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"His voice was like a tank... I never heard him have a bad day. I have honestly never met anyone else like this in my whole life. Even if he stayed up all night drinking and talking, he would still deliver 150 percent the next day. |
"From his performing, you'd think he was 22 years old, his whole life... but if you look at how much he accomplished, you'd think he lived to the age of 120. |
"He was very intelligent. He was, without a question, NOT some sort of devil worshipper or Satanist. He grew up in a small town and was what I would call just a 'very decent person.' He had higher morals than most people I have met, and definitely he had higher morals than I have. He just didn't particularly believe in... |
"I realize this may sound like I'm trying to paint too soft a picture. I am really racking my brains here and I couldn't think of anything bad to say about him even if I tried. The only thing I can think of is that his character definitely had a surprising bite when something pissed him off; he didn't suffer fools ligh... |
"The music he made will remain after me, or anyone reading this, will be gone. So unless you did already, put some of it on. If it puts an evil smile on your face, then your day is better. That's all any musician can ask from you." |
Share your memories of Ronnie James Dio and his musical legacy in the comments below. |
FRANKFORT, KY (WAVE) - Is Kentucky protecting second amendment rights or putting people in danger? Gov. Matt Bevin promised to sign a bill that changes gun laws in the state Friday. |
Senate Bill 150 allows anyone 21 and over to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. It passed through the Kentucky legislature Friday, but not without criticism. |
Bevin said this simply reinforces the right to bear arms, but critics are saying this could pose serious safety concerns. |
“It’s not the role of state government to require training or collect the recurrent fees for law-abiding citizens to exercise his or her second amendment right,” Rep. Savannah Maddox (R-District 61) said. |
Supporters of the NRA-backed bill argue that the background check, gun safety training and $60 fee currently in place for concealed carry is unfair to people with lower incomes. |
Maddox also said this would help protect women, because when a weapon is out in the open, someone larger could possibly grab it. If it was concealed, Maddox says it could be a different story. |
Currently, Kentucky law allows open carry without a permit. |
Openrange owner, Barry Laws, offers concealed carry training courses. |
“We go over the basic firearm safety, we go over storage, we go over all the laws in Kentucky, we go over what civil liability is versus legal liability,” Laws explained. |
He says there does need to be a change in the law that evens out open and concealed carry, but when you change requirements, that’s when things get hazy. |
“How are we going to get that information to people,” Laws said. |
Laws is concerned this can lead not only to safety issues but also uninformed gun owners. |
“If you go over to Indiana or Ohio and you had a concealed carry license you would be covered in their state, but now you are now illegal in their state,” Laws said. |
Also bringing up the point that there are certain places the average citizen might not know a gun is allowed at all -- like the post office. |
Laws believes there should be public service announcements that relay that information, and local police unions agree. |
The unions aren’t opposed to the idea of the bill, but they have serious safety concerns the way the bill stands. |
“We want to be clear that we are supportive of everyone’s rights, we don’t want to limit anyone’s rights, we just want to make sure people are safe,” Det. Drew Fox, with the local FOP, said. |
Fox says training is of course still encouraged so there are no unintended consequences for gun owners and officers. |
People will still be allowed to get a concealed-carry permit under the law, but it would no longer be mandatory. |
UNITED NATIONS, July 2 -- After Navi Pillay briefed the Security Council about Syria on Monday, Inner City Press asked her about the long stalled report on the killings at Al Houla that the Council asked for, and whether Ban Ki-moon's decision to renew her for only two years and not four undercut her independence. |
Pillay will be briefing on Libya later Monday, and the Sudan and Palestine on July 3, so we hope to have more. |
Then French Ambassador Gerard Araud came out to speak. Inner City Press asked him about Russian foreign minister Lavrov's statement in Geneva that the modified communique means Assad does not have to leave. Araud called this a "rear guard battle by our Russian friends." |
Inner City Press asked Araud about its exclusive last week that the Permanent Five members of the Council were told by the Secretariat of a plan to downgrade UNSMIS in Syria to a political mission. Araud replied that if there is no political process and it remains dangerous, the Council might decide to leave altogether... |
Earlier at Monday's noon briefing, Inner City Press asked Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Martin Nesirky about the Houla report, and if Ban agrees with Hillary Clinton's or Lavrov's interpretation of the Action Group communique. |
On the Houla report, Nesirky repeated that it is with other UN experts -- but for how long? He said that Ban agrees with what Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan said -- not much -- after the Geneva meeting. |
So Inner City Press asked, has Annan followed through and briefed Iran and Saudi Arabia about Saturday's meetings? Nesirky said he didn't know, that because Saturday's meeting went late, perhaps not. Watch this site. |
Stripes and the Marine Corps Times both have the story of former Cpl. Dakota Meyer who was informed Monday that he will be the third living recipient — and the first living Marine — of the nation’s highest medal for valor, the Medal of Honor. |
Meyer, who left active duty service in June 2010 as a corporal, will be honored for his actions Sept. 8, 2009. He charged into a kill zone on foot and alone to find three missing Marines and a Navy corpsman, who had been pinned down under intense enemy fire in the village of Ganjgal, in Afghanistan’s violent Kunar prov... |
Semper Fi, Marine. There is no indication from either story of when he will receive the medal but Semper Fi, Dakota. |
According to one recent study, half of the links in Supreme Court decisions either lead to pages with substantially altered content or no longer go anywhere, at all. Perma.cc, a startup based out of the Harvard Law Library, wants to see more work immortalized. |
The phrase “link rot” probably summons many images for you–none of them good. |
And while clicking on a dead link isn’t quite as physically unpleasant as, say, touching a piece of slimy, disintegrating wood, bad links are weakening the web as surely as bad beams can compromise a building. |
When websites disappear or change, any piece of work–be it a blog post, book, or scholarly dissertation–that linked to those resources no longer makes quite as much sense. And some of these now-moldering links are structurally important to the fragile, enduring edifice of human knowledge: in fact, according to one rece... |
When judges write their opinions, they’re not just thinking about whether the information is reliable, but whether the web page is still going to be around in a year. |
In the face of this decay, the authors of that paper, the legal scholars Jonathan Zittrain, Kendra Albert, and Lawrence Lessig, floated one possible fix: create “a caching solution” that would help worthy links last forever. Now, this idea is being in practice by Perma.cc, a startup based out of the Harvard Law Library... |
To start with, Perma.cc’s small team of developers, librarians, and lawyers has designed an archiving tool that’s as easy to use as any link shortener. Stick in a link, and you’ll get a new Perma-link–along with an archive of all the information on the page that link leads to. Anyone can sign up as a user, and create l... |
Since launching last fall, the project has grown rapidly, signing up a couple thousand users and recruiting 45 libraries and dozens of law journals as partners. But only a fourth of Perma.cc’s users–472 “vesting members” and 113 “vesting managers,” at current count–have the power to grant links immortality (or as close... |
Instead, they began with legal scholarship, the section of the world they knew best. At the top of Perma.cc’s power structure (modeled, in part, after how the Internet’s Domain Name System operates) are law libraries, already trusted resources, full of people who have years of practice deciding what sort of intellectua... |
When a user puts in a link into Perma.cc, it creates a perfect recording of what a web browser would see. Once that recording is made and archived, anyone looking to re-trace the author’s logic has access to an exact copy of the web page that author was looking at when she constructed her argument. |
That copy, ideally, will be stored at a host of libraries, on the theory that the best way to ensure the project endures is to build redundancy into the system. For centuries, Cushman points out, important documents have survived because people have valued them enough to make duplicates. Now, it might be possible to ac... |
We’re legitimizing the Internet as a resource for courts. |
Perma.cc is also banking on the relationship that the legal world already has with its law libraries, as trusted repositories of essential information. It’s easier to convince people to store important information in the same place they’ve always stored it. |
And, potentially, for the wider world, too. “The problem is not unique to the legal world,” says Ziegler. “We have a big, big vision to really take a bite of the link rot problem on a much larger scale.” Outside of libraries, the team’s gotten inquiries from curious law firms and legal publishers, and the next logical ... |
But libraries–even the Harvard Law Library–don’t necessarily last forever. And, as with any startup, there’s a relatively high chance that Perma.cc could fail. There is, however, a contingency plan to keep any links entrusted to the project from starting to slowly decay, like any old, rotten bit of the Internet. While ... |
After that, there will be a copy of the entire database at the Harvard Law Library, where they will stay, mummified, for as long as anyone remembers they’re there. |
But when a startup is embedded within an institution–such as the New York Times‘ more innovative projects or the data team within the Obama campaign–success depends not on buyers but on buy-in. Perma.cc’s funding comes both from the library’s budget and from grants supporting the project (the budget, says Ziegler, is “... |
Singer Olivia Newton-John had a very special guest join her on stage. |
Singer Olivia Newton-John had a very special guest join her on stage during a concert in Chile's capital: Edison Pena, the rescued miner with a passion for Elvis Presley songs. |
Pena often broke out in song to keep up the spirits of the miners trapped underground. And it turns out he also can sing duets. He joined Newton-John on the song "Tell me more, tell me more" from the musical "Grease" and got a big ovation. |
Pena met Newton-John on a Chilean talk show the night before and she asked him to join her on stage Monday night before 10,000 fans. |
Pena says "being on stage was incredible." |
PLAY IT NOW: Darren Criss Discusses His 'Glee' Success: How Has His Life Changed? |
General manager Bob Quinn's past connection to the New England Patriots continues to have an influence on the Detroit Lions. |
Veteran quarterback Matt Cassel has agreed to terms on a deal with the Lions for 2018, sources informed of the situation told NFL Network's Mike Garafolo and NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport. Cassel joins Matthew Stafford and Jake Rudock in the Lions' QB room. |
Shortly after Garafolo and Rapoport's report on Cassel, the Lions released quarterback Alek Torgersen. |
Cassel, who'll be 36 when the season starts, broke into the NFL with the Patriots in 2005, backing up Tom Brady for four seasons before taking over as the Kansas City Chiefs' starting signal-caller. After stops in Minnesota, Buffalo and Dallas, Cassel spent the past two seasons with the Tennessee Titans behind Marcus M... |
Cassel provides a high level of been-there experience to the Lions' passer corps even if his best days might be far behind him. He struggled in his last real game action, which came in seven starts in place of an injured Tony Romo while with the Cowboys in 2015. In Tennessee, he appeared in six games and went 1-1 in tw... |
It's been more or less downhill for Cassel since 2010 when he led the Chiefs to a 10-6 record and an AFC West crown after passing for 3,116 yards and 27 touchdowns. Still, it appears Quinn is comfortable giving a player from his Patriots past a chance to backup a quarterback who hasn't missed a start in more than seven... |
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Born in Louisville, Ky. Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. born. Wins Olympic Gold Medal Clay, an 18-year-old light heavyweight, gives the United States its third gold medal in boxing after beating Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland in the light-heavyweight final. Meets His Future Wife Clay meets Lonnie Williams, who would later... |
His comments came after Donald J. Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, stoked anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States by, among other things, suggesting that foreign Muslims be barred from traveling to the country. Dies at 74 Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define hi... |
He was the most thrilling if not the best heavyweight ever, carrying into the ring a physically lyrical, unorthodox boxing style that fused speed, agility and power more seamlessly than that of any fighter before him. |
A SWAT scenario will require the firefighter/paramedic members of the team to work hand-in-hand with their law enforcement counterparts. |
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Showcasing the exciting new partnership between the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Office and St. Lucie Fire District, the 2018 Safety Festival will feature a SWAT scenario requiring the firefighter/paramedic members of the team to work hand-in-hand with their law enforcement counterparts. |
The Safety Festival returns to First Data Field (Home of the Mets) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. |
It is the largest safety event on the Treasure Coast and includes Touch-a-truck, static displays, a food court, vendors, kid’s zone, giveaways and a variety of safety information for attendees to enjoy. |
"This demo will show how our SWAT medics work in tandem with other SWAT members to provide safety and backup in dangerous situations," said Fire Chief Nate Spera. |
The demonstration will be one of several featuring local first responders. |
Jaws-of-Life returns along with a new HazMat demo from firefighters/medics. |
The Port St. Lucie Police will feature its new motorcycles in an exciting demonstration of skill. K-9s, a fan favorite, will also return. |
WPBF 25 will bring out many on-air personalities to meet the public, answer questions and be available for photos. |
Participating agencies include the St. Lucie County Fire District, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, Port St. Lucie Police Department, Air Rescue, St. Lucie Public Schools, St. Lucie County Public Safety, Emergency Management and Marine Safety, Safer St. Lucie, Fish and Wildlife, Florida Division of Forestry, Florida ... |
The SLC Safety Festival is free to attend, with free parking. For vendor or sponsorship information, please call Lisa at 772 337-0049 or visit www.slcsafetyfest.com. |
The Brown Foundation recently presented a $81,344 grant to the University of Houston-Clear Lake's Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. |
The funds will be used for "sensory playground," which will give children with autism a chance to participate in playground "practice" sessions that will help them learn to interact with peers and become less anxious and withdrawn in a group setting. |
"The unstructured space and loud nature of a typical playground can be overwhelming for these children," said Dorothea Lerman, UH-Clear Lake professor of psychology. |
"As a result, they often do not experience the learning and social development benefits from outdoor play seen in their typically developing classmates." |
Lerman, a nationally recognized expert in autism and developmental disabilities, is the center's director and is assisted by faculty and graduate students in the applied behavior analysis, school psychology, and early childhood education programs. |
For information about the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, e-mail AutismCenter@uhcl.edu. |
The Brown Foundation was founded in July 1951 by Herman and Margarett Root Brown and George R. and Alice Pratt Brown. Since its inception, it has awarded more than $1.2 billion in grants through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010. |
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Glenn O’Brien — who last summer left the helm of Interview magazine in disgust as the publisher fell behind on payroll — has been tapped to edit the written content of Bergdorf Goodman Magazine. |
O’Brien replaces bestselling author Michael Gross, who left the luxury icon’s glossy publication last week after editing its written content for the past seven years, the Post’s James Covert has learned. |
Andrews declined to elaborate, but sources speculated that O’Brien, who did a 10-year stint as creative director of advertising at Barneys, will give the magazine a tighter focus on fashion. |
Gross — who published writers like Jay McInerney on subjects as diverse as Bobby Short and Tom Brokaw — had in recent seasons published items on fashion figures like the Olsen twins and Manolo Blahnik at the behest of Bergdorf brass. |
Newsday and the agents representing 1,100 unionized employees in Teamsters Local 406 of the Graphic Communications International Union sat down for their first negotiation session in weeks. |
It marks the first meeting since the contract covering the newsroom employees — the largest group in the bargaining unit — expired on March 31. |
The local covers everyone from journalists to truckers and press operators. |
The Dolan family, which owns Newsday, insists the Long Island daily loses money for the otherwise highly profitable media company. The union dismisses that argument and insists that the losses are only on paper, and attributable to write downs and accounting rules rather than actual operating losses. |
The two sides remain far apart, with no new pact on the horizon. |
In February, the union overwhelmingly rejected by a 473-to-10 vote the last tentative contract that was put on the table. It would have called for a 10-percent pay cut, reduced vacation pay and a work week that would have gone back to 40 hours from its current 35. |
George Tedeschi, head of the Graphic Communications International Union in Washington DC has taken over as the lead negotiator for the Local 406, headed by Michael O’Connor. |
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