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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Yahoo
Pewaukee bus driver charged with repeated sexual assault of child, sexual misconduct by school staff
A Pewaukee school bus driver is facing four felony charges alleging improper conduct with a minor on a school bus. Thomas Felser, 62, of Sussex, was charged May 16 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with one felony count of repeated sexual assault of the same child and three felony counts of sexual misconduct by school staff or volunteer. The charge of repeated sexual assault of the same child carries a sentence of up to 60 years in prison. Each of the other three charges carries the potential for a fine of up to $10,000, up to 3½ years in prison, or both, according to the criminal complaint. Felser turned himself into Village of Pewaukee police on May 14. In a May 16 letter to parents and staff, Pewaukee Schools Superintendent Mike Cady said that, to the district's knowledge, the incident involved a single victim and the district would notify parents if their students were assigned to one of Felser's routes. "We are devastated by the news of what is reported to have happened and stunned by the allegations of an incredible violation of community trust by an individual responsible for the safety and care of children. The police investigation continues and the Pewaukee School District and Go Riteway will remain steadfast in supporting the work of the police to ensure that justice is done," Cady said in his letter. The superintendent also said that the investigation includes a review of all available video footage from every route Felser drove. He said anyone with additional information should contact Village of Pewaukee Police at 262-446-5070. Cady said the district's priorities are caring and supporting the affected student and the student's family, supporting the ongoing law enforcement investigation and working with Go Riteway to review all safety and security practices and procedures to identify areas needing enhancement. Cady declined to speak with a reporter about the situation. Go Riteway, the bus company that contracts with the school district, also declined to comment. Craig Powell, Felser's attorney, was not immediately available when a reporter called his law office. According to the criminal complaint: A woman told Village of Pewaukee police May 13 that her child was riding home from school when she noticed on a GPS bus tracking app that her child's bus had been stopped for 10 minutes. The woman drove to the location of her child's bus and said she initially did not see anyone on the bus. When she called her child's name, Felser "popped his head up 'super fast'" from the middle of the bus, and she noticed her child sitting next to Felser. She claimed Felser told her he was just talking to her child about the child's day and that he "does that sometimes." The woman also said her child had come home with packages of Skittles on multiple occasions after the driver asked about her favorite candy, the complaint said. Police review of the bus security footage showed the bus stopped for an extended period of time with just Felser and the child on it. It also showed the two walking to the back of the bus before going to a seat in the middle of the bus. Felser was seen "hunched over the seat with his back to the aisle," his head close to the child and his right arm obstructed by Felser's body position. The child was also obstructed from view for two minutes. The footage showed the child popping up from the seat and the child and Felser walking to the front of the bus after the child's mother called the child's name, the complaint said. Police also reviewed security footage from other dates and noticed Felser sitting with the child for extended periods of time while the bus was stopped and that Felser was uncomfortably close to the child. The child was also seen sitting on Felser's lap or leaning against him. At one point, Felser was heard telling the child to tell the child's parents the bus was dropping off other kids if the child's parents asked what took so long, the complaint said. When police interviewed the child, the child said Felser asked if the child would check the bus with him since the child's stop was the last stop. The child said that meant picking up garbage and sweeping and the child sitting in the seat with Felser and in Felser's lap. In addition, the child said Felser touched her in her private areas, according to the complaint. Cady told police Felser had been a teacher in the district for over 30 years before working for Go Riteway. Cady also said Felser was most recently a summer school teacher and an independent tutor for students in Pewaukee and surrounding communities, the complaint said. A Go Riteway manager told police Felser drove morning and afternoon routes for all four of the Pewaukee School District's schools. The manager said she had never received a complaint about Felser before. Felser made his initial court appearance May 16. He is being held in the Waukesha County Jail on $350,000 bail. He is scheduled to be in court May 28 for a preliminary hearing, according to online court records. Contact Alec Johnson at (262) 875-9469 or Follow him on X (Twitter) at @AlecJohnson12. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Pewaukee bus driver charged with repeated sexual assault of child, sexual misconduct by school staff
Straits Times
07-05-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
Cloud accounting platform Xero helps aviation start-up take flight in the US
By recycling aircraft parts into circular materials, start-up Nandina REM helps the aviation industry reduce waste and meet sustainability goals. PHOTO: NANDINA REM BRANDED CONTENT Giving planes a second life: How cloud accounting helps S'pore-founded aviation start-up take flight in the US To scale its aircraft components recycling business, Nandina REM relies on financial data to improve emissions traceability and win over global partners It is no small feat for a young company to secure partnerships with global firms Qantas and Sumitomo Corporation within its first year – especially in a sector as highly regulated and capital-intensive as aviation. Founded in Singapore in July 2023, Nandina REM dismantles retired aircraft and remanufactures their high-value alloys and carbon fibre for advanced manufacturing industries, such as aviation and automotive. To drive this transformation, the start-up draws on deep tech and materials science expertise to become the first in the world to manufacture circular carbon fibre that meets aviation standards. This means it satisfies stringent performance, safety and mechanical standards for use in aircraft components. This milestone was achieved through a co-development partnership with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star). For a fledgling company to co-innovate with one of Singapore's leading R&D agencies is rare – a key signal of its technical credibility in a high-barrier industry. Aircraft components such as fuselages and wings are stripped and processed into high-value materials, including certified circular carbon fibre and alloys. PHOTOS: NANDINA REM Carbon fibre's exceptional strength-to-weight ratio – five times stronger and twice as rigid as steel, yet lightweight – has made it a critical material across industries. As demand continues to surge, a global shortfall of over 50,000 tonnes per year is projected by 2026, with signs of this supply crunch already emerging. This growing gap raises an urgent question: should industries persist with producing virgin carbon fibre through energy-intensive, extractive methods, or turn to more sustainable alternatives that align with both production needs and environmental goals? Ms Karina Cady, Nandina REM's chief executive officer, says: 'There are very few countries in the world that can produce circular raw carbon fibre with the same mechanical properties as its virgin counterparts – and now Singapore is one of them.' The reprocessing of carbon fibre cuts the energy used in production by 71 per cent, and reduces manufacturing costs compared to traditional methods, says Ms Cady. Significantly, the work of Nandina REM puts it on track to eliminate one gigatonne of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. As it progresses on its bold mission to transform advanced end-of-life assets into new resources, starting with aircraft, the firm is leaning into its operational readiness to continue its forward trajectory. According to Ms Cady, the ability to meet procurement demands and navigate compliance requirements – critical in supply chains – begins with one thing: financial clarity. (From left) Nandina REM chief operating officer Dazril Phua, chief executive officer Karina Cady and chief commercial officer Allison Nam. PHOTO: NANDINA REM She knows this first-hand, having spent two decades working on sustainability reporting and compliance audits for certification bodies and consultancies, and leading environmental programmes for multinational companies across more than 30 markets. That experience – together with the leadership team's combined strengths in aviation, operations and finance – shapes how the start-up integrates cash flow traceability and emissions accountability into its operations. Nandina REM uses cloud accounting platform Xero as its 'grounding system', housing all of its financial transactions in one place. This makes it easy for the firm to accurately track and extract that data when needed, such as when calculating and reporting on sustainability compliance. 'By capturing supplier locations, shipping methods and invoice data within the financial system, Xero allows our team to extract relevant financial transactions required to calculate greenhouse gas emissions data,' she explains. Winning trust with clarity At the outset, Nandina REM needed a financial platform that could keep pace with complex supply chains and international operations, says Ms Cady. Xero provided just that: a seamless, cloud-based system that allows the team to manage global operations in-house without the need for costly external support. Retired aircraft are dismantled in Nandina REM's facility before their parts are processed into circular carbon fibre for reuse. PHOTOS: NANDINA REM 'With simple dropdowns and entity switching, Xero eliminated the need for multiple logins across markets, saving us significant time and reducing user friction,' adds Ms Cady. With the ability to show clarity and traceability, Nandina REM quickly won the trust of global firms. In Oct 2023, Nandina REM partnered with Sumitomo Corporation Asia & Oceania to scale the world-first Aviation-to-Electric Vehicle (EV) Circular Economy Model, enabling the start-up to produce verifiable low-carbon alloys prioritised for automotive EV customers. Six months later, it joined Qantas, Sumitomo and three other global aviation organisations to launch the Aviation Circularity Consortium. The initiative aims to unlock value from the 8,000 retired aircraft currently grounded worldwide and accelerate the transition to a circular aviation economy. Backed by these collaborations and a scalable financial system, Nandina REM found itself ready and confident to deepen its global partnerships and expand its operations beyond Singapore. Going global on a lean budget The US was the obvious next market as the home to most of the retired aircraft in the world. The key challenge for Nandina REM was to scale quickly on a lean budget. 'Using Xero has been a huge cost saving for us to be able to enter a large, complicated market like the US and still do our bookkeeping in-house,' says Ms Cady. Through its role in the aviation circular economy, Nandina REM advances industrial decarbonisation by recycling retired aircraft parts and diverting waste from boneyards and landfills. PHOTO: NANDINA REM For instance, the Xero platform can be customised to suit different regulatory environments and requirements across regions, such as across different states in the US. 'With seamless financial visibility and localised compliance tools, we could expand into the American market without delay or expensive third-party support,' says Ms Cady. Nandina REM is now in a good position to save more planes from languishing in boneyards and contributing to overflowing landfills. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that around 700 aircraft are retired each year, and up to 90 per cent of their parts can be reused or recycled. With more than 15,000 planes expected to decommission over the next 15 years, as reported by IATA, the demand for responsible recycling and circular solutions is growing rapidly. Among Nandina REM's technical advisors is Jonathan Low (far right), assistant chief executive at A*Star's Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre, who brings expertise in lifecycle assessment and net-zero manufacturing. PHOTO: NANDINA REM However, many airlines and aircraft owners have limited experience managing aircraft decommissioning and recycling. With a turnkey solution built on both technical expertise and operational clarity, Nandina REM is confident in its ability to expand further while meeting global compliance and emissions standards. 'The financial visibility and clarity we gain from using Xero translates into supply chain transparency, making Nandina REM more attractive to climate-conscious customers and enabling entry into global procurement networks that demand emission certifications,' says Ms Cady. Learn how Xero can help your business. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Daily Mirror
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Disney+ adds iconic 'wickedly funny' noughties cult classic that fans still can't get enough of
Disney+ subscribers should be running not walking to their TVs this Bank Holiday weekend as a fan-favourite teen comedy has dropped. Disney+ has just added a cult classic to its extensive library, which has already made its way into its top 10 most streamed films. Mean Girls is a modern-day teen classic, and now millennials can relive the magic over and over again as the Lindsay Lohan film was released on Disney+ this week. Created by 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live legend Tina Fey, Mean Girls originally hit the big screen back in 2004, with The Parent Trap's childhood star Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron. After leaving her childhood behind in Africa, Cady joins a 'normal' school in Illinois where her two new friends give her the inside scoop on everyone's social status. Her path then crosses with the infamous Plastics: 'Fetch' creator Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert), aspiring 'weather girl' Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried) and their leader, the terrifying Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Cady initially doesn't see what the issue is with the Plastics until she becomes smitten with Regina's ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett). Besides its star-studded cast, which also features Fey herself as Ms Norbury, Parks and Recreation actress Amy Poehler and Scrubs' Neil Flynn, Mean Girls is a classic thanks to its stream of memorable one-liners. Some of the classics that continue to be used in Reels today include 'On Wednesdays we wear pink', 'That is so fetch', 'Is Butter a carb?' and 'I'm sick', followed by Karen's pathetic cough and Regina's response: 'Boo you w***e'. Mean Girls may not have the best Rotten Tomatoes rating with 84% but fans cannot help but express their love for the film, with it being labelled as 'wickedly funny'. Another remarked: 'Undoubtedly the best teen comedy ever adapted from a sociological study…' A third agreed: 'Mean Girls is a hysterical comedy about high school cliques, and may be the best teen satire since Heathers', while another describes it as 'comic gold'. More than 20 years have passed since Mean Girls was first released but has been given a new lease of life with the 2024 remake starring Angourie Rice and Renee Rapp as Cady and Regina, respectively. This version differs though, as it's actually a musical and has since been made into a West End and Broadway musical.
Boston Globe
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
In ‘Mean Girls,' an enduring portrait of adolescence
The answer is: More than you might suppose, especially if you were present Wednesday night for the show's curiously flat opening scenes. It seemed the audience was in for a long evening. But then 'Mean Girls' found its mojo. The youthful cast amped up the energy level, powering the musical past the unevenness of Jeff Richmond's score and lyrics by Nell Benjamin that seldom match the wit she brought to the 2007 Broadway musical adaptation of 'Legally Blonde.' Fey's script for the musical 'Mean Girls' has some smart things to say about the need to belong and is one of its primary strengths. Advertisement (Back in 2004, 'Mean Girls' elevated Fey's already-high profile as head writer and 'Weekend Update' cohost on 'Saturday Night Live.' She created '30 Rock,' which premiered in 2006 and went on to become one of the best sitcoms in TV history.) Advertisement What became clear at Wednesday's performance is that 'Mean Girls' still speaks to teenage girls, current and former. (Many in attendance at the Colonial had not been born when the movie was released.) For instance, when the dialogue turned to the odiousness of boys coercing girls into sexting nude pictures of themselves, the audience vociferously made its opinion known. Katie Yeomans, who seemed to grow in confidence as the performance went on, plays Cady, a socially insecure math whiz who is newly arrived at a high school in an Illinois suburb after years of home schooling in Kenya. The high school's environment goes beyond a social hierarchy; it's more like a snake pit of cliques and free-floating malice, and it isn't long before Cady is drawn into its drama. At first, Cady becomes friends with a pair of students existing on the margins of the high school's social scene: the artistic, edgy Janis (Alexys Morera), and the highly theatrical Damian (Joshua Morrisey). But it's hard for Cady to avoid the gravitational pull of the school's 'apex predator': Regina George (Paloma D'Auria, stepping in as understudy Wednesday and doing an impressive job.) Matters grow more complicated for Cady when she finds herself romantically attracted to Aaron (José Raúl), Regina's ex. It was intriguing to hear the audience let loose a roar of approval — or at least welcome — when D'Auria's Regina made her entrance upstage in a tight-fitting, all-white outfit. But then Regina is the kind of villain you love to hate. 'Mean Girls' should have kept Regina as a figure of pure villainy longer than it does. And her comeuppance, when it occurs, is disproportionate to her offenses. Advertisement At this point in its history, 'Mean Girls' is best seen as a showcase for talented young performers. On that score the production at the Colonial succeeds, especially when it comes to the hilariously inventive and sometimes poignant performances by Kristen Amanda Smith as the aforementioned Gretchen and MaryRose Brendel as Karen, both acolytes of Regina. Smith and Brendel are the two best reasons to see this 'Mean Girls.' There's been no shortage of plays and musicals about the challenges of adolescence in recent years, among them 'Dear Evan Hansen,' 'Be More Chill,' '& Juliet,' and ' In Boston, an indirect measure of the cultural impact of 'Mean Girls' can be found just a mile away from the Colonial. Starting Friday, SpeakEasy Stage Company is presenting Jocelyn Bioh's ' Fey, having crafted an enduring portrait of adolescence, has now turned her sights on middle age, as cocreator, cowriter, and star of ' If the past is prologue, we should probably expect to see a musical version at some point. MEAN GIRLS Book by Tina Fey. Music by Jeff Richmond. Lyrics by Nell Benjamin. Directed by Casey Nicholaw. At Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston. Through May 4. Tickets $49 to $149. 888-616-0272, Advertisement Don Aucoin can be reached at
USA Today
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'M3GAN 2.0' unleashes first trailer, 30 M3GANs dance to Britney Spears
'M3GAN 2.0' unleashes first trailer, 30 M3GANs dance to Britney Spears LAS VEGAS – What's better than one dancing M3GAN? How about 30 of them? More than a two-dozen "dancing robot" M3GANs hit the stage Wednesday at CinemaCon, the convention for theater owners, and grooved to Britney Spears' "Oops! I Did It Again" to celebrate the return of everyone's favorite murderous high-tech doll in "M3GAN 2.0" (in theaters June 27). Producers (and big-time horror guys) Jason Blum and James Wan introduced the first trailer for the sequel, which takes place two years after 2022's hit first film. After taking M3GAN down, inventor Gemma (Allison Williams) and her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) now keep the M3GAN AI housed in a cutesy plastic Teletubby-like thing for safekeeping, though she sasses them constantly. Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox Unfortunately, a defense contractor has stolen one of Gemma's early AI models for M3GAN. Named Amelia (and played by "Ahsoka" star Ivanna Sakhno), this new robot is meant to be a killer spy but it goes rogue and comes after those close to M3GAN, including Gemma and Cady. Gemma recruits M3GAN to fight Amelia, but our antiheroine wants a body that's stronger, faster, taller and more lethal than the last. (M3GAN also reiterates her promise to always protect Cady – Gemma, not so much.) The footage concludes with M3GAN and Amelia throwing down, and our girl M3GAN getting the best line: "Hold on to your vaginas." Blum and Wan also debuted the first footage from their spinoff, the more grownup "SOULM8TE," which offers up an adult version of M3GAN. "Nothing could possibly go wrong with that," Blum quipped. The erotic horror thriller stars David Rysdahl as a grieving widower who orders a sexbot named Sara (Lily Sullivan) that's designed to be the perfect partner for adults. They get hot and heavy, but Sara gets very clingy, and when her dude begins to see another woman (Claudia Doumit), things go bad for everyone involved.
