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Police officer specializes in recognizing drivers under the influence of prescription drugs
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Most people associate a DWI with driving under the influence of alcohol. What many don't know, prescription drugs can also fall under that category. The Hot Springs Police Department has three drug recognition experts for those situations.
The signs on the road are the same.
"Left of center, no headlights, speeding, impeding traffic," Hot Springs Police Officer First Class Shawn Lowrey said.
This leads an officer to pull the person over. They'll first check for the smell of alcohol or marijuana then put them through a field sobriety test. Let's say this person does poorly on the test but there's no smell, and the breath test comes back zero.
"Then we can take them into custody," Lowrey said.
That's where Lowrey is brought in. He's a Drug Recognition Expert and is on call for these kinds of situations. He'll put you through the same sobriety test, plus a few more.
"Including finger to nose, and a balance test along with checking their pupil size, their blood pressure and their temperature and asking quite a bit of questions," Lowrey said.
From there, he's able to figure out what drug category the person is in. The two worst are Opiods and CNS Depressants. Officer Lowrey says what many people don't know is that these kinds of prescriptions can have the same or even worse effects than alcohol.
"It does affect your vision, your time, distance management," Lowrey said.
He wants to stress, it doesn't matter if you got it from your doctor or not, driving while intoxicated is still against the law.
Officer Lowrey is called in to help other law enforcement agencies with drug enforcement. He also teaches a DRE class to get other officers certified.https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/hot-springs-police-officer-specializes-in-recognizing-drivers-under-the-influence-of-prescription-drugs/
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Major League Baseball removes marijuana from the list of banned substances
Major League Baseball has removed marijuana from the list of Drugs of Abuse under its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The change occurred as a result of negotiations with the Major League Baseball Players Association.
Baseball will continue to test for opioids, fentanyl, cocaine, and synthetic THC.
Major League Baseball will now treat "marijuana-related conduct" in the same way that it treats "alcohol-related conduct," which presumably includes the penalties for driving a vehicle while under the influence.
This development will increase public pressure on the NFL to follow suit, but the NFL has shown no inclination to unilaterally remove marijuana from the substance-abuse policy. The league has pointed out, on numerous occasions, that it's a subject of collective bargaining. Which means that, if the NFL Players Association wants marijuana to be removed from the substance-abuse policy, the NFLPA needs to make a concession.
And the NFLPA won't. Because the NFLPA realizes that it's currently very easy to navigate the annual testing program under the substance-abuse policy. Only a small percentage of players end up being fined or suspended for marijuana use. A much larger percentage of players surely smoke all season long, knowing that if they simply stop by the middle of March (given that it takes roughly a month to clear the metabolites from the system) and refrain until the give their annual sample for testing (the testing window opens, coincidentally, on 4/20), they will have no problems.
Problems can still arise if players are arrested for marijuana possession in a state where it's illegal, or if a player is charged with driving under the influence of marijuana. Still, players who are smart and prudent can smoke for up to 11 months of the year, without incident.
For the NFLPA, the question becomes what it is worth to essentially gain the ability to smoke marijuana for an extra month? At this point, not nearly enough to get the NFL to agree to remove marijuana from the list of banned substances. https://sports.yahoo.com/major-league-baseball-removes-marijuana-214945092.html
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'That guy is a delinquent': police chief had own scandals before sergeant's arrest
Sergio Velázquez has kept a low-profile since becoming chief of police in Hialeah, Miami-Dade County's second-largest city, in 2012.
But that changed when FBI agents strode into department headquarters this month to arrest Jesús 'Jesse' Menocal Jr, a decorated Hialeah patrol sergeant. The scandal has thrust Velázquez — and his 2016 decision to put Menocal back on the street despite sexual assault allegations made by four women and underage girls — into an unwelcome spotlight.
It has also forced Velázquez to defend not only his handling of Menocal's case but his overall leadership of the department.
Velázquez, 56, never seemed destined for a role as chief.
After joining Hialeah's police force in the early 1990s, he committed a string of major disciplinary infractions, according to internal affairs documents obtained by the Miami Herald. Those violations might have normally derailed an ambitious officer's quest to become top cop.
In one instance, Velázquez's conduct was found so egregious that he became the subject of a criminal investigation by state prosecutors, leading Hialeah's police chief at the time to recommend that he be fired.
The incident happened in 2002 when Velázquez, then a sergeant, approached a woman who was being detained at a Hialeah police station for driving under the influence. She had been arrested by an officer under his supervision. Velázquez, on duty at the time, asked for her telephone number. He then began a romantic relationship with the woman, finding her an attorney, paying $1,000 in legal fees, visiting a Santeria reader with her to consult about her case and attending her arraignment in civilian clothes — essentially fighting an arrest made by his own department.
When paperwork from her arrest disappeared from the station, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office opened a criminal investigation into the future chief. But prosecutors could not determine that Velázquez or anyone else had tampered with evidence.
Still, an internal affairs investigation concluded Velázquez behaved improperly. The investigation led the department's then-chief, Rolando Bolaños, to recommend he should be fired. Only the intervention of the mayor, who instead handed Velázquez a 30-day suspension without pay, kept him on the force.
It wasn't the first or only time political pull and good fortune would save Velázquez's career.
Hialeah Police Chief Sergio Velázquez talked about his department's actions in the case of Sgt. Jesús Manuel Menocal Jr, 32, who was arrested after a federal grand jury in Miami, Florida, returned a two-count indictment against him for depriving two women of their civil rights. The news conference took place on Friday, December 13, 2019.
Now, former Hialeah mayor Raúl Martínez, who led the city between 1981 and 2005, says not firing Velázquez is one of his greatest regrets.
"I never, ever thought for a second that he would one day become the chief," Martínez told the Herald in a recent interview. "If he were to leave Hialeah and apply for the police chief's job in Palatka, I would say that guy is a delinquent."
Martínez said he suspended Velázquez without pay because he didn't want to fight the police union. "Your conduct in this case is entirely unacceptable," Martínez told Velázquez in a May 2004 memo. "Further infractions of this nature will result in termination."
Just a year later, Velázquez, by then a probationary lieutenant, got into serious trouble again after he was suspected of trumping up battery and cocaine charges in a domestic dispute as an off-duty favor to a family friend, records show. But instead of firing Velázquez, Martínez bumped him back down to sergeant, at the chief's recommendation.
The demotion didn't hold back his career for long.
Velázquez had a knack for making rank. He rose up through the department under Martínez's successor, Julio Robaina, who approved his promotion back to lieutenant in 2007. (Robaina said the internal affairs investigation into the domestic dispute had been flawed.)
And the future chief made an important friend and ally during his time in the ranks: Carlos Hernández, a police commander and city councilman who became Hialeah's mayor in 2011. Velázquez served with Hernández as a patrol officer and helped him on his political campaigns. In 2012, Hernández appointed his old buddy as chief. Velázquez had previously been the deputy chief.
Neither Velázquez nor Hernández responded to interview requests for this story.
Hialeah has a strong-mayor system where the mayor controls the police department, not a city manager.
"It's embarrassing that we couldn't handle the situation with Menocal and now the federal government had to step in," said Jesus Tundidor, a first-term Hialeah city councilman who beat a candidate backed by Hernández earlier this year. "I think the leadership of the department needs new blood, needs to be asked tough questions."
City of Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández leaves the chambers with City Police Chief Sergio Velázquez, during a City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.
Velázquez's current position reflects a city government with little culture of accountability. Few leaders in Hialeah past and present are free from taint.
Martínez, the mayor who didn't fire Velázquez? Acquitted of federal corruption charges in the 1990s after three trials. He also saw one of his victories in a mayoral election overturned after absentee ballot fraud. (He won a new election ordered by a judge.)
Bolaños, the ex-chief who allowed Velázquez to keep breaking departmental rules? Both his sons resigned as Hialeah police officers, one after an alleged on-duty beating and another after admitting that he did not disclose an auto-theft arrest when he applied to join the department. One of the sons was later convicted in a bank robbery.
Robaina, the mayor who promoted Velázquez back up the chain of command? He and his wife beat tax evasion and lying charges in federal court after prosecutors said they were operating a "shadow" banking business that offered loans at illegal and exorbitant interest rates. One of their customers was a convicted Ponzi schemer.
And Hernández, the current mayor who made Velázquez chief? The Miami-Dade ethics commission found he lied twice about high-interest loans he gave to the same Ponzi schemer. Hernández showed his contempt for the judgment by trying to pay a $4,000 county fine with 28 buckets full of pennies.
Bolaños and Robaina did not wish to comment.
Kenneth Harms, a former Miami chief of police, said Velázquez's blemished record revealed a "lack of integrity and willingness to violate the law" — qualities that he said made Velázquez ill-suited to run any police department, let alone one of Hialeah's size.
"He should have been terminated a long time ago instead of promoted," Harms said. "Why is the mayor still protecting him?"
'We don't cover up'
Velázquez says his tenure as chief has been a success.
Days after the Herald released its investigation on Menocal, the city posted a YouTube video about crime-fighting efforts at the Hialeah Police Department. The video offered a behind-the-scenes look at the department and its resources, and shows Velázquez speaking about a drop in crime since he took over.
"The majority of serious crimes we have in the city are done by people outside the city that come here to commit their crimes," he said in Spanish.
Under his leadership, the city's crime rate has fallen roughly 30 percent — nearly identical to the overall decline in crime in Miami-Dade County since 2012.
Before joining the force in Hialeah in 1992, Velázquez worked for the New York City Police Department and Bay Harbor Islands Police Department. By 2007, when he filed for personal bankruptcy, he was making more than $80,000 per year. He was still deep in the hole thanks to mortgage payments, car loans and credit card debt.
His fortunes turned after Hernández made him chief in 2012. Velázquez now makes $182,802, up from $119,596 when he started in that role, according to Hialeah city budgets. That's a bump of 52 percent. Budgeted salaries for police officers and trainees grew 4 percent over that same time.
Now, after FBI agents arrested Menocal on Dec. 13, Velázquez is coming under the most intense scrutiny of his career.
In 2015, four women said Menocal had sexually assaulted them while on duty. Two were minors, one just 14.
Despite sustaining an internal affairs complaint against Menocal, Velázquez did not discipline him. Instead, the chief returned Menocal to active duty even before state prosecutors decided not to charge him over the sexual assault allegations in the late summer of 2016. Velázquez then gave Menocal a raise and put him back on the SWAT team, records show.
But the Hialeah internal affairs investigation sustained by the chief had uncovered other troubling allegations about Menocal's behavior as a police officer, allegations that went beyond the scope of the sexual assaults.
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When an IA detective interviewed Jairo Escobedo, the boyfriend of one of Menocal's alleged sexual-assault victims, Escobedo described the sergeant as a menacing bully who used his power not only to enforce the law but break it, too.
In a 2015 sworn statement, Escobedo said that Menocal repeatedly told street-level criminals that if anyone ever "talked about all the crooked shit that he did to them," the sergeant would beat them up or plant contraband on them and take them to jail. He said Menocal made the pimps trafficking women in his district of Hialeah "snitch for money and drugs."
He often disparaged other Hialeah cops, according to Escobedo.
"He would tell all the police officers to get the f*** out [of] the area," Escobedo said. "He would tell other police officers to get the f*** out, to let him run the show. He would call police officers stupid, retarded, dumb f***s."
"But how do you know this?" the internal affairs detective asked him, according to the not previously reported interview.
"Because it was done in front of my face at one point in time," said Escobedo, who is now on probation after a 2017 conviction for marijuana dealing and has a long track record of arrests.
Escobedo also claimed that Menocal hunted down prostitutes as he patrolled the city, pressuring them to have sex and do drugs with him. Sometimes he gave them money, Escobedo said.
"He would tell them, 'Yo, you want to f***? … I got money. … You don't need to be out in these streets. … F*** your boyfriend. … He's a p***y' " Escobedo said. " 'Look, I'm a cop. I'm a sergeant. I got power.' "
"Everybody looks at the sergeant as a big pervert in the neighborhood on West 24 Avenue," he added.
One of the alleged victims was Escobedo's girlfriend. She was in her early 20s when Menocal is accused of sexually assaulting her sometime between January and March 2015, according to a federal indictment alleging that the law enforcement officer violated her civil rights, as well as those of a second woman.
"She was approached by Sergeant Menocal and forced into Sergeant Menocal's car," Escobedo recalled. "The truck, the police truck, that says Sergeant on the side."
Escobedo said Menocal took his girlfriend to a warehouse area in Hialeah. According to Escobedo, the sergeant told her: "This is where I take my bitches and f*** 'em. And my [girlfriend] stated to me that Sergeant Menocal forced — forcefully kissed her and forcefully made her touch — made her touch his genitals.
"And I don't know no more of the incident, because my [girlfriend] is reluctant to talk about it with me," he added. "She breaks down every time I bring it up."
Menocal, who was fired after his arrest, has pleaded not guilty.
"Jairo Escobedo has zero credibility," Menocal's attorney, Michael Grieco, said in an email. "He has been arrested 26 times (many involving Sgt. Menocal), is a 9-time convicted felon, is currently on probation for selling drugs near a school, and was twice charged in 2016 with beating up the same girlfriend he speaks of in his IA statement."
Velázquez says Menocal's alleged misconduct does not reflect poorly on his leadership or the performance of his department.
At a November news conference in response to the Herald's first story on Menocal, the chief defended his actions, saying he could not punish Menocal while the FBI was investigating. Policing experts and department sources have disputed that claim.
Records show Velázquez put Menocal on a desk after the initial allegations were made in June 2015 but returned him to the street in 2016 — and then kept him on active duty well into 2019, even though the FBI had been investigating the sergeant for two years by that point. (On Aug. 8, 2017, FBI agents interviewed family members of an alleged victim who had died when she fell or jumped from a moving car, according to a document obtained by the Herald.) The chief returned Menocal to a desk earlier this year, saying only that new information had been discovered.
"I want the public to know: Do not worry. We don't cover up for officers," Velázquez said.
Meanwhile, the city of Hialeah has still not made Velázquez's personnel or internal affairs files available to the Herald in response to public records requests dated Nov. 14. Reporters were able to obtain some of his internal affairs record from city sources. Velázquez's department has been criticized for a lack of transparency in other cases, including two fatal car crashes involving Hialeah police.
The city has also moved slowly in response to other public records requests from the Herald about Menocal and Velázquez.
On Nov. 19, the city clerk's office told reporters it would take three hours of work to review and redact certain emails sent or received by Velázquez and the mayor. More than a month later, the Herald is still waiting for the documents. It also took more than a month for the city to release internal affairs records relating to the sexual assault allegations against Menocal. The Herald obtained those records independently.
"All of this information should be available," said Harms, the former Miami chief. "It's a disservice to the community. They are trying to cover this up."
Hialeah police spokesman Lt. Eddie Rodriguez even refused to confirm to the Herald how much Velázquez makes in taxpayer-funded salary. When a reporter approached Rodriguez after a news conference to ask why he was failing to return phone calls or provide basic information, Rodriguez laughed and said he wanted to help but the chief wouldn't allow him to answer questions.
Police lieutenants in Hialeah make an average of $105,000, according to the city budget.
The city has not yet released Rodriguez's individual salary in response to a Nov. 20 records request.
'Sergio, a civilian'
Dating a suspect arrested by his officers wasn't the only questionable decision Velázquez made before becoming chief, his internal affairs file shows.
During a 2005 incident, internal affairs investigators found that Velázquez, then a lieutenant, had improperly intervened during a fight involving family friends and ordered an unlawful arrest — and then lied about his conduct and refused to provide evidence to investigators.
On May 16, 2005, officers Jorge Castillo and Luis Garrido responded to a disturbance call at a home in Hialeah. A fight had broken out between a man named Francisco Lopez and his stepdaughter's boyfriend, Jose Acosta. Lopez would later say that Acosta had pulled a machete out of his car and waved it at him.
After the officers responded, Lopez called Velázquez, who was off duty at the time and arrived at the house in plain clothes. Velázquez often visited and ate meals at the house. Lopez claimed that a small bag of cocaine had fallen out of Acosta's pocket while they fought, although there were no witnesses to the alleged incident. Lopez did not mention anything about the drugs until 20 minutes after the two officers arrived. He said he found the baggie on the ground while walking with Velázquez.
Velázquez ordered the officers to arrest Acosta on battery and cocaine possession charges, according to an internal affairs report. Within an hour, he had changed his mind, releasing Acosta at the urging of Lopez's stepdaughter, Cathy Bacallao, who was dating Acosta, according to the IA report.
One of the officers reported his concerns over what he called an "inappropriate" arrest to superiors. But Velázquez claimed the officers were lying about being ordered to arrest Acosta and that they had acted on their own authority. He said he had responded to the scene as "Sergio, a civilian," not as a police lieutenant.
But an internal affairs detective found that Velázquez had "involved himself in a scene of a criminal investigation while off duty, having a personal interest in the outcome of the investigation, which involved personal friends." The detective also noted that Velázquez refused to provide his cellphone and SunPass toll records and had "thus interfered with an internal affairs investigation."
Finally, the investigation revealed that a police report documenting the impounding of the cocaine had vanished — not the first time that had happened in a case involving Velázquez. "It is a fact there have been other reports which have become missing in status …. when Lieutenant Velázquez has been the subject officer under investigation," the IA probe noted.
After sustaining the internal affairs complaint, then-Police Chief Rolando Bolaños recommended that Velázquez be demoted to sergeant. Raúl Martínez, the mayor at the time, agreed. Velázquez lost his title as lieutenant and higher pay.
But two years later, Hialeah police re-evaluated the initial internal affairs report — at Velázquez's request — and found "certain questions of credibility" concerning the two officers involved in Acosta's 2005 arrest, according to a memo between Bolaños and Julio Robaina, Martínez's successor as mayor. As a result, Robaina reinstated Velázquez to lieutenant. (The city has not provided the Herald with a copy of the internal affairs re-evaluation, which was requested Dec. 3.)
Raúl Martínez is the former mayor of Hialeah.
Velázquez had been on internal affairs' radar even earlier.
On June 7, 1999, Velázquez, then a sergeant, left his post in his patrol car without authorization, investigators found. The reason? He wanted to go to Miami Beach to help his wife obtain a refund from a travel agency.
Velázquez was away from his job as a zone supervisor for more than three hours to take care of personal business.
Upon arriving at the travel agency, Velázquez and a Miami Beach police officer — both wearing their uniforms — entered the store. Velázquez claimed his wife's credit card was used by the Collins Avenue agency to pay for a trip without her permission, according to an internal affairs report.
The owner of New Age 2 Travel told investigators she believed the two officers were using their uniforms to intimidate her to obtain the refund, but said they did not threaten her. Investigators concluded Velázquez was not using his badge to extort a refund, but they did find that he failed to obtain the required permission of a patrol shift commander to leave his post.
As a result, the chief recommended suspending Velázquez for 20 hours.
A warning letter was placed in his file. https://news.yahoo.com/guy-delinquent-hialeah-police-chief-130000533.html
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Kentucky police arrest GM engineers street racing C8 Chevy Corvettes
Doing 120 mph in a 45 after leaving a bar is not a good idea
It is one of the purposes of youth to do things that can only be justified with the phrase, "We were young, what can I say?" Two GM engineers have allegedly given themselves an excellent opening to use that plea decades hence, after a Kentucky state trooper reportedly caught them street racing pre-production 2020 Chevrolet Corvettes down a city street in Bowling Green, Kentucky. WNKY reports that the incident occurred last Wednesday, January 8, the charges rung up including racing a motor vehicle on a public highway, reckless driving, and speeding 26 miles per hour or more over the speed limit. That last charge means a mandatory court hearing and a potential loss of license. The details laid out on the citation lead us to believe the two engineers could have more to worry about than a fine or needing to bum rides for a few months.
GM employee Alexander Thim, 27, does computer-aided engineering on induction and exhaust systems according to his LinkedIn page, while the same site lists Mark Derkatz, 30, as an electrical engineer. Both men are are temporarily in Bowling Green, home of the Corvette assembly plant, preparing America's sports car for its retail launch. Going by the description on the ticket, sometime after after leaving the Cue Time Cocktails and Billiards bar in Bowling Green in a trio of Corvettes — Thim in a red one, Derkatz in a white one, an unnamed third GM engineer in a blue one — two of the three decided to hit a back road called Lovers Lane to enjoy the fruits of their labors. On a street with a 45-mph speed limit, Thim allegedly hopped in the left lane and got clocked by radar doing 120 mph, Derkatz took the right lane and got clocked at 100 mph. The third engineer, heeding his good sense or a guardian angel, reportedly didn't participate in the race and was not cited.
It appears that police either knew something was up, or were merely intrigued by the sight of three of the country's most important and forbidden-fruit vehicles in patriotic color scheme tooling around on a school night. The report details troopers noticing the three Corvettes at 11:20 pm, then following them for at least a mile as the engineers made their way from the main road to Lovers Lane. Measured from the turn onto Lovers Lane, the police who made the stop were 1.5 miles down the road.
The worst bit is this line from the citation: "The odor of an alcoholic beverage was present on the breath of the operator. PBT detected presence of alcohol." The trooper didn't include names, but none of the three engineers were reportedly charged with driving under the influence.
Thim and Derkat were booked and released on $1,000 bail, and will need to deal with a pretrial conference on February 18. The cars were confiscated, towing services hauling them to an impound lot where a representative retrieved them the following day. When Automobile asked GM for comment, the automaker responded, "We are aware of an incident involving our test vehicles and are currently investigating. Safety remains our overriding priority at General Motors. We have no further comment at this time."
As an aside, seems one of the troopers did have time to comment. A Corvette Forum thread has popped up to run a full CSI routine on the incident, with member DebRedZR1 tracking down a snapchat photo of Thim's stop. The caption: "GM ain't gonna be happy with these engineers tomorrow." Which was probably true.
Immigrants can lose their green cards and face deportation if they make these mistakes
It is a long and laborious road to permanent U.S. residence, one that opens a broad spectrum of job possibilities and offers reassurances to immigrants who can then live and work legally in the United States.
But a green card, which leads to U.S. citizenship through naturalization, could be lost through mistakes, status abandonment or deportation orders by immigration judges.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) says these factors, whether intentional or accidental, could be construed as abandoning permanent residence status.
▪ Moving to another country with the intention of living there permanently.
Here are five USCIS changes that will impact legal immigrants in the U.S. in 2020
▪ Staying abroad for a prolonged period, without proof that the trip is for a short-term visit. The green card is automatically canceled if the trips abroad last more than one year, or if the immigrants take up residence in another country. In either case, USCIS recommends applying for permission to reenter the United States.
Read more: Here's what it takes for an immigrant to get a green card — and not lose it
▪ Failing to declare income to the Internal Revenue Service and state income tax authorities.
▪ Declaring "nonimmigrant" status on U.S. tax returns.
▪ Failing to register for the U.S. military's Selective Service System, if the immigrants are males between the ages of 18 and 25.
It's now faster for immigrants to help their relatives become U.S. residents. Here's how
U.S. laws also may cancel permanent residence if an immigration judge issues a final order of deportation because of serious crimes, including driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
A USCIS regulation put in place last year requires immigrants to appear before an immigration court if they have abused any program related to public benefits.
Read more: Immigrants facing deportation don't always have to leave the U.S. Here's what they can do
A person can be deported if there's evidence of "fraud or willful misrepresentation in connection with any official matter or application before a governmental agency," the policy memorandum notes.
A deportation order automatically cancels the green card.
Immigrants facing this scenario should seek legal help, because it is very difficult to regain permanent residence status once the green card has been canceled.
These are the five worst mistakes immigrants make when applying for U.S. citizenship
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) offers an online list of expert professionals licensed to practice law.
Some immigrants also decide to voluntarily abandon their permanent residence status and surrender their green cards, according to USCIS. https://news.yahoo.com/immigrants-lose-green-cards-face-183020694.html
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Lori Loughlin's Daughter Olivia Jade's Moved Out & was Spotted Out at Ikea Shopping for Her New Place
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Lori Loughlin really put her daughter, Olivia Jade, in a peculiar position with this college cheating scandal, paying a half million dollars to get her child into school. It's made her become enemy number 1 in the country and the poster child for selfishness and glut. And because of that outrage and backlash she's been facing, she's moved out of her mother's Bel-Air mansion.
"Olivia is doing well. What's going on with her parents is still upsetting to her, but she is also trying to focus on her own life as well," a source told People Magazine. "Her parents still face a lot of media attention. There is paparazzi at the family house every day. It's very stressful for everyone. Olivia has decided to move out for now. She doesn't want to be followed when she leaves her home."
In the process of it all she's lost a ton of endorsements, is trying to rebuild her brand and is looking to her friends to do so. "She wants to focus on rebuilding her business," the source said. "She spends time with friends and other vloggers that inspire her."
She was spotted out at IKEA this past Friday with her boyfriend Jackson Guthy picking up items for her new place. Dressed unsuspectingly in a tube top and sweats, she still wasn't able to evade the paparazzi. There's still the issue though of what she knew and when did she know it. The bribe included making Olivia a USC crew team member despite not being a crew member. Her mother even had her pose on rowing machines to say they were in the LA Marina Club team which does not exist. One would think at some point in the admissions process she would be asked about her time in this Marina Club which means her mother would have had to have at least briefed her on the lie. If this is so, we can expect an indictment coming with her name on it. And what is her mother's explanation for all of this? She says she didn't know that the money she paid would be going to bribery. For someone who didn't spend anymore than say 12 seconds on this, that might sound plausible, but just what did she think $500,000 would be going towards in a process that takes applications if not to operate as a bribe? Smh
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Samsung Working On A Galaxy Smartphone With Wraparound Display, Releasing In 2014 [Report]
By Ben Reid | November 16th, 2013
Whether you love or loathe the Korean electronics outfit's products, it's a fair assessment that the mobile world wouldn't be the same without Samsung. Tenacious and audacious in equal measure, the company seems to know no limits when it comes to experimenting with new technologies and ideas, and now Bloomberg is reporting that Samsung plans to release a smartphone with a wraparound display in 2014.
The Galaxy S and Galaxy Note range has underachieved this year in terms of sales, and as such, we've already heard rumors that the Galaxy S5 will be arriving a great deal earlier next year in order to compensate. It has also been said that the company's two marquee handsets will also include vastly improved cameras as Samsung looks to rejuvenate its brand amid the likes of the HTC One and Google Nexus 5.
But the wraparound display is a new one, and if true, would certainly crank up the interest-o-meter. As yet, it is uncertain whether this new panel will serve either the Galaxy S5 or Galaxy Note 4, or whether Sammy intends to launch a completely new device or product line to facilitate it, but in terms of reading, watching movies and general use, the viewing angles offered by such a display would be vastly improved.
Bloomberg's report goes on to state that no release date yet exists for the wraparound displaying handset, but if there is any substance to these claims, it will, in all likelihood, arrive during the second half of the calendar year.
Not all of Samsung's brainwaves have gone down well with consumers, but while many folks baulked at the idea of a phablet, the company's Galaxy Note has found a home among those looking for bigger and bolder. With that said, each new Galaxy S and Note device has seemed to crank up hardware while retaining the same kind of form factor, and while this tactic seemed to be working well, this year has shown that both devices could do with a little more edge and appeal.
Could a wraparound display be the answer to Samsung's problems? Would you consider the next-gen Galaxy or Note device more if it was included as a feature? Share your thoughts below!
(Source: Bloomberg)


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Day 9. Today we are going to bake some cakes.
1. Preheat the over to 180 (gas mark 4).
2. Place the butter, caster sugar and almond extract in a large bowl . Beat together until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs.
5. Spoon into the cupcake cases and then scatter the flaked almonds on top.
I am glad i managed to do some baking with Elle today. I just havent felt right this week. I started back at work on wednesday and did two full days. Its been such a shock to the system. I just havent felt right. I feel immense guilt. I dont want to leave the girls. I dont want them to go to nursery. I want to be there for them all the time. I know it is good to have your own space and your own time and life away from the children but i just dont want that and the fact that i am now having those two days at work is making me feel awful. More than anything, i just wish we were in a position where i could stay at home. Work is lovely and i like the people i work with but its not where i should be and i am struggling with this guilt. Guilt is the worst feeling. I just feel so happy being with the girls and being a homemaker.
When will this feeling ever go away?
p.s I am over at our footprints on the world today talking about my christmas.
It's always Great feeling when ever we can spend time with little ones. I'm sure it was special recipe from Elle. Lovely pics. Enjoy the season.


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La adafina es un cocido de garbanzos elaborado con carne de cordero. Es un plato muy popular entre los judíos sefarditas debido a que por tradición se elabora en una olla de barro durante la noche del viernes y se come durante el Shabat (Sábado en el judaísmo). Figura en algunas referencias antiguas; también denominado como Adefina, la palabra tiene como origen la palabra árabe dafīnah (الدفينة), que significa tesoro, enterrado o escondido. Se trata de un cocido que forma parte de un único plato que se sirve caliente.

Historia y literatura
La adefina era un cocido muy popular a comienzos del siglo XV en la cocina sefardí, y de esta forma se pueden encontrar numerosas referencias literarias españolas de la época como en la "Crónica de los Reyes Católicos" que Andrés Bernaldez menciona que: "Nunca perdieron en el comer la costumbre juadica de manjares y olleta adefina" en el que aparece una clara relación entre este plato y la cultura culinaria sefardí, en el Cancionero General en el que motejando de judío a Juan Poeta se dice:

La adefina se registra en los Cantares (copla 755) del Arcipreste de Hita mostrando el carácter sefardí:

Existen referencias en la La Lozana andaluza de Francisco Delicado y en el Libro de buen amor.

Características y formas de servido
Los ingredientes de la adafina deben ser kosher de acuerdo con las normas judaicas y por esta razón se incluyen los garbanzos acompañados de otros ingredientes como las alubias, arroz y la carne de cordero (tratada convenientemente a la manera kosher). Según receta puede contener cebollas, nabos y otras verduras que se suele condimentar con diversas especias: generalmente canela y clavo de olor. El recipiente empleado para la realización del potaje suele ser una olla de barro que antiguamente se dejaba junto al fogón mientras se cocinaba lentamente toda la noche del viernes (antes del Sabat) y parte del día siguiente.

La adafina se sirve caliente y tiene el denominado rito de los tres vuelcos (similar en otros cocidos) en el que primero se toma la sopa y posteriormente la carne y la verdura.

Variantes en otras gastronomías
Existen variantes en otras gastronomías, de las cuales posiblemente los cocidos judíos de cada país fueran un influencia. No obstante muchos de ellos contienen elementos no kosher y hace pensar que son variantes posteriores. todos ellos tienen en común ser tradicionales en sus respectivas comunidades:
  - En la cocina madrileña uno de los herederos de este plato es el Cocido madrileño, de la misma forma el puchero andaluz, la Olla podrida, Cocido morañego oCocido maragato de Castilla y León, el pote gallego y asturiano, etc.
  - El tradicional Pot au feu
  - En la cocina de Baja Sajonia el tradicional Steckrübeneintopf
  - Se sigue preparando una variante del mismo nombre, y con seguridad herencia de los españoles expulsados y refugiados allí.

Véase también
 Cholent - Un cocido de los judíos ashkenazi similar a la adafina
 Ful medames
 Slow Food

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 En The Food of Spain, de Claudia Roden.

Gastronomía sefardí
Gastronomía de Israel
Gastronomía de la Edad Media
Cocidos de España
Historia de la gastronomía de España
Platos de cordero
Platos con garbanzos

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Metal as Hell! Indeed! Fatality are a full throttle, thrash metal assault to the ears. Fatality hail from Ireland and are yet another band in the growing hordes of thrash metal purists. Ireland also offers up Gama Bomb, who also have a retro thrash metal sound. However, Fatality offer a tighter sound more influenced by the Bay Area bands of the late 80's. If these guys aren't fans of Death Angel, Testament, Exodus, Slayer, Forbidden and early Megadeth, I'd be surprised. However whereas many from the current crop of retro-thrash bands seem to lack individuality, Fatality offer a sound that is indeed have a quality sound that is immediately recognizable without sounding like a clone of any one particular band. What they share with bands like Evile, Fueled by Fire and Gama Bomb is the punk delivery of the songs. "Grifface" in particular stands out as a song that has that raw, punk delivery. Of course what would thrash be without speed? For the most part, the speed is there although it is intermixed with some small amounts of groove and mid-paced riffs. Personally I prefer for thrash bands to mix it up a bit like this. Speed for speeds sake can get tedious and boring after a while. Guitarists Tom Morrison and Steve Wilson offer up some fast and furious guitar solos.
One song that doesn't fit into the thrash metal mold is "Are You Ready to Rock?!", which is listed as a bonus track. This song is party anthem that sounds like it is a cover of an 80's band out of L.A. However, I believe this is an original song. It's actually a whole lot of fun and cool way to finish off the album. Bands like Nuclear Assault and Anthrax use to include oddball songs like this all the time and I always enjoyed them, and this song is no different.
The vocals are spat out rapidly with an arrogant hiss, much like a young Dave Mustaine or Mille Petrozza. Lyrical themes include fighting, gambling, and the current heavy metal scene.
It's amazing the quality that independent bands are releasing these days. Fatality's production is heavy and raw with every instrument clearly heard. They have obviously gone for a retro production soundl. "Metal as Hell" sounds as if it could have been recorded in the late 1980's at the height of thrash metal hysteria. Whereas many bands seem to have that digital, "recorded on Pro-Tools" sound, Fatality's "Metal as Hell" has a warmer, raw sound that works well for them. Actually, I'd love to have this release on vinyl. I bet it would sound even better.


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De Basketball Bundesliga — vaak afgekort tot BBL — is de hoogste Duitse competitie in het basketbal, bestaande uit achttien teams. Een BBL-seizoen bestaat uit een competitiedeel en afsluitende play-offs. Aan het eind van de competitie gaan de hoogste acht teams door naar de play-offs en de teams op de zeventiende en achttiende plaats degraderen naar een lagere competitie. De play-offs bestaan uit best of five-reeksen. Het winnende team in de finaleronde is de landskampioen van dat seizoen.

Naast de competitie doen alle BBL-teams mee om de Beker (BBL-Cup). Teams in de tweede divisie (Pro A of Pro B) of een lagere Regionalliga zijn ook gerechtigd om te spelen. Er worden altijd drie knock-outronden gespeeld voor de BBL-Cup. Als er meer teams uit de lagere divisies zich aanmelden dan er plekken zijn, zijn er extra kwalificatieronden voor ze. De laatste vier overgebleven teams strijden om de medailles in knock-outwedstrijden. Het team dat de gouden medaille wint is de winnaar van de beker.

Geschiedenis
Het nationale kampioenschap werd in Duitsland voor het eerst georganiseerd in 1939 en werd gewonnen door LSV Spandau. In 1944 werd vrijwel alle basketbalactiviteit gestopt vanwege het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In 1947 werd MTSV Schwabing München de eerste kampioen van het gespleten Duitsland na de oorlog. In 1964 besloot de Duitse basketbalbond tot de oprichting van een West-Duitse competitie bestaande uit een noordelijke en een zuidelijke afdeling, elk met tien teams.

Op 1 oktober 1966 begon het eerste team van de zogeheten Basketball Bundesliga. Vanaf het seizoen 1971/72 werden beide afdelingen teruggebracht tot acht teams. In 1975/76 werd de structuur van de competitie aangepast naar een eerste divisie van tien teams (1. Basketball Bundesliga) en een tweede divisie van twintig teams (2. Basketball Bundesliga). Alleen de tweede divisie werd gesplitst in een noordelijk en zuidelijke afdeling. In 1985 werd de eerste divisie vergroot tot twaalf teams. In 1988 werd de best-of-five voor het eerst gebruikt. Vanaf het seizoen 1995/96 bestond de eerste divisie uit 14 teams. De Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (BBL) werd opgericht in oktober 1996. De landelijke competities kregen hun eigen administratie binnen de bond in 1997. Sindsdien worden de tweede divisies onderhouden door de AG 2. Bundesliga terwijl de BBL verantwoordelijk is voor de eerste divisie. Twee jaar later werd een contract getekend tussen de BBL en de basketbalbond waarin de bond de rechten van evenementen en marketing voor 10 jaar overschreef naar de BBL, in ruil voor een ondersteuning voor de amateurs van 600.000 Duitse mark (306.775 euro). In het seizoen 2003/2004 werd de eerste divisie uitgebreid tot 16 teams en in 2006/2007 tot de huidige grootte van achttien teams. Het jaar erop werd de tweede divisie omgebouwd tot de Pro A- en Pro B-afdelingen.

Van 1994 tot 2001 heette de eerste divisie "Veltins Basketball Bundesliga" en tussen 2001 en 2003 "s.Oliver Basketball Bundesliga".

Bayer Giants Leverkusen is recordhouder met veertien landskampioenschappen. Vanaf 1997 won echter ALBA Berlin zeven titels op rij, en een achtste in 2008. Sinds de oprichting hebben 21 teams het kampioenschap gewonnen.

Zie ook
 Duits kampioenschap basketbal

Externe links
  Basketball Bundesliga
  Geschiedenis van de BBL

Basketbal in Duitsland


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Le drapeau d'Oman comporte une bande verticale rouge à la hampe, chargée en haut de l'emblème national d'Oman, et trois bandes horizontales blanche, rouge et verte.

Signification

 Le blanc représente la paix et la prospérité.
 Le rouge symbolise la lutte contre l'envahisseur.
 Le vert représente la fertilité du pays et sa montagne appelée Djebel Akhdar (montagne Verte).

Le pavillon de guerre
Une particularité du sultanat d'Oman : le pavillon des forces navales n'est pas un White Ensign mais un Blue Ensign.

Proportions

Le drapeau a été adopté le  avec les proportions britanniques (1:2). Une décision du  définit ainsi l'usage des différentes proportions :
  Drapeau national, 1:2
 Drapeau d'État, 4:7
 Drapeau de cérémonie, 5:7

Historique

Entre 1970 et 1995

Depuis 1995

Voir aussi
 Couleurs panarabes
 Galerie des drapeaux de pays arabes ou musulmans

Sources
 http://www.fotw.org

Oman
Oman
Symbole d'Oman


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Five Mammoth Remains Unearthed from 200,000-year-old 'Mammoth Graveyard' – Nature World News
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Archaeologists and palaeontologists were astonished after having uncovered remains of five mammoths from 200,000 years ago after an archaeological dig. The extensive remains unearthed from a mammoth 'graveyard' near Swindon were two adults, two juveniles and an infant, along with Neanderthal stone tools, who are likely to have hunted these trunked mammals.
The five bony remains in "an extraordinary state of preservation" were believed to have died during the last ice age at what is now a quarry in Swindon, a town in southwest England.
"Finding mammoth bones is always extraordinary, but finding ones that are so old and well preserved, and in such close proximity to Neanderthal stone tools is exceptional" said Lisa Westcott Wilkins, the co-founder of DigVentures, the crowdsourced archaeological outfit in the U.K. that led the excavation.
Alongside the mammoth remains were Neanderthal tools including a hand ax and small flint tools known as scrapers.
DigVentures had organized two field seasons in 2019 and 2020 to excavate the site where more ice age remnants were uncovered. Aside from mammoth remains, such as tusks, leg bones, ribs, and Steppe mammoth vertebrae, fossil hunters, Sally and Neville Hollingworth also found delicate beetle wings and fragile freshwater snail shells in the graveyard they discovered themselves.
According to the researchers, the site could be dated back to 220,000 to 210,000 years ago, toward the end of an interglacial, or warm period, when Neanderthals still inhabited Britain. However, Neanderthals moved farther south when temperatures dropped significantly.
In addition, they noted that the five individuals at the graveyard seem to have shrunk during the especially cold ice age, considering that early Steppe mammoths typically stands up to 13.1 feet (4 meters) high at the shoulders.
Since only a fraction of the vast site had been excavated, DigVentures expects to dug up more remains of prehistoric evidence at the gravel quarry.
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The team is looking forward to understand why many mammoths died at one spot and whether they were hunted or were their remains had been scavenged.
A BBC documentary "Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard" with evolutionary biologist Sir David Attenborough and Ben Garrod who joined filming on the site described the graveyard findings as "one of the most important discoveries in British palaeontology" and "incredibly rare".
"Where these mammoths lie in the ground is exactly where they died a quarter of a million years ago – next to incredible things like stone tools and the snails they trampled underfoot," said Garrod.
Duncan Wilson, the chief executive of Historic England, a British historical preservation body also said: "The findings have enormous value for understanding the human occupation of Britain, and the delicate environmental evidence recovered will also help us understand it in the context of past climate change.
"Through these finds and the research that will follow, we look forward to further light being shed on life in Britain 200,000 years ago."
DigVentures hope to continue excavations once further funds have been raised. Meanwhile, the site is now protected from fossil hunters by natural flooding.
Also read: Colossal 10-Foot-Long Sun Fish Swims by a Pair of Paddle-Boarders in Laguna, California
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