[ABC] A police deputy who went viral twice online for his relationship with a Texas toddler has died.
Deputy Constable Mark Diebold died Thursday from a heart attack, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office. The 48-year-old, who is a 23-year veteran officer, died after completing qualifications for the office's tactical team. Diebold was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Diebold initially earned the admiration of millions online after he helped Granbury, Texas couple Destiny and Caleb Hall give birth to their daughter, Evelyn, on the side of the road on July 18, 2016.
The Halls, who couldn't make it to the hospital in time, decided to honor Diebold in their newborn photo shoot last year, and the story quickly went viral.
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Deputy Diebold is on special assignment to a better place where his skills and dedication are much in demand. Thank you for sharing him with us and thank you for Evelyn.
[AP] ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ‐ The Latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local):
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The National Hurricane Center says Irma’s projected path is continuing to shift to the west, just a few crucial miles, that should keep its eye just off Florida’s west coast on a track to hit St. Petersburg, not Miami or even Tampa.
The hurricane’s leading edge was already lashing the Florida Keys with hurricane force winds. If the center of the storm keeps moving over warm Gulf of Mexico water, it may regain more strength before making landfall again.
St. Petersburg, like Tampa, has not taken a head-on blow from a major hurricane in nearly a century. Clearwater would be next, and then the storm would finally go inland northwest of Ocala.
The storm currently has top sustained winds of 120 mph (193 kph) and is moving northward at about 6 mph (10 kph).
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More than 170,000 homes and businesses in Florida have lost power and the center of Irma is about 90 miles southeast of Key West.
Florida Power and Light said on its website that more than half of those outages were in the Miami-Dade area, where about 600,000 people have been ordered to evacuate.
The company has said it expects millions of people to lose power, with some areas experiences prolonged outages.
The company said it has assembled the largest pre-storm workforce in U.S. history, with more than 16,000 people ready to respond.
1:35 p.m.: Latest tri-county report is 227,050 outages in Palm Beach County, 488,650 in Broward and 726,610 in Miami-Dade. That’s roughly half the customers in Dade and Broward.
Miami Herald is offering free online coverage for the storm.
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as of just now, just about to make landfall near Naples, FL
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Knew a Ranger fellow at McDill that carried gobag, water rations, siphon pump, mini-gas generator and 13" gas chainsaw during the season. He was thinking debris, power poles and palm trees, not zombies or looters.
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170k? Make that 2.4 million and thank the Lord it didn't hit Miami dead-on. We probably owe Cuba a "thank you" card for taking a huge part of Irma's strength off.
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[Iran Press TV] The alcohol industry uses distortion, denial and distraction to mislead people about the risks of developing cancer from drinking alcoholic beverages, often employing similar tactics used by the tobacco industry to mislead smokers, according to a new study.
The alcohol industry often present the relationship between alcohol and cancer as highly complex, implying there is no clear evidence of a consistent link, said the study led by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.
Other strategies include denying any relationship exists, or saying inaccurately that there is no risk with moderate drinking, the study found. The industry also seeks to mention a wide range of other real and potential cancer risk factors in an effort to present alcohol as just one of many, it added.
The research team behind Thursday's study analyzed the information relating to cancer on the websites and documents of nearly 30 alcohol industry organizations around the world in 2016.
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No worries - in six months it'll be good for us again.
I'd say air and water but here in southern California that's not a safe bet either. You're probably better off with beer than Colorado River water.
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Like smoking, addictions/alcoholism is starting to cost the NHS too much money for treatment, or to levels that are unsustainable, so out come the negative studies.
Next stop, denial of services.
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Life: A sexually transmitted, terminal disease...
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Fact: Getting older cause cancer! We need to quit getting older!
[Al Jazeera] South Sudan's plan to hold elections next year risks "deepening and extending" an already devastating civil war, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... warned.
Haile Menkerios, the UN secretary-general's special envoy to the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about the elections planned for July 2018 during a joint meeting of the visiting UN Security Council and the African Union's Peace and Security Council.
South Sudan's election can only be held in a stable environment where "people are not displaced by violence and hunger and in which they are able to express their political views free from intimidation," the envoy said on Friday.
President Salva Kiir seeks an election that will be the first vote on his leadership since South Sudan won independence in 2011 from Sudan.
Presidential elections set for 2015 were delayed by civil war that began in late 2013.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday calling on the government to "rethink and reject Brexit".
A stream of protesters poured through Trafalgar Square and stopped to boo outside Prime Minister Theresa May’s Downing Street office before congregating at a rally outside parliament.
The self-styled People’s March for Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... comes ahead of a key vote in the House of Commons on Monday night.
"Help! We’re trapped on a small island that’s been taken over by mad people!" read one sign held aloft above a sea of blue EU flags.
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Help! We’re trapped on a small island that’s been taken over by mad people!" read one sign held aloft above a sea of blue EU flags.
Trapped. Come along now. I'm sure Merkel would take you.
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Democracy means obeying an faceless cabal in Brussels...
The article fingers supporters of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov as the intellectual author(s) of the attack. The other possibility is organized crime.
On 8 September at 18:08 a car blast rocked the area of Bessarabska Ploshcha in the center of Kyiv. Preliminarily, an unidentified explosive device was planted in the Black Toyota Camry with a Georgian registration plate.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs Artem Shevchenko has reported that Timur Makhauri, a national of Georgia, died in the accident. Two more passengers were in the car, a woman was brought in hospital, a child survived, according to Shevchenko. More information of the dear departed at the link
The site with the story is a pro Putin website. Nice folks, but they know where the money comes from
Over 4,000 outdated Soviet-made tanks and other armored fighting vehicles will be scrapped by 2020, Chief of the Main Armored Directorate of the Russian Defence Ministry Lt. Gen. Alexander Shevchenko said.
"Initially, when the program was drafted, it was planned that about 10,000 Soviet-made armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) stored in warehouses <…> will be scrapped," Shevchenko said.
"However, in line with changes in the international situation, the increase in combat skills of servicemen of the Russian armed forces, growing patriotism of Russian citizens and the appearance of new technical and technological solutions for deep upgrade allowing to turn outdated equipment into modern one, we had to review our plans," the official added.
"At present, the number of armored fighting vehicles to be scrapped in line with the program until 2020 stands at about 4,000 such vehicles."
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a massive celebration to congratulate his nuclear scientists and technicians who steered the country’s sixth and largest nuclear test a week ago, its official news agency said on Sunday.
The United States and its allies had been bracing for another long-range missile launch in time for the 69th anniversary of North Korea’s founding on Saturday, but no fresh provocations were spotted while the North held numerous events to mark the holiday.
Throughout last week, South Korean officials had warned the North could launch another intercontinental ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. sanctions and amid an escalating standoff with the United States.
Washington told the U.N. Security Council on Friday to call a meeting on Monday to vote on a draft resolution establishing additional sanctions on North Korea for its missile and nuclear program.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said it was vital to put pressure on North Korea through additional sanctions, including blocking or slowing its fuel supplies.
[Iran Press TV] UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has voiced deep worries over the situation with North Korea, stressing that it is the world’s worst crisis in "years."
"To date, we have had wars which have been initiated after a well thought-out decision," said Guterres in an interview published by the French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
"But we also know that other conflicts have started through an escalation caused by sleepwalking...We have to hope that the seriousness of this threat puts us on the path of reason before it is too late," he added.
He went on to stress that North Korea must halt is nuclear and ballistic missile tests and start adhering to United Nation Security Council resolutions.
"We must also maintain the unity of the Security Council at all costs, because it is the only tool which can carry out a diplomatic initiative with a chance of success," he added.
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[AnNahar] A 49-year-old German woman is standing trial in a Ottoman Turkish court accused of having links to the alleged criminal mastermind of last year's failed coup, German media reported Friday.
The accused, who has not been named, faces several years in jail if found guilty of belonging to the movement of US-based holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , which has been branded a terror organization by Ankara, the reports said.
At the trial in the southern city of Karaman, prosecutors accused her not only of membership of the group, which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... calls FETO, but said she led one of its local women's organizations.
Gulen, an Islamic preacher who lives in exile in the US state of Pennsylvania, denies any link to the botched putsch in July 2016.
The prosecutors said they have electronic proof of the woman's alleged actions against the Ottoman Turkish state that were uncovered during raids at her apartment in Turkey.
The Ottoman Turkish-born woman, who became a German national about 15 years ago, was tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in August 2016, becoming the first German citizen to be detained after the attempted overthrow of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... She was granted conditional release in September but not allowed to leave Turkey.
But her case is far lower in profile than that of Deniz Yucel, a correspondent for the Die Welt daily newspaper, whose arrest in February on terror charges sparked outrage in Germany.
German journalist Mesale Tolu has been held on similar charges since May, while human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activist Peter Steudtner was arrested in a July raid.
At least 10 Germans are currently detained in Turkey for political reasons, according to the German foreign ministry.
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[DW] The Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry cautioned its citizens to take care in Germany during the election cycle. The travel advisory comes amid a worsening of diplomatic relations between the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... allies.
The Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a travel advisory for Germany on Saturday, warning Turks of an upswing in anti-Ottoman Turkish sentiment ahead of the German national election later this month.
In July Germany cautioned its citizens about travelling to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... after a series of arrests involving German nationals, but the German Foreign Ministry stopped short of an outright travel warning.
"The politicianship campaigns in Germany are based on anti-Turkey sentiment and preventing our country's EU membership. The political atmosphere... has actually been under the effects of far-right and even racist rhetoric for some time," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
"Ottoman Turkish citizens who live in, or who plan to travel to, Germany should be cautious and act prudently in cases of possible incidents, behaviour or verbal assaults of xenophobia and racism."
Turkey has accused Germany of assisting snuffies by not responding to files sent to Berlin and failing to hand over suspects wanted by Ottoman Turkish authorities.
'Terrorists walk the streets'
In its travel advisory, Turkey told its citizens that Germany welcomes terrorist groups, such as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the network of the US-based Islamic holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... Terrorists "walk freely on the streets" of Germany, the ministry alleged. It warned that Ottoman Turkish citizens were being ill treated at German airports and that racist arsonists had lit fires in Ottoman Turkish-populated areas.
Following the failed coup last summer, the deteriorating rule of law in Turkey has prompted Germany to call for an end to Ankara's bid to enter the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ,although EU foreign ministers shrugged off the idea at a meeting on Friday, instead stressing the need for dialogue.
About 3 million people of Ottoman Turkish origin live in Germany.
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[IsraelTimes] Initiative launched after study found Arab boys nearly 60% more likely to be victims than their female counterparts.
In November 2016, researchers at Haifa University published a startling finding: Arab boys in Israel were much more likely to be sexually abused than either their female counterparts, or Jewish boys and girls.
Nearly 30% of Arab boys in Israel surveyed said they’d been victims of sexual assault. That’s in comparison to 17-18% of Arab girls, or Jewish boys and girls, who reported being sexually assaulted.
Chen Avidar, 32, a Jewish Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University studying to become a therapist, took notice of this phenomenon and two months ago opened the first-ever sexual assault hotline for Arab men in Arabic.
The new hotline, which is part of the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center, is meant to serve both Arab Israelis and Paleostinians.
Eran Han, the manager of the center, said the decision to provide services to Paleostinians was made "the moment we decided to be accessible to Arab men" in Israel. Advertisements for the hotline have a specific number for Paleostinians to use, because the regular number for the hotline is only usable in Israel. Han added that in the past the center had given aid to Arab men, but only in Hebrew.
Paleostinian women already have sexual abuse hotlines in Jerusalem and Ramallah. There also two 24/7 hotlines for female Arab victims of sexual assault in Israel in Arabic and nine different hotlines for women in Hebrew.
The Haifa University study that discovered the high rate of sexual abuse suffered by Arab boys said it was the largest survey of its kind ever. The study was based on data collected from 12,035 Jewish and Arab students, in 6th, 8th and 10th grade. The study found that Arab children reported higher maltreatment than their Jewish counterparts in all categories tested for ‐ including physical, sexual, verbal and emotional abuse.
The study also found that Arab boys reported higher levels of abuse than Arab girls in all categories tested for, except for exposure to domestic violence.
Explanations for the higher rate of abuse among Arabs in general, the report said, include different "culture-specific parenting styles practiced in minority cultures," as well as the fact that the Arab community in Israel, compared with the Jewish majority, is characterized by higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Another explanation given is that Arab Israelis generally live in rural areas, where they have less access to social and welfare services.
As to why Arab boys are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse, the study does not provide any explanations, but Avidar said during his research he has managed to come up with a few.
Arab boys are far less supervised than Arab girls, he said, and this leaves them "more exposed to perpetrators outside of the family context."
He added that potential victimizers understand there are higher consequences for abusing girls, including possible pregnancy and the initiation of a blood feud between families. There is also the fact that when girls are sexually abused, it leaves the evidence of a broken hymen. Girls are also more afraid of being blamed for their victimhood, he said, so it’s likely they report sexual abuse less.
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They carefully list every common social factor for the victimization but nothing about perpetration. Perhaps, "because that's the way they are" is too descriptive.
[Reuters Beirut] A rocket-bearing Iranian military vessel confronted an American battleship in the Gulf and warned it to stay away from a damaged Iranian fishing boat, the Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
The American battleship turned away after the warning from the Iranian vessel, which belonged to the naval branch of the Iranian army, according to Tasnim.
The Iranian military vessel then towed the fishing boat, which had sent out a distress signal after taking on water, back to shore.
The site did not specify when the incident, which happened close to the strategic Straight of Hormuz, took place.
Tensions have been on the rise between the Iranian and U.S. military in the Gulf in recent months.
In early August, an unarmed Iranian drone came within 100 feet (31 meters) of a U.S. Navy warplane as it prepared to land on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf, a U.S. official said at the time.
And in late July, a U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots when an Iranian vessel in the Gulf came within 150 yards (137 meters) in the first such incident since President Donald Trump took office in January, U.S. officials said.
Years of mutual animosity had eased when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran last year as part of a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But serious differences remain over Iran’s ballistic missile program and conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
The Trump administration, which has taken a hard line on Iran, recently declared that Iran was complying with its nuclear agreement with world powers, but warned that Tehran was not following the spirit of the accord and that Washington would look for ways to strengthen it.
During the presidential campaign last September, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessels that harass the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be "shot out of the water."
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It looks to me like we were going to the rescue, then the Iranian ship said "no thanks we'll take care of it", and the Iranian news agency took it from there.
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The same fake news media that think that every firearm is an "assault rifle" are probably the same ones who think that every US military vessel afloat is a "battleship."
Intellectual poverty paving the way toward contempt-worthy irrelevance.
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.
[Iran Press TV] The alcohol industry uses distortion, denial and distraction to mislead people about the risks of developing cancer from drinking alcoholic beverages, often employing similar tactics used by the tobacco industry to mislead smokers, according to a new study.
North Korea
[Reuters Beirut] A rocket-bearing Iranian military vessel confronted an American battleship in the Gulf and warned it to stay away from a damaged Iranian fishing boat, the Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
