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Gourmet Popcorn Shop Owner Offering Licensing Agreements
High School Science Student Building Nuclear Reactor To Create Alternative Energy Source
Springfield, IL — Pittman’s Popcorn Shop is now offering licensing agreements to indi- viduals or companies that are interested in owning their own gourmet popcorn store.
The gourmet popcorn indus- try is poised to become a $10 billion dollar industry by 2018,” says Michael Pittman, founder of Pittman’s Popcorn Shop.
“We feel we have perfected a process that now allows us to offer training, equipment pur- chasing, consulting, assistance with site selection and design, market analysis, financing re- ferrals, supplier referrals and access to the hundreds of gour- met recipes.”
He adds, “Our proven tech- niques will allow start-ups to hit the ground running. Addi- tionally, this also allows entre- preneurs the opportunity to grown their own business and brand through wholesale and
Michael Pittman is the owner of a gourmet popcorn com- pany.
retail sales, fundraising sales and in store purchases.”
For more information about
Pittman’s Popcorn Shop
and/or to place an order, visit www.pittmanspopcornshop.co m. (Orders can be shipped any- where in the continental United States.)
NEW JERSEY —-The United States is very lukewarm when it comes to nuclear power, but one high school junior from Southern New Jersey is on a mission to change that.
Steven Udotong, 16, is on a quest to build a nuclear fusor, an invention he hopes will help inspire a cleaner, more envi- ronmentally-friendly future for us all.
In order to do so, Udotong created a GoFundMe page to raise $1500 for supplies, a goal he has such exceeded in just one month.
“I grew curious after we flew by the topic of nuclear energy in my chemistry class last year. I decided to do more research
Steven Udotong, 16, has built the first phase of a nuclear re- actor that will be an alternative energy source.
and I soon learned that I could actually make a nuclear fusor.
That sparked my interest. I want people to know that there are alternate methods for ob- taining power and energy.
“Nuclear energy is a lot safer than people think.”
This past summer, Steven was accepted into the Yale Young Global Scholar Pro- gram, which allowed him to pursue the engineering work- shop at the Singapore campus. He was one of three students from New Jersey to attend. He also came to realize he would be the first Black student to build a nuclear reactor.
The first part of Steven’s in- vention is done but he still needs to raise more money to complete it.
Chattanooga Bus Driver In Fiery Crash That Killed 6 Children Indicted
NC Teen Arrested For
The 24-year-old Chat- tanooga bus driver arrested and charged in a fiery No- vember crash that killed six children was indicted Wednesday on six counts of vehicular manslaughter, ac- cording to The Chattanooga Free Press.
Johnthony Walker was charged by a grand jury with four counts of reckless aggra- vated assault, one count of reckless endangerment, one count of reckless driving and one count of use of a portable electronic device by a school bus driver, the outlet reports.
on March 24.
According to police testi-
mony during a January hear- ing, Walker was found driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone and engaged in cell phone use during the Novem- ber 21 crash, according to CNN.
Multiple children were also injured during the acci- dent. Judge J.B. Bennett delayed several lawsuits against Walker and his for- mer employer, Durham School Services, until the close of Walker’s criminal proceedings, WRCB reports.
Murdering His Mom; Had Her
Head And Knife When Caught
A North Carolina teen called 911 to let them know that he had decapitated his own mother.
According to PEOPLE, when the 18-year-old was found mo- ments later, he was carrying a large knife in one hand; the knife authorities believe he used to allegedly kill his 35- year-old mother...and her de- capitated head in the other.
Oliver Mauricio Funes Machada, who is being held without bail, has now been charged with the First Degree Murder of Yesenia Funez Beatriz Machado; who au- thorities say was stabbed so many times they lost count.
All of this before beheading her.
A Yahoo News article reports the call was made by
Johnthony Walker was charged by a grand jury.
Walker faces arraignment
Oliver Machada beheaded his mom.
Machada at 12:45 pm. When police approached the teen, they say he placed his mother’s head on the ground and al- lowed them to take him into custody without incident.
New Footage Of Moments Before Mike Brown Ferguson Shooting Emerges
FERGUSON, MO —- The 2015 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. sparked a revolution in thought in how police have shot and killed Black people at a disparate level when com- pared to whites. New footage from the moments before the 18-year-old’s death raises new questions in the case.
A new documentary, Stranger Fruit, features unreleased footage of Brown entering the convenience store near the site where a white police officer gunned him down after claims of a strong arm robbery.
The documentary, which de- buted last weekend at SWSW in Austin, Texas, examines the footage and the fact that Brown might have been part of an exchange of marijuana from far earlier in the day and not the crime he was largely ac- cused of by authorities.
The New York Times reports: Jason Pollock, a documen-
Michael Brown was fatally shot in 2015 in Ferguson.
tary filmmaker who acquired the new tape, says the footage challenges the police narrative that Mr. Brown committed a strong-armed robbery when he returned to the store around noon that day. Instead, Mr. Pollock believes that the new video shows Mr. Brown giv- ing a small bag of marijuana to store employees and receiving cigarillos in return as part of a negotiated deal. Mr. Pollock said Mr. Brown left the ciga-
rillos behind the counter for safekeeping.
“There was some type of ex- change, for one thing, for an- other,” Lesley McSpadden, Mr. Brown’s mother, says in Mr. Pollock’s documentary, “Stranger Fruit,” which pre- miered Saturday at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex., and examines the shoot- ing from the family’s perspec- tive.
But Jay Kanzler, a lawyer for the convenience store and its employees, strongly dis- putes that version of events, and said the new footage is un- related to Mr. Brown’s later visit to the store.
“There was no transaction,” Mr. Kanzler said. “There was no understanding. No agree- ment. Those folks didn’t sell him cigarillos for pot. The rea- son he gave it back is he was walking out the door with un- paid merchandise and they wanted it back.”
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