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"The decision came down to timing," a source said at the time. "She'll be focusing on her modeling career, new business opportunities and NYU starting in the fall."
Kloss discussed her experience with the fashion show in an interview with InStyle in November 2014. She described the energy leading up to the annual event as "pretty unreal."
"It's this day that you've been preparing for all year; millions of dollars of preparations, hundreds of people all year preparing for this one day, and you really just want to do what you can to not mess it up and do your best!" the star said.
"It's a really special day when it finally all comes together in that moment when the show actually happens," she added.
Kloss will join the 14 current Victoria's Secret Angels and 18 newcomers at the 2017 show. Model sisters Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid confirmed this week that they will also return for the event.
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The death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew has risen to more than 280, government officials said Thursday as aid workers began to reach the island nation's remote and storm-ravaged western peninsula.
More than 48 hours after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was battered by one of the fiercest Caribbean storms in nearly a decade, the scope of destruction was becoming clear.
At least 28,000 homes have been damaged, according to Haitian government officials. The United Nations said at least 350,000 people were in need of immediate aid.
The death toll, announced by Interior Ministry officials, rose sharply as some of the hardest-hit regions, cut off as a result of damaged roads and the collapse of a major bridge, became slowly accessible.
Dr. Charles-Patrick Almazor, chief medical officer in Haiti for the nonprofit Partners in Health, said he expects the death toll to rise.
We keep saying that we are a resilient nation. But I don’t know how much more we can take.
"There's a lot of people in villages that we don't even know about," said Almazor, who said the hurricane was a painful blow for a country that has been struggling to rebuild since 2010's devastating earthquake.
"We keep saying that we are a resilient nation," he said. "But I don't know how much more we can take."
Hurricane Matthew, which was expected to hit the southeastern coast of the United States as early as Thursday night, stormed over Haiti on Tuesday before hitting Cuba and the Bahamas. No deaths were reported in those island nations, which some aid workers saw as a testament to their more sophisticated infrastructure an...
Aerial footage of Jeremie, a city of 31,000 on the northwestern coast of Haiti's peninsula, showed hundreds of flattened houses and debris-strewn streets. In Les Cayes, a devastated port city on the southwestern coast, "almost every structure is damaged or destroyed," said Margaret Traub, head of global initiatives wit...
Traub arrived in the city by helicopter Thursday because roads to the region had been washed out. She flew over miles of flattened farmland, where even large palm trees had been uprooted.
"The whole area is seeing heavy disruption," she said. "Power lines are down. Trees are down. Rivers are flooded. Bridges are out."
"People are in need of food, clean water and shelter," she said. "We're especially worried about access to clean water, because we're very concerned about diseases."
Haiti had already been grappling with a cholera crisis; 27,000 cases of the potentially deadly waterborne disease have been reported so far this year. Almazor, the Haitian doctor, predicted that the rate of cholera infection will triple in the coming weeks.
"We need help," he said. "I'm worried."
Food shortages were already being reported in affected areas, where many people survive on subsistence farming.
In Arcachaie, the biggest banana-growing region in Haiti, about 80% of banana crops were destroyed by winds and flooding, according to the aid group Mercy Corps. The crops supported about 20,000 families, the group said, and farmers may have difficulty replanting because their fields were flooded with seawater.
With 21,000 displaced people staying in shelters, Haiti also faces a looming housing crisis. Already the government had been struggling to house people displaced by the earthquake, with tens of thousands of people near the capital, Port-au-Prince, living in tent cities that were supposed to be temporary.
The hurricane has strained a government already in tumult. Haiti has been without an elected president since February, with several rounds of scheduled elections postponed because of fears of violence.
The nation was planning to hold a new presidential election Sunday, but the vote has been postponed indefinitely.
Times staff writer Alexandra Zavis contributed to this report.
6:15 p.m.: This article was updated with reports of additional deaths.
1:05 p.m.: This article was updated throughout with additional reporting.
11:05 a.m.: This article was updated with more details about hurricane damage.
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Her husband, who wanted to be known only as Mohd Hassan, 60, was quoted as saying he did not suspect that his wife’s elusiveness and excuses to go to work over the weekends and public holidays was due to that reason.
He added that her dark secret was revealed only a year after she decided to stop working.
He said that when she quit, she had claimed that she wanted to look after her mother’s house in Pasir Mas, Kelantan while her mother was on her pilgrimage.
Not convinced with her excuse, he kept pressuring her to tell him the truth and she finally revealed the secret to him and her mother.
He said his wife was allegedly raped for the first time at a location near his house when one of the enforcement officers offered to send her home.
The enforcement officer allegedly forced her to give in to his demands and threatened to hurt or dismiss her if she declined.
He also “promoted” her to two other enforcement officers, who also allegedly raped her including in the car, office storeroom, staircase and toilet.
Mohd Hassan lodged a police report at Pasir Mas police station last March.
The daily also highlighted a report about loan sharks allegedly using a new tactic to cheat civil servants by enticing them to secure loans from certain co-operatives before investing the money in a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme.
The syndicate allegedly used middlemen who claimed to be the co-operative agents, to coax civil servants to apply for loans and invest in the MLM, which had RM1bil in accumulated capital and had been blacklisted by the authorities.
The Cooperative Commission of Malaysia received complaints from those cheated by the syndicate, which allegedly used fake signatures and thumbprints of victims.
CCM chief executive Datuk Md Yusof Shamsudin said the commission would also freeze the National Co-operative Organisation of Malaysia (Angkasa) service bureau salary deduction codes of the alleged co-operatives to stop them from making transactions other than debt collection.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
Unless you've faced Jordan Spieth in a match, there's little reason to be intimidated by him. Until, we guess, you've watched this new commercial starring the 22-year-old.
In a new Under Armour ad co-starring NBA Finals MVP and noted golf enthusiast Steph Curry, thousands of Jordan Spieth clones stare the camera down, then hit iron shots sky-high into the air. If this was the Masters, these computer-generated replicas of Spieth hit their shots to about 10 feet for a birdie putt. For a Mo...
It has been a great year for Under Armour, with Spieth's growing popularity, Tom Brady's winning his fourth Super Bowl and Curry leading the Warriors to an NBA title. This ad launches a new marketing campaign for Under Armour called "Rule Yourself", promoting practice and training to achieve new heights. And Spieth fig...
According to ESPN's Darren Rovell, who spoke to the company's executives about Spieth's successful 2015, Under Armour plans to move on a Spieth line of apparel -- which isn't a surprise after Under Armour trademarked the Spieth logo last month.
"We were banking on Jordan all along," said Under Armour senior vice president of brand marketing Adrienne Lofton. "It's not like he's an overnight sensation. The plan was to originally introduce Jordan with our brand and eventually move to a Jordan line, just like we did with Steph. We know, like with Steph, that if w...
Side note: How awesome would a round of golf be with Steph Curry and Jordan Spieth? If they haven't teed it up yet, that needs to happen. There ya go, Under Armour: There's your next commercial idea. How's that for Monday motivation?
We don’t know which employee of tobacco giant Philip Morris wrote the above words as part of a memo sent to company brass in 1970. But we do know the next sentence s/he typed.
“Many regard marihuana as an alternate, and perhaps a superior, method of satisfying the needs that cigarette smoking satisfies,” as the internal company memo obtained decades later by tobacco-industry researchers at the University of California, San Francisco reads.
How much of a threat marijuana truly presented to a highly addictive product already used by nearly 40 percent of American adults is unclear, but cigarette-makers took notice. Philip Morris and its competitors, British American Tobacco and RJ Reynolds, all considered entering the weed game at various times, according t...
Decades of military-style raids compared unironically to the Nazi occupation of Europe followed. Cannabis became so hard to find that the entrepreneurial-minded turned to other commodities. “You just couldn’t get it,” lamented would-be pot-seller Rick Ross, who instead sold an estimated $600 million worth of crack coca...
Fifty years of all that served only to delay what tobacco-company researchers and the unnamed memo-writer knew was inevitable. Cannabis, the country’s most valuable cash crop, is now a legal commercial commodity in eight states. Tobacco is still a banner business—how can it not be, when entry is so strictly regulated t...
It doesn’t take a stable brain genius to figure out how the company pivoted. The annual report of the Altria Group, Philip Morris’s $26 billion parent company, does not mention marijuana as a threat to its bottom-line—its main “challenges” are anti-smoking restrictions, from the same government that gave it a generatio...
Since then, the company has been busy marking as its intellectual territory a slew of vaping devices, patenting a potential future hoard of e-cigarettes and other solid and liquid vapes—many of which bear a striking resemblance to marijuana dispensaries’ most popular products.
Besides tobacco, cannabis also poses a threat to other popular chemical unwinding methods. Molson Coors is only the most recent big alcohol company to tell its investors that, hey, legalization could hurt our bottom line. Other firms, like Constellation Brands, reacted with the “join ’em” method, investing in cannabis ...
If the patent rush is any proof, tobacco companies may go the hostile takeover route. Instead of buying out existing marijuana outfits, they have the money and the power to bury them in court.
Will they succeed? Should they be allowed to succeed? And if they do, will it be bad?
More so than the market, the answers to the above rely on the same government regulators who have steered the ship thus far.
There’s a rational argument to be made that if Altria went to cannabis, the world would benefit. If tobacco companies sold marijuana instead, that would probably be good for public health. Tobacco kills over 480,000 people a year. Weed kills nobody. Add economics—and emotion, and equity—and the question is harder to an...
In 2010, when California voters were a few months away from deciding whether their state would be the first to re-legalize recreational cannabis for adults, an old and nasty rumor started swirling around cannabis circles. Philip Morris was up in Humboldt County, buying up old timber land. Big Tobacco was moving in—lega...
The stories were wrong in the details—why buy rocky and remote land in the woods, where pot growers went to hide, when you have factories and processing facilities near population centers?—but they did capture an essential truth.
Where you find money, you will find Big Something, and the flip of the nation’s most popular illicit drug into the latest legal industry absolutely means big money.
In the report summarizing tobacco companies’ aims on marijuana, the UCSF researchers provided a warning—and a possible path forward. “Policymakers should learn from their successes and failures in regulating tobacco,” they wrote.
That should be read from a policy standpoint, not one of public health—and these are the policymakers on whom Altria sprinkles more than $100 million a year in lobbying. That’s a bad sign, and there’s reason to fear for a monopolized marijuana industry. Thus far in California, high taxes and onerous government regulati...
Big Tobacco’s power move on marijuana was inevitable—a 50-year itch. It’s just beginning, but so far it’s looking like Marlboro Greens will turn from an April Fool’s joke to a 4/20 special in the near future.
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Becoming a political power broker is not part of Jesus' plan. In fact, theologian Charles Marsh argues, it's nowhere in the Bible.
That's the message of the theologian's new book, "Wayward Christian Soldiers" (Oxford University Press, $25). In it, Marsh attacks -- occasionally with biting sarcasm -- politicians and evangelical leaders for using Christianity to seize control. And he writes with gravitas that few others have on this popular subject;...
The Politico's Robin T. Reid discussed this pivotal intersection of faith and politics with Marsh over the phone from his travels in Berlin, where he has been researching Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian whom the Nazis executed.
Q: What exactly do evangelicals believe that sets them apart from other Christians?
A: The main features are first and foremost a born-again experience that brings one into a personal, saving relationship with Jesus, but also a relationship to the Bible that regards the scriptures as the source book of life. An evangelical broadly believes that God speaks to men and women and children through the word...
Q: The last openly religious president we had was Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. How did the Republicans become the party of religion?
A: And yet Jimmy Carter did not have the support of the conservative Christian organizations and other grass-roots groups that were beginning to use the language of moral values.
As someone who grew up in Mississippi and Alabama during the civil rights movement, ... my reading is that the conservative Christian movement never was able to distinguish itself from the segregationist movement, and that is one of the reasons I find so much of the rhetoric familiar -- and unsettling.
By the end of the civil rights movement, the way was set for this marriage of the Republican Party and conservative Christians. … At the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi in 1980, (Ronald) Reagan's statement "I am for states' rights" was a remarkable moment in the conservative South. The Southern way of life was affir...
White political elites are very good at using the language of faith. The preachers use it to communicate to thousands of parishioners who truly believe that, to be Christian, one must be part of a certain party.
LAWTON, OK (KSWO) - A free lunch and kind words were given to first responders all over southwest Oklahoma at Cameron Baptist Church on Friday.
The church has been hosting this lunch for three years around the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, as a way to say thank you for what they do all year. Lunch was catered and the desserts were homemade from the church members. They even showed their appreciation earlier this week, by dropping off snacks to hos...
Probationary police officer Christopher Puetz says it's something he saw before he became an officer. But to see it after joining the force, it brings new meaning to the community's support.
"Oh, it's an amazing feeling," said Puetz. "You know, it's really reassuring coming to a career like this, and seeing that the community really supports us and what we do. We go out there every day we give our lives, we put it on the line. And the community really appreciates us for that. It's a wonderful feeling."
Puetz is one of the many first responders dropping in and out of the lunch Friday.
Cameron Baptist Church pastor Mike Teel says he has family members who are first responders, and he understands how much they sacrifice.
"We've already seen guys who have come in today, fire trucks have come in today that have been called out, had to leave their meals in the middle of the meals so we understand of that," said Teel.
For Puetz, he says for the church hosting the lunch, even though it was his first time, he was treated just like every other officer, with respect.
They don't see me as a rookie, they see me as a Lawton police officer," said Puetz "They respect me, and respect what I do. They really appreciate us all."
They also had a prayer lead by Pastor Teel. They prayed for the first responders' protection as they do their important jobs through the year.
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After a year of stalled negotiations, fresh changes to draft rules affecting workers temporarily sent to other EU countries are further deepening rifts between eastern and western member states.
A new compromise draft from Malta, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, has caused outrage among some eastern EU countries.
A group of countries including Poland, Romania and Hungary has fiercely opposed any legal changes to 21-year-old posted workers rules and called western EU member states protectionist for pushing measures to raise pay for workers from lower wage countries.
The European Commission proposed the overhaul one year ago and vetoed ‘yellow cards’ from 11 countries that tried to block the changes last summer on grounds that it would harm the internal market.
The rules allow workers to be sent temporarily to another EU country but still pay social contributions in their home countries.
New changes to the draft bill have only stirred tensions between some member states.
Transport workers are explicitly pulled under the rules, according to Malta’s compromise bill, which was circulated to EU diplomats this week and seen by euractiv.com.
That measure has upset opposing countries that argue it is too hard to apply national employment law to truck drivers who pass through a country.
Employers who send workers to other EU countries will also have to make sure their workers’ accommodation meets local standard conditions, under changes inserted into Malta’s proposal.

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