[Daily Caller] The number of concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits is soaring to new levels despite the rabid anti-gun activism following a slew of school shootings over the past year.
Issued CCW permits increased approximately 275 percent over a ten-year period, from 4.6 million permits in 2007 to over 17.25 permits in 2018, according to a study released Friday by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The number has been increasing year over year and is forecast to continue trending upwards.
The most notable demographic increase was found to be among women and minorities. During the aforementioned time period, CCW issuance jumped 111 percent faster for women than for men. Moreover, compared to white individuals, permits for Asian and black individuals spiked 29 percent and 20 percent quicker, respectively.
The ancient Greek karate style known as pankration offers time-tested lessons on aging well.
He, along with a handful of other men, have been practicing routines like this for more than 40 years, under the careful supervision of George Gonis, who runs the small, second-floor gym where they sweat off several pounds during each 90-minute session. All have been training in the ancient Greek karate style known as pankration with Mr. Gonis, some on and off, since their teens or early 20s.
Each series of Greek karate maneuvers, such as the "form" Dr. Daffner demonstrated recently, tells a story from ancient Greece. Remember...they're smarter than you and should get to run the world without any backsass.
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Karate, from Okinawa (Shotokan), means 'empty hand'. Martial arts date back to mainland China for about 2 millennia. These people are fucking morons for peddling this codswallop. The only Greek karate I might remotely be familiar would involve buggering your fellow man, if ya know what I mean.
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Any martial art, line dancing, aerobics... any kind of physical exercise that uses a combination of memorized movements done for at least twenty minutes at a time to get an aerobic effect will provode the healthful benefits that the New York Times journalist ascribes to a martial arts style so exotic that most of the fifty states don’t have a single instructor. But the NYT works ever to promote status anxiety by fawning over something most cannot have in the exact form described.
[AlAhram] As nearly 2 million pilgrims from around the world braved heavy rain in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Sunday to begin the annual haj ritual, the country's health minister said there was no sign of any outbreaks of disease.
Worshippers arrived in the kingdom last week for the five-day ritual -- a once-in-a-lifetime religious duty for every able-bodied Moslem who can afford it, which retraces the route Prophet Mohammad took 14 centuries ago.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms forced pilgrims to take cover in tents and trudge through puddles, with civil defence warning of possible flooding throughout the evening.
Some prayed at the Grand Mosque before heading to the Mina area or towards Mount Arafat, east of Mecca, where the Prophet is believed to have delivered his final sermon to followers.
They will all arrive by Monday morning at Mount Arafat. Eid al-Adha, or feast of the sacrifice, begins on Tuesday, when pilgrims begin three days of casting stones at walls in a symbolic renunciation of the devil.
For a graphic on The haj journey http://tmsnrt.rs/2imJ2yf
The authorities have been preparing for months to ensure pilgrims' safety, Health Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah told Rooters, with more than 30,000 health workers operating 25 hospitals and offering free medical services, including complex procedures such as open heart surgery.
"Praise to God, everything now is under control and health conditions are excellent," he said in an interview at Mina Public Hospital.
The potential for disease spreading among pilgrims, who spend five days in close quarters, often eating outside and sleeping on the ground near holy sites, is a perennial concern.
The world's largest annual gathering of Moslems has in the past also seen deadly stampedes, fires and riots, with authorities sometimes struggling to respond.
A crush in 2015 killed nearly 800 pilgrims, according to Riyadh, although counts by countries of repatriated bodies showed over 2,000 may have died, more than 400 of them Iranians.
Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites - Mecca and Medina - and organising the pilgrimage.
The interior ministry has put in place measures to confront any security threat from Lion of Islam attacks to political protests, but no specific threats have been detected, a front man said on Saturday.
Pilgrimage is also the backbone of a plan to expand tourism under a drive to diversify the kingdom's economy away from oil. The haj and year-round umrah generate billions of dollars in revenue from worshippers' lodging, transport, fees and gifts.
Officials aim to increase the number of umrah and haj pilgrims to 15 million and 5 million respectively by 2020, and hope to double the umrah number again to 30 million by 2030.
Some pilgrims on Saturday hiked 700 metres (2300 ft) to the tiny Hira cave, where Moslems believe the Prophet was visited by the Angel Gabriel and began to receive Koranic recitations.
"It's indescribable. It's overwhelming to see how his impact has been on this world," said American pilgrim Nasser Mahmoud. "But that's where it all started. It's a very humble thing, you can't even stand there."
[FoxNews] Weinstein accuser Asia Argento made deal to pay her own sexual assault accuser, bombshell report says.
Actress Asia Argento, one of the first prominent women to accuse disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, agreed to pay $380,000 to an actor who accused her of sexually assaulting him when he was 17 years old, The New York Times reported Sunday night.
The actor claimed that the assault took place in a California hotel room in 2013, according to the report. The age of consent in California is 18.
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Actually, he's got the signed legal papers from the payoff agreement.
But it's different when they do it.
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Anthony Bourdain's previous squeeze. His last one was his own neck, IIRC
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I pretty much assume anyone in Hollyweird that is part of the #MeToo movement is also guilty and trying to show they aren't. The rest are guilty and just don't care.
[Al Jazeera] A second earthquake has jolted the Indonesian island of Lombok just hours after an earlier tremor triggered landslides and damaged buildings.
The US Geological Survey measured Sunday's quake, which was centred in the island's northeast, at magnitude 6.9 with a depth of 20km.
It followed a separate 6.3 magnitude tremor recorded earlier in the day which rocked the same region of the beleaguered tourist island.
Lombok is struggling to recover from a series of powerful earthquakes which have hit the island in recent weeks, killing hundreds of people and damaging tens of thousands of homes.
About 350,000 have been displaced as a result of the tremors.
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You're living on top of the world's most active subduction zone. Don't worry, be happy.
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Tell San Francisco
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[DAWN] Rescuers searched submerged villages in southwest India on Sunday in a desperate hunt for survivors after floods killed more than 350 people and stranded thousands without food or water.
Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state's worst floods for a century, and emergency responders fear the corpse count will rise as they reach areas almost entirely underwater.
Thousands remain trapped in towns and villages cut off by the floods, and heavy rain forecast in coming days threatens to compound the disaster.
Bedraggled survivors massing at evacuation centres have described desperate scenes after days without food or water.
"They were the scariest hours of our life," 20-year-old Inderjeet Kumar told AFP at a church doubling as a relief shelter in the hard-hit Thrissur district.
"There was no power, no food and no water ‐ even though it was all around us." Local officials said the overall corpse count in the state since the start of the monsoon on May 29 had reached 357, with 33 of them found dead in just the last 24 hours.
In Thrissur, rescuers searching inundated houses discovered the bodies of those unable to escape as the floodwaters quickly rose.
"They didn't think that it would rise this high ‐ 10 to 15 feet at some places ‐ when the initial warnings were issued," said Ashraf Ali K M, who is leading the search in the small town of Mala.
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"For the purpose of preparing for the Vostok 2018 exercise, the Russian armed forces will hold a special drill to practice tactical support to forces operating in the eastern strategic sector."
Are the Russian's prepping for another round with Japan?
[Dhaka Tribune] A NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... re court sentenced five people to death and two others to life-term imprisonment for killing a man in Singra upazila in 2004.
The condemned convicts are: Hafizur Rahman, Bulu, Khalilur Rahman, Majibur Rahman Majid and Monir Hossain. The two others are Abdul Hakim and Nazrul Islam.
Among the convicts, four are absconding.
According to the case, the convicts picked up farmer Abdul Kader Dudu from his house on February 3, 2004 due to a previous feud.
They gunned Kader down and stabbed him to death at a local market.
The victim’s wife filed a murder case with Singra cop shoppe the following day.
After examining all the records and witnesses, NATOre Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Saifur Rahman Siddiq handed down the verdict on Sunday.
In Jhenaidah, a local court sentenced three men to death for murdering a college student named Imran Hossain in 2011.
Jhenaidah First Additional District and Sessions Judge Golam Azam announced the verdict Sunday morning.
The death-row convicts are: Imran Hossain, Nasim Biwsas, and Monirul Islam Mukul. They were also fined Tk20,000 each.
Mukul is currently in hiding.
Another suspect in case, Zakir Hossain, was acquitted of the charges.
According to the case, Imran, from Laudia village in the district’s Sadar upazila, went missing after leaving his friends at a village tea stall for his home on his cycle of violence.
His body was found near a pond in Shikarpur village a day later.
His father Nazrul Islam filed a case naming several unidentified people as suspects with Jhenaidah Sadar cop shoppe.
Police submitted a report naming four suspects in 2012.
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[Breitbart] U.S. Steel has announced that they will invest $750 million at their 110-year-old steel manufacturing plant known as Gary Works in Gary, Indiana, crediting President Trump’s protective tariffs on steel imports.
What was once the largest steel mill in the world will now get a $750 million facelift thanks to Trump’s 25 percent tariff on all imported steel into the United States, designed to protect American industries and jobs from being outsourced.
In a statement this week, U.S. Steel executives said they would be revitalizing the Indiana plant which employs about 3,800 American workers, the Chicago Tribune noted.
While U.S. Steel executives say they are not yet planning to increase the number of jobs at the Indiana plant, U.S. Steel Corp. President and CEO David Burritt said the company is "experiencing a renaissance" because of Trump’s tariffs.
"We are pleased to be making this significant investment at Gary Works, which will improve the facility’s environmental performance, bolster our competitiveness and benefit the local community for years to come," Burritt said in a statement.
"We are experiencing a renaissance at U.S. Steel," Burritt said.
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Keep it relatively small & responsive to market conditions like Nucor used to do back in the day, and it'll be a good investment. Too bad about the city they're doing this in - I've never heard a good thing about the place, until now.
I'm guessing the new $750M is going to be invested over a 4 or 5 year period to avoid having to go to big into the credit market.
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Didn't US Steel (USX ?) decide in the 1960's that it was too expensive to modernize their old steel plants so they just let them "...rust away" while diversifying like crazy with all the profits?
So Foreign Commodity Dumping is only part of the picture...
US Steel has a long and, as you imply, not completely glorious history.
However the USX period was from 1986 to 2001. During this time it was removed from the DJ 30 index.
with respect to major diversification, US Steel bought Marathon Oil in 1982 (as oil prices were crashing) and spun it off as an independent company in 2001.
with respect to employment, the company peaked in WWII when it had over 300,000 employees but the company has been steadily reducing that and today has about 30,000 employees, including quite a few overseas where the company has interests in eastern Europe, Canada and S Korea.
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Interesting bit of history at #4. I remember some very saddened Marathon folks in 1982.
[ARABNEWS] Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the US, the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that threatens to undermine decades of government campaigns for gas-thrifty cars and other conservation programs.
The position was outlined in a memo released last month in support of the administration’s proposal to relax fuel mileage standards. The government released the memo online this month without fanfare.
Growth of natural gas and other alternatives to petroleum has reduced the need for imported oil, which "in turn affects the need of the nation to conserve energy," the Energy Department said. It also cites the now decade-old fracking revolution that has unlocked US shale oil reserves, giving "the United States more flexibility than in the past to use our oil resources with less concern."
With the memo, the administration is formally challenging old justifications for conservation ‐ even congressionally prescribed ones, as with the mileage standards. The memo made no mention of climate change. Transportation is the single largest source of climate-changing emissions.
President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has questioned the existence of climate change, embraced the notion of "energy dominance" as a national goal, and called for easing what he calls burdensome regulation of oil, gas and coal, including repealing the Obama Clean Power Plan.
Despite the increased oil supplies, the administration continues to believe in the need to "use energy wisely," the Energy Department said, without elaboration. Department spokesmen did not respond Friday to questions about that statement.
Reaction was quick.
"It’s like saying, ’I’m a big old fat guy, and food prices have dropped ‐ it’s time to start eating again,’" said Tom Kloza, longtime oil analyst with the Maryland-based Oil Price Information Service.
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...TRANSLATION (If this is true; I sincerely doubt it): "We make more of it than you do, suckers. Drown in it; see if we care."
Mike
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It was never about economics, or pollution, or any of that. It was about control.
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[DAWN] ThePattoki police placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Saturday the caretaker of a mosque for his blasphemous act at village Jodh Singh Chak 13.
According to police, the suspect packed torn and old pages of the Holy Koran lying in the mosque in the bags and threw them into an old well adjacent to the mosque.
A villager saw him throwing the bags and reported the matter to other villagers.
A large number of villagers gathered outside the mosque and seized the man. Someone alerted the police which took him custody.
Later, the police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under section 295-B (defiling, damaging or desecrating a copy or an extract of the Holy Koran) against the suspect, whose name is being held by this newspaper as per its policy.
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"What's that, Lassie? Some pages of the Holy Koran are trapped in the old well? The caretaker of the mosque threw 'em down there? Golly jazacollie!"
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I always thought the way to take down Pakistan would be to air drop millions of unwrapped rolls of toilet paper over the nation with the Koran printed on them.
It would take decades to rescue and preserve all the pieces blowing across the landscape.
[DAWN] A member of the transgender community was allegedly attacked and tortured early on Sunday, Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... police said.
According to a first information report of the incident, a man named Bilal, accompanied by his relatives, attacked the transgender person in question while she was at home.
The transgender person sustained several bruises and, according to police, was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital in Mansehra and treated in the emergency ward.
TransAction, a rights group advocating for transgender rights in Pakistain, protested the attack. It alleged that 479 incidents of violence and eight murders of transgender persons have taken place in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa in 2018 alone.
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[DAWN] KASUR: A woman gave birth to a baby in an ambulance after being denied admission to three public health facilities late on Friday near village Wadana on Ferozepur Road.
According to Muhammad Liaqat, father of the newborn, he took his wife first to the Kasur District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital for labour pains treatment late on Friday. The doctor on duty referred the patient to the Lahore General Hospital because of her critical condition and for want of surgeon in the hospital. He and his wife had to travel to the Lahore hospital with another patient in the ambulance as no other ambulance was available at that time of night.
Liaqat, powerloom worker, said that the Lahore General Hospital also refused to admit his wife on a plea the gyne ward was already overcrowded and referred them to the Services Hospital, which also refused to get his wife in.
Liaqat again rushed to the Lahore General Hospital and requested the staff to admit his wife but in vain. He said that seeing the deteriorating condition of his wife, he decided to take her to a private hospital in Kasur after contacting an employee there.
On way to Kasur, she gave birth to the baby near village Wadana on Ferozpur Road in the ambulance early on Saturday. Liaqat said he felt helpless as well as embarrassed as his sister was with them and he had to handle the delivery in the ambulance in front of his sister. He also said that they spent the entire night moving from one hospital to another but no one was ready to treat his wife in public hospital.
He said he had to spend a hefty amount on the post-delivery treatment. He said though doctors had refused admission to them saying that it was not a normal delivery, the birth, however, was done normally in the ambulance. He said that his wife had been regularly visiting the DHQ Hospital for the last few months but the doctors never told her that the delivery was not normal. He demanded that the chief justice take notice of the situation.
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Better than squirting one out in the street I suppose.
[DAWN] SHEIKHUPURA: A minor boy who went missing two days ago was found dead in a heap of garbage in Mauza Bhiki on Saturday.
Police claimed seven-year-old Ahsan Raza, the son of a labourer, had gone to his tuition centre, but did not return. His body was spotted by some passersby who alerted police. The body was sent for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.
Bhiki police, on the report of Raza’s father Yousaf, started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified killers and started an investigation. They suggested the boy could have been raped before being strangled. Further investigation was under way.
Similarly, in Nankana Sahib, a family protested in front of the local press club against the Sadar police. One of the protesters, Liaquat, told the media that his son Uzair, 13, had been kidnapped by his opponent three days ago. Later, Uzair’s body was found in an empty well, and police have failed to arrest his killers, including Shoaib and two others.
He demanded the regional police officer intervene and arrest the killers as soon as possible.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Weinstein accuser Asia Argento made deal to pay her own sexual assault accuser, bombshell report says.
[DAWN] Rescuers searched submerged villages in southwest India on Sunday in a desperate hunt for survivors after floods killed more than 350 people and stranded thousands without food or water.
[ARABNEWS] Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the US, the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that threatens to undermine decades of government campaigns for gas-thrifty cars and other conservation programs.
[DAWN] ThePattoki police 
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
[DAWN] KASUR: A woman gave birth to a baby in an ambulance after being denied admission to three public health facilities late on Friday near village Wadana on Ferozepur Road.
[DAWN] SHEIKHUPURA: A minor boy who went missing two days ago was found dead in a heap of garbage in Mauza Bhiki on Saturday.
