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Trial to Expose Radical Muslim Agents Embedded in U.S.
November 11, 2017 Editor 241
(Art Moore, WND) A former federal investigator enlists his son to infiltrate a Muslim front in the nation's capital that had routinely collaborated with the White House and federal law-enforcement agencies as a "civil rights" group.
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The daring undercover operation results in the capture of 12,000 pages of incriminating internal documents along with audio and video recordings, attracting the interest of the FBI and congressional investigators.
The evidence is compiled in one volume that draws the praise of a member of Congress who declares: "Now we have proof – from the secret documents that this investigative team has uncovered, coupled with the ones recently declassified by the FBI – that [radical Islamic] agents living among us have a plan in place, and they are successfully carrying out that subversive plan."But the Muslim front group, funded by wealthy Saudi donors and other foreign sources, files a lawsuit against the investigators, charging its "reputation" was damaged. Lacking any grounds to rebut the overwhelming evidence that it actually is a Muslim Brotherhood front, the group amends it complaint then prolongs the case through frivolous motions until finally, after eight years, a trial is set to be scheduled.
While it might sound like a Hollywood script, it's the true story of a WND Books co-author and his son who have been sued by the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations in a case that has moved to a trial likely to begin this fall in the nation's capital.
No defense
CAIR filed suit in 2009 against former Air Force special agent David Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, after their findings were published in "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America."
Serving as an intern, Chris Gaubatz gathered some 12,000 pages of documents that were headed for a shredder at CAIR's national office in Washington, just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol building. The information published in "Muslim Mafia," co-authored by David Gaubatz and investigative journalist Paul Sperry, demonstrated CAIR's connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, the group that spawned al-Qaida and Hamas and stated in writing its intent to put America under Islamic law and the authority of the Quran.
In the lawsuit, however, CAIR has never defended itself against the book's claims.
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The release of the book was kicked off with a Capitol Hill press conference in which several members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus cited the research in the book as a national security concern.
It was then-Republican Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina who hailed the book as proof of a "subversive plan" by the Muslim Brotherhood to, in the words of a Brotherhood document submitted in a terror-funding trial in which CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator, "destroy Western Civilization from within."
CAIR's motions in the "Muslim Mafia" case showed its aim was to squelch any further distribution of the documents and instill fear of the book among any potentially curious reporters.
Meanwhile, as attorneys representing the Gaubatzes were preparing to honor a court order to return documents obtained during operation, FBI agents served a warrant on a Washington, D.C., law office for the same documents, suggesting the agency wanted to see the papers and examine the recordings as part of its interest in CAIR and its Hamas terrorist links.
To defend its author, WND Books hired, among others, famed First Amendment defense attorney Martin Garbus, known for the Pentagon Papers case, and Daniel Horowitz, known for his high-profile clients and legal commentary on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
The legal team soon demonstrated that CAIR did not even legally exist as the Washington, D.C., corporation it claimed to be, operating a corporate "shell game," forcing CAIR to refile its lawsuit.
The FBI already had cut off ties to CAIR in January 2009 after the group was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case in Texas, the largest terrorism-finance case in U.S. history.
More than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes.
FBI wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case showed CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad was at an October 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in Philadelphia. CAIR, according to the evidence, was born out of a need to give a "media twinkle" to the Muslim leaders' agenda of supporting violent jihad abroad while slowly institutionalizing Islamic law in the U.S.
A federal judge later determined that the Justice Department provided "ample evidence" to designate CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, affirming the Muslim group had been involved in "a conspiracy to support Hamas."
In addition, CAIR leaders have made statements affirming the aim of establishing Islamic rule in the United States.
The Islamic organization long had accused WND and others of "smearing" the Muslim group by citing a newspaper account of CAIR founder Omar Ahmad telling Muslims in Northern California in 1998 that they were in America not to assimilate but to help assert Islam's rule over the country. But WND caught CAIR falsely claiming that it had contacted the paper and had "sought a retraction," insisting Ahmad never made the statement. Three years later, the issue arose again, and WND found CAIR still had not contacted the paper.
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper also has expressed a desire to replace the U.S. system of government with an Islamic state.
"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."
Media hijack
Horowitz told WND on Wednesday that despite being named by the United States as a co-conspirator to Hamas and being designated a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates, CAIR "continues to hijack the media, acting like they are a Muslim civil rights group."
"They filed this case in a jurisdiction very favorable to their group, and if they win, they will use the case to prove to the world that they are a legitimate group that represents American Muslims," he said. "If we win, they will be unmasked in a very public way."
Horowitz explained that the case has gone on so long because CAIR has hid under different corporate names "to obscure a lot of their wrongdoing."
"We had to petition the court to tie them down to their real identity," he said.
Also, Horowitz noted that the court shot down CAIR's claim that its reputation was damaged by an undercover investigation that alleged it was a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Horowitz has insisted that "exposing CAIR as a criminal organization does not give them the right to sue for being exposed in that manner."
"The case is a vendetta by CAIR against people who exposed their Muslim Brotherhood connection," he told WND in 2015. "They seem have unlimited foreign money, but we have an unlimited will to resist."
Horowitz said Wednesday that CAIR's tactics to prolong the case have included not cooperating with court orders to meet and confer.
"They have filed vicious personal attacks, once accusing me of being Islamophobic because I was 'David Horowitz,'" he said, referring to the widely cited conservative writer and activist who founded the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Horowitz said that at the trial, he expects to see complete exposure of CAIR's founding by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Evidence, he said, will trace CAIR's support for radical jihadists and its donations from foreign entities.
While CAIR repeatedly has denied it receives foreign support, the covert operation that produced "Muslim Mafia" obtained video footage that captured CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper boasting of his ability to bring in a half million dollars of "overseas money," including from Saudi Arabia.
The trial also will spotlight CAIR's post-9/11 solicitations of funds for 9/11 victims that actually went to Hamas-based groups, and its subversion of the FBI and law enforcement, employing, he said, "the Muslim civil rights persona the way a wolf wears sheep's clothing."
Horowitz cautioned that while CAIR doesn't have a case, the Saudi-funded group "can chill the First Amendment by making it so expensive to speak against them that no one can challenge them."
He warned that WND must continue to be vigilant: "In the end, CAIR can just keep getting more and more money from overseas and burn out opposition with lawsuits."
Legal fees paid by WND, besides those paid by insurance, total hundreds of thousands of dollars before the the trial.
"WND has carried the burden of these costs not because it is a party named in the lawsuit," explained Joseph Farah, founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND.
"Instead, we have done so because no one else stepped forward to do so – to defend the Gaubatzes personally, to take the fight to the Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR, to defend any attacks CAIR might direct toward the integrity of our book, "Muslim Mafia," and, more generally, to stand up for the First Amendment."
Free-speech defender
Along with Horowitz, WND has hired the legendary First Amendment lawyer Garbus, who has represented the likes of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Garbus, who has appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court along with trial and appellate courts in more than 100 cases, told WND in 2010 he sees the "Muslim Mafia" case as a "continuation of a struggle being carried out throughout the world" to guard freedom of speech.
"I think a book has a right to be out there, and any attempt to stop the book, I think, would be violating the First Amendment," he said.
Garbus has been in the thick of numerous groundbreaking and highly controversial First Amendment cases over the past five decades, from Daniel Ellsberg's battle over the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War and Lenny Bruce's famous obscenity charges to radio host Don Imus' lawsuit against CBS after he was fired for his remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
Other clients have included activist Cesar Chavez, actor Robert Redford, actor Al Pacino, director Spike Lee, writer Samuel Beckett and Czech playwright Vaclav Havel. Later, when Havel became president of the Czech Republic, Garbus was invited to help write the nation's constitution.
One of his many seminal cases was Ashton v. Kentucky, in which the Supreme Court ruled in 1966 that libel could no longer be criminally prosecuted.
Garbus believes Americans have an interest in exposure of the CAIR documents, because they are relevant to federal law enforcement officials' concerns about the group's ties to terrorist operatives that threaten the nation's security.
Garbus has said the Gaubatz lawsuit has similarities to his defense of legal author and CNN commentator Jeffrey Toobin, who allegedly violated a confidentiality agreement with Iran-Contra investigator Lawrence E. Walsh in the early 1990s when he published a book about his experience as a member of the prosecution team. Garbus won the case on First Amendment grounds.
'This book will shake you'
The highlights of "Muslim Mafia" include:
New evidence that CAIR was launched to support the Hamas terrorist group and has transferred tens of thousands of dollars to a group convicted as Hamas' top fundraising arm in the U.S. – money that ended up aiding terrorist attacks on Israelis and Americans;
Internal documents showing CAIR, despite claims of cooperating with law enforcement, actively works behind the scenes to mislead and deceive the FBI on behalf of terrorism suspects – and has even cultivated Muslim moles inside law enforcement who have tipped off FBI terror targets;
CAIR is more closely tied to al-Qaida than previously reported;
CAIR claims to represent all Muslim Americans; however, it has victimized some 100 indigent Muslims in a massive fraud and threatened them when they tried to go to the media; and internally, personnel complaints reveal CAIR discriminates against Shiite Muslims and Muslim women within its own headquarters;
CAIR and its sister fronts are funded by foreign Muslim Brotherhood sources;
CAIR leaders share the Muslim Brotherhood's ultimate goal to replace the U.S. Constitution with Shariah law:
The Muslim Brotherhood investment in corporate America will be used to pressure U.S. companies into compliance with Islamic principles.
The book has been praised by retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, who has played a role in almost every recent major American military operation, serving in Grenada, Somalia and Iraq.
"There's a recent book that came out called 'Muslim Mafia,'" he told a conference in 2010.
"Have any of you read this? Have any of you ever seen it? I encourage you to get this book – 'Muslim Mafia.' … This book will scare you. This book will open your eyes. This book will shake you. What this book says is frightening,"
Rogues gallery of terror-tied CAIR leaders
As former FBI agent Mike Rolf acknowledges in "Muslim Mafia," "CAIR has had a number of people in positions of power within the organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either been prosecuted or thrown out of the country." According to another FBI veteran familiar with cases involving CAIR officials, "Their offices have been a turnstile for terrorists and their supporters…"
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Tags: CAIR, Chris Gaubatz, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslim Brotherhood


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Die Reichsstadt Dinkelsbühl war ein reichsunmittelbares Territorium des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, dessen Eigenständigkeit sich während des 13. bis 14. Jahrhunderts in mehreren Entwicklungsschritten vollzogen hatte und das bis 1802/1803 existierte.

Geschichte

Die Anfänge der Stadtgeschichte
Die Stadtgründung von Dinkelsbühl war vor dem Jahr 1188 erfolgt, wobei eine am rechten Ufer der Wörnitz bereits bestehende Siedlung mit einbezogen worden war. Die Stadt war ein Teil des staufischen Hausbesitzes und konnte im Laufe des 13. Jahrhunderts eine weitgehende Selbstständigkeit gewinnen. Die Erlangung der vollständigen Reichsfreiheit begann mit der 1305 erfolgten Verleihung des Ulmer Stadtrechtes, setzte sich über die 1351 und 1355 zugestandene freie Richterwahl fort und fand mit der im Jahr 1398 erreichten Erlangung der Blutgerichtsbarkeit ihren Abschluss.

Spätes Mittelalter und frühe Neuzeit
Die Eigenständigkeit der Stadt war im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert zeitweise gefährdet, weil diese mehrfach an die Grafen von Oettingen verpfändet worden war. Die Anstrengungen der Oettinger Grafen sich in den Besitz der hoheitlichen Rechte über Dinkelsbühl zu setzen, konnten erst 1351 nachhaltig beseitigt werden. In diesem Jahr gelang es der Stadt, sich endgültig von der Pfandschaft freizukaufen. Die zweite Bedrohung für Dinkelsbühl waren die landgerichtlichen Forderungen, die die Markgrafen des hohenzollernschen Fürstentums Ansbach auf das Territorium der Reichsstadt erhoben. Dieser Konfliktherd konnte nie beseitigt werden und dauerte bis zum Ende des alten Reiches an. Vor allem aufgrund dieser Ansprüche wandte sich die Reichsstadt Dinkelsbühl dem Schwäbischen Reichskreis zu und war bei diesem immatrikuliert, obwohl sie viele Gemeinsamkeiten mit den fünf Reichsstädten des Fränkischen Reichskreises aufwies. Auf dem immerwährenden Reichstag war sie auf der schwäbischen Bank des Reichsstädtekollegiums vertreten.

Innere Entwicklung und Zeitalter der Reformation

Den Zünften gelang es im Jahr 1387 ihre Aufnahme in das Stadtregiment von Dinkelsbühl durchzusetzen. Die damit verbundenen Rechte wurden allerdings 1552 massiv beschnitten, als Kaiser Karls V. substantielle Änderungen in den Verfassungen der Reichsstädte vornahm.

Die Reformation konnte in Dinkelsbühl schon vor 1524 Einfluss gewinnen, erlitt allerdings durch den Deutschen Bauernkrieg zunächst einen erheblichen Rückschlag. Nach dem Jahr 1530 konnte die lutherische Lehre aber wieder an Boden gewinnen und 1548 wurde schließlich das Augsburger Interim eingeführt. Die damit verbundenen Regelungen wurden auch nach dem Augsburger Religionsfrieden von 1555 beibehalten und führten zu langanhaltenden Konflikten zwischen dem katholisch gebliebenem Rat der Stadt und den protestantischen Bürgern, die bis in das 18. Jahrhundert hinein andauerten.

Das Ende der Reichsstadt
Als Folge des Reichsdeputationshauptschlusses wurde die Reichsstadt 1802/1803 von Kurbaiern zwangsweise in Besitz genommen, aber schon 1804 im Rahmen eines Ausgleichsvertrages an das preußische Ansbach-Bayreuth übergeben. Zusammen mit dem gesamten Fürstentum Ansbach wurde sie durch den Preßburger Frieden und die Brünner Verträge 1805/1806 aber wieder vom neugebildeten Königreichs Baiern übernommen. Die westlich der heutigen bayerischen Landesgrenze gelegenen Gebiete fielen mit dem 1810 abgeschlossenem Grenzvertrag zwischen Bayern und Württemberg an das Königreich Württemberg und gehören heute zu Baden-Württemberg.

Territorialer Bestand
Die Bildung eines eigenen Territorialbesitzes war der Reichsstadt nur in Ansätzen gelungen. Ihr Territorium umfasste hauptsächlich ein um die Stadt gelegenes Kerngebiet, das sich von Wört im Südwesten bis zur Sulzach im Nordosten erstreckte. Dazu gehörte eine größere Exklave um den nördlich davon gelegenen Ort Tribur, sowie als Streubesitz noch einige kleinere Exklaven, die nordwestlich und südlich von Dinkelsbühl lagen. Die Landeshoheit über dieses Gebiet war allerdings nicht im modernen staatsrechtlichen Sinn eindeutig festgelegt, sondern bestand wie im alten Reich üblich aus einer Gemengelage verschiedenster Rechte. Diese waren unter anderem die Blutgerichtsbarkeit, die Niedergerichtsbarkeit außerhalb des Etters, die Kirchenhoheit, die Steuerhoheit und die Dorf- und Gemeindeherrschaft. Die größten Nachbarterritorien der Reichsstadt Dinkelsbühl waren das Fürstentum Ansbach im Norden und Nordosten, die Grafschaft Oettingen im Südosten und die Fürstpropstei Ellwangen im Südwesten.

Literatur

Einzelnachweise

!Reichsstadt
Dinkelsbuhl

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Conchetta is a bonita female here at JD's, an amazing deal of joy. She will produce some serious gorgeous puppies for us that will find wonderful homes very very quickly.
Here on Conchetta's page, you can see her very stout lineage. If you are considering owning an Olde English English Bulldog, then we hope you to take time to learn about this amazing breed. We love to share as much detail about our bulldogs and we are more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
Conchetta is a wonderful bulldog. She will produced some beautiful puppies for us here. If you are interested in owning one of her future amazing pups, you will have a sweet, loyal and amazing companion to share you and your families life with.


[easyazon-image align="center" asin="0929591739" locale="us" height="75" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61KviEmEq-L._SL75_.jpg" width="52"]If you are driving the scenic byway through Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah, Calf Creek Falls BLM campground is a nice resting place. While I have read from other campers that's it's not the ideal place to camp, I will tell you otherwise. We found a nice shady spot to park ourselves all day. My kids played and splashed in the creek for hours. The creek is very refreshing on hot days. My wife lounged by the creek with a nice book and rested most of the day. I consider this campground a little oasis in the desert.
The campground is primitive. It offers stove pipe outhouses and water. This is all I ever need. The less the better. More ammenities means more crowds. The BLM manages the campground. BLM and cheap camping are usually synomonous. Last time I camped there, it was less than $10. It's first come-first served. No reservations. Be there early as it usually fills up during thes summer months.
There is a lot of dispersed BLM camping in the area if you pull off on gravel roads. Travel at your own risk as the BLM wants to keep the area as primitive as possible. If you plan on dispersed camping, check with the local BLM office for specific rules and regulations. Never leave anything behind. No trace camping is the rule.
What really made the trip for me was the run to Lower Calf Creek Falls early in the morning. It's less than 3.5 miles each way, so I managed to run to the falls and back in less than 90 minutes. It's supposed to be a 90 minute walk each way. If you do the hike early in the morning, you avoid all the heat. The steep canyon walls shade you from any direct sunlight.
The colors of the canyon walls with the morning sunrise was beautiful. The evening sun set would have been equally as beautiful.
Bring your camera and pack some food and water. You will not be dissappointed with the hike. It's a moderate to difficult hike for most people. If you are in shape, it's easy.
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Шевче́нка — село в Україні, Вільнянському районі Запорізької області. Орган місцевого самоврядування — Тернівська сільська рада.

Площа села — 40 га. Кількість дворів — 43, кількість населення на 01.01.2007 р. — 103 чол.

Географія
Село Шевченко знаходиться на лівому березі річки Плоска Осокорівка, яка через 4 км впадає в річку Дніпро, нижче за течією на відстані 3,5 км розташоване село Тернівка, на протилежному березі — село Воронове (Синельниківський район).

Село розташоване за 40 км від районного центру, за 50 км від обласного центру. Найближча залізнична станція — Славгород-Південний (Дніпропетровська область) — знаходиться за 17 км від села.

Історія
Село утворилась наприкінці 1920-х років як хутір малий Поділ, пізніше одержало назву на честь видатного поета.

В 1917 році село входить до складу Української Народної Республіки.

Внаслідок поразки Перших визвольних змагань село надовго окуповане більшовицькими загарбниками.

В 1932-1933 селяни пережили сталінський геноцид.

З 24 серпня 1991 року село входить до складу незалежної України.

День села відзначається 23 вересня.

Джерела

 Матеріали Вільнянського районного краєзнавчого музею

Села Запорізької області
Населені пункти, названі на честь Тараса Шевченка


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NewsNational
False convictions leave communities to deal with the consequences
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File photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images

By: Isaac Wolf, Scripps News
Posted at 2:12 PM, Feb 09, 2015
It's an increasingly familiar scene. A man walks out of prison after spending years, often decades, serving time for a crime he didn't commit. The toll on the individual is obvious, but what about the cost to the community when the real killer roams freely?
Take the case of Matthew Macon. His confession to police in the summer of 2007 was extraordinary by any measure.
In just over four weeks, five women in Lansing, Michigan, had been bludgeoned, stabbed or choked to death. After police arrested Macon the day of the final attack, he admitted to all the killings plus a sixth assault in which the victim survived, and an unsolved homicide from 2004. Then he unloaded a bigger bombshell.
Macon confessed to the 2005 murder of Carolyn Kronenberg, a professor at Lansing Community College who had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled in her classroom. Another man, Claude McCollum, was serving a life sentence for the crime. With Macon's confession, a lab quickly matched his fingerprints to crime scene prints police had never tested.
Profound errors in that case underscore the toll for communities when law enforcers target innocent suspects, leaving criminals on the streets.
"If Matthew Macon had been on trial. . .my mother would be alive," says Carol Wood, a longtime Lansing City Council member whose mother, community activist Ruth Hallman, was first of the five women who died that summer in Macon's admitted killing spree.
"The consequences and cost to society in the long run is too great not to get it right."
The Lansing case isn't isolated. Across the country over four decades, at least 34 murders, 77 rapes and 33 other violent crimes were committed by criminals who remained free as others were blamed for their wrongdoing, according to a Scripps analysis of data from the Innocence Project. The real perpetrators can come to light when the innocent are cleared, and that's happening more frequently. Last year set a record with 125 exonerations.
In Los Angeles, a serial killer continued to prey on prostitutes into the late 1990s, killing six.
The culprit in a string of Dallas rapes went on to attack at least 14 women including in Texas and California.
And while an innocent man spent 27 years in prison for a series of 1984 sexual assaults in Richmond, Va., the real offender attacked three more women.
The mistakes that led Lansing police and prosecutors to zero in on a 27-year-old local drifter instead of Macon for the Kronenberg killing were numerous.
McCollum, who attended classes at the college and often slept where he could on campus, was there the morning of the murder and police questioned him as a potential witness.
He had been asleep in another building, he told police. The only way he could have killed the teacher is if he'd been sleepwalking, McCollum said.
That comment prompted campus police to lead McCollum into speculation about how the killing might have happened. Even though the scenarios he unspooled were inconsistent with the crime scene, police labeled his statement a "confession." No physical evidence connected him save one strand of purple fiber on his clothing that an expert witness testified might have come from Kronenberg's sweater.
As law enforcers settled on McCollum as their man, fingerprints collected at the scene went untested. Jurors never received security video evidence that proved McCollum was in another building at the time of the murder. Still, he was convicted and sentenced.
Macon also went to jail for a parole violation, but he was out again in June 2007.
He showed up at Ruth Hallman's door in the Genesee neighborhood one month later, the start of a killing spree the community is still struggling with seven years later.
Ruth Hallman. Courtesy Carol Wood
Few did more for neighbors in need than 76-year-old Hallman, who had lived in her west Lansing neighborhood for nearly 50 years and been president of its community association for decades.
She helped clean up crime and shut down drug traffickers while devoting enormous time to personally helping Genesee residents.
She took them to doctor appointments and the market. She picked up their prescriptions, and dropped off books and her homemade bread. Earlier that year she had received the city's Bea Christy Award for community contributions.
On her doorstep, Macon asked for lawn mowing work. He forced his way inside, knocked Hallman to the floor and demanded money. He rifled through her purse and a small cabinet for cash, and then discovered a hammer in the drawer of a table, according to his police statement.
"I hit her in the head. Boom," he said, describing three blows. "She tried to cover her head up and I hit her in the side of head like and it went in."
Hallman was discovered on her living room floor at 10:30 a.m. She died two days later. Over the next weeks, the body count rose.
On Aug. 7, police found the bloodied, beaten body of 36-year-old Deborah Cooke in a park about two miles away. Macon described her as a woman who threatened to reveal him as a killer and said he choked her to death.
Debra Renfors, 46, had just moved into a three-story Victorian about a mile from Ruth Hallman, according to a local news report. The home was the same one where Macon killed a woman in 2004, he later told police. On Aug. 9, he said, he killed Renfors there too.
In late August, three more women were attacked: Sandra Eichorn, a 64-year-old General Motors retiree who he brutally stabbed to death; Karen Delgado-Yates, a 41-year old nurse aide who he bludgeoned with a toilet tank lid; and Linda Chapel Jackson, the only woman known to have survived Macon's attacks that summer. As with Hallman, he approached her seeking work, then struck her on the head. Her dog scared him off and she called police.
Macon finally was arrested that day and his story came out. Prosecutors tried him only for the three final attacks, saying it was all they needed to lock him away for good. He is serving two life sentences.
Hazel Bethea, who took over as head of the Genesee Neighborhood Association, said she stopped going out at night after the killings and still doesn't like to.
"Everybody in the community -- especially the west side -- was afraid to go anywhere," she said.
Linde Tucker, the younger sister of Delgado-Yates, remains angry at the cost to her family and to the community.
"Where's the justice? Where's the law?" she said. If police and prosecutors had done their jobs, she said, these women wouldn't have been vulnerable. "He shouldn't have been a free man."
Videotapes proving the innocence of Claude McCollum, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. His attorney, Tom Wuori, argues the tapes should have been shown to the jury. Photo: Matt Anzur, Scripps News.
After Macon confessed, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said his goal was to determine if he'd put away an innocent man -- not figure out what had gone wrong with the fingerprints. And a mid-trial analysis of the videos casting doubt on McCollum's guilt "should have been brought to the judge's attention," Dunnings said.
The prosecutor's office now timestamps all case records from police, which are then shared with defendants. Dunnings says the McCollum case has become a textbook example in questioning job candidates on how they'd handle a similar situation.
"We're not having this again," Dunnings said.
The Lansing Community College police declined to comment about the mistakes, citing a settlement agreement with McCollum.
For Hallman's daughter, the sting of loss remains sharp. Since 1989, she had lived in the house next to her widowed mother.
"We became friends," Wood said. "It was great having my mother there to just pick up the phone. I'd walk in the door and there would be dinner or a book she picked up at a garage sale."
If not for Matthew Macon, she said, "Our lives would have been different. The community would have been different."
And what if police had run the fingerprints from the college crime scene in 2005 when they found them?
Scripps obtained a copy of the prints and asked Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University and author of books on biometrics, to run them against a database of 27,000 prints, including Macon's. Jain used the same type of method police would have used, and the answer came back quickly.
The top hit: Matthew Macon.
Scripps National Reporter Isaac Wolf can be reached at wolfi@shns.com

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The Big Bash – Sunday July 15th.
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Once again The Branch was involved with The Big Bash – the first one of Jim's reign.
As it should be, Jim went down a different track – the main fund-raiser was a 50/50 raffle, which raised £280. Three buckets went round the rec. asking people to have a go and buy a ticket, with the winner taking half the money raised. £140 – half the money – was won by Betty Cooper, with the Mayor pulling out the winning ticket.
What was good was the people who turned up to help. Beside the old hands like Derek, Stuart, Jim, Iain, Richard, Euan, Kieron, Reece and Bradley, we had a very good attendance of new members, such as Martin, Liz and three of her children, and later her husband and the rest of her family joined us.
Liz and her children put together a treasure game and a "guess the number of sweets in a bottle", which was very pleasing, but a lot of work for a poor return.
Jim made a "getting a football through one of two holes in a board". He ended up with the hump, as most of the youngsters managed it, he could not. When he tried, the ball nearly ended up in an ice cream van.
The sad thing was that despite a very good turn out from The Branch, we only raised a total of £184.00. However, it was not just us who suffered, as the rest of the stalls were hit, as was The Car Boot Sale.
What was good to see was the way all our members and the junior committee got on, had a laugh, and worked together. Our thanks is as warm as the weather was. Thank you all – it is very much appreciated.
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The Passenger by Ulrich Boschwitz: Story of a Jew fleeing the Nazi era
Written by Annabel Published on July 23, 2021 in Books, Reviews
I read the review of this novel, The Passenger, in the Sunday Times, and whilst it is a work of fiction, the story comes from the experiences of the author Ulrich Boschwitz, a German Jew who spent his short life moving countries because of the Nazis.
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
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Ulrich Boschwitz was the son of a Jewish businessman who died as a soldier in WWI the same year Boschwitz was born. Ulrich Boschwitz received a strictly Protestant upbringing from his mother, Martha Wolgast Boschwitz. During the Nazi era, Boschwitz emigrated to Sweden with his mother in 1935 after receiving a draft order from the Wehrmacht. From Sweden, he moved to Norway and in 1936 to France. In 1937/38, he stayed in Luxembourg, where he was expelled by the police and moved to Belgium. From there, he and his mother went on to England in 1939.
After the outbreak of WWII, they were interned as "enemy aliens" in a camp on the Isle of Man. After the British government decided to deport all male internees overseas, he was shipped to Sydney, Australia, on the HMT Dunera in the summer of 1940. From there, he was taken to a camp in New South Wales. On 29 October 1942, he was on the MV Abosso, which was torpedoed in the Atlantic by the German submarine U-575 and sank during his return trip to England. Boschwitz died at the age of 27.
More than 70 years later, the original German manuscript for The Passenger turned up in a Frankfurt archive, allowing an editor to revise the novel in line with instructions Boschwitz had conveyed in letters to his mother. It's the translation of that new text that Pushkin Press has lovingly published.
"There have been a number of great novels about the Second World War that have come to light again in recent times, most notably Suite Française and Alone in Berlin. I'm not sure that The Passenger might not be the greatest of them."
Now you might think that the author's story would overtake the novel; however, it does not.
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The Passenger is the story of Otto Silbermann, a Jewish businessman married to a Protestant who lives in Berlin. His world falls apart hours after Kristallnacht when the Brown Shirts storm his apartment as they round up all Jewish men. He is forced to flee, leaving his wife. However, where can he go? It is illegal to take money out of Germany, but you have to show you can support yourself when entering another country. He is suspicious, tense, feeling every German will ask for his papers and arrest him. He cannot believe it is the middle of the 20th century in Europe, and overnight he has become a fugitive without a home, his wife or any friends. The feeling of terror shouts out from each page; the moment Otto relaxes, a tsunami of fear overwhelms him.
"….I can sense how closely death is nipping at my heels. It's just a matter of being faster. If I stop I'll go under, I'll sink into the more. I simply have to run, run, run. When I think about it I've been running all my life. But then why is it so difficult all of a sudden, now that it's more necessary than before? Greater danger ought to bring greater strength, but instead it's paralyzing, if the first attempts to save yourself fall through."
Otto Silbermann – his thoughts on one of his many train journeys.
Many of the events in the novel can be linked to auto-biographical or familial experience, as can the despair and hopelessness that overcame Otto Silbermann in the wake of the November pogroms. Thus, Otto Silbermann mirrors the author's own inner turmoil.
This is a book that everyone should read. We know the horrors of the Holocaust during WWII, but for the 523,000 Jews living in Germany in 1933, this book tells a story specific to them.
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MIDLAND, TX (KWES) - The first ever Permian Basin Classic, Zack Glasscock Memorial Racquetball Tournament is coming to Midland May 3 and 4.
The tournament will be held in order to improve and raise awareness and education of mental health and addiction in the Permian Basin.
Proceeds from the tournament will benefit Cole's Grace Project, whose mission is to ease the financial burden of immediate family members who desire grief counseling services after the loss of a loved one due to suicide, or a sudden, or accidental death.
Zack Glasscock committed died in August 2018.
A week later, his family vowed to do something to help people in the community with the hopes another family does not have to suffer a tragic loss.
Statistics show that annually, about 40,000 people die in the United States from suicide and there are 1.5 times more suicides than homicides nationally, and one in ten high school students have attempted to take their life at one point.


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Explore a world of possibilities.
With a nearly matchless land-before-time quality to its majestic landscapes, Reunion Island tops the list of the world's most photogenic destinations. The tiny dot of land in the Indian Ocean packs a punch with its dizzying hiking trails, magnetic shoreline, stunning beaches, and a truly unique blend of cultures encompassing French, African, Creole, Malagasy, Chinese and Indian heritage.
From snowy mountains to the deep blue sea, the province of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia is home to some of the most varied natural landscapes in the country, offering possibilities for beach holidays, island hopping, Red Sea diving, mountaineering and, of course, sightseeing. The region holds some of the nation's highly treasured historic and archaeological sites, a rich heritage left behind by ancient civilisations of foregone eras.
Estes Park, Colorado
Located 90 miles northwest of Denver, Estes Park is located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. The mountain terrain and mild temperatures make ideal conditions for such outdoor activities as hiking, biking, rock climbing, camping and wildlife and bird watching. Estes Park is not just one vast wilderness, though. The city is also teeming with a multitude of dining and shopping experiences.
Often called the 21st arrondissement of Paris, Deauville has been the go-to destination for the upper crust of French society for decades. Today it is a spectacular seaside resort town sporting grand promenades, glamorous casinos, a pair of thoroughbred horse race tracks and plenty of chic visitors.
San Jose is California's third largest city and the tenth largest city in the United States. Deemed a "global city," San Jose is the Mecca of Silicon Valley: high-technology and electronics industries have brought significant tourism and attractions to the city. The city also boasts a great proximity to all of Northern California's areas of interest due to its position in the greater Santa Clara Valley. Over 300 days of sunshine and the kingdom-like panorama of the Santa Clara Mountains make San Jose a beautiful urban retreat.
Jewel of the verdant peninsula of Istria, Pula is the province's largest city and forms a dramatic gateway to the seductive, crystalline waters of the Adriatic. Situated at the southernmost tip of the area, which has come to be known as 'the new Tuscany' for its bright medieval hilltop towns and ancient ruins, Pula boasts a rich and varied cultural heritage. The city is bordered by national parks remarkable for their astounding unspoilt natural beauty and is celebrated for its wonderfully preserved Roman amphitheatre and forum, which form a dramatic backdrop for leisurely strolls from the old town to the coast.
Hoi An's momentum as a sought-after destination shows no signs of slowing down: visitor numbers nearly tippled in 2018, followed by the title of 'world's best city' being awarded to it by esteemed travel publications in 2019. Hoi An's UNESCO-listed Ancient Town is photogenic to a fault, with its collection of distinctive mustard-coloured colonial homes, intriguing food and quaint streets that remain traffic-free for much of the day drawing in cruise excursionists and backpackers alike.
Kilkenny, Ireland
Dunmore Cave
Dunmore Cave is located 10km from of Kilkenny City. History and geology blend here to give the visitor a unique learning experience. The cave has been known to man for many centuries and contains some of Ireland's finest calcite cave formations.
Kilkenny – a beautiful and ancient country where history, modern living and rich culture fuse together across an unspoiled landscape. The ancient medieval city of Kilkenny has protected its precious heritage whilst evolving as one of Ireland's most vibrant and enjoyable cities in which to stay. Its narrow slipways, side streets and preserved buildings, are matched only by its reputation for fine dining, great shopping, entertainment and accommodation.
Dunedin, on the rugged east coast of New Zealand's South Island, is a city of style and creativity. Officially founded in 1848 by the Free Church of Scotland, it's home to twenty five thousand students at the University of Otago, who mingle with the town's landed gentry to create an eclectic destination that enthrals all who pass through. Surrounded by a deep blue harbour on one side and rolling misty hills on the other, Dunedin's lush green dales and old world architecture pay tribute to the city's Scottish heritage.
The Blackbird Gallery
The Blackbird Gallery has been established in Kilkenny since 2004. It is one of Ireland's most prestigious commercial galleries showcasing the very best of Irish and international contemporary art.
The beauty of the image of Mojácar, a majestic melting pot of a cluster of white houses, clinging to the very end of the Sierra de Cabrera foothills, surprises us as soon as we arrive. Then, once we enter the maze of narrow and beautiful streets, every corner captivates us and shows us both the privacy of the past and the most beautiful horizons from the viewing points.
San Jose Earthquakes Soccer
Silicon Valley is home to the MLS's San Jose Earthquakes. Now finding home in a brand new stadium, Earthquakes soccer is always riveting and always the pride of San Jose. The MLS regular season runs from March until October, so check out the website for a schedule of the upcoming games and information on tickets.
Phan Boi Chau Street (Rue des Arts)
Formerly the main street of Hoi An's French Quarter, Phan Boi Chau is currently going through a renaissance: art galleries, exhibition spaces and sophisticated craft boutiques have opened here, bringing the street to the forefront of the town's cultural life. If you only have time for one gallery visit, make it the Precious Heritage Art Gallery Museum. Brainchild of the acclaimed travel photographer Réhahn, the space contains an exhibition of his finest work – photographs taken across Vietnam that seemingly lay bare the souls of their subjects – as well as an impressive collection of authentic garments worn by various ethnic groups across the country. There is a printed guide to the area's venues that can be picked up free of charge at many locations across town.
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of cultural and natural history. Employing multi-disciplinary methods of education, Rosicrucian teaches visitors about the complexities of past, present and future human relationships and endeavors. The research is collection-based, and the learning programs are collaborative and diverse. The architecture was modeled after the Temple of Amun at Karnak, and the museum boasts the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in western North America.
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MIT Portugal venture competition aims to connect innovators with investors
MIT Portugal
The ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Competition — launched by ISCTE-IUL in partnership with MIT School of Engineering, the Deshpande Center, and the MIT Sloan School of Management — aims to foster the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit in Portugal.
Open to anyone willing to register their company in Portugal, the high-visibility Venture Competition will help identify and reward global projects that are at an embryonic stage – projects with high-level technological content, or products or services that are able to demonstrate a highly innovative approach. Finalists from other national Portuguese competitions (e.g., CoHitec, Start, BES Inovação, EDP/Richard Branson, Audax) will be encouraged to participate.
To highlight growing areas of entrepreneurial activity, the Venture Competition begins with four tracks:
Sustainable Energy & Transportation systems: projects or companies related to energy and transportation with a focus on renewable energy and unexplored sources such as wave and tidal energy, as well as technologies in reducing waste and its treatment (ex. biochemical reactor technologies).
Life Sciences: projects or companies related to biotechnology, therapeutics, medical devices, biomaterials, healthcare IT, diagnostics and instrumentation.
Information Technology and the Web: IT or Web-enabled projects or companies focusing on making the lives of individuals and businesses easier.
Products and Services: projects or companies aiming at satisfying a broad array of consumer and business needs, ranging from new engineering materials and processes, to high-tech consumer applications.
Each of the four track finalists will be awarded up to 100,000 euros. The finalists will then compete during a televised event for an additional 100,000-euro award. During the Venture Phase, Track Finalist and Grand Finale awardees will benefit from the direction of Catalysts, and have an opportunity to double their award, for a total of up to a 1,000,000 euros in Track Finals, Grand Finale and Venture Phase awards.
Awardees will benefit from an interactive "go-to-market workshop" designed by Professor Fiona Murray, the Sarofim Family Career Development Professor, Sloan associate professor and associate director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center; and Dr. Luis Perez-Breva, research scientist – who are the co-faculty directors of MIT i-Teams.
The deadline for submissions is June 18, 2010.
The Venture Competition is an element of the MIT Portugal Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (IEI) –– a new component of the MIT Portugal Program. The initiative is a collaboration among the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), one of Portugal's leading business schools; the MIT Entrepreneurship Center; and MIT's School of Engineering.
ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute has been a major driving force behind such initiative alongside AUDAX, an associated center for entrepreneurship and family business support. Since its inception in 2005, AUDAX has trained many aspiring entrepreneurs, supported more than 200 projects (business plans, finance or advice) and contributed to the launch of more than 50 successful ventures across all sectors of the economy.
The IEI is led by ISCTE-IUL Professor José Paulo Esperança, Professor of Finance and Dean of International Relations at ISCTE-IUL, Founder and Chairman of the Audax Centre for Entrepreneurship; Professor Edward B. Roberts, David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management, Founder and Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center; and Professor Charles L. Cooney, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, and Founder and Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, and MIT Professor Daniel Roos, MIT Director of the MIT Portugal Program. José Estabil, IEI Program Director at MIT (jje@mit.edu) and Gonçalo Amorim, Project Director at Audax / ISCTE-IUL (goncalo.amorim@iscte.pt), oversee day-to-day activities.
More information about the IEI Venture Competition is available at http://www.mitportugal-iei.org.
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Goldman Sachs has identified 15 companies as likely candidates to declare special dividends before tax hikes go into effect at the start of 2013.
The list includes MasterCard Inc. (MA), Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN), and Stryker Corp. (SYK).
"A well capitalized corporate America, flush with cash, and a potential shift, regardless of party, in the tax rate higher in 2013 augur a wave of special dividend announcements, in our view," said analysts at Goldman Sachs in a report.
Goldman noted that gross cash among non-financial firms has risen 55% since the end of 2007 and total cash to enterprise value has increased to 9% from 6% during the same period.
The scheduled expiration of tax cuts at the end of the year, part of the so-called fiscal cliff, means that dividends are likely to be taxed as ordinary income in 2013 at a rate of up to 43.4% versus 15% currently, according to the analysts.
"The 2001/2003 tax cuts were originally set to expire at the end of 2010, though, after months of political negotiations, the rates were extended in the final weeks of that year. Indeed 2010, saw the highest number of one-time dividend announcements, more than double the run-rate of 2000-2011 period," they said.
In the last 12 years, 75% of companies that declared a special dividend outperformed the S&P 500 in the two days following. "The average outperformance over the two days and the 3 months following the announcement was 330 basis points and 380 basis points, respectively," said the analysts.
They also noted that historically, announcements for special dividends tend to be concentrated in the fourth quarter.
Companies flush with cash are also increasing their ordinary dividends. In the past week, 8 members of the S&P 500 have raised their dividends. In the S&P 500 as a whole, 403 companies are currently paying dividends, the highest number since November 1999, according to Howard Silverblatt, S&P senior index analyst.


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German Court Stops Pending Cannabis Cultivation Bid On Technical Fault
By Marguerite Arnold
The German cultivation bids sputtered to a halt in court as doctors, patients and companies call for no more delays.
In a move that seems to shed more doubt than certainty on domestic cannabis cultivation and the date that it will start auf Deutschland, the Higher Regional Court (or OLG) in Dusseldorf formally stopped the pending bid procedure for the first crop on March 28th. BfArM, the federal agency in charge of regulating all narcotic drugs, initiated that procurement bid. The tender bid was launched after the German Parliament and federal legislators changed the law last year to mandate that cannabis be available via prescription, and further that public health insurers were required to cover it.
That bid announcement was supposed to come as early as last September. Criticisms about the process and requirements began immediately thereafter. For starters, the bid's requirements excluded all German-only respondents to the bid and left both Canadian and Israeli firms in the front positions to obtain these valuable licenses. However, there were other gripes, including the fact that the amount of cannabis requested (about 6.6 tonnes) was far too low to even begin to meet real demand. Namely, there are easily 1 million German patients who could qualify for the drug.
In the space of the last year, in fact, the number of "official" German cannabinoid patients has shot up from 1,000 to about 15,000. That said, the top three covering insurers also report a mere 64% approval rate. This means that there are more doctors writing prescriptions than insurers are covering.
That, at least for patients and their advocates is a bit of good news despite the blow that any delay in domestic production has created. Doctor resistance to prescribing cannabinoids even when there are no other alternatives has been used as an excuse in many media reports for the speed of market development. That clearly is not true. The attitude on the ground in Deutschland is rapidly changing.
That bid announcement was supposed to come as early as last September. At that point, however,the agency was then forced to extend the response date, which it did, but apparently not for long enough.
Throughout the fall, it was impossible to understand, from any direction, what was going on. Four lawsuits against the bid were launched around September, each with differing complaints that ranged from criticizing the agency for the lack of extension and response time to monopolistic business practices.
The OLG dismissed all but the criticism about the extension.what this decision has done most clearly is slowed down the production of domestically grown medical cannabinoids
The one clear thing to come out of Düsseldorf? BfArM has been banned from awarding its contract to anyone to produce medical cannabis in Germany starting in 2019. The first letters to bid finalists announcing the bid had been canceledbegan arriving the day after the court's decision.
There have been rumors since last fall that the bid would end up in such waters. However,all the major producers widely suspected to have applied for the bid also began announcing themselves as finalists in press releases. For this reason, the official line from everyone that the bid was still, in fact, on track.
Nobody could understand why anyone would want or even be able to halt the production of direly needed, locally sourced, high-gradecannabis. That includes BfArM, which made an impassioned response, via their attorney to the OLG in Dusseldorf. Attorney Heike Dahs warned the court that any interruption of the bid was "very bad for the care of patients." He was similarly pessimistic about the ability to begin production domestically by the previously set 2019 deadline.
In fact, what this decision has done most clearly is slowed down the production of domestically grown medical cannabinoids (although potentially not by much) while giving officials at BfArM a rather nasty black eye that might yet lead to further legal action.
It also means that there will be another bid process. In the meantime, the ex-im market is, if anything, taking off.
This is a Shock And Opportunity – but not a Surprise
No matter the opinionated emails and IM'ing going on in several languages all over the world right now about the implications legally in the future, the major producers are all taking this in stride. And appear to be well positioned to respond.
According to Dr. Pierre Debs, the managing director of Spektrum Cannabis (the global medical brand of Canopy and based just south of Frankfurt), who responded to CannabisIndustryJournal a day after the court decision, the company is not affected by this development. "Spektrum has a steady and constant supply and we do not anticipate any problems supplying patients through their pharmacies," he says. Debs received the first German medical import license to bring Canadian cannabis into the country a mere two years ago and has continued to carve a leading path in the discussion across Europe. "In addition to our supply from Canopy Growth Corp, our partnership supply agreement with Alcaliber in Spain will see Spektrum importing sun-grown medical cannabis products starting towards the end of the summer," says Debs.
Dr. Pierre Debs, managing director of Spektrum Cannabis
Photo: ICBC, Berlin
But it is not just the big guys in the mix anymore. And there are many who see opportunityto a situation, which is frustrating."As the second-largest country by population in Europe and a leader within the EU, the German market represents a new frontier for the cannabis industry in general in the region," says Zlatko Keskovski, chief executive officer of NYSK Holdings, a Macedonian firm now in its second harvest of GMP-certified cannabis and holding EU export rights.
For such firms, even though NYSK is a surprise entrant to the conversation this year and outside the EU, the current situation represents an unbelievable chance to enter a market literally starving for qualifiedproduct. The firm is currently looking for German distributors who cannot access medical grade cannabinoids via other routes including attending the ICBC in Berlin in April. "This year's ICBC looks to be a seminal moment for NYSK," says Keskovski. "We have taken the appropriate steps to ensure our high-quality standards have led to products that our customers, and eventually patients, can rely on. We look forward to the chance to showcase our achievements that we've worked so hard for. The ICBC will also present us with the opportunity to meet with potential distributors and future partners."
German Patients are Going to be on the Front Lines of This Discussion
The difficulties that German patients have already faced in obtaining a drug that is now legal in their own country for medical use (and even for recreational purposes across an open border in Holland) are legion. While to a certain extent, German patients are in the same boat as patients elsewhere and their problems, in fact, there are still huge access issues that remain. For starters, the drug is much more expensive here, so those without health insurance approval face bills of about $3,000 per month. Why the eye-watering price? All medical grade cannabis is still imported, although increasingly this is now just via other EU countries, not just from Canada.
"One of the reasons we organized the national German Patient Roundtable is to give patients a voice in all of this supply and demand discussion and to help BfArM and others formulate workable solutions for all," responded Philip Cenedella IV when reached for a response by CIJ. Cenedella, an American expat and the organizer of the Roundtable, a nationally focussed, umbrella group that is kicking off its campaign this year, spoke for many who are far from court and boardrooms where the decisions are being made.
Philip Cenedella, pictured left, at the Deutsche Hanfverband (DHV) conference in Berlin last November.
Photo: @MedPayRx, Instagram
"While there are very talented firms who will now take up this discussion with the government and reissue a response for the tender, what we continue to see on the ground is that patients simply do not have the access granted them in the law which was passed over a year ago," Cenedella says, with more than a note of frustration. "We again are calling on all government officials, industry executives and patient advocates to band together to immediately establish workable protocols that directly help the patients."
Indeed, despite the frustration and delay, if not new costs and opportunities that this decision creates, one thing is very clear on the ground here. The current status quo is unacceptable. That alone should also put pressure on the powers that be to remedy the situation as quickly as possible. And via several routes, including widening import quotas or even issuing new licenses as a new solution to domestic cultivation is implemented.
"Patients are not being served and do not have access to a medicine that has been proven to improve lives," says Cenedella. "Our simple request is for BfArM to finally invite patients into their discussions, to work with patients to formulate workable cultivation and distribution solutions, and we humbly request that this happen now before they go down another dead-end road, ending in another court defeat, and resulting in even more delays to the patients that are still lacking the care afforded them by the German Federal Court's decision of 2017."
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Thank you for this in-depth article and the mention of our grass-roots, patient-focused organization here in Germany:
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Sant'Agostino is a Romanesque-style Roman Catholic church in central Fossombrone, region of Marche, Italy. The church was erected in the 14th century, and the facade still has the elements of late Romanesque architecture. The church was however refurbished in neoclassical style by Camillo Morigia in the early 1800s. The facade has the coat of arms of the Malatesta and a mortar and pestle insignia of a guild. The interior has a main altarpiece of a Nativity by Federico Zuccari. In addition, there is a Madonna and child with Saints by Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri in the second altar on the left. The church also has wooden icons of St Augustine and Santa Monica from the 17th century.

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After Retirement the P72s & P75s were scattered nation wide. Was there a disposition sheet? Anyone know of all locations? What cars were scrapped/ modified?
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What you talking about? Lots of P72-75 or whatever were turned into garbage cans. The farthest away I've seen them is in Florida.
not quite as a constructive answer as you normally post. This person was looking for some info. These cars were bought in bulk many years ago and scattered around the US and most of them (2700-2900 series) are actually still in tourist service. Granted, a LOT of them were scrapped, but the majority are still turning a wheel. Maybe someone in the "know" can provide deandremouse with an better answer.
We have 2705, 2929, and 2795 on the Blue Ridge Scenic RR.
2705 is still in its original configuration (although we removed 1/2 the seats to make more room for passengers), while 2929 and 2975 were converted to open-air coaches by removing the side windows/seats, and installing bench seats for the passengers.
Yeah, I was tired last night, so I really wasn't in the mood to post the info I know.
I figured as much. What info can you give us?
I've seen some as far west as Alamosa, CO before, I'm sure a few made it out to California too.
It has been almost 10 years (1999) since the C-3 bilevels first arrived and the MP72/75s removed from diesel service. One interesting thing about the MP72/75s is thrir design-it appears the 1970 Erie Lackawanna Comet I cars are similar. Both were built by Pullman and I wouldn't be surprised if the Comet I was derived from the MP72/75 design.
I don't really have alot of good data. I know one was turned into a chapel, but I don't really have good info on where alot went.
There are still quite a few stored in original condition (with the addition of grafitti galore) in the Waldorf, Maryland area. There are six visible on a siding on the western side of Route 301 in White Plains (just south of Waldorf), and about 30 (or so) at last check on a few spurs east of Route 301 just north of Route 228/Route 5 intersection (just east of the WalMart, behind the big Cheney Enterprises site).
Not sure if there are any plans to restore/sell/scrap them, but they've been sitting idle for quite a few years now. There was supposed to be a dinner train on the Indian Head Railroad trackage, and I think some of these old coaches were penciled in for that, but those plans died a few years ago.
I saw a post on Trainorders recently with photos I think was about these 6 cars. The plan is to scrap them, as they are all in bad shape.
MadManMoon wrote: There are still quite a few stored in original condition (with the addition of grafitti galore) in the Waldorf, Maryland area. There are six visible on a siding on the western side of Route 301 in White Plains (just south of Waldorf), and about 30 (or so) at last check on a few spurs east of Route 301 just north of Route 228/Route 5 intersection (just east of the WalMart, behind the big Cheney Enterprises site).
R36 Combine Coach wrote: It has been almost 10 years (1999) since the C-3 bilevels first arrived and the MP72/75s removed from diesel service. One interesting thing about the MP72/75s is thrir design-it appears the 1970 Erie Lackawanna Comet I cars are similar. Both were built by Pullman and I wouldn't be surprised if the Comet I was derived from the MP72/75 design.
In what way were they Comet I's similar to P-72s or MP-75s? The Comets had inboard-bearing Pioneer III type trucks with ASF unit tread brakes, like the M-1s/M-3s. They had low-level power operated doors to serve low-level platforms only. The engineer's seat and windshield were also low compared with standard cab cars. They had two flourescent lighting strips, each one next to one of the widely separated air conditioning slots, as opposed to the LIRR cars' center-of-the-ceiling flourescent light fixture and air conditioning vents located on either side of it. They were designed for 480 v.a.c HEP.
Also, you really can't group the LIRR's 72s and 75s together as they were quite different from one another.
P-72's and 75's are the new Boonton coaches, everyone has one and there usually rotting to bits.


This is what has been keeping me busy while the forum was down.
Still a work in progress but the basics are done.
I still have not decided on the legs or weather to add faux drawer fronts w handles to finish the table look.
Looks great. I'm assuming by the width it's a single driver cab? 8 or 10? What amp will you use? Did you drill the inner panels (and seal) for the driver wire?
One other question on the legs. Don't you need them to get the required 2" gap between the driver opening and the floor?
Hey, it actually looks like a table!
Single 10" driver & 15" panels, the minimum width for the 10" driver. I wanted it to look like a table and having the cabinet any deeper would just make it look like another box.
The panels were drilled and sealed for the wire throughfare.
When its finished i will do the testing with my Dayton 240 watt amp i use for the Tuba HT, more than enough power for these tuba's to rock the neighbors house.
That's the plan. It will look even better when the rest of the red oak is installed.
I will post my opinion between the Tuba HT and the Table Tuba sonic differences when i get a chance.
You might consider rounding the corners to reduce the pain of knee impacts when walking around the sub.
It looks pretty good. Looking forward to seeing the pix of it when it's finished.
Nice, Bill Fitzmaurice told me he uses a Table Tuba in HIS home.
He recomended one in my application also.
LOL my issue has been more breaking my toes on couch legs. Every piece of furniture now has to have legs set back.
I swear i have broken every toe on this couch i had for years, feel sorry for the couple i gave it to.
First coat of stain is on, i should have the sub finished this week.
Cant wait to hear it.
The Rust- Oleum Varathane finish is really bringing out the woodgrain on the red oak.
4 more coats of varathane, some sanding & glue on the drawer fronts and its done.


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Written by Wilma Zalabak
Because Israelite leaders were abusing their privileges God said he would judge between sheep and sheep and between sheep and goats. Both sheep and goats were important for Israelite sacrifices. Ezekiel 34
Psalm 100 has comforted millions. We are the sheep of his pasture. Compare Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd.
Jesus now has authority over every name that is named anywhere in the universe, any time in all time, in the world and in the church. That's a good side to be on. Ephesians 1:15-23
Though it's "all nations" who come before God, it's only sheep and goats in God's eyes,--no wolves or other predators. Does that indicate that God sees deeply into every soul and knows that a human's first impulse, to be enacted or repressed, is not predation but, instead, love? Matthew 25:31-46
Thoughts about Listening
I believe there's a higher power still in charge of things on earth, so I can learn to care and love with detachment from outcomes. Ezekiel 34
Curiosity and gratitude go a long way in building relationships. Psalm 100
Good to ponder what authority I side with at any point, whether it be a viewpoint I made up a long time ago to survive trauma, or whether it be government or a "higher power," whether it be conscious or unconscious. . . . Ephesians 1:15-23
Listen first, when trying to give to the hungry, the homeless, the imprisoned, the neglected. Matthew 25:31-46


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Eczema is an umbrella term for a group of diseases that result in the inflammation of the skin (atopic dermatitis or AD). According to the American Academy of Dermatology, AD is a common skin disease in children, affecting up to 20% (American Academy of Dermatology, 2018). Most kids grow out of the disease, but somewhere between 10 and 30% do not (Eichenfield et al., 2014).
AD is characterized by red, dry and chronic inflammation of the skin which leads to or worsens the skin barrier impairment. A dysfunctional skin and anti‐microbial barrier provides a feasible route for microorganisms to come into contact with our immune system (Thomas et al., 2017). Although, AD was initially thought to be an intrinsic immune system abnormality, investigation into the microbiome is increasingly drawing attention to a relationship present between a microbial imbalance and AD (Thomas et al., 2017).
Enshi Zhang and collaborates did a study in 2011 that addressed the relationship between pathological conditions and skin microbiota in AD patients. They asked, how does the skin fungal microbiota compare between mild, moderate, or sever AD patients and healthy individuals?
They found that Malassezia was the major microorganism of the skin microbiota in both patients and healthy individuals. Malassezia is a yeast that constitutes most of the fungal microbiota of healthy human skin, however Malassezia may cause or worsen AD symptoms. The authors found a higher proportion of Malassezia in healthy individuals compared with AD patients (around 80% compared to 70%). Yeasts other than Malassezia were more diverse in the patients with AD compared to the healthy individuals.
Patients with mild or moderate symptoms tended to have similar fungal communities whereas patients with severe symptoms were separated into different groupings. Similarly, the healthy individuals were separated into another group. These finding suggests that the fungal microbiota of the skin varies within patients of the same disease according to the disease severity.
The authors discuss that differences in microbiota might be due to the physical condition of the skin, such as pH. Healthy skin is weakly acidic, whereas patients with AD have neutral pH skin. This less harsh pH facilitates the invasion of external microorganisms, including Staphylococcus aureus. S. aureus is believed to be a trigger for AD due to its increased colonization with severity. Staphylococcus epidermidis, on the other hand, decreases with increase severity of AD. This is suggested by the weighted presence of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis.
Additionally the authors discuss how the amount of antimicrobial enzymes may also affect fungal microbiota. Antimicrobial enzymes are produced in healthy skin to inhibit pathogen growth. However, patients with AD are unable to efficiently produce these enzymes, allowing pathogens to colonize the skin that would typically be exterminated. This may explain in part why the fungal microbiota of these patients is different from that of healthy individuals.
This raises the question that if the antimicrobial enzymatic activity in sweat is restored will symptoms of eczema be reduced? Dermcidin, an antimicrobial protein, is continuously expressed in sweat glands and secreted in sweat. Rieg and collaborators found that AD patients have a reduced output of dermcidin which contributes to their compromised innate skin defense and altered skin colonization. Sweating in healthy patients results in a reduction of viable bacterial cells on the skin's surface; perhaps a cream that contains dermcidin can be used to imitate the release of the protein by sweating (Reig, 2005). I would suggest a study that observes if this cream treatment would reduce the severity of eczema symptoms by targeting the microbial community present. In my proposed study there would be two treatment groups (dermcidin containing cream and plain cream) that would be applied to healthy individuals and AD patients with mild, moderate and severe eczema. The overall goal of this experiment is to observe a shift in the relative abundance of the microbial communities of AD patients towards that of healthy individuals.
Another question that comes to mind is how does the application of steroids, a typical treatment for eczema, affect the skin microbiota? Zhang et al. mention that their AD patients were treated with medium to strong steroid ointments but avoided daily skin care in their study of skin fungal characterization. I believe further testing on AD patients regarding the effect of steroids of varying strengths would be a good study to follow up their experiment.
If you would like more background on eczema I suggest this short YouTube video by 'Osmosis' explaining the causes, symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of eczema (AD).
If you are interested in reading more on how the microbial colonization of AD skin is influenced by reduced production of antimicrobial peptides in sweat perhaps give "The role of microorganisms in atopic dermatitis" paper by Baker (2006) a try. For more information on the role of Staphylococcus aureus and other bacteria and fungi within the skin microbiome perhaps try reading "The microbiome and atopic eczema" by Thomas and Fernández‐Peñas (2017).
Rieg, S., Steffen, H., Seeber, S., Humeny, A., Kalbacher, H., Dietz, K., … & Schittek, B. (2005). Deficiency of dermcidin-derived antimicrobial peptides in sweat of patients with atopic dermatitis correlates with an impaired innate defense of human skin in vivo. The Journal of Immunology, 174(12), 8003-8010.
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7. Dust texture plate with baby powder and press clay over desired area. Run the plastic plate with clay attached through machine at #1 setting.
8. Carefully lift clay without stretching it, and gently brush away any excess powder with slightly moist paintbrush. Slide clay sheet into a plastic ziploc bag to prevent drying.
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3. Cut a small handle and glue in center of lid. Allow to dry completely. Option: You may wish to paint areas (under the lid rim, box bottom and inside) later for a finished look using acrylic paint.
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Jaundiced and judicious, deeply cynical yet not quite ready to leap into the abyss, Joker is a provocatively toxic time capsule for an era of misguided rage. It's galling, and pretty great. Don't laugh.
For Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), laughter is a curse. Arthur suffers from something like pseudobulbar affect, a condition which makes it seem as if his emotions are on the fritz. He cackles uncontrollably in serious situations—especially when things are tense or he's nervous. We first see him looking into a mirror, aggressively trying to form his face into the "appropriate" expression with his fingers, as if his skin was made of Silly Putty. Everyone else seems to manage their emotions so easily; why can't he?
Arthur's frail mother (Frances Conroy) claims that his laughing means he was meant to bring joy into the world. But his awkward appearances as a clown for hire and his disastrous attempts at stand-up comedy suggest otherwise. Even in the audience, Arthur can't laugh correctly. When he reads (or more often misreads) the social cues around him and tries to join in with others' laughter, he unleashes a harsh, forced caw that gets uncannily cut short. As he did in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Phoenix employs physicality to convey an internal brokenness, a man whose wires seem to be crossed. (The wayward strings in Hildur Guðnadottir's terrific score, which seemingly swerve when they should be holding still, provide an audible variation of what we see on Arthur's face.)
In Joker, Arthur's plight is at once personal and corporate. Outside the dingy apartment Arthur shares with his mother, a garbage strike has left filth piling in the streets and led to "super rats" breeding in the alleys. Wealth is concentrating among the few—including Thomas Wayne (Brett Cullen), who dismisses those demonstrating against class inequality as "clowns" and pledges to run as mayor in order to clean things up. At the same time, funding is cut for social programs like the one keeping Arthur in therapy and under medication. "It is certainly tense," his social worker tells him. And this is before her department is shut down, just one of the dominos that leads to Arthur's fall into criminal madness, his giving over to the persona from which the movie gets its name. In Tim Burton's Batman, Jack Nicholson's Joker arose from a vat of burbling green chemicals. Phoenix's clown crawls out of an existential stew, one more specific but also diffuse, in which untreated mental illness, disenfranchisement of various kinds, easy access to guns, and the failure of institutions swirl about and eventually bubble over in violent fits of horrific, self-justified anger.
Phoenix's performance is the centrifugal force of the movie, and not just because of what he does with his face. Limbs askew and limp hair flailing, he runs down alleys and hallways as if he's wearing clown shoes, even when he's not. There's an arresting moment, after he's committed his first act of violence while defending himself against a trio of abusive bros on a subway car, in which Arthur hides in a public restroom and begins performing something like tai chi. Perhaps he learned it in therapy, as a form of relaxation, but when he sees himself in the mirror he begins to morph his movements into a form of dance. It may be the first time in his life that Arthur has actually "won." No longer seeing himself as a victim in need of healing, he begins to perform the part of triumphant entertainer.
Director Todd Phillips, who wrote the script with Scott Silver, gives Phoenix's performance a fitting frame. It's not just the dankness of the cinematography (though Lawrence Sher does lend the film a fetid glow); it's also the oppressive mise en scene. There is a long, tall series of steps leading from one Gotham street to another that appears a few times in the film. The first time they're featured, we see Arthur climbing up toward the camera at the top; though he's rising, the drab buildings on either side—and the similarly gray architecture across the horizon behind him—make him appear trapped. He can't escape his own, or Gotham's, desolation. Emphasizing Phoenix's angular frame, Phillips often places him within tight hallways where the walls seem ready to squish him. There are two striking establishing shots—one in which Arthur is sitting outside a hospital and another where he enters the Arkham psychiatric facility—and the buildings loom over him, more institutions that are supposed to aid but instead oppress.
Does all of this make Arthur too sympathetic, too much a victim rather than a villain? A look at David Fincher's Fight Club might be instructive here. Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, two Martin Scorsese films about disturbed, self-pitying men who turn violent, are clear influences on Joker (made obvious in casting Robert De Niro as a late-night talk show host Arthur idolizes), but it's Fight Club that's the more compelling parallel. Like Arthur, Edward Norton's Narrator is an angry, unstable loner who has some legitimate gripes, but also addresses them with disproportionate means when he meets seductive anarchist Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. Like Joker, Fight Club was criticized upon its release for glamorizing antisocial behavior; now it's seen as slyly subversive, even prophetic—a dramatization of the consumer society we're currently drowning in.
I'd argue Arthur Fleck is a far less slippery character than Tyler Durden. Durden's appeal is obvious: he's powerful, catnip for women, and couldn't care less what anyone thinks. Oh, and did I mention he's played by Abs Pitt? In comparison, it's hard to imagine anyone wanting to be Arthur Fleck: scrawny, rejected, unfunny, awkward. And the movie, at key points, undermines him. There's a telling moment where Arthur tries to tell off two police officers, and while walking away he runs into the glass of an automatic door that fails to slide open. Even the sole act of violence in the film that could possibly be construed as justified—his shooting of those subway bullies—is clumsily executed, with Arthur slipping and fumbling with the gun, a depiction of chaotic clumsiness rather than cool violence. (It's also worth noting that those bullies initially target a woman, but Arthur does nothing. She has to save herself.)
Let's also consider a later scene that takes place on those outdoor steps. Arthur has gone full Joker by now, and for a few seconds the movie puts us in his wobbly head. This time we see Arthur from the bottom of the stairs, looking up. He stands at the top, the sun blazing behind him, and begins dancing his way down to the sound of Gary Glitter's cheesy and carnivalesque "Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2)." For Joker, this is a mountaintop moment, but the movie cuts it short: two cops appear at the top of the stairs, the music stops, and he goofily scrambles away. Keep in mind his direction, as well. Joker may feel exultant, but we're literally watching him descend further into Gotham's pit.
A distinction between Joker and Fight Club is that Fight Club is a satire, with soulless consumerism as its target. Joker doesn't have that much ambition, which is one of the reasons Fight Club is the more potent work of art. Yet Joker nevertheless captures the volatile mood of our current moment, which is a boiling cauldron of its own. Everyone is outraged for different reasons, one sense of disenfranchisement competes with another, and the institutions that should provide stability only seem to foment the distress. "All I have are negative thoughts," Arthur tells his social worker. These days, that seems to be all anyone has, including about Joker.
There's something apropos in the fact that a film so attuned to the temperament of 2019 comes from a comic-book source. The discourse around such properties is often a variation on the vitriol in which Joker swims. What I'm left with after watching Joker is admiration for a movie that so artfully captures such societal turbulence, even as it also reminds us that violence will always be insanity—whether justified or unjustified, regretful or gleeful, the act of a superhero or the whim of a clown.


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What is Email Spam Filter?
An Email Spam Filter is a software that detects unwanted or unsolicited emails, and prevents them from getting into the user's inbox. Email spam filter works on certain criteria for its filtering judgement, which is usually based on the particular words that have been categorized as spam.
SpamExperts is an enterprise grade anti-spam solution that helps you to get rid of spam and other related threats that are constantly congesting your inboxes.
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