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New research shows women are more optimistic about aging and retirement than ever.Jane Lafave is using retirement to follow her passion. She volunteers at a refugee resettlement agency, making sure people are prepared when applying for jobs.Ironically, it took her leaving her job, to be able to do this.¡°My whole career really was balancing my children and my husband, you know, my work and all that kind of thing,¡± Lafave says.Lafave spent decades working as a certified public accountant, and she retired at the age of 57.¡°It was just time,¡± she says. ¡°I needed more time and space in my life to do things other than work.That led her to the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, which placed her at the African Community Center.For two days a week, she helps refugees adjust to life in a new country.¡°This is just a great gift for me to serve other people who have had a much harder life than I¡¯ve had,¡± Lafave says.Lafave isn't alone.A new survey from TD Ameritrade found women are increasingly viewing their retirement years with optimism.¡°The Women and Aging Survey¡± found 62 percent of women said retirement will be, "the most liberating phase of my life," and 72 percent said after years of focusing on others, aging finally gives them an, "opportunity to focus on myself." Eighty-three percent said aging provides a fresh chance to "reach new goals."Nearly 9 of 10 women surveyed said, 'it's important to me to retain a sense of higher purpose as I age.¡°I feel that this is my time in life to give back,¡± Lafave says.That's what she is doing here.¡°I think that's one of the gifts of age is that we've become much more aware of purpose and the time is short and we need to use it.¡± 1686

NEWMAN, Calif. (AP) ¡ª The flag-draped casket of a California police officer who authorities say was gunned down by a man in the country illegally was carried in a procession Friday through the streets he once patrolled to a public viewing in a community theater.The case has rekindled a debate over California's sanctuary law that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities. President Donald Trump seized on the case to call for tougher border security amid a fight with congressional Democrats over funding for a border wall, which has forced a partial government shutdown.On Thursday, Trump called Cpl. Ronil Singh's family to offer his condolences, the White House said.People waving American flags lined up along the streets of the Central Valley town of Newman where a viewing was held for Singh, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop on Dec. 26.Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Gustavo Perez Arriaga in Singh's killing. Perez Arriaga was arrested after a dayslong manhunt as he prepared to flee to Mexico, authorities said.A casket carrying Singh's body and draped with an American flag was driven in a procession from Modesto into a theater in Newman where the marquee read "Ronil Singh Forever Remember" while several officers saluted.The casket was taken from the hearse into the theater for a viewing as the police department's 12 officers and Singh's family followed. A memorial service and burial is scheduled for Saturday in Modesto.Singh, who emigrated from his native Fiji to pursue a career in law enforcement, joined the Newman police force in 2011. The 33-year-old was married and had a 5-month-old son.Prosecutors said Perez Arriaga, 33, shot Singh after the officer stopped his vehicle to check if he was driving drunk. He has two previous drunken driving arrests, authorities said.At his first court appearance, Perez Arriaga told the judge that his real name is Paulo Virgen Mendoza, but authorities were still referring to him as Perez Arriaga in court documents. A complaint lists three aliases for him, including Paulo Virgen Mendoza.His attorney, Stephen Foley, questioned his client's mental competency, leading the court to delay the case until a mental health evaluation. Perez Arriaga is set to return to court Feb. 7.Two of Perez Arriaga's brothers, his girlfriend and four others were arrested on suspicion of helping him evade authorities. 2398

New York is adding new measures to prevent people from dying while taking selfies at a waterfall in the Catskill Mountains.The picturesque Kaaterskill Falls is one of the most visited spots in southeast New York state. However, capturing the perfect photo for social media turned fatal for several people.¡°I cringe, when someone is where they shouldn¡¯t be,¡± says Peter Innes with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. ¡°Because they are just too close to the edge.¡±Four deaths in the past several years occurred due to the victims being too close to the edge, while taking or posing for photos. Officials say it¡¯s now considered one of the riskiest activities at the park.¡°A lot of people would think about ice climbing or rock climbing, back country skiing,¡± says Robert Dawson, a forest ranger. ¡°It¡¯s actually picture taking, because everyone can do it now.¡±The park sees tens of thousands more visitors annually than they did just a couple decades ago. A lot of that is due to visitors posting photos on their social media platforms, attracting new visitors seeking similar photo ops.¡°Or they¡¯ll put it on YouTube, and they wanna see how many hits they can get on it,¡± explains Dawson.¡°So, then they wanna make those really cool videos. That¡¯s where they¡¯re willing to take that extra risk.¡°Then people will see that and be like, ¡®I wanna go up there.¡¯¡± Two of the most recent deaths¡ªin 2016¡ªoccurred after the state had already made safety changes.Officials added a staircase to prevent slipping, as well as fencing to keep people from the edge. However, people continued to walk around it despite the obvious park signage.   ¡°We realized there was a problem because of the continued fatalities,¡± says Innes.Innes helped draft new regulations that went into effect this month.¡°People are now not allowed to get within 6 feet of the cliff¡¯s edges themselves,¡± says Innes of the new policy. ¡°They also can¡¯t swim within 150 feet of the top of the falls.¡±Now, rangers like Dawson have the authority to ticket and even forcibly remove anyone putting themselves at risk.¡°Before I was just like, ¡®Hey, I really don¡¯t want you to do this,¡¯ and some groups will listen some are like, ¡®Hey, it¡¯s a free country,¡¯¡± says Dawson.If he could offer just one piece of advice to Instagram-happy trail goers, Dawson says, ¡°You can still get that great picture; you can do it 10 feet away from the edge and you¡¯ll get the same effect.¡± 2470

Next March, the monthly subscription price of Disney+ will increase by in the United States.During its annual Investors Day, Disney announced that beginning March 26, 2021, the monthly subscription price would cost .99. Its yearly subscription would increase by to .99.The Disney Bundle that includes Disney+, Hulu with ads, and ESPN+ would increase by to .99 per month, the company announced.The company also announced that in Europe, Disney+ would go from €6.99 to €8.99 per month, alongside the Star rollout, which debuts Feb. 23.The news comes after Netflix announced in October that they would raise the price on its standard and premium plans for its US subscribers. 698

Nightly protests like the ones in Kenosha have been seen in cities across the country before: Ferguson, Baltimore, Minneapolis. The calls for charges against officers involved in shootings may be growing louder amongst protesters, but charges and prosecutions in these cases remain rare.Five days after Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey grabbed Jacob Blake¡¯s shirt and fired seven shots into his back, many are angry no charges have been filed.¡°The reason people expect charges in these cases to be filed so quickly is because when a civilian harms someone, they're charged, you know, immediately,¡± said Kate Levine, an associate law professor at Cardozo Law School in New York.¡°I believe that all ordinary citizens should be treated the way the police are treated, and prosecutors should do a thorough investigation before they charge,¡± said Levine, who studies police prosecutions.Bowling Green criminal justice professor Phil Stinson tracks these types of cases. He says even when charged with more serious crimes, like manslaughter or murder, officers are rarely convicted.¡°About 1,000 times each year, an on-duty police officer shoots and kills someone. And it's actually a very rare event that an officer is charged with murder or manslaughter resulting from one of those shootings,¡± he said.In many cases, experts say it takes public pressure or independent video evidence to even get charges filed.In the case of Laquan McDonald, a black teen shot dead by a white police officer in 2014, it wasn¡¯t until dashcam video was released 13 months after the shooting that Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged and eventually convicted of 2nd degree murder."Absent the release of that footage, what you have is the police officers saying Laquan McDonald was threatening us. Right. And only when you see the video do you see this is a kid walking away from them, not threatening them,¡± said Levine.According to a statistical analysis by Bowling Green University, since 2005, 119 police officers were arrested for shooting and killing someone while on duty. While 44 were convicted of a crime, most were for convicted for lesser offenses. Only seven were convicted of murder.¡°Instead of treating it as a potential criminal homicide case in a crime scene, it seems that the assumptions they start with in these cases are that an officer was involved in a shooting and that it was probably legally justified,¡± said Stinson.In Louisville, police executed a no-knock warrant on the wrong apartment shooting and killing 26-year-old Breonna Taylor. Five months since the deadly incident, none of the officers face criminal charges.And now, Jacob Blake is paralyzed from his wounds and recovering in a Wisconsin hospital.Stinson says we¡¯ve reached a tipping point.¡°People of all walks of life are realizing that these are not isolated incidents. These types of things happen with impunity on a regular basis. And we need to make great changes to policing in the United States.¡± 2992

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