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But he was toppled in what he called a coup in 2012, and found guilty of terrorism three years later.
His appeal against his 13-year jail sentence had languished before the courts for years before Yameen’s defeat and the case reopened.
I'd not heard a single word about LambdaMu's Pixel People until Chillingo sent word that the game was coming soon to iOS this afternoon. Now I'm completely charmed.
The game involves rebuilding the human race from scratch using a series of carbon copy clones and the profession-mapped genes of folks that bought it in the big one. There are 150 Pixel People to create, 80 hidden animals to serve as pets (and probably food, knowing humanity), all rendered in that lovely retro 8-bit style the kids these days go crazy for.
Will Pixel People's gameplay proper break the spell cast over me by the trailer? There's only one way to find out—I must wait for this "soon" they speak of. So mysterious.
Susan and Don Reynolds of Breckenridge enjoy the St. Patrick’s Day fare Friday at Murphy’s Irish Pub in Silverthorne.
Randi Paquette of Silverthorne holds her daughter Addison as they pose for a photo on Addison’s first St. Patrick’s Day on Friday in Dillon.
With his goatee and eyebrows dyed green, George Altz celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with M.B. Greene on Friday at Murphy’s Irish Pub in Silverthorne.
Elle and James Westphal didn’t forget their St. Patrick’s Day hats Friday night at Murphy’s Irish Pub in Silverthorne. The pub had a number of holiday-related specials on food and drink and, at the end of the night, gave away a snowboard.
A group celebrating Yanitza Rivera's birthday makes time for a St. Patrick’s Day photo Friday night at Lakeside Bowl in Dillon. Rivera is third from right, next to the man in the cowboy hat. "I tell everybody I'm Irish, but no one believes me," Rivera said.
Clockwise from bottom left, Mary and Mark Miola, Earl and Wendy Clairmont, Jason and Meredith Adams, Heather Wickstrom, Benjamin Becker and Ashley Batty show their green Friday night for St. Patrick’s Day at Murphy’s Irish Bar in Silverthorne.
From left, Katy Abbott, Hesh Diguiseppi and Kathy Alexander of Denver throw their arms in the air as they came up to the mountains Friday night to party down on St. Patrick’s Day at Murphy’s Irish Pub in Silverthorne.
Through the whole Syrian refugee crisis, smartphones have been used as a primary source of communication. Refugees use them as their primary means of communication to keep tabs on loved ones and figure out which routes are safe to use. FreeCom is a new kind of technology that allows people to communicate even when there is no internet connection available. It was created primarily for regions that are suffering war or disaster.
Abdul Rahman Alashraf is the founder of FreeCom. He created it after living for years as a Syrian refugee. He used his phone constantly to try to communicate with loved ones, but found himself sometimes waiting for weeks to get one notification from his family go through. Since 55% of the world’s population cannot communicate without the internet or mobile service, FreeCom utilizes different technology to give smart devices the ability to piggyback on multiple channels to send text messages and broadcast news regardless of whether or not there is internet available. The technology allows users to create personal networks and connect to each other’s networks. Plus, the network is secured so no third parties have access to private information.
This kind of technology has the power to assist those in dangerous situation while providing some peace of mind.
Marie de Vignerot de Pontcourlay, Marquise of Combalet and Duchesse d'Aiguillon; niece of Cardinal Richelieu . Born 1604; died at Paris, 1675.
First promised to Comte de Bethune, son of Sully, she married Antoine de Route, Marquis of Combalet, in 1620, who was killed two years later at the siege of Montpellier. A childless widow, she entered the Carmelite convent in Paris, fully determined to end her days there; but after Richelieu became premier of Louis XIII she had to follow him, and was appointed lady of the bed-chamber to Marie de Médicis. Obliged to do the honors of the Cardinal's palace, she took into her hands the distribution "of his liberality and of his alms ", to use Fléchier's expressions. Convinced of the vanity of worldly honors, she only busied herself in distributing riches without seeking any enjoyment from wealth. She well deserved, by her virtues and piety, the title of "great Christian " and "heroic woman ", which her panegyrists give to her. Charity was her dominant virtue. She had part in all the beneficence of her, times. She founded, endowed, or enriched especially the establishments of foreign missions in Paris and in Rome ; the church and seminary of Saint Sulpice; the hospitals of Marseilles and of Algiers ; the convent of the Carmelites ; the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, and all the religious houses of Paris. She gave fifty thousand francs for the foundation of a general hospital in Paris, which she first established at La Salpêtrière. Patron of St. Vincent de Paul , she was the soul of charitable assemblies, of evangelical missions, and of the greater part of the institutions created by that saint. She gave him the funds needed to found the College des Bons-Enfants. Her charity extended to the missions of China and she defrayed the expenses of sending the first bishops there. But it was above all the colony of Canada which received a large share of her benefits. She especially recommended this work to her uncle, and Richelieu sent some Jesuits there. The Hôtel-Dieu at Qu bec was erected at her expense, and she put the Religieuses Hospitalières of Dieppe in charge of it, after providing for it an annual income of three thousand francs. Masses are still said there daily for the intention of herself and of Richelieu, and an inscription composed by her is over the principal entrance. It was under her exalted patronage that the first Ursulines were sent there. With Olier, she conceived the plan of founding the Colony of Montreal and got the Pope to approve of the society which was formed for this purpose. Finally she had the creation of the bishopric of Qu bec brought before the General Assembly of the French clergy, and obtained from Mazarin a pension of 1,200 crowns for its support.
This woman of great mind was sought in marriage by princes of the royal blood, but she preferred remaining a widow the better to pursue her good works. When she was created Duchesse d'Aiguillon she gave twenty-two thousand livres to found a mission for instructing the poor of the duchy. She was equally the enlightened patroness of the writers of her time. Voiture, Scudéry, Molière, Scarron, and Corneille were recipients of her favors. The last named dedicated to her "Le Cid." After the death of Richelieu, who made her his principal heir, she retired to the Petit-Luxembourg, published her uncle's works and continued her generous benefactions to all kinds of charities. She carried out the Cardinal's last request by having the church and the college of the Sorbonne completed, as well as the Hôtel Richelieu, which has since been converted into the Bibliothèque Nationale. The great Fléchier was charged with pronouncing her funeral oration, which is regarded as one of the masterpieces of eloquence of French pulpit oratory.
I I . I II Read on and discover how the most unusual trains you've ever seen have made the railway the real way for you to see Europe. TEE (Trans Europ Express) trains like this seem to be made of glass. They're definitely made for sightseeing. And for comfort. As they whisk you straight to the heart of more than 90 major European cities, you can relax in quiet, spa- cious compartments... speed across borders as easily as you speed across the countryside (customs officials come right on board). Because European trains are fast, frequent and punctual, there's no better way to see more of Europe. And no more economical way than to take advantage of the many low-cost plans now offered by Europe's railroads - including the convenient Eurailpass ú -. ."" .- --- Dine on native dishes that change as often as the sights. Sauerbraten today. Osso buc- co tomorrow. And don't for- get the different wines, which a multilIngual stewardess will be happy to help you select. Ci- \, -., '" , -.. After a restful night in a com- modious sleeper, wake up to the sight of a new day, a new coun- try. And enjoy breakfast in bed. @ 1966 Conference of European Railroad Representatives r It ... . .: . ""\-. ...., \\ -..;l ... .. \. -"'.. " , <II 4 , " \ "i " -r- l.- \. ... .....-....... -..... " .... ì f vi' ') Only in Europe can you sail the waters and scale the heights -by train. To cross from Ger- many to Denmark (and vice versa), trains climb right into a waiting ship. In Switzerland, they climb straight up the mountains to show what you could never see from behind a windshield or above the clouds.
Last month, after immersing myself in Brooklyn’s artisanal-food scene, I felt the need that many in my home borough have these days: to get out on a farm and smell the manure. So I drove an hour and a half southwest of New York City to spend the day with three generations of dairy farmers.
Bob Fulper, 85, was born on what is now Fulper Farms in West Amwell Township, N.J. So was his son, Robert, 54, who currently runs the place with the help of his brother, Fred, who is 51. Robert’s daughter, Breanna, 24, recently graduated from Cornell with a degree in dairy management. Breanna would like to lead the family business into the next generation, but she realizes it might not be financially possible. The modern dairy farm, it turns out, represents many of the volatile and confusing trends that have roiled the U.S. economy over the last decade.
This, despite the fact that dairy farming has become shockingly more productive. When Bob was a kid, during the Depression, he and his 10 siblings milked the family’s 15 cows by hand and produced 350 pounds’ worth of milk per day. By the time Robert was a teenager, in the 1970s, the farm had grown to 90 cows — all of which were milked automatically through vacuum technology — and sold around 4,000 pounds of milk per day. Now the Fulpers own 135 cows, which produce more than 8,000 pounds of milk.
So the farm should be more lucrative, right? Robert showed me exactly how much money he and his brother made last year, an unusually profitable one for the dairy industry. He asked me not to reveal the number, but let’s put it this way: Robert and Fred start work at 4:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m. and trade Sundays off. If you divide their 2011 profit by their weekly hours, they earn considerably less than minimum wage. Unlike in their father’s day, they have little money left over to invest in new equipment. One of their computers runs on MS-DOS.
How could Robert and Fred — who produce so much more milk than their dad — end up making less money? There are a number of reasons, some obvious, others less so. Milk went from a local industry to a national one, and then it became international. The technological advances that made the Fulpers more productive also helped every other dairy farm too, which led to ever more intense competition. But perhaps most of all, in the last decade, dairy products and cow feed became globally traded commodities. Consequently, modern farmers have effectively been forced to become fast-paced financial derivatives traders.
This has prompted a significant and drastic change. For most of the 20th century, dairy farming was a pretty stable business. Cows provide milk throughout the year, so farmers didn’t worry too much about big seasonal swings. Also, at base, dairy-farming economics are simple: when the cost of corn and soybeans (which feed the cows) are low and milk prices are high, dairy farmers can make a comfortable living. And for decades, the U.S. government enforced stable prices for feed and for milk, which meant steady, predictable income, shaken only by disease or bad weather. “You could project your income within 5 to 10 percent without trying too hard,” says Alan Zepp, a dairy-farm risk manager in Pennsylvania.
But by the early aughts, to accommodate global trade rules and diminishing political support for agricultural subsidies, the government allowed milk prices to follow market demand. People in other parts of the world — notably China and India — also became richer and began demanding more meat and dairy products. Animal feed, especially corn and soybeans, became globally traded commodities with all the impossible-to-predict price swings of oil or copper. Today Robert can predict his profit or loss next month with all the certainty that you or I can predict the stock market or gas prices. During my visit, Robert said that his success this year will be determined by, among other things, China’s unpredictable economic growth, the price of gas (influenced, of course, by events in Iran and Syria) and the weather in New Zealand (a major milk exporter), where a drought can send prices skyrocketing.
There are ways to manage, and even profit from, these new risks. The markets offer a stunning range of complex agricultural financial products. Dairy farmers (or, for that matter, anybody) can buy and sell milk and animal-feed futures, which allow them to lock in favorable prices, hedge against bad news in the future and so forth. There’s also a new product that combines feed and milk futures into one financial package, allowing farmers to guarantee a minimum margin no matter what happens to commodity markets down the road.
The Fulpers, like most people, are too busy with their day jobs to truly monitor the markets. But dairy farming has its own 1 percent: that tiny sliver of massive farms, with thousands of cows, that make the biggest profits and are better equipped to pay agriculture-futures experts to help them manage risk. They continue to invest and grow. Unable to keep up with the changes, many smaller farms have gone out of business in the past decade.
Robert Fulper says that he and his brother have done a good job keeping their farm alive and healthy during this chaotic time, just as their father transformed the tiny, Depression-era farm into a solid, modern business. Now “the next generation is going to have to figure some things out,” Robert says, looking at his daughter, Breanna. The good news is that she’s already trying. While at Cornell, Breanna used her family farm as a case study and developed a business plan to profit from their proximity to New York City and northeastern New Jersey. She began a summer camp in which kids spend a week caring for cows, learning about agriculture and running around a huge open space for $425 per week. Now the camp is almost as profitable as a year of milking cows. “That summer-camp program put me through Cornell,” Breanna says with a laugh. She’s also negotiating with a cheesemaker to turn their milk into high-value Fulper-branded cheese.
Bob, her grandfather, told me a number of hysterical, unprintable farm jokes during my visit, but he turned pensive when it came to his farm’s future. When times were bleak, he said, it used to be possible to work your way out of the problem. “You just stay in the cowshed longer, work harder,” he says. Now, he realizes, “if you don’t use your head, your hands aren’t gonna help you.” And even then, you might not make it.
( April 3, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) It is regrettable to note the Sri Lankan regime and its theoreticians have no up to date knowledge about the current world trend of International Relations. Both Mohan Samaranayake who is appearing behalf of the regime as the government’s advisor on international affairs and Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka who white washed the regime during the war and who is always a spin doctor who dissemble the regimes dirty linen is thinking that the International Politics is similar to the decades in 60’s and 70’s cold war where the countries were in a non aligned political nature.
We should realize that although once upon a time the International Politics was manipulated and driven by the United States and Soviet Union but at present the world Geopolitics is driven by certain Cross State Actors and the members of the civil societies who demonstrate an International Public Opinion. These two instruments have been successfully able to manipulate and make a decisive decision in world politics.
Besides Rajapaksa or whoever comes to power we have to realize there is a modern conventional Wigneshwaran racism rising up its head. The only possible option remaining to defuse such racism is only through dialogue and devolution of power. By nurturing the Singhalese racism to its advantage to sustain in power the Rajapaksa regime creates a space favourable for certain Tamil extremist groups to create an environment conducive to start a Tamil racism which would be miserable for the future of our motherland. Therefore if we don’t able to bring the two modern Tamil and Singhalese racism in line and cannot able to combine both to create a unitary Sri Lankan Race the future would be detrimental.
At present the world’s two most important components that is world peace and international trades are adjudicated by inter country actors such as the United Nations (UN), NATO and International Monetary Fund (IMF) which was constituted earlier by single countries such as United States, Russia and China.
Meantime when formulating important decisions of world powers it is important to take the international public opinion of the non state actors, civil society and the Diaspora community into account. When formulating policies, the US and European policy bodies obtain purview of such international civil society components. These civil societies too are able to question these policy bodies and the policy bodies are obliged to answer their questions. They should certify the policies formulated should represent and align with international public opinion.
Important elements such as Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law which has become more important statute of the anatomy of international public opinion of the world. When the Gaddafi of Libya started killing his people the organizations which were first against were organizations who promote the international public opinion such as the Amnesty International and the UNHRC. As a matter of fact current decisions of international policies are decided by a joint mechanism of the above countries; inter country bodies and international civil society actors.
In the recently concluded UNHR session in Geneva a second grade answer was given by the Government of Sri Lanka to its accusations against its Human Rights violation and conduct. Its usual accusation is that these allegations were tabled by the western countries due to the influence and opinion created by the Tamil Diaspora. While the UNHR session was on progress two Human Rights Activists were taken into custody in Sri Lanka. There cannot be any country found in the world that will take such an idiotic step. Authoritarians such as Saddam Hussain, Gadhafi or Robert Mugabe too will never do such a proceeding.
At present the Rajapaksa regime is brazenly violating the Human, fundamental, political and democratic rights of its citizens. This further confirms of the regimes reluctance to legislate the 17th amendment of establishing independent elections, police and public services commission to confirm its good governance. Therefore the need to protect the people of the country from this despotic undemocratic governance is not an opinion of the western countries and of the Diaspora but the collective view of the global civil society actors. To correct this situation there will be no effect in demonstrating in Geneva or in front if the UNHRC but to take productive measures to protect and promote Human Rights. Without presenting a substantive comprehensive report of large Human Rights breach committed by the LTTE in the past (bomb explosions in busses) marching in Geneva will never change the view of the global civil society actors.
Failing to do such and by living in 70’s and pointing the finger to the west and demonstrating roughshod that we are a non aligned independent and sovereign state and we are not concerned about the global view and aligning with Russia and China will never bring fruitful results.
It is learnt that the US has adopted two mechanisms to bring Sri Lankan regime into line. To pressure the Sri Lankan regime to protect Human Rights in the country and to have a domestic inquire with tangible results of alleged war crimes committed during the final phase of the war failing which, to investigate it through an international mechanism. From the recent and past attitudes and conduct of the Rajapaksa regime the opinion of the global civil society’s remains that Mahinda Rajapaksa will never protect Human Rights and never inquire alleged war crimes therefore an international inquiry is imminent. The delay caused by the US in starting an international investigation is that the Rajapaksa constantly use this opportunity to develop his political effigy with his nationalistic partners in the south. The plan of the US is to commit the regime for a domestic inquiry and to create strife between its nationalistic partners and use the opportunity to weak the regime. However without a regime change there is no other way for Sri Lanka to come out of this problem.
Besides Rajapaksa or whoever comes to power we have to realize there is a modern conventional Wigneshwaran racism rising up its head. The only possible option remaining to defuse such racism is only through dialogue and devolution of power. By nurturing the Singhalese racism to its advantage the Rajapaksa regime creates a space favourable for certain Tamil extremist groups to create an environment conducive to start a Tamil racism which would be miserable for the future of our motherland. Therefore if we don’t able to bring the two modern Tamil and Singhalese racism in line and cannot able to combine both to create a unitary Sri Lankan Race the future would be detrimental.
Robinhood – defending the rights of all Sri Lankans.
UFC PRESIDENT Dana White has responded to Floyd Mayweather’s claim that he will only fight Khabib Nurmagomedov in the boxing ring.
Mayweather recently confirmed that he is open to a fight with UFC lightweight champion Nurmagomedov, but only under boxing rules, opposed to an MMA fight.
White had previously worked with the unbeaten American boxer last year - as UFC star Conor McGregor competed in a money-grab boxing cameo against Mayweather, falling victim to a tenth round knockout.
However, Nurmagomedov’s UFC boss told TMZ Sports he will not allow his lightweight champion to box Mayweather, instead suggesting ‘Money’ must trade sports, like McGregor did last year.
White said: "The answer is 'no.' He's gonna have to come here and get his a** whoopin.
"We did that last time. You gotta come here this time.
"Every time he wants to box. You wanna fight? Want to make 150 million? Come over here and get your a** whooped."
White will be keen to do business with Mayweather, as their August 2017 'Money Fight' with McGregor generated an estimated $550 million with 4.4million pay-per-views sold.
However, Mayweather previously claimed Nurmagomedov, who was last seen defeating McGregor at UFC 229, must fight under his rules, as the 41-year-old cited he is the ‘A-side’.
Mayweather said: “They came to me talking about the Khabib fight. Khabib called me out, I didn’t call Khabib out.
But before a fight with Nurmagomedov can be talked about, Mayweather must first complete his return to boxing, as he bizarrely announced he would fight undefeated 20-year-old kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on New Years Eve in Tokyo, Japan.
Japanese MMA promotion Rizin Fight Federation are set to promote the contest, with Mayweather confirming it will be a nine minute boxing exhibition.
Mayweather at first called off the fight, claiming he ‘never agreed’ to fight Nasukawa in a televised bout.
However, the American has since announced his fight with Nasukawa, who is 21 years Mayweather's junior, will take place, on the original New Years Eve date in Japan’s capital.
committee, was one of the men arrested at the Watergate on June 17 and that one of the other burglars carried a check from E. Howard Hunt Jr., a White House consultant. Apparently the first destruction of evidence was done by Gordon Strachan, who had served as liaison between the Nixon committee and Haldeman. Dean said that, on Haldeman's orders, Strachan had destroyed files from Haldeman's office, including "wiretap information from the D.N.C."
Dean said he was then told by Ehrlichman to get word to Hunt "to get out of the country." Dean did so, but later the two reconsidered, thought it unwise, and tried to rescind the order.
Since Magruder had testified that he had passed along wiretapping plans and transcripts of some of the illegal interceptions to Strachan on the assumption they would go to Haldeman, this destruction of records seems to confirm that they had reached Haldeman.
Strachan, who has been offered limited immunity by the Ervin committee, thus apparently could discredit Haldeman's adamant denials of any advance knowledge of the Watergate wiretapping.
Ehrlichman's orders to get Hunt out of the country similarly implicate Nixon's other intimate aide in the first moments of the concealment. If both Haldeman and Ehrlichman lose credibility, the President's denials of cover-up knowledge would apparently have to rest on the claim that all of his close aides had deceived him, not just Dean and Mitchell.
EHRLICHMAN'S ROLE. Dean related another significant attempt to destroy evidence, this one originating with Ehrlichman. Dean had been given custody of the material found in the safe of Hunt, who had been employed as one of the news-leak-plugging White House "plumbers." Among the contents were a briefcase containing "loose wires, Chap Sticks with wires coming out of them, and instruction sheets for walkie-talkies." The papers included a fake State Department cable linking the Kennedy Administration to the 1963 assassination of South Viet Nam's President Diem and a psychological profile of former Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. Dean considered these "political dynamite." He asked Ehrlichman what to do with them.
"He told me to shred the documents and 'deep-six' the briefcase. I asked him what he meant by deep-six. He leaned back in his chair and said: 'You drive across the river on your way home at night, don't you? Well, when you cross over the bridge on your way home, just toss the briefcase into the river.' I told him in a joking manner that I would bring the materials over to him and he could take care of them because he also crossed the river on his way home. He said no thank you." Ehrlichman, asked about this by Mike Wallace on CBS'S 60 Minutes, replied that "shredding is an activity that has been foreign to my nature. I don't think I have shredded or requested the shredding of a document since I came to Washington five years ago."
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The Spurs beat the Mavericks Sunday 88-81. Not only was it fun to watch, but it reminds “At Large” that professional basketball serves as a good metaphor for the difference between the two cities.
In San Antonio, Peter Holt heads an ownership group that remains behind the scenes, letting R.C. Buford and Gregg Popovich pull the strings without interference. Operating below the league’s salary cap, they have assembled a group of stars, role players and cast-offs to build the league’s premiere dynasty. The Spurs behave on and off the court. The fans adore them and ride the emotional rollercoaster with them.
Dallas fans can’t talk about the Spurs without making ethnic slurs. Check sports message boards if you don’t believe me. That’s Dallas.
The Mavericks reflect the shallow insecurity that is the Metroplex, the land of $30K millionaires and McMansions.
The team is owned by a crass billionaire, who shouts obscenities courtside, bans the press from his locker room and overspends to get players. He’s best known for whining constantly about the world’s plot against him.
Head Coach Avery Johnson, while a good player here, is clearly in over his head. Many have misinterpreted his anger and control issues as evil genius, but it’s clear things are spiraling out of control. Avery inherited a good team and things have deteriorated on his watch.
That’s because his best player, Dirk NoGameSki, is soft. Two other big players, Jason “Nads” Terry and Jerry Crackhouse, are thugs. His big personnel move, bringing in an over-the-hill legacy, has been an unmitigated disaster. The Mavs are 9-9 since they landed former wife-beater Jason Kidd.
And the fans are, of course, are worthless. They booed the Miami Heat when D.Wade undressed their team in the 2006 Finals. They regularly boo the Mavs when they trail. Even with all of the previously mentioned problems, the team is only a few games out first place. And yet there’s Fire Avery, a Web site that has placed blamed on the Little General. This is one year, by the way, after Avery coached the team to 67 wins.
Stay classy, Big D! “At Large,” during this “Spring of Living Dangerously,” salutes you.
Forget the Robot Wars. It’s the Attack of the Clinton Surrogates!
James Carville, longtime confidante to President Bill and Sen. Hillary Clinton, likened New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, another longtime Clinton friend, to Judas Iscariot for his decision to endorse Sen. Barack Obama last week. Carville is the opposite of a Biblical scholar, so it’s likely this one won’t stick.
CBS canceled “Jericho,” which was about life in a post-apocalyptic U.S. The cast and crew had to see the potential for irony, right?
If you register and actively participate in the discussions on MyStarbucksIdea.com, a social network created by the Godzilla of Coffee to rip off your suggestions, you can kiss your self-esteem goodbye.
…but found Corrine Bailey Rae’s husband instead. Poor guy.
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In Tartu County Court on Tuesday, a Russian Federation citizen was sentenced to six months in prison plus deportation to Russia for trafficking fentanyl and methadone.
Kristina Bakhtina (33), with no prior criminal history in Estonia, was found selling at least 164 doses of fentanyl and 20 methadone tablets, for which investigators say she earned at least 2,790 euros, and in possession of an additional 95 methadone tablets and seven grams of fentanyl.
"The deadliness of the chemical is supported by the fact that last year, of 160 people who died from overdosing on drugs, 137 had consumed fentanyl," said a prosecutor's aid, Jane Pajus.
"In addition to the fact that the drug dealing took place in the presence of a one year and seven month old baby, Bakhtina held the extremely dangerous drug in a place in her apartment where the child could have gotten hands on it. A package with a deadly dose was even found on the floor," Pajus said.
Bakhtina was handed a six-month sentence with an additional five-year suspended sentence. The woman was detained last November and the time she has already been held for will be deducted from her sentence. She will be barred from re-entering Estonia for six years.
Police said the case indicates that an established consumer base for hard drugs has emerged in Tartu and that it will probably continue to grow. "It is a serious sign of danger that fentanyl can spread to southern Estonia in the near future. The police is doing everything to stop this trend," said Kristjan Tommingas, head of the South Prefecture's drug crimes unit.
Marilyn Jean Rente, 74, of Kaneohe, a retired baker at Zippy's Napoleon's Bakery, died in Kaneohe. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Henry L.; son Henry L. Jr.; daughters Sharon I. LaFortune and Donna J. Kamei; brother Raymond Medeiros; sisters Shirley Kilborn, Evelyn Pool and Debra Medeiros; and seven grandchildren. Visitation: 10 a.m. Thursday at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Services at noon. Burial: 1 p.m. at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe. Online condolences: hawaiianmemorialparkmortuary.com.
Who knew about the deception, when did they know it and who directed it?
The Environmental Protection Agency has accused VW of installing sophisticated stealth software that enabled "clean diesel" versions of its Passat, Jetta, Golf and Beetle models to detect when they were being tested and emit less-polluting exhaust than in real-world driving conditions. The agency says the "defeat devices" allowed those models to belch up to 40 times the allowed amounts of harmful fumes in order to improve driving performance.
Some 61% of respondents backed tax rises to generate more money for the health service.
The majority of voters support tax rises to help boost NHS funding, a new poll has found.
More than three out of five people (61%) said they would back a hike to provide more money for the health service, the 2017 British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey found.
Many respondents were pessimistic about the future of the NHS, with more than half (56%) expecting standards of care to deteriorate over the next five years, an increase of 21 percentage points since 2014.
"61% of adults said that they would be willing to pay more to fund the NHS, up from 49% in 2016."
The data release follows a recent Government commitment to provide a long-term funding plan for the NHS, which marks its 70th anniversary this year.
Last year, polling by Ipsos Mori and the King’s Fund similarly found 66% of adults were willing to pay more of their own taxes to fund the NHS.
Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the health service, said “cries for more funding are unequivocal”.
“All fundraising options must be kept on the table,” he added.
The survey, analysed by the King’s Fund health charity think tank, found 61% supported tax rises to fund the NHS, an increase of 21 percentage points from 2014 and 12 percentage points from 2016.
About 35% backed the option of creating a separate tax that would go directly to the health service and 26% said they would be happy to pay more through existing taxes.
Support for an NHS tax rise has increased among Conservative Party voters, from 33% in 2014 to 56% last year, compared with 68% of Labour Party backers.