[People] A 28-year-old middle school teacher in Georgia was found dead earlier this week amid an investigation into his allegedly "inappropriate" relationship with one of his students, PEOPLE confirms.
Zachary Meadors’ body was discovered slumped over in a vehicle along a Lawrenceville highway on Wednesday night, police say. It appears he shot himself, according to authorities.
Meadors was a sixth-grade English teacher at Freedom Middle School in Stone Mountain where he had taught for two years, according to local TV station WSB. He’d been on leave without pay since Friday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
He was last seen alive on Saturday and was reported missing by his family on Monday.
They told police that he was being investigated over alleged impropriety with one of his students, according to an incident report obtained by PEOPLE, but the allegation was not further described.
WSB reports that he was being sought on charges of child molestation, computer pornography and child exploitation. His suspected victim is a 12-year-old boy, according to the station.
[National Review] The Justice Department has launched an investigation into child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania, according to reports Thursday.
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed at least three dioceses in the state for documents on sexual-abuse cases and testimony from Church leaders.
A grand-jury report in August described allegations of child sexual abuse by 301 priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses affecting more than 1,000 children over the last 70 years. The state’s statute of limitations prevented all but two priests mentioned in the report from being charged with a crime.
Bishops and other Church leaders followed a "playbook for concealing the truth," pressuring victims not to report the abuse and convincing law enforcement not to investigate, the report found.
probably organized at the Whole Foods store on Alpine Ave up the road from the Univ of Colo at boulder
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We warned the manager of a complex we lived in that one of the kids had chickenpox. She told us not to worry--she'd been taken to several of those when young, and climbed all over her sick little brother--she was immune.
She wasn't. Adults get it harder.
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[Mail] Measles is a highly contagious infection caused by the measles virus.
When someone with measles coughs, sneezes or talks, infected droplets are sprayed into the air, where other people can inhale them and are then infected.
Symptoms present themselves between 10 to 14 days after infection and include fever, cough, runny nose, and a total-body skin rash.
Once common, the disease is now rare due to the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends children receive the first dose at 12 to 15 months old and the second dose at four to six years old.
Before the measles vaccine was available, more than 500,000 cases were diagnosed in the US every year, with about 500 annual deaths.
According to the CDC, as of September 8, 2018, 137 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 24 states and Washington, DC.
Five of Rockland's 11 confirmed cases came from people who brought the virus in from out of the country.
Rockland County spokesman John Lyon said three of the measles carriers were from the area traveling together in Israel, one was from the area traveling alone in Israel, and was from Israel traveling alone.
The other six patients have secondary cases, meaning they became sick after being exposed to one of the primary patients.
According to Israel's Ministry of Health, the country is facing a measles outbreak with at least 623 Israelis contracting the virus this year.
[DW] As Brexit approaches, figures show that Germans who made Britain their home are increasingly applying for repatriation. The majority are the families of those who fled because they were persecuted by the Nazi regime.
An increasing number of people living in the UK have applied for repatriation to Germany since the June 2016 referendum result for Britain to leave the EU, according to government figures.
Individuals who were persecuted by the Nazis and their descendants made up the majority of those applying, a report on Friday said.
Of the 3,731 applications since 2016, 3,408 referred to the German Constitution's Article 116. Under the article, former German citizens who were deprived of citizenship on "political, racial, or religious grounds" ‐ and their descendants ‐ are entitled to have citizenship restored.
Read more: Will Brits say 'au revoir' to French dream post-Brexit?
Tens of thousands of Jews fled Germany for the UK before and during World War II. They included some 10,000 children who were evacuated as part of the so-called "Kindertransport" between December 1938 and August 1939, most of whom never saw their families again.
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Does this mean they will settle in Germany or that their second passport will give them freedom of movement in the EU after Brexit is finally consummated?
Whichever it ends up being, I wish them joy of it, but suspect it won’t make them happy.
[PULSE.NG] Ecuador expelled Venezuela's ambassador Carol Delgado on Thursday over "offensive" comments against President Lenin Moreno by a Venezuelan government minister, the foreign ministry said.
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[DW] More ceasefire violations have been reported in eastern Ukraine, with four soldiers killed in a fight with rebels. The latest truce deal between Ukraine and pro-Russia separatists had only been agreed a day earlier.
Four Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and seven have been wounded in a battle against pro-Russian separatists who were trying to take over observation posts on a Luhansk highway in eastern Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Dmytro Gutsulyak said Thursday.
Another soldier was killed in artillery fire elsewhere in the conflict zone, he added.
"The Russians ... are trying to attack the positions of our troops, violating the ceasefire," said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, adding that the soldiers were attacked with high-caliber artillery.
[Al Jazeera] Security forces in the Comoros have intensified their crackdown against anti-government protesters on the island of Anjouan, with witnesses reporting heavy gunfire and residents fleeing amid a wave of unrest against constitutional changes.
President Azali Assoumani on Thursday sent in reinforcements to quell a nascent uprising on the opposition stronghold as festivities continued for a fourth day between security forces and armed protesters.
Residents of the island are angry at Assoumani's plans to extend term limits and end rotation of the presidency between the country's three main islands after one term, a move that disadvantages Anjouan which was next in line.
An official at Anjoun's airport told the AFP news agency a significant contingent of security forces arrived on the island to quell unrest there.
Residents said the old medina quarter of Anjouan's capital Mutsumudu, with its narrow, intersecting alleyways, has become the epicentre of the fighting.
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[DAWN] Pakistain slipped by one position in the Global Competitiveness Index 2018 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday as compared to last year, ranking 107 out of 140 countries, with a score of 4.0.
With an overall ranking of 107 out of 140 countries, Pakistain was at 109 for institutions; 93 for infrastructure; 127 for ICT adoption; 103 for macroeconomic stability; 109 for health; 125 for skills; 122 for product market; 121 for labour market; 89 for financial system; 31 for market size; 56 for business dynamism; and 75 for innovation capacity. In 2017, Pakistain ranked 106 out of 135 countries.
GDP per capita stands at $1,541.1; 10-year average annual GDP growth at 3.6 per cent; five-year average FDI inward flow as percentage of GDP at 0.7 per cent.
In the area of the freedom of press, the country’s score was worst with ranking of 112. The judicial independence which is considered 1‐7 as the best, Pakistain ranked 70, while in budget transparency the score was 77.
In respect of terrorism incidence, Pakistain was further close towards the bottom. In the area of train efficiency, where the best index is 1-7, Pakistain was placed at 52, whereas in airport connectivity, the country was placed at 41.
The United States tops the 2018 rankings, confirming its status of most competitive economy in the world, according to the WEF. Overall, the United States scored an average of 85.6 points when the nearly 100 indicators were measured on a scale of 0 to 100.
That is still a far cry from what WEF considers the optimal conditions for a competitive economy, but well above the global average of 60 points. WEF hailed the US for its business dynamism and vibrant entrepreneurial culture, its flexible labour markets, the depth, breadth and relative stability of its financial system and its market size.
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[DAWN] Hindu hardliners blocked intersections, threatened drivers and ordered a 12-hour strike on Thursday as they stepped up their campaign to bar women from one of India's holiest temples.
The Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in the southern state of Kerala was meant to allow women from Wednesday following an order last month by India's highest court.
But hundreds of traditionalists, throwing stones at baton-wielding police, defied the order ‐ surrounding and shouting at any woman attempting to make it to the hilltop site.
Angry young men also surrounded and smashed the car windows of female television news hounds and threatened others, including an AFP news hound. Another female correspondent was kicked.
Overnight local Hindu groups declared a 12-hour shutdown of local businesses, telling drivers that their vehicles would be attacked if they took anyone towards the temple.
"Some men came to the parking lot early Thursday and warned taxi drivers against defying the shutdown call," taxi driver Praveen, in the town of Pathanamthitta, told AFP.
"They warned drivers at several nearby parking lots and hotels. Anyone who defies it will be risking damage to his vehicle," he added in an account corroborated by other drivers.
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Amritsar. Ramlila. High drama,
All wonder and fireworks... and trauma.
A ravenous demon,
Its eyes unseen, gleamin',
Brings thunder and darkness. Hey Rama!
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I hold no brief for Hinduism, but under what authority exactly does their Supreme Court get to overrule the gods?
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Said the Lord, of these jurists' resistance
To the fists of His Hindoo assistants,
"Your taking up space
Makes a heckuva case
In my mind, so I find for existence!"
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Thursday disqualified a member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, belonging to Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz, after finding him guilty of possessing a bogus degree.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar heard the case pertaining to the fake degree of PML-N’s Ziaur Rehman.
During the course of proceedings, Justice Nisar asked Rehman about his qualification, to which the PML-N leader said that he had studied Hadith and Fiqah from a seminary.
Upon this the chief justice asked Rehman to recite any five Hadith in Arabic, however, the PML-N leader could not recite a single Hadith.
"How can you complete matric and a religious course from seminary in the same year?" questioned Justice Nisar.
"Moreover, the head of the seminary has informed the apex court that you never completed any course from there," the chief justice told Rehman
Subsequently, the bench observed that the degree of Rehman was fake and he was not liable to remain a member of the provincial assembly.
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[DAWN] An Anti-terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad on Thursday sent the owner and producer of a web channel on judicial remand to Adiala Jail in a case pertaining to running alleged anti-judiciary content on their channel.
Hans Masroor, the owner of a web channel Naya Pakistain, and the producer of the channel Ahsan Saleem were both tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by Islamabad police and presented before the court.
This decision was taken in reference to an FIR lodged against former senator Faisal Raza Abidi in the Secretariat cop shoppe, accusing him of using "highly insulting and inappropriate language" against the chief justice and the judiciary in an interview.
This FIR also accuses him of "undermining the honour of the chief justice [and] inciting the public".
The FIR, which was registered under Section 7 of the ATA and includes different sections of the Pakistain Penal Code, does not specify the programme it is referring to.
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[Mail] Scientists have developed what could turn out to be the most lifelike robotic prosthetic hand yet.
The technology, developed by researchers from Cornell University, takes a page from the machinery used in a car to give the robotic arm dexterity that's comparable to a human.
And to demonstrate this, the hand was able to nimbly catch a can of beer and even crush it with remarkable strength.
[FOX] The Army has successfully fired a 155mm artillery round 62 kilometers (38.5 miles) - marking a technical breakthrough in the realm of land-based weapons and progressing toward its stated goal of being able to outrange and outgun Russian and Chinese weapons.
"We just doubled the range of our artillery at Yuma Proving Ground," Gen. John Murray, Commanding General of Army Futures Command, told reporters at the recent Association of the United States Army Annual Symposium.
Currently, most land-fired artillery shot from an M777 Towed Howitzer or Self-Propelled Howitzer are able to pinpoint targets out to 30km (18.6 miles) - so hitting 62km marks a substantial leap forward in offensive attack capability.
Murray was clear that the intent of the effort, described as Extended Range Cannon Artillery, is specifically aimed at regaining tactical overmatch against Russian and Chinese weapons.
"The Russian and Chinese have been able to outrange most of our systems," Murray said.
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Double the range and now you have an area twice as large in which you have aquire the target. At what point will we see a return to large caliber howitzer and field cannon. At least in units that can be stationed father back. Or it what point will the Navy's work on electromagnetic coil guns bleed over into the Army's equipment. On top of that the Crusader Programs work on liquid propellants may come into play. Of course the bigger the gun, the slower the rate of fire etc.
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
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[People] A 28-year-old middle school teacher in Georgia was found dead earlier this week amid an investigation into his allegedly "inappropriate" relationship with one of his students, PEOPLE confirms.
[National Review] The Justice Department has launched an investigation into child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania, according to reports Thursday.
[DAWN] Hindu hardliners blocked intersections, threatened drivers and ordered a 12-hour strike on Thursday as they stepped up their campaign to bar women from one of India's holiest temples.
