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House approves $7.85 billion for Hurricane Harvey aid, with Senate passage expected by week's end

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WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve a $7.85 billion Hurricane Harvey aid bill, a down payment on what is expected to be a m
WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve a $7.85 billion Hurricane Harvey aid bill, a down payment on what is expected to be a much larger federal sum to address catastrophic flooding in Texas and Louisiana.
The 419-3 vote came as another monster storm, Hurricane Irma, was barreling toward Puerto Rico and Florida. Together, the two storms could make this the most expensive hurricane season in history.
The final Harvey tally for federal aid could reach as much as $150 billion, officials estimate.
But the initial payment approved Wednesday is not a done deal. The Senate is expected to add an unrelated provision to raise the federal debt ceiling to allow the government to continue borrowing money to cover existing spending commitments and avoid an economy-shaking default. Such votes are typically contentious, splitting the Republican Party between its mainstream faction and hard-line conservatives who oppose increases in the borrowing limit to send a message against spending.
Still, Wednesday’s relatively swift House vote was seen as a good sign for those Americans in need of immediate help from federal emergency programs, and the agencies that serve them.
“Help is on the way, ” said Rep. John Culberson, a Republican who represents part of Houston. Culberson lauded the rare bipartisan achievement in remarks on the House floor.
Democrats noted that many Republicans, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, voted against a $50.5 billion relief package in 2013 following Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the Northeast, and demanded offsetting budget savings. That region is predominately Democratic-leaning, while the states devastated by Harvey, and now threatened by Irma, a Category 5 hurricane, lean heavily Republican _ leaving some Democrats seething that Republicans now are rushing to provide unconditional aid.
Rep. Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat, thanked Culberson after his floor remarks for his support of the Sandy relief package, and she recalled that he was the only Texas Republican to support it.
Another Texan, Rep. Blake Farenthold, who was among the Republican lawmakers who had vocally opposed Sandy aid in the name of fiscal restraint, said of the Harvey relief: “I urge Americans to open their hearts.”
Just before the vote, President Donald Trump met at the White House with congressional leaders from both parties to negotiate a solution to the prospective legislative fight surrounding the debt limit.
Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin, who for weeks said Congress must pass a debt limit increase unencumbered with unrelated provisions, said earlier this week that the White House wants to add the debt limit extension to Harvey relief money.
Mnuchin has said lawmakers need to act before the end of the month to avoid the risk of a default. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Treasury will run out of cash to pay the nation’s bills by early- to mid-October.
Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California said they would support raising the debt ceiling as part of the Harvey package, but only through mid-December.
Ryan called that a “ridiculous idea” and said Democrats were playing politics with the issue. Republican leaders want to authorize enough borrowing to extend the debt limit through the 2018 midterm elections, given the difficult internal politics of their party.
Trump, during the meeting with leaders on Wednesday, acknowledged there are “many, many things that are on the plate.”
“Hopefully we can solve them in a rational way, and maybe we won’ t be able to, ” he continued. “We’ ll probably know pretty much at the end of this meeting, or the meetings that we’ ll be having over a short period of time. But our country has a lot of great assets and we have some liabilities that we have to work out, so we’ ll see if we can do that.”
In addition to the debt ceiling and the pair of violent storms, Trump and party leaders need to agree on another contentious bill to finance government operations in the new fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, or face a government shutdown.
Given Trump’s action on Tuesday rescinding the 5-year-old Obama-era program protecting from deportation immigrants who came to the country illegally as children, Congress now has a six-month deadline for coming up with a replacement to become law.
In addition, Trump is trying to sell a still-unwritten tax overhaul, pitch an infrastructure plan and pass a new health care measure.

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Facebook Is Said to Seek a Shanghai Office

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Even as the social network remains blocked in China, the company’s search for a Shanghai office indicates it is growing more positive about its prospects there.
SHANGHAI — Facebook is blocked in China, but it is feeling comfortable enough there to look for its own place.
The social media giant in recent months has quietly scouted for office space in Shanghai, according to two people with knowledge of its efforts there. Those offices would house employees working on Facebook’s effort to make hardware but could also help with its broader ambitions in China, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plans.
Facebook’s plans are tentative, the people said, and would depend on approval from the Chinese government. But if successful, it would be a symbolic victory for the social network, which has long worked to get into China despite being blocked there for nearly a decade.
“We have long said that we are interested in China, and are spending time understanding and learning more about the country in different ways, ” a Facebook spokeswoman said in response to questions about the office plans.
Facebook has been looking for momentum in China, home of the world’s largest population of online users. Earlier this year, it quietly authorized the release by a small local company of a Chinese version of its Moments photo-managing app.
Despite being obstructed in China, Facebook has many reasons to continue pursuing business there. The social network sells advertising to Chinese companies hoping to reach the rest of the world. The Chinese ad sales, supported from its office in Hong Kong, are some of the largest in Asia. Even China’s government propaganda organs use it.
Facebook’s new hardware ambitions would require a Chinese presence as well. The initiatives would require plugging into China’s electronics supply chain, which helps build some of the world’s most popular gadgets, like Apple’s iPhone. The office would first be used by employees of Facebook’s hardware effort, called Building 8, according to the people with knowledge of the plans. Anything from an internet-connected medical device to a drone requires coordination with dozens of Chinese producers and assemblers, mostly located in the southern part of the country.
Facebook has for years entertained the idea of a Chinese office. In late 2015, it obtained a license to open an office in Beijing, but the permit lasted only three months and it could not establish a space in that time. Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook bought three years ago, already has a Shanghai office.
At the moment, Facebook uses third parties and its own employees to sell ads in China. Because of cybersecurity concerns, Facebook employees run special security software on devices when they travel in China and do not have access to secretive or critical business information.
Opening an office in Shanghai allows more support for its employees when they are in China, but also raises security questions. The Building 8 teams, which focus on their own hardware projects, would have less need to access sensitive Facebook data when in China, one person said. The office could also help Facebook work more with local Chinese companies.
If it opens a Shanghai office, Facebook would not be the only Western internet company banned in the country to have some space there. Google, which pulled its servers out of China in 2010 after it decided to stop censoring search results, retained offices in Beijing and Shanghai that support both advertising and research and development. Google still maintains extensive advertising sales and research facilities there.
Facebook over the past three years has pulled out all the stops to court the Chinese government and gain approval for its network. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, has showed off his Mandarin at one of the country’s top universities and has directly courted Xi Jinping, China’s president.
The office search comes just months after Facebook released the Chinese-language version of Moments. That app, called Colorful Balloons, originally went largely unnoticed but briefly rose into the top 50 in the photo and video section of China’s iPhone app store after The New York Times reported its release last month, according to app research company App Annie.
Like other cities in China, Shanghai has been eager to attract technology start-ups and other internet-related investments.
Earlier this year, a woman listed as the executive director of the company that released Colorful Balloons on Facebook’s behalf was photographed at a meeting between Shanghai government officials and Facebook. In order to open an office in Shanghai, Facebook will likely have to register a branch company in Shanghai as well.
That the Colorful Balloons app has not come down could be a sign that Facebook has done something right with the government, said Teng Bingsheng, a professor at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Opening an office, if it happens, would be another sign.
“It has symbolic meaning, ” Mr. Teng said, “because it must be the result of good communication with the government.”

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乳がん検診で女性盗撮＝医師を書類送検－大阪府警

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担当した乳がん検診で受診者の 女性の 姿を盗撮するなどしたとして、 大阪府警岸和田署は６日、 軽犯罪法違反などの 疑いで、 大阪市内の 病院に勤務していた医師の 男（４９）＝同府松原市松ケ丘＝を書類送検した。 容疑を認めているという。 ＮＨＫ職員を逮捕＝女子シャワー室で盗撮容疑
担当した乳がん検診で受診者の女性の姿を盗撮するなどしたとして、大阪府警岸和田署は６日、軽犯罪法違反などの疑いで、大阪市内の病院に勤務していた医師の男（４９）＝同府松原市松ケ丘＝を書類送検した。容疑を認めているという。
ＮＨＫ職員を逮捕＝女子シャワー室で盗撮容疑－沖縄県警
送検容疑は昨年１０月～今年６月、岸和田市役所や府内企業など３カ所の定期健診で、乳がん検診などを受けた女性の上半身裸の動画をスマートフォンで撮影するなどした疑い。 同署などによると、男は６月２７日に実施した同市役所の健康診断で、約１５０人分の乳がん検診のエコー検査や触診を１人で担当。受診した女性職員が男の不審な動きに気付き、相談を受けた市が同署に通報した。（2017/09/06-18: 42）
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As the middle class abandons football, can the NFL survive?

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To witness the death of the multibillion-dollar National Football League, you don’t need to see sportswriters wringing their hands over the moral…
To witness the death of the multibillion-dollar National Football League, you don’t need to see sportswriters wringing their hands over the moral dilemma of covering America’s Roman circus of brain trauma.
And you don’t need to watch multimillionaire football stars, pampered for most of their lives, ostentatiously disrespecting the national anthem, kneeling, their raised fists in the air.
You don’t need to see the desperation in the NFL’s television commercials: actresses in team gear, holding snack trays to feed their (virtual) extended team-gear-wearing families, as the NFL begs middle-class women to mother their game before it dies.
You don’t have to do any of that to see how football is dying.
All you have to do is go out to a youth football field, as I did on Sunday morning, and talk to parents and coaches.
«Just four years ago, we had so many boys signing up for football, we had five teams at this fourth-grade level, » says John Herrera, a dad, software engineer and football coach of the Wheaton Rams in the Bill George Youth Football League in the western suburbs of Chicago.
«And from five teams of fourth-graders four years ago, what do we have now? One team. Just one.»
Out on the field, the Wheaton Rams and the Lyons Tigers were going at it, having fun. Parents and grandparents watched, sipping lattes, a few dads nervously pacing the sidelines as dads always do, willing prowess on their sons.
But what do the numbers from the hometown of the Wheaton Ice Man, the great Red Grange, tell us about football in America?
«If dropping from five teams of fourth-graders to one doesn’t tell you what’s happening, nothing will, » Herrera said. «Football is such a great game, it teaches great lessons to young men. But I’ve got a sense of dread for this game of football that I love.»
Herrera cares about the lessons the game can teach. He and other coaches are deadly serious about instilling «heads up» tackling techniques to protect the heads of their players.
«But it’s the parents, » he said. «They’re worried about the brain.»
It is all about the brain. The brains that are injured in the game, yes, but also about how the human mind works, as the American middle class withdraws from football, a cultural trend that will cut the NFL away from American virtue.
What is virtuous about brain damage? I’d prefer to watch prizefighters. At least prizefighting is honest about its violence. It doesn’t wrap itself up in mom and apple pie.
Four years ago I wrote a column saying that football was dead in this country, as dead as the Marlboro Man, though it didn’t know it yet.
Putting your kids in football would be akin to giving them cigarettes, and leave you to face the withering judgment of your friends and neighbors.
I was hated for it, accused of wussifying American boys. Some even called me a liberal. Now though, years later, the water is warm and others have jumped in, as the feeding frenzy around the NFL becomes undeniable.
Without that feeder system to provide fresh meat and fresh brains for the NFL meat grinder, the NFL as we know it is doomed.
There is still enough talent and size to fill the ranks. And gambling drives the game along. But without its connection to the middle class, the NFL loses what it can’t afford to lose: market share.
You really think the NFL is worried about young athletes? If so, they’d have changed the rules years ago, abandoning face masks, enlarging the ball to make it difficult to throw, switching to one-platoon football.
But they’re not worried about players. They’re worried about their money.
Parents read the news, they know about concussions and CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. While a recent study wasn’t random — brains were donated by concerned families — the analysis by Boston University showed that of 111 brains from NFL players, 110 suffered CTE, a condition that causes depression, psychosis, dementia, memory loss and death.
And what does science tell us?
It’s not the concussions that are killing football. Every sport has danger in it, and concussions can happen in basketball, soccer, perhaps even badminton, for all I know.
And as a soccer dad with two sons playing in college, I’ve spent my share of nights in emergency rooms. Concussions happen when brave athletes collide, and mostly it’s the brave ones who get hurt.
There has been a pathetic and desperate spin by football to lump soccer and other contact sports into the discussion to save itself. But it can’t. Because what makes football different from the others is the design of the game — sending bodies crashing in high-speed, high-impact collisions. It is what makes it awesome and dangerous and fun to play.
Heads get in the way. And football provides not only concussions, but by design, multiple hits to the head. There is no getting around this.
«Sure I’m concerned, » said one of the moms at the game, a lawyer who is no stranger to courtroom debates about liability. «But he loves the game so much. We haven’t made a decision as to how long he’ll play. At this level, they’re just learning, they’re not big enough to hurt each other. Later? I’m thinking about it.»
Parents of youth football players are already feeling pressure and social stigma.
«It’s not like smoking, yet, » said one dad. «But it’s getting there.»
It’s already there, Dad. It’s there.
John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, which first published this column. Email: jskass@chicagotribune.com

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China's Xi tells Trump that North Korea nuclear issue must be solved via talks

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China is focused on solving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue through talks and peaceful means, Chinese President Xi Jinping told U. S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Wednesday, according to China’s official Xinhua news agency.
BEIJING: China is focussed on solving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue through talks and peaceful means, Chinese President Xi Jinping told U. S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Wednesday.
The United States and South Korea have asked the United Nations to consider tough new sanctions on North Korea after its nuclear test on Sunday that Pyongyang said was an advanced hydrogen bomb.
Washington and its allies have said there is a growing urgency for China, North Korea’s top ally and trading partner, to apply more pressure on its already isolated neighbour to get it to back down on its nuclear weapons and missiles programmes.
China’s focus on negotiations contrasts with Trump’s assertions over the last few days that now was not the time to focus on talks with North Korea.
In a telephone call with U. K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday, “President Trump reiterated that now is not the time to talk to North Korea, and made clear that all options remain open to defend the United States and its allies against North Korean aggression, ” the White House said on Wednesday.
However, the issue was not mentioned in a separate White House statement on the Trump-Xi call, which said only that the two leaders recognised the danger posed by North Korea and committed to working together with the goal of denuclearising the Korean Peninsula.
Earlier, a statement from China’s foreign ministry said China «unswervingly» works to realise denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula and to safeguard the international nuclear non-proliferation system, Xi told Trump.
«At the same time, we always persist in safeguarding peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and resolving the issue through dialogue and consultation, » Xi said.
«It is necessary to stay on the path of a peaceful solution.»
Xi also said that China attaches importance to Trump’s visit to China later this year.
The statement cited Trump as saying that the United States was deeply concerned about the Korean nuclear issue and that it valued China’s «important role» in resolving the problem.
U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday of «begging for war» and urged the Security Council to impose the «strongest possible» sanctions.
Beijing has said reining in North Korea is not chiefly its responsibility, and has expressed doubts that U. N. economic sanctions, which it has backed, will resolve the situation.
Sanctions so far appear to have done little to stop North Korea from boosting its nuclear and missile capacity as it faces off with Trump, who has vowed to stop Pyongyang from being able to hit the U. S. mainland with a nuclear weapon.
It is unclear if China will back further sanctions. Beijing fears that completely cutting off North Korea could lead to its collapse, unleashing a wave of refugees into China’s northeast.
China accounted for 92 percent of North Korea’s trade in 2016, according to South Korea. China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it would take part in Security Council discussions in «a responsible and constructive manner».
China and Russia have advocated a plan in which the United States and Seoul stop major military drills in exchange for North Korea halting its weapons programmes, but neither side is willing to budge.
Trump and Xi last spoke by telephone on Aug. 12. The White House said at the time that their relationship was «extremely close» and «will hopefully lead to a peaceful resolution of the North Korea problem.»
But tensions in China-U. S. ties have increased since Trump took office, with the U. S. president having authorized an investigation into China’s alleged theft of intellectual property, and suggesting trade relations would be linked to Beijing’s help on North Korea.
(Reporting by Michael Martina in Beijing and Doina Chiacu in Washington; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and James Dalgleish)

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Błaszczak: Mechanizm relokacji to realne zagrożenie, bezpieczeństwo jest ważniejsze

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Błaszczak: Mechanizm relokacji to realne zagrożenie, bezpieczeństwo jest ważniejsze — RMF24.pl — Bezpieczeństwo Polski i Polaków jest najważniejsze, a mechanizm relokacji stanowi realne zagrożenie — ocenił szef MSWiA Mariusz Błaszczak. Podkreślił, że
«Mechanizm relokacji narusza politykę bezpieczeństwa i stanowi realne zagrożenie, a dla nas bezpieczeństwo Polski i Polaków jest najważniejsze» — ocenił szef MSWiA, odnosząc się do słów unijnego komisarza ds. migracji Dimitrisa Awramopulosa dotyczących wykonywania przez Polskę, Czechy i Węgry decyzji o relokacji. Błaszczak, w komunikacie zamieszczonym na stronie ministerstwa, podkreślił, że Polska nie zgadza się na przekraczanie traktatowych uprawnień Komisji Europejskiej do ingerowania w kompetencje krajowe w zakresie bezpieczeństwa. «W naszym stanowisku podkreślamy, że polityka bezpieczeństwa jest polityką narodową, a nie polityką wspólnotową. Bezpieczeństwo narodowe pozostaje w zakresie wyłącznej odpowiedzialności każdego państwa członkowskiego» — zaznaczył szef resortu spraw wewnętrznych i administracji. Komisarz ds. migracji Dimitris Awramopulos zapowiedział, że jeśli Polska, Czechy i Węgry nie zaczną wykonywać decyzji o relokacji uchodźców, to Komisja Europejska rozważy skierowanie sprawy do Trybunału Sprawiedliwości UE. Szef MSWiA Mariusz Błaszczak komentując to stanowisko zaznaczył, że polityka migracyjna polskiego rządu nie zmieni się. «Polski rząd nie będzie ulegał presji i naciskom. Mechanizm relokacji narusza politykę bezpieczeństwa i stanowi realne zagrożenie, a dla nas bezpieczeństwo Polski i Polaków jest najważniejsze — podkreślił minister. Według Polski mechanizm relokacji jest błędny i stanowi zagrożenie dla całej Europy. — Jako minister spraw wewnętrznych i administracji jestem odpowiedzialny za bezpieczeństwo Polski i Polaków. Nie narażę tego bezpieczeństwa w imię ideologii multi-kulturalizmu, którą usiłuje nam narzuć Unia Europejska — zapowiedział szef MSWiA. Minister dodał, że «niestety Komisja Europejska wciąż nie wyciąga wniosków z tragedii, do jakich dochodzi na Zachodzie Europy». «Trzeba mieć świadomość, że napływające do Europy setki tysięcy imigrantów z północnej Afryki czy Bliskiego Wschodu to naturalne zaplecze dla islamskich terrorystów. W konsekwencji w europejskich miastach dochodzi do takich zamachów terrorystycznych jak ostatnio w Barcelonie» — podsumował szef MSWiA. Minister Mariusz Błaszczak w oświadczeniu przypomniał, że Polska wspiera niesienie pomocy humanitarnej i ochronę zewnętrznych granic Unii Europejskiej. Polski rząd jest solidarny wobec naszych partnerów m.in. poprzez wzmacnianie ochrony granic zewnętrznych Unii Europejskiej. Pomoc możliwa jest np. w ramach operacji inicjowanych przez FRONTEX. — Jeśli chodzi o ochronę granicy zewnętrzną UE na Węgrzech czy w Bułgarii, to jesteśmy do dyspozycji dla naszych partnerów — zapowiedział szef MSWiA.

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Butler football player, son of former NFL star, comes out as gay

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Bulldog teammates vow support for Xavier Colvin
INDIANAPOLIS – Xavier Colvin is the son of a two-time Super Bowl champion. He plays football, too.
Given that so few in his sport are openly gay, the former North Central High School linebacker was reluctant to confide in his Butler University coaches and teammates. Slowly, he reached out to them and to a campus counselor. Finally, standing on a stage holding a microphone, he told the Bulldogs his truth:
I’ m gay.
He said he is not sorry he made that public, nor sorry he waited to do so.
“I have yet to encounter anyone on the team, on campus or in my life who has been super negative about it, ” Colvin said. “And obviously, you have to be prepared for that because you can’ t please everyone. But as of this moment, I have no regrets about it.”
Colvin, 20, is a redshirt sophomore who is 5-9,210 pounds. His nickname is «X.» His major is marketing.
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His coming out was first reported by Outsports.com, a sports website that focuses on LGBT issues. Former Missouri linebacker Michael Sam came out as gay before the 2014 NFL draft, but such occurrences remain rare. There has never been an openly gay player on an active NFL roster.
Outsports reported about a half-dozen gay college football players have come out publicly this year. Marian University center Darrion McCalister did so last February.
The Butler player’s father is Rosevelt Colvin, 40, a former Broad Ripple and Purdue linebacker who played in the NFL from 1999-2008. The father won two Super Bowl rings as a member of the New England Patriots.
Xavier requested that his father not be contacted for comment.
“Me and my dad, we have a great relationship, ” Xavier said. “I get told a lot that I’ m like him.”
The son said he did not divulge his sexual identity to high school coaches or teammates. Since going public, Xavier Colvin said, former coaches have supported him.
Colvin said he first reached out to close friends and captains on Butler’s team. He spoke to coach Jeff Voris about his sexuality months ago. It has been “a non-issue, ” Voris said.
All-league running back Duvante Lane said he assured Colvin that he is one of his brothers.
“When we come to play this game together, we cry together, we bleed together, we sweat together, ” Lane said. “So I think it’s far deeper than one of those things like sexuality or race or something. We’ re tightly bonded by becoming a part of this community and team.”
Defensive lineman Connor Andras said he sensed Colvin had been guarded. After Colvin’s address to the team, Andras said, the linebacker has become one of its loudest players.
“Couldn’ t be more proud of him, how tough he is as an individual, ” Andras said. “Really inspired me to be a better person and just be comfortable in my own skin.”
Colvin said Sam’s story helped him, as did the stories of other gay athletes. He was motivated to share his story so that he could let others know they are not alone.
He acknowledged he did not come out while in high school because, among other reasons, he was unsure whether that would affect his recruitment. The Bulldogs and other members of the Pioneer Football League do not award football scholarships but actively recruit.
Colvin said his first two years at Butler were among his hardest times because college students “have so much freedom.” Yet he felt restricted. He became more at ease as he opened up to teammates.
“I just kept it to myself because it was in the best interest of me at the time, ” he said. “Because I was still trying to figure myself out. I mean, I still am now trying to figure myself out. So I have a long way to go to figure out the man I truly am. This is a step in the right direction.
“Timing is perfect. This team, this year, this coaching staff, it’s great.”
Quarterback Will Marty said Colvin is evidence that you never know what inner battle someone else might be fighting. The QB said it took “guts and courage” to stand on a stage before 105 teammates and be that vulnerable.
Colvin said the reaction of teammates, other students and alumni was “eye-opening.” All positive, he said.
He was not alone. Not at Butler.
“There’s a lot of schools that have school spirit, ” Colvin said. “But I don’ t think I’ ve ever seen anything that even matches the school spirt that Butler has.”
Call IndyStar reporter David Woods at (317) 444-6195. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidWoods007.

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Video shows suspected shoplifter slipping out of handcuffs, leading high-speed chase

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LUFKIN, Texas — A Texas woman who allegedly shoplifted merchandise from an Ulta slipped out of her handcuffs Saturday and led officers on a high speed chase.
Lufkin Police arrested Toscha Sponsler, 33, following a call for a suspected shoplifter at a Lufkin, Texas, Ulta. She was handcuffed behind her back and buckled in the back of a police unit to be taken to jail when she slipped out of one of the handcuffs and unbuckled her seatbelt.
Video released by police shows Sponsler climbing through the vehicle’s sliding partition window toward the driver’s seat. She started the vehicle and almost backed into officers behind her who were checking confiscated bags of suspected stolen merchandise.
Police drove after Sponsler for 23-minutes, at times reaching speeds of 100 mph. Multiple law enforcement agencies joined the chase.
Shortly after, troopers used a pursuit intervention technique maneuver to spin out the vehicle. Sponsler then left the road and crashed into a tree at 6: 03 p.m.
Law enforcement officials found Sponsler in possession of a felony amount of methamphetamine after she was arrested. She will also be charged with escape, evading on foot, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, possession of a controlled substance and aggravated assault of a police officer.
The stolen police vehicle, a Tahoe, is likely totaled.
No one was hurt during the chase and police say that the incident will be further reviewed to make sure the best practices were met.

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House overwhelmingly backs $7.9B aid package for Harvey victims as US disaster reserves dwindle

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The House overwhelmingly passed $ 7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief Wednesday as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down on Florida.
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down on Florida. The 419-3 vote sent the aid package — likely the first of several — to the Senate in hopes of sending the bill to President Donald Trump before dwindling federal disaster reserves run out at the end of this week.»Help is on the way, » said Texas GOP Rep. John Culberson, whose Houston district was slammed by the storm. «The scale of the tragedy is unimaginable. But in the midst of all this, and all the suffering, it really reflects the American character, how people from all over the country stepped up to help Houstonians recover from this.»The first installment in Harvey aid is to handle the immediate emergency needs and replenish Federal Emergency Management Agency reserves in advance of Hurricane Irma, which is barreling through the Caribbean toward Florida.»This is a chance to be your brother’s keeper, » said Houston Democratic Rep. Al Green. «This is chance for the unity that we express when we’re before the cameras to manifest itself in the votes that we cast here in Congress.»Far more money will be needed once more complete estimates are in this fall, and Harvey could end up exceeding the $110 billion government cost of Hurricane Katrina.»My friends and neighbors’ homes were completely flattened by Hurricane Harvey’s winds. Businesses were destroyed, » said Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas. «FEMA will be out of money in just two or three days if we don’t pass this.»Politics quickly intruded as Democratic leaders insisted they would back the measure in the Senate only if it were linked to a short-term increase in the nation’s borrowing limit, not the longer-term hike that Republicans and the Trump administration want. And some Democrats from the New York delegation reminded Texas Republicans that they opposed a larger aid bill for those harmed by Superstorm Sandy in the Northeast five years ago.»What you did to us during Superstorm Sandy should not stand, should not be done to any other people, anyplace in the country, » said Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. «We’re one country, we’re Americans. We need to help those who need help.»In the Senate, GOP leaders want to link a long-term increase in the debt limit — until 2019 — to the Harvey aid, but that plan faces opposition from conservatives and thus will need Democratic votes.»I think it’s a terrible idea, » said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N. C., who conceded that conservatives were getting outmaneuvered.»I think at this point there are bigger issues that we have to focus on, » Meadows said. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York want to retain Democratic influence and trying to ensure the Republican-controlled Congress addresses health care and immigration as the hectic fall agenda kicks off.»Given Republican difficulty in finding the votes for their plan, we believe this proposal offers a bipartisan path forward to ensure prompt delivery of Harvey aid as well as avoiding a default, while both sides work together to address government funding, DREAMERS, and health care, » Pelosi and Schumer wrote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said again Wednesday that increased Harvey costs show the importance of acting swiftly to increase the government’s debt cap to make sure there’s enough borrowed cash to pay out the surge in disaster aid. Analysts at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank, say Harvey aid wouldn’t cause a cash crunch for weeks.

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WATCH: Woman slips out of handcuffs, steals police vehicle

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Video released of woman escaping from handcuffs and stealing police unit in Lufkin, Texas.
The Lufkin Police Department released video Tuesday of a woman escaping from handcuffs and taking off with a police vehicle. Toscha Fay Sponsler, 33 of Pollok, is being held in the Angelina County Jail on a first-degree escape causing bodily injury or threat of a deadly weapon charge after she got out of her handcuffs Saturday and stole a police unit, KTRE reports. Sponsler led police on a high-speed chase, driving up to 100 mph, according to police. The chase ended when she crashed in Zavalla after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper used a pursuit intervention technique maneuver to make her lose control of the vehicle. Lufkin police said Sponsler ran off when officers responded to the parking lot of an Ulta for a call about a suspicious person or possible shoplifter. Officers arrested her where she eventually was able to escape from the handcuffs, climb through the window partition and drive off.»Throughout the chase, officers could see the 33-year-old Pollok woman reaching for the officer’s shotgun, which was mechanically locked to the vehicle, » Jessica Pebsworth told KTRE. «During the 100-mph chase, Sponsler nearly went head on with two Lufkin Police units and Constable Chad Wilson.»Police also found methamphetamine after her arrest. Meanwhile, there was heavy damage to the police unit after she crashed and will likely be totaled, Pebsworth said.

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