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These are the notes from 1/11/2013
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is focusing on touting his office’s successes and calling for a vision for the state’s future as he kicks off his first public appearances since admitting to an extramarital relationship.
McDaniel, a Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, said Thursday that he believes Arkansas is poised to outpace other states with its investments in education and economic development.
McDaniel spoke at the Forrest City Chamber of Commerce in his first public appearance since admitting last month that he had an extramarital relationship with a Hot Springs attorney.
McDaniel apologized for the relationship at a news conference Tuesday. He did not mention it during his 18-minute speech Thursday.
McDaniel has been married since 2009. He is the only announced Democratic candidate in the 2014 governor’s race.
The superintendent of the Guy-Perkins school district has been arrested on theft charges related to stolen weapons.
Faulkner County sheriff’s deputies tell the Log-Cabin Democrat that Superintendent David Westenhover was arrested Thursday at the sheriff’s criminal investigation division where he went after an arrest warrant was issued Wednesday.
Westenhover declined comment. He faces a felony charge of theft by receiving and a misdemeanor count of hindering apprehension.
Sheriff’s Captain Matt Rice said the arrest warrant for Westenhover was issued after a three-month investigation into the theft of weapons and other property from a residential home.
Rice declined to say what types of weapons were stolen.
Barge operators are crediting the hustle by stewards of the Mississippi River for averting a potentially crippling shutdown of the vital commerce artery.
Shippers say the Army Corps of Engineers has done all it can to keep the river open. Those efforts include ongoing work to rid a stretch of the river south of St. Louis of treacherous bedrock, and the agency’s release of water from lakes to raise the Mississippi’s levels.
The president of Cargill’s shipping arm, Rick Calhoun, says that “by hook and by crook it hasn’t gotten as bad as we thought.”
Barge operators since November had worried that the Mississippi might shrink to a level that would force restrictions on how much cargo barges can carry, effectively halting shipping on the river.
Republican Governor Bobby Jindal is proposing to eliminate Louisiana’s personal and business income taxes, in exchange for higher state sales taxes and the removal of some tax breaks.
Jindal’s shopping the idea to lawmakers, who will consider it in the regular session that begins in April. In a statement Thursday, the Republican governor said eliminating income taxes will “put more money back into the pockets of Louisiana families” and make the state more attractive to companies.
It was the first peak at proposals Jindal will offer as part of his tax code rewrite.
He didn’t say how much sales taxes would need to be raised or which tax breaks he’s proposing to eliminate to fill the nearly $3 billion gap that would be left by eliminating income taxes.
The Little Rock Zoo says its oldest lion has died.
The zoo said Thursday that preliminary necropsy results show that the 20-year-old lion named Nyla died of liver cancer. Zoo spokeswoman Susan Altrui says Nyla died either late Tuesday night or early Wednesday. A keeper found her dead Wednesday morning.
Nyla has been living at the zoo since 2000, when she and another female lion named Sydney were donated to the Little Rock Zoo by the Dickerson Park Zoo in Missouri.
Zoo staffers say Nyla liked playing with her toys and batting around a large ball in her yard.
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A man went to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office to pick up a report, but ended up going to jail after he told a deputy he smoked marijuana before he got there.
According to the report, a deputy was notified that a man at the records window smelled strongly of marijuana. The deputy followed the man, later identified as Leotis Rogers, to his car.
When the deputy told Rogers he smelled pot on him and in his truck, Rogers admitted he smoked a blunt.
Deputies searched Rogers’ car, and found a baggie with 14 baggies of marijuana in it. Rogers was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with purpose of delivery and possession of a controlled substance within close proximity to certain facilities.
Rogers bonded out of jail that night on $10,000 bond.
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Little Rock Schools Superintendant Morris Holmes is proposing that every school in the district that already doesn’t have an on-site police officer to get one.
Holmes on Thursday told the school board that they’ve reviewed the districts security and recommend more unarmed guards at schools and to integrate Little Rock police officers.
The Board voted to hold a work session next Thursday and on January 24th to hear from principals anad discuss.
Holmes told the board that this is not–in his words–Cracker Jack stuff that is sparked by emotionalism.
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The I-R-S says it will be ready to process your return starting January 30th – it will take 8 to 15 days before you receive your return. Sara Tacker with the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office says beware of offers for rapid refunds…
Q: …not a great idea.
Tacker says it will cost you…
Q: …into a bank account.
Tacker says those fees could range anywhere from thirty to 100 dollars.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – The North Little Rock Board of Education voted unanimously to interview 5 candidates for the superintendent position.
They are:
Bobby Acklin, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
North Little Rock School District, NLR, Arkansas
Rhonda Dickey, Administrative Director of Secondary Schools
North Little Rock School District, NLR, Arkansas
Kelly Rodgers, Superintendent of Schools
Terrell Independent School District, Terrell, Texas
Dr. Belinda Shook, Superintendent of Schools
Beebe School District, Beebe, Arkansas
Dr. Larry E. Smith, Superintendent of Schools
White Hall School District, White Hall, Arkansas
Acklin and Dickey will be interviewed on the 15th and 16th of January. Rogers, Shook, and Smith will be interviewed January 23-25.
Ken Krispel, the current superintendent for the school district, announced in December of 2010 that he would leaving following the 2012-2013 year.
LITTLE ROCK, AR – The Central High Marching Band received $5,000 to help them meet their goal of participating in the 57th Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C.
The donation comes from the City of Little Rock and the Little Rock Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. The band needs to raise about $100,000 to send the band’s 103 members to march in the inauguration.
The band plans to leave for the capitol on January 17th. The president’s inauguration will happen on the 21st.
Band Director Brice Evans says they need an additional $10,200 to reach their goal. Click here if you would like to donate.
The National Rifle Association took issue with Vice President Joe Biden after a meeting Thursday afternoon with gun ownership groups, arguing that the talks did not produce legitimate ideas about how to curb gun violence but instead went after the Second Amendment.
“We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment,” the NRA said in a statement. “While claiming that no policy proposals would be ‘prejudged,’ this task force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners — honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans.”
Biden, whose office released a photo of the vice president meeting with gun ownership groups Thursday, told reporters earlier in the day that he would deliver the list of recommendations to President Obama on January 15, and that an improved system for background checks has emerged as a priority for the stakeholders he’s met so far.
The vice president has also suggested the administration would be ready to take executive action on the issue, which would not require votes from Congress. That prospect has raised alarm bells for gun rights advocates.
Guns have been at the top of the White House agenda since the December shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, took the lives of 20 six-and seven-year-olds and six adults. It was one week after the massacre that the NRA said it supported putting armed guards in all U.S. schools but dismissed any talk of tightening controls on gun ownership.
As for what recommendations he might present to Obama, Biden said he has not reached any conclusions just yet but recounted proposals that have been made to him from the various stakeholders he’s met with over the past month. The vice president said a consensus emerged from the meetings on the need to strengthen the background check system.
“So far, a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks, not just close the gun show loophole, but total, universal background checks, even including private sales,” Biden said.
Other suggestions offered at the meetings have centered on gun safety and the responsibility that goes along with gun ownership, dealing with high-capacity magazines, and the ability of federal agencies to do research on gun violence.
A teacher and security guard were credited Thursday for defusing a dangerous situation at a California high school when a high school student carrying a shotgun critically wounded another teen before surrendering.
Police said the unidentified student opened fire at Taft Union High School, about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles, shortly after classes started, striking a 16-year-old who is now listed in stable condition.
The shooter then allegedly fired a second round but missed another student although a teacher suffered a minor pellet wound to the head.
As students were ushered out of harm’s way, the teacher and security guard then engaged the alleged shooter in a conversation, eventually convincing him to put down the shotgun. It was then that police arrested the suspect.
As the incident was unfolding, students who took cover in closets called KERO-TV Bakersfield to report the shooting.
Bullying has been suggested as one motive for the shooting while local police said the shooter apparently knew ahead of time who his targets would be.
Accused Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooter James Holmes will stand trial for the murders of 12 people and wounding 58 others last June 20 after Judge William Sylvester ruled Thursday that prosecutors presented enough credible evidence to try the 25-year-old defendant during three days of preliminary hearings.
According to Sylvester, “the People have carried their burden of proof and have established that there is probable cause to believe that Defendant committed the crimes charged.”
Charged with 166 counts, including murder, attempted murder and other charges, prosecutors contend Holmes walked into Century Movie Theater 9 in full military gear ready to kill as many audience members as he could during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises.
An arraignment in which Holmes will enter a plea was expected to take place Friday but the defense headed by attorneys Daniel King, Tamara Brady and Kristen Nelsonindicated Thursday they wouldn’t be ready.
It’s expected Holmes’ attorneys will use an insanity defense while prosecutors haven’t determined whether they’ll seek the death penalty.
A team of scientists who analyzed the brain tissue of renowned NFL linebacker Junior Seau after his suicide last May has concluded the football player suffered a debilitating brain disease likely caused by two decades worth of hits to the head, researchers and his family exclusively told ABC News and ESPN.
Seau, 43, shot himself in the chest at his home in Oceanside, Calif., leaving behind four children. His family then donated Seau’s brain to neuroscientists at the National Institutes for Health who are conducting ongoing research on traumatic brain injury and football players.
As it happened, a team of independent researchers who did not know they were studying Seau’s brain all concluded he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease typically caused by multiple hits to the head.
“What was found in Junior Seau’s brain was cellular changes consistent with CTE,” saidDr. Russell Lonser, chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Ohio State University, who led the study of Seau’s brain while he was at NIH.
Patients with CTE, which can only be diagnosed after death, display symptoms “such as impulsivity, forgetfulness, depression, [and] sometimes suicidal ideation,” Lonser said.
More than 30 NFL players have in recent years been diagnosed with CTE, a condition once known as “punch drunk” because it affected boxers who had taken multiple blows to the head. Last year, 4,000 retired players joined a class-action lawsuit against the NFL over its alleged failure to protect players from brain injuries.
The NFL has said it did not intentionally hide the dangers of concussions from players and is doing everything it can now to protect them.
Seau played in the NFL for 20 years as a linebacker for teams including the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots.
He was the eighth member of the 1994 San Diego Chargers, which lost Super Bowl XXIX to the San Francisco 49ers, to die at a young age. The seven others from the team who’ve died in the past 19 years are Chris Mims, David Griggs, Rodney Culver,Lewis Bush, Curtis Whitley, Shawn Lee, and Doug Miller.
Following one of his sport’s most embarrassing days, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said that an expanded program to test for performance-enhancing drugs represented “a very proud day for baseball.”
The new rules announced by Selig Thursday include randomly testing players for human growth hormone and other substances during the regular season.
MLB’s tougher regulations came just after sportswriters decided to induct no one into baseball’s Hall of Fame class of 2013, a reflection of widespread use of steroids that critics alleged boosted the statistics of some of the game’s biggest stars, including Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa.
Under the new program, “baseline testosterone readings” will be established by a World Anti-Doping Agency-certified laboratory in Montreal to determine if players are using formerly undetectable HGH, which reduces body fat while increasing skeletal muscle mass and shortening recovery time from injuries.
HGH is prohibited unless prescribed by a doctor and can result in serious side effects that affect the heart and colon.
Burger King is an expert at making food fast but the same can’t be said about settling lawsuits.
It was during the 20th century that numerous women filed sexual harassment and bias claims against Burger King’s largest franchisee, Carrols Corp., which operates and owns more than 500 locations across 13 states.
The 1999 lawsuit by 89 female workers alleged they were subject to exposure of genitalia, unwanted touching, sexual assault, strip searches and obscene comments.
On Thursday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the sex bias case against Carrols Corp., the largest it ever investigated, resulted in the company agreeing to pay $2.5 million.
Carrols Corp., which admitted no wrong-doing, said it decided to settle in order to avoid more expensive ligation if the lawsuit went to trial.
It’s no secret that President Obama needs around-the-clock protection.
And even after he leaves office, Obama is guaranteed that the Secret Service will be hovering near him and first lady Michelle Obama for the rest of lives as he signed into law a measure giving him that special perk no one else enjoys.
Well, that’s not entirely true. The order means that former President George W. Bushand wife Laura Bush will have lifetime Secret Service security as well as all future commanders in chief.
It wasn’t really Obama’s idea. Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina came up with it. The Gowdy Bill overturns a 1990’s law that only gave presidents and their spouses access to the Secret Service for ten years after leaving office.
A president will now have a Secret Service detail for the rest of his life after he leaves office, but the law says his children are only offered protection until they turn 16. And if a presidential spouse splits, they lose their Secret Service protection.
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sci·ence
[sahy–uh ns] Show IPA
noun
a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged andshowing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation andexperimentation.
any of the branches of natural or physical science.
systematized knowledge in general.
knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
Music History for Friday, 1/11/13
2011 – A Los Angeles judge ruled that Michael Jackson’s doctor would go on trail to face involuntary manslaughter charges in the pop singer’s untimely death. Dr. Conrad Murray was later convicted of the crime and was sentenced to four years in prison.
2007 – Jack Ingram‘s “Lips of an Angel” video made its world premiere.
2006 – Sugarland‘s debut project Twice the Speed of Life went double platinum.
2005 – Big & Rich‘s album Horse of a Different Color was certified double platinum.
2003 – Mark Wills began a six-week stay at number one with “19 Somethin’.”
2003 – Shania Twain‘s video for “Up!” and Montgomery Gentry‘s clip for “Speed” debuted.
2000 – Singer Gary Glitter was released from jail in England after serving two months of a four-month sentence for possessing child pornography.
2000 – More than a half-ounce of marijuana was found in singer Whitney Houston‘s handbag at an airport in Hawaii. Although the bag was confiscated and security tried to detain Houston, she simply walked off and boarded a plane to San Francisco.
1999 – Country singer John Berry sang an a cappella version of the National Anthem during the inauguration ceremony of Georgia governor Roy E. Barnes.
1999 – Singer Robbie Williams scored a record six nominations for the Brit Awards, Britain’s version of the Grammys.
1999 – Sean “Puffy” Combs, then-rapper Heavy D and the City University Of New York were found negligent in a 1991 incident during a celebrity basketball game that killed nine people and injured dozens more.
1997 – Wade Hayes performed “On a Good Night” for his Grand Ole Opry debut. He also joined Ricky Skaggs‘ band Kentucky Thunder to play “Highway 40 Blues.”
1997 – Kevin Sharp‘s cover of “Nobody Knows” went to number one on the country chart.
1995 – Michael Jackson released a statement that said, quote, “I will no longer stand by and watch reckless members of the media try to destroy my reputation.” The statement was prompted by unsubstantiated rumors of a video depicting Jackson fooling around with a young boy.
1992 – Paul Simon began a concert tour in South Africa. He was the first international star to perform in South Africa following the end of the UN cultural boycott.
1991 – Nirvana‘s album Nevermind topped Billboard‘s Albums chart. The band performed on Saturday Night Live the same day.
1990 – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band‘s album Will the Circle Be Unbroken Volume 2received five Grammy nominations.
1988 – “So Emotional” became Whitney Houston‘s sixth consecutive number one hit.
1987 – Frankie Goes To Hollywood began what would become their final tour in Manchester, England.
1977 – The number one Billboard pop hit was “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” by Leo Sayer.
1967 – Jimi Hendrix recorded “Purple Haze.”
1967 – Johnny Cash and June Carter recorded “Jackson” at Nashville’s Columbia Recording Studios.
1965 – The Beach Boys recorded “Do You Wanna Dance.”
1964 – Johny Cash‘s “Ring Of Fire” became the first country album to top the U.S. pop albums chart.
1963 – The famed Hollywood club The Whiskey A Go-Go opened.
General History for Friday, 1/11/13
1815 – U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieved victory at the Battle of New Orleans. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24th, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1902 – Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.
1913 – The first sedan-type car was unveiled at the National Automobile Show in New York City. The car was manufactured by the Hudson Motor Company.
1935 – Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1958 – Seahunt, starring Lloyd Bridges, debuted on CBS-TV. The show aired for four years.
1964 – U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite health hazard.
1973 – Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated hitter rule on a trial basis.
1986 – Author James Clavell signed a $5 million deal with Morrow/Avon Publishing for the book “Whirlwind”. The book is a 2,000 page novel.
1988 – U.S. Vice President George Bush met with representatives of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh to answer questions about the Iran-Contra affair.
1991 – An auction of silver and paintings that had been acquired by the late Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, brought in a total of $20.29 million at Christie’s in New York.
2000 – The merger between AOL and Time Warner was approved by the U.S. government with restrictions.
2000 – The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the second Vietnam Veterans Memorial commemorative stamp in a ceremony at The Wall.
2002 – Forty-four-year-old Thomas Junta was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for beating another man to death at their son’s hockey practice. The incident occurred on July 5th, 2000.
2009 – Slumdog Millionaire, an underdog at the Golden Globes, took home the trophies for best drama, best director (Danny Boyle), best screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) and best original score (A.R. Rahman).
2010 – Simon Cowell, a longtime judge of Fox’s singing competition American Idol, announced he was leaving the show. The same day, the Brit announced he was bringing his U.K. singing competition, The X Factor, to the U.S.
2012 – Iran claimed the U.S. and Israel were involved in a bomb attack that killed one of its top nuclear scientists, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. The White House denied the allegation.
Birthdays for Friday, 1/11/13
Music:
Tony Kaye 67/keyboardist, ex-Yes
Naomi Judd 67/country singer, mother of Wynonna and Ashley
Robert Earl Keen 57/singer-songwriter
Vicki Peterson 55/guitarist, The Bangles
Tom Dumont 45/guitarist, No Doubt
Mary J. Blige 42/singer
Tom Rowlands 42/mixmaster, Chemical Brothers
General:
Rod Taylor 83/actor, The Time Machine
Felix Silla 76/ little person actor, Cousin It on TV’s The Addams Family, Return of the Jedi
Kim Coles 51/actress, TV’s Living Single
Jason Connery 50/actor, Shanghai Noon, son of Sean
Marc Blucas 41/actor, Riley on TV’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Amanda Peet 41/actress, Identity, The Whole Nine Yards
And the late:
Clarence Clemons – 1942–2011/sax player, E Street Band, “The Big Man”
Jack Soo – 1916-1979/Barney Miller co-star