https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kentucky-mayoral-candidate-shot-inside-his-office/ar-AATQlKl?ocid=msedgntp
Kentucky mayoral candidate shot inside his office
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/pets/emaciated-dog-found-with-rocks-in-its-stomach-a-swollen-belly-and-no-teeth/ar-AATQqyo?ocid=msedgntp
Amalnourished dog was found in a Las Vegas junkyard after having eaten rocks in a desperate attempt to survive, causing his belly to swell up.
Volunteers from non-profit Vegas Pet Rescue Project (VPRP) found the dog—a pit bull mix now named "Anakin"—on February 3 hiding among stacks of construction material.
The dog had been roaming around the junkyard for around a month. When rescuers found him, he was barely able to walk and appeared to be frightened of humans.
"He is skin and bones and has a big swollen belly," VPRP said in a Facebook post on February 4 after the dog was found. "He also has terrible diarrhea. We will find out if he is obstructed from eating whatever he could find or what exactly is going on."
At the time of being found, Anakin weighed only around 33 pounds. This is around double his previous weight.
VPRP uncovered documents showing that Anakin was previously named Rocky and had been adopted from an animal foundation in October 2021 when he weighed around 65 pounds, according to a Facebook post.
VPRP said it was searching for his adopter and that the animal foundation was aware of the situation. It is not clear if the dog escaped or was abandoned, according to the nonprofit. The video of volunteers finding the dog, which can be upsetting to some viewers, can be seen here.
After Anakin was found, X-rays later conformed that the "emaciated" dog had "countless" rocks in his intestines and colon.
"He also has no teeth from trying to chew on them to survive. He was obviously starving and trying to satisfy his hunger pains. He is very anemic too," VPRP said in a Facebook post on February 5.
"They have hooked him up to fluids to try to flush out what they can and we are praying they come out and do not cause a critical obstruction. If they do then surgery is the only option."
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Vets considered performing surgery on the dog to remove the rocks from his body, but in the end he began to pass them on his own.
One of the vets looking after him said they were optimistic that all of the rocks would pass through his body.
"His anemia is now more on the mild side they are treating his chronic diarrhea and he is eating small amounts so we are very hopeful we think he is going to pull through out of this without surgery," VPRP said in a Facebook post on February 6.
The nonprofit said the dog had a "long way to go" and will likely stay at a veterinary clinic for a few weeks before it is safe for him to move to a foster home.
this sentance makes no sence
At the time of being found, Anakin weighed only around 33 pounds. This is around double his previous weight.
should be half
66 is double
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10511535/Former-FDA-head-Scott-Gottlieb-warns-against-delaying-application-COVID-19-vaccine-kids.html
The former head of the Food and Drug Administration has said he fears that Pfizer's decision to delay its FDA application to vaccinate children aged under five may confuse and alienate parents.
Gottlieb, who ran the FDA from 2017 to 2019, was speaking after the federal agency revealed on Friday that the application for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to be used in children aged six months to four years old had been delayed.
He said that while it is 'appropriate for the FDA to be very cautious when you're dealing with a young child', that going 'back and forth' can make people lose interest.
'I do worry though, when you have a process that has seemed to deviate over the course of time, as this one has and also the boosters have, is that people lose interest,' he said on Monday.
'If you look at the boosters, the way the federal government came out at first and said 'No we don't need boosters under any circumstances,' and then within three months, it was effectively pleading with people to 'Go out and get boosters,' - it's very hard to make that pivot.'
'It's very hard to ask consumers to make that kind of pivot. When you go back and forth on these things, people tend to get confused or lose interest and I fear that could happen in this case.'
Pfizer submitted the emergency use authorization application on February 1. It included data from the first two doses of the three-dose vaccine set to be used in younger children. A FDA advisory committee panel meeting to discuss the merits of the approval was scheduled for February 15.
The FDA said Friday it was notified by Pfizer that the company had new data regarding the shot that was worthy of being included in the decision making process.
As a result, the February 15 meeting has been pushed back to an unknown date.
Meanwhile, Gottlieb has also called on the CDC to change its national guidance on masks, which he believes is too broad.
He said that the CDC had attempted to set a 'national standard', but that didn't match the diverse rates of infection across the US.
He is calling on the agency to allow communities to make their own mask recommendations based on the local infection rates.
States have begun to lift their mandates across the US, including the governors of Democratic blue states such as Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon. Others, like New York, have lifted their indoor mask mandates but have insisted on keeping them in schools for now.
The US will be the only country in the world to vaccinate children as young as six months, if Pfizer goes ahead with its application and it is approved by the FDA.
Unlike the two-dose shot used for people aged five and older, Pfizer's shot for children aged six months to five years old is three shots.
The jab is significantly smaller as well, only three micrograms, compared to a ten microgram shot for children five to 12 and a 30 microgram shot for people 12 and up.
Pfizer initially only planned to have the two smaller doses for young children, though plans had to be changed in December after children aged three and four showed little antibody response to the first two, smaller, shots.
The FDA reportedly asked Pfizer to submit its application at the start of the month, citing a rise in pediatric Covid cases during the Omicron surge.
Trials for the third shot were not yet completed yet, though, so the first application only included the first two jabs - with a third to come later.
'The goal was to understand if two doses would provide sufficient protection to move forward with authorizing the use of the vaccine in this age group.'
Not all experts agree the shot is necessary, though.
'I think we're rethinking the way we looked at this question, because even though people are appropriately vaccinated they are still able to become infected and transmit the virus to susceptible people around them,' Meissner told DailyMail.com on February 1.
'But that's not the same setting with [this virus].'
He noted that deaths among young children from Covid have remained very low. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young children make up less than 0.1 percent of Covid deaths in America.
A statement from the FDA said that new data from Pfizer's emergency use authorization request, as well as the agency's preliminary assessment, that 'we believe additional information regarding the ongoing evaluation of a third dose should be considered as part of our decision-making for potential authorization.'
why they wanna inject kids so bad
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10512179/Connecticut-socialite-financiers-wife-53-admits-inappropriately-filming-kids.html
A Connecticut socialite has pleaded guilty to inappropriately filming minors as part of a mysterious plea deal in which other more serious child sex abuse charges were dropped.
Hadley Palmer, 53, is a mother-of-four, financier's wife and the daughter of a wealthy hedge fund owner. She lives in Belle Haven, Connecticut, in a $10million home and has four kids with her estranged husband Bradley.
Palmer is a regular on the Connecticut social scene and is regularly photographed at charity events.
In October last year, she was arrested on charges of felony voyeurism, felony invasion of privacy and felony causing injury to a child.
The voyeurism charge against her involved recording someone, naked or in their underwear, without their consent or knowledge, with 'intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desire of such person (defendant) or any other person.'
The case has however since then remained under seal with no information about what she is alleged to have done available.
According to AP reporter Dave Collins, who opposed the judge's decision to seal, the plea agreement involves prosecutors dropping charges of employing a minor in an obscene performance, a Class A felony, and possession of child pornography.
Prosecutor Daniel Cummings has not commented publicly on the case.
Palmer is due in court on August 1 for sentencing. The plea deal suggests she should serve 90 days to five years in prison.
It remains unclear what led to her arrest last October.
The New York Times first reported it today, along with details of the plea deal.
According to that report, both she and the minor victims involved asked the judge to seal the case.
Along with Palmer, a psychologist has also been charged in the case for failing to report what she is alleged to have done.
Dr. Jerome Brodlie was charged with intentionally not reporting Palmer's alleged crimes to the authorities - as he is legally bound to do.
Hadley Palmer filed for divorce from her financier husband Bradley in June 2020.
It is unclear if their divorce has been finalized.
The pair are understood to have four kids together, including one who is 19. The ages of the other children are not known.
is this bird singing
lots of doubles
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10511383/Devon-dog-owners-faced-1-000-fines-walk-pets-near-roads-cycle-paths-short-leads.html
lots of weird dog comms
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10511331/RAF-deputy-head-54-trying-retrieve-tennis-ball-shocked-neighbours-spotted-naked.html
PUBLISHED: 10:10 EST, 14 February 2022 | UPDATED: 11:17 EST, 14 February 2022
A senior RAF officer suspended after neighbours told police they had seen him moon them naked in his garden told investigators he only bent over to 'pick up a tennis ball for his dogs'.
Air Marshal Andrew Turner, 54, sent a letter to the family last week apologising for an incident he said caused 'absolutely unintentional upset'.
Neighbour Simon Herbert, also 54, had alerted police after spotting Air Marshall Turner nude in the paddock of his £1.5million thatched cottage.
When the RAF man allegedly 'bared his backside' at him he went to confront him at the home in Cane End, Oxfordshire, and then complained to Thames Valley Police, triggering an investigation.
Officers who attended the report of the 'public order incident' consulted with the CPS and Air Marshall Turner was handed a community resolution order last week.
Mr Herbert said: 'I feel like he's gotten away with it because of who he is. If it was the other way round, I'd have been arrested and charged with indecent behaviour straight away.
'But I think it's been swept under the carpet because of his very senior role within the RAF.
'He wrote us a letter as a result of the community resolution but it was a very mealy-mouthed apology.
'In the letter he just apologised for causing 'any inadvertent and absolutely unintentional upset'.
'He even apparently told police that he didn't bare his bottom at me but was in fact bending over to pick up a tennis ball for his dog. And the reason why he'd taken off his clothes was because he was hot.'
Mr Herbert's partner Leslie Stevens, 52, and her 18-year-old daughter were left 'really upset' by the incident, which happened in August last year.
But the family say the letter, addressed to Mr Herbert, Mrs Stevens and her eldest daughter dated 10 February 2022, was only signed by a squiggly monogram, rather than Air Marshal Turner's name, and did not admit how upsetting his behaviour had been, leading them to believe he was trying 'duck responsibility'.
As the RAF's 'Deputy Commander Capability', Mr Turner is essentially a deputy head of the RAF. A former special forces commander, he is in charge of making sure the service 'can deliver air and space power for the nation and project power and influence around the world'.
He is one of just two Air Marshals standing in rank just below Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston.
In a witness statement, Mr Herbert recounted how he was working on a fence when his partner rang him and told him to look over into his neighbour's paddock. He claimed: 'I was about 30 metres from Andrew at this point and only had him in my view for a second or so long, enough to realise it was Andrew and he was naked.'
He said he was shocked and left 'wondering if there were any children in the area who may come across Andrew naked'.
He continued: 'Andrew was still in the same corner of his paddock and as I approached, I could see his face as he turned towards me and had a look of shock or surprise. I could see that Andrew was fully naked not even wearing shoes.'