Skywatcher Peter Birtwhistle of the Great Shefford Observatory snapped this image of asteroid 2011 MD on June 23, 2011. The asteroid zipped within 7,500 miles of Earth on June 27.

An asteroid the size of a tour bus zipped by Earth today (June 27) in a flyby so close that the space rock was nearer to the planet than some satellites.

The space rock, called asteroid 2011 MD, reached its closest point to Earth just after 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT), when it crept within 7,500 miles (12,000 km) of Earth before whipping away again like a slingshot. The asteroid was flying over the southern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Antarctica, at the time of its closest approach.

The asteroid was discovered just last week on June 22, but thereQuantifying Vision Zero: Crash avoidance in rural and motorway accident scenarios by combination of ACC, AEB, and LKS projected to German accident occurrence.
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time she was 20 they had received $1.2 million in funding through Y Combinator.

Inspired by her entrepreneurial mother, Mah claims to have had her first taste of business in second grade selling drawings in the school playground. When she was 8 years-old Mah began learning computer programming. At age 12 she started her first company and by the age of 15 she dropped out of high school to take computer science courses at University of California at Berkeley from where she later graduated. Tech Crunch toted her as “the closest thing we have to a female Mark Zuckerberg.”

In creating inDinero, Mah was motivated by her previous small business ventures and the problems she faced with managing her books. She took something that intimidated her and decided to createa product that would make it easier for small businesses to manage their own accounting.

With her immediate PR and funding success, Mah did not project that inDinero would fail within the first year. According to her feature in Inc. magazine most of the 30,000 mom-and-pop-shop customers using inDinero were not buying into premium tools and used the software for free.

Money started to burn away. There were the basic operational costs but there were also the costs of letting your ego get the better of you. In an email to her parents she confessed to the detriment of cockiness and arrogance: “I feel like I’m Bernie Madoff – rich on the outside, but completely broken on the inside.” Flashy PR and an expensive office was not going to sustain


The African Union has reprimanded Mauritania for failing to take action against widespread slavery within its borders and ordered the government to give financial compensation to two child slaves who were failed by its legal system.

The landmark ruling is the first time the AU has spoken out against the pervasive practice of hereditary slavery in Mauritania, which activists believe affects many thousands of people.

Despite passing slavery laws in 2007, and amending them in 2015, Mauritania has only prosecuted two cases of slavery. In 2011, after sustained regional and international pressure, the Mauritanian courts sentenced Ahmed Ould El Hassine to two years in jail and to pay 1.35m Mauritanian ouguiya (£2,700) to two brothers, Said and Yarg Ould Salem, who had been kept in slavery since birth.

After lawyers representingthe brothers appealed to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), an AU body that was set up to protect child welfare across the region, the committee criticised the leniency of the sentence and said the Mauritanian government was creating a culture of impunity, allowing slavery to continue unfettered across the region.

Under Mauritanian law the minimum sentence for slavery crimes is five years. The convicted slave master is yet to be jailed, pending appeal, and according to anti-slavery campaigners other members of his family are yet to face prosecution.

In the ruling, the committee found the state to be in violation of its obligations to protect children’s rights under the African Children’s Charter, a legal framework that was set up to protect


volition, we will have to make it happen through international pressure.”

Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery in 1981 and passed anti-slavery laws in 2007, but these laws still haven’t been implemented. In large parts of the country, slave status is still passed down from mother to child.Genomic organisation and tissue specific expression of ABLIM2 gene in human, mouse and rat.
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was exasperating but respectful with me in a working relationship and with many others with whom he worked professionally. Streep called the news disgraceful, inexcusable and an abuse of power.

SIEGEL: A number of men who worked with Weinstein shared their reactions. In an interview with The Daily Beast yesterday, George Clooney said this. There's nothing to say except that it's indefensible. He said he took rumors of Weinstein's casting couch with a grain of salt. Clooney said it seemed like a way to smear the actresses and demean them by saying that they didn't get the jobs based on their talent.

MCEVERS: Clooney continued, every time you see someone using their power and influence to take advantage of someone without power and influence and you don't speak up, youDan Graziano reports that the Colts made the trade to get QB Jacoby Brissett as they do not expect Andrew to be back until late September or early October with his shoulder injury. (0:54)

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Second-year quarterback Jacoby Brissett's leadership was one of the more impressive qualities he brought to the New England Patriots. Younger players, in particular, seemed to rally around him.

In the wake of Saturday's trade that sent Brissett to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for receiver Phillip Dorsett, Brissett penned a thank-you note that he shared on Instagram.

To the Patriots organization thank you for the opportunity. The countless memories will live forever. To that locker and the friends/relationships that I've gain in such a short amount of time thank you guys for accepting me.


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Sen. Bernie Sanders was up front at the Port Townsend Community Center on Aug. 24, live-streaming from his hometown of Burlington, Vermont, to help kick off a new nationwide political movement called Our Revolution.

More than 90 people in Port Townsend turned out to listen to what the former presidential hopeful had to say about the future of the political revolution he started as a candidate.

The Port Townsend event was one of roughly 2,300 “watch parties” across the country. It was sponsored by Jefferson County Progressives, a new organization that is being crafted by former Sanders supporters in Jefferson County, including Michael Ferguson, who had traveled the country earlier this year, campaigning for Sanders.

Ferguson stood at the room's entrance, creating Jefferson County Progressivesbut did note that she had come around to support the idea of building community medical clinics around the country that would help with access to health care.

Sanders did not utter Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's name.

Sanders did boast that the progressive ideals on which he campaigned – including tuition-free college education – are becoming more common points of conversation for many candidates across the nation running for office.

There were several rounds of applause when Sanders talked about overturning Citizens United and Initiative 735, an effort to make Washington the 18th state to ask Congress to overturn the case that allows corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.

Sanders also said President Barack Obama is “dead wrong” to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership – better


known simply as the TPP. That comment drew another round of applause in Port Townsend.

The event, in fact, was reminiscent of the March Democratic caucus meetings in Port Townsend, during which Sanders supporters crowded into the community center. A record 3,778 Democrats in Jefferson County turned out on March 26 to caucus; 70 percent of those who turned out supported Sanders' bid for president.

After Sanders lost to Clinton in July at the national convention, there was the question of what would happen to Sanders' revolution.

Sanders answered that with the introduction of Our Revolution, noting that young people were the ones who would take up the cause and be the future.

“We won overwhelming support from the younger people of our country, 45 years of age and younger,” he said,adding that those supporters included young people who are black, white, Latino, Asian American and Native American.

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Ryan McAllister, 28, of Port Townsend is one of those young people. McAllister was elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for Sanders.

McAllister ran for precinct committee officer representing District 102, Discovery Bay. He lost to longtime resident Al Scalf.

That loss has not deterred McAllister from being interested in politics.

Tyler Myles Vega, 38, of Port Townsend, a former Green Party congressional candidate, also was on hand for the event. Vega is now working on behalf of Mike Coverdale, in independent seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, 6th District, D.

Ferguson said representatives of a number of groups are interested in carrying forward the work that Sanders talked about


in his campaign.

Organizations whose representatives were on hand included: Jefferson County Democrats, Progressive Independent Party, Green Party of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington Berniecrats Coalition, Jefferson County Move to Amend, Jefferson County Young Democrats and Jefferson County Progressives.

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While Sanders supporters in Port Townsend applauded what Sanders had to say, concern is being raised about turmoil in the Our Revolution from the get-go that relates to how the nonprofit will conduct fundraising and how transparent it becomes moving forward.

Sanders, still in the Senate, passing on the revolution baton to supporters, including Larry Cohen, the former president of the Communications Workers of America, and Jeff Weaver, who managed his presidential campaign.published last week opposing mandated Holocaust education in the schools and chastising supporters, including state Rep. Brendan Boyle and state Sen. Anthony Williams.

Mr. Zecca argues that the officials are “pandering” to a special interest group by promoting Holocaust education. If by special interest group, he is referring to Jews, I must remind him that in addition to 6 million Jewish murder victims, Hitler killed 6 million non-Jews in the camps and other places, including political opponents, gays, Roma, mentally challenged and others. In fact, 1,700 priests were murdered in the camps.

If he thinks, as indicated later in his letter, that the Holocaust did not affect “us,” he needs to be told that what started out as hatred and bigotry was followed by all-out war that cost the lives


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35–31 Packer victory. He returned for the 23–10 loss at the Minnesota Vikings, but was the backup to emerging rookie running back Aaron Jones. After Jones went down with a knee injury in Week 10 at the Bears, Montgomery came in and had a 37-yard rushing touchdown, but left the game after re-injuring his ribs. After missing the next two games, he was placed on injured reserve on December 1, 2017 after undergoing season-ending surgery for an apparent wrist injury. He finished the 2017 season with 273 rushing yards, three rushing touchdowns, 23 receptions, 173 receiving yards, and a receiving touchdown.

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In Week 8 against the Los Angeles Rams, the Packers were losing by a score of 29–27 with 2:05 left in the game when Montgomery returned a kickA longtime Republican operative known for spreading anti-Semitic tropes about billionaire George Soros in 2018 is behind a dark money effort in Nevada to get right-wing voters to mobilize against Sen. Bernie Sanders in the state's 2020 Democratic presidential primary caucuses on February 22.

Tim Miller, also known for his work on the failed Jeb Bush presidential campaign in 2016, is one of the directors of the new company Center Action Now, which is targeting Sanders in Nevada.

40 years of dancing with the devil and all of a sudden centrist GOP voters want to switch sides so they can poison the Democratic Party too?

Thanks, no thanks.https://t.co/owBQExcGcw — Nimrod Workman (@OctaveFilms) February 13, 2020

As the Nevada Independent's Megan Messerly reported Wednesday, a Center Action Now memo details plans to mobilize


said.

According to the Nevada Independent:

In addition to Miller, Sarah Longwell, a political strategist and another Never Trump Republican, and John Stubbs, a former official in the George W. Bush administration who founded a Republicans for Hillary Clinton group in 2016, serve on the nonprofit-s board of directors. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Never Miss a Beat. Get our best delivered to your inbox.

Miller declined to provide any details about who is funding the group, its budget, or the size of its staff. As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, the organization is not required to disclose its donors. According to Facebook, the group spent $13,280 on ads the day before and the day of the New Hampshire primary. The Nevada campaign, Miller said, will begin "imminently."

The group's attack ads against Sandersin New Hampshire used Soviet imagery and scare tactics around socialism to discourage voters from voting for the Vermont senator.

A brand-new #DarkMoney group founded by anti-Trump Republicans called "Center Action Now" is targeting New Hampshire residents with anti- Bernie Sanders messaging. https://t.co/HtrXDsPAHG #NHprimary2020 — OpenSecrets.org (@OpenSecretsDC) February 11, 2020

In comment to Quartz, Miller said that Center Action Now's efforts to get out the right-wing vote were aimed at providing voters with choice, not to game the system.

"This is not akin to [conservative talk show host] Hugh Hewitt going on TV saying Trump supporters should vote for the weakest Democrats to help him—that's meddling," said Miller. "The people who we are trying to talk to are voters who don't like the president, who want him to be defeated, people


who are concerned that both parties have succumbed to the extremes."

Miller's work for Definers Public Affairs came under fire in November 2018 after the New York Times revealed the firm was using anti-Semitic tropes about Soros to discredit left-wing activists on Facebook. The fallout from that scandal resulted in Miller being fired from his job as guest Republican on the Pod Save America podcast and Definers losing its contract with Facebook.

In an example of the revolving door in the political consulting world, Definers former chief executive Matt Rhoades, who also worked on Mitt Romney's failed 2012 presidential campaign, has since founded with former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook the nonprofit Defending Digital Democracy Project at Harvard University.

Both Rhoades and Mook worked with the Iowa Democratic Party oneye, the beam was reported as kinked but not thinned or broken. When the beam was placed on the edge of the macular hole, all patients reported a displacement or bowing of the beam away from the center of the hole. These findings confirm tangential traction of photoreceptors from a central foveal dehiscence as the causative mechanism in the development of the majority of macular holes. Careful interpretation of the Watzke-Allen sign may offer a technique for preoperatively determining visual prognosis. Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:1059-1063


source code appeared online last week, but researchers quickly discovered that the compressed archive containing the source code was password protected. But then on Monday the password was published as well, giving researchers–and anyone else who could find it–access to the source code. For much of its life, Carberp was a private crimeware kit used by a crew in Russia. Several members of the alleged crew were arrested in Russia in 2012 and several months later a commercial version of the Carberp Trojan appeared on the market,going for the lofty price of $40,000.

That high price may have kept some buyers away, restricting sales to the high end of the attacker pyramid. However, now that the source code is freely available, that may change quickly. Carberp is a powerfulWell of course it is, back to the neolithic times for them, if found guilty of the smallest misdemeanour they get stoned to death. Very enlightened in this modern democratic society of India.

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Who told you that? We are not middle estern countries to stone our women to death......We treat our women really better than others....We in NE give equal status to our women and actually they influence the family more than the men folks......We are a modern society which didnot forget it's ancient traditions....

Four out of ten women in India still have no say in their marriage, eight out of ten need permission to visit a doctor, six out of ten practise some form of head covering, and the average Indian household gives over 30,000 in


the IHDS.
The data shows that India has made progress in child marriage, with 48% of women over 25 reporting in 2011-12 that they were married before the age of 18 as opposed to 60% in 2004-5. The average number of children that women (over 40) reported they had had has also come down slightly to 3.55, indicating that fertility is falling. The practice of marrying a cousin or relative – more common in the south than the north – is becoming less common, but over 20% in Andhra Pradesh and Karnata still marry relatives.
However, women's autonomy remains severely constrained. 41% of women had no say in their marriage and just 18% knew their husbands before marriage, a statistic that has not improved. Women's say in marriage rose withtheir level of education, with income and with level of urbanisation and the southern states did better.
Just 10% said that they could take the primary decision to buy large items for the house, less than 20% had their names on the house's papers and 81% needed permission to visit a doctor. 60% of women – including 59% of forward caste Hindus and 83% of Muslim women – practised some form of `purdah' or `ghunghat'. Over half of all women said it was common for women in their community to be beaten if they went out without permission.
"Those of us in the women's movement and in progressive groups have been saying right from the beginning that instead of focussing on instruments of security like the police alone, there needs


to be a transformation inside the home, in schools, in communities," Suneeta Dhar, director of the women's rights group Jagori told The Hindu.
The average Indian family gives over 30,000 in cash as dowry and 40% admitted to giving large items like TVs and cars as dowry. The practise of giving large items as dowry was most common among forward caste Hindus and lowest among Muslims. Wedding expenses ranged from nearly Rs 1 lakh in the poorest village to Rs 1.7 lakh in small cities, a big jump over the 2004-5 survey. Kerala and Delhi had the most expensive weddings.

Four out of ten women in India still have no say in their marriage, eight out of ten need permission to visit a doctor, six out of ten practise somenationally, and 83% of them were also interviewed for the 2004-5 round of the IHDS.
The data shows that India has made progress in child marriage, with 48% of women over 25 reporting in 2011-12 that they were married before the age of 18 as opposed to 60% in 2004-5. The average number of children that women (over 40) reported they had had has also come down slightly to 3.55, indicating that fertility is falling. The practice of marrying a cousin or relative – more common in the south than the north – is becoming less common, but over 20% in Andhra Pradesh and Karnata still marry relatives.
However, women's autonomy remains severely constrained. 41% of women had no say in their marriage and just 18% knew their husbands before


marriage, a statistic that has not improved. Women's say in marriage rose with their level of education, with income and with level of urbanisation and the southern states did better.
Just 10% said that they could take the primary decision to buy large items for the house, less than 20% had their names on the house's papers and 81% needed permission to visit a doctor. 60% of women – including 59% of forward caste Hindus and 83% of Muslim women – practised some form of `purdah' or `ghunghat'. Over half of all women said it was common for women in their community to be beaten if they went out without permission.
"Those of us in the women's movement and in progressive groups have been saying right from the beginning thatinstead of focussing on instruments of security like the police alone, there needs to be a transformation inside the home, in schools, in communities," Suneeta Dhar, director of the women's rights group Jagori told The Hindu.
The average Indian family gives over 30,000 in cash as dowry and 40% admitted to giving large items like TVs and cars as dowry. The practise of giving large items as dowry was most common among forward caste Hindus and lowest among Muslims. Wedding expenses ranged from nearly Rs 1 lakh in the poorest village to Rs 1.7 lakh in small cities, a big jump over the 2004-5 survey. Kerala and Delhi had the most expensive weddings.

KOLKATA: Two persons have been detained in connection with the gang-rape of a 72-year-old nun at a


school-cum-convent in West Bengal's Ranaghat in the early hours of Saturday. Yesterday, the police had released CCTV footage of four dacoits who allegedly sexually assaulted the nun.

According to the police, the four were part of a gang of around six men who broke into the Convent of Jesus and Mary, gagged the lone security guard on duty and then sexually assaulted the nun around 4 am. The men also allegedly ransacked the church and fled with 8-9 lakh.

The police had announced a reward of 1 lakh for any information leading to their arrest.

Condemning the "horrific" crime, the Mamata Banerjee government yesterday ordered a probe by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and promised "swift, strongest action" against those involved.

Ms Banerjee, in a statement issued by her Trinamool government, alsosaid that "religious politics was being practised in the name of ghar wapasi" and that "religious fanaticism is on the rise".

The issue of ghar wapasi - a campaign by hardliner Hindu groups to convert Christians and Muslims to Hinduism - has seen the Narendra Modi government come under fierce attack from the Opposition in the last few months. Opponents say that since coming to office, Mr Modi has failed to rein in affiliate groups of his party, the BJP, from suggesting that the government will follow a Hindu agenda. The allegations have been further exacerbated by a a series of attacks recently on Christian institutions and churches in Delhi and a few other places.

"A religious fanaticism has been created in the country. Different churches are being attacked at


various places. In the name of 'ghar wapasi', people are being religiously provoked," Firhad Hakin, Urban Development Minister, said on Saturday.

The condition of the nun, who underwent a surgery yesterday, is stable, according to doctors.

Afghanistan worst place in the world for women, but India in top five
Survey shows Congo, Pakistan and Somalia also fail females, with rape, poverty and infanticide rife

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Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world's most dangerous country in whichto be born a woman, according to a global survey released on Wednesday.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Pakistan, India and Somalia feature in descending order after Afghanistan in the list of the five worst states, the poll among gender experts shows.
The appearance of India, a country rapidly developing into an economic super-power, was unexpected. It is ranked as extremely hazardous because of the subcontinent's high level of female infanticide and sex trafficking.

The Price Of Being A Woman: Slavery In Modern Iindia
By Justin Huggler
04 April 2006 The Independent

The desire for sons has created a severe shortage of marriageable young women. As their value rises, unscrupulous men are trading them around the subcontinent and beyond as if they were a mere commodity
Tripla's parents sold her for £170 to


a man who had come looking for a wife. He took her away with him, hundreds of miles across India, to the villages outside Delhi. It was the last time she would see her home. For six months, she lived with him in the village, although there was never any formal marriage. Then, two weeks ago, her husband, Ajmer Singh, ordered her to sleep with his brother, who could not find a wife. When Tripla refused, he took her into the fields and beheaded her with a sickle.
When Rishi Kant, an Indian human rights campaigner, tracked down Tripla's parents in the state of Jharkhand and told them the news, her mother broke down in tears. "But what could we do?" she asked him. "We are facing so muchlabour” highlighted by Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Last year, the world stood aghast as more than a dozen women died in November after they had sterilisation procedures in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Despite guidelines for the medical treatment and examination of women and children who report rape, the government did not allocate “resources necessary for their implementation” HRW also point out that many Indian security force members “enjoy impunity for serious human rights violations”.

Indian sisters to be raped as 'punishment' for brother eloping Two Indian sisters 'sentenced' to be raped and then paraded naked around the streets with their faces blackened in another example of India's scandalous 'village justice'
Two Indian sisters to be raped as 'punishment' for thier brother eloping


in Uttar Pradesh state Photo: Alamy

Meenakshi Kumari, who is 23, and her younger sister, will then be paraded naked with their faces blackened through the streets, according to a ruling from the all-male village council.

The sisters have petitioned the country's Supreme Court to be protected from the so-called "eye-for-an-eye" ruling from the village council in Uttar Pradesh state, 30 miles from the capital Delhi.

The family are from the Dalit caste, historically known as "untouchables". However, the brother fell in love with a woman from the higher, Jat, caste.

The woman was forced into an arranged marriage in February with a man from her own caste despite her relationship, according to Zee news, citing the elder sister Meenakshi.

The couple eloped in March, but returned to the village after the man'sfamily were allegedly tortured by police.

The village council then made its ruling that the Dalit family should be dishonoured to "avenge" the brother's supposed crime.

Rape protests in New Delhi in 2013 Photo: AP

Meenakshi and her sister ran away to the capital after the ruling was handed out and were able to submit their petition for protection for their family at the Supreme Court. However, they are still facing the punishment when they return home.

The "courts" often order honour killings and sexual "punishments" and are frequently allowed to operate completely outside the Indian legal system, despite the Supreme Court labelling them "kangaroo courts".

Jats are powerful sources of votes and few politicians have been prepared to challenge the system.

Amnesty International has set up a petition against the punishment, stating: "Nothing


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WSOC-TV reports that 24-year-old Michael Filipidis pleaded guilty in federal court to wire-fraud and identity-theft charges.

According to the Charlotte TV station, court documents stated that while Filipidis worked at a Wells Fargo call center in Mint Hill, he pretended to be a financial adviser and persuaded an elderly man to hand over account information.

WSOC-TV reports that officials said once Filipidis had the victim’s information, he opened brokerage accounts using his own phone number and email as the contact and made himself the beneficiary.

According to court documents, he then transferred money from the victim’s new account and life insurance policies to bank accounts he controlled, WSOC-TV


After the results of the NHL draft lottery were released April 10, many Islanders fans are concerned. Two of their greatest rivals within the Metropolitan Division, the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers, have the first two picks in this year’s entry draft. With two generational talents within those two slots, some fans of Long Island hockey are panicking. While this is good cause for alarm, the results of the lottery are not as disastrous as many have been led to believe.

The Devils, who acquired the first overall pick, are projected to select American-born center Jack Hughes. Hughes is undeniably a transcended talent who has the potential to dominate NHL defenses for years. This is the second time in three years where the Devils have wonAleppo province: IS took control on Fafin, Tal Qrah, Sosin, Marata, Kafar Faris villages in addition to the free area, al-Ahdath prison and the infantry school in the northern countryside after violent clashes against rebels led to the death of a number of rebels, reports of losses in IS, this is the largest advances for IS since months. Warplanes raided al-Bab city which is taken over by IS, no reports of losses. aerial bombardment targeted Bustan al-Bashan, al-Jandoul turning and al-Kallasa, no reports of losses.


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Congress struggles with ending the war in Afghanistan … and in Iraq?

Visitors gather around President Barack Obama, center, during his visit to Arlington on Memorial Day 2013. (Pablo …

The war in Iraq is over, everybody knows that. “I promised to end the war in Iraq—and I did” was one of President Barack Obama’s best-received stump speech applause lines last year.

Except it’s not. First, most obviously, because bombings and other acts of violence have killed more than 2,000 people there this year, as detailed in this amazing Agence France-Presse analysis. Pressed on that point last year by Yahoo News, White House press secretary Jay Carney said: "The president promised to responsibly end our war in Iraq, the United States military operation in Iraq. He did that andour troops came home."

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is expected to offer legislation this year to repeal the Iraq AUMF. And he's expected to fail—his previous attempt, in November 2011, was routed in a 30-67 vote. (Among those voting no: then-Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the current secretary of state.)

Asked whether Obama favored repealing the Iraq AUMF, the White House had no response at the time this post was published.

Obama made no mention of repealing the Iraq AUMF in a sweeping national security speech on May 23. But he made a case for ending the "perpetual wartime footing" against terrorism—and that means revising a separate AUMF, the founding document of the war on terrorism adopted immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes.

That one, signed into law Sept.


El Paso County Sheriff's Office investigators were at the Socorro Administration Building on Horizon Boulevard Thursday morning to serve a grand jury subpoena and not a search warrant as Sheriff's officials initially said.

The Sheriff's Office did not revealed any other information.

David Garcia, a Socorro spokesman, confirmed the presence of the investigators at the city building and said city employees cooperated with them.

Socorro City Manager Willie Norfleet Jr. was not in the building at the time of the search and Mayor Trini Lopez arrived at the building after investigators left.

The court order comes after city employees and elected officials have come under scrutiny lately.

In July, the Sheriff's office raided the Socorro offices as a result of an investigation that focuses on reimbursements that three council members and a policefor some more money hopefully…

Propspal has been ok and a good find for 1mil, but he got his points with Gabby early in the yr, atleast he had some chemistry, but he is UFA and somebody may want him, package him with some garbage and picks and clear the Cap. He would be a nice third line player for a contender, he;s our second best forward. That’s how talentless our offense is.Sell him if some junk goes as well.

This is a good deal for the leafs only because of the potential of Pfanuef to regain his form. He is only 24!! What the Leafs gave up was nothing. They are in the Bottom three this year with those players and were going knowhere with them last year as


• Dr. R. Mani: Head of the Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Science in the Gandhigram Rural Institute, one of the foremost universities based on Gandhian thought in India.

• Dr. Amrendra Pandey: Assistant Professor of English at the Mahadev Desai Samajseva Mahavidyalaya, Gujarat Vidyapith. • Rajagopal PV: Leading Gandhian activist in India who champions the land and livelihood rights of Adivasis (Indigenous people). In 2012, he led a march of 50,000 people to promote a land reform agenda.Image copyright PA/Conservative Party

The Conservative Party has been targeting older Facebook users with political adverts about Brexit, according to research by BBC News.

In contrast, younger Facebook users are being shown ads by the party on issues such as policing and mental health.

Tory adverts, mostly seen by users over 45, criticise opposition leaders for wanting "to ignore our Brexit vote".

The Lib Dems and Labour both ran Brexit adverts, while Labour's also featured fox hunting and the environment.

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Conservatives

In mid-September, the Conservative Party was running 691 adverts classed as active by Facebook, more than any other political party in the UK.

Many of the ads are identical, or minor variations on a theme, run multiple times.

The adverts have been viewed between half a million and 2.6 million times in


total.

A Conservative Party official said many ads were no longer active, even though they appeared to be so.

At least 93% of people shown ads criticising pro-Remain MPs are aged 45 and over.

Phrases used in the ads include:

"These politicians want to ignore our Brexit vote"

"Don't let them get away with it"

The analysis looked at any political advert paid for by the Conservative Party that was live on Facebook at the beginning of the third week of September.

Some adverts had been running for many weeks, though most were published after Boris Johnson was elected party leader.

Sarah Wollaston, now the Liberal Democrat MP for Totnes after leaving the Conservative Party, is singled out in some of these ads.

She is accused of "betraying Brexit" and "defecting" from the Conservative Party.

How targeting adsor age group by analysing whether more men, women, older or younger people have been shown the ad.

The library also gives approximate figures for how many people have been shown the ad and how much the ad cost.

In addition to the adverts funded by the central Conservative Party, some local Conservative associations have paid for and published ads accusing opposition leaders of "plotting" against Brexit.

These are being shown to older Facebook users at least 88% of the time, and mostly to men.

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Conservative adverts aimed at people under 45 appear to focus less on Brexit and more on policing and mental health.

This difference in content reflects the division between older and younger voters on the issue of Brexit.

In 2018, Prof John Curtice analysed how people would


ones. Advert targeting will also be affected by who has engaged most with a specific advert."

Liberal Democrats

Though running far fewer adverts than the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are also targeting Brexit messages towards specific age groups.

In direct contrast to the Conservative Party's, the Liberal Democrats' ads are about stopping Brexit and are mostly being seen by people under the age of 45.

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The Liberal Democrats are running 66 ads about Brexit, which have been seen between 2.2 million and 5.3 million times in total. The party's other 20 active adverts on Facebook are aimed at increasing party membership.

Labour

The Labour Party is running fewer ads than the Conservatives, with 276 active adverts.

Brexit is one of the issues covered by Labour but as part of a wider mixEschenfelder's boyfriend, also lived at

the home. Neal was subject to a drug offender sentencing alternative sentence and -
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received permission from his community corrections officer, Kelly Anne Stave, to have Lewis

reside in the home. Lewis also received permission from his community corrections officer,

Michael Monahan, to live at Eschenfelder's home. Monahan ended his


supervision of Lewis in

January of 2010, and Pamela Bohon became Lewis's new community corrections officer.

        On February 17, 2010, Bohon went to Lewis's registered address to verify that he was
residing there. Lewis was not at the home when Bohon arrived, but Neal showed her the

basement of the home where he claimed Lewis slept. Bohon saw a couch in the basement, but

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did not see any bed, dresser or clothes. Bohon also did not recall seeing any personal effects or

toiletry items in the basement. On March 24, Bohon again attempted to contact Lewis at his

registered address, but Lewis was not present at the home when she arrived.

       Between December 11, 2009 and April 12, 2010, Stave, the community corrections

officer supervising Neal, visited with him at the home on at least four occasions. She did not see

Lewis at the residence during any of her visits.

       On April 14, 2010, Tacoma Police Sergeant Jennifer Mueller and Tacoma Police

Detective William Foster went to Lewis's registered address to verify that he was residing there.

Eschenfelder told Mueller that Lewis was not residing


weight that any jury would give to a witness'-  testimony.

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       At trial, Eschenfelder testified that Lewis never resided at her home, that he never stayed

overnight, and that he never stayed at the house while she was present. Although Eschenfelder

stated that Lewis did not reside at her home, she testified that she had allowed him to receive

mail at her address and that she had allowed him to store a suitcase in her home. Eschenfelder

also testified that it would have been impossible for Lewis to have resided at her home and for

her not to have seen him there.

       Neal testified that he gave Lewis permissioncustody on April 13, 2010. Lewis stated that he lived in the home's basement on a

couch and that he brought only a single suitcase containing clothing and shoes with him when he

moved into the home. Lewis also stated that he would always call Neal before going to the

house and that he stayed at the house at least five days a week. When confronted about

Eschenfelder's testimony, Lewis stated that she had lied.

       The trial court found Lewis guilty of failure to register as a sex offender and sentenced

him to 43 months of incarceration to be served concurrently with a conviction out of the King

County Superior Court. The trial court's findings of fact and conclusions of law indicate that the

trial court found that Mueller,


circumstances supporting their opinion that Lewis did not

live at the residence. Although Stave testified that she did not view the basement area of

Eschenfelder's home during the time Lewis claimed to reside there, her opinion testimony did

recite specific observations about the other areas of the home and, as Neal's community

corrections"officer, part of her job was to know who else was living at the house. For these
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       In his SAG Lewis first appears to argue that he was subject to an illegal search when law

enforcement officers conducted an address verification check on his registered address. We

disagree. Here, the record shows that Mueller and Foster went to the address listed in Lewis's

registration packet to perform a routine address verification check. There, Eschenfelder told. he


high prevalence of smoking (44% of the population in 1987, and 34% in 2000 were daily smokers) ([@bib5]). As a result, initiatives were launched to reduce smoking, increase exercise, promote healthier diets and reduce excessive exposure to ultraviolet light. A cervical screening programme had been running for several decades. Following the Cancer Plan in 2005, a national breast cancer screening programme was established. In 2008, a decision was made to set up a colorectal cancer screening programme, but this has not yet been implemented. To improve treatment, necessary but politically difficult decisions had to be taken to concentrate cancer-related surgical procedures in fewer hospital centres ([@bib6]).

Another problem to be tackled was that Danish cancer patients seemed to have more advanced stages at diagnosis than those in other Scandinavianat a hospital. Third, delays in hospital from first investigation to final diagnosis increased, as no standard or guarantee had been set for the time from first referral to start of treatment.

In the years following 2000, the problems became more apparent both to clinicians and the lay population. The second Cancer Plan recommended cancer packages with fast track from referral to diagnosis in patients with suspected cancer, but this never became a widespread reality.

Then, during the summer of 2007, following the presentation of the data on different phases of delay, the press presented numerous case stories of unacceptable clinical pathways from symptom to diagnosis. The Danish Cancer Society suggested a new model, making it clear that 'cancer should be seen as an acute disease\'. In the autumn of


Hibbah al Hayee and Salman Ahmad, in an interview room at the Mangere centre.

A couple of weeks into the programme, in an interview room at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre, Salman and Hibbah explained, with some help from Auckland Urdu interpreter Arshid Jamil, why they fled Pakistan. The couple are from Nankana Sahib, in the Punjab province in the north of Pakistan. Like many Pakistani couples, they are cousins, and married in 2008. Hibbah, 35, is a teacher of clothing design and dressmaking, which explains why each time we meet, her daugher is wearing a different, spectacular tailormade dress. Salman, 33, is an industrial electrician. Their troubles are religious. They are Ahmadis (or Ahmadiyya) – followers of a Muslim sect founded in the Punjab in the 1880s bytechnically breaking the law and face up to three years in jail if they have the temerity to publicly quote from their holy book, the Koran, or perform a Muslim call to prayer, or refer to their mosque as a “mosque”, or even, astonishingly, use the Islamic greeting “as-salaam-alaikum”. In other words, if you are an Ahmadi in Pakistan, you can basically go to jail for saying hello. To hear Hibbah and Salman, and the two other Ahmadi refugee families, talk about the years before they fled was to be powerfully reminded of stories you read about the lives of Jews in the early years of Nazi Germany: ordinary folk living ordinary lives that gradually became less and less tenable at the hands of rabble-rousing bigots and acquiescent


officials, all against a backdrop of intermittent extreme violence. A 2015 Ahmadi-authored report estimated 250 Ahmadis had been killed for their religious beliefs since 1984. Hibbah said Ahmadis in Pakistan don’t look, dress or act especially different from anyone else, but anti-Ahmadi activists would follow them from their mosques or community events, in order to identify and then publicly humiliate them. At the vocational college where she taught design, the religious group Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat posted anti-Ahmadi posters in her classroom, and organised a student strike demanding that she be fired. In 2011 school administrators transferred her to a school 80km to the north, but the victimisation followed her, and she was transferred another two times.

In 2012 religious extremists posted anti-Ahmadi signs in Hibbah Al Hayee’s sewing classroom inarrived on the same flight from Bangkok have their own stories. Sarfraz Ahmad – who is Hibbah’s brother – was in the other Lahore mosque that was attacked that day in 2010 and has five bullet-wounds to prove it. His family followed Hibbah’s to Bangkok in 2014, and while they were there his daughter died of a medical condition.

Sarfraz Ahmad, Hibbah’s brother.

Imran Ahmad (no relation – “Ahmad” is a religious signifier rather than a last name in the Western sense) had a hardware store in the Ahmadi-majority and thus relatively safe city of Rabwah, but his business was ruined when Lahore wholesalers refused to sell stock to him as an Ahmadi. In Bangkok, his wife Mansoora and their daughter were caught in a police round-up and spent the


there are so many cultures here – something like 160.” But a few minutes later, as the photographer was discussing where to take a portrait of the family, Sarfraz bustled to the door waving his smartphone. News had just come through from associates in Pakistan: Malik Saleem Latif, the local leader of Ahmadis in Nankana Sahib, had been murdered – shot off the pillion seat of his son’s motorcycle as they rode to work. Salman and Hibbah inspected their phones, and anxiously conferred with Sarfraz.

Breaking news: Stuff’s interview with the Ahmadi refugees was interrupted by news from home that a local Ahmadi leader had been assassinated.(CNN) Turkey has reacted angrily after US authorities issued arrest warrants for 12 of the Turkish Prime Minster's security detail over a bloody brawl during an official state visit in May.

Police in Washington, DC, issued warrants Thursday for 12 of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security officers on a range of charges including aggravated assault and threatened assault in a menacing manner.

The allegations stem from a brawl on the lawn outside the Turkish Ambassador's residence in the city, which has aggravated diplomatic tensions between the US and its longtime ally.

Shortly after the clash, footage surfaced showing Erdogan watching events unfold from the residence's driveway. On Thursday, he denied his security detail had done anything wrong and questioned the legality of the warrant.

"They didn't do anything (to the protesters). In addition


the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Derek is a Canadian citizen. Ahmet Karabay is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Karabay is a Turkish security officer. Eyup Yildirim is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Yildirim is a US citizen from New Jersey and was arrested on June 14. Feride Kayasan is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Kayasan is a Turkish security officer. Gokhan Yildirim is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Yildirim is a Turkish security officer. Hamza Yurteriis on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Yurteri is a Turkish police officer. Ismail Dalkiran is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Dalkiran is a Turkish security officer. Ismail Ergunduz is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Ergunduz is a Turkish police officer. Lutfu Kutluca is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Kutluca is a Turkish security officer. Mahmut Ellialtiis on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Ellialti is a Canadian citizen. Mamet Samman


is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Sarman is a Turkish police officer. Mustafa Sumercan is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Sumercan is a Turkish security officer. Server Erkan is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Erkan is a Turkish security officer. Sinan Narin is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Narin is a US citizen from Virginia and was arrested on June 14. Tugay Erkan is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C inMay. Erkan is a Turkish security officer. Turgut Akar is on the suspect list issued following clashes outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C in May. Akar is a Turkish security officer.

Street battle

Nine people were injured in the melee which erupted on May 16, though witness and Turkish authorities have offered conflicting accounts of who was involved and who was to blame.

The Turkish embassy says the protesters were affiliated with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party)," which is a designated terror group in Turkey, the US and Europe, and has been engaged in a 30-year conflict with the Turkish government.

Turkey alleges the protesters "began aggressively provoking Turkish-American citizens who had peacefully assembled to greet the President."

According to protesters and video captured by the Voice of America Turkish service,


men wearing suits and earpieces crossed a police line and attacked them.

DC Police Chief Peter Newsham strongly refuted the allegations Thursday, "there's no indication at all that the protesters were a terrorist group."

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert would not say whether the United States plans to seek the extradition of the security officials, who returned to Turkey prior to the completion of the investigation, avoiding arrest.

However, she did note that their diplomatic immunity lapsed when they left the country, and they would be subject to arrest if they returned to the United States.

"The charges filed against 12 Turkish security officials sends a clear message that the United States does not tolerate individuals who use intimidation and violence to stifle freedom of speech and legitimate political expression," Secretary ofNew York, were arrested and charged immediately following the attack.

US-Turkey relations have s been strained by the United States' refusal to extradite a Turkish cleric living in Pennsylvania, whom Erdogan blames for orchestrating a July 2016 coup attempt against him.

And the two countries are at odds over Trump's decision to arm Kurdish militias that are helping in the fight to rout ISIS from its Syrian stronghold in Raqqa.

Turkey sees these militias as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which is considered a terrorist group in the United States, Turkey and Europe.


The unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild expedition to freedom. As the pair take the ride of their lives down the treacherous Mississippi River, they run into an entertaining assortment of off-beat characters and face one challenging adventure after another.

Based on the novel: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain.Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.Special features: audio commentary by director Stephen Sommers and editor Bob Ducsay; "Huck Finn: an American classic" featurette.

Abstract:

The unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild expedition to freedom. As the pair take the ride of their lives down the treacherous Mississippi River, they run into an entertaining assortment of off-beat characters and face one challenging adventure afterCartoon Network has had it’s fair share of history with Hip-Hop in it’s recent past. Back in 2011, an episode titled “Rap It Up” in the series, Regular Show, featured an animated version of Tyler, the Creator, Childish Gambino, and MC Lyte as a part of a fictional group, CrewCrew, who wind up in an all out rap battle with the show’s main characters.

Tyler, the Creator would also eventually go on to create a show of his own with his friends and Odd Future affiliates in the form of the sketch comedy series, Loiter Squad, as a part of Cartoon Network’s late night syndicate, Adult Swim.

(Nicki Minaj as Sugilite)

Less than one year ago, Rebecca Sugar, former storyboard artist and writer for the Emmy Award winning show, Adventure Time,


The early 2000s Brisbane Lions played in four consecutive grand finals and then faded into a mediocrity that the club still hasn’t escaped from over a decade later. In the first week of September 2007, the Ben Cousins-Chris Judd Eagles were coming off two grand finals, were favoured to make a third, and looked set to dominate the league for the next five years. Two months later, Judd and Cousins were gone, and the Eagles were set to go 16-50 over the next three years.

The list goes on. The frontal pressure 2010-11 Magpies, full of youth and exuberance, at the time the league’s runaway best bet for long-term ascendancy, slowly and impressively fell apart, needing only three years to turn a young side that had just completed themost dominant regular season in AFL history into an afterthought. Sitting in the MCG’s Great Southern Stand last Saturday afternoon, it was clear that the only pressure these Magpies had left to generate was on the frontal lobes of their supporters, flummoxed by the team’s brazen awfulness.

The tragedy of the Ross Lyon Dockers is that their era of success is ending before our eyes and they never even had success in the first place. Not ‘the’ success, anyway.

Fremantle were widely expected to fall off last year. They had the oldest list in the competition, had been bundled out of the 2014 finals in straight sets, and hadn’t made any significant off-season additions. Naturally, they responded by winning the minor premiership, and, perhaps (this is being generous), coming within


Fyfe being a biblical figure in the first nine rounds and Matthew Pavlich looking rejuvenated. When those two came back down to Earth – Fyfe because of injuries, Pavlich because of age (he kicked 21 goals in his first nine games, 18 in his last 13) – the Dockers finished the season going 2-5 against teams that finished in the eight, with those two wins a lucky four-point escape against the wayward kicking Tigers, and an uninspiring nine-point win at home against a Sydney side missing 38 of its best players.

In 2015 the Dockers were fading, and in 2016 the lights have gone out.

Even in the darkness, though, the Dockers will get better. They’re not this bad. Their skill execution will regress to the mean, and the #1its most famous leader, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, it got its highest-profile kill in June 2006, when it iced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. It also ran the notorious detention center near the Baghdad airport, Camp Nama, where there were repeated allegations of torture.

The sign on the entrance? "NO BLOOD, NO FOUL," according to The New York Times.

JSOC has increasingly been the tip of the military's spear. In Afghanistan, its commandos are the ones who kick in doors for the "night raids" on Afghan homes, especially in the South and East, that have angered Hamid Karzai but form a critical part of Gen. David Petraeus' war plan.

Sometimes its operations go awry, as when an October 2010 rescue mission to free British aid worker Linda Norgrove


from Taliban captivity ended up killing the hostage. The man U.S. Central Command tapped to investigate what went wrong? Joseph Votel.

Votel also has a lot of familiarity with the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions that consume a lot of JSOC's time. Back in 2007, he was the deputy commander of Combined Joint Task Force 82, which operated along the border. That means unlike many commanders of the high-powered raiding unit, Votel has experience being a "landowner" – that is, a soldier who has to deal with an angered population after the raid team has packed up and moved out.

He'll have to deal as well with a very tired Special Operations community – a problem Votel's current boss, Adm. Eric Olson, identified last week in a speech. But JSOC doesn't getIn the summer of 2015, nearly a year before the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal erupted publicly, former USA Gymnastics president and CEO Steve Penny had detailed and disturbing notes about the team doctor's alleged sexual assault of Olympian McKayla Maroney, according to a new book by ESPN investigative reporters Dan Murphy and John Barr.

Notes and email exchanges from the summer and fall of 2015, obtained by the authors and published Tuesday in the book "Start by Believing," are among a series of previously unreported documents and interviews that help reveal the extent to which USA Gymnastics' former leader and others were willing to go to contain the emerging scandal. Those documents show Penny was aware that Maroney had said she "felt no therapeutic effect but felt [Nassar]


awaiting trial on evidence-tampering charges for a separate incident related to the Nassar case, opted to stay silent. Nassar continued to see patients at Michigan State University for nearly another year. Dozens of women and girls who visited Nassar during that time period said he assaulted them.

Penny became president and CEO of USA Gymnastics in 2005 and resigned in March 2017. Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports

Penny, an experienced marketing and public relations expert, had worked to contain and control the story of Nassar's abuse from the first time he learned of concerns about the then-renowned team physician. In June 2015, Penny and others at USAG had learned that several prominent national team gymnasts were uncomfortable with the way Nassar had touched them during treatment sessions. Rather than alertingauthorities as was required by Indiana law, Penny first hired consultant and workplace harassment investigator Fran Sepler to investigate the complaints. Sepler interviewed gymnasts Aly Raisman and Maroney, two members of the Olympic gold-medal-winning 2012 team, and Maggie Nichols, whose bid to make the 2016 Olympic team was hampered by a knee injury.

According to bullet-point notes Penny had in late July 2015 that were obtained by the authors, he was aware that Maroney told Sepler that she had seen Nassar hundreds of times. "Much more troubling, she [Maroney] reported digital penetration three times -- in Japan 2011, London 2012, Belgium 2013," the notes said. Those same notes mention Nassar sending her gifts and buying her coffee, and noted that he was "rougher" in subsequent exams.

On July 28, 2015,


In the same email, they suggested an alternative.

"Have us call back Dr. Nassar's lawyer," they wrote. "Tell him that a replacement will handle the World Championships and we can work on the messaging regarding that." Penny followed Connolly and Himsel's advice, which cleared the way for Nassar to announce in a lengthy Facebook post in late September 2015 that he was stepping away from his duties with USA Gymnastics of his own volition.

Penny, in his first extensive public comments about the scandal, told the authors he chose not to share the disturbing details about Nassar with Michigan State because the FBI warned him not to do anything that might impede an ongoing investigation. Through a written response sent via his personal attorneys, Penny said he interpreted the FBI'scompleted its review in the spring of 2019 but has yet to release its findings and has not answered questions from survivors, attorneys and members of Congress who want to know why it hasn't shared a final report.

"Our investigation found that the FBI was one of many institutions that enabled Larry Nassar's abuse," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who helped lead an investigation into the Nassar scandal and co-authored a pending bill aimed at reforming the way Olympic sports governance handles abuse claims. "It is past time to see the Inspector General's investigation into federal law enforcement's failures. The survivors deserve answers."

That report is one of many offshoots from the sprawling Nassar case that remain unresolved years after the former doctor was sent to prison.

This week marks the


two-year anniversary of Nassar's first state sentencing hearing in Lansing, Michigan, where 156 women provided searing impact statements that shed devastating light on his crimes and the institutions that enabled him. Their words led to an effective life sentence for Nassar and widespread calls for reform at those institutions.

But two years later, survivors fear the original outrage has fizzled without bringing needed change.

Rachael Denhollander became one of the first women to publicly accuse Nassar of assault in 2016 through a story in The Indianapolis Star. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

"It doesn't matter enough. That's the honest reality. If it mattered enough, they would have done something," said Rachael Denhollander, who was the first to publicly speak about Nassar's sexual abuse more than three years ago. "A lot of people liketo talk and say big things when something is popular. People like to think of their lives as an epic battle between good and evil. Very few people realize that battle doesn't look epic. It looks like daily, small sacrifices."

Penny is one of four people awaiting trial for criminal charges related to the Nassar case.

Penny was indicted in September 2018 by a Walker County, Texas, grand jury on charges of evidence tampering for allegedly ordering another USAG employee to remove Nassar's medical files from Karolyi Ranch -- the longtime training facility of Team USA gymnasts -- before law enforcement gained access to search the site.

Debbie Van Horn, Nassar's longtime colleague on the USAG athletic training staff, was indicted in June 2018 on charges of sexual assault of a


review of the Nassar situation, and to waive privilege so the truth can come out, is not shared by the MSU board chair, legacy board members and some newer trustees," Schlichting said in a statement at the time.

USA Gymnastics filed for bankruptcy in December 2018 -- a move that USAG board members said was done to expedite the civil court claims made by more than 500 gymnasts suing the organization for its role in allowing Nassar's abuse to persist. More than a year later, lawsuits against USAG and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee remain in a holding pattern until bankruptcy court proceedings reach a conclusion.

Denhollander said when she first came forward in September 2016 that she was prepared to face five to seven years of those small,Pages

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

NFF condole with Tiote’s family over Ivorian star’s death

The Nigeria Football Federation on Monday extended their deep condolences to the family of Cote d’Ivoire international Cheick Tiote who died after collapsing at a training session in China.
“Rest in peace, Cheick Tioté – our condolences are with the Ivorian Football family, his family and friends. #RIPTiote,” NFF wrote via their Twitter account @thenff on Monday.
Tiote, 30, was part of the Ivorian squad that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

He began his professional career in Belgium with Anderlecht in 2005 before moving to Dutch side FC Twente, where he made 86 appearances and won the Eredivisie league title in the 2009-10 season under manager Steve McClaren.
Tiote, a defensive midfielder, then signed for Newcastle in 2010 for


£3.5m from where he recently left for Beijing Enterprises, a second division club in China.
In February 2011, he scored a memorable goal as Newcastle United came back from 4-0 down to draw with Arsenal in the Premier League.Airline staff and passengers are at risk of direct exposure to these opioids and other mass casualty agents through inhalation of aerosols.
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from the National Basketball Association (they are now based in Sacramento, California). The arrival of the Scouts and Washington Capitals resulted in the NHL creating four divisions (and renaming the conferences, which each had two divisions), and the Scouts were placed in the Smythe Division of the Campbell Conference.

The owners of the new Kansas City franchise, led by Edwin G. Thompson, originally wanted to call their team the "Kansas City Mohawks", since the Kansas City metropolitan area includes portions of Missouri and Kansas. The name would have combined Missouri's postal abbreviation (MO) and the Kansas nickname of "Jayhawkers". However, the Chicago Black Hawks objected because of the similarlity of "Mohawks" to their own name. The team then held a contest for people to name the new team. Thewho would resign in disgrace two years later.

In 1982, I interviewed McGovern on the 10th anniversary of the 1972 race. He was remarkably unbitter in defeat, despite having lost his US Senate seat in 1980 to a hard-right candidate who had portrayed McGovern as unpatriotic and antifamily. (McGovern was a decorated WWII bomber pilot, a devout Methodist, and devoted family man who had been married to his wife since 1943.)

At the time of our interview, McGovern was eking out a living making speeches. For these, he was typically paid about half of what Watergate felons Gordon Liddy and John Erlichman
earned on the lecture circuit. “I guess crime really does pay,” McGovern cracked, puffing on a cigar and shaking his head.

Asked why he had fared so much better with


Massachusetts voters in ’72, McGovern credited the political support he had gotten from the Kennedys and Tip O’Neill and on campuses like Harvard and MIT. But he also cited the many days he had spent campaigning in and around Boston that year, long before the “swing-state” syndrome came to dominate presidential campaign strategy, and to John F. Kennedy having “taught the state to be highly skeptical of Richard Nixon way back in 1960,” as a smiling McGovern put it.

One more footnote to the ’72 campaign that ought not to be forgotten: At the Democratic Convention that summer, McGovern had nearly selected Boston’s mayor, Kevin White, as his running mate. White, then 44 and in his second term as mayor, was a rising star in the national party andeccentric widow who devolves into a manic hysteria once her husband dies. Like Jerry Maguire, it's a morality play about a cocky young man humanized by failure who becomes a success as a human being only after failing spectacularly in business. After a disastrous early screening at the Toronto Film Festival, the film was drastically shortened and its ending altered.

So when Elizabethtown limped into theaters it was already a wounded duck, as queasily personal and intimate as a teenage girl's diary. Going into the film, I remember thinking, "How bad can a Cameron Crowe movie be?" Before Elizabethtown, I could say without reservation that Crowe was one of my favorite filmmakers. Hell, I don't just love many of Crowe's movies: I want to live in his world. For


Spencer said while speaking on the sidelines of the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, The Associated Press reported.

The Navy reportedly informed Gallagher, a chief petty officer, on Wednesday that he would face a legal review next month into whether he could stay on the Navy SEALS.

The information came after a military jury had convicted Gallagher in July of posing with a corpse in Iraq during a 2017 deployment and acquitted him of murder.Brother Obituary

Brother Isidore Garvey, O.S.F.

Brother Isidore (Patrick J. Garvey), a native of County Clare, was engaged in business in Limerick before his coming to St. Francis Monastery in 1869. He received the Habit on August 28, 1870 and was professed on August 28, 1871. During his religious life he taught in St. Joseph's, St. Anne's and St. Mary's schools. He also served in many positions of responsibility: Master of Novices, General Consultor and Treasurer General. It was principally through his efforts that the Centerport property was acquired. Two of his brothers, Brother Clement Sr. and Brother Clement Jr., were also members of our Congregation. Brother Isidore's long and faithful service ended on January 20, 1912.


www.debito.orgThe blame game
Convenience, creativity seen in efforts
to scapegoat Japan's foreign community

The Japan Times: Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007
THE ZEIT GIST
By ARUDOU DEBITO
Special to The Japan Times, Column 38 for the Japan Times Community Page
Courtesy http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/fl20070828zg.html"Director's Cut", with information included that did not appear in print or online at the Japan Times

We live in interesting times, where Japan's economy and society have been at a crossroads--for nearly two decades.

With the shortage and high cost of domestic labor, the Japanese
government has imported record numbers of cheap foreign workers. Even
though whole industrial sectors now depend on foreign labor, few
publicly accept the symbiosis as permanent. Instead, foreigners are
being blamed for Japan's problems.

A poster released by Ibaraki
Prefectural Police implores citizens to cooperate with efforts to
prevent foreigners from illegally entering and staying in Japan.
IBARAKI PREFECTURALenough, Japan Today (June 28) said, "the leak may have occurred by accident when the officer was swapping pornography over the Internet."

So never mind that the leaker may have had his hand in his own till.
The crackdown falls on all who consort with the alien by marrying
them.

Imagine the uproar in other international relations organs (such as the
United Nations, the U.S. State Department — even the U.S.
military, where international marriage is not uncommon) if official
policy treated all international spouses as potential spies.

Bad sports
The Asahi Shimbun (May 24)
reported that the All Japan High School Athletic Federation banned
non-Japanese from the first leg of the ekiden running championships.
This would "make races more interesting for fans." Having too many
Africans on a team, their argument ran, was too much of a competitive
advantage.

According to Keisuke


Sawaki, a director of the Japan Association of
Athletics Federations, "The differences in physical capabilities
between Japanese and foreign students are far beyond imagination."

Discrimination, however, is within these limited imaginations. Hark back (Zeit Gist, Jan. 6, 2004, and Sept. 30, 2003,
respectively) to the same "foreign blood advantage" excluding
international kids from the Takamado English Speech Contests
(name-sponsored by the Imperial family) and the Kokutai National Sports
Festival (funded by our taxes).

In a followup, Asahi (June 29)
described how ekiden restrictions then spread to relay marathons,
basketball and table tennis. Limiting foreign students would keep the
events from becoming "dull."

Dull? I would think open competition would incentivize athletes to try
harder in the spirit of fair play. But I don't think these organizers
really understand what "being sporting" is all about. To them sports
are great, as long as JapaneseSouth Carolina Rep. Visits Gush Katif Memorial Museum

Rep. Alan Clemmons at the Gush Katif Museum: The expulsion from Gush Katif was a bargain for peace that wasn't worth the cost.

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Senator Clemmons at Gush Katif Museum

Israel news photo: Gush Katif Museum

South Carolina Representative Alan Clemmons visited on Monday the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem. The museum undertook the task of memorializing the history of Gush Katif, the area from which Jewish residents were expelled in 2005.

Clemmons, a Christian friend of Israel, is behind the South Carolina stands with Israel resolution, a bill that was passed in June calling on the State of Israel to retain control over Judea and Samaria and highlighting what it terms the “cordial and mutually beneficial relations” enjoyed


then leaving with the victims to hang out somewhere else, police said.About a block away, Wesley and the other man beat the victims and robbed one of them, police said.There were two other attacks on spring breakers, Thursday and Friday nights, and in neighboring Daytona Beach Shores, there was a similar incident early Sunday."They all had cuts and bruises. They were punched, kicked and knocked to the ground," said Sgt. Mike Fowler, spokesman for Daytona Beach Shores police.Fowler says three 18-year-olds from Jacksonville and a juvenile beat four spring breakers at the Lexington Inn on south Atlantic Avenue.The suspects used some female friends to lure the college students to the sixth floor and jumped them as the victims got off the elevator, police said."The entire time they wereSpanish ambassador, the Marquis of Bedmar, was wise to the plot, if not the author of it. Informed of this by a Huguenot captain, the Ten acted promptly. Three "bravos" were hanged, and the Senate demanded the immediate recall of the Spanish ambassador.

Tension with Spain increased in 1622, when Antonio Foscarini, a senator and ambassador to England, was accused of acting for foreign powers during his time as ambassador and of spying for Spain after his return. He was tried, acquitted of the first charge, found guilty of the second and hanged from a gallows between the columns of the Piazzetta in 1622. A few months later the Ten discovered that he had been the innocent victim of a plot. He was rehabilitated, and the news circulated around


the islands of Tinos and Aegina, crossed the isthmus and took Corinth. Daniele Dolfin, commander of the Venetian fleet, thought it better to save the fleet than risk it for the Morea. When he eventually arrived on the scene, Nauplia, Modon, Corone and Malvasia had fallen. Lefkas in the Ionian islands, and the bases of Spinalonga and Suda on Crete which still remained in Venetian hands, were abandoned. The Turks finally landed on Corfù, but its defenders managed to throw them back. In the meantime, the Turks had suffered a grave defeat by the Austrians at Petrovaradin on 3 August 1716. New Venetian naval efforts in the Aegean and the Dardanelles in 1717 and 1718, however, met with little success. With the Treaty of Passarowitz (21 July 1718),Appeals.
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This appeal arises from a protest of 1991 and 1992 property tax valuations of residential property in Jefferson County owned by petitioners (taxpayers). Respondent Colorado State Board of Assessment Appeals (BAA) upheld the decision of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners (BOC) affirming the valuations of the county assessor, and taxpayers pursued this appeal. We affirm.
Taxpayers are seventeen homeowners in a subdivision in Jefferson County. Some of the lots in that subdivision, including those lots owned by taxpayers, have unobstructed views of downtown Denver while others do not.
In tax years 1991 and 1992, the county assessor, using a market approach, increased the assessed value of each of


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Denmark Vessey – Cult Classic

Denmark Vessey is one of many Detroit rappers continuing to put on for their city in 2013, along with Guilty Simpson, Quelle, Black Milk and Danny Brown. Cult Classic is funkier than Motown in the 60’s, produced entirely by Chicago’s Scud One and jumping from church music to dusty soul to the D’s hard-hitting brand of raw rap. Denmark is some sort of hidden national treasure, though he released his first project with Crown Nation pal Quelle back in 2008. Sometimes he sounds like he’s rapping at the dinner table; lessons, jewels. He puts a slight amount of distance between himself and his rhymes, making him even more obtuse. “This is Motherland music”, he spits on “ThatDescribed as a "poet amongst pianists", Portuguese artist Artur Pizarro presents a new recording of the complete solo piano works of Sergei Rachmaninoff. A former...continue...
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Steven Osborne has become increasingly admired for his performances and recordings of Russian Romantic piano music. Here he presents an impressive selection from two masters...continue...
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Pianist Yulia Chaplina presents a virtousic recital of works by four famed Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to the Rachmaninov...continue...
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In September 2009 Sofya Gulyak was awarded the first prize and the Princess Mary Gold Medal at the 16th Leeds International Piano Competition - the...continue...
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Pianist Alessandro Mazzamuto was the winner of the first Lodovici prize, and this recording was part of his award. The Lodovici prize was established to...continue...
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Junko Inada is currently one of the most respected pianists in Japan who had one of her most important successes at the time at the...continue...
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With her winning combination of consummatetechnical brilliance, fine musicianship, and personal verve, the pianist Xiayin Wang captures the hearts of audiences wherever she appears....continue...
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Bulgarian pianist Irina Georgieva studied at the Sofia Conservatory and then at the Music Academy of Basel where she worked with Rudolf Buchbinder. She has...continue...
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In her early twenties the Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan, winner of the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition, belongs to the promising generation of today's fine...continue...
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'My teacher Nadia Boulanger was absolutely against Rachmaninov's music, and when I was asked to play the Third Concerto, this was for her the worst...continue...
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The meteoric ascent of Vassily Primakov's international career has resulted from a series of competition victories, prizes in honor of his artistry, and his award-winning...continue...
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Nikolai Lugansky, now a household name on the international concert stages, began his recording career in his early twenties for the label Vanguard Classics. This...continue...
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Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, for piano, Op. 22; Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42; Transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" from "The Tale of the T...
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Works:Gary Peters is throwing his hat in the ring to take over as the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Both he and Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) seemed confident about his chances of landing the post when they spoke to our Stephanie Beasley on Thursday. Peters will be the most senior Democrat on the panel next Congress after Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, who is expected to stay on as ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee.

FLORIDA BRIDGE UPDATE: The NTSB said Thursday that it had found design errors in the Miami bridge collapse that killed six people in March. Cracks found in the 174-foot bridge are consistent with “an overestimation of the capacity” of a critical section “and an apparent underestimation of the


"What of the cripple who hates dancers? What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are a violation and all feasters lawbreakers?"
—Khalil Gibran

It is the Prohibitionists, a wholly malignant scourge of absolute scoundrels, who are literally strangling the Constitution and starving Freedom to death. And until the Freedom and Constitution of our once proud and prosperous nation is secured, these same prohibitionist parasites, with their promotion of organized crime, murder, terrorism, and economic recession—and who carry withGet all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.

Maryland and Virginia became the two latest states Monday to issue stay-at-home orders telling residents to avoid going out for anything but essential trips for food, medical attention and other specific reasons as governments across the country scramble to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, each issued full stay-at-home orders, with Maryland's taking effect at 8 p.m. on Monday and Virginia's taking effect at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday.

"The order directs all Virginians to stay home except in extremely limited circumstances," a press release sent out by Northam's office states. "Individuals may leave their residence for allowable travel, including to seek


medical attention, work, care for family or household members, obtain goods and services like groceries, prescriptions, and others as outlined in Executive Order Fifty-Three, and engage in outdoor activity with strict social distancing requirements."

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Also notable in the Virginia order is a direction to higher education institutions to "cease all in-person classes and instruction, and cancel all gatherings of more than ten individuals." Liberty University, a private college based in Virginia, had brought students back to school despite the pandemic and was moving forward with some of its lab classes which had less than 10 students. Other instruction at the university had been moved online.

On his order, Hogan tweeted that there were very fewIran: Stoning Of Convicted Man Draws Strong Reactions

An Iranian woman is buried up to her chest before being stoned to death, thought to have taken place some 20 years ago (file photo)

July 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The United Nations, Western governments, and human-rights groups have strongly condemned the stoning of an alleged adulterer that was carried out in Iran last week.

Meanwhile, reports from Iran say the country's judiciary has launched a probe into the judge who ordered that Jafar Kiani be stoned to death.

The grim sentence of Jafar Kiani has prompted a wave of international condemnation and also reactions by human-rights activists and others inside Iran.

Rights activists believe that in order to prevent such incidents in the future and to root out stoning in Iran the sentence should


be removed from Iranian laws.

Kiani was stoned to death on July 5 in a small village in northern Iran. He had been convicted of adultery and had spent the past 11 years in prison.

UN Condemnation

Many have described his stoning as "inhumane" and "barbaric."

UN human rights chief Louise Arbour condemned the execution, saying that "stoning is in clear violation of international law." She called on Iran to stop the stoning of Kiani's partner, Mokarameh Ebrahimi, who is reportedly in jail with the couple's two children.

A top dissident cleric in Iran told Radio Farda that Kiani's stoning was carried out against Islamic principles.

According to Islamic laws applied in Iran, the punishment for adultery is death by stoning. It is allowed to be proved through evidence such as a confession orfear and prevent people from committing sin.

Kiani's stoning was carried out despite a reported 2002 moratorium on stoning by the head of Iran's judiciary, Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi.

His execution also came two weeks after international and domestic pressure made local officials delay carrying out the sentence against him and his partner, Ebrahimi.

Ebrahimi's sentence has reportedly been suspended.

Judge Investigated

On July 11, Iran's ISNA news agency quoted an unnamed official from the judiciary as saying that the judges' disciplinary court will investigate the action carried out by the local judge, which was contrary to the order of judiciary chief Shahrudi.

Rights activists believe that in order to prevent such incidents in the future and to root out stoning in Iran the sentence should be removed from Iranian laws.

Among them is Iranian Nobel


is "impossible" under Islamic laws. Therefore, he said, whenever someone is executed by stoning there should be no doubt that Islam was not respected.

Mohammad from Esfahan believes that the implementation of Islamic sentences can prevent evil and mischief.

An unnamed visitor has written that Kiani's stoning proves that Iranian "mullahs" are worse than Taliban members and that if they are not confronted they could ban women from studying.

Kamran from Tehran describes stoning as inhumane and cruel, yet he adds that the leaders of Iran should be stoned because he believes "they are infected with sin."

Most of the visitors have, however, written in their postings that the practice of stoning does not belong in today's world.

A group of five militiamen has been acquitted in Iran after confessing to murdering fivepeople for puported moral transgressions. more

Iran: Vexed Government Lashes Out At Media 'Poison'

By Vahid Sepehri

July 12, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The government of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is increasingly impatient with what it sees as a front of unjustified criticism in the media. It has impugned critics as motivated by either domestic political grudges or the discreet machinations of foreign powers.

The sum of reports in recent days gives the impression of a government exasperated by -- but intent on defending itself against -- malevolent verbal attacks from various quarters.

Culture Minister Mohammad Saffar-Herandi on July 8 accused unspecified newspapers and other media of mounting a "creeping" coup against the Ahmadinejad government.

His warning came amid reports that Iranian intelligence had caught a number of spies in western Iran, and with tensions


in 2005.

The minister is furthermore not the only official to denounce perceived subversion or hostility. Fars News Agency reported on July 7 that presidential press aide, Mohammad Jafar Behdad, said Ahmadinejad's office would not sit quietly much longer as a "political and economic" gang spread "poison" and "black and unhealthy propaganda" against his government and pursued what it called "daily plots."

Prominent Tehran-based journalist and press activist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin told Radio Farda on July 8 that governments habitually seek to blame someone "outside their own circle" for their failures, and the press in Iran seems the most accessible target. Some observers might wonder where such overly critical -- never mind "subversive" -- press is, given the number of newspapers shut down by the judiciary during and since the reformistadministration of then-President Mohammad Khatami in the late 1990s.

Most recently, the judiciary withdrew the publishing license for one reformist daily, "Mosharekat," that reflected the views of the reformist Participation Front and had been suspended for several years. It also suspended another daily, "Ham Mihan," that was run by a former Tehran mayor with ties to ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and had been banned once before.

Judiciary authorities have also blocked the website for the labor-affiliated news agency ILNA. The agency had faced unspecified pressures for its coverage of student and labor unrest in recent months, according to Radio Farda on July 8. An unnamed judiciary official was quoted as saying the agency had faced many complaints and the website was blocked to prevent "the repetition of offenses," ISNA reported


the media to stand together in the face of "the pressure of some groups," ISNA reported on July 9. He warned that "pressure and powerful groups" are threatening the press, which they regard as endangering their interests.

A member of the legislature's Culture Committee identified on July 9 by ISNA only as Soruri, said with some optimism that the government should "pave the way for a reduction of pressures on the media" in the run-up to parliamentary elections. The daily "Aftab-i Yazd" observed on July 9 that officials are so busy denouncing domestic enemies and previous administrations that they seemed to be overlooking topics it said were of greater concern to Iranians and Muslims. The paper said such matters include the recent reported mistreatment of Iranian pilgrims in SaudiArabia and the knighthood bestowed on Salman Rushdie.

Salimi-Namin told "Etemad" that he thinks the ministerial accusation points to government exaggeration of the scope and significance of press criticisms. He said it is unacceptable for a culture minister to use such terms regarding the press, and advised the government to increase its tolerance threshold ahead of parliamentary polls, set for March, which he predicted would be lively.

Iran's present government has shown its fondness for bombastic and provocative remarks, for which it garners considerable attention. Its minister of culture is -- alongside Ahmadinejad and the government's chief spokesman, Gholahussein Elham -- one of its more outspoken members. His accusations might not herald any new round of press restrictions, however, if only because such restrictions seem to exist on an ongoing