News you don't want to miss for May 6:

1. Former Oakland Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick filed a lawsuit alleging the Oakland Police Commission, which fired her earlier this year, did so as retaliation for Kirkpatrick blowing the whistle on their own wrongdoing, including seeking personal favors, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.…

News you don't want to miss for May 7:

Just a few months ago, California was sitting on an overflowing reserve fund. After covid-19, the state is now reconciling with a massive $54.3 billion deficit over the next fiscal year, Calmatters reports.…

News you don't want to miss for May 8-10:

1. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned she may consider closing some city parks, including Lake Merritt, if social distancing rules are not followed, KTVU reports.…

A travel accessory designed to provide comfort to the user during a trip contains a neck-rest, a travel cape, and an attachment mechanism. The neck-rest is removably attached to the travel cape so that the user can utilize the neck-rest and the travel cape independently. The neck-rest has a stuffing which is concealed within a hollow body of the neck-rest. The stuffing is secured in position with a fastening mechanism such as a zipper. Additionally, the neck-rest also contains a first pocket and a second pocket which are used for storing items used during travelling. For user convenience, the travel cape is designed with a first-arm receiving hole and a second-arm receiving hole. In order to transport the neck-rest and the travel cape a carrying bag is also provided. A plurality of storage pockets on the carrying bag allow the user to store items that are essential when travelling.

A nursing cover for a user, the nursing cover including a closed loop band having a front portion and a top opening through which the user is allowed to penetrate and a plurality of flexible boning supports disposed on the front portion. The plurality of flexible boning supports provides structural integrity while the user nurses an infant underneath the front portion to prevent the nursing cover from interfering with the infant being nursed by the user, to allow better circulation of airflow for the infant underneath the nursing cover and to provide a better line of sight for the nursing mother to view her infant underneath the nursing cover.

The present invention provides color-coded accessories such as wristbands, bibs, and other patient wearables, color-coded pillows and pillow cases, and a universal chart wherein the color code is associated with a specific medical diagnosis. These accessories alert healthcare providers to the medical diagnosis of the patient and enhance patient safety by reducing medical errors during administration of treatments and medicines to the patients. These accessories also provide protection to healthcare providers assisting them to identify diagnostic categories and alerting them to take proper precautions with patients, for example those with infectious diseases, thereby decreasing or preventing transmission of infectious diseases.

For a hairdressing cape, a round opening is formed at the center of an upper region of at least a front cloth and a back cloth, and a collar portion with an overlapping portion is formed which is sewn to a peripheral edge of the round opening by folding an edge portion. A clasp is mounted to an inner end portion at one side of the overlapping portion of the collar portion, and a ladder tape is mounted from near an end portion at the other side of the collar portion to an upper region of the back cloth. By making the clasp be caught and fastened in an arbitrary position of the ladder tape, the overlapping portion of the collar portion is fastened.

A batting pad comprising a body made from a cushioning material and having a ring portion adapted to fit over a batter's thumb and an appendage to cushion the palm area between a batter's thumb and index finger. The appendage has a thickness T at its thickest point located between the first end and the distant end, and the thickness T of the appendage is selected to optimize an angle of a bat in the batter's hand relative to a line parallel to the batter's forearm, the angle being determined by the thickness T of the appendage displacing the bat toward the tip of the batter's index finger and causing the bat to contact the palm of the batter's hand near the batter's little finger.

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'Tax-Free Childcare' is a confusing and inaccurately named scheme that launched in April 2017. It can be worth thousands of pounds, but only 250,000 of the 1.5 million eligible families are collecting it.

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An article may include a first polymeric material layer having a surface. A first conductive trace may form at least a portion of the first layer surface. The article may further include a second polymeric material layer. The second layer may have a first surface, a portion of the second layer first surface being bonded to a portion of the first layer surface. The second layer may have a portion of a channel defined therein, the channel at least partially coinciding with a portion of the first conductive trace. The article may also include a first patch interposed between the first layer surface and the second layer first surface. The first patch may span the channel and cover a portion of the first conductive trace.

A polymeric housing may have a channel defined therein. A first conductive trace may at least partially coincide with the channel. A first wire may have a first conductor surrounded by a first insulating jacket. The first conductor may be in electrical communication with the first conductive trace. A jacket bonding region of the first jacket may be welded to a housing bonding region of the housing. The jacket bonding region and the housing bonding region may be formed from a common type of polymer.

The invention relates to a product for pilgrims performing the rites of Haj and Umrah. Used to reduce the crushes resulting from pilgrims colliding because, for example, pilgrims places their shoes close to the gate from which they entered thinking that it will be easy to return to the same place once they have performed the rites of circumambulation (tawaf) and running (sa'ay). However, in reality the pilgrims must walk against the flow, causing collisions and severe crushes, or he is forced to leave his shoes behind, which is a burden for cleaning staff, looks untidy and is a nuisance for pilgrims, the main figures for the inventions are FIG. 7 before wearing the shoes and FIGS. 8,9,10 and 11 after wearing it.

BHANGRA dancers provided the entertainment for hundreds of people looking to get inspiration for their forthcoming wedding at a Southampton hotel.

A FUNDRAISING page has been launched to help a Hedge End man and his wife after the helicopter they were sightseeing in crashed into the Grand Canyon.

IT'S the perfect antidote to cold winter afternoons - and this year it's bigger than ever.

A SOUTHAMPTON grandmother spent years battling cancer.

WINCHESTER Sings! a local community choir, held a fundraising evening in May to raise money for Winchester & District Young Carers (WYC).

HE'S BEEN an integral part of Saints' rise from League 1 to European football - and to mark his birthday, we've got a special José Fonte photo gallery.

It's 40 years today since Southampton FC began their memorable journey to glory in the 1976 FA Cup - and we've got some never before seen photos.

IT USED to be known as the largest village in England.

Former Australia captain Steve Waugh has urged England to move on from Kevin Pietersen, believing the controversial batsman no longer merits a place in the side and brings too much baggage as well.

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A CRICKETER who asked for his leg to be amputated to cure constant pain is back in the England team.

REVIEW: Carmen, Welsh National Opera, Mayflower Theatre

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IT delivered the promised 'sparkle and shine' in spades.

NEW Forest carp farmers Heather Fisheries were delighted to be asked to provide a memorial fish for the Stone family to put into Christchurch Angling Club’s Hucklesbrook Lake.

Kim Bowden, the assistant secretary and treasurer of the Angling Trust Wessex Region Marine certainly showed that he has got what it takes when he went afloat from the Portsmouth based boat ‘Dawn Venture’ skippered by Ross Burnett.

ECHO fishing correspondent Mark Simmonds landed his fifth Amazon Red Tail over 100 lb when taking Black Spot at 110 lb from Teak Trees, Chang Mai in Thailand.

A HAMPSHRIE 12-year-old with cerebral palsy spent time with the captain of Southampton Football Club, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

GABI Taylor lost in the quarter-finals of the Surbiton Trophy, but has a wildcard entry for a WTA international tournament in Nottingham next week.

BRITISH No 2 Heather Watson believes rising star Gabi Taylor deserves a Wimbledon wildcard.

THE annual event was one which saw local residents flock to the streets to catch a glimpse of the colourful and humerous floats as they trundled down the road.

AN EX-Barton Peveril student has been nominated for "Rookie of the Year" after playing football at an American college.

Updates and chat as England take on Costa Rica in their final game of this year's World Cup

A BRAZILIAN restaurant is set to bring the carnival atmosphere from the streets of Rio to the heart of Southampton as Brazil face Colombia in the quarter-finals of the World Cup tonight.

HE has found the purr-fect home thanks to some help from the Daily Echo.

A POLICE probe continues as part of efforts to catch a masked flasher.

AFTER more than a quarter of a century of record-breaking arena and stadium tours, Take That have now turned their attention to staging a musical phenomenon.

X FACTOR and Strictly Come Dancing have come to mean it's nearly time for Father Christmas to fall down the chimney of TV addicts.

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Cardiff City Stadium, Championship, Wednesday September 28, 2011.

PILOTS monitoring the stricken Hoegh Osaka in the Solent have been sent back to land as 75mph gales threaten to bear down on the region.

SHE has been at the centre of one of the biggest and most dramatic rescue operations ever launched in the Solent.

A NEW drive to urge people to stack their shopping trollies with healthier foods could help tackle Southampton’s shocking premature death rates, an academic has said.

Active Nation fitness coaches at Chamberlayne Leisure Centre are supporting the Daily Echo’s Staying Alive campaign, urging Sotonians to burn off those extra calories in a bid to battle killer diseases and illnesses.