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A monstrous 24-year-old Maryland father, Robert Davidson, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing and killing his 10-week-old daughter last year. Davidson appeared in court on Monday to answer the charges of sex abuse of a minor and first-degree child abuse resulting in death in connection to the June 2015 slaying of his daughter, Aleah Thompson.
The baby girl’s mother, 22-year-old Lorena Thompson, pleaded guilty to neglect of a minor in July and was sentenced to five years of probation.
Prosecutors said that Thompson had seen bruises on her daughter’s body and suspected that her boyfriend had been physically abusing Aleah but did not do anything to protect the infant or alert the authorities.
According to a press release from the Montgomery County Police Department, at 7.18pm on June 23, 2015, Robert Davidson called 911 to report that his daughter was unresponsive and not breathing. Paramedics arrived at the couple’s home on East Argyle Street in Rockville, Maryland, and rushed the infant to a nearby hospital. Aleah Thompson was alter airlifted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC, where she succumbed to her injuries three days later.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner subsequently ruled Aleah’s death a homicide caused by multiple blunt force injuries. An autopsy of the baby showed that the 10-week-old had suffered a broken collarbone and had 34 rib fractures in various stages of healing. The injuries were the result of what has been described as at least three ‘severely traumatic events.’
Aleah had injuries to her head, eyes and spine. A forensic anthropologists concluded that the abuse started when the infant was only two weeks old and the last of the incidents took place just before her death.
Aleah’s parents were arrested in late August 2015, nearly two months after the baby’s death.
During his initial interview with police, Robert Davidson said that on the evening of June 23, he was looking after Aleah while his girlfriend was at work. He said he was playing video games when he heard sounds of labored breathing coming from the bedroom. He went to check up on Aleah and found her unresponsive and limp. He then tried to revive her by performing CPR before calling 911 for help.
However, during subsequent interviews, Davidson admitted to ‘committing acts that constitute sexual abuse of a child.’ He also revealed that he had dropped Aleah several times in the past and ‘aggressively’ shook the baby at least once on the day of the incident.
When Lorena Thompson was questioned by investigators, she admitted that she had seen bruises on Aleah on more than one occasion, and that those injuries occurred while the baby was in her boyfriend’s care, but at no time did she seek medical attention for the new-born and she didn’t even take the baby to her two-month medical checkup because she knew the doctors would have discovered the injuries on the infant.
Thompson, who is a chef by trade, also has a 5-year-old son from a previous relationship.
Davidson was originally charged with second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in death, first-degree child abuse resulting in severe physical injury, neglect of a minor, sexual abuse of a minor, and second-degree sex offense. But as part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop the second-degree murder count against Davidson.
It has not been specified why Davidson was charged with sexual abuse. His attorney said cryptically in court on Monday his client had told police he was trying to remove ‘mucus and other substances’ from Aleah’s body, but that he did not do it for sexual gratification.
Davidson is scheduled to be sentenced in February. He faces up to 50 years in prison.


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A bad marriage might literally make you sick. Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, UK researchers reported today.
What it likely boils down to is stress – a well-known contributor to health problems, as well as a potential byproduct of troubled relationships, the scientists said.
In a study of 9,011 British civil servants, most of them married, those with the worst close relationships were 34 per cent more likely to have heart attacks or other heart trouble during 12 years of follow-up than those with good relationships. That included partners, close relatives and friends.
The study, in today’s Archives of Internal Medicine, follows previous research that has linked health problems with being single and having few close relationships.
In the new study, researchers focused more on the quality of marriage and other important relationships.
“What we add here is that, ‘okay, being married is in general good, but be careful about the kind of person you have married.’ The quality of the relationship matters,” said lead author Roberto De Vogli, a researcher with University College in London.
De Vogli said his research team is doing tests to see if study participants with bad relationships have any biological evidence of stress that could contribute to heart disease. That includes inflammation and elevated levels of stress hormones.
Another recent study also looked at quality of relationships but had different results.
There was no association between marital woes in general and risks for heart disease or early death.
But it did find, over a 10-year follow-up, that women who keep silent during marital arguments had an increased risk of dying compared with wives who expressed their feelings during fights.
What appeared to matter more for men was just being married; married men were less likely to die during the follow-up than single men.
That study, of nearly 4,000 men and women, was published online in July in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
In De Vogli’s study, men and women with bad relationships faced equal risks.
Volunteers filled out questionnaires asking them to rate the person to whom they felt closest on several measures.
These included questions about to what extent does that person “give you worries, problems and stress?”
They also were asked about whether they felt they could confide in that person, or whether talking with that person made them feel worse.
Over the following 12 years, 589 participants had heart attacks or other heart problems.
Those with the highest negative scores on the questionnaire had the highest risks, even taking into account other factors related to heart disease such as obesity, high blood pressure and smoking.
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The project started with an inception workshop in September 2015 that brought together different stakeholders from the agricultural industry including scholars, researchers, extension practitioners, private sector players, government organisations, NGOs and other development partners. This provided a platform for consultative discussion on the goal, objectives and activities of the project before implementation. The first year of this project is complete. The objectives for this first phase were to establish and document the current status of Tuta absoluta and fusarium wilt-nematode complex through a baseline survey, then use these findings to develop and validate IPM packages for management of the target pests.
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Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
|"Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!"|
Sheet music cover, 1864
|Songwriter(s)||George F. Root|
"Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Prisoner's Hope)" was one of the most popular songs of the American Civil War. George F. Root wrote both the words and music and published it in 1864 to give hope to the Union prisoners of war. The song is written from the prisoner's point of view. The chorus tells his fellow prisoners that hope is coming.
In the prison cell I sit, Thinking Mother dear, of you,
And our bright and happy home so far away,
And the tears they fill my eyes
Spite of all that I can do,
Tho' I try to cheer my comrades and be gay.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching,
Cheer up comrades they will come,
And beneath the starry flag
We shall breathe the air again,
Of the freeland in our own beloved home.
In popular culture
The song has been parodied and the melody has been repurposed numerous times:
- It also lends the music to an Irish patriotic song, "God Save Ireland".
- An early variant was "Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipinos", sung during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War.
- In 1913, the labor organizer and songwriter Joe Hill (1879–1915) wrote a song for the Industrial Workers of the World to the tune, called "The Tramp", about a man who is trying to find a job, only to get the universal answer: 'Tramp, tramp, tramp, keep on a-tramping / Nothing doing here for you / If I catch you 'round again / You will wear the ball and chain / Keep on tramping, that's the best thing you can do.'
- In 1914 the melody and meter were used as the basis for the World War I song, Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser by Mark Sheridan.
- In 1950, the German anti-US propaganda song Ami – go home! by Ernst Busch was set to this tune (arranged by Hanns Eisler).
- Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, one of Chile's most important football clubs, has used the music of this song in its official anthem "Cruzados Caballeros" since 1943.
- The melody of this song, as used in God Save Ireland, makes up part of Put 'Em Under Pressure, the official song written to support Ireland's national football team in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
- It was melody of the original song of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University) in Japan.
- In the TV series M*A*S*H, Hawkeye (played by Alan Alda) twice responds to someone making a thrice repeated complaint (such as "Gripe, gripe, gripe!") by singing the line from the song "the boys are marching".
- The German band De Höhner use the tune for their song "Dat Hätz vun d'r Welt" (published in 1982), sung in praise of Cologne in the local dialect, Kölsch.
- In the November 26, 2010, edition of the Pickles comic strip, lead character Earl Pickles sings the chorus as a preemptive strike against his wife's urge to sing holiday songs.
- Smith, Stories of Great National Songs, p. 127: "As the soldier was nerved for the shock of battle by the inspiration n the 'Battle Cry of Freedom,' so in his prison cell his heart was fired with hope by the cheering strains of—'Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching.' And how to the sound of that music the blod still thrills with the enthusiasm of '65. There is forcible suggestion of the solid march of Union armies in the words and music of that familiar song. It was composed by Dr. Root—both words and music—quite early in the war. Its purpose was to give a more hopeful view of the conditions of the country, and more particularly to cheer the boys who had been captured by the enemy and placed in prison pens."
- Root, "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!".
- "In Our Lovely Deseret". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. May 2, 2013.
- "Himno". Club Deportivo Universidad Católica. February 22, 2012. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012.
- Crane, Brian (November 26, 2010). "Pickles". Washington Post Writers Group.
- Root, George R. "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" (Sheet music). Chicago: Root & Cady (1864).
- Smith, Nicholas, Col. Stories of Great National Songs. Milwaukee, Wis.: The Yound Churchman Co. (1899).


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Not Just Jews Eat Kosher Food in Prison
The tiny population of religious Jews in prison has plenty of company when it comes to keeping kosher behind bars. A number of secular Jews, messianic Jews, Black Hebrew Israelites and, in many cases, people with no Jewish background at all eat a traditional Jewish diet.
Jews, according to one estimate, make up just one-sixth — or about 4,000 — of the 24,000 inmates who eat kosher food in American prisons. And since kosher food can cost more than twice as much as regular fare, it’s costing taxpayers millions to feed all those who want to avoid treyf.
“We want them to be very careful about who they give kosher food to,” said Menachem Katz, director of prison and military outreach at the Aleph Institute, a Chabad-affiliated social services group. “We don’t want them to give kosher food to every Tom, Dick and Harry if they say they are Jewish.”
“It is a major problem, and it creates so much animosity” from prison officials, said Gary Friedman, founder of Jewish Prisoner Services International. Friedman provided estimates based on visits to prisons around the country.
The popularity of kosher food among non-Jewish inmates is one reason that many prisons around the country are seeking to curtail or change their Jewish dietary programs. But advocates for Jewish inmates say that prisons could easily solve this problem by limiting kosher food to Jews.
“They want to throw the baby out with the bath water,” Katz said. “Rather than get into the nitty-gritty, they say, ‘Let’s just destroy the whole thing.’”
Kosher food is a hot commodity in prisons for a number of reasons. Some prisoners simply think it tastes better; many others believe it is safer than standard-issue prison fare, according to prison chaplains and advocates. Kosher food also often comes prepackaged, making it easy to trade or sell among inmates.
For instance, at California Men’s Colony, a medium and minimum security facility in San Luis Obispo, Calif., prisoners who keep kosher receive three daily meals in a sack that they bring back to their cells. The meals consist of factory-sealed cut vegetables, frozen or non-perishable dishes like lasagna, and whole fruits and vegetables. Inmates frequently trade kosher food for prison-issued paper money, which can be used to buy items in the facility’s canteen.
“If someone can have special food, that makes them feel special and it makes them appear special to other people,” said Rabbi Lon Moskowitz, the chaplain at California Men’s. “It also has the added benefit of potentially being able to generate revenue on the black market.”
Kosher meals in prison are provided because prisoners in the United States are guaranteed religious freedoms under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000. If, according to case law, an inmate shows a “sincerely held” religious belief, then he or she is entitled to religious services, such as kosher or halal food.
The law is vague about what constitutes a sincere belief. Last year, there were more than 60 suits filed around the country by inmates claiming they were unfairly barred from following a kosher diet in prison, according to the Religion Clause blog, which tracks freedom of religion cases in prisons. About 40 of these were dismissed. Friedman, of Jewish Prisoner Services International, has himself been sued by inmates who claim they were denied kosher food by his organization, which formerly contracted with the Washington State Department of Corrections to provide religious services to inmates.
The law “leaves room for individuals to disagree about what religions require,” said Luke Goodrich, deputy general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The Becket Fund is currently appealing a Texas judge’s decision to bar an Iranian-Jewish inmate from receiving kosher food.
The situation is made more complicated by the fact that most American prisons are run on the state level. That means there are 50-plus departments of corrections around the country housing some 1.4 million people, according to a 2010 estimate, each of which has a unique interpretation of the rules about religious practice and diet.
In the federal corrections system, there are some 4,127 individuals receiving a so-called Certified Religious Diet out of a total of 217,000 inmates, or about 2% of the population. The diet costs $2.33 per meal as opposed to $0.99 for regular prison fare, and accommodates Jews and non-Jews with religious dietary needs. In order for a prisoner to access the diet, he must make a request in writing and then be interviewed by a chaplain. If an inmate is denied access, he can reapply in six months.
According to Goodrich, 35 states currently offer kosher meals in prisons. Prison officials, he said, are “rightly hesitant to set themselves up to say who is Jewish and who is not.” They often leave the decision in the hands of chaplains, Jewish or otherwise.
In California, for instance, Jewish chaplains oversee kosher programs at the state’s prisons, feeding kosher meals to about 800 people out of about 140,000 — or about 0.6% of — inmates. California has a strict policy against allowing non-Jewish prisoners to access kosher food, which costs about $8 a day as opposed to $3 a day for the regular diet. Even with the tight rules, California spends some $2 million per year on kosher food. At California Men’s Colony, inmates must fill out forms detailing their familial and religious backgrounds in order to be admitted into the program. Moskowitz said he asks non-Jewish prisoners who want to eat kosher to try practicing Judaism for six months before they can qualify for the special diet.
Recently, a messianic Jew named Margarito Jesus Garcia challenged the California system, claiming that a Jewish chaplain violated his religious rights by denying him kosher food. A California superior court ruled against Garcia, but in January, Garcia won his appeal.
According to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Bill Sessa, the department is considering shifting away from providing kosher meals for Jews alone and toward creating a common fare diet to accommodate all religious groups. Sessa said that inmates who keep kosher sometimes “manipulate the system,” asking to switch to non-kosher meals if the food is more desirable. “It gives us reason to think about what we might do differently,” he said.
The cost of kosher and halal foods led prison officials in the Indiana Department of Correction to drop their religious dietary programs altogether in 2009, serving those inmates a vegan diet instead. With budgets tight and the money spent on kosher and halal meals doubling every month, an official said the state had little choice.
“We got to the point of almost having to choose between correctional officers or special food,” said Stephen Hall, director of religious and volunteer services at the Indiana DOC.
In 2010, an Indiana court mandated the DOC to reinstate its religious food program when a Jewish inmate sued. But last year, the American Civil Liberties Union said that the DOC was in contempt of court because it administered a kosher diet to only half of those inmates who identified as Jews, a charge that the DOC denied.
“The decision of the court was that if someone has a sincere religious belief, they should have a kosher diet,” said Kenneth Falk, the Indiana ACLU’s legal director.
There have also been debates about whether the kosher meals served to prisoners meet religious standards for kosher food.
In Nevada last June, a Jewish inmate named Howard Ackerman sued the Nevada Department of Corrections in a class-action lawsuit, contending that the DOC’s new ‘common fare’ menu was not actually kosher. The suit claimed, among other things, that the food was prepared on surfaces where milk and meat were mixed, and that the trays on which the food was served previously held non-kosher food. In February, a federal judge issued an injunction in the case to stop the department from serving the new food to inmates. According to Ackerman’s lawyer, Jacob Hafter, the case included about 40 to 50 Orthodox Jews, but also more than 200 other people who wanted the kosher diet.
Nevada DOC officials have said they will make sure that the common fare diet meets kosher standards.


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Aston Villa will discover the identity of their first Europa League opponents when the draw for the play-off round is made in Nyon, Switzerland this afternoon.
It takes place at 12.30pm and will be streamed live on the official UEFA website.
Martin O’Neill’s must progress through home and away ties on Thursday August 19 and August 26 to make it to the knockout stages of the competition.
The 74 clubs will be separated into five groups of ten teams and two groups of 12, with an equal number of sides seeded and unseeded within each group.
They are joined in the draw by 35 third qualifying round winners and the 15 losing teams from the Champions League, including Celtic.
Clubs from the same association cannot be drawn together so Villa will avoid facing Liverpool and Manchester City.
Villa and European regulars Porto, CSKA Moscow, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord and Steaua Bucharest are among 24 sides who enter the Europa League at the play-off stage.
If Villa overcome the first hurdle they will qualify for the group stages, where they will face three teams home and away in a mini league.
Progressing through the group stage would book them a place in the round of 32, where they would face a further eight matches to make it to the final at the Lansdowne Road Aviva Stadium in Dublin on May 18 next year.
Villa were knocked out in the round of 32 the season before last after O’Neill’s weakened team exited what was then the UEFA Cup with defeat at CSKA Moscow.
Last term Villa were knocked out in the play-off stage by Rapid Vienna on away goals after losing the away leg 1-0 and losing the home leg 2-1.
O’Neill has again hinted at again using the European competition to give his young players first team experience.


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The total market for pet food is $50 billion, which is part of the larger $124 billion pet products industry . As consumers shift towards a more health-conscious lifestyle, they look for the same quality for their pets. Pet Wants provides a convenient solution that pet parents can count on.
Spending on quality, nutritional pet food is at an all-time high, which makes it a great time to own a Pet Wants franchise.
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In addition, Pet Wants is the only national provider of pet food freshly delivered to customers.
“Even though Pet Wants is a new, emerging company, we have over 100 owners” says DeNita Carani, President of Pet Wants. “At the same time, as the pet food industry continues to grow, consumers are becoming more educated about ingredients and the benefits of natural pet food. We’re currently the only brand that offers fresh food delivered right to the home.”
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Guest blog by Ian Johannessen - Managing Director of Peoplesafe Peoplesafe, suppliers of lone worker personal safety devices will once again be sponsoring the upcoming National Personal Safety Awards. Managing Director Ian Johannessen tells us why celebrating achievements in safety is so important… We are delighted to be involved with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and the National Personal Safety Awards once again. Like the Trust, the safety of individuals lies at the heart of everything we do, so the opportunity to sponsor these awards is warmly welcomed. The awards are a great initiative as they recognise the dedicated activities of many who do not put themselves forward for accolades or see themselves as heroes. All too often, the subject of personal safety is only brought up in a negative context – after an incident or as a warning. To celebrate individual and group safety success feels like swimming upstream but we must strive to bring personal safety to the forefront of people’s minds, it is a great practice to recognise enthusiasm and personal, team and organisational commitment. As a company that provides lone worker personal safety devices, we have a clear interest in safety within the workplace. For our own award category, we have created the ‘Personal Safety Champion Award’. This will be awarded to an individual who has facilitated the improvement of safety for employees in their workplace. This award gives important recognition to people who champion the issue of personal safety in the workplace. Lone worker safety is not just about ticking boxes and giving staff equipment; it’s about the culture of the organisation. And it always needs someone to champion lone worker safety; someone who takes it upon themselves to keep staff safe. This is not an easy role, so winning an award for what can sometimes feel like a thankless task is a great way to recognise hard work.


“On The Way To The Airport” Films Scenes On A Real Airplane
KBS’s new Wednesday-Thursday drama “On the Way to the Airport” is filming on a totally detailed scale!
For some of the scenes, the drama staff relocated to Malaysia to film. Since many scenes take place on an airplane, the production staff actually filmed scenes in an international airliner.
The staff paid close attention to detail since the story revolves around a veteran stewardess (Kim Ha Neul), who is married to a pilot (Shin Sung Rok) and has a fateful meeting with Lee Sang Yoon at the airport and on the plane.
In Malaysia, the actors filmed for three days in the airliner and Shin Sung Rok expressed satisfaction at being able to act in a real cockpit.
Watch the latest episode of “On the Way to the Airport” below!


National Memorial Day Concert
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On Memorial Day weekend, PBS unites our nation in honor of all of America's men and women in uniform for their service and sacrifice with the 20th anniversary presentation of the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT. The event is led for the fourth year by co-hosts Gary Sinise ("CSI NY") and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna ("Criminal Minds"), two actors who have dedicated themselves to veterans' causes and supporting our troops in active service. The program, broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., features a mix of dramatic readings, documentary footage and live musical performances, along with an all-star line-up of dignitaries, actors and musical artists and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Erich Kunzel.


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This easy shawarma spice blend is made out of turmeric, coriander and other spices you have at home. Use it for chicken recipes and more!
Ingredients and substitutions
- turmeric – if you don't have turmeric, you can replace this with curry powder for a slightly different flavour
- cumin – you can use more ground coriander instead
- paprika – cayenne pepper or additional chili powder can be used instead of paprika
- coriander – you can use more ground cumin instead
- nutmeg – you can use allspice instead for a similar flavour
- chili powder – make your own chili powder using a blend of paprika, cumin and cayenne
- cinnamon – extra nutmeg, allspice or cassia can be used in place of cinnamon
Easiest Shawarma Spice Blend
- 1 tbsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp cumin
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp coriander
- 1 tbsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Mix all ingredients together in a bowl then funnel into a spice jar if desired. We have linked to the ones we use above this recipe card.
- Add sticker label to your jar if desired. Download our free template and purchase sticker printer paper above the recipe card.
Frequently Asked Questions
Shawarma spice is full of warming spices like cinnamon and nutmeg but it's not typically considered hot or spicy. You can adjust the amount of paprika or add in cayenne if you're looking for something with a little more heat.
Gyro and shawarma have some key differences when it comes to their origins, flavours, and toppings. Gyros are Greek in origin and feature meat that is heavily seasoned with oregano. Shawarma, on the other hand, comes from the Middle East with meat seasoned with a mix of different spices such as turmeric, coriander and cinnamon. Both are traditionally served on pita bread, but you'll often find gyro topped with tzatziki and fresh vegetables like lettuce and tomato. Shawarma is often served with pickled vegetables and tahini instead.
Shawarma spice is full of a bunch of spices that contain a bunch of vitamins and minerals. Specifically, turmeric is anti-inflammatory while cumin and coriander are full of antioxidants.

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Man, 31, accused of punching, kicking and pointing gun at woman
A convicted felon who demanded money from a woman and then punched and kicked her, and pointed a gun at her head, was arrested Tuesday on several charges.
Jason E. Rich, 31, remained at the Marion County Jail on Wednesday afternoon. The jail log lists six charges, including aggravated domestic assault, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number.
According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the victim told deputy Wady Sedan she was asleep when Rich woke her up asking for money. She said Rich searched her purse and that when she snatched it from him he threw a five-gallon water jug filled with change at her legs. She said he ripped a gold bracelet from her wrist, hit her and told her he could get money for her jewelry.
The woman said she ran to a bathroom and Rich followed her. She said when he caught up to her he punched her in the face and that when she fell he kicked her several times while she was on the ground. She said he pointed a gun at her head and told her, “I will kill you for that money right now. I don't have money and I need money,” according to the deputy's report.
The woman said she heard a “click,” but the gun did not fire. She said Rich then hit her with a lotion bottle, after which she left with two juveniles, the report states.
Sedan went looking for Rich and saw him pull into the 1600 block of East State Road 40. He asked Rich to step out of the vehicle. When Rich did so, the deputy saw a handgun in the door pocket, his report states.
An Ocala Police Department officer arrived at the location and remained there until the victim showed up.
The children were given into the care of a relative and the Department of Children and Families was notified, deputies said.
Rich denied pointing a gun at the victim or hitting her. He was arrested and taken to the jail.
Florida Department of Corrections records online indicate he served time for felony battery and was released from prison in October 2007.
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Mini Movers 2, 3 & 4
PKS Dance Elite Ltd. offers two levels of Mini Movers Programming. Each has been specifically designed to achieve goals, reach milestones, and fundamentally prepare your child for a lifetime of healthy living and a love for dance. We take pride in the fact that all our Pre-dance programmes are taught by professional qualified early childhood dance teachers. We feel it so important that our teachers understand the developmental process of this age group – not just dance steps.
Featuring carefully chosen songs and activities from today’s leading children’s musicians and educators in varying styles, from folk to rock. The Mini Movers programs lead children on a journey through musical and self-awareness in a non-threatening and safe environment. Designed for children walking to 3 years old, these classes introduce movement, rhythm, co-ordination and balance. Children start to learn the fundamentals of dance within a fun and upbeat atmosphere. If you are looking for a well rounded and entertaining movement experience using plenty of toys and instruments, you will find it here.
Our Mini Movers classes are divided into 4 eight-week sessions, which run from the end of September to the end of May. Each session focuses on different aspects of movement and dance, paired with songs specifically chosen to enhance learning in a fun and creative way.
MINI MOVERS SHOWCASE (June 17th, 2017): Optional show with additional cost for costume, photos and tickets
Mini Movers 2 years and under :
This program is specifically designed for walking to 2 years old by Dec. 31 of the current school year. Parents and caregivers join their little cruisers on an adventure in movement and play. Children will be encouraged to try new things and begin to assert their independence. Activities will encourage movement, cognitive and verbal skills in a fun and social environment. Caregiver must participate.
Mini Movers – 3 year olds:
This amazingly fun and energetic class is designed for 3-year-olds by Dec. 31 of the current school year. This class will enhance co-ordination and boost your child’s confidence while developing gross and fine motor skills while fostering your child’s independence. Props, games, musical instruments and upbeat songs help to create a rich educational environment. Independent class.
Mini Movers – 4+years olds:
Dancewear of any style.
Mini Movers 2 & 3 – Gymnastic slippers, Ballet shoes, Robbie’s, indoor shoes or bare feet.
Mini Movers 4 — Ballet shoes for Session 1 &2, Tap shoes for Session 3&4
Mini Movers 2 (walking to 2 years by December 31st, current school year)
Wednesday 5:00-5:30 pm
Thursday 5:45- 6:15 pm
Saturday 9:00-9:30 am
Mini Movers 3 (must be 3 by December 31st, current school year)
Wednesday 5:30-6:00 pm
Thursday 5:15-5:45 p.m. and 6:15-6:45 pm
Mini Movers 4 (must be 4 by December 31st, current school year)
Thursday 6:45-7:15 p.m.
Session Dates for 2016/2017:
September 28 – November 16
November 22 – January 25 ( No classes Christmas break)
February 1 – April 1 (No class March break)
April 5 – May 25 (June 3rd for Saturday classes)
June 17th, 2017 – Mini Movers Showcase


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The WallsA horror film from the perspective of a haunted house. He patiently waits in the coming years. After all, startups break down into a broken family that seems desperate and thinks that it will be at home. Few people know that something behind the wall is wrong, they always want to be.
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Publication date General: 01 February 2018
distributor: Oneworld Alliance Film Sdn.Bhd.
Cast: Vanessa Angel, Hutch Dano, Reggie Lee, Lew Temple
Director: James Condolee, John Condolee

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text: I hadn’t played with a set of watercolors since I was in elementary school. Lots of the usual demons came out to play along with me: the “I don’t know how to do this” demon, the “Hers is better than mine” demon, the “I don’t want to do this if I don’t make something good” demon. Ah, demons. Always around, wanting attention. I try and think of them as small, hyperactive pets, or ill-behaved but basically decent children.

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Jansenville (Eastern Cape)
Jansenville, established in 1855, is a small town in the Cape Province, south of Graaff-Reinet.
The town has its origins as an outgrowth of the Uitenhage Dutch Reformed Parish.
The earliest Jewish resident was recorded in 1867. The community was never large enough to build a shul and after lying empty for over a century, land allocated for this purpose was donated to the town library.
There was never a formal congregation but Jews gathered together in the town for Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).
Most Jews were traders, shopkeepers and farmers in the district.Maurice Zimmerman, the springbok rugby player, was born in Jansenville.
The Jewish population was at its maximum around 1904 when there were 70 Jews, but this number dwindled to 48 in 1936. The last two Jewish residents left in 1983.

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Zimbabwean Jailed In The United Kingdom For Selling Crack Cocaine
A Zimbabwean was jailed in the United Kingdom for selling crack cocaine and heroine,
Blessing Sithole was jailed for three years for selling illicit drugs in Canterbury. He was arrested in April 2022 following an operation by Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team.
The Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team identified that Blessing Sithole sold drugs in a blue BMW that he had hired from a car hire.
He was part of a county line network that advertised their drugs using the text name ‘Taylor’. The Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team identified a blue BMW that they believed was being used by the county line network.
Further investigations by the team revealed that the car was hired out in Sithole’s name. After obtaining a warrant, a search was carried out at his home on 26 April. Sithole who was not at home when the search was conducted, was arrested elsewhere in the city on the same day.
Blessing Sithole was found in possession of an undisclosed amount of cash which the police referred to as being large. His two phones were also seized. An examination of the two phones later revealed messages offering drug users ‘best of both’ , a reference to heroin and crack cocaine.
Blessing Sithole was released on bail, and while out, he obtained another hire car and another phone, with a view to potential further dealing. He was arrested again in June and charged with the supply of class-A drugs.
After admitting that charge, Blessing Sithole was sentenced to three years when he appeared before Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday 2 November 2022.
During the month of October, the County Lines and Gangs Team secured a total of 34 years of prison sentences for offenders. In the same month, the team also made 42 arrests, secured 54 charges, and seized more than £15,000 in suspected criminal cash as well as 32 weapons.


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Procrastination is the act of putting off work for no particular reason. Some experts say that you’re procrastinating when you’re not doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline. That’s a false definition. It states that we’re not procrastinating as long as we get the work done; if this would be true, it would mean that most people don’t procrastinate. However, 90% of people procrastinate at least one hour a day, they all delay or postpone a task for no good reason. Sometimes, we start a task or project, but we end up delaying the work. We don’t get it done.
Most of our work does not get better by delaying it. If you want to go to the gym, do it today not tomorrow. Your performance will not be better tomorrow, it will probably be worse, since achieving tasks helps you with your discipline and with your self-esteem. When the exam comes close, most students start panicking because they have not studied till the day before. Now, most of us form this behavior in school and remain working this way for the rest of our lives. How often have you delayed work on a project until the last minute?
Procrastination can not only be seen at school or work but also in personal our personal life. It’s not a sustainable way of living and working. When you’re close to your deadline, and you haven’t done anything, you experience more stress. While stress may improve your concentration, it also has negative effects on your long-term well-being. Long-term stress can lead to depression, anxiety, heart disease, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, heart attacks, obesity, eating disorders, and a handful of other health problems. Procrastination is not a problem we should take lightly. Procrastination is an inner struggle that can seriously destroy our well-being.
Benefits of stopping procrastination:
- Lower Anxiety: The more we procrastinate, and the longer we wait to get started with important things, the more anxiety and stress we have. Doing work is never easy. And if you wait until tomorrow, you will only feel more anxious about getting started. If you overcome procrastination and take immediate action, you will get things done.
- Better work: People who don’t procrastinate accomplish better work. When you work with less stress, anxiety, and high self-discipline, you give yourself the chance to do better work.
- Higher self-discipline: Procrastination is not only a time-management problem. One of the biggest reasons we procrastinate is low self-discipline. The main benefit of overcoming procrastination is that you automatically increase your self-discipline.
As you can see, all of us can work on being better at achieving tasks and stop procrastinating. All those days spent working and disciplining yourself will eventually pay off. Jim Rohn (a well-known philosopher) talks about the pain of discipline versus the pain of regret. Either way, he says, you pay the price. You can choose to pay the price of discipline now, today, and every day.

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By Benjamin Muriuki
A Journalist was Saturday arrested amid a confrontation between a senior police officer and agitated friends and relatives of the late businessman Jacob Juma at the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi.
The Sunday Nation reporter was apprehended for apparently recording a heated conversation that had ensued at the mortuary after the late businessman’s family members demanded Mr Martin Nyuguto, an officer from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), to explain why police suspiciously responded to the assassination incident.
The agitated relatives, who had gone to witness Mr Juma’s autopsy, were questioning why detectives took so long to secure the Mercedes Benz car the late businessman was driving when he was shot dead.
Pressed hard to explain the disputed move by the police, Mr Nyuguto admitted that the vehicle was secured at 7pm on Friday, almost 21 hours after the murder.
As the altercation heated up, the Nation Media Group reporter was spotted recording the happening and it was then that the DCI officer pounced on him, trying to confiscate his equipment.
The apprehension of the reporter prompted the late Juma’s friends and family members present to intervene and have the Journalist released.
The police superintendent in charge of the Homicide Unit at the DCI, however, still threatened to take undisclosed action against the journalist, the Sunday Nation reports.
Meanwhile, the late businessman’s family has cast doubt in how police handled the cold-blood murder of their kin, pointing out among other things why the detectives did not find a single cartridge from the scene.
“Even the car, my friend, the media has been all over it. If they’re taking photographs right inside, where is it sealed? You never sealed it. You tell us that you’re going to get spent cartridges from the inside. Really?” asked an angry relative.
They also questioned Mr Nyuguto on why it took police long to open investigations into the killing.
The Juma family also querried why the vehicle was towed with the body inside before forensic investigations were done, noting that the standard procedure would be for the scene of crime officers to take all the evidence before anything is moved or tampered with.
Michael Juma, the deceased’s brother, querried why police at the Karen station failed to contact Mr Juma’s family as soon as they learnt of the killing saying, “there was no effort by anybody to give the family that distress call”.
Bumula MP Boniface Otsiula disputed the manner police handled the happening saying: “How could police leave the vehicle unsecured for over 24 hours? It means it has already been tampered with. How could they leave the vehicle unsecured?”
The controversial businessman was shot dead Thursday night in an incident that DCI boss Ndegwa Muhoro affirmed was an assassination.
“We can’t tell as yet what it is all about. But if nothing was stolen, that is an indication it was a hit. Whether they were hired (hit men) or not it fits description of a hit on the face value,” he said.
The incident has remained a heated subject on both social and mainstream media, with calls mounting for the Government to unravel the mystery behind the killing of the city businessman.


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Supported by the European Union Structural Funds, the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA) is a joint venture of four Estonian universities: Tallinn University (coordinator of GSCSA), University of Tartu, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Estonian Academy of Arts.
GSCSA was established to advance the academic level of PhD programmes of culture studies and arts in Estonia, and to integrate institutionally and administratively separated reseachers of culture. The project will run for 6 years, from 2014 to 2020, and it is aimed, first and foremost, towards graduate students enrolled in the following PhD programmes:
- Tallinn University: 1) studies of cultures; 2) history.
- University of Tartu: 1) literature and cultural research; 2) history; 3) semiotics and culture studies (main subject culture and nature); 4) Germanic and Romance languages and literatures (main subject literature); 5) theology.
- Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre: 1) musicology; 2) dramatic art; 3) music.
- Estonian Academy of Arts: 1) art history; 2) art and design; 3) protection of cultural heritage and conservation; 4) architecture and town planning.


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With Dark ERA, Eduardo Tarilonte – the master of mystical sounds – leads us back into the dark age where legends were born and where old northern gods still determined the fate of mankind. This library allows you to discover sounds to which the vikings and other already forgotten cultures and tribes were celebrating and singing their myths.
Produced by Eduardo Tarilonte, Accordions 2 is considered the first choice if you are looking for a realistic and, above all, playable accordion library. Numerous renowned composers and producers rave about the authenticity and expressiveness of this virtual instrument.
AudioSage connects music and audio creators with innovative emerging technologies from all over the world.
Best Service of Munich Germany develops an expanding universe of professional quality multi-sampled virtual instrument, DSP and SFX libraries created by multiple international teams of highly skilled developers.
In addition to Best Service own VIs, Best Service also distributes a curated catalog of 3rd party VIs, DSP and SFX libraries created by a growing community of innovative developers.

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Sharing comfort in the midst of loss
Mothers who had lost a child in death found comfort in speaking openly to one another of their beloved children, their grief and their possibility of hope at the 14th year of the Weavings weekend-long retreat, held annually in the fall. Professional grief counselors and volunteers from BJC Hospice encouraged sharing and healing and led activities of celebration and remembrance for each child.
“We had moms at the retreat honoring kids ranging in age from just 30 minutes old to 51 years old, who died due to suicide, cancer and other illnesses, overdoses, car accidents, homicide, and aneurysm,” says Andrea Tritinger, BJC Hospice bereavement supervisor. “And the moms came from all over the St. Louis metropolitan area.”
The accommodations, activities and meals for the weekend were all offered at no cost to participants because of generous donations from the communities BJC Hospice serves.
“The moms at the retreat came from different backgrounds and different losses,” says Tritinger. “But they connected with each other and supported one another unconditionally.
“There is always this deeper level of understanding among the moms at the retreat, because they all get what it truly means to lose a child,” Tritinger adds.
During the retreat, the moms had a chance to speak their child’s name openly and hear their child’s name spoken to them. They met in small groups to have more intimate discussions about their feelings and experiences, and they did a “Weavings” project this year led by Susie McGaughey, a volunteer art therapist.
McGaughey led them through a guided meditation and the creation of a small weaving for them to take home, representing themself, their child and their relationship.
“It was beautiful and well received,” says Sandy Dillon, BJC Hospice bereavement specialist. “Some people made pillows with their weavings, another woman made a purse and others will use them as a candle holder or wall hanging.”
“There were many tears throughout the weekend, but there was also more and more laughter and lightness as the weekend went on,” says Tritinger. “The moms so beautifully supported and encouraged one another, and it truly felt like some lasting connections were made. The volunteers and staff who were there with the moms all weekend were compassionate, patient guides who created a safe and sacred space that allowed these moms to trust the process and be open to the whole experience.
“Although they never would have imagined needing to come to a retreat like this, they form a community to help each other move forward,” Tritinger adds. “And so many moms tell us how much they appreciate knowing that they aren’t alone in this experience.”
Next year’s Weavings retreat will be held the weekend of Oct. 23-25 at the Pallottine Center in Florissant, Missouri. Early registration is recommended. For more information or to register, email [email protected], call 314-953-1676 or visit bjchospice.org.
I went to Weavings a very broken person. I left with a happy heart and pride of being the mother of my beautiful Jill. And made a great bond with the seven other women in our group. I loved every minute and it helped change my life and outlook. And thank you BJC. What a wonderful thing you do for us mothers. For BJC to see the need and work to over-fill it, is so magnanimous on their part. They are a blessing as are all of you who work in bereavement and hospice. Thank you again, so much. I'm a different person today!
I wanted to take some time out this evening to thank you and the rest of the staff at BJC/Weavings. It was a very insightful weekend of sharing, learning and bonding. I gained some new friends as well in the process! The atmosphere was very welcoming, the accommodations more than adequate and the food good. It afforded me an opportunity to do some introspection as well as listen to others share their grief experiences. I came away a different person emotionally, as I no longer focus on the grief itself so much as the healing processes. Life will always be different without “my Ron,” but I think I am ready to move into a more positive realm. I am usually a very positive person anyway, but grief did take its toll on my perspective. However, I feel that I have made great strides in this past year and will continue to put one foot in front of the other.
This was such a meaningful weekend. I hadn’t laughed in 6 months since my son died, but now I can laugh again.
I was able to find myself here. I didn’t realize that I have been walking around in a cloud all this time. I feel released and free … no longer bound.
This weekend helped me teach myself to cry again, so I can let my grief out before it consumes me.
I was anxious at first, but it ended up being so amazing and life-changing for me. I highly recommend this.
My batteries are recharged.
I found out I’m not alone.
Labyrinth, a grief retreat for teenagers grieving the loss of a loved one – June 6, 2020 – Forest Park Visitor Center, St. Louis.
Stepping Stones Camp, a three-day bereavement camp for children, ages 6-12, who have lost a loved one – Aug. 7-9, 2020 – Camp Wyman, Eureka, Missouri.
For more information, call 314-953-1676, email [email protected] or visit bjchospice.org.

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General election: Theresa May denies social care U-turn
Theresa May has said proposed changes to social care funding in England will now include an "absolute limit" on the money people will have to pay.
The prime minister denied claims of a U-turn, saying she was responding to "shameful" claims that people would be forced to sell their family home.
Last week's Tory manifesto did not mention a cap but the PM said her plans still offered a long-term solution.
But Labour and the Lib Dems said the policy was "in meltdown".
Plans to make people receiving care at home liable for the full costs if they are worth at least £100,000 have proved controversial since they were announced on Thursday.
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The policy has been criticised by charities and pensioner groups who fear people will no longer be able to pass their homes down to their children if the value of their property is taken into account when calculating care costs.
Mrs May told activists in Wales that the Conservatives were determined to deal with the strains on social care - which unlike the NHS is not free at the point of use - from an ageing society and without fresh funding, the system was at risk of collapse.
She insisted that no-one would have to sell their home while they were alive to pay for care and people would still have "something to pass on to" their family after their death.
"We will make sure there's an absolute limit on what people need to pay. And you will never have to go below £100,000 of your savings."
By BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
Suddenly, only four days after the Tory manifesto was published, Theresa May has added one rather crucial proposal to her social care plan - a limit, or a cap, to the amount of money one individual could be asked to pay.
She is adamant that she is not budging on her principles, and was clearly irritated by questions after her speech that said she was backtracking.
But the manifesto did not include the notion of a cap, and just yesterday ministers publicly rejected such an idea.
The prime minister insisted that "nothing had changed" and "the basic principles" set out in the manifesto remained in place.
Asked what level the cap would be set at, she said that would be a matter for the consultation, if the Tories returned to power. And she hit out at what she said were "fake" portrayals of the policy by Labour and other critics - who have labelled the move a "dementia tax".
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith, who was earlier told by Tory sources that there would be no "rowing back", said the prime minister was now "completely refashioning the policy" and had effectively "ripped" up a four-day-old manifesto commitment.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said the "key tenets" of the policy remained intact but his predecessor George Osborne, who is now editor of the Evening Standard, tweeted that the move was a U-turn, joking that "at least this manifesto wasn't carved onto a stone".
Currently anyone with savings and other assets worth more than £23,250 is expected to pay the full cost of their residential care and the value of their home can be taken into account. But this does not apply to those receiving care in their own home.
Under the Conservative plans, this would change and property values could, in future, be factored in. The money would not be taken from an estate until after an individual's death and £100,000 from that estate would be protected.
A report by the economist Andrew Dilnot in 2011 recommended a cap on lifetime total care costs of £35,000, after which people would be eligible for state support. The Conservatives went into the 2015 election pledging a £72,000 level although its introduction was subsequently deferred until 2020.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May's announcement was a "triumph of spin over reality" and the policy had changed very little.
By Health Correspondent Nick Triggle
This represents a complete U-turn on the idea of capping care costs. The cap - a 2015 election promise - was ditched last week with the Tories briefing it would be too expensive because of the ageing population.
Instead they wanted to set a "floor" in England, guaranteeing everyone in England would be able to keep £100,000 but remain liable for unlimited costs until their assets had depleted to that level.
But after a weekend of damaging headlines, there has clearly been a re-think.
Much depends on where they set the cap. If it's somewhere in the region of the £72,000 proposed last time, it could fundamentally alter the whole policy.
But merging together two policies may prove difficult however. They may not be compatible for one thing.
And where will the money come from? The cost was estimated at £6bn over five years. These, the Tories say, are all questions for another day.
At a campaign rally in Scarborough, he said a Labour government would immediately spend an additional £2bn on social care so a million "frail and vulnerable" people "in desperate need get the care they deserve".
Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said Theresa May had suffered a "manifesto meltdown" but had still not provided certainty to families about how much they would have to pay for domiciliary care.
UKIP said the Conservatives had let down older people and now needed to be clear they would set a cap at a "modest" level.
The SNP said the situation in Scotland, where personal and nursing care is free for those who are eligible, was "very different" and predicated upon "respecting the dignity of older people who contribute so much throughout their working lives.
Before the rethink was announced, the Conservatives had attempted to fight back online, with a paid-for ad on Google which pop up when users of the search engine type in the words "dementia tax".
The ad reads "The so-called 'dementia tax' - Get the real facts - conservatives.com", together with a link to an explainer about the party's social care policies on its website.
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Robert Mueller The 22-month investigation by Special Counsel Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow, according to a four-page summary issued by Attorney General William Barr on March 24. The Mueller team came to no conclusion on whether Trump had illegally obstructed justice to impede the investigation. Despite this, Trump declared it a ‘complete and total exoneration’. He added: ‘This was an illegal takedown that failed.’
Election campaign After the lifting of the Mueller threat, The Trump 2020 re-election campaign moved up a gear, issuing a warning to TV executives not to provide a platform for Democratic politicians who had accused the president of treachery. The president cannot expect an easy ride, however. Other state and federal prosecutors are looking at Trump’s financial dealings with Russia, a topic not covered by Mueller.


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Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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Greetings! My name is Colleen Angela. I am a graduate of Thomas Edison State University, and my area of expertise is piano hymn-playing and classical music.
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Magic Room Solitaire is an interesting card game for free.Company: Shmehao.com
Platform: Win2000,Win7 x32,Win98,WinVista,WinXP
Size: 2508 KB
Price: USD $0.00
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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The game in patience starts in the old house in the magic room at nightfall. Remove all cards from the table. Collect the chain from king till ice then the chain will disappear. If there is no move click at Stack to add new cards. Try to solve the strange mystery of the room.
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Remember Event 201 of 18 October 2019 in NYC, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the WEF (World Economic Forum) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? Of course, WHO was also present, and so were all the Globalist players, including the World Bank, IMF and – of indeed the UN and many of its sub-organization.
This was a “tabletop” simulation, as they call it – of a corona pandemic that may hit the entire world population “one of these days”…
It happened less than three months later. The rest is history.
Now, the same suspects, replacing officially the WEF by WHO as a key sponsor, used the Event of the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022 for a similar “tabletop” exercise, this time called “Catastrophic Contagion”
Is it a coincidence that the venue of this Event is Brussels, Headquarters of the EU and NATO?
Strange that this surfaced only now. And be assured, the WEF was omni-present.
In fact, without the WEF nothing of this kind would happen. Because the WEF is the Executing Branch of Big Finance – the corporate finance-digito-military complex, that directs the world from the shadows of Washington.
It is strange that hardly anything surfaced from this event for almost two months. Why was it kept secret until now?
Well, instead of, or in addition to the vassalic UN organizations and Washington controlled financial institutions, like World Bank and IMF – they invited an extraordinary group of participants, consisting of 10 current and former Health Ministers and senior public health officials from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Angola, Liberia, Singapore, India, Germany. Of particular interest are African countries.
There are no coincidences. WHO’s behind closed doors Assembly of Health Ministers from around the world are debating the infamous Pandemic Treaty, as these lines are written. They will soon be voting on this nefarious “Treaty”. The Pandemic Treaty, as we know, if voted in favor by a two-thirds majority will override all national authorities on matters of health; and as of 1 January 2024 will have jurisdiction above the sovereign nation states of the 194 WHO member countries.
This means, we would have a worldwide health tyranny. See this brief video (5:45 min) from a WHO insider – Dr. Vincent Carroll (18 March 2022).
Why the African countries were invited to this simulation of this very-very scary and frightening Catastrophic Contagion? – An Africa block of countries are the strong holdout – they rejected so far the Pandemic Treaty. Africans know what it means. And they even better know what it means after having experienced the covid hoax, that for some of their Presidents ended deadly. Because they – some African and one Caribbean President – opposed the vaxx agenda, they ended up dying under strange circumstances.
Why Germany’s presence?
Germany has currently the most oppressive government in Europe. Germany a EU economic and intellectual superpower, has also Europe’s strongest resistance movements – resistance against the covid and the Green (fake) Climate Agenda narrative. Resistance against the EU-Brussels directorate’s suicide pact for Europe, leading with a planned collapse of the German economy.
The hard-core Dr. Karl Lauterbach was sworn in as Federal Minister of Health, about a year ago, on December 8, 2021. Will he convince the Africans, Singaporians and Indians of the Great Good of the Pandemic Treaty for their countries and for the rest of the world?
Will there be some special incentives in terms of “development money” be waiting in the wings for those African countries? Difficult to say. But all is possible. In our Orwell world, dystopian has long become the new normal.
One thing is sure, if the WHO Pandemic Treaty is approved, the world is in deep trouble. Mother Earth may convert into a sanitary prison; that coupled with central bank digital currencies – will be the end of what we once called “freedom”, and under the eagle’s eye and iron fist of the Green Agenda, it might mean permanent lockdown.
Exiting WHO will then be of the order – along with abandoning our western monetary system as we know it. Parallel, community-bound currencies have long existed – and they can grow again, and so can people- and nature-based health systems. There are plenty of good and honest medical doctors, practicing alternative medicine that will render humanity healthier.
It may sound like the endgame. But the endgame may be blowing in the wind – and from its dust may rise a new society.
by Peter Koenig
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Thermal and efficiency analysis of five-level multilevel-clamped multilevel converter considering grid codes
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In this paper, a five-level multilevel-clamped multilevel converter (5L-MLC2) topology is analyzed based on a typical grid integration application for renewable energy system. The loss and thermal distributions of the power devices in different switching legs are investigated and illustrated under rated condition. Afterward, a loss and efficiency evaluation method is proposed and applied which takes into account various injected reactive power ranges regulated by the grid codes. It is concluded that the loss and thermal distributions of the 5L-MLC2 multilevel topology are unequal between the clamping switching legs and the main switching legs; it also shows a good and consistent efficiency characteristic under different output power ranges when complying with the grid codes.
CitationKe, M. [et al.]. Thermal and efficiency analysis of five-level multilevel-clamped multilevel converter considering grid codes. "IEEE transactions on industry applications", Febrer 2014, vol. 50, núm. 1, p. 415-423.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Day of the Dead (2008)
Today in our week of films to avoid we take a look at proof at how bad remakes can be.
In the wake of the successful remake of Dawn of the Dead and the remake of The Crazies comes the very ill advised remake of George Romero's Day of the Dead. This film is so ill as to be gasping it's last breath as it's pulled off life support.
The work of the usually reliable Steve Miner (House, Soul Man, Warlock, Lake Placid, and Halloween H2O) this turd ball is easily the worst film he's done by a long shot. It's also the worst thing that the normally on target Ving Rhames has done. Its a film so bad that I was forced to ask what catastrophic event happened to force Rhames to take part in a poop pile like this.
In three words: THIS FILM SUCKS.
Because of some military accident a small town is quarantined because the dead are coming back to life.Focusing on a young woman in the military from the town (who has returned home as part of the army force) and her friends and family.
Directed by Steve Miner, a man who can make some enjoyable if unremarkable films this is clearly the work of a man on auto pilot and a man who's too long in the TV trenches (Miner has been producing and directing for TV a great deal over the last decade). There is no tension and no passion. The film is put together reasonably well but you can tell no one really cared. A case in point is Ving Rhames, as the head of the military force. For the first time ever he phones in his performance and is such a non-entity that I wasn't even sure it was him.
As a remake of or compared to, the Romero film of the same title, (which is not mentioned anywhere that I could see on screen), this film is beyond bad. It simply takes the idea of the military and zombies and mangles it.
Its awful. Its completely unconnected to any of the Romero originals or remakes and exists purely in its own twisted little world.
This is one to avoid at all costs.
(Lastly, and this is a serious question, are we at the point where any grade "C" actor and actress can be put into a uniform and called soldier? Apparently they can because thats what the cast is. No one in this film looks like they were ever in the military or even on a military base. Maybe its seeing all the soldiers on TV, but no one really looks like a soldier even remotely.)


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This super easy slow cooker gammon is moist and tender. A real family favourite and so versatile. Serve it hot or cold for a real crowd pleaser.
Rinse your gammon carefully under the tap trying not to splash the whole kitchen! Put in your slow cooker and cover with apple juice. Cover as much of the gammon as you can with the apple juice. Put your slow cooker on high and cook for 4-6 hours or low for 6-8 hours.
Put on a large plate and using a sharp knife cut off the skin and a little fat, leaving at least 2 cm of fat behind if possible.
Using the knife score diagonal lines on the fat one way about 2 cm apart and then repeat going the other way. This will leave you with a diamond pattern. Mix the glaze ingredients together. Preheat your grill.
Brush the glaze thickly all over the scored fat. Put under the grill so that the top is about 2 "/5 cm below the grill. Grill for about 10 minutes. The top will be burnished and black in places.
You can achieve the same results by roasting in a 220 C/425 F/Gas Mark 7 oven for 15/20 minutes. Allow the Gammon to rest for 15 minutes before serving.
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Despite claims of a radical new design direction beginning with the Mk4 Leon, the test mule shows an evolutionary look. Seat is gradually moving away from straight edges and sharp angles for future models, and this mule’s curvier front-end demonstrates that.
The C-segment car will get a more advanced infotainment system – which can update maps, apps and functionality over the air – similar to that offered in the Mk8 Volkswagen Golf. Seat CEO Luca de Meo said: “For two years, we have been working on what will be the best infotainment system coming to market next year, starting with the Leon.”
Along with the new cabin tech, the fourth-generation Leon will also be available with Seat’s first plug-in hybrid powertrain to offer improved fuel economy as well as limited zero-emissions running. The plug-in Leon is billed as the model to kick-start Seat’s electrification ambitions, which will gain pace when its first truly bespoke EV, the El Born, is launched in 2020.
New Cupra Leon ST hot estate seen ahead of 2020 launch
To signify its big stride forward, the upcoming Leon’s look has been described by brand design boss Alejandro Mesonero as taking “a bigger step” than the company has taken since the relaunch of the brand with the current Leon in 2012. “Sometimes you need to take a bigger step so as not to be obsolete. We’re ready very soon for the next, bolder step in design,” he said.
Rabe has previously told Autocar that the design and packaging of the five-door car will “not be a typical hatch” and that “it will create some desire”.
The next Leon will once again use the VW Group’s MQB platform, albeit a significantly updated version shared with the recently launched Mk8 Golf.
The Leon will come in five-door hatch, estate and crossover forms. The latter, jacked-up version will sit below the Ateca SUV in the brand’s range and be “more extreme” than the previous version of the Leon estate, according to Rabe. He added: “We talk about hatch and we talk about SUV. Why not make something in-between?”
The range is expected to open with the familiar 1.0-litre TSI three-cylinder petrol engine, offering similar performance to today’s model.
Seat won’t drop diesels from the line-up, Rabe said, but the range will include one of the first mild-hybrid petrol options within the VW Group for those wanting levels of economy similar to those offered by oil-burning engines. This is likely to use the 48V system mated to a 1.5-litre TSI engine, as found in the Golf.


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The Kitchen Door & The Food Corridor
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Mexican Candied Pumpkin
Calabaza En Tacha, Mexican Candied Pumpkin. Sweet treat perfect for breakfast, dessert & for the holidays.
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Carrot Currant & Coconut Muffins with a Cream Cheese Frosting and substitutions for a healthier version.
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The tragic Queens girl who hanged herself in her bedroom yesterday afternoon was mercilessly teased by classmates who called her a slut, a whore and mocked her failures with boyfriends and choices in music, friends and family said.
Gabrielle Molina, 12, was found by her screaming sister at 2:30 p.m. yesterday in the small Queens Village home she shared with her parents and two siblings.
The tiny pre-teen — who barely stood 5-ft tall — left behind an anguished suicide note that referenced her torment and apologized to her family for taking her own life.
“She was bullied,” said her classmate at I.S.109 Samantha Marin, 12. “They would say she was emo and goth. She said that she wanted to move schools because she felt uncomfortable. People wanted to jump her. She also broke up with her boyfriend recently.”
Molina’s sobbing father, George Molina, said that his petite daughter was slowly wearing down from the constant emotional abuse.
“I was trying to comfort her because she was getting weak,” he said. “I wanted to make her happy. Her sister and her mom took her to the mall and told her, ‘Gabby you can get whatever you want.’ That was three weeks ago. She said, ‘Daddy, I’m going to be fine.'”
The little girl was also heckled in a YouTube video that depicted her getting beaten up by a former best friend near the school in recent months, a family source said. Gabby’s father fumed that the school did not respond quickly enough when she complained to administrators.
But schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said that a preliminary investigation did not reveal any serious bullying issues at the Queens middle school.
However, the school was given a troubling “C” for its environment in the city’s officials 2012 progress reports.
“Any child that takes his or her life is something that deeply concerns me and hurts me as a parent and not just as a chancellor,” Walcott said. “I don’t think I knew the word suicide when I was 12-years-old or 11-years-old and you hear students talking about it, so it’s something that is very pressing on their minds and it’s something of concern to me.”
Friends and family described Molina as a generally upbeat girl who experienced swings in her mood and behavior. Her depression sank to the point that she began cutting herself, a friend said.
That troubling behavior soon led to additional mocking from classmates.