Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his visit to the three Indian Ocean
island countries "reflects our foreign policy priorities in India's
immediate and extended neighbourhood".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Victoria (capital of Seychelles) on Wednesday night on the first leg of his three-nation tour that will also take him to Mauritius and Sri Lanka, observing that strong relations with Indian Ocean island countries were "vital" for India's security and progress.

Modi was flew in to the Seychelles' capital by a special Air India flight after nearly six-hour journey.

Modi, the first Indian Prime Minister to travel to Seychelles in 33 years, said his visit to the three Indian Ocean island countries "reflects our foreign policy priorities in India's immediate and extended neighbourhood".

"India's relationship with Seychelles has been built on the foundationof mutual trust and shared values...I am keenly looking forward to my meeting with President James Michel, a great friend of India," he had said in a pre-departure statement.

After Seychelles, the Prime Minister would visit Mauritius on March 11-12. He will undertake his visit to Lanka on March 13-14.

Modi said that India "attaches paramount importance to strengthening relations with this region, which is vital for India's security and progress".

As his visit to the three island countries comes against the backdrop of China's increasing focus on the Indian Ocean region, Modi is expected to renew the country's commitment to the ocean economies where India envisages its role as a net security provider.

Modi, who will also be the first Indian Prime Minister to travel to Sri Lanka in 28 years,


is expected to tap into the "substantive" goodwill and historical linkages between India and the three Indian Ocean economies which offer new possibilities of cooperation in defence and economic spheres.

The Prime Minister also said that India had strong, multifaceted and important relationship with each of the three countries he is visiting, observing,"they all occupy a very important place in our foreign policy."

After Seychelles, the Prime Minister would visit Mauritius where he will be the Chief Guest at the Independence Day celebrations on March 12, a date he called special to all Indians because Mahatma Gandhi began his Dandi March on the same date in 1930.Assembly Westchester Delegation Up In Arms

All eight of the Assembly members whose districts include parts of Westchester County voted “no” on the education budget this morning, saying they felt the county got short-changed in so-called “high tax aid” that largely benefitted the Long Island districts that are a priority for the GOP-controlled Senate.

The delegation includes six Democrats (Richard Brodsky, Adam Bradley, Sandra Galef, Gary Pretlow, George Latimer, and Amy Paulin) and two Republicans (Greg Ball and MikeÂ Spano).

The aid was designed to make up for the fact that the foundation formula for distribution of state education dollars, championed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer, broke the traditional “shares” system that was based on enrollment numbers rather than need and enabled wealthy Long Island districts to consistently receive 13 percent.

According to


budget.

In the Senate, all four senators whose districts include parts of Westchester voted in favor of the education budget despite the high tax aid discrepancy, including freshman Democratic Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who represents the city of Yonkers, whichÂ as a high-needs school district.

The other senators were: Jeff Klein and Suzi Oppenheimer, both Democrats, andÂ VincentÂ Leibell, a Republican.Mass. Supreme Court Sets Oral Arguments for 'Under God' Lawsuit

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The highest court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has set the date for oral arguments in a lawsuit against the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Supreme Judicial Court decided on Sept. 4 as the date that arguments will be heard in the case Doe v. Acton-Boxborough at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston.

Brought by the American Humanist Association, the suit alleges that the pledge's "Under God" phrase excludes non-theists and violates their equal protection under law.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is representing the defendants, as they have in previous lawsuits against the "under God" phrase.

Roy Speckhardt, executive director for the American Humanist Association, told


anti-atheist statement to distinguish the U.S. from atheist Russia," said Speckhardt.

"Removing discrimination against a minority is not an example of prejudice against the majority. There's nothing anti-religious about wanting the pledge to represent all Americans indivisibly."

According to the Becket Fund's website, this is the fourth major lawsuit to be leveled against the pledge phrase "Under God." The first three, filed in 2000, 2005, and 2007 respectively, where all overseen by atheist activist Michael Newdow. All three suits ultimately failed to remove the language.

The current lawsuit was brought in 2011 on behalf of a Massachusetts family with children enrolled in the Acton-Boxborough School District.

Last June, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Jane Haggerty ruled against the American Humanist Association, reasoning that the pledge is voluntary and not intrinsically religious.

"The Pledge isA semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up your school.


Freshman Rusty Cartwright arrives at college and decides he no longer wants to be the boring geek from high school. He decides to pledge a fraternity. He is offered 2 bids; one from his sister's boyfriend Evan's fraternity and one from Cappie, his sister's ex-boyfriend's fraternity. Rusty must learn to handle his new life, and his new relationship with his sister. His sister must decide if she ... See full summary »ORLANDO, Fla. -- Carolina Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman was getting a hard time on Tuesday in one of the hallways of the Ritz Carlton during a break in the NFL owners meetings.

Not about any of his decisions in free agency. About his weight.

The pressure was coming from former Panthers coach John Fox, who became friends with Gettleman when both were with the New York Giants. Down more than 40 pounds since being hospitalized with a heart condition last season, Fox seemed genuinely concerned.

Gettleman, holding a cookie as thick as a laptop in his right hand, laughed and shrugged off the advice.

He's handled criticism about his moves during free agency, from the release of wide receiver Steve Smith to the signing of little-known Tiquan Underwood, in similar fashion.

When


Cruz out of Carolina's young group that includes Tavarres King, Marvin McNutt and recently signed Underwood, known more for his hair than his play?

"I don't know,'' Gettleman said. "It's going to be fun to figure it out.''

You get the feeling Gettleman will figure it out. He has an eye for talent, so when he says right tackle Byron Bell may be a natural fit to replace the retired Jordan Gross at left tackle you tend to believe him.

When he says he's happy with the way free agency has gone, despite adding names few know without using a search engine, his smile is convincing.

So go ahead, give him a hard time.

He'll just laugh and move on with the confidence that he's doing the right thing.

He may even have anBombing of detention center in Libya kills at least 44 refugees

By Bill Van Auken

4 July 2019

Scores of African refugees were killed or wounded when the detention center in which they were being held in a western suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli took a direct hit in a bombing early Wednesday.

Libyan officials reported that 44 of the refugees had been killed outright and another 130 wounded, but the death toll was expected to rise as bodies were still being pulled from the rubble and many of those wounded suffered grievous injuries. Survivors of the bombing were seen late Wednesday still huddled near the bombed-out detention center, terrified of another attack and having no means of seeking safety.

Photographs published by the Libyan media showed a horrific scene, with


the floor of the detention center, located in a hangar-style building, littered with bodies, severed limbs, clothes, bags and mattresses, and the walls covered in blood.

The attack was the bloodiest single incident in a renewed civil war that has gripped the country for the past three months, killing at least 700 people and displacing an estimated 90,000.

The Tripoli-based government blamed the attack on warplanes supporting the Libyan military strongman “Field Marshal” Khalifa Haftar, whose forces have laid siege to Tripoli since April in a bid to topple the UN-backed President Fayez Serraj, whose weak puppet regime is dependent upon a collection of Islamist militias for support.

Haftar’s forces, with their strongholds in eastern and southern Libya, claim to act in the name of a rival government located in Tobrukthis advice. The hangar where they were imprisoned was located adjacent to military facilities belonging to the militias in the eastern Tripoli suburb of Tajoura.

After its roof was damaged in an attack two months ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued a warning about the dangerous position of the prison.

“We called for an urgent evacuation then; they remained detained inside that center and sadly people have paid the tragic price of that with their lives last night,” Charlie Yaxley, spokesman for the Mediterranean and Africa at the UNHCR, told Al Jazeera.

The LNA’s escalation of its airstrikes follows the fall of the town of Gharyan, about 50 miles south of the capital, to militias backing the Tripoli regime. The LNA had taken the town in April


military-dominated dictatorship along the lines of what exists in Cairo.

While the US and European powers are all formally committed to supporting the puppet regime of President Serraj in Tripoli, President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Haftar, after he had launched his offensive in April, discussing what the White House described as their “shared vision” for Libya.

Haftar, a former general in the Libyan army who turned coat after being captured during Libya’s war with Chad in the 1980s, was brought by the CIA to the US, living for 20 years near the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He was sent back to Libya to join the US-NATO war for regime change in 2011 that ended in the toppling and lynch mob murder of the country’s long-time ruler, Muammarimperialist powers in their drive to lay hold of Libya’s oil reserves, the largest on the African continent, and in their global war against refugees.

The US-NATO rape of the country in 2011, carried out under the false banner of “human rights” and preventing an allegedly imminent massacre of dissidents in the eastern city of Benghazi, killed tens of thousands of Libyans and destroyed the country’s infrastructure and institutions, setting the stage for eight years of unending conflict and civil war.

Meanwhile, the fate of those slaughtered in Tajoura, along with that of thousands of others held in camps throughout Libya, is the direct result of a reactionary campaign waged by the major European powers. They have trained, armed and financed the Libyan coast guard to intercept refugees seeking to


ordered him to serve seventy days in the Marion County Jail.

       Father was subsequently convicted of possession of marijuana and, as a

       condition of his probation, he was required to submit to random drug screens.

       Father maintained that the probation department was supposed to submit the

       results of those drug screens to DCS. Just before Christmas 2015, DCS

       conducted a home visit and, on account of Father’s demeanor and appearance

       during the visit, asked Father to submit to a drug screen, which he refused.

[12]   On January 7, 2016, the trial| Memorandum Decision 49A02-1705-JT-1046 | October 25, 2017   Page 7 of 21
       begin this service because he was arrested in June 2016 for felony possession of

       marijuana. Starting in August or September, DCS no longer had contact with

       Father except for one occasion when he appeared at a hearing in September

       that concerned Ja.W.’s medication.

[16]   On September 8, 2016, the CHINS court found Father was not participating in

       services and had refused to submit to drug screens since his most recent release

       from incarceration. The CHINS court ordered


She was also surprised by the age of the youngest person to access Grampians Community Health's counselling for crystal methamphetamine-related issues.

Speaking at the evening forum on July 23, taskforce co-ordinator and Grampians Community Health alcohol and other drugs counsellor Brendan Scale said the youngest person was 12, a year older than Laticia.

He welcomed Laticia's proactive response to the forum.

"It goes with the vision of the taskforce to encourage everyone to take action in some capacity," he said.

Laticia has already succeeded in spreading the word about the taskforce's work and the harm caused by alcohol and other drugs in the Wimmera.

Some of her peers have been inspired to join her on the ride on October 5.

Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult, so it will be aDecisions, Broken Promises: A Timeline of the Flint Water Crisis

Dimple Chaudhary of the Natural Resources Defense Council, lead counsel for the plaintiffs — who include Flint resident Melissa Mays, the American Civil Liberties Union and the activist group Concerned Pastors for Social Action — said the deal is the first enforceable commitment to get lead-contaminated pipes out of the ground in Flint.

Corroded water pipes at a Flint, Michigan, facility. NBC News Channel - file

"The people of Flint are owed at least this much," Chaudhary said.

Michael Steinberg, legal director of the ACLU of Michigan, said he was pleased that "Flint can finally look forward to a long-term solution to a catastrophe that has devastated the community."

"This groundbreaking settlement marks a huge step toward restoring a long-neglected community to some


WSC Tokai University of Japan were crowned the 2011 World Solar Challenge champions on Thursday, after four-and-a-half days racing through the Australian continent. The Japanese team made huge gains on Day 3 over second and third-placed teams Nuon of the Netherlands and the University of Michigan.

How did they get so far ahead? Diederik Kinds, of the website solarwebsite.nl and a member of the Dutch Nuna 2 solarcar team, tells us how.

Some people thought Tokai, World Solar Challenge winners in 2009, had a terrific advantage over the competition that year because of their awesome GaAs (gallium arsenide) solar array. They thought the new regulations would level the competition and remove Tokai’s supremacy. They were wrong.

Let’s do some numbers based on Race Day 3 results. Tokai left Wauchope, NT atalgorithm [@rosvall2008maps] to identify communities from our semantic networks. As an initial and only partial validation of our results we show that the algorithm successfully identifies a separate community consisting of Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War.

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The United Nations General Assembly annual regular session begins with the General Debate. During the General Debate (GD) the heads of state (or high ranking officials, such as ministers of foreign affairs) deliver formal speeches on most important issues of international and domestic politics from the perspective of their government.[^3]

By tradition since 1947, the opening speech in GD is made by the representative of Brazil. The US representative is also typically scheduled to speak on the first day of the debate. Typically, the heads of states and governments are scheduled in


religious aspect. Today, the power of the tattoo lies not only in its symbolism, but also in the spiritual power of the tattooist, who are commonly specialist monks known as Sayas. The tattoos may have individual functions, but are also generally considered a talisman, providing protection from enemies or misfortune. More directly, the Chin tribe have tattooed the faces of their women for 200 years, a disfigurement believed to discourage their kidnap as slaves. This practise has been outlawed by the Government since the 1950s, and only very few such tattooed women remain.

However, the most common form of decoration is Myanmar is certainly thanaka. This pale yellow paste made from local trees has been applied to the faces of women, and less frequently men and boys for overoral cavity to the upper esophagus and caused airway compromise.

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A 59-year-old man was brought to the emergency department (ED) in an ambulance with a chief complaint of sore throat. He had no significant medical history other than well-controlled hypertension. He was scheduled to undergo colonoscopy that day, and 2 h prior, he had unintentionally ingested a pack of undissolved SP/MC powder (Picolight powder; Pharmbio Korea Co., Seoul, Korea) that had been prescribed for bowel evacuation. Upon arrival in the ED, he was hemodynamically stable and did not have respiratory distress, but he complained of progressive hoarseness. The emergency physician noted gross mucosal injury of the oropharynx, and examination using a fiberoptic laryngoscope revealed diffuse mucosal swelling and erosion extending from the oral cavity to the epiglottis, which


Employment Relations Bd. (2005) 35 Cal.4th 1072, 1077, 29 Cal.Rptr.3d 234, 112 P.3d 623 (Coachella Valley).) The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has exclusive initial jurisdiction over claimed violations of the MMBA. (Ibid.)
The labor dispute at issue here is between the City of San Jose (the City) and Operating Engineers Local No. 3 (the Union). The Union represents approximately 800 of the City's employees, including a number of individuals that the City identified as critical to the continued operation of its sanitation system and other facilities.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In 2006, the City and the Union were engaged in negotiations for a new memorandum of agreement. In April 2006, a tentative agreement was reached, but it was rejected by Union members. The old contract expired, and the Union refusedto extend it. On May 30, 2006, the Union gave the City 72 hours' notice that job actions could occur any time after June 2.

Request for Injunction
The City filed a complaint for permanent injunction, preliminary injunction, and temporary restraining order, seeking to enjoin specified Union employees from engaging in a work stoppage. Those employees were identified on Exhibit A to the complaint. The City deemed their services essential to the public health and safety of its citizens.
On June 2, 2006, the City applied to the superior court for a temporary restraining order against a work stoppage by 67 of the employees identified as essential. The City asserted that the superior court was the proper forum for the requested relief. It argued that the Public Employment Relations Board does


Public Employment Relations Board also opposed the City's request for injunctive relief. PERB argued that the dispute came within its exclusive initial jurisdiction and that the City was required to exhaust its administrative remedies prior to seeking relief in the superior court.

Hearings
The matter first came on for hearing on June 2, 2006. With the parties' agreement, and the Union's representation that it would not strike in the interim, the court continued the matter to the following week. One reason for the continuance was to give the court the opportunity to review the briefs and the case law.
The hearing resumed on June 7, 2006. The court began by thanking the parties for agreeing to the continuance, observing that it was "in a better position to be informed on theadditional briefing on the question of mootness. In its response, the City acknowledged that the parties had "reached an agreement for a new contract during the course of this appeal." The Union likewise advised that it had reached agreement with the City "on a successor labor agreement, and the threatened work stoppage never occurred." Nevertheless, both parties ask us to decide the issues presented in the appeal, even if they are technically moot. According to the City, "the issues currently on appeal are of continuing public interest...." The Union agrees, adding that "this issue has the potential to arise in every California city, county, and other districts subject to the MMBA, and the issue of public sector strikes is clearly of broad public interest."

DISCUSSION
We begin our analysis with


one line, while the other card
displayed three lines.

The lone line on one of
the two cards was the ‘standard line.’ The three lines on the second card were of
different lengths, and they were the ‘comparison lines.’

Subjects were required to
judge which of the ‘comparison lines’ was a match for the ‘standard line.’ When
subjects performed the experiment in the absence of other people, they were
able to identify the correct match more than 99% of the time.

However, when other
people were present and involved in the task, some rather startling results
emerged. More specifically, if there were a group of five to seven people who
were all required to identify the correct match on any given trial, and if the
first five or six people (depending on the size of the group) misidentified the
correct match, thefor Manhattanville College, demonstrated his disapproval of
the forthcoming invasion of Iraq by standing sideways rather than face the U.S.
flag during the national anthem. When he did this at the arena for an opposing
team, the people in the crowd began chanting: “Leave the country.”

In 1991, during the first
Gulf War, Marco Lokar, who was from Italy and played basketball for Seton Hall,
refused to wear the American flag on his uniform as an indication of his
opposition to the war. Some of the individuals who attended Seton Hall
basketball games exhibited behavior that became so abusive that Lokar actually
did leave America and returned to Italy.

The 1991 Persian Gulf War
was predicated on a variety of disinformation and lies. First, the alleged
atrocities of Iraqi troops with respect to incubator babies in Kuwait did not
take place,


but, instead, it was a publicity stunt dreamed up by Americans and
Kuwaitis in order, among other things, to persuade the United States Congress to
support hostilities against Iraq.

Secondly, prior to the first
Gulf War, Saddam Hussein asked the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq what the view of
America was concerning Iraq’s border dispute with Kuwait, and April Glaspie,
the ambassador, indicated that Arab-Arab conflicts – such as the one between
Iraq and Kuwait – were of no concern to the United States. Whether intended or
not, the communication was interpreted by Saddam Hussein as indicating that the
U.S. would not interfere with the dispute.

Thirdly, while it is true
that Saddam Hussein attacked and killed thousands of his own people, this is
not the whole story. In those attacks, he used biological and chemical weapons
which had been supplied tohim by, among others, the United States.

When Winston Churchill advocated
the use of chemical weapons against Iraqis in 1920 that act, apparently, was
the action of a civilized country. When Hussein did so with U.S. assistance in
1988, this became evidence which demonstrated what kind of a pathological
monster Hussein was.

The act of gassing the
Kurds was pathological. However, the United States government was complicit in
that pathology, just as the British government committed pathological behavior
in the earlier case involving Iraq.

When Iraq served U.S.
‘national interests’ by engaging with Iran in an eight year bloodbath, the
United States government supported Iraq militarily and financially – except, of
course, in the little matter of the Iran-Contra scandal in which the United
States illegally sold arms to Iran in order to get cash to illegally help the
Contras who were fighting


against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. When
Iraq began to go ‘off the reservation’ in 1990, by, among other things, seeking
to move the world away from using the U.S. dollar as the currency of last
resort, Saddam Hussein had to be schooled in the etiquette of world politics
... and, as is usually the case in those kinds of affairs, the lesson plan was
imposed on, and subsidized by, the people of Iraq rather than its ‘leaders.’

In 2003, Iraq again had
to be taught a harsh lesson. Despite having nothing to do with 9/11 and despite
having no weapons of mass destruction, Iraq was invaded by the United States –
euphemistically referred to as a ‘coalition’ – and much of the physical,
economic, political, medical, financial, and social infrastructure of Iraq was
destroyed ... twelve years later,Iraq is still trying to recover from the ‘dogs
of war’ that were unleashed by the United States upon that country in 2003.

The people who induced
Italian Marco Lokar to leave the United States in early 1991 and who wanted
Tony Smith to leave America in 2003 were like the subjects in the Asch
experiment. The former individuals who accepted or complied with the media
accounts concerning Iraq in relation to what, supposedly,was taking place in that country during
1991 or 2003 either suspected that they were not
being told the truth about Iraq but did not want to ‘rock the boat,’ or those
‘subjects’ were individuals whose judgment concerning Iraq was totally shaped
by the misinformation and disinformation which was being fed to the public by
the government . The U.S. government played the role of experimenters


induced to do by an array of social forces that shape,
color and orient the everyday lives and understanding of millions of people
across the United States.

All war is an exercise in
terrorism. The object of war is to induce one’s opponents – whether soldiers or
civilians – to become so psychologically overwhelmed by the horror of
destruction, or the threat of destruction, that they will surrender ... there
is a reason why the opening salvoes of the 2003 Iraq were referred to as ‘shock
and awe.’

Everyone who participates
in, or supports the conduct of, war is a terrorist. They all wish to strike
terror into the hearts of their ‘alleged’ enemies.

One of the enduring
campaigns of propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation undertaken by
successive governments of the United States – as well as most, if not all,
other countries –article, he used the term to give expression to the Chinese idea
of ‘hsi-nao’ or ‘cleansing the mind.’

Hunter was attempting to
alert people in the United States about an insidious social and psychological
process that, reportedly, was being used by the Chinese in order to alter the
way people thought, felt, and behaved. According to the article, the way in
which people were induced to join the Communist party was through the technique
of brainwashing.

What the article did not
say is that Hunter worked for the CIA. He was a specialist in issues of
propaganda, and he was using a scare story about Chinese brainwashing as a
Trojan horse for introducing his own set of mind- and attitude-shaping
techniques into the public arena of America.

Hunter wanted his readers
to begin to engage information concerning world events through his filters
rather


feeling, among
other things that much of its theoretical framework (e.g., historical
materialism), along with its social excesses, are, respectively, neither
tenable nor justifiable. However, unfortunately, one also can match the
foregoing atrocities with the many instances of American terror which have been perpetuated
in relation to, for example: Indians, Blacks, women, poor people, Hiroshima,
Tokyo, Dresden, Hamburg, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran,
Central America, and Palestine.

Millions of innocent
people within, and beyond, the United States have not been killed and
brutalized by Americans for the sake of truth – which even if this were so (which
it is not) would be unacceptable – but, rather, innocent people have been
slaughtered for the sake of: Power, control, resources, profits, and
terrorizing whole populations. However, Americans are socialized and educated to
believe that what Tony Smith did in 2003 – protestprocess of representational
democracy.

In her book, Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight
Against their Hidden Menace, Margaret Singer, now deceased, attempts to put
forth an argument which purportedly shows how the Marine Corps differs from
cults ... and she did this because when she gave talks on the subject of cults,
she repeatedly ran into questions and comments concerning the cult-like
character of the Marine Corps. Her perspective on the issue indicates that she
might not have understood as much about the nature of cults as some people
supposed was the case.

The following comments
should be prefaced by several observations. First, wanting to defend America
against armed invasion is a noble calling. Secondly, I am willing to grant that
many, if not most, individuals who join the Marines do so out of honorable
intentions. Thirdly, I believe that most


days along the India Bangladesh border in south Tripura district on the Indian side and the Khagrachari district on the Bangladesh side.

No documents

A middle-aged woman who, according to the authorities, is mentally challenged, has for the past 11 days been forced to remain in the no man’s land between the border check posts of India and Bangladesh. The river Feni serves as the international border between the two countries in the region and woman has been stranded on the river bed between Sabroom subdivision on the Indian side and Ramgarh town on Bangladesh side. The woman, of course, has no documents to prove her nationality and nobody knows for sure from where she landed in such a place.

But what is clear from the account of officials is thatsaid the the women was first seen on April 2, and when she tried to cross to the Bangladeshi side, stones were thrown from the Bangladesh side, which prevented her from returning.

Villagers help

Local villagers are providing her with food and water. A couple of days ago, a group of journalists from the Indian side went and spoke to the woman. Videos of the conversation uploaded on social media reveal that the woman, clad in a red sari, appearing to be in her 40s, is speaking in Bengali. She, however, could not reveal her identity and there was no clear response from her when asked about her husband.

The BSF, however, have shared videos where the woman is referring to words like “Mirpur” and “Farooq”.

Amidst these claims and counter-claims, it


Trends of coronary heart disease among men of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii.
The 15-year prospective study of cardiovascular disease among a cohort of Japanese men in Hawaii provided an opportunity to examine the temporal trends of coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence and mortality rates and to compare them with Hawaii State CHD mortality rates. The State mortality records showed a decline in CHD mortality from 1968 to 1978 which was similar to the national trends. For more than 11,000 men of Japanese ancestry under surveillance, there was no evidence of declining rates for either CHD deaths or for total CHD incidence. There was also no change in case-fatality rates during this time. An explanation for these differences could not be provided but there was a suggestion that it involvedBeaming at the camera with an angelic smile, this little boy is at first glance a picture of innocence.

But though he is only six years old, and lives in the heart of British suburbia, he and his siblings are being groomed to support barbaric Islamic State terrorists.

In exclusive pictures obtained by The Mail on Sunday, the children are shown posing in front of the jihadis’ ‘black flag of Islam’ and brandishing a sword.

Terrible footage has already emerged of young children groomed to support IS in Syria and Iraq – but this boy was photographed inside a terraced house in suburban Luton. He was posing at the behest of his father Ibrahim Anderson, one of Britain’s most infamous jihadi Muslim converts.

Shocking images of children were taken from the mobile


phone of Ibrahim Anderson, a red-haired convert, to Islam who was arrested for setting up a stall on Oxford Street, London, to persuade people to join ISIS. This boy is only six years old, and he and his siblings are being groomed to support barbaric Islamic State terrorists

In another picture, the boy’s older brother, eight, can be seen in a similar pose, brandishing a sword in front of the black flag, while wearing a Western T-shirt emblazoned with Kermit the Frog

The third photograph shows their toddler sister, said to be under three. Wearing a pink hijab despite her age, she smiles at the camera while perching on the back-rest of a sofa

Anderson was convicted at the Old Bailey on Friday of ‘inviting support for IS’ in the firstsuccessful case of its kind. Disturbingly, his son is holding a sword in his left hand, apparently ‘paying tribute’ to the late executioner Jihadi John, who cut the throats of his victims holding a hunting knife in the same hand. The boy also raises his right index finger, mimicking a gesture jihadis use to signify their one God.

In another picture, the boy’s older brother, eight, can be seen in a similar pose, brandishing a sword in front of the black flag, while wearing a Western T-shirt emblazoned with Kermit the Frog. The third photograph shows their toddler sister, said to be under three. Wearing a pink hijab despite her age, she smiles at the camera while perching on the back-rest of a sofa.

The black flag of Islam contains


the Arabic words: ‘There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah.’ But it has been appropriated by extremist groups. In the UK, it was routinely used in demonstrations by Al-Muhajiroun, the banned group which wanted to raise it above 10 Downing Street. These pictures were taken on Anderson’s mobile phone in October 2014 and were discovered by detectives when they raided his home two months later. They were shown to the jury at his trial.

Born Andrew Anderson, he converted to Islam while serving three years in jail for a petrol station robbery in the late 1990s. He had previously been jailed for car theft. Before his arrest he was living with his wife, the mother of the children, in the Bury Park areaof Luton. She too is a British convert and grew up in Nottingham.

The children's red-bearded father Ibrahim Anderson talks to members of the public in suburban Luton

Before his arrest, Anderson was living with his wife, the mother of the children, in the Bury Park area of Luton. File picture

During the landmark court case, the jury was told that Anderson, 38, and his co-accused, Shah Jahan Khan, 63, set up a stall in Oxford Street, Central London, to recruit for IS. They were only brought to justice after a concerned Muslim passer-by contacted police.

The court heard the two extremists spent two hours in August 2014 handing out leaflets promoting IS.

Anderson belongs to the same group of London extremists who have urged followers to ‘behead’ anyone who draws images of


IS executioner replacing Jihadi John.

Anderson was previously charged but cleared of heckling a homecoming parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton in 2009. The convert, who also has a boy of 13, even posted one photo of his children on Facebook, but it was taken down for violating rules on hate messages.

Last night Anderson’s 58-year-old stepfather, Martin Warner, told this newspaper that the ‘sick’ extremist had ‘always been a problem child’, adding that the family had disowned him after his conversion to radical Islam. He added: ‘I can’t believe he made his children pose with the IS flag – it is disgusting. He is a total idiot, a fanatic. He is the sort of person who would blow himself up or plant a bomb. He is dangerous.The case for Hollywood leading man Johnny Depp being the victim of a monstrous con based on #MeToo activism, his career ruined by false accusations of abuse, coupled with the sad reality of being a victim of a female abuser, is starting to get obvious with the latest revelations about what he went through.

Depp, recall, had been an A-list actor with his choice of leading roles until he ended his marriage in 2017 with an abusive actress named Amber Heard, who, according to recently released tapes, admitted to violently attacking him even as he tried to fend her off. I wrote about that here.

At the time, she came off as a classic abuser, in denial about her physical attacks on the man, with a secondary vicious streak, too,


in that she glommed onto the #MeToo movement triggered by Harvey Weinstein, publicly pinning Depp as the abuser through an editorial as well as a $7-million donation to the ACLU to promote protection of women against wife-beaters. Depp disappeared from the silver screen as a result of those accusations, his career in rubble.

Now the truth is getting out. First, there was the tape, with Heard admitting she was doing the abusing, released here.

Now there's new evidence, all of it exculpatory for Depp.

Heard's lawyers in the lawsuit that's going on between them have demanded documents from Depp's ex-wives and girlfriends, attempting to prove that Depp beat up everyone he came in contact with.

Depp's resisting that on the grounds that other embarrassing stuff will come up, which may well betrue.

But here's the kicker: the exes all say Depp never abused them. According to IBT:

Depp's exes have already spoken out about the matter. According to Winona Ryder, Vanessa Paradis and Lori Anne Allison, they didn't experience any abuse from Depp when they were together. In fact, they found him "sensitive" and "loving." They even defended "The Rum Diary" actor from the allegations. "In all the years I have known Johnny, he has never been physically abusive with me and this looks nothing like the man I live with for 14 wonderful years," Paradis wrote. Ryder also shared her experience with Depp. She declined to call Heard a "liar" and stressed that she could only speak for herself. When she was with Depp, he was a "good, loving, caring


The "Edward Scissorhands" star also talked about the time when Heard or one of her friends defecated on Depp's bed. The actor said that the incident happened right before they left for Coachella. Kevin Murphy, the former couple's estate manager, spoke to Heard about the incident and was told that it was just a "harmless prank." However, Depp evidently took offense from the incident.

Defecated on a bed? That's something an angry, psychologically distressed animal might do. Like apes flinging poo from the zoo. The idea that there are people who might do that, either Amber or her friends, is disturbing. This is one sick puppy trying to rationalize blows as not blows and now an utterly hostile act around excrement as "a prank."

It all serves as more fuelfigure in mind.

Don Turner, who had worked the corner for Holmes when he fought Holyfield, agreed to become the champion's new trainer. Turner later brought in Tommy Brooks to work the hand mitts.

"It's like found money whatever he gives me," Turner said of his arrangement with Holyfield. "Once they know how to fight they can get anybody to train them. If they're a champion they've made it on their own. The fighter enhances the trainer. I learned that long ago. It's the trainer that reminds him of what he's capable of doing in case something slips. It's just like a third-base coach. He watches the other guy and suggests what would work for his guy."

The partnership got off to a shaky start when Holyfield tried to fight Moorer


fight Ray Mercer in Atlantic City. Holyfield was confident his heart issue had either been misdiagnosed or healed during a faith healing crusade by Benny Hinn.

Hallmark now says Holyfield never had a heart defect. He believes Holyfield was misdiagnosed the night of the Moorer fight when he went to Valley Hospital in Las Vegas to have his shoulder treated. Doctors also treated Holyfield for dehydration with a massive infusion of fluids and Hallmark believes the heart condition resulted from a fluid buildup in his lungs.

"I walked into his room that night in the hospital and pulled the shirt off him and I thought to myself, 'He looks huge,'" Hallmark said. "Then we found out they put way too many fluids in him. His arms were enormous and hissatisfied the educational prerequisite of admission until the admission standards were amended in 1959. The new requirement, which Moity cannot satisfy, is that an applicant produce evidence of graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association. Plaintiff does not dispute the representation of the defendant Bar Association that, with the abolition of the old rule in 1959, persons who had relied upon it and commenced the study of law under a Louisiana attorney would be allowed to sit for the Bar examination until June of 1965, which, of course, Moity did not do.
In April of 1975, Moity wrote to the Committee on Bar Admissions of the Louisiana State Bar Association, requesting an application form for the taking of the State Bar exam to be held


in July. He did not complete the form forwarded to him, however, but on May 7, 1975 petitioned the Louisiana Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus ordering that he be allowed to take the exam. On June 13, 1975, the Court refused the application for the writ, stating that plaintiff had failed to comply with the admission requirements set forth in the Bar Association's Articles of Incorporation.[1]
Asserting jurisdiction under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Moity now sues the Louisiana Supreme Court and its individual Justices as well as the Louisiana Bar Association. In his original complaint, he seeks injunctive and declaratory relief in addition to monetary damages of $1 million. The constitutional claims urged are 1) that his right of privacy was violated by a forced waiver ofIt must be presumed that he knew of this when he withdrew his application in 1960. Yet, not until 1975  ten years after the deadline passed  did he choose to renew his application and attempt to invoke the former rule regarding supervised study. We do not regard the six-year "grace period" (1959-1965) as arbitrary or unduly restrictive on its face. Nor does plaintiff show good cause for his delay in coming forward, aside from the suggestion that he was in the process of establishing his good moral character during the years following the withdrawal of his original petition for admission.[6]
Moity also contends that the denial of his application on the basis of the educational requirement amounts to passage of an ex post facto law. However, the


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On Hall of Fame Night against the lower-rung Maple Leafs, who would have thought the mighty Red Wings would need their stars of yesteryear to peel off their Hall blazers and get on the ice?

With three former Wings -- Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille -- honoured before the match for entering the Hall, it was Toronto that showed more old-school pride last night at the Air Canada Centre.

Despite a road game in Carolina the night before, the Leafs laid a 5-1 beating on the Wings, sparked by Jonas Gustavsson in net, 18 blocked shots and five-for-five penalty killing.

The Leafs now have points in seven consecutive games, two of them wins and all but one with the rookie Gustavsson between the pipes.

It was Toronto's first winat home this season, and it helped the Leafs climb into a 28th-place tie with Florida.

"Jonas is giving us the confidence to play the game we need to play," said defenceman Jeff Finger, one of three Leafs to get his first goal of the season.

Most notable by far was Phil Kessel's, coming in the last minute of the opening period, providing Toronto its first early two-goal lead of the season. Kessel tapped a Jason Blake shot just as it was going over the line after defenceman Ian White fired through a crowd.

"I said you had to bury those," laughed Kessel, who was 0-for-10 in his first game as a Leaf earlier in the week.

Gustavsson stopped the first 27 shots he faced, and 35 overall, including power-play chances by


the ever dangerous Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg.

"It was our best game of the season," Gustavsson declared.

"The guys pretty much let me see all the shots coming in. It was a special night with all the (hall of famers) there. It was a special atmosphere."

The Leafs now have gone four games without allowing a power-play goal.

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The only hiccup was a first-period injury to defenceman Mike Komisarek in a collision with Todd Bertuzzi that saw the Leaf leave soon after. Coach Ron Wilson described Komisarek's injury as a lower body one, but not serious.

Detroit's Jason Williams also departed on crutches after crashing into the boards in the second period.

He will reportedly miss at least two months with what is being called a fractured right fibula.

The Leafs entered thegame with a few things to prove, starting with Gustavsson's ability to weather back-to-back situations after a careful recovery from a groin injury last month. He was put to the test with 13 first-period shots, followed by two Detroit power plays early in the second.

"He was a wall back there," Finger said. "We've played well and we have another one coming up (Tuesday against Minnesota). You have to win two to win three (straight)."

The Leafs won games on consecutive nights for the first time in six tries dating back to late last February. The hoopla associated with the Hall certainly filled the team's adrenalin tank after an early morning arrival home.

"I've told the players that this is an advantage to playing in Toronto, games like the Hall of


Fame," Wilson said.

This also was the second night for new lines drawn up by Wilson. Rather than fade after a good start in Carolina, the new first unit of Kessel, John Mitchell and Blake produced two goals, Mitchell tipping in a Kessel shot after Daniel Cleary broke Gustavsson's shutout in the third.

The fourth line, now comprising Matt Stajan, Wayne Primeau and Colton Orr, had Toronto's opening goal at 10:34 of the first. Orr found Primeau down the wing and he fooled Chris Osgood.

Stajan had begun the week in the coveted position as Kessel's centre, but Wilson abruptly changed to Mitchell after just one game. Rickard Wallin joined Nicklas Hagman and Lee Stempniak as their centre.Congressman Jim Bridenstine Says He's Still In Running To Lead NASA

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Oklahoma First District Congressman Jim Bridenstine says he is still in the running to be the new head of NASA.

Bridenstine told News On 6 he was recently asked back for another interview by the Trump administration.

The Republican said, "I don't know what the end result is, but I keep interviewing, which is an indicator that maybe I'm still in the mix for it."

As a legislator, Bridenstine has proposed a bill that would broadly increase NASA's activity in space exploration. Bridenstine flies E-2Cs in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was once the head of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum. He has represented the 1st District which includes Tulsa and Bartlesville


since 2013.

If Bridenstine were to resign the following would happen, according to the secretary of the Tulsa County Election Board:

The vacancy would be declared and the filing period set for approximately two weeks after.

After that, the timeline becomes more set and it falls onto pre-set election days on the calendar.

90 days after the filing period, the primary would be held.

60 days after the primary, the general election would be held.

So, the timeline would be lengthy to get another representative in place, at least 164 days after the resignation becomes effective.in the public psyche and since then the tug of war between the Right and the Left has only gotten intense.

Such is the game of ideologies here that even the destinies of those who aren’t pulling on either side end up getting hurt. The university has recently chosen to react aggressively against one professor who is an alleged sexual offender and maintained a deafening silence over another professor charged by one of its own students for having tried to cover up a sexual assault case and also victimise the witness.

The first case is that of Professor Atul Johri's.

Johri's pro-government nature was made public during the massive protests that broke out against him on and off campus. In a press statement issued by complainants that student activist Umar Khalid


Johri, another camp is trying to gather numbers to protest against one Professor Mahendra P Lama. Earlier this week, the Delhi High Court issued a notice to Jawaharlal Nehru University and four professors. Other than professor Lama, who is with the Centre for South Asian Studies, the names of Prof Rajesh Kharat, former chairperson, Centre for South Asian Studies; Ajay Kumar Patnaik, Dean of School of International Studies along with Chintamani Mahapatra, Rector-I, Administrative Block have been mentioned. The notice comes after Prashant Kumar Sharma, a PhD candidate at JNU's Centre for South Asian Studies, filed a writ petition claiming he was being targetted for helping another student who was allegedly sexually harassed by Professor Lama. The petitioner claims he was with Lama and the victim in SichuanUniversity in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, China, where the alleged assaults took place. Sharma's version of the story is: after the professor found out that Sharma helped the victim board a flight back to India, attempts were made to evict Sharma from the university by unlawful denial of registration in the Winter Semester 2018. The writ petition stated: "...to grant the Petitioner Registration and to conduct an independent disciplinary inquiry (hereinafter referred to as “Inquiry”) into the matter that has caused huge financial loss, extraordinary academic delay and extreme mental agony to the Petitioner. The Petitioner has already lost almost eight months of academic time till now due to which not only his academics has got jeopardised but he has also been deprived of scholarship which


Howrah, West Bengal, to come to Delhi had to file a 93-page-long writ petition and engage a legal counsel when there is a grievance redressal mechanism existing within the university. The petitioner’s lawyer Dibyanshu Pandey, who is arguing pro bono, said the complainant came to him when he was on the brink of eviction from the university and had nowhere to go. "He was suicidal as on being evicted, he would have no place to stay in Delhi and would lose all the academic accomplishments in one go," Pandey said and asked why no activist from JNU or its student community raised its voice in support of Sharma, who came back from China in November 2017. "When he approached me, he had a debt of more than aJNU. Sharma also spoke to Firstpost and revealed that he has suffered huge financial and psychological blow from the arbitrary denial of his registration, which ultimately led him to move court. Every semester, a student has to register in the university to avail hostel and other facilities. Every semester a new ID card is issued to the student, without which even entry into the campus is difficult. On 20 March, 2018, the day the Delhi High Court issued a notice to JNU and four others, the university gave an oral undertaking before the high court of not evicting Sharma from the hostel. Sharma told Firstpost that he had three demands — one that his registration be given immediately, second that his supervisor be changed immediately, and third that


of the complaint is unknown and she doesn’t know what the offenders want, there is no clarity on what action could be taken.

Meanwhile, Saurabh Sharma, former general secretary of the JNUSU and member of the ABVP asked why this issue wasn't a raging priority for the students' union.

The so called progressive and pseudo feminist comrades are silent on M.P Lama. Why? Is it alright for the comrades in the faculty to sexually harras a student?#Rapist_Commie_Lama #SuspendLama #PatnaikShieldsRapist pic.twitter.com/qR9vUenuFH — ABVP JNU (@abvpjnu) March 28, 2018

"The entire university was united while demanding suspension of Professor Johri and his links with the BJP and RSS were being made public again and again. Now, when a particular professor who some students are rallying against happens to endorse the ideology of theHurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq | Photo Credit: Twitter

Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday expressed hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will play a decisive role in the resolution of the long-pending Kashmir conflict in his second tenure. Interestingly, Mirwaiz's comments have come on the day when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah was allotted the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is responsible for all the matters pertaining to internal security.

Addressing the prayers at the Jama Masjid, Mirwaiz said that Hurriyat was willing to support every initiative for a peaceful resolution of the dispute stressing that it should be in view of the sentiments of the people of Kashmir, and the main stakeholders.

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can make a modest risk reduction in our incidence of heart disease by lowering our 'bad cholesterol' LDL, especially in men," said Dr. Robert Graham, an internist and natural remedy specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

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Congrats rsenal!

Although i only just bought a new set of irons, the miuras are really really tempting!

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Although i only just bought a new set of irons, the miuras are really really tempting!

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Jeff Sessions clearly already knew what the president wanted him to do. Or he could fire Jeff Sessions which even Lindsey Graham who is on the president's side says would be suicide and your whole administration would come tumbling down. So there were no paths to the president inside the box. If he stayed inside the box, played by the rules, did things the way you're supposed to do them. Did them the old way, the traditional way, the suit and tie way, he would have had no paths to success. So he got out of the box. He bumped it upstairs to his bosses, which is the public, and he said here's my beef with the Attorney General. And the public is sort of sorting it outNews Search Results

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On May 20, the US Navy took delivery of the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), the first of a class of destroyers designed to take on the role once served by battleships. As the Navy prepares to commission the Zumwalt, the first of three ships from the $22 billion (£15 billion) DDG-1000 program, the service is accelerating its plans to produce 14 smaller ships—frigates that were ordered to be built by the Pentagon instead of the last set of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ships.

The LCS program has experienced a number of glitches over its lifetime—canceled weapons systems, mine-hunting systems that can't pass acceptance tests, failures of gears aboard two ships that left them stranded, and the realization that no one asked for hull corrosion protection on one variant.

The biggest problema ship already being built for the US Coast Guard—the Navy's Small Combatant working group chose instead to opt for a "stretch" version of the existing LCS designs. And now the Navy is pushing to select a modification of one of the two competing LCS designs by 2018, a decision that will have to be made before either Lockheed Martin or Austal (the LCS shipbuilders) can hammer out all the details or before Congress pulls the plug entirely.

The Zumwalt and LCS programs have both faced cutbacks for similar reasons, but they had very different starting points. The Zumwalt class was a technological stretch—a warship for the 21st century, designed to be a stealthy but heavy-hitting replacement for the Navy's retired battleships, carrying cruise missiles and two advanced gun


systems that could lob guided shells 63 nautical miles (72 miles, or 117 kilometers) in support of troops on land. Its all-electric design is intended to make it capable of carrying the next generation of big guns as well—electromagnetic railguns and other directed-energy weapons still in development.

The LCS, on the other hand, was intended to be an affordable, flexible ship based largely on proven technologies from the commercial shipping world, with modular "mission packages" and weapons based on things already being used or developed by the Department of Defense for other roles. It would be relatively inexpensive to build, crew, and deploy. The class was designed with a very vague mission: dealing with "sea denial" forces in waters close to shore, taking on the role of clearing mines,hunting for shallow-water submarines, and dealing with swarms of small boats. And the lack of a defined mission was seen as a positive by its backers. "The notion that it doesn't have a mission, that it's a ship in search of a mission," Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said, "I think that's one of its greatest strengths."

If that's the LCS's greatest strength, that may explain why the Department of Defense decided it needed an upgrade.

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The concepts for both the Zumwalt and LCS designs originated in the mid-1990s. While both classes of ships are modern marvels of naval engineering and information technology, as initially designed they're the naval equivalent of bringing a really well-honed knife to a gun fight. It's not that


out as well for the LCS as was hoped, particularly as some of the weapons systems it was originally supposed to carry failed to materialize or failed in testing. Concerns about the survivability of the LCS and its underpowered weapons drove former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to order a freeze on LCS production and the formation of a task force to find a way to get a more capable ship into the construction pipeline. Still, the initial "block" buy of LCS ships has steamed ahead at full speed, with six delivered so far and another 20 already under construction (with four due for delivery this year).

On May 18, Capt. Dan Brintzinghoffer of the Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA's) Program Executive Office for Littoral Combat Ship (PEO LCS)Frigate Program Office gave an update on the progress toward that improved ship. Instead of having swappable mission packages—a concept that has turned out not to be as easy as the Navy thought it would be—the frigate-class version of the LCS will be a "multi-mission" ship, offering both anti-surface and anti-submarine capabilities with the addition of both Hellfire short-range missiles (the types fired by helicopters and Predator drones) and an over-the-horizon (OTH) missile system for attacking enemy ships. The ships will also carry a 20 percent larger crew as a result of all the new gear, and the survivability improvements will make it heavier as well.

The OTH system, which has not yet been chosen, would depend on what Brintzinghoffer described as "distributed lethality"—helicopters, drones, uncrewed surface vehicles, or


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Some in our group have been working on this since the early 1990s. Others, alarmed at the loss of confidence in our representative government, have invested great energy and time learningNEW YORK – In the East Flatbush community of Brooklyn, N.Y. where 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot dead by undercover officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) last Saturday, the grief is still raw and emotions are running high as one church group struggles to stanch the pain.

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A picture of 16-year-old Kimani Gray at a memorial set up by residents of the East Flatbush community in Brooklyn, N.Y. Gray was shot dead by two undercover NYPD officers last Saturday.

(Photo: The Christian Post/ Leonardo Blair)

Residents of East Flatbush in Brooklyn, N.Y. pay their respects at a makeshift memorial set up in honor of 16-year-old Kimani Gray who was shot dead by NYPD officers in the community last Saturday.

On Friday, under the watch of


a battalion of NYPD officers patrolling the community in squad cars, on foot and horses, residents of the community struggled to contain their simmering anger. It had already erupted this week in looting and rioting resulting in the arrest of at least 46 people by the NYPD late Wednesday, according to one report.

Kimani Gray was reportedly shot dead by two plainclothes police officers after he ran from a group of young people on their approach. Police say he pointed a .38-caliber revolver at the officers and he was told to "freeze" before he was shot. They said they recovered a loaded gun at the scene.

Residents of the community, however, tell a different story and it is this dispute that has further fractured a relationship that was already troubledby the shooting of Shantel Davis in the community in 2012.

"He was nice, he was a nice little boy. I've known him since he was four and I didn't know him as a troublemaker. That's why this has shocked everybody," home health aide Tricia Gordon told The Christian Post on a visit to the largely West Indian community on Friday.

The chilly winter wind had blown out the light from many of the candles at a memorial set up in honor of the teen's life at the corner of Church and E 54th Street and she was relighting as many of them in preparation for another community vigil on Friday night.

"Mr., The Police is a [expletive]," she said as she looked over a picture of the dead boy.

Gilford Monrose,


president of the 67th Precinct Clergy Council and pastor of the Mount Zion Church of God, says his team has been offering support as needed to the Gray family and for the last two years have been giving support to families of victims of gun violence.

In the two years, the group has been in operation, they have responded to ten deaths, two of which were NYPD-related. "The bigger issue we have in our community is gun violence and gangs and we help the community tremendously because we offer any family whose son or daughter is killed on the streets of Brooklyn, spiritual support and we guide them through the grieving process," Monrose told CP. "If someone is arrested and there is need for dialogue between the community andcheating in the English, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics papers.

The “cheating operations”, led by principal Poh, were “highly sophisticated”, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Vadivalagan Shanmuga.

On the day of each exam, tuition teachers Tan, Poh and Feng attached Bluetooth devices to the students’ clothing. The devices were linked to mobile phones which were also hidden under their clothes, and each student wore a skin-coloured ear piece.

Tan, who had also registered for the GCE O-Levels as a private candidate, would sit for the exams as well. She had an iPhone attached to the front of her blouse with scotch tape and wore a jacket to hide it. Once the exam had started, Tan would connect via Facetime with the principal, Poh and Feng, who were stationed at Zeus’ premises, giving them


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At the tuition centre, the trio would scramble to find answers to the questions, then call each of the six students and read the answers to them.

This went on from Oct 19 to Oct 24, 2016, when an invigilator noticed “unusual sounds” coming from student Chen Yi, who was sitting for English Paper 1 at Tampines Secondary School.

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Liverpool star Mohamed Salah will be rewarded for winning the PFA Player of the Year award with a piece of land in the holy city of Mecca.

Fahd Al-Rowky, the vice president of the local municipality in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, told national outlet Sabq (h/t Farah Tawfeek of the Egypt Independent) of his plans. He said the Egyptian is an excellent ambassador for Islam in the United Kingdom and the move would show support toward young people of great potential.

"There are several choices regarding giving this piece of land," he said. "The way to go will be determined by captain Mohamed Salah as well as the Saudi system. If the Saudi system allows the land to be owned by Salah, he will be givena piece of land in holy Mecca outside Haram. The other option will be to have a mosque built on the land in his name."

Another option, should Salah request it, would be to sell the land and give forward the proceeds.

The 25-year-old has had a monumental first season at Anfield, per the UEFA Champions League's official Twitter account:

Salah starred in the Champions League on Tuesday as he plundered two goals and as many assists to help Liverpool take a 5-2 lead in their semi-final first leg against his former side Roma.

Football writer Leanne Prescott lauded him for his efforts:

The performance came after he was named Player of the Year on Sunday, in which he became the third Muslim player in a row to win the award after Riyad


Mahrez in 2016 and N'Golo Kante last year.

Bleacher Report's Dean Jones believes he'll be in contention for football's greatest individual prize this year if he maintains his outstanding form:

Salah has lit up the Premier League and the Champions League this season with a number of mesmerising performances, and he has been an example off the field, too.

As well as redirecting much of the praise he has received on to his team-mate, Salah's charity work in his local community in Egypt has also helped people with access to better education and healthcare.Katie Hopkins could never be accused of holding her tongue in an awkward situation.

But the former reality TV contestant hit a new low last summer when she told an obese woman on This Morning that she wouldn't employ her because fat people give off the impression that they are lazy.

After a backlash from thousands of angry Brits, the 39-year-old has now ballooned from 8st 8lb to 12st to prove to overweight people across the UK that being chubby is their own fault.

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Katie Hopkins has piled on the pounds over the last three months - she now weights 12st

Lifestyle change: She ate a fatty and sugary foods, including pasta, crisps and chocolate biscuits

Katie embarked on the scheme after becoming sick of hearing excuses thrown around by


public social services will comb a list of people compiled by UCLA and target them for preventive services.

UCLA, which is conducting the research at no cost to the county, also will identify additional at-risk families, teenagers and young adults.

Janey Rountree, executive director of the California Policy Lab, said the researchers used predictive analytics to model hundreds of potential risk factors for homelessness. Chief among them were interactions with the county’s social services agencies.

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are incapable of empathy and frankly simply cannot get the job done," Cruz said in a statement.

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello also responded to Trump's tweets Thursday morning by arguing that Puerto Rico is simply asking for the "support that any of our fellow citizens would receive."

At a press conference Thursday, Rossello followed up, saying he called the White House in search of clarification on Trump's tweet.

The island is still in crisis mode as it struggles to restore power. Residents still do not have access to clean water, and more than 5,700 residents are living in shelters, according to Rossello's office. Reports of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease, are beginning to surface. According to Puerto Rican officials, 64 percent of people have access to water.

The death toll since thethe president's comments.

The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on legislation that would include $18.7 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund and $16 billion for debt relief for the National Flood Insurance Program.

The bill also includes a provision for the Disaster Nutrition Assistance Program, which allows low-income residents in Puerto Rico to receive the same emergency nutrition aid that hurricane-affected states can receive.

Trump visited Puerto Rico on Oct. 3 to survey the damage and meet with victims of the hurricane. He was criticized for throwing supplies into the crowd and for saying that local officials "can be proud" of the low death toll (which was 16 at the time of his visit), compared with the "thousands" lost in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

He said during a Hispanic Heritage event


three.

Rafa Marquez is a definite, with Espanyol’s Hector Moreno also a shoe-in, but the final position will be between Francisco “Maza” Rodriguez – sent off for an act of petulance on Saturday for America, Diego Reyes, who isn’t playing for Porto’s first team, Enriquez Perez, and Juan Carlos Valenzuela.

None, as of now, are particularly convincing, with Perez inexperienced at international level and Valenzuela not in his best form.

At the wing back positions, Miguel Ponce looks to have overtaken Tigres’ Jorge Torres Nilo in the pecking order on the left, while the options on the right include Miguel Layun, who can play on either wing, and Paul Aguilar.

There’s also the possibility of seeing Andres Guardado on the left and even the in-form winger Javier Aquino being tried out inadhere including an OHP transparency, and also referred to as a recording medium, recording paper, a recording sheet, and the like) to perform image formation (recording, printing, and imaging are also used as synonyms). Examples of the liquid ejecting recording type image forming apparatus include a serial type image forming apparatus in which a recording head ejects droplets while moving in a main-scanning direction to form an image and a line type image forming apparatus that uses a line head in which a recording head in a stationary condition ejects droplets to form an image.
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sole defendant, is a New York corporation with its principal place of business in the Southern District of New York, just outside New York City at Mount Vernon. It produces and publishes the widely-circulated journal Consumer Reports.
28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) provides in its entirety:
(a) For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.
As a preliminary matter, it is clear that this action "might have been brought" in the Southern District of New York. 28 U.S.C. § 1391(a) & (c). The parties are agreed on the factors to be considered by the Court in evaluating a motion under § 1404(a), as enumerated by Judge Weinfeld inthe Southern District of New York at Manhattan, some 80 miles from Orange, CU's people would need travel only a short distance to testify, and could attend to their duties except when required in court. Trial in the Southern District would also obviate the substantial expenses of transporting CU's personnel and documentary evidence from the East Coast to Michigan, and maintaining them in Grand Rapids.
Countervailing inconveniences to the plaintiffs occasioned by the requested transfer are comparatively small. Sebring Vanguard's officers and employees are concentrated in Florida and perhaps Maryland. Travel from these locales to New York City would be at least as convenient, if not more so, than travel to Grand Rapids. (The Court takes judicial notice of the relatively superior air links along the Eastern corridor to


New York). To the extent that Sebring Vanguard seeks to prove nationwide damage to its sales, it may wish to call employees and consultants from throughout the United States. Assuming that such potential witnesses are scattered around the country, travel to New York City would present little more inconvenience to them as a group than travel to Grand Rapids.
Simmons Ford is the only party which would be inconvenienced by transfer. All its officers, employees and records are located in the Western District of Michigan at Schoolcraft, and face the much longer trek to New York City. However, Simmons Ford adduces no other instances of inconvenience to it caused by the proposed transfer. Apparently, its operation will not be so seriously disrupted as those of CU; at least itopen workout session for fans and media at the UFC Gym July 20, 2017 in New Hyde Park, New York. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC)

Since beating Silva at UFC 162 in July 2013, Weidman repeated the win over “The Spider,” then successfully defended his 185-pound crown with wins over Lyoto Machida and Vitor Belfort.

All was well. Until it wasn’t anymore. In his next three fights, Weidman suffered the first three losses of his career. One. Right. After. The. Other.

Yet as the defeats to Luke Rockhold, Yoel Romero and Gegard Mousasi stripped him of his title and his air of invincibility, they also came with asterisks or explanations.

The UFC 194 bout against Rockhold was up for grabs before the then-champion threw an ill-advised and uncharacteristic wheel kick that led


expertise necessary to investigate how we can make sure that hearing loss never gets in the way of children achieving normal language ability and so life opportunities.”

In the formal welcome proceedings, two clients from Australian Hearing also told their personal stories of growing up with hearing loss to the audience.

The Australian Hearing Hub Open House event attracted nearly 300 people. The event provided opportunities for free hearing tests for children in the Macquarie University Speech and Hearing Clinic and adult hearing screening through Australian Hearing. During the event a total of 100 free hearing tests/screenings were completed.

The tours of the anechoic chamber and MQ photonics laser micromachining demonstrations were very popular with over 120 people signing up to have the opportunity to see both state of the artThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York works to promote sound and well-functioning financial systems and markets through its provision of industry and payment services, advancement of infrastructure reform in key markets and training and educational support to international institutions.

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Antisemitism and the far-right today

Rob Ferguson

Within weeks of Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, news and media channels were dominated by charges of antisemitism levelled against his supporters, the National Union of Students and others for their opposition to the State of Israel. The furore has brought the issue of antisemitism into the public domain with a vengeance. More recently, while the campaign against the left continues to resurface, another furore has emerged with the election in the United States of Donald Trump that has focused attention on the spectre of antisemitism on the far-right.

This article aims at an examination of antisemitism today. First, I wish to argue that we face a growing threat of antisemitism from the right, in the context of a general rise in racism,fear of revolution gripped the ruling classes of Europe and north America, antisemitism deepened across the continent.2 Fearing working class revolt, the German ruling class turned to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. They mobilised their base with a vision of a racial utopia, in which class divisions were dissolved and a united volk(people or nation) vanquished all internal and external foes.3 It was this Nazi project that culminated in the Holocaust.

Today we again face an era of war, nationalism, crisis and reaction. Antisemitism is re-emerging as fascist parties strengthen a base across Europe. Their influence extends from Eastern Europe, south to Golden Dawn in Greece, and west to the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany and the Front National (FN) in France.

In Hungary


the neo-Nazis of Jobbik (Movement for a Better Hungary) are currently the second largest single party in the Hungarian National Assembly with over 20 percent of the vote. Hungary is part of a wider trend across Eastern Europe. In March 2016 the Slovak Nazis of the “The People’s Party—Our Slovakia” won 8 percent of the vote in the National Council, securing 23 percent of first time voters. “Our Slovakia” openly claims the mantle of wartime clerical fascist leader Jozef Tiso. In Croatia the ruling Croatian Democratic Union has appointed Zlatko Hasanbegović, a fascist, Holocaust denier and admirer of the wartime Ustashe regime, as minister of culture. In Ukraine the far-right and the fascists of Svoboda and Right Sector have a long history of antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Fromthe National Assembly (third in terms of voting blocs). In the local elections they came in at second place and now have 18 mayors. In opinion polls they are the most popular party among voters under the age of 35.

It is important to locate the roots of Jobbik’s rise in popular support. In the national assembly elections of 2006 Jobbik won a derisory 2.2 percent of the vote. However, in the 2009 European elections they gained almost as many votes as the then ruling Socialist Party. In the 2010 national assembly elections they won 17 percent of the vote, rising to 20 percent in 2014.

In 2008 the world economic crash acted as the catalyst for Jobbik’s electoral fortunes. Over three years, preceding the crash, the Hungarian population were


supporters most likely to believe in a Jewish conspiracy.11

While disavowing antisemitism in international forums, both Orbán and Fidesz actively promote antisemitism at home. Jewish financier George Soros is a particular bête noire. In autumn 2015 Orbán accused Soros of manipulating the refugee crisis in order to weaken the nation state.12 Orbán attacked Bill Clinton for his criticism of Hungary and Poland, dismissing him as Soros’s mouthpiece.

Both Fidesz and Jobbik have attempted systematically to rehabilitate the regime of Miklós Horthy, who as Hitler’s Hungarian ally played an instrumental role in exterminating over half a million Hungarian Jews.13 Orbán has himself cultivated the support of leading Holocaust deniers and antisemites. As for Jobbik, antisemitism is built into their ideological worldview. The Hungarian Guard sport insignia reminiscent of the wartime fascistArrow Cross.14 In 2013 Jobbik called a protest against “a Jewish takeover” of Hungary at the World Jewish Congress in Budapest. Jobbik MP Márton Gyöngyösi called on the Hungarian government to compile a list of Jewish deputies and government officials on the grounds they posed “a national security risk”.15 Krisztina Morvai, Jobbik representative in the European Parliament, claimed that Hungarian Jews aimed to turn the country into an impoverished third-world colony and make “native” Hungarians their “obedient subjects, servants and domestics”.16

Islamophobia, antisemitism and the rise of the right

Antisemitism and Islamophobia go hand in hand. Hungary is an extreme but not an isolated example. State-sponsored Islamophobia has fuelled the growth of far-right and fascist movements across the breadth of the European continent. Along the borders of Eastern Europe, governments


Justice Party, Jarosław Kaczyński, claimed refugees brought cholera and dysentery. The week before the EU vote on refugee quotas, thousands marched in cities across Poland, some chanting: “Today refugees, tomorrow terrorists!” and “Poland, free of Islam!”19 At a rally organised by the fascist National-Radical Camp (ONR) in Wrocław, one speaker declared: “We won’t take a single Islamist into Poland because Poland is for Poles”. The rally ended with the burning of an effigy of an orthodox Jew as the crowd chanted: “God, Honour and Fatherland”.20

However, the eastern and southern European states are merely the enforcers of “Fortress Europe”. The foundations of the fortress lie with the major central and western European powers. The fish rots at the head.

Western Europe

In Europe the French political class has been at thekilling of MP Jo Cox by a Nazi during the EU referendum campaign.

In Germany far-right street movements against the “Islamification of Europe” have morphed into Alternative für Deutschland. AfD has mobilised tens of thousands on demonstrations, mainly concentrated in the east; refugee accommodation has been subject to a wave of assaults and arson attacks, numbering 1,047 attacks on refugee homes in 2015 and set to rise for 2016.22 Antisemitism has also surfaced within AfD ranks. Björn Höcke, AfD leader in the eastern state of Thuringia, condemned the siting of the Holocaust Memorial in the German capital, to applause from his audience. Hoecke referred to the German mindset as that of a “brutally defeated people”.23

The escalation of state-sponsored Islamophobia across the continent has fuelled a rightward shift. This is


most evident in France, where the Front National (FN) gained 6.6 million votes in the 2015 regional elections and polls predict FN leader Marine Le Pen will come second in the first round of the presidential elections in April this year. In Austria the FPÖ candidate Norbert Hofer was narrowly defeated in the re-run presidential elections in December 2016 but the party has been climbing in opinion polls, currently standing in lead position at 34 percent. Both these fascist parties have roots in the wartime Nazi period; the FPÖ was founded by Nazis in the 1950s and the FN has roots in the collaborationist Vichy regime and French colonialism in Algeria. Both parties make an outward show of disavowing antisemitism and have even gone as far as expellingsome members. Marine Le Pen is noted in the Western press for disavowing her father Jean-Marie, who described the Holocaust as a mere “detail of history”, and her declarations of support for Israel.24 She has made the rounds of the Jewish press, declaring common cause with Israel against “Islamist terror”. But, while Le Pen has formally cut ties with her father, antisemitism remains prevalent within the FN. In April 2016 the chair of the FPÖ, Heinz-Christian Strache, who has a record of antisemitism, visited Israel at the invitation of leading members of Likud and West Bank settlers. He called for a lifting of the Austrian ban on illegal settlement products and a “common front” against Islamists.25

The FN and FPÖ reflect what is sometimes referred to as “Euro-fascism”. This


left: the “new antisemitism” 1967-2000

While antisemitism is growing on the far-right in Europe and the US, the anti-imperialist left has been subjected to a deluge of accusations of antisemitism for its opposition to the State of Israel that has far outweighed criticism of antisemitism on the right. These accusations are not new; however, they have acquired new force.

The narrative of a “new antisemitism” has its origins in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973. Its core thesis was that opposition to the State of Israel, emanating from the anti-imperialist left, the Palestinian liberation movement and the Arab nationalist regimes, constituted a new form of antisemitism.

In one of the first works, The New Antisemitism, the authors, Arnold Forster and Benjamin Epstein, made their case in absoluteterms: “In its assault on Israel’s right to exist, the radical left engages in what is perhaps the ultimate antisemitism”.38 Forster and Epstein, both Anti-Defamation League leaders, were reacting to the radicalisation of the late 1960s and what they saw as growing political isolation of Israel. The anti-Vietnam War movement, the events of May 1968 in France, the rise of the Black Power movement and anti-colonial struggles in Africa transformed the political attitudes of a generation.

Recently we have witnessed the rise of the new left, which identifies Israel with the establishment… Let there be no mistake: the new left is the author and the progenitor of the new antisemitism. One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between


anti-imperialist left four decades ago now has its echo in the attack on Corbyn, marked out for his own leading role in the anti-war movement.

In the 1977 elections in Israel Menachem Begin broke three decades of Labour Zionist government, leading the right wing Likud to victory. This marked a further breach in left support. Begin had been leader of the Irgun terror gangs that massacred 250 civilians at the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. He embarked on a major expansion of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, launching the invasion of Lebanon in 1982. This and Israeli complicity in the massacre of refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps led Tony Benn, Eric Heffer and a large number of Labour MPs to resign from Labour Friendsconsensus emerge around the question of a “two state solution”. This was shattered by the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel’s defeat at the hands of Hizbollah and withdrawal from Lebanon in 2006, and the rise of Hamas.

2000 to the present: the “new antisemitism” reforged

However, the Second Intifada was set against 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The “new antisemitism” narrative now took on altogether different proportions. From 2000 onwards its proponents identified “radical Islam” as an existential threat not only to the State of Israel but to Western liberal values on a global scale. For the pro-imperialist camp, Israel was now on the front line.

The contemporary roots of Islamophobia lie in the period following the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the rising influence of


Islamist movements.42 In their wake, anti-Muslim prejudice became a dominant trope. As the late Edward Said noted, “malicious generalisations about Islam have become the last acceptable form of denigration of foreign culture in the West; what is said about the Muslim mind, or character, or religion, or culture as a whole cannot now be said in mainstream discussion about Africans, Jews, other Orientals, or Asians”.43

In 1986 the orientalist scholar Bernard Lewis published Semites and Antisemites, which in large part reworked the narratives of the 1970s but in which Lewis also addressed the “Islamisation” of antisemitism.44 Lewis is an acclaimed scholar on Islam and the Middle East; he is a leading neoconservative, a confidant of several Israeli prime ministers including Ariel Sharon, and acted as adviser to George Wchance, and world civilisation must defend itself…the threat is genocidal… We must not repeat past mistakes”.56

In Britain leading proponents of military intervention on the Blairite wing of the Labour Party have also seized upon the narrative. Thus Denis MacShane, in Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism, locates antisemitism as central to promoting world terror:

We have seen life-threatening antisemitism return with a vengeance. Thousands have been killed across the globe as men, women, even children, and organisations powered by an ideology to which antisemitism is central and essential have decided to unleash unprecedented assaults on democracy. In Bali and Istanbul, in Egypt and Madrid, in New York and London, people driven by antisemitic hate along with other hates have killed, killed and killed again in the name of a cause


that hates Jews.57

As former minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British delegate to the Council for Europe, MacShane is a long-standing advocate of Western military intervention.

MacShane was previously chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism. Prior to his imprisonment for fraudulent expenses claims in 2013 he appeared alongside the current chair, John Mann, as a witness in a case brought against the University and College Union (UCU) for its policy of boycotting links with Israeli universities. The judge dismissed the case against the UCU in a judgement that was highly critical of both Mann and MacShane.58

MacShane and Mann (both non-Jews) represent the widening of the “new antisemitism” narrative into the Labour mainstream. Mann went on to play a central role in the manufactured attack onKen Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left. In Corbyn they faced a Labour leader who was a principled socialist, a leading figure of the anti-war movement and supporter of Palestinian rights. For the Labour right, the “new antisemitism” narrative was an ideal weapon in the struggle against him.

“New antisemitism” and its consequences

The “new antisemitism” narrative has potentially severe political consequences. In France representatives of CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France), have played down the threat from the FN, presenting left anti-Zionism and Muslim youth as the greater threat.59 The French government has even banned pro-Palestinian protests. In Britain the former Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, and current Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, joined the onslaught on Corbyn and the left.60

Furthermore, there has been an attempt to institutionalise