[Guardian] Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed, has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said on Friday. He was 96.
The English-born, Canadian-educated Young died Thursday, according to Jaime Larkin, spokeswoman for the retirement community where Young had lived for four years. His children were with him when he died peacefully of natural causes, she said.
[LI] Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939. Not a soldier, not a government official, Winton petitioned the British government for permission to organize "Kindertransport."
For fifty years, Winton kept his Kindertransport activities to himself. It wasn't until his wife discovered a scrapbook that his story was made public in 1988. It wasn't until the details of his rescue missions were unearthed that the children he saved learned who saved them and how. More than 7,000 people credit their lives to Winton's efforts.
Winton passed away last year at the age of 106. Thursday, hundreds attended a memorial service to commemorate Winton's incredible bravery and selflessness.
[Al Ahram] At least 10 people have died and 40 were suffering from an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in South Sudan, the latest calamity in the war-torn country, the World Health Organization said.
"A total of 51 suspected cases, including 10 deaths, had been reported," the WHO said in a statement on Thursday. Cases are from the northeastern Aweil region, with the last recorded death in late February.
"The most frequent symptoms include unexplained bleeding, fever, fatigue, headache and vomiting," WHO said. "The symptoms do not seem to be severe and rapidly resolve following supportive treatment." Samples tested were all negative for Ebola and Marburg virus diseases.
A more than two-year civil war has left South Sudan surviving off handouts, with more than five million people in need of aid. Despite a peace deal, violence continues.
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[AlArabiya] Sudanese media say fierce clashes between two clans of one tribe this week in the country's southern West Kordofan State, have left dozens dead.
The independent Shorouk TV said on Friday at least 37 people died in the fighting, which took place on Tuesday, between the branches of the Hamar tribe, an ethnic Arab tribe. The official SUNA news agency confirmed the violence but didn't give a death toll.
The two warring clans are Awlad Subaih and Jamaaniyah in the district of Al-Nuhud.
It's unclear what sparked the clashes but Sudan Tribune reported that the two sides fought over theft of sheep.
The governor of West Kordofan, Aboul-Qassem al-Amin Baraka, says Sudanese security forces were deployed and the situation is now under control. An investigation is underway into the incident.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Yaar Hossain, father of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, has demanded legal action against the medical examiners who conducted the first autopsy of his daughter, claiming that they tried to hide evidence related to her murder.
Speaking with the Dhaka Tribune yesterday evening, Yaar said: "The doctors who conducted Tonu’s first post-mortem examination claimed that they had found no evidence that she had been raped before being murdered.
"But when the CID ran a DNA test, they found evidence that she had been raped by three men before she was killed."
Two months have passed since Tonu’s body was found in Comilla cantonment area. Asked if he was satisfied with the progress of the investigation, Yaar said: "We are now. There was no significant development for a while, but now that the CID has revealed the results of the DNA test, we are hopeful that we will get justice.
"I believe that the doctors who conducted the first autopsy committed some sort of irregularities. I demand that the CID take legal actions against them."
Dr Kamda Prasad Saha, head of the forensics department at Comilla Medical College, refused to comment on the DNA test results when the Dhaka Tribune contacted him.
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He wrote: "For many Muslims the antisemitism is visceral, an ingrained part of their unpleasant ideology," adding: "If you handed over Israel to the Palestinians they would turn it into Somalia before you could say Yom Kippur."
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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
[Al Ahram] Chile, Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and Uruguay appealed Friday for an "effective political dialogue" in Venezuela amid a deepening crisis in the leftist-led South American country. In a statement, the three countries made "an urgent appeal for an effective political dialogue and a genuine civic understanding among all the political and social actors in this sister nation."
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Today, Friday, May 20 2016, the Baltic Dry Index decreased by 9 points, reaching 625 points.
Baltic Dry Index is compiled by the London-based Baltic Exchange and covers prices for transported cargo such as coal, grain and iron ore. The index is based on a daily survey of agents all over the world.
Baltic Dry hit a temporary peak on May 20, 2008, when the index hit 11,793. The lowest level ever reached was on Wednesday the 10th of February 2016, when the index dropped to 290 points.
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell on Friday on weaker demand for larger vessel segments.
The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize shipping vessels, was down nine points, or 1.42 percent, at 625 points.
The capesize index lost 36 points, or 3.97 percent, at 870 points.
Average daily earnings for capesizes, which typically transport 150,000-tonne cargoes such as iron ore and coal, were down $397 to $6,981.
The panamax index was down three points, or 0.49 percent, at 614 points.
Average daily earnings for panamaxes, which usually carry coal or grain cargoes of about 60,000 to 70,000 tonnes, decreased $19 to $4,909.
Among smaller vessels, the supramax index rose four points to 562 points, while the handysize index rose one point to 343 points.
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[NATION.PK] ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday accepting compromise in the honour killing acquitted the main accused.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali heard an appeal against the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... High Court verdict.
The parents of the dear departed Reshma Bibi appeared before the bench and said they had pardoned the accused Abdul Sattar. The chief justice remarked that the Lahore High Court had ruled that in ’Karo Kari’ cases there are certain conditions for compromise.
The accused counsel, Zahoor-ul-Haq Chisti, argued that the honour killing is a compoundable offence. Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh said killing in the name of honour is not of individual but of the whole tribe.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the counsel contended that under section 338 (C) of Pakistain Penal Code there is no hurdle in compromise in the honour killing cases, adding the Balochistan High Court had dismissed the prosecution application to enhance the punishment from life imprisonment to death sentence.
According to the case Reshma Bibi was declared ’Siakari’ by her husband Shoukat Ali. She had taken refuge at the Kot of Sardar Yar Muhammad Jamali but when she was shifted from the Kot of Jamali to Dar-ul-Aman her husband Shoukat with the help of Abdul Sattar killed her in May 2011.
The dear departed mother lodged an FIR in Police Station Usta Muhammad on 28-05-2011 against Shoukat Ali and Abdul Sattar. The Sessions Judge, Usta Muhammad, Balochistan, awarded Abdul Sattar for life in jail for ’Qatl-e-Amd’ as ’Tazir’ under section 302 (b) of Pakistain Penal Code. The court, however, acquitted Shoukat Ali by giving benefit of doubt.
Abdul Sattar later filed an appeal in the Balochistan High Court, Sibi, against the Sessions court, which was dismissed. The accused later entered into a compromise with the dear departed family, which they accepted.
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Wikipedia: "Cheek's primary goals upon taking the position as chancellor of UT have been improving the academic experience of students and advancing faculty research and scholarship. His ultimate goal is to help Tennessee become one of the top 25 research universities in the United States. He has already helped guide UT to a top 50 ranking." (I.e., undergraduate students be damned.)
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Research University is a polite eupherysm for "making the faculty rich and ignore the undergrads"
The University of California is a research university, there are faculty who have not stepped foot on campus for three years and undergraduates teaching freshman classes.
The "research university" gig is a vast welfare system for academia.
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[USMC Times] One of the most time-honored phrases in the Marine Corps -- "every Marine a rifleman" -- could get an update as the service's top leaders consider new gender-neutral job titles for all positions.
The Marine Corps is conducting a sweeping review of its military occupational specialty titles, Capt. Philip Kulczewski, a Marine spokesman at the Pentagon, told Marine Corps Times. The move follows a January directive from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus that Navy and Marine leaders ensure all job titles are gender neutral as ground combat jobs opened to women.
Mabus specifically wanted the word "man" dropped from all titles. That could mean that female Marines -- or even men -- heading to ground-combat jobs may not pick up traditional titles like rifleman or artilleryman.
Kulczewski declined to answer questions about how many titles could change, when the review would be complete or what the new job names could be, since the review is still ongoing.
Navy Capt. Patrick McNally, a spokesman for Mabus, also declined to comment on the status of the sea services' reviews.
"[The Navy secretary] has met with leadership from both services on the issue and we will have an announcement on a way ahead at the appropriate time," he said.
Initially, a Navy official told Marine Corps Times that Mabus didn't intend to change iconic titles like infantryman, rifleman or midshipman. Instead, the official said, he only wanted titles to change the titles if "man" stood alone as a separate word, as in reconnaissance man or field artillery sensor support man.
But a Marine official with knowledge of the review said "every single" title, billet and job description is being looked at.
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Mr. B - just been lurking. Currently in Vietnam for the road show. Stuck at the hotel so I won't get to see much of it. HCMC is somewhere between PP and BKK but closer to PP. They may have hated the French but they kept the baguettes and the buildings.
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BB: Just finished 'Embassy House.' You've probably already read it. But if not....
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WHat utter bullshit. There is nothing sacred for these asshats except poking their finger in the eye of everything they hate. centuries of tradition mean nothing to the little cupcakes of the left, and they have no idea what they are joyously tearing down has stood between them and an introduction to inhumanity and cruelty on an epic scale. Sadly, the rest of us will suffer for allowing these twits to ascend to power. The fix grows ever more likely to involve a lot of really tragic, hard things....
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.
[LI] Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939. Not a soldier, not a government official, Winton petitioned the British government for permission to organize "Kindertransport."
[Al Ahram] At least 10 people have died and 40 were suffering from an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in South Sudan, the latest calamity in the war-torn country, the World Health Organization said.
