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Witnesses testify in Crumbleys' preliminary exam
February 8, 2022 Alex McLenon
Prosecutors begin to lay out case against James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the alleged Oxford High School shooter.
Alex McLenon
5:10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8: This story has been updated with the date of the next court appearance and testimony from Amanda Collard.
James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of the Oxford High School student accused of killing four classmates last year, appeared in court Tuesday for their preliminary examination. It's a chance for prosecution to lay out witnesses and evidence in the legal case against the couple.
Both James and Jennifer are facing four counts of involuntary manslaughter. They are accused of making a gun accessible to their 15-year-old son and failing to intervene when he showed warning signs of mental distress at home and at school. The sophomore has been charged as an adult with murder and terrorism. His lawyers filed a notice of an insanity defense, which will likely freeze his case while experts examine him.
On Tuesday, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald questioned some of Jennifer Crumbley's colleagues. One of the witnesses who testified Tuesday is Andrew Smith, the chief operating officer of a real estate company and Jennifer's supervisor from work. McDonald questioned Smith over a text conversation he had with Jennifer, the company's marketing director, on the day of the shooting.
"And what does it say?" McDonald asked.
"OMG Andy he's going to kill himself, he must be the shooter," Smith said.
"And then the next text?"
"I need a lawyer, at substation with police."
"And then what else?"
"Ethan did it."
Amanda Collard, Jennifer Crumbley's former co-worker, was questioned about Jennifer showing her the violent drawing her son made on the morning of the shooting.
"I said she should've brought him home," Collard said.
"And why did you say that?" McDonald said.
"I felt it was a disturbing photo and I felt the child needed to be around family," Collard responded.
Collard says Jennifer Crumbley regularly talked about extramarital affairs that both she and her husband were having.
Kira Pennock works at the stable where the Crumbleys kept their horses. McDonald questioned Pennock about how Jennifer talked about her son.
"She thought that it was weird that he wasn't out doing things like a normal kid," Pennock testified.
When asked if Jennifer called her son weird, Pennock answered yes.
Jennifer Crumbley shared the violent drawing her son doodled in class the day of the shooting to Pennock and at least two other people.
The Crumbleys' preliminary examination hearing will resume on Feb. 24.
Alex McLenon is a Reporter with 101.9 WDET. McLenon is a graduate of Wayne State University, where he studied Media Arts & Production and Broadcast Journalism.
Tags: James Crumbley, Jennifer Crumbley, Oxford High School
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#include "segmenter_utils.h"
#include "util/utf8/unicodetext.h"
#include "util/utf8/unilib.h"
#include "util/utf8/unilib_utf8_utils.h"

namespace syntaxnet {

// Separators, code Zs from http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/PropList.txt
// NB: This list is not necessarily exhaustive.
const std::unordered_set<int> SegmenterUtils::kBreakChars({
  0x2028,  // line separator
  0x2029,  // paragraph separator
  0x0020,  // space
  0x00a0,  // no-break space
  0x1680,  // Ogham space mark
  0x180e,  // Mongolian vowel separator
  0x202f,  // narrow no-break space
  0x205f,  // medium mathematical space
  0x3000,  // ideographic space
  0xe5e5,  // Google addition
  0x2000, 0x2001, 0x2002, 0x2003, 0x2004, 0x2005, 0x2006, 0x2007, 0x2008,
  0x2009, 0x200a
});

bool SegmenterUtils::ConvertToCharTokenDoc(const Sentence &sentence,
                                           Sentence *char_sentence) {
  CHECK(char_sentence);

  // Extracts tokens and byte offsets.
  std::vector<tensorflow::StringPiece> orig_chars;
  GetUTF8Chars(sentence.text(), &orig_chars);

  // If sentence's token start/end bytes are not consistent with UTF-8
  // characters, then do not process the sentence.
  if (!DocTokensUTF8Consistent(orig_chars, sentence)) {
    LOG(WARNING) << "Document token boundaries not UTF8 consistent.";
    return false;
  }

  // Create a mapping from text byte to token index or -1.
  // token_ids[i] = index of the token byte i is contained in and -1 o.w.
  std::vector<int> token_ids;
  for (int t = 0; t < sentence.token_size(); ++t) {
    const Token &token = sentence.token(t);
    while (token_ids.size() < token.start()) token_ids.push_back(-1);
    while (token_ids.size() <= token.end()) token_ids.push_back(t);
  }
  while (token_ids.size() < sentence.text().size()) token_ids.push_back(-1);

  // Infer SPLIT/MERGE for each UTF-8 char.
  std::vector<Token::BreakLevel> break_levels;
  break_levels.push_back(Token::SPACE_BREAK);  // first token is always a split.
  for (int c = 1; c < orig_chars.size(); ++c) {
    int char_start, char_end;
    GetCharStartEndBytes(sentence.text(), orig_chars[c], &char_start,
                         &char_end);
    int prev_char_start, prev_char_end;
    GetCharStartEndBytes(sentence.text(), orig_chars[c - 1], &prev_char_start,
                         &prev_char_end);

    // We split if this character is a break token (token_ids = -1) or if this
    // character is part of a different token from the previous.
    const bool is_split =
        token_ids[char_start] == -1 ||
        token_ids[char_start] != token_ids[prev_char_end];
    break_levels.push_back(is_split ? Token::SPACE_BREAK : Token::NO_BREAK);
  }

  // Initialize character sentence.
  SetCharsAsTokens(sentence.text(), orig_chars, char_sentence);
  CHECK_EQ(break_levels.size(), char_sentence->token_size());
  for (int i = 0 ; i < break_levels.size(); ++i) {
    char_sentence->mutable_token(i)->set_break_level(break_levels[i]);
  }
  return true;
}

bool SegmenterUtils::DocTokensUTF8Consistent(
    const std::vector<tensorflow::StringPiece> &chars,
    const Sentence &sentence) {
  std::set<int> starts;
  std::set<int> ends;
  for (const tensorflow::StringPiece c : chars) {
    int start_byte, end_byte;
    GetCharStartEndBytes(sentence.text(), c, &start_byte, &end_byte);
    starts.insert(start_byte);
    ends.insert(end_byte);
  }
  for (const Token &t : sentence.token()) {
    if (starts.find(t.start()) == starts.end()) return false;
    if (ends.find(t.end()) == ends.end()) return false;
  }
  return true;
}

void SegmenterUtils::GetUTF8Chars(const string &text,
                                  std::vector<tensorflow::StringPiece> *chars) {
  const char *start = text.c_str();
  const char *end = text.c_str() + text.size();
  while (start < end) {
    int char_length = UniLib::OneCharLen(start);
    chars->emplace_back(start, char_length);
    start += char_length;
  }
}

void SegmenterUtils::SetCharsAsTokens(
    const string &text,
    const std::vector<tensorflow::StringPiece> &chars,
    Sentence *sentence) {
  sentence->clear_token();
  sentence->set_text(text);
  for (int i = 0; i < chars.size(); ++i) {
    Token *tok = sentence->add_token();
    tok->set_word(chars[i].ToString());  // NOLINT
    int start_byte, end_byte;
    GetCharStartEndBytes(text, chars[i], &start_byte, &end_byte);
    tok->set_start(start_byte);
    tok->set_end(end_byte);
  }
}

bool SegmenterUtils::IsValidSegment(const Sentence &sentence,
                                    const Token &token) {
  // Check that the token is not empty, both by string and by bytes.
  if (token.word().empty()) return false;
  if (token.start() > token.end()) return false;

  // Check token boudaries inside of text.
  if (token.start() < 0) return false;
  if (token.end() >= sentence.text().size()) return false;

  // Check that token string is valid UTF8, by bytes.
  const char s = sentence.text()[token.start()];
  const char e = sentence.text()[token.end() + 1];
  if (UniLib::IsTrailByte(s)) return false;
  if (UniLib::IsTrailByte(e)) return false;
  return true;
}

}  // namespace syntaxnet

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An alleged senior member of an organised crime gang distributing large amounts of drugs in Northern Ireland must remain in custody, a High Court judge ruled on Thursday.
Co Donegal man Benjamin Quinn, 27, was refused bail amid claims he controlled and directed couriers involved in the illicit trade.
He faces charges linked to the seizure of £720,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis valued at £58,000.
The drugs were discovered in a car stopped in the Duncrue area of Belfast in February 2017.
Prosecutors said it was the fifth of six interventions made as part of an ongoing investigation into the gang's activities.
Quinn, of Rossgier in Lifford, was arrested with a second man last month and charged with conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs.
Crown lawyer Robin Steer claimed a forensic examination of telephone evidence connects Quinn to contact between suspects on behalf of the "principal" member of the gang.
"Police say this applicant is a senior member of an organised crime group distributing a large quantity of cocaine and cannabis in Northern Ireland," Mr Steer said.
Defence counsel stressed Quinn only faces charges connected to one specific drugs seizure.
He mounted a renewed bid to be released from custody based on the co-accused who was detained with him having since been granted bail.
That development, coupled with potential delays in the case, amounts to a change of circumstances, it was contended.
But Mr Justice Colton held there were no reasons to overturn previous refusals.


Have any of you guys tried using a FM transmitter for sound in the nursery?
I've been looking at the Fail-Safe Long Range Transmitter but a bit worried about FCC violation.
The nursery is about 300 ft from the sound the board. Any thoughts?
I'll let others comment on FM transmitters for audio, but one thing you should consider is if your nursery uses a paging system (to notify parents of unruly children) or might in the future. Paging systems transmit at relatively high power (like 2 Watts). If the paging transmitter is located in or near the nursery, it will likely interfere with any receiver in the nursery, no matter that they are on different frequencies. You can make it work, but you might need to move some antennas or equipment.
The manufacturer's data, http://www.elecsky.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=41, states it is a Part 15 device, which means that unlicensed operation is allowed. However, the claimed 300m transmission distance is much greater than would normally be expected for a Part 15 device. To me that means that either that range is achieved with settings that would violate the Part 15 status or that range is very optimistic and the practical range would likely be much less, a typical 'consumer' Part 15 transmitter would generally have closer to a 200' practical range if the transmitter and/or receiver are indoors. 300' from a legal Part 15 transmitter indoors to a receiver indoors, and assuming it would probably have to transmit through several walls, may be pushing it. And modifying the antenna or transmitter to boost the level would probably violate the Part 15 requirements.
I just installed such a system which uses receiver/power amps at the receiving ends (kitchen, parlor and nursery) to pick up the assisted listening system signal from the sanctuary. I had to remote the antenna (to get it out from behind a brick wall) and bump up from the standard to a higher-gain antenna. But it works quite well.
I suggest you contact Listen Technologies who can guide you through what you need.
This church has a paging system for the nursery and in the two Sundays where this new system has been used there have been no complaints about interference.


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Hostilities Flare in BJP-Run Madhya Pradesh, India
Anti-Christian violence, efforts to tarnish church increase in past five years.
NEW DELHI, October 14 (CDN) — Since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in Madhya Pradesh in December 2003, Christians in the state have suffered increased attacks and concerted efforts to tarnish their image, church leaders said.
Before the BJP took office the state recorded two or three attacks against Christians per year, they said, whereas Jabalpur Archbishop Gerald Almeida said that in the past five years 65 baseless charges of forceful conversion – commonly accompanied by mob violence – have been registered in his diocese alone.
"There are some groups who are closely monitoring the Christian movement, and these people are bent on creating problems for the Christians for the past five years," Almeida told Compass.
The state is not able to control these groups, he added. Indeed, police routinely working with Hindu extremist groups filed an average of more than three unsubstantiated complaints of "coerced" conversions each month in the past five years, according to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Madhya Pradesh (see sidebar below).
In the first eight months of this year, Madhya Pradesh saw the third highest number of attacks against Christians and Christian institutions in the country with 11, behind Karnataka with 43 and Andhra Pradesh with 14, according to Christian advocacy organizations.
The Rev. Anand Muttungal, spokesman for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Madhya Pradesh, said growing attacks on Christians were a symptom of fear among Hindu extremists that the Catholic Church's influence is spreading.
"The Church as an organization is doing very well in many fields," Muttungal said. "It causes those fundamentalists to worry. It could be one of the main reasons for the continuous attacks on Christians."
Madhya Pradesh has a Christian population of 170,381, only 0.3 percent of the total in the state, according to the 2001 census. The state's history of religious intolerance runs deep, with an "anti-conversion" law passed in 1968 that has serves as a pretext for harassing Christians.
Igniting anti-Christian violence shortly after the BJP came to power was an incident in Jhabua district, where the body of a 9-year-old girl called Sujata was found in one of the Christian schools on Jan. 11, 2004. Although a non-Christian confessed to the crime, Hindu extremists used the event to justify various attacks against the Christian community.
Abuses became so rampant in 2005 and 2006 that the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) sent a fact-finding team to Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in June 2006. Investigators found that Hindu extremists had frequently invoked the state's anti-conversion law as a means to incite mobs against Christians and to get Christians arrested without evidence.
Jabalpur Archbishop Almeida cited cases chronicled by the NCM such as the arrest under the anti-conversion law of two local women who were merely distributing gospel tracts in March 2006. Almeida also cited the NCM report on the jailing of four pastors in January 2006 for alleged "forceful conversion" after Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal dragged them to a Hindu temple and forced them to deny Christ.
Catholic Church records show that in 2007, a 70-year-old woman identified only as Mrs. Godwin was arrested along with another woman on charges of forceful conversion; they too were only distributing religious literature, a right they had under the nation's constitution.
Christian leaders said one aim of such abuses of the state's anti-conversion law is to tarnish the image of Christians by showing them as lawbreakers. Hate propaganda and spurious allegations against Christians continue unabated in the state, church leaders said.
The customary practice in India and especially in Madhya Pradesh, they said, is for Hindu extremists to raise false allegations on the slimmest of pretexts and get police to make hurried arrests.
Political Machinery
After the NCM report in 2006 first documented the violence, the Madhya Pradesh political machinery's influence became evident when State Minorities Commission Chairman Anwar Mohammed Khan asserted that reports of Hindu extremists attacking Christians in the state were "baseless."
Khan told Frontline magazine that extremists had not targeted Christians. The magazine also quoted state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan as saying the BJP government was greatly concerned about "unethical conversions" – presumably of Hindus to Christianity.
The magazine criticized the state Minorities Commission for speaking "the same language as the Bajrang Dal and the state chief minister," thereby failing its mandate to defend minorities.
This year the commission tried to increase state control over church activities, unofficially recommending that the government enact a law to set up a board to manage church properties such as schools, colleges, hospitals and charities. The Christian community strongly protested, and the state withdrew the proposal.
Leo Cornelio, archbishop of Bhopal, said the Minorities Commission recommendation "shows beyond doubt that it is disloyal to minorities" and "loyal to the government," according to the Indian Catholic.
The battle over state control of church properties is not over. Muttungal told Compass that the Minorities Commission has started to collect details of church properties through the Education Department. It is certain, he said, that this will lead to a legal battle involving the Education Department, Minorities Commission and the Catholic Church.
Police Collusion Seen in 'Forced Conversion' Complaints
NEW DELHI, October 14 (Compass Direct News) – Hindu extremist groups in collusion with the state police filed an average of more than three baseless complaints of "coerced" conversions per month in the past five years – shortly after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power – according to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Madhya Pradesh.
"I have gathered information from all the districts of the state, according to which the number of [forced or fraudulent] conversion complaints against Christians in the last five years is over 180," the Rev. Anand Muttungal, spokesman for the state's Catholic body, told Compass.
Muttungal said he asked the Madhya Pradesh State Crime Records Bureau, a body under the state interior ministry that monitors criminal complaints, about the number of forced conversion complaints in the last five years, and the state agency put the number wrongly at fewer than 35.
Muttungal also said most of the complaints were filed by third parties – not the supposed "victims" – who were unable to produce any unlawfully converted people to support their allegations. He added that the complainants were mainly members of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal, youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP).
"In Jabalpur, the complaints were lodged mainly by the Hindu Dharam Sena [Hindu Religion Army]," he said.
Most recently, the leader of the Hindu Dharam Sena on Sept. 27 got police to interrogate, without cause, a Catholic group traveling through Jabalpur. The Rev. Anto Mundamany of the Carmelite of Mary Immaculate order said the inspector-in-charge of the Civil Lines police station and four other policemen came to the Carmel Niketan center, where the group had stopped for dinner. Police interrogated him and the 45 Catholic visitors about their religious identity, he said, to determine whether the visitors were Hindus whom the priests and nuns at the center might be forcibly trying to convert.
Journalists accompanied the police, and the following day local newspapers reported on the incident, portraying the Christians as inherently suspect.
"Although the police left after making sure that all the participants who had arrived for an inter-parish tour were Christians, the newspapers made no mention of that fact," Mundamany said.
The local daily Dainik Bhaskar reported that Yogesh Agarwal, head of the Hindu Dharam Sena, had informed police about a supposed "conversion plot" by the Catholic order.
"There can be little doubt that the police are party to this disturbing trend," Muttungal said.
The incidence of anti-Christian attacks is the highest in the state in Jabalpur – local Christians say the city witnessed at least three attacks every month until recently, mainly by Agarwal and his cohorts. Although numerous criminal complaints are pending against Agarwal, he remains at large.
A Christian requesting anonymity said police officers personally act on his complaints against Christian workers.
A June 2006 report by the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) found that Hindu nationalist groups in Madhya Pradesh had frequently invoked the state's anti-conversion law as a pretext to incite mobs against Christians. The NCM report also pointed at police collusion in the attacks.
"The life of Christians has become miserable at the hands of miscreants in connivance with the police," the NCM said in its report. "There are allegations that when atrocities were committed on Christians, the police remained mere spectators, and in certain cases they did not even register their complaints."
The NCM is an independent body created by Parliament in 1993 to monitor and safeguard the rights of minorities.
Muttungal said the Catholic Bishops' Conference would approach the state high court with the facts it has gathered to prove police involvement in complaints against Christians.
Most complaints against Christians are registered under Section 3 of the Madhya Pradesh "Freedom of Religion Act" of 1968, popularly known as an anti-conversion law. The section states, "No person shall convert or attempt to convert, either directly or otherwise, any person from one religious faith to another by the use of force or by inducement or by any fraudulent means nor shall any person abet any such conversion."
Offenses under the anti-conversion law are "cognizable," meaning police are empowered to register a complaint, investigate and arrest for up to 24 hours, without a warrant, anyone accused of forced conversion.
Police also use Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to arrest Christians. Section 153A refers to "promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony." Section 295A concerns "deliberate and malicious acts to outrage religious feelings." These IPC crimes are also cognizable.
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Pakistan court releases 18 Muslims held for Gojra violence
Posted on September 21, 2009 by particularkev
Eighteen Muslims arrested in the wake of Gojra violence under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), were released from their local district jail on Saturday, September 19, Pakistan English Daily "Dawn" has reported, reports Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan, special to ASSIST News Service.
Gojra, a small town in Punjab province of Pakistan exploded into the international limelight when miscreants on August 1 set ablaze over 50 Christian houses that resulted in killings of seven Christians. Scores of Christians left their houses, fearing further trouble from extremists.
The newspaper said the Muslim men were booked under Section 7 of the ATA on the charges of attacking Christian community on July 29 and August 1 following an incident of alleged desecration of the Holy Quran in Chak (village) 95-JB, Adda Korian, and Christian Colony, Gojra.
They were declared innocent by a joint committee of Muslims and Christians formed to reconcile between both the groups, said the Dawn report.
The committee recommended to the police to delete the names of these 18 people from the Police First Information Report on which they were set free, it said.
Reacting to the release of the Muslim men, Mr. Joseph Francis, Director of the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), has alleged that the Chief Justice Lahore High Court, is "anti-Christian, biased and a fanatic."
Francis alleged that the Chief Justice had granted bail to the Muslim men without serving notice on the lawyers of Catholic Church, therefore they could not appear in the court the day the accused were granted bails, he said.
He said CLAAS was going to protest against the decision by setting up a hunger strike camp outside Lahore Press Club.
When ANS asked him how Christians could have reservations on the release of the Muslim men when a committee comprising of Muslims and Christians declared them innocent, Mr. Joseph said he doubted the "credibility of the committee." He went on to say that a Catholic priest of Gojra Shafique had given a pardon to the Muslim men without consulting with the victims.
"How could the Muslim men in question be granted bail when the findings of the Inquiry Commission led by Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman have not come to the fore?," he questioned.
Francis maintained the police in the wake of Gojra violence mentioned names of some 129 Christians in a cross version. Out of 129, he said, 100 Christians are unidentified where as 29 Christians have been named.
He also revealed that a Bishop of the Church of Pakistan, John Samuel and his son have also been named in the cross version, which means these people were not originally named in the FIR but police added their names later as accused.
The CLAAS director said the police arrested two Christian brothers named Naveed and Nouman and claimed to ANS that Nouman had opened fire on miscreants, which he said saved lives of so many Christians as it enabled them to flee the scene.
He said Nouman was in Karachi when the Gojra violence took place but the police have arrested him.
Francis said he lodged a petition against arrest of the two brothers in Lahore High court. Mr. Francis said that when the high court asked the police in a hearing on Friday, September 18, they said the pair was not in its custody rather they have been taken by the law enforcement agencies.
According to Mr. Francis, the court has ordered the Station House Officer, Rasool Ghulam, District Coordination Officer and District Police Officer to explain the court about Naveed and Nouman on October 1, 2009.
Asked to comment on the recent statements by Pakistani religious hardliners and conservative politicians opposing the repeal of Pakistan blasphemy laws, he said he was going to present a memorandum demanding the repeal of Pakistan blasphemy laws to the United Nations in Rawalpindi.
"The religious parties are making a political capital by reiterating their inflexible posture on repeal of the blasphemy laws," he claimed.
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CHRISTIANS ATTACKED; PASTOR AND FOUR YEAR OLD INJURED IN INDIA
A group of Hindu radicals stormed into a Christian prayer meeting held at a private Hall in a place called Vasi, a Mumbai suburb, on Tuesday and attacked the attendees leaving a child injured, reports Jacob Philip, assistant reporter for ANS, India.
According to news carried by the Global Council of Indian Christians on their website the radicals attacked the pastor and beat up children and women who were among the 250-strong gathering.
It was also reported in the website that the Hindu radicals also destroyed musical instruments while chanting praises to the Hindu God "Jai Sri Ram" (Hail Lord Ram). The radicals forced the attendees to chant the Hindu Slogan. Believers who refused to do this were beaten.
Many persons, including the pastor, the Rev. James Samuel, who conducted the prayer meeting and a 4-year-old girl along with few others, sustained injuries for refusing to chant slogans praising Hindu deities.
Pastor Samuel was taken to a hospital and had five stitches to his head, while others were left with bruises and scratches. Even a four -year-old girl was not spared in the brutal attack against Christians. the website added.
The miscreants later escaped in two cars and police are looking for them. The local police have arrested two persons namely Sanjay Kir and his wife on Tuesday evening.
The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) has approached the National Commission for Minorities asking them to pursue the attack on these Christian believers with Prime Minister Dr. Manamohan Singh.
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TWO PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS INJURED IN APRIL 22 FIRING DIE
Posted on May 3, 2009 by particularkev
Two Christian teenager boys, who had received gunshot wounds from police's alleged firing on April 22 amid protest of Christians against chalking of church wall with slogans commending Taliban have died from their injuries, ANS has learnt.
The deceased have been identified as Imran Masih, 13 and Intikhab Masih, 18.
Former Member of Provincial Assembly Sindh, Michael Javaid told ANS that militants had allegedly forced Christian residents of Taseer town to shout slogans "Taliban Zindabad" Long Live Taliban and "Islam Zindabad" Long Live Islam.
He said when Christian residents refused to chant slogans the miscreants made forcible entry into the church.
They desecrated Bible, manhandled Christian men and women, robbed Christian residents of cash and other valuables, said Javaid.
ANS has learnt that Ms Shermila Farooqi, advisor to Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Anwar Laldin, Special Assistant to Chief Minister Sindh, Stephen Asif, Member of Provincial Assembly Sindh, Mr. Saleem Khokhar, Member Provincial Assembly Sindh, Mr. Michael Javaid, former member of provincial assembly Sindh, government officials including Mr Kamran Dost, Special Home Secretary Government of Sindh, Deputy Inspector General of Police Karachi (Operation) and Director General Rangers also visited the affected area on April 24.
"It is sad that peaceful Christian community has been attacked by militants. Justice will be done and culprits will be arrested soon," Michael quoted Shermila as telling affected Christians.
A committee has been formed to probe the April 22 incident.
Speaking to Christian residents of Taseer town Michael Javaid questioned opening of fire on Christians by militants in presence of rangers and police officials.
Condemning April 22 incident, he said Christians would not tolerate any repeat of such a gruesome incident. He also demanded that the gvernment should provide security and protection to Christians and called for compensation to be paid to the Christians who had been affected.
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INDIA: TWO STATES WARNED AGAINST ALLOWING PERSECUTION
More attacks launched in Orissa and Karnataka; Orissa archbishop threatened with death.
NEW DELHI, September 19 (Compass Direct News) – After three weeks of widespread attacks on Christians and their property in Orissa state and other parts of the country, the federal government finally warned two states that their failure to prevent violence could lead to the imposition of "President's Rule."
As more incidents of violence were reported from Orissa and the southern state of Karnataka yesterday, the federal government ruled by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) issued an official warning to the two states under Article 355 of the Indian Constitution, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported. The article requires state governments to function with due respect to constitutional provisions, setting up a potential showdown between the federal UPA, led by the Congress Party (Indian National Congress), and Orissa and Karnataka states ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP is the largest opposition party at the federal level. The UPA also said it was keeping a close watch on the activities of Hindu extremist groups, including the Bajrang Dal, youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP), which is allegedly behind the ongoing violence, reported Press Trust of India.
The governments of the two states under the scanner suspected political motives behind the federal government's move. The BJP today dared the federal government to impose President's Rule in Karnataka.
"We dare the Centre to go a step ahead and implement Article 356 [empowering the federal government to impose emergency rule]," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told IANS. "They will have to bear the consequences and the people of the country would give them a fitting reply."
The Christian community, however, saw a ray of hope in the federal government's move. Father Dominic Emmanuel of the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese told Compass that the federal government's warning has brought "at least some consolation" to the country's Christian community, which forms 2.3 percent of the total population.
The violence began following the assassination of a VHP leader and icon of Hindu nationalism, Laxmanananda Saraswati, and four of his disciples in Orissa's Kandhamal district on Aug. 23. Although Maoists claimed responsibility for the murder, the VHP put the blame on local Christians, saying they killed him because he was resisting conversion of Hindus to Christianity.
While the state government says 24 people, mainly Christian, have died in the Orissa violence, the All India Christian Council (AICC) maintained that 45 Christians were confirmed dead and five more were still missing.
According to the AICC, 14 districts of Orissa witnessed violence with Kandhamal as the epicenter. It reported at least 50,000 people from 300 villages have been affected by the violence, with hundreds still hiding in forests, and 4,000 houses and 115 churches burned or destroyed.
New Attacks in Orissa
Incidents of violence continued in Orissa's Kandhamal district. Mobs burned down two prayer houses on Wednesday night (Sept. 17) in Mundigarh and Lankagarh areas under Tumudibandh police station in Kandhamal, reported The Indian Express daily.
"The district administration foiled another attempt by the troublemakers to set afire the Phiringia police station last night," the newspaper reported. "Both roads to the town, Phulbani-Phiringia and Gochhapada-Phiringia, were blocked by felling of trees."
The administration, however, learned of the plan, cleared the blockade and moved security forces to the town.
Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Raphael Cheenath received a death threat.
"Just last week I received a chilling letter from Hindu groups which said 'blood for blood, life for life.' What can I do?" Cheenath said yesterday while at the Catholic Bishop Conference of India office in Delhi, according to IANS.
The letter stated that the archbishop, who has been staying in Bhubaneswar for three decades and whose house was stoned a few days ago, would be killed if he returned to Orissa. "They [Hindu groups] threatened to kill me," he said. "Is this how civilized society behaves?"
Archbishop Cheenath, Delhi's Archbishop Vincent Concessao and Father Babu Joseph, spokesman for the Catholic Church in India, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday to apprise him of unabated violence in Orissa.
"Despite your consoling words and assurances, the violence still continues in some parts of Kandhamal," they said in a memorandum, which carried a list of violent incidents that took place in Kandhamal after Sept. 11, when the Orissa state government told the Supreme Court of India that normalcy was returning in the district.
"Looting, arson and vandalism continue," said the memorandum. "Security forces are mainly in the towns, main roads and are not moving to the interior parts of Kandhamal. Crimes are being freely committed by the culprits with impunity."
Forced conversions from Christianity to Hinduism are continuing in the villages of Orissa, the memo said. "Christians are forced under threat of death, burning of their houses, or death of their relatives. After conversion, they have to burn their Bibles, religious articles and their own house, to prove that they are genuine Hindus. All other Hindu ceremonies are imposed on them."
More Assaults in Karnataka
Attacks continued also in Karnataka. According to New Delhi-based Asian News International news agency, unidentified people launched attacks in three districts of the state on Wednesday (Sept. 17).
While a mob destroyed Bibles and other Christian literature and vandalized furniture the St. George Church in Ujire area of the Dakshina Kannada district, another group of people pelted a statue of the Virgin Mary with stones outside the St. Mary's Church in Kolar district. Yet another group of people damaged furniture at a church in Chikamagalur district.
Hindu extremists in Karnataka began targeting Christians after the state education ministry served show-cause notices to over 2,000 Christian schools in the state for staying shut on Aug. 29 to protest the violence against Christians in Orissa.
Attacks on churches were reported from several parts of the state on consecutive Sundays following Aug. 29. The Bajrang Dal claimed responsibility for most of the attacks, which were mostly aimed at churches of the New Life Fellowship ministry.
The Karnataka state government today announced a probe by a retired judge of the high court into anti-Christian attacks, reported IANS.
Earlier this week, there were incidents of violent attacks on Christians and their institutions also in the southern states of Kerala, the north-central states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand state in the east.
Tensions in National Capital
On Wednesday (Sept. 17), a group of unidentified people believed to be Hindu extremists sought to create tensions in the national capital Delhi.
A mob forcibly took possession of a lawn in front of a Catholic church, God's Light Church, in Trilokpuri area in East Delhi, reported the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI).
"The mob broke open an outside gate to the lawn as well as the inside gate leading from the church and threatened to construct a temple there," EFI reported. "They have also locked the outside gate to the lawn/garden as well as the inside gate leading from the church to the lawn."
The church building has been in the area since 1991.
"It is a well planned move to create a confrontation with the church in Delhi too after the incidents in the states of Orissa, Karnataka and Kerala," EFI reported. "The miscreants have resorted to this step to gauge the reaction of the church before doing anything further."
Supporters of the VHP also tried to harass a Christian institution in the neighboring state of Haryana.
The Rev. Madhu Chandra of the AICC said some VHP extremists filed a complaint with Hisar district authorities against a school run by the North India Christian Mission for closing the school "illegally" on Aug. 29, the day all Christian schools remained closed to protest violence in Orissa. The complaint, filed in Barwala town, also accused school personnel of "converting" students and people of the area, as if conversion were illegal in India.
The AICC will hold a rally in Vijayawada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh tomorrow (Sept. 20) to urge the governments of affected states to arrest those responsible for the anti-Christian violence.
Dr. John Dayal, AICC secretary general, returned from Orissa yesterday and warned that the situation in the country was getting "out of hand."
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Bradley W. Anderson, MD Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellow Mayo Clinic
Prior to the emergence of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), treatment strategies for patients with decompensated cirrhosis in the setting of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) were substantially restricted. The key limitations of interferon-based therapy in this patient population included both an overall reduction in treatment efficacy as well as a large number of dose-dependent side effects, including but not limited to anemia and neutropenia.
As discussed in the article, DAAs have now changed the treatment paradigm by facilitating an option beyond simply liver transplantation or palliative care in HCV patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Among currently available DAAs, pharmacologic therapy may be tailored to the underlying HCV genotype as guided by the recent AASLD/IDSA guidelines.
While the outlook of DAA therapy is positive, HCV cure rates among patients with advanced liver disease have been observed to be lower than their healthier counterparts, and only those patients with acceptable life expectancies should be considered to be candidates for treatment.
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Treatment using direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) produces good cure rates in chronic hepatitis C (HCV) patients with decompensated liver disease, offering new options for a group that often could not be treated with interferon-based therapy. Successful treatment can slow liver disease progression and may restore lost hepatic function.
In an interview with MedPage Today, Raymond Chung, MD, chief of Hepatology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, elaborated on this topic, noting that people with decompensated cirrhosis can be treated using some of the same DAA combinations as those with less advanced disease, but they may need to add ribavirin or lengthen the duration of therapy.
On the other hand, this population is more likely to experience adverse events during treatment, including drug side effects and worsening liver function.
"First and foremost, because patients with decompensated cirrhosis are at high risk for life-threatening complications, these patients are best managed at centers with expertise in liver transplantation," he said.
Over years or decades, chronic hepatitis C virus infection can cause liver damage leading to end-stage liver disease, liver failure, and the need for a liver transplant. Up to 20% of people with chronic HCV develop cirrhosis, and of these, about 5% progress to decompensation annually.
As cirrhosis progresses, accumulating scar tissue interferes with blood flow through the liver, resulting in portal hypertension and signs of decompensation such as bleeding esophageal varices and ascites. Reduced synthetic function can lead to abnormalities in albumin and clotting factors, and the buildup of toxins can cause hepatic encephalopathy.
Chung noted that during the interferon era many patients with decompensated cirrhosis could not tolerate hepatitis C treatment, and pegylated interferon plus ribavirin has poor efficacy in this population. Because of that, many experts considered decompensation to be a contraindication for treatment, leaving palliative care and liver transplantation as the only options.
But the advent of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has changed the picture, Chung explained: Today, HCV treatment is contraindicated only for patients with very advanced liver failure, for whom organ function is unlikely to recover even if HCV infection is cured, and for those with a short life expectancy for other reasons.
HCV guidelines developed by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) include recommendations for patients who have decompensated cirrhosis with moderate or severe hepatic impairment.
Chung, a co-chair of the AASLD/IDSA guidelines panel, explained that patients with decompensated liver disease are classified as Child-Pugh Class B or C, based on a set of liver function biomarkers and symptoms. The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring system is used to prioritize candidates for liver transplantation, with mortality risk increasing steeply at scores above 19.
For decompensated patients with HCV genotypes 1 or 4, the AASLD/IDSA guidelines recommend use of sofosbuvir/ledipasvir (Harvoni), sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (Epclusa), or sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) plus daclatasvir (Daklinza). All should be taken with ribavirin -- in some cases starting with a low 600 mg dose that can be increased if tolerated, for 12 weeks. While an 8-week treatment course is effective for many easier-to-treat patients, it is not advised for people with advanced disease.
Genotype 1 or 4 patients who are ineligible, unable, or unwilling to take ribavirin can use the DAAs alone and increase treatment duration to 24 weeks. Patients with prior sofosbuvir failure should both add ribavirin and extend therapy to 24 weeks.
For people with HCV genotypes 2 or 3, the AASLD/IDSA guidelines advise sofosbuvir/velpatasvir or sofosbuvir, daclatasvir, and ribavirin for 12 weeks. However, guidelines from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) recommend 24 weeks for patients with harder-to-treat genotype 3 disease.
Regimens containing paritaprevir (in the Viekira Pak, Viekira XR, and Technivie co-formulations), simeprevir (Olysio), or grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier) are not recommended for patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Paritaprevir has been linked to worsening liver injury in people with advanced disease, and there are insufficient data on simeprevir and grazoprevir/elbasvir in this population, the guidelines state. Interferon-based regimens are no longer recommended for any HCV patients.
In the SOLAR-1 and SOLAR-2 trials, sofosbuvir/ledipasvir plus ribavirin for 12 or 24 weeks cured 85% to 89% of genotypes 1 and 4 patients with decompensated cirrhosis. About a third experienced serious adverse events, which were more frequent in people with more advanced disease.
The ASTRAL-4 study, which enrolled patients with all HCV genotypes, saw overall sustained virological response (SVR12) rates of 94% for sofosbuvir/velpatasvir plus ribavirin for 12 weeks and 86% for sofosbuvir/velpatasvir alone for 24 weeks. Genotype 1 patients did even better -- 96% and 92%, respectively -- but for genotype 3 cure rates fell to 85% for sofosbuvir/velpatasvir plus ribavirin and only 50% for sofosbuvir/velpatasvir alone.
In the smaller ALLY-1 study, sofosbuvir and daclatasvir plus ribavirin for 12 weeks cured 94% of Child-Pugh Class B patients -- similar to the SVR12 rate for people with compensated cirrhosis -- but just 56% of the sicker Class C patients.
While not matching the very high cure rates achieved by people with less severe liver disease, these DAA regimens are safer and far more effective than interferon-based therapy for people with decompensated cirrhosis, noted Chung. "The most important consideration in safely managing this group of patients is the degree of hepatic decompensation. In clinical trials, adverse outcomes of deterioration of hepatic function, while infrequent, occurred primarily in patients with the most advanced liver impairment."
Successful treatment can allow the liver to partially recover and is expected to reduce the risk of liver-related death over time. One recent study, for instance, found that curing HCV led to a reduction in portal hypertension.
"For those patients with more mild degrees of decompensation, clinical trials have repeatedly demonstrated that successful clearance of HCV can be associated with stabilization or even improvement of hepatic function. For some patients on liver transplant lists, clearance and clinical improvement has actually enabled successful removal from the list."
Clinical trials of DAA therapy showed that a majority of treated patients saw their Child-Pugh and MELD scores decrease, which raises questions about the optimal timing of therapy, Chung said.
In some cases successfully treated patients have enough improvement that they no longer need a transplant. A recent Italian study found that about a third of treated patients on a transplant waiting list had their status inactivated because of clinical improvement, and about two-thirds of those were eventually taken off the list entirely.
But in other cases treatment may improve liver function enough that patients fall to a lower priority on the transplant waiting list, but not enough that they no longer need a new liver -- a state dubbed "MELD purgatory."
The EASL guidelines address this dilemma, recommending that patients with less severe liver disease (MELD scores below 18-20) who are unlikely to receive a transplant within 6 months should be treated promptly. Those with higher MELD scores who can expect a donor liver sooner are advised to receive the transplant first and start treatment afterwards.
The best way for people with hepatitis C to avoid decompensation and the need for a transplant is prompt treatment, Chung emphasized. The AASLD/IDSA guidelines now recommend treatment for all, regardless of liver disease stage. As new therapies become more widely used, decompensation should become less common and liver transplant lists could shrink.
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Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel warns the Fed will drive the economy into a depression if they wait for core inflation to fall back to 2%
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Not even September's stubbornly high CPI report could change Jeremy Siegel's view that the Fed needs to stop hiking interest rates.
Siegel told CNBC on Thursday that the Fed's focus on lagging indicators is setting the economy up for disaster.
"If the Fed waits for the core to get down to 2% year-over-year, it will drive the economy into a depression," Siegel warned.
The release of September's CPI report on Thursday showed that inflation remains stubbornly high, but that's not enough to convince Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel that the Federal Reserve should continue with its aggressive interest rate hikes.
In fact, Siegel warned that the Fed's overreliance on lagging inflation data could set the economy up for a disaster.
"If the Fed waits for the core [inflation] to get down to 2% year-over-year, it will drive the economy into a depression," Siegel told CNBC on Thursday.
Siegel highlighted that leading inflation indicators are coming down substantially, especially in the housing market, but that won't flow through official government inflation readings for months, if not years. "When will it get into the core? Months if not years down the line," Siegel said.
September's CPI report showed prices rose 0.4% month-over-month and 8.2% year-over-year, ahead of expectations for a respective 0.2% and 8.1% increase.
"I am not at all surprised by the number because the number is ridiculous. It has no meaning to what the actual rate of inflation is. Housing, which is almost 50% of the core rate, is the most distorted of all," Siegel explained.
The professor highlighted that the rate of increases in rent prices has slowed dramatically compared to last year, and he now expects housing prices to fall up to 15% from current levels as activity in the real estate market slows due to higher mortgage rates.
Siegel thinks the Fed is on the verge of going overboard with its monetary tightening policy. In addition to ongoing reductions in its balance sheet, the Fed is expected to raise interest rates by 75 basis points in both November and December following the September CPI report.
Those rate hikes would go too far in his opinion, and the Fed only has room for one more 50 basis point rate hike. "I think we're at a very tight moment now. I'd give them another 50 basis points, but if they do 75 [in November and] 75 [in December] and then move into 2023 with continuing with it, they're going to go overboard," Siegel said.
Much of the conundrum the Fed finds itself in is due to the fact that the pendulum of their monetary decisions has swung too far to one side during the pandemic. Now it's swinging to the other side.
In other words, the Fed was too easy for too long 0% interest rates during the pandemic and into early 2022, at a time when inflation was showing signs of increasing. They should have tightened sooner, according to Siegel. Now they're over correcting with interest rate hikes as inflation is high, but is leading indicators show signs it is falling.
And that overcorrection is what could send the US economy into more than just a recession—which is already expected by many commentators—and into a depression.
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Q: CAS: javax.security.auth.callback.UnsupportedCallbackException: Unrecognized Callback: I am using CAS authentication in my Spring MVC application deployed in a WebLogic Server Version: 12.1.2.0.0.
The CAS server (http://www.jasig.org/cas)
– Serves CAS login web page and authenticates users
– Issues TGT cookie (ticket granting ticket) so user does not have to
login every redirect to CAS server
– Redirects back to application server with ticket=ST-xxx service ticket
in url for CAS client to check
– Validates CAS service tickets for application servers
But everytime I refresh the page I realized that the ticket parameter is different,
http://127.0.0.1:7001/devices_admin/welcome/welcome.do?ticket=ST-4857110-xJpv1gJ85niEGKBJHnQ5XZ5Et8pPY2kdXXkRzOlywdipakotoWUodeh4WCcovXPHWWxqbM6M0zNjxDy4uWSuazG-PHslUMVSXYCWTApMlTfLGC-m8dJiJ6e0zsxwwPOhzc5uNsRJh4dpl1mWcPdxaYhj21G
http://127.0.0.1:7001/devices_admin/welcome/welcome.do?ticket=ST-4860089-wzJ3y2wzsMYHmpl8H7CenIURY68LSu0xzSKNB2o0XZiOrR60FGQHN9wSo83MuUraWFavzn3Qlp6VhtOzSEvdfwY-PHslUMVSXYCWTApMlTfLGC-JJBSzIydnDGzcECwzsiDiYCLUVecvzxZHmjIN2kDTewo

so I get a Error 404--Not Found in the browser
Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

Here my weblogic.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-web-app   xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-web-app"
                    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
                                        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd
                                        http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-web-app
                                        http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.0/weblogic-web-app.xsd">

    <!-- Example of a role mapped to a group provided by Ecas -->
    <session-descriptor>
        <cookie-path>/devices_admin</cookie-path>
        <cookie-name>DEVICESJSESSIONID</cookie-name>
        <url-rewriting-enabled>false</url-rewriting-enabled>
    </session-descriptor>
    <context-root>/devices_admin</context-root>
    <security-role-assignment>
        <role-name>authenticated</role-name>
        <principal-name>INTERNET</principal-name>
    </security-role-assignment>
    <!-- Only needed if you want to allow some resources to be accessed by  authenticated users who do not possess any role -->
    <container-descriptor>
        <allow-all-roles>true</allow-all-roles>
    </container-descriptor>
    <jsp-descriptor>
        <precompile>true</precompile>
    </jsp-descriptor>

</weblogic-web-app>

There is also an exception start the WL
javax.security.auth.callback.UnsupportedCallbackException: Unrecognized Callback       at weblogic.security.BaseCallbackHandler.handle(BaseCallbackHandler.java:44)
       at weblogic.security.BaseCallbackHandler.handle(BaseCallbackHandler.java:32)
       at com.bea.common.security.internal.service.CallbackHandlerWrapper.handle(CallbackHandlerWrapper.java:76)
       at weblogic.security.service.internal.WLSJAASLoginServiceImpl$CallbackHandlerWrapper.handle(WLSJAASLoginServiceImpl.java:154)
       at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$SecureCallbackHandler$1.run(LoginContext.java:947)
       at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$SecureCallbackHandler$1.run(LoginContext.java:944)
       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
       at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$SecureCallbackHandler.handle(LoginContext.java:943)

A: Can you check your spring xml file where have configured your service properties. Your callback url is usually configured in "service" property. This URL is usually your client application URL where you want the request to be redirected once the CAS has authenticated.

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Dutch Suggest EU Send Migrants Straight Back to Turkey
The Netherlands floated an idea on Thursday to ferry migrants reaching Greece straight back to Turkey to stop a relentless influx into the European Union as EU officials cited a rise in the numbers of those who would not qualify for asylum.
The 28-nation bloc has all but failed to curb or control the influx of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa, more than one million of whom arrived in Europe last year, mainly via Greece and heading towards the EU's biggest economy, Germany.
More than 54,500 people have already reached Europe by sea this year, including 50,668 through Greece, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). [L8N15C2NQ]
They keep flowing in despite stormy winter weather making the journey ever more perilous, a fact highlighted by a UNHCR report that 235 migrants were dead or missing already in 2016. On Thursday, 24 drowned when their boat sank off a Greek island close to the Turkish coast.
Much of the EU debate on how to handle the influx has focused on distinguishing people fleeing war, and thus eligible for international protection, from "economic" migrants seeking better lives without being under immediate threat.
"Indeed we have seen that the numbers of people arriving in Europe who don't have a genuine claim to asylum have been rising slightly," a spokeswoman for the European Commission told a regular news briefing on Thursday.
EU nations have grown unnerved by the continent's worst migration crisis since World War Two, one that has jeopardised the bloc's Schengen zone of passport-free travel over national borders that has contributed greatly to its vaunted prosperity.
In the latest idea for discouraging migrants from flooding into Europe, the head of a party in the Dutch ruling coalition said it was drafting a plan under which those arriving in Greece by sea could be dispatched straight back to Turkey.
Diederik Samsom said European countries would have to agree in exchange to take several hundred thousand refugees each year out of nearly 2 million currently in Turkey. The Netherlands now holds the EU's rotating presidency and Samsom said it would seek to push for Europe-wide agreement on the plan.
Samsom also said improving conditions for Syrian refugees in Turkey meant it could soon be regarded as a safe country to which asylum-seekers could be returned.
Amnesty International quickly denounced the idea as "fundamentally flawed", saying it would deny those arriving the right to have their asylum claims properly considered.
"Any resettlement proposal that is conditional on effectively sealing off borders and illegally pushing back tens of thousands of people while denying them access to asylum procedures is morally bankrupt," said Amnesty's John Dalhuisen.
"There is no excuse for breaking the law and flouting international obligations in the process."
GERMANY, SWEDEN, DENMARK
The government of Germany, where more than a million migrants arrived last year alone, on Thursday agreed tighter asylum rules, while Sweden and Finland said they would deport tens of thousands of last year's asylum seekers.
In another example of how wealthy European states are seeking to deter migrants, Denmark's parliament on Tuesday passed measures allowing the confiscation of asylum seekers' valuables to pay for their stay, despite protests from international human rights organisations.
The European Commission said on Thursday it was looking into whether Denmark's move was undermining fundamental EU values.
While the overall number of arrivals is relatively low compared to the EU's 500 million population, the uneven distribution among member states has put heavy pressure on public and security services in some, as well as fuelled support for anti-foreigner nationalists and populists across the bloc.
The EU border agency Frontex said on Thursday the number of Syrians arriving on Greek islands had declined in recent months, while Iraqi arrivals had risen.
"The percentage of declared Syrians among all of the migrants landing on the Greek islands has fallen considerably in the last several months," Frontex said, adding that some 39 percent of those arriving in Greece in December were Syrians, compared to 43 percent in November and 51 percent in October.
The shifting numbers partly reflect how registration and identification of migrants has improved in Greece over the last quarter, meaning fewer people pass under false nationality.
Syrian nationality has been a common answer to the question of origin as people fleeing the devastating civil war in the Middle East country are seen as standing the greatest chance of successful asylum applications in the EU.
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I agree with everyone who do not like it because I don't either. However, this is the future. As cars become more technologically dependent, engine noise will be reduced to far less noise levels than today's cars. In the future, all engine noise will be produced artificially and I guess you can say that BMW is at the forefront?
It truly is the lack of sound entering the cabin- not the sound on the outside so I wouldn't say it needs an exhaust upgrade. For many that buy this car it serves dual purpose, sporty and yet sophisticated enough to transport colleagues and business associates. Not to mention not everyone wants to hear a very loud exhaust daily.
But once again- it sounds great at WOT from the outside so I don't see that as BMW making the exhaust too tame.
The point is, BMW can't just FORCE this on the customer. Did BMW conduct a customer survey asking if more engine sound was needed in future vehicles? NO. There is no way you make a design decision like this on behalf of the consumer and make them live with it.
Eh, I kinda LOLed... basically all technical/design decisions of every car are made on behalf of the customer... and customers just have to live with it, or get another brand/car.
The sound sounds synthetic. I think this was a mis-step on their part.
Didn't the hear of the backlash when VW piped a "sound-tube" into the cabin of the GTI? That actually cost the car a few horsepower even - everyone modded that out.
It's still a sweet sound to my ears!!!
If it allows BMW to filter out more wind/road noise in favor of the engine noise, then I think it's a great idea.
But I'm a technology geek, so stuff like this actually excites me. I can't wait until we have electric cars that sound like the space shuttle launching.
Seems the German factories dont care too much about the little things or attention to small details.
Had a look at a couple 3 Series built here in South Africa and all the fuses in the fuse panel have been put in with their lettering facing the same way unlike the M5 Panel below where the fuses are just inserted any way around.
It does kinda sound like a video game. Meh. I agree there should be an I drive option to cancel that. After getting exhaust there is no way i'd want to listen to something replicated over my exhaust, and then disabeling it not having the option to play music.
I'd rather not mess with it, and just leave it alone.
I think there is a simple fix for BMW on this, leave the system in the M5 and all the next ones they have it lines up for, but put a option in Idrive to disable it.
I bet this can be turned off via coding.
Don't like it on BMW's, but Audi's system of using a similar method to compensate for half the cylinder block de-activating makes sense. Personally I prefer, like most others, an un-altered or simulated cacophony.
I'm 100% against it, both in theory because I think it's a stupid idea and in practice because I don't think it sounds very convincing. I could tell immediately that it was an artificial sound and I wasn't even looking at my screen so I didn't see whether the first run was the before or after.
Overall it's a minor detail, I would still buy the new M5 or M6 in a second if I could afford them and I'd get over the active sound pretty quickly, but I wish there was a way to just turn it off.
I can understand what led BMW to include this feature though, the car with active sound turned off is way too quiet inside and the noises you do hear aren't nearly as aggressive and sporty as is expected in an M5. I've had the privilege of driving E34, E39 and E60 M5s and they each had an extraordinary engine sound that this new TTV8 does not, but I don't understand why BMW couldn't have just reduced the amount of noise insulation between the engine and exhaust and the passenger compartment, or just made the exhaust louder...the new twin turbo AMGs sound absolutely incredible and I've never found the new E63 or CLS63 to be too noisy inside.
I think BMW may have "jumped the shark" on this one. BMW should absolutely give the driver the option through iDrive of turning off the piped in sounds.
I don't think BMW quite understands the $100K+ sedan buyer here in the U.S. $100K+ sedan buyers at times want a QUIET cabin to make important phone calls, conduct business, participate in conference calls, etc. Yes, having deep throaty exhaust/engine sounds is cool sometimes, but why BMW thinks a $100K+ sedan buyer wants that 100% of the time is beyond me.
I am betting a fix is coming giving drivers an option to turn off active sound when desired.
To me, Active Sound is simply the worst idea that BMW has come up with since I've been buying them. I'm not saying it would prevent me from buying the car, which is a great machine. I just don't understand why BMW couldn't do what Porsche does, and put valves in the exhaust and divert the intake sound in through valved tubes going into the A pillars. The sound is incredible this way.
The difference in the video I hear is mainly just the volume of the sound. BUT, this is with an absolutely new car, engine, and stock exhaust. What will be really interesting is the difference as the engine/exhaust gets some miles on it. I know my E60 M5 definitely sounded MUCH different once I built up the miles than it did when new. Maybe some people will see this as an advantage - "the engine note always sounds like new". However, if there's ever a problem, you'll have to hear it over the 'perfect' engine sound.
What will really be amusing is to hear the difference between Active Sound and not with an aftermarket exhaust. You'll hear the stock sound pumped into the cabin through Active Sound over the real aftermarket sound. Just ridiculous.
The point is, BMW can't just FORCE this on the customer. Did BMW conduct a customer survey asking if more engine sound was needed in future vehicles? NO. It seems the designer of the M5 just decided, based on personal preference, that the F10 M5 needed additional engine noise in the cabin. There is no way you make a design decision like this on behalf of the consumer and make them live with it.
You do have a choice, don't buy it!
I don't think they will include it in the next M3 due to the lack of a need to insulate sound in it and the fact that they have already done a FI 6-cyl and managed a "decent" exhaust note.
for those people that will put on aftermarket exhausts on their cars, the active sound will surely not sound proper.