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Don’t make me laugh. It is only ambition and dream of people like you. You can not bring our downfall. THE TRUTH is we put our selves in front to protect all the helpless and the weak. The truth is people like you can not handle the truth. Yes, support is waning in a blogger dream but you ask the average village man and you will get a different answer. Repression? What is that? Do you really understand it? We are the only people who can help organise for a democracy but you are not helping the situation. Are you?
There is actually nothing ‘defocusing’ about my response. In fact what is defocusing is Americans and Europeans in the so called expat blogs interfering in our affairs. If you want focus join us to fight those who want to harm us. Do you not agree? ‘say no to army’ is anti state because it is like saying no to the creation of Bangladesh. Eh ki desh premik manushir kotha?
‘history repeats’ is what the Hindus believe, we do not have that in our religion.
DGFI is the best thing and the only hope for the security. The army does not have any relationship with Al-Qaeeda and I wonder what lunatic said that. That kind of equation can only be the work of a Hindu. I think it is fair to say that SOME Hindus are paranoid about us becoming another Pakistan.
Yes, I know but it does not apply to our enemies. I will not say anything more than that.
I do not know any ABC. My job is to read some sites. How clever of you to call us the enemy of the people. We saved your mother and sister from being attacked by the Pakistani army.
I have read your second paragraph. I would say that this is because of the corrupt idiot civilian government not because of us. It is easy for an American like you to insult our intelligence but it is people like us who worry about protecting your moneyed relatives in Bangladesh.
Good to see democracy at work.
A possible excellent conversation on an equally interesting topic completely destroyed by a moron… but what is more disheartening is that we, as a group, let it happen by actually falling into the trap of having a conversation with him.
1. What purpose does the army serve?
2. What is a cost-benefit analysis of it?
3. What are the historical roots?
4. Who/which group/class lets it survive and flourish?
5. What are the national and international implications and relations of having an army?
6. Most importantly: What should the extent of involvement… how much of the national budget be allocated for that purpose?
The Owyhee Plaza recently celebrated its 100th birthday, but instead of offering free Ensure at an afternoon pinochle tournament, the hotel celebrated by promoting "100 penny" draft beers, well drinks, house wine and champagne in its Gamekeeper Lounge. That festive philosophy was extended to its boozy summertime pool parties, Cult Camp movie screenings and a brunchtime build-your-own bloody mary bar. Even in its old age, the Owyhee Plaza has still got game.
design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living. The idea was not to dream up anything impossible or unlikely -- in other words, no antigravity living rooms. Instead, we asked the architects to think of what technology might make possible in the next few decades. They in turn asked us to rethink the way we live.
The results are fascinating. Where some might say that the green gizmo-covered single family house in Greenwich is over, this is the Wall Street Journal, and hey, they all have their old salaries back, the boys are back in town, so whatever, there's no need to really rethink the way we live.
William McDonough + Partners envisions its house like a tree. The "bark" of the house is made up of thin, insulating films that would self-clean and self-heal if damaged. A curved roof with large eaves provides shade, which lowers the heat load in summer. The "trunk," or the frame of the home, consists of carbon tubes, while the "roots" are a heat-pump system buried in the yard.
Cook + Fox's house reacts to the weather, turning dark in the bright sun to insulate the house from heat and turning clear on dark days to absorb light and heat. The façade also captures rain and condensation to fill the household's water needs. Inside, walls and furniture are on rollers to take advantage of the fact that some spaces, such as bedrooms, are underutilized most of the day.
The Rios Clementi Hale Studios house has a garden façade that includes chickpeas, tomatoes and other plants. The plants also provide shade and cooling. A rooftop reservoir collects water and keeps the building cool, while rooftop windmills generate energy.
The Mouzon Design house uses tomorrow's technologies -- as well as ancient techniques to reduce energy use. Solar paneling built into the roof and façade provides electricity and hot water. The house also employs a "breeze chimney," an ancient architectural tool, as a kind of air conditioning.
The top element of the Tower of Wind & Water is a wind generator that produces electricity. Nobody makes this exact shape of wind generator yet... many of the current generation of generators look as if they were engineered but not designed, leaving them inherently unlovable. This one, on the other hand, does its best to be beautiful while it is generating your electricity.
Cradle to Cradle - Hype or Future? An exhibition about what could be the next industrial revolution.
Eight charities benefited from the generous donation of time and effort from schools in 2018 for the Dollars For Hours project run by Partner Re.
The 30th edition of the programme saw student volunteers paired with local charities and then the donation of $30,000 to the participating school in return.
Above are some photographs of the students in action in their respective community projects.
The Berkeley Institute students paired with The Reading Clinic to create custom-built tables for the tutoring space.
CedarBridge Academy students paired with Bermuda Audubon Society to create bluebird nest box kits.
Warwick Academy students paired with Habitat Bermuda to help refurbish the Pembroke Rest Home with the goal of eventually turning it into a shelter for homeless families.
Somersfield Academy students paired with Bermuda International Film Festival Trust on the marketing of their Film Challenge competition which is open to local students.
Saltus students paired with Windreach to makeover the Petting Zoo Habitat.
Mount Saint Agnes students paired with Westmeath assisting with a variety of projects ranging from yard work and painting, to interacting with residents.
Bermuda Institute students paired with Pals on their thrift shop organisation project.
Bermuda High School students paired with Phenomenal People: Dream Girls Club to design a creative, non-fiction book that features young girls, highlighting the phenomenal characteristic that each girl considers as her unique feature.
A man the FBI describes as one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history has ties to Nashville.
Samuel Little, 78, is currently sitting in a Texas prison where he has been giving detailed confessions to murders he committed across the county between 1970 and 2005.
He was a drifter who rarely stayed in one place long and often targeted vulnerable women like prostitutes and drug addicts.
An FBI map shows Little has confessed to murders from Florida to California including three in Tennessee.
But NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered Little was arrested in Nashville in 1994 for shoplifting at the Kroger on Gallatin Road.
He was fingerprinted, and police took his mugshot.
The arrest report lists him as "unemployed" and states Little was stealing meat from the store at around two in the morning.
The incident puts Little in Nashville.
"We have talked to Texas Rangers who are working the case down in Texas," said Sergeant Chuck Rutzky with Metro's Cold Case Homicide Unit.
"We have started going through our cold case files looking for a lot of the criteria that seems to fit his M.O." said Detective Matthew Filter.
Filter said the arrest leads to several important questions.
"What was he doing here? Where was he staying at the time and how long? When did he get into town and when did he leave?" Filter asked.
Detectives said Little was arrested in Arkansas just days prior to his 1994 arrest here, and he was arrested in Ohio a couple of weeks after.
In 2012, Little was arrested at homeless shelter in Kentucky.
He was convicted of beating and strangling three women in California based on DNA evidence.
Shortly after that conviction he began talking about other murders, and investigators say the details he has given are credible.
He has not confessed to a murder in Nashville, and detectives said they have not tied any cold cases to Little around 1994 when he was arrested.
But they are now looking back at cases many years before and after the 1994 arrest.
"That gives us a time frame to look at closely, but we don't want to limit our investigation one specific time," Sergeant Rutzky said.
Incredibly Little was arrested twice for murder in the 1980s in in Mississippi and Florida, but he was never convicted.
"It's still up in the air right now as to where the investigation will go from here," Sergeant Rutzky said.
But the detectives asked people to contact them if they remember Samuel Little being in Nashville.
"If anyone does recognize him from being here in this city we would like to hear from them to see if we can expand on what information they may have," Sergeant Rutzky said.
"The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners . . ." (1 Timothy 1:15).
This is the time of year when churches wake up from a long summer nap and get cracking. Vacationers return and we are glad to see them and each other. Sunday school cranks back up and the teachers are busy organizing classes and greeting the kids. The choir starts practicing again after winging it through the summer. Committees begin to meet again.
It's very satisfying to look around and see the church doing what the church is supposed to do. The flock is in good shape. Lots of people are helping out with this or that, taking responsibility and sharing leadership. We are grazing in the green pastures right next to the cool still waters.
Hmmmmm. Then these lectionary readings appear and there's a problem. These readings don't celebrate the flock all gathered together, grazing contentedly and doing the church thing. Instead, in Exodus, we hear about the idolatry of the first flock. The faith community is gathered together all right, but while Moses and Yahweh are hammering out the last details of the Ten Commandments, the flock gets restless, insecure and seems ready to worship anything. Aaron comes up with the golden calf idea and the community goes wild, which proves that just because you are in a group of people gathered together to worship God doesn't mean you won't end up dancing around with something silly.
That we are gathered together to do church is good. Not foolproof or idol-proof, but good. It is better to be gathered together than to be off alone, perhaps scared or despairing. Surely it is better to be gathered together than to be isolated doing your own thing, perhaps lost in indifference, never thinking about anybody else. Or perhaps lost in power, being controlling and ruthless to those around you.
Now here's the trick: We are doing church, and that's good. But we have followed Jesus in here, we have gathered together to be renewed, so that every week we can follow Jesus out of here--out to the school and the hospital and the bank and the office and the neighborhoods. We gather together here to follow Jesus, then we split up and follow Jesus out of here to seek the lost, the broken, the bleating, the alone.
Jesus seems to care inordinately about the ones who aren't here. This interest in the absent may seem unreasonable to those of us who show up and keep the institutional church humming, but it is the gospel.
Jesus came to save the lost--lost sheep, lost coins, lost brothers, lost prostitutes, lost loan sharks, lost jackasses, lost weaklings. Jesus came all this way looking for them. And those we have given up on or forgotten about or dismissed because of their unworthiness are the very ones that Jesus has headed out to look for. He looks back over his shoulder to see if we are following him . . .
Remember what happens everytime somebody who was lost gets found? Amazing grace. Celebration for all because we are so inextricably bound one to another, church leader to stranger, hungry to full, joyous to meanspirited, faithless to faithful. What happens when the lost sheep gets found is that the joy is contagious. And the 99 sheep have an excuse to throw a party, which is what we come together to do every week.
I see nothing in what Jesus said or did that prepared us for the scattering of the flock into denominations.
Bubba Watson clinched his second Green Jacket in three years by holding off Jordan Spieth and Jonas Blixt to win the 78th Masters.
The American left-hander shot a final-round 69 to win by three after overhauling a two-shot deficit on his co-overnight leader Spieth at Augusta.
Spieth was bidding to beat Tiger Woods as the youngest ever winner and duelled with Watson for much of the day, but the Texan's chances were sunk in the water of Amen Corner and he carded 72 to end five under.
Sweden's Blixt edged alongside Spieth with a 71, with Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez fourth on four under after a 71.
Americans Rickie Fowler (73) and Matt Kuchar (74) finished two under, with England's Lee Westwood (73) one under in seventh place, his 17th top-10 finish in majors.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy hit a three-under 69 to end level par and record his best Masters finish of tied eighth.
Watson became the 17th player to win two Masters titles, eight of whom have gone on to win three or more Green Jackets.
Watson dropped a shot at the 10th after hitting a poor chip across the green, but the tournament dramatically lurched his way when Spieth's tee shot to the short 12th rolled down the bank into Rae's Creek, the graveyard of so many Masters contenders.
Watson edged into a three-shot lead with a birdie on the par-five 13th and parred his way home for victory.
Don't call it a kickback. The provision slated to be added to the American Health Care Act at the behest of New York Republicans doesn't actually give anything to New York state.
It would make parts of the state significantly worse off — and not necessarily the parts you might expect.
Two likely losers under the amendment would be Suffolk and Nassau Counties on Long Island, represented by Republican Reps. Peter King and Lee Zeldin, two more moderate members of the caucus who have not yet said how they will vote.
Medicaid is usually described as a joint federal-state program, but New York has an unusual arrangement in which counties pay 13% of the bill for Medicaid.
In an effort to round up votes for the AHCA from Republican congresspeople from New York, Rep. Chris Collins (who represents the Buffalo area) won an amendment that would effectively force New York to stop sending any part of the bill to localities except New York City.
That change would save counties $2.3 billion a year, and would be especially favorable to counties in upstate New York, where most of the state's Republican members of Congress live. But New York state would have to look somewhere to replace the revenue lost from counties, and "somewhere" would probably be a tax that would fall disproportionately on taxpayers in New York City's suburbs.
A lot of New York voters have misconceptions about how tax revenue flows in the state. People in New York City complain that upstate is living off all the tax revenue generated by businesses and high earners in the city. Upstate residents are convinced they're paying for big, expensive social programs in New York City.
The truth is that, when New York's state government taxes and spends, upstate tends to win, while New York City comes out a little bit behind. The biggest losers — the areas with the largest gap between what they pay in state taxes and what they get back in services — tend to be the suburban counties around New York City, which have high incomes like the city but not its high appetite for social services.
Eliminating the local responsibility for Medicaid would tend to reinforce this dynamic.
Bill Hammond of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany-based conservative think tank,* did the math on one proposal: The state would start paying for the whole Medicaid program outside New York City. In exchange, counties outside the city would give up 1.2 percentage points of the sales tax they currently receive, allowing the state to use this revenue to fill the hole in Medicaid. New York City would keep its existing arrangement.
This structure has been previously proposed by county officials, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, has said it's one way the state might react if the AHCA becomes law.
Hammond found that most counties would be better off under this arrangement: The Medicaid bills they'd be relieved of paying would exceed the sales tax receipts they would lose. But about a quarter of the counties would be made worse off, including wealthier suburban ones such as Nassau and Suffolk.
There are other ways you could slice the revenue apple. For example, you could throw New York City into the new financing scheme, even though AHCA would not obligate the state to do so. But that would be even worse for the suburbs, Hammond says.
New York City has disproportionate sales tax revenue. But it generates an even more disproportionate share of the state's Medicaid expenses, so unlike on other programs, the city would tend to come out ahead if responsibility for the program were shifted to the state.
This would make the city a fiscal winner, and most other counties — in the much more Republican parts of the state outside New York — into losers.
This amendment to the AHCA would blow up New York's existing structure for funding Medicaid, but it wouldn't impose a new structure. State lawmakers would have to agree on a new Medicaid funding formula as part of budget negotiations among Cuomo, an Assembly dominated by Democrats from New York City, and the state Senate.
The Senate has a precarious Republican majority, whose members are divided between upstate and Long Island — that is, between two regions that would likely come out with opposite ends of the stick from any Medicaid funding changes.
This is probably why John Flanagan, the Republican Senate Majority Leader from Long Island, told Spectrum News he has "a certain amount of skepticism" about the amendment, even though it was in theory written specifically to please Republicans from New York.
Funding Medicaid with the sales tax would be unfavorable to Flanagan's constituents and those of other downstate Republicans in the state Senate. Funding it with a statewide income tax increase would be anathema to the goals of the state's Republicans. Plus, as Flanagan told Spectrum, counties might not even cut taxes to fully offset their savings from no longer needing to pay for Medicaid.
I get why this amendment would be good for the Buffalo and Syracuse areas, and why Republican members of Congress from upstate would like it. I don't see what's in it for the three downstate Republicans in New York's delegation.
*Disclosure: I did some work for the Empire Center when I was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, from 2009 to 2012.
OKLAHOMA CITY – An arrest has been made in connection to a deadly drive-by shooting in northeast Oklahoma City.
On February 20, at around 3:30 p.m., people near NE 10th and Bryant called police after hearing gunshots.