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Flo Rida — who just won $82 million in a lawsuit against Celsius — accused by ex of shirking custody payments on his disabled son's education and health insurance
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Flo Rida has been accused of skipping out on paying for his disabled son's education and insurance.
Alexis Adams, the mother of Flo Rida's child, alleged to Insider that she is owed over $200k from him.
Weeks ahead of his court victory against Celsius, Flo Rida sought to decrease his child support payments.
After rapper Flo Rida secured an $82 million win in a breach of contract lawsuit against energy drink company Celsius, the mother of Flo Rida's son has accused the rapper of skipping crucial child support payments for the disabled child.
On Wednesday, a jury awarded the "Get Low" rapper, born Tramar Lacell Dillard, a lucrative victory after he alleged Celsius cheated him out of key stock options in endorsement deals. But in the lead-up to the January trial, Alexis Adams, who has full custody of the 6-year-old child, alleged that the rapper has avoided paying for the child's tuition and health insurance for years and even asked to pay less child support before the bombshell Celsius verdict.
A rep for Dillard and his lawyer in the custody case did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.
According to court documents reviewed by Insider, Dillard and Adams have had a court-ordered child support agreement for their son Zohar since at least 2018. Through the agreement, Dillard has been required by a Bronx County Family Court to pay Adams $9,000 a month for child support, as well as the full cost of Zohar's education and health insurance, per court filings.
"Tramar winning $82.6 million didn't surprise me," Adams told Insider. Him complying "with our child support order by reinstating Zohar's health insurance and being a real family man and father to our son would actually impress me," she said.
Leading up to the Celsius trial, Dillard sought to lessen his child support
At a hearing in 2018, Judge Shira Atzmon ordered Dillard's child support payments to increase from $8,000 to $9,000 a month, a move which his team contested, according to Bossip.
"What does he care?" Judge Shira Atzmon told Dillard's lawyer during the hearing, per Bossip. "He's not involved in this child's life. He's met him once. This is all about money, and I've had it up to here."
In 2021, Adams eventually filed a violation petition, asking the court to seek Dillard's testimony about unpaid fees and take appropriate action.
Recent court documents showed that in November 2022, a lawyer for Dillard argued against the judge's orders to pay for education, saying he couldn't afford it.
By December 2022, Dillard's team had asked the court to reduce his monthly child support payment.
A judge will need to determine whether Dillard has been skipping out on education payments and whether he owes expenses for Zohar, though a hearing date has not been set yet. If Dillard is found to have willfully violated the child support order, he could be asked to pay unpaid costs or be found in contempt of court and jailed.
The mother of Dillard's child claims he has not paid over $200,000 of their son's tuition
Adams told Insider that Dillard has not paid any tuition for Zohar, despite being ordered to by the court. According to court documents, she has an unpaid tuition balance of over $200,000 with the school that she cannot afford.
Zohar was born with ventriculomegaly, a brain condition which can lead to neurological and learning disabilities. In 2019, Adams enrolled Zohar in a private Manhattan school for students with neurological disabilities. He has also been diagnosed with autism and has required additional therapy, Adams said.
Dillard "has failed to pay the monthly premium for Zohar's health insurance," Adams said in an August 2021 affidavit. And for all of 2020, he "failed to pay me $6,616.68 for health insurance premium costs," Adams alleged, adding that she was forced to pay out of pocket.
An insurance document reviewed by Insider showed that Zohar's insurance was cut off in March 2020, after Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield did not receive premium payments.
Lisa Zeiderman, a partner at Miller Zeiderman LLP and expert in New York family law, told Insider that the Celsius verdict could ultimately impact Adams' child custody case with Dillard.
"It strongly weakens his downward modification application, and it may in fact strengthen her upward modification request," Zeiderman said. "If all of a sudden someone is coming into $82 million, that is what we call a substantial change in circumstances from whatever his income was before."
After the Celsius verdict was delivered, Dillard posed in front of a Brinks truck, sharing an Instagram reel showing him in court flanked by his legal staff, taking selfies with courthouse fans and promoting the drink company he had just sued.
"People really did fall in love with him because he's such a decent human being," John Uustal, his lawyer for the Celsius case told Insider after the energy drink verdict.
But Adams told Insider that the image he portrayed ahead of and throughout the trial did not match the neglect she claimed that she and Zohar have experienced.
"Tramar Lacel Dillard is acting under false pretense," Adams said. "I'm already prepared for him to skillfully deflect responsibility."
Flo Rida Child Support Child custody


A senior research executive at Universal McCann, Tom Smith, has urged companies to respond now to the changing behaviour of people, rather than wait until it's too late. He makes his comments in the January 2007 Revolution magazine which published details of Universal McCann's latest research on blogging. This has discovered that 48% of people aged 16 to 44 have visited blogs. Some 26% write blogs and a further 20% plan to start a blog. However, RSS and podcasts are not making much of an impact with very low usage rates. The Universal McCann study also shows how tremendously important social networks are, with 74% of people using them to review products or services. In the same issue of Revolution magazine, John Gaffney of Peppers and Rogers Group suggests that newspapers may soon be the vinyl records of media. Taken together these two reports show the growing importance of the interactive elements of the Internet for many people. It further underlines the need to have an active company blog, to take blogging and social networking seriously and to have it at the heart of your organisation's media strategy.
Is Six Apart blogging company ready to sell?


A long and winding snake that makes a beautiful statement with the multi-colored dichroic glass forming a rainbow of "scales" on its back. Created by hand from flame-worked borosilicate glass with a dichroic glass back. Dichroic glass comes from a unique process that results in a surface that transmits and reflects a variety of colors, changing depending on the light and viewing angle.
Approximately 3" high at the head, with a length that varies from 12" to 18"


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Chelle Hafner é uma pole dancer da Austrália.

Prêmios e indicações

2009

Australian Women's Pole Dance Championship Freestyle Women's Division 2009 – 1° lugar.

2010

 International Pole Championships 2010 Women's Pole Fit Division – 1st Runner Up
 Miss Pole Dance Doubles 2010 – 1st Runner up
  Miss Pole Dance 2010 – Best Pole Trick Award

2011

 Miss Pole Dance Queensland 2011 – 1° lugar
 Asia Pacific Pole Dance Championships Freestyle Women's Division – 1° lugar

Referências

Pole dancers

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be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
grant that I may never break this double thread of my life.
I have often prayed this beautiful prayer from The Divine Milieu. As lovely as the above translation is, however, there may be a more accurate way to render one phrase. The original French doesn't quite ask God to find me "where you would have me be." Rather, it begs that God may find me "there where you are waiting for me" (là où vous m'attendez).
Not only do we wait for God, but God is also waiting for us.
We both wait and are waited for. We wait, we seek, we long for God, we take whatever steps toward God that we know to take. And there we find, paradoxically, that God has been waiting for us and longing for us. At the same time, God has been with us all along, for without the divine presence in us, we would not be able to long for God, nor would we be able to take even a single step toward God.
faites que je ne rompe jamais ce double fil de ma vie.
As I reflect on your post I am struck by the fact that Advent posits that there is something for which to hope. In a world bigger than just waiting for what I want,Advent waits and hopes. Hope invites us into an infinitely wide horizon filled with life, light and love, an horizon than makes visible and tangible all seen within its borders. Advent hope does not deny pain and suffering. Filled with promise Advent hope is more than just marking time. It waits for an ever deeper awareness that the one for whom we wait is and will ever be with us.


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import org.kuali.kra.protocol.actions.submit.ProtocolSubmissionBase;
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Camilo De La Vega lays out Lego's philosophy of Continuoius Improvement: "One of them would be stressing the benefits of the change. We had to spend more time looking at different tools, and working with processes, and doing some other stuff that we might not have time to do right now. So stressing the benefits and saying "okay, if we do this, we could get that" and actually seeing those benefits in the wall, printed there, is one of the things to help us implement. Empowering them to do things instead of just cascading the information to make them able to make decisions and getting to some conclusions by themselves.


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Punk Rock Bowling 2023 Has Announced Its Lineup
Bad Religion, Dropkick Murphys, Fishbone, L7, rancid, Speed of Light, Suicidal Tendencies, Surfbort, Suzi Moon, T.S.O.L., The Damned, The Interrupters
Since Punk Rock Bowling will be back in Las Vegas in May 2023, the line-up was announced a few days ago. I have attended the festival a few times and it is a lot of fun; in particular, it's always surprising and amusing to see punk rockers invade sin city. However, I would say that the 2023 lineup looks a bit same old same old: Rancid, Bad Religion, Dropkick Murphys, the Interrupters, Suicidal tendencies, the Damned, and L7 are headlining the 3 days of PRB, and if these bands are all solid punk rockers, we have already seen them play at this exact same place. That's also the case for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes or GHB who are also part of the fest. As for Fishbone and T.S.O.L., even though they are great live acts, they are not a good enough reason to drive to Vegas when they regularly play around LA… even for free!
Next year's Punk Rock Bowling lineup is classic old punk but misses any of previous years' surprises. Didn't they have Iggy Pop in 2017? Refused in 2019? Madness was supposed to play in 2020, but, of course, we all know what happened that year. The 2023 lineup will certainly please the regular attendees but it is lacking some je-ne-sais-quoi, some band to spice up this expected series of punk veterans. Sure, if you scroll down a bit, you will find young bands like Surfbort, Suzi Moon, and even the mighty trio Speed of Light! I am completely spoiled because I have seen them quite a few times in Los Angeles.
These three/four days of loud music in Las Vegas will happen on May 26, 27, 28, and 29 2023 (Memorial Day weekend), and every year, it becomes a charming gathering of diverse punk tribes with an authentic punk-rock vibe. The main festival is located in Downtown Las Vegas, but the fun continues at many club locations along Fremont street and its vicinity. The 3-day general admission pass is $190 plus fees, but you can read about all the details as well as the full lineup on the Punk Rock Bowling website.
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Posts Tagged 'Hittite Empire'
Empires that ruled the Near-East: And a quick 90-second video-map attached
In: cities/geography | Essays | Near-East Mediterranean civilization | political Artical | religion/history | short stories/novellas | social articles
You may view first this 90-second Maps-of-War video of the various empires that ruled over the Near-East (Levant) region in the last 5,000 years on this multimedia site of the Imperial History of the Middle East http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html
Traditional History accounts are totally biased toward the stories of the Empires. In the history of the Near-East (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and the sea stretch of Turkey), you find archeologists stating that this temple, that arena, that edifice, that work of art is related to the civilization of the Empire that ruled the region at certain period.
Fact is, it is the inhabitants of the Near-East who were the architets, artisans, work-force, and even the ones who paid the tribute (money) in order for these work of arts to be erected. For example, archeological sites of existing theater, hypodromes, temples, castles, fortes, aqueducts…existed for centuries before Rome started building such edifices after it conquered Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. The same goes to all other Empires such as Persian, Greek…
You may read more details in link attached in note 2.
I am re-editing a post published on March 2008 under "Who are we, the inhabitants of the Mediterranean Sea shores?"
I have this theory, backed by historical accounts and substantiated by archeological and ontological finding, that the Near East (Levant) region has been the crossroad for the innumerable waves of immigrations from East to West and to a lesser extent from Eastern Africa via Egypt to the west. This is a valid hypothesis that could be adopted as an alternative direction and guide to studying our people.
I take the first premise that most locations had their own indigenous people for various reasons going far back to thousands of years; this premise is only just, logical and convenient. I also offer the second premise that emigrants prefer moving toward areas with abundance of water and greener pastures. The successive waves of immigration have started in full bloom before the seventh millennia of our calendar.
People from Central Asia tended to march towards Northern Iran and then onward to the Anatolian plateau (Turkey), rich in rivers and water reserves from the melting of snow-covered majestic Taurus mountain chains.
The populations in Iran were inclined to settle the shores of the great Tigris River (Dujlah) in Iraq. From there, they forked either south along the mighty river or northward. Moving south was initially the preferred route because the climate is warmer and because it is almost impossible to navigate upward the Tigris River in its northern section. They settled and built the ancient and mighty Empires around Ur and Basra on the mouth of the Tigris River which empties in the Arab/Persia Gulf and then they expanded along the Arabian Gulf shores.
The Empires of the Antiquity (Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon) constituted the trading centers from the Arabian Gulf to the coasts of the Western Indian Ocean. The Prophet Abraham is said to have moved out with his tribe from the great city of Ur, and most probably progressed south-west along the Red Sea coast. (Actually, the Israelite tribes are initially from Yemen, where most of their idols such as Hud still exist)
Later, the mighty Empire of Babylon based its Capital further north of Ur on the Tigris River.
Aramaic was the main mother language with various dialects for each region: Iraq was the hotbed of civilization for over 4 millennia before Christ, starting by the kingdoms of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Ashur. All the regions from Iran, Kurdistan, the Arabic Peninsula, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and the western part of Turkey were under the hegemony of either one of these empires.
The main religion and Gods, the main language, and the tradition for trading and doing business and administrations were homogeneous.
Moving north the Tigris River the hardy immigrants settled and built mighty Empires like Assyria in Nineveh (Ninawa) around Mosul and in the current Kurdish homeland. Those immigrants who moved north the river overflowed to the Anatolian Plateaus in Turkey and settled along the mighty Euphrates River (Al Furat) and built the Hittite Empire that discovered iron and invaded Egypt, where they were called the Hyksos, and settled there for a long time until they signed a peace treaty with Ramses II.
It is recounted that prosperous Troy was vanquished by the Greeks, after ten years of siege, because the Hittite Empire was endeavoring at that junction to reach the sea and thus, aided the Greek invaders to destroy their natural enemy. The more recent power coming from the Anatolian plateau that conquered the Middle East is the Ottoman Empire.
The waves of immigration descended along the Euphrates River and jointed the Orontes River (Al Assy, going counter to topography) and built many City-States along these rivers and many reached the Mediterranean Sea.
It is known that the Orontes and Euphrates shores were studded with numerous large and prosperous City-States like Homs, Hama, Tel Amarna, Van, and Mary because it was the preferred land trade route towards Iraq, Persia and ultimately China.
The alternative more direct route was through the Syrian Desert passing by Palmyra (Tadmor) but it was way too harsh and inconvenient. Actually, almost all invasions coming from further East and North used the coastal and Euphrates River corridors to loot and conquer Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and ultimately Egypt. All these immigrants might have initially fled from persecutions and tribal warfare and also because of changing weather conditions and draughts.
The waves coming from Eastern Africa settled first in Egypt and fled for many reasons to the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea toward the Maghreb regions and also to the eastern shores and settled in the sea cities of Canaan that includes Palestine, and Lebanon.
A large number had to emigrate very often from the cities of Canaan after repeated invasions of the Moguls, Persian, Iraqi, and Egyptian Empires: These Empires made it a routine to invade and loot the rich Canaan City-States for their accumulated treasures and for their skilled workers.
All these immigrants ended up in Syria and the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea of Canaan and some settled in Egypt. The ancient city of Byblos in Lebanon extended its civilization and built the cities of Sidon and Beyrouth and other sea towns and invented a new alphabet of 22 letters. Sidon built Tyr and Akka.
As the Empires in Iraq, Persia, and Egypt invaded these cities the settled inhabitants of these prosperous seashore cities had to immigrate again to the southern and western shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Note 1: I read recently that a newly excavated City-State by the current city of Rukka (Northern Syria) is as old as 5,500 BC; many millenia before the City-States in southern Iraq. The society was very structured and copper was imported from Southern Turkey. A vast temple was excavated in southern Turkey that is 11,000 years BC.
Note 2: https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/the-inhabitants-of-the-mediterranean-sea-shores-part-2/
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Culture transmission: The priest, the warrior, and the peasant
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 23, 2009
In: biographies/books | cities/geography | Essays | Near-East Mediterranean civilization | political Artical | religion/history | social articles
The priest, the warrior, and the peasant; (August 22, 2009)
Another alternative title could be more realistic and comprehensive such as "Elder, male, and female" but it is not catchy enough.
George Dumezil, a French researcher who can speak over 20 languages, says "The first 10 languages are the hardest to learn; the remaining languages come pretty easy because it is the same routine and same thing".
George Dumezil wrote the trilogy "Myth and Epic" that describes the mythologies in Ireland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Germany, Roman, Greek, Ossetia (Caucasus region), and then links all these mythologies to their hierarchical transmission from the Indian Mahabharata and Bhagavat mythology.
Dumezil calls this unifying mythology "The Indo-European mythology" and end up with a summary that this mythology is based on 3 fundamentals the Priesthood, Warrior, and Peasant classes with their respective Gods.
After over 40 years of detailed research to reach this common sense conclusion is a monstrous let down.
Da! This classification of society is common to all cultures and civilizations and going pretty strong nowadays. (The main Gods in all civilizations were of Justice, War, and Fecundity. The all-encompassing unifying God was barely worshiped by the people because not symbolizing their trade or class).
The Romans had the (Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus). The Scandinavian counties had Odinn reigning over the Val-Holl of (Porr, Mimir, and Odrerir) and Ases was their unifying God. The Germans had Wotan reigning over their Walhalla. In the Near East mythology we had (Shamsh, Baal, and Ashtarout); El or Allah in the Arab Peninsula was their unifying God. In the Nile civilization we had Amon (Sun), Osiris, and Isis.
The major let down is this conventional direction of researchers of thinking top down or hierarchically. Well, after the Scandinavian got their mythology from Ossetia that got their mythology from Northern India, then from whom did the Indian receive their mythology? If there are any written records that go many thousands of years in antiquity (not probable) we might discover that mythology transmission is no longer hierarchical but cyclical.
Adopting the easy hierarchical line of reasoning is basically wrong. It is the wrong logic to consider: simply because it stick to the conventional that the King/Priesthood classes are the transmitters of culture and civilization. The Priesthood class is mainly the conservative maintainer of the status quo and barely the transmitter of much anything.
A more realistic and promising line of reasoning is to consider that it is the warrior classes that transmitted rituals, myths, and customs.
It is the soldiers and sub officers who were in direct and daily contact with the conquered people: they are the ones who interrogated prisoners, facilitated trade and communication, and learned by osmosis the new culture and civilization of the subjugated people. The soldiers and sub officers returned to their hometowns and villages and disseminated their story telling testimonies and accounts of their war period.
The dissemination was quick because most soldiers were mercenaries from the neighboring countries to the powerful Kingdom. Once the war was over, the soldiers were disbanded to return mainly to their families and spread the news of alternative rituals, myths, customs, and techniques of the conquered culture.
Since frequent communication of central government of Empires with their neighboring vassal countries was not sustained, it stands to reason that the peasant classes managed to occasionally change their traditions before the government realized the changes.
When central government is strong then either of two possibilities was activated:
1. If the mercenary warriors sided with the peasants then the King/Priesthood was defeated and the newer traditions and mythologies took roots.
2. If the King/Priesthood vanquished then many varieties of sects and cults mushroomed in the neighboring kingdom.
Empires come and go, but the tank sources for mercenaries were constant.
These warriors came from mountain chain regions and high plateaus or desert regions. In "Indo-European civilization" the mercenaries flocked from the Turkish Anatole Plateau and its extension in the Caucasus of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ossetia, Chechnya, Albania, and Romania. The people were known as Cherkessk, Kurd, Tatar, Parthian, Scythe, and so on. The other sources of mercenaries came from Central Asia such as Turkmenistan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, and Mongolia.
The main central EMPIRE was Persia that extended many times from coastal Turkey to all of Afghanistan and part of Pakistan.
Babylon and later Assyria empires were counties of current Iran that moved the Capitals to their provinces as central power weakened in Persia. The same is true for the Hittite Empire in Anatolia that expanded to Egypt and signed the first recorded peace treaty with Egypt after the battle of Caddish. The Hittite aided the Greek by all means to defeat the Empire of Troy: Troy was a major handicap to extending to the coast and building a navy.
The urban centers in plains, rich with major water resources and large river,s hires mercenaries to defend or expand empires. The Near East region was constituted of City-States) that hired mercenaries for the war effort to defend the cities. A City-State was the center for Priesthood/learning class and peasant/skilled artisans class (the bread basket). Empires that could not maintain autochthonous soldiers as majority of their armies vanished in no times.
When studying civilizations and their continuity we should never dismiss the main factor: climate.
There are the cold, mild, and hot weather civilizations. Within these 3 categories there are the plain and mountain region people. Talking about "indo-European" languages or civilizations is stretching the imagination a tad too far and forcing issues.
It is not with the antiques written records of the elite class that civilizations and dissemination of culture can be described and comprehended, but with archeological finds of daily living, rituals, and customs within homogeneous climatic regions.
Note 1: I had the topic from "Smell of the Time" (Odeur du temps) by Jean d'Ormesson who published three articles on George Dumezil. I didn't read "Myth and Epic" and hope that d'Ormesson did.
Notes 2: The nomadic desert Jewish tribes could not invent but one God "Yahwa"; Jehovah ended up to be their warrior God. When the Jews of Moses got in contact with the Canaanites in Palestine, Yahwa was set aside during peaceful period to be resurrected during war period and his statues and temples moved closer to God Baal in order for the Jews to be hired as mercenaries.
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Who are we, the inhabitants of the Mediterranean Sea shores? Part 1
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 30, 2008
In: cities/geography | Essays | Near-East Mediterranean civilization | religion/history | social articles
Who are we, the inhabitants of the Mediterranean Sea shores? (Part 1; March 1, 2008)
I have this theory, backed by historical accounts and substantiated by archaeological and ontological finding, that the Near East region (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) has been the crossroad for the innumerable waves of immigration from East to West and to a lesser extent from Eastern Africa via Egypt to the west. This is a valid hypothesis that could be adopted as an alternative direction and guide to studying our people.
I take the first premise that most locations had their own indigenous people for various reasons going far back to thousands of years; this premise is only just, logical and convenient.
The second premise is that emigrants prefer moving toward areas with abundance of water and greener pastures. The successive waves of immigration have started in full bloom before the seventh millennial of our calendar.
People from Central Asia tended to march towards Northern Iran and then onward to the Anatolian plateau (Turkey), rich in rivers and water reserves from the melting of snow-covered majestic Taurus mountain chains. The populations in Iran were inclined to settle the shores of the great Tigris River (Dujlah) in Iraq.
From there, they forked either south along the mighty river Tigris or northward. Moving south was initially the preferred route because the climate is warmer and because it is almost impossible to navigate upward the Tigris River in its northern section. They settled and built the ancient and mighty Empires around Ur and Basra on the mouth of the Tigris River which empties in the Arab/Persia Gulf and then they expanded along the Arabian Gulf shores.
The Empires of the Antiquity (Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon) constituted the trading centers from the Arabian Gulf to the coasts of the Western Indian Ocean. The Prophet Abraham is said to have moved out with his tribe from the great city of Ur and most probably progressed south-west along the Red Sea coast. (Actually, the Jewish tribes are initially from Yemen, where most of their idols such as Hud still exist). Later, the mighty Empire of Babylon based its Capital further north of Ur on the Tigris River.
Aramaic was the main mother language with various dialects for each region because Iraq was the hotbed of civilization for over 4 millennial before Christ, starting by the kingdoms of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Ashur. All the regions from Iran, Kurdistan, the Arabic Peninsula, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and the western part of Turkey were under the hegemony of either one of these empires.
It is known that prosperous Troy was vanquished by the Greeks, after ten years of siege, because the Hittite Empire was endeavoring at that junction to reach the sea and thus, aided the Greek invaders to destroy their natural enemy. The more recent power coming from the Anatolian plateau that conquered the Middle East is the Ottoman Empire.
The waves of immigration descended along the Euphrates River and jointed the Orontes River (Al Assy) and built many cities along these rivers and many reached the Mediterranean Sea. It is known that the Orontes and Euphrates shores were studded with numerous large and prosperous City-States like Homs, Hama, Tel Amarna, Van, and Mary because it was the preferred land trade route towards Iraq, Persia and ultimately China.
The alternative more direct route was through the Syrian Desert passing by Palmyra (Tadmor) but it was way too harsh and inconvenient. Actually, almost all invasions coming from further East and North used the coastal and Euphrates River corridors to loot and conquer Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and ultimately Egypt. All these immigrants might have initially fled from persecutions and tribal warfare and also because of changing weather conditions and droughts.
The waves coming from Eastern Africa settled first in Egypt and fled for many reasons to the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea toward the Maghreb regions and also to the eastern shores and settled in the sea cities of Canaan that includes Palestine, and Lebanon. A large number had to emigrate very often from the cities of Canaan after repeated invasions of the Moguls, Persian, Iraqi, and Egyptian Empires: These Empires made it a routine to invade and loot the rich Canaan City-States for their accumulated treasures and for their skilled workers.
All these immigrants ended up in Syria and the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea of Canaan and some settled in Egypt. The ancient city of Byblos in Lebanon extended its civilization and built the cities of Sidon and Beirut and other sea towns and invented a new alphabet of 22 letters. Sidon built Tyr and Akka. As the Empires in Iraq, Persia, and Egypt invaded these cities the settled inhabitants of these prosperous seashore cities had to immigrate again to the southern and western shores of the Mediterranean Sea
Note: I read recently that a newly excavated City-State by the current city of Rukka (Northern Syria) is as old as 5,500 BC; many millennial before the City-States in southern Iraq. The society was very structured and copper was imported from Southern Turkey. A vast temple was excavated in southern Turkey that is 11,000 years BC.
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Dozens of protesters, frustrated by the delay in holding Monday's hearing, made their point outside the courthouse. The hearing will determine whether the former BART officer accused of murder, /*Johannes Mesherle*/, should stand trial.
The protesters had to wait outside, since there wasn't any room inside the packed courtroom with both Oscar Grant's and Johannes Mesherle's family members. There were a few seats set aside in the courtroom. It was an extremely tense situation all day on Monday. There was high security with seven sheriff's deputies standing guard inside the courtroom. Four witnesses testified for about five hours and one of them was the Alameda County coroner who testified that Grant died as a result of a gunshot wound to the back.
"The truth is just going to come out," said Grant's uncle Bobby Johnson.
Grant's uncle and family members sat in the courtroom wearing t-shirts with grants face on them. They sat through five hours of painful testimony.
"It's very painful, but we know this is something we have to go through at this time to get justice for Oscar," said Johnson.
Two of the amateur videos taken by /*BART*/ passengers that captured the New Year's Day shooting were shown in court and broken down and analyzed frame by frame.
When the gunshot rang out in the courtroom it startled onlookers and had Grant's family in tears.
Attorney John Burris is representing them in a $50 million lawsuit against BART.
"Is there going to be any testimony from anyone who will say that Mesherle said that night that he was reaching for a Taser? I don't believe there will be any testimony to that effect," said Burris.
The videos were recorded by two women who both said they turned their cameras on because they had concerns about the way BART officers were treating Grant and his friends from the beginning. They also said passengers on the train were rowdy and using profanity towards the officers.
But both witnesses testified that Grant was fully cooperative with officers and that he had his hands behind his back when Mesherle shot him.
Attorney Michael Cardoza was in the courtroom following the case and said there already appears to be enough evidence for this to go to trial.
"Certainly there's been enough so far with the videotapes and the coroner saying the cause of death was the gunshot wound. So the DA theoretically could rest right now," said Cardoza.
Both inside and outside the courthouse, the case continued to draw protesters.
Mesherle's attorney had requested that Judge C. Don Clay remove the Alameda County District Attorney from this case. Attorney Michael Reins accused the DA of trying to get Mesherle to talk to DA investigators without the presence of a lawyer earlier on in the investigation. Monday, the judge threw out that request and denied it.
Mesherle remains out on $3 million bail. The preliminary hearing that started Monday is expected to go on for about two weeks.
On Tuesday a witness, who was on the Fruitvale BART station platform, is expected to talk to ABC7 about new clear video that has not yet been seen publicly.
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Ukrainian Army expansion is 'stupid PR Kiev MP
According to the politician, the move just looks like another ?lie?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's plans for a massive expansion of his country's armed forces are of questionable value and could even be legally dubious, a senior lawmaker has said.
In a statement on Tuesday, Maria Ionova, who sits as an MP for the European Solidarity party, led by former President Petro Poroshenko, heaped scorn on the incumbent leader's recently signed decree to significantly increase the size of the army.
The new order, signed earlier that day, envisions growing the armed forces by at least 100,000 troops, extending their contracts and creating 20 new brigades within the armed forces. It also promises to bump up service members' pay to a minimum of three times the minimum wage, which is currently 6,500 hryvnias ($225).
According to Ionova, Zelensky's promises "to raise the army from its knees... alas, looks like another lie and stupid PR." Expanding on her remarks, the MP said that "the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is regulated by a law of the Verkhovna Rada — not by presidential decree. This should be calculated taking into account the real tasks and financial capabilities of the state."
"Secondly, the transition to a professional army usually means a reduction in the armed forces, not an increase," she added.
"Today, the recruitment of military units is barely 60% — the military does not serve due to low salaries and unresolved social problems."
"So when Zelensky talks about increasing the army by 100,000 people, but doesn't give tactical and economic justifications, it's like a promise of a billion planted trees," she wrote.
Her remarks follow shortly after Zelensky announced the sweeping order to bolster Ukraine's armed forces, which he said is designed to help professionalize the country's military capability, "and not because there is war."
Western leaders have expressed concern for months that Moscow could be planning an invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied that it has any aggressive intentions, and has instead demanded security deals that would limit the expansion of NATO closer to its borders.
(RT.com)