Rottweilers, mastiffs, bull mastiffs, boxers, and their mixes.

Of the 577 human fatalities, 305 were killed by pit bulls; 89 were killed by Rottweilers; 438 (75%) were killed by molosser breeds.

Of the 3,141 people who were disfigured, 2,232 (68%) were disfigured by pit bulls; 354 were disfigured by Rottweilers; 2,716 (84%) were disfigured by molosser breeds.

Pit bulls–exclusive of their use in dogfighting–also inflict more than 70 times as many fatal and disfiguring injuries on other pets and livestock as on humans, a pattern unique to the pit bull class.

Fatal and disfiguring attacks by dogs from shelters and rescues have exploded from zero in the first 90 years of the 20th century to 80 in the past four years, including 58 by pit bulls, along with 22 fatal & disfiguringand better socialized.

Since then, San Francisco has impounded 14 percent fewer pit bulls and euthanized 29 percent fewer – which is a “significant decrease,” said Rebecca Katz, director of the city’s Animal Care and Control department.

Another significant indicator, she said, is that there have been 28 pit bull bites reported in the past three years – and 1,229 bites by other breeds during the same period. In the three-year period before that, there were 45 pit bull bites and 907 incidents involving other breeds.

Results of mandatory breed-specific S/N in SF: success in San Francisco, where in just eight years there was a 49% decline in the number of pit-bulls impounded, a 23% decline in the number of pit-bulls euthanized, and an 81% decline in the number of pit-bulls


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My first experiences with video art sucked. Curious, I bought a couple Bill Viola laser discs, eventually procured an LD player, and hunkered down to what was supposed to be an artistic / cultural experience. The first LD of Violaís works featured some truly outdated Dr. Who style special effects and a calm circular pattern to his work. The pace was his saving grace, turning such imagery into their intended koans on ecological affairs.

The second LD came from Violaís nature period where he swore off all video effects and just shot beautiful scenes. This LD was better in its emphasis on composition a.k.a. getting as much cool stuff in the frame at once. Viola lived witha herd of buffalo for a sequence, and another features ecstatic Hindus piercing themselves with (and Iím not kidding) those little plastic swords that come in cocktails. Yet, even this stuff failed to really impress me. Video art didn't have the sense of purpose that painting has, it just lacked the production values to make it glimmer.

Video art from the bygone era of disco and glam was abstract and mostly gaudy. The theory perked up when Nam June Paik invented the video-mixing desk. An analog series of instruments, the mixing desk allowed artists to constrain and edit video images to the point of abstraction. This abstract work proliferated and became the face of video art throughout the 70ís until Bill Voila gave up the special effects for straight


both juxtaposition and assemblage. What makes all this work is the sense of style that each members of 242.Pilots give their work. The live processing is impressive, and their abstractions can resemble minimalist painting and, well, every cool effect you've ever seen in a music video. Learning from the licks of former artists, the pilots coherently contort these images, creating dynamic environments for the eye to surf across. As glitched and abstract as the sounds that accompany them, the Pilots dispense with plot, narrative, and even representation preferring stuff that's just pretty and fun to look at.

The improvisation is what makes this work: Constantly having to change keeps the Pilots interesting and, like a good painting, the Pilots know where to draw the eye and how to useChris Roberts, American Renaissance, July 29, 2017

With little notice anywhere on the political spectrum, this past work week marked the 50th anniversary of the what has been called the “1967 Detroit Riot.” It was one of the most destructive riots in American history, ending with 43 dead and thousands wounded. Unfortunately, it set the pace for the next fifty years of race relations and urban mayhem in this country. What started it is all too familiar. Police raided an illegal, unlicensed bar, the patrons fought with the police, and things escalated quickly. Next thing the country knew, there were days and days of blacks rioting, looting, and setting fires, largely in their own neighborhoods. Things did not even end when Governor George Romney, the chief cuckservative of his


day (and father to Mitt), called in the National Guard. It took scallywag Lyndon Johnson calling in the airborne for that.

Here are some photos from the event. Unfortunately, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Then, just as now, firefighters were shot at and even killed during the rioting.

In our own time, our improved technology has let us capture even better and more revealing photos of black barbarity.

Unfortunately, a certain CVS in Baltimore was not luck enough to receive military protection a few months later . . .

The more things change, the more they stay the same.Regular units from the North Vietnamese 3rd division advance on a 1st Cavalry defensive position about 8 kilometers south of the Bong Son SF camp. In the upper left corner, a 1st Cav rifle company is supporting a battalion of ARVN troops at the entrance to the Kim Son valley.

Turn 1: The Bong Son SF camp is north of Bong Son and the Lai Giang river. That yellow and red unit is a NVA regular unit.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

Eliminating the NVA in the Cay Gaip mountains was less difficult than the Kim Son. The American unit with the red square is at very low supply levels (1%!).

A deep dive on NVA losses for this particular battle during turn 7. I love the data chrome.

I am no operational genius. I outgunned


off with a stabilization mission in Bong Son around a Special Forces camp there. Airmobile elements are then sent northwest to the An Lao river valley, then the Kim Son valley to the southwest and then the Cay Giap mountains along the coast to the east. Airmobile elements closed off the access points to the two valleys and then units were dropped into the center of the valleys. Predictably the Viet Cong elements engaged and then fled for the exits only to be bottled up by the waiting units.I arrived at a similar strategy on my own after a few turns. I also tackled the objectives in reverse. That enabled me to score a victory in my first play through of a scenario.Images

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Diego Costa seems to have shaken off his injury fears -- crashing into a post at full speed and splitting your shin to the bone would probably rule most players out for an extended period of time, but not Costa -- to be fit and ready for the tie, playing ninety minutes in the match against Elche on Friday (and securing the win in the final minute with a penalty). He’ll start upfront alongside David Villa.

The only other real worry for Simeone is the fitness of Arda Turan, who’s been out with a groin injury for three weeks. Turan wasn’t fit for the bench on Friday, but has rejoined the first-team in training. There are rumours he's fit to play, and he'll probably be involved in some


of the game.

When the ball is turned over, Atletico look to play forward very quickly -- that doesn’t mean they go long, though, and they’ll often work the ball out from the back with a series of short, rapid passes. They average about 49 percent possession this season, and they spend little time on the ball in deep positions. Against a team that presses high up the pitch, they will clear their lines with a longer ball towards the front two, and both Costa and Villa are good at challenging those high balls. Garcia on the right will also be an outlet -- Atletico deliberately targeted him against Barcelona because of his physical advantage over Jordi Alba.

From long balls, Atletico are nearly always first to the second ball,with Costa often the one to come short towards the long ball and flick it on to the players running beyond him.

Turan and Costa are the two most ‘vertical’ players, and with the ball at their feet, will drive Atletico’s attacks forward with purposeful dribbling. Because Atletico so commonly win the ball near the touchline, Costa (and Villa, to a lesser extent) drifts towards the channel -- in the space behind opposition full-backs -- where he can take on centre-backs one on one. His energy is tremendous, and he often simply overpowers opponents with sheer force of will.

Costa has a knack for drawing fouls, but his main attribute -- as Stephen discussed a few weeks ago -- is his finishing. He has a tremendous chance conversion rate, scoring


a frenzy of positive energy, supported by a raucous crowd. Atletico are very good at ‘spells of pressure’ (as well as striking on the break after soaking up pressure for an extended period), and controlling the opening quarter of the game will be vital for Mourinho, having seen his side concede early in the PSG tie.

The battle down Chelsea’s left will be hugely decisive. The first consideration is that Azpilicueta has been the target of opposition target men in the past -- for example, Victor Anchiebe was deployed in a high and wide-left position when Chelsea faced Everton last season, with the striker constantly winning the ball in the area and helping Everton get forward into the attacking third.

Against Sunderland back in December, Azpilicueta struggled when Altidore driftedCome on in and join the club! Get our daily Manchester United email newsletter Sign me up! Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Mauricio Pochettino hasn't given up hope of being Manchester United manager next season.

The former Spurs boss, still out of the game after being sacked by chairman Daniel Levy almost three months ago, is still hovering on United's radar.

But the only way United will ditch Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is if they have another shocking end to the season and finish outside the top six.

With no top level European football this season and United currently seventh in the Premier League six points off fourth placed Chelsea, the club's American owners are concerned about falling revenues.

Major backers like Adidas


and shirt sponsor Chevrolet are believed to have Champions League clauses built into their contracts which reduce United's money if they don't make top four.

(Image: REUTERS)

And with the prospect of a second season without the Champions League United's owners are getting twitchy – and haven't ruled out moving for Pochettino who has been in Spain and his native Argentina since leaving Tottenham .

Pochettino has told friends he's re-charging his batteries and wants to resume his managerial career in the summer – preferably in the Premier League.

The 47-year-old South American is prepared to be patient – but is understood to be excited by the prospect of managing United at some stage.

That's a worry for Solskjaer for although executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is committed to supporting the Norwegian while Unitedgo through transition, the jury is still out on the 1999 Treble hero amongst many fans.

(Image: PETER POWELL/EPA-EFE/REX)

A failure to challenge strongly for the top four in the remaining 13 League games of the season will make Solskjaer vulnerable.

And a repeat last season's run-in when they lost three and drew two of their final five League games would certainly spell the end of the Norwegian who has been hampered by key injuries and inconsistent form this season.


measure that would add more people to the list of those who must report suspected abuse to child protective services.

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A state Senate panel quickly passed the bills later Tuesday, a day after Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Jordyn Wieber and other Nassar accusers and victims helped unveil the legislation.

Currently, people who are sexually abused as children in Michigan generally have until their 19th birthdays to sue. Under the legislation , child victims abused in 1993 or later could sue until their 48th birthdays while those assaulted in adulthood would have 30 years to file a claim from the time of the abuse.

Past bills to give victims more access to the legal system have stalled in Michigan, partly because of opposition from the Catholic Conference. Advocates for change say givingreceive a settlement from the Diocese of Lansing about a decade ago, three or four dozen men and women from across Michigan reached out with accusations against the Catholic Church but were barred from suing due to the time limit.

Mark Bendure, an appellate attorney, said he knows of roughly 10 such cases that have been tossed due to the statute of limitations. He said many more victims have not sued because it would be futile or for other reasons. Barbara Dorris, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said just in the past month, she has talked to two people from Michigan in their early 20s who said they were abused by a priest and a minister but cannot sue because of the time


171 overall, by the Baltimore Ravens. Angelo Blackson, a former Red Lion Christian Academy star who is from Bear, was drafted with the 100th pick, the first of the fourth round, by the Tennessee Titans out of Auburn University.

Gunter is DelState’s highest draft pick since receiver John Taylor was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round in 1986. The last time the Hornets had a player selected was in 2001 when wide receiver Darnerien McCants was taken by the Washington Redskins.

Delaware State was the only school who offered Gunter a scholarship when he graduated from Haines City High in Florida.

There’s a good reason for that. Gunter only played a year of high school football as he spent most of his time working as a waiterinside to help push the pocket on third and fourth downs in pass situations.

“I’m not coming in complacent,” Gunter said. “I’m coming in a hard worker, coming in with the mind set of a free agent trying to make the roster.”

Boyle is the first UD player drafted since center Gino Gradkowski was selected by the Ravens in the fourth round of the 2011 draft. Gradkowski played three seasons with the Ravens before being traded to the Denver Broncos this off-season.

Delaware tight end Nick Boyle went to the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the NFL Draft (Delaware sports information/Mark Campbell).

He’ll join another former Blue Hen in Baltimore, Joe Flacco who was taken in the first round of the 2008 draft. Boyle is also the first Delaware tight


end to be picked since Ben Patrick was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the seventh round in 2007.

Boyle, recruited to Delaware by former coach K.C. Keeler, became the first non-transfer drafted from UD since receiver Jamin Elliott in 2002. He’s the fourth-highest drafted UD player in school history, behind Flacco, Gradkowski and quarterback Rich Gannon (by New England) the fourth round in 1987 and fifth-rounder running back Dan Reeder (by the Los Angeles Raiders) in 1985.

Boyle impressed the Ravens with his performance at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. according to assistant general manager Eric DeCosta.

“We went down to Mobile and he competed very well, had a great week of practice, looked athletic, blocked extremely well,” DeCosta told the Ravens official website. “He’s built strong. He’s anPROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
       The instant case arises out of personal injuries allegedly sustained by
Plaintiff–Appellant James Hefren while he was employed by Murphy
Exploration & Production Company, USA (Murphy), as a lead operator on the
Front Runner Spar. In March 2002, Murphy contracted with Defendant–
Appellee McDermott, Inc. (McDermott) to have McDermott design and
construct the Front Runner Spar, an offshore facility to be used by Murphy for
removing and processing petroleum from the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. 1 In
May 2004, Murphy accepted delivery of the Front Runner Spar and affixed it
to the seafloor at the outer continental shelf adjacent to the State of Louisiana
where it has remained since, operating as a platform facility with three decks
used for crew quarters, drilling, and production.


  According to Hefren, he suffered significant injury on or about June 6,
2011, on the Front Runner Spar when a flange of a valve struck him in the
face. Following his injury, Hefren filed suit against Murphy and McDermott
in the 16th Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Mary in Louisiana on
June 4, 2012. 2 In his complaint, Hefren invoked jurisdiction under the Jones
Act and general maritime law and asserted claims for negligence. Hefren
alleged that both Murphy and McDermott failed to take precautions for
Hefren’s safety and specifically alleged that McDermott failed to properly
design and construct the Front Runner Spar.                 Murphy then removed the
matter to the United States District Court for theCenter brings services close to home

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Residents of Crosby needing a cardiologist, an urologist, an obstetrician, a gynecologist or an internal medicine specialist can look no further than the Crosby Multi-Specialty Clinic and Health Education Center.

"We've seen quite a few patients already," said Dr. Roger Le, the center's urologist. "It's important to make people aware that we offer specialty services right here in their own neighborhood."

The center is an offshoot of the East Houston Regional Medical Center (EHRMC) in the North Channel area.

"We want to serve the Crosby, Dayton, Huffman, Highlands and Liberty areas," said Annette Forbes, EHRMC marketing and business development manager. "In addition to its specialty medical care, the center has an education center, where people can attend seminars on


Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., smiles during an interview following a photo opportunity on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, with the freshman class. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., smiles during an interview following a photo opportunity on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, with the freshman class. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats unveiled a draft rules package Thursday for how they would govern the chamber when they take over the majority in the new Congress next year.

The changes are large and small, from a requirement to post legislation at least 72 hours before action is taken to restoring some floor rights for the resident commissioner from Puerto Rico and other nonvoting delegates.

One change, proposed by Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whois Muslim, clarifies the 180-year-old rule against wearing hats on the House floor to allow for religious headwear, including headscarves.

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The rules package is traditionally the first vote of the new Congress. It is considered a reflection of a party’s priorities and influences legislation.

The draft from incoming Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and backed by Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, was presented Thursday as Democrats met privately to prepare for the new year.

The topics touch on several areas — budgeting, oversight, diversity and the legislative process, among others.

It ensures that the first bill of the new Congress, H.R. 1, will be a sweeping package of good-government reforms, with provisions on voting rights and campaign finance. It is being crafted by Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md.

Many of the rules being proposed


Sold to Taliban

She was barely sixteen. Liza was a teenage girl from the ancient Pakistani town of Peshawar. Her father, a poor rickshaw puller, had abandoned her. Facing extreme poverty and dire living conditions, she had been sold off as a sex slave to the Afghans. She would now be a muse for some Afghan warlord in Taliban.

She was on her way to Kabul and then to Kandahar to be with the man who had paid a handsome price of 5 lakhs to buy her off from her poor and impoverished family. This was going to be a long journey to the rugged terrain of the Kandahar valley and the little girl was very apprehensive about her final fate. She prefers to sleep and keep her eyes closedso as to let fearful thoughts go away. The handler by the name of Anees, a well-built Pathan with a huge tough black beard, knew that this girl would reap him rich profits. She would be sold off as a sex slave while also cooking and doing other chores for her master in return for food, clothes and protection. As such she had no other rights, she would be treated as a subhuman and would have to have sex with her master at any time of day. This was going to be her hell and she had to prepare herself for it mentally.

They travelled by road for five days by huddling up on the back of trucks and on top of buses. Liza tugged at her luggage and


belongings as the bus stopped over for food and water. The dusty rural roads made the journey even more arduous as the bus had to slow down over potholes and broken tarmac. But at least they had started their drive to Kabul. This was where the final payment for the girl would be made and she would be handed over to be taken to Kandahar. The Taliban have been buying girls from rural areas in Pakistan for years to satisfy the needs of their soldiers, especially the commanders. Therefore, these girls are essential for the war effort and also for cooking and cleaning homes.

She was on a nomadic journey through the mountain pass and then by road to Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. From there, it washome. “It is very beautiful, very soft. I will wear it always. May he protect me and save me.” She said a prayer to Allah and then touched the hijab to her eye and forehead as if to pay respects.

She knew this will be her new life. She had to shed her old clothes for the new hijab and adapt to her new life with her master. Baksh was a high-level Taliban commander and had fought many battles. He was an expert with the AK47 and dynamites. He made his money repairing old army vehicles and ammunition dumps. He was keen to have this young fair girl at his disposal. She was still ripe and with her soft skin, Liza looked attractive especially her hair which shined brown


when the sunlight fell on them.

She worked hard all day cleaning, making the bed and then cooking. At night, Baksh would have sex with her in the traditional Islamic way and then fall off to sleep. It was just a need for him and Liza had started to oblige him happily. She would wear her hijab at times when she ventured out in the bare markets of the city. That is as her only freedom in a life condemned as a slave, she thought. But Baksh had been gentle with her except for his odd ways in bed. Liza managed to smile at times especially when she saw the birds fly and when the rain fell through the window of her room.

She would often stare at the barrenground in front of her window where street kids and local urchins gathered to play cricket. Liza knew the game well as she had seen and even played it in the gully of Peshawar. “Arrey, the local Afghanistan cricket team has been invited to go to Kyrgyzstan. They are shooting for a big Indian Bollywood film there.” He sounded excited and said all this in one breath. Liza knew that she was about to go on another adventure. “They need girls also to encourage the cricketers. So I told them you would like to go.” He then sat down on the cot as Liza handed him some milk. “Ok, I will go but I will be free and allowed to talk to people.” She wanted to go but


on her terms. Baksh nodded as Liza packed her bags to shoot for this Bollywood film. A journey that would change her life forever. This was her ticket to explore the world and break free from her slavery. Baksh had been foolish to let her go. After all, he only suggested it to the local administrator and Maulana. The entire team was to depart in a bus and a jeep caravan where they would be flown into Bishkek by flight from Kabul airport. Liza was at her best in her orange hijab. She had also put some kajal in her eyes just so that she would stand out of the crowd of other actors. This was her chance, she had to grab it. The chance to taste freedomSPE ATCE 2016 (26-28 September 2016) Dubai, UAE

We are delighted to invite all of our esteemed members, supporters, and new prospects to join us in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The event will be held at the Dubai World Trade Centre, a world-class convention venue located in the heart of this modern vibrant city. ATCE 2016 will embrace the conference’s heritage of excellence, drawing on the expertise of leading international oil and gas professionals.

The technical programme will feature the highest calibre peer-selected papers in the industry and sessions covering current applications and emerging technologies within all phases of E&P. The conference will provide an unparalleled opportunity for learning and collaboration at workshops, forums, and training courses, while the concurrent exhibition will showcase the latest technologies from around


the world.

Since the first edition 91 years ago, the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) has attracted more than a half million of the E&P industry’s greatest minds from around the globe. Reflecting our global industry, ATCE is becoming an increasingly important international event. Florence hosted ATCE in 2008, Amsterdam hosted the conference in 2014, and in 2016, SPE is proud to announce that ATCE will be held in the Middle East for the first time, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The 2013 event drew more than 12,000 attendees and included the presentation of nearly 400 peer-selected papers covering technical advances, best practices, and future trends in all facets of E&P. In addition, more than 500 exhibitors were in attendance to display theirdoes not entertain the specific intent required for a particular crime is entitled to be acquitted of that crime. If he cannot be convicted of a lesser offense and cannot safely be released, the state's remedy is to institute civil commitment proceedings, not to convict him of a specific intent crime which he did not commit.
The only evidence submitted to the trial court in this case was the testimony of Joseph Cacciatore, the victim of the burglary, at the preliminary hearing, and three psychiatric reports. Cacciatore testified that he left his apartment on March 7, 1975. When he returned three days later, he discovered defendant in his apartment. Defendant was wearing Cacciatore's clothes and cooking his food. The lock on the front door had been broken; the apartment


lay in a shambles. Cacciatore called the police, who arrested defendant for burglary. Later Cacciatore discovered that a ring, a watch, a credit card, and items of clothing were missing.[1]
*322 The psychiatric reports submitted to the court explain defendant's long history of psychotic illness, including at least 10 occasions of hospital confinement for treatment. According to the reports, defendant, shortly after his last release from Brentwood Veteran's Hospital, found himself with no place to go. He began to believe that he "owned" property, and was "directed" to Cacciatore's apartment. When he found the door unlocked he was sure he owned the apartment. He entered, rearranged the apartment, destroyed some advertising he felt was inappropriate, and put on Cacciatore's clothes. When the police arrived, defendant was shocked and embarrassed,Heterochrony during skeletal development of Pseudis platensis (Anura, Hylidae) and the early offset of skeleton development and growth.
The aquatic frog Pseudis platensis has a giant tadpole, long developmental time, and dissociated metamorphic events that include later offset of larval somatic morphologies. Moreover, when the tadpole metamorphoses, the young frog is nearly the size of an adult, suggesting that this species has low rates of postmetamorphic growth. Herein, we study the development of the skeleton during larval development up to the end of metamorphosis, which is denoted by the complete lost of the tail in P. platensis. Our study revealed heterochronic differences in skeletal development compared with that of most anurans; these involve the complete differentiation of skull bones and the extensive ossification of the postcranial skeleton before completion


signals such as the vehicle speed and the opening ratio of the engine throttle so that the engaging force of the clutch is controlled and regulated. Conventionally, as shown in the Japanese Patent Publication "Tokuko-Sho 63-5625", the first and the second oil chambers connect through an orifice. Furthermore controlling chambers connected to both the first and the second oil chambers are provided in the opposite position and controlled by external signals. A lock-up clutch control has a draining oil passage from the first oil chamber and a regulating valve is provided.
This lock-up control device directly senses the differential pressure by applying the inside pressure of the first and the second oil chambers to the regulating valve. Therefore the regulating valve is controlled correctly according to the external signalsShania Twain 'bored' with country music

Country music star Shania Twain says she is a "little bit bored" of country music.

During an interview with eonline.com, the Grammy winner spoke about her new show "Real Country" and how she is hoping that more women will feel inspired to get involved in the genre.

The conversation started with wanting "to talk about women in country music today". The singer replied: "What women?"

She said how disappointed she is that there are "too few" women in it.

"We are not making radio progress, but we are making very small, steady steps towards awareness that we are lacking women on country radio," she said.

Twain revealed she has some ideas as to how to jump-start the progress.

"We have too much of the sameness right now. I'm a


A 15-year-old girl in Chicago was apparently sexually assaulted by five or six men or boys on Facebook Live, and none of the roughly 40 people who watched the live video reported the attack to police, authorities have said.

It is the second time in recent months that the Chicago police department has investigated an apparent attack streamed live on Facebook. In January, four people were arrested after mobile phone footage showed them allegedly taunting and beating a mentally disabled man.

Police only learned of the latest alleged attack when the girl’s mother approached Supt Eddie Johnson on Monday afternoon as he was leaving a station in the Lawndale neighbourhood in the West Side, a police department spokesman said. She told him her daughter had been missing since Sunday andshowed him screengrab photos of the alleged assault.

The spokesman said Johnson immediately ordered detectives to investigate and the department asked Facebook to take down the video, which it did.

The spokesman said detectives had found the girl and reunited her with her family. He said she had told detectives she knew at least one of her alleged attackers, but it remained unclear how well they knew each other. Investigators are questioning several people, but no one is considered a suspect yet and no arrests have been made.

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The spokesman said Johnson was “visibly upset” after he watched the video, both by its content and the fact that there were “40 or so live viewers and no


Yarchen Gar, officially known as Yaqing Orgyan, is a Buddhist monastery that is made up almost entirely of nuns.

Living in rudimentary conditions, they are devoted to following the faith and entering a life of sacrament.

Established in 1985 by Lama Rinpoche, Yarchen Gar is located in Baiyu county in the Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture. It is 4,000 metres above sea level – not easy to reach, but home to over 10,000 devotees and one of the largest congregation of Buddhist monks and nuns in the world.

The followers live in tough conditions to prove their devotion to the teachings of Lama Rinpoche, who stressed the enlightenment of meditation, hardship and atonement.

On a well-worn footpath that circles a hill nearby, the nuns and monks “kowtow”, a form of prayer in whichFive armed terrorists attempted to infiltrate Israel on Tuesday evening when they entered Israel by sea, near Kibbutz Zikim.

Troops from the Israeli Navy, the Givati Brigade and the Armored Corps exchanged fire with the terrorists, killing all five.

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One soldier was lightly wounded in the fire exchange.

IDF troops fire at terrorists trying to infiltrate Zikim (צילום : דובר צהל)

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Residents of the kibbutz, which is under the juristiction of the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, were told to remain indoors while the confrontation was underway.

Fearing additional attempts by terrorists to infiltrate Israel, the area surrounding Zikim was closed off and residents of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom instructed to stay indoors.

After IDF searches of the area, it was concluded that no terrorists had infiltrated Kerem Shalom.


St. Michael Church in Pawcatuck completes first phase of reconstruction

The Rev. Dennis M. Perkins, pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Pawcatuck, tours the interior of the church as the first phase of reconstruction is being completed, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. (Tim Martin/The Day)

Stonington — The first phase of construction of the new St. Michael the Archangel Church in Pawcatuck is complete.

The Rev. Dennis M. Perkins, church pastor, recently gave a tour of the 166-year-old church, which now resembles the way it appeared in a postcard circa 1908.

The $4.3 million phase 1 rebuilt the roof, walls and a portion of the basement while restoring and replacing the stained-glass windows. It took 16 months to complete.

Phase 2, which calls for the installation of mechanical systems, anon how fast the church can raise the needed funds. Once that occurs, it will take about a year to complete the interior work and reopen the church.

While the capacity of the new church will remain at 425, it appears to be much larger due to the soaring ceilings framed with huge timber trusses, and the removal of the numerous columns that once dotted the main floor of the church.

One things parishioners will notice is the more than century-old stained glass window depicting the Last Supper that now has been placed behind the altar. It had been located in a different section of the church.

“We’re going back to the old church but it will be new to most people,” he said.

Perkins pointed out that Rev. John Neale, who


was the pastor when the window was created, had his likeness added to the apostle sitting on the far right of the scene.

The old pews will be reinstalled and the main church will have a hardwood floor.

During the excavation of the basement, numerous artifacts were uncovered and now sit on a display table in the middle of the church with written descriptions about their origin.

One is a bottle that reads J. Harvey and Co. that was found wrapped in newspaper from 1860. There is a ticket for an 1895 ice cream festival that was sponsored by the “St. Michael Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society.” Other items are a rye and Bromo-Seltzer bottles, an old prayer book and a 1925 pamphlet about preventing diphtheria.

Parishioner Larry O’Keefe also has researchedwhat is depicted on each stained-glass window and in whose memory each window was donated. Those descriptions hang under each window and are available on the church website.

Last weekend Perkins began leading 1 p.m. public tours of the church. Others are slated for Sunday, as well as Nov. 25 and 26 and Dec. 2 and 10.

The first phase of reconstruction of the St. Michael the Archangel Church in Pawcatuck is complete. (Tim Martin/The Day)

The Rev. Dennis M. Perkins, pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Pawcatuck, handles one of the many stained-glass windows in the church Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. (Tim Martin/The Day)

Workers install clapboard siding on the bell tower of St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Pawcatuck Monday, October 23, 2017. (Sean


publications (and the industry, in general) have sunk to appealing to lowest common denominators. CGM’s approach to games journalism, on the other hand, was intelligent, and truly appreciated by many.

I sincerely hope Steve Bauman & company surface elsewhere in the industry.

CGM was hands-down my favorite of the PC Gaming magazines, as the only one that felt like it was aimed at adults, and included women in their target market. While I read the others, CGM was the one I savored, and I shall truly miss it. :(

The point about women is a good one, Loredena. All three of the computer magazines have major strengths, but the prominence of female voices in CGM certainly set it apart. From Cindy Vanous in the past and Cindy Yan’s long tenure toCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- As Donald Trump denied he ever seriously considered John Kasich as his running mate, the Ohio governor was leaving the door open for an endorsement of the GOP presidential nominee.

The New York billionaire's heated rhetoric has turned off many party faithful, including Kasich. But don't expect to see a "Republicans for Hillary" sign in Kasich's yard anytime soon.

"I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton under any circumstance," Kasich told reporters at the Ohio State Fair.

What about Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, a former Republican New Mexico governor? Too early to say, Kasich said.

He had no comment on Trump's plans to fund a political action committee against a future Kasich presidential run. He spoke to reporters at about the same time Trump denied, again, that he approached Kasich


next year.

Olivo had been on a variety of city and county public payrolls since the early 1970s when Mayor Richard Daley named him alderman in late 1994. Olivo rarely spoke at council meetings.

Last year, the Tribune reported that an Olivo relative didn't have the required grades for a specialized accounting program at the University of Illinois but got accepted anyway after Madigan's office intervened. At the time, a Madigan spokesman said the help was "constituent service."1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a recording disk drive such as a hard disk drive (HDD), and in particular, to a recording disk drive comprising a recording disk and a shroud wall spaced from the peripheral end of the recording disk.
2. Description of the Prior Art
It is well known in the field of HDDs that turbulence within the enclosure of the magnetic recording disk causes a flutter of the rotating magnetic recording disk. Such turbulence is usually induced by the rotation of the magnetic recording disk. For example, Japanese Patent Laid-open No. 53-57009 discloses an annular plate surrounding the magnetic recording disk so as to reduce the flutter. The disclosed technique suggests that the outer periphery of the magnetic recording disk is spaced apart


from the inner wall of the annular plate by 1.0 mm. Reduction of the flutter is in general required to avoid collision of the flying head slider against the surface of the rotating magnetic recording disk in the HDD.
The magnetic recording disk has got smaller in size. Reduction in size of the magnetic recording disk is accompanied with reduction in the amplitude of the flutter. In addition, the behavior of the flying head slider has got a higher stability, which serves to avoid variation in the flying height of the flying head slider above the surface of the magnetic recording disk. Accordingly, less probability can be found in collision of the flying head slider against the magnetic recording disk in the HDD in recent years.
There is still agreater demand for. a higher storage density to a magnetic recording disk. The storage density can be improved by reducing spaces between the adjacent recording or data tracks on the magnetic recording disk. Reduction in spaces between the data tracks cannot be considered without taking flutter of the rotating magnetic recording disk into account. Flutter induces sway of the magnetic recording disk at the outer periphery in the direction orthogonal to the surface of the disk, namely, the longitudinal direction. Such sway induces not only the collision of the flying head slider against the magnetic recording disk but also the lateral shift of the data tracks which leads to failure in positioning the flying head slider above the target data track. Specifically, the flutter of the rotating magnetic


a gap equal to or smaller than 0.5 mm to an peripheral end of the recording disk; and a rectification groove formed in the shroud member at a position adjacent an area opposed to the peripheral end of the recording disk.
A recording disk drive of the second aspect may achieve the aforementioned advantages in the same manner as the first aspect. In addition, the shroud member employed in the second aspect may serve to facilitate the process of producing the recording disk drive.
Furthermore, a method of assembling the aforementioned recording disk drive, may comprise: preparing an enclosure of a recording disk; forming a groove on an inner surface of a tubular material having an inside diameter larger than an outside diameter of the recording disk, the groove extendingin a circumferential direction of the tubular material; cutting an annular member off the tubular material, the annular member including the groove formed on its inner surface; and setting the annular member in the enclosure so as to oppose the inner surface of the annular member to a peripheral end of the recording disk by a predetermined gap. The peripheral end of the recording disk is opposed to the inner surface at an area adjacent the groove.
It should be noted that the present invention may be applied not only to a magnetic recording disk drive such as a hard disk drive, for example, but also to an optical recording disk drive employing an optical recording disk such as a compact disk (CD, CD-R, CD-RW) and a digital video


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CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee -- It was once so polluted here that people had to drive through town with their headlights on all day. You could smell the stench from the tannery and heavy metal foundries in town before reaching the city limits. In 1969, news anchor Walter Cronkite dubbed it "the dirtiest city in America."

"Cronkite and others had basically written us off for dead," said former Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield. "That day was a wake-up call to turn ourselves around."

The old Chattanooga is long gone. Today, the city has some of the cleanest air and water in the region. Outdoor Magazine has twice in the past four years named the city the "best town ever." Instead of smokestacks and foundries, you'll see rock-climbing enthusiasts scaling theoutdoor wall of High Point Climbing and Fitness on Broad Street -- just a block away from the city's revitalized waterfront and the nation's largest freshwater aquarium. And rather than a dirty, polluted river running through the center of town, you'll see kayakers and standup paddle boarders drifting along a rejuvenated Tennessee River.

Chattanooga's transformation has been decades in the making, but the construction of one of the largest and fastest Internet networks in the Western Hemisphere will be key to helping the city write the next chapter for the 21st century. The city represents the vanguard of communities pushing for better Internet service and serves as a model for the benefits that can stem from broader online access. The Gig, as the locals call its network, has attracted


billions of dollars in new investment and a flock of entrepreneurs to the city, who may come to the city for the promise of superfast broadband, but stay for the easy, affordable lifestyle, abundant outdoor activities and hip culture.

Chattanooga may seem like an unlikely place for a tech hub, but a long history of progressive thinking has put the midsize southeastern city -- two hours north of Atlanta -- in an enviable position. In 2010, Chattanooga turned on its so-called gigabit service, an industry term for a network able to connect to the Internet at 1 gigabit per second, or 50 to 100 times faster than your average US Internet connection, through a faster fiber-optic line. That was two years before Google broke ground on its first gigabitmarket in Kansas City.

Today, the network, which has been recognized as a model of innovation by President Barack Obama, is the largest and longest-running deployment of gigabit broadband in the nation, spanning 600 square miles and covering the entire population of Chattanooga -- 170,000 -- with access to ultra high-speed broadband.

Giving them what they want

I drove through town on a tour of the city with Littlefield, now in his late 60s. Littlefield moved here in 1968, a year before Cronkite's denouncement. He worked as a city planner through the city's transformative years and served as the city's mayor from 2005 to 2013, taking the reins just as the city-controlled utility EPB, which once stood for Electric Power Board, began dreaming up the gigabit network.

Enlarge Image CNET/Marguerite Reardon

Littlefield's biggest


and small see broadband infrastructure, and gigabit networks in particular, as a ticket to preparing their economies for the future.

"Ten years from now, many critical things a city and its residents can do, and the attractiveness of the city from many perspectives, will be affected by the quality of its broadband networks," according to a report prepared by Gig.U and the Benton Foundation.

A new tech hub is born

Startups have been flocking to Chattanooga in the past few years, fueling even more growth. Construction crews dot the landscape in the heart of downtown, where the city is promoting its so-called "innovation zone." This 140-acre patch of downtown is where the city hopes tech startups will set up shop.

Anchored by the Edney Building, an 11-story office building where workers forthe Tennessee Valley Authority have been housed for decades, the zone also includes the building where venture firm Lamp Post Group is located, as well the historic Ross Hotel, a four-story landmark at Patten Parkway and Georgia Avenue. Lamp Post bought the building and is renovating it to create micro-apartments designed to house budding entrepreneurs and innovators in a shared living space.

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While the Gig is often credited with Chattanooga's most recent renaissance, there are a number of other factors that help make Chattanooga an attractive hub for tech entrepreneurs. The city boasts investors, such as Lamp Post, which are willing to bet on early-stage startups. There is also the nonprofit, The Company Lab, or CoLab for short, which in 2012 launched "GigTank," an annual 14-week


back in a position where we only had one choice and were beholden to a company like Google," he said.

So the city moved forward with its plan.

"Chattanooga is the Goldilocks of cities," DePriest said. "We are big enough that we can try new things, but still small enough that everyone who needs to be involved in figuring it out knows each other."

Even though EPB's primary goal of improving its electrical grid was fully within the scope of its traditional business model, the idea of a municipally owned utility competing against private industry in the broadband market was somewhat controversial in the eyes of some in the business community and Tea Party activists, who were at their height of popularity as plans for the gigabit network were being laid.

DePriestsaid he first approached the business leaders and politicians he thought would oppose the construction of EPB's gigabit network. He said it took only a couple of meetings before he had their support.

"People just got it," he explained. "We knew the big broadband companies weren't going to do anything for us. So this kind of network wasn't going to happen unless the community built it."

The biggest benefit to residents in Chattanooga is the competition the Gig has inspired among the existing cable and phone companies serving the city. Comcast, which has unsuccessfully sued EPB multiple times to stop the network and to curtail its expansion, is now promising to deliver 2Gbps speeds to local customers. EPB's Colman Keane, director of fiber technology for EPB Fiber Optics, said his


Squamous cell carcinoma of the vagina in a male pseudohermaphrodite with 5alpha-reductase deficiency.
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Eighth Circuit Addresses Particular Social Group Comprised of Individuals who Cooperate with ICE

Martinez-Galarza was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and pressured into giving them information about his nephew. ICE later used this information to deport his nephew. Martinez-Galarza applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. His asylum and withholding of removal applications were based on his membership in the social group of consisting of "people who have provided information to ICE to enable that organization to remove individuals residing illegally in the United States" as well as a member of a second social group consisting of "witnesses for ICE."

The Eighth Circuit dismissed the appeal, finding that any harm that Martinez-Galarza's nephew would inflict on him would be because of astolen childhood either updates Lang’s underlying premise that mothers should protect their children, or comes as a compete non sequitur. From the first, characters change personas right before your eyes, or appear magically out of the audience, defying the "story" and injecting a alternate narrative, a half-hearted romantic comedy, into the mix.

It makes little sense to anyone for a long time, although the laughs - mostly ribald one liners - keep on coming. The inside-out stage world finally focuses when the murderer, a shadowy silhouette patrolling the edges of the action, reveals himself as the playwright. And he’s been rewriting the story as it unfolds, first to avoid detection, then to avoid death at the hands of the mob (his characters).

At the climax, "M" (Karen MacDonald, brilliantly co-opting


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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

William McInnes..

Last Thursday night DH and I were lucky enough to attend a Book Talk at a local library. The author was William McInnes, who as well as being a successful author, is also a well known Australian actor. Although he lives and works interstate, William has a soft spot for Queensland as he grew up in Redcliffe.

The evening started with drinks and savouries in the foyer of the library. Then we moved to the meeting room which was setup with chairs and a lectern. It's the same meeting room where Sisters of Stitch meet each fortnight.
We managed to get a seat near the front and to one side near the door...

Waiting for William to arrive...

And here he is...just 60cm from me!

Here he is being introduced to the audience...

As soon as he took over the microphone, he enthralled us with his stories of life when he was a boy; especially his early memories of Chermside and also of Redcliffe. He told us funny anecdotes about his parents who sounded like they were 'real characters'. He talked of the sadness when his parents died and also the all consuming sadness when his wife Sarah died in 2011.

He told us that the new book was the result of his


'trying to make sense' of his wife's passing...

He had us in stitches as he told us what it was like being a single father of a teenage daughter. (he also has a 20 year old son)

William told us how he came up with the characters in his latest book. Writers really store store little bits of information away ready for a time they can incorporate it into a book. Every now and then he would do an impersonation of people ranging from John Howard to his parents, especially when his mother was fed up with his behaviour in his teenage years. Young william was certainly a larrikin and still is, I suspect! lol

William read some excerpts from the book every now and then but most of the eveningwas taken up with his telling funny anecdotes, singing ads from the 1960s 1970s word perfectly or imitating a public figure.

Most author talks are just half an hour; William talked for over a hour! lol

But we did have time for a few questions from the audience...DH tried to ask the question ' Will there be another series of "The Time of our Lives" ' but question time was over.

DH and I usually borrow books for the library, occasionally buy books as gifts and sometimes buy eBooks. But last Thursday, I bought a copy of William's latest book, 'The Bird Watcher'.

While the book was being signed DH asked his question. And the answer was, 'Yes! Filming of the 2nd series starts in January and William said that he has


John Thomas Norris

John Thomas Norris (1808 – 15 January 1870) was a British Liberal politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abingdon 1857–65.

He was a Commissioner of Lieutenancy for London, a justice of the peace in Berkshire, and member of the London City Corporation.

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Category:Councilmen and Aldermen of the City of LondonImran Awan worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years since she came into office in 2004 as a Florida representative.

Imran and his two Pakistani brothers managed the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials. They were relieved of their duties in February 2017 on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking.

Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives in February 2017.

Imran Awan was married to two women at once, including his first cousin, as is his country’s custom.

Imran had his court case rescheduled recently until next month.

Imran Awan and his wife Alvi reportedly struck a plea deal this week.

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the vehicle enters the pickup section into a daily report with its charge. After the driver returns to the office, the driver presents the daily report. Alternatively, in the case of picking up or delivering goods, a driver (or a crew) enters the delivery point and arriving time into the daily report each time the driver reaches the delivery point.
Moreover, in order to check the distance the vehicle has traveled, a tachometer is generally installed into a vehicle. After the vehicle has returned to the office, the contents of the daily report are collated with the record of the tachometer to verify whether the contents of the daily report are correct.
In another method, a mobile terminal is installed in every vehicle and the operating conditions of each vehicleOverview: Real Estate Development Regulation Act already passed in cabinet and in Parliament. New Land Acquisition Act already passed and will have wide effect on Real Estate Business. The Free lecture will give you food for thought on principles and practices of Real Estate in India. The major four areas of business will be touched upon : Law, Marketing, Finance, Management. The latest happenings and much more current affairs will be discussed

Main Faculty Input:Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi:Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi is a commerce graduate from University of Mumbai. He did chartered accountancy course and PhD. from University of Mumbai in Real Estate Finance. He had presented papers on various issues of real estate to national and international conferences and authored eight books on real estate related subjects like Real Estate


brutality.
Antifascist lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova - independent journalist,
who took action in the anarchist movement, was killed on the street at 19th of jan 2009.
Since the begining of 2009 there have been more than 10 violent attacks on social activists.
Antifascists go to prison because of fake charges.
Police brutality in prisons and police departments go unpunished.
Repressions from government stimulate us to create groups to struggle against these repressions.
One of these groups is called Anarchist Black Cross.
In St.Petersburg we have group of Anarchist Black Cross.

German:
Die sozialen Aktivisten stoßen nicht nur mit rechtlich, sondern auch kraftvollem Chaos zusammen.
Am 19 Januar 2009 wurd auf der Strasse ein Antifaschistischer Anwalt -Stanislav Markelov- umgebracht.
und Anastasia Barburova - Die unabhängige Journalistin, die zu der Antifaschistischen Bewegung mitzählte.
Vom Anfang 2009 wurden auf die sozialeGustavus, Stan and Sheila, and my agent Rob Geiger.”

Muldowney became a legend as the first female to earn an NHRA license in 1965 after racing at Fonda Speedway in New York for several years with her then-husband, and car builder, Jack. From there, Muldowney moved from gas dragsters into Funny Car, winning her first major race at the 1971 IHRA Southern Nationals. She won three NHRA Top Fuel championships in 1977, 1980, and 1982, and is the first woman to win an NHRA national event in pro eliminator in 1976 – and the NHRA ranks her No. 5 in their list of the Top 40 Drivers, 1951-2000. Her pioneering spirit as the “First Lady of Drag Racing” has been reflected in her recovery thus far, returning to the


War, and the wearing of curly white wigs. Also, Adriana co-owns a production company, Zombot Pictures, in LA that has made three feature films in three years. Her first acting scene in a film ever was with Danny Glover, and she was terrified she would mess it up. In addition, her favorite food is pizza and she has too many cats.

The Wrath and the Dawnmeets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress—and the darkness she must unleash to achieve her destiny.

Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces thedarkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic future. But is the price of the throne too high?

Because in order to achieve greatness, she must spurn the young man who loves her and exploit the callous magic that runs through her veins—sorcery fueled by eating the hearts of the recently killed. For the god who has sent her on this journey will not be satisfied until his power is absolute.

Set in an East Asian-inspired fantasy world filled with both breathtaking pain and beauty, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns possesses all the


hallmarks of masterful fantasy: dazzling magic, heartbreaking romance, and a world that hangs in the balance. Fans of Heartless, Stealing Snow, and Red Queen will devour this stunning debut.

I feel as if I have been waiting for this book for my entire life. From the moment that the deal was announced, I knew that I wanted this book.

I need more Asian-inspired fantasies in my life! And what's not to love about this one? Gods, witches, a crown, magic, and heartbreak? Sounds like the perfect book for me!

Julie C. Dao is a proud Vietnamese-American who was born in upstate New York. She studied medicine in college, but came to realize blood and needles were her Kryptonite. By day, she worked in science news and research; by night, she wroteDeadly clashes in Turkish city of Diyarbakir Published duration 9 June 2015

image copyright AFP image caption Turkish special forces sealed off the area of Diyarbakir where the shootings took place

Three people have been shot dead after violence erupted in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-eastern city of Diyarbakir.

Clashes broke out after the head of a charity linked to a Kurdish Islamist party was killed, reports said.

It is not yet clear who was behind the violence.

It comes two days after national elections in which the pro-Kurdish HDP party won seats in Turkey's parliament for the first time.

Aytac Baran, head of the Yeni Ihya Der charity group, was fatally shot as he left his office in the city, officials said.

Clashes then erupted in which two other people died, the interior ministry quoted


by Turkish media said. Initial reports said three had died.

A policeman and two journalists were injured, officials added.

Yeni Ihya Der is linked to the Islamist Huda Par political party, according to analysts.

Correspondents says relations between the supporters of Huda Par and another Kurdish group, the People's Democratic Party, are tense.

image copyright AP image caption Buildings were hit by stray bullets when the clashes broke out

The People's Democratic Party strongly condemned the attack.

The HDP and Huda Par called for calm and asked people in Diyarbakir not to take to the streets and to avoid any provocation.

BBC Turkish's Murat Nisancioglu says the killings, coming immediately after the elections, will escalate tensions in the Kurdish areas.

Last Friday, three people were killed and scores injured in a bomb attack on a HDPThunder Snow, the horse who refused to race in the Kentucky Derby, has made amends with his dominant win in the Dubai World Cup for Sheikh Mohammed and trainer Saeed bin Suroor.

Ridden by Christophe Soumillon who was also aboard in the 2017 Kentucky Derby when Thunder Snow buck-jumped shortly after the start, led all the way in the rich race at Meydan.

” I never thought I would be able to make the running with that draw, but he jumped quite well and on the inside I saw nobody was trying to challenge me,” Soumillon said.

“West Coast let me go and when I arrived in the first corner my horse just pricked his ears and had a good blow.

“In the back straight I was really cantering. He’s a funny


Saudi tendrils

The Bush administration has been diligent in conveying its
friendliness toward Muslims and for this the president is to be commended.
It would be both morally and strategically wrong to suggest that the war on
terror is a war against all Muslims.
But in seeking out American Muslims to praise and embrace, the
president has been led into a hornet's nest, as the most conspicuous
Muslim-American organizations -- though not necessarily the most
representative -- have intimate ties to Saudi money and are often only one
step away from terrorists and their supporters.
Questionable groups have obtained access to the White House, the
FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and other government agencies. They've had their
pictures taken with George Bush and have in turn been able to parlay these
into enhanced stature within the Muslim community. Some of thesegroups have
enjoyed the patronage of a key conservative activist with strong ties to the
White House. Grover Norquist has facilitated meetings with the president,
Cabinet secretaries and agency heads.
A few days after 9-11, President Bush visited Washington, D.C.'s
Islamic Center to meet with 15 "leaders" of the American Muslim community.
The National Journal cited Norquist as the facilitator of the event. Days
later, it was learned that many of those who shared the stage with the
president that day and attended White House meetings were actually closely
allied with radical Islam.
As The New Republic's Franklin Foer reported, the president of
the American Muslim Council, who sat to President Bush's left, had called
members of Hamas "freedom fighters." Salam Al-Marayati, executive director
of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, pointed the finger of blame for the
Sept. 11 attacks on Israel.


Another attendee had declared before a crowd
chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans that "America has to learn if you remain on
the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come."
These groups are part of an interlocking network of
Saudi-financed and directed agitation and religious proselytizing. Starting
in the 1960s and accelerating as petrodollars swelled their wallets in the
1970s, the Saudis have been financing the expansion of their brand of
radical Islam, Wahhabism, throughout the world. They now spend an estimated
$2.7 billion annually on what has come to be called the Wahhabi lobby. An
estimated 70 percent of the 1,200 mosques in the United States were built
with Saudi money and are led by Saudi-influenced clerics. The same is true
with fraternal organizations, student groups and political entities.
Norquist's Islamic Institute received its seed money from the Saudis.
This isnot merely an internal religious matter because Islamism
is not merely a religion. As David Keene of the American Conservative Union
puts it, "Islamism is an ideology the way communism was a religion."
The names of the Saudi fronts are benign, but a cursory
examination of the leaders reveals their radicalism. Eric Vickers, executive
director of the American Muslim Council, has refused to denounce any terror
group practicing suicide bombing in the Middle East and has even declined to
denounce Al Qaeda, calling it a "resistance movement." The AMC has
vigorously opposed both Clinton and Bush administration anti-terror policies
and encouraged visitors to its website, "Don't Talk to the FBI." Yet FBI
Director Robert Mueller gave a luncheon address to the AMC last June. And in
January 2003, Vickers was invited to attend a White House briefing on
Immigration and


Naturalization Service policies.
Beyond the embarrassment of having cordial relations with
terrorist-supporters, the Bush administration is making it much harder for
non-radical Muslims to gain prominence within their own community. Dr.
Hedieh Mirahmadi of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, a moderate
Muslim-American group, told Insight magazine, "It is our patriotic duty as
Americans and our duty as Muslims to speak up against any attempt by
extremists to mobilize the Muslim community against our country." But, she
added, her group does not get invited to meetings at the White House or
State Department.
Instead, the AMC, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the
Islamic Institute and others lobby for weaker anti-terror legislation; more
"sensitivity" on the part of the INS, the FBI and other government agencies
charged with security; authority to choose chaplains for the U.S. military
and federal prisons; and identification

A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit Tuesday by female prisoners who contend the California state prison system is violating their rights by refusing to hire a full-time Wiccan chaplain.

A district court had rejected the inmates’ suit, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the inmates may have a valid claim.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation hires chaplains for five faiths: Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Native American. Inmates of other religions are permitted to worship with those chaplains or with volunteer chaplains.

In their lawsuits, inmates at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla contend the prison policy favors mainstream religions in violation of the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution's 1st Amendment. The inmates said there were more Wiccans


at women's prison than there were Jewish, Muslim or Catholic prisoners.

Wicca is a pagan religion that involves witchcraft. If the inmates’ allegations are true, the appeals court said, “the prison administration has created staff chaplain positions for five conventional faiths, but fails to employ any neutral criteria in evaluating whether a growing membership in minority religions warrants a reallocation of resources.”

The court stressed it was not suggesting that the lawsuit should succeed. A lower court must now evaluate the evidence, including a survey of the religious affiliations of inmates at the prison, the panel said.

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Four dead in O.C.: No motive yet in slaying, deadly carjackings

L.A. Now Live: California seizing guns from disqualified owners

-- Maura Dolan

Photo: File shot of Building 513 at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.One of the Netherlands’ first Eurovision singers has passed away. Anneke Grönloh died last Friday in her home in the south of France. She was aged 76.

A 58 year career

Anneke Grönloh was one of the nation’s favourite singers in her heyday. She was born in 1942 in Tondano, Indonesia. After moving to the Netherlands, she won her first talent show when she was 17, in 1959. She didn’t have to wait for a long time for her big hit. Brandend Zand was released in 1962 and stayed in the charts for over thirty weeks. The song is the most selling Dutch single of all time, selling over 3,5 million copies.

Grönloh’s name became an established one after two more enormous hits, with Paradiso and Soerabaja, a song named after


an Indonesian island. At the top of her fame, the Dutch broadcaster asked Grönloh to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 in Copenhagen. Despite her management advising her not to go, Grönloh insisted on defending her nation’s colours. The national final consisted of three songs only, of which Jij Bent Mijn Leven was the winner. Despite high expectations in her own country, the song only finished in tenth at Eurovision.

Anneke Grönloh continued her career in a less commercial repetoire. She didn’t score many big hits in her home country after 1965. However, she became a big name abroad. She scored two #1 singles in Yugoslavia, when she sang Wladimir and Ximeroni in Serbian.

Her final hit in the Netherlands dates back to 1986. She signed anew deal with her old record company and that turned out to be a success. Santo Domingo was the return to the charts and the spotlights for Grönloh. Throughout the 1970s, she was still a loved character on television, despite the lack of hits.

Singer of the century

In 2000, Anneke Grönloh was chosen by the Dutch people as the Singer of the Century. She received an award for being the most loved artist of the twentieth century. After that honour, Grönloh continued singing for another seventeen years. She retired in 2017 after dealing with severe lung issues for a while.

Anneke Grönloh passed away peacefully in France last Friday. Reports say she will also have her final resting place in the country she loved so much.

The thoughts of the entire


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Cold front lays the foundations for a solid ski season in Victoria and New South Wales

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A cold snap across the south-east of Australia is starting to lay the foundations for a solid ski season in Victoria and New South Wales, while people in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra are shivering through a chilly end to autumn.

The Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Sarah Scully said one cold front had come through on Monday and a second was moving up through Tasmania. “It’s expected to push into Victoria tonight,” Scully said.

Melbourne residents are warned to rug up with the temperatures expected to reach a maximum of 12C on Wednesday.

American climber dies on descent from summit of Mount Everestthe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report , long-term climate models indicate a significant drying trend will continue across western portions of South Africa, possibly reducing annual rainfall by up to 40%.

Residents queue to fill water containers in Cape Town on Friday.

The city is now working to upgrade its water systems -- rushing to build desalination, aquifer and water-recycling projects -- and help stretch the current supply. But officials say residents also need to step up. Only an estimated 55% of the city's residents are actually sticking to their allotted water per day, according to last week's figures

But residents say they are already struggling to keep with existing restrictions. Photographer Melissa Delport, who lives in Seapoint, Cape Town, is one of those who has been queuing


has left. Hide Caption 1 of 14 Photos: Cape Town's water crisis A woman collects water in a settlement near Cape Town on Friday, February 2. Hide Caption 2 of 14 Photos: Cape Town's water crisis Residents queue to fill containers from a source of natural spring water in Cape Town, South Africa, February 2. The drought-hit city introduced new water restrictions in an attempt to avoid what it calls "Day Zero," the day in mid-April when it might have to turn off most taps. Hide Caption 3 of 14 Photos: Cape Town's water crisis A man in Cape Town, South Africa, carries water from a natural spring on Thursday, February 1. Hide Caption 4 of 14 Photos: Cape Town's water crisis A police officer controls water collectionrainfall, making droughts even more extreme. Theewaterskloof Dam, Cape Town's main water supply, can be seen lying almost empty on January 26. Hide Caption 10 of 14 Photos: Cape Town's water crisis The Western Cape, one of the country's nine provinces and home to Cape Town, experiences its annual rainy season during the winter months (June-September). The water in Theewaterskloof Dam, seen here on January 26, is running low with half the summer season still to go. Hide Caption 11 of 14 Photos: Cape Town's water crisis People line up to collect water from a natural spring outlet in Cape Town on Tuesday, January 23. Hide Caption 12 of 14 Photos: Cape Town's water crisis Cape Town's main water supply, from the Theewaterskloof dam outside Grabouw, is seen


For decades, Israel has been committing war crimes and the UN has done nothing to stop them.

Stanley L Cohen is an attorney and human rights activist who has done extensive work in the Middle East and Africa.

This is the part two of the article. Click here to read part one.

Throughout its 70 years of existence, Israel has not sought to limit its breach of international law and the law of war to Palestine. In fact, it has a long and well-documented history of human rights violations and war crimes in Lebanon.

Here, too, the United Nations has watched largely in silence as Israel has targeted civilian communities and UN facilities, made use of prohibited weapons of war and participated in massacres against defenceless women and children.

The 1982 invasion

In 1982,the Israeli army invaded Lebanon under the pretext of responding to attacks by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), which at the time, was headquartered in West Beirut. The Lebanese civil war provided convenient cover for Israeli violence directed at Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, alike.

In order to drive out the PLO, Israel unleashed a barbaric assault on Beirut by air and sea while cutting off food, water supply and electricity. During the two-month siege, Israel hit “five UN buildings, 134 embassies or diplomatic residences, six hospitals or clinics, one mental institute, the Central Bank, five hotels, the Red Cross, Lebanese and foreign media outlets, and innumerable private homes”.

It is estimated that between June 6 and August 25 that year, the Israeli onslaught killed more than 17,000 Lebanese and Palestinians,


most of them civilians. At the end of the month, the US President Ronald Reagan called the killings a “holocaust” in an angry phone call to the Israeli prime minister.

While much of the world watched the mass killing with horror, little action was undertaken to intervene. That encouraged the Israelis to go even further. A month after the evacuation of thousands of PLO fighters from Lebanon, the Israeli army occupied Beirut, encircling the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila. On September 16, Christian Phalangists fighters, encouraged by the Israelis, descended on the camps torturing, raping, mutilating and murdering more than 3,000 Palestinian civilians, many of them women, children and elderly.

Late in 1982, the UN General Assembly declared the carnage an act of genocide, condemning Israel in the “strongestterms for the large-scale massacre of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.” However, neither the UN nor any other international body ever took action against Israel or its proxies for the massacre.

The Qana massacre

In 1985, Israel withdrew its forces to the so-called “security zone” in southern Lebanon, extending its military presence until 2000. For those 15 years, it continued launching deadly attacks on Lebanon and Lebanese civilians.

On April 18, 1996, the Israeli army targeted a UN compound in the village of Qana where some 800 civilians had sought shelter from Israeli bombardments during a battle with Hezbollah. More than a 100 civilians died and another 116 were injured in the assault on the clearly marked compound.

The UN expressed its condolences for civilian losses, took no


further steps against Israel. Amnesty International described the attack in a report as a “callous disregard for civilian lives and a breach of the laws of war on directly or indiscriminately targeting civilians”.

This is not to suggest that the United Nations was completely indifferent to the shelling of its compound as the General Assembly, by a vote of 66 to two with 59 abstentions, passed a resolution demanding that Israel reimburse it to the tune of $1.7m for the cost of repairs to its compound.

Predictably, the United States and Israel voted against the resolution and not surprisingly, the latter ignored the bill. The UN took no subsequent steps against Israel for its refusal.

The 2006 war

Ten years later, on July 12, 2006, Israel launched another devastating assault on southernLebanon.

Israeli media reported that the Israeli military had used large numbers of banned weapons. One officer who participated in the war described the wholesale use of such weapons against civilians as “insane and monstrous”.

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According to him, the Israeli army fired around 1,800 cluster bombs containing over 1.2 million bomblets. Other soldiers described the wholesale use of banned phosphorous weapons as primary weapons of war.

On July 30, the Israeli army targeting a house in the village of Qana whether two extended families had sought shelter. The attack killed 54 civilians, 37 of them children.

While the Security Council expressed “extreme shock and distress” at the bombing and offered its condolences for the deaths, it took no further action against Israel for this atrocity.

On August 7, two missiles fired by an


Israeli warplane destroyed and damaged apartment buildings in the Shiyyah suburb of Beirut. At least 60 people died. Later that same day, the Israeli army struck another building in the city of Ghaziyeh, killing 16 civilians.

The following day, Israel once again struck civilian buildings in Ghaziyeh, killing 13 people. As with the attacks in Qana and Shiyyah, the UN expressed its condolences but did little else.

A UN shared by the world

None of these atrocities is isolated in time and place, neither are they an historical anomaly. It is very much who we are and what we have become.

Long before the Sabra and Shatila massacre, Israel drove upwards of a million Palestinians from their ancestral homeland through conscious and determined ethnic cleansing, accompanied by rape, murder and arson. Theof the law of war and the passage of the Convention for the Amelioration of the Wounded in Time of War which serves as the precursor to the Geneva Conventions.

Both hallmarks of international law were designed to safeguard people and property that did not contribute to warfare and to protect civilians and civilian communities from unnecessary destruction and hardship. Yet, despite evolving principles and efforts to insulate non-combatants from the horrors of war, now more than ever, they have become the prime victims of its intended death and destruction.

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Indeed, according to UNICEF, during the 20th century, the proportion of civilian to military casualties has increased from 15 percent in World War I to 65 percent in World War II to 90 percent in the conflicts over the last


a tease unless and until that world body acts with resolve to ensure international promise and equal application of law become reality.

It is long past time to permit a world body to be shared equally by a world community.

For more than seven decades, the hallways of the UN have served as exciting field trips for young students and world visitors. I know – I was one.

Awed by the majesty of the General Assembly, with its impressive French murals, green marble desks, matching lecterns and UN emblem on a gold backdrop, tourists escape the reality of the moment with an inspiring recorded narrative of its accomplishments.

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about the “investigation” on the call, according to Holmes, who said Trump spoke so loudly on the phone that Sondland had to hold it away from his ear.

House Democrats have heard from a dozen witnesses in connection with the impeachment inquiry into Trump’s interactions with Ukraine.

Sondland testified Wednesday that a White House meeting was contingent on Ukraine launching investigations into 2016 election interference and Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company that employed Hunter Biden on its board. Sondland also said he presumed military aid was contingent on Ukraine publicly announcing the investigations but said Trump never told him directly of a quid pro quo related to the aid.

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Sondland said he and other officials worked with Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani Rudy GiulianiThe Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set toPresident Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency went on a trip to Cuba in 2009 aimed at opening relations with the communist nation, WND has learned.

According to the Cuban media, Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C., along with his wife, was part of a delegation of five other lawmakers from the Congressional Black Caucus who held a four-and-a-half hour meeting in April 2009 with Cuban President Raul Castro, Fidel Castro’s brother.

Raul Castro previously led the Cuban army and was a rebel commander in the 1950s. The meeting served as Castro’s first face-to-face discussions with American elected officials since assuming office in 2008.

The delegation was headed by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif. After the meeting, Lee told media, “All of us are convinced that President Castro would like


normal relations and would see normalization, ending the embargo, as beneficial to both countries.”

Reuters reported that Lee’s delegation “avoided specifics” with Castro “but were struck by his humor, impressed by his involvement in Third World causes and firm in their belief that he wants to end U.S.-Cuba enmity.”

Politico reported Lee and others heaped praise on Castro, calling him warm and receptive during their discussion.

Politico also reported that the lawmakers disputed Castro’s later statement that members of the congressional delegation said American society is still racist.

The meeting reportedly took place in secret without the customary presence of a U.S. State Department official.

The New York Times reported that Cuban state television showed Castro, wearing a business suit instead of his trademark olive-green fatigues, sitting down with Lee and other membersBEIRUT // Dozens of extremists have been killed in clashes between two militant factions in northwestern Syria, raising fears of more deadly violence ahead of peace talks this month brokered by the United Nations.

The fighting between the Al Qaeda-led coalition known as the Levant Liberation Committee and the extremist Jund Al Aqsa group left nearly 70 fighters dead in some of the fiercest clashes between insurgents in years. The fighting centred on areas where the central province of Hama meets the northwestern province of Idlib.

A Syrian rebel commander speaking from Turkey said Jund Al Aqsa has recently proven itself to be a branch of ISIL, which is the arch-rival of Al Qaeda’s Fatah Al-Sham Front. The commander said Jund Al Aqsa fighters stormed several areas controlled by the


LOS ANGELES — Writer Judith Krantz, whose million-selling novels such as "Scruples" and "Princess Daisy" engrossed readers worldwide with their steamy tales of the rich and beautiful, died Saturday at her Bel-Air home. She was 91.

Krantz's son Tony Krantz, a TV executive, confirmed her death by natural causes on Sunday afternoon. He said he'd hoped to re-create the "Scruples" mini-series before her she died, but it is still in the works.

"She had this rare combination of commercial and creative," he said.

Krantz wrote for Cosmopolitan and Ladies Home Journal magazines before discovering, at age 50, the talent for fiction that made her rich and famous like the characters she created.

Her first novel — "Scruples" in 1978 — became a best-seller, as did the nine that followed. Krantz's books havebeen translated into 52 languages and sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. They inspired a series of hit miniseries with the help of her husband, film and television producer Steve Krantz.

"I always ask myself if what I'm writing will satisfy a reader who's in a plane that can't land because of fog, or who's recovering from an operation in a hospital or who has to escape to a more delightful world for whatever reason," Krantz said in 1990. "That is the test."

While her work was decidedly less than highbrow, Krantz made no apologies for the steamy novels with titles like "Princess Daisy," ''Mistral's Daughter," ''Lovers," ''I'll Take Manhattan" and "The Jewels of Tessa Kent."

"I write the best books I know how," she once said. "I can't write


any better than this."

She filled her stories with delicious details about her characters' lavish lifestyles — designer clothes, luxurious estates — and enviable romances. And she spared no specifics when it came to sex.

"If you're going to write a good erotic scene, you have to go into details," Krantz told the Los Angeles Times in 1990. "I don't believe in thunder and lightning and fireworks exploding. I think people want to know what's happening."

So appealing were her sensational stories of high-powered heroines that each novel was reimagined for television as an episodic miniseries. Steve Krantz, a millionaire in his own right through such productions as the animated film "Fritz the Cat," helped translate his wife's work for TV.

The author was also famous for living a glamorous life thatparalleled that of her characters. Her home in Los Angeles' exclusive Bel-Air community featured a soundproof writing room flanked by an immaculately kept garden. In her closet were many of the same designer-label clothes the characters in her books wore.

The eldest of three children, Krantz was born Judith Bluma Tarcher in 1928 in New York City. Her father owned an advertising agency and her mother worked as an attorney. Her brother, publisher Jeremy Tarcher, married the late ventriloquist Shari Lewis.

Growing up, Krantz was a precocious student at New York's exclusive Birch Wathen school, once describing herself as the youngest, smartest and shortest girl in her class. After skipping two grades, she enrolled at Wellesley College at age 16.

She was also by her own account an indifferent college student.


a profile on Wellesley's website in 2001. "I believed that if I couldn't write 'literature,' I shouldn't write at all."

"Now, I would say to young women, do something you have a true feeling for, no matter how little talent you may believe you have," she added. "Let no masterwork be your goal — a modest goal may lead you further than you dream."

Krantz had met her husband through her high school friend Barbara Walters, who introduced the two in 1953. They married the following year.

"I fell in love with him the minute I saw him," she once said.

Her husband died in 2007 at age 83. The couple had two sons, Tony and Nick, a stockbroker, and two grandchildren.

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an Indian who does not hate Pakistan.

The simple campaign required people from India and Pakistan to change their profile pictures on social media to one in which they have a little note that informs where they are from, and says that they don’t hate the other country, but are only being divided because of hate politics.

Soon after the launch of this campaign, hundreds of citizens from India and Pakistan took to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to extend their support through their love notes and new display pictures. The campaign went viral and even Indians and Pakistanis living in the US, UK and UAE, became a part of it.

The 36-year-old artist started the campaign after the recent incidents when Shiv Sena tried to ban Pakistani artists and writers inMumbai.

Earlier this month, organisers of a concert by Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali had to cancel the event after Shiv Sena threatened them saying that they would face poor consequences if they went ahead with the performance. The next day, organisers in Pune had to cancel his event too.

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The hatred did not just end there. A few days later, Sena members tried to stop the launch of a book written by ex-Pakistan foreign minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri. For this, they threw black ink on the face of the organiser, Sudheendra Kulkarni. However, the attack did not stop Kulkarni from going ahead, and he continued with the launch as planned.

Thus on Dussehra night, Ram Subramanian decided to express his views through a selfie with a note which read, “I am


...announcement of Geist, the restaurant/bar located in one of Germantown’s oldest buildings at 311 Jefferson St. It was constructed in 1886 as a blacksmith shop operated by German immigrant John Geist...

Germantown Restaurant Geist Opens Softly, but Its New Menu Comes in Hard

We've been waiting a long time for the official opening announcement of Geist , the restaurant/bar located in one of Germantown's oldest buildings at 311 Jefferson St. It was constructed in 1886 as a blacksmith shop operated by German immigrant John Geist.

CLOSE St. Patrick's Day is this Saturday, March 17, and there'll be plenty to do in the Nashville area. Here are seven picks to celebrate the luck of the Irish. Hop Scotch Events is hosting an all-day bar crawl on St. Patrick's Day that will visitpopular downtown Nashville bars including Tin Roof Broadway and HQ Beercade.

It was all smiles today at the grand opening of Nashville Business Incubation Center’s new space in #Germantown. The NBIC is an educational hub for #entrepreneurs and has helped launch many successful #Nashville companies over the past 30 years including Christie Cookie Co. and The Grilled Cheeserie Food Truck!

Built circa 1900 at 311 Jefferson St. and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, Geist’s ‘less is...

Geist's 'Less Is More' Design Aesthetic Is a Breath of Fresh Air

One of Nashville's oldest properties has a new purpose, as Geist bar and restaurant will open in the former home of a 118-year-old blacksmith shop on March 14. Nearly three years in the making, the newest venture from owner


Doug Martin has been an intensive restoration and renovation project, and Eater Nashville has the first look inside.

Geist, which is housed in one of the city’s oldest buildings at 311 Jefferson St., will officially open its doors March 14, with several public previews planned for early March.

Nashville restaurant Geist to open in Germantown in mid-March

CLOSE A new eatery will join the ranks of high-profile restaurants in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood next month. Geist, which is housed in one of the city's oldest buildings at 311 Jefferson St., will officially open its doors March 14, with several public previews planned for early March.

Located at 311 Jefferson St. in the former home of a 118-year-old blacksmith shop, the new project from...

Germantown's Geist Will Open in a Former 118-Year-Old Blacksmith Shop onMarch 14

A long-planned Germantown restaurant is now finally nearing its debut, as neighborhood bar and restaurant Geist will open its doors on March 14. Located at 311 Jefferson St. in the former home of a 118-year-old blacksmith shop, the new project from owner Doug Martin was first announced in June of 2015, with local restaurateur Miranda Pontes tied to Geist as Martin's business partner.

A Rutherford County judge ruled on Friday that all the stores padlocked during raids during Operation Candy Crush can be reopened. Circuit Court Judge Royce Taylor said the 23 stores closed for selling CBD products could reopen. Keys and cash registers are being returned to the business owners.

Andrew Jackson arrived at The Hermitage in 1804 with nine slaves. By 1821, Jackson owned 50 slaves through


births and additional purchases. In 1823 Jackson sold a plantation he owned in Alabama and brought another 30 enslaved African Americans here.
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Faced with a pressing need for additional slave housing, he built several new cabins and converted his old log farmhouse into a one-story slave cabin. Over the next 30 years, Jackson’s slave population continued to grow, peaking at 150.
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Andrew Jackson's Hermitage

Andrew Jackson arrived at The Hermitage in 1804 with nine slaves. By 1821, Jackson owned 50 slaves through births and additional purchases. In 1823 Jackson sold a plantation he owned in Alabama and...

Woman collecting pictures of every U.S. servicemember killed in the Vietnam War needs Tennessee's help

For six-and-a-half years, a woman 4,000 milesaway from Tennessee has given her heart to preserving the memory of the more than 58,000 Americans killed in the Vietnam War. Now she needs help from the Volunteer State. "My entire high school years was Vietnam," said Janna Hoehn, speaking to News4 from her home in Hawaii.

UPDATE: Last week, the MDHA Design Review Committee approved a massive new apartment development that will incorporate the historic Stockyard landmark at 901 2nd Avenue North near Germantown. The proposed "Broadstone Stockyard" apartment complex would be designed by Brock Hudgins Architects out of Atlanta. The committee includes a representative from the Metro Historical Commission. The developer will need to return to MDHA for approval of more detailed elements of the project. A previous proposal to redevelop the Stockyard property with a