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The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) has achieved the first results from a campaign in the United States to help identify missing victims of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The first 33 DNA matches between bone samples of missing individuals found in grave sites in the former Yugoslavia and blood samples taken from relatives of the missing who are now living in North America have been made by ICMP in Bosnia-Herzegovina.Blood collection teams from ICMP spent two weeks in November and December last year collecting blood samples from family members of the missing who are currently living in North America. 19 of the first individuals to have been matched as a result of this campaign were victims of the 1995 fall of Srebrenica.
In twelve eastern and mid-western states, where there is the highest concentration of persons from the former Yugoslavia, the ICMP teams collected a total of 1,362 blood samples from family members, relating to 1,124 missing persons cases. In order for a DNA match to identify mortal remains, DNA profiles of more than one family member must be obtained; the most conclusive combination of family members for a DNA match is the mother and father of a missing person, but blood samples from other family members, including children, can be used. A DNA match within the ICMP system indicates identity with at least 99.95 per cent certainty.
Most of the blood donors – 1,335, relating to 1,110 cases – were from Bosnia-Herzegovina; 15 donors, relating to 4 cases were from Kosovo; 10 donors, relating to 8 cases were from Croatia; and 2 donors, relating to 2 cases were from Macedonia / the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In most of the missing persons cases, at least one family member still living in the former Yugoslavia had already provided a blood sample and had given addresses of relatives in the Unted States or Canada who were needed in order to give an accurate DNA match. However, 37 completely new cases were opened, where no relative had previously opened a missing persons case with ICMP or given a blood sample. While most of the new cases were from Bosnia-Herzegovina, four were from Kosovo.
ICMP was established in 1996 to help to address the missing persons issue in the former Yugoslavia following the recent conflicts there. In the late 1990s, faced with the task of identifying thousands of remains, ICMP scientists developed a system to identify large numbers of persons using DNA. This has led to DNA matches for 9,028 individuals in the former Yugoslavia, to date, with new DNA matches being made daily. Approximately 20,000 persons are still unaccounted for in the region. Some of those have already been exhumed from grave sites and await DNA matches with family members and many more remain in mass graves, which are still being discovered and exhumed.
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MIAMI—Nearly six months into operating under its new structure, HARMAN Professional Solutions announced its participation in Miami Music Week 2016 in another example of its customer-centric approach. This partnership demonstrates the division's commitment to its customers in the nightclub market, along with appointing Bradley Drummond as Nightlife Solutions Manager in October 2015. Providing solution expertise in key markets is designed to help customers, like nightclub operators, advance their businesses by providing unique experiences and improvements in quality, procurement, design support, installation, programming, commissioning and customer service.
"Nightclubs used to be about one thing only—music," said Drummond. "But today, nightclubs are driven to provide audiences with unique and memorable experiences. Every night, they must create a visual and auditory masterpiece. Not only does the audio quality have to be superb, but the lighting and atmospheric effects must also perfectly complete the sensory experience. We're uniquely positioned to enable nightclub owners and operators to achieve these results with our comprehensive, end-to-end solutions for this market, which our lighting and sound system deployment at Icon clearly demonstrates."
HARMAN Professional Solutions has been providing audio and lighting solutions for some of the highest profile events in the United States for more than a decade. By leveraging this expertise and dedicating resources to the nightlife market, HARMAN offers a host of technologies for nightclub owners who want to elevate their customers' experiences and provide a venue for talent to perform with optimal results.
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Miami Music Week (MMW), an annual event held in Miami Beach, Florida, attracts some of the biggest names in electronic music and hundreds of thousands of attendees to more than 70 participating venues around the city. Individual events and shows run concurrent to MMW, including the highly popular, three-day Ultra Music Festival. Icon Nightclub, a participating venue in MMW and the official headquarters for several HARMAN-sponsored shows throughout the March 15–20 event, will host top-billed DJs like Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren, Nicky Romero and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, with more shows and many special guests throughout the week yet to be announced.
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Tifa Lockheart
"It's like they have a mind of their own!"
"Hold on, that guy has a sword as big as him, and that guy has a gun for an arm, and all she can do is punch things?"
"Show me your boobs!!"
"Her hotness level is OVER 9000!!!!!"
"Who the fuck told you?!"
"Those are some big boobs"
" I don't really have a penis, my lawyer said it would help in my rape case."
Tifa "Kokoro" Armstrong (more commonly known as Tifa Lockheart due to bad English translations) is a bartender, terrorist, firefighter, and meteorologist along with accomplice Aeris Gainsborough. She has recently been accused of killing every Jenova's Witness that has come to her door. This is probably because they are incredibly annoying and because their name is also a really bad pun.
Early Life[edit]
Tifa was born sometime after the shattering of Magecite and before the invention of the gun-sword thingamajig. Tifa's father is John Lockhart who is Scottish and her mother is the spirit of a mountain climber who is of Japanese descent. Also, Tifa is Chef Gordon Ramsay's cousin. While searching for her mother in the mountains, Tifa fell of a cliff and landed on a cloud and named it the Nimbus 2000. For unknown reasons Tifa and the Nimbus decided to go on a quest for Dragon Testicles. However these events are debatable since some historians point out that Tifa was in a coma during this time.
Early Life Part Dos[edit]
After coming out of her coma, Tifa made friends with a spikey blonde haired kid and his stuffed tiger. However these two left to join the organization MOUNTIE. In the meantime Tifa paid the bills by working for Mr. T's taxi driving service. However, Tifa's life was turned upside down when MOUNTIE attacked her hometown of Nibblehienie and forced everyone in the town to wear Bullwinkle hats. During the event, Tifa's father's arms were pulled off. The silver haired video-game character badass responsible for this disaster was the former death metal rock star, Sephiroth - whose band Tifa ironically became a groupie of later.
Later Early Life[edit]
After this catastrophe in Nibblehienie, Tifa decided to get a boob job as well as form a terrorist organization with Mr. T, Princess Lea, and the corpse of Padme. They named their terrorist group Mr. T & The Women.
After Later Early Life[edit]
After that a bunch of shit happened that involved lifestreams, guerrilla warfare, espionage, love, paying Sephiroth to murder Aeris, pain, ShEn-ron, giant chickens, children made into Christmas candles, Donald Duck, and crappy spin-offs. However these events are debatable since some historians point out that Squaresoft was on a huge-ass acid trip during this time.
- Tifa only buys clothes at the International House of Lumberjacks. She has also modeled suspenders for the IHOL clothing line on a number of occasions.
- Tifa is not only not related to Colin Powell, but also does not share relatives, genealogy, or toys with him.
- Her tits push over and break glasses at any table she sits at. (in other words j-lo's mammary counterpart)
- The main reason Tifa got into fighting sports was the back problems she experienced as a result of top heaviness.
- A little known part of her fighting technique is her Backwards Optimal Otter Bashing Spin attack, in which her attributes actually become her main weapons.
- Lonely men are often known to furiously masturbate to her.


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Yosuga no SoraSynopsisBrother and sister, Haruka and Sora, return to their hometown after losing their parents. Girls appear who fill oddly specific niches and character types. Lust begins. ReviewHave you ever watched a bad hentai? Yes? Then you've already watched Yosuga no Sora. There is next to nothing good to say about this show. Every character stinks like a brothel's bedsheets, most of all the male lead, and the narrative style was beyond a disaster - the desire to show every 'route' (or should I say 'climax') was so misguided that I suspect whoever suggested it may have committed seppuku by now to pay for the dishonour they have brought upon their family. It was disjointed, showed no commitment to the romance they were supposed to be at least feigning and just seems to have been a ploy to include more, often creepy, sex. There truly is nothing worthy or even entertaining in this show - it has the same approach to coupling as a cage full of randy rabbits and you'll be hard-pressed to find a character among them where a cold shower would suffice to cool them off. Chucking them all off Niagara Falls would be my advice. In any case, the censors shouldn't have stopped with the sex and nudity; 12 episodes of blank screen would have been more pleasant and more worthwhile. I have nothing more to say. For porn hounds only, though I'm sure they're happy with their real hentai. — Aiden Foote Recommended Audience: This is softcore hentai. Incest and some scenes of less-than-consensual sex are the worst of it... if you don't include the plot or the characters. Version(s) Viewed: digital source Review Status: Full (12/12) Yosuga no Sora © 2009 Sphere / Starchild / King Record |
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Washington County officials plan to auction a sprawling compound belonging to Warren Jeffs' family to pay a judgment to a former spokesman for the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The April 25 auction will allow the public to bid on the multibuilding complex in Hildale that property records show sits on 6.1 acres and has a market value of $2.65 million. The sale is designed to raise money for a judgment obtained by Willie Jessop.
Jessop sued FLDS leaders, including Jeffs and his brother Lyle Jeffs alleging they arranged a late-night break-in at his business, R&W Excavating. Jessop argued that during the break-in several people stole computers, hard drives and other property.
The FLDS leaders failed to respond to the lawsuit and a 5th District judge awarded Jessop and his businesses about $30 million in a default judgment.
Jessop's attorney, Mark James, said Jessop could make a "credit bid" on the property himself. That means he can use all or part of the amount of the judgment to bid for the property and take possession of it. James did not know how much Jessop would be willing to bid.
But if Jessop places the winning bid he becomes the owner of the property and his judgment is reduced by whatever he offered. The auction will be on the steps of the Washington County Courthouse in St. George.
Jessop could not immediately be reached to comment.
The compound at the corner of Utah Avenue and Carling Street is one of the privately held properties in Hildale and its twin town of Colorado City, Ariz. Most other real estate in the towns reside in a trust currently managed by the state of Utah.
The property was constructed in 2010 and 2011 while Jeffs was awaiting trial in Texas, and residents have said it was built to house Jeffs and his wives and family after his acquittal or release from custody. Instead, Jeffs was convicted in 2011 of child sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault and was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years.
The compound is a prominent feature in Hildale and Colorado City. Situated near the Holm Sunday School and the FLDS clinic, it is surrounded by an imposing white wall. The walls are about 12 feet tall. From a nearby hill, three sprawling, brick-sided homes are visible inside.
During a recent visit to the area, journalists from The Salt Lake Tribune did not see anyone go in or out.
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1 | And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, |
2 | `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When a man or woman doeth singularly, by vowing a vow of a Nazarite, to be separate to Jehovah; |
3 | from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat; |
4 | all days of his separation, of anything which is made of the wine-vine, from kernels even unto husk, he doth not eat. |
5 | `All days of the vow of his separation a razor doth not pass over his head; till the fulness of the days which he doth separate to Jehovah he is holy; grown up hath the upper part of the hair of his head. |
6 | `All days of his keeping separate to Jehovah, near a dead person he doth not go; |
7 | for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister -- he is not unclean for them at their death, for the separation of his God [is] on his head; |
8 | all days of his separation he [is] holy to Jehovah. |
9 | `And when the dead dieth beside him in an instant, suddenly, and he hath defiled the head of his separation, then he hath shaved his head in the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he doth shave it, |
10 | and on the eighth day he bringeth in two turtle-doves or two young pigeons unto the priest, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, |
11 | and the priest hath prepared one for a sin-offering, and one for a burnt-offering, and hath made atonement for him, because of that which he hath sinned by the body, and he hath hallowed his head on that day; |
12 | and he hath separated to Jehovah the days of his separation, and he hath brought in a lamb, a son of a year, for a guilt-offering, and the former days are fallen, for his separation hath been defiled. |
13 | `And this [is] the law of the Nazarite; in the day of the fulness of the days of his separation doth [one] bring him in unto the opening of the tent of meeting, |
14 | and he hath brought near his offering to Jehovah, one he-lamb, a son of a year, a perfect one, for a burnt-offering, and one she-lamb, a daughter of a year, a perfect one, for a sin-offering, and one ram, a perfect one, for peace-offerings, |
15 | and a basket of unleavened things of flour, cakes mixed with oil, and thin cakes of unleavened things anointed with oil, and their present, and their libations. |
16 | `And the priest hath brought [them] near before Jehovah, and hath made his sin-offering and his burnt-offering; |
17 | and the ram he maketh a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, besides the basket of unleavened things; and the priest hath made its present and its libation. |
18 | `And the Nazarite hath shaved (at the opening of the tent of meeting) the head of his separation, and hath taken the hair of the head of his separation, and hath put [it] on the fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings. |
19 | `And the priest hath taken the boiled shoulder from the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one thin unleavened cake, and hath put on the palms of the Nazarite after his shaving his separation; |
20 | and the priest hath waved them, a wave-offering before Jehovah; it [is] holy to the priest, besides the breast of the wave-offering, and besides the leg of the heave-offering; and afterwards doth the Nazarite drink wine. |
21 | `This [is] the law of the Nazarite, who voweth his offering to Jehovah for his separation, apart from that which his hand attaineth; according to his vow which he voweth so he doth by the law of his separation.' |
22 | And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, |
23 | `Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, Thus ye do bless the sons of Israel, saying to them, |
24 | `Jehovah bless thee and keep thee; |
25 | `Jehovah cause His face to shine upon thee, and favour thee; |
26 | `Jehovah lift up His countenance upon thee, and appoint for thee -- peace. |
27 | `And they have put My name upon the sons of Israel, and I -- I do bless them.'
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Alex Kingston has joined the cast of Arrowin a recurring role, Entertainment Weeklyreports.
The ERalum has been tapped to play Dinah Lance, the mother of Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and the ex-wife of Det. Lance (Paul Blackthorne). Dinah will return to Starling City later this season — wearing black fishnets? — to make amends with her family, whom she abandoned after the death of her other daughter on The Queen's Gambit.
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By Cathy J. Cohen, Karen Mossberger, and Cherie Hackelberg
The 2013 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting is taking place in Chicago this year from 29 August – 1 September 2013. The theme of this year's meeting is "Power and Persuasion," looking at the politics of persuasion and power and how they intersect in context and scale. You can follow the conference happenings on Twitter at #APSA2013 and follow APSA on Twitter at @APSAtweets.
Of course, we hope to see you at Oxford University Press booths 411-417. We'll be offering the chance to:
- Browse and buy our new and bestselling titles on display at a 20% conference discount
- Get free trial access to our suite of online products for a month
- Pick up sample copies of our latest political science journals
Looking for things to do in the conference downtime? We've polled some of our Chicago-native authors to give us the insider scoop on their top ten favorite Chicago activities:
- Head over to the 35th annual Chicago Jazz Festival. The major concerts this year will be held in Millennium Park, near Randolph Drive and Michigan Avenue. The festival is free and brings nationally and internationally acclaimed jazz performers to the Chicago lakefront. The crowd is always warm, generous and fun! Pick up some food and drink to share with friends as you picnic during the concert, and watch the surrounding skyscrapers light up at nightfall, sparkling against the green open spaces of the park.
- While at the park, be sure to stroll around to see the video fountains, the "bean" and other treasures!
- Another great festival the weekend of the APSA meeting is the 24th annual Chicago African Festival of the Arts. This event features food, music, dance and family activities. Brandy, Oliver Mtukudzi, and Otis Clay are the entertainment headliners this year. The event takes place in Washington Park on Chicago's South Side, located 5100 S. Cottage Grove, near the University of Chicago.
- Take an architectural boat tour and see Chicago's iconic buildings from the river. The Chicago Architecture Foundation is a nonprofit that has particularly knowledgeable guides.
- Spend some quiet time at the Chicago Cultural Center at Washington and Michigan. This beautiful building has free concerts, art exhibits, films, a tourist office with a gift shop, a Tiffany glass dome, and striking views of Millennium Park. Check the August schedule of events.
- Located downtown and just one block from Lake Michigan, The Art Institute, founded in 1879, has approximately 300,000 works of art in its permanent collection, including one of the country's most impressive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. They also host 30 special exhibitions each year and offer daily activities and events.
- The Lincoln Park Zoo is a great family-friendly option. It is located just minutes north of Chicago, free to the public, and open every day of the year. New arrivals to the zoo include five trumpeter swan cygnets and a colorful baby Francois' langur. The zoo's gardens are among Chicago's most visited and they offer daily programs and events.
- Get a birds-eye view of the city by taking a trip to the top of the Willis (Sears) Tower. Located in the downtown Loop, this 110-story tower is one of the tallest buildings in the world. Head up to the Skydeck on the 103rd floor for incredible views of Lake Michigan and the city skyline. For a shorter wait, try the John Hancock Center and Observatory, the 3rd tallest building in the city and located along the Magnificent Mile.
- If you are looking for good food from restaurants relatively close to downtown—a short cab ride from the APSA meetings—try the following restaurants: Embeya, Sepia, MK's, Blackbird and The Gage. Reserve early!
- Looking for a more casual food experience? Try one of Chicago's famed hot dog joints. Hot Doug's, a local's favorite, is frequently featured in local and national media for both its classic Chicago-style dog as well as its eclectic variations. Be prepared for a long wait. For other local favorites, visit The Chicagoist.
Hope to see you at the conference!
Cathy J. Cohen, author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics, is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Karen Mossberger is co-author of Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics. Formerly Professor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois-Chicago, she is now Professor and Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Cherie Hackelberg joined Oxford University Press in September 2011. She is the marketing manager for Oxford's Politics and International Relations list.
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Japan fine with cheap old mobile phones, ta very much
Keep your smartphones and your netbooks
While the rest of the world goes weak at the knees for smartphones and netbooks, Japan appears content with the functionality of regular mobile phones to be getting on with.
A recent online survey by Japan's goo search engine* concludes that 49 per cent of respondents say "mobile phones are enough" when asked what kind of mobile device they'd like to carry. Only 22 per cent chose smartphones, and 17 per cent were for toting around a netbook or another form of small, cheap computer.
Asked what kind of mobile device they would want to carry, respondents gave the following responses - which are also translated here:
- Mobile phone is enough: 49.2 per cent
- Smartphone: 22 per cent
- Netbook: 16.3 per cent
- Notebook computer 8.9 per cent
- Don't want to carry anything: 3 per cent
- MID/UMPC: 0.3 per cent
- Other: 0.3 per cent
The survey was conducted online between in early August based on the response of 1,087 people. And while online polls should always be taken with a liberal dose of skepticism, for this poll the internet probably isn't a terrible place to find a typical sample of the kind of person who buys mobile devices. We've also seen these sentiments from Japan before.
Japan, of course, is notorious for its bitchin' mobile phone service that makes everyone else look like they're a step away from using smoke signals. Mobile net access has long been taken for granted and local phone makers are preferred. With internet service standard comes less of a need to power up Old Lappy (even for, ahem, the more carnal endeavors).
So what tech do the Japanese usually cram in their pocket other than a standard mobile phone? According to the survey, it's the Nintendo DS or nothing at all.
Asked what mobile devices other than a standard mobile phone respondents usually carry with them, users - who could select multiple answers - gave the following responses:
- Nintendo DS: 44.3 per cent
- Notebook computer: 19.7 per cent
- Sony PSP: 16.0 per cent
- Netbook: 4.7 per cent
- Smartphone: 3.4 per cent
- PDA: 3.2 per cent
- PND: 1.0 per cent
- Tablet PC: 0.8 per cent
- MID/UMPC: 0.6 per cent
- Other: 0.4 per cent
- No mobile devices: 39.3 per cent
Of those polled, 17.3 per cent were in their teens, 18.1 per cent in their 20s, 21.3 per cent in their 30s, 15.9 per cent in their 40s and 27.3 per cent in their 50s. Not a bad spread and suggestive that it wasn't just the layabout kids tilting things towards Nintendo.
You can check out the entire poll here, although you'll want to speak the language. ®
*Yes, that's the name. And no, we didn't leave out the "gle." The goo search engine and web portal is run by a company called NTT Resonant. It also has an online research unit jointly run by the Mitsubishi Research Institute. Note that Mitsubishi does sell mobile phones if you want to get your tinfoil hat on.


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The Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center is threatening legal action against Twitter
The center claims Twitter has aided Hezbollah and al-Shabaab by allowing them to use its services
The center notes that U.S. law prohibits any aid to officially designated terrorist organizations
A free speech advocate warns of a possible restriction of Internet freedom
Is Twitter aiding and abetting terrorism?
The director of an Israeli legal outfit says yes, and is threatening to sue the micro-blogging site if it doesn't change its policies.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, sent a letter to Twitter on Thursday asserting that the company is violating U.S. law by allowing groups such as Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab to use its popular online network.
"It has come to our attention that Twitter Inc. provides social media and associated services to such foreign terrorist organizations," Darshan-Leitner wrote.
"Please be advised that (doing so) is illegal and will expose Twitter Inc. and its officers to both criminal prosecution and civil liability to American citizens and others victimized" by Hezbollah, al-Shabaab and other foreign terrorist entities.
Twitter declined to comment when contacted by CNN.
In her letter, Darshan-Leitner noted that Hezbollah and al-Shabaab are officially designated as terrorist organizations under U.S. law. She also cited a 2010 Supreme Court case – Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project – which upheld a key provision of the Patriot Act prohibiting material support to groups designated as terrorist outfits.
"Your provision of social media and associated services to Hezbollah and other foreign terrorist organizations would constitute the type of seemingly innocuous material support that would render your company and you personally criminally and civilly liable," she told Twitter CEO Richard Costolo.
Hezbollah-controlled al-Manar television currently maintains a Twitter account with roughly 7,500 followers. Other groups considered terrorist organizations by the United States also maintain accounts. Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, posts regularly on at least one government-controlled account.
Darshan-Leitner says she realizes there will be stiff opposition to a potential lawsuit from free speech advocates, but told CNN she nevertheless hopes Twitter will change its policies.
"Once you bring it to their attention, they cannot say that they don't know," she said.
Aden Fine, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, told CNN that the Supreme Court "has not directly addressed the issue of whether any speech allegedly supportive of a designated terrorist organization is unlawful." But "the government can't force private companies to censor lawful speech just because the government doesn't like the speech or the people making the speech," he said.
Fine noted that since the Internet depends on private companies such as Twitter to function, any clampdown or adverse ruling could be used to restrict everyone's online communications.
Social networks Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have been lauded for the role they played in the Arab Spring, a series of anti-regime protests that erupted across the Middle East starting in late 2010. The online networks and instant messaging services were used extensively to spread the word about demonstrations, especially in the case of the Egyptian uprising that toppled longtime strongman President Hosni Mubarak.
A number of governments, however, have started arguing for stricter controls. Authorities in the United Kingdom say rioters used social the networks to coordinate mass civil disobedience earlier this year in London. State prosecutors in Mexico have accused two people of terrorism and sabotage by claiming that their Twitter posts helped spread false rumors about a school attack, leading to real-life violence on the streets of Veracruz.
The Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center describes itself as a civil rights organization dedicated to "combating the terrorist organizations and the regimes that support them through lawsuits litigated in courtrooms around the world." It supported a similar campaign earlier this year directed at social media giant Facebook.
Among other things, the center succeeded in getting Facebook to pull down a page created by Palestinian activists calling for a "Third Intifada" against Israel.
CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report.


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Casino Hold'em is a variant of the popular Texas Hold'em poker. Casino Hold'em differs from Texas Hold'em in that it is played against the house rather than against other players.
The aim of Casino Hold'em is to beat the dealer's hand by getting the best possible five-card hand, made out of the two cards dealt to the player and five community cards.
An unlimited number of players can play simultaneously at one Casino Hold'em table. Each player can take only one seat by the table.
Casino Hold'em is played with one standard 52 card deck (Jokers are excluded). Only one game is played with one deck of cards, and cards are shuffled after each game round.
To play the game you place a bet on the Ante bet (initial bet). To add to the excitement, you can also place a Bonus bet that pays out if a pair of Aces or higher is dealt in the first five cards.
The dealer deals out two cards face up to you and two cards face down to the dealer. Three community cards are dealt face up in the middle of the table. These three community cards are common for you and the dealer for making up the hand.
'Bet Limits' displays the minimum and maximum stakes permitted on table in total. The chip display allows you to select the value of your stake. Once you have chosen your stake simply press 'Place Your Bets'.
Winning Hands
- Royal Flush - is a straight flush involving the Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 all in the same suit.
- Straight Flush - is a hand that contains five cards in sequence, all of the same suit, for example: Nine, Eight, Seven, Six and Five, all Hearts.
- Four of a Kind - is a hand that contains all four cards of one rank and any other card. For example, a four Aces in your hand would be Four of a Kind. Quads with higher ranking cards defeat lower ranking ones.
- Full House - is a hand that contains three matching cards of one rank and two matching cards of another rank, e.g. three Kings and two Sixes. Between two full houses, the one with the higher ranking three cards wins.
- Flush - is a hand where all five cards are of the same suit, but not in a sequence, e.g. five cards that are all Clubs. Two flushes are compared as if they were high card hands; the highest ranking card of each is compared to determine the winner. If both hands have the same highest card, then the second-highest ranking card is compared, and so on until a difference is found.
- Straight - is a hand that contains five cards of sequential rank in at least two different suits, e.g. Nine, Eight, Seven, Six and Five in two or more suits. Two straights are ranked by comparing the highest card of each. Two straights with the same high card are of equal value, as suits are not used to separate them.
- Three of a Kind - is a hand that contains three cards of the same rank, plus two cards which are not of this rank or the same as each other. For example, a player having three Kings in their hand would have Three of a Kind. Higher-valued Three of a Kind defeat lower-valued Three of a Kind. If two hands contain Three of a Kind of the same value, the Kickers are compared to break the tie.
- Two Pairs - is hand that contains two cards of the same rank, plus two cards of another rank (that match each other but not the first pair), plus any card not of either rank. An example of this would be having two Aces and two Kings. To rank two hands both containing Two Pairs, the higher ranking pair of each is first compared, and the higher pair wins. If both hands have the same top pair, then the second pair of each is compared. If both hands have the same two pairs, the Kicker determines the winner.
- Pair - is a hand that contains two cards of one rank (e.g. two Kings), plus three cards which are not of this rank or the same as each other. Pair is the lowest hand you can be paid out for. Higher ranking pairs defeat lower ranking pairs. If two hands have the same pair, the Kickers are compared in descending order to determine the winner.
- High Card - is a poker hand made of any five cards not meeting any of the above requirements. Essentially, no hand is made, and the only thing of any meaning in the player's hand is their highest card.


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Tomorrow, DC will close several streets around the Mall to car traffic, but you can bring your bike in and enjoy DC's unofficial ciclovia.
I really think they should make this an official ciclovia with events and programming. They close two major streets along the mall and all the cross streets for almost the entire day - something that seems to be impossible to do for even a few hours on a smaller section of road. Why not make this "Feet in the Street" and do the kinds of things New York does during Summer Streets? The hard part is already done. Sure, there will be security concerns to be dealt with, but I don't think it would be undoable.
Also re-read my still relevant post on why Metro should stop banning bikes on the 4th of July.


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11 Nights | 11-DAY MEDITERRANEAN FROM BARCELONA
You will visit the following 10 places:
Venice is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. The city is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture, and its artwork. The city in its entirety is listed as a World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon. Venice has been known as the La Dominante, Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic, City of Water, City of Masks, City of Bridges, The Floating City, and City of Canals. It has also been described as being one of Europe's most romantic cities. It is truly an amazing, stunning and interesting city for the adventurous to explore!
Naples is a city in Italy; it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. Known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music, and gastronomy, Naples has played an important role in the Italian peninsula and beyond for much of its existence, which began more than 2,800 years ago. Situated on the west coast of Italy by the Gulf of Naples, the city is located halfway between two volcanic areas, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields. Naples has the fourth-largest urban economy in Italy, after Milan, Rome and Turin. It is the world's 103rd-richest city by purchasing power, with an estimated 2011 GDP of US$83.6 billion. The port of Naples is one of the most important in Europe, and has the world's second-highest level of passenger flow, after the port of Hong Kong. The city has long been a major cultural centre with a global sphere of influence, particularly during the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras. In the immediate vicinity of Naples are numerous culturally and historically significant sites, including the Palace of Caserta and the Roman ruins ofPompeii and Herculaneum. Culinarily, it is synonymous with pizza, which originated in the city.
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Zadar faces the islands of Ugljan and Pašman, from which it is separated by the narrow Zadar Strait. The promontory on which the old city stands used to be separated from the mainland by a deep moat which has since become a landfill. The harbor, to the north-east of the town, is safe and spacious. Zadar is the seat of a Catholic archbishop.
Marseille, known in antiquity as Massalia, is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of 240.62 km2. The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of 1,204 km2. 1,530,000 or 1,601,095 people live in the Marseille metropolitan area. Located on the southeast coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Marseille is France's largest commercial port and largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. Marseille is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, as well as the capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Its inhabitants are called Marseillais.
Barcelona – Spain's enchanting capital, second largest and most populous city. It is a huge city that vibrates with life, and there's certainly not another city in the country to touch it for its sheer style, looks or energy. It is one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair and cultural centers, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. Barcelona is home to masterpieces of many great architects – the most famous of which is Antoni Gaudí.
Iraklion (also called Heraklion) is the largest city and capital of Crete. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece. It is the capital of Heraklion Prefecture, with an international airport named after the writer Nikos Kazantzakis. The ruins of Knossos, which were excavated and restored by Arthur Evans, are nearby. Iraklio has a certain urban sophistication, with a thriving cafe and restaurant scene, the island's best shopping and lively nightlife.
Livorno is an Italian port city on the Ligurian Sea, on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. Traditionally been known in English as Leghorn, it's known for its seafood, Renaissance-era fortifications and modern harbor with a cruise ship port.
Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece and within the Athens urban area, located 12 km southwest of its center and upon the Saronic Gulf. According to the 2001 census, Piraeus has a population of 175,697 people within its administrative limits, making it the third largest municipality in Greece and the second within the Greek capital following the municipality of Athens. The Piraeus urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits to the suburban municipalities, with a total population of 466,065.
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo, officially refers to an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located. Monaco has four traditional quarters - from west to east they are: Fontvieille (the newest), Monaco-Ville (the oldest), La Condamine, and Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo (literally "Mount Charles") is situated on a prominent escarpment at the base of the Maritime Alps along the French Riviera. Near the western end of the quarter is the world-famous Place du Casino, the gambling center which has made Monte Carlo "an international byword for the extravagant display and reckless dispersal of wealth". It is also the location of the Hôtel de Paris, the Café de Paris, and the Salle Garnier (the casino theatre which is the home of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo).
Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, the name ''Civitavecchia'' means "ancient town". The modern city was built over a pre-existing Etruscan settlement. The massive Forte Michelangelo was first commissioned from Donato Bramante by Pope Julius II, to defend the port of Rome. The upper part of the "maschio" tower, however, was designed by Michelangelo, whose name is generally applied to the fortress. North of the city at Ficoncella are the Terme Taurine baths frequented by Romans and still popular with the Civitavecchiesi. The modern name stems from the common fig plants among the various pools. And also next to the town is the location of the cruise ship docks. All major cruise lines start and end their cruises at this location, and others stop for shore excursion days that allow guests to see Rome and Vatican sights, which are ninety minutes away.


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My mother's paternal grandmother's name was Ella Cowart. I don't think that my mother ever knew this, as it was quite a surprise to her sisters when I told them this. The name that they had always heard was "Shownee/Shoney" -- a name which, even today, I still cannot place the origin of. After ordering a copy of my grandfather Lee Barnes' Social Security application a couple of years ago, I was shocked to see that he had written "Coward" (a variation of Cowart) as his mother's maiden name. This led me on a quest to find out more about Ella Coward/Cowart, particularly there weren't many living relatives left to ask about this, and none of them knew the name Cowart. I already knew that my grandfather's parents' names were Cal and Ella, so I had already found the family, including my grandfather and his siblings, in the census records following his birth in 1909, but I needed to go further back, particularly since I was unable to locate a marriage certificate for them.
So, I began to scour the census records for any Ella Cowart/Cowards and discovered a 17-year old "Ella L.B. Cowart" living in Fair River, Lincoln County, MS with her parents Isaac and Matilda, and 8 younger siblings: Newit, Louisa, Flora, Alice, Mary, Benjamin, Dock and Mabelle. I still have no idea what the "L.B." initials stood for, but I'm thinking that it could possibly have been an abbreviation for a nickname such as "Little Bit" -- I have no real basis for this other than knowing that I come from a long line of nicknamers. Of course, I needed to do a little geographic research to see if she could be a match from that standpoint, and she was.
At that time, I had no real solid confirmation that this was the right family, but continued to research them. I felt that I was going in the right direction because I was able to find a marriage certificate for Isaac Cowart and Matilda A. Brown, dated January 20, 1884. It wasn't the first time that I had come across the Brown family as I was concurrently researching them being a possibility of being a connection on my Smith side (my mother's mother's family), but that's a whole other post. It wasn't until connecting with a Barnes cousin who had also been researching the family, that I was able to confirm that Ella's mother's name was Matilda and that one of Ella's daughters, Lillian, was nicknamed "Lil Tildy" after her grandmother.
My next valuable resource was the 1892 Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children for Lincoln County. There, I was able to find that Isaac had registered his children for school. The names listed were: Annie (age 19), Ella (12), "N" (Newit, 10), Mittie (still uncertain as to who this child is, 8), and Flora (16). I had never come across the oldest child, Annie, so this was a wonderful find. Also included under Isaac's entry was another Cowart named Mandy who registered her children, Ola (19), Mary (18), Ike (11), Virgil (6), and Thomas (5). Who was Mandy, and what was her connection to Isaac?
- Could she have been another wife? This seemed unlikely as most of the records showed either one or both parents registering their children being denoted on one line, together, i.e., "John and Mary."
- Could she have been an older child? Because Isaac was 46 years old at this time, this, too, seemed unlikely because Mandy's oldest child was 19.
- Could she have been a sister or another relative? I thought this seemed to be the most likely hypothesis because they had children of nearly the same age.
Sometime during all of this research, I was fortunate enough to connect with a fellow Cowart descendant/researcher on Ancestry.com. Her grandmother was Mary Cowart, the sister of my great-grandmother, Ella. She apologized that she didn't know much about the Cowart family, but she did share some interesting stories about Isaac's character. Family folklore says that Isaac, rumored to have been part Indian himself, staged a sit-in of sorts in the middle of Lincoln County to protest the Indians being moved to Oklahoma. This is definitely a story that I'll have to look further into!
Stories like this, combined with the fact that I couldn't find any traces of Isaac prior to 1900 in the census led me to turn him into a mystical character in my mind -- I had no further information on him to go on, and no idea from whom or where he came, so I just figured that he would forever be one of those unsolvable mysteries.
Lucky for me, I am like an old dog with a favorite bone, I'm going to go back and dig it up and knock it around a bit more. So, after putting Isaac down for a while, I did something really simple -- I searched for him again in the census, this time, taking out much of the detail and starting from scratch. In doing so, I was finally able to find Isaac in 1880! The name was transcribed as "Conard," a name that I could scarcely decode from the way the letters were written. What helped is that, just below his name, was a more clear writing of his wife Patsy's full name, "Patsy Coward," and that of his daughter, Anna (or Annie, as shown in the MS Enumeration of Educable Children)! I knew that Patsy was often used as a nickname for "Martha" back then, so I felt pleased that I was able to locate Isaac, his first wife Martha, and their daughter Anna in the 1880 census!
Further searches provided me with the 1870 census record of Isaac as a 30-year old man, living alone as a farm worker. His race is listed as "M" or "mulatto." One important thing I noted was the fact that Isaac's name was directly below that of another Cowart - an "E. Cowart" - a white physician living with his wife Pricilla and daughter Louisa. Thanks to the work of his descendants, I was able to identify him as Dr. Eliszer Cowart, son of Newit Cowart and Hannah Byrne, grandson of Needham M. Cowart and Esther Phoebe Blount. I rejoiced at having made this find because, not only were nicknames often used in my family, but also first names were passed down over and again. This is significant because my 2nd great-grandfather Isaac named some of his children the same names as those of Newit and Hannah Cowart's children and grandchildren, even Newit himself - the names Newit, Louisa, Flora, Alice, Mary and Benjamin all appear in both families. So, I really felt like I was onto something here -- could the Newit and Hannah Cowart family indeed be Isaac's slaveowners?
I wouldn't know for certain until I checked the slave schedules, starting with 1860 and working back to 1850. I looked for Eliszer first, in the advent that he might have owned Isaac, but didn't find Eliszer listed. I did find his father Newit, though!
In 1860, Newit is shown as owning 6 slaves: a 70-year old female, a 30-year old male, a 35-year old female, a 14-year old male, a 12-year old female, and a 10-year old female. The 14-year old male was a close enough age-match for me to assume this to be Isaac, but who were the others?
To be continued...
To be continued...