Who’s that with Pope Francis? The seven kinds of people you meet in a papal entourage.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WpioVLDLhCxL_F4u-u8asGQVQPSYK80YqDQ7PL-W6qylOVTUJUYanYWbUMIM2gsZ8DnyXggoLTa9pPTFU0GdBI9wMgANwZrGD3VoIrkFNpgYMx6TRXQrbgPlF4mUVIDJR0l0NFkSn6w8/s1600/hhhj.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WpioVLDLhCxL_F4u-u8asGQVQPSYK80YqDQ7PL-W6qylOVTUJUYanYWbUMIM2gsZ8DnyXggoLTa9pPTFU0GdBI9wMgANwZrGD3VoIrkFNpgYMx6TRXQrbgPlF4mUVIDJR0l0NFkSn6w8/s320/hhhj.jpg" /></a> Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. for a ‘new encounter’ Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. for a ‘new encounter’ Pope Francis has arrived. Rolling and temporary road closures have begun. Pope Francis has arrived. Rolling and temporary road cl… Pope Francis will fly American Airlines while in the U.S. Pope Francis will fly American Airlines while in the U.… Who’s that with Pope Francis? The seven kinds of people you meet in a papal entourage. Who’s that with Pope Francis? 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What if the pope’s Mass turns into mass chaos? A crowd … White House guest list for the pope irks some conservatives White House guest list for the pope irks some conservat… Music fit for a pope Music fit for a pope Get the Today's Headlines Newsletter E-mail address Add NOT NOW Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share via Email More Options Book mark article Read later list Saved to Reading List Style Who’s that with Pope Francis? The seven kinds of people you meet in a papal entourage. Resize Text Print Article Comments 1 By Dan Zak September 22 at 5:58 PM Who are all those folks getting off the plane with Pope Francis at Joint Base Andrews? Read on to learn. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The pope’s entourage is about 100 people, which makes it less of a flock and more of a herd. No, His Holiness is not trailed by a stylist and personal trainer, although there is a papal physician and a few attendants in charge of wardrobe. When you’re traveling as both a head of state and the leader of a 2 billion-member church, you need some helpers. The traveling papal entourage is a modern creation. No pope stayed overnight in the United States until John Paul II, in 1979. With six weeks’ notice, the Vatican requested 400 hotel rooms in Boston, but the whole city was booked. (A local hotelier reportedly advised them to try Providence, R.I.) Over time the entourage has shrunk, as Francis purged stowaway cardinals and other hangers-on, but the local, on-the-ground operations have gotten bigger and bigger, especially in the District. Here are the seven types of members of the papal entourage that’s boomeranging along the Eastern Seaboard this week: 1. Members of the papal household, including Sandro Mariotti, alternately called the pope’s valet, butler or assistant. This is the guy who makes sure the pope’s hands are always free. When someone gives something to Francis, Francis gives it to Mariotti, who’s also on umbrella duty and is in charge of making sure the papal suitcase is packed and unpacked. Also in this group: Vatican secretaries, the physician and papal household prefect “Gorgeous George,” a.k.a. Archbishop Georg Gänswein, whose Old Testament good looks landed him on the cover of Italian Vanity Fair a couple of years ago. [Pope Francis has arrived in the United States. Here’s what to expect.] 2. The masters of ceremonies. Led by Monsignor Guido Marini, this team coordinates the pope’s liturgical events: Masses, vespers, anything requiring props and public prayer. John Paul II liked colorful celebrations, while Benedict XVI preferred a sedate liturgy. Marini’s job is to thread papal preferences into the pageantry. “The Masses around the world with John Paul II were considered very colorful, and Benedict preferred a more sedate, liturgical style — Marini was able to accommodate that,” says Matthew Bunson, author of “The Pope Encyclopedia.” “Pope Francis has retained Guido Marini, and he has adjusted to Francis’s particular tastes” — simple and straightforward. Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. Play Video1:38 Pope Francis arrives at Joint Base Andrews and is greeted by President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha. (AP) 3. The Roman Curia. Heads of various departments in the Vatican administration will be along for the ride, such as the secretariat of state and administrators who serve as liaisons with jurisdictions on the pope’s itinerary. “He’ll be speaking with the U.N., so people at Secretariat of State’s office that deal with the U.N. will be there,” says the Very Rev. Mark Morozowich, who worked in the Vatican press office under John Paul II and is now interim provost of Catholic University. “He’ll be speaking with Congress, so people on the government relations desk will most likely be here.” 4. The security team, which is a combination of Vatican City police officers and the Pontifical Swiss Guard — which has defended the pope since 1506 — plus local counterparts (the Secret Service in this case). This visit’s security operation is one of the largest in U.S. history; the federal budget allots $4.5 million a year to handle “national special security events” like this one. Trivia: In 1979, the overtime wages alone for local law enforcement covering John Paul II’s 34-hour visit to the District cost nearly $1 million. “A colleague of mine went with [John Paul II] to Africa and talked about how at the end of the trip, the reporters were absolutely thrashed and he was pumped,” says Greg Erlandson, publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic publishing company. John Paul II “was a classic extrovert. He liked getting out of the Vatican and drawing energy from the people.” Francis is also a people person, so the tension in his entourage is always one of proximity and availability vs. safety and security. 5. The communications team. La Sala Stampa, or the Holy See Press Office, is led by the pope’s spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, and includes Vatican radio and TV services and the Vatican newspaper l’Osservatore Romano. There are several people who tweet for @Pontifex, but most remain in Rome. Also in this group: Monsignor Mark Miles, the American interpreter attached to the pope’s hip during the trip. Higher horsepower: An illustrated history of the popemobile VIEW GRAPHIC 6. “The Vat Pack,” a.k.a. the press corps, which numbers about 70 people. The press corps is kept at the back of the pope’s private plane, sometimes referred to as “Shepherd One” outside the pope’s entourage (whose members simply call it “the papal plane”). Francis & Co. flew on a commercial Alitalia jet to Havana and will fly an American Airlines jet out of Philadelphia. John Paul II and Benedict XVI enjoyed a customized first-class experience — with the front of the plane transformed by the carrier into a hotel-like room, complete with bed and desk — but Francis has insisted that he sit in a regular row in standard first class. “When we were flying around Latin America in July, he was sitting in the front row,” says Cindy Wooden, who is the Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service and has flown on the papal plane over two dozen times. “If you look down the aisle you can see his elbow covered in white, or his zucchetto” — the yarmulke-like cap atop his head. Before each flight, if possible, Francis walks the aisle and greets everyone. 7. One lucky Vatican staffer. Each time he travels out of Italy, Francis plucks one layman or laywoman from the Vatican to join his entourage. For this trip to Cuba and the United States, Francis invited Valentina Ambrosi, an artist in the Vatican’s mosaic studio, according to Catholic News Service.

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Checking homework: Ohio dad's ridicule of Common Core goes viral

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-_Y5ODd9MHPnG5v1MTbGvxoXC-xa48wJ166DPy8X_9yme9lZYiYsFcn-e9qm61oxyELos8MAJpbMsnVlDe1jCsxVqHPmd3tcGbGKDH80dG7hA8s4Yj9QUSiFFvLqwoUC0XZBu6DJEToB/s1600/Check211.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-_Y5ODd9MHPnG5v1MTbGvxoXC-xa48wJ166DPy8X_9yme9lZYiYsFcn-e9qm61oxyELos8MAJpbMsnVlDe1jCsxVqHPmd3tcGbGKDH80dG7hA8s4Yj9QUSiFFvLqwoUC0XZBu6DJEToB/s320/Check211.jpg" /></a> An Ohio dad frustrated with Common Core cut a check to voice his disapproval, and got more than his money's worth after posting a picture on his Facebook page. Exasperated with a math style that has bedeviled parents around the country, Doug Herrmann, of Painesville, made out a check to Milridge Elementary, filling out the "amount" line with a dizzying array of zeroes and x's in boxes. Although he told Fox8.com that he tore the check up and later seemed reluctant to lead the charge against Common Core, it was too late after the photo went viral. ADVERTISEMENT "I'm social media exhausted!" Herrmann wrote on his Facebook page after the image of the check was shared thousands of times. "I was just making a "funny" with the check. You want my real thoughts on Common Core...if you "have" to teach it, keep it in the classroom. Homework should be reading, writing, science, gym (I'm really good at gym) and art (I suck at art) but I can't help my kids with Common Core." "I'm social media exhausted! I was just making a "funny" with the check." - Doug Herrmann, Painesville, Oh., father The Common Core standards, first proposed a decade ago by a coalition of governors and school superintendents, are math and English benchmarks describing what students should know after completing each grade. Supporters insist that the standards are needed to ensure some uniformity across the nation, but critics say testing for national standards indirectly dictates curriculum, which they say undermines local control of education. More than 40 states initially signed on to Common Core, but several have repealed participation amid pressure from parents. Herrmann was not the first parent to be flummoxed by math techniques that bear little resemblance to old school arithmetic. One test question that garnered parental scorn asked, "Tell how to make 10 when adding 8+5." The student wrote, “You cannot make 10 with 8 + 5,” to which the teacher apparently replied in blue ink, “Yes you can. Take 2 from 5 and add it to 8 (8+2=10) Then add 3.” Glyn Wright, executive director of Eagle Forum, told FoxNews.com last year before school began that math was one of Common Core's weakest points. “The math standard focuses on investigative math, which has been shown to be a disaster,” Wright said. “With the new math standard in the Common Core, there are no longer absolute truths. So 3 times 4 can now equal 11 so long as a student can effectively explain how they reached that answer.” Stanford Prof. James Milgram, the only mathematician on the Common Core Validation Committee, refused to sign off on the math standards, calling the whole thing “in large measure a political document” during testimony he gave in May 2011 in which he advocated for Texas not to adopt the Common Core standards. “I had considerable influence on the mathematics standards in the document. However, as is often the case, there was input from many other sources -- including State Departments of Education -- that had to be incorporated into the standards,” he said during the testimony. Earlier this month, a federal judge rejected GOP presidential candidate and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s push to block federal officials from penalizing Louisiana if the state quits Common Core. Opponents, including Jindal, said the standards are developmentally inappropriate and part of federal efforts to nationalize education. The Louisiana governor once supported the standards, but changed his position as Common Core became more unpopular in the GOP. The Obama administration embraced the standards and encouraged states to use them. Last school year, Common Core-aligned standardized tests marched forward, going from paper-and-pencil to the computer to allow for questions to adapt in difficulty based on a student's answer. A new baseline of testing data was expected as a result. However, many states had technical issues with the electronic form that left them unable to complete the testing. Others saw an unprecedented spread of refusals. That means a new school year without complete testing data in many areas. The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Pennsylvania attorney general has law license suspended

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmlMZnSEgPjywzA_Ill4BRSw9ATFo9HDhVve__QuWewvIeP16BlBjV4GfemqMgHGzdW8DOHcH3bN98VVISyHMLM8gHCPqAjZaHIeRM3uWVdVulh_-xGJrq-yQ_M1XkPshNLOkED4BXycS/s1600/pennsylvaniaAG660internal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmlMZnSEgPjywzA_Ill4BRSw9ATFo9HDhVve__QuWewvIeP16BlBjV4GfemqMgHGzdW8DOHcH3bN98VVISyHMLM8gHCPqAjZaHIeRM3uWVdVulh_-xGJrq-yQ_M1XkPshNLOkED4BXycS/s320/pennsylvaniaAG660internal.jpg" /></a></div> HARRISBURG, Pa. – The state's highest court on Monday ordered the temporary suspension of Attorney General Kathleen Kane's law license, a step that could trigger a Senate vote to remove her as she faces criminal charges. The unanimous order by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's five justices also could prompt a legal challenge from the first-term Democrat, who is also the first woman to hold the position of Pennsylvania's top prosecutor. In the meantime, it creates an issue of leaving the state's top law enforcement official in charge of a 750-employee office and a $93 million budget but without the ability to act as a lawyer. ADVERTISEMENT In the order, the court said its action should not be construed as removing her from office. Kane's office said it was reviewing the decision and had no immediate comment. Her private lawyers made no immediate statement. The order comes barely a month after Montgomery County authorities arrested Kane on charges she leaked secret investigative information to a newspaper reporter and then lied about it under oath. She was charged with perjury, obstruction and other counts. Her lawyers have argued that suspending her license while she is contesting the allegations would circumvent explicit constitutional provisions for removing her from office and violate her right to due process of law. Kane has maintained she did nothing wrong. In the Senate, the potential for the court's action has prompted Senate lawyers to research a never-used constitutional provision that allows a two-thirds vote of senators to remove certain elected officials. In its Aug. 25 petition to the high court justices, the agency that investigates misconduct by Pennsylvania lawyers argued that Kane and one of her former defense attorneys admitted that she had authorized the release of information related to a 2009 grand jury investigation. That allegation is also central to the criminal case against her. However, Kane's current lawyers say she did not disclose grand jury material or information kept secret under state criminal records laws. Instead, they have argued, she only authorized the release of information "relating to a pattern of unjustifiable selective prosecution or nonprosecution" under her predecessors. Previous statements by her attorneys that she authorized the transcript's release were incorrect, her lawyers now contend. Following the filing of charges Aug. 6, Gov. Tom Wolf, a fellow Democrat, called on Kane to resign. Kane, whose term is up in 2017, has refused.

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FBI launches investigation into Malaysian state fund 1MDB - WSJ

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJFcrwCMvKGExjFLs4k0HiU17xt3bliPMyeYV2eIWyxiFBtFTjW3DTuyjnq_KxGGAB7udD25H4vklkp2GuYxoZ-j9qh7IcnNKj8D6LlA4YF7uzqimjJDpmNKlnklq-YuVoaVtNe6TUFXwl/s1600/jbjbj.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJFcrwCMvKGExjFLs4k0HiU17xt3bliPMyeYV2eIWyxiFBtFTjW3DTuyjnq_KxGGAB7udD25H4vklkp2GuYxoZ-j9qh7IcnNKj8D6LlA4YF7uzqimjJDpmNKlnklq-YuVoaVtNe6TUFXwl/s320/jbjbj.jpg" /></a> The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched an investigation into allegations of money-laundering at troubled Malaysian state fund 1MDB, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing an unidentified source. The scope of the investigation into the debt-laden 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was not clear, said the newspaper, which cited "a person familiar with the matter". Neither the FBI nor 1MDB responded to a request for comment. The reported FBI investigation comes shortly after a former member of Malaysia's ruling party was arrested just before travelling to the United States where he planned to make a police complaint and urge U.S. authorities to look into the allegations of money-laundering at 1MDB. 1MDB's advisory board is chaired by Prime Minister Najib Razak. The fund has been dogged by controversy over its $11 billion debt and alleged financial mismanagement. A series of international investigations are underway as the scandal surrounding the fund widens. Swiss authorities said this month they had frozen funds in Swiss banks amid investigations into 1MDB. Hong Kong authorities also said they were investigating a complaint related to the firm. The WSJ had reported in July that investigators looking into 1MDB had found that nearly $700 million was transferred into the personal bank account of Najib. The prime minister has denied taking money from 1MDB or anywhere else for personal gain. Malaysia's anti-graft agency declared the funds a donation. Najib has faced unprecedented criticism from within his ruling party, in particular form veteran former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has called on Najib to step down. Both anti-government and pro-government protesters have taken to the streets in recent weeks, raising concern about political stability. (Reporting by Praveen Menon; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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Syria conflict: Kerry and Hammond seek negotiations

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivRwSFFGWvMOt59mQfu8KOhCPfIDl1_Rcx9A3XOAmImqRjIRDk07WPpoZC5Qdpvi_mAWPIdf80ReKMWN-3pgcET6JFyEPbIVbd2-MXYW_EhutaDiUsooUu0ft_AtVPRAyXiRNNiDJepB0r/s1600/%252Cm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivRwSFFGWvMOt59mQfu8KOhCPfIDl1_Rcx9A3XOAmImqRjIRDk07WPpoZC5Qdpvi_mAWPIdf80ReKMWN-3pgcET6JFyEPbIVbd2-MXYW_EhutaDiUsooUu0ft_AtVPRAyXiRNNiDJepB0r/s320/%252Cm.jpg" /></a></div> US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for a renewed diplomatic effort to end the conflict in Syria. Speaking after talks in London, he said what he described as Russia's new focus on fighting Islamic State militants could be an opportunity to push towards a political settlement. He said this was all the more urgent as violence in Syria was the "root cause" of Europe's current migrant crisis. The EU, which is divided on the issue, is to hold emergency talks next week. Mr Kerry is on a European tour which is expected to be dominated by the Syrian conflict. After talks with his UK counterpart Philip Hammond on Saturday, he said they "agreed completely on the urgency of nations coming together in order to resolve this war that has gone on for much too long". Analysis - Sebastian Usher, BBC Middle East analyst It's been a long time since there's been serious talk of working towards a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict. The refugee crisis and the rise of IS have provided the spur. Just as importantly, perhaps, a series of defeats for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made his position look more precarious than it has for years, possibly enough to shift the stalemate and bring the Syrian government to genuine negotiations. For now at least, it seems to have prompted Russia to start bolstering its military support for Mr Assad in ways that have worried the US. The question for the West is whether Russia wants to help the Syrian government fight IS or simply keep Mr Assad in power. Either way, it's making the Syrian equation even more complicated. He added that the migrant crisis had to "be addressed by dealing with the root cause" - which he said was violence in Syria. For more than four years the government of President Assad has been fighting various rebels groups - including IS, which controls vast swathes of territory in both Syria and neighbouring Iraq. Mr Kerry said there was a need to "use this moment when Russia appears more committed to doing more" against IS, to move towards a diplomatic solution. "We're prepared to negotiate. Is Assad prepared to negotiate, really negotiate? Is Russia prepared to bring him to the table?" Devastation in Maarat al-Nouman near Idlib, 17 SeptemberImage copyrightReuters Image caption The Syrian conflict has devastated large parts of Syria 'Shared goals' Ahead of the meeting he had said the US shared the "same goals" with Russia - a long-time ally of President Assad - in the battle against IS. The US has called for Mr Assad to go, but on Saturday Mr Kerry reaffirmed the US position that this removal "doesn't have to be on day one or month one.... There is a process by which all the parties have to come together to reach an understanding of how this can best be achieved." Mr Hammond said the Syrian president could not be part of Syria's long-term future "but the modality and timing has to be part of a political solution". Mr Kerry said the London talks laid the groundwork for forthcoming meetings at the United Nations over Syria. Russian intentions may become clearer when President Vladimir Putin addresses the UN General Assembly later this month, says the BBC's Sebastian Usher. More than 200,000 Syrians have been killed since the conflict began in 2011. More than four million have fled abroad and many more are internally displaced. The conflict has contributed to the migrant crisis in the EU - which is facing a huge influx this year. UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from camps surrounding the country. Mr Kerry is due to go to Berlin on Sunday.

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Taylor the DICK

<div> <br /></div> I just found out that I have a BLOG....  Well my 1st post is going to be a salute to my favorite Conway County Deputy.  Taylor DICKard.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWOJGHZ24HQDN5KwIQNcfoL4Z8WPnVmCLsIgPwifcCD9elyg-KN5K5ZPmvaYlIZ4kS2nMtRQQQ4ApqthTNr3HAL6Rl2JxPCPWllx7i-yZFrLhnSrGzghMu1cNErfy29U47FKzSLVez15A/s1600/DICKHEAD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWOJGHZ24HQDN5KwIQNcfoL4Z8WPnVmCLsIgPwifcCD9elyg-KN5K5ZPmvaYlIZ4kS2nMtRQQQ4ApqthTNr3HAL6Rl2JxPCPWllx7i-yZFrLhnSrGzghMu1cNErfy29U47FKzSLVez15A/s320/DICKHEAD.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Photo obtained from http://www.conwaycountysheriff.org/</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> If you look up Lying Dickhead in the Webster's Dictionary, this is the picture that will be next to the definition. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I don't mind paying my dues, if I get caught speeding, fine, I'll pay my money, but when a sworn officer of the law lies on the stand just because he is too good, too high on his pedestal that he gets so pissed off at a biker for calling his bluff.  This Deputy was running over 90 miles per hour down HWY 95 without his lights or siren on.  He claims that he does not have to obey the law because he is Deputy Sheriff.  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management mandates that all Emergency Vehicles be displaying flashing lights and or an audible siren, reference the below statute.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <ol> <li>     History. Acts 1997, No. 1281, § 1.</li> <li>12-75-113. Emergency response vehicles.</li> <li>(a) Due to the time-critical nature of response to the scene of a disaster or major</li> <li>emergency occurrence, the Director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency</li> <li>Management is authorized to designate appropriate vehicles as requested in the</li> <li>staffing patterns of the state and local offices of emergency services and other</li> <li>state agency vehicles with an emergency service response requirement as</li> <li>emergency response vehicles.</li> <li> (b) Designated state and local government emergency response vehicles</li> <li>under this chapter shall share the same privileges and immunities regarding</li> <li>traffic laws and ordinances as other emergency vehicles as defined by state law.</li> <li>(c) Emergency vehicles authorized by this chapter shall be identified by a</li> <li>flashing light or rotating beacon which will be green in color.</li> <li>2</li> <li>(d) When responding to an emergency, the designated emergency vehicle</li> <li>shall have flashing lights or rotating beacon activated and must be equipped with</li> <li>and operating a siren device.</li> <li>History. Acts 1973, No. 511, § 8; 1985, No. 687, § 6; 1985, No. 978, § 6; A.S.A. </li> </ol> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> When the Police begin to operate above the law, and believe the law does not apply to them, then we will have descended into a communistic Police State.  Our rights will no longer matter, our freedoms, which are slowly being  stripped from us will be totally obliterated.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Wake Up People, do not let these criminals in uniform get away with those acts things we as average citizens would be arrested and jailed.  </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="color: red;">I am offering 500.00 to any individual who can bring proof of ANY CRIMINAL activity, leading to the arrest and conviction of Officer Taylor Dickard .</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Now to Judge Judy Denniston</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> She has done a pretty good job of keeping her face off the Internet.  This photo was found on the City of Morrilton's website as Her Honor was being sworn in, ironically without her hand on a Bible.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6GYui5l5uruwsXiTNxoDxoGdkD6B3xtSDc4WdM2xKkYI941JG4DsBagEyjy00_9wmxuxcBJ2cujVVZm_Pr8c-3rCGvYgQk7pHuSg9zNKUxeVcdh4zorf9M-9Y6uHCfjOpNbhrv6stYkn/s1600/Jeannie_Denniston.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6GYui5l5uruwsXiTNxoDxoGdkD6B3xtSDc4WdM2xKkYI941JG4DsBagEyjy00_9wmxuxcBJ2cujVVZm_Pr8c-3rCGvYgQk7pHuSg9zNKUxeVcdh4zorf9M-9Y6uHCfjOpNbhrv6stYkn/s320/Jeannie_Denniston.png" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Photo Courtesy <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> Sharon Judkins</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Here is a picture of Judge Judy and her new Beau announcing their pending nuptials,from the Conway Log Cabin Democrat.</span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_CoYcyj6DkVuAmoITc62EYuE5KtqM-sU0QsNJe0D4KoheWp5oTN3iLwNUlJcSQhr00V81vMA3Gleto-yeOIGtDJCc4XUfpuRfJ_FkIrVlOXlSIMPwZBEz-q74ybuqw2YtTxvPmGG4zwOF/s1600/Jeannie_Denniston.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_CoYcyj6DkVuAmoITc62EYuE5KtqM-sU0QsNJe0D4KoheWp5oTN3iLwNUlJcSQhr00V81vMA3Gleto-yeOIGtDJCc4XUfpuRfJ_FkIrVlOXlSIMPwZBEz-q74ybuqw2YtTxvPmGG4zwOF/s320/Jeannie_Denniston.png" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqj-0LD-tYv0hExPvTfq0IL4yy1eFJQ7Y9ROQhyphenhyphen5j885E54g6ooaqaxETS5wIboZQnFi8P9Wlq7ynaiT1lztNVxLr22mTnUnad4o8d_gCGGwHF0wv07nTS3in8bHjDP4LlvF07FkoJjx3/s1600/jeannieandherbeau.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqj-0LD-tYv0hExPvTfq0IL4yy1eFJQ7Y9ROQhyphenhyphen5j885E54g6ooaqaxETS5wIboZQnFi8P9Wlq7ynaiT1lztNVxLr22mTnUnad4o8d_gCGGwHF0wv07nTS3in8bHjDP4LlvF07FkoJjx3/s1600/jeannieandherbeau.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> It's hard to see the similarities because the lack of a photogenic personality, but if you look closely, you can see the resemblance.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ur1kupuFSKRcFG5C6JMcMQ7IbjR_p4SX6wF4vNIBQ04qsff53GVGLM07FXvf9zog2dv5Uy1g5pliEkz3HKUV4FZxy6dGikJCp2begw2L0pFGkxBAfJapplperlwr_YelcRk4sBQEjBjP/s1600/Judge-judy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ur1kupuFSKRcFG5C6JMcMQ7IbjR_p4SX6wF4vNIBQ04qsff53GVGLM07FXvf9zog2dv5Uy1g5pliEkz3HKUV4FZxy6dGikJCp2begw2L0pFGkxBAfJapplperlwr_YelcRk4sBQEjBjP/s320/Judge-judy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Judge Judy Denniston runs her court with an Iron fist, and finds everyone guilty.  I mean how else is she and the host of minions and uniformed criminals going to get paid? </span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">I sat thru over 100 cases waiting my turn to rebuff Deputy DICKard's account of the night in question, and not once, not once did I hear Her Honor speak the words "Not Guilty"   I am not even sure why the formalities of court are even held, there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that you are going to to be found not guilty, even when you have video proof that the Deputy in question is a bald faced liar.</span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">The Conway County District Court exists to keep itself funded, if we didn't have the court, we wouldn't need the court.</span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Morrilton, Small City, No Limits?  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dt0e3hkgYJ54mjkWhH0stbMUyfJzQG7Rh23kfgKbFIT5i55Ks5XQIHVNNDxqF9ROcUZFd0C0mEoAkjOuvv-EI7AE-lAtEGvrzbVkuGsNGi1bHWKr9iLpEv23oiByNl_seUUdY903xpFD/s1600/smallcity.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dt0e3hkgYJ54mjkWhH0stbMUyfJzQG7Rh23kfgKbFIT5i55Ks5XQIHVNNDxqF9ROcUZFd0C0mEoAkjOuvv-EI7AE-lAtEGvrzbVkuGsNGi1bHWKr9iLpEv23oiByNl_seUUdY903xpFD/s1600/smallcity.png" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Or are we just a Piece Out?</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTlLXfbSMOZQog7kpaxawGE7uIgRo2zrYAIiO13hVJgQD0lETNoWXWhGtXpI66DMU0Cq64lGpGBeJRpZMMClCuVoQj16IMrxTwCxG-bHPm28lKVgINCbu8opie0BRJrxVgg16tQ6eBjS8/s1600/peaceout.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTlLXfbSMOZQog7kpaxawGE7uIgRo2zrYAIiO13hVJgQD0lETNoWXWhGtXpI66DMU0Cq64lGpGBeJRpZMMClCuVoQj16IMrxTwCxG-bHPm28lKVgINCbu8opie0BRJrxVgg16tQ6eBjS8/s1600/peaceout.png" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Look Twice for the Bikes!  Save a life.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Peace Out.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Dr. David Qualls, PhED</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div>

Taylor the DICK

I just found out that I have a BLOG....  Well my 1st post is going to be a salute to my favorite Conway County Deputy.  Taylor DICKard. ...

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UAE says 22 Emirati soldiers killed in Yemen

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRmWqMuCl89oxkR0nf4BERWkYS5k7L2UEPOuRNHgrnlJSsUjMn00B76krmwT8_Rz-04JGIJLaJom21xGLGDhn5qY2bvG5016MI8QmTdBHJiNQZ7CwZeD58SbntEFeoVaobuZ72zBdDpdW/s1600/nbv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRmWqMuCl89oxkR0nf4BERWkYS5k7L2UEPOuRNHgrnlJSsUjMn00B76krmwT8_Rz-04JGIJLaJom21xGLGDhn5qY2bvG5016MI8QmTdBHJiNQZ7CwZeD58SbntEFeoVaobuZ72zBdDpdW/s320/nbv.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 38em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ( Aljazeera news )  Twenty-two soldiers from the United Arab Emirates' military have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels, according to the country's state news agency WAM.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 38em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other mostly Arab states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen's exiled government and to repel the Houthis, who took control of the capital Sanaa in September last year.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 38em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> At least five other Emirati soldiers have been killed in Yemen since the offensive began.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 38em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> There were conflicting reports of the cause of the 22 soldiers' deaths.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 38em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Houthis said they fired a rocket at a weapons cache in a camp used by coalition forces in the central Marib area, killing dozens of Emirati and Yemeni soldiers and destroying a number of Apache helicopters and armed vehicles, according to the Reuters news agency.</div> <div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 38em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In contrast, Yemeni military sources told the AFP news agency that Arab coalition soldiers were among those killed in what they said was an accidental explosion at an ammunition store.</div> <br />

UAE says 22 Emirati soldiers killed in Yemen

( Aljazeera news )  Twenty-two soldiers from the United Arab Emirates' military have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led mil...

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NYC teacher arrested for allegedly operating drone at US Open; no injuries

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexRuFEUi-32mv4JCOIsy-EvQWmXmfPeAPoWfhMjSUSnRcIQowwrdw7lVOvALgWAmQj-ijtelj5zozwp5064qD7sZXzWp6k6kDoHMGL0l-l4LoDywpvcoegBnnDjgPl1HCbVdoH1cnYNT4/s1600/huhuinh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexRuFEUi-32mv4JCOIsy-EvQWmXmfPeAPoWfhMjSUSnRcIQowwrdw7lVOvALgWAmQj-ijtelj5zozwp5064qD7sZXzWp6k6kDoHMGL0l-l4LoDywpvcoegBnnDjgPl1HCbVdoH1cnYNT4/s320/huhuinh.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> <span class="dateline" style="box-sizing: border-box;">NEW YORK ( FOX NEWS ) –  </span>A New York City teacher was arrested early Friday for allegedly crashing a drone into an empty section of seats at the U.S. Open, police said.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> Daniel Verley, 26, faces charges of reckless endangerment and operating a drone in a New York City public park outside of prescribed area.</div> <div class="mod-16 active" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 36px 24px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 24px auto; padding: 0px;"> <div class="advert-txt" style="background: url(http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/rs/global.sprite.rs.png) 0px -439px no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-size: 17px; height: 5px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -9999px; width: 73px;"> ADVERTISEMENT</div> </div> </div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> A police department spokesman said Verley was a teacher at the Academy of Innovative Technology in Brooklyn. Calls for comment to the school and the Department of Education were not immediately returned Friday.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> It wasn't immediately clear if Verley had an attorney who could comment on the charges on his behalf.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="line-height: 1.5;">The drone buzzed over the court in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Thursday night before crashing into the seats. U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier said no one was injured.</span></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> The black device flew diagonally through the arena during the next-to-last game of a second-round match that 26th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy won 6-1, 6-4 over Monica Niculescu of Romania.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> Pennetta said she heard the drone fly by and was not sure what it was.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> Her initial reaction, she said afterward, was that it might have been a bomb.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> "A little bit scary, I have to say," Pennetta said.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> "With everything going on in the world ... I thought, `OK, it's over.' That's how things happen," she said.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> She said neither the chair umpire nor tournament officials told her that it was, indeed, a drone.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> It broke into pieces upon landing, and the match was only briefly interrupted between points while police and fire department personnel went to look at it.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> "The chair umpire just wanted to wait for an OK from the police to be able to continue," Pennetta said, "even if, truthfully, I don't think even they knew what it was."</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> She said her coach and physical therapist were sitting in the opposite end of the stadium from where the drone crashed and they told her later they were afraid, too.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> "All of these (security measures), and then it comes in from above," Pennetta said.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> The episode happened a little before 8:30 p.m., during the day's last match in Louis Armstrong Stadium, which has a seating capacity of about 10,000. Pennetta and Niculescu originally were scheduled to play on much smaller Court 17, but their match was moved because four earlier matches in Armstrong wrapped up early.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> "If there had been spectators, it would have hit them and done a lot of damage," Pennetta said.</div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div>

NYC teacher arrested for allegedly operating drone at US Open; no injuries

NEW YORK ( FOX NEWS ) –   A New York City teacher was arrested early Friday for allegedly crashing a drone into an empty section of seats...

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President Xi meets with former KMT chairman, stressing joint marking war anniversary

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12zxwQ9A3xMcx-2u6alRFj7HMa_57iXIiTrwTfc0CAmf0hXx3nYTDU94Blbxv7cJVstFm9w1Su9yo9LgyV6qgaAgnfaS91ltY8zbFOz_ScK5-7t91EQHdieVGw_NIsbQtVS9WB7Jlhcv9/s1600/mmm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12zxwQ9A3xMcx-2u6alRFj7HMa_57iXIiTrwTfc0CAmf0hXx3nYTDU94Blbxv7cJVstFm9w1Su9yo9LgyV6qgaAgnfaS91ltY8zbFOz_ScK5-7t91EQHdieVGw_NIsbQtVS9WB7Jlhcv9/s640/mmm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: left;">(china Daily Website ) .President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on people of the mainland and Taiwan to unite to safeguard peace, as he met with a Taiwanese political delegation to attend events for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Lien Chan, former chairman of Taiwan ruling party the Kuomintang (KMT), and other Taiwanese officials are in Beijing for a military parade and other activities commemorating the WWII anniversary and that of victory in the overlapping Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said during the meeting that victory in the counter-Japan war was "China's first complete victory against foreign invasion in modern times" and that it was only possible through the efforts of the entire nation, including those of Taiwan.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> When Japan invaded northeast China on Sept. 18, 1931 and launched its full-scale invasion on July 7, 1937, "the unprecedented national calamity roused unprecedented national awareness. At the critical moment, the Chinese rose to fight bitterly with the Japanese militarist invaders," Xi said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> The CPC and the KMT jointly established a counter-Japan united front to safeguard state sovereignty and national dignity, he said. "Both the front line and the battlefield behind enemy lines closely coordinated with each other and made important contributions to the victory."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> The president told his guests that the compatriots in Taiwan share a common destiny with their motherland, and their struggle against Japanese invasion was "an important part of the entire Chinese struggle."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> During the half century of Japan's occupation of Taiwan, the islanders never stopped struggling, and hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese lost their lives before victory in the war which ended Japan's colonial rule, he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Through drastic historical changes, people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait realized that they are closely linked with each other, Xi said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> A strong and prosperous nation is a foundation to safeguard the subsistence, development and dignity of the Chinese people including Taiwan residents, he said, calling for learning from history, promoting the spirit of perseverance, cherishing peace and focusing on development.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Since 2008, the CPC and the KMT as well as people on both sides of the Strait have heralded a path of peaceful development based on the 1992 Consensus and opposition against Taiwan independence, according to Xi.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> "The path helps both sides to unite and achieve mutual benefit, " he said, adding that "as long as people of both sides firmly adhere to the path, psychological wounds caused by history will be healed."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Lien welcomed joint commemoration of the war anniversary as a chance to recall the tragedy caused by foreign invasion, and to promote world peace, stressing adherence to cross-Strait political mutual trust.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> In addition to Lien and officials, veteran Taiwanese soldiers who fought in the war and their families will also attend the anniversary events.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Forces led by the CPC and KMT fought together in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. However, in the following civil war, the KMT was defeated and fled to Taiwan.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <br /></div> <br />

President Xi meets with former KMT chairman, stressing joint marking war anniversary

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Phantom Movie Has Been Taken To Court By Medical Charity Over Gun-Toting Katrina Kaif

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ABoHb9R7KZMeLbeL0ZTqLejOP_Cn-Aue6TOF8RUOc7vDwlwP-jy1_qDZp2OmJ9qLtnEhKpGFyjh8JehZNba7muSLD33OzmunVIBtLyT7ZrrA2DcIZZWbSlXq9XlzYjWnJXlcpR3r_Wzn/s1600/hhkhjh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ABoHb9R7KZMeLbeL0ZTqLejOP_Cn-Aue6TOF8RUOc7vDwlwP-jy1_qDZp2OmJ9qLtnEhKpGFyjh8JehZNba7muSLD33OzmunVIBtLyT7ZrrA2DcIZZWbSlXq9XlzYjWnJXlcpR3r_Wzn/s640/hhkhjh.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> MUMBAI — International charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is taking legal action against the producers of recently released film Phantom, saying its misrepresentation of the medical group could put its aid workers deployed in conflict zones at risk.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Action-thriller film Phantom features actress Katrina  as an MSF aid worker who helps a disgraced soldier, played by actor Saif Ali Khan, to assassinate Pakistani militants accused of being behind the 2008 Mumbai bombings.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> In promotional interviews for the film, Katrina was quoted as saying, “NGO workers have ties with local fanatical groups” in war-torn regions, without mentioning that many aid groups maintain strict neutrality in order to do their work safely.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> In the film s trailer, her character is seen firing a pistol and rifle in two different scenes.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> MSF said it had not been consulted over the content of the film and was not associated with it in any way. The humanitarian agency had “a strict no guns policy” in all its clinics and did not employ armed guards, it added.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “None of our staff would ever carry a gun. Any portrayal that suggests otherwise is dangerous, misleading and wrong,” MSF said in a statement.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “We have contacted the film s production team and are taking legal action in order to correct this dangerous misrepresentation of our organisation and its work.” The film s director Kabir Khan and producers Sajid Nadiadwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur could not immediately be reached for comment.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Phantom was banned by a Pakistani court last week in response to a petition filed by Hafiz Saeed, the man India accuses of masterminding the killing of 166 people over three days in November 2008.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba which the United Nations has listed as a terrorist organisation, said the film whose main villain is a man called “Hariz Saeed” maligns Pakistan and vilifies him.<br /> MSF – which has thousands of health workers such as doctors, nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists and psychiatrists in more than 70 countries – said it was essential that the group was not misrepresented given the dangerous nature of their work.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “The only way we can safely work in places such as Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen, where there is active fighting, is by explaining to every group on the ground that we are independent, neutral and impartial and interested only in providing medical care to people who need it,” MSF said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5599994659424px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="line-height: 19.5599994659424px;">“Any portrayal that suggests MSF does anything other than provide medical care could endanger our patients, staff, our ability to work in places where people might not otherwise have access to healthcare and undermine our reputation.”</span></div>

Phantom Movie Has Been Taken To Court By Medical Charity Over Gun-Toting Katrina Kaif

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Marvel Shake-Up: Film Chief Kevin Feige Breaks Free of CEO Ike Perlmutter (Unique)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT5JX8Eqy_js41PJbdczSJ-4RouBIn7mMUh1OcgUAjM2n2WlG50AXGbZ7EvfnqAB9nZszU790FzQdG3wIKfNJcxhrx-73JCjz7gXXcY_4AMW_TeCuV5oNq9BPNDRB_2DaDr4y9aIYO8FcZ/s1600/shar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT5JX8Eqy_js41PJbdczSJ-4RouBIn7mMUh1OcgUAjM2n2WlG50AXGbZ7EvfnqAB9nZszU790FzQdG3wIKfNJcxhrx-73JCjz7gXXcY_4AMW_TeCuV5oNq9BPNDRB_2DaDr4y9aIYO8FcZ/s640/shar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> After what one source explains as “numerous years of aggravation,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has actually pulled off a reorganization of the vaunted movie business that has him reporting to Disney studio chief Alan Horn rather than the infamously micromanaging Marvel Home entertainment CEO Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter.<br /> <br /> Feige, the architect of Marvel’s change from a flailing comics business into a film powerhouse that was offered to Disney for $ 4 billion in 2009, is said to have actually vented his unhappiness to Horn and Disney CEO Bob Iger earlier this summer season. The reorganization was put into result recently, according to sources.<br /> <br /> “Marvel Studios is taking the next rational step in its combination with The Walt Disney Studios, signing up with Pixar and Lucasfilm in centralizing numerous of its film-related functions in Burbank, with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and co-president Louis D’Esposito continuing to lead the Marvel Studios group reporting to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn,” a Disney spokesperson informs THR in a statement.<br /> <br /> The revamp is a blow to New York-based Perlmutter, a low-profile billionaire who has contributed to Marvel’s credibility in Hollywood for thriftiness and secrecy (as THR reported in a 2014 feature, he went to the premiere of Iron Guy in a disguise to go undiscovered and as soon as whined that reporters at a press junket were permitted two sodas instead of one). Jeph Loeb, head of Marvel Tv, continues to report to Perlmutter, who will preserve oversight of Marvel’s TV group, publishing, animation and other New York-based operations.<br /> <br /> Perlmutter, 72, is stated to have accepted Feige’s persistence on the movie group breaking totally free. But the move illustrates the power that Feige has actually accumulated within the Disney empire, having supervised a slate of movies considering that 2009 that has earned more than $ 7 billion while competing Warner Bros. has struggled to turn its DC superheroes into an equivalent cinematic universe. Disney has actually plotted out Marvel movies till a minimum of 2019.<br /> The shift also evidences the difficult executive politics that Iger should handle as a result of assembling numerous freestanding feifdoms under the Disney banner over the previous years. Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm and Marvel have been essential acquisitions that brought with them valuable intellectual home possessions and creative knowledge. But each silo is supervised by effective executives such as animation masters John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, producer Kathleen Kennedy and Perlmutter and Feige, respectively, all of whom have significant influence within their corner of the Disney empire.<br /> <br /> Feige, 42, has been considered the key male at Marvel, producing everything from the initial Iron Guy through this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man. One expert states Feige has actually earned the chance to break complimentary from Perlmutter, who is not just controlling, however likewise obsessed with second hand.<br /> “Everybody knows Ike is hard,” states one source near to the business. “This has actually been a long time coming. Kevin has actually grown his entire career under Ike and now it simply makes good sense.”<br /> <br /> Upgraded with Disney statement.<br /> This entry gone through the Full-Text RSS service – if this is your material and you’re reading it on somebody else’s website, kindly check out the Frequently Asked Question at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.<br /> Hollywood Press reporter

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ISIS destroys Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, U.N. reports

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsQs8NgUsUTZpeQ1FufvqamM7GgMHTvmYoFnrJhoommQwP6ZZ4zPeQ-T2i6cRQS3o3_8ucURGlncKwc0Pzc4H0ysX9QGMY19SYm6S6BopOFPadjGUjaAJxle09Q1GMuPMPiAPY14zxLeZ/s1600/isis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsQs8NgUsUTZpeQ1FufvqamM7GgMHTvmYoFnrJhoommQwP6ZZ4zPeQ-T2i6cRQS3o3_8ucURGlncKwc0Pzc4H0ysX9QGMY19SYm6S6BopOFPadjGUjaAJxle09Q1GMuPMPiAPY14zxLeZ/s640/isis.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> (CNN)One of the most culturally significant pieces of architecture in the world has been destroyed, the United Nations said on Monday.<br /> <br /> The U.N. training and research agency released satellite images and analysis that confirmed the Temple of Bel -- which for nearly 2,000 years has been the center of religious life in Palmyra, Syria -- was no longer standing, despite conflicting reports earlier in the day that it was not fully demolished.<br /> <br /> UNOSAT Manager Einar Bjorgo said he could "confirm destruction of the main building of the Temple of Bel as well as a row of columns in its immediate vicinity."<br /> <br /> Syria's antiquities chief, Maamoun Abdulkarim, said earlier on Monday that the temple's iconic columns were still standing, despite an explosion there Sunday.<br /> <br /> A satellite image confirms the destruction of the main building of the Temple of Bel, as well as a row of columns in its immediate vicinity.<br /> He said there was an explosion Sunday inside the walls of the Temple of Bel, and while the extent of the damage was not yet known at the time, witnesses reported the walls were still standing. He called the site "the most important temple in Syria and one of the most important in the whole Middle East."<br /> <br /> The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports had reported previously that the temple had been at least in part damaged by ISIS.<br /> <br /> <i><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/31/middleeast/palmyra-temple-damaged/index.html" target="_blank">Read on here</a></i>

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IN THE DARK: State Dept. IT staff unaware of Hillary's email setup

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30EVIzfiF0bDRO6rixj4vwL2YTQwNvjkYQanEfnrPDgiObMQkc-R3otgFo5f4MoMOn6vsGrH0_AZNg7w6ZtpD_1I4Rw9ByluzEO-MLVeU3rI7EDTd6P8mQRUbHv93AZbk6cUf8zkRWB6j/s1600/hilarycliton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30EVIzfiF0bDRO6rixj4vwL2YTQwNvjkYQanEfnrPDgiObMQkc-R3otgFo5f4MoMOn6vsGrH0_AZNg7w6ZtpD_1I4Rw9ByluzEO-MLVeU3rI7EDTd6P8mQRUbHv93AZbk6cUf8zkRWB6j/s640/hilarycliton.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> Members of the State Department's information technology staff were among those who were unaware that Hillary Clinton was using a private email address during her time as secretary of state, the latest release of messages from Clinton's private server revealed late Monday.<br /> <br /> In one email, dated February 27, 2010, an IT worker on the State Department's computer "help desk" sends a message to Clinton's email address inquiring about why one of Clinton's correspondents has been getting a "fatal error" when she tries to send messages to the secretary of state.<br /> <br /> Clinton forwarded the email to her top aide, Huma Abedin, asking "Do you know what this is [sic]". Abedin responds, "Ur [sic] email must be back up!!" and explains that a woman named Judith tried to send Clinton an email and called the department's IT team when the message was returned to her.<br /> <br /> "They had no idea it was YOU," Abedin writes to Clinton, "just some random address so they emailed. Sorry about that. But regardless, means ur [sic] email must be back!"<br /> <br /> Clinton's use of a private email address may have also created logistical problems communicating with State Department aides.<br /> <br /> "Well its clearly a state vs outside email issue," wrote Abedin in August 2010, after another aide reported missing some messages from Clinton. "State has been trying to figure it out. So lj is getting all your emails cause she's on her personal account too."

IN THE DARK: State Dept. IT staff unaware of Hillary's email setup

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