[Atlanta Constipation] A Floyd County teenager died from a traumatic brain injury after he was struck while playing a game called "jump the car."
Kobe Thomas died Sunday after he was struck by a car, Channel 2 Action News reported. The 16-year-old was playing "jump the car" with a group of friends when the incident happened. The game involves jumping over a car as someone drives toward you.
If it wasn't Thomas' smile, it was his basketball skills that amazed and put family, friends and admirers alike at ease.
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I guess bloody knuckles, mublety peg and "buck, buck, guess who's number's up?" are just too tame for these energetic kids...
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Seen this done on many TV shows. Jump straight up and the car drives under you. Get the timing right and jump high enough and it's "easy".....make a mistake and.....................................................oops.
Kind of like sky-diving. As Mythbusters says "Don't try this at home."
[AlAhram] The president of Cairo University, Gaber Nassar, has decided to abolish the religion field on all university certificates and documents it issues related to students, staff, and professors, the academic told a local television programme on Tuesday.
The decision, which came into force on Tuesday, will be applied in all faculties and institutions at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
"We noticed several complaints about the possibility of discrimination between students due to the mention of religion. Lately I was surprised to see that a department head in one of the faculties was distributing an application that included the religion and the denomination," Nassar told satellite channel al-Nahar al-Youm by phone.
He added that when a student is asked to write his religion, he may feel that he will be discriminated against because of it.
"At Cairo University, we don’t take random decisions, we take decisions to amend illegal or unconstitutional situations," Nassar said, adding that the university had no law or bylaw that stipulated that the religion field should be included, saying that at present some faculties issue certificates which include the candidate's religion and others do not.
Nassar added that those who don’t abide by the new decision would have disciplinary action taken against them.
All lies!
[AlManar] South Sudan’s government was on Wednesday forced to deny President Salva Kiir had died, following days of rumors over his health that have heightened tensions in the capital Juba.
“This is a mere lie, there is nothing as such, Salva Kiir has not even been sick,” Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth told journalists in Juba, slamming “wild rumors” he said aimed to divide the people of South Sudan.
The rumors have been doing the rounds on Twitter, and even spread as far as Uganda where Kiir, 65, was reported to have fled for medical treatment.
Residents of Juba reported a higher than usual presence of soldiers on the streets, as the rumors coincided with mounting concerns over an uptick in violence in the troubled nation in recent weeks.
South Sudan, which gained independence in July 2011, descended into war just two and a half years later when Kiir in December 2013 accused his former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup.
Numerous attempts to shore up a fragile truce failed, and in a major setback to peace efforts, fierce clashes erupted in Juba on July 8 this year between Kiir’s guards and troops loyal to Machar.
The international community has expressed deep concerns over a spread in violence since the July clashes, which pushed the number of refugees from the war-scarred nation past the one-million mark, according to the UNHCR.
In a further blow to peace hopes, Machar last month urged “a popular armed resistance” against his rival’s government.
Machar, who fled to Khartoum in the July fighting, on Wednesday left for South Africa for medical tests.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Wednesday said it was “extremely concerned over increased reports of violence and armed conflict in various parts of the country in the last few weeks.”
In the town of Leer, in the north, UNMISS forces reported heavy artillery and gunfire exchanges between forces loyal to Kiir and Machar, leading to an unspecified number of deaths and sending local populations fleeing.
In a statement UNMISS said it had been denied access to an area where some 21 civilians were reportedly killed in an ambush on the road between Juba and the southern city of Yei over the weekend.
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South Sudan should be divided in thirds. Viz., Western state (Dinka), Eastern state (Nuer, Murle, Shilluk) and Equatoria (numerous ethnicities). Western and Eastern would each have access to indigenous petroleum resources and be economically viable. And if given a plebiscite Equatoria would likely join Uganda. Sadly, the Kiir-Machar impasse will never be resolved until both are dead.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi will be ready to welcome worshippers by the end of 2017, a businessman overseeing the project said on Tuesday.
The temple is being built on land donated by the government of Moslem Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. Hindus currently travel to Dubai, the UAE’s tourism and commercial hub more than 100 km (60 miles) away, to perform prayers.
The government announced it was allocating land to build the temple during a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Hundreds of thousands of Indian Hindus live in Abu Dhabi.
Indian billionaire businessman B.R. Shetty, who is chairman of the Temple Coordination Committee, said: "The UAE is a great example of religious tolerance with people of different nationalities living in harmony here."
The temple project will be funded privately, he said. The government has allocated 20,000 square meters of land in Al Wathba, just outside Abu Dhabi city.
Indians make up the largest expatriate group, about 2.6 million or 30 percent of the UAE population, according to figures from the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
Dubai also has a Sikh Gurdwara and both Dubai and Abu Dhabi have Christian churches.
Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan will be the chief guest at India’s annual Republic Day parade next year.
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One day after its Ambassador to the US told the world the US and Russia had "frozen all communications" between the two nations, Russia test-launched THREE nuclear-capable missiles. But in a surprise move, rather than fire from its Plesetsk Cosmodome as announced and expected, Russia instead first launched a Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) from its Kalmar class (Delta-III) K-433 Georgiy Pobedonosets submarine located in the Barents Sea.
After that, came the launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from the land-based Plesetsk Codmodome.
Russian forces fired the third nuclear-capable rocket from a Pacific Fleet submarine in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan, state-run RIA Novosti reported.
Each of these missiles are capable of carrying up to TEN warheads which can be tasked to strike ten different targets. Thus, had this been an actual strike, ten cities in Europe would be gone and twenty cities throughout the entire United States would also be gone . . . at 3:00 in the morning while most of us in the United States were sound asleep.
This is a not-so-subtle warning that Russia is not playing games with NATO or the West with regards to Ukraine and Syria. If the US and NATO continue to encircle Russia with NATO missiles (presently in Poland, Romania and now, Moldova), and continue to attack Syria with proxy armies composed of Al-Qaida and ISIS terrorists, both NATO and the US face actual war on our own territories, delivered with lightning speed, that would smash life as we know it.
If one was to utilize a different analogy, let's say a Rattlesnake, today's launched would be like the snake shaking its Rattle over pending danger to itself, warning its adversary it is about to be bitten.
The US and NATO are completely in the wrong with regard to events that have taken place over the past few years in Ukraine and in Syria and if we in the west don't wide-up and wise-up fast, putting a halt to our aggression, then "the end" is rapidly approaching for those poorly thought out policy decisions.
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I think the Chinese "fishermen" just spoiled any future fun.
China said Wednesday that South Korea needs to stay "reasonable and cool-headed" even after Chinese fishermen rammed and sank a South Korean coast guard speedboat in the Yellow Sea.
China’s appeal to South Korea followed a warning Tuesday from Seoul, which said its coast guard vessels would be armed and ready to use to force against Chinese fishing boats that defy their orders.
The argument started last Friday, when -- according to officials in Seoul‐ a 100-ton Chinese fishing boat slammed into a 4.5 ton South Korean speedboat that was trying to expel the Chinese fishermen from waters off the western coast of the Korean peninsula.
South Korean officials summoned China’s ambassador to express the government’s outrage over the incident and said that its coast guard vessels would be equipped with mounted machine guns from now on.
"We will actively respond to Chinese fishing boats that obstruct justice by using all possible means if needed, such as directly hitting and gaining control of those Chinese fishing boats as well as firing common weapons," Lee Choon-jae, deputy chief of the South Korean coast guard, told reporters.
The spat between South Korea and China comes after Beijing has riled up most of its maritime neighbors -- and the United States -- with its expansive claims and aggressive behavior. China has built artificial islands in the South China Sea, provoking U.S. naval patrols in order to defend the right to free navigation, and sparking a tougher posture from Vietnam, Indonesia and others. In the East China Sea, China and Japan are at loggerheads over Chinese natural gas platforms that Tokyo says are both encroaching on disputed territory and potential military sites.
Tensions are already running high between Beijing and Seoul over South Korea’s decision to deploy U.S.-made missile defenses on its territory. Beijing views that as a threat despite Seoul’s insistence that the weaponry is aimed at countering the threat posed by North Korea. Until the announcement on missile defense, relations had improved in recent years years amid expanding trade and shared concerns over North Korea’s volatility.
The feud between China and South Korea over fishing rights in the Yellow Sea, which started about 15 years ago, has ramped up in recent months. South Korea’s ministry of defense alleges that Chinese fishing boats were caught operating illegally in 520 cases between January and May of this year, compared to 120 instances in all of 2015.
Although no one was injured in last week’s incident, the dispute has taken a deadly turn in the past. Clashes left a Chinese fishing boat captain dead in 2014 and claimed the lives of a South Korean coast guard member in 2011 as well as two Chinese fishermen in 2010.
Much to the irritation of neighboring states, China also subsidizes its fishermen. In the South China Sea, Beijing pays its fishermen to operate in far-flung waters as a "maritime militia" to back up its far-reaching territorial claims. In the Yellow Sea, however, there is no evidence that China is encouraging fishing boats to sail into Korean coastal waters, or that the fishermen are part of a wider strategic land grab, experts said.
Still, China does not impose any penalties on fishermen that are poaching in South Korean waters and Seoul "feels China does nothing to crack down on this illegal fishing," said Gregory Poling, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"As long as they make it back to the line in China, there have been no consequences" for the fishermen, he told Foreign Policy.
While South Korea demanded that China rein in its fishermen and recognize the "gravity" of the situation, Beijing accused Seoul of endangering its citizens.
"Concrete measures must be taken to ensure the safety and lawful rights and interests of Chinese personnel," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a press conference.
With a more prosperous Chinese population ready to spend more on seafood, coupled with dwindling fish stocks in Chinese waters, the country’s fishermen have an incentive to take a more aggressive approach in Korean coastal waters. And the Chinese fishermen often exploit tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang by taking advantage of the de facto maritime boundary between the two adversaries.
The Chinese fishermen sometimes sign contracts in North Korea to cross the boundary -- known as the Northern Limit Line -- to fish in South Korean waters. Reluctant to trigger a military conflict with the North, South Korean authorities have tended to take a cautious approach to the Chinese fishermen when they are operating around the boundary line.
But in June, South Korean naval ships and U.S.-led forces staged an operation to push out Chinese boats fishing in the mouth of the Han River estuary, which lies near the sea border between South and North Korea. Under the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, the area is designated as a "no man’s land." No foreign ships are allowed to sail in the military buffer zone except those registered by either South or North Korea.
[CNN] Russian hackers have already scored key goals in their apparent bid to disrupt the US presidential election, according to researchers monitoring the closely fought political campaign.
Allegations of dumping sensitive data, infiltrating official servers, manipulating online blogs and even hacking voter records, say analysts, have fueled concerns Moscow is trying to influence the election outcome.
"Anything that undermines the legitimacy of the electoral process is bad news for democracy," said professor John Naughton, co-director of the Technology and Democracy Project at Cambridge University in the UK.
The Kremlin categorically denies any Russian state involvement in hacking.
Some of the emails, later released online, contained embarrassing details of the Democratic Party's inner workings, including correspondence revealing how opposed some party officials were to Hillary Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders. The damaging revelations eventually forced Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step down as Democratic National Committee chair in what could be an unprecedented example of the Kremlin not covertly, but directly, intervening in US politics.
Both Trump and the Kremlin deny any links to hacking or to each other, but the issue again surfaced in the second US presidential debate on Sunday.
"We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election," said Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee, during a heated exchange in the debate.
"And believe me, they are not doing it to get me elected. They are doing it to influence the election for Donald Trump."
Suspicions have been fueled by the tightly controlled Russian media, which have made no secret of their preference for a Trump presidency.
Whatever the truth, the Putin factor has emerged as a key issue in the US presidential campaign and that in itself may be interpreted as a victory by the Kremlin.
The issue of US electoral intervention also raises broader, much darker concerns -- that go way beyond Russia -- about the way the Internet can now be used not just to promote democracy but also to undermine it.
"Only now are we beginning to see the long-term impact of the technology," Naughton warned. "We are beginning to find out what the Internet really means."
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Point AC. It could very well be that all this agitprop is not to change the vote. It's to make us believe - or, at least, entertain a reasonable doubt ("I know I wasn't influenced, but maybe other people were") - then they fake the results.
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Paper is no guarantee as a long history of the usual suspects will show (See - Battle of Athens). However, there is at least an implied accounting trail and is least susceptible to outside manipulation than on line digital. Besides, the only creatures who need 'instant' results are the media (it's showtime) to for their breathless coverage (and ad revenue generation).
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Rumor alone might get a number of Democrats to support cleaning up the system to prevent voter fraud (since despite report after report the Democrats seem unable to believe voter fraud exists).
Earlier in March, a blood clot moved to Stephens's lungs, causing her to lose consciousness. Her panicked husband attempted to perform CPR on her while calling 911.
"She was gasping, and I could feel her heart beating out of her chest, but I couldn't get a pulse," Pendley told KPRC.
"The 911 operator answered the phone, and she said, 'This is Crenshanda, may I help you?';
"[I said,] Wife's passed out I need an ambulance," Pendley told the station. "She said, "OK" and she hangs up on me."
And, unsurprisingly, there is more.
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Why do I get the feeling a semi-literate saw the word "crescendo" and thought it looked nice?
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A young Angeleno, Yolanda,
Was treated by Juan in his Honda
To Gus's and coleslaw
(then parking off Crenshaw),
And after nine months came Crenshanda.
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.
