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A family movie night with a showing of “Finding Nemo” is planned for Satur- day, Aug. 20 at 8 p.m. Annie Jo Guyton, 55, Parrish Sammy Layton Roberts, 69, Empire Full obituaries / A2 5-day forecast / A2 High 95 Low 73 Classifieds..............B6 Comics....................B2 Dear Abby ...............B2 Horoscope..............B2 Opinion...................A6 Sports.....................B1 Two sections, 16 pages Check out our Facebook page at Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle INSIDE TODAY: North Korea hopes to plant flag on the moon /A5 One person killed in accident on I-22 One person was killed in an accident in- volving two tractor-trailers that shut down part of I-22 for several hours Thursday. The accident ccurred Thurs- day afternoon on I-22 eastbound near exit 70 in Cordova. Two of the three lanes were closed. All three lanes re- opened around 4:15 p.m., according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. The name of the victim and the condi- tion of the other driver had not been re- leased at press time. Daily Mountain Eagle - Elane Jones Disabled veteran stops in Jasper on walk across America By ELANE JONES Daily Mountain Eagle Thomas Wayne Hudson of Las Vegas, Nevada, is a disabled veteran who is currently walking across America to help raise awareness about the abuse and neglect scan- dals associated with the Veterans Administra- tion. Hudson was in Jasper on Monday and stopped to talk with several folks along his journey. “This walk is impor- tant, because every time Congress hears some- thing shocking about the VA, they simply call the Secretary of Veterans Af- fairs, slap his hand and everything goes back to status quo,” Hudson said. “Meanwhile, we have veterans who are dying while having to wait for long periods of time for care.” Hudson’s walk began May 2 in Las Vegas and will conclude with a rally in Washington, D.C., on Veterans Day. He does have to hitch a ride occasionally, but for the most part, he has walked the entire route. “The purpose of the walk is to bring awareness to the many issues veterans have with the VA and to get our congressional leaders to make the necessary Daily Mountain Eagle - Elane Jones Thomas Wayne Hudson, a 63-year-old dis- abled veteran, is walking across America from Las Vegas, Nevada to Washington D.C. to help raise awareness about abuse and neg- lect scandals associated with the Veterans Ad- ministration. His journey led him through Walker County on Monday. “No veteran should ever have to walk across America to beg for help.” - Thomas Hudson, who is walking from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Washington, D.C. to raise awareness of veterans’ issues See VETERAN, A7 Oakman native serves aboard ballistic missile sub Special to the Eagle BANGOR, Wash. – A 2000 Oakman High School gradu- ate and Oakman, Alabama, native is serving in the U.S. Navy as part of a crew work- ing aboard one of the world’s most ad- vanced ballistic missile submarines, the USS Nevada. Petty Officer 1st Class Ter- rell Hunter is a machinist’s mate (auxiliary) serving aboard the Bangor-based Terrell Hunter Commissioners tout importance of airport By JENNIFER COHRON Daily Mountain Eagle Commissioners learned Monday that the Federal Aviation Admin- istration has signed off on a proj- ect to address a safety issue at the Walker County Airport. County engineer Mike Short said the project will ensure that automobiles stay off the taxiway and runway aprons. “We have reconfigured a road along a fence. We have got to add some more fencing and another mechanical gate,” Short said. Most of the $40,000 project will be funded by the FAA. The county’s match will be $2,400, ac- cording to Short. Following Short’s report, Com- missioner Keith Davis gave an up- date on the ongoing economic impact study focused on the air- port. Alabama Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed announced in December that he had secured funding for a professional evalua- tion that would consider the cur- rent status of the airport and find potential areas for improvement. Economists from Auburn Uni- versity at Montgomery are con- ducting the assessment, which in- cludes recommendations from county leaders. Davis said he, Short and Com- mission Chairman Billy Luster have participated in several brainstorming sessions with indi- viduals such as Walker County Chamber of Commerce President Linda Lewis, Bevill State Commu- nity College President Larry Fer- guson and Sanders Aviation founder Joey Sanders. Davis said the airport is one of the nicest in the region. “This is all accomplished on a minimal budget. The airport budget is only about $24,000 a year. To have the level of airport we have for that budget, the citi- zens of Walker County should be proud of their airport,” Davis said. Davis and Luster both empha- sized that the airport is key to business recruitment. “It (the airport) is the face of Walker County for those people File photo - Ron Harris An aerial view of the Walker County Airport in 2012. See AIRPORT, A7 See NAVY, A7 Annual rabies clinic set across county By NICOLE SMITH Daily Mountain Eagle The annual county rabies clinic will be held beginning next week. Veterinarian Dr. Sonny Springer will administer the rabies vaccinations at the following locations to dogs and cats: •Monday, Aug. 8 — Car- bon Hill High School •Tuesday, Aug. 9 — Town- ley Elementary School •Wednesday, Aug. 10 — Oakman High School •Monday, Aug. 15 — Lup- ton Elementary •Tuesday, Aug. 16 — Old Thach School •Wednesday, Aug. 17 — Curry High School •Monday, Aug. 22 — Cor- dova High School •Tuesday, Aug. 23 — Par- rish Elementary School Each session will last from 7 to 8 p.m., with a cost of $12 for the vaccination. Payment by cash or check will be the only accepted forms of pay- ment. No other vaccines will be administered during the clinic.
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BankheadHouse to hostfree concert,movie nightThe De’ja Blue
Band will be per-forming in JasperSaturday night aspart of theBankhead Houseand Heritage Cen-ter’s summer con-cert series. Theband will play a mixof rhythm andblues, rock and roll,jazz and dance fa-vorites. The freeconcert will begin at7:30 p.m. at theBankhead Houseamphitheater. Afamily movie nightwith a showing of“Finding Nemo” isplanned for Satur-day, Aug. 20 at 8p.m.
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One person killed in accident on I-22One person was killed in an accident in-volving two tractor-trailers that shutdown part of I-22 for several hoursThursday. The accident ccurred Thurs-day afternoon on I-22 eastbound nearexit 70 in Cordova. Two of the threelanes were closed. All three lanes re-opened around 4:15 p.m., according tothe Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.The name of the victim and the condi-tion of the other driver had not been re-leased at press time.
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Disabled veteranstops in Jasper onwalk across AmericaBy ELANE JONESDaily Mountain Eagle
Thomas Wayne Hudson of Las Vegas, Nevada, is adisabled veteran who is currently walking acrossAmerica to help raiseawareness about theabuse and neglect scan-dals associated with theVeterans Administra-tion.
Hudson was in Jasperon Monday and stoppedto talk with several folksalong his journey.
“This walk is impor-tant, because every timeCongress hears some-thing shocking about theVA, they simply call theSecretary of Veterans Af-fairs, slap his hand andeverything goes back tostatus quo,” Hudson said.“Meanwhile, we haveveterans who are dyingwhile having to wait for long periods of time for care.”
Hudson’s walk began May 2 in Las Vegas and willconclude with a rally in Washington, D.C., on VeteransDay. He does have to hitch a ride occasionally, but forthe most part, he has walked the entire route.
“The purpose of the walk is to bring awareness tothe many issues veterans have with the VA and to getour congressional leaders to make the necessary
Daily Mountain Eagle - Elane Jones
Thomas Wayne Hudson, a 63-year-old dis-abled veteran, is walking across America fromLas Vegas, Nevada to Washington D.C. tohelp raise awareness about abuse and neg-lect scandals associated with the Veterans Ad-ministration. His journey led him throughWalker County on Monday.
“No veteranshould ever haveto walk acrossAmerica to beg forhelp.”
- Thomas Hudson, who is walking from
Las Vegas, Nevada,to Washington, D.C.to raise awarenessof veterans’ issues
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Oakmannative servesaboardballisticmissile subSpecial to the Eagle
BANGOR, Wash. – A 2000Oakman High School gradu-ate andOakman,Alabama,native isserving inthe U.S.Navy aspart of acrew work-ing aboardone of thew o r l d ’ smost ad-v a n c e dballistic missile submarines,the USS Nevada.
Petty Officer 1st Class Ter-rell Hunter is a machinist’smate (auxiliary) servingaboard the Bangor-based
TerrellHunter
Commissioners tout importance of airportBy JENNIFER COHRONDaily Mountain Eagle
Commissioners learned Mondaythat the Federal Aviation Admin-istration has signed off on a proj-ect to address a safety issue at theWalker County Airport.
County engineer Mike Shortsaid the project will ensure thatautomobiles stay off the taxiwayand runway aprons.
“We have reconfigured a roadalong a fence. We have got to addsome more fencing and anothermechanical gate,” Short said.
Most of the $40,000 project willbe funded by the FAA. Thecounty’s match will be $2,400, ac-cording to Short.
Following Short’s report, Com-missioner Keith Davis gave an up-date on the ongoing economicimpact study focused on the air-port.
Alabama Senate MajorityLeader Greg Reed announced inDecember that he had securedfunding for a professional evalua-tion that would consider the cur-rent status of the airport and findpotential areas for improvement.
Economists from Auburn Uni-versity at Montgomery are con-
ducting the assessment, which in-cludes recommendations fromcounty leaders.
Davis said he, Short and Com-mission Chairman Billy Lusterhave participated in severalbrainstorming sessions with indi-viduals such as Walker CountyChamber of Commerce PresidentLinda Lewis, Bevill State Commu-nity College President Larry Fer-guson and Sanders Aviationfounder Joey Sanders.
Davis said the airport is one of
the nicest in the region. “This is all accomplished on a
minimal budget. The airportbudget is only about $24,000 ayear. To have the level of airportwe have for that budget, the citi-zens of Walker County should beproud of their airport,” Davis said.
Davis and Luster both empha-sized that the airport is key tobusiness recruitment.
“It (the airport) is the face ofWalker County for those people
File photo - Ron Harris
An aerial view of the Walker County Airport in 2012.
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DETROIT (AP) — Crys-tal Webb cringes whenevera patrol car appears in herrearview mirror. She alsonever wants to see the in-side of a police stationagain.
Her personal experiencewith police, plus recentfatal shootings of unarmedblack men by white offi-cers, has led the Apple Val-ley, California, mother oftwo to ask: Who are thegood guys and who arebad?
“You are the people I’msupposed to go to when I’min trouble,” Webb says ofpolice.
Two-thirds of youngAfrican-Americans and 4in 10 Hispanics say thatthey or someone theyknow has experienced vio-lence or harassment at thehands of the police, accord-ing to a new GenForwardpoll. That includes about 2in 10 in each group whosay that was a personal ex-perience, including about 3in 10 black men who saythe same.
But the poll also showsthat young people stillwant a police presence intheir communities.
GenForward is a surveyof adults age 18 to 30 bythe Black Youth Project atthe University of Chicagowith the Associated Press-NORC Center for PublicAffairs Research. The first-of-its-kind poll pays spe-cial attention to the voicesof young adults of color,highlighting how race andethnicity shape the opin-ions of a new generation.
Those poll results comeafter the killing of severalyoung black men by policearound the country. Two ofthe more recent killingswere the July 5 shootingdeath of Alton Sterlingduring a struggle with of-ficers in Baton Rouge,Louisiana, and the fatalshooting of PhilandoCastile the following dayby an officer in a suburb ofSt. Paul, Minnesota.
Those shootings werefollowed by the July 7killing of five officers inDallas by a black gunmanduring a protest againstpolice shootings of blacksuspects. Two police offi-cers and one sheriff ’sdeputy were shot andkilled by a black gunmanduring a July 17 ambushin Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
About 6 in 10 youngadults consider thekillings of black people bythe police and violenceagainst the police as ex-tremely or very seriousproblems, according to thepoll. But young African-Americans and Hispanicssee killings by police asmore serious problems andyoung whites see violenceagainst the police as moreserious. Most, especiallyblacks and Hispanics, saynot-guilty verdicts forthree Baltimore police offi-cers charged in the April2015 death of FreddieGray give them less confi-dence in the police.
Gray, 25, was fatally in-jured while handcuffedand shackled in the back ofthe van.
Among young whitesand Asians in the new poll,just 3 in 10 say they orsomeone they know has
experienced police harass-ment, and just 1 in 10white and 1 in 20 Asianssay that was a personal ex-perience.
Webb, who is black, saysshe was arrested last No-vember by two officers —one white, the other black.
“They threw me in thepolice car and when I gavethem my story, the otherofficer who was white gaveme a look,” she said.“While the officer of colorwas asking questions andbeing nice, the other officergot in the car and startedyelling at me. He told meto just shut up.”
The charges eventuallywere dropped by a judge,she said.
The new poll showsyoung people, includingyoung blacks and Hispan-ics, do want a police pres-ence in their communities.In fact, most supportadding more police orarmed security guards inpublic places like schools,movie theaters and malls.
Billy Busby, 24, of At-lanta, says he was workinga security job and helpingpolice in Myrtle Beach,South Carolina, withcrowd and traffic controlduring the popular BlackBike Beach in May when
he was approached by awhite officer.
“The officer came up tome and said, ‘What are youdoing here?’ I said, ‘I’msorry, I’m doing my job.’She said, ‘You need tomove or I’m going to arrestyou,’” Busby said.
Busby said his supervi-sor showed up, vouched forhim and defused the situa-tion.
“I think she felt intimi-dated because I was ablack male and doing traf-fic,” Busby said.
Some officers in south-ern Mississippi target His-panics, thinking they’re inthe U.S. illegally, said Pa-tience Buxton, 28, whoowns a company in Forest,Mississippi, that shuttlespeople back and forth tovarious appointments.
Buxton is biracial andidentifies as white, andsays many of her cus-tomers are Hispanic.
“I know they are lookingat me,” Buxton said of offi-cers. “I get nervous myself.I know I’ve done nothingwrong. They’ve called me acoyote, asked me if I’mtransporting illegals. Theyabuse their authority com-pletely.”
—-The poll of 1,940 adults
age 18-30 was conductedJuly 9-20 using a sampledrawn from the probabil-ity-based GenForwardpanel, which is designed tobe representative of theU.S. young adult popula-tion. The margin of sam-pling error for allrespondents is plus orminus 3.8 percentagepoints.
The survey was paid forby the Black Youth Projectat the University ofChicago, using grants fromthe John D. and CatherineT. MacArthur Foundationand the Ford Foundation.
Respondents were firstselected randomly usingaddress-based samplingmethods, and later inter-viewed online or by phone.
Poll: Police harassment familiar to young blacks
AP Photo
In this July 15, 2016, file photo, the casket of AltonSterling is placed into a glass covered hearse fol-lowing his funeral service at the F.G. Clark ActivityCenter in Baton Rouge, La.
Officer: Jail inmate assaults mancharged in church massacre
CHARLESTON, S.C.(AP) — Dylann Roof, thewhite man charged in themassacre of nine parish-ioners at a Charlestonchurch, was assaultedThursday by a black in-mate at the South Car-olina jail where he is beingheld, a law official said.
Charleston CountySheriff ’s Maj. Eric Watsontells The Associated Pressthat it happened outsideRoof’s cell Thursday morn-ing.
Watson says the otherinmate used his hands, noother weapons, and thatthe 22-year-old Roof wasexamined by jail medicalpersonnel and then re-turned to his cell. Theother inmate will becharged with assault.Charleston County SheriffAl Cannon is holding anearly afternoon news con-ference to discuss the as-sault.
Roof has been housed at
the Charleston County De-tention Center since beingbrought back from NorthCarolina a day after theJune 17, 2015, slayings ofnine black parishionersduring a Bible study atEmanuel AME Church.Prosecutors have said Roofwas trying to make hisway to Nashville, Ten-nessee, after the shootings.
Roof faces the deathpenalty in upcoming trialsin both federal and statecourts. The federal govern-ment has charged Roofwith hate crimes and otheroffenses in the shootings.Prosecutors allege Rooftalked of starting a racewar and posed with theConfederate battle flag be-fore the killings. His fed-eral trial is set forNovember.
He also faces the deathpenalty in state courtwhere he is charged withnine counts of murder in atrial set to begin next year.
Jury: Ex-officer should serve 2 1/2 years for manslaughterPORTSMOUTH, Va.
(AP) — A jury recom-mended 2 1/2 years inprison for a white formerpolice officer convicted ofvoluntary manslaughteron Thursday in the shoot-ing death of an unarmedblack man who had beenaccused of shoplifting.
The ex-officer, StephenRankin, shot 18-year-oldWilliam Chapman in theface and chest outside aWal-Mart store last yearafter a security guardcalled police to go after theyoung man.
No video recorded theactual killing, and testi-mony conflicted on the de-tails of what happened.But most witnesses saidChapman had his handsup, and prosecutorStephanie Morales saidthe officer could have usednon-deadly force.
The officer “brought agun into what is at worst afist fight,” Morales told thejury, which deliberated fornearly two days before re-turning its verdict.
Rankin, 36, faced one to10 years on themanslaughter conviction.Morales asked jurors togive him the maximum,while defense attorneyJames Broccoletti arguedthat no amount of jail timewould bring Chapmanback to life.
Rankin, who was firedfrom the Portsmouth po-lice force after being in-dicted, had already killedanother unarmed suspect,four years earlier, andmany in the mostly blackcity of 100,000 saw histrial as a chance for ac-countability as policeshootings continue aroundthe country.
But his lawyers said thiscase had nothing to dowith deadly uses of forceagainst other black men.
“I think this is a terribletragedy I wish it had neverhappened. I wish none of ithad ever occurred,”Rankin testified afterbeing found guilty.
“I can’t begin to fathomhow much pain that familyis going through. I wish Icould have done more tokeep him alive,” he added.
Chapman’s secondcousin, Earl Lewis, alsotook the stand, speakingthrough tears about thefamily’s struggle to findmoney to bury him.
The jurors — eight blackand four white — did notconvict on the first-degreemurder charge prosecutorssought. Criminal chargesare rare in police-involvedshootings, and convictionsare even more uncommon.
Experts say on-duty offi-cers kill about 1,000 sus-pects a year in the UnitedStates, but only 74 havebeen charged since 2005. Athird of these were con-victed, a third were notand the other cases are
pending.People tend to give po-
lice the benefit of thedoubt, said Philip Stinson,a criminal justice professorat Bowling Green StateUniversity in Ohio. “Juriesare very reluctant to con-vict an officer because theyall recognize that policingis difficult and violent,” hesaid.
Broccoletti argued thatRankin had to shoot, be-cause “everything he triedto do didn’t work.”
And some witnessesbacked Rankin’s testi-mony. Paul Akey, a con-struction worker who wasnearby, said Chapman“went after the officer withthrowing fists, and itlooked like he knocked aTaser out of the officer’shands.”
Rankin testified that hecalmly approached Chap-man to discuss theshoplifting accusation andwas preparing to handcuffhim when the teen refusedto comply with his orders
and a struggle ensued. Hesaid he used his stun gunon him, but Chapmanknocked it away. Both menthen faced each other froma short distance.
That’s when he drew hispistol, Rankin said, and re-peatedly commandedChapman to “get on theground.” Instead, he saidChapman screamed “shootme” several times beforecharging at him fromabout 6 feet away. He saidhe experienced “tunnel vi-sion” at that point, andfearing for his life, firedtwice to stop him.
“I had no reason to thinkhe was going to stop at-tacking me,” Rankin said.“I was scared.”
But Gregory Provo, theWal-Mart security guardwho reported Chapman topolice, testified that Chap-man never charged at theofficer. He said Chapmanraised both hands, boxing-style, and said “Are yougoing to f—-ing shoot me?”before Rankin fired at himfrom about 5 yards away.
Rankin had been clearedof wrongdoing in his firston-duty killing.
He said he fired 11 timesat that burglary suspectbecause the white mancharged at him whilereaching into his waist-band with his hands.
The killing of Chapman“would not have gottenthis kind of attention fiveyears ago,” Stinson said.Now of course, use-of-forcecomplaints are gettingmore scrutiny, and increas-ingly become nationalnews.
Earlier Thursday in Bal-timore, a 15-year veteranofficer was convicted of as-sault for shooting an un-armed burglary suspect in2014, and his police com-missioner was taking stepsto fire him.
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In this image made from a video, former police of-ficer Stephen Rankin answers questions from theprosecution during the penalty phase of his trialThursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in Portsmouth, Va. A juryconvicted Rankin of voluntary manslaughter onThursday in the shooting death of an unarmedblack man who had been accused of shoplifting.
WASHINGTON (AP) —As Zika escalates into apublic health crisis andthe number of mosquito-transmitted cases grows,Republicans and Democ-rats are pointing fingersover the failure by Con-gress to commit federaldollars to fight the virus.
Health and HumanServices Secretary SylviaBurwell warned lawmak-ers on Wednesday that herZika budget is running outquickly. Without moremoney soon, she said, the“nation’s ability to effec-tively respond to Zika willbe impaired.”
Yet lawmakers leftWashington in mid-Julyfor a seven-week recesswithout approving any ofthe $1.9 billion requestedby President BarackObama in February to de-velop a vaccine and controlthe mosquitoes that carrythe virus.
Abortion politics playeda central role in the im-passe.
Republicans angeredDemocrats by adding aprovision to a $1.1 billiontake-it-or-leave-it measurethat would have blockedPlanned Parenthood clin-ics in Puerto Rico from re-ceiving money.
House Speaker PaulRyan, writing in USAToday on Thursday, did notmention that provision inblaming Democrats forblocking the legislation.Their obstruction, accord-ing to Ryan, R-Wis., is “ablatant ploy in an electionyear.”
Also Thursday, 47 Sen-ate Democrats called on
Ryan and Senate MajorityLeader Mitch McConnell,R-Ky., to reconvene Con-gress and immediately ad-dress the Zika threat. Theyfaulted GOP leaders for al-lowing “poison pill special-interest priorities” into thebill.
But McConnell has sig-naled he is in no rush toreturn. Writing in the Lex-ington (Ky.) Herald-Leaderon Monday, he criticizedDemocrats for balking atpassing the bill. He saidthey’ll get another chanceafter Labor Day whenCongress is back in ses-sion.
Some important pointsto know about the issue:
ZIKA MONEY BEINGSPENT “AGGRES-
SIVELY, PRUDENTLY”Burwell’s letter seeks to
counter Republicanswho’ve criticized theObama administration fornot using several hundredmillion dollars already inthe budget for Zika pre-vention. The money wasinitially allotted for fight-ing Ebola but was redi-rected to address Zika.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Tuesday that’sthere’s no excuse for notspending money that Con-gress has provided. “Whyare they holding thatmoney back?” he asked.
Burwell said her agencyis committed to using“scarce federal dollars ag-gressively and prudently.”The Centers for DiseaseControl received the bulkof the $374 million “repur-posed” for Zika domesticresponse efforts, she said,
and it will exhaust the re-mainder of the money bySept. 30.
Money for vaccine devel-opment will run out evensooner, she said. The sec-ond phase of clinical trialswould be delayed as a re-sult, and Americans wouldhave to wait longer for avaccine, according to Bur-well.
“Now that the UnitedStates is in the height ofmosquito season and withthe progress in developinga Zika vaccine, the needfor additional resources iscritical,” Burwell wrote.
DON’T EXPECTCONGRESS TO
INTERRUPT ITS RECESS
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.,said Congress does nothave to interrupt its breakto pass the bill. Republi-cans quickly dismissed hisproposal.
Nelson’s state has be-come the epicenter forZika in the U.S. At least 15people are reported to beinfected with the virus inMiami’s Wynwood arts dis-trict. These are believed tobe the first mosquito-transmitted cases in themainland United States.
Nelson said in a letterTuesday to McConnellthat the Senate could passa bill through a procedureknown as a pro forma ses-sion that requires thepresence of only a few sen-ators.
But even Nelson is notoptimistic that will hap-pen, and he took a jab atMcConnell, predicting theSenate would move swiftly
if a transmitted Zika casewas reported in Kentucky.
Don Stewart, Mc-Connell’s spokesman, saidNelson’s proposal was notplausible unless Democ-rats were willing to endtheir filibuster of a Zikabill the House has passed.Otherwise, the Senatewould be only approvingan earlier version of thelegislation that Obamacould not sign into law,Stewart said.
ZIKA IS RISKY FORBUSINESS TOO
Zika is a looming eco-nomic development prob-lem too, according toRubio. Many Florida busi-nesses depend heavily ontourism and the state’seconomy could be hurt ifpotential visitors decide tostay away, he said.
“I can foresee now whenpeople that are planning tocome to Florida, to go fish-ing perhaps, will decide tocancel their trip becausethey’re worried about mos-quitoes and they’re wor-ried about Zika,” Rubiosaid.
White House spokesmanJosh Earnest said Wednes-day that it’s up to Con-gress to pass thelegislation so that morecan be done. “They left ona seven-week recess a dayearly, at the height of mos-quito season and basicallytold the American people,‘good luck,’” Earnest said.
Woman pleads guilty torobbery, says prison is home
CHEYENNE, Wyo.(AP) — A longtime in-mate who was recentlyreleased from prisonpleaded guilty Wednes-day in federal court torobbing a bank inWyoming and asked ajudge to impose the max-imum sentence, sayinggoing back to prisonwould be like goinghome.
Just a week after therobbery, Linda P. Thomp-son, 59, waived her rightto a grand jury proceed-ing and entered the pleato a bank robberycharge.
Thompson said shehad already spent about18 years in prison forvarious crimes.
“Prison is home to meso I’m just going backhome,” she said. Sheadded later, “I’d like asmuch time as possible.”
Thompson pleadedguilty as part of a pleabargain that did not con-tain a recommended sen-tence. A bank robberyconviction generally car-ries a maximum 20 yearsin prison, though theterm can be lengthenedwhen previous convic-
tions are considered.Thompson’s attorney,
David Weiss, said outsidecourt that it’s unusual torepresent a defendantwho wants to go back toprison and “exceptional”to have one who wants somuch prison time.
He described Thomp-son as competent and in-telligent and an advocatefor transgender prisoninmates. She was fea-tured a decade ago in adocumentary film titled“Cruel and Unusual”that examined the livesof transgender prisoners.
Thompson was ar-rested July 27 after a USBank branch inCheyenne was robbed bya woman who tossed themoney into the air out-side and offered some topassers-by. She then satdown and waited for po-lice to arrive.
Thompson told U.S.District Judge NancyFreudenthal that shewas released June 21from Coffee Creek Cor-rectional Facility inWilsonville, Oregon,where she said she hadserved six years after arobbery conviction.
AP Photo
This undated booking photo provided by theCheyenne Police Department shows LindaThompson. Thompson has pleaded guilty infederal court after authorities said she robbeda bank in Wyoming so she could return toprison.
Pregnant women are fearfulliving in Miami’s Zika hot zone
MIAMI (AP) — JessicaArdente waited 36 years tohave her first baby. Herparents will visit in twoweeks to watch theirgrandson’s ultrasound.There are cribs and carseats to shop for, a nurseryto decorate, and bottles, di-apers and clothes to buy.
And now, on top of every-thing else, there is Zika toworry about.
Ardente lives in the one-square-mile section ofMiami that health officialsare urging pregnantwomen to avoid because ofthe mosquito-borne illness,which can cause severebirth defects, includingstunted heads.
“You can take every stepyou can trying to take careof yourself with your dietand exercise and going toyour prenatal appoint-ments, but now I have toworry about mosquitoesand going outside,” a four-months-pregnant Ardentesaid, petting her dog asshe sat on the couch in herone-bedroom apartment.
The Centers for DiseaseControl and Preventionhas warned expectantmothers to steer clear ofthe city’s Wynwood neigh-borhood, where at least 15people are believed to havebeen infected with the
Zika virus through mos-quito bites in the first suchcases on record in themainland U.S.
Avoiding the neighbor-hood of trendy shops, gal-leries and restaurantsmight be just an inconven-ience for pregnant womenwho live outside Wynwood.But Ardente said that it’sa near-impossible requestfor her, and that she’s stay-ing put despite offers fromfriends to crash at theirplaces.
“What do you do when
you live there? You can’tstay out of that area,” thesingle mother-to-be said.“It’s scary, but I’m notgoing to not leave myhouse. I’m just trying to becareful.”
She smiles while show-ing off red-and-blue babyonesies adorned with col-orful giraffes — a gift froma friend. For now, otherthan her belly, it’s the onlyevidence in the apartmentthat she is pregnant.
Her doctor has told herto consider hiring a dog
walker, but she insists onsticking to her routinewhile taking precautions.She puts on bug spray andwears long pants and longsleeves every morning andevening, despite the swel-tering summer heat, whenshe walks the dog.
It also means more doc-tor visits plus frequentblood and urine tests. Andshe’s working out indoorsnow instead of at a studiothat keeps its bay doorsopen.
U.S. health authoritieshave said they don’t expectmajor outbreaks in thiscountry like those seen inLatin America and theCaribbean. But concernsmounted after experts ad-mitted Tuesday that de-spite aggressive spraying,they are having a difficulttime eradicating the mos-quitoes that spread the ill-ness. The Aedes aegyptimosquito can breed in justa bottle cap of standingwater.
Hospitals and clinics inthe area have beenswamped with calls andvisits. “It’s really crazy,”said Dr. Christine Curry,an obstetrician-gynecolo-gist at the University ofMiami Health System whois treating a dozen pa-tients with the virus.
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Nurse practitioner Juliana Duque gives a patientwho is pregnant insecticide and information aboutmosquito protection at the Borinquen MedicalCenter, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Miami.
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MONTGOMERY (AP)— A federal judge has re-fused to overturn the sus-pension of Alabama ChiefJustice Roy Moore, rulingThursday that doing sowould improperly interferewith the state judicial pro-ceeding that could resultin Moore’s ouster for anorder he issued aboutsame-sex marriage.
U.S. District JudgeHarold Albritton threw outMoore’s lawsuit againstthe Alabama Judicial In-quiry Commission with abrief order and an accom-panying opinion that saidthe state judicial ethicscase against the conserva-tive Republican shouldmove ahead without fed-eral interference.
The commission filedcharges against Moorewith the Alabama Court of
the Judiciary, which hasthe power under state lawto consider administrativecases brought againstjudges. Moore claimed hisresulting automatic sus-pension with pay was a vi-olation of his rights, butthe judge said the case didnot fit the circumstancesrequired for federal action.
“The Supreme Court ofthe United States has longrecognized the importanceof federal courts not inter-fering with ongoing statecourt proceedings, exceptunder very limited circum-stances,” Albritton wrote.
Mat Staver, an attorneyfor Moore, said no decisionhad been made on an ap-peal.
“Alabama’s automaticremoval provision goesagainst the assumption inlaw that a person is inno-
cent until proven other-wise,” Staver said in astatement. “This provisionshould be struck down.
The Judicial InquiryCommission had no imme-diate comment.
The commission accusedMoore, a conservativeChristian who opposes gaymarriage, of violating judi-cial ethics by sending anadministrative order to Al-abama’s probate judgessaying that state laws ban-ning gay marriage re-mained in effect despite aU.S. Supreme Court deci-sion six months earlierthat effectively legalizedsame-sex marriage nation-wide.
Moore sued the commis-sion in May asking the fed-eral judge to let himresume work as chief jus-tice.
Feds indict 46 in mob sweep, including Philly bossNEW YORK (AP) — Declaring that the
Mafia is not just the stuff of moviescripts, federal prosecutors chargednearly four dozen people Thursday withbeing part of an East Coast crime syndi-cate, including an old-school mobster inNew York and a reputed mob chieftain inPhiladelphia who has been pursued bythe government for decades.
The indictment, unsealed in New YorkCity, accuses the defendants of a litany ofclassic mafia crimes, including extortion,loansharking, casino-style gambling,sports gambling, credit card fraud andhealth care fraud. It said the syndicateoperated in New York, Massachusetts,Pennsylvania, Florida and New Jersey.
Among those charged was Joseph“Skinny Joey” Merlino, the flamboyantalleged head of the Philadelphia mob whohas repeatedly beat murder charges inpast cases, but served nearly 12 years inprison for racketeering.
Also named in the indictment wasPasquale “Patsy” Parrello, identified as alongtime member of the Genovese organ-ized crime family and the owner of anItalian restaurant in New York City.
Parrello, 72, pleaded not guilty to rack-eteering conspiracy and other charges athis arraignment in federal court in Man-hattan.
He was detained without bail afterprosecutors argued in court papers thathe was a danger because of his “appetiteand capacity for vengeance, control, andviolence.” His attorney declined commentoutside court.
Merlino, also was ordered held withoutbail at a hearing in West Palm Beach,Florida. His longtime lawyer, Ed Jacobs,declined to comment on the allegations,saying he hadn’t yet studied the indict-ment.
Prosecutors said 39 of those chargedwere arrested on Thursday. Alleged mem-bers of four New York crime families wereamong the defendants. During the ar-rests, agents seized three handguns, ashotgun, gambling paraphernalia andmore than $30,000 in cash.
Diego Rodriguez, head of the FBI’s NewYork office, said the indictment “readslike an old school Mafia novel.”
One count accuses Parrello, 72, of or-dering a beatdown in 2011 of a panhan-dler he believed was harassing femalecustomers outside his restaurant,Pasquale Rigoletto, on Arthur Avenue inthe Bronx.
“Break his ... knees,” he said, accordingto prosecutors. The panhandler was “as-saulted with glass jars, sharp objects andsteel-tipped boots, causing bodily harm,”the court papers said.
Afterward one of his cohorts wasrecorded saying, “Remember the old daysin the neighborhood when we used toplay baseball? ... A ballgame like that wasdone,” the papers said.
Prosecutors also said that in 2013, Par-ello ordered retaliation against a manwho stabbed a member of his crew out-side a Bronx bar.
After an associate agreed to “whack”the attacker, Parrello cautioned him to“keep the pipes handy and pipe him, pipehim, over here (gesturing to the knees),not on his head,” court papers said.
Merlino, 54, who became a restaura-teur in Boca Raton, Florida, following hisrelease from prison, was implicated in ahealth care fraud scheme with Parrelloand others. Investigators said the con-spirators got corrupt doctors to bill insur-ers for unnecessary and excessiveprescriptions for expensive compoundcreams in exchange for kickbacks.
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obamaon Wednesday cut shortthe sentences of 214 fed-eral inmates, including 67life sentences, in what theWhite House called thelargest batch of commuta-tions on a single day inmore than a century.
Almost all the prisonerswere serving time for non-violent crimes related tococaine, methampheta-mine or other drugs, al-though a few were chargedwith firearms violationsrelated to their drug activ-ities. Almost all are men,though they represent adiverse cross-section ofAmerica geographically.
Obama’s push to lessenthe burden on nonviolentdrug offenders reflects hislong-stated view that theU.S. needs to remedy theconsequences of decades ofonerous sentencing re-quirements that put tensof thousands behind barsfor far too long.
Obama has used the ag-gressive pace of his com-mutations to increasepressure on Congress topass a broader fix and tocall more attention to theissue.
One of the inmates,Dicky Joe Jackson ofTexas, was given a life sen-tence in 1996 for metham-phetamine violations andfor being a felon with anunlicensed gun. He toldthe ACLU in a 2013 reportthat a death sentencewould have been prefer-able, adding, “I wish itwere over, even if it meantI were dead.”
Another recipient, DebraBrown of Tennessee, wasconvicted of selling cocainein 2002 and sentenced to20 years. Both Brown’sand Jackson’s sentenceswill now end Dec. 1, alongwith most of the rest ofthose receiving commuta-tions Wednesday.
All told, Obama hascommuted 562 sentencesduring his presidency —more than the past ninepresidents combined, theWhite House said. Almost200 of those who have ben-efited were serving lifesentences.
“All of the individuals re-ceiving commutation today— incarcerated under out-dated and unduly harshsentencing laws — embodythe president’s belief that‘America is a nation of sec-
ond chances,’” WhiteHouse counsel Neil Eggle-ston wrote in a blog post.
Eggleston said Obamaexamines each clemencyapplication on its specificmerits to identify the ap-propriate relief, includingwhether the prisonerwould be helped by addi-tional drug treatment, ed-ucational programming orcounseling. He called onCongress to finally pass acriminal justice overhaulto bring about “lastingchange to the federal sys-tem.”
Presidents tend to usetheir powers to commutesentences or issue pardonsmore frequently at the endof their presidencies, andObama administration of-ficials said the rapid pacewould continue duringObama’s final months.
“We are not done yet,”Deputy Attorney GeneralSally Yates said. “We ex-pect that many more menand women will be given asecond chance through theclemency initiative.”
Though there’s broad bi-partisan support for acriminal justice overhaul,what had looked like apromising legislative op-portunity for Obama’s
final year has mostly fiz-zled. As with Obama’sother priorities, the in-tensely political climate ofthe presidential electionyear has confounded ef-forts by Republicans andDemocratic in Congress tofind consensus.
Obama has long calledfor phasing out strict sen-tences for drug offenses,arguing they lead to exces-sive punishment and in-carceration rates unseenin other developed coun-tries. With Obama’s sup-port, the JusticeDepartment in recentyears has directed prose-cutors to rein in the use ofharsh mandatory mini-mums.
The Obama administra-tion has also expanded cri-teria for inmates applyingfor clemency, prioritizingnonviolent offenders whohave behaved well inprison, aren’t closely tiedto gangs and would havereceived shorter sentencesif they had been convicteda few years later.
Civil liberties groupspraised that policy changebut have pushed theObama administration togrant commutations at afaster pace.
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AP Exclusive: North Koreahopes to plant flag on the moon
PYONGYANG, NorthKorea (AP) — North Ko-rean space officials arehard at work on a five-year plan to put more ad-vanced satellites intoorbit by 2020, and don’tintend to stop there:They’re also aiming forthe moon, and beyond.
In an interview withThe Associated Press, asenior official at NorthKorea’s version of NASAsaid international sanc-tions won’t stop the coun-try from launching moresatellites by 2020, andthat he hopes to see theNorth Korean flag on themoon within the next 10years.
“Even though the U.S.and its allies try to blockour space development,our aerospace scientistswill conquer space anddefinitely plant the flag ofthe DPRK on the moon,”said Hyon Kwang Il, di-rector of the scientific re-search department ofNorth Korea’s NationalAerospace DevelopmentAdministration.
North Korea’s officialname is the DemocraticPeople’s Republic ofKorea.
An unmanned, no-frillsNorth Korean moon mis-sion in the not-too-distantfuture isn’t as far-fetchedas it might seem. Outsideexperts say it’s ambitious,but conceivable. Whilethe U.S. is the only coun-try to have conducted
manned lunar missions,other nations have sentunmanned spacecraftthere and have in thatsense planted their flags.
“It would be a signifi-cant increase in technol-ogy, not one that isbeyond them, but youhave to debug each bit,”Jonathan McDowell, anastrophysicist at the Har-vard-Smithsonian Centerfor Astrophysics whomaintains an exhaustiveblog on internationalsatellites and satellitelaunches, said in an emailto the AP.
Hyon said the currentfive-year plan, at theorder of leader Kim JongUn, focuses on launchingmore Earth observationsatellites and what wouldbe its first geostationarycommunications satellite— which, technologically,would be a major step for-ward. He said universi-ties are also expandingprograms to train rocketscientists.
“We are planning to de-velop the Earth observa-tion satellites and to solvecommunications prob-lems by developing geo-stationary satellites. Allof this work will be thebasis for the flight to themoon,” Hyon said on July28, adding that he per-sonally would like to seethat happen “within 10years’ time.”
North Korea hasmarked a number of suc-
cesses in its space pro-gram — and, of course, inits development of ever-more-sophisticated long-range missiles formilitary use. On Wednes-day, it test-fired what wasbelieved to be a medium-range ballistic missileinto the seas off Japan,the fourth reportedweapons launch it hascarried out in about twoweeks.
It launched its latestsatellite — theKwangmyongsong 4, orBrilliant Star 4 — intoorbit on Feb. 7, just onemonth after conductingwhat it claims was itsfirst H-bomb test.
That brought new sanc-tions because nucleartests and rocket launches,which can have militaryapplications, are bannedunder United Nationsresolutions. Hyon said thesanctions are “ridiculous.”
“Our country hasstarted to accomplish ourplan and we have startedto gain a lot of successes,”he said. “No matter whatanyone thinks, our coun-try will launch moresatellites.”
He said North Korea’slong-term target is to useits satellites to providedata for crop and forestryassessments and im-proved communications.It also intends “to domanned spaceflight andscientific experiments inspace.”
Kerry defends $400M cashpayment in wake of Iran deal
BUENOS AIRES, Ar-gentina (AP) — A $400million pallet of cash deliv-ered to the Iranian govern-ment at the same time acomplicated nuclear dealwas settled and four Amer-icans were released wasunrelated and not a ran-som, Secretary of StateJohn Kerry said Thursday.
Kerry flatly denied anyconnection between thecash — and an additional$1.3 billion interest pay-ment — and the imple-mentation of the nucleardeal and the prisoner swapthat all occurred in rapidsuccession. The paymentwas part of a decades-olddispute over a failed mili-tary equipment deal dat-
ing to the 1970s, before theIslamic revolution in 1979.
“The United States doesnot pay ransom and doesnot negotiate ransoms,”Kerry told reporters inBuenos Aires. “It is not ourpolicy. This story is not anew story. This was an-nounced by the presidentof the United States him-self at the same time.”
Kerry said the paymentwas part of a deal underthe then-U.S.-backed shahto buy $400 million worthof military equipment in1970s. The equipment wasnever delivered because in1979, his government wasoverthrown and revolu-tionaries took Americanhostages at the U.S. em-
bassy in Tehran. The U.S.and Iran have been negoti-ating the Iranian claim tothe money since 1981, andKerry said that negotia-tion was separate from thenuclear deal and discus-sions about Americansheld in Iran.
He said the settlementagreement ultimatelysaved U.S. taxpayers whatcould have been billions ofdollars in additional inter-est.
“We believe this agree-ment ... actually saved theAmerican taxpayers po-tentially billions of dol-lars,” Kerry said. “Therewas no benefit to theUnited States of Americato drag this out.”
Obama shortens terms for 214 prisoners
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Booze and Uber OK for political VIPsPolitical VIPs and others attending
the Republican and Democratic na-tional conventions recently were free toget liquored up a little longer and callUber or Lyft for a ride back to their ho-tels, thanks to some special exemptionspassed by the host cities of Cleveland,Ohio and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Somehow, the cities did not break outinto chaos as a result, so why were suchlaws needed in the first place?
Like California, alcohol normally can-not be sold after 2 a.m. in Cleveland orPhiladelphia, but drinking hours wereextended to 4 a.m. in bars, restaurants,hotels and event spaces that securedspecial temporary permits. And it wasonly about a week and a half before theDemocratic National Convention thatPennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed abill allowing ride-sharing services likeUber and Lyft to operate in Philadel-phia during the convention and throughat least September 30, while demand-ing that they fork over 1 percent of theirgross receipts to the Philadelphia Park-ing Authority, which oversees taxi andlimousine services in the city, for theprivilege.
A little more than a month before theDNC, Philadelphia passed a law intro-duced on behalf of Mayor Jim Kenneythat decriminalized a number of nui-sance violations, including disorderlyconduct, public drunkenness, failure todisperse and obstructing a highway orother public passage. Though, unlikethe other measures taken, this law per-sists after the convention-goers and
protestors have left and was intended tohelp the city meet a goal of reducing itsprison population by one-third, it wascertainly pushed through with the up-coming convention in mind, perhaps tokeep rowdy “Bernie Bros” from crowd-ing city jails. As a result, 103 protestorswho likely would have otherwise beenarrested instead received $50 fines.
“But if these cities can handleridesharing and 4 a.m. last-calls at atime when tens of thousands of out-of-towners have descended, mightn’t theybe able to handle them when the hub-bub dies down, too?” Elizabeth NolanBrown writes in a recent post for Rea-son.com. She continued: “The situationsin Cleveland and Philadelphia are agood reminder that, when it comes tothings like occupational licensing, zon-ing laws, liquor regulations and thelike, ‘protecting publichealth/safety/morals’ is very often codefor making sure the system is rigged inthe right way.”
While we are encouraged that the vic-timless crimes of drinking and hiringsomeone to give one a ride were decrim-inalized, if only for a short time, it ismaddening that such laws make crimi-nals out of those who do no harm to oth-ers every other day of the year. Thesetemporary exemptions also underscorethat laws may be bent or broken with-out consequence by the important peo-ple in politics, while the rest of us aremade to suffer without mercy under theharsh rules they impose.
— The Orange County Register
A chilling tale from inside LAX securityThe ways of airport security forces
have been criticized in this editorialspace before, usually after a study orstatistic highlights Transportation Se-curity Administration misconduct or in-effectiveness.
Today we bring you a story of onetraveler’s experience with Departmentof Homeland Security agents at LAX.The story is all the more chilling be-cause it appears the agents were oper-ating within the rules set out for themafter 9/11 scared public officials intovaluing zealous security over constitu-tional rights.
On July 14, a Wall Street Journal re-porter named Maria Abi-Habib landedin Los Angeles after flying from Beirutby way of Frankfurt, Germany. Abi-Habib, who covers the Middle East forher newspaper, is a U.S. citizen who wastraveling on a U.S. passport. She cameto Los Angeles to attend a wedding.
As Abi-Habib tells the story on Face-book, she was in line for the immigra-tion checkpoint when a DHS agentapproached her. Sounding as if sheknew a surprising amount about thejournalist and her travels, the agent of-fered “to help you get through the line.”Soon the agent was leading Abi-Habibto a back room, where another agentjoined them.
They “grilled me for an hour,” Abi-Habib wrote, asking personal questionsabout herself, her family and even thewedding couple.“I answered jovially, be-cause I’ve had enough high-level secu-rity experiences to know that beingannoyed or hostile will work againstyou. But then she asked me for my twocellphones. I asked her what shewanted from them. ‘We want to collectinformation,’ she said, refusing to spec-ify what kind.”
Abi-Habib told the agents about herFirst Amendment rights and a journal-ist’s right to protect her sources.
“‘Did you just admit you collect infor-mation for foreign governments?’ sheasked, her tone turning hostile,” Abi-Habib wrote. “’No, that’s exactly notwhat I just said,’ I replied, explainingagain why I would not hand over myphones.”
The first agent handed Abi-Habib adocument spelling out their right toseize her phones.
“So I called their bluff,” Abi-Habibwrote. “‘You’ll have to call The [WSJ]’slawyers, as those phones are the prop-erty of WSJ,’ I told her calmly. She ac-cused me of hindering theinvestigation.”
The agent went to talk with a super-visor. A half an hour later, Abi-Habiband her phones were allowed to leave.
She never knew why the agentswanted the phones. Or why she was letgo. Maybe because she hardly fit an Is-lamic-terrorist profile — her full givenname is Maria Teresa.
For most of us, the surprising thingabout this story is that the agent wastechnically correct about airport au-thorities’ power to search people’s pos-sessions and digital devices, evenwithout reasonable suspicion.
Fourth Amendment constraints onsearches and seizures don’t apply totravelers at ports of entry and within100 miles of borders. The DHS claimsthat a change in that policy wouldweaken security.
Call it the latest example of “home-land security” endangering the consti-tutional way of life it should beprotecting. Abi-Habib had the savvyand journalistic chops to deal with theDHS agents and to get her story out.But many people in her fix wouldn’t.
Wall Street Journal editors and exec-utives and privacy advocates have jus-tifiably criticized the DHS policy. Itshould be reviewed.
— The Orange County Register
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The political picture is unsettlingThe good news is
that both politicalconventions are nowbehind us. The badnews is that the elec-tion is ahead of us.
No one knows howthis election will turnout but — given theawful presidentialcandidates in bothparties — the worstcase scenario may beonly marginallyworse than the bestcase scenario. National polls may sug-gest a close election ahead but presiden-tial elections are not decided by whohas a majority of the popular vote. In acountry already divided, if not polar-ized, one candidate could win the popu-lar vote and the other candidate winthe Electoral College vote, which iswhat decides who goes to the WhiteHouse. That could polarize us morethan ever.
Everything may depend on what hap-pens in the battleground states whereneither party has a decisive advantage.Until recently, Hillary Clinton seemedto have a clear lead in those states. Butthat difference has narrowed to withinthe margin of error in some state polls.
Turnout is the wild card, in this elec-tion more than in most. There was boo-ing in both conventions — and there areother signs that those who lost are nottaking it kindly. How the losers vote, orstay home on election day, may deter-mine who the winner will be.
If the Democrats lose this election,and Trump beats Hillary, it may not beanything more than losing a given elec-tion, as happens regularly, and Democ-rats can just regroup for the nextelection.But if the Republicans lose, itcan be much more serious for them andfor the country. If Hillary Clinton in-spires distrust, Donald Trump inspiresdisgust, even among many Republicans.If Trump goes down to defeat, he couldtaint the whole Republican party, cost-ing them the Senate now and futureelections later.
Even if Trump disappears from thepolitical scene after defeat, his reckless,ugly and childish words will live on ininnumerable videos that can be used foryears to come, to taint Republicans asthe party that chose such a shallow ego-maniac as its candidate for President ofthe United States.
A President Trump could of coursecreate a longer-lasting stigma. However,he might possibly be sobered up by theresponsibilities of the presidency. Butsomeone who has not matured in 70
years seems unlikely to grow up in thenext 4 years.
With Hillary Clinton as Presidentand Democrats in control of the Senate,she can appoint Supreme Court justiceswith as much contempt for the law asshe has demonstrated herself, and Sen-ate Democrats would rubber-stamp herchoices.
Democrats have already shown theirdesire to stifle the free-speech rights ofpeople who disagree with them onglobal warming and other issues.Hillary Clinton has made no secret ofher desire to have the Supreme Courtreverse its decision that corporationsand labor unions both have free-speechrights.
The Obama Department of Justicehas already been looking into ways thatanti-racketeering laws can be used tothreaten individuals and organizationsthat challenge the global warming sce-nario that has been used to promotemore government control of what fuelscan be used.
The Second Amendment right to havea gun is at least as threatened as theFirst Amendment right to free speechwould be if Hillary Clinton gets to pickSupreme Court justices. The lifetimetenure of federal judges means thatwhoever is in the White House for thenext four years can change the course ofAmerican law for decades to come, los-ing our freedoms irretrievably.
Much has been made of Hillary’s “ex-perience” in politics. But it has been anexperience of having proved to bewrong, time and time again. As a Sena-tor she opposed the military “surge” inIraq that rescued that country and de-feated the terrorists.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clintoncarried out foreign policy decisions thatled to major setbacks for American in-terests as far as the eye can see —whether in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Iran,Ukraine, North Korea or China. This isthe kind of “experience” we don’t needto see repeated in the White House.
Voting for an out of control egomaniaclike Donald Trump would be like play-ing Russian roulette with the future ofthis country. Voting for someone with atrack record like Hillary Clinton’s islike putting a shotgun to your head andpulling the trigger. And not voting at allis just giving up.
Nobody said that being a good citizenwould be easy.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institu-tion, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His web-site is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about ThomasSowell and read features by other Creators Syndicatecolumnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicatewebpage at www.creators.com.
Today is Friday, Aug.5, the 218th day of 2016.There are 148 days left inthe year.
Today’s Highlight inHistory:
On Aug. 5, 1966, theBeatles’ “Revolver” albumwas released in the UnitedKingdom on the Par-lophone label; it was re-leased in the UnitedStates three days later byCapitol Records. (Songs in-cluded “Eleanor Rigby”and “Yellow Submarine,”which were also issued asa double A-side single onAug. 5 and 8.)
On this date:In 1936, Jesse Owens of
the United States won the200-meter dash at theBerlin Olympics, collectingthe third of his four goldmedals.
In 1962, actress MarilynMonroe, 36, was founddead in her Los Angeleshome; her death was ruleda probable suicide from“acute barbiturate poison-ing.” South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson
Mandela was arrested; itwas the beginning of 27years of imprisonment.
Ten years ago: The lateReggie White was inductedinto the Pro Football Hallof Fame along with TroyAikman, Warren Moon,John Madden, RayfieldWright and Harry Carson.Four-time Iditarod cham-pion Susan Butcher diedin Seattle at age 51.
Five years ago: Stan-dard & Poor’s lowered theUnited States’ AAA creditrating by one notch to AA-plus. A federal jury con-victed three New Orleanspolice officers, a former of-ficer and a retired ser-geant of civil rightsviolations in the 2005shooting deaths of ateenager and a mentallydisabled man crossing theDanziger Bridge followingHurricane Katrina.
One year ago: In aspeech at American Uni-versity in Washington,President Barack Obamaassailed critics of his Irannuclear deal as “selling a
fantasy” to the Americanpeople, warning Congressthat blocking the accordwould damage the nation’scredibility and increasethe likelihood of more warin the Middle East.
Today’s Birthdays: Ac-tress Loni Anderson is 71.Author David Baldacci is56. Actress Tawney Kitaen(kih-TAYN’) is 55. ActressJanet McTeer is 55. Coun-try musician Mark O’Con-nor is 55. BasketballHall-of-Famer PatrickEwing is 54. ActorJonathan Silverman is 50.Retired MLB All-StarJohn Olerud is 48. Rockmusician Eicca Toppinen(EYE’-kah TAH’-pihn-nehn) (Apocalyptica) is 41.Country musician WillSellers (Old Dominion) is38. Actor Jesse Williams is36.
Thought for Today:“For life: It is rather a de-termination not to be over-whelmed. For work: Thetruth can only be recalled,never invented.” — Mari-lyn Monroe (1926-1962).
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who do industrial and re-tail recruitment. It’s veryimportant that we put ourbest foot forward,” Lustersaid.
Executives with HarborFreight Tools and an NFLteam owner who is build-ing a house on Smith Lakeare two examples of high-profile clients who haveflown into the WalkerCounty Airport in recent
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tion. When you’re in job re-cruiting, there is a list ofthings they go through. Ifone of those things doesn’tmatch, they’ll completelywrite off the area. Thework that is being done inthis study group will helpus improve and continueto recruit jobs to WalkerCounty,” Davis said.
Airport From A1
boat, one of 14 Ohio-class ballisticmissile submarines.
A Navy machinist’s mate (auxil-iary) is responsible for maintenanceand repair of auxiliary equipment toinclude air, refrigeration, hydraulic,atmosphere control, diesel andplumping systems.
“I am a mechanically inclined per-son so I am glad that my job allowsme to fix things on a regular basis,”said Hunter.
Measuring 560 feet long, 42 feetwide and weighing more than 16,500tons, a nuclear-powered propulsionsystem helps push the ship throughthe water at more than 20 knots.
The Navy’s ballistic missile sub-marines, often referred to as“boomers,” serve as a strategic deter-rent by providing an undetectableplatform for submarine launched bal-listic missiles. They are designedspecifically for stealth, extended pa-trols and the precise delivery of mis-siles if directed by the President. TheOhio-class design allows the sub-marines to operate for 15 or moreyears between major overhauls. Onaverage, the submarines spend 77days at sea followed by 35 days in-port for maintenance.
According to Navy officials, currentballistic missile submarines, commis-sioned between 1987 and 1997, arereaching their end of life. Leveragingmore than 50 years of ballistic missilesubmarine design and operational ex-perience, the Ohio replacement sub-marine will be a cost-effectiverecapitalization of sea-based strategicdeterrence. The Ohio replacementalso leverages Virginia class subma-rine capabilities.
Lead Ohio Replacement construc-tion must begin in 2021 in order forthe first new submarine to commenceits first strategic patrol in 2031, Navyofficials explained. Ohio replacementballistic missile submarines will pro-vide the nation’s survivable nuclear
deterrent through the 2080s. Theplan includes 12 Ohio replacementsubmarines, each with 16 TRIDENTII (D5) missiles and a 42-year servicelife. The 12 Ohio replacement sub-marines provide the same at-seapresence as 14 original Ohio sub-marines saving $20B (CY10) over thelife of the class.
“Every day I am extremely proud tolead and serve alongside the excep-tionally talented men and women ofthe submarine force,” said Capt.Mark Schmall, commodore of Subma-rine Squadron 17 of Bangor, Wash-ington. “Our team is filled withdedicated, hardworking and highlyqualified professionals who hold un-common levels of responsibility andaccountability in support of our na-tion’s strategic deterrence mission.Their work ethic, commitment andenthusiasm are second to none!”
Hunter is part of the boat’s Bluecrew, one of the two rotating crews,which allow the ship to be deployedon missions more often without tax-ing one crew too much. A typical crewon this submarine is approximately150 officers and enlisted sailors.
“I enjoy the people I get to interactwith aboard the Nevada,” saidHunter. “Everyone comes from suchdifferent backgrounds. It’s a greatcrew to be a part of.”
A key element of the Navy’s mis-sion is tied to the fact that America isa maritime nation, according to Navyofficials, and that the nation’s pros-perity is tied to the ability to operatefreely on the world’s oceans. Morethan 70 percent of the Earth’s surfaceis covered by water; 80 percent of theworld’s population lives close to acoast; and 90 percent of all globaltrade by volume travels by sea.
U.S. strategic deterrence promotesglobal stability by preventing coer-cion by threat of nuclear attack, help-ing prevent proliferation of nuclearweapons, and assuring non-nuclear
allies and partners the U.S. will re-spond if attacked, according to Navyofficials. The ballistic missile subma-rine force is the survivable leg of theU.S. nuclear triad. A survivable deter-rent can impose unacceptable conse-quences even after being attacked.Ballistic missile submarines will beresponsible for 70 percent of deployednuclear warheads under the NewSTART.
Ballistic missile submarines are aneffective sea-based strategic deter-rent because submarines are unde-tectable when submerged andprovide adequate range to allow op-erations far from adversaries inbroad ocean areas, Navy officials ex-plained. The new submarines are de-signed with state-of-the-art stealth toremain undetectable into the 2080s.
According to Navy officials, becauseof the demanding environmentaboard submarines, personnel are ac-cepted only after rigorous testing andobservation. Submariners are some ofthe most highly trained and skilledpeople in the Navy. The training ishighly technical, and each crew hasto be able to operate, maintain andrepair every system or piece of equip-ment on board. Regardless of theirspecialty, everyone also has to learnhow everything on the ship worksand how to respond in emergencies tobecome “qualified in submarines” andearn the right to wear the covetedgold or silver dolphins on their uni-form.
Challenging submarine living con-ditions build strong fellowship amongthe elite crew, Navy officials ex-plained. The crews are highly moti-vated and quickly adapt to changingconditions. It is a busy life of special-ized work, watches and drills.
“Serving in the Navy means I get todo something for my country,” addedHunter. “I can do something if any sit-uations do arise. I can confront con-flict to the upmost of my abilities.”
Navy From A1
changes,” Hudson said.“But it has also become alearning experience.”
Hudson was in a wheel-chair only a year ago whilewaiting to have surgery forcarcinoid cancer and bat-tling the VA along the wayto get the medical treat-ment he needed.
Throughout his journeyacross America, he haslearned of other veteranswho have faced issues in re-gards to their health careas well.
“I have learned a lot fromother veterans, and no vet-eran should ever have towalk across America to begfor help,” Hudson said. “Wemight not be able to do a lotbut we’re going to try —one step at a time.”
The 63-year-old Hudsonis known for his compas-
sion to fight for and helpveterans and their families.He is the founder of Veter-ansMarch.org and Help-a-Vet on Facebook, withmembership in the thou-sands.
“If we fall into a mind-setof apathy then nothing willever be done and the statusquo will prevail,” Hudsonsaid. “When I get to Wash-ington they will know whoI am, and I plan to tell Con-gress if they are not withthe veterans who haveserved this country andtheir families, then they’refired!”
For more informationabout the Walking Veteranand his mission, visitwww.WalkingVeteran.comor go towww.Facebook.com/Walk-ingVeteran.
Veteran From A1
By NICOLE SMITHDaily Mountain Eagle
A central office staff member in the JeffersonCounty Schools system is being charged with entic-ing a minor and receiving and possessing childpornography.
U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, along with FBISpecial Agent in Charge Roger Stanton, TuscaloosaPolice Chief Steven D. Anderson and Hueytown Po-lice Chief Chuck Hagler announced the chargesagainst Brett William Kirkham, 40, of Tuscaloosa.
Kirkham has been serving as the human resourcesdirector for Jefferson County Schools, and is a formerHueytown Middle School principal.
The four-count indictment charges Kirkham withchild enticement and receipt and possession of childpornography from 2008 to 2016.
Kirkham could was a life sentence in prison andbe fined up to $250,000 for the child enticementcount and 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine forreceiving and possessing child pornography.
His federal court arraignment is scheduled forAug. 11, 2016.
The case has been investigated by the Tuscaloosaand Hueytown police departments and the FBI.
Jefferson County Schoolsemployee facing enticement,child pornography charges
Obama: Islamic State likelyto continue to threaten US
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic State groupwill probably continue to be a threat to the U.S. evenafter it is ousted from key strongholds in Iraq andSyria, President Barack Obama said Thursday,warning that lone-wolf believers will still be inspiredto launch attacks that are harder to detect and pre-vent.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with his topnational security advisers in the Pentagon, Obamasaid the U.S. has to do a better job disrupting terrornetworks and intercepting the internet messagesthat can get to troubled individuals and inspirethem to act.
“What ISIL has figured out is that if they can con-vince a handful of people or even one person to carryout an attack on a subway, or at a parade or someother public venue, and kill scores of people as op-posed to thousands of people, it still creates thekinds of fear and concern that elevates their profile,”Obama said.
He said terrorism likely won’t be eliminated by hisadministration or his successors, and he’s alwayspushing his team to seek out new ideas to battle theproblem.
“I haven’t gotten numb to it. It bugs me wheneverit happens,” he said. But, he added, “I do think thatbecause of our extraordinary efforts the homeland issignificantly safer than it otherwise would be.”
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibil-ity for a number of recent mass killings, includingthe Bastille Day attack in Nice, France, last monththat left more than 80 dead, and the Orlando night-club shootings that killed 49. The attackers were re-portedly inspired by IS.
Trump conflict overshadowsattacks on Clinton foreign policy
PORTLAND, Maine(AP) — Donald Trump’swarning that the Novem-ber election might berigged is “ridiculous,” Pres-ident Barack Obama de-clared on Thursday,wading deeper into the2016 campaign. AnxiousRepublicans, meanwhile,struggled to move atten-tion from their own in-fighting to Democratic foeHillary Clinton.
The feud between theGOP’s presidential nomi-nee and Republican HouseSpeaker Paul Ryan againovershadowed Trump’sClinton criticism, under-scoring the rising concernsfrom party leaders overthe New York billionaire’sunorthodox candidacy andits impact on the future ofthe party.
Facing sinking poll num-bers and campaign morale,Trump has questioned theintegrity of the nation’selection system in recentdays.
“I never heard of some-body complaining aboutbeing cheated before thegame is over,” Obama saidduring a Thursday pressconference.
“My suggestion wouldbe: Go out there and try towin the election.”
Trump, meanwhile, re-fused for another day toendorse Ryan, his party’stop elected official.
The Republican speakerhas declared his supportfor Trump, but he saidsuch endorsements aren’t“blank checks” andpledged to speak outagainst the businessman’sdivisive positions if neces-sary.
Most recently, thatmeans Trump’s sustainedcriticism of an AmericanMuslim family whose son,
U.S. Army Capt. HumayunKhan, was killed in Iraq.
“I don’t like doing this,”Ryan told a Wisconsinradio station. “I don’t wantto do this, but I will do thisbecause I feel I have to inorder to defend Republi-cans, and our principles, sothat people don’t make themistake of thinking wethink like that.”
Campaign chairmanPaul Manafort insistedTrump would work withRyan if elected, but he con-ceded the endorsementquestion had sparked ten-sion inside Trump’s NewYork campaign headquar-ters.
The day before, vicepresidential nominee MikePence broke with Trumpand endorsed Ryan. APence spokesman onThursday issued a blanketendorsement for all Re-publican congressional in-cumbents seekingre-election, even as Trumpwithheld endorsements for
Arizona Sen. John McCainand New Hampshire Sen.Kelly Ayotte as well asRyan.
Addressing Maine vot-ers later in the day, Trumpwas repeatedly inter-rupted by protesters, in-cluding some who wereejected after waving copiesof the U.S. Constitution inthe air — a reminder ofTrump’s criticism ofKhan’s father, who wavedhis own copy of the Consti-tution as he criticizedTrump at last week’s Dem-ocratic National Conven-tion.
The businessman di-rected his own criticism atClinton on Thursday, whilebriefly addressing the ten-sion with Ryan.
He said he had givenPence permission endorsethe speaker the day before.
“I say, ‘Mike, you likehim? Yes. Go ahead and doit, 100 percent,’” Trump re-called of his conversation,interrupting his audience
when they began to booRyan.
“Paul Ryan’s a good guy,actually,” he said.
As the infighting contin-ued, Trump and his allieslashed out at the Demo-cratic presidential nomi-nee’s foreign policy record.
Specifically, they con-tended that Clinton wasresponsible for negotia-tions that led to a $400million U.S. payment toIran earlier in the year.Trump and some other Re-publicans have describedthe money as ransom pay-ment for four Americansdetained in Iran days be-fore the money was deliv-ered.
“It’s so sad, so disgust-ing,” Trump said of thepayment.
At his news conference,Obama strongly rejectedthe idea of a ransom. “Thiswasn’t some nefariousdeal,” he said of a paymentthat was part of a decades-old dispute over a failedmilitary equipment deal.
As Trump used the issueto assail Clinton, he facednew questions about hisdescription of a video hesuggested was taken byIranian forces removingbags of money from aplane.
Several senior U.S. offi-cials involved in the Irannegotiations said theyweren’t aware of any suchvideo.
A campaign spokes-woman acknowledged thatthe video in question wasunrelated footage Trumpwatched on television. Yetthe Republican candidatecited it again during hisMaine appearance, insist-ing that the Iranian gov-ernment released thefootage to “embarrass ourcountry.”
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumpwaves as he leaves a campaign rally at Merrill Au-ditorium, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in Portland,Maine.
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Westbrook,OKC agree on3-year dealOKLAHOMA CITY
(AP) — A monthafter Kevin Durantbroke OklahomaCity’s heart, RussellWestbrook has reaf-firmed his desire tostay with the Thun-der.The team con-
firmed Thursday thatWestbrook hadsigned a contractextension. A person with direct
knowledge of theterms said the twosides had agreed ona new three-yeardeal worth $85.7million.
Westbrook, 27, isone of the top starsin the NBA and piledup 18 triple-doubleslast season. Thefive-time All-Star av-eraged 23.5 points,7.8 rebounds and10.4 assists lastseason.
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United States’ Kevin Durant takes part in a basketball practice session for the 2016Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday.
2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS
US basketball seeksmore Olympic gold
By BRIAN MAHONEYAP Basketball Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO — There were so manyquestions about their cushy accommodationsit seemed the Americans wereon vacation.
Yes, the U.S. men’s bas-ketball team is staying on acruise ship, with gorgeousviews of Brazil’s beautifulbeaches.
But the Americans didn’tcome to Rio de Janeiro for funand sun.
“We know what’s our task at hand,” veteranCarmelo Anthony said. “This is business forus. We’re going out there to take care of busi-ness.”
The U.S. team had its international intro-duction Thursday with its Olympic news con-ference, answering plenty of questions aboutwhere they’re staying (the luxury yacht) andwho’s not playing (LeBron James and Stephen
Curry).It was the usual spectacle for a team that
always draws a crowd at the Olympics, nomatter who is on the roster. This one features10 players with no Olympic experience, withonly Anthony and Kevin Durant back fromthe team that won the Americans’ secondstraight gold medal in 2012.
They’re still considered the team to beateven with their inexperience, which is whyPaul George had such trouble with his first at-
Americans heavy favorite in Brazil
Olympics opening ceremonyset for tonight in Rio de JaneiroBy NICOLE SMITHDaily Mountain Eagle
The Rio Olympic Games kickoff with tonight’s opening cere-mony.
Airing on NBC from 6:30 to 11p.m., the opening ceremony willfeature Olympic athletes fromaround the world who will com-pete for gold in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.
Team USA is comprised of 552athletes that will compete in 239events and 38 sports.
The games will air on NBC,NBC Sports Network, USA,MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, NBCGOLF, Telemundo and NBC Uni-verso.
To follow the games and keeptrack of Team USA’s medal count,download the Rio 2016 app, avail-able for Apple and Android de-vices, or follow the action onlineat www.rio2016.com.
For a full list of athletes, visithttp://www.nbcolympics.com/ath-letes.
“We know what’s our task athand. This is business for us.We’re going out there to takecare of business.”
- U.S. Olympic Basketball PlayerCarmelo Anthony
SEE GOLD, B3
ALABAMA FOOTBALL
QB battle,off-the-fieldissues hottopics for UABy JOHN ZENORAP Sports Writer
TUSCALOOSA — Alabama openedpreseason camp in the wake of severalsummer arrests and departures and witha quarterback competitionstill going strong.
Despite all that, thechallenges remainpretty typical for the de-fending national cham-pions and have little ornothing to do with talent.There was no shortage of that when theCrimson Tide opened camp Thursday inthe stifling heat of Alabama summers —and Alabama’s falls.
Coach Nick Saban still had some off-the-field matters to address when he tookthe podium since it hasn’t entirely beena smooth ride since winning his fourthnational title at ‘Bama.
The Tide is facing some backlash overa decision to prevent recent graduate de-fensive back Maurice Smith from trans-ferring to another SoutheasternConference school — in this case Georgia.That’s drawn more headlines than thequarterback situation this week.
“We support the SEC rule of not grant-ing guys’ releases to go to other SECschools,” Saban said, declining to answerquestions on the matter. “It has been ourpolicy here not to do that unless therewas a special circumstance.”
Two young players — receiver DaylonCharlot and linebacker Christian Bell —have announced plans to transfer in thepast couple of weeks, and junior collegetransfer offensive tackle Charles Baldwinwas dismissed in May.
Meanwhile, three summertime suspen-sions won’t necessarily carry over intothe season. Defensive lineman Dalvin
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Alabama coach Nick Saban talksabout Alabama’s first football practiceof the season on Thursday.
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Tide sits at No. 1in coaches pollThe Associated Press
Alabama is No. 1 in the preseasoncoaches poll, with Clemson at No. 2 andOklahoma, Florida State and Ohio Staterounding out the top five.
The Crimson Tide (14-1) is the defend-ing national champion after beatingClemson (14-1) in the College FootballPlayoff title game.
The Associated Press’ preseason top 25will be released Aug. 21.
Alabama picked up 55 of the 64 first-place votes, totaling 15,851 points. Clem-son notched seven first-place votes andhas a total of 15,242 points.
Florida State, along with Clemson,gave the Atlantic Coast Conference twoteams in the top four. Ohio State isranked fifth.
Florida State and Tennessee picked upthe two remaining first-place votes.
LSU was sixth, followed by Stanford,Michigan, Notre Dame and Tennessee.The SEC, with Alabama, LSU and Ten-nessee, has three top-10 teams.
Michigan State comes in at No. 11 fol-lowed by Mississippi, Houston, TCU,Iowa, Georgia, USC, Washington, Okla-homa State, North Carolina, Baylor, Ore-gon, Louisville, UCLA and Florida.
to her painDEARABBY:My hus-band,“Rob,” andI are atodds andyour re-sponsemay affectwhetherwe staytogetheror not. Ihad a miscarriage a weekago. I was only sevenweeks pregnant, but itwas still something realfor me. My husband’sniece’s birthday was overthe weekend. I made itclear that I didn’t want todrive (three hours!) and bearound people after whathappened. When he toldme it didn’t matter, that itwas his niece’s birthday, Ilost it on him. After driv-ing him to his sister’s, Ileft and drove myselfhome. He says I’m overre-acting and said that I wasOK with it earlier in theweek. I explained howhurt I was that he’d insiston going and also that hecouldn’t stand up for meand explain that I was tooemotional and upset to at-tend her birthday. He can’tgrasp why I’m so hurt bythis. AM I overreacting,and am I crazy for feelingthe way I feel?
— FEELING DOWN INTHE SOUTH
DEAR FEELINGDOWN: I’m sorry foryour loss. You’re notoverreacting andyou’re not crazy. How-ever, some people areunable to grasp howdeeply a miscarriage inthe early months of apregnancy can affectthe mother-to-be psy-chologically and physi-cally. Unfortunately,Rob appears to be oneof them. You didn’tmention whether youtold your sister-in-lawwhy you didn’t feel upto celebrating, but ifyou didn’t, you shouldhave because she prob-ably would have under-stood and let you offthe hook. You alsoshould have stayedhome, not driven sixhours round-trip todrop Rob off in yourfragile condition. If thiscontinues to causeproblems in your mar-riage, perhaps yourclergyperson (if youhave one) or a mar-riage counselor canhelp you get the mes-sage across to yourhusband.
DEAR ABBY: When Iinvited a family memberand her family for dinner,she asked what I wasserving. When I told her,she said, “My kids won’teat that,” so I ended upmaking a different mealthat met with her ap-proval. It was annoying,and I thought she wasvery rude. I can’t imaginesaying something like thatto someone who is prepar-ing food for me. This is afamily member, so I can’tjust write them off, but doyou have any witty re-sponses should this hap-pen again?
— DISGUSTED IN CA
DEAR DISGUSTED: Iagree it’s rude forguests to ask a hostwhat will be served, un-less there are allergyissues to be considered.As far as what to say toyour relative, I have acouple of suggestions.Neither one is “witty.”The first is: “Fine.Bring food your kidswill eat or I’ll thawthem some frozenpizza.” Or, if you’re feel-ing brave, say: “I’mserving (blank), so hirea baby sitter. That way,the kids can have whatthey’re used to andwe’ll have an enjoyableadult evening.”
P.S. It is not childabuse for parents to in-troduce children to dif-ferent foods by tellingthem to taste it becausethey might like it. Andif they don’t, they won’tbe forced to eat it.That’s how they learn.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail VanBuren, also known as JeannePhillips, and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips. ContactDear Abby at www.DearAbby.com orP.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA90069.
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CELEBRITIES BORNON THIS DAY: LoloJones, 34; Jesse Williams,35; Jonathan Silverman,50; Maureen McCormick,60.
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teach him the word for un-derdog, then asked if therewas any chance the U.S.could fill that role.
“Of us being underdog?”he said. “No, I don’t thinkwe’re the underdog.”
The Americans open onSaturday against China, ateam they beat by 49 and50 points in exhibitionplay. So that game should-n’t be close, and it might bea while before they get one— if they get one — that is.But the U.S. players saythey aren’t thinking thatway.
“You have to worryabout everybody,” forwardDraymond Green said.“Every team is here for areason. They qualifiedsomehow. ... We can’t comeout here and say, ‘Oh, we’rethe United States andwe’re supposed to win,’ or‘We have this person andthat person and we’re sup-posed to win.’ We have tobe locked in every game. Ifyou don’t, you’ll get beat.”
The Americans arrivedin Rio on Wednesday fromHouston, where they com-pleted their exhibitiontour. They held their firstpractice at the arenaThursday as they get theirsea legs under them.
Anthony stayed on acruise ship in his firstOlympics, when they fin-ished third in 2004 inAthens. They’re on a shipagain, along with the U.S.women’s team, in part be-cause of a shortage of hotel
space compared to recenthosts Beijing and London,and Anthony doesn’t seewhy it’s such a big deal.
“It’s no different than usstaying in the hotel,” hesaid. “It’s not like we’recruising around. We’redocked. We have the sameamenities as if we werestaying in the hotel.”
The Americans mayhave seemed vulnerablewhen James, Curry and anumber of other super-stars declined to play, butthe players who did acceptinvites have had a fewweeks to work on gettingbetter on the court andgetting along off it.
“We’re a group of guysthat range from age of 24to, I don’t know how oldCarmelo is, 40?” centerDeAndre Jordan said. “Sowe have so much fun to-gether and everybody’s socompetitive and we allwant to win, and when yougot guys like that, itmakes it that much morefun.”
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NCAA asks school leaders tolook at sexual violence measures
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA’s Board ofGovernors is asking leaders in all three athletic di-visions to consider legislation to deal with athletesaccused of sexual violence.
The announcement came Thursday after theboard’s quarterly meeting in Indianapolis — andone day after it received a petition signed by morethan 157,000 people seeking a ban of sexually vio-lent athletes.
Board members believe a previous resolutioncould serve as the basis for new rules that wouldaddress topics such as compliance with campusauthorities as well as state and federal laws,proper reporting protocols and more educationwithin the athletic department about preventionand intervention.
Punter Townsend transfersfrom Tennessee to Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Punter TommyTownsend is transferring from Tennessee toFlorida.
Florida coach Jim McElwain confirmed Thursdaythat Townsend was coming to Florida. Townsendwill sit out the 2016 season due to NCAA transferrules. Townsend redshirted at Tennessee last sea-son. His brother, Johnny Townsend, is Florida’smain punter. Tennessee coach Butch Jones con-firmed Thursday that reserve offensive tackle Don-tavius Blair, wide receiver Cody Blanc and tightend Joe Stocstill also left the team.
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Golf Tournaments•The Patrick Morrison Invitational Tournament to
benefit the Indian Creek Youth Camp will be heldat Musgrove Country Club on Friday, Aug. 5 Thetournament fee is $500 per four-person team($125 per individual player). The entry fee includesgreen fees, cart, range balls, two mulligans perplayer, 1 power drive per player, breakfast, dinnerand tee gift. Registration begins at 7 a.m. on Fri-day with the tournament starting with a shot-gunstart at 8 a.m. For more information, call 205-686-9079.
•The Northwest Alabama Mental Health Centerwill hold its 34th annual benefit golf tournament atHorse Creek Golf Course in Dora on Oct. 11.Lunch will be served at 11 a.m. and play will beginat 12:30 p.m., with a shotgun start. The entry fee is$500 for a four-person team ($125 per player). Formore information, call Janice Trotter at 205-302-9000 ext. 9065 or Jenny Elliott at 205-302-9037.All proceeds benefit the consumers of the North-west Alabama Mental Health Center.
After school tennis clinic•Musgrove Country Club will hold its after school
tennis clinic starting Tuesday, Aug. 9. Classes areavailable for ages 4-6, 7-11, 12-14 and highschool. For more information, call Grant Rolley at435-0397.
Jasper Park and Rec•The Jasper Parks and Recreation Department
is now holding registration for youth volleyball andsoccer. Youth volleyball is for ages 8-13. Youthsoccer is for ages 3-13. There is a $50 registrationfee. Scholarships are available and volunteercoaches are needed. Those interested may regis-ter at the park and recreation department, now lo-cated at the Jasper Civic Center (formally the CHSbuilding). For more information, call 205-384-6014.
•The Jasper Parks and Recreation Departmentis now holding team registration for fall baseballand softball for ages 8-and-under to 12-and-underas well as the following adult softball leagues — in-dependent men, women and co-ed. The registra-tion fee is $300 per team. Those interested mayregister at the park and recreation department nowat the Jasper Civic Center (formally the CHS build-ing). For more information, call 205-384-6014.
Cordova Booster Club•Cordova Blue Devil Day will be held Saturday,
Aug. 13th. If you would like to buy a spot for abooth, call 706-0345. The cost is $25.
Cordova’s Blue Devil Day is set for Sat., Aug.13. A pep rally will kick off the day at 3 p.m. in thehigh school gym. Food, games, water slide andother vendors will be available until the scrimmagegame at 7 p.m. Admission will be a donation ofcleaning supplies and/or Gatorade powder.
Volleyball Clinic•The Walker High School volleyball team will
sponsor a volleyball clinch for girls ages 1st to 6thgrade on Aug. 13-14 at Walker’s Songer Gymna-sium. The clinic will be held from 9 a.m. to noon onAug. 13 and from 2 to 5 p.m. on Aug. 14. The costis $30 per day or $50 for both days. The girls willbe taught the fundamentals of volleyball such asserving, passing, attacking as well as team con-cepts. For more information, contact Walker HighSchool head volleyball coach Bobby Daniels [email protected].
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Matured Allen ready to takethe reins at QB for ArkansasBy KURT VOIGTAP Sports Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — AustinAllen was talking with teammateFrank Ragnowahead of pre-season campwhen at h o u g h tabout the last fewseasons occurred to the first-yearstarting quarterback of the Razor-backs.
“You know, I can’t even rememberthe last time I’ve been hit,” Allensaid.
Yes, it’s been that long — fouryears, actually — since Allen en-tered a football season as his team’sprojected starting quarterback.
However, after three seasons oflargely backing up his older brother,Brandon, the younger Allen knowsexpectations won’t be diminished inthe slightest because of any rust hemight have. And that’s just fine withthe 6-foot-1, 209-pound junior, whohas used his time away from thefield to transform his usual fun-lov-ing ways into more of an all-businessapproach.
Well, nearly all business.“I can’t really wait to get just
decked one time,” Austin Allen said,unable to contain his excitementabout the season opener againstLouisiana Tech on Sept. 3.
If Allen’s outgoing personality is abit of a shock to Razorbacks fans thisseason, it will largely be becausethey are expecting the more-re-served style they have become usedto over the last three seasons fromBrandon Allen.
It was the same adjustment coachBret Bielema had to make three sea-sons ago when Austin Allen showedup on campus. Back then, the quar-terback — fresh off leading nearbyFayetteville High School to back-to-back state championships — madehis mark by cracking jokes duringpractices and occasionally giving hissocial life the same priority as foot-ball.
It was an approach that rankledBielema from time to time, and hemade a point to mention his frustra-tion with the quarterback. And of
course, the Allens are very different.“You wouldn’t even know they are
brothers,” Bielema said. “(Brandon)was kind of a more laid back kind ofguy. Austin, on the other hand, isvery competitive.”
From the younger Allen’s perspec-tive, one cause of the early growingpains was simply a matter of grow-ing up. Another was the realizationthat playing time was doubtful earlyin his career.
He finally turned more seriousprior to last season, when he was setto serve as the primary backup. Andthe extra work — from studyinggame plans, doing extra film workand mimicking his older brother’swork ethic — paid off in the form ofrepeated compliments from Bielemaand Arkansas’ other coaches.
“The first year was on me, just notbeing mature enough,” Allen said. “Ithappens for every freshmen, I feellike, who thinks, ‘Oh, I don’t needextra film. I’ll be fine.’ That justdoesn’t happen in college. You haveto do extra.”
Because of the durability of hisolder brother, Allen attempted onlythree passes last season. However,he did see limited action in fourgames two years ago — includingplaying the entire second half of a30-0 win over Mississippi afterBrandon Allen was injured.
That experience played a role inhelping Austin Allen earn the start-ing job during the spring, whenBielema said he was the “unques-tioned” top quarterback on the ros-ter. It was a position Allen continuedto earn throughout the summerwhile working out with teammatesfive days a week.
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Arkansas quarterback AustinAllen (8) takes over as startingQB for his older brother, Bran-don, who graduated last year.
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Tomlinson said it wasn’t a distrac-tion in the offseason either.
“It’s easy to deal with because youknow what you have to come in hereand do day to day, and you can’t letthe off-the-field situations affect youoff the field or on the field,” Tomlin-son said.
Left tackle Cameron Robinsonand reserve defensive back HootieJones aren’t likely to miss any actionwhen Alabama kicks off againstSouthern California in Arlington,Texas, barring further issues, Sabansaid. Both were arrested on drugand weapons charges in Louisiana,but the prosecutor decided not to
pursue the cases.Guard Alphonse Taylor was ar-
rested in July on drunken drivingcharges and suspended indefinitely,but practiced Thursday. Saban saidhe’s not ready to make a decision onhis status for the USC game.
Likewise, he’s not going to rush tojudgment on the quarterback battle,which carries over into preseasoncamp for the third straight year.This time it’s 2015 backup CooperBateman, redshirt freshman BlakeBarnett and sophomore David Corn-well vying to replace Jake Coker.
Freshman Jalen Hurts also wentthrough spring practice.
Saban said Cornwell has beenbothered by a foot injury all summerand had limited repetitions inThursday’s practice. He was in themix with Coker and Bateman for awhile a year ago.
“All three of the other guys havemade significant progress through-out the summer,” Saban said. “Some-body has got to win the job,somebody has got to become theleader, the guy that can go out thereand execute and win the confidenceof his teammates and the playersthat he plays with on offense. I thinkwe have three guys that are all ca-pable of that.
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Police: London stabbings that killed US woman not terrorismLONDON (AP) — A Somali-
Norwegian teenager went on aknife rampage through London’sRussell Square, a hub for stu-dents and tourists, fatally stab-bing an American woman andwounding five other people.
Police said Thursday that itwasn’t terrorism — but in a cityon edge after a summer of at-tacks elsewhere in Europe, bothauthorities and London resi-dents initially responded as if itwere. Police flooded the streetswith extra officers and mobilizedcounterterror detectives beforesaying the shocking burst of vio-lence appeared to have been“triggered by mental-health is-sues.”
Police officers used a stun gunto subdue the 19-year-old sus-pect at the scene of the stab-bings late Wednesday, amongbusy streets lined with hotelsclose to the British Museum.
“Terror in London” ran theheadline in the Mail Online, oneof several media outlets to spec-ulate that the attack was an actof terrorism. Police initially saidterrorism was “one line of in-quiry being explored.”
But hours later MetropolitanPolice Assistant CommissionerMark Rowley said “we havefound no evidence of radicaliza-tion or anything that would sug-gest the man in our custody wasin any way motivated by terror-ism.”
He said detectives from the
force’s murder and terrorismsquads had interviewed the sus-pect, his family and witnessesand searched properties.
“We believe this was a sponta-neous attack and the victimswere selected at random,” Row-ley said.
London Mayor Sadiq Khansaid “there is no evidence at allthat this man was motivated byDaesh” — another name for theIslamic State group — or similar
organizations.Rowley said the suspect,
whose name hasn’t been re-leased, is a Norwegian of Somaliancestry — though police don’tconsider that “relevant to themotivation for his actions.” Nor-way’s National Criminal Investi-gation Service said he had leftthe Scandinavian country in2002, when he was a small child.
The name of the dead woman,thought to be in her 60s, hasn’t
been released. U.S. AmbassadorMatthew Barzun confirmed shewas American, tweeting: “Heart-breaking news that a U.S. citizenwas killed in #RussellSquare at-tack. My prayers are with all thevictims and their loved ones.”
Two Australians, an Israeli, anAmerican and a British citizenwere wounded, none with life-threatening injuries.
Police said a British man witha stab wound to his stomach re-mains hospitalized. The fourothers were treated and releasedThursday.
While knife crime is a regularoccurrence in London — therehave been two other bladekillings this week — the scaleand randomness of the rampagerattled nerves. It came just daysafter authorities warned theBritish public to be vigilant inlight of attacks inspired by theIslamic State group elsewhere inEurope.
Student Megan Sharrock, 18,looked out her window and sawsomeone lying on the sidewalkunder a blanket.
“There was like two rivers ofblood running away from theperson so we thought, yeah,someone has been killed,” shesaid.
“It’s really shocking, (a) scaryworld we live in to think thatcould happen,” she said. “Thatcould happen to anyone, justwalking down the street.”
Helen Edwards, 33, who lives
in the area, came out for a walkand found it thronging witharmed police near. In a city withvivid memories of the deadlyJuly 7, 2005, bomb attacks onpublic transport — two of whichstruck near Russell Square —she immediately suspected thatan attack had occurred.
“There is always that thing inthe back of your mind,” she said.“You live with that threat of ter-rorism or other crimes in theback of your mind. It wasn’t ahuge shock I guess.”
The response to the attack iscomplicated by the frequentoverlap between terrorism andmental illness.
Many “lone wolf” attackershave a history of mental-healthproblems, including a Syrianwho blew himself up in the Ger-man town of Ansbach last monthand a Somali man who was sen-tenced to life this week for tryingto behead a London Under-ground passenger.
Emily Corner, a researcher atUniversity College London whostudies the links between men-tal illness and terrorism, saidevery incident of major violencenow sparks the same debate:“Are they a terrorist or are theymentally ill?”
In some cases, the answer isboth, though Corner stressesthat most terrorist attackers arenot mentally ill, and most peoplewith mental illness are not vio-lent.
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Police guard the scene of a knife attack near Russell Squarein London, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Terrorism is being exam-ined as a potential motive for a knife rampage at RussellSquare, central London, that left one woman dead and fiveothers injured.
Hurricane Earl downgraded to tropical storm after drenching BelizeBELMOPAN, Belize
(AP) — Hurricane Earlwas downgraded to a trop-ical storm Thursday afterslamming into the coast ofthe Caribbean nation ofBelize with winds of 80mph (130 kph) and movinginland over Guatemalaand Mexico with heavyrains.
Earl made landfall as aCategory 1 hurricane nearBelize City and was mov-ing roughly westward, theU.S. National HurricaneCenter said. As it crossednorthern Guatemala, Earlhad sustained winds near50 mph (80 kph). It was ex-pected to continue weak-
ening to a tropical depres-sion by Thursday night orFriday morning.
The National HurricaneCenter forecast that thestorm would leave 8 to 12inches (up to 30 centime-ters) of rain over parts ofBelize, Guatemala andsouthern Mexico. Isolatedareas could receive asmuch as 18 inches (45 cen-timeters), causing floodingand mudslides.
Much of Belize waswithout electricity Thurs-day morning as residentsbegan assessing the dam-age. Around the capital,some roofs were torn off,power lines were down
and trees were uprooted.The rain continued andthere was localized flood-ing.
There was still somephone service, but televi-sion and radio stationswere largely off the air.
The country’s emergencymanagement agency is-sued a statement declaringthe “all clear” on the storm,but warned people nearrivers to head to higherground. It said all of thecountry’s dams were atflood stage.
The statement saidthere was major infra-structure damage in theoffshore cayes, as well as
in Belize City and Bel-mopan. It expected the in-ternational airport inBelize City to reopenThursday.
Mexico discontinued allwarnings associated withthe storm and Belize re-placed its hurricane warn-ing with a tropical stormwarning. The storm wascentered about 115 miles(185 kilometers) west ofBelize City and was mov-ing west near 12 mph (19kph).
Hotels along Belize’scoast and the low-lying is-lands offshore had alreadypulled in awnings andbeach chairs as the rains
from the storm beganwhipping the coastWednesday evening.
Authorities in the Mexi-can coastal state of Quin-tana Roo, to the north ofthe hurricane’s strike, re-ported some evacuations.Some people evacuatedlow-lying coastal areas innearby Guatemala.
The hurricane centersaid heavy rains would bea danger in southern Mex-ico through Saturday asEarl crosses the YucatanPeninsula into the statesof Tabasco and Veracruz.
On Wednesday, Earlraked the northern coastof Honduras with heavy
rain. Officials said a bigwave capsized a lobsterfishing boat in theCaribbean, but all but twoof the 83 people on boardwere rescued. The navywas looking for the twomissing. Authorities alsorescued four families inthe coastal city of Trujilloafter a river flooded.
Lisandro Rosales, headof Honduras’ emergencycommission, said therewere reports of large num-bers of trees and utilitypoles being knocked down.Schools and universitiesclosed across Honduras’coastal provinces, as didtwo commercial airports.
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Fed official says onerate increase mightbe needed this year
WASHINGTON (AP)— A Federal Reserve of-ficial who has been aleading supporter of aslow approach to raisinginterest rates saidWednesday that one rateincrease “could be appro-priate” this year.
Charles Evans, presi-dent of the Fed’s Chicagoregional bank, didn’tspecify whether hethought that rate in-crease should come atthe Fed’s next policymeeting in September oras late as December. Healso said he might stillprefer no rate increaseat all this year until hesees inflation risingabove its current lowlevel.
The Fed has some-times expressed concernthat it might start rais-ing rates too late and fallbehind in efforts to fightinflation. But Evans,speaking to a group ofreporters, said he isn’tsure that concern is rel-evant today given howlow inflation has re-mained. A key pricegauge favored by the Fedhas stayed below thecentral bank’s 2 percenttarget level for fouryears.
This year, Evans is notamong a group of 10 Fedofficials who have voteson the central bank’s pol-icy committee. But hedoes take part in the dis-cussions. He has been aleading proponent of ago-slow approach in rais-ing rates, arguing thatthe Fed needs not only tomaximize employmentbut also to monitor infla-tion, which has re-mained unusually low.
Inflation, excludingvolatile food and energyprices, has risen just 1.6percent over the past 12months through June.That is just a mild accel-eration from the 1.4 per-cent increase for the 12months that ended inJune 2015.
The Fed has been say-ing it plans to “carefullymonitor actual and ex-pected progress” in meet-ing its 2 percentinflation goal.
Evans said the experi-ence of Japan, which hasbeen caught in a defla-tionary cycle for morethan a decade, under-scored how important itwas for the Fed to makesure inflation was risingto a more acceptablelevel.
Olympics offers showcase fortech such as VR, payments ring
(AP) — Besides dazzling feats ofathleticism, dazzling new technolo-gies will be on display at theOlympics.
About 217 million viewers in theU.S. alone tuned in to the LondonOlympics four years ago, making itthe most watched TV event in his-tory. The television audience is ex-pected to increase for the RioOlympics, which formally open Fri-day. Others will tune in online orwatch the games in person in Rio deJaneiro, Brazil.
That makes the Olympics an ex-cellent showcase for new and emerg-ing technologies. Such brands asVisa and Samsung are taking theopportunity to show off their wares.
VISA’S PAYMENT RINGVisa, a 30-year Olympics sponsor,
is running the payment systems atthe Olympics. Visa is equippingabout 4,000 payment terminals atsouvenir shops, concession standsand other Olympic venues with awireless technology called near-field-communication, or NFC. It’sthe technology that powers mobile-payment services such as Apple Pay,Google Pay and Samsung Pay,though only Samsung’s haslaunched in Brazil.
Visa is giving payments rings to59 athletes to wear on their fingers.With a tap on an NFC payment ter-minal, they can charge their Visa ac-counts. Giving the ring to Olympicathletes like swimmer MissyFranklin and decathlete AshtonEaton lets Visa test the technology,while garnering buzz as athletestweet about them and wear themaround the Olympic village.
SAMSUNG’S SPECIAL EDITION GALAXY
Samsung, another Olympic spon-sor, is delivering a special OlympicGames edition of its Galaxy S7 Edgephone to 12,500 Olympians. Thephone is branded with the Olympicrings and has Olympics-themedwallpapers loaded on the device. Thecompany also made 2,016 of theOlympic phones for the public to buyin selected countries, includingBrazil, the U.S. and South Korea.
One feature Samsung expects tomake a splash: The phones will comewith a flag app, which athletes willbe encouraged to hold up as they
walk together by country during Fri-day’s opening ceremonies.
“They can use the entire screen ofthe S7 to become a flag,” said PioSchunker, Samsung’s global head ofbrand integrated marketing. “Theywill be waving the national flagthrough the S7.”
NBC GETS INTO VR, GETTY GOES 360
Expect to see virtual-reality con-
tent, along with 360-degree videoand images. NBC, which has televi-sion and online rights in the U.S.,plans 85 hours of VR coveragethrough the NBC Sports app onSamsung’s Gear VR headset. VRevents will include opening and clos-ing ceremonies, men’s basketball,gymnastics and track and field.They will typically be shown on aone-day delay.
Getty, the Olympics’ official pho-tography agency, launched a virtual-reality division in June to focus on360-degree images. Getty shot some360-degree images at the LondonOlympics in 2012 as the technologywas emerging. This time in Rio,every Getty photographer will havea 360-degree camera.
“We are only on the cusp of whatwill be a tectonic plate shift in VR,”Getty CEO Dawn Airey said.
Meanwhile, Facebook’s Oculus VRbusiness, which developed the tech-nology behind Gear VR, plans toshowcase more than 400 360-degreeimages from various photographers.It will be available through the Ocu-lus 360 Photos app on Gear VR andOculus’ own Rift headset.
HIGH-TECH COVERAGENBC owner Comcast Corp. is
showcasing its X1 set-top box, givingits customers a way to search for livecoverage and replays by country,athlete and sport. It’s also integrat-ing voice search into the system.Viewers, for instance, can get the lat-est medal count by speaking, “Howis the USA doing?”
The company is also offering away to zip to gold-medal event high-lights and restart events that havealready begun.
The high-tech coverage makes useof the box’s connection to the Inter-net and increasing presence in Com-cast subscriber homes. Comcast saysabout 40 percent of its 22.4 millionvideo customers have X1. Comcast isaiming to reach 50 percent by theend of the year.
The X1 innovation is one wayComcast is trying to help viewerssort through some 6,000 hours ofOlympics coverage on television andonline. If it boosts audiences for theOlympics, it’ll also help Comcast re-coup some of the $4.4 billion thatNBC paid for the U.S. broadcastrights over six years.
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This undated product image pro-vided by Samsung shows a spe-cial Olympic Games edition of itsGalaxy S7 Edge phone. Sam-sung, an Olympic sponsor, plansto deliver the phone to 12,500Olympians. The phone isbranded with the Olympic ringsand has Olympics-themed wall-papers loaded on the device.The company also made 2,016of the Olympic phones for thepublic to buy in selected coun-tries, including Brazil, the U.S.and South Korea.
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001 EmploymentDRIVERS- SOUTHERN WoodTucking Now Accepting Applica-tion for Truck Drivers, 3yrs ex-perience required, Log Truckexperience a plus, Class-A CDL,Must pass DOT drug screen &phyical, must have acceptableMVR. Benefits include BC/BSHealth & Dental, 401K & Life.Applications can be receivedMonday-Friday 7AM-3PM @Southern Wood Chips1200 Old Russellville Rd NJasper AL 35501. EOE
EARN EXTRA CASHThe Daily Mountain Eagle
is currently seeking to fillCARRIER POSITION
for the:Boldo Area
Potential Profit$400 Biweekly(205)221-4626
EARN EXTRA CASHThe Daily Mountain Eagle
is currently seeking to fillCARRIER POSITION
for the: Pineywoods-Sipsey Area
Potential Profit$300 Biweekly(205)221-4626
GARFIELD'SRESTAURANT •PubNOW HIRING ALL POSITIONSFill out your application today atwww.AARcareer.comhiring code 101
HOSPICE AIDESoutheast Hospice Network,LLC has an immediate openingfor a full Hospice Aide. Must beCertified CNA with 1-yr experi-ence in Jasper,AL. Must pos-sess and maintain current CPRcertification with the AmericanHeart Association or a recog-nized provider. Must be a li-censed driver w/an automobilethat is insured in accordancewith state/or organization re-quirements and is in good work-ing order. Fax Resumes:(205)366-9698
IMMEDIATE OPENING FORDIRECT SUPPORT STAFF &ACTIVITY COORDINATOR/SU-PERVISOR (Day Program, ex-perience requested but notrequired). Positions availableworking with people with intel-lectual disabilities. Part-time,(Days, Evenings, Night shiftsavailable, Weekends and Holi-days). Valid Alabama Driver’s Li-cense, high school diploma orGED, good criminal backgroundcheck (205)384-9353.
LPN NEEDED atThe Arc of Walker County.Candidates must have a currentnursing license with the State ofAlabama, current Alabama dri-ver’s license, and an insurabledriving record. Full-Time posi-tions are available. This positionprovides direct care and medicalneeds in a Residential settingfor individuals with intellectualand developmental disabilities.Hiring bonus within 90 days.Qualified persons may apply atThe Arc of Walker County745 Russell Dairy Road,Jasper, AL 35503 or fax aresume to 205-387-0567E.O.E. & Drug Free Workplace.
LPN/RN SUPERVISING Nurseneeded at The Arc of WalkerCounty. Candidates must havecurrent LPN/RN nursing licensewith the State of Alabama, cur-rent Alabama driver’s license,and an insurable driving record.This position will provide trainingand staff supervision regardingmedication administration in ad-dition to providing services andsupports to the Adult Programs.Hiring bonus within 90 days.Qualified persons may apply atThe Arc of Walker County745 Russell Dairy RoadJasper, AL 35503 or fax aresume to 205-387-0567.E.O.E. & Drug Free Workplace.
NEEDED: SOMEONE to cleanhouse weekly, Carbon Hill area.Must provide references.(205)924-4187.
POSITIONS AVAILABLEin Mental Health field. Applywww.nwamhc.com. EOE/DFWP
RECEPTIONIST/OFFICECLERK. Must be able to handlemultiple phone-lines & work wellw/customers.Send Resumes: P.O. Box 2607,Jasper AL. 35502
SEEKING ONE time onlyhousekeeper for heavy dutycleaning. Price negotiable. Call(205)544-4431 for appointment
001 EmploymentTHE ARC of Walker County isnow hiringService Support Specialists inthe Residential Program.Service Support Specialists pro-vide training and community in-teraction to adults withintellectual and developmentaldisabilities. Full-time positionsare available starting at $8.25/hrto include benefits and Part-timepositions are available startingat $9.25/hr. Experience pre-ferred but not required. Shifts in-clude evenings, nights, andweekends. Candidates musthave a high school diploma orequivalent, valid Alabama dri-ver's license and an insurabledriving record. $100 hiringbonus within 90 days.Qualified persons may apply atThe Arc of Walker County745 Russell Dairy RoadJasper, AL 35503 or fax aresume to (205)387-0567.E.O.E. & Drug Free Workplace
$$$$$$$$$$$$ Earn Extra Cash The Daily Mountain Eagle is
currently seeking to fill a Carrier Position
currently available in the
area listed below.
Apply in person at Daily Mountain Eagle
1301 Viking Drive Jasper, Alabama
or call 205-221-4626 All Daily Mountain Eagle Carriers are independent contractors and are not
employees of the Daily Mountain Eagle. Applicants must have
dependable, economical transportation, a valid driver’s
license and automobile insurance.
Boldo Area Potential Profit
$400. 00 Biweekly
$$$$$$$$$$$$ Earn Extra Cash The Daily Mountain Eagle is
currently seeking to fill a Carrier Position
currently available in the
area listed below.
Apply in person at Daily Mountain Eagle
1301 Viking Drive Jasper, Alabama
or call 205-221-4626 All Daily Mountain Eagle Carriers are independent contractors and are not
employees of the Daily Mountain Eagle. Applicants must have
dependable, economical transportation, a valid driver’s
license and automobile insurance.
Piney Woods / Sipsey Potential Profit
$300. 00 Biweekly
020 Announcements
Free Pregnancy Test PREGNANCY &
RESOURCE CENTER 1707 2nd Avenue Jasper, AL 35501
221-5860 FRE E Info on A bortion A lternatives
025 Lost & Found
FOUND: YOUNG (M), short hairdog. After the storms on theCorner of Cordova Cut-off andHwy.78; (205)522-7402
LOST (M) Siberian Husky,White. Blue eyes, 6yrs. old.Wearing blue collar. Went miss-ing from the Nauvoo areaWednesday (7/27). REWARDfor any info. (205)522-0877(205)300-4606
LOST: (2) Doberman's, 4mo.old. M (red) & F (black/tan).Went missing Friday 7/29 fromUnion Chapel area (Cordova)205-275-9580
040 Service & Repair
North AL Roofing & Constr. • Metal & Shingle • Add-ons
• Vinyl • Painting • Etc. Great Prices! Better Quality!
Free Est. • Licensed 256-856-0484
040 Service & RepairDOZER TRACK hoe work, topsoil, fill dirt & rock hauling. Landclearing, Ponds built & TrailerPads built. ALSO Demolition;(205)221-2112 (205)544-5592
STAY OUT OF THE SUMMERHEAT
& LET US do the yard clean-up,leaf raking,
hedge trimming &pressure washing.
We will do ANYYard Clean-up, Maintenance
& Haul-off what you need done!NOW Specializing in
Deck building.You name it. I’ll do it!No Contract required.
No Job Too Big or Too Small!Reasonable rates.FREE ESTIMATESNOW ACCEPTINGCREDIT CARDS
OR DEBIT CARDS205-471-6022
GOOD USED Tires! Flats Fixed.15 miles North of Jasper. Nau-voo Hwy#5. (205)259-9109
MONEY PLEDGERHauling, Excavating and TreeService. Gravel, Sand Red rock,Fill-dirt and Topsoil. Septic Sys-tems. Demolition and Clearing.(205)221-4670
RED RYDER HAULINGCrushed stone, gravel, sand,lime, red-rock, topsoil(205)384-4932(205)302-5675 (205)302-2315.
045 Pets & SuppliesFREE KITTENS (2), black togood homes. ALSO (2) Chows.ALL house trained & wormed.(205)265-0303
FREE TO GOOD HOMES, 2black male puppies. Approx., 10weeks old. Must provide vet ref-erences. Call (205)613-1169.
060 Boats & Marine16' BOMBER BASS BOAT,55H.P., Evinrude. Foot controltrolling motor, live well andstorage compartment. (205)221-7360.
FOR SALE: 2006 G3 AluminumBoat,17.5ft; Stick-Steering,8.5hp Yamaha motor,Minnekota Trolling motor.(205)544-4385
085 Yard Sales4 FAMILY YARD SALE, Satur-day, starting at 6:00a.m. 10077th Street N.E., Jasper, offAirport Road. Follow signs.
4-FAMILY YARD Sale,Saturday 8AM; 320 14th Ave W.beside First Nazarene Church.Back to School clothes, ladieswear, some furniture, householditems.No Junk!
085 Yard SalesBACK TO School Yard Sale,Friday–Saturday; Off 257(Curry) on Sunlight Road
FRIDAY ONLY! Going Out ofBusiness Sale. Antique Furni-ture, Antiques, Clothes, Do-Dads & What-Knots, Books. AtIndoor Market, Old BirminghamHwy & Gardner's Gin Road.Everything Must Go!!
GARAGE SALE Saturday Only.7AM-? 403 Wildwood CircleJasper. Lots of Everything!!
HUGE YARD Sale, Friday;7AM-4PM. Freedom Assembly(Curry Hwy.)
INDOOR YARD SALE, 7 DaysA Week. Shadow Brook Inn,27948 Hwy.118. Refrigerator's,Furniture, Washing Machine's,etc. 10% off everything!(205)275-2982 (205)689-3238
INDOOR YARD Sale. WilliamsChapel UMC, Rt.69 North, 3/4mile Past P.J.'s; August 4th, 5th,6th; 8AM; No Early Birds
INSIDE YARD Sale, Saturday8/6th; 7AM-Noon. AldridgeCommunity Missionary BaptistChurch, Vining Road, Parrish.Rain or Shine
MOVING SALE, Saturday. 251Lakeshore Drive (off Smith LakeRoad, Curry)
MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE.Friday, 8:00am-? SaragossaFire Department Station 2 offRedmill Saragossa Road. Lotsof name brand clothes, furniture,toys, lots more.
YARD SALE, August 5th, 6th;2445 Country Club Road,Jasper. 7AM-1PM each day.Misses and Plus size clothing(some new)
YARD SALE, Friday–Saturday;7AM-? Union Chapel on LisaRoad. Scrubs, Men Stuff, NewStuff, Educational Toys, BoysStuff
095 MerchandiseCRAFTSMAN RIDING mower,19hp., 46in. cut. Used six times.$1,200; (205)522-4305
BEST PRICES in Townon Portable Buildings! Quik 3Day Delivery! Cash orRent-To-Own! Paymentsstarting @ $58 per month!The Storage PlaceHwy.78E between Family Thriftand HandyTV (205)221-0105
095 Merchandise
D & V Sales 710 North Parkland • Jasper
387-0240
We’re Back! NOW OPEN
Tuesday through Friday
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
275-2107
HUDSON PAWN & GUN SHOP
221-7020 (behind Tractor Supply)
for broken & scrap jewelry,
for gold, for good used
firearms!
We offer CA$H! CA$H!
CA$H!
$$$ $$$
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GOLF CARTS!Starting @ just $1,950!The Storage PlaceHwy.78E between Family Thriftand HandyTV (205)221-0105
K KAWAI Grand Piano, RX1,with bench & 2 covers. 7.5 ft x 5ft including bench. 8 yrs old,ebony, tuned every six months,in warranty, perfect condition.$9000, 205-295-2299
TANNING BED FOR SALE,Sunburst 2400; $500. Call(205)265-8010.
THREE PALS Inflatablesnow has Snow Cone Machine& Air Dancer For Rent.(205)522-8751
115 Rent or Lease2BR HOUSE. Carport, All Appli-ances (exceptional). $750mo +deposit. (205)302-0558
MINI-WAREHOUSE UNITSNow Available from 5x10 to10x20. Low Monthly Rates.Security.U-Stor-It Hwy.78E betweenFamily Thrift and HandyTV(205)221-0105
New Appliances,Hardwoods,Partially finished Basement,
Garage, Playhouse, (2)Decks.5 minutes from Sumiton Wal-
Mart. $129,500;(205)514-7418
SOLD!!3BR/2BA House
1107 11th Street NE. Go tohttps//jasperhouseforsale.
blogspot.comfor additional Photos & Info;
SOLD!!
127 Money To LoanADVANCE-FEE LOANSOR CREDIT OFFERS
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135 Motorcycles
2004 HONDA GoldwingGL1800, Flare Red, excellentcondition. Garage condition,low mileage 14,958.$2600 in extra accessoriesincluded. Color matched dash,Kuryakyn driver floorboards,heal toe shifter, matchingcruise boards, NEW oversizeTyphoon II windshield & manymore. Priced $12,000; NelsonKimberly (205)601-3938
1987 CHEVY ASTRO VAN. Lowmileage, new tires, good condi-tion. 205-522-4345.
2002 DODGE 2500. 5.9 Cum-mins Diesel Automatic. Verygood work truck with A/C. Ask-ing $8,750; (205)384-3446
150 Legals
LEGAL NOTICEPursuant to Section 9-16-70 etseq., Alabama Code, 1975,McWane, Inc., Empire TownCreek Mine, hereby gives no-tice that it has filed a Phase I,bond release application withthe Alabama Surface MiningCommission for release of per-formance bond for Permit P-3219, Increment No. 12. Thearea of land for which bond re-lease is requested consists of126.0 acres in Increment 12, alllocated in:The SE/SW, SW/SE & SW/SWof Section 14; the NE/NE,SE/NE, SW/NE, NE/SE, SE/SE,SW/SE & NW/SE of Section 22;the NE/NE, SE/NE, SW/NE,NW/NE, NE/NW, SE/NW,SW/NW & NW/NW of Section23; the SW/NW & NW/SW ofSection 24; the NE/NE &NW/NE of Section 27, Township14 South, Range 5 West, all inWalker County, Alabama.The permittee maintains that asof July 25, 2016 all require-ments including backfilling, re-grading and drainage control ofthe area has been completed incompliance with State Law andRegulations and the approvedreclamation plan. The permit-tee, therefore, is requesting re-lease of $224,940.00 of theperformance bond $374,900.00for Increment 12.Any objections to the release orrequest for informal conferencemust be sent in writing to:Alabama Surface Mining Com-mission, P. O. Box 2390,Jasper, Alabama 35502-2390.Such requests must be re-ceived no later than September05, 2016.*July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 2016
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE
Default having been made inthe terms of that mortgage exe-cuted on November 26, 2013by Steven J. Moon and Rox-anne Moon, husband andwife, to EvaBank, which saidmortgage is recorded in BookDML 2370, Page 124 in theProbate Office of WalkerCounty, Alabama, and defaultcontinuing, and by virtue of thepower of sale contained in saidmortgage, the following de-scribed property will be sold atpublic outcry, for cash, to thehighest bidder, in front of theCourthouse door of JeffersonCounty, in Birmingham, Ala-bama, during the legal hours ofsale on August 26, 2016:(Jefferson County) Lot 27, ac-cording to the Revised Surveyof Riverside Estates, asrecorded in Map Book 94, Page7, in the Probate Office of Jef-ferson County, AlabamaAnd Also: (Walker County)A parcel of land in the NE 1/4 ofSection 33, Township 15 South,Range 8 West, Walker County,Alabama, more particularly de-scribed as follows: Commenceat the Southeast corner of theNW 1/4 of the NE 1/4; thenceSouth 88 degrees 29 minutes03 seconds West along theSouth boundary of said 1/4-1/4,9.85 feet to the point of begin-ning; thence North 09 degrees35 minutes 14 seconds West363.57 feet to the center ofCounty Road 1068, said roadhaving a prescriptive right ofway; thence South 86 degrees48 minutes 11 seconds Eastalong the centerline of saidroad, 152.30 feet; thenceSoutheasterly along the arc of acurve to the left 14.63 feet (ra-dius 356.52 feet, delta 2 de-grees 21 minutes 06 seconds,chord South 87 degrees 58minutes 44 seconds East 14.63feet); thence South 13 degrees16 minutes 27 seconds East431.58 feet; thence South 76degrees 30 minutes 48 sec-onds West 191.06 feet; North09 degrees 35 minutes 14 sec-onds West 116.76 feet to thepoint of beginning. Containing
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSUREDefault having been made in thepayment of the indebtednesssecured by that certain mort-gage dated January 22, 2009,executed by Amanda W. Bootha/k/a Amanda K. Booth andGary Douglas Booth, wife andhusband, to Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.solely as nominee for QuickenLoans Inc., which mortgage wasrecorded on February 9, 2009,in DML Book 2165, Page 601, ofthe mortgage records in the Of-fice of the Judge of Probate ofWalker County, Alabama, whichmortgage was, duly transferredand assigned to MTGLQ In-vestors, LP, notice is herebygiven that pursuant to law andthe power of sale contained insaid mortgage, the undersignedwill sell at public outcry, to thehighest bidder for cash, in frontof the Main entrance to theWalker County Courthouse atJasper, Alabama, during thelegal hours of sale on August30, 2016, the following de-scribed real estate, situated inWalker County, Alabama, to-wit:A parcel of land located in theNorthwest 1/4 of the Southeast1/4 of Section 33, Township 13South, Range 6 West, WalkerCounty, Alabama, more particu-larly described as follows: Com-mence at the Southeast cornerof the Northwest 1/4 of theSoutheast 1/4 of Section 33,Township 13 South, Range 6West, and go north along theEast boundary of said Quarter-Quarter for a distance of 595.44feet to the point of beginning;thence continue North along theEast boundary of said Quarter-Quarter for a distance of 320.37feet; thence turn an angle left of124 degrees 23 minutes for adistance of 323.89 feet; thenceturn a direct angle to the left of174 degrees 04 minutes 49 sec-onds for a distance of 30 feet;thence turn an angle to the leftof 90 degrees 00 minutes for adistance of 250.23 feet to theNorth right of way of CountyRoad No. 1530; thence turn adirect angle to the right of 89 de-grees 25 minutes 42 secondsfor a chord distance of 199.48feet to the point of beginning.
This sale is made for the pur-pose of paying the indebtednesssecured by said mortgage aswell as expenses of foreclosure.This property will be sold on an“as is, where is” basis, subjectto any easements, encum-brances, and exceptions re-flected in the mortgage andthose contained in the recordsof the office of the Judge of Pro-bate of the County where theabove-described property is sit-uated. This property will be soldwithout warranty or recourse,expressed or implied as to con-dition, title, use and/or enjoy-ment and will be sold subject tothe right of redemption of allparties entitled thereto.
Alabama law gives some per-sons who have an interest inproperty the right to redeem theproperty under certain circum-stances. Programs may alsoexist that help persons avoid ordelay the foreclosure process.An attorney should be consultedto help you understand theserights and programs as a part ofthe foreclosure process.MTGLQ Investors, LPTransfereeRobert J. Wermuth/rgdStephens Millirons, P.C.P.O. Box 307Huntsville, Alabama 35804Attorney for MortgageeDaily Mountain Eagle*August 5, 12, 19, 2016
NOTICE OF CONTINUATIONOF MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALEDefault having been made inthe payment of the indebted-ness secured by that certainReal Estate Mortgage and Se-curity Agreement dated as ofDecember 28, 2005, granted byRobert Dawkins, Jr. (the "Mort-gagor") in favor of First NationalBank of Jasper, a division ofSynovus Bank (the "Lender")and recorded in the Office ofthe Judge of Probate of WalkerCounty, Alabama (the "Record-ing Office") in DML BK 1992 PG323 (the "Mortgage"); which de-fault continues, the under-signed, as mortgagee, underand by virtue of the power ofsale contained in said Mortgageand as provided under the lawsof the State of Alabama appli-cable to the foreclosure of de-faulted mortgages, will sell atpublic outcry to the highest bid-der for cash in front of the mainentrance of the Walker County,Alabama Courthouse located inJasper, Alabama, on the 22ndday of July, 2016, during thelegal hours of sale, all of thefollowing described property,rights, interests and estates,now or hereafter acquired byMortgagor, situated in WalkerCounty, Alabama (which prop-erty is hereinafter referred tocollectively as the "Property"),to wit:Parcel I:Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18of Block 4 according to the Mapof Cole and Moore Addition to
150 Legalsthe City of Jasper, Alabama.Surface Only.Parcel II:A parcel of land situated in theNortheast quarter of the South-west quarter of Section 14,Township 15 South, Range 7West Walker County, Alabamabeing more particularly de-scribed as follows.Commence at the Southeastcorner of said quarter-quarterSection and run North 88 de-grees 45 minutes 00 secondsWest along the South line ofsaid quarter-quarter Section fora distance of 852.36 feet;thence leaving said South linerun North 01 degrees 19 min-utes 06 seconds West for a dis-tance of 591.92 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING of theproperty herein described;thence continue along the lastdescribed course for a distanceof 156.54 feet; thence runSouth 88 degrees 48 minutes37 seconds East for a distanceof 329.84 feet; thence runSouth 01 degrees 19 minutes57 seconds East for a distanceof 600.67 feet to a point in thecenterline of Albritton Road(Prescriptive R.O.W.), saidpoint also being on a curveturning to the left, said curvehaving a radius of 407.96 feet,a central angle of 16 degrees13 minutes 06 seconds, achord length of 115.09 feet, anda chord bearing of South 55 de-grees 45 minutes 08 secondsWest; thence run along the arcof said curve and along saidcenterline for a distance of115.48 feet to the point of tan-gency of said curve; thence runSouth 63 degrees 51 minutes41 seconds West along a linetangent to said curve and alongsaid centerline for a distance of50.32 feet; thence run North 09degrees 49 minutes 27 sec-onds West for a distance of548.38 feet; thence run South88 degrees 37 minutes 35 sec-onds West for a distance of106.28 feet to the POINT OFBEGINNING. Said parcel con-tains 143,082 square feet or3.28 acres more or less. Lessand except any portion of prop-erty herein described that maylie within public right of way.TOGETHER WITH:
(a) all rents and other rev-enues thereof and all rights (in-cluding riparian rights),privileges, easements, tene-ments, interests, improvementsand appurtenances thereuntobelonging or in anywise apper-taining, including any after-ac-quired title and easements andall rights, title and interest nowor hereafter owned by Mort-gagors in and to all buildingsand improvements, storm andscreen windows and doors,gas, steam, electric, solar andother heating, lighting, ventilat-ing, air-conditioning, refrigerat-ing and cooking apparatus,elevators, plumbing, sprinkling,smoke, fire, and intrusion de-tection devices, and otherequipment and fixtures now orhereafter attached or appertain-ing to said premises, all ofwhich shall be deemed to bereal property and conveyed bythe Mortgage.
(b) all building materials,household appliances, equip-ment, fixtures and fittings ofevery kind or character nowowned or hereafter acquired byMortgagors, or any of them, lo-cated whether permanently ortemporarily, on the mortgagedproperty, and all building mate-rials, household appliances,equipment, fixtures and fittingsnow owned or hereafter ac-quired by Mortgagors, or any ofthem, located or stored on anyother real property, which are orshall be purchased by Mort-gagors, or any of them, for thepurpose, or with the intention,of making improvements on themortgaged property or to thepremises located on said prop-erty. The personal propertyherein transferred includes,without limitation, all lumber,bricks, building stones, buildingblocks, sand, cement, roofingmaterials, paint, doors, win-dows, storm doors, storm win-dows, nails, wires and wiring,hardware, plumbing and plumb-ing fixtures, heating and airconditioning equipment and ap-pliances, electrical and gasequipment and appliances,pipes and piping, ornamentaland decorative fixtures, and ingeneral all building materials,equipment and appliances ofevery kind and character usedor useful in connection with im-provements to real property.This sale is made for the pur-pose of paying the indebted-ness secured by saidMortgage, as well as the ex-penses of foreclosure. At thesale, the Property may be of-fered for sale and sold: (i) as awhole, (ii) as individual tracts,or (iii) in any other mannerMortgagee may elect.MORTGAGEE:FIRST NATIONAL BANKOF JASPERAttorney for FIRST NA-TIONALBANK OF JASPER:James H. HaithcockBurr & Forman LLP420 North 20th Street,Suite 3400Birmingham, Alabama 35203(205) 251-3000(Pub) *July 1, 8, 15, 2016THIS FORECLOSURE SALEHAS BEEN CONTINUED TOSEPTEMBER 14, 2016 DUR-ING THE LEGAL HOURS OFSALE IN FRONT OF THEMAIN ENTRANCE OF THEWALKER COUNTY, ALA-BAMA COURTHOUSE LO-CATED IN JASPER,ALABAMA.*August 5, 2016
150 LegalsORDINANCE OF THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THECITY OF JASPER, ALABAMAREGULATING THE OPERA-TIONS OF BREWPUBSWITHIN THE CITY OFJASPER, ALABAMA
Ordinance No. 2016-13WHEREAS, the City of Jasper,
Alabama, has previously en-acted ordinances authorizing,regulating and providing limita-tions upon the possession, con-sumption, sale and dispensingof alcoholic beverages withinthe City of Jasper, Alabama,which ordinances are collec-tively codified in the Code ofOrdinances of the City ofJasper, Alabama as Chapter 3thereof; and
WHEREAS, it has beenbrought to the attention of theCity Council of the City ofJasper, Alabama, that the Ala-bama Legislature has recentlytaken action to amend its regu-latory regimen relative to theoperation of "brewpubs" withinthe State of Alabama; and
WHEREAS, it has furtherbeen brought to the attention ofthe City Council of the City ofJasper, Alabama, that it has notheretofore made specific provi-sion for the regulation of the op-eration of such facilities withinthe City of Jasper; and
WHEREAS, the City Councilof the City of Jasper, Alabama,is of the opinion that it shouldenact reasonable restrictionsfor the operation of such "brew-pubs", and specifically relatedto the sale and dispensation ofalcoholic beverages originatingat and/or emanating from thesame, and that the City shoulddo so in a manner which is con-sistent with similar restrictionsfound in state law and the lawsof municipalities which are situ-ated similarly to the City ofJasper;BE IT THEREFORE OR-DAINED,
Section 1. Section 3-1 of theCode of Ordinances of the Cityof Jasper, Alabama is herebyamended to include the follow-ing additional definitions:
Brewpub An establishment, asdefined in §28-4A-3, Code ofAlabama (1975), which manu-factures or brews beer in aquantity not to exceed 10,000barrels within any one calendaryear, and which sells beerbrewed on the licensed prem-ises for on-premises and/or off-premises consumption.
Manufacturer A person or en-tity engaged in the production,bottling, manufacture, distilling,rectifying, or compounding ofalcoholic beverages, liquor,beer or wine.
Section 2. Section 3-15 of theCode of Ordinances of the Cityof Jasper, Alabama is herebyamended to include the follow-ing additional license:
(o) Brewpub License Eachperson licensed by the board tooperate a brewpub, as that termis defined in this Chapter andby Alabama statutes, shall payunto the City a license fee ofOne Thousand Dollars($1,000.00).
(p) Manufacturer LicenseEach person licensed by theboard to operate a manufactur-ing facility, as that term is de-fined in this Chapter and byAlabama statutes, shall payunto the City a license fee ofOne Thousand Dollars($1,000.00).
Section 3. There is herebyenacted §3-23 of the Code ofOrdinances of the City ofJasper, Alabama, which shallprovide as follows:
§ 3-23 Brewpub Regulations.(a) A person licensed to oper-
ate a brewpub by the board andthe City of Jasper, Alabama,may sell beer brewed upon thelicensed premises in unpack-aged form at retail and for on-premise consumption at thelicensed premises only, or, if thelicensed premises is locatedwithin an entertainment district,for consumption at the licensedpremises or within the enter-tainment district, subject to re-strictions or regulations uponsuch consumption as may beenacted or enforced by the Al-coholic Beverage ControlBoard.
(b) A person licensed to oper-ate a brewpub by the board andthe City of Jasper, Alabama,may sell beer brewed on the li-censed premises in packagedform at retail for off-premisesconsumption, subject to the fol-lowing provisions:
1). The largest container inwhich such beer may be sold issixty-four ounces (64 oz.)
2). The quantity sold may notexceed an aggregate, regard-less of container size, of twohundred eighty-eight ounces(288 oz.) per customer per day.
3). Each container sold mustbe sealed, labeled, packagedand taxed in accordance with
150 Legalsstate and federal laws and reg-ulations, which shall not prohibitthe re-use of containers, pro-vided that the above conditionsare satisfied in each instance.
(c) A person licensed to oper-ate a brewpub by the board andthe City of Jasper, Alabama,may purchase beer, includingdraft or keg beer, in original, un-opened containers from li-censed wholesalers and to sellsuch beer at retail for on-premises consumption only.
(d) All sales pursuant to sub-sections (a), (b) and (c) of thisSection shall comply with thefollowing regulations:
1. The premises shall be lo-cated in an area which is prop-erly zoned for the operation ofthe brewpub.
2. Beer brewed by the brew-pub shall be packaged or con-tained in barrels from which thebeer is to be dispensed only onthe premises where brewed forconsumption on the premises,or sold at retail for off-premisesconsumption in accordancewith the provisions of subsec-tion (b) above, or sold in origi-nal, unopened barrel or kegcontainers to any designatedwholesale licensee for resale toretailer licensees.
3. The brewpub must containand operate a restaurant or oth-erwise provide food for con-sumption on the premises.
4. The brewpub may sell alco-holic beverages in accordancewith the provisions hereof onlyduring such times as it is ac-tively and continuously en-gaged in the manufacture orbrewing of alcoholic beverageson the brewpub's licensedpremises.
Section 4. There is herebyenacted §3-24 of the Code ofOrdinances of the City ofJasper, Alabama, which shallprovide as follows:
§ 3-23 Regulations of RetailSales by Manufacturers.
(a) On-premises consumption.A person licensed to operate afacility for the manufacture ofalcoholic beverages by theboard and the City of Jasper,Alabama, may conduct tastingsor samplings upon its premises,as regulated by the board, or bystate statute, and may for thatpurpose give away or sell alco-holic beverages manufacturedon the premises for consump-tion on the premises wheremanufactured. In the event thata manufacturing facility is lo-cated within an entertainmentdistrict, and subject to the ap-proval of the board, consump-tion of beverages hereundershall be considered to be "onthe premises where manufac-tured" if the consumption oc-curs within the premises, orwithin the entertainment districtin which the manufacturing fa-cility is located, provided thatthe said consumption and/orpossession complies with theother regulations applicable tothe said entertainment district.
(b) Off-premises consumption.A manufacturer licensee en-gaged in the manufacture ofless than sixty thousand(60,000) barrels of beer peryear (including beer producedby a parent, subsidiary or affili-ate of the licensee, or by a con-tract brewery, regardless ofwhere produced) may sell at re-tail on its licensed premises, foroff-premises consumption, beerwhich is produced at said li-censed premises. Sales of beerpursuant to this section mustcomply with all of the following:
1). The largest container inwhich such beer may be sold issixty-four ounces (64 oz.)
2). The quantity sold may notexceed an aggregate, regard-less of container size, of twohundred eighty-eight ounces(288 oz.) per customer per day.
3). Each container sold mustbe sealed, labeled, packagedand taxed in accordance withstate and federal laws and reg-ulations, which shall not prohibitthe re-use of containers, pro-vided that the above conditionsare satisfied in each instance.
4). Such beer may not be pro-duced pursuant to a contractwith another manufacturer.
Section 5. The provisions ofthis ordinance are severable. Ifany part, section or subdivisionof this ordinance shall be heldunconstitutional or invalid forany reason, such holding shallnot be construed to invalidateor impair the remainder of thisOrdinance, which shall continuein full force and effect notwith-standing such holding.
Section 6. This Ordinanceshall become effective immedi-ately upon adoption and publi-cation as provided by law.
DONE and ORDAINED, thisthe 2nd day of August, 2016.CITY COUNCIL OF THECITY OF JASPER, ALABAMA*August 5, 2016
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Obama questionsRussian commitmentto cooperate with U.S.on peace in Syria
WASHINGTON (AP)— President BarackObama said Thursday hedoes not trust Russia tocooperate militarily withthe United States onending or slowing thecivil war in Syria butthat the propositionmust be tested to try tobring an end to the con-flict.
At a Pentagon newsconference, Obama alsocriticized Russia for itscontinuing support ofSyrian government at-tacks against oppositionforces and its sieges ofpopulated areas likeAleppo. He said Russianactions raise “very seri-ous questions” aboutMoscow’s commitment topulling the situation“back from the brink.”
His administration isexploring expanded mil-itary cooperation withRussia in Syria thatcould include intelli-gence sharing, a proposalthat some American de-fense officials have pub-licly expressed deepconcern about. Skepticsfear the Russians willtake advantage of U.S.
intelligence sharing tofurther support the gov-ernment of Syrian Presi-dent Bashar Assad, whoObama has said has lostlegitimacy to lead.
Asked why he trustedRussian PresidentVladimir Putin to coop-erate, Obama replied: “Iam not confident that wecan trust the Russiansand Vladimir Putin,which is why we have totest” them.
He said Russia mustshow it is willing to workto reduce the violenceand focus the fight onthe Islamic State groupand other extremists. Heaccused Russia of failingto take the necessarysteps to do that, addingthat deteriorating condi-tions make it imperativefor Russia to show it isserious now.
If it does not, “Russiawill have shown itselfvery clearly to be an irre-sponsible actor on theworld stage that is sup-porting a murderousregime and will have toanswer to that on the in-ternational stage,”Obama said.
Obama denies $400Mpayment to Iran was ransom
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obamavigorously denied onThursday that a $400 mil-lion cash payment to Iranwas ransom to secure therelease of four Americansjailed in Tehran. He de-fended the transaction asevidence that the nuclearaccord with Iran has al-lowed for progress on othermatters.
“This wasn’t some nefar-ious deal,” Obama saidduring a news conferenceat the Pentagon.
The money was deliv-ered to the Iranian govern-ment in January, at thesame time the nuclear dealwas settled and the Amer-icans were released. Thepayment was part of adecades-old dispute over afailed military equipmentdeal dating to the 1970s,before the Islamic revolu-tion in 1979.
Obama also answeredpolitical questions at thenews conference, pushingback at Republican nomi-nee Donald Trump’s sug-gestions that theNovember election mightbe rigged, calling the as-sertion “ridiculous.” Hesaid his advice to Trump, acandidate he has declared“unfit” for the presidency,was to “go out there andtry to win the election.”
Also, in regard to thepresidential race. Trumpand Democratic nomineeHillary Clinton will soonbe receiving classifiedbriefings, giving them ac-cess to sensitive informa-tion about nationalsecurity and America’smilitary posture. Askedwhether he was worriedabout Trump having ac-cess to such material,Obama said simply thatthose who want to be pres-ident need to start actinglike it.
“That means being ableto receive these briefingsand not spread themaround,” he said.
The president’s appear-ance before reporters fol-lowed an hours-longmeeting with militaryleaders at the Pentagon onthe fight against the Is-lamic State group.
Obama said there havebeen gains in weakeningIS in Iraq and Syria, buthe conceded the extremistgroup still poses a threatto the United States as itshifts its tactics to carry-ing out attacks elsewherearound the world. Whilethose attacks may resultin less carnage, Obamasaid IS knows they stillcreate “the kinds of fearand concern that elevatestheir profile.”
The rise of the IslamicState has kept Obama tiedto the Middle East in away he had hoped to avoidin his eighth and final yearin office.
While the U.S. has farfewer troops in the regionthan when he took office in2009, Republicans arguethat the drawdown oftroops from Iraq created avacuum that allowed the
Islamic State to thrive.Asked whether he feels
any personal disappoint-ment about not being ableto do more to stop the Is-lamic State, Obama said “Ihaven’t gotten numb to it.It bugs me.”
On Syria, the presidentcriticized Russia’s supportof government attacksagainst opposition forcesand its sieges of cities suchas Aleppo. He accusedRussia of failing to takesteps to reduce violence inSyria — where a civilwar has raged for much ofObama’s presidency —but said the U.S. wouldcontinue trying to pushMoscow to focus on thefight against IS and otherextremists.
On Iran, Obama ex-pressed surprise at criti-cism of hisadministration’s cash pay-ment to settle a longstand-ing legal claim, adamantlyrejecting claims that it wasa ransom paid for the re-lease of the four Ameri-cans.
He pointed out that the
payment, along with anadditional $1.3 billion ininterest to be paid later,was announced by the ad-ministration when it wasconcluded in January, aday after the implementa-tion of a landmark nuclearagreement with Iran. “Itwasn’t a secret. We werecompletely open about it,”he said.
Obama allowed that theone piece of new informa-tion, first reported thisweek by The Wall StreetJournal, was that the $400million was paid in cash. Itwas delivered to Iran onpalettes aboard an un-marked plane.
“The only bit of news isthat we paid cash,” he said.“The reason is because wecouldn’t send them a checkand we couldn’t wire themoney. We don’t have abanking relationship withIran which is part of thepressure we applied onthem.”
The payment has re-vived allegations fromTrump and other critics ofthe Iran nuclear deal.
The president’s sessionat the Pentagon occurredas the U.S. was bombingtargets in and around theLibyan city of Sirte, a no-table expansion of theU.S.-led coalition’s militarymission against IS. At theurging of the Pentagon,Obama authorized thestrikes that started thisweek and include precisionattacks against IS tanks,rocket launchers and fight-ing positions.
Mired in chaos followingthe ouster of strongmanMoammar Gadhafi in2011, Libya became a tar-get for IS extremists hop-ing to build a safe havenoutside its initial territoryin Iraq and Syria. Thoughthe number of IS fightersin Libya has dwindled, theU.S. is hoping to helpLibya’s fledgling U.N.-backed unity governmentfinish the job.
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President Barack Obama discusses the war onterrorism during a news conference at the Penta-gon on Thursday.
