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Nick Carter talks 'emotional' performance one day after Aaron Carter's death
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By Rachel Ulatowski
Nick Carter recalled getting emotional while performing with the Backstreet Boys the day after his brother, Aaron Carter, passed away. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/S_bukley/AdMedia
Backstreet Boys singer, Nick Carter, opened up about performing on stage shortly after his brother, Aaron Carter, passed away. In an interview on December 2, Nick revealed that it was emotional for him to get back on stage after Aaron passed away on November 5.
He explained that he broke down in tears after one of the Backstreet Boys' U.K. concerts. The band had honored Aaron during the performance, and everything about it was quite emotional for Nick.
He admitted that he didn't know what to expect when getting back on stage. After experiencing such a sudden and devastating loss, it was "tough" for the singer to get on stage again.
However, Nick decided to perform anyways because, "There's the old saying the show must go on, that's been with us for years." Even with that sentiment, though, he was unsure of his decision.
In the end, though, the reaction he received from fans was one of never-ending support. It was emotional for him to experience their reaction of support, and it "meant a lot" to him.
In addition to the fans' support, he was also grateful for the support of his fellow band members, who were there for him and helped him to honor Aaron.
Nick Carter on band's support after Aaron Carter's passing
The Backstreet Boys were especially helpful in supporting Nick after Aaron's passing. As the host of Extra stated, it was very "important" that Nick had the band with him during that emotional performance.
After all, the band has been together for almost 30 years now and has truly become a family. Meanwhile, their fans are also a big part of what keeps them going and has allowed them to have such a long-lived career.
A.J. McLean, in trying to capture the nature of the Backstreet Boys fanbase could only state, "BSB army, man."
Nick has been keeping busy with the Backstreet Boys in the weeks following his brother's passing. They just recently wrapped up their U.K. tour and then jumped into promoting their new Christmas album.
A Very Backstreet Boys Christmas was released on October 14 and marked the band's very first Christmas album. With the Christmas holiday drawing closer, they have been ramping up their efforts to promote the new release.
On December 14, they'll be hosting a holiday special feature on Disney+. During the feature, they'll share songs from their Christmas album, as well as some of their other biggest hits.
Nick penned a heartfelt tribute to Aaron
A day after Aaron passed away, Nick took to social media to pay tribute to his younger brother. The two brothers were both musicians though Nick was five years older than Aaron.
Nick admitted that he and Aaron had a complicated relationship. Aaron had a strained relationship with several of his siblings and had made various allegations of abuse against them.
Due to Aaron's erratic behavior and threats of violence, Nick filed a restraining order against him in 2019. However, despite all of that, Nick reiterated that he never stopped loving his brother.
He also expressed how he had hoped that his brother would get help and lead a healthier life down the line. Nick blamed addiction and mental illness for Aaron's passing, calling it "the real villain."
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The touching tribute was paired with several sweet photos of Nick and Aaron when they were kids. It also ended in a heartbreaking plea to god to take care of his "baby brother."
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Stars offer heartfelt lockdown 'thank you' to Childline volunteers
Volunteers from NSPCC Cymru across Wales, one of our key partner charities, were surprised during Volunteers Week (June 1-7) with messages of thanks from celebrities impressed by their resilience during lockdown enabling the charity to still be here for children.
Stars from Wales Rugby recorded video messages of thanks, whilst Only Men Aloud recorded a song during lockdown to thank volunteers helping to provide a vital lifeline for young people.
Childline volunteers continue to support children and young people struggling to cope with the substantial problems the Coronavirus pandemic has presented, whilst the charity's fundraising volunteers have pushed hard to help bridge a funding shortfall.
More than half of all counselling sessions delivered by Childline volunteers to children in Wales during April related to mental health, suicidal thoughts and feelings and self-harm.
The eight members of Only Men Aloud made home recordings of the Jess Glynne hit 'I'll be there', creating a video for NSPCC Cymru volunteers.
Baritone Craig Yates said: "Through this Coronavirus pandemic, we were made aware that Childline had experienced an increased demand for its service.
"The Childline supervisors and volunteer counsellors have all been working continually, with a reduced workforce, to be there when children and young people in Wales need them most.
"We thought the words of this Jess Glynne song sum up perfectly what these incredible people feel for those most vulnerable, and from all of us in Only Men Aloud we wanted to give a huge thank you to them for everything they do and have done through this time."
The popular octet has been generous in its support of the children's charity, raising over £35,000 for its Wales Appeal in 2018 and 2019 when it championed NSPCC as its Charity of the Year.
Hywel Peterson, Divisional Vice President for NCPCC Cymru said: "We are so grateful for all the support Only Men Aloud has given to the NSPCC over the last two years, culminating in this video to thank all our volunteers who work tirelessly and give up their own time to ensure that the NSPCC can deliver services to children to keep them safe from harm."
Singer Lucie Jones and Wales Rugby stars Martyn Williams, Sam Warburton, Jamie Roberts and Ryan Jones have also publicly thanked the charity's volunteers in Wales, recording video messages of support.
Hywel added: "Our volunteers at Childline have heard from children and young people finding it hard to cope behind closed doors with a range of additional emotions such as fear and anxiety on top of every day stresses such as school work and friendships.
"Our volunteers continue to be here for children when they need it most and it's lovely that our high-profile supporters are recognising their invaluable service to young people in such a heartfelt way."
The NSPCC relies on public support for 90% of its funding and has launched a 'We're still here for children' emergency appeal to raise vital funds to support children and families across the UK.
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Maragüez es un barrio ubicado en el municipio de Ponce en el estado libre asociado de Puerto Rico. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 545 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 32,91 personas por km².

Geografía
Maragüez se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Maragüez tiene una superficie total de 16.56 km², que corresponden a tierra firme.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 545 personas residiendo en Maragüez. La densidad de población era de 32,91 hab./km². De los 545 habitantes, Maragüez estaba compuesto por el 87.16% blancos, el 7.71% eran afroamericanos, el 4.59% eran de otras razas y el 0.55% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 99.82% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Recently Microsoft hosted the Windows 8 Event at Ambience Mall, Gurgaon, where the company showcased the fast and fluid Windows 8 along with Bollywood renowned celeb Aamir Khan accompanied by Bhaskar Pramanik, the senior Microsoft executive. Aamir Khan was present at the event as Inspector Shekhawat to promote his upcoming blockbuster movie Talaash.
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2008 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season
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In the 2008 DTM season 11 races were held in 6 countries. The prelude and finale took place at the Hockenheimring. Were utilized versions of the Mercedes Benz C -Class and the Audi A4.
Has been speculated about an introduction of the Lexus manufacturer before the season starts. There were photos surfaced on the internet that were very close to a DTM car. Officially it was said that no entry is planned by Lexus.
Overall winner was Timo Scheider in the Audi A4.
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The qualifying was interrupted first in Q2 due to heavy rain after an accident by Mike Rockenfeller, then canceled. Q3 has not been started. According to regulations, the hours counted from Q1 for the starting grid.
In the race itself, there was an error, the Audi Channel: Since rain was announced for the race, Audi frosted almost all drivers except Albers, Katherine Legge and Oliver Jarvis with rain tires. However, the predicted rain held off. Timo Scheider, Mattias Ekström and Winkelhock came after the formation lap to the pits, the other driver followed after the first lap of the race. Due to the additional pit stop, which could not be regarded as a mandatory pit stop, the Audi fell back in the field, so Mercedes -Benz at times led the field with seven cars. Because of this wrong decision Audis Bernd Schneider won his first race of the season before the team mate Paul di Resta and Jamie Green. The best Audi driver Timo Scheider was ranked fifth
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Dumb Laws: Hand-Held Cell Phone Prohibition
Settle down. No one is claiming laws prohibiting distracted driving are dumb. If the truth be told… 1) every driver agrees it is dangerous 2) every driver agrees it should be prohibited 3) every driver is guilty. It's not an easy problem to wrap up in a tight little package. Come January 1st, 2014, all drivers, not just commercial motor vehicles (CMV), will be prohibited from hand-held cell phone use. However, this is the third log on the cell phone prohibition fire for truckers in Illinois. It's written poorly, it mocks uniformity and it will hurt truckers.
A review is in order of the first two laws governing the hand-held prohibition in Illinois, and then a discussion of the problems with the 2014 law.
2012 Federal Law | Part 392.82 At the end of 2011, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration enacted a hotly contested and disputed new regulation regarding hand-held cell phone use by CMV drivers. The problem with this law in Illinois is only the Illinois State Police have the authority to enforce it. If distracted driving by CMV drivers is such a dangerous problem, all police should have had a way to enforce it. Included in the regulation was a requirement that all states had three years to enact a state level, which would solve the local police enforcement problem.
2013 State Law | 625 ILCS 5.0/6-526 & 527 At the end of 2012, to the amazement of the entire free world, Illinois was one of the first to enact a state level, hand-held phone prohibition for CMV drivers. The intent of this law was to give local police the authority to enforce the ban…or did it? This law was enacted under the Uniform Commercial Driver's License Act, which means that only drivers operating CMVs which require a CDL can be cited. A future article will talk about the legal disparities of the CMV definitions, but this is one of them.
Under the federal law mentioned above, the Illinois State Police could enforce the prohibition on any driver operating a vehicle 10,001 pounds or more. Under the State law, local police could only enforce the prohibition on drivers operating vehicles exceeding the 26,001 pound threshold (generally speaking). This created confusion for both enforcement and industry.
2014 State Law | 625 ILCS 5/12-610.2 This is where all horses are let out of the barn.
The first and most glaring issue is police officers will not know which section to write violations under. When a driver is caught talking on a hand-held phone while operating a CMV, the average police officer will cite this section. This will incur penalties to both the operator's side and the CDL side of the driver's license. If the driver was operating a CMV required to have a CDL, the proper citation is under the CDL section. Good luck explaining CDL and classification requirements to non-truck officers who can stop truckers talking on the phone.
The second problem is the use of the ambiguous term "violation". A violation is an action committed by a person. It is not a disposition of an offense. However this law makes the action a disposition without due process. Illinois law, in the Correctional Code, allows for cases to be disposed of in certain ways, using certain legal terms. The term "violation" is not one of them. Going around this system creates problems. By doing so there is not a uniform way to alert police officers, circuit clerks, prosecutors, regulatory officials and future employers that a driver has had previous issues with a certain law.
What is a violation? If a police officer stops and issues a verbal or written warning only, is that considered a "violation"? If a police officer merely observes a driver three days in a row on his cell phone, and stops him on day four with a citation, is that considered a fourth "violation"? How many "violations" can a driver receive? It's endless. There is no way to track it. With vague language comes rouge interpretation.
The companion problem with a dubious term like "violation" is penalties are predicated on it. The first violation yields a fine of $75. The second violation is $100. The third? $125. Fourth? $150. If there is no way to know how many "violations" there have been, how is the appropriate fine supposed to be assessed?
The law also says the first "violation" is not a moving violation. The second and subsequent violations are movers. If no one knows how many violations have occurred, points could be assigned to a CDL holder operating a CMV only because the officer improperly cited under this section and does not how many "violations" have occurred.
The last problem is that once again the General Assembly has set statutory fines which are less than bail required by the Supreme Court (Rule 526(a)). This is similar to the $50 fine for violating a local weight restricted highway. If the arresting officer believes this is the first or second "violation", the trucker should receive either a $75 or $100 fine. However, bail is $120. The only way a police officer can assess the proper (lesser) fine is to make the driver take time off work, go to court, be assessed the $75 fine, and then eat all the court costs which could be hundreds of dollars more.
It's a dumb law. Good intentions, extremely poor execution. The truckers will suffer for it yet again.
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Veterans at Revolutionary battlefield dig find camaraderie
STILLWATER, N.Y. — Military veterans who carefully dug and sifted through clumps of dirt this month at a Revolutionary War battlefield in New York did more than uncover artifacts fired from muskets and cannons.
The meticulous field work gave the veterans — some dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and physical injuries — a familiar sense of camaraderie and mission.
So while the archaeological dig at the Saratoga National Historical Park produced evidence from the tide-turning Second Battle of Saratoga, the teamwork behind the finds also benefited the veterans.
"We can all come together, share your battle stories, your deployment stories, and share your love for the history of what you're digging," said Bjorn Bruckshaw, of Laconia, New Hampshire, during a break on a recent hazy morning.
Bruckshaw, 38, was part of a three-person crew that spent the morning digging small holes at spots that set off metal detectors, then searching though the damp clumps to uncover … old nails, mostly.
But the self-described Revolutionary War buff was loving it.
Bruckshaw, an Army veteran injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq, is among 15 veterans taking part in the dig through American Veterans Archaeological Recovery, an organization that helps service members transition into the civilian world. While the group deals mostly with vets with disabilities, their focus is on what participants can do in the field instead of any injuries, said AVAR's Stephen Humphreys.
"In the military you're trained to be on time for everything," Bruckshaw said. "So transitioning into the civilian world is a little bit harder for a lot of people. For me, it was a little bit difficult suffering from TBI (traumatic brain injury) and PTSD from my combat injuries. But you have support groups like these."
National Park Service archaeologist William Griswold said the team is looking for artifacts that shed more light on the Battle of Bemis Heights, or the Second Battle of Saratoga, on Oct. 7, 1777. The American victory over British and German soldiers is credited with persuading France to lend crucial support the fight for independence.
The battle also burnished the heroic resume of future traitor Benedict Arnold, who was wounded in the leg and is memorialized here with a monument to his boot.
While maps and journal accounts from the time describe troop movements during that fateful battle, artifacts can pinpoint movements and provide a reality check.
For instance, historians know the British at Saratoga loaded their cannons with tin canisters packed with iron balls, or "case shot," that spread out like shotgun blasts. Locations of the buried iron balls found here are being used to deduce more precisely where the cannons fired from.
"It's a good way to check a lot of these textual sources because in the fog of battle, people often make mistakes or embellish things," Griswold said.
Field work was first conducted here in 2019, with supervision from the National Park Service's regional archaeology program. The American Battlefield Trust is a sponsor. Work was interrupted by the pandemic last year, but crews with shovels and metal detectors were back this month and wrapping up this week.
"It's partially about the chase," said veteran Megan Lukaszeski. "You never know what you're going to find. You could dig and you could find nothing, or you could dig and find the most amazing things."
After retiring from the Air Force, Lukaszeski went to school to study archaeology. The 36-year-old from New York has already taken part in AVAR excavations to recover remains at WWII crash sites in England and Sicily through the group's partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. She plans to get her master's degree and pursue archaeology professionally.
For others, the work is more a chance to learn about archaeology while having some fun.
Former Army Col. Tim Madere once hunted for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This month, the 68-year-old sifted dirt through a screen in a hunt for artifacts and shared laughs with other workers. The Savannah, Georgia-area resident said he has gotten over most of his PTSD, but believes you can never totally get rid of it.
He sees this sort of field work as a good way for people to manage it.
"You hear their stories and then you tell yours so that we kind of get a better appreciation of what all these Americans did to protect the United States," he said. "So it's good to see other people, and they're doing well."
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JUDGE DENIES MISTRIAL IN KILLER COP WEEKLEY'S CASE AFTER AIYANA JONES' GRANDMOTHER'S TESTIMONY
March in June, 2010 to "Redeem Aiyana's Dream," organized by Jewel Allison (r) with daughter Honesti (l) Photo: Herb Boyd
Weekley killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 7, in 2010, with MP-5 semi-automatic
Defense contended emotional testimony from grandmother, who witnessed the killing, was a deliberate "show" to influence the jury
Judge threatens a mistrial if her "behavior" is repeated; jurors say they can render fair verdict
Courtroom packed with cops and their families; activist calls for supporters of Jones family to attend Sept. 30
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway
DETROIT — In a courtroom packed with police officers, some armed, and their families, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway today denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the case of Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley.
Weekley killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 7, on May 16, 2010, with one shot to the head from an MP5 semi-automatic machine gun as a military police unit stormed her home. He faces one charge of involuntary manslaughter and one charge of reckless use of a firearm resulting in death in this retrial.
Defense attorney Steven Fishman cited emotional testimony given Sept. 24 by Aiyana's grandmother Mertilla Jones, who saw her granddaughter killed in front of her. He claimed her "behavior" was premeditated, and asked for a mistrial.
Judge Hathaway said if Ms. Jones reacted similarly on cross-exam, she WOULD call a mistrial, and that it was likely Weekley would never be tried again. She also threatened to take action against Ms. Jones.
See raw video of Ms. Jones' testimony Sept. 24 below and decide for yourself.
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Police brutality activist Ron Scott called characterizations of Mertilla Jones during arguments on the motion, "racist and sexist." He cited defense attorney Steve Fishman's references to her "behavior" and "acting the fool" as if she were a child, along with Judge Hathaway's reference to turning the courtroom into a "zoo." A Detroit News article repeatedly called Ms. Jones' testimony a "tirade."
Mertilla Jones and Ron Scott after June, 2013 mistrial declared in Weekley case,
Scott called on supporters of the Jones family to come to court on her behalf Tues. Sept. 29. Due to crowding of the courtroom today, it is likely they will have to be there quite early, well before 9 a.m., to get a seat.
During his argument for a mistrial, Fishman said, "Mr. [Robert] Moran, the court and I all know that what she [Jones] did was deliberate and premeditated."
The judge had just individually polled all jurors in a closed session to see if Ms. Jones' testimony made it impossible for them to carry out fair and impartial deliberations. Most said they had expected emotional content to the trial but would not let it influence their consideration of the evidence. One juror, however, noted that Fishman was treating police officer witnesses and members of Aiyana's family differently when he cross-examined them.
"It's almost like the police got respect, and the family didn't get respect … that upset me," she said.
Fishman had been extremely confrontational and hostile to Aiyana's aunt LaKrystal Sanders during her cross exam.
Fishman noted today that Jones had not reacted as severely in three previous hearings.
Steve Fishman after earlier trial.
"Do we allow a witness to deliberately sabotage a defendant's right to a fair trial? . . .From the beginning, she took this to the press, telling them [Weekley] 'was a dirty cop and I never touched him,' and 'he's a lying m-f cop.' She told Channel Four News she was worried about the jury, saying she was from the ghetto in the city, and 'they look at us like we're dirt.'"
The jury in Weekley's first trial in June, 2013, which Hathaway declared hung after only three days of deliberations, had only one Black member. The current jury has five African-Americans, one woman who appears to be from India, and one who appears to be Arabic. There are seven Caucasians on the 14-member panel.
Fishman said case law indicates that "an irregularity prejudicial to the rights of the defendant impairs the ability to get a fair trial," and declared that "the rights of the defendant are paramount."
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Then he launched into a diatribe against Ms. Jones. "Irregularity is a mild word to apply to Ms. Jones' outburst." Fishman declared. "The video shows her words, her antics and behavior, when she got close to Weekley, pointing and yelling and talking. . . .her diatribe went on and on and on . . . .it was extraneous, she said things she never should have been allowed to say."
Citing a related appeals court decision, Fishman compared Ms. Jones' testimony to the showing of the movie "Malcolm X" to a majority-Black jury during the trial of Officers Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn. In 1992, Nevers and Budzyn beat Malice Green, an unemployed steelworker, to death with their heavy flashlights so severely that an autopsy showed his scalp had become detached. The jury found them guilty of second-degree murder.
The verdict was overturned on appeal. Later, the Michigan State Legislature abolished Recorders' Court, considered one of the most efficient in the country, because it required that all judges and juries be from the majority-Black city of Detroit.
"We must teach our children that our actions have consequences," Fishman continued. "You can't come in here and act the fool. For the Court of Appeals, if this motion is not granted, I'm going to be in an impossible position which I wouldn't be in if she [Ms. Jones] had behaved herself on Wednesday. Now I don't have a choice but to bring out all the other stuff—the lying she did, the fact that there was a hung jury."
Weapons expert Brent Sojea with gun that killed Aiyana.
Fishman said nothing about the consequences a police officer should face for killing a seven-year-old child. He claimed in his opening statement that Ms. Jones "interfered" with Weekley, causing the gun to fire. But a weapons expert testified earlier in the trial that Weekley's gun could not fire without its carrier exerting eight to nine pounds of pressure on the trigger.
Other members of the "Special Response Team" said the gunshot that killed Aiyana went off within "seconds" of the team's entry into the home, with Weekley in the lead position. They said they were trained to keep their finger off the trigger even if someone tried to take the gun from them.
An officer who entered the house early on testified that he saw the casing from the spent cartridge directly inside the doorway, on the floor next to left side of the couch where Aiyana was sleeping. But an evidence technician testified later that he found the cartridge in the middle of the room, near where Ms. Jones had been sleeping. It appeared as if someone had moved the casing to lend weight to Weekley's claim that Ms. Jones struggled with him.
Expert depiction of Aiyana Jones' killing.
An original autopsy report said Aiyana had been shot in the neck, with the bullet wound exiting in her head, also in line with Weekley's claimed scenario. After an independent autopsy, however, the Wayne County Medical Examiner revised his report to show the entrance wound at the top of Aiyana's head.
Moran responded to Weekley's argument, "I'm struck by the defense asking in its brief for a mistrial to 'punish' Ms. Jones. That is not what this is about. When the outburst happened last week, I had much discussion with Mr. Fishman. I was also worried about the effect it might have on the jury. We spent the entire weekend researching and thinking. Honestly I was conflicted. [Her testimony] was emotional, non-responsive to the questions. I hadn't even got to the facts. When we polled the jurors, I was quite honestly surprised."
Hathaway responded, "I was not. They were using their common sense."
She said she too had researched precedent on the cases cited by Fishman, but did not receive the motions until that morning. Fishman said he did not work Thursday and Friday due to the Jewish holidays.
Atty. Geoffrey Fieger holds press conference May 27, 2010: l to r Aiyana's father Charles Jones, mother Dominika Stanley-Jones, grandmother Mertilla Jones (weeping). Both mother and grandmother have lost significant amounts of weight and experienced PTSD since that time. Father Charles is serving a 40-60 year term in prison in the killing of JeRean Blake. Jury found him guilty of second-degree murder although they acquitted him of gun charges which were the basis for the murder charge. His case is on appeal.
"The only thing we haven't done is that the witness deserves to know without a doubt what the consequences are if she continues to behave with outbursts like last week," Hathaway said.
"If this continues, there is no question that the trial will basically turn into a zoo. I'm not going to let that happen. The court is going to instruct Ms. Jones that this trial is in their hands. If the witness decides to come in and put on a show which I think may influence the jury, I will declare a mistrial, and there may be some jeopardy, some consequences [to the witness]. If this continues, they are telling me they don't care about a mistrial, and in that case, we may never try [the defendant] again."
Hathaway earlier delayed Weekley's trial repeatedly, claiming that a separate murder case against Aiyana's father Charles Jones and common-law uncle Chauncey Owens had to be decided first. Weekley was tried in June, 2013, but Hathaway declared a mistrial after only three days of jury deliberations.
Detroit officers Jennifer Fettig and Matthew Bowens, killed in 2004 during traffic stop. Court attendees appeared to have confused "cop-killers" with "killer cops."
During editorial commentary on Ms. Jones' testimony last week, one TV analyst said it looked like Weekley had no support in the courtroom, that only Aiyana's family members were present.
It was clear there was a concerted effort to reverse that today, and that it will continue tomorrow. Although this case is about an officer killing a child, several family members of officers who had BEEN killed were in the audience, including James Bowens, the father of Detroit police officer Matthew Bowens. Bowens and Officer Jennifer Fettig, both rookies, were shot to death in 2004.
Bowens then began an unsuccessful campaign for Michigan to restore the death penalty, although Michigan was the first state to abolish it in 1957.
Eric Lee Marshall, then 21, was found guilty of the killings of the two officers despite remaining questions. He died after six years in prisons all over Michigan and the removal of several of his organs. He told his brother during a visit that guards were trying to kill him. Fettig grew up in a town in the Upper Peninsula near the first prison he was in.
Stories related to this trial:
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2014/09/24/aiyanas-grandmother-confronts-killer-cop-from-witness-stand-weekly-re-trial-suspended/
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2014/09/24/did-police-tamper-with-key-evidence-in-killing-of-aiyana-jones-7-to-back-up-killer-cop-weekley/
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2014/09/18/stunning-revelation-in-cop-killing-of-aiyana-jones-7-direct-contact-gunshot-could-have-killed-her/
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2010/10/27/eric-lee-marshall-29-dead-after-six-years-of-prison-torture-including-organ-removal/


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Due to its electoral performance in the 2012 general elections, SYRIZA, a previously unknown Greek political formation of the radical left, gained unprecedented visibility within the European public sphere. How is this strong showing and the political message articulated by SYRIZA to be interpreted? Utilizing a discursive methodology, this paper puts to the test the two assumptions predominating in most available analyses, namely that SYRIZA articulates a populist rhetoric, that it constitutes a predominantly populist force; and, given the near-exclusive association of populism with extreme right-wing movements, that SYRIZA constitutes a populist danger for Europe. Our analysis concludes that SYRIZA's discourse is indeed a distinct articulation of left-wing populism. However, this by no means vindicates the second part of the prevailing wisdom: SYRIZA's portrayal as a dangerous force threatening fundamental European values. If, however, this is the case, then mainstream research orientations in the study of European populism may have to be reviewed.


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General election: Why SNP and Tories should seek a compromise – leader comment
Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds arrive in Downing Street after the Conservatives' general election victory (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)
Scotsman Leader Comment
Published: 07:40 Saturday 14 December 2019
The Conservatives and SNP seem set for a fight over Scottish independence that would be in no one's interest – including their own.
It's not often a general election produces two big 'winners' – that's not really supposed to happen.
But this general election saw Boris Johnson lead the Conservatives to their biggest win since 1987 in the heady days of Margaret Thatcher. Meanwhile in Scotland, the SNP's result was arguably even more remarkable with the party securing 48 out of 59 seats. Not quite 2015, but still that means 81 per cent of Scotland's MPs are Nationalists.
However, their result was achieved on the basis of 45 per cent of the vote in Scotland and the Tories won 43.6 across the UK, so both these 'majorities' are actually based on 'minorities' and a product of the first-past-the-post system.
Amid their understandably triumphant celebrations, Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon now appear to be on a political collision course over a second independence referendum, a bitter and divisive constitutional clash of epic proportions.
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However, they could attempt to take a different course, one of humility and respect for the different viewpoints of these two political tribes.
As he returned to 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson said the UK "deserves a break from wrangling, a break from politics", adding: "I urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin."
And he is right about the need for healing. The UK is still divided along Leave/Remain lines while, for all Johnson and fellow unionists might wish it to be so, the large number of people who support Scottish independence are unlikely to simply give up. And there are other significant divides in the UK – between left and right, with newly enthused activists on both sides of the spectrum; young and old; urban and rural areas; north and south – that are problems for our society.
Rule by London diktat
The key questions are whether Johnson is serious about trying to heal the country or whether this is rhetoric in preparation for the looming fight with the SNP and if Sturgeon actually has an interest in joining in such a process, rather than stoking division as part of efforts to secure independence.
But if Scotland does ever leave the UK, it is most assuredly in its interests to maintain good relations with its nearest and dearest neighbour, just as it is in the UK's interests to maintain good relations with the EU. Indeed, this would almost certainly be vital to making a success of an independent Scotland.
Scottish independence: Are All Under One Banner marches having an effect? – Martyn McLaughlin
So it would be a mistake for the SNP to dismiss Johnson's victory and his pledge to stop a second referendum. Political promises should be hard to break, particularly for a Prime Minister with a reputation for being, perhaps, too 'economical with the actualité'.
And, likewise, it would be a mistake for Johnson to add to the sense of nationalist grievance by acting in a high-handed way that could be portrayed as rule by London diktat.
They may not like it, in fact, they may absolutely hate it, but they might be better advised to seek some form of compromise, to find an acceptable middle ground.
Quite what that would be is hard to say. But it could be more powers for Scotland or perhaps an agreement to allow a second indyref2 if the SNP wins the next Holyrood election. Some commentators believe it would be politically untenable to deny a second vote if Sturgeon wins in 2021; if that is the case, it might make more sense for Johnson to allow it and focus on ensuring an SNP defeat, rather than rail against it, only to later concede.
Smart politics is not always about being tough. There are powerful forces that could easily push them into an increasingly bitter conflict but, surely, in the long run, that would be in no one's interest.


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Service Level Agreements Fulfilled. Customer Unhappy.
Have you ever come across the situation where the IT Service Level Reports always show "green", but in reality the delivered services did not match the customer expectation at all? If yes, please read this blog and you might find out that you either have the wrong SLA's defined or focus too much on them without considering the most important factor: Service culture.
Before thinking about what went wrong, let's go back one step and recap the process which is mainly responsible for making sure that the delivered service levels meet the expectations of the business and the customers: Service Level Management.
Within the Service Level Management process, Service Level Agreements (SLA's) are negotiated and agreed together with the customer in a first step, based on his expectations to the IT Services. This should result in clearly measurable KPI targets. For example there might be the expectation from the customer that certain critical IT services are highly available, one possible resulting KPI target is an minimum average availability level of 99.9% of this IT Service during business hours. Once these targets are agreed within the SLA document and signed off, the actual service performance is continuously monitored against the SLA targets, resulting in a periodic service level report, showing how 'good' the IT Service provider is doing his job. In above example it might either turn out that the IT service was sufficiently available, therefore meeting the targets (equal or above 99.9% ->'green') or below the expectation agreed in the SLA (->'orange' or 'red'). If this is the case, corrective actions need to be taken (e.g. as a part of a Service Improvement Plan) to bring the IT Service to the level it should be – or alternatively the KPI targets needs to be redefined in agreement with the customer.
The Service Level Management process along the Deming Cycle: A self-fulfilling control-loop, automatically leading to satisfied customers?
If you are familiar with the principles of the Deming Cycle, you see how the in itself closed control loop is nicely adapted: Plan (setting the SLA), Do (delivering the IT Service), Check (measuring what has been delivered against targets) and Act (taking corrective actions if there is a gap). If you ever worked as an IT Service Manager you know the importance of Service Level Management and what the benefits are: A consistent interface is provided to the business for all service-related issues and discussions around service quality are brought from a subjective to an objective level (based on facts). Last but not least it is a good platform to meet regularly with your customer and strengthen the relationship.
SLA targets should support the expectations of the customer to the service and it is therefore important to choose a balanced set of KPI's, which finally measure the value contribution to the strategy.
Please keep in mind that the customer is usually living in a changing environment and therefore his IT Service needs can change over time. This is one additional reason why SLA's need to be revised from time to time.
Excitment factors: Make the difference!
There are a number of 'soft' factors, which positively influence customer satisfaction (or negatively if absent) and which are difficult to be defined as part of an SLA and cannot be monitored by mechanistic or procedural means. For example, incidents always might be solved in a quickly manner and IT services highly available (-> meeting the targets in the SLA), however if the Service Desk agents have an unprofessional and unfriendly way in communicating with their customer, this ends up in a low overall customer satisfaction. Although service level targets are missed sometimes, the customer might be highly satisfied, because he sees that appropriate actions are taken to improve things and the provider has an 'Always at your service' – mentality. This especially refers to the so-called 'excitement factors' (Kano customer satisfaction model).
These soft factors can be best summarized as "Service Culture", which indicates that, for everyone in the provider organization, customer satisfaction is the top priority and that IT Service provider activities demonstrably contribute to the business objectives of the customer.
Incident Management: Not meeting the expected reaction- or resolution times? As an IT service provider just put the ticket more often into the status 'on hold' or 'waiting for xyz', this is usually the time when the SLA watch stops and this way you can gain significant time. Another possibility: Agree with the enduser to make 2 or 3 tickets out of 1 (closing the initial one and open a second one), each one meeting the SLA target and addressing one aspect of the same incident….
Above list can be of course expanded by other interesting examples. You might argue that avoiding above behaviors is just a question of integrating appropriate rules into the service level agreement. I doubt that this is possible to close all these gaps and you might end up with a document that is not practically usable. Also considering the fact that the IT service provider is misusing these gaps (and you ending up micro-managing your outsourcing partner to close the gaps) shows that this cannot be the right solution. You would have been better off with a service provider demonstrating true Service culture.
Finally the question is how do you find out if you are on the right path if the SLA only gives you limited confidence? One suggestion to find out if the delivered IT Service levels meet the expectations of the customer is to perform a customer satisfaction survey. By doing do, you look at the real perception of the customer. If you identify a mismatch between customer perception and service level reports, this might reveal problems in the area of service culture, which need to be addressed. Customer Satisfaction Surveys should be performed on a regular base (e.g. once a year) and one important point is that they should be seen as an instrument to improve the IT service quality. This is also why the customer satisfaction survey not only should contain rating scales for the different aspects of the IT service, but also some free text form, where the customers can indicate what they don't like, why and what they suggest. Make sure that these inputs are analyzed and consolidated into a Service Improvement Plan, resulting in concrete actions to improve the IT Services. This shows your customer that you have a true 'service culture'.


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Has anything made of WOOD ever been sent into space?
Weightless in bed for three months. Want to volunteer?
Anyone see the rocket reentry Sat. night???
What is a Xenon engine?
Mission saved from NASA Stupidity?
What is max V for fusion powered rocket?
Getting to Pluto a year early!
Private space shuttle ready by 2004?
Space Elevators - For Real!
How do you train robots for Mars? Soccer!
ESA mission to look into asteroid "blind spot"
Tax sci-fi to support NASA?
Mars Odyssey Image of the Day.
Did we contaminate the Moon with terrestrial bacteria?
Why astronauts have that certain "glow"
Cracks in the space shuttle program?
Who is up for some time travel ?
Looking to buy binoculars, anyone heard of these?
Book recommendations for rocket dynamics?
Today's the LAST TIME TO GET YOUR NAME ON MARS!
Astronauts were outside EVA when CME hit the earth.
Is there a Moon Tree near you?
The last man on the moon.
Which would be easier to terraform- Mars or Venus?
And station prospects looked bad before!
why a Manned Mission to Mars ??
news Just In - Comet mission is off.
Challenger crew survived until sea impact?
Are we FINALLY going to Mars?
Space Shuttle Columbia: Contact lost.
What changes would you make to the Shuttle design?
Could the Shuttle have been by Lightning during re-entry?
Space Debris impacted Columbia ?
Let me know if I should write a letter to NASA.
Can a shuttle pull itself out of reentry & back into orbit?
Preliminary verdict: Shuttle had a hole in the wing.
Shuttle mission telemetry data: why not look closer?
Should we send humans to Mars ASAP?
"NASA to Unveil New Space Transport Plan"


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Mr. Jorden has served as Zoning Hearing Officer for the City of Phoenix and currently sits as a hearing officer for Maricopa County, Arizona on development-related matters. Mr. Jorden has served as Chair of the City of Phoenix Environmental Quality Commission and Chair of the State Bar of Arizona Continuing Legal Education Committee. He is on the Regional Advisory Board of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute based in Denver, Colorado and serves on the Board of Directors for the Scottsdale Unified School District Foundation. Mr. Jorden is co-author of Arizona Land Use Law, the treatise on Arizona zoning and land use law published by the State Bar of Arizona. He has lectured on land use and environmental issues on behalf of the State Bar of Arizona, the Arizona Planning Association, the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, the Arizona Department of Commerce and the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute.


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Institutionalizing Adaptation
It's Time for a Permanent Army Advisor Corps
By John A. Nagl
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The most important military component of the Long War will not be the fighting we do ourselves, but how well we enable and empower our allies to fight with us. After describing the many complicated, interrelated, and simultaneous tasks that must be conducted to defeat an insurgency, the new Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual notes "Key to all these tasks is developing an effective host-nation (HN) security force."1 Indeed, it has been argued that foreign forces cannot defeat an insurgency; the best they can hope for is to create the conditions that will enable local forces to win for them.2
In his valedictory Senate Armed Services Committee Testimony, Chief of Staff of the Army General Peter Schoomaker warned that the Army's counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan offer "a peek into the future." In words informed by a lifetime of uniformed service, General Schoomaker stated, "These people that keep saying we're never going to do this again—I don't know where they're coming from."3
The counterinsurgency campaigns that are likely to continue to be the face of battle in the 21st century will require that we build a very different United States Army than the enormously capable but conventionally focused one we have today. The long-overdue increase in the size of the Army announced by President George W. Bush in December 2006 can play a pivotal role in helping build it. The best way to use the additional soldiers is not simply to create additional Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) as currently planned by the Army. Indeed, demand for such forces is likely to shrink as the American combat role in Iraq diminishes. Instead, the Army should create a permanent standing Advisor Corps of 20,000 Combat Advisors—men and women organized, equipped, educated, and trained to develop host nation security forces abroad.
The United States Army's signature contribution to the development of host nation security forces is embedded advisor teams. These teams coach, teach, and mentor host nation security forces, training them before deployment and accompa¬nying them into combat; the mission is called "Foreign Internal Defense"—commonly known by the acronym FID. Advisors bring important combat multipliers to the fight: close air and artillery support, MEDEVAC, and, perhaps most important, the culture of leadership and training that is the U.S. Army's greatest strength. For their part, the host nation forces offer significant cul¬tural awareness and linguistic advantages over U.S. forces, and also are likely to be far more acceptable to the local public whose support is essential to victory in any counterinsurgency campaign.
Recognizing the importance of the advi¬sory mission, the new Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual states clearly that FID is a "Big Army" responsibility: "The scope and scale of training programs today and the scale of programs likely to be required in the future has grown exponentially. While FID has been tradi¬tionally the primary responsibility of the special operating forces (SOF), training foreign forces is now a core competency of regular and reserve units of all Services."4
Unfortunately, the Army and the nation have rarely given sufficient priority to the advisory teams they embed in host nation forces. The advisory effort in Vietnam has been widely criticized as "The Other War." Military analysts Peter Dawkins and Andrew Krepinevich have described the often poor quality of Army advi¬sors in Vietnam and the rather slapdash nature of their pre-deployment training.5 In the words of an army officer serving in our last great counterin¬surgency effort, "Our military institution seems to be prevented by its own doctrinal rigidity from understanding the nature of this war and from making the necessary modifications to apply its power more intelligently, more economically, and above all, more relevantly."6
John A. Nagl
CNAS Board of Advisor, Headmaster, The Haverford School
Dr. John Nagl is the ninth Headmaster of The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Center for a New American Security. He wa...