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There was article in India today and mention was made of Sonia/Rajiv's connection to Swiss account by http://www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/zeitschrift/500-millionen-der-schweiz-imeldas-faule-tricks .
I blogged it ( read the link under related).
The magazine sent me a communication saying that I might have it wrong.
Yet the same magazine in its reply to Swamy's query has studiously avoided confirming/denying the Story( as it has done to my piece),yet asks for Subscription!
Also note the revelation by Rajiv Gandhi.
The shocking exposure came from Switzerland itself. The most popular magazine of Switzerland, Schweizer Illustrierte, [dated November 11, 1991] did an expose of 14 politicians of developing nations who, it said, had stashed their bribes in Swiss banks. The title of the expose in German read "Fluchgelder — Die Schweizer Konten der Dictatoren". In English it meant, "Curse of money — The Swiss bank accounts of the Dictators". Rajiv Gandhi figured in the expose as one with slush funds in secret accounts. Schweizer Illustrierte is not some rag. It is the Number One Swiss magazine and sells some 2,10,000 copies. Its readership is 9,18,000 — some 15 per cent of Swiss adults. The magazine had mentioned specific amounts in secret Swiss accounts of different leaders with their pictures alongside.
The report under the picture of Rajiv Gandhi, translated into English, read: "2.5 billion francs on the Indian secret accounts in Switzerland" of "Rajiv Gandhi, Indian". Today the amount of 2.5 billion Swiss Francs equals 2.2 billion US Dollars. But as Rajiv was no more by then, it must become the family inheritance. The other leaders captured by the magazine were: Suharto of Indonesia (25.5 billion), Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (22.5 billion), Mobutu of Zaire (6 billion), Shah Pehlvi of Iran (5.7 billion), Saddam Hussein of Iraq (800 million), and Nicolas Ceausescu of Romania (500 million). The figures of slush money mentioned were in milliarden (meaning 'billions') units of Swiss Francs. Had Rajiv been alive then, the expose would have caused a political tsunami in India.
The box item above shows the pictures and the amounts of the leaders as appearing in the magazine.
More than the slush money charge it is the family's silence about it, which is baffling. The number one magazine in Switzerland had made the damning charge that Rajiv Gandhi had left behind slush funds of $2.2 billion and yet the family has kept mum for 18 years now. How could any honest person tolerate such a serious charge? Well, one could say that the family might not have challenged it because it was published in far away Switzerland. But Dr Subramanian Swamy had included the Schweizer Illustrierte expose in his write-up "Do You know your Sonia?" in his party, the Janata Party, website, seven years ago, in 2002. It is still on the Party's website. Photocopies of the expose in the Swiss magazine are shown at pages 51 to 53 of Dr Swamy's write-up; also an e-mail from the magazine addressed to Dr Swamy on February 22, 2002 at page 50. The e-mail confirms what the magazine had reported.
The e-mail reads:
"Dear sir,
We refer to your e-mail of April 4, regarding an article in our magazine Schweizer Illustrierte of November 11, 1991. In this article — Fluchgelder – Die Schweizer Konten der Dictatoren — is Rajiv Gandhi named with tot 2.5 Milliarden CHF on secret accounts. If you want the magazine please indicate the exact address.
Yours faithfully,Ringer Ltd.Margot Todisco".
The fax and telephone numbers of Margot Todisco are also given in the mail. The e-mail is in box alongside here. Yet no one from the Congress or from the family has sued Dr Swamy till date, nor challenged him. The Swiss expose also prominently figured in the advertisement that some NRIs had put out in the New York Times to protest against Sonia Gandhi when she visited the US in the year 2007. The Indian National Overseas Congress (INOC) filed a defamation case against the ad, expressly "not to defend itself, but Sonia Gandhi". The New York Supreme Court dismissed the case holding that only Sonia Gandhi, not the INOC, had the locus to sue. But she would not dare sue. Thus, neither in Switzerland where Schweizer Illustrierte exposed Rajiv's secret account with billions 18 years ago in 1991, nor in India where Dr Swamy had put it on his party's website seven years ago in 2002, or in the US where the NRIs had boldly advertised the expose two years ago in 2007, would the Gandhi family challenge the expose.
In criminal law the conduct of the accused is an important piece of evidence. What does the family's conduct show here excepting that it has something to hide.
Second: family benefited from KGB, says book
The second expose, Rajiv Gandhi figuring again, is that the first family of the Congress accepted political payoffs from the Russian spy outfit, the KGB. In a highly acclaimed book The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future by Yevgenia Albats, a journalist on Moscow News and Izvestia, the author writes: "A letter signed by Victor Chebrikov, who replaced Andropov as the KGB head in 1982, noted: the USSR KGB maintains contact with the son of the Premier Minister Rajiv Gandhi (of India).
R Gandhi expresses deep gratitude for the benefits accruing to the prime minister's family from the commercial dealings of the firm he controls in co-operation with the Soviet Foreign trade organisations.
R Gandhi reports confidentially that a substantial portion of the funds obtained through this channel are used to support the party of R Gandhi." (p223) The author also cites the KGB letter and file reference. In Dr Swamy's write-up on Sonia, KGB's letter in Russian is attached at page 45 and its English translation at pages 43 and 44.
I have blogged on the subject of Rajiv Gandhi's 2.5 Billion Francs ,which was based on the November 1991 issue of Schweizer Illustrierte, the most popular magazine of Switzerland, carried an expose of 14 politicians from developing nations who had stashed their bribes in Swiss banks , Subramanian Swamy's s statement , India Today's Story http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/123602/UP%20Front/dacoits+have+looted+india.ht
The story was linked to Schweizer Illustrierte dated November 1991 and
S Gurumurthy in Indian Express: http://expressbuzz.com/biography/zero-tolerance-secret-billions/236261.html.
Also Ram Jethmalani's piece in India Today.
On February 2, 2011,Schweizer Illustrierte sent me a comment as follows.
I again checked the link.
The information in German seems to confirm the information on Rajiv Gandhi.
May be I got my translation wrong.
If some one can confirm that the information on Rajiv Gandhi is wrong as per the magazine's published Record,I hereby tender a Public Apology to Sonia Gandhi,Rajiv Gandhi and Family.
I have a few questions.
Why did the magazine take 10 years to deny?
Why did not Sonia Gandhi keep quiet this long?
What is the stand of India Today, Subramanian Swamy , S.Gurumurthy and the Indian Express?
Also note that the magazine , in its communication, has not denied it out right.
It says 'as we think you might have cited it wrong'
Typical statement which while not confirming also does not categorically deny it.
If Schweizer Illustrierte's article is wrong ,has Sonia Gandhi received an apology from them?
Questions, questions every where , not an answer to blink.
Magazines communication to me.
'Submitted on 2011/02/02 at 7:40 pmDear Blogger, you'll find the mentioned Schweizer Illustrierte article (Page 41) on this URL:
Please examine the content carefully, as we think you might have cited it wrong.
Schweizer Illustrierte'
In an article written on March 18th 2009: INDIA has $1.4 Trillion of Illegal money stashed in Swiss Banks – Time to bring it home !, I wrote in the first para: "Rajeev Gandhi's untimely death left Sonia Gandhi extremely wealthy. The true extent of her wealth became known only when the Soviet archives were thrown open following the collapse of the Soviet Union. KGB archives revealed that as far back as 1982, when Indira Gandhi was still prime minister, Soviet trading agencies were channeling funds into a company controlled by her son and future Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
This was also brought to light by Harvard Russian scholar Yvgenia Albats in her book The State Within A State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia. The Swiss news-magazine Schweizer Illustrierte (November 11, 1991) provided more details. Citing newly—opened KGB records, it reported that Sonia Gandhi, widow of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was controlling a secret account worth 2.5 billion Swiss francs (about 2 billion dollars at current exchange rates) in a Swiss bank in her minor son's name.
Courtesy : http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/rajiv-2-5-billionsswiss-magazine-confirms/


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The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers' Ag Pro Outlook and its 79th annual meeting will be held Nov. 11-14, 2008 at the Marriott Rivercenter in San Antonio, Texas.
Industry leaders from around the United States are expected to attend the national conference.
Conference attendees will hear keynote speaker David Kohl on the "Changing Face of Agriculture and Rural Landscape."
In addition, a wide variety of program sessions will be offered on topics that include Commodity Price Trends, Renewable Fuels, and Meeting Global Demand for Grain.
The conference also features a trade show and Ag Innovations Session, promoting the latest products and services available in the agribusiness marketplace.
"Our focus will be on addressing the unprecedented change under way in agriculture. Record commodity prices, large increases in land values and dramatic shifts in land ownership, are affecting us all in many ways," said Jerry Warner, AFM meeting chairman. "In addition to valuable information on timely topics, this will be an excellent opportunity to network with top agribusiness professionals from across the country."
Ag Pro Outlook is open to the public. Pre-registration will be available online. Additional information and details on Ag Pro Outlook can be found at www.asfmra.org/meetings/index.cfm?fa=agproMeetings.
ASFMRA, founded in 1929, and is an association for property economic professionals who provide management, consultation and valuation services on agricultural and rural assets. Society members manage over 40 percent of the absentee farmland in the country; provide approximately 175,000 appraisals a year on 30 million acres of land and provide consulting services for over 5,500 clients who collectively represent over 7 million acres of rural real estate.


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There's already been lots of news announced for 2014 and I'm looking forward to all that's planned. It's been a great start to the year so far and I have a good feeling about everything that's coming up. I'm enjoying the small acoustic gigs that I'm doing at the moment but I'm especially looking forward to playing some gigs with a full band and we're working hard to make that happen, I'm hoping I can announce something regarding that soon. Till that though, I'm pleased to announce that I have another acoustic gig coming up.
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The Iowa departments of Natural Resources (DNR), and Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) issued the recommendations Tuesday.
"People in flooding communities are naturally concerned about their own safety and getting their personal belongings out," said Kathy Lee with DNR's emergency response unit. "However, they can also save money and protect their greatest investment – their home or business – by securing or removing hazardous materials from their property."
"We want to encourage people to secure tanks such as home heating and propane tanks, and move mobile tanks like anhydrous nurse tanks to high ground keeping them out of flood waters," said Kevin Klommhaus, chief of IDALS fertilizer bureau.
They recommend removing household hazardous materials such as pesticides, lawn fertilizer, paints, solvents, engine oil, gas or other petroleum products like small propane tanks for gas grills. Taking precautions before flood waters rise prevents contamination in the home and around the building's foundation. It saves money in two ways: not wasting the product, and preventing the potentially expensive cost of disposal and clean up after the flood.
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Author Notes: This recipe was created after an inspirational trip to Brooklyn Larder, where they have just about everything for someone like me who loves to cook. After buying a quarter pound of speck, an Italian cured, smoked meat, I was inspired to use it in that night's dinner! Paired with a rich vegetable stock, some arugula, and a few additional ingredients, it is a new version of a very popular dinner for us, and one that we all agree is a keeper! —JoanMyers
Serves: 4
pound speck, sliced very thin, like you would prosciutto
cups Italian Arborio rice
cups vegetable stock
cups white wine
handfuls baby arugula
medium size onion, minced
garlic cloves, minced
cup grated Pecorino cheese
cup grated Parmesan cheese
cup extra virgin olive oil, with a bit more for drizzling on the finished dish
tablespoons butter
pinches salt and pepper to taste
- Place the vegetable broth and 1 cup of wine in a saucepan and heat to a simmer. Keep the broth at a simmer. Slice the speck in slivers about 2 inches in length by stacking the slices of speck, rolling them tightly, and slicing perpendicular to the roll. Put to the side. In a large brasier or good sized heavy-bottomed saute pan heat 1 TB butter and the 1/4 cup olive oil. Add the slivers of speck and cook for 2-3 minutes to release the flavors. Add the onions and saute on medium heat until translucent. Add the minced garlic. Cook for 1 minute.
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A successful conclusion to the OTOW Entertainment Group's events and a magnificent forthcoming Bonsai Exhibit and associated artistic demonstrations classes constitute this week's OTOW Happenings.
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At the final show of the 2011-2002 series, the Entertainment Group made its annual donations to Hospice, Senior Citizens, Center for the Blind, and the VFW Home.
Thanks to the support of the OTOW residents and the Group's sponsors, this year's donation topped the $27,000 amount the Group has donated to these organizations previously. Again, a big "tip-of-the hat" to all those who contributed to this worthy endeavor.
Bonsai Exhibit
Bonsai (pronounced bone-sigh) is an ancient oriental horticultural art form. It originally stared in China centuries ago and spread to Japan. The word "Bonsai" in the Japanese language literally means "tree-in-a-pot." Originally developed in China almost 2000 years ago, today the sublime art of bonsai is practiced throughout the world. Shape, harmony, proportion, and scale are all weighed carefully as art, and the human hand, combines this in a common cause with nature.
The Master the Possibilities (MTP) Education Center and the Marion Bonsai Society will host their fifth annual Bonsai exhibit. The exhibit will open on Wednesday, April 4, at 9 a.m. and close on Friday, April 6 at noon at the MPT main lobby, 8415 S.W. 80th St., Ocala (On Top of the World). Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday and 9 a.m. until noon on Friday. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
The basics of the art of Bonsai classes and demonstrations are offered on Wednesday, April 4 at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday, April 5, at 1 p.m.
Please note that next week the Master the Possibilities Education Center will be transformed into a "Bonsai forest" by the Marion Bonsai Society. For the fifth year, they will display their art works and give introductory classes and demonstrations.
Related classes in Origami, Japanese Tea Ceremony, and calligraphy will also be offered. This unique exhibit is really worth the trip! You will be amazed at the artistry evident in these beautiful trees. This event is free and open to the public April 4-6 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Donald Munkacy picked up this Masai ceremonial mask on a trip to east Africa to celebrate his 40th birthday.
Former President George H.W. Bush may have had a party to celebrate his recent 80th birthday, but he also marked the occasion by jumping out of a plane. Twice.
"Just because you're 80 years old, it doesn't mean you're out of it," he told the Associated Press. "At 80 years old, you've still got a life."
His jumps were among the more unusual ways to mark a milestone birthday. Beyond Mr. Bush, who also skydived when he turned 75, we found more high spirits in the form of fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who turns 90 this September. For his 40th, he swam the length of the Golden Gate Bridge underwater. Twenty years later, while handcuffed and shackled, he towed a boat laden with 1,000 pounds of sand from Alcatraz to Fisherman s Wharf in San Francisco.
Our multi-cultural nation has plenty of milestones to choose from. Jewish teens have a bar or bat mitzvah at 13 to mark their passage to adulthood. Many girls of Mexican heritage have a quinceanera, an elaborate party for their 15th birthdays. Sweet 16 is made more special because it s also the year most teens become eligible to get a driver s license. The 18th birthday grants legal adulthood and the right to vote; the 21st gives Americans the right to drink alcohol.
After that, milestone birthdays seem to be confined to years that end with a zero, and certain years that end with a five, such as 65, generally regarded as retirement age.
Clearly, such birthdays awaken the celebratory instinct. At Napoleon Skydiving Center, between Adrian and Jackson, Mich., a regular client did 60 skydives on his 60th birthday last year, said employee Josh Owens. And in 2002, a man did his first-ever skydive, a tandem jump, to celebrate his 90th birthday, Mr. Owens added.
Several callers who responded to The Blade s request for tales of celebration that go beyond that of the classic birthday bash.
When Donald Munkacy turned 40 in 1988, his life seemed at a crossroads. Divorced for three years, he thought about buying a car, but something greater tugged at him.
I was feeling personally depressed and down, and I was looking for something to kick-start my life again, the South Toledo man said. It was a choice between getting a new car and taking a long trip.
The trip won. He had served in Vietnam, but had done no other international travel, and he was eager to see more of the world.
I was really interested in the poaching situation in east Africa and how the government of Kenya was handling the poaching situation, he said. I thought it would be educational and interesting.
It worked out really well.
He joined a small group, and spent 18 days of his three-week trip camping out in the bush. Exploring the cradle of humanity and meeting native Africans expanded his world in ways he could never have imagined.
Sixteen years later, that odometer year trip remains part of his life, in ways large and small. After watching animals in the wild, he dislikes seeing them in captivity. I can t go to a zoo anymore and see animals in cages, he said. It just doesn t seem right.
When a group of sorority sisters from the University of Toledo realized they had milestone birthdays fast approaching, they decided special celebrations were needed.
There s 15 of us that are still pretty much together; we all went to TU in the 70s, said Karen Steele, who served as president of Alpha Omicron Pi one year. We still get together every year for Christmas and have a party. We decided when we were 50, that s a monumental birthday, and theme parties were in order.
You have to guess what your theme is, Ms. Steele explained. And you definitely look forward to it.
The first friend received 50 Twinkies, as her husband works for the Hostess company. Another friend, now a prosecutor in Michigan, garnered only black-and-white gifts, under the It s Criminal to Look So Good at 50 theme. A gregarious ( At Shipsawanna, she found an Amish guy and talked to him about his horse, Ms. Steele said), hat-loving friend was showered with hats of all types.
Knowing each so well makes the parties even better.
We re really close one starts a sentence, the other finishes it, Ms. Steele said. And the celebrations affirm the fun and energy that characterizes the group.
When you re 50, your life is not over, Ms. Steele said.
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If you are a police officer who was working where I lived during the late 1990's, please cease and desist immediately from reading this article. Or if you are an impressionable youth who would get ideas from this article, than the same applies to you. Proverbs 12:13 cautions that, "A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom." Oh how I wish those words would have found fertile soil in my mind when I was a careless and carefree teenager with money in my pockets and time on my hands.
Now the conduct which I will entail here may not fall under the category of pure evil, and may even be found to be humorous by many including myself. My readiness and eagerness to participate in the activities themselves is what is disturbing. It is exactly my eagerness that almost inspires me to take a Calvinist view of human nature!
For a period that stretched over a few months one beautiful summer, my friends and I found out about a caper that sounded just too easy and fun to resist. Well, there was no resistance at all really. Just unadulterated excitement about what we all agreed would be a superbly awesome prank. It all began at an innocent looking grocery store. We would each stroll through the soda aisle and pick up two of the biggest packs of generic soda we could find. The whole affair probably seemed harmless to every checker since there is nothing suspicious about teenage males purchasing soda on a scorching summer day. That was all part of the beauty of our nefarious act. If they only knew how we planned to use their foodstuffs I am sure they would seriously question the future of our society.
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We would then proceed to a vehicle, usually the borrowed car of a parent, and embark on our dark adventure. After having downed some of the caffeine and sugar filled sodas, we would begin shaking the remainder of the cans. And we would continue shaking until the cans began to distort and push out their metal barriers that held back the explosive liquid within. Whoever was driving would find a road with as many signs as possible, and would accelerate to dangerous speeds. While the vehicle hurtled down the road, the heads and torsos of teenage males would pop out of all the windows with cans of soda held like grenades in their hands. We would reach back and hurl the explosive cans at a sign as we drove by at breakneck speed. The timing was tricky, but the payoff of foam flying thirty feet in the air and a sign that would attract every particle of dirt for the next two years was enough to make us delirious.
The gang of soda throwing hooligans struck so many signs that summer that there were probably countless poor souls who could not for the life of them read the street signs of the beautiful town they were visiting. In retrospect, the spectacle of wild eyed teens throwing soda at signs is pitiable, and yes, very funny. But the sheer excitement of being that destructive is still disturbing. The high that we were on that summer was without a doubt a false high. Soon after our acts of vandalism were finished, the excitement would subside and we would move on to some other act that doubtlessly included belches, grunting and elbows thrown at ribs.
Since then I have found the remedy for this propensity to so readily enter into acts of pointless pranksterism. And the high that I receive from this remedy is lifelong and completely satisfying. "The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the Lord are sure and altogether righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb" (Psalm 19:9-11).
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How long is too long for any community to be neglected for as long as ours? And when I say "ours," I mean "We The People." We all have the same problems—some just worse than others. An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
All taxing authorities and ELECTED officials should be held accountable for overtaxation without any representation. As I evaluate the conditions of my neighborhood, I still see un-driveable city streets, ditches filled with trash and water (some up to 10 ft deep), so-called "affordable" housing surrounded by drug houses, high concentrations of halfway housing, no sidewalks, no zoning, school closures, a high concentration of sex offenders, an increasing crime rate, with a steadily decreasing police presence. I think all areas should receive superior services from our local government and beyond, regardless of the economic, geographic, or demographic makeup of the community. Even though we continue to be neglected, some of us still don't VOTE for our best interests and keep electing the same people.
Remember when these plans were rolled out in January, and then-superintendent Carranza assured us that the community would be fully apprised of all the details of these proposals at these community meetings? Well, here we are at the conclusion of the meetings and we know no more than when we started-scratch that, we know LESS.
Houston Independent School District (HISD) contracted with American Institutes for Research® (AIR®) to conduct a third-party, independent "Special Education Program Review." AIR conducted this review over a 10-month period between May 2017 and February 2018. This report describes our assessment of HISD's strengths and areas in need of improvement with respect to its special education program, and identifies recommendations for HISD to consider as it continues its efforts to improve services for students with disabilities in the district
Privatization is a way to justify less government funding in public education. Privatization is a way to justify the new-era segregation of our schools with a legal separate-but-equal system. And privatization is a way to distract from the social justice questions of our day like the root causes of poverty, the need for universal healthcare and systemic discrimination in our criminal justice system, to name just a few
Richard Carranza has a 3-YEAR CONTRACT with #HISD through 2019 that does not allow him to leave without permission (known as a contract amendment).
If he leaves before his contract ends, he is in breach.
I am writing you today to ask you to refuse to partner, charter or close any HISD schools. I understand that Houston ISD is subject to sanctions under House Bill 1842 and has been given the option to avoid those sanctions through a partnership under SB 1882. I am writing you today to tell you that I am opposed to any partnerships, charters, or closures.
They should refuse to disenfranchise these communities through closure OR charter. Neither is a long term solution and further hurts communities that have been underserved. They should retain independent counsel who can fully advise them on their options, and then should counsel advise, sue the state to halt these actions as they will devastate the HISD community. There is much evidence that the accountability system on which all these school ratings are based is flawed. The board should also work immediately to put as many resources as possible in these schools, at the direction of the communities they serve.
Good evening. My name is Ben Becker. I am a father of three and a public school parent in Houston ISD.
I have come 200 miles today, because I am concerned about the fate of public education in Texas. Waco is also a special place for me. My wife and I met at Baylor and married here. I lived in Waco a total of 10 years—many of them as a member of the business community.
As a matter of fact, the beginning of my advocacy in public education started as a volunteer for three years at Alta Vista Elementary School—one of the schools whose fate hangs in the balance of the state's threats of closure and the decision to begin privatization in Waco ISD before you tonight.
Let me be clear—the possibility of even one more school anywhere in Texas being closed is a grim concern. But my wife and I, along with friends in Houston and Dallas and Austin, come to you today to caution you—caution you to look at the bigger picture of what's at stake.
Your decision to charter or partner with a third party to manage Waco ISD schools has implications far beyond these five campuses. To outsource your management of these schools is an acceptance of the state's power to force local school boards to give up democratic control. It's an acceptance that the state's accountability system and its chronic underfunding of K-12 public education is acceptable.
I have followed news of this board and its new superintendent closely. I know many of you have reservations about the state's so-called Lonestar Governance program and whether the ever-increasing focus on standardized test scores is a positive evolution for public education.
Closing schools is bad. No one wants to see that. But savings democratically-controlled public education is vital.
I urge you—do not acquiesce to the TEA. Do not let them hold your schools hostage and only give you bad options. The TEA is bullying you and bullying other high-poverty districts around the state like mine.
And the only way to answer a bully is to stand together and stand up. No one district, no one board can fight the TEA alone.
I urge you—before you do one more thing, rally with other under-funded and over-regulated districts and challenge the TEA in court.
I urge you—before you make such high-stakes turn over your schools under duress, make the TEA prove that the STAAR test complies with laws like HB743—if you do, you'll find as parents who sued the TEA two years ago, that it doesn't.
Make the TEA prove STAAR results actually reflect differences in teaching and curriculum as opposed to being simply correlated with socio-economic status—if you do, you'll find as UT professor Dr. Walter Stroup did—that STAAR scores are statistically insensitive to instruction.
The end game of both state accountability and the slow suffocation of underfunding Texas public education is PRIVATIZATION. Partnering with third parties to run your schools via the charter expansions in SB1882 and doing so under the school board death threat in HB1842 is a clear. path. to that. privatization. end.
I ask you… Will Waco ISD play TEA's game and lose its schools? Will Waco ISD accept sanction after sanction and abdicate its voter's democratic control of their schools? Or will you, as trustees, as stewards of Waco's schools, as advocates for public education, will you be a part of the resistance to state overreach and defend our schools? Will you defend our children? Will you help save public education?
Houston ISD has nine trustees that represent nine separate geographic districts. These nine districts are different in so many ways. Among them, resources is certainly a major one. Resources in the community. Resources in their schools. And apparently, resources spent on school board races.
Of the nine districts, six have trustees up for election, and so far this year, campaign contributions to 19 candidates in those six elections have totaled almost $300,000. $294,127.37 through September 30th, to be exact.
But each of the districts don't have the same kind of money flowing through their campaigns.
District 5 (Cheben, Deigaard, DeRocha, Shafer) has raised the most overall: $67,555. However, District 7 (Luman, Sung) has raised the most money per candidate with $61,383 being split by just two candidates.
When you compare these six districts by campaign contributions, you see there are really two distinct kinds: expensive ones and cheap ones.
Districts 1, 5, 6 and 7 have garnered between $60,000 and $70,000 per race (so far) making up almost 90% of the campaign contributions districtwide while only representing about 65% of the candidates running.
On the other hand, Districts 3 and 9 have garnered a mere $36,272 total across seven candidates. And one of those candidates, incumbent Board President Wanda Adams, is responsible for two-thirds of that amount ($23,075) by herself. The other six candidates in those races have only raised about $2200 each on average.
In the District 3 race, which is a special election called to fill the two-year vacancy created by the passing of Trustee Manuel Rodriguez, we have four candidates (Lira, Perrett, Reyes, Rodriguez). Even though there are four candidates, District 3 has the lowest total amount of contributions in any district: $9,147. That's about $2300 per candidate. Of course, the special election was only recently announced, and so theoretically these candidates have had less time to fundraise than others. But even when comparing these contributions to the contributions made to other campaigns in just the last two months, they are still shockingly low.
What does this mean? It means that in these districts, it is much easier to win favor and influence. It costs less money to be more important to a given trustee's win or re-election. It means that it's easier for influences outside the local communities (such as vendors or political groups) to get the attention and loyalty of the trustee.
So as we did in District 1 already here and here. Let's take a look for notable contributions in Districts 3 and 9.
In District 3, we only found one notable contribution among all candidates, and that contribution was to Jesse Rodriguez. Arturo Chavez, an architect at Page which is a large architecture firm that does a significant amount of business with HISD, gave Mr. Rodriguez $1900. In the last year alone, Page has been paid over $750,000 by HISD. Mr. Chavez's contribution to Rodriguez is just $100 less than the $2000 threshold at which board policy would require a trustee to recuse themselves from a vote due to conflict of interest. This $1900 is large but not huge relative to many donations across HISD. However, for District 3, it's massive. This single $1900 donation represents 20% of all the money given to all candidates in the District 3 race so far. Certainly notable.
First, they were all disclosed as being received on the same day—October 9th, the last day of the reporting period. Second, there are only 11 contributions that total $23,075. No other candidate has such a high average donation amount. And just 5 of those donations amount to over $20,000. $15,000 came from Houstonians for Great Public Schools and one of its major backers. $4,000 came from two major law firms that do business with HISD and $2500 came from the Realtor lobby. All of these donations represent significant interests outside of District 9—the high-stakes testing and charter schools lobby, HISD vendors and lower property tax lobby. To understand more about how these donations were shocking, watch this video that compares them with her own statements about ethics and campaign donations.
That wraps up analysis of Districts 3 and 9. Outside of the significant vendor contributions to Adams and Rodriguez, the most notable thing about these campaign finances is their size. A close watch on the 8-day and after election reports will be important to see what additional influences might capitalize on the opportunity these inexpensive races present.
In part two of our District 1 coverage, we have Monica Richart and Elizabeth Santos. (We covered the pro-testing, ed reform candidate, Gretchen Himsl, last week.)
Monica was first to announce her candidacy for District 1 back in the spring after a lengthy period of exploring support for a run over the prior year. Though Santos has received more endorsements, Richart received an early endorsement and campaign contribution from Texas Latina List.
Texas Latina List is a Fort Worth-based political action committee focused on getting progressive Latina candidates into office in Texas. Its activity this year has been focused in DFW with only two endorsements outside of the Metroplex: one in San Antonio and Richart in Houston. All of Texas Latina List's contributors this year are from the DFW area except one: Houston ISD board member Anne Sung.
Richart has two other institutional donors of significance disclosed so far.
The first is Theron Strategies which is a newly formed company run by Adrian Garcia. Garcia is the former Harris County Sheriff who resigned to run for Mayor and then later ran and lost against Congressman Gene Green in the Democratic primary. In addition to Theron Strategies, Garcia recently formed Latino Democrat PAC which also endorsed Monica. No donations from this PAC have been registered yet.
The second institutional donation to the Richart campaign is from Perdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins & Mott which is a large law firm and main competitor to Linebarger, Goggan Blair & Sampson. Linebarger has massive contracts with both Houston ISD and the City of Houston for collection of delinquent property taxes. Linebarger is a ubiquitous campaign contributor throughout the district, city and state and often subcontracts "services" to politically friendly firms such as Mayor Turner's law firm and Marc Campos (campaign consultant to other District 1 candidate, Gretchen Himsl).
Linebarger and Perdue are the two main firms that provide this property tax service in Texas. We've seen Perdue lawyers in attendance at Houston ISD board meetings recently, and trustee Manuel Rodriguez attempted to get the board to review and consider changes to Linebarger as its sole vendor when it was up for renewal this past year.
The final notable contribution on Monica Richart's early campaign finance filing was a personal donation from Jason Spencer. Spencer and his wife live in Houston ISD District 2 and both held at various times the positions of Communications Chief and Chief of Staff under HISD's last superintendent, Terry Grier. Both Spencers left HISD shortly after Richard Carranza began as superintendent. Jason Spencer now handles communications and government relations for Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales. Helen Spencer is Chief Information Officer for the Harris County Department of Education which is a major partner and vendor for Houston ISD. In the last year, Houston ISD paid Harris County DOE over $3 million for various services.
During the first half of 2017 (the period for which campaign finance contributions are on record), Elizabeth Santos raised significantly more money than Monica Richart, approximately $11,000 versus a little under $6,000. Even while taking in twice as much money, we have found little to note in the contributions to Santos' campaign.
We consider campaign contributions notable when they are from people or institutions with vendor or political connections, as these contributions suggest potential influence in the future by someone seeking to do business with or seeking to influence the policy decisions of the school board. The size of a donation is notable to us when it's $1000 or more from someone other than family. So far, Elizabeth Santos has no contributions from anyone tied to a current or potential Houston ISD vendor, and she has only one non-family individual who has contributed $1000 or more, a parent in District 1 and a Santos campaign volunteer.
In the interest of transparency, we'll write about one donation that has yet to be disclosed in public filings—ours.
After all of our research and after Elizabeth Santos made public commitments early on to refuse money from HISD vendors, we were compelled to donate and support such an independent campaign. We live in District 1 and have been disappointed in our representation these past few years. After attending almost every board meeting for the last three years, one thing is clear to us—there are significant influences on this board other than parents and students and the average voter. The HISD board has relaxed its campaign finance ethics standards, fired its independent auditor, spent millions of dollars defending a corrupt former trustee and fought endlessly with bond contractors who assert that HISD has a pay-to-play culture. We cannot sit by while trustees and their votes are clearly bought and sold to the highest bidder; we must seize the opportunity to support someone actively pushing back against that influence.
So, when new fundraising disclosures are filed next week, Ben & Sarah Becker will show up as a $1,000 contributor to the Elizabeth Santos campaign. Indeed, we hope that will register as a notable contribution.
This isn't an accident. This isn't unrelated to our research and the facts we've written about the other two candidates. Anyone can read the public campaign reports and find the same connections that we have found. On the contrary, our contribution is the direct result of what we've uncovered. If change in HISD ever had a chance, it will be when we can elect trustees that we can actually trust. And to that end, we've put our money where we think that trust lies—in Elizabeth Santos.
To conclude, here's the District 1 candidates in their own words answering a question about whether they think taking money from HISD vendors is right or wrong. Spoiler alert: only one candidate commits to a higher standard.
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Will mortgage interest deductions get pushed off "fiscal cliff?"
Negotiations in Congress on what has become termed in the media as the impending "fiscal cliff" will no doubt have several impacts on real estate sales. Here's a snapshot of some of the potential changes in the tax code that will affect the value of your first or second home.
A likely outcome of the negotiated settlement of tax changes will be the removal of the mortgage interest deduction for second homes.
If you are anticipating a sale of your vacation home in a resort or retirement destination, you will most likely see some pullback in prices if this passes.
As an example, if your second home is located in Florida, Arizona or Hawaii, you may find that the loss of the mortgage interest deduction for potential vacation home buyers will impact how much they're willing to spend on your property.
A second likely outcome for mortgage interest deductions is the lowering of the cap on deductibility.
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Right now, there's a cap on mortgage deductions for loans up to $1,000,000. Anything higher is capped on your itemized 1040 return. A number currently being discussed is $500,000. Since the average price of a home in the U.S. is $170,000, lowering the cap to $500,000 would be easy for Congress to get passed, since in most of the country it would only affect the rich.
In many areas, however, including the New York metropolitan area, it will affect the middle class. Unfortunately, we don't have enough political capital to fight this battle.
The average price of a home in Manhattan is roughly $1 million, and the average so far this year in Greenwich is more than $2 million. Even our median is more than $1.3 million. An 80 percent mortgage loan on $1.3 million is more than $1 million.
Likely to be discussed, but unlikely to pass, is the removal of the mortgage interest deduction entirely. The National Association of Realtors and many non-profit tax think tank and research organizations support the mortgage interest deduction, since it is tied to the home-buying decision and also the ability for homeowners to keep living in their homes. I doubt that Congress is willing to end this third-rail deduction. Let's hope.
Greenwich sales analysis
I recently completed an analysis of Greenwich single-family, condominium and co-operative apartment sales for 2006 through November 2012. Here's what I found, some of which may surprise you.
In 2010, there were 641 closings on residential homes, which include single-family homes, condominiums and co-operative apartments. Last year saw a slight improvement to 654 sales, and so far this year through the end of November we've had 719 closings, accepted offers and sales contract commitments. There's now no doubt that the volume of sales is coming back, albeit slowly, to the 900 sale levels we saw in 2006 and 2007.
On prices, we were moving the bar back up slowly, but as has been the case in markets that did not have dramatic losses and are now coming back quickly, prices here have fallen off slightly.
Our average for all residential sales (which includes single-family homes, condominium units and co-op apartments but excludes multi-family, land and commercial sales) is $2,045,202 through the November closings. The median for these closings was $1,305,000.
The accompanying graph shows the price trends for MLS-listed property sales during the seven-year period. We won't know the exact 2012 figures until all the closings have been reported, but they shouldn't be that far off from the November totals to date.
Home prices rising
in many markets
While our local market has fallen off slightly from a year ago, many markets have seen prices increase over the last year.
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, there are five important factors which have contributed to increased prices and, if you're a seller, hopefully they'll infect us, too. If you're a buyer, get going now.
Houses and condos are more affordable. Housing prices have really come down from 2006 highs and interest rates are at historic lows.
There's a rise in the number of "household formations." One million new households are expected to form this year. That's significantly higher than the 570,000 average over the last five years.
Rents have risen. There's nothing like a rent increase to get apartment-dwellers off the couch and into a real estate office.
Foreclosures and other distressed property sales are down. While still higher than historically seen numbers, there aren't as many short sales and auctions these days. That pushes resale and new construciton prices up.
Inventories of homes are at 50-year lows. Supply and demand -- lower new construction and sellers waiting for a better market -- have reduced the inventory greatly.
This Week's
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"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."
-- Hilary Hinton (Zig) Ziglar, motivational speaker, who died last week at the age of 86.
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Ryan M. Pitts Awarded Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor for soldier who held the line BY JOSH LEDERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Bleeding from both legs and his arm, Ryan Pitts kept firing at about 200 Taliban fighters, even holding onto his grenades an extra moment to ensure the enemy couldn't heave them back. On Monday, President Barack Obama draped the Medal of Honor around his neck, in a somber White House ceremony that also paid tribute to his nine platoon comrades who died that summer day in Afghanistan. Pitts, a 28-year-old former Army staff sergeant from Nashua, N.H., is the ninth living veteran of America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the nation's highest decoration for battlefield valor. Obama praised Pitts for holding the line as his comrades fell in one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghan war. "It is remarkable that we have young men and women serving in our military who, day in and day out, perform with so much integrity, so much humility and so much courage," the president said. "Ryan represents the very best of that tradition." Pitts' mission that day in June 2008 was supposed to be his last before returning home from his second tour of Afghanistan. After all, Pitts and his team had been in the country for 14 months, the Army said, battling frequently with enemy forces in northeastern Afghanistan's mountainous Waygal Valley. The goal was to move troops and equipment out of Combat Outpost Bella, a remote post roughly 10 miles from the nearest base, to a new site nearby. Accessible only by helicopter for supplies and reinforcements, Outpost Bella was slated to be closed. At 4 a.m., Pitts was manning his observation post. On the horizon, he could see the blue-roofed buildings and protective stone walls of the town of Wanat: A one- story mosque, a hotel and cafe, some homes and a local bazaar. What Pitts couldn't know was that all of those buildings were concealing enemy fighters. Some 200 of them soon launched a full-scale assault on the outpost, their machine-gun fire puncturing the early morning silence. A cascade of rocket-fired grenades, gunfire and hand grenades fell on the troops, quickly killing two paratroopers. Shrapnel from grenades struck Pitts in both legs and his left arm. Unable to walk, he crawled to a comrade, who put a tourniquet on his leg. For more than an hour, Pitts fought to protect the remaining troops and defend the post, the Army said. Propping himself up on his knees, he blindly fired a machine gun over a wall of sandbags, loading more bullets into his weapon despite his loss of blood. "Valor was everywhere that day, and the real heroes are the nine men who made the ultimate sacrifice so the rest of us could return home," Pitts said. "It is their names — not mine — that I want people to know." J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama bestows the Medal of Honor on Ryan M. Pitts, 28, of Nashua, N.H., a former Army staff sergeant who fought off enemy fighters in a bloody battle. Despite wounds, Ryan Pitts fought on


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Wendy's is no longer going to promote its W cheeseburger nationally.
The W, introduced late last year, was intended to be a midtier burger (originally $2.99 and later raised to $3.19) that would boost profit and sales, priced between the 99-cent menu and the more premium Dave's Hot 'N Juicy burger. Stephen Hare, Wendy's chief financial officer, said during its first-quarter conference call Tuesday that the W burger had not achieved the desired results.
The W was meant to get customers who use the 99-cent menu to trade up, but Wendy's saw the opposite effect, with customers who typically bought the more expensive burgers trading down.
"The positioning of 'W' clearly was not where it needed to be," Mr. Hare said. "As a result, we will not promote the 'W' again nationally."In retrospect the 'W' cheeseburger in December started to show signs of diluting our marketing message and cannibalized some of the success of Dave's Hot 'N Juicy," Mr. Hare said. "Still, we were hopeful that our February promotion of [Hot 'N Juicy] would help us regain our momentum, but unusually intense competitive couponing and discounting negatively impacted our sales growth," he added. Commodity costs, particularly for fresh beef, also affected the chain.
Last year, Wendy's passed Burger King to become the No. 2 burger chain in the U.S. by sales. But first-quarter sales disappointed the company and Wall Street . Although it was the fourth consecutive quarter of positive sales, North American same-store sales were up less than 1%. Comparatively, McDonald's U.S. same-store sales were up 8.9% in the period.
The chain is in what it called a "transition year," part of a turnaround effort that includes modernizing restaurants, introducing new menu items and positioning the brand as better than its fast-food competition and on par with fast-casual chains. Wendy's is also slated to introduce breakfast. It is testing it in select markets but has not provided details on a national rollout.
Last month Wendy's rolled out its new campaign, which carries the tagline "Now that 's better" and features two spokeswomen: the real Wendy Thomas, who promotes the brand, and another redhead, who focuses on product promotion.
"Our marketing messages must improve in impact and relevancy," said President-CEO Emil Brolick. "We know we can't out-shout the competition, so our strategy is not to attempt to play the same game better, it's to play a completely different game." The new campaign is an important step toward achieving that and "smartly challenges consumer food choices and promotes the benefits of choosing Wendy's ," he added.
As for the rest of 2012, "we will continue to leverage the quality positioning in our brand with new innovative twists on our heritage products and return to a few seasonal favorites," said Mr. Brolick. "We have seen that today's consumer is accessing price value in multiple ways and more frequently." He said that the company had recently introduced a "new layer of consumer engagement with a direct-mail coupon strategy designed to reinforce Wendy's brand promise message."


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'Let them come'!
Under-pressure chairman of the National Housing Trust (NHT), Easton Douglas, is welcoming a proposal from the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to mount a legal challenge against the purchase of the Trelawny property which housed the Outameni Experience.
Douglas is also eagerly awaiting a probe of the $180-million purchase by any state agency.
"If there is any question of the legality, let us test it in court," Douglas told The Sunday Gleaner late last week.
"I would welcome the court challenge because I would love for this matter to be tested in court," added Douglas, as he argued that a legal ruling would establish well-needed precedent.
Section 5(1) of the NHT Act vests the board with responsibility for the policy and general administration of the affairs of the Trust.
It has been argued by some lawyers that given the wording of the act on the powers of the Trust, the board has the scope to accommodate the acquisition of the attraction within its elastic boundaries.
However, other lawyers argue that the board overstepped its bounds as Section 4(1) of the act, which sets out the functions of the Trust, makes no provision for this type of purchase.
With legal minds appearing split over whether the NHT board had the legal authority to approve the purchase, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness has signalled that the JLP is considering taking the Government and the board of the NHT to court.
According to Holness, there is a strong case against the Government and the board, and while court action may be costly, "the JLP is considering seeking assistance from the private sector".
But a confident Douglas declared that neither he nor the other board members would shy away from a legal challenge.
"That is why we have the Westminster system of government where the judiciary is independent of the executive so any action can be tested in court."
The NHT chairman and former government minister was also adamant that nothing underhand was involved in the decision to purchase the mothballed attraction which has lost millions of dollars since it was opened by Lennie Little-White in 2007.
"If there is to be a probe to be carried out by the auditor general or the contractor general, then let them come," declared Douglas.


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Originally posted by theclutch
1. The 188 day earthquake predictions are based on a 8-15 day give or take.
2. The 188 day quake predictions being over 7 meg do not really count after a year or two as Nibiru would be so far away as to not effect us as much until it got closer......like this year and last!
There is no reason to be close minded.......that means you will discover nothing new or amazing!]
Originally posted by underduck
I said it earlier in this thread but apparently nobody read it or just ignored it. A 5-inch pole shift isnt uncommon at all. The pole is constantly shifting. Relax. As far as the gravitational trough ... If anything was distorting space time enough to cause us problems amatuer astronomers would be able to notice the the sky was off.
Originally posted by elliotmtl
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
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I guess you're not familiar with Terrence Lee Croft, huckster, alarmist, and borderline nutcase. Do some research on his name, and you'll have all you need to know what a scam artist this guy is.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
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There is no inbound object from outer space that will magically affect the Earth only on March 22nd.


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KIGALI - A Canadian federal court ruled that a Rwandan man accused of participating in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi must be extradited to Rwanda to answer charges against him.
The court ruled that Faustin Rutayisire, 54 was "complicit" in the slaughter of Tutsis in Southern Rwanda in 1994 before fleeing to Canada and that the decision cannot be appealed against.
The Government of Rwanda welcomed the decision by the court but Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said that he was not "unfazed", until the extradition is effected but nevertheless welcomed the decision.
"It is probably a good development, that is very true but we will wait until the real extradition is effected. We have had several cases in the past where the court decides to extradite suspects but it actually never happens," Karugarama said.
"You can only believe in it when it happens. We heard about that Judgement but we can only wait and see if it turns into reality. There are so many games people can play," said Karugarama.
Last year, a Swedish court ruled for the extradition of Sylvere Ahorugeze and his extradition was later given green light by their Minister of Justice; however, the move was later frustrated by the European Human Rights Court.
In December 2009, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ruled that Rutayisire was "complicit by virtue of his association with the principle authors who committed crimes against humanity."
The decision was upheld by the Federal Court last week on December 3. Rutayisire, a former mathematics teacher and sous-prefet of Butare prefecture in Southern Province, is likely to be extradited to Rwanda any time.
Karugarama said that in most cases, the suspects who are subject to extradition commit crimes in those particular countries and they end up getting more years in their countries of residence while at worst they end up in other countries before they could be extradited.
"We know people who had been actually ordered to be returned here but up to now they are still sitting in those countries. Actually there was one person who was supposed to be brought here. When they were putting him on the plane, he bit off the ear of the police officer and he was taken back and sentenced to 4 years for that,"
"Four years later when he was supposed to be returned, he ran mad on the plane and because other passengers were threatened, he was taken back and up to now, they are still stuck with the suspect," said Karugarama without naming the individual or country of residence.
It is reported that in early May 1994, Rutayisire was appointed sous-prefet of Butare and when the massacres began in Butare on April 20, he used his position to influence militias to hunt for the Tutsi.
He served until July, when he fled to South Africa. He applied for refugee status in Canada and was granted permanent residence in 2003, but two years later the Canadian government began trying to extraditing him under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
According to available evidence, Rutayisire was complicit in the death of Victor Nduwumwe, a senior teacher at the same 'Ecole Sociale de Karubanda' in Butare where the suspect worked.
Rutayisire denied any role in the genocide and claimed that he was afraid to turn down the job of sous-prefet under the interim government – most of whose members are facing Genocide charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, or have already been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.
The Canadian government will conduct a risk assessment to determine whether Rutayisire can be safely brought to Rwanda.
Canada is home to many genocide suspects.
In June, Canadian prosecutors charged Jacques Mungwarere with four counts of genocide while Desire Munyaneza of Toronto was sentenced to life in prison last year for his role.
Several requests by the Rwandan government to have them extradited have been futile but Canada has listed a number of those "likely" to be deported, including Leon Mugesera.


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Ignoring opposition to Barack Obama's Syria mis-adventure from liberal Democrats like Joe Manchin and Alan Grayson and even fellow MSNBC host Chris 'I'm not Rachel' Hayes, MSNBC's Ed Schultz is placing the blame on alleged GOP racism.
"I really believe that everything that we have said on this show are reasonable, patriotic reasons to be against another war, another strike, another act of war–and that's what it is–but hatred of our first black president is not."
While just another sad level on the pillar-to-post host's decline into the sub-basement of television ratings, another news item makes it very clear who judges people, not by the content of their character, as Dr. King wished, but by the color of their skin.
The nomadic Schultz has sat in three time slots in the past year alone. He was supposed to be a savior for MSNBC's failing 5:00 PM spot. Instead, because of 5th grade comments like this, he's getting pummeled by Fox in his time slot of the month–and by CNN as well.
That's right, notable Hollywood doves such as Ed Asner and Mike Farrell are "extremely" disappointed in Barack Obama for his position on Syria, going so far as to claim it would be a war crime if he acts. But they don't want to be too vocal in their opposition because, … well, that might be perceived as "racist."
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Oglethorpe holds off La Verne for DIII title
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Oglethorpe chased down Methodist University, the 54-hole leader, and held off a charging University of La Verne to earn the Championship win. The Petrels finished with a four day total of 12-over par 1164 to best La Verne who came in at 16-over par 1168.
Oglethorpe sophomore Olafur Loftsson (Reyjakvic, Iceland) fired a final round 3-under par 69 to come from behind to win individual medalist honors at the Championship. Loftsson finished in a tie with La Verne's Mitchell Fedorka and bested him on the first playoff hole to win the Arnold Palmer award for tournament medalist. For the four day tournament, Loftsson finished with a score of 285, good for 3-under par.
Stormy Petrel freshman Colin Chapman (Franklin, North Carolina) fired a final round of 1-under par and finished in a tie for 11th place overall. Oglethorpe junior Scott Pugh (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) carded a tournament total of 296 (8-over) to finish in a tie for 15th place while senior Hap Kaufold (Albany, Georgia) came home with a total of 298 to finish tied for 27th place. Freshman Matt Bernstein (Atlanta, Georgia) carded a four day total of 305 and finished tied for 51st.
Oglethorpe head golf coach Jim Owen, a fifteen year veteran coaching the team, said, "This is a great day for Oglethorpe athletics. I could not be more proud of our guys for bringing home the school's first championship. They certainly earned it with their stellar play on the course."


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On Fri, 7 Feb 1997 David Goldsmith wrote:
> you need to have the appropriate Macintosh
> scripts and fonts installed to view the corresponding portion of Unicode.
> For example, you won't be able to view or edit Japanese unless you have a
> Japanese Mac OS or the Japanese Language Kit installed. You might be able
> to view Japanese using the Korean Language Kit, as I believe that font
> covers all the common Japanese characters.
Highly unlikely. Korean Standards ususally contain Kana, but not
enough Kanji, and not the right ones.
Regards, Martin.
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