If you shop the cereal aisle in your supermarket, you’ll see dozens of brands on display, from the sugary and candy-like to high-fiber organic products. One of them has been available for well over 100 years. It was on this date in 1893 that a Denver restaurant owner, Henry Perky, received a patent for the creation shredded wheat. By 1901, he had set up an ultra-modern plant at Niagara Falls, called “the Palace of Light,” to make shredded wheat, and the falls became the familiar logo of the cereal, which continues as a Nabisco product. In the U.S. today, there are 217 breakfast cereal manufacturing establishments, which combined gross over $22 billion in annual sales. You can find current data on the country’s economy by downloading the America’s Economy mobile application at <www.census.gov/mobile>.
Saturday, August 2nd. One of the engines of business and personal life in the 21st century is just 23 years old this month — the World Wide Web. The concept was developed and released by two scientists at the Cern Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. At 23, the Web is quite a bit younger than the U.S. median age of 37, but in its brief life has come to shape our days with searches, shopping and communication. It took some time to get going, though: In 1997, there were just a million sites on the global network. But by 2003, that number reached 3 billion. About 75 percent of households in the U.S. have Internet access at home, which takes in some 95 percent of all homes with computers. Over a quarter of Americans over the age of 3 have multiple avenues and devices to connect to the Web. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at https://www.census.gov
Sunday, August 3rd. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Poet Emma Lazarus composed those words in 1883 to help raise funds for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. But on this date just a year earlier, Congress enacted one of the first immigration limitations in our history. The law barred entry to people thought likely to become what is called a “public charge,” or burden on society. Immigration laws have been much revised since 1882 and remain a topic of great political contention to this day. But the U.S. has for some time accepted more immigrants than any other nation. Of the roughly 309 million residents counted in the 2010 Census of Population, nearly 40 million were foreign-born and another 40 million were naturalized citizens or noncitizen immigrants. Profile America is in its 17th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
From today’s Dispatch: Anyone else troubled by a teacher charged with taking indecent liberties with a student from Jan 2013 to June 2013 who gets sentenced to 60 days suspended jail time and 48 hours of community service?
Why has a heroin charge from August of 2011 still not been resolved when it is now August 2014? Want to bet that charge will be continued or he’ll pull a no show with no consequences on August 14th when it is scheduled to be heard? How about the check forgery charge, how many years before that case is ever heard? Want to bet neither case will be heard before the coming election? If that guy is sincere and clean as the ocean breeze as he states in his emails, he would go to court and defend himself and stop expecting special treatment due to his family connections in the local legal community.
In the DA race, I never heard any candidate talk about cases being continued being a problem. The judges, attorneys and DA here need to get on the same page over the court case continuances in Vance Co because these criminals are back on the streets committing more crimes before their original cases are ever heard. Crime is a big joke here and is the single biggest problem our county faces.
Troubled is a mild word. I feel great contempt for any adult who would violate a child. Child molestation is as old as humans, as is murder and all kinds of crime. I’m ashamed our human evolution hasn’t come further. The judicial system is just as dysfunctional as our moral system. It isn’t just here. It has become evident our government is comprised of paid puppets.
The judicial system is in a shambles worldwide–there should be moral outrage over Obama
statement–“So sue me”–for starters.
As for Vance County –there had been a glimmer of moving cases along, but that seems to have slacked off to a crawl.
There IS a moral outrage over Obama, period. However, those who represent us, in our representative democracy, ARE NOT heeding our voices and are playing it safe by frittering away our funds and future. They’ll be okay ’cause they’re set for life because we pay their way. That is not how it is supposed to work, we know it, but are without a true voice. On the local level, I can only observe that it is not one bit better than the example set by our federal government. Remember, “Monkey see, Monkey do.”
For once….well maybe twice the “bloggers” on HiH have made some valid points. I also received my copy of the Daily Dispatch on Saturday and was amazed and saddened that a 30 year old male who had been entrusted to work with the youth of Vance County seemingly couldn’t stop facebooking or whatever he was doing with a 16 year old female. Where’s the public outcry? The girl gave an account of what happened…..the computers could have been seized to make sure nobody was using his facebook login as his defense atty. claimed. By the way…how did Nathan Baskerville represent him when his dad is a local Judge in the same District? Don’t you think anyone w/half a brain knows that Judge Baskerville has connections behind chamber doors? It’s another example of how poorly the image of Vance County Schools is in the neighboring counties. 60 days? Suspended? 48 hours community service? REALLY? Is that JUSTICE? What about the 16 year old who is more than likely emotionally scarred from the actions of this coward. Could he not find a female that would take him closer to his age? His name was William Ragland and if Public Records Search is correct his father works for some sort of agency in Vance County that deals with youth members. Now I’m sure daddy is really proud of this situation.
PREDATOR would best describe mr. Ragland b/c according to the LAW….even if you’re 21-22 years old and just graduated from college and happen to be teaching in your 1st year and you meet an 18-19 year old male/female at the school in which you are employed you are still NOT ALLOWED to have any type of relationship with them even though they are of age b/c you as a teacher are considered an authority figure within the confines of the bldg. that the said 18-19 year old attends. My question is where have all the moral people in the area gone? Have they all moved away and this is what we have left working with children? No wonder the graduation rate in Vance County is soooooo LOW……maybe some QUIT b/c they were being approched by adults who should know better. SHAME ON YOU WILLIAM RAGLAND…..I hope you never have a daughter and this happens to her.