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Yahoo
a day ago
- General
- Yahoo
Hollidaysburg man charged after leading officers on ‘reckless' pursuit
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A Hollidaysburg man is facing charges after he allegedly led multiple police departments on a high speed chase and almost hit an officer head on while he was driving in the wrong lane. James Potts, 44, is facing over 40 charges after he allegedly led officers on a high-speed chase, according to a criminal complaint. On June 2, a Pennsylvania trooper received a call to respond to a pursuit in Vintondale Borough in Cambria County. Potts, who was driving a Ford Explorer with a utility trailer attached, had fled from police on Ben Franklin Highway. Philadelphia duo arrested in Altoona with drugs after foot chase According to the complaint, while running from police, Potts's vehicle reached speeds up to 90 mph and drove into the other lanes multiple times. During the pursuit, a cruiser from the Nanty Glo Borough Police Department was damaged, and the chief of the Blacklick Township Police Department was almost struck and an officer with the Cambria Township Police Department sustained a hand injury that needed sutures. Potts eventually lost control of the vehicle and allegedly tried to flee from police into a nearby wooded area. However, he was arrested after a failed deployment of a stun gun or taser. 'This multi-jurisdictional high speed pursuit placed the lives of responding officers and the general public in danger, and occurred at high unsafe speeds in combination with reckless and careless driving,' Troopers noted in the complaint. Potts is facing felony charges of aggravated assault, fleeing officers, criminal mischief and evading arrest. He's also facing misdemeanor charges of simple assault, resisting arrest and recklessly endangering another person, along with multiple summary driving offenses. He's in the Cambria County Prison with bail set at 10% of $600,000. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 10. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The National
2 days ago
- Politics
- The National
The Yes movement itself has dreamed up barriers to independence
His perceived problem with the direct route to independence (briefly, making a UK General Election a plebiscite by a simple manifesto seeking a majority of Scottish votes for Scotland to become independent, and undertaking to implement it on such a majority, if necessary by declaration of the Scottish MPs) is that 'Westminster doesn't have to accept our legal argument in that vote, as the election is for a UK Parliament and Scotland would not be able to generate a majority of votes in Scotland alone ... Westminster can in theory prevent us from leaving ... the majority of English MPs have a veto on what Scotland does or doesn't do.' He simply fails to grasp what the direct route is all about, in viewing it as a procedure of the Union parliament and attributing to England a role and a power which it does not have. READ MORE: The lesson for the SNP as new poll puts independence support at 54% Given that a referendum is prohibited, the one and only way which actually exists for the people of Scotland to vote for the country to become independent is by plebiscitary election. If the Scottish MPs, the highest representatives of the people, are elected as indy members by the majority of votes of the people of Scotland, they will occupy virtually all the Scottish seats, mandated by those votes to take Scotland out of the Union. Legal argument does not come into it. It is an election. The purpose and result of an election is the filling of seats. English votes and English seats do not come into it, since their make-up is neither here nor there for Scottish independence, and they have no part to play. The Scottish members would have the legal, constitutional and democratic right and authority (and indeed the duty?) to fulfil the democratic imperative and carry out their mandate irrespective of other parts of the UK (reversing, this time democratically, the step into union taken three centuries ago by their predecessors). There is no prohibition of such a course. If Mr Potts or anyone else can find one, I would be interested to know. In those circumstances, the declaration of Scottish independence by its MPs cannot properly be viewed as occurring either while Scotland is part of the Union or while it is independent. It is rather the deed of an instant marking the transition from one status to the other, a normal operation in steps of great legal effect. READ MORE: Tommy Sheppard: Why I stand by my claim after fierce debate that followed it I imagine that London will actually negotiate the mechanism and details of independence with Edinburgh, but only after Scotland has voted for it and our representatives plainly demonstrate their resolve to carry it through at their own hand if necessary. Mr Potts' position is far from unique in the independence movement, most of which may indeed be with him. Heaven help us, but the fixation with English omnipotence and the barriers it can place in Scotland's way is a concoction of the movement itself, as if we were determined not to succeed. No such claim has ever emerged from London, where any rare UK Government statement on the issue has been to the effect that Scotland may go if it no longer consents to the Union. Alan Crocket Motherwell AMIDST the ongoing chaos, let it be known that Scotland's hydro, wind and other renewable energy sources are helping to keep this broken UK afloat. Yet in return, energy-rich Scotland, pays among the highest bills in the UK and indeed Europe. The SNP and all independence campaigners cannot remain silent about this grossly unfair situation. It's time for the people of Scotland to take back control, believe, stand up and deliver independence. Grant Frazer Newtonmore
Miami Herald
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
More than 100 performers come together for this Brazilian percussion party
Music is a social art. How music is played and how it's shared is informed by the community in which it's created. In turn, in ways obvious and subtle, music reflects and shapes the community that produces it. It's a process that goes as far back as humanity has been creating sound, and it's at the heart of the work of Miamibloco, a Miami-based samba drumming ensemble comprising professional musicians and community music enthusiasts. In sound and spirit, it is modeled after the blocos de carnaval that parade through the streets during the Brazilian Carnival. Reflecting the diversity of South Florida, Miamibloco often blends Afro-Brazilian samba grooves and rhythms from next-door-neighbor sources such as Dominican merengue or Puerto Rican plena but also traditions as far afield as Moroccan Gnawa. Miamibloco's 80-member strong percussion ensemble Bateria Saideira, augmented by more than 20 guests, will be performing in its fifth annual 'Saideira Social' at the Miami Beach Bandshell at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 24. Bateria is a percussion band or the rhythm section of a Samba School. Saideira is a casual term that translates as 'nightcap' (much akin to a drumming nightcap). Guests for the performance include Tato Marenco, a Colombian percussionist and gaita player (a traditional double-reed wind instrument), who brings into the mix the irresistible groove of Afro-Colombian bullerengue. Meanwhile, the samba drumming will be pushed up a notch by the presence of Brazilian master percussionists Boka Reis, from Salvador, Bahia; and Gustavo and Guilherme Oliveira, members of the rhythm section of the storied samba school Gremio Recreativo Escola de Samba Academicos de Salgueiro, which in 2023 was declared intangible cultural patrimony of Rio de Janeiro. A strong lineup of Miami-based musicians including Gilmar Gomes, Rose Max, Ramatis Moraes, and Afrobeta, round out the program. 'This show is a continuation of the idea of using the bateria as an orchestra to support different artists throughout the night and create the feeling of a mini festival,' says Brian Potts, founder, percussionist, CEO, and music director of Miamibloco. With a Ph.D. in Musical Arts from the University of Miami, Potts became passionate about Brazilian music and has been traveling to Brazil to study and perform for more than fifteen years. Having Reis and the Oliveira brothers in this performance 'means a lot to me personally,' he says. 'The way we play the drums is inspired by the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro, but in particular, it's inspired by the Salgueiro samba school,' he says. 'I've learned from Guilherme and Gustavo. I paraded with Salgueiro this year. Having them here and getting a chance to play with them is incredible for us. You are learning from masters, and it's the kind of thing that you can't learn from the books. It's experiential.' The chance to experience the samba schools' work in their home neighborhoods gave Potts insights that went beyond the music, arriving at the experience 'from a musician's perspective,' he says. 'I studied music all my life and was a classical percussionist, and then I went to Brazil and saw this incredible musical tradition. But the other thing that was very striking was its social aspect. You have 300 people playing in the bateria [the drumming ensemble, the engine room of the samba school], but when the samba school marches, you have 4,000 people in the parade. Potts say there is a rehearsal every week and different events. 'From having feijoadas (a bean and meat stew) to bringing in doctors and doing health events sponsored by the samba school for the community. They do a lot of good in terms of holding the community together and creating bonds between people. People grow up in these schools. Think of the bloco and all that it involves as a community-building technology.' He credits his partner SuOm Francis, a designer and urban planner who became Miamibloco's co-founder and Chief Operations Officer, for putting that technology to good use. 'She has a background in community building that has been huge in terms of constructing the community that we have now,' says Potts. He says when he began in 2017, he was inviting people to come and drum, mostly posting on Facebook to get interest. 'I never got more than like five to 10 people to show up at a time. I was working as a freelance musician, and it was hard for me to put too much time into the project.' After the disruptions caused by COVID-19, Miamibloco 'started for real in 2021, after the pandemic.' Francis says that she wanted to turn 'what was a small hangout thing into something by which you feel a sense of true belonging to a community. Something that's very special to me is that we have begun to have an impact on the other work that makes a bloco a bloco besides the music, which is community participation and not necessarily playing.' As for Miamibloco's going musically outside samba and incorporating other traditions, Potts credits Batuquebato, a group from Rio de Janeiro with which he has also performed. 'They are always experimenting with a bunch of different influences from all over the world,' he says. He adds that while most samba schools prepare during the year for fierce competition during carnival, Batuquebato is not competitive. 'They're focused on teaching people how to play drums, how to play with each other, and creating a community where there wasn't one before.' Music offers many lessons, from learning to play your part and understanding that no matter how seemingly small, it's necessary to the overall sound, to listening, a lost art these days. 'Creating musically interesting ideas by fusing other cultures with the sound of the bateria is amplified by the fact that you're bringing all these people together and creating community,' says Potts. 'That's the big inspiration for what we do.' If you go: WHAT: Miamibloco 5th Saideira Social with guests including Colombian gaita player and percussionist Tato Marenco, Brazilian master percussionists Bóka Reis, Gustavo & Guilherme Oliveira, and Gilmar Gomes, Rose Max & Ramatis Moraes, and Afrobeta. WHERE: Miami Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Ave., Miami Beach WHEN: 7 p.m., Saturday, May 24 COST: $47 at (Discount code VISITMIAMI ) INFORMATION: (305) 322-0875 and is a nonprofit media source for the arts featuring fresh and original stories by writers dedicated to theater, dance, visual arts, film, music and more. Don't miss a story at
Boston Globe
18-05-2025
- Health
- Boston Globe
Malcolm Potts, irreverent evangelist for contraception, dies at 90
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'Malcolm felt we were heading for catastrophe if we didn't do a better job in family planning,' said Stefano Bertozzi, a former dean at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, where Dr. Potts held an endowed chair in population and family planning. The two met when they were working on HIV prevention in Africa for different organizations. Advertisement Dr. Potts, shown in 2011, worked with the University of California Berkeley. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH/NYT 'He was a ferocious ally for women having unfettered access to the tools they needed to manage their own fertility,' Bertozzi said in an interview. The British-born Dr. Potts was rumpled, tweedy, and irreverent. He was of a generation that did not pander to political correctness, and he had a collection of ties printed with condoms. He was also one of Berkeley's most popular professors. His classes on human sexuality, at which he dispensed policy points, naughty anecdotes, and common sense, were filled to overflowing. Bertozzi called him the Bernie Sanders of Berkeley. Advertisement 'He was the biggest feminist I ever met -- and the most unlikely,' said Alisha Graves, a public-health policy expert and former student of Dr. Potts's. Together the two of them founded OASIS (the initials stand for Organizing to Advance Solutions in the Sahel), an organization that serves women in the Sahel, a region just below the Sahara that encompasses 10 countries and has been battered by climate change, poverty, and high rates of fertility -- as well as its terrible byproduct, maternal mortality. The focus of Dr. Potts was global, but his first brush with the fallout from unwanted pregnancies happened at home. A newly minted obstetrician, he was fresh out of medical school at the University of Cambridge when he was posted to a busy hospital in North London. There, he regularly treated women suffering from incomplete abortions -- meaning that they were still pregnant but losing blood. It was the early 1960s, abortion was not yet legal in England, and, Dr. Potts said, the experience was an epiphany. He opened a clinic to provide contraception to single women and vasectomies to men. And he joined a lobbying group of medical professionals working for the legalization of abortion in Britain, which happened in 1967. Dr. Potts became a well-known booster of oral contraceptives; he once told a newspaper reporter that the Pill was so safe, he would give it to his 2-year-old daughter. He famously appeared on David Frost's late-1960s talk show, 'The Frost Programme,' to debate the merits of oral contraceptives with a conservative gynecologist. The gynecologist averred that they were so dangerous, he would prescribe them only to prostitutes. Dr. Potts responded by pouring a bag of rice onto a table and picking out two grains, to indicate the percentage of women at risk of death from taking birth control pills. He then counted out 27 grains to illustrate the percentage of women at risk of dying from an unintended pregnancy. Advertisement 'It would be a service to mankind if the Pill were available in vending machines and cigarettes were placed on prescription,' Dr. Potts told Reader's Digest in 1969. (It was a sign of the times that cigarettes were then sold in vending machines, like candy.) In 1968, Dr. Potts became the medical director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. In that position, he saw firsthand how the low status of women in poor countries led to harsh outcomes in their reproductive health. He began to research ways to provide safe abortions in places where medical care was delivered in less-than-optimal conditions. He read about Harvey Karman, an eccentric activist and psychologist in training at the University of California Los Angeles, who had come up with a way of performing abortions that was safer and less painful than what was then the more frequently used method, dilation and curettage. Vacuum extraction, as the technique is called, is now the most common surgical procedure for ending a pregnancy. Dr. Potts sought out Karman, and together they refined the device he invented to perform vacuum extraction. They wrote about it for the Lancet, the British medical journal, whose editors were unaware that Dr. Potts's co-author was not a medical doctor. Dr. Potts received a grant from the US Agency for International Development to provide the device to International Planned Parenthood Federation clinics around the world. Advertisement In India, Potts traveled to Mumbai (then known as Bombay) to provide vasectomies; he set up a clinic on a train station platform because men there were fearful of hospitals. In Thailand, he organized a community-based distribution system of birth control pills and condoms, training market vendors, shopkeepers, teachers, and one undertaker to dispense them properly. A decade ago, Dr. Potts started a company called Cadence with Nap Hosang, an obstetrician who was his colleague at Berkeley, and Samantha Miller, a pharmaceutical industry veteran, to produce a birth control pill that could be sold without a prescription. After years of holdups by the Food and Drug Administration, exacerbated in recent months by layoffs at the agency, it has yet to be approved. Zena, as it's called, is a combination progesterone-estrogen pill that carries a low risk of blood clots. (An online questionnaire, should the pill receive the go-ahead, would evaluate each woman's risk.) The company has been more successful with its Morning After Pill, which is sold online, in convenience stores and in vending machines on college campuses. David Malcolm Potts was born Jan. 8, 1935, in Sunderland, England, the youngest of three sons of Kathleen (Cole) Potts and Ronald Windle Potts. He grew up in Newcastle and attended Cambridge, where he earned his medical degree and a doctorate in embryology. He was married four times. His marriages to Dera Joyce Cook and Caroline Merula Deys ended in divorce. His third wife, Marcia Jaffe Potts, died in 1993. His fourth wife, Martha Madison Campbell, died in 2022. Advertisement In addition to Iler, his stepdaughter, Dr. Potts leaves a son, Oliver Macdonald, from his first marriage; a daughter, Sarah Deyes Longlands, and a son, Henry Potts, from his second; a daughter, Sandra Potts Jaffe, from his third; two stepsons, Douglas Iler and Bruce Iler; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Dr. Potts was the author of a number of books -- not only practical textbooks on contraception, but also quirkier fare, including 'Queen Victoria's Gene: Haemophilia and the Royal Family' (1995), written with his brother William, which suggested that Queen Victoria had been illegitimate. They noted that none of her ancestors had possessed the genetic mutation for hemophilia, which she famously passed along to royalty throughout Europe. Therefore, they argued, her father could not have been Prince Edward. When the book came out, Dr. Potts told The Sunday Times of London that he thought Queen Victoria's body should be exhumed for DNA testing to settle the matter. A spokesperson for the royal family responded, 'I don't think there's been any attempt ever to dig up members of the royal family.' This article originally appeared in
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
REV Exploration Acquires Permits in Saskatchewan for Natural Hydrogen Exploration
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - May 15, 2025 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) - REV Exploration Corp. ("REV" or the "Company") (TSXV: REVX), formerly Gitennes Exploration, is pleased to announce the Company has acquired permits in Saskatchewan covering 372,571 hectares (3,726 sq. km), allowing for Natural Hydrogen exploration across highly prospective ground in the southern and north-central parts of the province (these permits are specifically referred to by the government as "Helium and Associated Gases" permits). Jordan Potts, REV Exploration CEO, commented: "Our team has carried out incredible work, based on extensive scientific research, to identify large areas of Saskatchewan with strong potential for hosting accumulations of naturally occurring hydrogen gas. This is a rapidly emerging subset of the resource sector as the race intensifies to identify the first commercial concentration of Natural Hydrogen in the earth's subsurface in North America." Mr. Potts continued: "Saskatchewan has Canada's most advanced policy framework for Natural Hydrogen exploration and development. This fact, combined with unique geology and a growing market for hydrogen in the province, gives REV Exploration exposure to what management believes will be a catalyst-rich period for the Company and its shareholders in this space over the coming months. We look forward to rolling out our broader Natural Hydrogen strategy for Western Canada over the course of the coming weeks." Appointment of Market Maker REV Exploration has appointed Independent Trading Group, Inc. ("ITG") as a market maker for its shares traded on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV"). ITG is a leading Canadian broker dealer, providing liquidity and execution services to clients around the world. As a market maker for REVX, ITG will strive to enhance the liquidity of, and contribute to a fair and orderly market for, REV Exploration shares in accordance with the policies of the TSXV by buying and selling the Company's shares on the TSXV as well as other alternative Canadian trading venues. ITG is a wholly owned subsidiary of DVX Capital Markets. The contract with ITG is on a month-to-month basis for a monthly fee of CDN $6,000, with the first full month being April 2025. The contract can be terminated by either party by providing 30 days' written notice of such termination. ITG will not receive shares or options as compensation for its services. ITG and REV Exploration are unrelated and unaffiliated entities and, at the time of the agreement for ITG's services, to the knowledge of the Company, neither ITG nor its principals have an interest, directly or indirectly, in the securities of the Company. Independent Trading Group, Inc. is a Toronto based IIROC dealer-member that specializes in market making, liquidity provision, agency execution, ultra-low latency connectivity, and bespoke algorithmic trading solutions. Established in 1992, with a focus on market structure, execution and trading, ITG has leveraged its own proprietary technology to deliver high quality liquidity provision and execution services to a broad array of public issuers and institutional investors. About REV Exploration Corp. REV Exploration is a mineral exploration company that owns a suite of gold and battery metal properties in Quebec, specifically in the Sept-Iles region (nickel, niobium and tantalum) and the Chapais-Chibougamau area (gold), in addition to a substantial portfolio of strategic Natural Hydrogen properties in Saskatchewan. All properties in both provinces are 100% owned by the Company. For further information on the Company, readers are referred to the Company's website at and its Canadian regulatory filings on SEDAR+ at REV Exploration Corp. Suite 410 325 Howe Street,B.C. V6C 1Z7 Tel: 604-682-7970info@ Jordan PottsInterim CEO, Director For further information, please contact: Chad LevesqueInvestor Relations1-306-981-4753info@ Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities laws, which is based upon the Company's current internal expectations, estimates, projections, assumptions and beliefs. The forward-looking information included in this news release is made only as of the date of this news release. 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