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Daily Currency Update
The Australian dollar is stronger this morning when valued against the Greenback supported on the back of the US Consumer Price Index coming which came in softer than expected, fuelling the prospects of a pivot at the Federal Reserve. The Aussie dollar has subsequently got a boost from a weaker Greenback that is tumbling on Wall Street as US equities soar. AUD/USD is now 1.7% higher overnight, breaking prior bull cycle highs near US$0.6844 and has printed a fresh high of US$0.6877. The Aussie dollar however found some resistance just over US$0.6890. Should US$0.6850 hold up on a retest of bullish commitments then there will be prospects of a run towards US$0.7000. Looking ahead today on the local data front and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe is due to speak about at the AusPayNet Annual Summit, in Sydney. On Thursday all eyes will be on the Unemployment Rate released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The Jobless rate is expected to remain steady at 3.4%. Finally on Friday we will see the release of monthly Flash Manufacturing PMI.
Key Movers
Overnight inflation data from the United States released showed an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in November of 0.1% below the 0.3% of market consensus. According to analysts another moderation in monthly core CPI helps to reaffirm that the USD peak is here. The data comes ahead of the FOMC’s latest forecasts and policy announcement in just over 24 hours. As a consequence of the Consumer Price Index, the terminal Fed rate is now down to 4.86% vs 4.98% prior to the report which is weighing heavily on the US dollar and US Treasury yields. While the market has also pared back further tightening expectations, with a dialled-down 25bps hike in early February now seen as more likely than another 50bps. The Great British pound also soared sharply following the release of a softer-than-expected inflation report in the United States (US) reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Tuesday. In the release, the GBP/USD broke to levels last seen in June 2022, hitting a fresh six-month high at around 1.2442, though it remains volatile in the aftermath of the release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In other news UK public sector wages increased by 2.7% in the year to October, according to official figures that will fuel the anger of rail and health sector workers preparing to go on strike in the run-up to Christmas. The headline rate of pay rises for all workers excluding bonuses rose to 6.1% in the three months to October, from 5.7% in September. Ministers have said they will fund a pay rise of 3% for public sector workers and give nurses an average of 4% in line with a pay review body’s recommendations.
Expected Ranges
- AUD/USD: 0.6750 – 0.6950 ▲
- AUD/EUR: 0.6350 – 0.6550 ▲
- GBP/AUD: 1.7950 – 1.8150 ▲
- AUD/NZD: 1.0500 – 1.0700 ▲
- AUD/CAD: 0.9150 – 0.9350 ▲
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Harrisburg, Pa. — The total cost of the governor’s race in Pennsylvania topped $100 million in this last election cycle, a staggering amount that set a new spending record in the race to snag the state’s highest office.
More than half of that money was spent by the winner, Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro.
The steep spending puts on full display Pennsylvania’s distinction as having some of the most lax campaign finance laws in the country — ones that place no limits on how much money candidates can accept from deep-pocketed donors.
It also gives good government and other reform advocates pause, because it has the potential to raise the bar for competing in future races, entrenching incumbents and shutting out otherwise good candidates who lack a deep bench of donors.
“It should be a serious concern to every Pennsylvanian that the price of running for office continues to skyrocket,” said Charlie Gerow, one of nine candidates who competed for the GOP nomination for governor this year.
“It’s crazy how much money it costs just to lose an election,” added Gerow, a Republican political strategist who raised and spent just over a half million dollars and ended up trailing in votes behind most of his Republican rivals.
In all, Shapiro and the nine Republicans spent $100.2 million in both the primary and general election between the start of last year and the end of November, according to the latest campaign finance reports. That is more than double what it costs to run Pennsylvania’s Department of State, which oversees elections, for an entire year.
That total does not include another $12.5 million in “in-kind contributions,” spending on behalf of the candidates by third parties who pay for things like campaign mailings or catering for events.
The bulk of this year’s spending — $69.2 million — came from Shapiro’s campaign, which set its own record for the highest amount spent by a single gubernatorial candidate.
The last time there was a race to succeed an outgoing, two-term governor — as there was this year with Gov. Tom Wolf — was in 2010. In that election, the six candidates who competed in the primary and general elections spent just over $72 million altogether, campaign finance records show.
In 2014, the four Democrats and incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who was trying for a second four-year term, spent a combined $82.8 million.
That escalating cost is what campaign finance reform expert Ian Vandewalker calls “a campaign finance arms race.”
Vandewalker, senior counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law, said expensive races shouldn’t be viewed as inherently bad for democracy. He noted that skyrocketing costs for political advertising in large media markets have significantly driven up the price of effective campaign messaging, which is critical to winning elections.
What is concerning, he said, is where the money is coming from, and in what amounts.
“Are they [candidates] relying on megadonors that the average person cannot compete with? And will those megadonors have influence on policy after the election?” he said.
A handful of megadonors, almost all of them from outside Pennsylvania, contributed heavily to this year’s governor’s race, which was closely watched nationally as a referendum on high-profile issues like abortion access and election rights.
Shapiro, for instance, received $1 million each from Karla Jurvetson, a philanthropist and a major Democratic contributor from Silicon Valley, and Bill Harris Jr., the one-time head of PayPal. He received another $2 million from physician Jennifer Duda of California’s Menlo Park and got $120,000 from relatives of Democratic megadonor George Soros.
State Sen. Doug Mastriano of Franklin County, who won the Republican primary but lost to Shapiro in last month’s general election, raised much less money than Shapiro. But he still received $1 million from Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, supporters of former President Donald Trump and conservative megadonors from Illinois.
That’s not the only way wealthy donors influenced this year’s election for governor. Political action committees that receive millions of dollars in support from Montgomery County billionaire stock trader Jeff Yass, spent nearly $13 million to bolster former federal prosecutor Bill McSwain’s unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination for governor.
Such large-scale donations are permissible under Pennsylvania’s campaign finance laws, which have not been significantly updated in decades. Currently, candidates and political action committees (PACs) are allowed to accept donations of any size. There is also no explicit ban on using campaign funds for personal use.
Corporate donations are prohibited, but there is a loophole: top-level executives in a corporation can and do launch their own political action committees. Those PACs can then donate unlimited amounts to candidates. So can their lobbyists.
Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa (D., Allegheny) has for the last 12 years pushed legislation to strengthen campaign finance laws in the state. In every case, however, his bill has been met with silence. In fact, it has never once received even a committee hearing. Among other things, the measure would establish donation limits for the first time and impose more accountability for campaign spending.
Democrats said Costa plans to reintroduce the measure when the new, two-year legislative session begins next month. Less clear is whether it will gain any traction.
During the campaign, Shapiro said he would support more frequent and thorough reporting of campaign donations and expenditures. His campaign also said he would support limits on donations to candidates, but believes that alone would be ineffective unless there are also stricter restrictions on so-called “dark money” contributions from certain nonprofits, or “social welfare” organizations, that can accept unlimited amounts of money and do not have to disclose their donors.
Vandewalker, of the Brennan Institute, called donation limits and transparency “the bare minimum” when it comes to improving the campaign finance landscape.
Still, such changes would not affect wealthy candidates who have the ability to self-finance their run for office. Under both federal and state rules, such candidates can give unlimited amounts to their campaigns.
This year’s Republican gubernatorial primary featured one such candidate in Delaware County, GOP insider Dave White. White contributed $5 million of his own money to his run, about two-thirds of the $7.8 million he raised overall.
Still, his personal spending did little to whittle down the nine-person field of GOP contenders, and White ended up coming in fourth place.
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Harrisburg, Pa. — Republicans inside and outside Pennsylvania government say that despite a disastrous midterm election, they don’t see signs that the party is shifting its electoral or governing strategies away from contentious social issues like restricting abortion.
Some party insiders say that trend is a bad sign for GOP prospects.
After losing marquee races for governor and U.S. Senate, as well as control of the state House (though for now that remains contested), Republicans in Harrisburg, particularly in the lower chamber, have seemed to resume their previous combative agenda with gusto.
The week after the election, the House impeached Philadelphia’s progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner in a near party-line vote — a rare step, particularly as Krasner isn’t accused of any crime.
More than a dozen conservative members of the chamber also formed the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus, joining a national network of conservative lawmakers. U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.), who is under investigation for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election, helped launch the effort last month, saying that “people don’t vote for Republicans to come to state capitols to negotiate backroom deals with far-left extremists.”
“I don’t think it’s a good sign for us,” said one Republican Party insider who spoke on condition of anonymity because of their close work with some of the politicians they’re criticizing. Conservative Republicans, they added, don’t seem to be reading the room.
“The Freedom Caucus stuff is not positive. That really spooks people from the southeast,” the operative said, referring to Philadelphia and its suburbs. “In statewide races, that hurts, and then [Democratic candidates use it against Republican candidates] in these races in the southeast.”
Southeast Pennsylvania is one of the most vote-rich areas of the state. Once a GOP stronghold, the region has become increasingly controlled by Democrats in the past decade. Democrats did well there in the midterms, ousting one of the state House’s long-standing Republican holdouts, state Rep. Todd Stephens (R., Montgomery), who was known for his willingness to cross the political aisle.
Stephens said he thinks this year’s new legislative map, which made his district more Democratic, drove his and other GOP losses — a theory echoed by chamber leaders. But he added that the maps do not account for Republican troubles at the top of the ticket in statewide contests.
Stephens said he thinks far-right Republican candidates like Doug Mastriano make it harder for candidates like him to communicate their own, more moderate values — and that’s where he sees deeper problems in the party.
“I think that the Republicans need to recognize that there are sizable populations that don’t live in rural Pennsylvania, that feel differently about things, particularly social issues,” he said. “If they want to compete for suburban voters, which I think they have to if they want to be competitive in Pennsylvania statewide, then they’re gonna have to reexamine some of their policies.”
Stephens highlighted several of the issues where he tended to deviate from his caucus: regulating gun access, ensuring LGBTQ rights, and preserving access to abortion.
Shortly after speaking with Spotlight PA, he shared an article reporting that one of the state House’s most socially conservative members, state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz (R., Clinton), had introduced a bill for the new session that would ban abortion in virtually all circumstances.
“Well,” Stephens wrote in a text message, “so much for that!”
Republicans across the political spectrum have echoed some of Stephens’ concerns about voters’ view of the GOP, criticizing the party’s lack of a pitchable policy agenda on the campaign trail.
Last month, moderate state Rep. Tom Mehaffie (R., Dauphin), told Spotlight PA that the past few years had resulted in “a lot of bad products in the House.” He did not name specifics.
Privately, other GOP sources have said they disagreed with leadership’s decision to force a late-night vote in July on a controversial bundled constitutional amendment. It would have included several disparate constitutional changes, including a measure to block courts from finding a constitutional right to abortion access, and another aimed at implementing stricter voter ID laws.
Forcing legislative Republicans to vote on the proposal brought the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade to the forefront of some races, and gave Democrats additional material to use against GOP candidates.
But more conservative members of the state House have drawn different lessons from the party’s poor midterm performance: that Republicans did not advance an aggressive enough agenda.
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R., Lawrence) told Spotlight PA that leadership would avoid votes on controversial bills by arguing it was too hard for some colleagues or by arguing that the timing wasn’t right.
However, with voters “tired of the status quo,” the caucus needed to do a better job of putting words into action, he said.
“The truth is we should be the party of fiscal responsibility, yet we refused to run the Taxpayer Protection Act,” Bernstine said, referring to a proposed constitutional amendment to cap state spending to the rate of inflation. “We are the party of school choice, but we refused to run a comprehensive school choice bill. We are the party of individual freedom, but we refused to run a constitutional amendment on medical freedom,” which would have banned vaccine mandates.
(Bernstine is also listed as a member of the new Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus, according to its website.)
Other GOP lawmakers seek to avoid too much finger-pointing.
State Sen. Dave Argall (R., Schuylkill), who chaired the chamber’s powerful State Government Committee during the past session, said his party needs to “find a message that resonates in both our rural areas, and in our suburban and urban areas.”
He has just a few priorities for 2023: pass a state budget that carefully takes into account the “iffy” economy, and overhaul and update Pennsylvania’s long-debated election laws.
Unless the courts intervene, in January the state Senate will also have to conduct a trial for Krasner.
Asked whether he wanted to spend legislative time that way, Argall laughed.
“We don’t have a choice,” he said. “We have an obligation. The House impeached, the Senate must proceed accordingly.”
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Lycoming County, Pa. — Additional charges have been filed against a woman who was arrested earlier this month for stealing and selling more than 60 holiday blow mold decorations.
Lane E. Sarcinella, 40, of South Williamsport, was charged Tuesday for stealing $450 of vintage holiday blow mold decorations from a woman's yard in Linden the evening of Nov. 29. The blow molds, which were taken from a home on Jamison Street, have since been recovered and returned to the owner, state police at Montoursville say. The charges were filed at the office of District Judge Denise L. Dieter.
Williamsport Bureau of Police also have filed theft charges against Sarcinella for two separate theft cases in the city from Nov. 27. District Judge Aaron I. Biichle is handling those cases.
Sarcinella was originally charged on Dec. 1 by Old Lycoming Township Police after they recovered more than 60 blow molds from a man's garage. Police say Sarcinella and her accomplice, Christopher Fraunfelter, 34, also of South Williamsport, had stolen blow molds from yards in South Williamsport, Williamsport, Montoursville, and surrounding areas numerous times since November. The pair had then sold the blow molds on Facebook.
The man in Old Lycoming Township contacted police on Nov. 30 saying he believed he may have purchased some of the stolen decorations reported in a NorthcentralPa.com article on Nov. 29. He told police that Sarcinella and Fraunfelter had been selling numerous blow molds to him since mid-November.
As the buyer was speaking with police, Sarcinella and Fraunfelter contacted him again, offering to sell additional holiday blow molds. The man set up a sale later that day, and police arranged surveillance at his home.
Sarcinella and Fraunfelter arrived with a nativity blow mold set in a Dodge Durango. Police were able to detain and arrest both after they gave conflicting stories about where they obtained the nativity set blow molds, as well as others they previously sold.
Old Lycoming Township Police then took possession of the blow molds and asked that the original owners contacted them to claim. As of Tuesday, Sgt. Christopher Kriner said all but three of the blow molds were claimed by their owners.
The return of the beloved holiday decorations saved Christmas for many who had been missing them. Heather Duitch, who lives in Williamsport's East End, was one of those owners who was contacted by Old Lycoming Township to retrieve her blow molds. Duitch said her two children were excited to have their Santa and snowmen decorations returned.
Theft charges against Sarcinella filed on Dec. 1 were waived for court. Formal arraignment in front of Lycoming County Judge Ryan M. Tira is scheduled for Dec. 9. Sarcinella awaits preliminary hearings on the additional charges.
Old Lycoming Township Police and Williamsport Bureau of Police also have filed theft charges against Fraunfelter.
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Cherry Township, Pa. — A Pennsylvania State Police trooper said he noticed a car make several traffic violations, prompting him to pull the driver over just after midnight on Nov. 29.
The driver, identified as Jason Severcool, 39, of Tunkhannock, Pa., was driving with a suspended license on the 11000 block of Route 220.
"Severcool displayed signs of being under the influence of a controlled substance and was found to be in possession of a small amount of methamphetamine along with related paraphernalia," wrote Trooper Brian Hardiman of PSP Laporte.
Hardiman took Severcool to the Towanda Borough Police Department where Chief Eppler conducted a Drug Recongintion Evaluator (DRE) evaluation and determined that Severcool was under the influence of a controlled substance.
The police report also indicated a three-year-old victim in the incident, but did not specify if the child was riding in the car at the time with Severcool. A call to PSP Laporte was not returned by the time of publishing.
This is Severcool's "third, potentially fourth DUI within 10 years," according to the police report. He was incarcerated, but court records show he posted 15,000 monetary bail through a bail bondsman.
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Lock Haven, Pa. — A man with a slew of traffic offenses on his record refused to stop for Lock Haven Police despite numerous attempts by authorities.
Kaleb Matthew Barnard, 19, of Loganton turned his motorcycle around several times as officers attempted to stop him. At one point, Barnard drove head on toward two cruises as he sped by them, police said.
Barnard allegedly popped wheelies throughout the chase, taunting police as they tried to pull him over. The show ended when Barnard was cornered by police and taken into custody.
Barnard posted $7,500 monetary bail after being charged with third-degree felony fleeing and seven traffic related summary offenses.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbor at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a gunfight.
In all, six people died in the violence Monday in Queensland state. The killers have been identified as former school principal Nathaniel Train, 47, his brother Gareth, 46, and sister-in-law Stacey, 45.
Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said late Tuesday that investigators would look at the possible extremist links of the killers after a series of posts under the name of Gareth Train were found on conspiracy theory forums.
The posts include references to anti-vaccine sentiments and claims that other high-profile shootings were hoaxes or false-flag operations.
“It’s very difficult at the moment for us to reason with what has happened, there are no obvious reasons,” Carroll told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. But she added she had no doubt that over the coming days and weeks, police would come back with some insight into the tragic events that unfolded.
Carroll said every possible motive for the killings was being examined, including whether it was a premeditated attack on the officers.
“Some of the stuff that’s online from these people, we will investigate what they have been doing not only in recent weeks but in recent years, who they’ve been interacting with," she said.
Four officers arrived at the property in the town of Wieambilla, in Queensland state, to investigate reports of a missing person. They walked into a hail of gunfire, Carroll said, and it was a miracle that two officers managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Those killed were Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with 58-year-old neighbor Alan Dare.
One of the officers that escaped, Constable Randall Kirk, 28, was recovering at a hospital Wednesday from shrapnel wounds. He said he and his wife wanted to thank everybody "from the Prime Minister down” for their messages of support.
“I’m feeling fine, just a little sore. My main thoughts are with the other police families at this awful time,” Kirk said in a statement released by the police union. “It means a lot to know the community cares for us all."
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier told reporters in Sydney that the country mourned with those affected.
“This is, indeed, a devastating day for everyone who loved these Australians, and our hearts go out to those in the grip of terrible grief,” he said. “We know that this news has fallen hard on a close-knit and caring Queensland community. As well as, of course, the community to which all police officers belong.”
He said officers across the nation know the risks they face, yet do their duty.
“And today and every day I pay tribute to each and every one of the police officers who serve their local communities and who serve their nation,” Albanese said. “This is not a price that anyone who puts on the uniform should ever pay.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Colonial Gardens grows over one million trees a year, including Christmas trees. Hear from Botanical Brian, who shares tips to take care of your tree and ways to make it festive for the holiday.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state's 17 inmates awaiting execution, saying their death sentences will be changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining in office, said she was using her executive clemency powers to commute the sentences and that her order will take effect on Wednesday.
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people — even if a terrible crime placed them in prison," Brown said in a statement.
Oregon has not executed a prisoner since 1997. In Brown's first news conference after becoming governor in 2015, she announced she would continue the death penalty moratorium imposed by her predecessor, former Gov. John Kitzhaber.
So far, 17 people have been executed in the U.S. in 2022, all by lethal injection and all in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Missouri and Alabama, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Like Oregon, some other states are moving away from the death penalty.
In California, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019 and shut down the state's execution chamber at San Quentin. A year ago, he moved to dismantle America's largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years.
In Oregon, Brown is known for exercising her authority to grant clemency.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Brown granted clemency to nearly 1,000 people convicted of crimes. Two district attorneys, along with family members of crime victims, sued the governor and other state officials to stop the clemency actions. But the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in August that she acted within her authority.
The prosecutors, in particular, objected to Brown’s decision to allow 73 people convicted of murder, assault, rape and manslaughter while they were younger than 18 to apply for early release.
Brown noted that previously she granted commutations “to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation” but said that assessment didn't apply in her latest decision.
“This commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” Brown said. “Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction.”
The Oregon Department of Corrections announced in May 2020 it was phasing out its death row and reassigning those inmates to other special housing units or general population units at the state penitentiary in Salem and other state prisons.
A list of inmates with death sentences provided by the governor's office had 17 names.
But the state Department of Corrections' website lists 21 names. One of those prisoners, however, had his death sentence overturned by the Oregon Supreme Court in 2021 because the crime he committed was no longer eligible for the death penalty under a 2019 law.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking a key part of a tough new voter-approved gun law intended to curtail mass shootings, but did not immediately rule on its most controversial part — a ban on the sale and transfer of high-capacity magazines.
Harney County Judge Robert Raschio let stand an earlier temporary restraining order that blocks the permit-to-purchase provision of the law narrowly approved by voters in Oregon in November. He also temporarily blocked another provision that prevents the sale of a gun until the results of a background check come back. Under federal law, a gun sale can proceed by default if the background check takes longer than three business days — the so-called Charleston loophole, because it allowed the assailant to purchase the gun used in a 2015 South Carolina mass shooting.
But after a full day of oral arguments, the judge did not rule on a motion to freeze a ban on gun magazines containing more than 10 rounds while the courts debate the law's constitutionality. Raschio has until Friday to issue a ruling.
The lawsuit, filed by Gun Owners of America Inc., the Gun Owners Foundation and several individual gun owners, seeks to have the entire law placed on hold while it works its way through a spate of legal challenges. Unlike other lawsuits filed against Measure 114, this one specifically makes the claims under the Oregon Constitution, not the U.S. Constitution. Burns, the Harney County town where the hearing took place, is more than 280 miles (450 kilometers) southeast of Portland in a rural and sparsely populated corner of the state.
Prior to Tuesday’s hearing, the state had agreed to delay the permit-to-purchase portion of the law until Feb. 8 because of a lack of certified law enforcement to oversee the in-person gun handling training class that would be required.
“I’m going to continue the temporary restraining order with regards to the permit-to-purchase because I’m convinced that there’s irreparable harm to the right to bear arms,” Raschio said. The order will remain in effect “until I receive notice from defendants that they’re prepared to deploy a permit-to-purchase” system, he added.
Measure 114 requires a permit, criminal background check, fingerprinting and a hands-on training course for new firearms buyers that includes firing the gun with dry or live rounds. It also bans the sale, transfer or import of gun magazines over 10 rounds unless they are owned by law enforcement or a military member or were owned before the measure’s passage. Those who already own high-capacity magazines can only possess them in their homes or use them at a firing range, in shooting competitions or for hunting as allowed by state law after the measure takes effect.
Gun sales and requests for background checks soared in the weeks since the measure was approved because of fears the new law would prevent or significantly delay the purchase of new firearms under the permitting system.
Multiple gun rights groups, local sheriffs and gun store owners have sued, saying the law violates Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms and legal wrangling is likely to continue for months — or years — in this case and the others.
The law’s fate is being carefully watched by both gun rights advocates and those who want stricter limits on gun ownership. It would be one of the first to take effect after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that struck down a New York law that placed limits on carrying guns outside the home.
The June ruling signaled a shift in the way the nation’s high court will evaluate Second Amendment infringement claims, with the Supreme Court’s conservative majority finding judges should no longer consider whether the law serves public interests like enhancing public safety.
Instead, judges should only weigh whether the law is “consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding.”
The legal focus Tuesday in state court was focused on the historical context when Oregon’s constitution was enacted, and on the firearms landscape at that time. The Oregon Constitution was enacted in 1859, nearly 70 years after the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
Plaintiff expert witnesses testified that guns with a multi-shot capacity — pre-cursors of today's high-capacity magazine weapons — were common when the Oregon Constitution was adopted and would have been familiar to its drafters.
But the state Attorney General's office called witnesses who refuted that firearms with high-capacity magazines were common at that time and would have been “curiosities or exotic weapons" making up about 0.2% of all gun ownership.
Expert witnesses also addressed how the new law would impact gun sales and availability in the state.
The owner of a gun store testified that, based on his experience, 90% of guns would be illegal in the state if Measure 114 takes effect because most guns have magazine bases that can be removed and extenders that can be added to increase the number of rounds fired.
Numerous gun manufacturers are already refusing to ship such guns to his store because of the law, said Ben Callaway, who owns Spent Cartridge in Burns, Oregon.
“They just won’t let you put it in the cart,” he said of online shopping for guns. “The only firearms I could currently purchase from them is a firearm that ships without a magazine.”
Defense expert James Yurgealitis testified that guns with magazines limited to 10 rounds are commercially available from “basically every major firearm manufacturer” because of similar capacity limits in other states. Manufacturers make “compliant" firearms for states with magazine capacity limits including California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Hawaii, Massachusetts and New York, the state argued.
Last week, a federal judge in Portland hearing a different challenge to the law under the U.S. Constitution allowed the ban on the sale and transfer of new high-capacity magazines to take effect. The Dec. 6 ruling also granted a 30-day delay before the law’s permit-to-purchase mandate takes effect, but much of the law was to take effect Dec. 8.
But Raschio's subsequent order later that same day placing all of Measure 114 on hold pending further court argument threw its implementation into limbo.
On Tuesday, Senior Assistant Attorney General Brian Marshall objected to Rachio's block on the background check provision, saying that part of the law had never been challenged in the Harney County lawsuit filed by the plaintiffs.
Raschio set a Dec. 23 hearing on that question. A hearing on the permit-to-purchase provision will also be scheduled.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The streets of Argentina turned into a party Tuesday as the national team beat Croatia by a comfortable 3-0 and earned this soccer-crazed South American country a spot in the World Cup final.
Fans poured onto the streets of the capital of Buenos Aires as soon as the match ended, with people waving Argentina flags out of their cars while others jumped and sang in joy amid a sea of wearing the national team’s jersey.
Earlier, Buenos Aires had come to a standstill on what was a scorching summer afternoon as fans packed cafes, restaurants and public plazas, where giant screens followed the exploits of the Lionel Messi-led team.
“I’m in complete ecstasy,” said Emiliano Adam, 31, who works at an advertising agency and was celebrating in the streets of Buenos Aires while wearing the country's flag as a cape. “This is the first match that didn't make me suffer, the first time I could enjoy a match from beginning to end."
Argentina will now play the last match of the World Cup against either France or Morocco, who are facing off Wednesday.
With that final match still days away, Tuesday turned into a day of joy as thousands of people descended on the capital’s iconic Obelisk.
The agonizing start of the tournament for Argentina was followed by a string of victories that have brought some much-needed joy to a country stuck in an economic standstill with one of the world’s highest inflation rates, closing in on almost 100% per year, and where close to four of every 10 people live in poverty.
“We’re all super excited, it’s been so long since we’ve lived a happiness like this. It’s beautiful, I mean look at this,” said Laila Desmery, a 27-year-old actress, as she pointed to people dancing and celebrating on the street. "It’s really unexplainable the joy that we’re going to be living through in the next few days.”
The sky-high hopes for the Argentina team only increased here after the quarter-final against the Netherlands, an agonizing match that ended in a penalty shootout and led to a collective feeling the team that had shocked the world by losing its opening match against Saudi Arabia had finally found its groove.
“This was the antithesis of the last match, we won easily, with ample advantage and without moments of so much tension and stress,” said Valentina González, 31, a social media manager.
Mariano Balestrasse said he was particularly proud of how the national team “has improved significantly every day and in every match you could see an improvement.”
In that sense, the shocking loss against Saudi Arabia “helped consolidate the team,” the 28-year-old architect said.
“This team connected a lot with the people, you can tell they’re very united and they transmit that,” said Abe Pérez, a 52-year-old civil servant.
In a traditional café in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, those who had been nervously staring at the television screen exploded in jubilation when Messi scored a penalty kick, ending what had been an agonizing goalless 33 minutes.
“Messi, Messi, Messi,” the crowd started chanting as they moved their arms in a worshipping ovation.
It was only five minutes later, before the crowd had even had a chance to cool down that Julián Álvarez scored an impressive goal, taking the score to 2-0.
By the second half, the crowd was ecstatic and when Álvarez, with an assist from Messi, scored a third goal, the joy overflowed with people jumping on chairs, kissing and hugging.
“Holding Messi by the hand, we’re going to go all the way,” the crowd chanted.
Tuesday's victory and reaching the World Cup final was even sweeter due to the initial difficulties that the team faced in the tournament, González said.
“It seems that it always has to be difficult to get there, but we get there and we win. It’s as if there is no winning without suffering,” the 27-year-old said.
The initial stumble gives more “mysticism” to the country now reaching the final, Desmery said.
“Many people say that we like to suffer because if we don't suffer it's as if nothing is happening, and, well, this is a little like that," Desmery said. “As Argentines, we like to feel a lot and then the celebration is three, four times as large.”
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
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The Biden administration has announced a breakthrough on nuclear fusion, fueling hopes of further progress toward clean energy.
Nuclear fusion — the process in which atoms are fused together to create energy — has long been studied as a potential power source.
But various hurdles have prevented the reaction from being a viable option for clean energy, and a commercial effort is still likely decades away.
Here’s what you should know about the Energy Department’s announcement:
1. It’s the first time a net energy gain has come from fusion
The crux of Tuesday’s news is that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California were able to produce more energy via fusion than they put in. They put in 2.05 megajoules of energy and got out 3.15 megajoules.
This is the first time scientists in a lab were able to create a net energy output through fusion, demonstrating that it is possible to do so.
“It’s the first time it has ever been done in a laboratory anywhere in the world. Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters at a press conference.
While the technology isn’t ready to be commercialized yet, the successful experiment raises the prospects of larger-scale deployment of fusion energy.
Previously, the lab came relatively close to breaking even when it generated 70 percent of the energy it put into a fusion reaction last year.
2. It’s seen as another potential source of carbon-free energy
If fusion can become a large-scale power source, it will provide another way of generating carbon-free energy as the world looks to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
U.S. officials have said they hope to broadly have an entirely clean electric grid by 2035 and commercially viable fusion power within a decade.
Like wind, solar and traditional nuclear energy — where an atom is split apart instead of fused together — nuclear fusion doesn’t emit any planet-warming gasses or air pollution.
“This milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero-carbon, abundant fusion energy powering our society,” Granholm said.
“We can use it to produce clean electricity, transportation fuels, power heavy industry [and] so much more,” she added. “It would be like adding a power drill to our toolbox in building this clean energy economy.”
Unlike traditional nuclear energy, called fission, fusion doesn’t generate radioactive waste that requires long-term storage. And unlike traditional hydropower dams, it doesn’t require finding — and flooding — a new reservoir.
The main place that fusion power would be useful if plugged into the current American grid would be as what is called “base load” power: a stable constant amount of electricity that current grids rely on.
In the U.S., about 19 percent of electricity comes from nuclear power, while 60 percent comes from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and petroleum, and the rest is from renewables, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Carolyn Kuranz, associate professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at the University of Michigan, told The Hill on Monday that nuclear fusion does create byproducts that have small amounts of radioactive material, but she said the material can stay on the power plant site and be used to fuel future fusion reaction instead of needing to go elsewhere.
Paul Dabbar, who was the Energy Department’s under secretary for science during the Trump administration, also pointed to some advantages that fusion could have over wind and solar in an interview with The Hill this week.
“It needs to be windy, it needs to be sunny, it takes a lot of land,” he said of the other energy sources, though he noted that battery technology could be used to improve on the intermittency issue.
However, fusion comes with its own drawbacks. A future fusion industry built around large, expensive individual plants would be dependent on an expanded, high-capacity electric grid to move power across the region or country — something that feels almost as far away at this point as commercial fusion power.
3. Breakthrough positions US as leader in global quest for fusion
The successful net power-producing experiment is a clear mark of success for America’s burgeoning public and private investment into fusion energy — particularly as the European Union, China and South Korea build out their own programs.
In January, China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) sustained a record 17-minute fusion reaction, Smithsonian reported.
And the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France will be the largest fusion facility in the world when it begins experiments in 2025, according to a statement.
In March, the Energy Department released a decadelong roadmap to bring commercial fusion to electricity markets.
That initiative touted the $2.5 billion that the private sector poured into fusion last year — about 3.5 times what the government spends directly.
An April White House summit also promoted the fact that two-thirds of private fusion companies and suppliers are based in the U.S. — and that American companies are the main recipients of international fusion funding.
But while it is tempting to think of fusion in terms of a “race” between countries, the drive for fusion power is highly international and collaborative.
U.S. companies built the central solenoid magnet for the ITER tokamak — necessary to create the magnetic fields that power and control the superheated plasma during a fusion reaction, according to the U.S. government.
And the Energy Department in November announced nearly $50 million for fusion research — of which part will go to support U.S. researchers at ITER and EAST, as The Hill reported.
4. Fusion still years off from becoming a mainstream energy source
The development was a major step toward fusion energy, but you’re not likely to be using this type of energy to turn on your lights anytime soon.
Granholm told reporters the administration hopes to see commercial fusion within a decade.
“The president has a decadal vision to get to a commercial fusion reactor within, obviously, 10 years, so we’ve got to get to work,” she told reporters.
Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where the breakthrough occurred, said it could be even longer, taking “decades” before the technology is commercialized.
“There are very significant hurdles” in both science and technology, Budil said.
Dabbar told The Hill this week that he thinks the first commercial demonstration fusion reactors could crop up between 2030 and 2035 and that large-scale deployment could come a few years after that.
“It takes a long time for energy systems to go from testing to full-scale deployment,” he said.
5. It has military implications
The applications of this discovery — like the experiment itself — go well beyond peacetime.
While the ultimate implications of this test are a milestone on the road to clean energy, the “more immediate” implications were military, said Marvin Adams, deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
So are the program’s roots: The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses extremely powerful lasers to “ignite” hydrogen and cause a self-sustaining explosion — a system developed in part to test advanced nuclear weapons without having to detonate an entire bomb.
“You start with a little spark, and then the spark gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and then the burn propagates through,” physicist Riccardo Betti of University of Rochester told public radio station WBUR.
This is a tiny-scale version of the same process used to kick off a hydrogen or “thermonuclear” bomb — which uses fusion power to release 1,000 times as much energy as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, Time reported.
Fusion reactors don’t contain nearly enough fuel to produce that kind of explosion — and a thermonuclear bomb requires a separate atomic explosion to trigger ignition, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But U.S. officials hinted at military applications. Fusion is “an essential process in modern nuclear weapons” and a milestone like this one was a strong argument for American military power, Adams noted.
The successful test demonstrates America’s “world-leading expertise in weapons-relevant technologies” while continuing “to show our allies that we know what we’re doing,” Adams said. | https://fox4kc.com/hill-politics/five-takeaways-from-the-fusion-energy-breakthrough/ | 2022-12-14T01:41:01 | en | 0.944404 |
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-8-5
(four, one, eight, five)
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House GOP leadership is urging Republicans to vote against a short-term government funding bill lawmakers are hoping to quickly pass ahead of a looming shutdown deadline.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) office sent out a notice to members on Tuesday evening recommending a “no” vote on the stopgap funding bill unveiled earlier Tuesday that leaders are expected to bring to the floor this week.
“Once again, House Democrats failed to meet the fundamental duty of funding the government despite spending most of the year passing trillions in wasteful spending that has fueled inflation and driven up our debt,” the notice said.
“This one-week continuing resolution is an attempt to buy additional time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans have had no seat at the negotiating table,” the notice added.
Funding runs out on Friday at midnight, and the stopgap bill would keep the government running through Dec. 23 while negotiators try to hash out funding for a larger omnibus spending package.
Republicans pushing for the shutdown deadline to be punted through next month say it’s necessary to allow the incoming GOP-led House more say in how the government should be funded. But other Republicans have pressed for an omnibus to be enacted sooner to ensure adequate funding for defense and national security.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Tuesday that lawmakers are “very close” to a bipartisan deal on an omnibus this month.
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 5 Evening" game were:
0-0-0-9-5
(zero, zero, zero, nine, five)
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Online attacks against LGBTQ people have skyrocketed in recent months, rising in lockstep with proposed policies seeking to roll back LGBTQ rights and culminating in real-world violence. A House committee is set to investigate the connection on Wednesday in a first-of-its kind hearing.
“Violence against LGBTQ+ people is on the rise, and has been for years,” Olivia Hunt, policy director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, said in an emailed statement. “From bomb threats and intimidation tactics targeting hospitals and churches to attacks like the shooting at Club Q, LGBTQ+ people nationwide are living under the threat of violence.”
Last month, a 22-year-old carried a rifle into Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., and opened fire, killing five people and injuring more than a dozen others. The alleged shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, is suspected to have ties to an extremist “free speech” website that aims to “cleanse” society, according to NBC News.
“You’re seeing that kind of hate speech becoming more and more prevalent online,” Colorado state Sen. Dominick Moreno (D) told The Hill. “Social media channels obviously make it easier to distribute, but I think they also intensify the vitriol because you can say anything you want behind the veneer of a computer screen.”
Hunt, who is scheduled to testify in Wednesday’s House and Reform Oversight Committee hearing, said it is critical for Congress to “shine a bright light” on rising violence against the LGBTQ community and make clear that recent attacks have been fueled by the harmful rhetoric and policies of right-wing leaders.
“I wish this hearing wasn’t necessary, but as long as extremists are targeting our community, we have to respond loudly with the truth and demonstrate how the dangerous environment for LGBTQ+ Americans is a consequence of their actions,” she said.
Inflammatory and false rhetoric
An August report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, found that inflammatory rhetoric aimed at LGBTQ people flourished during the first half of 2022 on mainstream social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter, which recently relaxed its hateful conduct policies under new owner Elon Musk and allowed scores of suspended users to return to the site.
The same report found that social media posts comparing LGBTQ people to “groomers” and “pedophiles” surged by more than 400 percent after a Florida education law barring teachers from engaging in classroom instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity was passed.
In March, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) then-press secretary Christina Pushaw said in a tweet the measure — known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — would be more aptly described as the “Anti-Grooming Bill” and that anyone opposed to the legislation is “probably a groomer.”
Accusations of child “grooming” have been hurled online at prominent LGBTQ figures and elected officials in droves this year, though the consequences of claims made on a virtual plane are spilling into the real world.
San Francisco police earlier this month were dispatched to the home of California state Sen. Scott Wiener to investigate an emailed death threat that called Wiener, who is openly gay, a “pedophile” and a “groomer.”
Wiener in a statement said the threat, which police later determined to be meritless, was the result of false accusations made by GOP officials and conservative media personalities that he was “grooming” children for sexual exploitation.
Wiener is the author of several pro-LGBTQ bills, including one measure that blocks states from prosecuting or investigating the families of transgender youth that travel to California to obtain gender-affirming health care.
Attacks on gender-affirming care
Threats of violence similar to Wiener’s have been made against children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors. Lawmakers in more than a dozen states this year introduced measures to heavily restrict or ban such care for youth and young adults, accusing physicians of “mutilating” children.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in August introduced federal legislation seeking to make providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors a felony, punishable by up 25 years in prison.
Greene during an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” where she announced her bill said gender-affirming care is “disgusting and appalling” and equated it to child abuse.
“This needs to be illegal,” she said.
Under standards set by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society, gender-affirming treatment for minors that have already started puberty typically involves puberty blockers or hormones that have been prescribed by a licensed physician.
Surgery is not recommended for youth under 18, and the only acceptable treatment for prepubescent children is social transition. Gender-affirming health care for transgender people of all ages is supported by most accredited medical organizations.
During November’s midterm elections, Republican candidates funneled millions into campaign ads that propagated false or misleading information about gender-affirming health care for youth and targeted transgender athletes.
“The radical left will destroy children if we don’t stop them,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says in one social media ad, which features footage of a Drag Queen Story Hour event. “They indoctrinate children; try to turn boys into girls.”
Anti-LBGTQ state legislation
Drag events for youth have recently drawn the ire of GOP leaders, and several bills seeking to ban them have already been pre-filed ahead of the 2023 legislative session by lawmakers in Tennessee, Texas and others.
In October, more than 30 House Republicans signed on to a measure seeking to block federal funds from being used to make “sexually-oriented” materials — including those that feature “any topic” related to sexual orientation or gender identity — available to children under the age of 10.
The measure’s primary sponsor, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), in a news release said the bill — titled the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act — will put an end to a “misguided crusade” led by Democrats to expose the nation’s children to “sexual imagery and radical gender ideology.”
Such language has galvanized far-right and extremist groups like the Proud Boys, whose members have led dozens of armed protests at family-friendly drag shows and other LGBTQ youth programs across the country, often in the name of protecting children from “groomers.”
In June, authorities in Northern California launched a hate crime investigation after a children’s story hour was disrupted by protesters that hurled anti-LGBTQ slurs at a drag performer. In November, an Oklahoma doughnut shop was firebombed after hosting a drag event. Organizers of an upcoming holiday-themed drag brunch in Jacksonville, Fla., say they are reconsidering holding the event at all after receiving multiple threats from Proud Boys members.
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The Biden administration is hosting a summit this week that brings together leaders of 49 African countries, as well as heads of the African Union, to collaborate on key policy across climate change, security and trade.
Vice President Harris opened the three-day summit on Tuesday at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, where she discussed the African diaspora and young African leaders.
President Biden is expected to join the summit on Wednesday and deliver remarks on the U.S.-Africa Business Forum.
While a significant majority of African nations joined the summit this week, five were not invited.
A senior White House official this week said four of those countries — Guinea, Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso — have changed their governments unconstitutionally and were suspended from the African Union.
Here are the five African nations that weren’t invited to Biden’s summit:
Guinea
The ruling government in Guinea was seized by a military junta in September 2021 and is now led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya.
The military junta overthrew President Alpha Condé, who had won a controversial third term for office despite term limits, which he claimed did not apply to him.
Doumbouya agreed in October to hold new elections in about two years.
Sudan
Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan toppled the government in October 2021, taking power during the northeast African nation’s transition to a democracy after three decades of authoritarian rule.
Sudan’s military leadership announced this month the first phase of an agreement to transition to a democracy, but some political groups have rejected the framework, and discussions are ongoing.
Millions of people in Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, a crisis that grew worse after the coup. Civilian demonstrators also frequently clash with security forces.
Mali
Col. Assimi Goïta seized power in Mali two years ago after leading a coup against the government.
He failed to transition the West African country into new democratic elections and has become a pariah to the international world.
Mali also recently rejected help from French humanitarian groups, affecting hundreds of thousands of Malians who are in need of emergency food and medical assistance.
Earlier this year, France, which had fought Islamic terrorist groups for nine years in Mali, completed a withdrawal of troops from the country.
Russian mercenaries in Mali have also been accused of murdering civilians in a growing concern for world leaders.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, located in West Africa, is in a dire humanitarian situation after suffering from two coups in less than nine months.
Troops in September ousted the ruling military leader, Lt. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had won control of the country through a January coup.
A militia leader appointed to replace him said Damiba had not done enough to control violence in Burkina Faso.
More than 3,200 people have died in the African country from January to September, and nearly 5 million are in need of emergency assistance.
Some women and children have been eating leaves and salt for weeks, the United Nations said in October.
Eritrea
The U.S. does not have formal ties with Eritrea, a country located in the Horn of Africa in the eastern region of the continent, so the nation’s leaders were not invited.
Eritrea has also been providing military support to neighboring Ethiopia, which is in the midst of a civil war against an opposing political faction in the region of Tigray.
Eritrean troops are accused of the kidnapping, looting and murder of civilians in Tigray, and the U.S. has called for the Eritrean soldiers to withdraw from the conflict.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners had its first meeting Tuesday since former Associate General Counsel Ryan McCarty wrote a scathing letter, criticizing Interim Police Chief Joseph Mabin and General Counsel Holly Dodge.
“I’m legal counsel for KCPD,” Dodge told FOX4 after the public portion of Tuesday’s meeting.
“Excuse me, I need to go to a meeting,” she said when asked about the accusations.
FOX4 was also briefly able to talk to Mabin after the public portion of the meeting.
“McCarty was employed with us for six months,” Mabin said before going into closed session. “He’s no longer employed by the police department.”
McCarty wrote an eight-page letter highly critical of both Dodge and Mabin. McCarty, who said Monday he was going to be in attendance Tuesday, didn’t come to the meeting after all.
“To all those who have reached out inquiring as to why I was not at the monthly BOPC meeting this morning to give public comment, I want to let you know that it was at the wise counsel of my attorneys at Wagstaff & Cartmell,” McCarty said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
Less than a day earlier, McCarty had said he was using Tom Porto, a partner at The Popham Law Firm.
In McCarty’s letter sent out Saturday, he said he was fired on Dec. 7 after trying to bring up a complaint about Dodge.
“I think you will see that we are actually conducting an investigation as you would expect,” Mayor and Board of Police Commissioner Quinton Lucas said after the closed session Tuesday. “We have outside lawyers to help us with that, and that’s basically all I care to volunteer right now.”
As Dodge left the public session Tuesday, she received a hug from KCPD supporter Joy Marie Chamberland, who said she comes to every police board meeting.
“What you need to understand is, they are my family. And I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m a momma bear when it comes to messing with my family,” Chamberland told FOX4 Tuesday.
“I’m not saying that what people are saying is not true. Everyone has a right to their opinion. Everyone’s perspective becomes reality. My perspective: They’re my family. My reality: She needed a hug.”
Lucas said the department’s committed to transparency and following the rules.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Officials held a public hearing on their proposed downtown stadium and entertainment district Tuesday night.
The price tag for that new ballpark is projected at two billion dollars.
Royals Chairman and CEO John Sherman says the project would bring thousands of jobs to the metro and millions in economic support, but not everyone is on board.
“All it’s gonna be is a playground for the wealthy and the tourists,” Denise Brown, leader with KC Tenants Power said.
Brown believes the Royals’ stadium is fine where it is and that a move downtown will displace the poor and working class, especially on the north and east side of Kansas City.
“We want to build a stadium here in the city, but yet the prices of homes are going up and people can’t afford housing,” Brown said. “That should be the priority.”
Brown says the city doesn’t need another entertainment district downtown and that the Royals should upgrade their current stadium.
Meanwhile, leaders with the Union group Stand Up KC say they see the potential benefits of the move.
“We imagine coming onto these jobs on the first day and hearing that you have the right to unionize, you’ll be making a living wage,” Wise said. “You know this will be a fair job, a good job.”
Wise said some people in the city are struggling with poverty wages with no benefits, and families are barely making ends meet with the current economy; if a project like this will be partially funded by public tax dollars, Wise wants workers like himself to have a say when it comes to the move.
He says that will ensure the poor and working class can also benefit from the development.
“We want real concrete things that are gonna change lives in Kansas City,” Wise said. “Cause when I wake up in the morning every morning on the news, people are being killed, we have a homeless problem, and this project needs to address some of those problems and not add to them.”
Sherman touched on some of the concerns from both groups last fall when he first talked about the potential move.
“We need to have a positive impact in the quality of life for our citizens in KC with a particular focus on those underrepresented parts of our community,” Sherman said.
The lease for Kauffman Stadium with Jackson County ends in 2030. Sherman said Tuesday’s meeting is just one of the public forums the Royals will have seeking the community’s input.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — A 22-year-old Beaumont man who is facing multiple charges in connection with a deadly 2021 shooting and a string of 2018 robberies is standing trial for one of the charges.
Jacorry Jamard Green is charged with murder, robbery, aggravated robbery and burglary of a habitation according to jail records.
The current trial is in connection with the aggravated robbery charge. Green was charged with aggravated robbery in September 2018 following a string of robberies that police said, "plagued the City of Beaumont."
Jury selection began Tuesday morning. The jury began deliberating late Tuesday afternoon.
Green is currently being held in the Jefferson County Jail bonds totaling more than $1.5 million, according to jail records.
Once this trial is complete, Green will face a future trial in connection with crimes unrelated to the 2018 incident. Those charges stem from the 2021 shooting death of 29-year-old Tyler Womack in Beaumont and a burglary.
The deadly shooting took place early Sunday, July 11, 2021 morning. Beaumont Police were called to the 4200 block of Woodlawn Drive where they found Womack suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Womack was pronounced dead at the scene.
A trail of blood that led to a nearby residence and evidence found there led investigators to believe the shooting occurred at a different location.
Detectives later learned that Green was allegedly involved in the murder, according to a probable cause affidavit. Green already had an active warrant out for his arrest for robbery and was wearing an ankle monitor.
Beaumont Police found Green two days later in a vehicle in the 900 block of W. Florida. Green was found to be in possession of a handgun that police believe was taken during the Sunday shooting.
Police obtained a sworn statement from a witness who said Green told them he was at the scene at the time of the murder, according to an affidavit.
Green was already in jail for a robbery charge when Judge Ben Collins signed a murder warrant in July of 2021, officially charging him with the murder of Womack.
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FOLSOM, La. (WGNO) — A family dog is being hailed a hero after he protected two young girls who had gotten lost in the woods behind their Louisiana home.
It happened Monday evening in the Village of Folsom, which is located north of Lake Pontchartrain and New Orleans.
Seven-year-old Abigail Bourg and her sister, 4-year-old Cecelia Bourg, were playing in their backyard when their Golden Retriever, Artemis, ran into the woods. The girls followed and eventually got lost.
“It’s feelings that no parent wants to go through, it was just a rollercoaster of emotions,” said the girls’ mother, Mary Bourg.
The community quickly rallied together. Over 100 volunteers searched the area as well as local law enforcement who deployed ATVs and helicopters.
“Everyone in this community dropped what they were doing and just on the spot – it didn’t matter, they were there for us,” said Mary.
In the end, it was Artemis barking, alerting anyone close by of where they were. The girls and dog were found around 9:30 p.m.
“He also tried to bark at the helicopter,” said Abigail. “He was trying to get help anywhere, let anyone know where y’all were!” added Mary.
It was a surreal moment the second the kids were reunited with their family.
“One thing I can say, the movies got right,” said the girls’ father, Justin Bourg.
As a token of their appreciation, Artemis was fed a special steak dinner. The family says they are holding on to each other – and their dog – a little tighter at night. | https://fox4kc.com/news/national/family-dog-hailed-a-hero-after-protecting-two-young-girls-in-louisiana-woods/ | 2022-12-14T01:41:38 | en | 0.991584 |
BEAUMONT, Texas — A hearing is set Wednesday for a former U.S. representative candidate after he was accused of threatening to kill his political opponent, U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, TX-14
Keith Douglas Casey has been charged with making a threat against a U.S. official, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
The arraignment and detention hearing is set for Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 2 p.m. at the federal courthouse in Beaumont before Judge Christine L. Stetson.
On March 30, 2022, at around 10:15 a.m., the United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section received an email from a staff member at Congressman Weber's office.
In the email, the staff member said they had been made aware of an alleged death threat against Weber from Casey, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The knowledge of threats came after a constituent made a call to a radio station in Beaumont, letting them know Casey allegedly had plans to kill his opponent Weber.
On March 29, 2022, at around 8:45 p.m., the constituent received a call from a number with a caller ID belonging to Casey. Casey allegedly told them he was in Beaumont waiting for them and another radio host to report on a plot, according to the affidavit.
Casey claimed that Governor Greg Abbott and Congressman Weber were involved in organized crime and stole the election from him.
It was during this conversation that Casey stated "I'm gonna kill that son of a b****," which the constituent interpreted as a threat against Weber, according to the affidavit.
On March 30, 2022, at around 11:10 a.m., USCP Special Agent Josh Bank interviewed Weber's staff member who was told by the constituent that Casey had shown up at the radio station's office several times exhibiting threatening behavior.
The same day, at around 11:10 p.m., Bank spoke with the constituent, who said Casey had shown up at the radio station office several times over the past four to six weeks.
They said Casey made comments about needing to "get them" and "we're gonna kill them," in reference to Abbott and Weber, according to the affidavit.
On August 10, 2022, Casey went to the Jefferson County Courthouse, where Jefferson County Mental Health Deputy Steve Hinton said Casey identified himself as a "prophet" and "servant of the most-high God."
He later advised Hinton that he had an appointment with Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick.
Casey agreed to speak with a qualified mental health professional and reminded them he recently ran against Weber and won, but through election fraud he was "exiled" from office, according to the affidavit.
Casey allegedly told Hinton that the meeting with Judge Branick was to deliver a message Branick had downloaded to Casey's brain. Deputy Hinton noted that Casey presented with delusional thoughts and specific homicidal ideations.
Casey stated that he heard voices and complained of electronic harassment by the government in the form of wiretapping.
Hinton documented that Casey had access to weapons and was pictured holding a firearm in his campaign brochure for U.S. Congress, according to the affidavit.
Hinton assessed that Casey needed immediate physician-directed intervention and stabilization and was considered a threat to public safety due to his mobility, access to weapons and his perceived ability to carry out his plans.
This behavior prompted the execution of a emergency detention order that would allow a licensed physician to perform a secondary evaluation and observation on Casey, according to the affidavit.
Casey was transported to an area hospital for inpatient care.
On December 5, 2022, Task Force Officer Adam Park was contacted by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Detective Brian Sain, who said that on November 10, 2022, Casey was seen by a witness sitting inside a car parked in front of a Nederland business.
The witness said Casey was moving in and out of the vehicle in an "erratic manner," which led them to approach Casey and check on his welfare.
It was then that Casey complained "the election was stolen from him," according to the affidavit.
The witness also said that Casey told him he was going to get a gun and "going to take him down," referring to the man that had stolen the election.
Through investigation, it's believed Casey was referring to Weber.
Casey provided the witness with a campaign flyer, which helped detectives confirm Casey as the subject of this witness encounter.
On December 5, 2022, Park interviewed the witness, who was able to corroborate the statements originally provided by Sain.
Investigators took note on Casey's Twitter account, which contains an image of Casey holding what appears to be a rifle or shotgun in his right hand.
He is also shown wearing a holster, accompanied by a revolver-type pistol, on his right hip.
There is reason to believe that Casey violated 18 U.S.C. $ I ls(aXlXB) by threatening to assault and murder a US official, according to the affidavit.
Casey has run several times to unseat Weber from office. In the 2022 Republican primary, Casey received 7.9% votes compared to Weber's 89%, and in 2018, Casey finished in third place with about 5% of the vote.
In 2016, Weber garnered about 84% of the vote compared to Casey's 16%.
Casey is being represented by public defender Gary R Bonneaux. | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/local/candidate-charged-kill-randy-weber/502-1450f691-6323-40c6-af49-fd6e56f5b9a9 | 2022-12-14T01:41:42 | en | 0.988884 |
RICHMOND, Mo. — The Ray County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about two recent attacks on cattle.
One he attributes to an out of control dog. The other he suspects, in his words, a big cat.
Mike Tarwater’s family has lived on some sprawling property north of Richmond for nearly 40 years.
“This is about 250 yards away,” Tarwater said, pointing to a picture of a feline, taken by his father.
Tarwater said it’s the long tail that indicates to him that this is a mountain lion.
It’s stories like these being re-shared following a graphic post from the Ray County Sheriff. The amount of blurring FOX4 had to do to the cow’s face should indicate to viewers how bad it looks uncensored. Describing the injury is like describing a plate of spaghetti.
Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers wrote on Facebook this weekend: “This in no way is to scare anyone but to share the information to keep our community informed. Big cats have been here since I grew up in Knoxville. I have had numerous sightings but never had any contact with them.”
Tarwater said, over the years, the missing bodies of young calves have been found in trees. He has also lost 13 turkeys to something.
“Each one, they’d be gone. You’d only find five feathers maybe. Each one,” Tarwater said.
Tarwater said it has to be something big.
“A bobcat would even leave feathers. A coyote would leave feathers,” Tarwater said.
But the Missouri Department of Conservation disagrees with this initial assessment of people on the ground saying that based on their investigation a dog, or possibly multiple dogs, caused the most recent attack.
This is the common back-and-forth between the state agency and people like Tarwater, a man claiming 200 hours a year in the woods, experiencing and hearing stories of feeling watched.
“The woods got real calm, quiet, shut-up. I could just see the cat’s tail, and he was gone about 3 minutes. Boom — the woods woke back up. The birds were chirping and everything,” Tarwater said, recalling one story.
The Missouri Department of Conservation said young male mountain lions occasionally come through this areas, traveling in from the west. But again, their position is that no recent animal attacks have officially been attributed to big cats.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — A Beaumont faith-based university that has been operating for less than a year announced a major change.
Holy Patriot University announced it will no longer have an active sports department. The announcement followed a slew of complaints from parents of students, who claimed the school did not deliver on its promises.
In April 2022, university officials announced it would operate in Beaumont. Back in April, founder and president of Holy Patriot University, David Angeron, said athletics would be an integral part of Holy Patriot University’s vision.
School officials have big plans for their student-athletes.
University officials spent the spring and summer of 2022 recruiting coaches and student-athletes for several different programs. Leaders even worked out a deal for student-athletes to train at Golden Triangle Sports academy.
While recruiting efforts were underway, university representatives were still looking for office space to rent. While the classes the university does offer are completely online, officials wanted a "common space" available for students to work.
University leaders eventually settled on South Baptist Park Church. However, when it came to a space for athletes to train consistently, the university fell short.
According to Angeron, the school was unable to pay for the practice space after students began dropping out and tuition was not being paid on time.
"Just like every new university has to go through, it takes some time to get accredited, so that we can offer financial aid," Angeron said. "Being a not- for profit university, we strongly rely on tuition payments and donations, when three-quarters of our students are late and delinquent on payments, it makes it tough for us to move forward with the athletic department."
Angeron said the school is here to stay and will continue to offer faith-based classes. The university is seeking the proper state accreditation to add non-faith-based classes, which could open up the possibility for the athletics department to return.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The wait continues to see who the next Kansas City, Missouri police chief will be.
On Tuesday, the board of police commissioners announced they needed more time to make a decision but some aren’t happy with that outcome.
The board will be meeting Thursday. It’s not the announcement some people were looking forward to. They tell FOX4 they don’t understand why it’s taking so long.
Transparency has been a big complaint from the community during this process. Mayor Quinton Lucas said he has heard everyone’s concerns and feels like more time will help the board pick the best fit.
“I think it was a great attempt at transparency but that transparency is needed throughout the process, not the last few days of the process,” said Pastor Darron Edwards.
“To the extent that we discuss personnel because a vote particularly if there’s one to be on police chief would have to be in public I would think the debate related to that should be in public too,” Lucas said.
Lucas tried to go through the process of selecting the next police chief in front of everyone. But the rest of the board of police commissioners voted to keep the discussion in closed session. A little more than two hours later, the board announced it was pushing the conversation to Thursday.
“I think the delay is a bit disgusting that we’ve waited 6 to 8 months to go through this search process and the community is with baited breath,” Edwards said.
Some community members waited during the closed session, anticipating an announcement about who the next police chief would be.
Lucas said pushing the possible announcement shows the board is trying to evaluate the finalists.
“We trying to make sure that we can answer every question possible, that we can make sure that we give our new chief the best possible opportunity to start strong by having all the questions issued that’s coming our way.”
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BEAUMONT, Texas — Following a community-wide effort to ensure it stays in business, the owners of a beloved Beaumont brewery announced its upcoming 2023 closure.
In a Tuesday Facebook post, the owners of the Pour Brothers Brewery announced that the downtown business will close at the end of January 2023.
The brewery was expected to close in early 2022. On January 26, 2022, brewery owners announced that January 30, 2022 was expected to be their last day of business.
Owners cited struggles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and a decrease in customers when announcing the previous closure.
The brewery had to shut down for five months in 2020. Once the brewery reopened, owners were forced to adjust to only offering to-go beers.
For a while, the brewery was only bringing in about half the revenue per week it needed to remain financially stable.
Following the January 2022 announcement, the Beaumont community showed an "outpouring of support." Loyal brewery customers swarmed the business the day the announcement was made to pick up last-minute cases.
A GoFundMe was started in an attempt to save the brewery and to help it obtain a brewpub license. By January 30, 2022, the GoFundMe had raised more than $10,000, and in total raised more than $21,000.
Related: Back in Business | Beloved Beaumont brewery to reopen thanks to donations, community support
The money raised from the GoFundMe and other funds allowed owners to make changes to the business. This allowed the Pour Brothers Brewery to reopen and continue serving the Southeast Texas community for a while.
"Unfortunately, these changes have not brought about sufficient increases in sales to keep the brewery running and we will be closing in six weeks, at the end of January," owners said in a Facebook post.
All events that are currently scheduled before the upcoming closure will still occur and owners said the brewery will continue to serve the public until the end.
"We’ve met some wonderful people over the years including our incredible staff and appreciate all the support that we received," owners said. "Thank you for letting us share a few beers with you. Cheers!"
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT) – Following Kansas State University football’s Big 12 Championship win over Texas Christian University on Dec. 3, the Wildcats have announced a statewide Big 12 Championship trophy tour beginning Wednesday, Dec. 14.
The trophy will make 19 stops during a six-day tour. Each stop allows for fans to take pictures with the trophy.
“We can’t thank our fans enough,” head coach Chris Klieman said in a press release. “Our crowds were electric all season and created an unbelievable atmosphere in Arlington. We were playing for them as much as we were for each other, and we are excited to share this championship with them.”
Here is the schedule for the stops, according to K-State Athletics:
Wednesday, Dec. 14
7-9 a.m. Great Bend – Marmie Ford, 1815 10th Street
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Hutchinson – AJ’s at the Alley, 1221 E 23rd Ave
2:30-4:30 p.m. Wichita – Emerson Biggins Sports Bar & Grill, 808 E Douglas Ave
6:30-8:30 p.m. Emporia – Emporia Fitness, 2812 W 12th Ave
Thursday, Dec. 15
8-10 a.m. Manhattan – Hy-Vee, 601 N 3rd Pl
1-3 p.m. Manhattan – K-State Super Store, 520 McCall Road
4-6 p.m. Manhattan – Dillons Westloop Shopping Center, 1101 Westloop Pl
Friday, Dec. 16
9-11 a.m. Concordia – Concordia Golf and Wellness, 1300 Willow St
1-3 p.m. Marysville – Pepsi Cola Bottling of Marysville, 604 Center St
5:30-7:30 p.m. Atchison – Willie’s Sports Bar, 701 Commercial St
Saturday, Dec. 17
9-11 a.m. Chanute – Bank of Commerce, 101 W Main St
1:30-3:30 p.m. Topeka – The Pennant, 915 S Kansas Ave
5-8 p.m. Kansas City – T-Mobile Center, 1407 Grand Blvd – K-State Men’s Basketball vs. Nebraska
Monday, Dec. 19
8-10 a.m. Salina – Long McArthur Ford, 3450 S 9th St
12:30-2:30 p.m. Hays – Hays Chevrolet, 2917 Vine St
5-7 p.m. Colby – Meadow Lake Golf Course, 1085 E Golf Club Dr
Tuesday, Dec. 20
8-10 a.m. Garden City – Southwind Golf and Dining, 77 Grandview Dr
12-2 p.m. Liberal – Old Chicago, 2867 Centennial Blvd
4-6 p.m. Dodge City – Boot Hill Distillery, 501 W Spruce St
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BEAUMONT, Texas — With the national spike in illnesses like the flu and RSV, many people are wondering if, when or even where they should receive medical attention.
And although some people might not feel like the need to see a doctor, paying one a visit can help you heal faster.
Primary care physicians are the core of maintaining a healthy immune system but with so many people getting sick, it can be tough to get an immediate appointment.
Some doctors might suggest that their patient seek care from a nearby emergency department if their symptoms become too bad.
An Internal Medical Doctor, Dr. Msonthi Levine says that you should contact your primary care physician for acute problems such as a cold or raspatory problem maybe a urinary tract infection, or a minor laceration.
For more severe health symptoms, doctors are asking patients to get emergency medical services.
"If you can't talk, you can't walk, if you're having chest pain or severe shortness of breath or confused," said Levine. “Those are some symptoms better evaluated and seen in an emergency department.”
And for those who are wondering when they should seek medical attention, ER Physician Dr. Mohamed Hassan says that there is no specific time.
“It all depends on the person and how they feel,” said Hassan.
Doctor Hassan says that it also depends on what copiabilities and medicine that a person has tried at home, and if they feel themselves getting better or are they getting worse.
The CDC says that flu season peaks in December and lasts through February.
So, if you are experiencing acute symptoms then get ahold of your primary care provider or visit an urgent care facility.
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HONOLULU — U.S. scientists declared Tuesday that two active Hawaii volcanoes — one where lava destroyed hundreds of homes in 2018 and another where lava recently stalled before reaching a crucial Big Island highway — have stopped erupting.
“Kilauea is no longer erupting,” the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in a statement Tuesday, followed by a separate one saying, “Mauna Loa is no longer erupting.”
Alert levels for both volcanoes were reduced from watch to advisory.
Mauna Loa, the world's largest volcano, began spewing molten rock Nov. 27 after being quiet for 38 years, drawing onlookers to take in the incandescent spectacle, and setting some nerves on edge early on among people who’ve lived through destructive eruptions.
It was Mauna Loa's longest period of repose, said Ken Hon, the observatory's scientist in charge.
Lava-viewers in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park enjoyed the added rare marvel of being able to see Mauna Loa's smaller neighbor, Kilauea, erupting at the same time.
Kilauea had been erupting since September 2021. A 2018 Kilauea eruption destroyed more than 700 residences.
Mauna Loa lava didn't pose a threat to any communities, but got within 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) of a major highway that connects the east and west sides of the island.
Hon called the two-week spectacle, which is a typical timespan for Mauna Loa, “my favorite eruption.”
“It was a beautiful eruption, and lots of people got to see it, and it didn’t take out any major infrastructure and most importantly, it didn’t affect anybody’s life,” he said at a briefing Tuesday.
Hawaii County Civil Defense Director Talmadge Magno said a one-way route that opened to manage traffic from throngs of people watching the lava would close Thursday.
Magno and other county officials had warned that slow-moving lava could force the closure of Saddle Road, also known as Route 200 or Daniel K. Inouye Highway. That prompted motorists to brace for upheaval from a closure that could add hours to commute times on alternate coastal routes.
“Whatever it is — luck, chance — this is probably the best situation that we could ask for from Mauna Loa,” Magno said.
For Native Hawaiians, volcanic eruptions have deep cultural and spiritual significance. During Mauna Loa's eruption, many Hawaiians took part in cultural traditions, such as singing, chanting and dancing to honor Pele, the deity of volcanoes and fire, and leaving offerings known as “hookupu.”
Lava supply to a Mauna Loa fissure ceased on Saturday, the observatory said, and volcanic tremor and earthquakes associated with the eruption “greatly diminished.”
“Spots of incandescence may remain near the vent, along channels, and at the flow front for days or weeks as the lava flows cool,” the observatory's activity summary said. “However, eruptive activity is not expected to return based on past eruptive behavior.”
Lava supply to Kilauea's Halemaʻumaʻu lava lake ceased on Friday, the observatory said: “Potential remains for resumption of this eruption or initiation of a new eruption at or near the summit of Kilauea.”
The observatory will continue monitoring the volcanoes for signs of renewed activity.
Despite the definitive statements, Hon said there's generally a three-month “cooling off” period before scientists consider the eruption over.
But there's been no history of a Mauna Loa rift eruption pausing and restarting, he said, “So we feel pretty confident that this eruption has in fact, paused and is probably over.”
It was unclear what connection there could be to the volcanoes stopping their eruptions around the same time. The volcanoes can both be seen at the same time from multiple spots in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park near Kilauea’s caldera.
“So, Kilauea may have been diminishing already and the Mauna Loa eruption may have caused enough physical changes to stop it, or it may have just been headed to stop on its own,” Hon said. “So we don’t have a really good answer for that right now.”
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who fired a shot at police as they burst through Taylor's door the night she was killed has settled two lawsuits against the city of Louisville, his attorneys said Monday.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The above video originally aired on August 24, 2022.
The city agreed to pay $2 million to settle lawsuits filed by Kenneth Walker in federal and state court, one of his attorneys, Steve Romines, said in a statement. He added that Taylor's death “will haunt Kenny for the rest of his life.”
“He will live with the effects of being put in harm’s way due to a falsified warrant, to being a victim of a hailstorm of gunfire and to suffering the unimaginable and horrific death of Breonna Taylor,” Romines said.
Walker and Taylor were settled in bed for the night when they were roused by banging on her apartment door around midnight on March 13, 2020. Police were outside with a drug warrant, and they used a battering ram to knock down the door. Walker fired a single shot from a handgun, striking Sgt. John Mattingly in the leg. Mattingly and two other officers then opened fire, killing Taylor.
The case highlighted the issue of "no-knock” warrants — which allow law enforcement agents to enter a home without announcing their presence - and led to a reexamination of the practice.
Walker was initially charged with attempted murder of a police officer, but charges against him were eventually dropped as protests and news media attention on the Taylor case intensified in the spring of 2020.
Walker told investigators he didn't know police were at the door, and he thought an intruder was trying to break in.
Earlier this year, U.S. Justice Department prosecutors charged three Louisville officers with a conspiracy to falsify the Taylor warrant. One of the now-former officers, Kelly Goodlett, has pleaded guilty and admitted to helping create a false link between Taylor and a wanted drug dealer.
Walker wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post in August that a police officer had “finally taken some responsibility for the death of my girlfriend.”
“Knowing all the problems that this failed raid would create, the Louisville police tried to use me as a scapegoat to deflect blame,” he wrote. “It almost worked.”
Two other former officers involved in the warrant, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, are scheduled to go on trial in federal court next year.
The city of Louisville paid a $12 million settlement to Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, in September 2020.
Walker's attorneys said Monday that part of the settlement he received would be used to set up a scholarship fund for law school students interested in practicing civil rights law. Another portion will be contributed to the Center for Innovations in Community Safety, a police and community reform Center at Georgetown Law School. | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/national/breonna-taylor-kenneth-walker-lawsuit-settled/285-1fbe4dde-2cc5-49de-a958-fe44a3464ef5 | 2022-12-14T01:42:13 | en | 0.982182 |
ARLINGTON, Texas — For the first time since 1999 the Port Neches-Groves Indians will play for a football State Championship.
Friday night the Tribe will head north to Arlington to face defending State Champion South Oak Cliff in AT&T Stadium with kickoff scheduled for 7:00 pm.
If the Indians can pull off the win, they'll secure their first football title since PNG topped Odessa Permian in 1975.
So let's take a closer look at the matchup.
First up the weekly 409Sports Blitz Picks that includes the 409Sports Blitz team long with the computer picks from Cal Preps and Dave Campbell's Texas Football.
409Sports Blitz Picks Standings
Cal Preps Computer: 229-44 (.839)
Ashly Elam: 238-56 (.810)
Dave Campbell's Texas Football: 229-58 (.798)
Saphire Cervantes: 229-65 (.779)
Cameron Sibert: 223-71 (.759)
5A-DII State Championship Picks
Cal Preps: South Oak Cliff 22-21
Ashly Elam: Port Neches-Groves
Dave Campbell's Texas Football: Too Close To Call
Saphire Cervantes: South Oak Cliff
Cameron Sibert: Port Neches-Grove
Now let's take a look at weekly results from the Indians and Golden Bears.
Port Neches-Groves Indians (13-2) vs
South Oak Cliff Golden Bears (12-3)
Friday 7:00 pm, AT&T Stadium - Arlington
PORT NECHES-GROVES INDIANS (13-2)
NON-DISTRICT
Port Arthur Memorial, L 50-15
Beaumont United, W 49-0
West Orange-Stark, W 27-6
DISTRICT
Fort Bend Marshall, L 35-14
Texas City, W 35-28
Fort Bend Willowridge, W 56-13
Santa Fe, W 52-7
Nederland, W 26-24
Galena Park, W 42-0
PLAYOFFS
Montgomery, W 38-17
Austin LBJ, W 24-19
Brenham, W 38-28
Fort Bend Marshall, W 29-21
Liberty Hill, W 42-14
Total Points Overall: 522-290
Total Points Average Overall: 34.8-19.3
Total Points Playoffs: 171-99
Total Points Average Playoffs: 34.2-19.8
SOUTH OAK CLIFF GOLDEN BEARS (12-3)
NON-DISTRICT
Duncanville, L 23-10
Lancaster, L 21-3
DeSoto, L 42-23
Dallas Parish Episcopal, W 31-28
DISTRICT
Dallas Adamson, W 49-0
Dallas Spruce, W 48-0
Dallas Kimball, W 56-0
Dallas Samuell, W 56-0
Seagoville, W 55-0
Dallas Woodrow Wilson, W 38-10
PLAYOFFS
Mansfield Summit, W 12-7
Lucas Lovejoy, W 42-37
Midlothian Heritage, W 33-27 (OT)
Melissa, W 30-16
Argyle, W 14-6
Total Points Overall: 518-217
Total Points Average Overall: 34.5-14.5
Total Points Playoffs: 131-93
Total Points Average Playoffs: 26.2-18.6
Now let's look at some big names to look out for Friday night. While PNG lacks the Division I talent SOC has, the Indians have proved their hardnosed team oriented football can compete with anyone in the state.
PORT NECHES-GROVES PLAYERS TO WATCH
11 - QB - Cole Crippen - SR
6-2, 185
19 - WR/QB - Shea Adams - JR
6-4, 185
18 - WR - Chance Prosperie - SR
5-10, 171
10 - WR/DB - Landon Guarnere - SR
33 - RB - Isiah Nguyen - JR
6 - LB - Nick Gardiner - SR
45 - K - Andres Sandoval - SR
72 - OL - Jansen Ware - SR
6-4, 275
74 - OL - Jackson Christian - SOPH
6-4, 285
8 Division I Offers
SOUTH OAK CLIFF PLAYERS TO WATCH
1 - CB - Malik Muhammad - 4 Star - SR
5-11.5, 170
Texas Commit
43 Division I Offers
#5 2023 CB in Nation
Under Armour All-American Game
0 - CB - Jayvon Thomas - 4 Star - SR
5-11, 170
Texas A&M Commit
34 Division I Offers
#11 2023 CB in Nation
11 - WR - Jamyri Cauley - 4 Star - JR
6-2, 215
25 Division I Offers
#28 2024 WR in Nation
10 - EDGE - Billy Walton - 3 Star - SR
6-2.5, 215
Texas Commit
22 Division I Offers
#52 2023 EDGE in Nation
3 - CB - Taylor Starling - 3 Star - SR
5-10.5, 170
Colorado Commit
11 Division I Offers
#79 2023 CB in Nation
55 - IOL - Brione Ramsey-Brooks - 3 Star - SR
6-4, 380
TCU Commit
14 Division I Offers
#94 IOL in Nation
56 - OT - Norada Stoker - 3 Star - SR
6-5, 310
TCU Commit
8 Division I Offers
9 - LB - Dylan Brown-Turner - 3 Star - SR
6-1, 200
North Texas Commit
13 Division I Offers
5 - WR - Randy Reece - 3 Star - SR
5-9, 175
SMU Commit
18 Division I Offers
7 - CB - Abdul Muhammad - 3 Star - SR
5-9, 190
SMU Commit
13 Division I Offers
80 - DL - Keith Smith - 3 Star - SR
6-2, 280
North Texas Commit
10 Division I Offers
22 - CB - Jamarion Clark - 3 Star - SR
6-0, 160
Rice Commit
9 Division I Offers
4 - CB - David Spruiells - SR
5-9, 179
Northern Arizona Commit
3 Division I Offers
14 - WR - Corinthean Coleman - SR
5-9, 150
2 Division I Offers
8 - LB - Brandon Jones - JR
6-1, 190
9 Division I Offers
25 - CB - Kerry Williams - JR
5-10, 165
4 Division I Offers
50 - IOL - Jordan Smith-Rowe - JR
6-3, 265
3 Division I Offers
17 - WR - Rickey Evans - JR
5-9, 170
2 Division I Offers
30 - LB - Kelvion Riggins - SOPH
6-0, 200
15 Division I Offers | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/sports/high-school/409sports-blitz/taking-a-closer-look-at-the-5a-dii-state-championship/502-d615d601-53b5-484f-950d-f2769af663f4 | 2022-12-14T01:42:19 | en | 0.719577 |
Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
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There was an unusual break-in at a restaurant in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday. A deer crashed through the window of the Blue and Gray Bar & Grill on Baltimore Street around 8:45 a.m. The incident was caught on video.Watch the moment the deer came crashing through the window in the video player above. Restaurant owner Keith Petters said there were several employees inside. The workers called the police, and officers were able to subdue the animal.Police officers, the National Parks Service and a game warden loaded the deer into a pickup truck and released it on a local farm.Petters said there was no damage other than the window, and the restaurant was able to open on time at 11 a.m.
GETTYSBURG, Pa. —
There was an unusual break-in at a restaurant in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
A deer crashed through the window of the Blue and Gray Bar & Grill on Baltimore Street around 8:45 a.m.
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The incident was caught on video.
Watch the moment the deer came crashing through the window in the video player above.
Restaurant owner Keith Petters said there were several employees inside. The workers called the police, and officers were able to subdue the animal.
Police officers, the National Parks Service and a game warden loaded the deer into a pickup truck and released it on a local farm.
Petters said there was no damage other than the window, and the restaurant was able to open on time at 11 a.m. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/deer-crashes-through-window-of-restaurant-gettysburg-pennsylvania/42234565 | 2022-12-14T01:42:22 | en | 0.978686 |
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by U.S. officials as a "landmark achievement" and a "milestone for the future of clean energy."Here's what you need to know about this new form of nuclear energy that could eventually turn on your lights and help end dependence on fossil fuels.What is nuclear fusion and why does it matter? Nuclear fusion is a man-made process that replicates the same energy that powers the sun. Nuclear fusion happens when two or more atoms are fused into one larger one, a process that generates a massive amount of energy as heat.Scientists around the world have been studying nuclear fusion for decades, hoping to recreate it with a new source that provides limitless, carbon-free energy -- without the nuclear waste created by current nuclear reactors. Fusion projects mainly use the elements deuterium and tritium — both of which are isotopes of hydrogen.The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year. Tritium is rarer and more challenging to obtain, although it can be synthetically made."Unlike coal, you only need a small amount of hydrogen, and it is the most abundant thing found in the universe," Julio Friedmann, chief scientist at Carbon Direct and a former chief energy technologist at Lawrence Livermore, told CNN. "Hydrogen is found in water so the stuff that generates this energy is wildly unlimited and it is clean."How is fusion different from nuclear fission? When people think about nuclear energy, cooling towers and mushroom clouds may come to mind. But fusion is entirely different.Whereas fusion fuses two or more atoms together, fission is the opposite; it is the process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller ones. Nuclear fission is the kind of energy that powers nuclear reactors around the world today. Like fusion, the heat created from splitting atoms is also used to generate energy.Nuclear is a zero-emission energy source, according to the Department of Energy. But it produces volatile radioactive waste that must be stored safely and carries safety risks. Nuclear meltdowns, although rare, have occurred throughout history with wide-ranging and deadly results such as at the Fukushima and Chernobyl reactors.Nuclear fusion does not carry the same safety risks, and the materials used to power it have a much shorter half-life than fission. How could nuclear fusion power eventually turn the lights on in your house? There are two main ways to generate nuclear fusion, but both have the same result. Fusing two atoms creates a tremendous amount of heat, which holds the key to producing energy. That heat can be used to warm water, create steam and turn turbines to generate power — much like how nuclear fission generates energy.The big challenge of harnessing fusion energy is sustaining it long enough so that it can power electric grids and heating systems around the globe. The successful U.S. breakthrough is a big deal, but it's still on a far smaller scale than what's needed to generate enough energy to run one power plant, never mind tens of thousands of power plants."It's about what it takes to boil 10 kettles of water," said Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College in London. "In order to turn that into a power station, we need to make a larger gain in energy -- we need it to be substantially more."Why is DOE's forthcoming announcement about a fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain important? This is the first time scientists have ever successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, instead of breaking even as past experiments have done.While there are many more steps until this can be commercially viable, it's essential for scientists to show that they can create more energy than they started with. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense for it to be developed."This is very important because from an energy perspective, it can't be an energy source if you're not getting out more energy than you're putting in," Friedmann told CNN. "Prior breakthroughs have been important but it's not the same thing as generating energy that could one day be used on a larger scale."Where does the fusion take place? Several fusion projects are in the U.S., United Kingdom and Europe. France is home to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, on which thirty-five countries are collaborating — including main members China, the United States, the European Union, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea.In the U.S., much of the work is happening at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in a building that spans the size of three football fields.The National Ignition Facility project creates energy from nuclear fusion by what's known as "thermonuclear inertial fusion." In practice, U.S. scientists fire pellets that contain hydrogen fuel into an array of nearly 200 lasers, essentially creating a series of extremely fast, repeated explosions at the rate of 50 times per second. The energy collected from the neutrons and alpha particles is extracted as heat.In the U.K. and the ITER project in France, scientists are working with huge donut-shaped machines outfitted with giant magnets called a tokamak to try to generate the same result. After fuel is put into the tokamak, its magnets are turned on and temperatures inside are raised exponentially to create plasma.Plasma needs to reach at least 150 million degrees Celsius, 10 times hotter than the core of the sun. The neutrons then escape the plasma, hitting a "blanket" lining the walls of the tokamak, and transferring their kinetic energy as heat.What are the next steps? Scientists and experts now need to figure out how to produce much more energy from nuclear fusion on a much larger scale.At the same time, they need to figure out how to eventually reduce the cost of nuclear fusion so that it can be used commercially."At the moment we're spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do," said Chittenden. "We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor."Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years — and possibly decades — before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change."This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years," Friedmann said. "This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine."
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by U.S. officials as a "landmark achievement" and a "milestone for the future of clean energy."
Here's what you need to know about this new form of nuclear energy that could eventually turn on your lights and help end dependence on fossil fuels.
What is nuclear fusion and why does it matter?
Nuclear fusion is a man-made process that replicates the same energy that powers the sun. Nuclear fusion happens when two or more atoms are fused into one larger one, a process that generates a massive amount of energy as heat.
Scientists around the world have been studying nuclear fusion for decades, hoping to recreate it with a new source that provides limitless, carbon-free energy -- without the nuclear waste created by current nuclear reactors. Fusion projects mainly use the elements deuterium and tritium — both of which are isotopes of hydrogen.
The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year. Tritium is rarer and more challenging to obtain, although it can be synthetically made.
"Unlike coal, you only need a small amount of hydrogen, and it is the most abundant thing found in the universe," Julio Friedmann, chief scientist at Carbon Direct and a former chief energy technologist at Lawrence Livermore, told CNN. "Hydrogen is found in water so the stuff that generates this energy is wildly unlimited and it is clean."
How is fusion different from nuclear fission?
When people think about nuclear energy, cooling towers and mushroom clouds may come to mind. But fusion is entirely different.
Whereas fusion fuses two or more atoms together, fission is the opposite; it is the process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller ones. Nuclear fission is the kind of energy that powers nuclear reactors around the world today. Like fusion, the heat created from splitting atoms is also used to generate energy.
Nuclear is a zero-emission energy source, according to the Department of Energy. But it produces volatile radioactive waste that must be stored safely and carries safety risks. Nuclear meltdowns, although rare, have occurred throughout history with wide-ranging and deadly results such as at the Fukushima and Chernobyl reactors.
Nuclear fusion does not carry the same safety risks, and the materials used to power it have a much shorter half-life than fission.
How could nuclear fusion power eventually turn the lights on in your house?
There are two main ways to generate nuclear fusion, but both have the same result. Fusing two atoms creates a tremendous amount of heat, which holds the key to producing energy. That heat can be used to warm water, create steam and turn turbines to generate power — much like how nuclear fission generates energy.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
This illustration provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory depicts a target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. The beams compress and heat the target to the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion to occur.
The big challenge of harnessing fusion energy is sustaining it long enough so that it can power electric grids and heating systems around the globe. The successful U.S. breakthrough is a big deal, but it's still on a far smaller scale than what's needed to generate enough energy to run one power plant, never mind tens of thousands of power plants.
"It's about what it takes to boil 10 kettles of water," said Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College in London. "In order to turn that into a power station, we need to make a larger gain in energy -- we need it to be substantially more."
Why is DOE's forthcoming announcement about a fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain important?
This is the first time scientists have ever successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, instead of breaking even as past experiments have done.
While there are many more steps until this can be commercially viable, it's essential for scientists to show that they can create more energy than they started with. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense for it to be developed.
"This is very important because from an energy perspective, it can't be an energy source if you're not getting out more energy than you're putting in," Friedmann told CNN. "Prior breakthroughs have been important but it's not the same thing as generating energy that could one day be used on a larger scale."
Where does the fusion take place?
Several fusion projects are in the U.S., United Kingdom and Europe. France is home to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, on which thirty-five countries are collaborating — including main members China, the United States, the European Union, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea.
In the U.S., much of the work is happening at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in a building that spans the size of three football fields.
The National Ignition Facility project creates energy from nuclear fusion by what's known as "thermonuclear inertial fusion." In practice, U.S. scientists fire pellets that contain hydrogen fuel into an array of nearly 200 lasers, essentially creating a series of extremely fast, repeated explosions at the rate of 50 times per second. The energy collected from the neutrons and alpha particles is extracted as heat.
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The west gate entrance to the US Department of Energys Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, US, on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022.
In the U.K. and the ITER project in France, scientists are working with huge donut-shaped machines outfitted with giant magnets called a tokamak to try to generate the same result. After fuel is put into the tokamak, its magnets are turned on and temperatures inside are raised exponentially to create plasma.
Plasma needs to reach at least 150 million degrees Celsius, 10 times hotter than the core of the sun. The neutrons then escape the plasma, hitting a "blanket" lining the walls of the tokamak, and transferring their kinetic energy as heat.
What are the next steps?
Scientists and experts now need to figure out how to produce much more energy from nuclear fusion on a much larger scale.
At the same time, they need to figure out how to eventually reduce the cost of nuclear fusion so that it can be used commercially.
"At the moment we're spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do," said Chittenden. "We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor."
Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years — and possibly decades — before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change.
"This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years," Friedmann said. "This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine." | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/nuclear-fusion-power-house/42234599 | 2022-12-14T01:42:33 | en | 0.947867 |
United places huge order with Boeing to replace aging planes
United Airlines said Tuesday that it ordered 100 new Boeing 787s, a large, twin-aisle jetliner, to replace planes that are nearing retirement age and allow United to expand its international flying.
United also added to its order book for the smaller Boeing 737 Max, which is used on domestic flights.
The companies did not disclose financial terms of the orders. United said it can choose among three sizes of the 787, which carry list prices ranging from $248 million to $338 million per plane, but airlines routinely negotiate deep discounts on aircraft orders.
Moody’s Investors Service estimated the value of the 787 orders at $16 billion after discounts. Other analysts said it could be worth up to $19 billion depending on the mix of 787 versions that United eventually selects.
United is scheduled to begin receiving the 787s in 2024, and it took options on 100 more.
The massive order — United called it the biggest ever by a U.S. airline for twin-aisle or “widebody” planes — is a bold move for an airline that lost money throughout the pandemic until the middle of this year. Executives at United and other airlines are sounding bullish, however, as travel demand has bounced back nearly to 2019 levels and ticket prices have surged higher than a year ago because of fewer flights.
The order also is welcome news at Boeing. The U.S. aircraft maker is still struggling to recover from two deadly Max crashes, production flaws that halted deliveries of the 787 for nearly two years, and setbacks in other programs including a contract to build two new Air Force One presidential planes. It has lost more than $21 billion since 2019.
United picked the 787 to replace its Boeing 767 jets and some of its Boeing 777s that are nearing 30 years in age — some of the 767s have already hit that milestone — and far less fuel-efficient.
The Chicago-based airline could have chosen the A350, built by Boeing's European rival, Airbus. United already has 45 A350s on order but doesn't expect to start receiving them until 2030.
United CEO Scott Kirby told reporters United went with Boeing because it already flies the 787 and did not want to add a new plane to the fleet now, when it is busy hiring pilots and trying to expand its route network.
At the same time, Boeing converted options on 44 Max jets to firm orders, and added a new order for 56 Maxes. Those 100 planes are scheduled to show up between 2024 and 2028 and will replace aging jets and allow for modest growth in United's domestic flying.
Last year, United ordered 200 Max jets and 70 single-aisle Airbus jets in a deal the airline said at the time was the biggest order in its history.
United executives said they might use cash flow to pay for all these planes, or they might finance them. With the latest orders, United now expects capital spending to rise to $9 billion next year and $11 billion in 2024.
Shares of United Airlines Holdings Inc. fell more than 6% in afternoon trading. United's closest rivals also dropped but not as sharply. Boeing Co. fell less than 1%. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/united-order-boeing-replace-aging-planes/42234914 | 2022-12-14T01:42:43 | en | 0.962339 |
What made 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' a holiday music hit?
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The familiar tunes of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" transport us. The opening measures make us children again, abed after Christmas dinner as the subtle sounds of the record player waft in from another room.
Though the beloved television special is unquestionably iconic today, its place in Christmas music history wasn't always assured. In 1965, when "A Charlie Brown Christmas" first aired, Christmas jazz wasn't exactly a thing. Jazz in family-friendly TV specials wasn't really a thing, either.
It took a few brilliant, wild minds — and a host of unexpected inspiration — to bring it all together. The musical formula they created didn't just make "A Charlie Brown Christmas" an instant hit. It helped change the sound of Christmas music for generations to come.
The first ingredient: Something unexpected
The man at the center of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and most other music associated with more than a dozen "Peanuts" TV specials, is Vince Guaraldi. A prominent pianist at the time, Guaraldi brought a fierce musicianship that he honed playing with some of the best jazz combos in Northern California, where he was born and based.
The idea to pair jazz with the "Peanuts" comic strip, however, began with television producer Lee Mendelson, who admired cartoonist Charles Schulz's work and was determined to bring his comic characters to the small screen. For whatever reason, Mendelson was sold on the idea that jazz would be the perfect accompaniment to a "Peanuts" special.
"It seems so absurd looking back, but jazz had a lot of strikes against it," explains Derrick Bang, speaking to CNN as a jazz expert, entertainment journalist and "Peanuts" historian.
"We're talking about the early 1960s. A major part of the country equated it with Black performers. A lot of people thought the sound was too 'out there,' and there was still a lingering sense of the genre being equated with sin and depravity," he says. "Productions that featured jazz, most famously 'The Man with the Golden Arm,' dealt heavily with vice."
In other words, it wasn't the rollicking classical music one expected from most Disney shorts or Looney Tunes. Yet still, Mendelson knew what he wanted. When he heard Guaraldi's single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on the radio while driving through San Francisco, he knew who he wanted it from.
Mendelson convinced Guaraldi to work with him on a 1963 documentary called "A Boy Named Charlie Brown." The work never aired, but the album that resulted — called "Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown," was a hit. It was also enough for Mendelson to call upon Guaraldi for a frantic, last minute holiday project that would become "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
The second ingredient: Something new
How did a jazz artist intend to build a musical backdrop for a group of cartoon children most people knew from the Sunday funnies — and add Christmas flair?
The answer lay in an up-and-coming sound from Brazil called "bossa nova." The term means "new wave" in Portuguese, and is characterized by syncopated samba rhythms, unusual chord progressions and laid-back percussion.
"If you pretend for a moment that you don't know these iconic cues and melodies, you would immediately recognize them as bossa nova," Bang says. "And that sound is by nature cheerful, uplifting and happy."
In the mid-1960s, it was also amassing major popularity in the U.S. "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the most well-known bossa nova songs, was also a raging hit at the time and won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1965. In fact, the song that led Mendelson to Guaraldi's work initially appeared on the B-side of "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus," the bossa nova-inspired album that made Guaraldi famous. The musician composed and recorded the album in tribute to the Academy Award-winning French-Brazilian film, which sets the classic Greek tragedy in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
"Jazz was at a transition point," Bang says. "Bossa nova was one of the things that helped smooth its way to popularity."
In creating music for the "Peanuts" world, Guaraldi also employed a technique that wouldn't fully come on the cinematic scene for another decade.
"Guaraldi had an uncanny facility for melodic hooks that became earworms," Bang says. "So he created these melodies that became themes, and they suited individual 'Peanuts' characters perfectly." Examples of this can be also heard in subsequent "Peanuts" specials, for characters like Peppermint Patty and Snoopy's Red Baron persona.
A musical theme that indicates the appearance of a character, group or moment is called a leitmotif. While the concept has roots in orchestral and operatic music, and did appear in early films, it didn't become as prevalent in movie-making until John Williams' seminal work on the original "Star Wars" trilogy in the 1970s and '80s.
The third ingredient: Something that lasts
Finally, in the winter of 1965, after years of trying to get the "Peanuts" gang on TV — and a tight production schedule dictated by the program's sponsors — "A Charlie Brown Christmas" went to air. Those involved were not optimistic. CBS executives reportedly hated the artistic choices, hated the jazz soundtrack, and were convinced it would be the first and last Charlie Brown special ever.
Audiences did not agree. The special was an immediate hit, and its success bore the promise of a lasting tradition.
"After it aired, (the producers) thought it was over and done. The notion of a repeated holiday special was alien," Bang says. "But CBS kept playing it, year after year. And that's how tradition is established. This was before VCRs, so people knew they had to sit down and watch it at a certain time. It became a family tradition akin to decorating the tree or wrapping presents."
The musical impact of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" took longer to unfold.
"I would have to say this part of Guaraldi's career didn't resonate in larger circles during his lifetime," Bang says. "Everyone was scrambling to cover (his single) 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind,' but not his 'Peanuts' work."
To be clear, jazz musicians, especially Black artists whose work was often undervalued by the masses, had made Christmas albums before. But "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was the first time that particular combination permeated deep into American culture, and it was decades before people chose to replicate it with any kind of regularity.
The true resurgence of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as a musical feat began in 1986, when jazz great David Benoit covered "Linus and Lucy" on his album "This Side Up." The following year, the original album appeared on the Billboard Christmas album sales chart for the very first time. A general swelling of interest in jazz over the next decade lifted the work even higher, and things entered a new realm when Cyrus Chestnut, another jazz giant, covered the entire soundtrack in 2000.
Through the 2000s, songs from the special re-entered the charts on a steady basis. The album was remastered and re-released, covered and streamed, and in 2021 it became the first jazz album to reach Billboard's Top 10 albums outside of a specialty category. In 2021, Billboard deemed "A Charlie Brown Christmas" the No. 1 Greatest Holiday 200 album of all time. This year, RIAA certified the album quintuple platinum, marking 5 million sales.
During this period, Bang notes a general increase in Christmas jazz album releases. Whether growth in the genre was influenced by "A Charlie Brown Christmas" coming back on the scene, or an expanded interest in jazz as a whole, he describes it as a definite "parallel phenomenon."
Bang, who wrote and researched the liner notes for a special expanded re-release of the album this year, says the cultural impact of the music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is something even greater to behold.
"During that project, I had the privilege of speaking with Guaraldi's drummer, Jerry Granelli, before he died," Bang says. "There is kind of a cottage industry of jazz groups playing 'Charlie Brown' shows around the holidays now, and he had started doing so in 2013. You could hear the joy in his voice when he described families coming up after the show, sometimes three generations at a time."
"A grandfather, accompanied by his son, accompanied by his grandson, all telling him how much this music had meant to them."
The little unassuming Christmas special, with its strange music, has come a long way in 57 years. But the most enduring aspect may be that, no matter how many albums are sold or how far its impact resonates, when we turn it on, we feel like children once again. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/what-made-a-charlie-brown-christmas-a-holiday-music-hit/42234712 | 2022-12-14T01:42:53 | en | 0.978742 |
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Leon County Library is wanting people to show off their creativity for Autism Acceptance Month. The celebration will happen in April, but the library is asking for submissions now for their logo contest.
You can pick up the pre-printed infinity sign logo at any of the library locations or you can print one at home. You can decorate the logo showing what autism means to you.
Sally Mason, Learning and Workforce Services Manager for the library, says the logo contest is a fun way to see what autism awareness means to their customers.
"It's exciting," Mason said. "I think the infinity symbol represents the diversity in the autism community and the neurodivergent community and it's just a great way to spread awareness and show what's going on in our community."
You have until January 13th to submit a logo for the contest. You can drop off submissions at one of the Leon County libraries, or you can submit it online on the Leon County Library website. | https://www.wtxl.com/community/leon-county-library-hosts-logo-contest-for-autism-acceptance-month | 2022-12-14T01:45:44 | en | 0.962123 |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Florida Legislative Black Caucus says that the increases of property insurance are causing a major crisis for minorities in the state of Florida.
Black neighborhoods pay 20% more in renters' insurance.
People with poor credit pay over 77% more on average for homeowners' insurance.
Caucus Chairwomen Rep. Dianne Hart (D-Tampa) and other members of the Florida Legislative Black Caucus got together at the Florida state capitol Tuesday morning to discuss how the disparity impacts minority groups.
"We're seeing people priced out of the housing market completely we also have an issue with our apartments, our rentals. Our rent has gone up 30% in some places. So, what were about to see is a serious homeless issue." says Rep. Dianne Hart (D-Tampa)
Here in Florida the average cost of a home is $300,000. With property insurance increasing this leaves a major burden on minority groups seeking to own or rent a home.
The Florida Legislative Black Caucus says the best way to help relieve the burden of high-cost property insurance is to provide more funding to minority homeowners. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/property-insurance-has-become-a-major-burden-to-minority-groups-in-florida | 2022-12-14T01:45:45 | en | 0.952617 |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Tallahassee-Leon County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls is working to have a greater impact on the lives of women and girls in our communities.
CSWG 2.0 will work to measure the quality of life for women and girls in Leon County and Tallahassee.
They'll do this by working with other communities to create a well-being dashboard. The commission also plans to have an empowerment summit next year for women and girls. Stephanie Shumate, director for the Commission of the Status of Women and Girls, shared the importance and impact of their work.
"We know that when women thrive in a community the community thrives and it's not just a woman, it's the family, it's the workplace, it's everything," Shumate said.
Shumate says they plan to have more community involvement through their four committees. You can reach out to their email CSWGStaff@TheOasisCenter.net. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-leon-county-commission-on-the-status-of-women-and-girls-looks-towards-the-future | 2022-12-14T01:45:46 | en | 0.969381 |
Queen Letizia of Spain made a trip to Los Angeles to open a center that will be dedicated to the growth and promotion of the Spanish language, along with the country's culture.
The branch in Los Angeles is the seventh location of the institute in the United States, the Associated Press reported. Spanish is the second-most common language spoken in the U.S. after the English language.
Letizia Ortíz opened this first branch of the Cervantes Institute on the U.S. West Coast recently.
The institute was founded by the Spanish government in 1991 to promote Hispanic culture.
As the Daily Mail reported, Spain's queen, 50, was there on a two day trip. This will be her second trip to the U.S. this year, after flying to New York in September, just after Queen Elizabeth's funeral, to visit the United Nations.
Letizia is better known in Spain as a progressive feminist which is seen as very different from the monarchist perception many may have.
She is said to have played a significant part in the royal family's decision to break ties with the palace’s corruption-linked past.
The King of Spain has a largely ceremonial role in the country with executive power belonging with elected parliamentary members. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/queen-letizia-of-spain-visits-us-to-promote-language | 2022-12-14T01:45:46 | en | 0.972038 |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Louisville Bar Association is hosting a free, Pro Se Divorce Clinic.
The event will be held Friday, Dec. 16, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Bar Center on West Main Street.
The community clinic is for individuals who are representing themselves in their divorce case. They'll be able to meet with a local attorney for free guidance on their case, including how to navigate legal obstacles and help with paperwork.
LBA's Public Service Committee holds the event on the first and third Friday of each month.
The clinic is free but requires registration. For more information and to register, click here.
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This year's event will be held next Tuesday, Dec. 20, in the parking lot of the Paroquet Springs Conference Center near Interstate 65 in Shepherdsville from 7-9 p.m. Guests will be able to take a close-up look at the department's decorated, lighted fire trucks.
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Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Zoneton 2022 Santa Truck
The Zoneton Fire "Santa Truck" officially kicked off its 25th holiday season on Nov. 30, 2022 ahead of neighborhood tours.
Santa Claus is scheduled to make a visit and will be available for photos. There will also be food and drinks available from Smoke Over Fire Barbeque.
New this year is a toy donation drive at the event. Zoneton is partnering with Fire Protection Services to collect new toys for Bullitt County area children who "have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect." | https://www.wdrb.com/community/zoneton-fire-sets-date-location-for-light-up-santa-firetrucks-event/article_37502908-7b28-11ed-8154-47ac031b06f6.html | 2022-12-14T01:46:39 | en | 0.90349 |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A former mail sorting facility in the Highlands has been transformed into a bar that's focusing on bringing a local concept to cocktails.
Epiphany is a cocktail bar with a community-driven vision hoping to support local farmers. It's located at 1525 Highland Avenue, at the corner of Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue.
"The overarching theme of Epiphany is moments of discovery, that's really true across categories, but the people who love any one of those particular categories, the thing that keeps them coming back is that moment when you find the new thing that you love," general manager Dane Durand said. "Our goal is to bring that to the general public."
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Owners and management of Epiphany in Louisville, Ky.
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Owners and management of Epiphany in Louisville, Ky.
In a space that was previously a mail sorting room for the United States Postal Service (USPS), the owners of Epiphany spent months renovating the venue that once had a staircase and conveyor belt.
"We left some of the old charm in it with the factory windows and exposed brick and the exposed beams, but definitely brought a touch of modern and a lot of softer color and texture as well," Durand said.
The idea for the bar, spirits house and soon-to-brewery starts local. Ivor Chodkowski, co-founder of Harvest, Abby Chodkowski, Nicholas Clark and Kelley Spillson worked together on the concept.
Many of the ingredients in the cocktails are locally sourced.
"I wouldn't quite say we are a farm-to-table cocktail bar necessarily, we're just here to make good delicious drinks and we also want to support local vendors and sustainable agriculture," Durand said. "Not necessarily married to every drink being or every ingredient being from the farm, but when possible we'd like to keep our dollars local and your dollars local."
There's a full bar of bourbons, tequilas and mezcals, along with 12 taps of local beer. Patrons are also offered bar snacks from local farmers and artisan producers, while there is a produce pantry and merchandise.
Epiphany's grand opening is planned for Thursday at 4 p.m. For the grand opening weekend, Epiphany is offering $10 signature cocktails and $6 beers.
"We aim to make drinks that are delicious, beautiful and approachable, we may occasionally get a little weird because we can't resist ourselves," Durand said.
Owners plan to have in-house brews ready for patrons next year. They want to put an emphasis on the local beer community.
Epiphany, with an entrance that faces a parking lot on Highland Avenue, will be open daily from 4 p.m. to midnight. It can accommodate around 40 people on a first-come, first-serve basis, but owners recommend parties of 12 or more call ahead of time.
Sam Draut is an award winning journalist from Louisville, Ky. with honors from SPJ and KPA. Prior to his time at WDRB, he served as editor of The Oldham Era. He graduated from the University of Louisville's College of Business School. | https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/new-louisville-bar-with-farm-to-table-concept-opening-in-the-highlands/article_4ab3db30-7b27-11ed-ba3e-d714a816a198.html | 2022-12-14T01:46:45 | en | 0.968806 |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A 25-year-old Louisville man has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting in the Jacobs neighborhood.
Ja'Ronnie L. Charlton was shot and killed in the 1800 block of Carl Court near Crums Lane around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 10.
Charlton died at the scene from a gunshot wound.
Anyone with information that could lead to an arrest is asked to call the anonymous tip line at 574-LMPD (5673) or use the anonymous crime tip portal.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The arrival of the holiday season is typically a precursor to frigid temperatures, news that changes things for those living on the streets of Louisville.
Nina Moseley, chief operating officer of Wayside Christian Mission, spends her days making sure people are staying safe and trying to get people into permanent housing. On Monday night, with temperatures dropping, she said more than 400 people stayed inside the shelter at Wayside.
But there is still room for hundreds more, and bridging that gap doesn't come with a simple solution. Moseley said at full capacity during white flag season, Wayside can hold 640 people.
"We don't want to wake up to a tragedy such as someone freezing to death on the streets of Louisville again," Moseley said. "Even if the beds are full, we will make more space. We have floor mats we use with linens and everything to make sure everybody has a place to come in and lay their head."
The city also has what's known as a safe outdoor space called the Hope Village, a pilot program for the city which provides tents for shelter and access to resources for dozens who aren't ready or don't want to go into an indoor facility.
In early 2022, the city announced a nonprofit, the Hope Buss, would run the space. Metro Government bought the property off East College Street to be used for the program.
The space includes outdoor tents, showers, toilets, electricity and access to services such as housing navigation, substance abuse counseling, mental health resources and more. Residents can only live there with a referral, which comes from other nonprofits working to provide homelessness services in the community.
"I am so so proud of the work we've done here," said Stachelle Bussey, founder of the Hope Buss.
But Bussey said the first year in operation hasn't come without its challenges. Outside, subject to nature's elements, many of the shelters could use an upgrade.
"Right now is actually time to replace about 10 of our shelters and when we looked at the cost of them, it was $30,000 to $40,000 to redo the platforms and to redo the shelters. So we're trying to find out what could be cost-effective and warm," she said.
Capacity at the Hope Village is 53 people. Right now, the insulated tents serve as a home for about 40 people.
And as Louisville transitions into a new season, the city is also transitioning into a new administration with Mayor-elect Craig Greenberg, who said Tuesday that addressing homelessness is a priority and announcements will be coming soon.
"(Metro Councilwoman Keisha Dorsey) and others have been talking to groups around our city that serve the homeless community, and we are working on a comprehensive plan to take action, to make investments, to work with those organizations that are currently serving that community and what can we do to get more permanent transitory housing for these individuals and how can we help them get the services that they need." Greenberg said.
"They've came by and visited but I'd like to keep it at this -- this is a community effort, this is a community project and I hope it stays with the community," said Bussey.
She went on to say, "We can't help everybody but we've helped a lot of people. We may can only house 53 but we're seeing hundreds of people, serving at least 75 (a) day between the people who live here and come by, so I'm not really interested in having any more conversations with administrations. I'm about people and if the community wants to keep it then the community deserves to keep it."
Bussey said around 20 people have transitioned from the Hope Village to more permanent housing.
According to the city, at last count in February 2022, there were more than 1,000 people experiencing homelessness in Louisville. Of that, more than 240 were unsheltered.
If you'd like to donate to help the Louisville homeless community, click here.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Standout dual-threat quarterback Travis Egan was named Kentucky's Mr. Football Tuesday, capping off a dream senior season.
Egan passed for nearly 3,000 yards and rushed for just under 1,000 in leading the Chargers to their first state football title. He amassed 52 touchdowns on the year. He threw four TD's in the championship game win over Male.
Egan capped off that 28-27 victory by catching the game-winning two-point conversion.
Bullitt East finished 14-1 on the season after dropping its opener to Spencer County. Egan is the first player from the school to win Mr. Football.
Travis' father Brandon was a standout at Bullitt East in the early 1990s and played football at WKU. His mother Alison (Bass) played basketball at Bullitt East and U of L. He played his high school games on a field named for his grandfather Mike, a longtime coach at the school.
The 6'2" 200 pounder also played a fair amount of defense for the Chargers. He has yet to commit to a college.
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- Travis Egan prepares for region final as third generation quarterback starring for Bullitt East
- Bullitt East football rallies past Male for first state championship
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Ready or or not, here it comes! Rain arrives in Louisville around 3 to 4 AM. This will be our first push of rain, but certainly not the last. We are still running an annual deficit of -4.92" so it's rain we need to continue improving drought conditions.
Pockets of heavy rain and wind gusts up to 30 mph are a good bet if you leave the house at 7 AM Wednesday morning. It's not raining everywhere as you can see on future radar below...
We should get a break late morning and early afternoon. While scattered showers are still possible, the likelihood of one hitting you drops off significantly.
Rain picks back up in both intensity and coverage as the clock gets closer to 4 PM. It's the reason why I think the evening commute will be much more problematic with poor visibilities and ponding of water on the roads.
I think future radar speaks for itself at 6 PM. Widespread, heavy rain and embedded storms are pretty much a guarantee at this point in time. Thankfully, severe weather isn't a concern, but please take it slow out there.
Around 9 PM to 10 PM in when the steadier rain tapers off to showers. The cold front slices through around midnight allowing drier air to flow in.
That means a much easier commute Thursday morning, but make sure you are dressed for the colder air that rushers in. Temperatures will hang out in the 40's much of the day with winds making it feel even colder.
How much rain? The gradient will line up from northwest to southeast. That means .50 - 1.25" across Southern Indiana. 1 - 2" of rain in Louisville. Along and south of the parkways will have the potential to see 2" or more! That's also the zone that needs to be more careful with flash flooding. Flip on WDRB News at 10 & 11 to find out when we have a chance for snow showers and flurries. | https://www.wdrb.com/weather/wdrb-weather-blog/heavy-rain-when-it-begins-ends-plus-who-could-see-over-2/article_7b674b1e-7b3f-11ed-8891-e34b194cd8ec.html | 2022-12-14T01:47:09 | en | 0.95562 |
Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
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Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
There was an unusual break-in at a restaurant in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday. A deer crashed through the window of the Blue and Gray Bar & Grill on Baltimore Street around 8:45 a.m. The incident was caught on video.Watch the moment the deer came crashing through the window in the video player above. Restaurant owner Keith Petters said there were several employees inside. The workers called the police, and officers were able to subdue the animal.Police officers, the National Parks Service and a game warden loaded the deer into a pickup truck and released it on a local farm.Petters said there was no damage other than the window, and the restaurant was able to open on time at 11 a.m.
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There was an unusual break-in at a restaurant in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
A deer crashed through the window of the Blue and Gray Bar & Grill on Baltimore Street around 8:45 a.m.
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The incident was caught on video.
Watch the moment the deer came crashing through the window in the video player above.
Restaurant owner Keith Petters said there were several employees inside. The workers called the police, and officers were able to subdue the animal.
Police officers, the National Parks Service and a game warden loaded the deer into a pickup truck and released it on a local farm.
Petters said there was no damage other than the window, and the restaurant was able to open on time at 11 a.m. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/deer-crashes-through-window-of-restaurant-gettysburg-pennsylvania/42234565 | 2022-12-14T01:47:23 | en | 0.978686 |
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by U.S. officials as a "landmark achievement" and a "milestone for the future of clean energy."Here's what you need to know about this new form of nuclear energy that could eventually turn on your lights and help end dependence on fossil fuels.What is nuclear fusion and why does it matter? Nuclear fusion is a man-made process that replicates the same energy that powers the sun. Nuclear fusion happens when two or more atoms are fused into one larger one, a process that generates a massive amount of energy as heat.Scientists around the world have been studying nuclear fusion for decades, hoping to recreate it with a new source that provides limitless, carbon-free energy -- without the nuclear waste created by current nuclear reactors. Fusion projects mainly use the elements deuterium and tritium — both of which are isotopes of hydrogen.The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year. Tritium is rarer and more challenging to obtain, although it can be synthetically made."Unlike coal, you only need a small amount of hydrogen, and it is the most abundant thing found in the universe," Julio Friedmann, chief scientist at Carbon Direct and a former chief energy technologist at Lawrence Livermore, told CNN. "Hydrogen is found in water so the stuff that generates this energy is wildly unlimited and it is clean."How is fusion different from nuclear fission? When people think about nuclear energy, cooling towers and mushroom clouds may come to mind. But fusion is entirely different.Whereas fusion fuses two or more atoms together, fission is the opposite; it is the process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller ones. Nuclear fission is the kind of energy that powers nuclear reactors around the world today. Like fusion, the heat created from splitting atoms is also used to generate energy.Nuclear is a zero-emission energy source, according to the Department of Energy. But it produces volatile radioactive waste that must be stored safely and carries safety risks. Nuclear meltdowns, although rare, have occurred throughout history with wide-ranging and deadly results such as at the Fukushima and Chernobyl reactors.Nuclear fusion does not carry the same safety risks, and the materials used to power it have a much shorter half-life than fission. How could nuclear fusion power eventually turn the lights on in your house? There are two main ways to generate nuclear fusion, but both have the same result. Fusing two atoms creates a tremendous amount of heat, which holds the key to producing energy. That heat can be used to warm water, create steam and turn turbines to generate power — much like how nuclear fission generates energy.The big challenge of harnessing fusion energy is sustaining it long enough so that it can power electric grids and heating systems around the globe. The successful U.S. breakthrough is a big deal, but it's still on a far smaller scale than what's needed to generate enough energy to run one power plant, never mind tens of thousands of power plants."It's about what it takes to boil 10 kettles of water," said Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College in London. "In order to turn that into a power station, we need to make a larger gain in energy -- we need it to be substantially more."Why is DOE's forthcoming announcement about a fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain important? This is the first time scientists have ever successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, instead of breaking even as past experiments have done.While there are many more steps until this can be commercially viable, it's essential for scientists to show that they can create more energy than they started with. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense for it to be developed."This is very important because from an energy perspective, it can't be an energy source if you're not getting out more energy than you're putting in," Friedmann told CNN. "Prior breakthroughs have been important but it's not the same thing as generating energy that could one day be used on a larger scale."Where does the fusion take place? Several fusion projects are in the U.S., United Kingdom and Europe. France is home to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, on which thirty-five countries are collaborating — including main members China, the United States, the European Union, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea.In the U.S., much of the work is happening at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in a building that spans the size of three football fields.The National Ignition Facility project creates energy from nuclear fusion by what's known as "thermonuclear inertial fusion." In practice, U.S. scientists fire pellets that contain hydrogen fuel into an array of nearly 200 lasers, essentially creating a series of extremely fast, repeated explosions at the rate of 50 times per second. The energy collected from the neutrons and alpha particles is extracted as heat.In the U.K. and the ITER project in France, scientists are working with huge donut-shaped machines outfitted with giant magnets called a tokamak to try to generate the same result. After fuel is put into the tokamak, its magnets are turned on and temperatures inside are raised exponentially to create plasma.Plasma needs to reach at least 150 million degrees Celsius, 10 times hotter than the core of the sun. The neutrons then escape the plasma, hitting a "blanket" lining the walls of the tokamak, and transferring their kinetic energy as heat.What are the next steps? Scientists and experts now need to figure out how to produce much more energy from nuclear fusion on a much larger scale.At the same time, they need to figure out how to eventually reduce the cost of nuclear fusion so that it can be used commercially."At the moment we're spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do," said Chittenden. "We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor."Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years — and possibly decades — before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change."This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years," Friedmann said. "This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine."
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by U.S. officials as a "landmark achievement" and a "milestone for the future of clean energy."
Here's what you need to know about this new form of nuclear energy that could eventually turn on your lights and help end dependence on fossil fuels.
What is nuclear fusion and why does it matter?
Nuclear fusion is a man-made process that replicates the same energy that powers the sun. Nuclear fusion happens when two or more atoms are fused into one larger one, a process that generates a massive amount of energy as heat.
Scientists around the world have been studying nuclear fusion for decades, hoping to recreate it with a new source that provides limitless, carbon-free energy -- without the nuclear waste created by current nuclear reactors. Fusion projects mainly use the elements deuterium and tritium — both of which are isotopes of hydrogen.
The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year. Tritium is rarer and more challenging to obtain, although it can be synthetically made.
"Unlike coal, you only need a small amount of hydrogen, and it is the most abundant thing found in the universe," Julio Friedmann, chief scientist at Carbon Direct and a former chief energy technologist at Lawrence Livermore, told CNN. "Hydrogen is found in water so the stuff that generates this energy is wildly unlimited and it is clean."
How is fusion different from nuclear fission?
When people think about nuclear energy, cooling towers and mushroom clouds may come to mind. But fusion is entirely different.
Whereas fusion fuses two or more atoms together, fission is the opposite; it is the process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller ones. Nuclear fission is the kind of energy that powers nuclear reactors around the world today. Like fusion, the heat created from splitting atoms is also used to generate energy.
Nuclear is a zero-emission energy source, according to the Department of Energy. But it produces volatile radioactive waste that must be stored safely and carries safety risks. Nuclear meltdowns, although rare, have occurred throughout history with wide-ranging and deadly results such as at the Fukushima and Chernobyl reactors.
Nuclear fusion does not carry the same safety risks, and the materials used to power it have a much shorter half-life than fission.
How could nuclear fusion power eventually turn the lights on in your house?
There are two main ways to generate nuclear fusion, but both have the same result. Fusing two atoms creates a tremendous amount of heat, which holds the key to producing energy. That heat can be used to warm water, create steam and turn turbines to generate power — much like how nuclear fission generates energy.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
This illustration provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory depicts a target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. The beams compress and heat the target to the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion to occur.
The big challenge of harnessing fusion energy is sustaining it long enough so that it can power electric grids and heating systems around the globe. The successful U.S. breakthrough is a big deal, but it's still on a far smaller scale than what's needed to generate enough energy to run one power plant, never mind tens of thousands of power plants.
"It's about what it takes to boil 10 kettles of water," said Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College in London. "In order to turn that into a power station, we need to make a larger gain in energy -- we need it to be substantially more."
Why is DOE's forthcoming announcement about a fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain important?
This is the first time scientists have ever successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, instead of breaking even as past experiments have done.
While there are many more steps until this can be commercially viable, it's essential for scientists to show that they can create more energy than they started with. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense for it to be developed.
"This is very important because from an energy perspective, it can't be an energy source if you're not getting out more energy than you're putting in," Friedmann told CNN. "Prior breakthroughs have been important but it's not the same thing as generating energy that could one day be used on a larger scale."
Where does the fusion take place?
Several fusion projects are in the U.S., United Kingdom and Europe. France is home to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, on which thirty-five countries are collaborating — including main members China, the United States, the European Union, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea.
In the U.S., much of the work is happening at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in a building that spans the size of three football fields.
The National Ignition Facility project creates energy from nuclear fusion by what's known as "thermonuclear inertial fusion." In practice, U.S. scientists fire pellets that contain hydrogen fuel into an array of nearly 200 lasers, essentially creating a series of extremely fast, repeated explosions at the rate of 50 times per second. The energy collected from the neutrons and alpha particles is extracted as heat.
Bloomberg
The west gate entrance to the US Department of Energys Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, US, on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022.
In the U.K. and the ITER project in France, scientists are working with huge donut-shaped machines outfitted with giant magnets called a tokamak to try to generate the same result. After fuel is put into the tokamak, its magnets are turned on and temperatures inside are raised exponentially to create plasma.
Plasma needs to reach at least 150 million degrees Celsius, 10 times hotter than the core of the sun. The neutrons then escape the plasma, hitting a "blanket" lining the walls of the tokamak, and transferring their kinetic energy as heat.
What are the next steps?
Scientists and experts now need to figure out how to produce much more energy from nuclear fusion on a much larger scale.
At the same time, they need to figure out how to eventually reduce the cost of nuclear fusion so that it can be used commercially.
"At the moment we're spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do," said Chittenden. "We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor."
Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years — and possibly decades — before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change.
"This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years," Friedmann said. "This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine." | https://www.4029tv.com/article/nuclear-fusion-power-house/42234599 | 2022-12-14T01:47:34 | en | 0.947867 |
Mulberry mayor awards police officer on paid leave with certificate of appreciation
The Mulberry police officer under investigation over a violent arrest attended the city Christmas party Monday night and was given a certificate by the mayor.
Officer Thell Riddle was placed on paid suspension earlier this year because of his involvement in a violent arrest outside a Mulberry gas station in Aug. 2022.
Surveillance and witness Facebook video shows the violent arrest of Randal Worcester outside the Kountry Xpress gas station.
It shows two Crawford County deputies repeatedly hit and knee Worcester's head and body while Riddle holds him down. All three members of law enforcement were placed on paid leave while Arkansas State Police investigate the use of force.
The two deputies were fired in August.
"I, like many of you, was shocked and sickened by what I saw," Mulberry Mayor Gary Baxter said on Aug. 21, 2022.
Baxter gave Riddle a certificate at the Christmas party on Dec. 12, 2022.
"We are very confused why the mayor would give the man an acclamation in such a public manner, which would seem to contradict them wanting to wait until the investigation was finished before they make any formal decision about Riddle's employment," Eli Clardy, who lives in Mulberry, said.
Baxter told 40/29 News he gave all city employees a certificate of appreciation.
Larry Copeland, who lives in Mulberry, thinks Riddle deserves the certificate.
"I thought they should have been recognized," Copeland said. "That he didn't do anything wrong. He just held the guy down, he wasn't kicking him or hitting him." | https://www.4029tv.com/article/thell-riddle-appreciation-gary-baxter-mulberry/42234359 | 2022-12-14T01:47:44 | en | 0.984186 |
When rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett suffered a concussion on Oct. 16 in a win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he was cleared to return to practice the following Wednesday and played in the Steelers' game the following week at Miami.
But there's a little less clarity involving Pickett's availability for the Steelers' game this Sunday against the Carolina Panthers after he suffered a second concussion in the team's 16-14 loss last week to the Ravens.
Such is life when dealing with concussions.
"Kenny's in the protocol. We'll adhere to it. We'll rely on their expertise and let those guys provide the framework of how we proceed," Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday at his weekly press conference at the UPMC-Rooney Sports Complex.
"Participation is big for him, and the quality of that participation. The last time he sustained a concussion, he was in the protocol but was allowed to work. We'll see what this procedure is like. His ability to work will determine whether he gets an opportunity (to play). We'll take it day-by-day. He is out visiting with the doctors as we speak. If he's able to work, we'll work him."
If he is not able to get the required practice time in, Tomlin said he would make a decision this week regarding whether it will be Mitch Trubisky or Mason Rudolph to lead the Steelers (5-8) against the Panthers (5-8).
"If he's unable to work, we'll divvy those reps up between Mitch and Mason," Tomlin said. "We'll play both guys in a practice setting in an effort to make a determination what's best as we lean in on the latter part of the work.
"When you're dealing with someone in the protocol, you just simply take it day by day. Whatever the medical experts tell us in terms of the rate or work or quality of work, we'll adhere to it and make decisions accordingly based on that information."
Trubisky replaced Pickett after he was pulled against the Ravens following the Steelers' second possession. He completed 22 of 30 passes for 276 yards and a touchdown, but also threw three interceptions in the 16-14 loss.
Tomlin felt Trubisky did some good things against the Ravens, but the three interceptions – all of which came deep in Baltimore territory – were tough to swallow, especially in a two-point loss.
"I thought we moved the ball fluidly continually," Tomlin said. "That's what you had better have when you have a veteran backup like him. The reps that he misses during the week are made up for by his cumulative experience and expertise, and we felt that. We didn't feel any reduction in what we intended to do once Kenny went down and I thought we continued to move the ball fluidly. We just didn't make enough plays, particularly when the field got short. We've got to do a better job of taking care of the football.
Rudolph, meanwhile, has been inactive as the team's No. 3 quarterback all season. But Rudolph is in his fifth season with the Steelers, while Trubisky is in his first. Rudolph is 5-4-1 in his career as a starter with the Steelers.
"Both guys have remained engaged. It's really been 2 and 2A," Tomlin said of the duo. "There's a scarcity of reps, but when you've got veteran backups, guys with a cumulative body of work, particularly in Mason's case, having been exposed to us and having been here, the receivers he would work with and all of those things, often times, you're calling on past experience as a catalyst for how you move forward."
Trubisky began the season as the Steelers' starting quarterback, but was replaced by Pickett at halftime of the team's Week 4 loss to the Jets.
He hadn't played since leading the Steelers to a comeback victory against the Buccaneers in Week 6. For the season, he has completed 63.3 percent of his passes for just over 1,000 yards and four touchdowns with five interceptions.
But the choice of who starts against the Panthers will largely be determined by what happens with Pickett. If the team's first-round draft pick this season is deemed healthy by team neurologists and returns to practice, he'll play. If he is not cleared in time, he won't.
And Tomlin has no qualms about playing Pickett if he's cleared.
"I'm not a medical expert. I gain my confidence, my levels of concern, anything you would ask along those lines, from the medical experts. I'm really comfortable in that," Tomlin said.
"I've got nothing but great admiration and respect for our medical experts. People come from all over the world to visit our guys, and from different sports, as well. I'll let them do what it is they do."
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Winning the weighty downs: The Steelers went into Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens ranked seventh in the NFL and fifth in the AFC in run defense.
But the Ravens were able to run the ball against the black and gold, putting up a total of 215 yards with J.K. Dobbins going for 120 yards on 15 carries, an eight-yard average.
"Oftentimes when you're not successful it's both the schematics and it's performance, and I'd say it was both," said Tomlin. "I thought they won the war of attrition as the game wore on. I thought the pile fell the direction that they desired it to. What could be second-and-eight was second-and-six. You do that consecutively, what could be third-and-four, third-and-two, those downs are played out differently in the National Football League.
"We've got to do a better job of getting them in position to minimize that pile. We got to come off blocks a little better. And we got to understand the weight of possession down ball when you're playing someone that's playing the attrition game. We had a third down and seven that we had a break down and they had a 25-yard gain and the drive extended. They ran the ball some more and they end up getting the field goal on that drive. We win that third-and-seven we're on the sideline. Those attrition plays that we discussed whether or not that pile is falling forward, and things of that nature doesn't exist."
With the Carolina Panthers on the horizon this week, led by running back D'Onta Foreman who has put up four 100-yard games this season, it's an issue the defense will have to address in practice this week to be ready to go on Sunday.
"We very much could be in that style of game again this week with the way Carolina is playing," said Tomlin. "We got some schematic work ahead of us. We got some physical work ahead of us. The pile needs to fall the direction in which we desire it to fall. And outside of that attrition component of discussion, you got to win the weighty downs. You win the weighty downs, good defenses spend a lot of time on the sideline, not playing plays. And so that's kind of the discussion regarding the attrition component what transpired last week."
Stopping the run: Another factor that has played into the defense allowing more yards in the run game as of late is going against teams that Tomlin referred to as 'run-centric' teams, with running quarterbacks in the Falcons' Marcus Mariota and the Ravens' Tyler Huntley. Mariota accounted for only 17 yards in Week 13, with Huntley adding 31 yards last week. But they are two players the defense had to be on alert for knowing they could run the ball at any minute.
"We played two run-centric teams with quarterback mobility," said Tomlin. "So, you play two teams like you're going to have somebody ringing up yards on you in the running game. If we played two teams that featured the passing game, you could be talking about six quarters of passing yards. I'm not de-sensitive to it, I just understand it's the nature of the style of ball we've been playing of late, and we got another game that could be very similar this week. So, it does have our attention"
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United places huge order with Boeing to replace aging planes
United Airlines said Tuesday that it ordered 100 new Boeing 787s, a large, twin-aisle jetliner, to replace planes that are nearing retirement age and allow United to expand its international flying.
United also added to its order book for the smaller Boeing 737 Max, which is used on domestic flights.
The companies did not disclose financial terms of the orders. United said it can choose among three sizes of the 787, which carry list prices ranging from $248 million to $338 million per plane, but airlines routinely negotiate deep discounts on aircraft orders.
Moody’s Investors Service estimated the value of the 787 orders at $16 billion after discounts. Other analysts said it could be worth up to $19 billion depending on the mix of 787 versions that United eventually selects.
United is scheduled to begin receiving the 787s in 2024, and it took options on 100 more.
The massive order — United called it the biggest ever by a U.S. airline for twin-aisle or “widebody” planes — is a bold move for an airline that lost money throughout the pandemic until the middle of this year. Executives at United and other airlines are sounding bullish, however, as travel demand has bounced back nearly to 2019 levels and ticket prices have surged higher than a year ago because of fewer flights.
The order also is welcome news at Boeing. The U.S. aircraft maker is still struggling to recover from two deadly Max crashes, production flaws that halted deliveries of the 787 for nearly two years, and setbacks in other programs including a contract to build two new Air Force One presidential planes. It has lost more than $21 billion since 2019.
United picked the 787 to replace its Boeing 767 jets and some of its Boeing 777s that are nearing 30 years in age — some of the 767s have already hit that milestone — and far less fuel-efficient.
The Chicago-based airline could have chosen the A350, built by Boeing's European rival, Airbus. United already has 45 A350s on order but doesn't expect to start receiving them until 2030.
United CEO Scott Kirby told reporters United went with Boeing because it already flies the 787 and did not want to add a new plane to the fleet now, when it is busy hiring pilots and trying to expand its route network.
At the same time, Boeing converted options on 44 Max jets to firm orders, and added a new order for 56 Maxes. Those 100 planes are scheduled to show up between 2024 and 2028 and will replace aging jets and allow for modest growth in United's domestic flying.
Last year, United ordered 200 Max jets and 70 single-aisle Airbus jets in a deal the airline said at the time was the biggest order in its history.
United executives said they might use cash flow to pay for all these planes, or they might finance them. With the latest orders, United now expects capital spending to rise to $9 billion next year and $11 billion in 2024.
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What made 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' a holiday music hit?
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The familiar tunes of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" transport us. The opening measures make us children again, abed after Christmas dinner as the subtle sounds of the record player waft in from another room.
Though the beloved television special is unquestionably iconic today, its place in Christmas music history wasn't always assured. In 1965, when "A Charlie Brown Christmas" first aired, Christmas jazz wasn't exactly a thing. Jazz in family-friendly TV specials wasn't really a thing, either.
It took a few brilliant, wild minds — and a host of unexpected inspiration — to bring it all together. The musical formula they created didn't just make "A Charlie Brown Christmas" an instant hit. It helped change the sound of Christmas music for generations to come.
The first ingredient: Something unexpected
The man at the center of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and most other music associated with more than a dozen "Peanuts" TV specials, is Vince Guaraldi. A prominent pianist at the time, Guaraldi brought a fierce musicianship that he honed playing with some of the best jazz combos in Northern California, where he was born and based.
The idea to pair jazz with the "Peanuts" comic strip, however, began with television producer Lee Mendelson, who admired cartoonist Charles Schulz's work and was determined to bring his comic characters to the small screen. For whatever reason, Mendelson was sold on the idea that jazz would be the perfect accompaniment to a "Peanuts" special.
"It seems so absurd looking back, but jazz had a lot of strikes against it," explains Derrick Bang, speaking to CNN as a jazz expert, entertainment journalist and "Peanuts" historian.
"We're talking about the early 1960s. A major part of the country equated it with Black performers. A lot of people thought the sound was too 'out there,' and there was still a lingering sense of the genre being equated with sin and depravity," he says. "Productions that featured jazz, most famously 'The Man with the Golden Arm,' dealt heavily with vice."
In other words, it wasn't the rollicking classical music one expected from most Disney shorts or Looney Tunes. Yet still, Mendelson knew what he wanted. When he heard Guaraldi's single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on the radio while driving through San Francisco, he knew who he wanted it from.
Mendelson convinced Guaraldi to work with him on a 1963 documentary called "A Boy Named Charlie Brown." The work never aired, but the album that resulted — called "Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown," was a hit. It was also enough for Mendelson to call upon Guaraldi for a frantic, last minute holiday project that would become "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
The second ingredient: Something new
How did a jazz artist intend to build a musical backdrop for a group of cartoon children most people knew from the Sunday funnies — and add Christmas flair?
The answer lay in an up-and-coming sound from Brazil called "bossa nova." The term means "new wave" in Portuguese, and is characterized by syncopated samba rhythms, unusual chord progressions and laid-back percussion.
"If you pretend for a moment that you don't know these iconic cues and melodies, you would immediately recognize them as bossa nova," Bang says. "And that sound is by nature cheerful, uplifting and happy."
In the mid-1960s, it was also amassing major popularity in the U.S. "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the most well-known bossa nova songs, was also a raging hit at the time and won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1965. In fact, the song that led Mendelson to Guaraldi's work initially appeared on the B-side of "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus," the bossa nova-inspired album that made Guaraldi famous. The musician composed and recorded the album in tribute to the Academy Award-winning French-Brazilian film, which sets the classic Greek tragedy in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
"Jazz was at a transition point," Bang says. "Bossa nova was one of the things that helped smooth its way to popularity."
In creating music for the "Peanuts" world, Guaraldi also employed a technique that wouldn't fully come on the cinematic scene for another decade.
"Guaraldi had an uncanny facility for melodic hooks that became earworms," Bang says. "So he created these melodies that became themes, and they suited individual 'Peanuts' characters perfectly." Examples of this can be also heard in subsequent "Peanuts" specials, for characters like Peppermint Patty and Snoopy's Red Baron persona.
A musical theme that indicates the appearance of a character, group or moment is called a leitmotif. While the concept has roots in orchestral and operatic music, and did appear in early films, it didn't become as prevalent in movie-making until John Williams' seminal work on the original "Star Wars" trilogy in the 1970s and '80s.
The third ingredient: Something that lasts
Finally, in the winter of 1965, after years of trying to get the "Peanuts" gang on TV — and a tight production schedule dictated by the program's sponsors — "A Charlie Brown Christmas" went to air. Those involved were not optimistic. CBS executives reportedly hated the artistic choices, hated the jazz soundtrack, and were convinced it would be the first and last Charlie Brown special ever.
Audiences did not agree. The special was an immediate hit, and its success bore the promise of a lasting tradition.
"After it aired, (the producers) thought it was over and done. The notion of a repeated holiday special was alien," Bang says. "But CBS kept playing it, year after year. And that's how tradition is established. This was before VCRs, so people knew they had to sit down and watch it at a certain time. It became a family tradition akin to decorating the tree or wrapping presents."
The musical impact of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" took longer to unfold.
"I would have to say this part of Guaraldi's career didn't resonate in larger circles during his lifetime," Bang says. "Everyone was scrambling to cover (his single) 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind,' but not his 'Peanuts' work."
To be clear, jazz musicians, especially Black artists whose work was often undervalued by the masses, had made Christmas albums before. But "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was the first time that particular combination permeated deep into American culture, and it was decades before people chose to replicate it with any kind of regularity.
The true resurgence of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as a musical feat began in 1986, when jazz great David Benoit covered "Linus and Lucy" on his album "This Side Up." The following year, the original album appeared on the Billboard Christmas album sales chart for the very first time. A general swelling of interest in jazz over the next decade lifted the work even higher, and things entered a new realm when Cyrus Chestnut, another jazz giant, covered the entire soundtrack in 2000.
Through the 2000s, songs from the special re-entered the charts on a steady basis. The album was remastered and re-released, covered and streamed, and in 2021 it became the first jazz album to reach Billboard's Top 10 albums outside of a specialty category. In 2021, Billboard deemed "A Charlie Brown Christmas" the No. 1 Greatest Holiday 200 album of all time. This year, RIAA certified the album quintuple platinum, marking 5 million sales.
During this period, Bang notes a general increase in Christmas jazz album releases. Whether growth in the genre was influenced by "A Charlie Brown Christmas" coming back on the scene, or an expanded interest in jazz as a whole, he describes it as a definite "parallel phenomenon."
Bang, who wrote and researched the liner notes for a special expanded re-release of the album this year, says the cultural impact of the music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is something even greater to behold.
"During that project, I had the privilege of speaking with Guaraldi's drummer, Jerry Granelli, before he died," Bang says. "There is kind of a cottage industry of jazz groups playing 'Charlie Brown' shows around the holidays now, and he had started doing so in 2013. You could hear the joy in his voice when he described families coming up after the show, sometimes three generations at a time."
"A grandfather, accompanied by his son, accompanied by his grandson, all telling him how much this music had meant to them."
The little unassuming Christmas special, with its strange music, has come a long way in 57 years. But the most enduring aspect may be that, no matter how many albums are sold or how far its impact resonates, when we turn it on, we feel like children once again. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/what-made-a-charlie-brown-christmas-a-holiday-music-hit/42234712 | 2022-12-14T01:48:05 | en | 0.978742 |
After knocking off the then-21-5 Boston Celtics on Saturday evening, the Golden State Warriors began a six-game road trip with another game against a recent NBA Finals participant. Late in the first quarter of Tuesday’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks, Wesley Matthews made contact with Stephen Curry on a pull-up three. Curry drilled the shot and backpedaled to the ground, and as he got up, he gestured and spoke to the referee, hoping for a foul.
Nothing was called, so he continued to press the official after Milwaukee scored before ultimately receiving a technical. Head coach Steve Kerr was similarly frustrated and animated by the lack of a call for his superstar point guard and engaged in his own shouting match with the referee. Soon, he too earned a technical foul. His anger was not extinguished by the tech and he persisted with his frustrations. The championship-winning duo clearly felt quite slighted by the refs swallowing their whistle on the play.
Steph Curry and Steve Kerr both pick up techs after Steph doesn't get a foul call on this 3 😬pic.twitter.com/QUW4mzkXve
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) December 14, 2022
Months removed from his first Finals MVP and fourth title, Curry is averaging 30 points on 67 percent true shooting. He’s played like an MVP through a third of the 2022-23 season. The Warriors, however, are sitting just a game above .500 at 14-13 before Tuesday’s result. They’ve been playing better lately, going 6-3 over their past nine games. But none of that mattered to Curry or Kerr in the moment. They’ve now added a tech to their ledger to show for it, too. | https://uproxx.com/dimemag/no-call-stephen-curry-technical-fouls-steve-kerr/ | 2022-12-14T01:48:07 | en | 0.974149 |
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The Biden administration has announced a breakthrough on nuclear fusion, fueling hopes of further progress toward clean energy.
Nuclear fusion — the process in which atoms are fused together to create energy — has long been studied as a potential power source.
But various hurdles have prevented the reaction from being a viable option for clean energy, and a commercial effort is still likely decades away.
Here’s what you should know about the Energy Department’s announcement:
1. It’s the first time a net energy gain has come from fusion
The crux of Tuesday’s news is that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California were able to produce more energy via fusion than they put in. They put in 2.05 megajoules of energy and got out 3.15 megajoules.
This is the first time scientists in a lab were able to create a net energy output through fusion, demonstrating that it is possible to do so.
“It’s the first time it has ever been done in a laboratory anywhere in the world. Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters at a press conference.
While the technology isn’t ready to be commercialized yet, the successful experiment raises the prospects of larger-scale deployment of fusion energy.
Previously, the lab came relatively close to breaking even when it generated 70 percent of the energy it put into a fusion reaction last year.
2. It’s seen as another potential source of carbon-free energy
If fusion can become a large-scale power source, it will provide another way of generating carbon-free energy as the world looks to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
U.S. officials have said they hope to broadly have an entirely clean electric grid by 2035 and commercially viable fusion power within a decade.
Like wind, solar and traditional nuclear energy — where an atom is split apart instead of fused together — nuclear fusion doesn’t emit any planet-warming gasses or air pollution.
“This milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero-carbon, abundant fusion energy powering our society,” Granholm said.
“We can use it to produce clean electricity, transportation fuels, power heavy industry [and] so much more,” she added. “It would be like adding a power drill to our toolbox in building this clean energy economy.”
Unlike traditional nuclear energy, called fission, fusion doesn’t generate radioactive waste that requires long-term storage. And unlike traditional hydropower dams, it doesn’t require finding — and flooding — a new reservoir.
The main place that fusion power would be useful if plugged into the current American grid would be as what is called “base load” power: a stable constant amount of electricity that current grids rely on.
In the U.S., about 19 percent of electricity comes from nuclear power, while 60 percent comes from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and petroleum, and the rest is from renewables, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Carolyn Kuranz, associate professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at the University of Michigan, told The Hill on Monday that nuclear fusion does create byproducts that have small amounts of radioactive material, but she said the material can stay on the power plant site and be used to fuel future fusion reaction instead of needing to go elsewhere.
Paul Dabbar, who was the Energy Department’s under secretary for science during the Trump administration, also pointed to some advantages that fusion could have over wind and solar in an interview with The Hill this week.
“It needs to be windy, it needs to be sunny, it takes a lot of land,” he said of the other energy sources, though he noted that battery technology could be used to improve on the intermittency issue.
However, fusion comes with its own drawbacks. A future fusion industry built around large, expensive individual plants would be dependent on an expanded, high-capacity electric grid to move power across the region or country — something that feels almost as far away at this point as commercial fusion power.
3. Breakthrough positions US as leader in global quest for fusion
The successful net power-producing experiment is a clear mark of success for America’s burgeoning public and private investment into fusion energy — particularly as the European Union, China and South Korea build out their own programs.
In January, China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) sustained a record 17-minute fusion reaction, Smithsonian reported.
And the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France will be the largest fusion facility in the world when it begins experiments in 2025, according to a statement.
In March, the Energy Department released a decadelong roadmap to bring commercial fusion to electricity markets.
That initiative touted the $2.5 billion that the private sector poured into fusion last year — about 3.5 times what the government spends directly.
An April White House summit also promoted the fact that two-thirds of private fusion companies and suppliers are based in the U.S. — and that American companies are the main recipients of international fusion funding.
But while it is tempting to think of fusion in terms of a “race” between countries, the drive for fusion power is highly international and collaborative.
U.S. companies built the central solenoid magnet for the ITER tokamak — necessary to create the magnetic fields that power and control the superheated plasma during a fusion reaction, according to the U.S. government.
And the Energy Department in November announced nearly $50 million for fusion research — of which part will go to support U.S. researchers at ITER and EAST, as The Hill reported.
4. Fusion still years off from becoming a mainstream energy source
The development was a major step toward fusion energy, but you’re not likely to be using this type of energy to turn on your lights anytime soon.
Granholm told reporters the administration hopes to see commercial fusion within a decade.
“The president has a decadal vision to get to a commercial fusion reactor within, obviously, 10 years, so we’ve got to get to work,” she told reporters.
Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where the breakthrough occurred, said it could be even longer, taking “decades” before the technology is commercialized.
“There are very significant hurdles” in both science and technology, Budil said.
Dabbar told The Hill this week that he thinks the first commercial demonstration fusion reactors could crop up between 2030 and 2035 and that large-scale deployment could come a few years after that.
“It takes a long time for energy systems to go from testing to full-scale deployment,” he said.
5. It has military implications
The applications of this discovery — like the experiment itself — go well beyond peacetime.
While the ultimate implications of this test are a milestone on the road to clean energy, the “more immediate” implications were military, said Marvin Adams, deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
So are the program’s roots: The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses extremely powerful lasers to “ignite” hydrogen and cause a self-sustaining explosion — a system developed in part to test advanced nuclear weapons without having to detonate an entire bomb.
“You start with a little spark, and then the spark gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and then the burn propagates through,” physicist Riccardo Betti of University of Rochester told public radio station WBUR.
This is a tiny-scale version of the same process used to kick off a hydrogen or “thermonuclear” bomb — which uses fusion power to release 1,000 times as much energy as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, Time reported.
Fusion reactors don’t contain nearly enough fuel to produce that kind of explosion — and a thermonuclear bomb requires a separate atomic explosion to trigger ignition, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But U.S. officials hinted at military applications. Fusion is “an essential process in modern nuclear weapons” and a milestone like this one was a strong argument for American military power, Adams noted.
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House GOP leadership is urging Republicans to vote against a short-term government funding bill lawmakers are hoping to quickly pass ahead of a looming shutdown deadline.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) office sent out a notice to members on Tuesday evening recommending a “no” vote on the stopgap funding bill unveiled earlier Tuesday that leaders are expected to bring to the floor this week.
“Once again, House Democrats failed to meet the fundamental duty of funding the government despite spending most of the year passing trillions in wasteful spending that has fueled inflation and driven up our debt,” the notice said.
“This one-week continuing resolution is an attempt to buy additional time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans have had no seat at the negotiating table,” the notice added.
Funding runs out on Friday at midnight, and the stopgap bill would keep the government running through Dec. 23 while negotiators try to hash out funding for a larger omnibus spending package.
Republicans pushing for the shutdown deadline to be punted through next month say it’s necessary to allow the incoming GOP-led House more say in how the government should be funded. But other Republicans have pressed for an omnibus to be enacted sooner to ensure adequate funding for defense and national security.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Tuesday that lawmakers are “very close” to a bipartisan deal on an omnibus this month.
“I think we’re very close to getting an omnibus appropriations bill,” McConnell said while also setting the timeline for passage by Dec. 22. | https://www.wowktv.com/hill-politics/house-gop-pushes-members-to-vote-against-short-term-funding-bill/ | 2022-12-14T01:48:14 | en | 0.944331 |
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Online attacks against LGBTQ people have skyrocketed in recent months, rising in lockstep with proposed policies seeking to roll back LGBTQ rights and culminating in real-world violence. A House committee is set to investigate the connection on Wednesday in a first-of-its kind hearing.
“Violence against LGBTQ+ people is on the rise, and has been for years,” Olivia Hunt, policy director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, said in an emailed statement. “From bomb threats and intimidation tactics targeting hospitals and churches to attacks like the shooting at Club Q, LGBTQ+ people nationwide are living under the threat of violence.”
Last month, a 22-year-old carried a rifle into Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., and opened fire, killing five people and injuring more than a dozen others. The alleged shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, is suspected to have ties to an extremist “free speech” website that aims to “cleanse” society, according to NBC News.
“You’re seeing that kind of hate speech becoming more and more prevalent online,” Colorado state Sen. Dominick Moreno (D) told The Hill. “Social media channels obviously make it easier to distribute, but I think they also intensify the vitriol because you can say anything you want behind the veneer of a computer screen.”
Hunt, who is scheduled to testify in Wednesday’s House and Reform Oversight Committee hearing, said it is critical for Congress to “shine a bright light” on rising violence against the LGBTQ community and make clear that recent attacks have been fueled by the harmful rhetoric and policies of right-wing leaders.
“I wish this hearing wasn’t necessary, but as long as extremists are targeting our community, we have to respond loudly with the truth and demonstrate how the dangerous environment for LGBTQ+ Americans is a consequence of their actions,” she said.
Inflammatory and false rhetoric
An August report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, found that inflammatory rhetoric aimed at LGBTQ people flourished during the first half of 2022 on mainstream social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter, which recently relaxed its hateful conduct policies under new owner Elon Musk and allowed scores of suspended users to return to the site.
The same report found that social media posts comparing LGBTQ people to “groomers” and “pedophiles” surged by more than 400 percent after a Florida education law barring teachers from engaging in classroom instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity was passed.
In March, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) then-press secretary Christina Pushaw said in a tweet the measure — known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — would be more aptly described as the “Anti-Grooming Bill” and that anyone opposed to the legislation is “probably a groomer.”
Accusations of child “grooming” have been hurled online at prominent LGBTQ figures and elected officials in droves this year, though the consequences of claims made on a virtual plane are spilling into the real world.
San Francisco police earlier this month were dispatched to the home of California state Sen. Scott Wiener to investigate an emailed death threat that called Wiener, who is openly gay, a “pedophile” and a “groomer.”
Wiener in a statement said the threat, which police later determined to be meritless, was the result of false accusations made by GOP officials and conservative media personalities that he was “grooming” children for sexual exploitation.
Wiener is the author of several pro-LGBTQ bills, including one measure that blocks states from prosecuting or investigating the families of transgender youth that travel to California to obtain gender-affirming health care.
Attacks on gender-affirming care
Threats of violence similar to Wiener’s have been made against children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors. Lawmakers in more than a dozen states this year introduced measures to heavily restrict or ban such care for youth and young adults, accusing physicians of “mutilating” children.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in August introduced federal legislation seeking to make providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors a felony, punishable by up 25 years in prison.
Greene during an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” where she announced her bill said gender-affirming care is “disgusting and appalling” and equated it to child abuse.
“This needs to be illegal,” she said.
Under standards set by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society, gender-affirming treatment for minors that have already started puberty typically involves puberty blockers or hormones that have been prescribed by a licensed physician.
Surgery is not recommended for youth under 18, and the only acceptable treatment for prepubescent children is social transition. Gender-affirming health care for transgender people of all ages is supported by most accredited medical organizations.
During November’s midterm elections, Republican candidates funneled millions into campaign ads that propagated false or misleading information about gender-affirming health care for youth and targeted transgender athletes.
“The radical left will destroy children if we don’t stop them,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says in one social media ad, which features footage of a Drag Queen Story Hour event. “They indoctrinate children; try to turn boys into girls.”
Anti-LBGTQ state legislation
Drag events for youth have recently drawn the ire of GOP leaders, and several bills seeking to ban them have already been pre-filed ahead of the 2023 legislative session by lawmakers in Tennessee, Texas and others.
In October, more than 30 House Republicans signed on to a measure seeking to block federal funds from being used to make “sexually-oriented” materials — including those that feature “any topic” related to sexual orientation or gender identity — available to children under the age of 10.
The measure’s primary sponsor, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), in a news release said the bill — titled the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act — will put an end to a “misguided crusade” led by Democrats to expose the nation’s children to “sexual imagery and radical gender ideology.”
Such language has galvanized far-right and extremist groups like the Proud Boys, whose members have led dozens of armed protests at family-friendly drag shows and other LGBTQ youth programs across the country, often in the name of protecting children from “groomers.”
In June, authorities in Northern California launched a hate crime investigation after a children’s story hour was disrupted by protesters that hurled anti-LGBTQ slurs at a drag performer. In November, an Oklahoma doughnut shop was firebombed after hosting a drag event. Organizers of an upcoming holiday-themed drag brunch in Jacksonville, Fla., say they are reconsidering holding the event at all after receiving multiple threats from Proud Boys members.
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The Biden administration is hosting a summit this week that brings together leaders of 49 African countries, as well as heads of the African Union, to collaborate on key policy across climate change, security and trade.
Vice President Harris opened the three-day summit on Tuesday at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, where she discussed the African diaspora and young African leaders.
President Biden is expected to join the summit on Wednesday and deliver remarks on the U.S.-Africa Business Forum.
While a significant majority of African nations joined the summit this week, five were not invited.
A senior White House official this week said four of those countries — Guinea, Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso — have changed their governments unconstitutionally and were suspended from the African Union.
Here are the five African nations that weren’t invited to Biden’s summit:
Guinea
The ruling government in Guinea was seized by a military junta in September 2021 and is now led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya.
The military junta overthrew President Alpha Condé, who had won a controversial third term for office despite term limits, which he claimed did not apply to him.
Doumbouya agreed in October to hold new elections in about two years.
Sudan
Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan toppled the government in October 2021, taking power during the northeast African nation’s transition to a democracy after three decades of authoritarian rule.
Sudan’s military leadership announced this month the first phase of an agreement to transition to a democracy, but some political groups have rejected the framework, and discussions are ongoing.
Millions of people in Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, a crisis that grew worse after the coup. Civilian demonstrators also frequently clash with security forces.
Mali
Col. Assimi Goïta seized power in Mali two years ago after leading a coup against the government.
He failed to transition the West African country into new democratic elections and has become a pariah to the international world.
Mali also recently rejected help from French humanitarian groups, affecting hundreds of thousands of Malians who are in need of emergency food and medical assistance.
Earlier this year, France, which had fought Islamic terrorist groups for nine years in Mali, completed a withdrawal of troops from the country.
Russian mercenaries in Mali have also been accused of murdering civilians in a growing concern for world leaders.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, located in West Africa, is in a dire humanitarian situation after suffering from two coups in less than nine months.
Troops in September ousted the ruling military leader, Lt. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had won control of the country through a January coup.
A militia leader appointed to replace him said Damiba had not done enough to control violence in Burkina Faso.
More than 3,200 people have died in the African country from January to September, and nearly 5 million are in need of emergency assistance.
Some women and children have been eating leaves and salt for weeks, the United Nations said in October.
Eritrea
The U.S. does not have formal ties with Eritrea, a country located in the Horn of Africa in the eastern region of the continent, so the nation’s leaders were not invited.
Eritrea has also been providing military support to neighboring Ethiopia, which is in the midst of a civil war against an opposing political faction in the region of Tigray.
Eritrean troops are accused of the kidnapping, looting and murder of civilians in Tigray, and the U.S. has called for the Eritrean soldiers to withdraw from the conflict.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Officials and local residents are searching for answers after multiple people noticed a creek in Michigan turn an eye-popping shade of green.
Photos from Nexstar’s WOOD viewer Steven Littell Monday afternoon showed bright green water in Plaster Creek near Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, which is on the border of Grand Rapids and Wyoming.
The City of Grand Rapids went to check it out Monday after receiving the complaint but when workers got there, they said the green was gone.
Nexstar’s WOOD-TV also went to check out the creek Tuesday but did not see the green hue.
“My significant other and I were driving by, and she said, ‘Look at the creek.’ I stopped and it was fluorescent green. It was like almost glowing. So I got out and got a couple shots,” said Steven Littell, who sent the photos to WOOD. “Came back and checked on it for the next hour or so — it ran green for pretty close to an hour.”
“It worried me. I thought somebody was dumping something that shouldn’t have been dumped in there. It didn’t look right. This goes right to the Grand, right to Lake Michigan, so it worried me,” said Littell.
Jeff Johnston, a spokesperson with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy said staff has inspected the creek at the location Littell found the green color and found that it had already run clear.
“The color appears to have been from a dye test, likely performed near where the color was observed, and that material dissipates quickly,” said Johnston.
The Grand Rapids wastewater/stormwater maintenance superintendent agreed that it looks like the green dye that is used to determine where water is flowing.
But the city clarified that it wasn’t doing any tests Monday.
The mystery of the green water continues. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/almost-glowing-water-in-michigan-creek-mysteriously-turns-bright-green/ | 2022-12-14T01:48:34 | en | 0.972339 |
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – A carjacking led to a pursuit through Charleston, West Virginia, Tuesday night.
According to Charleston Police, a suspect hijacked a car from an elderly person at the West Side One Stop on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.
The owner of the car tells 13 News his father was the person who was carjacked and that the suspect allegedly had a gun. The vehicle owner says his father was let out of the vehicle at the Lee Street bridge in Charleston.
The suspect then led authorities on a vehicle pursuit through Charleston, including onto the interstate before exiting back into town, officials say.
Authorities say they detained the suspect near Washington and Greenbrier streets near the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston. A witness tells 13 News they saw the suspect get out of the car and flee toward the McDonalds parking lot where police allegedly tased the man to detain him.
This is a developing story. We will update this story as more information becomes available. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/1-in-custody-after-elderly-person-carjacked-in-charleston-west-virginia-leads-to-police-chase/ | 2022-12-14T01:48:40 | en | 0.978696 |
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HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) – One person sustained minor injuries after crashing into a house in Huntington.
The crash happened around 6:31 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, in the 1500 block of Hal Greer Boulevard.
According to the Huntington Police Department, the driver “had a medical episode” and then went off the road, striking a garage, then a house.
Authorities say the person’s injuries from the crash were minor. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/1-injured-after-car-crashes-into-huntington-west-virginia-house/ | 2022-12-14T01:48:46 | en | 0.953822 |
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Charleston’s businesses, attractions and amenities are all featured in the 2023 issue of West Virginia’s Advantage Valley Livability Magazine.
Advantage Valley Inc. is a nonprofit economic development organization in the Charleston-Huntington Metro Region. The nonprofit created the magazine to encourage business investment, talent recruitment, and relocation in Boone, Cabell, Clay, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Mason, Jackson, and Wayne counties.
The third edition of Advantage Valley’s Livability Magazine is now available online.
The articles emphasize why young professionals want to live and work in the Charleston-Huntington area. Writers of the magazine spotlight the region’s riverfront communities, outdoor attractions and business environments.
Each article includes tools to learn about the region and easily share the information via email or social media.
The magazine can be viewed online or downloaded as a PDF. Readers can view it and share the link by clicking on the magazine cover image.
Print versions of the magazine will have a removable insert with various Charleston attractions. To get a print magazine, contact Advantage Valley. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-huntington-area-featured-in-west-virginias-advantage-valley-livability-magazine/ | 2022-12-14T01:48:53 | en | 0.887033 |
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FOLSOM, La. (WGNO) — A family dog is being hailed a hero after he protected two young girls who had gotten lost in the woods behind their Louisiana home.
It happened Monday evening in the Village of Folsom, which is located north of Lake Pontchartrain and New Orleans.
Seven-year-old Abigail Bourg and her sister, 4-year-old Cecelia Bourg, were playing in their backyard when their Golden Retriever, Artemis, ran into the woods. The girls followed and eventually got lost.
“It’s feelings that no parent wants to go through, it was just a rollercoaster of emotions,” said the girls’ mother, Mary Bourg.
The community quickly rallied together. Over 100 volunteers searched the area as well as local law enforcement who deployed ATVs and helicopters.
“Everyone in this community dropped what they were doing and just on the spot – it didn’t matter, they were there for us,” said Mary.
In the end, it was Artemis barking, alerting anyone close by of where they were. The girls and dog were found around 9:30 p.m.
“He also tried to bark at the helicopter,” said Abigail. “He was trying to get help anywhere, let anyone know where y’all were!” added Mary.
It was a surreal moment the second the kids were reunited with their family.
“One thing I can say, the movies got right,” said the girls’ father, Justin Bourg.
As a token of their appreciation, Artemis was fed a special steak dinner. The family says they are holding on to each other – and their dog – a little tighter at night. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/family-dog-hailed-a-hero-after-protecting-two-young-girls-in-louisiana-woods/ | 2022-12-14T01:48:59 | en | 0.991584 |
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KSNF/KODE — Each year, you decorate a gorgeous evergreen with lights, Christmas ornaments, ribbon, tinsel, and other items that bring on the holiday spirit. But have you ever stopped to wonder why you have a “baby’s first Christmas” ornament or “our first Christmas” ornament” displayed on your tree? More than likely, the answer is no. You’ve grown up with this tradition, and you hold it dear, but you’re not sure why it exists. Here’s a brief history of Christmas trees and the ornaments they hold.
The Origin of Christmas Trees
Before we can discuss ornaments, we must first address the modern Christmas tree tradition, which is thought to have originated in 16th-century Germany. Small evergreen trees would be decorated with candles, apples, nuts, and berries. In Church plays, they were often referred to as “paradise trees.”
-It wasn’t long before devout Christians began to integrate these trees into their homes during the Christmas season. This tradition became a Christian ritual, and it quickly spread from Germany alone to most of Europe. It took longer to catch on in America where Puritanical religious groups rejected the trees for their historically pagan connotations. Still, small communities of German-born settlers continued to carry this practice into the 1700s and 1800s.
In the 1840s, Americans finally began to adopt the tradition after seeing the favorable Queen Victoria and her family (including German-born Prince Albert) celebrating with a Christmas tree.
At this point, however, Christmas ornaments hadn’t caught on yet.
The Popularization of Christmas Ornaments
Like the Christmas tree, Christmas ornaments originated in Germany. Hans Greiner began to make glass Christmas ornaments called baubles during the 1800s. These were the first manufactured Christmas ornaments, and they were a huge commercial success. As soon as businesses saw how much potential commercial success Christmas ornaments had, a mass marketing campaign began.
In the 1890’s, Woolworth’s Department Store in the U.S. sold more than $25 million in German-imported ornaments made of lead and hand-blown glass each year. Soon, other countries wanted a piece of the pie. Japan and Eastern European countries were mass-producing glass Christmas ornaments to compete with Germany.
In 1973, Hallmark introduced a line of “Keepsake” ornaments that gave Christmas ornaments collectible value. Now, many people will use Christmas ornaments to mark time. For example, you may see ornaments for each year of marriage or a child’s first Christmas.
Today, Christmas ornaments may be woven, blown from glass or plastic, molded from porcelain or metal, or carved from wood or expanded polystyrene. They’re created to last and be used year after year. Most people’s collections contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and items created by family members.
Today’s Favorite Christmas Ornaments
People collect Christmas ornaments all year long, throughout their entire lives to display at Christmas (and sometimes all year around). Whether you’re on vacation or looking for a baby gift, a Christmas ornament is a unique way to remember an event.
If you’re just starting to collect ornaments for your Christmas tree, you’ll find some great ideas, here, including everything from dazzling mouth-blown glass ornaments to elegant handmade porcelain collectible ornaments. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/the-evolution-of-christmas-trees-and-ornaments/ | 2022-12-14T01:49:06 | en | 0.946851 |
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – On Capitol Hill, Republicans have been fighting among themselves and have not managed to reach an agreement that guarantees leader Kevin McCarthy will become Speaker of the House.
House Republicans are openly clashing over who should lead the party in the next Congress.
“It is clear that they want a gun to Kevin’s head,” Rep. Crenshaw (R-TX) said.
Crenshaw is ripping into the House Freedom Caucus for trying to prevent McCarthy from becoming Speaker of the House unless he meets their demands.
“It’s this thinking like they’re more special than everyone else. All of us who worked really, really hard to get these numbers, to get people elected, to raise money for them, this group didn’t do that,” Crenshaw said.
The Conservative Freedom Caucus wants to reinstate a rule that would allow them to recall the Speaker of the House if they are unhappy with his work.
McCarthy’s party has only a slim majority in the next Congress, but he says he’s still confident the party will unite.
“I think people are in a much better place and I think we’ll all find a place to get together,” Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) said.
While it’s unlikely he could get the needed votes, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says he’s also on the ballot.
“I’m trying to get every vote that I possibly can right now on January 3 and expect that Democrats will come together,” Rep. Jeffries (D-NY) said.
And Jeffries is not ready to help Republicans.
“They have to organize on the Republican side, let’s see what happens on January 3,” Jeffries said.
But if McCarthy fails to become speaker, it may also be possible for Republicans and Democrats to vote together and select a more moderate Republican. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/washington-dc/republicans-clash-over-next-speaker-of-the-house-amid-slim-majority/ | 2022-12-14T01:49:12 | en | 0.97269 |
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