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They also demanded Rizal leave the village immediately. Edi and Rizal had been taken out of the mosque by the police before the attack, but Japar insisted on staying inside to close the doors and turn off the lights. He did not leave the mosque, which was built on land donated by his family, until the mob started to stone it.
Imam evacuated him out of the mosque when the attack began. At one point, Dominik Neubaur told Austrian magazine News, he was taken out for what he thought would be his execution — but believed he was spared after he recited verses from the Quran. The year-old, whose British father is a Christian, is set to give evidence against seven men arrested in Mulhouse, eastern France.
All are accused of removing a child from her parents' care while running a sinister online dating site for Muslim converts. After being introduced to young girls on the internet, men who subscribed to the site were allowed to wed them over the phone. In the case of the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, she completed her marriage vows and then immediately left home to live with him.
Detectives believe she was forced to convert to Islam in secret, along with three female friends aged 17, 18 and The girl's father informed local prosecutor Herve Robin after his daughter started wearing a burka and expressing 'extreme Islamist views', according to prosecutors. Mr Robin confirmed that the schoolgirl was forced to marry the unnamed Muslim man, who is 28, 'over the phone'. It was on May 6 that the girl's father first called police to tell them that his daughter had run away.
Using a signal from the year-old man's mobile phone, police were able to trace him to an address in Valence, some miles from the girl's home in Mulhouse. She told investigating officers that it was her second 'marriage' on the site, and that her 'first husband' had denounced and rejected her.
The girl is now back in the care of her parents, while assisting police and prosecutors with their enquiries. For related commentary on the same subject, click here. Earlier this week seven members of a child sex ring from Oxford were found guilty of forcing under age girls to commit acts of "extreme depravity". Their victims, aged between 11 and 15, were groomed and plied with alcohol and drugs before being sexually assaulted and forced into prostitution. They targeted "out of control" teenagers.
Dr Hargey said that the case brought shame on the city and the community and is a set back for cross community harmony. But worse still is the refusal to face up to its realities, he wrote in the Daily Mail. That attitude has been promoted by religious leaders, he believes. But the dire result can be the brutish misogyny we see in the Oxford sex ring. She defended her sons — Akhtar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31 — and claimed they were innocent after they were found guilty of a catalogue of vile offences last week.
The two brothers were part of a group of mainly Asian men who groomed girls as young as 11 before giving them drugs and carrying out humiliating attacks, then hiring them out for sex with others. But Mrs Dogar said: If they start [having sex] at ten, by 15 they are proper ladies. She said one of the girls was looking for a boy at a station in London and no one had pressured her into having sex.
Are they not old enough then? Also on Monday, the Boko Haram sect claimed responsibility for the recent major assault on Baga and Bama, in Borno state, in which up to people, including soldiers, policemen, prison warders and civilians, were massacred.
Over the past few days, chatter on Islamic web sites indicated that the groups would be met by rioters. The decision came only a little while before the tour was set to begin, at 8: Over Shavuot itself, the groups reported, hundreds of Jews were able to visit the Mount — but they were a small percentage of the thousands who sought to get in.
Police severely limited Jewish access to the Mount, with visitors being allowed to enter only in small groups beginning on Tuesday, the day before Shavuot. In several instances, dozens of Muslims sat and blocked the entrance of the Mughrabi Gate, used by non-Muslims to ascend the Mount. Those Jews who did manage to run the Arab gauntlet — with little, if any, police assistance — were followed and harassed by Muslims, and verbally assaulted the entire time they were on the Mount.
On Monday at around 8 pm, Father Grégoire from the parish of Saint-Jean was attacked by an individual. Struck on the face, the priest was unconscious on the ground until two other members of the parish arrived.
This Tuesday morning at around 11 am, Monsignor Cattenoz, Archbishop of Avignon, denounced growing insecurity in the district of Saint-Ruf while the local authority official in charge of public safety claims instead that there has been a decrease in crime in this sector , as well as the proliferation of thefts and threats towards members of the parish. The leader of the Catholics in Vaucluse went even further: Giving it a religious dimension seems counter-productive to me.
The reason - tech blog Extremtech claims the picture underwent massive manipulation and was put together from a number of different photographs with the help of photoshop.
Despite the fact that Operation Pillar of Defense ended with a considerably low number of civilian fatalities in comparison to Operation Cast Lead four year earlier, upon publication, Hansen's picture hit Israeli hasbara missions hard.
Neal Krawetz from Extremtech, claims that a lab analysis — in which he specializes — revealed Hansen's photo underwent serious "enhancement" and is a fake or at least "digitally modified. Krawetz further claims the picture was reedited not long before the World Press Photo's submission deadline in January. While the Federal Constitution upholds the right to freedom of religion, nearly all of the 13 states have enacted legislation that allows for control and restriction of the propagation of non-Islamic religions.
Issues concerning religion and race in this country of 28 million, where 60 per cent are constitutionally defined as Malay and Muslim, touch a nerve and have sparked violence in the past, leading to attacks on several places of worship nationwide in following the landmark judgment.
The Labour councillor voiced her concerns at a meeting called to discuss which flag should be purchased to fly atop the town's repaired civic flagpole. A history and geography teacher in the southern city of Luxor, year-old Dimiana Abdul-Nour paid L. The decision comes four days after a judge ordered her detained for 14 days during the investigation.
Parents of a student had accused the teacher of showing contempt to Islam while talking to fourth-graders about religion. Three pupils allegedly complained the teacher showed disgust when she talked about Islam, something the family and lawyer of Abdul-Nour denied. Christians have long complained of discrimination.
Emboldened by Islamist electoral gains since the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak in the uprising, members of the fundamentalist Salafi movement have recently been linked to a spike of violence against Christians. Just like cases of insulting Islam have been on the rise lately, instances of Egyptians investigated over insulting Islamist President Mohammed Morsi have also spiked.
In one recent case, a Muslim English school teacher was summoned for questioning on Tuesday by police over a question in the final exam he wrote that was deemed an insult to Morsi, according to the state-run Al-Ahram daily website. For earlier news and video on the same subject, click here.
Erwin Antonio Rios admitted guilt Tuesday in U. District Court as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. In an affidavit filed with the court, FBI Special Agent Frank Brostrom said the year-old from Fayetteville holds extremist Islamic views and told a government informant he would like to kill Fort Bragg soldiers.
They then shot dead 12 people in multiple adjoining alcohol shops nearby, the ministry official said. With alcohol forbidden by Islam, Baghdad liquor stores are an attractive target for fundamentalist groups, made more so because they are often staffed by religious minorities. A security source said 30 low rank officers took part in the campaign and some of the arrested persons are believed to be residence law violators and others wanted by law for committing petty crimes or on civil charges and yet others for gambling.
The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates. With the attacks becoming increasingly sophisticated, there is growing concern that Boko Haram is receiving backing from al-Qaeda-linked militants in other countries. The solution, according to Rahmat, is a complete ban on the religious sect. Local MUI head Mursyid Kamil urged the central government to either shut down all Ahmadiyah places of worship or strip them of Islamic symbols.
All Ahmadiyah members should convert to mainstream Islam, Mursyid said. They were temporarily released, but were summoned to court on 1 May and re-arrested. Hussain al-Khawahir, 33, arrived at the Detroit airport on Saturday and was questioned about why he had brought a pressure cooker with him.
The man's name was spelled al-Khawahir in the criminal complaint, while a spokeswoman at the U. Pressure cookers packed with explosive powder and shrapnel were set off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, where they killed three people and injured The bombs, left on the ground, caused gruesome injuries with more than 10 people losing limbs, either directly from the blasts or when doctors had to amputate the badly-mangled limbs.
The New York-based group said an amateur video posted on the Internet on Sunday shows Abu Sakkar, a founder of the rebel Farouq Brigade who is well known to journalists as an insurgent from Homs, cutting into the torso of a dead soldier. The video has caused outrage among both supporters of President Bashar al-Assad and opposition figures. But the even more serious issue is the very rapid descent into sectarian rhetoric and violence," said Bouckaert.
He said that in the unedited version of the film, Abu Sakkar instructs his men to "slaughter the Alawites and take their hearts out to eat them", before biting into the heart.
Iranian electoral law bans individuals from supporting candidates in an official capacity, while the use of state resources on behalf of or against any candidate is also banned. A conviction could bring a maximum punishment of six months in jail or 74 lashes, according to Iranian press reports. The president had accompanied Mashaie on Saturday to register at the Interior Ministry.
Photographs in the Iranian media showed them making peace signs. However, the move by the Guardian Council could be a tactic to ward off the president from future interference in the elections. Ahmadinejad cannot run for a third term on constitutional grounds in the June 14 presidential polls. Thousands of faithful gathered in St Peter's Square to attend the service to formally bestow the sainthoods, which had been approved by Francis's predecessor Benedict XVI.
His arrest comes after the sentencing to death last week of another Islamist party leader for wartime atrocities. That decision brought a wave of violent protest from supporters, and police say they are concerned about the risk of a backlash from Jamaat activists.
Dubai is being promoted as a luxury high-class paradise in the desert, but the reality is brutally different, as Australian Alicia Gali discovered. What happened next makes this story a must-watch for every Australian planning on travelling through the region. She awoke to a nightmare beyond belief: Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital.
She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months. The same court sentenced a Saudi man to two years in prison and lashes for having helped the young woman flee the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, local daily Al-Watan said. A court delivered the verdict in Khobar in the kingdom's east, where the woman and the two accused worked for an insurance company.
The July case caused a stir in Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict version of Islamic Sharia law that stipulates Muslims who convert to another religion must be sentenced to death. She had appeared in a YouTube video last year in which she announced that she had chosen to convert to Christianity. Her family's lawyer Hmood al-Khalidi said he was "satisfied with the verdict," according to the press.
Both men, who could also be prosecuted over other charges including corruption and forging official documents that allowed the woman to leave the country without her family's agreement, will appeal. Over 10 African countries have troops in the African Union mission to Somalia the majority of those troops are from Uganda, Burundi and Kenya who joined in AMISOM have made significant gains against Al Shabaab in their 7 year deployment, capturing major cities and towns in southern and south central Somalia.
According to sources in the region, Al Shabaab did not resist the allied forces and vacated Awdinle situated between Baidoa and Bardaale. Until her arrest, Demyana Emad was a year-old social studies teacher at the Sheik Sultan primary school in south Luxor. She became a case in April, when the head of the parents' association filed a complaint against the teacher for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in front of her pupils, a charge Ms Emad has rejected, calling for more evidence to be brought to the fore.
What is known is that recently, several Islamic "extremists" pushed their way into the school to press the pupils to testify against her. Edam's case is not unique. With the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, more and more people, especially minority Copts, have been detained on allegations of blasphemy and insulting Islam. Despite the resistance of their parents and the local priest, who pointed out that the two kids were illiterate, the imam of their village put pressure for their detention.
In another case in September in Sohag, Bishoy Kamel, a Coptic religion teacher, was sentenced to six years for posting blasphemous cartoons and insults against President Mohammed Morsi on Facebook. He has always maintained his innocence and said that he is the victim of a plot. On 13 September , police arrested Saber Albert, a year-old Coptic man for posting an anti-Islam film that caused demonstrations all over the world.
The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three of her pupils claimed that their children, aged 10, complained their teacher showed disgust when she spoke of Islam in class. According to the parents, Abdel-Nour, 24, told the children that Pope Shenouda, who led the Egyptian Coptic Church until his death last year, was better than the Prophet Muhammad.
Blasphemy charges were not uncommon in Egypt under the now-ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak's regime, but there has been a surge in such cases in recent months, according to rights activists. The trend is widely seen as a reflection of the growing power and confidence of Islamists, particularly the ultraconservative Salafis. Khalid demanded that Satpol PP and the police take strict action against minimarts that openly offer alcoholic beverages. Grogol Petamburan subdistrict head Denny Ramdhani said that out of the 12 minimarts operating in his area, only the 7-Eleven and the Indomaret continue to deal booze.
Hysen Sherifi, 29, was one of six Raleigh-area Muslims convicted in of planning to attack the Marine base in Quantico, Va. Shortly after starting his year prison sentence in the terror case, Sherifi approached another inmate to help him hire a hit man to behead government informants and FBI agents. He recruited his younger brother Shkumbin Sherifi, 23, and former special education teacher Nevine Aly Elshiekh, 48, to help pay the hit man and organize the murders.
But the inmate whose help Sherifi sought turned out to be yet another government informant. FBI agents then staged an elaborate sting that involved secretly videotaped meetings with a woman posing as the go-between for a fictional hit man named Treetop and doctored photos that appeared to show the corpse of a beheaded witness in a shallow grave.
Federal prosecutors recommended leniency for the two coconspirators, who pleaded guilty last year and agreed to testify at the elder Sherifi's trial on nine felony counts. Citing their extensive cooperation, U. They had faced as much as 10 years each.
Tsarnaev was buried under a shroud of secrecy Wednesday evening at the Al-Barzakh Cemetery in central Virginia, about 15 miles from Richmond. Mullen said she coordinated the clandestine burial with the help of the Islamic Society of Greater Richmond after a number of cemeteries refused to take his body. Within an hour of contacting the group, she got a response saying a plot had been found.
So she called the officials overseeing Tsarnaev's burial and arranged to have the body, which was being held at a Worcester, Mass. The development has infuriated some residents of the rural Virginia town as well as members of the area's Islamic community who say they weren't consulted in the decision. It was all done secretly behind our backs. News of the burial comes several days after a Massachusetts police chief went on national television to plead for help in finding a plot for the year-old suspected bomber, as number of cemeteries and lawmakers in three states had turned down requests to bury his body.
The attacks have had limited success so far but threaten to undermine international calls for elections to be held across Mali in July although security is not yet fully restored to a zone that was occupied by Islamists last year.
The suicide raids took place nearly simultaneously between 4 and 5 a. A car bomb entered the military camp, but the soldiers The three bombers were killed," he said. As the men exchanged fire with soldiers, a fourth member of the group entered a nearby military camp and blew himself up, slightly wounding two soldiers, a second military source said. A bus driver passing through Gossi, km 90 miles southwest of Gao, told Reuters he saw dismembered body parts strewn along the road, which links Gao and the capital Bamako.
Hours after the attacks, France's President Francois Hollande and Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou reiterated calls for elections due in July to be held across the entire country. Earlier, in a letter to media personnel, Mehsud had written that his group was focused on jeopardising democracy by hindering elections. In another letter issued by the Shura of pro-government Mullah Nazir Group in Wana subdivision, all group members have been warned to maintain peace and avoid siding with any election candidate.
The letter says that the Mullah Nazir group should struggle to ensure that polling is carried out in a smooth and stable manner, adding that all candidates contesting for NA are equal for them. Kazal says she is 18 but looks much younger. The marriage lasted one week. He treated me like a servant, and didn't respect me as a wife. He was very strict with me. I'm happy that we're divorced. When I got engaged I cried a lot. I won't get married for money again.
In the future I hope to marry a Syrian boy who's my own age. The vast majority of refugees are women and children. Many of them are not used to going out to work, so survival sex becomes an option. His office in central Amman is surrounded by hundreds of newly arrived refugees, waiting in long lines to register for aid.
He says the UNHCR has intervened with some families who have been offering their daughters up for early marriage. The director of Kitab al-Sunna, Zayed Hamad, says that he is sometimes approached by men who want to marry Syrian women.
They're motivated by helping these women, especially those whose husbands died as martyrs in Syria. Arab men see Syrian women as good housewives, and they find them very pretty, so traditionally it is desirable to marry one. Um Mazed is a year-old Syrian refugee from Homs who has started earning money by arranging marriages between Syrian girls and Arab men.
They want them very young, no older than As far as I'm concerned it's not prostitution because there's a contract between the groom and bride. Um Mazed means "Mother of Mazed", one of her three children. She doesn't want her identity known because she's ashamed of what she is doing for a living, but claims she has no choice.
For articles related to the "Innocence of Muslims" video clip, click here. He handed himself in two days after being exposed in the media for his actions, which included pushing over a female constable, kicking police dog "Chuck" in the ribs and hitting an officer's riot shield.
Eid previously served 15 months of a two-year jail term for a reprisal attack after the Cronulla riots and he has a string of convictions for assaulting and resisting police.
Defence lawyer Elie Rahme said Eid had religious beliefs he held "very dear" but clearly he had unresolved problems with "communicating his thoughts into words", "anger management" and "impulse control". The riots began as a protest against a YouTube clip mocking Islam before degenerating into angry clashes in which police were pelted with bottles, timber poles and other missiles. Ms Culver sentenced Eid to at least 33 months in jail with a total term of just over four years.
She said she would have given him four years for rioting alone if not for local court rules which imposed a cap on the length of sentences. The fresh details came to light Thursday as American authorities revealed an FBI sting operation scooped up a third man in connection to the foiled plot to derail a train between Toronto and New York.
Ahmed Abassi, a Tunisian citizen who previously lived in Canada, has been charged with two counts of knowingly making false statements in an application to immigration authorities for a green card and work visa, in order to facilitate an act of international terrorism.
Abassi came to the United States to pursue terrorist activity and support others in the same shameful pursuit. Abassi didn't know was that one of his associates, privy to the details of his plan, was an undercover FBI agent," said FBI assistant director-in-charge George Venizelos in a statement. In its release, the U. Department of Justice alleges Abassi was responsible for radicalizing Esseghaier and met with him in New York City after travelling to the U.
It is unclear where Abassi lived in Canada or how long he was there. In recorded conversations with Esseghaier and the undercover FBI agent, Abassi allegedly talked about his desire to commit terrorist acts in the U.
However, when the police officer realized he was being filmed by the detainee, he approached the cage and started threatening the prisoner. The newspaper reported on Wednesday that al-Sayed originally went to the police station to report a car accident.
Al-Sayed and a mini-bus driver collide on the streets of Egypt but upon reaching the police station for legal procedures agreed to reconcile. Kamaruzzaman, who denied the charges and said his trial was politically motivated, is set to appeal. Jamaat says the government is using the trials to curb opposition activities ahead of elections due next year. Street battles In a packed Dhaka court room, Kamaruzzaman - the assistant secretary-general of Jamaat - was convicted of mass killings, rape, torture and kidnapping, said Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
He was found guilty of masterminding what the prosecution described as one of the bloodiest single episodes in the independence war - the killing of at least unarmed farmers in the remote northern village of Sohagpur which subsequently became known as the "Village of the Widows". Three women widowed as a result of the killings testified against Kamaruzzaman during his trial. They described how he led Pakistani troops to the village and helped them to line up and execute the farmers.
The BBC's Salman Saeed, who was in court, says Kamaruzzaman looked tense throughout the proceedings, and when the verdict was announced he stood up to declare it was the "wrong judgement". Thursday's announcement of the verdict and death sentence prompted cheers of celebration from crowds gathered outside, says the BBC's Masud Khan in Dhaka.
Kamaruzzaman, who would have been about 18 during Bangladesh's secession war, was charged in August , a month after being arrested in a separate criminal case. He was accused of being a key organiser of the al-Badr, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani army which killed Bangladeshi intellectuals during the conflict. His conviction comes at a testing time for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has made prosecution of war crimes one of her government's key goals. Analysts say the death sentence will only exacerbate an already febrile situation in a country where police and Islamist protesters have this week been fighting deadly battles on the streets of the capital Dhaka.
But now the promoters have found a new place for the "Lanterns of Tears", which - instead of lamps - are intended to hold tears made from steel.
Now the memorial is to be in Ariana park, right next to the UN building Turkish circles are not going to the barricades over these plans. In recent weeks they have not only interceded with the Geneva authorities, but tried to mobilise the management of the UN building against the project.
Some people approached the police officials of the area who have ordered action against the persons issuing the diktat but no one has been identified so far. The school teacher, who requested anonymity, said that as soon as he booked marriage hall for the wedding, representatives form the outfit came to his house and began pulling him out for the whip lashes.
Almost overnight, we decided to shift the venue of the wedding to Kanpur where my relatives made all the arrangements within two days. AFP saw a copy of a letter apparently sent from Mehsud to Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, mapping out the plan for bombings. Attacks on politicians and political parties, most of them claimed by the Taliban, have already killed people since mid-April, according to an AFP tally.
A separate pamphlet distributed by a previously unknown group in the most notorious Taliban and Al-Qaeda-stronghold of North Waziristan has warned people of punishment if they allow women to vote. According to Mohabat News correspondents, Vahid Hakkani, a Christian prisoner in Shiraz, is suffering from internal bleeding of his digestive system.
As told by doctors in prison, he needs surgery urgently. However, prison officials do not seem to care and have not taken any action to accommodate his transfer to a hospital for the much needed surgery. Hakkani's condition has been reported as critical. Unfortunately, prisoners of the ward known as "Ebrat" meaning edification , Mr. Hakkani being among them, are not given even minimum care and time to get fresh air. This has caused physical and mental difficulties for many of them. The ward is especially dedicated to prisoners of conscience.
Also, because these prisoners are taken to medical centers with their hands and feet chained and are humiliated, they do not readily express personal interest to be transferred to hospital. They do not go shopping, they do not work outside the house and they only go to hospital in a dire emergency. Out of a population of million in Pakistan, 37 million women and 48 million men are registered to vote in the May 11 polls in a country that has been ruled by generals for half its life and where military coups have repeatedly interrupted democracy.
But in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, adjoining tribal areas on the Afghan border and Balochistan, few women voted at the last election and officials fear it will be the same again. According to PMW, two other senior PA officials also expressed open support for the murderer who killed Evyatar Borovsky, an Israeli who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist last week as he was waiting for a bus at the Tapuach junction in Samaria. The delegation will represent Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his role in the Darfur genocide.
Heading the delegation will be Bashir adviser Nafie Ali Nafie, a prominent participant in the mass killings. The letter of protest was organized by The David S. It is the latest in a series of Wyman Institute initiatives seeking U. Let us not repeat that tragic mistake. The victims of Darfur must not be abandoned as were the Jews of Europe.
The signatories on the letter, who come from the United States, Germany, Canada, Israel, England, South Africa, and Sweden, include the most distinguished figures in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. Existing laws mete out the death penalty to individuals convicted of murder, spying, homosexuality, or selling land to Jews. The new legislation will expand the crimes for which individuals can be executed to include disloyalty to a spouse — having sexual relations outside the context of marriage.
All the punishments are derived from sharia, Islamic law. Five Tanzanians have also been arrested following the Sunday attack on a packed church in the northern city of Arusha that killed three people. They are only suspects at this time.
They can be released or brought to trial, it will depend on the results of the investigations. The bomb attack, which no group is known to have claimed yet, was described by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete as "an act of terrorism" and was one of the worst such incidents to hit the east African country in years.
More than 60 people were injured when attackers hurled a bomb into the compound of the newly built Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic church. The church, in the Olasti district on the outskirts of Arusha, was celebrating its inaugural mass at the time and was filled with worshippers, many of whom were sitting on benches outside. Arusha is a town popular with tourists visiting the Serengeti national park and snowcapped Mount Kilimanjaro. The Vatican's ambassador to Tanzania, Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla, was among those attending mass at the church but was not harmed.
Officials have given no indication as to who might have carried out the attack, but tensions have been high between Tanzania's Christian and Muslim communities in recent months. Kikwete, who said he was "shocked and deeply saddened" by the incident, has called on people to remain calm while police investigate the attack. The proposed bylaw received the support of the deputy mayor, who bemoaned the fact that police were unable to punish same-sex couples under current regulations.
Couples meet in rented rooms and pursue relationships under a veil of secrecy, she said. Six of them face the death penalty if convicted in one of the most high profile cases since sectarian violence first flared nearly a year ago. A seventh suspect, who is under 16 years old, will be tried in a juvenile court in connection with the murder of the monk identified as Thawbita who, according to reports, was pulled off his motorbike, attacked and burned on March If found guilty, the maximum sentence that could be imposed on the teenager is seven years in jail.
The monk was among at least 43 people killed in a wave of violence stemming from a quarrel between a Buddhist couple and a Muslim goldsmith in his shop. Last month the goldsmith was among three Muslims sentenced to 14 years in prison each for various offenses, including aggravated assault, attempted injury, and aiding and abetting crimes.
A total of 70 people have been held in connection with the Meikhtila violence, the Irrawaddy journal reported. For more on Honor Related Violence, click here. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, the Malmö Court of Appeals Hövrätten , upheld the teen's guilty verdict, but discarded the lower court's eight-year prison sentence. The court instead sentenced the boy to four years in juvenile detention because he was 16 when he killed his sister.
As the boy was only days away from his 17th birthday at the time of the attack, the lower court had decided to punish him as a year-old rather than as a year-old, allowing for a longer prison sentence.
The appeals court verdict stated that had the the crime been committed by an adult, it would have warranted a sentence of life in prison.
The appeals court's verdict also confirmed that there was enough evidence to tie the teen to the murder, restating that the apparent motive was the notion of protecting the family's honour. The year-old's sister had previously fled a forced marriage in Iraq and returned to Sweden. Her body was found with multiple stab wounds in her Landskrona apartment in April Representatives of the Malmö-based organization Tänk om, which works to stop honour crimes, told local media at the time that the woman had been in touch with them for one year since returning to Sweden and that she slept with a knife under her pillow for fear of reprisals over her escape.
They claimed local authorities had ignored their warnings that the woman was under threat and needed protection. After being found guilty in district court, the victim's brother appealed his sentence and argued he should be set free. Upon learning of the verdict, attorney Elisabeth Massi Fritz, who represented the victim's sister, claimed the question of sentencing for violent crimes committed by young people should be tried in the Supreme Court Högsta domstolen.
There are a number of complicating circumstances," she told the TT news agency. She added, however, that she was happy that the appeals court had confirmed the "honour" motive for the killing, seeing the verdict as a sign that the Swedish courts are starting to deal with a matter facing many young people in Sweden.
A spokesman for the rebels in Homs told the Al Sharq newspaper that Hizbullah forces carried out yet another massacre Monday near Al Qusair, in which they used knives to murder twenty people — most of them women and children who had been fleeing the battle zone. At the end of the trial, the Christians were acquitted by a unanimous jury verdict.
The lawsuit was later amended to add the Arab Chamber as a defendant. The legal claims against the Arab Chamber defendants will proceed. Wood, Qureshi, and Rezkalla were subsequently charged with breach of peace, a misdemeanor offense. The decision to arrest these individuals was based in part on information provided to the Dearborn police by Arab Festival attendees, workers, and volunteers.
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Other companies are likely to face the same dilemma as Harley-Davidson as protectionist measures loom. Important societal issues affected the tenor of the event this year, starting with the moment Keith Weed stepped on stage. But experts questioned the long-term benefits of the "rebrand. Corporate communicators and former colleagues of the outgoing Starbucks chairman discuss why they think he should run for president.
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He was born 21. January 1855 in mormon family in Ogden, Utah. His father Jonathan Browning was a gunsmith. He came from Tennessee, where he was apprenticed as a puškařskému craft, in the year 1852, however, he moved to Utah. Jonathan Browning was a successful gunsmith - well sold, in particular, his repeater pistol and rifle system "accordion" (then, with the sliding block of the cartridge chambers).
Jonathan Browning - father of John Moses Browning
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Young John was the eleventh of 18 children in the Browning family (Jonathan Browning had as a mormon, four wives), and from his youth he showed considerable puškařské talents. In ten years, it began from the father to learn the craft. Despite the irregular and incomplete school education (school could attend only when his father needed help in the shop) won the young John sufficient knowledge especially in mathematics and the other sciences, which could apply in the construction of weapons.
When was John Browning for 13 years, he built the first weapon of its own design - from the front, charging a shotgun. A year later (1869) compiled from the spare parts rifle with a skluzovým finally, as a gift for my brother for his birthday. 1878 and since then started work on the single-shot zadovce with block's conclusion. In April of the following year, also scored a success in personal life, when he married Rachel, Teresa and julia child. About a month later John applied for his first patent, covering the construction of the above-mentioned zadovky. Patent no. 220.271 he was awarded in October, the joy, however, was spoiled of his father's death. Jonathan Browning died on 21. 6. 1879 and management of the family firm he took over, John, together with his four years younger brother Matthew. While John was in charge of the development and production of weapons, Matthew organized the production, led the accounting and taking care of the business side of the company.
Matthew was definitely beneficial for our company. Just under his proposals the company Browning moved on to making weapons in large batches (and despite the fact whether or not the individual adjustments to the weapons according to the wishes of the customer), where it was used for assembling parts on an assembly line. Their first weapon was a repeating rifle .22 caliber, which he handed John a patent in 1882. Both brothers were so confident of success that they made 600 of the rifles before even the first of them offered on the market. The rifle made a big impression on the competition - namely the firm the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the largest american manufacturers of rifles of the time. Company Winchester felt by the company Browning such a danger, that in the summer of 1883 in Ogden rushed mr. T. G. Bennett, vice-president and general manager of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, with an offer of cooperation. Winchester bought the rights to John's first design of the single-shot zadovky, then the company Winchester sold under the designation of the Winchester Single Shot Rifle M 1885 (it was at that time by the way the only jednoranová rifle in production companies). At the same time Winchester bought the rights to the production of Browning's rifles, and at the same time redeem the whole stock of 600 rifles!
Thus began the cooperation of John Browning with the company of Winchester, which was supposed to last another 19 years. His first achievement was the design of the new repeaters on the basis of his patent of 1884. The new rifle became famous under the designation of the Winchester Model 1886. In the following years we added a number of other structures rifles, of which worth mentioning is primarily the Winchester Model 1887 (the first successful american repeating shotguns), Winchester Model 1894 (the most successful single lever rifle of all time – was produced continuously from 1894 to 2006 and the production amounted to a staggering 7 million pieces) and Model 1895 (also, the single lever rifle, but not a pipe magazine below the main, but with a tank schránkovým for the use of modern bullets are projectiles with a sharp point). Produced was over 400 000 pieces of which about 300 000 for the Russian army in the years 1915-17.
Rifle M. 1895 was the last weapon that J. Browning designed for the company Winchester. Browning, increasingly, their attention turned to the development of self-loading and automatic weapons, about which, however, with the Winchesters was not much interested. The disputes culminated in the development of the autoloading shotgun and Browning eventually with the company of the Winchester ended the cooperation.
the Onset of the machines
Your design talent is now applied myself toward the development of the machine gun. Browning is the development of self-loading weapons devoted since 1889. Then focused on the energy use of dust emissions vytékajících when fired out of the barrel. Elementary experiments conducted in the workshop above the store of the family business in the hometown of Ogden. To attempts used the Winchester, where the charging lever joined by a system of levers of the attachment on the barrel (in the first model) or the piston below the main (in the second model) and tested so use the energy of powder gases to re-tension the recurrent mechanism. Their knowledge then used in the design of a machine gun, who then offered to produce the company Colt. The gun has shown interest and started the browning's design to produce under the designation Colt-Browning M 1895.
The machine gun proved itself during the Spanish-american war of 1898; the gun here earned the nickname "Browningův peacemaker" (although much more widely known, was under the nickname "Toppers potato" according to the lever-duty semi-circular movement under the body of the machine gun). Itself Browning, however, with this design solution was not satisfied and started out after the model Hiram Maxim deal with the structures of the machine gun on the principle of short-zákluzu mainly. Own design based on this functional principle was created in 1900 and a year later it received a patent. The U.S. government, however, the new weapon was not interested and so the drawings went to browning's drawer and were oprášeny until after the outbreak of the 1. world war.
However, this kind of getting way ahead of ourselves. Browning now turned my attention to a semi-automatic pistol. The development of modern smokeless střelivin and expansion of the sheathing shots in that time created the conditions for the successful construction of weapons of this type. In 1893, indeed, the first such gun was developed by Hugo Borchardt. Browning your own designs of self-loading pistols boomed almost four years; he worked alternately at home in Utah and at the company Colt in Hartford. Initially devoted to the development of a fully automatic pistol, a practical test of the prototype, however, have shown that the gun is while shooting a dose of almost uncontrollable and the Browning so this idea of the left.
The first patent application related to the construction of self-loading pistols have Browning filed 14. September 1895. A year later, then added three more patents for various design of self-loading pistols. All four patents have been Browning's allocated 20. 4. 1897. It was about the patents no 580,923 (self-loading pistol with the conclusion of the locked hinged latches controlled the pressure of the gases taken from the barrel), no 580,924 (semi-automatic pistol using in its activity, the recoil with the conclusion of the locked barbs joining the barrel and the conclusion; the barrel at the same time performs the function of the barrier, which is controlled by the moving articles below the mouth of the barrel and cartridge chamber), no 580,925 (semi-automatic pistol is finally locked by rotation of barrel) and no 580,926 (self-loading pistol with a dynamic neuzamčeným finally).
Just in the last patent shown interest in the director of the belgian arms company Fabrique Nationale dArmes de Guerre in Herstalu in Liège Hart About. Berg, who in the time of Browning's attempts to find out. He managed to Browning persuaded to cooperate, and 17. June 1897 acquired the license to produce the gun in all countries except the US, according to his patent, on the basis of which two years later started in Herstalu produce a pistol of the FN 1899. So began Browningovo tenure at the company FN, which lasted until his death.
Pistol, the FN 1899 was offered to the belgian army, but had minor reservations and recommended some changes. In addition to the small details (as for instance adding a hanging loop on the handle) were reduced in size, the barrel was shortened from 122 mm to 102 mm, and the cut is also the handle, so the tray now conceived only 7 rounds instead of 8. The resulting weapon is today known as the FN 1900 and immediately experienced overwhelming success. In weaponry it has adopted the belgian army and the FN 1900 became the first self-loading pistol in the world, which became an official part of the arsenal of any armed corps. In comparison with other guns of that time it was a pattern of simplicity and practicality and Browningovo solution unlocked the conclusion, it was considered groundbreaking.Also on the commercial field received the pistol a huge popularity. Were made more than half a million, and that only in the year 1912, when its production terminated in favor of the more modern browning's design.
One of these refurbishments was also the model FN 1910, also on the charge of 7.65 mm Browning also extremely popular weapon produced in large numbers (in both rážích originated almost a million pieces and the production ran until the year 1983!). Just this gun (respectively, the model 1910/12, who used to charge 9 mm Br. To.) used the G. Principle during his assassination on F. F. dEste, so, as you can see, Schweik thinking in the right direction.
a Schematic of the dynamic závěrového mechanism. It consists of mainly associated with the frame of the weapon, the conclusion and the return spring. Description of the activity: After the shot pushes the combustion gases of the bullet forward and the casing backwards. The barrel is closed the weight of the conclusion and the resistance of the return spring. The bottom of the casing pushing on the breech face, and he begins to move backward. The conclusion begins to open and continues his drifting until the rear end. This is the shell casing has been withdrawn from the barrel, and fired výhozným window. Conclusion the way backward compresses the return spring, which in the end again indicate the conclusion to move forward. From the stack is given the next charge, the conclusion is captures, it retracts into the barrel and closes the cartridge chamber. The cycle is terminated.
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It is truly undeniable. Browning was the first to understand that when you use the bullets to a certain power it is not necessary to lock the conclusion of any complex system; came to the conclusion that it is quite sufficient to close the charge in the barrel, only the inertia of the mass itself the conclusion and the pressure of the return spring. This allowed to construct the factory in a simple and lightweight pistol of small dimensions. In later years found a number of followers: a pistol with neuzamčeným dynamic conclusion are constructed today. Browning in addition to your pistol constructed their own four bullets, three of which are still producing (6,35 mm Browning, 7.65 mm Browning and a Browning 9 mm Bc) and not only that – it still belongs among the most popular and widely used cartridges worldwide.
It would of course be presumptuous to claim that Browning invented the functional principle of dynamic conclusion (although to him perhaps independently reached its attempts to). Already in 1892 is left in Europe the principle of dynamic conclusion patent Theodor Bergmann and also began to produce the gun under his patent. His pistol, however, not use the ejector or extractor (casings or not the groove), the ejected cartridge was vymetena from the barrel of the pressure of the gas and in theory should be thrown out by the impact on the next hub in the stack. This principle was, however, very unreliable, the casings are pulled apart because of too great pressure or vzpříčily. The bullets were not in the schránkovém tray in the handle (although this solution is used already in 1893 Hugo Borchardt), but in a solid box in front of the trigger guard and the trigger. On a similar principle operated also in other european pistols and all are faced with problems with a too weak or too strong ammo.
Browning was the first who carefully calculated the performance of the hub in relation to the matter to conclusion. He used the shells with the groove and the extractor, the cartridges placed in removable schránkového the tray to the handle. He didn't need to develop new structural nodes - only ingeniously connected the already existing in a perfectly balanced and functional whole.
Itself Browning, however, preferred another design solution. We have already said that the Browning patented four different basic functional principles related to self-loading pistols. Patents no 580,923 and 580,925 Browning never did not put into practice. Patent no. 580,926 (neuzamčený conclusion) implemented in the factory of FN, however the patent no 580,924 (conclusion locked the barbs on the back of the barrel, odemykaný its decline), which solution alone acted for the best, decided to preserve for his country and has offered it for a munitions factory Colt.
1900 the company Colt started production of the gun Colt M 1900 according to browning's patent. Unlike the FN, however, this time, did not record any resounding success, were made only about 3500 pieces. The gun was from the beginning meant as a business military weapon; for civilians was too big and heavy, the soldiers again blaming too weak a charge. In fact, Browning for this weapon have constructed a new charge of the .38 Automatic that his performance surpassed all the existing bullets caliber .38. The U.S. army however, at that time she had had the painful experience of combat deployment in Cuba and the Philippines, where revolvers, caliber .38 proved to be little effective. Therefore, the medical-military commission to the U.S. army for a new poboční short gun recommended caliber .45.
Browning continued in the development of the gun M 1900 and five years later introduced the gun M 1905, that used the newly designed hub, from which later emerged the charge 45 ACP. The army, however, did not accept even this weapon; recommended Browning on the gun to make additional changes (in particular, in the field of ergonomics and insurance systems). Six years later, he was Browning finished – the result was the legendary Colt 1911. This gun already on The contrary. With. Army adopted with enthusiasm, and what's more, the pistol held out in the service of a staggering 74 years.
It is said that even if Browning nezkonstruoval nothing else, just this one structure alone would have sufficed to bring it into the imaginary hall of fame of the designers of weapons. There is no reason with this statement disagree - gun M 1911 still holds a number of world records: firstly, it is the longest produced gun in the world. In theory, it could be rather gun P.08 Parabellum, however, the manufacture of this weapon was several times interrupted, while the Colt M 1911 to this day.
Second, it is about the most copied design in the world. The gun on the basis of the model 1911 produced worldwide, due to the easy laditelnému spoušťovému mechanism and very good ergonomics it is currently one of the most popular sporting guns.
Third and finally, while it is undoubtedly the greatest benefit of this weapon, its locking system is used today by most modern pistols with a locked in conclusion. Browning your system this time even simpler example – launched a leading article, so the barrel has now fallen only in the back of the cartridge chamber. It was an absolute rarity – the first weapon, in which during the samonabíjecího cycle the barrel changed the location of its longitudinal axis. The initial mistrust was soon averted the performances of the new weapons. While this was a way of locking later modified (in particular, because of the cheapening of production), for example, by replacing the moving the article a fixed backdrop, or the replacement of the broken locking barbs block tting in the výhozného the window, at the time of its inception was stunning in its simplicity and effectiveness.
Pistol Colt 1911 is made just for U. With. Army nearly 3 million units. The production of the various copies and clones today it is not possible to calculate.
Browning, however, at that time did not pay exclusively to the development of the gun M 1911. In the time before 1. world war ii created a number of very successful models of pistols with neuzamčeným in conclusion, both in Europe for the company FN, so in the USA for Colt. The company Colt indeed picked up a tremendous success browning's pistols in Europe, where up to 30. years commonly used label "browning" for any semi-automatic gun, similar to the designation of the "colt" became synonymous with the revolver.
The management of the company Colt correctly estimated that a similar demand for pocket guns with a dynamic conclusion would also be in America. Therefore started negotiations with zbrojovka FN as the Browning had originally put a pistol with a dynamic conclusion for FN and locked for the Colt. Now, however, both factory entered into a territorial agreement under which allowed Colt to sell their products in America and in the Uk, while the FN has remained the rest of Europe. Coltovy pocket pistol with a dynamic conclusion, "flat as a book" how to underline the contemporary advertising material, immediately recorded among american customers considerable success (model 1903 Pocket Hammerless has sold almost 600 000 pieces).
Also in the field of rifles recorded Browning in that time a number of achievements. We have already said that it terminated the cooperation with the Winchester because of his semi-automatic shotgun. T. G. Bennett didn't believe in the commercial success of such weapons. Browning yet constructed the first semi-automatic large caliber rifle and sold her patent to the firm of Remington. Later he offered Remingtonům also my patent on the self-loading shotgun, but the death of mr. Marcellus Hartley, a representative of the firm Remington, the store crashed. Browning, therefore, their patent offered to the company FN. The it immediately bought, for the leadership of the FN was considered Browning for so much of the genius that decided to buy all his patents, although in the moment of need didn't fit into the production program of the company. U FN believe (, and the future confirmed that legally), that in time they will succeed even the Browning's design, which currently is not interested. Due to restrictive measures in Europe, however, the company FN later sold the rights to this gun company Remington.
Browning also in 1913 for Remington constructed a repeating shotgun with the conclusion of the controlled posunovatelným type (so-called pump-action) produced under the designation Model 17 and a year later sporting semi-automatic rifle manufactured as a Model 24.
It is well known that small-bore rifle have been a lifelong love of J. M. Browning, however, the beginning of 1. sv of war přerval his work in the field of sporting weapons.
John Browning and his beloved self-loading small-bore rifle Browning Semi-Auto 22
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The U.S. army then, to his horror, found that she has in the inventory of only 1100 of mostly obsolete machine guns and need the situation to be addressed urgently. American designers were invited to submit their proposals. Browning dusted off their patents on the design of the machine gun with a short ... mainly, and introduced two of its construction (in the second case, however, again returned to its original solution with the collection of spalných gases from the barrel) – and both have been accepted into the armament. One of them was a water-cooled machine gun with a short ... mainly produced under the designation Browning M 1917. The end of the war was made nearly 43 000 pieces and the machine gun fought in Korea. Shortly after the war, was modernized and it became the air-cooled variant Browning M 1919. This machine gun became the most widely used american weapons in its class for 2. world war. Machine gun served in a number of modifications as infantry, as the armament of armored vehicles and the like air. In. With. Army it out of the loadout in up to 70. years of the 20th. century and in some countries served up to the nineties.
The second construction, then, the gun was standing on the threshold of the automatic rifle and light machine gun known as the rifle BAR M1918 (Browning Automatic Rifle). Just BAR work on the principle of sampling gases from the barrel. This weapon is produced over 100,000 pieces and served even in Korea, as druhosledová gun in the south vietnamese army even during the conflict in Vietnam. Itself Browning with this weapon was not too happy - a rifle firing from the open end, which předkluz of the shot, the worse the accuracy. It was too heavy for shooting single shots from the shoulder, but again too light for shooting doses (had a tendency to "dance" and was therefore wrong to handle). On the other hand, however, was simple, reliable and a great use for it, what from it was required - apart from the actual "light" machine guns should have a low enough weight to be with her soldier running to attack, silencing points of resistance and provide cover fire for the movement of their comrades.
John Browning showing off his creation - a rifle BAR
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It is worth mentioning that the Browning in time of war refused to leave behind his work for his country to pay.
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After the end of the war, in 1921, then constructed another famous gun – large caliber machine gun known in the US as Browning M 2 the powerful bullet caliber 12.7 mm. The machine gun was originally developed as an anti-aircraft gun, but was later widely used as an infantry weapon (even in the role of the sniper rifles, e.g. in Vietnam), as weaponry vehicles and aircraft, fought in all the wars that the US led and is in the arsenal of today, what is more, At. With. Army still on its delisting in the future not considered – so much was its design timeless. It was produced more than 3 million pieces and the machine gun is still the standard heavy machine gun of several states of NATO.
Browning, however, this velkorážním machine gun did not end, on the contrary headed even higher, at least in caliber. Designed automatic cannon caliber 37 mm, originally intended again as anti-aircraft. Produce, however, began long after his death, on the eve of the 2. world war. The new cannon, designated as M 4, making the company the Colt and the gun became the main weapon of the fighters P-39 Airacobra, P-63 Kingcobra and was also widely used on torpédovkách class PT.
Browning, however, continue to cooperate also zbrojovka FN. The spring of the year 1921 turned his attention to the looming big contract. The French army decided to change its poboční a gun and announced a competition, in which you specify the following requirements: it should go on semi-automatic caliber pistol 9 mm Luger, with a magazine to 15 rounds, with the possibility of the deployment of the attachable stock and adjustable sight for shooting into education. 500 m. the Leadership of the FN spoke to Browning, whether a similar gun could construct. Browning at first refused, saying, that the French demands are unrealistic, the end of the year 1921, however, he changed his mind and started on a new weapon to work.
The situation, however, significantly complicated the patent rights. Browning had to circumvent their own patents used in the Colt 1911 and basically change all the design nodes, while the most important was undoubtedly a further simplification of its locking system with a decrease in the rear part of the barrel. The new, simplified system launched article under the cartridge chamber and replaced it with the backdrop and the fixed pin. The new system is known as "shortcode system Browning" and to this day it uses a number of modern guns. Yet, the gun was quite complicated (in particular, the production) and therefore had to be repeatedly revised. Although the year 1925 when the army tests was impressed by the positive, was not decided on its acceptance into the armaments. Browning continued to work on the gun until the fateful 26. November 1926. That day he was in his office in Herstalu vitiated by a heart attack and died.
Aggrieved by the leadership of the factory FN would expose his body on a slab in the conference room of the directorate of the company. All employees of the factory he then pay our last respects, he held a funeral parade in front of his coffin.
John Browning was at the factory extremely popular. Although he was a multiple millionaire, yet remained until the death of modest man. Even when he was a 1912 belgian king Albert promoted to knight of the Leopold order, yet not allow anybody to call "Sir". Leopoldův order and other honors remained in the drawer of his desk. He, himself, his work did not limit itself only to "clean" work, drawing drawings, etc. with their Own hands in the workshop worked on the production of prototypes and troubleshooting. Although ingenious inventors tend to be known primarily as the eccentric individuals, in the case of John Browning, it was not so. He was known as a great companion and gentle person, who at any time "chat" even the last worker in the factory.
He was the father of 8 children, of whom son Val Allen became the representative of the third generation of armorers from the genus Browningů. Val Allen worked with his father as his technical assistant and generally showing off prototypes of his weapons. After the death of his father Val remained in Belgium and oversaw the completion of his father's projects. In 1935 he returned to Ogden, where he took over management of the family firm.
Browningův son Val Allen at a time when for 1. world war he served in the 79. infantry division. Val holding a successful weapon constructed by his father - rifle BAR. Val was himself a talented zbrojířem and he was granted a total of 48 patents on its design
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The last work of John Browning completed a team led by one of his associates, the future successful designer Dieudonne Saivé. 1928 expired patent rights on the Colt 1911, which Saivému allowed the gun again to rework and simplify. Yet she went because of the global economic crisis into production until 1935. It was the first large-capacity semi-automatic pistol with dvouřadým reservoir received into the armament of several armies. The gun is manufactured to this day and bears the indication Browning HP 35.
John Moses Browning was a remarkable man. Moreover, was not only an excellent designer but also a successful trader. His shot was stunning – designed everything from rimfires, through pistols, rifles and machine guns to air guns. In virtually all areas, which began to pay, scored a resounding success. Only in the US, he granted a total of 83 patents on weapons of all types. Many of his designs are still produced today or became the model of other more modern weapons. No other individual so much did not affect the development of self-loading and automatic weapons as he.
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Oral macimorelin safe diagnostic test for adult GH deficiency
Among adults with suspected growth hormone deficiency, the oral ghrelin agonist macimorelin is a safe and effective alternative GH stimulation agent vs. the more invasive and potentially risky insulin tolerance test, according to findings from an open-label, two-way crossover trial.
“Growth hormone therapy offers clinical benefits in individuals with adult GH deficiency,” Jose M. Garcia, MD, PhD, associate professor in the department of medicine at University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues wrote. “However, diagnosing this condition is often challenging and remains a barrier to initiating GH treatment.”
The insulin tolerance test, considered the gold standard GH stimulation test, is also labor-intensive, can be unpleasant for patients and has potential risks, including severe hypoglycemia, according to the researchers, whereas other alternative tests, such as arginine plus GH-releasing hormone or glucagon stimulation tests, are not available in the U.S. or have limitations.
Garcia and colleagues analyzed data from adults with suspected GH deficiency based on either structural hypothalamic or pituitary disease, surgery or irradiation, head trauma as an adult, evidence of other pituitary hormone deficiencies or idiopathic childhood-onset GH deficiency. Participants were stratified as low (n = 39), intermediate (n = 37) and high likelihood (n = 38) for adult GH deficiency based on symptom presentation. Researchers randomly assigned participants to a sequence of two tests, including the macimorelin (Macrilen, Aeterna Zentaris) GH stimulation test (oral solution, dose of 0.5 mg/kg of body weight administered within 30 minutes) and the insulin tolerance test (regular human insulin administered at 0.1 U/kg), performed 7 to 30 days apart and while fasting 8 hours prior to and throughout the tests. Cutoff values determined a priori for the tests were 2.8 ng/mL for the macimorelin test and 5.1 ng/mL for the insulin tolerance test, with tests classified as “positive” for GH deficiency when the peak GH value was below the cutoff point. Researchers also included a group of 25 healthy matched controls in the efficacy analysis.
With the prespecified cutoff points, negative agreement between the macimorelin GH stimulation test and the insulin tolerance test was 95.38% (95% CI, 87.1-99.04) and positive agreement was 74.32% (95% CI, 62.84-83.78). In post hoc analyses using a cutoff point of 5.1 ng/mL for both tests, negative agreement was 93.85% (95% CI, 84.99-98.3) and positive agreement was 82.43% (95% CI, 71.83-90.3).
The researchers noted that due to the lack of a “standard of truth” to determine true adult GH deficiency status for each participant, sensitivity and specificity for both tests could only be estimated from test outcomes in a subset of the efficacy population. When using the cutoff point of 2.8 ng/mL for macimorelin, sensitivity was 87% and specificity was 96%; increasing the GH cutoff point for macimorelin between 2.8 ng/mL and approximately 8 ng/mL will increase sensitivity with a minimal effect on specificity, according to researchers. With a cutoff of 5.1 ng/mL, sensitivity and specificity of the macimorelin test was 92% and 96%, respectively. Reproducibility of the macimorelin test was 94%.
“GH stimulation with oral macimorelin is a simple, well-tolerated, reproducible and safe diagnostic test for [adult GH deficiency], with comparable accuracy to that of the [insulin tolerance test],” the researchers wrote. “Evaluating the test at the same GH cutoff of 5.1 ng/mL as used for the [insulin tolerance test] limits the risk of a false-positive diagnosis while maintaining a high detection rate of affected patients based on the more potent GH stimulatory effect of macimorelin compared to the [insulin tolerance test].”
The FDA approved macimorelin in December. – by Regina Schaffer
Disclosures: Aeterna Zentaris funded this study and all authors have received research support from the company. Garcia reports he has received research support from Novo Nordisk and Pfizer. Please see the study for the other authors’ relevant financial disclosures.

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The City of Dallas and La Alianza DFW held a panel with Dallas Latinx Leaders to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Hispanic residents. on Feb. 28.
The panel was held in Spanish with English captioning. The discussion is still available for viewin online (bit.ly/DallasPanelDeVacunacion).
To learn how to register for the vaccine, residents can visit the City of Dallas website and view the Vaccination FAQs. A
limited number of vaccines have been allocated by the State to the City of Dallas to inoculate 5,000 people from the Dallas County waiting list who are elligible individuals (currently groups 1A & 1B), registered with Dallas County and invited by City of Dallas to make an appointment
Those who are eligible to receive available vaccines will get a call from 615-846-XXX to confirm. Residents are advised not to ignore this call and do not forward the confirmation link or they risk having their appointment canceled and being turned away.
For information about the vaccine, testing, and other COVID-19 resources, residents may visit DallasCityHall.com/covid19 or 214.670.INFO.
Residents can sign-up to receive SMS messages for City news and updates. The City of Dallas Office of Communications, Outreach and Marketing has launched a new text message alert system that allows the community to receive news updates directly to their mobile phones.
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The text alert system, which is being administered through GovDelivery, will be a way for the City to provide important information for a variety of situations including City facility closures, event cancellations and important updates regarding the City’s response to COVID-19.
To subscribe, residents can text DALLAS NEWSENG (or DALLAS NOTICIAS for Spanish speaking subscribers) to 468311. The service is free, but standard text messaging and data rates may apply.

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it’s been a bit since my last post. we’ve been away in portland visiting family for the holidays. we’ve spent our days from morning til night exploring the city and wandering through the neighborhoods. i’ve fallen crazy in love with portland and can’t wait to share all about it in an upcoming post. we came to spend the holidays with my brother and sister in law and have had our fair share of delicious food. i’m looking forward to sharing some of the healthy and gluten free recipes we cooked up soon! it’s been crisp and cool here in portland so we’ve been having fun mixing up yummy beverages to warm our bodies after our evening walks through their quaint little town. i’m wild about apples and love everything about them from their shape to their colors, crispy textures and sweet and sometimes tart flavors. i love apple sauce, apple butter and most of all apple cider. we were in the mood for some hot apple cider on thanksgiving and i was in the mood to get creative so i whipped up something fun and festive. this is the perfect beverage to prepare for those holiday get-togethers, is sure to be a talk of the party and is simple and easy to make!
festive apple cider cups
here’s how the recipe goes
Serves 4-6 people
4-6 fuji apples (round and even on the bottom so they stand up tall when placed on a flat surface)
6-10 cups organic -pure pressed apple cider
4-6 fresh cinnamon sticks
fresh ground organic cinnamon
fresh ground organic nutmeg
1 fresh organic lemon
i found this brand of organic apple cider at the local organic market new seasons. no matter where we travel, we are always on the hunt for the local organic markets and shops and this one didn’t disappoint. the people were incredibly helpful and friendly and they offered a variety of locally made items. this particular apple cider was local, made from northwest grown apples and was 100% pure pressed with no added sugar or preservatives. we didn’t plan enough time for preparing our own apple cider but if you do have the time to make your own recipe there’s a quick and simple recipe here.
i picked up a few lovely looking fuji apples from the produce section. the key to picking out apples for apple cups is choosing ones that have a nice round shape and are even on the bottom so they stand up tall when placed on a flat surface.
i love fuji apples. they’re my favorite kind of apple. that being said, i just love apples in general and one thing i love most about them is their variety. so many choices of this healthy fruit. i absolutely adore apples. here’s why you should adore them too.
- good source of vitamin c which helps boost the immune system
- good source of soluble fiber
- they’re loaded with antioxidants which support healthy heart function and inhibit inflammation
- apples deliver an antioxidant called quercetin, which is thought to aid endurance by making oxygen more available to the lungs.
- help reduce risk of diabetes
- support healthy digestion
- thought to help prevent parkinson’s, alzheimer’s and some forms of cancer
- help detoxify liver
the fresh cinnamon sticks came from the bulk section and in my opinion are the best part of this entire recipe. you’ll know why once you make this delicious warm goodness of a treat. not only is cinnamon incredibly flavorful but it’s also loaded with health benefits. here are just a few reasons why you should love this wonder spice.
- good for your heart
- helps protect against diabetes
- supports better brain function
- aides in digestion
- helps regulate blood sugar levels
add cinnamon’s cohort nutmeg. i’m nuts about nutmeg. here’s why you should be nuts about nutmeg too…
- strengthens the liver
- aides in digestion
- is thought to aide in sleep (add to a warm glass of coconut milk before bed)
- boosts the immune system
- supports healthy digestion
- supports healthy brain function
- helps relieve muscular and joint pain
- supports healthy circulation and kidney function
add these all together and you’ve got a powerful drink packed full of health benefits.
begin by slicing the tops off of apples – try to make the top as even as possible
use a large spoon to hollow out the inside of the cup.
be sure not to hollow out too close to the bottom or the cups will leak.
squeeze fresh lemon on the edges and insides of the apples to prevent browning
heat cider mix on low heat. add desired amount of ground cinnamon and nutmeg. whisk gently
ladle warm cider into cups
add a fresh cinnamon stick.
here’s the fun part. use the cinnamon stick as a straw to sip your cider.
you’ll love the extra hint of cinnamon in your sip.
who doesn’t like to drink from cinnamon stick straws?!
enjoy. celebrate life. spend time with others who lift you up and bring you joy. drink a warm beverage on a cold day. get plenty of vitamin c. drink from a cinnamon stick straw. be good to yourself. be good to others. life is good.
much love, Shawnee
They were delish! I’m backing this 100% ; ) Love ya Babe!!

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Some residents of Bisara, the village in Uttar Pradesh where 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq was killed in September last year, have decided to organise a ‘mahapanchayat’ (public meeting) in April to demand a CBI inquiry in the case.
Police have arrested 19 men, including a juvenile from Bisara over the killing of Akhlaq, who was beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of storing and consuming beef.
Alleging that the investigation into the case was one-sided, some residents have formed a ‘sangharsh samiti’ (agitation committee). The committee includes village pradhan (chief) Sanjay Rana, a local BJP worker, also named Sanjay Rana, whose son Vishal and nephew Shivam were arrested over the lynching, as well as Om Mahesh, father of UP home guard constable Vinay, another accused.
“A ‘mahapanchayat’ has been called by Bisara residents on April 10 and the event will take place at Maharana Pratap Inter college. Residents of 50 nearby villages will take part in the ‘mahapanchayat’,” said the pradhan.
He added, “Villagers have demanded a CBI inquiry into the Akhlaq case. It should be made clear whether the meat which was recovered from his residence was beef or mutton. The examination report has not been submitted. The action taken in this case has been one-sided… that’s why residents of the village have formed this ‘sangharsh samiti’, which has announced that a mahapanchayat will be held. The committee has around 17-18 members…”
Stating that they did not need permission from authorities for the event, Rana said, “Why do we need permission? Section 144 has not been imposed here.”
Police and district authorities said they have not received any request to hold such an event. “We will take necessary action once such a request is made or if we receive any information about the event,” said sub-divisional magistrate Rajesh Yadav.
Dadri’s DCP Anurag Kumar also said police have not received any information about such an event. “But if there is any anti-government agitation and a crowd gathers, law and order issues do emerge,” said Kumar.
On the night of September 28 last year, a mob had barged inside Akhlaq’s residence, dragged him outside and beat him to death.