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I was much amused by your account of your journeyto Jo'burg on Maundy Thursday....If you fetch up at Bloemfontein I shall wonder if the if the little old stone bank-house (Bank of South Africa) where I was born is still standing. And I wonder if my Father's grave is there still. I have never done anything about it, but I believe my mother has a stone-cross put up or sent out. (A.R. Tolkien died in 1896). If not it will be lost now, prob., unless there are any records....
..end of January1921 Caape Town offered him the post. In many ways he would have liked to accept. It would have meant a return to the land of his birth, and he always wanted to see South Arica again.
I highly reccommend the book 'Tolkein' by Humphrey Carpenter.
If you've read the news on the front page, you'll know what I'm talking about.
It's about time he was recognized and honoured in the city of his birth!!
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A father and son have been arrested in connection to an armed robbery that took place on Sunday afternoon.
47-year-old Ronald Firm and 20-year-old Christopher Firm are facing multiple charges including robbery and menacing.
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Shelby County recorded one of the 10 lowest jobless rates in Kentucky during January 2011, according to the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.
Shelby's rate was 9.7 percent, ranking it eighth in the latest figures and was better than January 2010 (10.2 percent) though up from December (8.5).
Online readers of The Sentinel-Newshave seen many changes to its Web site during the past few months, but the biggest will start today.
That's when www.SentinelNews.com will join a growing national trend being set by The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Wall Street Journaland dozens of other newspapers by implementing a subscriber-based pay system to view most content.
The Triple S Planning Commission moved quickly through a very short agenda Tuesday.
The meeting, which was moved to Shelbyville City Hall while the Stratton Center undergoes renovations, covered just three topics, and no comments were made from the audience.
Equestrian Lakes North, which is located on Clark Station Road, will begin its 13-lot Phase 1 after receiving approval for a preliminary plat that increased the number of lots from 32 to 36.
This is National Agriculture Week, a time for assessing and appreciating our nation's farms and the crops they produce for us.
But as you look around Shelby County, you'll find that those crops are coming under heavy rotation, that our farms aren't what they used to be.
Those bucolic images of dairy cows roaming the pastures and tobacco growing tall and green in fields and hanging in rustic barns are evolving into a future of new livelihoods that might surprise you a bit.
LAWRENCEBURG – Shelby County's jailer is wasting little time in trying to capitalize on the unresolved feud between the Anderson and Franklin County jailers.
Shelby Jailer Bobby Waits pitched his jail's availability to Anderson County Fiscal Court on Tuesday night, saying he would welcome inmates from Anderson — and the roughly $600,000 in revenue they would pour into his jail's budget — with open arms.
"I think we can work together," Waits said. "I wanted you to meet me and get to know me."
Both drivers were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after a car struck a bus loaded with 47 children headed home from school on Mount Eden Road in Shelbyville.
Both the bus driver, David Kendall of Shelbyville, and the driver of the car that hit the bus, Georgia Perry, 79, of Southville, were taken to Jewish Hospital Shelbyville with unknown injuries, though they were not thought to be life-threatening, Shelby County Deputy Sheriff Fred Rothenburger said.
That federal transportation grant the city of Simpsonville won last year for its city sidewalk project along U.S. 60 appears to be moving into a faster lane toward construction.
Commissioners approved at their meeting Wednesday morning a resolution for Mayor Steve Eden to sign the paperwork required to receive the $320,000 from the stimulus program.
Shelby County Public Schools showed overall good performance against the goals the school board set for its 2010-11 school year, but there also are some areas in which aggressive goals weren't met.
That was the assessment the board heard at its meeting Thursday night during a review of the goals, which center on the district's 5 Main Things of Curriculum Alignment, Instructional Norms, Professional Learning Communities, Intervention and Enrichment.
The Shelby County School Board voted unanimously at Thursday's meeting to fund an expanded summer school program.
The district will now add intensive 1-month literacy programs in fifth, seventh and ninth grades to the programs installed last year for first and third grades.
The district is working to build a curriculum based on the Comprehensive Intervention Model (CIM), which administrators used for the younger grades in last year's first revamped summer program.
Members of the Shelby County Board of Education got a bit of a surprise Thursday night: an accidental preview of a new approach to educating the county's highest achieving students.
Kerry Fannin, the assistant superintendent for student achievement, was so excited during his presentation at the board's meeting that he couldn't sit on an announcement that had been scheduled for the meeting on March 24.
"In two weeks I can't wait to present an accelerated academy for both high schools," he told the board.
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Skip to comments.Mexican Lab Closed Down After Suspicions that Painkiller Killed Heroin Users in U.S.
Posted on 06/05/2006 8:10:06 PM PDT by KoRn
CHICAGO U.S. agents, working in cooperation with the Mexican government, have closed down a lab in Mexico that might be the main source of a powerful painkiller that has killed at least 100 heroin users in eight states, the federal drug czar said Monday.
John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said it's still not clear whether the painkiller,fentanyl, was mixed with heroin at the lab in Mexico or after it entered the United States.
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They should open up more of those labs.
A bunch of dead heroin users is bad how?
I think that would be micrograms and yes it is 80x as potent as morphine and tough to handle. But it appears there is a recipe for cooking this in a kitchen so we can expect more of this.
Methamphetamine is to cocaine what fentanyl is to heroin.
The unintended consequences of the WOD are cruel.
So much for compassion. I suppose there are those who wish the same for you.
Cocaine is to chewing coca leaves as fentanyl is to heroin.
Yes, that's right. I was thinking one thing and typing another lol.
No one put a gun to the dumb asses heads to make them use heroin. They are nothing but a burden on society. Good riddence.
maybe they don't care ... these are monsters and creeps poisoning human beings
I have to agree with you there. If drugs were sold legally by licensed and regulated manufacturers in licensed and regulated businesses the demand for 'home cooked' flavors of drugs would be greatly reduced. I know I'll be shot down and flamed for saying such a thing on here, but its the simple truth.
Does anyone know what kind of death this would cause? What I mean is, what symptoms would be exhibited in a person who had taken this? I ask because I know of someone who died under mysterious circumstances recently.
That's true. As long as they get their $$$$ they don't care. It doesn't matter if a child dies or if a family gets destroyed by their end product. Allot of they money they make on that stuff is blood on their hands. It reminds me of some of the 'creative' things bootleggers used to do with whiskey when they were making it.
"A bunch of dead heroin users is bad how?
So much for compassion. I suppose there are those who wish the same for you."
Is living with a Heroin addiction so much better then dying ?
Suffocation in one form or another. It's a bigtime respiratory depressant. The people taking the Fentanyl laced drugs would simply forget to breathe.
Too funny, really. They can't find drug traffickers, they can't stop the dope from crossing the border, they say they don't know where it's coming from, they don't know who is distributing it here, but hold the door! When that many "customers" drop dead they can cooperate with Mexico and find that lab lickety split and shut it down. Failure to close that lab quickly could hurt profits, you know. How interesting...
Wow, a painkiller that's 100% effective.
A quick one?
Now that you mention it, that IS pretty interesting. If the lab were involved in human smuggling rather than drugs it would still be going strong today.......
But the owners will get amnesty
I won't go there now. I'll end up hijacking my own thread ROFL!!
I read that if the first dose of Fentanyl doesn't kill you, it will definitely hook you.
Do you really want a drug like that legal? There would be pushers slipping it to unexpecting people. Some of the people who took the bad heroin thought they were taking pure heroin and didn't know they were getting Fentanyl.
It suppresses breathing. You stop breathing.
Oh hell no. No way should a drug that potent be available to everyone. A drug like that should ONLY be used for surgeries or chronic pain patients in controlled released medicines. Heroine shouldn't be legal either. Heroine is just Morphine that hasn't been as 'refined'. I believe that some of the 'recreational' drugs should be regulated and sold legally to adults. I'm sure if this is done it would reduce demand for the harder drugs. No one can say so for sure, but people are using hard drugs now, and the lesser drugs are still illegal. I just don't see the logic of something like hard liquor being legal to buy, and something like marijuana be illegal(no I don't use it). It doesn't make any sense because hard liquor is worse for you physically than marijuana, and causes physical dependence.
IIRC Heroin is refined morphine which is refined opium.
Ahh. I'm not a pharmacist, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, was just repeating what a Dr. told me once. What does IIRC mean? I've seen that a few times on other threads.
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly.
"The medicine is so strong it's measured in microliters, and is 80 times more potent than Morphine."
It is measured in Micrograms.
In order as follows:
Decreased blood pressure and heart rate.
Decreased consciousness.
Lack of consciousness.Respiratory arrest and death.
The war on drugs is a joke. The war keeps the prices high and gives the bad guys that bring this crap into the country a monopoly and insane profits that are used to promote more crime. The answer to the problem is very simple. Legalize it and take the crime out of it. Give help to those that want help to kick the habit. Be grateful that those that want to live their life in a drug induced haze will probably overdose or live on the fringes of society and not harm us as they do today
Mississippi had the highest per capita consumption of alcohol in the nation when it was a dry state. When Mississippi went wet, alcohol consumption went down.
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Opium is the unrefined product of the poppy plant. It has many alkaloids in it, several of which but not all are very effective pain killers and also addictive. Morphine is one of the alkaloids. Heroin is simply morphine that has a slightly different chemical structure that makes it much more lipid soluble. Because of this increased lipid solubility it will cross the "blood brain barrier" much more easily than morphine and thus is a much more effective pain killer and much more addictive
Mainland China SOLVED their drug problem arond 1947? very effectively. If we would do the same, we wouldn't have such a problem. However, few want to listen.
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By Phil Reidinger, AMEDDC&S Public AffairsDecember 9, 2010
SAN ANTONIO -- One of every six San Antonio employees works in the health care and biosciences industries and the industry impact is approximately $24.5 billion, according to a report released by the San Antonio Greater Chamber of Commerce Nov. 30.
The study was conducted by Trinity University professors Richard Butler, Ph.D., and Mary Stefl, Ph.D.
During his presentation, Butler noted that recent developments in military medicine and the bioscience sector point to a bright future for health care and biosciences in San Antonio.
Butler also stated that the economic impact, based on data collected during 2009, for the first time included a serious conservative and comprehensive evaluation of contributions to the city economy by military medical health care operations, research, and training and education programs.
During the annual health care and biosciences industries luncheon, Maj. Gen. David Rubenstein, Army Medical Department Center & School commanding general, described the growing military medical presence in the community as a result of BRAC 2005.
During his presentation, Rubenstein summarized current military medicine organizations such as the Army Medical Command, the Air Force Medical Operations Agency, the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, the Institute for Surgical Research and the Army Medical Department Center & School.
He noted that in addition to the allied health care training programs at the AMEDDC&S, more than 600 interns, residents and fellows participate in graduate medical education programs in San Antonio. Programs sponsored by the University of Texas Health Science Center include psychiatry, surgery, nephrology and nuclear medicine.
Rubenstein said that new capabilities such as the San Antonio Military Medical Center (BAMC), Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, the Defense Department's consolidation of enlisted medical training programs and the establishment of the Medical Education and Training Campus, the Joint Center for Battlefield Health and Trauma and the first BAMC community-based health care clinic are all indicators of the growth of military medicine in the San Antonio area.
BRAC 2005 legislation directed the consolidation of enlisted medical training for the Army, Navy, and Air Force at Fort Sam Houston.
The METC complex encompasses approximately 1.9 million square feet of facilities, including dorms, classrooms, laboratories, a headquarters/administration building, physical fitness center, student activities center, and an 80,000-square-foot dining facility.
METC is expected to have an average daily student enrollment of approximately 9,000, making it the largest institution of its kind in the world.
Also related to BRAC is the consolidation of all military in-patient care in San Antonio at BAMC.
This project involves construction of a seven-story, 760,000-square-foot addition that will house a Level 1 trauma center, operating rooms, clinical and administrative space and an extension of BAMC's internationally acclaimed burn center. A 5,000-space parking garage will also be built, as well as a central energy plant.
More than 300,000 square feet of the existing BAMC facilities will be renovated. When construction is finished, the complex will absorb the inpatient and civilian trauma care services currently provided at Wilford Hall Medical Center. A new WHMC replacement facility will focus exclusively on outpatient care.
BRAC 2005 construction also includes two medical research and laboratory buildings for improved battlefield trauma recovery and patient treatment.
The 150,000-square-foot Joint Center of Excellence for Battlefield Health and Trauma Research built next to BAMC is consolidating research efforts of all service branches to enhance the delivery of combat casualty care.
To the north of BAMC on Holbrook Road, the Tri-Service Research Laboratory is a 181,000-square-foot structure designed to house research efforts that examine the health and safety effects of exposure to a variety of stressors in the field.
BRAC-related renovation of clinical facilities include Budge Dental, Rhodes Dental, McWethy Health Clinics and the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine.
The BRAC 2005 medical component program consists of 53 contracts with an aggregate programmed amount of approximately $2.19 billion. The contracts cover construction or renovation of 76 facilities totaling approximately 6.5 million square feet of building space.
(Brian Dwyer, JPMO Public Affairs Office, contributed to this article)


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Translation of clamor in Spanish:
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- But underneath all the clamor and the noise, a single heart beats.
- The noise had reached a clamour, and the smoke was making their eyes water.
- With each passing moment, as the horizon became a little brighter, the clamor became louder, until all the knights of the camp were up and about, making ready for their departure.
- 2 (outcry) clamor
for/ againstsomethingthe clamor for increased subsidieslas voces que reclamaban un aumento en las subvencionesthe public clamor against her appointmentel clamor popular contra su nombramientoExample sentences
- 'The clamour for early interest rate increases is unjustified and potentially dangerous, particularly for manufacturing,' he said.
- Many locals also work with the international agencies, and are well off by past standards, although the clamour for more jobs in an economy with high unemployment is intense.
- In view of the clamour for more public spending, especially on health, transport and education, the Chancellor is seen as more likely to choose to boost public expenditure than cut taxes.
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Such fun! Must have been quite a project getting them all together!
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I feel like it's missing one! Isn't there a point where Michael wants to meet with some of the office, but only certain people. He calls them the 'classic gang' or something, and Pam does a th where she lists the people and says, "We're a regular Ocean's 11."
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This is great! I might have missed it in the montage, but wasn't there an episode–I think it was The Fight,–where Jim and Pam are walking behind Michael snapping their fingers like the gangs in West Side Story
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What about The Blair Witch Hunt Project?
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Nicely done ! Very enjoyable.
*sigh* miss those guys
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Credit Report America the company charged my credit card 1 then they charged me 29.95 plus 2 in return i got nothing. I cannot cancel because i cannot reach a live person to cancel. Internet
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The mechanics were cordial and attentive. The manager informed me that I had a lot of oil in the oil pan and my car's gasket was leaking. I gave the standard reply..." How much will that be?" They wrote up an estimate and I consented to the repairs. At this point, there were no strange noises coming from my car and I drove the car to the facility with absolutely no problems. I waited restlessly for close to 8 hours but what I thought as being extremely strange was the store's manager taking pictures of my car's engine with a digital camera!!! Danger.. Will Robinson!!! He went on to say that my vehicle's oil should not look so dark and that I need to change the oil every six hundred miles and he made some mention of the oil pump. Last, I purged my pockets of close to six hundred dollars and I went out to dinner with my family.
The next day on my way to church, after about twenty minutes into the trip, my car started to make very stange noises that quite frankly had never come from the vehicle since I purchased it. My wife insisted that I pull over and the car was cutting off when I would idle at stop lights. Initially, I thought it was my battery but I had the battery checked and it was fine. I tried to make it home but the vehicle stopped completely and I needed a tow. I had the tow truck operator tow my car to the nearest Merchant tire store (909 Chillum Rd, Hyattsville, Md). I was certain that the mechanics of the store would not see my vehicle that Sunday (6/17/07). I went home...
On Monday, I called and they informed me that the car was fine and they had in fact driven the vehicle for a mile to listen for these alleged noises. They could find nothing and they checked the engine..."the oil was right on level." The manager said that I needed to take the car back to the other Merchants... Needless to say that within 10 minutes of driving my car the noises were back and I needed another tow truck. I was furious and the second store's manager cavalierely say..."Can you get it towed to the Baltimore ave Merchant's..?"
I got the vehicle towed to the Baltimore ave store and thus began adventure in wonderland. After repeated calls, I was informed that I had a claim against Merchants (Mind you, all I wanted was my car fixed!!!) I called the district manager and Esis. They examined my car and found that Merchants was not liable. They said that my vehicle was damaged from oil starvation. Meanwhile, I have paid Merchant six hundred dollars for a vehicle that will not run. What I believe happened is that upon cleaning the oil pan and repairing the gasket that indeed the oil pump did get clogged causing the oil starvation!
Now, I have to get my car towed to another location to repair the engine or buy a new car. The district manager tells me to look at the report. The store manager made no mention of oil starvation when he patted me on the head and bounced me out of the store on that sunny Saturday. And what about the pictures? How do I pursue this any further? I am as mad as a swarm of hornets!
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1. You took your car to a tire shop for an engine problem. Most tire shops hire people who know suspension and alignment, they are not experts on major engine repairs.
2. Chain stores like this one simply sell a service and their franchise pressures them to sell unnecessary services to consumers by deception.
Do your self a favor and find a 'Real Mechanic' for your repair needs.
My neighbor had a similar experience with a local tire shop. I was in another tire shop and saw some of their questionable diagnostic skills conveyed to a customer. I am Master Certified by ASE and will never replace a gasket and send you on your way if there is a major problem with your vehicle. Its just Bad Business!
I suggest you contact the news, most stations have a section called 'On your Side' to expose situations like this where consumers were cheated by a local business.
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The justice system is so over abusive because of the need for revenue in Maryland and Virginia these companies know it and have full time collection attornies on retainers.
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I don't know the whole story obviously, but I would definately talk to another mechanic for an independent inspection and then try taking them to small claims court. Just because they decided it wasn't the stores responsibility, doesn't mean a judge wont. That's my opinion anyway. I really don't see how they aren't responsible at all for this situation.
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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 1584
Have Sri Lanka's foreign affairs 'pundits' heard of widely-read Huffington Post which Disseminate 'Tamil misery'?
To Sri Lanka's External Affairs Ministry or its overseas diplomats the dissemination of news of 'Tamil misery' in Sri Lanka by an Internet Newspaper called US-based Huffington Post to discourage American investment in Sri Lanka may be another media report that could be dismissed as unimportant.
Because, Sri Lanka's overseas public diplomacy or its public affairs program has not identified in advance the most influential media outlets in Western capitals, especially the epicenter of Western diplomacy Washington, to reach them and make them knowledgeable of the country's current atmosphere and situation.
Identifying and maintaining closer rapport with such media outlets become assets to post-terrorist Sri Lanka to combat the dissemination of misinterpretations and falsehood about the minority Tamil ethnic community, which was physically and psychologically connected to the separatist Tamil Tiger movement, encouraging a section of the international community to tighten the noose which has been already placed in Sri Lanka's neck.
Combating the world-wide misinformation campaign is possibly the hardest public affairs and public diplomacy battle Sri Lanka is waging far worse than the military battle it unleashed against the well financed and well equipped Tamil Tiger movement.
The widely read California-based Internet Newspaper Huffington Post which is tied up with another widely-accessed media outlet America On Line (AOL) on it August 18 edition highlighted in its Business Page, which even has a wider readership, that "ramped up American business investment could benefit Sri Lanka by expanding its infrastructure and markets and creating jobs. However, many of the country's ethnic Tamils remain disenfranchised politically, socially and economically".
If Sri Lanka lacks the knowhow and competent personnel to combat this misinformation the investors and business community in the United States could turn their dollars somewhere else.
This is exactly what the California-based senior and experienced medical doctor Karunyan Arulantham, the head of the Tamil American Peace Initiative, wanted when he wrote the column to Huffington Post to discourage American investors and businessmen reaching Sri Lanka.
And Dr. Arulantham who tours American cities and universities and reaches out to Congressmen and their influential immediate staff to make them 'knowledgeable about the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka' seems to be familiar with the basics of strategic communication the Sri Lankan foreign affairs pundits are incapable of studying even at this late stage.
Started in 2005 Huffington Post relentless march toward world domination: The Company attracts a staggering 26 million unique visitors for a month. In the United States alone its monthly hits are 21.5 million a month. This is a real big audience for the site, especially its Business Page, to which Dr. Arulantham wrote about the misery of Sri Lanka minority Tamils under the Rajapaksa government.
The objective of the Tamil American Peace Initiative of Dr. Arulantham represents when he address audiences in American cities attended by U.S. policymakers, lawmakers, media and businessmen are:
(Begin Quote) To inform and engage the American people and American policymakers on the issues involved in peace-building in Sri Lanka.
To encourage the United States and the international community to support a political solution that will create stability and promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka by guaranteeing the rights of all peoples on the island, including the right to security, political representation, full economic participation, and religious freedom.
To promote changes to the political and governance structure of Sri Lanka that will allow for greater regional autonomy, fuller political representation of all ethnic and religious groups on the island, and the defense of the individual and collective rights.
To support a Sri Lankan government that will defend the rights and well-being of all its citizens.
To work toward true reconciliation by promoting justice, accountability, and transparency.
To ensure the safety, dignity and prosperity of Tamils and other groups in the regions where they traditionally live, and to protect and preserve their culture. (End Quote)
The Huffington Post gave extensive exposure to what Dr. Arulantham says about the Sri Lankan Tamil minority discouraging American investments in that country.
Has the Sri Lankan foreign policy pundits and their overseas representatives capable of combating the 'interpretation' he gives to the American, and international, audience, a section of the audience that Sri Lanka needs to develop its economy?
This is what the learned doctor says:
(Quote) In theory, ramped up American business investment could benefit Sri Lanka by expanding its infrastructure and markets and creating jobs.
However, many of the country's ethnic Tamils remain disenfranchised politically, socially and economically. The Sri Lankan government has buoyed military occupancy of traditionally Tamil-majority areas in the north and east, where it is increasingly relocating the majority Sinhalese in an obvious policy to change the island's demographics. The government has also failed to locate much new employment-generating businesses in the war-devastated north and east of the country where there are tens of thousands of impoverished women-headed households due to the war.
Development projects in the north rarely help local Tamils, with jobs largely going to newly-relocated Sinhalese and foreign workers. This, and other government policies of ethnic discrimination, fuel continuing tensions and stoke fears of renewed conflict. (Unquote)
Another Quote: "On-going exclusionary policies," according to a recent report by a UN panel of experts on Sri Lanka, "have been at the heart of the conflict." But little is being done to correct the problem. Certainly the government has not taken meaningful steps, largely because it is more interested in promoting opportunities for the Sinhalese and the president's family. (Unquote)
Dr. Arulantham uses the widely-read Huffington Post Internet Newspaper to reach the American investors:
(Quote) Amid the many ethnic equality-related concerns that continue to go unresolved, American businesses must do their homework and not allow themselves to become smitten by Rajapaksa or his family as they seek corporate dollars in the name of developing the country while building a political dynasty and family business empire. Many regions of Sri Lanka, including areas around the capital that were never involved in the conflict, have rising reports of alleged murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping by soldiers and other government agents.
Journalists face intimidation and the media continues to be censored or to practice self-censorship. Many of the island's lingering problems go unreported.
If American businesses want to invest in Sri Lanka, they must craft equitable investment strategies that fully support policies of non-discrimination and investment in war-devastated regions. If the government of Sri Lanka is not willing to cooperate in these and other efforts for accountability and reconciliation, then American businesses should take their investments elsewhere. Many of the conditions that led to the brutal, decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka have yet to be resolved. Shareholders and consumers must not become unwitting accomplices to the on-going oppression and discrimination by pumping investment dollars into the island without understanding the policies they are funding. (Unquote)
The Sri Lanka External Affairs Ministry needs to be reminded of the mid-1800 pronouncement of the foremost American circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum. He famously said: 'There's a sucker born every minute: There's no such thing as bad publicity, and the more outrages your claim the more people that will notice you and buy a ticket to your show.'
Sri Lanka has faced a severe international challenge slowly built up by people like Dr. Karunyan Arulantham and others since the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers in May 2009. This systematic and strategic campaign by a section of the Sri Lankan Diaspora in Western nations have now entered the portals of political power in Washington, London, Bonn, Paris, New York (UN) and elsewhere. If there were competent Sri Lankan officials in the External Affairs Ministry and among its overseas diplomatic corps a study would have been undertaken at the initial stage to ascertain that strategy that has engulfed the power centers in Western capitals a year later. Understanding that strategy and the covert and overt movements of the section of the Sri Lanka Diaspora and their foreign cohorts and placing a counter-strategy wouldn't have led senior Sri Lankan officials including defense secretary Rajapaksa to recognize that there is a serious anti-Sri Lankan misinformation campaign in operation.
Instead, Sri Lanka is giving wrong messages to the world. When senior Sri Lankan officials declare that there is no need for devolution of power to the periphery because the LTTE is already defeated, that's the wrong message picked up by the misinformation campaign. When the Government of Sri Lanka allows its commissioner of election to declare the reduction of electoral representation to the predominantly-Tamil northern districts, even it is constitutional, that's a wrong message. The message that Washington has already received is that the GSL, which they throughout the past several decades described as Sinhalese-dominated entity, is endeavoring to reduce the Tamil voice. When the cabinet spokesman declares that the assault on a Tamil journalist in the northern city of Jaffna is a 'simple incident' that's a wrong message.
Sri Lanka's foreign policy pundits and their overseas representatives have themselves created a 'monster' which they have to battle now. And, Dr. Arulantham has used widely-reached Huffington Post to undermine what the Sri Lanka mission in Washington undertook recently to attract the American investors because of their utter lack of knowledge of public affairs, public diplomacy and strategic communication.
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Australia's Will Genia is wary of the threat posed by Wales' Gareth Davies, believing the scrum-half to be among the finest at this year's World Cup.
Australia's Will Genia is wary of the threat posed by Wales' Gareth Davies, believing the scrum-half to be among the finest at this year's World Cup.
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Skip to comments.Maryland Shall Issue Update 8/10/08
Posted on 08/11/2008 8:08:55 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51
1) Open Carry Lunch - multi-state Saturday, Sept. 13th - 11 AM - Red, Hot & Blue in Leesburg, VA.
This is a multi-state (PA, WV, VA, MD and DE) Open carry lunch for any and all members of PAFOA, PA Open Carry, Maryland Shooters.org, Maryland Shall Issue, Delaware Open Carry, West Virginia Citizens Defense League and The Virginians Citizens Defense League.
Anyone not associated with these groups are still welcome to join this open carry event. Open carry is recommended and encouraged, but not required. Carry if you feel comfortable; however, remember that Virginia law requires you to open carry an in establishment that serves alcohol.
Registration for the event will close on August 31st -- please register promplty so we can obtain an accurate head count and give enough notice to the venue.
Link to RSVP http://www.deloc.org/deloc/rsvp.php
more info: http://www.pafoa.org/forum/concealed-open-carry-121/27554-multi-state-lunch-has-been-decided.html
2) Capitol Gun Owners dot Org http://www.CapitalGunOwners.org A newly formed organization to lobby for gun rights for DC residents.
For more information contact:
Amy McVey, 202-966-9276 George Lyon, 202-828-9472
3) Olympic Shooting Sports (by way of Doug & Jim Sr.)
In case anyones interested in following it, go to http://www.nbcolympics.com/shooting/
4) Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Raids ... since the warrantless SWAT bust of the mayor of Berwyn Heights is in the news ...
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476 pdf w/ interactive map
5) "Illegal" ammo ?!
I don't know what they would have done had I not been at home. Or if my Wife had not opened the door. Let's face it, it's highly questionable if not criminal for them to have even besieged my home in the middle of the night because I legally purchased handgun ammunition. Who knows what they are capable of, given that rationale... In Practice, Police "ACT" then worry about legalities latter because of "Tunnel Vision". Usually they try to "settle" cases rather than set a legal precedent or admit guilt. I don't want money (my contact to NRA Attorney), I want then to STOP this practice and be held accountable for their actions.
If you want to "bust" people for legally buying handgun ammo when the State Police don't have a record of you owning any such caliber weapon, then make it illegal to do so (good luck). Don't send a Swat Team to a Law Abiding Citizen's Home at Midnight when they have not broken any laws!
By all means share this info with "Shall Issue Inc." and you can use my name. I've already been told by Chris Contee (NRA Legal Counsel), that if they come back with or without a warrant, have them call him direct.
Thanks and lock your door.
Don Curtis
Hello Henry.
I just wanted your organization to know what Our State Police are up too. The incident below happened to me, a legal gun owner in La Plata, Maryland two nights ago (August 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM). Next time, they won't get in without a warrant. You live and you learn. Below, is the e-mail I sent to Mr. Chris Contee NRA, Chief Counsel at his request. I know I'm not an isolated incident so I hope your members keep their doors locked.
Dear Chris,
It was great to speak with you today by phone. Sorry but also glad you are so busy with our legislative matters. What would we do without you and the NRA?
As I told you by phone, my Wife and I were unfairly besieged late last night by the Maryland State Police. I have also relayed this occurrence to "Citizens Group for the right to keep and bear arms". I believe they are in Seattle Washington. Enclosed is my summation for your review. Good luck on your trip and safe travel.
Last night at 12:30 pm a MD State Police "Armed Response Team" showed up at our door. I was dead asleep, my Wife was laying some ceramic tile on our basement floor when our driveway alert went off several times. She looked at the camera monitor and screamed that Police in Assault gear were running up to our front door. That made me sit straight up from a dead sleep.
We thought they were there for my Brother in Law who had just been mailed Bench Warrants to our home, but he doesn't live here and he is already incarcerated, so my Wife opened the door for them. Then I heard one of them say he had some papers for me or needed to speak with me,so I got up to speak with them 6 or 7 officers in full assault vests, etc. and NO ONE in uniform. Four heavily armed police came into the house while at least two others walked around outside of our home.
One, began to talk to me asking me about the types of weapons I own. Remember now, I was just startled from a dead sleep and I kept asking why are you here, why do you want to know about my guns? Every gun I bought in Maryland I bought from a MD Dealer. Well this Trooper said that I had purchased a "large amount" of ammunition recently and wanted to know why. When I questioned why he was asking, then he changed his tune to what type of Handguns I had. I told him I just purchased my first handgun in Maryland last week, but had not even picked it up from the Store . He questioned me about other handguns I might own and I realized that he was "fishing" to match his list of my ammunition purchases with handguns that I owned. Then I told him about my C&R license that I had purchased 2 with that but was not required to register them with ST. Police. Moreover, I told him it was the MD. ST. Police who approved me as a "designated collector" so why are they here in storm trooper fashion at 12:30 pm maybe to kill me because I legally bought some handgun ammo? He told me that most of the ammo I purchased was for weapons that they had no record of me having registered so the "SYSTEM" Flagged me. Flagged me for what? Death, Harassment at midnight by 7 Storm Troopers?
I asked, "... does your system know that it is stupid to buy ammo with your own ID if your are going to do something illegal, Does your system know that I have a C&R and can buy weapons of various calibers without your knowledge, Does your system know that you yourselves registered me as a designated collector, who "collects" so it is not unusual for me to buy any type or manner of ammunition and finally, Does your system know that it is NOT illegal to purchase handgun ammunition in the State of Maryland whether or not you own that caliber handgun?"
The Trooper (plain clothes), had a list of ammo calibers that he referred to and I agreed, there's no secret that I bought the ammo, but so what? And I'm still not sure of the States definition of a "large amount". Look, I'm not outfitting a Militia, hate group, or giving it to someone who can't buy it, or even buy ammo for a stolen weapon I don't want to register. Any weapon I have every owned has either been purchased at a Gun Store or I personally knew the individual I bought it from and its origin. And, last time I looked it is not illegal to buy handgun ammo, even if you don't own the caliber weapon OR you don't own a weapon at all !! So unless the law is changed, Police cannot harass people who do so.
That being said, the young Trooper told me I "should" voluntarily register all my weapons or this would happen again... because the "system" flagged me. And another thing, he kept asking where I kept my weapons, in a safe? I never answered him and he asked me three separate times as to the locations of any weapons I might have. I got the distinct impression he wanted me to voluntarily let him see/inspect the handguns for the calibers I bought ammo for, but I was ready for that. No warrant, no see. I mean, I would hope you could trust the Police, but why should I let six or seven or so strangers know where I keep guns? If indeed I had the calibers he was inquiring about?
The point here though, is that Police came to my home without a warrant, dressed to kill, trying to intimidate me about something that is NOT illegal !! This was not an Interview it was an interrogation under duress.
Funny the last thing he said to me before leaving was "... Mr. Curtis, sorry to have HARASSED you, you have a good night." Now that struck me as an odd thing for a Police Officer to say, especially if he was justified in doing his job. The last thing I'll say was that Trooper was courteous and having worn the badge, he and the team were sent by someone else, they're just following orders. However, whoever sent them to my home at 12:30 at night left a very bad taste in my mouth and NO ONE IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES TO ME NOR DO I KNOW THEIR NAMES. But rest assured they WERE the Maryland State Police. Word has it that there is a Special "Firearms" squad within the State Police and they have been asking gun dealers to keep a log of people who purchase handgun and other regulated weapon ammunition by making them show ID and signing their name when purchasing ammunition (not required under Maryland Law). Their MVA / DMV information is put in the log by the FFL Dealer right beside the ammunition you buy. Then once a week they (Police) come back to the stores pick up the logs of ammunition purchases and as in my case, they are comparing handgun ammunition purchases against known handgun registration files. This practice was first started by the Howard County or Baltimore City Police (I believe), and the MD State Police adopted this tactic as well. Perhaps it works, some criminals are stupid enough to purchase ammunition with their own ID. I am not a criminal nor am I stupid, but I was duped into signing those ammunition logs, without the FFL Dealer advising me that it is NOT mandatory or disclosing the log's true purpose.In fact I was told that if 'you' refuse to sign this ammunition log, the Dealer will refuse the sale. I will NEVER buy ammunition from that Dealer again.
We've contemplated moving back to VA or even go down to Florida for a while. But that was yesterday. Now there is nothing that will hold us back from moving back to a "Free State". Or at least a State where subversive tactics are not practiced by the Police.
FYI: I have been in contact with Attorney Chris Contee, NRA Legal Council and He/NRA is very interested in this case. Hopefully this Tactic can be publicized, excised and stopped.
Don Curtis
- Henry Heymering, President
Maryland Shall Issue, Inc.
P.O. Box 314
Libertytown, MD 21762
http://www.marylandshallissue.org email@example.com
I wish this kind of usurption of power actually made it into the media, but then again, that would take hard hitting, investigative reporting.
"FREAK STATE" Ping
The police are NOT your friends.The first, last, and ONLY words out of your mouth should be "I want to talk to a lawyer".
As a former resident of Maryland, it is sad to see that today being "The Free State" means that the "state" is "free" to do whatever it damn well pleases.
As a resident from The Peoples Republic of Maryland...I would like to see the MSM pick this and the Berwyn Mayor event along with it.
Maryland needs to be the ant farm under glass...for our country's citizens to realize what voting for liberals gets you in the form of governmental and law enforcement authority.
I knew the trans-fat war was heating up, but I didn't know it had gone this far. Now that New York has banned the midday meal, it's good to know that Maryland is still an open carry lunch state.
This frightens me to death. The same thing could well have happened to me. I'm a Maryland resident and have a very old handgun acquired before all these gun laws came into being (Mr. OTTB bought it probably in 1968 and gave it to me during our marriage). I have had quite a supply of ammunition for it but am running low. Now I want to go buy some more—are the cops going to kick in my door at 3 a.m.?
I wish to God I could sell my house and move to Virginia like Mr. Curtis is going to. If I can find a job there, I will. I'm a lady living alone and I have the right to protect myself, since the police can't.
please leave your constitutional rights outside the door
Unfortunately, we are NOT an open carry state. We are a "select few" conceal carry state as well.
No equal application of the law in Maryland.
Mail order ammo, reload, or go out of state.
There are quite a few things the police do very well. For one example they Dekalb county police here in GA very professionally shot and killed a 92 year old lady whose home they raided in the early AM hours based on a paid informant's false tip that she was dealing drugs.
Being that she lived in a "bad" area of town, when the cops busted into her home on a no-knock raid she of course thought they were home invaders, (which they actually were) and when she came out of her bedroom holding a pistol she was gunned down by the LE invaders. The LEOs involved are being prosecuted, but the elderly lady who was shot down like a rabid dog is still as dead as she was when the cops left her home that night.
Apparently unConstitutional no-knock raids are fine and dandy as far as the US judiciary is concerned, but killing 92 year old ladies who interfere with those raids isn't.
That is disgusting and simply disheartening.
Just continues to go along with the police actions in New Orleans.
Next time you find yourself in Virginia or Pennsylvania, buy a supply there. Pay cash. I know that in PA at least, I am not required to ID myself when buying ammo
Read #5 all the way through.
Are you sure they were DeKalb County? I thought that was some of Richard Pennington's crew from the City of Atlanta.
Move to a free state! I moved from Cali to Florida, and I'm glad I did.
Sucks when your family is here, your friends are here, and your career for the foreseeable future is here.
Either work to change it, put up with it, or move.
I've been working to change it, the question is, when do I give up hope for it to work?
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
I think it's better to stand and fight. At least here I'm creating a public nuisance (and occasionally an FR nuisance). I can annoy local politicians, embarrass my friends, frustrate my family and otherwise make it know that some people won't stand still for the gradual destruction of our civil rights. If I were in a comfortably red state I'd be just another guy.
I picked up my new used Blackhawk convertible today, went to Jackson Arms and wrung it out with 38+p, .357 and 9mm. Ms. Jackie would not have been pleased. If I did that in Florida nobody would mind.
AMEN Brother! Amen!
I foresee a nice Remington 700 in my future. And probably another 1911 as well (carry ready if they ever allow us to).
That totally flew over your head, didn't it?
Good idea. I can buy it in PA when we go to my husband's family periodically.
If the answer is "Why yes, we do have a Warrant." you let them in.
If the answer is "No we don't." then your response is to say "Have a nice day, officer. Do come back when you get one."
Never, ever allow a police officer, Sheriff, or any Federal Agent of ANY kind into your home without a Warrant unless you've been the victim of a crime.
Actually, no it didn't...I was just saying what's going into my collection next ;-)
Exactly. Same thing with if they want to search your car.
"Got a warrant, because now that you've pulled me over, I'm later than I should have been. I'll take my ticket and be on my way."
You're right, I should have added that part of the sad story. But I didn't because I don't remember enough about the details that came to light in the aftermath of the incident to be sure that I got it right.
I have lived in rural Fannin county for over 11 years after leaving Roswell, and the Atlanta metro area now seems almost like another world whenever I go back down there.
I lived in MD for 20 years and I am so glad I moved out of that state. In PG county the criminals outgun the police. I believe the cops and politicians are on the wrong side of the law there. They support the criminals by disarming the law abiding citizens.
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