She's "dead now." [Dhaka Tribune] An allegation has been raised that Gazipur City Corporation Councillor Solaiman Miah has killed his wife Nusrat Jahan Tumpa.
Tumpa, 30, is the daughter of local BNP leader Nazrul Islam. The AL-backed councillor is now on the run after the incident.
The couple were married for 12 years and have an eight-year-old son.
Tumpa’s father Nazrul Islam said: "They started having issues five years into their marriage and had fights on a regular basis over Solaiman’s addiction to drugs and extra-marital affair."
He claimed Solaiman used to beat up his daughter every time they had a quarrel.
Nazrul said Tumpa locked into a quarrel with Solaiman when she discovered a woman’s photo in his mobile phone during a family outing to Jamuna Future Park on Sunday. Tumpa’s brother Sayeed and his wife were with them during the trip.
He also said: "Solaiman killed my daughter Sunday night after Sayeed had dropped them home."
On Monday morning, their domestic help informed Tumpa’s mother over the phone that no one was answering from inside despite repeated knocks on the door.
Later, the family members broke into the flat and found Tumpa senseless. They took her to Crescent Hospital in Uttara where the doctors declared her dead.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy at night. Family members have claimed several injury marks were seen on Tumpa’s body.
Uttara West SI Shahed Parvez said: "Dark spots have been found on her body. We can only confirm if it was a murder after we get the autopsy report."
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[CBS] FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- A North Carolina high school teacher says he has been placed on leave after students say he stepped on an American flag as part of a history lesson.
What exactly was he teaching?
The Fayetteville Observer reported Massey Hill Classical High School teacher Lee Francis said he was informed of his status by the Cumberland County Schools human resources department.
Francis said he’s scheduled to meet with system officials on Thursday to discuss the incident stemming from a lesson in his history class.
News media outlets quote students as saying Francis asked students for a lighter or scissors, and when no one produced them, he put the flag on the floor and stomped on it. Reports quote Francis as saying on his Facebook page that he was discussing a court case involving flag desecration.
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Reports quote Francis as saying on his Facebook page that he was discussing a court case involving flag desecration.
There is a difference between theoretical and hands-on demonstrations. Be careful where you want to take that. If cops have body cams, maybe its past time for classroom cams to cover both teachers and students.
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“Just because I step on the flag doesn’t mean I step on their graves,” Francis told WNCN. “It doesn’t mean I step on their bodies as they return from overseas. It means I step on a piece of fabric.”
It is symbolic of those graves. Just ask the soldiers up the road at Ft. Bragg how they feel about you being a dickhead.
An interesting situation. Following links from here to the local newspaper report CBS drew from, I discovered Mr. Francis was disappointed not long ago in his primary run in a local Democratic race. And not only does Massey Hill Classic draw from the Ft. Bragg area, meaning lots of military families, but it is a college prep magnet school. From the school's website:
Though there is a great deal to learn about MHCHS, four characteristics make the school truly unique. First, at MHCHS all students adhere to a college/university preparatory curriculum. Students are encouraged to take a rigorous academic course load including additional required courses in foreign language, math, and science. In addition students experience electives in the arts and participate in Socratic seminar. Students are challenged to apply Habits of Mind that create critical and analytical thinking skills. MHCHS students’ end-of-course test scores and SAT scores are consistently among the best in the county.
The students are displaying the higher level thinking -- understanding that objects have symbolic as well as absolute value -- that such a program hopes to instill. The teacher, carefully limiting his awareness to the physical object, has demonstrated he is not suitable to engage in the level of instruction these students require. Also, as DarthVader says, that he is a dickhead.
[NYDAILYNEWS] Athletes’ protests of police brutality during the national anthem continued prior to Monday Night Football between the Eagles and Bears. Cameras showed Eagles players Malcolm Jenkins, Steven Means and Ron Brooks standing together with their right fists raised in the air during the song. Goodbye. How very original.
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Fuck them.
And if this keeps up, fuck the NFL.
I LOVE football. But if one of the only *escapes* I enjoy keeps getting turned into more political bullshit, I'll spend my time elsewhere.
The dumbass commissioner of the NFL has an IRON fist when it comes to...pretty much anything. But his balls apparently shrunk back into his body when it came to the players offending a significant portion of the league's viewing audience.
You all should feel free to let the league know that you're not as excited about viewing their product since it transitioned from a *sporting* event into a *political* one.
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CrazyFool, you're exactly right: the NFL is a BUSINESS. Their customers are the fans and the sponsors. If a significant number of people let the NFL know that they need to stop this shit NOW, or the NFL will listen. Or go out of business.
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The NFL owns this now. It's their brand. It's your choice on whether to continue with that brand. Myself, I've moved on.
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Yup. Lots of yard work to get done on a sunny Sunday afternoon...
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The NFL's ratings are down for each of the first two weeks compared to weeks 1 and 2 of last season.
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Still not quite sure why we're paying any attention to these people at all.
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I'm not sure if this link has already been posted, but a second time can't hurt. From CBS Detroit:
The NFL opener, a Super Bowl rematch between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, brought 25.2 million viewers — which is an astonishing number of eyeballs. “For comparison, The Walking Dead averages around 14 million live viewers as TV’s most-watched show,” Forbes wrote.
But that’s down 8 percent from 2015 and 6 percent from 2014. Sunday’s numbers, Forbes added, were down 13 percent from last year.
“This also marked the lowest overnight season-opening rating in seven years,” Forbes found.
The article also mentions a #boycottNFL twitter hashtag that's starting to gain traction.
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I was talking to someone the other day when I mentioned how surprised I was when I realized I didn't miss watching the NFL games.
And how much fun it was to go outside and throw a football with the kids while the weather is good.
I don't miss the halftime lectures. I don't miss all the fantasy stat crap. I don't miss all the bull waiting for highlights. I don't miss all the commercials. I don't miss having to change the channel when inappropriate for the kids commercials come on.
In perspective, I bled Chiefs red growing up.
We have gone from Joe Delaney, to Jovan Belcher, and now to this crap.
There are a ton of movies I have not seen. Just finished another book. Have some guttering to hang.
[NYDAILYNEWS] One of Hollywood’s most illustrious marriages didn’t go according to script.
Actress Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from husband Brad Pitt on Monday, citing irreconcilable differences, TMZ reports.
The 41-year-old was reportedly very displeased with how Pitt was raising their six children together, which was the lone reason she wanted to split.
In the court filing, Jolie asked physical custody of all six kids while requesting the judge give Pitt visitation rights, according to the report.
She reportedly did not request spousal support.
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I'm not usually in favor of government spending, but in the case of these 2, I'm willing to make an exception.
Can we please ask what amount it would take to convince both of them to go away and never appear again in any manner that would ever show up to the rest of the American public?
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IIRC ms.Jolie didn't have concerns about diddling around when mr.Pitt was married to spousal unit number one. Jennifer Aniston to the courtesy phone, "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
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Pitt apparently smokes pot constantly and is drunk a lot, too.
Understand why she doesn't want him around the kids.
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Voight is a stand up guy. Lot's of kids involved here and that is sad--most likely they will be taken care of financially.
Apart from all this, I often wonder why Hollywood has become the arbiter of morality, politics and all other cultural things--sort of a fox in the henhouse arrangement.
My point exactly. These self-absorbed douches would appear anywhere for Hillary if they were asked. That alone qualifies them as belonging to the other side. Good riddance to them both.
[AA.TR] Two airports in Costa Rica were temporally closed Monday after ashes spilled from the Turrialba volcano, local authorities said.
Operations at the Juan Santamaria International Airport, the country’s main air terminal, and the Tobias Bolanos airport, were suspended until conditions improve, according to the chief of the Civil Aviation Directorate Ennio Cubillo.
"The particles are not only in the airspace but also on the surfaces of taxing and takeoff," he told local media.
Authorities also considered whether to limit the general aviation activities at the Daniel Oduber International Airport located in the northwest of the Central American nation.
Eight flights were suspended at the Santamaria Airport, from which an estimated 6,238 passengers departed Monday, according to Civil Aviation Directorate figures.
The Turrialba volcano, located in central Costa Rica, erupted several times Monday throwing a column of ash 4,000 meters during the first eruption, followed by one about 1,000 meters high, according to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica.
The first eruption spewed incandescent rock more than 500 meters high, along with gas and ash, that reached Central Valley communities, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) west of the volcano.
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[All Africa] A group of professors at the University of Ghana have demanded the removal of a Mahatma Gandhi memorial from the campus. They accuse the Indian hero of being "racist" towards Africans. ... the perfect being the enemy of the good...
In an online petition, Ghanaian academics led by Akosua Adomako Ampofo urged authorities to facilitate "the removal of the statue of Gandhi." The statue was presented to the Ghanaian government when Indian President Pranab Mukherjee visited Accra in June this year.
The teachers expressed dismay that the university administration had not consulted its staff before agreeing to install the statue in the institution's premises; they said it was the only memorial of a historical personality in the campus.
In the petition, the professors asked: "How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?"
As of the time of publication, just over 950 people had signed the online petition urging the statue's removal.
Born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... in western India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as the "Mahatma" (meaning "the great soul"), was famous for his non-violent resistance to British colonial rule.
He went to study law in London in 1888 and after a short stint back in India, left for Cape Colony (now South Africa) in 1893 to represent a local firm. Once in Africa, he experienced several instances of racism, including being thrown out of a train for being Indian - despite having a first-class ticket.
The incident, along with several others, is believed to have spurred him to launch a movement against color prejudice. He also started the Passive Resistance Movement in the colony in 1906, according to information on the website of Sevagram Ashram, a charitable trust founded by Gandhi in 1936 in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. South Africa's anti-Apartheid hero Nelson Mandela wrote of the inspiration Gandhi had provided him.
Gandhi's 'racist' ideas
The rationale for their demand, the professors said, was Gandhi's objectionable references to Africans as being socially lower than Indians. In his writings, the leader referred to black Africans as "kaffirs," a derogatory term for black people.
The petitioners quoted sentences from Gandhi's collected works. In an open letter to "The Natal Mercury" in 1894, he wrote, "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir."
In a speech at a public meeting in Bombay in 1896, Gandhi spoke about the racist treatment meted out to ethnic Indians in trains running through the South African colony. "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness."
Removing racist symbols
The petitioners used several examples from Gandhi's writings to urge authorities to remove the memorial. "We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, first and foremost, they should be of African heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as people."
"At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed," they added.
They referred to similar cases, including one in Yale in August, where authorities decided to replace stained-glass windows depicting enslaved Africans. In October 2015, Rhodes University established a team to find a new name for the university, named after Cape Colony's former prime minister, Cecil Rhodes - a British imperialist with notoriously racist political views.
Despite his legacy of non-violent struggle, Gandhi is a controversial personality. Other than his dubious comments on African people, there have been accusations regarding his approach towards sexuality and his relations with his wife and children, as well as his support for India's caste system.
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In a speech at a public meeting in Bombay in 1896, Gandhi spoke about the racist treatment meted out to ethnic Indians in trains running through the South African colony.
[FoxNews] Charlotte police warned 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott again and again to drop his handgun before an officer shot and killed him, the police chief announced Wednesday morning, after riots damaged patrol cars and injured at least 16 officers, one of whom was hit in the face with a rock.
Police Chief Kerr Putney said during a news conference that officers were searching for a suspect Tuesday when they saw Scott exit a vehicle with a handgun at an apartment complex on the city's northeast side. "The officers gave loud, clear verbal commands which were also heard by many of the witnesses. They were instructing the subject, once he got out of the vehicle, to drop the weapon... Mr. Scott exited his vehicle armed with a handgun as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it."
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Except for the injured officers, tis the stuff of comedy.
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The article notes that the two complaintants tried to watch some of the course videos and couldn't comprehend them. I'm with them, there's not much about Berkley I understand myself
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Reasonable Accommodation has (as expected) become Unreasonable Accommodation. Minorities rule. Majorities are subjugated. You dare call this a republic? /rhet question
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Wait. Not being able to comprehend a class means it's not accessible, and therefore verboten?
There goes every upper-level STEM course in the world.
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Look at the bright side; these course are not really free, as it took somebody time to create and also running time, internet up time; etc. taking them down should reduce costs and in theory, save Californians some bux, so they can capture cow farts.
[All Africa] Gay rights advocacy body, Centre for the Development of People (Cedep), has condemened plans by the Ethics, Peace and Justice Commission [EPJC] a social governance arm of the Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) to hold a countrywide march against gays and abortion calls.
Cedep executive director Gift Trapence said the church should be promoting non-discrimination, saying demonstrations will drive the minority group underground.of as a matter of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , public health and public order.
"In a country where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons ( LGBT) people are already marginalised and need to hide for fear for arbitrary violence , the planned demonstrations is an appalling move to further curtail the rights of LGBT people, and those who support them," Trapence observed.
Her regretted "church-sponsored homophobia."
EPJC, an umbrella body of about 122 church denominations and Christian organizations , plan to march for life and family in all 28 districts in the country.
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[All Africa] Malawi government has said President Peter Mutharika, currently in New York for UN General Assembly is in good health, dismissing an social media rumours that he suffered a cardiac arrest.
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Francis Kasaila strongly dismissed the claims.
He assured Malawians that Mutharika is enjoying good health in the United States.
This was after the social media became awash with reports that Mutharika was down with cardiac arrests and others mentioned other ailments.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Kasaila said Mutharika was enjoying good health ever and was fullfilling his engagements.
Rumors about Mutharika’s health are common but Kasaila who is also front man of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party , has described them as lies spread by opponents.
Kasaila said Mutharika was "very strong and healthy," saying opponents are trying to deceive Malawi and cause despondency.
This is the first time this year the government has chosen to respond to rumors.
Kasaila downplays concerns about Mutharika’s health.
The President, who is in his late 70’s, has shown signs of age. Early this year he was caught on camera by Malawi News tripping and falling down during tree planting season.
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[All Africa] Government sources say that 14 civilians and three coppers were killed during anti-Kabila protests in Kinshasa Monday. Three more bodies were found Tuesday morning in the burned-out offices of a main opposition Party.
The charred remains of three people were visible on Tuesday morning inside the headquarters of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), one of the main opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC). The office was set on fire overnight following a day of violent protests against President Joseph Kabila, a witness said.
On Monday, Interior Minister Evariste Boshab reported that "14 civilians involved in looting" and three coppers were killed and one of the coppers was "burned alive."
A coalition of opposition groups put the number of dead at more than 50. "The coalition deplores the number of victims, more than 50 dead at this point, victims of the firing of real bullets by the police and the elite republican guard," the group said in a statement.
News videos from the scene show protestors clashing with security forces and at least one protestor being carried away after gun shots are heard. The heavy festivities erupted in the capital ahead of a planned mass opposition rally.
The protesters were marching against President Joseph Kabila's perceived bid to extend his mandate. There has been growing local and international pressure on Kabila to step down when his term legally ends in December. Opposition supporters have accused the sitting president of wanting to extend his rule by not holding elections originally scheduled for November as required by the constitution. His supporters deny this charge.
Georges Kapiamba, director of the local NGO - Congolese Association for Access to Justice - said that demonstrations also took place in other parts of the country, including Goma, Bukavu, and Beni. Dozens of people died in similar protests against Kabila last year.
"I have seen offices of President Kabila's party as well as offices of other political parties allied to the president's coalition burnt down," said Patrice Chitera, DW's correspondent in Kinshasa.
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EL FURRIAL, Venezuela — One oil rig was idle for weeks because a single piece of equipment was missing. Another was attacked by armed gangs who made off with all they could carry. Many oil workers say they are paid so little that they barely eat and have to keep watch over one another in case they faint while high up on the rigs.
Venezuela’s petroleum industry, whose vast revenues once fueled the country’s Socialist-inspired revolution, underwriting everything from housing to education, is spiraling into disarray.
To add insult to injury, the Venezuelan government has been forced to turn to its nemesis, the United States, for help.
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Westley Maduro Mouch is driving his country down the drain.
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I'm so glad I've put my coffee mug aside a moment before encountering this article's headline.
The unidentified parents of Lugansk president Igor Plotnitskiy died Tuesday in Voronezh oblast, according to Russian language media accounts.
The two pensioners were admitted to a local hospital last weekend, then later transferred to a hospital in Moskva, where they died.
The cause of death was said to be food poisoning from mushrooms.
Plotnitsky himself was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Lugansk last August. Plotnitsky is not a popular leader in Lugansk and has been linked to the deaths of several military formation commanders under his command, most of them ethnic Cossacks.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Sears Holdings announced it will close the stores in addition to 68 Kmarts and 10 Sears that have already closed in 2016
The stores in the latest round of closures will begin liquidation sales by the weekend and close for good in December
The company has shuttered almost 10 percent of its stores since its financial troubles began
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I'm surprised that they haven't ceased operations all together. What exactly is it that are they convincing their creditors is their "niche"?
The Jerusalem-based SunDwater, whose standalone system harnesses heat through concentrated solar power, now has two fully operational pre-production models purifying water in the Arava Desert.
...The system works by pumping any source of contaminated water through one pipe into the top of a parabolic dish, which follows the sun throughout the day. The rays that hit the dish are then reflected back onto a water boiler that sits in the dish’s center, Zimels explained.
As the boiler heats up the contaminated source, the water evaporates, leaving the pollutants behind. Pushed out of the boiler with pressure, but remaining in a closed system, the vapor is then recondensed back into cleaner water, according to Zimels.
All in all, depending on the temperature, the sun’s reflection and the water source, the $16,000 system is able to generate about 300-400 liters of water daily, he said. A control console manages the whole process, collecting data, providing remote access, checking contaminant levels and performing automatic cleaning, Zimels added.
Not quite Jerry Pournelle's "Power to the People", but...
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Just what Gazans need to offset their poo ponds and increasingly brackish groundwater, if only they weren't waging war against the producers thereof. Oh well.
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.
[Dhaka Tribune] An allegation has been raised that Gazipur City Corporation Councillor Solaiman Miah has killed his wife Nusrat Jahan Tumpa.
[NYDAILYNEWS] One of Hollywood’s most illustrious marriages didn’t go according to script.
[AA.TR] Two airports in Costa Rica were temporally closed Monday after ashes spilled from the Turrialba volcano, local authorities said.
[All Africa] Malawi government has said President Peter Mutharika, currently in New York for UN General Assembly is in good health, dismissing an social media rumours that he suffered a cardiac arrest.
