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Carmichael restaurant demands answers from DoorDash after delivery person appears to steal money

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Stephen Tran never expected someone to steal his worker’s hard-earned tips, especially someone who works for tips themselves. But he says it happened around noon on Thursday at a BurgerIM restaurant in Carmichael.In security camera video shared with KCRA 3, a DoorDash delivery woman wearing a blue jacket is shown waiting to pick up a food order. She waits for the cashier to leave, then, reaches into the tip jar by the register, and grabs the cash.”Every dollar when it comes to a tip, it matters,” Tran said. “At a family business or any small restaurant, you’re making minimum wage.”Tran reached out to DoorDash to report the woman. Customer service reps wrote that DoorDash could block the dasher from receiving orders from the restaurant. Another email stated Tran’s restaurant had “the ability to rate all Dasher interactions.”Representatives with the billion-dollar company did not share feedback on any disciplinary action, if any, they would take against their Dasher for stealing.”If your employee is stealing from us, that’s not going to stop them from stealing either someone else’s food or another location,” said Tran. “You have to hold your employees accountable for what they do.”Tran told us the dasher did return to the restaurant later that day, but she said the woman in the video was not her. Security camera video shows that the woman who appeared in the restaurant later that afternoon was wearing the same shirt.”There’s video evidence she’s wearing the same outfit, she just took off the jacket,” added Tran.KCRA 3 took Tran’s concerns to DoorDash. A customer service representative said over the phone that the issue would be escalated to headquarters. Another representative also wrote in an email that they have sent our feedback to “the relevant teams.”

CARMICHAEL, Calif. —

Stephen Tran never expected someone to steal his worker’s hard-earned tips, especially someone who works for tips themselves. But he says it happened around noon on Thursday at a BurgerIM restaurant in Carmichael.

In security camera video shared with KCRA 3, a DoorDash delivery woman wearing a blue jacket is shown waiting to pick up a food order. She waits for the cashier to leave, then, reaches into the tip jar by the register, and grabs the cash.

“Every dollar when it comes to a tip, it matters,” Tran said. “At a family business or any small restaurant, you’re making minimum wage.”

Tran reached out to DoorDash to report the woman. Customer service reps wrote that DoorDash could block the dasher from receiving orders from the restaurant. Another email stated Tran’s restaurant had “the ability to rate all Dasher interactions.”

Representatives with the billion-dollar company did not share feedback on any disciplinary action, if any, they would take against their Dasher for stealing.

“If your employee is stealing from us, that’s not going to stop them from stealing either someone else’s food or another location,” said Tran. “You have to hold your employees accountable for what they do.”

Tran told us the dasher did return to the restaurant later that day, but she said the woman in the video was not her. Security camera video shows that the woman who appeared in the restaurant later that afternoon was wearing the same shirt.

“There’s video evidence she’s wearing the same outfit, she just took off the jacket,” added Tran.

KCRA 3 took Tran’s concerns to DoorDash. A customer service representative said over the phone that the issue would be escalated to headquarters. Another representative also wrote in an email that they have sent our feedback to “the relevant teams.”

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‘Sound Of Music,’ ‘All The Money In The World’ Star – Deadline

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Christopher Plummer, who starred in The Sound of Music, won an Oscar for Beginners and was nominated for All the Money in the World and The Last Station, died peacefully today at his home in Connecticut, his family confirmed. Elaine Taylor, his wife and true best friend for 53 years, was by his side.

Along with becoming the oldest person to win an Oscar, Plummer also won a pair of Emmys and two Tonys during a nearly 70-year career.

Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager of 46 years, said; “Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”

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Plummer spent the past nearly 70 years as a stalwart of stage and screen, the latter of which covered more than 100 films. He is best known for playing Captain George Von Trapp in 1965 Robert Wise-directed classic The Sound of Music, but he won his Oscar for the 2010 film Beginners, and he was most recently Oscar nominated for the Ridley Scott-directed All The Money in the World. In that film, he replaced Kevin Spacey in the role of J. Paul Getty, after Spacey had an #MeToo downfall. Plummer most recently costarred in the ensemble of the Rian Johnson-directed Knives Out.

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Raised in Montreal, Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut in 1954, the actor went on to star in many celebrated productions on Broadway and London’s West End winning accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

He won two Tony Awards for the musical Cyrano and for Barrymore plus seven Tony nominations, his latest for his King Lear in 2004 and for his Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind three years later; also three Drama Desk Awards and the National Arts Club Medal. A former leading member of the Royal National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier and the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, where he won London’s Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in Becket; he also led Canada’s Stratford Festival in its formative years under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham.

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Since Sidney Lumet introduced him to the screen in Stage Struck (1958), his range of notable films include The Man Who Would Be King, Battle of Britain, Waterloo, Fall of The Roman Empire, Star Trek VI, Twelve Monkeys and the 1965 Oscar-winning The Sound of Music. More recent films include The Insider as Mike Wallace — for which he won a National Film Critics Award — the acclaimed A Beautiful Mind, Man in the Chair, Must Love Dogs, National Treasure, Syriana and Inside Man.

His TV appearances, which number close to 100, include the Emmy-winning BBC Hamlet at Elsinore playing the title role; the Emmy-winning productions The Thornbirds, Nuremberg, Little Moon of Alban and HBO’s Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight earning him seven Emmy nominations and taking home two Emmys. He was last seen in the Canadian series, Departures.

Apart from honors in the UK, USA, Austria and Canada, he was the first performer to receive the Jason Robards Award in memory of his great friend, the Edwin Booth Award and the Sir John Gielgud Quill Award. In 1968, sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada — an honorary knighthood. An Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Juilliard, he also received the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 1986 he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and in 2000 Canada’s Walk of Fame. Plummer’s projects include the highly praised animated films Up, 9 as well as the title role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed by Terry Gilliam.

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He played the great novelist Tolstoy opposite Helen Mirren in The Last Station for Sony Classics, where he received his first Academy Award nomination in 2010. He followed that up the next year with another nomination and a win for Best Supporting Actor in Beginners from writer-director Mike Mills and appeared in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that same year.

In July and August 2012, he returned to the Stratford Festival to perform his one-man show that he created entitled A Word or Two, directed by Des McAnuff. In 2013, he starred opposite Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine in Elsa & Fred directed by Michael Radford, Hector And The Search for Happiness directed by Peter Chelsom, Danny Collins opposite Al Pacino and Annette Benning for writer/director Dan Fogelman and The Forger opposite John Travolta directed by Phillip Martin. In 2015, he starred in Remember, directed by Atom Egoyan and in 2017 The Exception, based on the novel The Kaiser’s Last Kiss co-starring Lily James, Jai Courtney and Janet McTeer and The Man Who Invented Christmas, co-starring Dan Stevens. That same year he replaced Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World, earning him his fourth Golden Globe and third Academy Award nominations. Boundaries for Sony Classics, co-starring Vera Farmiga in 2018, and Last Full Measure with Sebastian Stan, Ed Harris and Samuel L. Jackson. He was recently seen in the very successful KNIVES OUT starring Daniel Craig and Chris Evans. His recent self-written best selling memoir, In Spite of Myself (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers) praised by critics and public remains a best seller.

Erik Pedersen and Greg Evans contributed to this report.



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Asian markets retreat as caution sets in

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TOKYO — Asian shares mostly fell Thursday as caution set in over company earnings reports, recent choppy trading in technology stocks and prospects for more economic stimulus for a world battling a pandemic.

Japan’s Nikkei 225
NIK,
-1.03%
slipped 0.5% in early trading, while South Korea’s Kospi
180721,
-1.90%
dropped 1.6%. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200
XJO,
-0.87%
slipped 0.6%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng
HSI,
-1.35%
lost 1.2%, while the Shanghai Composite
SHCOMP,
-1.38%
was down 1%. Stocks rose in Indonesia
JAKIDX,
+0.63%
and Malaysia
FBMKLCI,
-0.25%
but fell in Singapore
STI,
-1.29%
and Taiwan
Y9999,
-0.43%.

Also on market players’ minds is the global vaccine rollout, which is becoming more organized in the U.S., but yet to play out in much of Asia, except for China, where the pandemic started.

“As the rally waned for the U.S. market, Asia markets can be seen left to their own devices into the Thursday session, and it appears that investors may be locking in some of the recent gains,” said Jingyi Pan, a senior market strategist for IG in Singapore.

Wall Street ended with modest gains, with the S&P 500
SPX,
+0.10%
inched up 3.86 points, or 0.1%, to 3,830.17, after swinging between a gain of 0.6% and a loss of 0.3%. The tiny gain extended the benchmark index’s winning streak to a third day.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.12%
gained 36.12 points, or 0.1%, to 30,723.60. The tech-heavy Nasdaq
COMP,
-0.02%
slipped 2.23 points, or less than 0.1%, to 13,610.54. The index had briefly been above its all-time high set last week.

Energy, communications and financial stocks helped lift the market. Those gains were primarily kept in check by declines in companies that rely on consumer spending and technology stocks.

GameStop and other recently high-flying stocks notched modest gains Wednesday. GameStop
GME,
+2.68%
rose 2.7% and AMC
AMC,
+14.71%
climbed 14.7%. The stocks have been caught up in a speculative frenzy by traders in online forums who seek to inflict damage on Wall Street hedge funds that have bet the stocks would fall. GameStop plunged 60% on Tuesday, and AMC Entertainment lost 41.2%.

“There’s a tug of war that’s been brewing for a week or so now, that markets are ripe for a correction and whether the events of last week are a precipitating event,” said Jamie Cox, managing partner at Harris Financial Group.

Stocks have been mostly rallying this week, an encouraging start to February after a late fade in January as volatility spiked amid worries about the timing and scope of another round of stimulus spending by the Biden administration, unease over the effectiveness of the government’s coronavirus vaccine distribution and turbulent swings in GameStop and other stocks hyped on social media.

That volatility has subsided this week, with Wall Street focusing mainly on corporate earnings reports while it keeps an eye on Washington for signs of progress on a new aid package.

Democrats and Republicans remain far apart on support for President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, but investors are betting that the administration will opt for a reconciliation process to get the legislation through Congress.

In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude
CLH21,
+0.63%
gained 15 cents to %55.84 a barrel. Brent crude
BRNJ21,
+0.51%,
the international standard, added 6 cents to $58.52 a barrel.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar
USDJPY,
+0.13%
inched down to 105.02 Japanese yen from 105.06 yen.

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Sony Reveals It Loses Money Selling PS5 Consoles

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In its recently revealed quarterly report, Sony revealed to its investors that it actually sells the PlayStation 5 at a loss.

According to Sony, the “strategic price point” was used to undercut the Microsoft Xbox Series X/S releasing around the same time. The company offset its losses with gaming sales and other entertainment revenue. Incredibly, the plan paid off with 4.5 million consoles sold in 2020 and $4.6 billion USD in game sales which doubled the $2.3 billion USD generated from hardware sales. Additionally, PlayStation Plus subscription and other network revenue saw a nine percent boost overall.

Unable to manufacture PlayStation 5 consoles to meet the overwhelming demand, Sony is showing signs of a major Q4 after bringing in a record $10 billion USD profit in Q3 with all its segments with sales and operating income up 9.5 and 20 percent, respectively.

In case you missed it, Chaos recently erupted over a Sony PlayStation 5 sale in Tokyo.



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Hundreds of Iowans donate to father in need of heart transplant

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Hundreds — if not thousands — of people lined up in their cars outside Tumea & Sons Sunday afternoon for a pasta dinner and to support a Des Moines father of three in heart failure.Some said they waited an hour and a half in the line that stretch down Indianola Avenue. “A couple hours but it’s for a good cause, so it’s the least we can do,” said Brendin Himan, a friend of Bachman, as he sat in his parked car at the intersection of Indianola Avenue and Gray Street. “It almost feels like I’m already winning! I’m on like victory lane right now,” Bachman said, knowing the finish line is much further down the road.His doctors can only guarantee him 3 more weeks, and the earliest he can be put on a transplant list is May. But Bachman, along with everyone else in line, is more than determined to see him then.”Now I’m being told I have weeks left, and in my heart, as bad as it is, I feel like I’m going to be here,” he said.”Him knowing he has this big army of people behind him… that’s a big help! I think that gives everybody hope especially Dustin,” Bachman’s sister, Mandi Bidwell said. As his friends and family continued to serve out the delicious pasta dinners, they choose to see the good that can come out of a horrible situation.They choose to see hope — not just for Bachman — but for anyone going through a crisis who has the support of a community like Des Moines’ Southside.”I still feel like I’m the blessed one… I know that probably doesn’t make any sense but… this right here truly is a great day. It makes my heart complete.”For information about how to donate to Bachman’s family, click here.

DES MOINES, Iowa —

Hundreds — if not thousands — of people lined up in their cars outside Tumea & Sons Sunday afternoon for a pasta dinner and to support a Des Moines father of three in heart failure.

Some said they waited an hour and a half in the line that stretch down Indianola Avenue.

“A couple hours but it’s for a good cause, so it’s the least we can do,” said Brendin Himan, a friend of Bachman, as he sat in his parked car at the intersection of Indianola Avenue and Gray Street.

“It almost feels like I’m already winning! I’m on like victory lane right now,” Bachman said, knowing the finish line is much further down the road.

His doctors can only guarantee him 3 more weeks, and the earliest he can be put on a transplant list is May. But Bachman, along with everyone else in line, is more than determined to see him then.

“Now I’m being told I have weeks left, and in my heart, as bad as it is, I feel like I’m going to be here,” he said.

“Him knowing he has this big army of people behind him… that’s a big help! I think that gives everybody hope especially Dustin,” Bachman’s sister, Mandi Bidwell said.

As his friends and family continued to serve out the delicious pasta dinners, they choose to see the good that can come out of a horrible situation.

They choose to see hope — not just for Bachman — but for anyone going through a crisis who has the support of a community like Des Moines’ Southside.

“I still feel like I’m the blessed one… I know that probably doesn’t make any sense but… this right here truly is a great day. It makes my heart complete.”

For information about how to donate to Bachman’s family, click here.

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Captain Tom hospitalized for virus he raised money to fight

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LONDON (AP) — Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, his daughter said Sunday.

Hannah Ingram-Moore revealed in a statement posted on Twitter that her father, widely known as Captain Tom, has been admitted to Bedford Hospital because he needed “additional help” with his breathing.

She said that over the past few weeks her father had been treated for pneumonia and that he had tested positive for the coronavirus last week.

She said he is being treated in a ward, not in an intensive care unit.

“The medical care he has received in the last few weeks has been remarkable and we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible,” she said.

Moore became an emblem of hope in the early weeks of the pandemic in April when he walked 100 laps around his garden in England for the National Health Service to coincide with his 100th birthday. Instead of the 1,000 pounds ($1,370) aspiration, he raised around 33 million pounds ($45 million).

Moore, who rose to the rank of captain while serving in India and Burma during the war, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July for his fundraising efforts.

Best wishes came in from far and wide, including from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said in a tweet that Moore had “inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery.”

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Illegal dumper makes money hauling trash, duping Eagle Mountain residents

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EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah — The Utah County Sheriff’s Office has quite a strange case of illegal dumping on their hands, saying trash from several Eagle Mountain residents is ending up on private property instead of at the dump.

Only, the people who own the stuff aren’t the ones leaving it behind.

On Friday afternoon, Utah County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Spencer Cannon took photos of discarded furniture, boxes and random objects that sat on snow and mud amongst juniper trees.

The piles of trash were abandoned far back on private property at the base of Lake Mountain, on the outskirts of Eagle Mountain.

Sgt. Cannon pointed out an old pair of Sorel boots, as well as a dog crate and what appeared to be canned beets in mason jars. Old couches and chairs were stacked under mattresses and dressers.

“For 20 more minutes’ time, this guy could have done it the right way,” he said, referring to the fact that the dump in Cedar Fort was a mere 5-mile drive.

As he documented the investigation, he found a box with a name.

“This does have identifiable information on it,” he said.

The Sheriff’s Office was already aware of who this stuff belonged to, because of Amazon boxes with names and addresses.

The culprits could face over $1,000 in fines, Sgt. Cannon indicated.

But that’s why the owners of all that stuff couldn’t believe it was left there.

“I was just like, ‘Are you kidding me?'” Torri Kenison asked in disbelief.

She claimed ownership of a sink, two dressers, dog crate, Christmas lights and boxes that were strewn about with the rest of the junk.

“That’s my stuff, and it needs to be appropriately disposed of. And I was irritated that I was lied to,” said Scarlet Davis.

Many of the items belong to Davis and her husband, who recently cleaned out their garage and got rid of a trailer-full of unwanted things.

Ring doorbell video shows how this all started out, when Kenison hired a man off Facebook a week ago Wednesday.

That man, she explained, posted in a community group offering to make dump runs for people to earn extra cash. Kenison said at least 15 people commented to take him up on his offer less than 30 minutes after he made the post.

“I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll just have this guy do it. He seems reasonable. There’s quite a bit of interest,'” Kenison recounted.

She described how the man quickly showed up and took the items off her porch to load into his trailer. The man told her he was picking up items for other people, she said, including one person who was paying him $150. Kenison and her husband paid the man $30, and he went on his way.

But fast forward to earlier this week, when another Facebook post popped up in the same community group. The post warned against hiring the same man Kenison hired to make a dump run, with explanations that he wasn’t actually going to the dump.

Several pictures were attached, and Kenison immediately recognized all her things.

“He literally dumped two minutes from my house,” she said.

Just around the corner from her home, it appeared Kenison’s trash was abandoned along with trash from other people. When she called the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, she found out they were already on the case.

“He was like, ‘So you got hit by the dumpster bandit?'” she said of what the deputy told her. “And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And he said I was one of four people that called that day about it.”

Sgt. Cannon said they’ve had several people contact them with the same story: They paid a man money to haul away trash, only to find their things illegally dumped on private property.

Davis is the one who figured it all out and made the original Facebook post. She explained that someone walking in the area found the garbage and noticed Davis’ name on some of the boxes, then reached out to her.

Her post led to comments from many others, recognizing their items.

“My stuff was unloaded with a bunch of other people’s stuff,” she said. “So they have come out and said, ‘Oh, that’s mine. That’s mine.'”

Davis said she and her husband paid the man $100 and even let him borrow their trailer, which was jam-packed full, to go to the so-called dump.

While Davis was worried at first that the Sheriff’s Office would find her items and fine her, she now just wants everything cleaned up. She said many people have volunteered to help her haul everything out this weekend and dispose of it the right way.

In the meantime, Kenison and Davis have both messaged the man to confront him. They each said he is denying he dumped the items there, and even went as far as telling Kenison the items she found weren’t hers.

The person behind this strange business venture has a family, Davis said. She said she understands hard times and poor decisions, and doesn’t expect her money back.

But she does want him to make better choices and learn from this.

“If they get away with things like this, then it ends up hurting the community and himself,” she said. “So, I just want him to recognize that what he did was wrong.”

The Sheriff’s Office is now working on holding this person accountable. Sgt. Cannon said he could face misdemeanor charges and potentially fines to cover the cost of cleanup.

“These people expected that they were getting a legitimate service,” he said. “And this is what they got, is a pile of junk — of their property — thrown out here.”

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