#BreakingNews The first pad-abort test conducted by @isro from Sriharikota as part of its future manned space mission is successful. Sources say currently data is being looked at & prima facie all test conditions were met. Await for confirmation.@OnmanoramaLive@akananthpic.twitter.com/T4QSfFfy4R
[PRESSTV] A heatwave in Quebec has killed at least 17 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said Wednesday.
Twelve of the dead were reported in the eastern province's capital Montreal, said regional public health director Mylene Drouin.
The Tribune newspaper said five of the deaths occurred in the past 48 hours in the Eastern Townships, a rural area just east of the city.
"My thoughts are with the loved ones of those who have died in Quebec during this heat wave," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter.
"The record temperatures are expected to continue in central and eastern Canada, so make sure you know how to protect yourself and your family," Trudeau said.
Drouin said the victims were part of "the very vulnerable population, the elderly or people suffering from chronic or mental illnesses."
Temperatures soared to 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) with a humidity that made it feel closer to 40 degrees, the meteorological service said.
The mercury has regularly topped 30 degrees since Friday in southern Quebec, accompanied by stifling humidity levels.
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When I was a kid back in 1950 we lived 16 miles outside of Memphis , Tennessee, in Shelby County right on Highway 51 and this was before Air Conditioning and TV were common. You could buy an electric fan, they were made out of metal in those days and not out of plastic. It was a few years after the War and Korea was the thing then. A while back.
And 93 was not considered a heatwave. 106*F was considered normal for Summer, hard to deal with, true, but it was Normal.
Stay indoors drink some Lemonade and eat some watermelon. Life was just like that. Deal with it. Buy a plastic pool for the kids ( like we did ) and turn on the garden hose.
And of course Canada is hardly Sudan. Trudeau sounds like a p8ssy. "Heat wave"..ha ha ha ahha ha ha.
"...All the deaths struck those most vulnerable during heat waves: People with underlying conditions such as mental illness or heart and lung disease. All of the victims were in apartments without air conditioning, and most lived alone...."
This is similar to the great heat wave in Chicago back in 1995 in which most of the 700+ fatalities were elderly persons who not only didn't have a/c but also would not open their windows because they were afraid of crime.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-death-toll-due-to-heat-wave-rises-in-quebec/
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"...All the deaths struck those most vulnerable during heat waves: People with underlying conditions such as mental illness or heart and lung disease. All of the victims were in apartments without air conditioning, and most lived alone...."
Why does Trudeau hate the mentally ill and elderly? Why does he equate mental illness with the elderly.
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This is not a new thing, indeed. Back in 1974 or so, it got up to all the way to 82°F in Buffalo, New York for several days – – as I recall, three elderly people died. Nobody had air-conditioning in Buffalo then, because the normal summer daytime temperature in Buffalo was and is 78F. I can only imagine how many would have died had the temperature a tually gone up to 93F, though that is the perfectly acceptable
current temperature here in Cincinnati.
The fact of the matter is, when summer temperatures are significantly higher than normal -- however laughable cool someone from elsewhere might consider that temperature to be -- those who are not robust are more likely not to remember to do, or cannot afford to do, the things necessary to keep from overheating... and therefore die.
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Based on my experience with the elderly, many seem to have a profound lack of awareness that they are getting overheated. Without this awareness, they will then neglect to do the obvious, like get out of the sun, open a window, turn on a fan, seek a cooler environment, etc., even when they have all those opportunities ready at hand.
I remember growing up back in the 50s also. People over the age of 70 were rare, compared to modern times.
[Daily Caller] A federal judge rejected prosecutors’ request Tuesday to reconsider her dismissal of the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and friend Ryan Payne.
U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro dismissed conspiracy charges against the four men on Jan. 8 after finding that prosecutors had acted "with prejudice" throughout the trial, The Oregonian reported. Federal prosecutors violated federal law and failed to share evidence favorable to the defendants case with the court. (RELATED: Bundy Case Dismissed, Judge Orders Rancher Released)
"The Court’s finding of outrageous government conduct was not in error," Navarro wrote in her 11-page ruling, obtained by The Oregonian. "On the contrary, a universal sense of justice was violated by the Government’s failure to provide evidence that is potentially exculpatory."
The prosecutors’ request did not make any new arguments or bring forth any evidence that Navarro had not already considered in her decision to dismiss the case.
"The Court gave somber consideration to the ramifications of its Order and found that it was in the interest of justice to dismiss the case with prejudice," Navarro wrote. "A motion for reconsideration should not be ’used to ask the Court to rethink what it has already thought.'"
Prosecutors requested the court grant another trial against the Bundys and Payne, calling the missteps and violations throughout the trial "inadvertent."
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"Inadvertent" my ass. This was classic Obama "Justice" department under the criminal Holder. Too bad she cannot fine the bastards and throw them in jail for the travesty they inflicted on the defendants and the public.
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>dismiss the case with prejudice
Sounds like action against the prosecutor should be taken.
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A prosecutor gets busted withholding exculpatory evidence. His penalty is... a sympathy card from the local bar association. Better luck next time, guy.
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#1 This was classic Obama "Justice" department under the criminal Holder.
And the recent Awan whitewash proves that DOJ is still full of bad apples, all the way up to Rosenstein. This is the actual reason for the Mueller witch hunt; it prevents Trump & Sessions from taking out the trash. Ultimately Trump will have to fire Mueller/Rosenstein and the rest or be saddled with this albatross for the rest of his term(s).
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Judge Navarro was an Obama appointee. She was appointee upon the recommendation of Sen. Harry Reid aftet a one hour telephone interview. January 8th trial decision.
[PRESSTV] UNICEF says button men have attacked a convoy of humanitarian trucks belonging to a contractor of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Children's Fund in South Sudan, killing one person.
The attack was carried out near the town of Mangalla, north of the capital Juba, on Wednesday, UNICEF said in a statement.
"We have received reports that two trucks belonging to a UNICEF contractor were assaulted by gunnies," the agency said, adding that an assistant driver was killed in the assault.
The UN agency said it was still trying to verify the name and nationality of the victim.
UNICEF also denounced "this senseless attack directed against unarmed civilians working to deliver humanitarian supplies to those in need."
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[PRESSTV] Only after one week that Saudi Arabia lifted a decades-long ban on women driving, a woman living in the holy city of Mecca has lodged a complaint with the authorities over an incident involving an arson attack on her car.
Local media said Wednesday that Salma al-Sherif’s car had been torched deliberately this week by men “opposed to women drivers.”
Saudi women were allowed to take the wheel for the first time in decades.
The government in Riyadh promoted the decision as a step toward opening up the Saudi society.
However, critics say the removal of the ban, which came as part of a modernization drive by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was more of a publicity stunt for the controversial son of the current king, who seeks accession to the throne at a very young age.
Some hardliners in Saudi Arabia have also criticized the move, saying it could promote gender mixing and promiscuity in Saudi Arabia, a main bastion of Islam.
Saudi authorities have yet to clarify how many driving licenses they have issued for women since the ban was lifted on June 24. Reports suggest that most of the women currently on the roads seem to be those who have swapped foreign licenses for Saudi ones.
Sherif, the car owner in Mecca, said she began driving right after the ban was lifted in a bid to ease the financial pressure of having a driver. However, the 31-year-old said she faced abuse from men in her neighborhood as she traveled to her workplace or drove her elderly parents. “.... from the first day of driving I was subjected to insults from men.”
Mecca police said in a statement that it was investigating who set the car ablaze. “We are searching for the culprits,” read the statement that came late Tuesday.
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Mecca police said in a statement that it was investigating who set the car ablaze. “We are searching for the culprits,” read the statement that came late Tuesday.
...while O.J. Simpson continues his search for the 'real killers'. Maybe they should exchange notes or something!
[IsraelTimes] The country’s chief counterterrorism police officer said tests at Britannia’s defense laboratory had confirmed what many residents feared ‐ a man and woman in their 40s had been poisoned with the same toxin that almost killed a former Russian spy and his daughter.
"We can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, which has been identified as the same nerve agent that contaminated both Yulia and Sergei Skripal," said Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu of London’s Metropolitan Police.
Local police declared the case a "major incident" Wednesday, four days after the man and woman were found collapsed at a residential building in Amesbury, eight miles (13 kilometers) from Salisbury, where the Skripals were poisoned.
Basu said it was not clear whether there was a link between the two cases, and whether the nerve agent came from the same batch that left the Skripals fighting for their lives.
"The possibility that these two investigations might be linked is clearly a line of enquiry for us," he said, amid speculation that the victims could have been sickened by residue from the poison used on the Skripals.
Basu said it was unclear whether the two were targeted, but there was "nothing in their background to suggest that at all."
Police said officers were initially called Saturday morning about a collapsed woman, then were summoned back in the evening after a man fell ill at the same property. Police at first thought the two, identified by friends as 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess and 45-year-old Charlie Rowley, had taken a contaminated batch of heroin or crack.
Initially, the investigation was led by local police, but Basu said counterterrorism detectives were taking charge after the substance was identified as Novichok. He said 100 officers had been assigned to the case.
Sam Hobson, a friend of the couple, said he was with them on Saturday, when Sturgess fell ill first. He told Sky News she was "having a fit, foam coming out of her mouth." Rowley collapsed later the same day.
"He was sweating loads, dribbling. ... He was rocking backwards and forwards," Hobson said. "There was no response from him. He didn’t even know I was there."
Police cordoned off a home in Amesbury, believed to be Rowley’s, and other places the pair visited, including a church, a pharmacy and a park in Salisbury, near where the Skripals were found.
h/t Instapundit
Women hold nearly two-thirds of all student debt in the US, according to a report from the American Association of University Women, a group that advocates for equity and education for women and girls.
Part of the reason is that more women go to college. They represented 56% of students enrolled in the fall of 2016.
But that doesn't explain the whole gender gap.
More women take out loans, and when they do, they borrow more money. The average woman owes $2,740 more than a man upon finishing a bachelor's degree, the report said.
Women are also repaying their debt more slowly, which can mean they're paying more in interest over time.
Core courses: basic cost. Composition, Math, Logic. US History. World History. US Government (The Constitution).
Courses needed in the economy as determined by Dept of Labor Statistics: Free or low cost. Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Medicine.
Other courses: price increased to subsidize the economically needed courses.
Example: if your basic Freshman Comp class is $2000, then the Registered Nurse classes should be $500, and that Womens Studies class should pick up the slack and be $3500. We need Nurses a lot more than we need another feminist with no discernable viable job skills.
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I was thinking more that colleges have to package each courses debt up and sell it.
Then the market would do the economic calculation.
Subsidies always increase supply above market demands but at lower quality so I wouldn't make courses free.
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If Woman's Studies is 3500 the PreLaw should be 350,000. I've long felt that with med schools the government should offer to cover the costs of school provided the graduate serves X # of years working at hospitals/clinics that are serving the poor and indigent. We do it with the military
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...Pressure is slowly building for either a bailout or forgiveness of the student loan disaster. Since we're talking about a trillion and a half dollars - serious money even by Washington standards, a forgiveness ain't happening and it's unlikely we'll see any real changes to keep people from digging themselves in that deep - so look for whoever runs for the Dems in 2020 to pick this up and run with it.*
Mike
*Still truly amazed that Hilary! never touched this issue. If she'd have gone for it, she'd be swigging martinis in the Oval Office now.
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If you think a black man will vote for a white woman who offers to eliminate student debt to benefit white women, think again.
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Federal government should start cutting the amount they give out in student loans in the first place. It was easy access to student loans that encouraged universities to raise costs and started this debt cycle in the first place.
[DAWN] GUJRANWALA: Police on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly raping a minor girl in Eimanabad.
A case was registered against the suspect at Eimanabad police station.
A five-year-old girl went to a shop to buy sweets where the shopkeeper allegedly lured her inside and raped her. Locals gathered outside the shop when they heard the girl’s cries and handed over the suspect to police.
Scores of people, including students, teachers and activists of religious parties, protested and shouted slogans against the police and government over increasing incidents of child abuse. They demanded the alleged rapist be hanged in public.
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[DAWN] Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was formally charged on Wednesday with corruption linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat less than two months ago.
The first ex-premier in Malaysia to appear before a judge, Najib pleaded not guilty to three counts of criminal breach of trust and a separate charge that he abused his position to pocket 42 million ringgit.
Each charge could see him jailed for up to 20 years.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced that, consistent with his November 2017 memorandum prohibiting the Department from making rules without following the procedures required by Congress, he is rescinding 24 guidance documents that were unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.
"The American people deserve to have their voices heard and a government that is accountable to them. When issuing regulations, federal agencies must abide by constitutional principles and follow the rules set forth by Congress and the President. In previous administrations, however, agencies often tried to impose new rules on the American people without any public notice or comment period, simply by sending a letter or posting a guidance document on a website. That’s wrong, and it’s not good government.
"In the Trump administration, we are restoring the rule of law. That’s why in November I banned this practice at the Department and we began rescinding guidance documents that were issued improperly or that were simply inconsistent with current law.
"Today we are rescinding 24 more and continuing to put an end to unnecessary or improper rulemaking."
I think he's alive. I've wondered since his appointment about the "functioning" part. Maybe when indictments are unsealed, I'll be surprised. There is not much encouragement from the recent Awan wrist slap deal.
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.
[PRESSTV] Only after one week that Saudi Arabia lifted a decades-long ban on women driving, a woman living in the holy city of Mecca has lodged a complaint with the authorities over an incident involving an arson attack on her car.
[DAWN] Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was formally charged on Wednesday with corruption linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat less than two months ago.
