because the flag of the country is racist. He then started to explain why the national anthem was offensive to black people.” The teacher’s statement to the school district was obtained by CNN affiliate Spectrum Bay News 9.The teacher exchanged words with the student and called the school administration, according to the district. A school resource officer also responded. A school administrator and the officer asked the student to leave the class, but the sixth grader refused, Lakeland police said. Authorities said the student made threats as he was escorted to the office, and he was arrested for disrupting a school function and resisting an officer without violence and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center. The family disputed the version of events in the police report, describing it as “largely fabricated in order to justify the wrongful arrest,” said Roderick Ford, an attorney for the student and his mother. He said the student had never used the word racist, but indicated that he was not participating in the pledge because he felt the American flag represented unfair and discriminatory treatment of black people. “At that point, it is our position that this young man was well within his legal rights,” he said. The sixth-grader was suspended for three days and transferred to a private school following the incident. NFL player Leonard Fournette tweeted that he has invited the student to a Jacksonville Jaguars game.
The legal fight is not over
Talbot welcomed the court’s decision and thanked those who supported her son. But she said the legal fight is not over. “My son and I are grateful for all the athletes, entertainers, Roc Nation and community of supporters that have raised awareness about this injustice and showed their support — both publicly and privately — during our time of need, ” she said. “Although (my son’s) case has been dismissed, I do want people to know this isn’t just about my son — this prejudice happens to African-American kids all across the country. The fight isn’t over, which is why I have a civil rights complaint pending with the US Department of Education.”Ford said he hopes the parties involved will reach a resolution without going to trial. “We do not believe that this case needs to go to trial, although we certainly are prepared to try this case,” he said in a statement. “Instead, it is our hope that the US Department of Education will utilize all of the tools at its disposal to help bring the parties and community stakeholders together in order to reach a fair and just resolution of this case.”
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Gayle King fires back at the Fox News host who mistook her for Robin Roberts: ‘All black people do not look alike’
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- The “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King has weighed in about being mixed up with ABC News’ Robin Roberts.
- The Fox News host Jesse Watters confused the two black journalists on Wednesday, praising King for “redeeming herself” for an interview that Roberts had done.
- Watters has apologized for the mistake.
- King told the “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Thursday that she had reached out to Watters’ colleague Dana Perino and asked her to “let the rest of your colleagues know that all black people don’t look alike.”
Gayle King, the “CBS This Morning” host who recently earned praise for her composure during an emotional interview with R. Kelly, spoke out about the Fox News host who confused her with Robin Roberts, the anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Fox News’ Jesse Watters praised King on a Wednesday episode of “The Five” for “totally redeeming herself after the Smollett fiasco.”
But his cohost Dana Perino quickly stepped in to correct him, saying King had not conducted a recent, highly criticized interview with the actor Jussie Smollett; Roberts had.
“Oh, I knew that,” Watters responded before apologizing for the mistake.
Watters had been referring to Roberts’ interview with Smollett on February 12, just days before Smollett was arrested and charged with filing a false police report about an attack the Chicago police believe he staged.
Roberts was accused of being too sympathetic to Smollett during the interview and failing to challenge him on certain inconsistencies with his story.
Watters drew scorn for mixing up the two prominent black journalists, and on Thursday evening, the “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert asked King to weigh in on the situation.
Tamron Hall gets a new talk show, announces baby news
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LOS ANGELES — Tamron Hall is having a baby and getting her own talk show.
The former NBC “Today” show anchor and host tweeted Monday that she’s pregnant. She wrote that she was “in a safe place at 32 weeks” to share her joy.
Hall writes that she and husband Steven “are beyond excited.”
Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International announced that the 48-year-old’s syndicated talk show “Tamron Hall” will premiere Sept. 9. Executive producer Bill Geddie says Hall has the experience to “talk and listen to all sides and bring folks together.”
Hall tweeted “when one door closes…another one opens.”
Hall left NBC and MSNBC in 2017. Prior to joining MSNBC, Hall spent 10 years working at Fox 32 News Chicago as a reporter and anchor.
Here’s her announcement on Twitter:
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The Jonas Brothers Ate Bird Saliva And Cow Tongue To Keep The Band Together
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Since the Jonas Brothers ~officially~ reunited last week, we’ve been blessed with a sh*t-ton of appearances from Kevin, Joe, and Nick. As such, I’d like to interrupt your 6,343rd viewing of “Sucker” and direct your attention to this video from The Late Late Show. During James Corden’s Jonas Brothers week, the brothers played a round of “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” and ate some prettyyy gross stuff to avoid hurting each other’s feelings/breaking up again before they got started.
I highly recommend watching the video in full, but in the meantime, here is a rundown of everything they did and didn’t eat. In a crucial twist, James Corden changed the rules so if one brother didn’t answer their question, all three had to eat the gross thing.
The things they ate…
Bird Saliva: Rather than have Nick admit who the most famous person who’s hit on him, all three brothers chugged bird saliva. It was nasty.
Three-Chili Pepper Smoothie: Again, the brothers drank this spicy shake in the name of love. Or rather, diplomacy: Joe was asked to rank *NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys, BTS, and One Direction in order from best to worst. If you were wondering who has the least tolerance for spicy, it’s 100 percent Joe. He CHUGGED some water after, then asked for milk. Meanwhile, Kevin seemed to enjoy it??
Cow Tongue and Pork Jelly: Sweet, sweet Kevin made the group eat this rather than say who would make a better father, Nick or Joe.
And the ones they passed on…
Beetle Marmalade Toast: Woof—Kevin picked buying DNCE’s album over Nick’s. ?
Bull Penis: Okay, you really gotta watch this bit. Instead of eating…penis…Nick ranked his four Jumangi co-stars from most to least likable. The Rock earned first place, mostly because he’s the biggest. Smart move, Nick.
Worm Spaghetti: Possibly the biggest burn of the night came at the hands of worm spaghetti. Joe picked traveling with Nick and “Pri,” as he called her, over Kevin and Danielle. Nope, not because of the kids—because if Nick and Priyanka are paying, “it’s gonna be amazing.” Honestly, fair.
Truthfully, even if the rest of 2019 sucks, at least we have these three back together.
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My childhood takes another hit…