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Remember Iran's Green Movement?
Shahir ShahidSaless March 31, 2014
President Hassan Rouhani will not open a new battlefront against hard-liners in pushing for the release of Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hussein Mousavi while the nuclear negotiations are taking place.
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A protester shows her green-painted palm in support of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi during a silent demonstration in Tehran against the results of the Iranian presidential election, June 17, 2009.
The 2009 Iranian presidential elections were followed by organized, massive street demonstrations under the banner of the Green Movement against the disputed victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The movement was a loose coalition of reformers, moderate conservatives and seculars.
Websites associated with the defeated candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former prime minister of Iran (1981-89) and one of the prominent leaders of the Green Movement, claimed that according to leaked information from the Ministry of Interior, the real number of votes were 21.3 million for Mousavi and 10.5 million for Ahmadinejad. It should be noted that a portion of religious conservatives could have voted for Mousavi because until that date his devotion to the Islamic system and velayat-e faqih (guardianship of the jurist), was approved by the ultra-conservative Guardian Council, which vets the candidates, otherwise he could not have run for presidency.
It's then safe to assume that even taking these numbers — which for obvious reasons could be biased in favor of Mousavi — at face value, the conservative power elite that rules Iran and at the time was represented by Ahmadinejad, had at the very least over 10 million supporters. What's important to conclude here is that even based on the numbers given by the Greens, the street demonstrators were representing a faction of society, while the regime also enjoyed sizable support at the time. Therefore, the clashes of 2009 were not simply about the people against the regime. Rather, they were the manifestation of the revival of a struggle within a fragmented society.
The Green Movement's backbone was shaped by the middle- and upper-middle class. This explains why the movement was focused on civil rights and never raised any economic demands. Undoubtedly, the movement represented a sizable faction of a society that sought change as a result of frustration with Ahmadinejad and the system throwing its support behind him. In any event, based on these facts it could be concluded that the 2009 clashes were not about the whole society against the system. Rather, it was the revival of a 100-year-old battle within fragmented Iranian society. On the one side stood modernists; primarily middle- and upper middle-class young urbanites, and on the other side were traditionalists or religious conservatives with no distinctive class, although some observers maintain that mainly the low-income shaped this camp.
One of the factors that played a major role in Hassan Rouhani's June presidential victory, as we predicted during his campaign, was the strong support that the former Iranian president and the de facto leader of the reform movement, Mohammad Khatami, cast behind him. Khatami was also a supporter of the Green Movement, but after the arrests of activsts and house arrest of its leaders, the Green Movement was not an active movement that played an organized role in the elections. During his campaign, Rouhani, although considered a moderate belonging to the camp led by the former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, echoed many reformists' views, including freedom of speech, de-securitization of the atmosphere that governs the country and freedom for political prisoners, particularly ending the house arrest of the two Green Movement leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi. Many observers in Iran believe that his landslide victory in the first round was realized partly because of this aspect of his campaign.
With the formation of Rouhani's moderate government, an opposition movement, namely the Green Movement, almost lost its relevance inside Iran. Particularly because of the daily attacks of hard-line newspapers and websites, as well as hard-liners in the parliament and the conservative clergies on Rouhani and his team, his popularity among the former supporters of the Green Movement remains unshaken, if not enhanced.
As a result of the weakening of the opposition inside Iran, the opposition outside of the country is significantly pacified, certainly when compared to the Ahmadinejad era. The advocates of the Green Movement who reside outside of Iran rarely hold interviews with the western media outlets or publish articles in credible American or European newspapers. The TV station of Voice of America has stopped giving considerable airtime to the Iranian opposition, which sought to overthrow the system by encouraging people inside Iran to engage in anti-government protests and other forms of civil disobedience.
Based on some reports, the case of Mousavi and Karroubi, the two leaders of the Green Movement who were put under house arrest in 2011 after their call for a demonstration in support of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, has been given to the National Security Council to deal with. Ali Shamkhani, the current secretary of the National Security Council, who was appointed to the post by Hassan Rouhani last year, was Mohammad Khatami's minister of defense for the whole eight years of the reformist's presidency. He was dismissed when Ahmadinejad took office in 2005.
Shamkhani is considered a moderate but has good relations with reformists. Sources in Iran say that he is willing to bring Mousavi and Karroubi's case to an end. However, there is fierce opposition to their freedom from the hard-liners' camp. According to them, these "leaders of the sedition" — which refers to the street protests of 2009 and 2010 — must be tried under the charges of betraying the country.
Despite his promise to make efforts to free the political prisoners, in particular Mousavi and Karroubi, Rouhani has chosen complete silence in this respect. Some observers in Iran assert that while the government is engaged in its mega-agenda of bringing the nuclear issue to an end, which in itself has caused a great amount of friction between him and his government on one side and the hard-liners on the other, he will not open new battlefront against the hard-liners.
That said, in February, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's minister of foreign affairs, without mentioning their names, said that Rouhani would honor his commitment with regard to ending Mousavi and Karroubi's house arrest. As it appears, any serious activity toward the freedom of the two Green Movement leaders should be expected after the resolution of the nuclear standoff.
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Shahir ShahidSaless is a political analyst and freelance journalist, writing primarily about Iranian domestic and foreign affairs. He is also co-author of a book entitled "Iran and the United States: An Insider's View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace," to be released in May. He lives in Canada. Email him at shahir@iranamerica.com.
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President Donald Trump stopped to talk to reporters outside the White House about putting a new Acting Secretary of Defense in place, before heading to Florida for campaign event. (June 18)
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Pentagon chief: Iran not just a US problem
In response to attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Iran is not just a U.S. problem. He said the U.S. goal is to "build international consensus to this international problem." (June 14)
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The Pentagon was presenting proposals to the White House to send military reinforcements to the Middle East to beef up defenses against Iran amid heightened tensions in the region, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Thursday. (May 23)
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William Barr's Been Accused Of Presidential Cover-Up Before (HBO)
Weeks before former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's criminal trial over his role in the 1980's Iran-Contra scandal, then-Attorney General William Barr dropped a bomb on the prosecution.
"People in the Iran-Contra affair have been treated very unfairly," Barr told USA Today in December 1992, blasting the charges as illegitimate. "People in this Iran-Contra matter have been prosecuted for the kind of conduct that would not have been considered criminal or prosecutable by the Justice Department."
Weinberger faced charges of lying to Congress, brought by a special prosecutor, then known as an "independent counsel," who accused him of withholding 1,700 pages of notes about high-level meetings that allegedly held "evidence of a conspiracy."
Barr's broadside alarmed the lead prosecutor handling the case against Weinberger, James J. Brosnahan, who warned the judge that Barr may have just unduly biased his jury pool. Later that month, when the White House pardoned six top Iran-Contra defendants on Christmas Eve 1992 at Barr's urging, Brosnahan believed he'd just witnessed the completion of a successful cover-up.
Three decades on, Brosnahan fears Barr has returned to his old job to run the same scheme again.
"If you want a presidential cover-up, Barr is your guy," Brosnahan, now 85, told VICE News. "And I think we've already seen that."
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Sanders: Trump respects outgoing Defense Secretary
(20 Dec 2018) White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that President Donald Trump and outgoing Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis "have a good relationship, but sometimes they disagree." Trump Tweeted Thursday that Mattis will retire in February. (Dec. 20)
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Trump: 'Very happy' with Mattis; Will stay on job
(5 Sep 2018) President Donald Trump insists he is "very happy" with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis despite allegations in Bob Woodward's upcoming book, and says Mattis will stay on the job, adding he is "highly respected all over the world." (Sept. 5)
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The Trump Administration's newly-released guidelines on banning transgender people from serving in the military may not be in effect yet — but some transgender troops currently serving say the policy is already taking its toll on their community.
Blake Dremann, an active duty Navy Lieutenant Commander who also leads an association of LGBT service members called SPARTA, told VICE News he's already heard from other transgender military personnel who've been discriminated against.
"My superiors have been very supportive. But we have had service members who have experienced discrimination — typically along the lines of, they don't agree that we're able to serve. They don't like the policy and they refuse to follow the regulations," Dremann said.
The Trump Administration's ban, which President Trump announced via tweet last summer, has yet to take effect because it's been blocked in the courts, after a handful of LGBTQ rights organizations challenged the proposal last year.
But the Administration is still moving forward with crafting guidelines and policy around the ban, and on Friday the White House released a new, more specific memo endorsing a handful of recommendations from a Department of Defense panel convened to study the issue. The panel recommended — and Defense Secretary James Mattis signed on to — banning individuals who've undergone gender confirmation surgery in the past, or plan to in the future, from enlisting.
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Britain's new Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson has taken a tough line on British-born members of Islamic State: Kill them and be done with it. His comments are the latest in an ongoing debate over whether disillusioned jihadists could be reintegrated.
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We Follow A New Generation Of Soldiers Headed To Afghanistan (HBO)
Yesterday afternoon, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson went to Capitol Hill to ask for an extension of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, the law that allows the U.S. to continue to wage wars against those responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
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In a symbolic warning about how close the world stands to suffering a nuclear catastrophe, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. The existential threat now poses a greater danger to humanity than at any time since the height of the Cold War. The standoff between Russia the US, the world's biggest nuclear powers, as well as regional conflicts and the threat of terrorists getting their hands on nuclear material, can all lead to disastrous consequences. With global politics growing more unstable, are nuclear arms still the strongest deterrent to global war, or are they the biggest menace to the security of the world? And, with a new president in the White House, how will America's nuclear arms policy evolve? We ask former US Secretary of Defense Dr. William Perry.
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Outdoor Research built the San Juan Jacket for bluebird days in light fluffy snow off the beaten path. Its softshell fabric is ruggedly resistant against winds and water to keep you comfy whether you're skinning through wind or skiing through snow spray. The helmet-compatible hood provides additional protection from the elements when you're descending a wide open apron of fresh powder or finding your way up an exposed ridgeline. The jacket moves with your body thanks to movement-mirroring stretch, so your body is covered regardless if you're moving up or down the mountain.
A well-designed skiing and mountaineering soft shell. The fit is great and allows for full range of motion without lifting or bunching. Construction is quite burly and should stand up to encounters with sharp rocks and branches. I love the cinch-down system on the helmet compatible hood that keeps it secure on the ski down. The wind resistance is excellent, and while it's not waterproof by any means, it has done a good job shedding dry Utah snowfall.
For me personally, the jacket is a little thicker than I want for ski touring - it's too heavy for me to wear on the skin up without sweating, so I have to take it off, and for me the whole point of a softshell is to throw it on and leave it on all day. For that, I really love another jacket from Outdoor Research - the Ferrosi.
If you move at a slower pace and/or run cold, this would probably be the ticket, however!
Hey Dana - Thank you for the review. The San Juan is great because it has not membrane to make you overheat, although the tight weave can warm up if really working it uphill. Still, better than with a membrane! Appreciate the review!
It is a great shell for a great price!
I did not use it for anything but did go through some weird fall rainstorms with it holding up great! It is not 100% waterproof but does provide decent waterproofing!
I would recommend it to anyone looking for a quality shell for an unbeatable price.
Durable material and comfortable fabric makes for a solid shell piece. Breathes well, so it won't keep you warm in anything below 40 degrees, but that's not its purpose. Cool feature I discovered while trying it out is that it has a small key ring leash in the left side hand pocket.
I used this jacket for climbing some multipitch climbs in windy high 40 degree weather and it did a great job in cutting the wind and keeping me warm. I never felt limited in movement while using this jacket, the hood fit well while wearing my climbing helmet. It also breathes really well when building up a sweat from hiking up some steep trails.
This jacket would work really well for any activity where you need to be protected from wind and small percipitation but need the extra breathability.
I'm 6'0 145lbs and the M fit perfectly.


Supreme is a brand known mostly for its clothing, but also for its outrageous prices. A normal shirt that can be made for $20 becomes $85 the moment the Supreme logo is placed on it. It is a sad but well-known fact that if you are interested in buying anything Supreme, you will have to do one of two things: either wait in a seemingly endless line at the crack of dawn, or keep refreshing the app store online, hoping that you get lucky. However, even if you do get the opportunity to buy a Supreme product, you must be prepared to spend a small fortune, as its products can cost as much as $20,000. To spend this much time and money—this is what devotion looks like. This kind of devotion is what the companies like Supreme live on. That is why Supreme's current net worth equates to one billion dollars.
As long as the brand has devoted costumers who will go far and wide for their merchandise, as long as teens who live in Alaska or Oklahoma are willing to beg and plead with parents to fly to New York for a chance to buy a Supreme t-shirt, as long as the company simply places its logo on anything, then its going to continue to turn a profit. A good example of this is when the brand sold a brick (yes, you read that correctly) with its logo on it. Suddenly, there was a demand for Supreme bricks.
The status that relates to Supreme is what originally created its following. It is a common stereotype that anyone who wears Supreme must have money. This, in turn, makes Supreme consumers feel on top of the world. However, this causes people to spend money they don't have to achieve this status.
It would be difficult to convince someone that their devotion is well meant but wrongly placed. If you were poor all our life and then suddenly after years of poverty you finally made it big, the first thing would you do is buy some expensive things to make you forget that you were ever poor in the first place. What better way is there to accomplish this than to buy from a store that proves you're not broke? People's devotion to Supreme is something close to addiction because many care little about the company itself. They just want the status that wearing the brand gives them, even if they do not need it.
Timothy Ajayi is a junior at HBU where he is currently completing his Mass Media Arts Degree. His favorite movies are Rush Hour 3, 2, and 1, in that order.


How Owning a Pet can keep you Happier?
Owning a dog, cat, or other exotic pets can be a task when taking care of them, but scientific studies denote that pet company can keep you happier and healthier.
Researchers at the American Psychological Association report that on average, pet owners also tend to be more extraverted and outgoing, as well as relatively well-adjusted with higher self-esteem as opposed to individuals who did not own pets, owing to the social and emotional support that pets have to offer.
If you own a pet you are likely to be physically fitter as well. Your dog's routine walks or cat's play-time ensures higher levels of physical fitness as well, and walks in the park can also promote social life – through interaction with other et owners or neighbours.
Pet owners also seek to find time out of their life of work worries to spend time with their pet, which is a significant way to de-stress and keeps the mind healthier and happier.
Looks like you've got a lot to be thankful to your pet for!


Prior to the Super Bowl LIII kickoff, R&B duo Chloe x Halle delivered a pristine rendition of "America the Beautiful" in their hometown of Atlanta on Sunday night (Feb. 3).
Matching in all-black, letting their falsettos ring out and clasping hands at the end, the sisters preceded Gladys Knight, who sang the national anthem at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi are scheduled to perform during halftime.
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This past Sunday we announced the transition of Jonathan Mosier out of the role of teaching pastor at Mercy Hill - Lake Country as he follows God's leading in a new direction in his life and the transition of Kevin Oelke to replace him. Please see the announcements below.
Eight and a half years ago God led Jessica and I to Mercy Hill Church. We started attending about 6 weeks after Mercy Hill Lake Country began meeting publicly. Mercy Hill has continued to be home for us since that day. Shortly after we started attending I was given an opportunity to preach, and at the end of 2012 I stepped in as the preaching pastor of Mercy Hill Church Lake Country.
These last years have been sweet and memorable. God has blessed, both us and Mercy Hill, richly in that time. We love Mercy Hill and its people. Jessica and I have been privileged to see people come to know Christ, be baptized, and begin to serve the kingdom at this church. Likewise, my family has been richly blessed and loved by this congregation. You all mean a great deal to us and I cannot adequately express my love and appreciation for the people of Mercy Hill.
I've also been thankful for the leaders of Mercy Hill. The elders gave me my first opportunity to preach and minister formally in this church. That's something for which I will forever be grateful. Their desire is to lead the church well and respond to what the Holy Spirit is leading them to. I'm confident that they will continue to follow God's calling for the spread of the Gospel and the joy of God's people.
In the same way, God has also made it clear that he's moving. God has led the elders of Mercy Hill to their view and approach of a multi-site church. They feel it's the best way to be effective for the Gospel and to see the Gospel move forward. At the very same time, I feel like God is calling me to lead a church that is structured a bit different, where my particular gifts and callings can play out differently. So I want to be clear, I don't believe there is anything wrong with the approach that the elders have embraced. In fact, I want to encourage and bless them in that direction, but God is leading me to something different and I feel that I need to step away from Mercy Hill in order to be faithful to do what God is calling me to do in this next stage. Even though God is leading us down different paths, my desire is to be a blessing to the leadership and people of Mercy Hill. So Jessica and I would covet your prayers as we consider this next stage of life and ministry.
March 4th will be my last Sunday at Mercy Hill. Kevin Oelke, the current worship pastor at the Bay View campus, will be replacing me as the preaching pastor. I've known Kevin to be a man who loves Jesus, proclaims the Gospel well and deeply cares for those around him. In addition to lending support to Kevin in this time of transition, my encouragement to you is to continue to draw near to those that God has placed around you and continue to faithfully serve God and His Church. Transitions are hard and Satan would love to use this as an opportunity to draw people away from the Father.
We are sad to leave Mercy Hill, but are also confident and excited to see what God has for us in this next stage. The foundation of the Church is Jesus Christ and we are promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Jesus is still on the throne and he is still the Great Shepherd. My prayer is that in this season of transition you would do what we've strived to faithfully teach and emulate: to look to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.
Jonathan and Jessica began attending Mercy Hill Church several years ago when looking for a gospel-centered church. He was raised up here as a leader and pastor and we have seen Jonathan develop in many aspects as he has allowed the Spirit to work in him and as he worked alongside the leaders in this body. We love him dearly as a brother in Christ. He has been a true blessing to us and as a result we now hope to be a true blessing to him and his family as they venture out discerning the Holy Spirit's leading on their lives.
Jonathan and the elders have been in conversation over the last several months on what this means for the future leadership of Mercy Hill Lake Country. All the elders, along with Jonathan, have confirmed that Kevin Oelke will transition into the role of teaching pastor here in Lake Country. Many of you know Kevin who has served as the worship pastor at Bay View since the inception of Mercy Hill and as he has spent time here in Lake Country both leading in worship and teaching. He has done that from Lake Country's early days, when it was a handful of people meeting Sunday nights at a daycare center in Delafield.
God has been preparing Kevin and his wife Amy to a different role in ministry over this last year. God, in His providence, put the ministry of Lake Country on Kevin's heart in a special way long before he knew that this transition was coming. This change has now been confirmed to Kevin and his family as well as to the elders and we believe he is the pastor God has been preparing to take Jonathan's place. This move reflects our commitment to follow the Holy Spirit's directing as he raises up leaders from within Mercy Hill as opposed to going outside this local body. This approach allows us as a church to continue with the same commitment to a philosophy of ministry that makes the teaching of the Gospel central and the building of community essential.
Over the course of the next month Jonathan will be working alongside Kevin to transition him into this role at Lake Country before his departure. We know that transitions like these can be difficult for the many who have developed a strong relationship with Jonathan and so we are trusting the Holy Spirit to guide us through this process and are praying for unity in the body as this happens. We encourage you who call Mercy Hill your home to continue to engage in community and ministry as God leads us all into this next season. We also ask you to continue in fellowship by encouraging and praying for Jonathan and his family as God leads them into their next phase of life. This is what we, the leadership of Mercy Hill, will endeavor to do.
Also join us in prayer that the blessing of God be on Jonathan and His family and that the unity of Christ reign at Mercy Hill for the Glory of God. We, the elders, are all in agreement that the sovereign hand of God has orchestrated this so that His perfect will might be fulfilled in both Jonathan's life and the life of this church. We genuinely are excited to see how God will use this for His Kingdom purposes.
If anyone has any questions or would like to get together to talk with any of us please feel free to email us either at our personal email addresses or at elders@mercyhill.org.


The Society for Information Display's 54th annual Display Week 2017 is coming up later this month at the Los Angeles Convention Center, May 23-25th. Join members of WPGA's sales, marketing and embedded BDS team as they check out the industry's latest.
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called TO COMPLY OR NOT COMPLY: ENSURING EYE CARE TREATMENTS ARE EFFECTIVE and is located at https://silversteineyecenters.com/blog/2017/01/effective-eye-care-treatments/.
You return home from the eye doctor with specific instructions about how often to use your prescription eye drops and some guidelines to help you care for your eyes. The first day, you comply 100 percent and follow your ophthalmologist's directions to the letter. On day two, you're not quite as precise with your home treatments. By the end of the week, you're missing doses and going outside without a protective eye patch.
You call your doctor's office to complain that the infection doesn't seem to be clearing up. The receptionist asks if you have been following the prescribed eye care plan. You swallow and say, "No, but …," ready to give an excuse as to why you didn't follow instructions. Sound familiar? Noncompliance is a universal problem preventing eye care patients from properly treating and overcoming common eye conditions.
Even the most routine eye care regimens, such as inserting a contact lens, can harm your eyes and vision health when not followed as directed. Improper handling, poor hygiene, inappropriate use of solution, abrupt change of care products, sleeping with your lenses and failing to replace them can cause infections and negatively affect your eyesight.
So if failure to comply with something as routine as proper contact lens use can affect your eyes, you should rightfully assume that not complying with more serious procedures will have drastic effects. And yet despite that, noncompliance is an overwhelmingly common problem with eye care patients. Research from the Glaucoma Research Foundation revealed that an estimated 25 percent of patients with glaucoma fail to take their medications! Sadly, not taking medication has been identified as one of the leading reasons glaucoma patients suffer from blindness.
Not only does medication or treatment noncompliance affect your vision health, it also undermines the treatment your eye doctor is trying to provide. Taking too much or too little medication can prevent your ophthalmologist from being able to adequately monitor the progress and effectiveness of your treatment. When you fail to comply with your prescribed treatment, you are basically taking your health into your own hands.
Why don't eye care patients comply? There are many reasons. Misinformation, confusion and overconfidence in their ability to handle their eye care procedures are all influencing patient's noncompliance. Some patients want to comply but have misplaced their instructions and choose to "wing" it. Others assume following the prescribed plan for a few days will be just as effective as following it for a week.
Take note: If your eye care professional gave you clear instructions, you need to follow them exactly. It is not the intention of any doctor to ask you to perform meaningless procedures or be too rigid. Whatever instructions you were given are provided so that you benefit from the maximum effectiveness of the treatment and are able to protect and preserve the health of your eyes.
Ask questions. If you are unsure of what to do or why you should do it, ask your doctor to explain the procedure. Don't assume anything when it comes to your health.
Don't count on your memory. Store instruction sheets in a place where you can easily find them, such as your medicine cabinet. If your doctor gives you additional information, ask for it in writing or take notes at your appointment.
Bring company. Instead of trusting yourself to remember all the details, bring a loved one with you to appointments who can take notes or ask questions as needed.
Request a demonstration. If you are uncertain about proper techniques, such as the right way to administer eye drops, ask your doctor or a technician to show you how to do this correctly.
Contact your eye care clinic. If you misplace your instructions or forget some detail about your eye care regimen, call in to ask questions.
Following these simple steps can prevent you from causing further damage to your eyes and ensure that your eye care treatments actually work.


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—A common complaint
Bottled water is essentially a dirtier, ridiculously expensive[note 1][1] version of municipal water resold in plastic containers.[2]
Somehow, Coca-cola, Pepsi, Nestlé, and many other companies have convinced half of all Americans to buy water for 1 to 6 USD a gallon in bottle form,[3] instead of tap water, for a fraction of a USD penny per gallon,[4][5] all because of the influence of marketing and the publicized tap water contamination scares. Check your gas prices while you're at it, society.
1.1 Bacteria
1.2 Hazardous waste
2 Plastic leaching and cancer
3.1 Alternative to soda
3.2 Convenience
4.3 Russia
5 Environmental impact and waste
6 Bottled water in emergency response
6.1 Natural disasters
6.2 Contamination
Nothing more natural than a polyethylene terephthalate thermoplastic polymer container on a beach!
""Bottled water is the marketing trick of the century.
—John Jewell[6]
For the most tasteless and odorless substance on the planet, companies market bottled water products as having intrinsic high quality with a silky smooth texture and taste, despite a lack of any substantiative differences between normal water.[6][7][8] In Michael Shermer's article Bottled Twaddle, he reminds us just how taste-deaf our tongues actually are when it comes to nasty, boring water:[5]
The most telling taste test was conducted by the Showtime television series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. The hosts began with a blind comparison in which 75 percent of New Yorkers preferred city tap to bottled waters. They then went to the Left Coast and set up a hidden camera at a trendy southern California restaurant that featured a water sommelier who dispensed elegant water menus to the patrons. All bottles were filled out of the same hose in the back of the restaurant; nevertheless, Angelenos were willing to plunk down nearly $7 a bottle for L'eau Du Robinet (French for "faucet water"), Agua de Culo (Spanish for "ass water") and Amazone ("filtered through the Brazilian rain forest's natural filtration system"), declaring them all to be far superior to tap water. There's no accounting for taste.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!'s experiment illustrates the power of suggestion; the only aspect affecting the taste of the water is the assumed quality through deceptive presentation.
Bacteria[edit]
It pays to be warned of what you may consume, though. In 2016, at least 14 different brands of bottled water recalled their products due to E. coli contamination, the presence of which suggests the additional presence of animal or human waste.[9]
Hazardous waste[edit]
In one extreme case, "water, flaunted as 'spring water,' was pumped from a water source next to a hazardous waste dumping site."[10][11][12][better sources needed]
Plastic leaching and cancer[edit]
According to the grape vine, frozen bottled water releases carcinogenic dioxins, reusing water bottles releases carcinogenic DEHA, and heating bottled water releases Bisphenol A, a synthetic estrogen that causes breasts cancer and hormone issues. None of these claims are actually true, except for the last one, kind of.[13]
The health scare about heated water bottles was partly fueled from journalists taking a 2014 study by the University of Florida out of context.[14][15] The study shows two issues:[16][17][18]
The study was actually conducted in China by Chinese students who sampled Chinese water bottles.
The finding of the study reported water within the correct ranges of water standards.
""Evocative names and labels depicting pastoral scenes have convinced us that the liquid is the purest drink around. But labels can be misleading at best, deceptive at worst. In one notorious case, water coming from a well located near a hazardous waste site was sold to many bottlers. At least one of these companies labeled its product "spring water." In another case, H2O sold as "pure glacier water" came from a public water system in Alaska.
—Reader's Digest [19]
A typical ad for typical water. Don't worry, it's not bottled in Cleveland.[20]
Depictions of exotic mountains, crisp glaciers, and other beautiful imagery often depicted on bottles invoke a sense of purity and freshness. This eases a consumer's mind and convinces them they're making a better and healthier dietary decision.[6][7]
Here's a list of refreshing terminology for overpriced, unfiltered tap water:
"Designed to make a difference"[21]
"The secret is in the Alps"[22]
"Purified spring mineral water"[Every bottled water ever]
"A water that belongs on the wine list"[23]
Alternative to soda[edit]
While being vastly inferior to tap water in every way, bottled water was initially positioned as an alternative to unhealthy sodas. In a Hispanic-targeted sweepstakes, Nestlé challenged families to replace sugary drinks with water for a possible cash prize:[24]
The campaign also uses regional radio to support in-store promotions, grassroots events and the La Promesa sweepstakes at Vivesanamentenestle.com. Consumers can register their pledge to remove one sugary drink from their family's diet each day and replace it with water. In doing so, they are automatically registered in the contest with over $20,000 in prizes, including a grand prize trip for four to Miami, and dinner with Cristina Saralegui.
Rodriguez said Hispanic consumers have played an important role in growing the brand's popularity since it was launched in America nearly seven years ago. It is now the best-selling bottled water brand by volume, according to Beverage Marketing Corp. In the brand's most recent marketing efforts, Nestle did not run general market advertising but focused instead on Hispanic ads using the first campaign featuring Cristina Saralegui. Since those ads broke in 2008, the brand's awareness and purchase intent levels have quadrupled among Hispanics, Rodriguez said.
Convenience[edit]
Bottled water is marketed as a convenient alternative to tap water.[6][7] Obviously, it's much easier to spend money like a dope instead of planning ahead and filling up a container at home to carry with you. Unfortunately, the bottled water craze has resulted in fewer public drinking fountains, therefore, giving positive feedback to the cash cow industry.[25]
Regulation[edit]
In the U.S., bottled water is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration while tap water is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. [26] It doesn't sound like much, but once you consider how the regulation process goes, the EPA goes much further to ensure the water is safe for drinking.
The FDA has two means of testing bottled water, testing it themselves[27] and to have companies do it for them.[28] For the latter, it goes by an honor system, therefore, companies can lie about the regulations its not abiding by. According to studies, bottled water often fails to meet EPA standards of mercury, thallium, and thorium amounts.[29][30] As for the FDA's plant inspections, fairly loose regulations are also present. Here's some quotes, straight from the administration's website:[27]
Because FDA's experience over the years has shown that bottled water has a good safety record,[31] bottled water plants generally are assigned a relatively low priority for inspection. The Agency, however, inspects violative firms more frequently, depending on the number, significance and recurrence of violations. In addition, FDA's field offices follow up on consumer and trade complaints and other leads, as appropriate, on potentially violative bottled water products.
The current system in place is not preventative and is, instead, reactive to a violation of unsafe water released to the public ... after the fact. Amusingly, a handful of unsafe bottled water cases between the years 1994 and 2006 were not made public for whatever reason.[32] Here's one more awful questionable FDA practice:
FDA laboratories may test the water for microbiological, radiological or chemical contamination. Individual samples are not tested for all possible contaminants cited in the quality standard, but for selected contaminants, depending on the reason for the sampling. For example, suspected microbiological contamination may result in microbiological analysis. (However, as noted, bottlers are required to maintain testing records to show to government inspectors for all the contaminants in the quality standard.)
Keep in mind, the quotes from above are straight from the official dot gov website. The rather lax regulations are likely a reflection of a lack of funding or authority over the issue. Either way, Congress is to blame, not the FDA per se.
Meanwhile, tap water goes through rigorous testing, thanks to the Safe Drinking Water Act.[33][34] The results show tap water has consistently less contaminants than bottled water. Despite highly publicized contaminated tap water incidents, no scientific evidence shows tap water has more toxins than bottled water; in fact, it's the other way around. Despite this, the FDA claims to have higher standards for lead in bottled water by a difference of 10 ppb because "leaching of lead from distribution systems is not a factor for bottled water and, based on its survey data, FDA concluded that bottlers can readily produce bottled water products with lead levels below 5 ppb."[27] In contradiction, a lot of bottled water available in the United States is tap water, so "leaching of lead from distribution systems" should be a factor. However, tap water isn't free of contaminates either. According to a study, 94% of sampled tap water was contaminated with plastic fibers, although the health impacts remain unclear.[35]
Europe[edit]
Bottled water looming over a hapless fountain it has pumped dry.
The UK treats bottled water as food:[36]
Bottled waters are split into 3 categories: natural mineral water, spring water and bottled drinking water. Each has their own rules and requirements on exploitation, sale and how they are labelled.
Similarly, German law provides for a different set of regulations for tap water than for bottled water. Needless to say the regulations for tap water are much much stricter and in fact, they may even go to your house to measure at the tap whether any pollutants are above the legal limits.[37][better source needed] As for another advantage of tap water, in Germany, you won't be slapped by the intentionally onerous 25 cent deposit on throwaway bottles; this is even more expensive than the cheapest one and a half liter of water itself.[38][better source needed]
Russia[edit]
Some areas in Russia is safe to drink tap water; others, not so much, though that doesn't stop tour guides from advising tourists to avoid it altogether or some restaurants serving only bottled water.[39][40] Although the big cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg have cleaner water than areas in Central Russia, Siberia, Yamal, and Altai, the pipe infrastructure is pre-Soviet era where some cities have very poor pipe quality, with Kalmykia having 72 percent and Novogorod having 55 percent of pipes not up to modern standards. What doesn't help is that St. Petersburg has contained trace amounts of the Giardia lamblia parasite. Most people don't drink tap water and swear by the bottled water, use water purifier filters, or boil their water before serving.[citation needed]
Roskachestvo serves as the watch dog regulatory agency for Russia's products, funded by the government to promote Russian stuff (something to keep in mind when looking at its research). Products that pass its testing earns a quality seal from it. Russian law categorizes bottled water in two categories: first category water, which is just "cleaner" tap water, and water of the highest category, which not only comes from "natural" sources but has to be "good for your health" to drink it.[41] Notably Roskachestvo has noted that some bottled water categorized as water of the highest category often did not meet quality standards.
Environmental impact and waste[edit]
The water ripples you see? That's Mother Earth, crying.
In some strange twist, it takes water to produce water bottles. In the best case scenario, it takes 1.26 Liters of water to produce plastic for 1 Liter of water; on average this number is 1.32 Liters.[42] While the amount of water to make bottled water is better than other products such as soda,[43] it still doesn't negate that companies are wasting water when tap water is a reasonable and more efficient means of getting water.
The plastic poses another issue: recycling. Sure, water bottles clearly indicate that it's recyclable, but most people don't recycle. According to IBIS World:[44][45]
About 6 billion pounds of plastic bottles get thrown away every year, and only about 30% of them are recycled[.] Of that 30%, just one-fifth is processed to create fresh plastic bottles for use in food and beverage.
Plastic bottles can take 450 years to decompose if left in the environment.[46] You don't want to make the Earth sad, do you?
Bottled water in emergency response[edit]
Natural disasters[edit]
FEMA recommends using bottled water for emergency kits, although its reasoning behind its usage is questionable:[47]
It is recommended you purchase commercially bottled water, in order to prepare the safest and most reliable emergency water supply.
While bottled water is not the safest, it is very reliable for emergency situations and doesn't need further treatment, unlike tap water.[47] Although, it is best to create your own emergency supply from tap water for safety reasons.[note 2]
Contamination[edit]
In Ohio, Toledo's water supply was affected by Lake Erie's algae blooms hence contaminating the water supply. In response, the city banned tapped water, prompting the Red Cross to supply the half a million of affected citizens with bottled water.[48] The take away: bottled water is a reasonable alternative when it is relatively cleaner than the available tap water.
Holy water — it's occasionally bottled, often unsanitary, and completely unregulated
See the Wikipedia article on Bottled water in the United States.
See the Wikipedia article on Drinking water supply and sanitation in the United States.
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This means that we do not load blanks ourselves, we buy them in from large manufacturers, this is more costly, but they are more reliable and they are safer.
This brings me to the second reason that we use only factory blanks. We have found that when blanks are crimped by hand they are a little inconsistent which can lead to the crimp splitting and flying out of the muzzle. This occurs a lot more when blanks are re-loaded, which must never occur, when a blank round is being used on a film set.
Below are some pictures of blank rounds, dummy rounds and a live round.
Dummy rounds are used in film when a close up is needed and the rounds will be picked up by camera.
Live rounds must never be on a film set unless a parks ranger is in control of any animals (such as a crocodile or tiger), and then only under their guidance.
Above are three unfired blank rounds. You will note that the primers on the bottom are unfired and the crimp at the top is still crimped together.
Above are three fired blank rounds. You will note that the crimps on the top have all been opened.
Above is a blank round that has had its crimp split the re-loaded and fired again. The small piece of copper that came off this round pierced a roller door from 5 meters. This is why we never re-load blanks.
Above are five assorted types of dummy rounds. These have a projectile still in place but the powder is removed, and the primers have been struck as can be seen on the right hand side.
Above is a live round. It has a projectile and a primer that has not been fired.
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Fayum - Encyclopedia
FAYUM, a mudiria (province) of Upper Egypt, having an area of 490 sq. m. and a population (1907) of 441,583. The capital, Medinet-el-Fayum, is 81 m. S.S.W. of Cairo by rail. The Fayum proper is an oasis in the Libyan Desert, its eastern border being about 15 m. west of the Nile. It is connected with that river by the Bahr Yusuf, which reaches the oasis through a gap in the hills separating the province from the Nile Valley. Southwest of the Fayum, and forming part of. the mudiria, is the Gharak depression. Another depression, entirely barren, the Wadi Rayan, covering 280 sq. m., lies west of the Gharak. The whole region is below sea-level, and save for the gap mentioned is encircled by the Libyan hills. The lowest part of the province, the north-west end, is occupied by the Birket el Kerun, or Lake of the Horns, whose surface level is 140 ft. below that of the sea. The lake covers about 78 sq. m.
Differing from the typical oasis, whose fertility depends on water obtained from springs, the cultivated land in the Fayum is formed of Nile mud brought down by the Bahr Yusuf. From this channel, 15 m. in length from Lahun, at the entrance of the gap in the hills, to Medina, several canals branch off and by these the province is irrigated, the drainage water flowing into the Birket el Kerun. Over 400 sq. m. of the Fayum is cultivated, the chief crops being cereals and cotton. The completion of the Assuan dam by ensuring a fuller supply of water enabled 20,000 acres of land, previously unirrigated and untaxed, to be brought under cultivation in the three years 1903-1905. Three crops are obtained in twenty months. The province is noted for its figs and grapes, the figs being of exceptionally good quality. Olives are also cultivated. Rose trees are very numerous and most of the attar of roses of Egypt is manufactured in the province. The Fayum also possesses an excellent breed of sheep. Lake Kerun abounds in fish, notably the bulli (Nile carp), of which considerable quantities are sent to Cairo.
Medinet el-Fayum (or Medina), the capital of the province, is a great agricultural centre, with a population which increased from 26,000 in 1882 to 37,320 in 1907, and has several large bazaars, mosques, baths and a much-frequented weekly market. The Bahr Yusuf runs through the town, its banks lined with houses. There are two bridges over the stream: one of three arches, which carries the main street and bazaar, and one of two arches over which is built the Kait Bey mosque. Mounds north of the town mark the site of Arsinoe, earlier Crocodilopolis, where was worshipped the sacred crocodile kept in the Lake of Moeris. Besides Medina there are several other towns in the province, among them Senuris and Tomia to the north of Medina and Senaru and Abuksa on the road to the lake, all served by railways. There are also, especially in the neighbourhood of the lake, many ruins of ancient villages and cities. The Fayum is the site of the Lake of Moeris (q.v.) of the ancient Egyptians - a lake of which Birket el Kerun is the shrunken remnant.
See The Fayum and Lake Moeris, by Major (Sir) R. H. Brown, R.E. (London, 1892), a valuable contribution as to the condition of the province at that date, its connexion with Lake Moeris and its possibilities in the future; The Assuan Reservoir and Lake Moeris (London, 1904), by Sir William Willcocks - with text in English, French and Arabic - a consideration of irrigation possibilities; The Topography and Geology of the Fayum Province of Egypt, by H. J. L. Beadnell (Cairo, 1905).
https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/f/fayum.html


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Q: Concerning The Number of Ways of Drawing a Full House vs. Two Pair The Wikipedia entry for "Poker probability" gives the following result for the number of ways of drawing a full house:
$$ \binom{13}{1} \binom{4}{3} \binom{12}{1} \binom{4}{2} = 3, 744. $$
The logic here is conventional: From the 13 kinds you choose 1, then choose 3 of the 4 available cards of that kind. Then, from the remaining 12 kinds, you choose 1, then choose 2 of the available cards of that kind. No problem.
However, for the number of ways of drawing a two pair it gives the following:
$$ \binom{13}{2} \binom{4}{2} \binom{4}{2} \binom{11}{1} \binom{4}{1} = 123, 552. $$
But, by the logic used for drawing a full house, shouldn't it be the following:
$$ \binom{13}{1} \binom{4}{2} \binom{12}{1} \binom{4}{2} \binom{11}{1} \binom{4}{1} = 247, 104? $$
OR, conversely, by using the logic used to get a two pair, shouldn't the number of ways of drawing a full house be the following:
$$ \binom{13}{2} \binom{4}{3} \binom{4}{2} = 2,808? $$
As you can see, this isn't just a matter of inconsistent approaches that give the same result; these give different values. I just don't know how I'm supposed to be able to intuit these sort of things, seeing as they seem like the same thing to me.

A: The problem with your $247,104$ is that it counts each two-pair hand two times, according to which of the pairs you mention first. But 5H-5D-7S-7H-9D is the same hand as 7S-7H-5H-5D-9D, so it gets counted both with fives first and with sevens first.
In contrast, for a full house it is unambiguous which value is the one with three cards and which is the one with two.

A: The difference between a full house (AAABB) and a two pair (AABBC) is that when drawing a two pair, both pairs are groups of two. With the full house, one is a group of three, and the other is a group of two. With your methos, you are counting, for example, AABBC as different from BBAAC.
So the logic is first choose the two (different) kinds from a total of $13$:$\binom{13}{2}$;Then for each of these values, pick two out of four:$\binom{4}{2}\binom{4}{2}$;
And from the remaining $11$ kinds, choose the value of the other card:$\binom{11}{1}\binom{4}{1}$

A: In the second formula you give for the number of was to draw a two pair which is a product of $6$ terms, the outcomes (4, heart and spade, 3, heart and diamond, J, club) and (3, heart and diamond, 4, heart and spade, J, club) are counted as different hands when in fact they are the same five-card hand.  So you need to divide this value by $2$ to get the correct answer.
In the second formula you give for the number of ways to draw a full house (your formula should evaluate to $1872$, not $2808$),  the first term ${13 \choose 2}$ is the number of ways to draw two kinds from $13$ kinds, and from these two kinds, you can choose the kind for the triple in $2$ ways (recall that a full house has both a triple and a pair).  So you need to multiply your answer $1872$ by $2$.  Here, since the order in which you draw the two kinds is important, using combinations (binomial coefficient) just once will not suffice.
The reason you are using a different method for the two problems is that in a full house, the two subsets of cards have different sizes ($2$ and $3$) whereas if the hand is two pairs, then the two subsets of cards have the same size $2$. You are correct in thinking of the experiment as being a sequence of steps and taking the product of the number of ways to do each step, but during this process you need to be careful to not over-count or under-count.

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Yesterday the decidedly un-groovy news came out that Evil Dead remake director Fede Alvarez and co-writer Rodo Sayagues were no longer attached to doing a sequel. But, as with so many stories of people departing a showbiz project, it turns out this one may have been a bit misconstrued. Alvarez took to Twitter last night to walk back Sayagues' statements, commenting to Bloody Disgusting that "stuff got lost in translation" with his co-writer. He explained that they're "not actually making Evil Dead 2 right now because the priority is Sam [Raimi]'s Army Of Darkness 2. But the plan of making a sequel to our Evil Dead is very much alive."
Judging from the video of Sayagues' Spanish-language interview, the "lost in translation" claim is debatable, meaning this could be just a way of patching over a PR snafu. But whatever the explanation, it's also the case that Alvarez and Sayagues have plenty of other projects in the works before they'll even get around to making their sequel to a reboot of a franchise whose original iteration is also getting its fourth film, 20 years after the last installment. Good luck with that headache.


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Q: waiting for xserver to shut down (ee) server terminated successfully (0)? I've downloaded mininet 64bit and I imported it on VMware workstation 12. Installed command startx, but when I install gui "Ubuntu-desktop" or "ubuntu-gnome-desktop" and then run command startx i get the following error. I'd appreciate it if you help me out here step by step since I'm a beginner. Tried some methods found on the Internet but none of'em pan out.

A: Don't be alarmed. You have to again type 'startx' to boot normally.

A: problem solved,solution :
step 1)sudo apt-get install xinit
step 2)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
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SHIPPENSBURG - Burglary and robbery charges have been filed against a Harrisburg man police say was involved in a shooting Monday night in Shippensburg Township, Cumberland County.
Police said Sherron Eugene Baltimore, 21, Harrisburg, was charged today with aggravated and simple assault, robbery, burglary and conspiracy in the shooting of Kevin Malik Kenney, 20, Philadelphia, and Christopher Batts Jr., no address given.
Baltimore was arraigned before Cumberland County District Judge H. Anthony Adams and placed in Cumberland County Prison in lieu of $300,000. In an earlier news release, police had identified Baltimore as one of the shooting victims.
According to an affidavit filed in the case, Baltimore and Kenney conspired to rob Batts and during the attempet, Batts was shot in the abdomen.
The arresting trooper said in the affidavit that Baltimore and Kenney went to an apartment occupied by Batts, forced their way into the apartment when Batts answered the door, then hit Batts over the head with a crowbar.
A struggle ensued and Batts, who according to the affidavit had a Ruger pistol in his possession, dropped the pistol, which was picked up by another apartment occupant, Chavez Ortiz. Ortiz told police he pointed the pistol at one of the intruders in an attempt to get him to leave the building.
Ortiz told police he heard two shots before he found the gun on the floor, and by the time he retrieved it, one of the intruders had already left the building.
After the second intruder fled, Ortiz realized Batts had been injured by a gunshot to his abdomen, according to the affidavit.
Police were first called to a residence in the 500 block of Bard Drive at 11:19 p.m., where they found Kenney. At 11:46 p.m., troopers responded to another call about another gunshot victim in the 1200 block of Bard Drive. Police found Batts at that apartment, along with Ortiz and Nashid Al-Hadi.
The trooper responding to that call described the first floor of that residence as having blood on the floor, walls, doors and light switches. She also found a crowbar, gloves, a pocket knife and the Ruger pistol and shell casings on the living room floor.
Police were told a white 1999 Land Rover was associated with the shooting and found that vehicle in the 500 block of Bard. Police said in the court document that the vehicle's passenger seat had a large amount of blood on it. Investigators also found gun holster in the vehicle.
Officers searching the area found a discarded Springfield Armory XD9 9mm pistol and a bluish-color glove, according to the affidavit.
During the investigation, police said Ortiz said someone had knocked on the door of the residence twice between 9:30 and 11:30 p.m. Monday. He told police he looked out through a "peep hole" in the door but did not recognize the individual at the door, so he did not open it.
When the person knocked a third time, Batts answered the door and the confrontation between Baltimore, Kenney and Batts began.
Police said Baltimore at first denied being at the shooting scene, then changed his story and said he was there but not involved, then altered his story again and confessed to playing a role in the incident.
He told police he and Kenney intended to buy marijuana when they went to the residence where the shooting took place. He had the crowbar in his possession but was unaware that Kenney had the gun, according to the affidavit. He said he only swung the crowbar at Batts after he thought Kenny was being dragged inside the residence.
He said he dropped the crowbar when he heard a gunshot, according to the affidavit. He told police he then saw Kenney and Batts roll around on the floor and he tried to help Kenney by pulling them apart.
He said once Kenney was free, they both fled the scene. He said he didn't learn until after they left that Kenney had been shot.
Police have not said whether, or when, charges will be filed against Kenney.
Neither Hershey Medical Center nor York Hospital had a record of Kenney or Batts at their facilities, but hospital public relations officials said that is not unusual in cases involving police investigations. They said condition reports in those cases normally came through the investigating agencies.
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Klaus Barbie
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Alternative Titles: Boucher de Lyon, Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Altman
Klaus Barbie, byname Butcher of Lyon, (born Oct. 25, 1913, Bad Godesberg, Ger.—died Sept. 25, 1991, Lyon, France), Nazi leader, head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, who was held responsible for the death of some 4,000 persons and the deportation of some 7,500 others.
Barbie was a member of the Hitler Youth and in 1935 joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; "Security Service"), a special branch of the SS. After German forces overran western Europe in World War II, Barbie served in the Netherlands and then, in 1942, was made chief of Gestapo Department IV in Lyon. (The SD was closely related to the Gestapo, and personnel were frequently transferred from one to the other.) In this position he became especially active against French partisans, promoting the torture and execution of thousands of prisoners. He personally tortured prisoners whom he interrogated. Among the more specific charges against him were that he ordered the death of French Resistance leader Jean Moulin and the deportation of 44 Jewish children (aged 3–13) and their five teachers, all of whom later were delivered to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
After the war Barbie was seized by American authorities, who recruited him (1947–51) for counterintelligence work and then spirited him and his family out of Germany to Bolivia (actions for which the U.S. government later officially apologized to France). Beginning in 1951, he lived as a businessman under the name Klaus Altmann in Bolivia, where Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld tracked him down in 1972. After long negotiations, the Bolivian government extradited him to France in February 1983 to stand trial. (He had twice been sentenced in absentia to death by a postwar French military tribunal.) In 1987 Barbie, who remained unrepentant and proud of his wartime service, went on trial in Lyon and was convicted of "crimes against humanity," for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Four years later, he died in prison.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Melissa Albert, Research Editor.
Holocaust: The aftermath
The trials in France of Klaus Barbie (1987) and Maurice Papon (1996–98) and the revelations of Franƈois Mitterrand in 1994 concerning his indifference toward Vichy France's anti-Jewish policy called into question the notion of French resistance and forced the French to deal with the issue of collaboration. These trials also…
Nazi Party, political party of the mass movement known as National Socialism. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the party came to power in Germany in 1933 and governed by totalitarian methods until 1945.…
Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany. The Gestapo ruthlessly eliminated opposition to the Nazis within Germany and its occupied territories and, in partnership with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; "Security Service"), was responsible for the roundup of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to…
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The Lector ministers at the table of the word. Those who proclaim the Scriptures, are trained in understanding the reading and in methods of bringing that word to the people of God. This is an important ministry because, as the Vatican II document on the Liturgy states, in Paragraph 7, "He (Christ) is present in His word, since it is He Himself who speaks when the Holy Scriptures are read in church." Those who wish to serve in this ministry may call the parish office at 651-459-2131 to volunteer.
Greeters are ministers of hospitality. This is a very important ministry which welcomes visitors and parishioners to the house of God. They are community builders and represent the spirit of the parish.
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Mayor Lee jokes about being on Clinton cabinet short list
Sarah Ravani Nov. 4, 2016 Updated: Nov. 4, 2016 1:19 p.m.
1of5San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee tweeted on Oct. 27 while he was campaigning in Nevada in support of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. He tweeted, "A #Trump presidency will be devastating, especially for SF. Today, I visited NV to help get out to vote for @HillaryClinton #ImWitHer."Photo: Mayor Ed Lee Twitter / Mayor Ed Lee Twitter /
2of5Mayor Ed Lee joked about the rumors that he's on the short list for Hillary Clinton's, Democratic presidential candidate, cabinet should she win the election. Lee spoke at the unveiling of a new SFFD fireboat named St. Francis outside AT&T Park,, in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle
3of5Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Mayor Ed Lee, laugh as they and Alice Luong, right, owner of Red Blossom Tea Company share tea at Red Blossom Tea Company in San Francisco on Wednesday. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited with Mayor Ed Lee to discuss problems specific to the city in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, May 6, 2015.Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
4of5Hillary Rodham Clinton waves to people outside Red Blossom Tea Company in San Francisco on Wednesday as she departs with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited with Mayor Ed Lee to discuss problems specific to the city in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, May 6, 2015.Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
5of5Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, waves next to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee after visiting Red Blossom Tea Company in Chinatown in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Photo: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee joined Gov. Jerry Brown at an appearance Friday and joked about rumors that he's on Hillary Clinton's short list for cabinet.
"You know, the only thing I say is, given my height, I'm always on some short list," Lee said in San Francisco at an event to encourage voters to oppose Prop. 53, which would require voter approval for any state project seeking $2 billion or more in revenue bonds, if passed.
The rumors started spreading when The Hill reported Wednesday that Clinton is considering Lee to lead Housing and Urban Development or to serve as Education Secretary. f
Lee has been a longtime advocate for affordable housing, which could explain why HUD seems like a fit.
Lee announced Thursday that 29 public housing sites and about 3,500 units will transfer ownership from the San Francisco Housing Authority to community-based affordable housing. The announcement raised suspicions that Lee could be seriously considering jumping ship to Clinton's cabinet should the Democratic nominee win the election Tuesday.
Despite the speculation, Lee was careful not to give anything away. His support of Clinton's campaign has been no secret. He's campaigned for Clinton and has encouraged voters on social media to join him in supporting the candidate through the hashtag, #ImWithHer.
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