2014年02月11日
The test of life and death
Prosecutors called an associate medical examiner as their last witness in direct testimony, a week after jury selection began in the first-degree murder trial of Michael Dunn.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the trial of a Florida man charged with killing a teen after an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store.
Prosecutors called an associate medical examiner as their last witness in direct testimony nuskin hk, a week after jury selection began in the first-degree murder trial of Michael Dunn. Dunn is charged with first-degree murder. He is pleading not guilty and says he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Jordan Davis, 17, of Marietta, Ga., outside the store in Jacksonville in 2012.
According to authorities, an argument began after Dunn, in a neighboring car, told Davis and his friends to turn the music down they were listening to in an SUV outside the convenience store. One of Davis' friends turned the music down, but Davis then told him to turn it back up.
Officials say Dunn became enraged and he and Davis began arguing. Dunn, who had a concealed weapons permit, pulled a 9 mm handgun from the glove compartment, according to an affidavit, and fired nine shots into the SUV.
The associate medical examiner, Stacey Simons, testified Monday that the first bullet that hit Davis in the abdomen likely killed him. The bullet went from his lower right abdomen, into his diaphragm, through his liver and hit his aorta, she said.
Sukhan Warf, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement analyst, nu skin also said toxicology tests on Davis showed no signs of drugs or alcohol in his body.
Maria Pagan, another FDLE analyst, testified earlier in the day about the steps Dunn took before shooting the teen. Her testimony bolstered the contention from prosecutors that Michael Dunn acted with premeditation when he fatally shot Davis.
Dunn would have had to remove the gun from its holster, load the chamber with a bullet and then apply six pounds of pressure to fire it, Pagan said.
Dunn fired the gun 10 times, hitting the SUV nine times, and he would have had to pull the trigger every time using more than six pounds of pressure each time Glass House, Pagan said.
Pagan answered affirmatively when prosecutor Angela Corey asked, "Does that take a conscious effort of the shooter to have a second-round come out?"
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the trial of a Florida man charged with killing a teen after an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store.
Prosecutors called an associate medical examiner as their last witness in direct testimony nuskin hk, a week after jury selection began in the first-degree murder trial of Michael Dunn. Dunn is charged with first-degree murder. He is pleading not guilty and says he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Jordan Davis, 17, of Marietta, Ga., outside the store in Jacksonville in 2012.
According to authorities, an argument began after Dunn, in a neighboring car, told Davis and his friends to turn the music down they were listening to in an SUV outside the convenience store. One of Davis' friends turned the music down, but Davis then told him to turn it back up.
Officials say Dunn became enraged and he and Davis began arguing. Dunn, who had a concealed weapons permit, pulled a 9 mm handgun from the glove compartment, according to an affidavit, and fired nine shots into the SUV.
The associate medical examiner, Stacey Simons, testified Monday that the first bullet that hit Davis in the abdomen likely killed him. The bullet went from his lower right abdomen, into his diaphragm, through his liver and hit his aorta, she said.
Sukhan Warf, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement analyst, nu skin also said toxicology tests on Davis showed no signs of drugs or alcohol in his body.
Maria Pagan, another FDLE analyst, testified earlier in the day about the steps Dunn took before shooting the teen. Her testimony bolstered the contention from prosecutors that Michael Dunn acted with premeditation when he fatally shot Davis.
Dunn would have had to remove the gun from its holster, load the chamber with a bullet and then apply six pounds of pressure to fire it, Pagan said.
Dunn fired the gun 10 times, hitting the SUV nine times, and he would have had to pull the trigger every time using more than six pounds of pressure each time Glass House, Pagan said.
Pagan answered affirmatively when prosecutor Angela Corey asked, "Does that take a conscious effort of the shooter to have a second-round come out?"
2013年12月12日
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
The project documents the astonishing reaches of the camp system for the first time, and could help some survivors corroborate legal claims.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An ongoing project sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has uncovered a staggering 42,500 camps and ghettos during World War II, Preserver Series ranging from the giants such as Auschwitz and Warsaw to lesser-known factories, farms and brothels.
Geoffrey Megargee, a lead editor of the project, will detail his work during a talk Wednesday at the Polo Club Boca Raton. Two volumes have been published; five more are scheduled to be completed over the next 10 years.
The project documents the astonishing reaches of the camp system for the first time, and could help some survivors corroborate legal claims. Each camp has a description that includes its location, purpose and who was in charge.
When Megargee took the job in 1999, the museum estimated there were 5,000 to 7,000 camps to research for the series, called “The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945.”
“I thought that was an astounding number,” said Megargee, a World War II scholar and German speaker. “Only as I got into it did the impact make itself felt.”
Megargee and a team of five researchers uncovered a complicated network of forced labor and death camps, ghettos for Jewish families, prisons and euthanization sites, Casing Otterbox Commuter used to perform forced abortions or kill the elderly and sick. He estimates up to 20 million people were imprisoned at these camps, mostly in Germany and Poland but as far away as North Africa, Estonia and Greece.
Some regions had so many camps that claims after the war that residents did not know about them seem suspect, Megargee said.
“In Germany, it was impossible to turn the corner without seeing people forced against their will,” he said.
There were many small camps that the editors don’t plan to include; Megargee said the volumes include only sites that had at least “20 people there for a month.”
The first volume details 110 early camps, 23 main camps such as Auschwitz and Dachau, 898 subcamps (Buchenwald alone had 117), 39 construction brigade camps and three “youth protection” camps. Volume 2 focuses on 1,150 ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union. Future volumes will document camps in other countries, camps run by the German military and camps run by civil authorities.
Megargee said he was stunned to learn about 500 brothels run by the German army.
“It was a category we weren’t expecting,” he said. Although many have heard the stories of sex slaves forcibly recruited by the Japanese army during the war OtterBox Defender, fewer are familiar with the forced prostitution sites, which catered to German soldiers but were sometimes offered to male prisoners as an incentive for cooperation.
Megargee said he has tried to keep his emotions in check as the project unfolded. That became harder in 2005, when he adopted a son.
“I don’t cope with (the idea of) children in the Holocaust too well now,” he said.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An ongoing project sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has uncovered a staggering 42,500 camps and ghettos during World War II, Preserver Series ranging from the giants such as Auschwitz and Warsaw to lesser-known factories, farms and brothels.
Geoffrey Megargee, a lead editor of the project, will detail his work during a talk Wednesday at the Polo Club Boca Raton. Two volumes have been published; five more are scheduled to be completed over the next 10 years.
The project documents the astonishing reaches of the camp system for the first time, and could help some survivors corroborate legal claims. Each camp has a description that includes its location, purpose and who was in charge.
When Megargee took the job in 1999, the museum estimated there were 5,000 to 7,000 camps to research for the series, called “The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945.”
“I thought that was an astounding number,” said Megargee, a World War II scholar and German speaker. “Only as I got into it did the impact make itself felt.”
Megargee and a team of five researchers uncovered a complicated network of forced labor and death camps, ghettos for Jewish families, prisons and euthanization sites, Casing Otterbox Commuter used to perform forced abortions or kill the elderly and sick. He estimates up to 20 million people were imprisoned at these camps, mostly in Germany and Poland but as far away as North Africa, Estonia and Greece.
Some regions had so many camps that claims after the war that residents did not know about them seem suspect, Megargee said.
“In Germany, it was impossible to turn the corner without seeing people forced against their will,” he said.
There were many small camps that the editors don’t plan to include; Megargee said the volumes include only sites that had at least “20 people there for a month.”
The first volume details 110 early camps, 23 main camps such as Auschwitz and Dachau, 898 subcamps (Buchenwald alone had 117), 39 construction brigade camps and three “youth protection” camps. Volume 2 focuses on 1,150 ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union. Future volumes will document camps in other countries, camps run by the German military and camps run by civil authorities.
Megargee said he was stunned to learn about 500 brothels run by the German army.
“It was a category we weren’t expecting,” he said. Although many have heard the stories of sex slaves forcibly recruited by the Japanese army during the war OtterBox Defender, fewer are familiar with the forced prostitution sites, which catered to German soldiers but were sometimes offered to male prisoners as an incentive for cooperation.
Megargee said he has tried to keep his emotions in check as the project unfolded. That became harder in 2005, when he adopted a son.
“I don’t cope with (the idea of) children in the Holocaust too well now,” he said.
2013年08月23日
Her boyfriend
AN APP THAT let women track and monitor their boyfriend’s whereabouts and get duplicates of their text messages sent on to them has been dumped from Google Play.
Called “Rastreador de Namorados” (Portuguese for Boyfriend Tracker), registration of company in Hong Kong the app was removed last week, amid concerns that it could be used for extortion or stalking.
Thousands of Brazilians downloaded “Boyfriend Tracker” to their smartphones before it was removed.
Since its launch two months ago, the Boyfriend Tracker app had been downloaded 50,000 times, Hong Kong Company Secretary reports Associated Press.
‘Detective in your pocket’
Nicknamed the “private detective in your partner’s pocket” the app had many features including the ability to send the person doing the tracking updates on their partner’s location and forwarding duplicates of their partners text messages. To install Boyfriend Tracker, suspicious partners had to first get their hands on their loved one’s smartphones so they could upload the app how to register a business.
The app also had a feature that allowed the user to force the target phone to silently call their own, so they could listen in on what the other person was saying.
Google spokeswoman Gina Johnson said that it’s Google’s policy not to comment on why apps are removed nuskin.
Additional reporting Associated Press
Called “Rastreador de Namorados” (Portuguese for Boyfriend Tracker), registration of company in Hong Kong the app was removed last week, amid concerns that it could be used for extortion or stalking.
Thousands of Brazilians downloaded “Boyfriend Tracker” to their smartphones before it was removed.
Since its launch two months ago, the Boyfriend Tracker app had been downloaded 50,000 times, Hong Kong Company Secretary reports Associated Press.
‘Detective in your pocket’
Nicknamed the “private detective in your partner’s pocket” the app had many features including the ability to send the person doing the tracking updates on their partner’s location and forwarding duplicates of their partners text messages. To install Boyfriend Tracker, suspicious partners had to first get their hands on their loved one’s smartphones so they could upload the app how to register a business.
The app also had a feature that allowed the user to force the target phone to silently call their own, so they could listen in on what the other person was saying.
Google spokeswoman Gina Johnson said that it’s Google’s policy not to comment on why apps are removed nuskin.
Additional reporting Associated Press
2013年08月08日
"Women's safe haven"
MELBOURNE COULD INTRODUCE ‘safe havens’ in the city centre that are aimed at keeping women safe.
The city’s lord mayor, Robert Doyle, silk ribbon embroidery told Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 today that the murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne didn’t precipitate the move, but that her untimely death “touched us all very deeply”.
He said there is not a doubt that the issue of violence, including family violence and domestic violence, “is very high in our conscious at the moment so as a city we are looking at creating a safe space where women know they can go late at night which they know is welcoming and which is safe for them”.
While the official details have not been released, Doyle said that they could include a community health system, property in thailand For Sale or a place in the city that is well lit and where police are present, and that there would be CCTV there.
The initiative is part of a wider plan at tackling violence against women in public, reports the Guardian.
Doyle said it is an attempt to say to people, “if you are in the city and it is late at night there are places where it is safe to be picked up”.
“I challenge every city in the world to make a guarantee that any women is safe in the city at any time,” he said, adding he believes it is “not possible”.
He said that Melbourne is a “very safe city” but such safe havens were needed.
After Jill’s death, the Victorian government ordered an audit of the CCTV network in Melbourne, ABC News reported at the time nu skin hong kong. The aim was to identify any blackspots in the city or suburbs.
The Foundation to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children was launched in Australia late in July, by the Commonwealth Minister for the Status of Women, the Hon Julie Collins MP, and the Victorian Minister for Community Services, the Hon Mary Wooldridge MP.
The city’s lord mayor, Robert Doyle, silk ribbon embroidery told Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 today that the murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne didn’t precipitate the move, but that her untimely death “touched us all very deeply”.
He said there is not a doubt that the issue of violence, including family violence and domestic violence, “is very high in our conscious at the moment so as a city we are looking at creating a safe space where women know they can go late at night which they know is welcoming and which is safe for them”.
While the official details have not been released, Doyle said that they could include a community health system, property in thailand For Sale or a place in the city that is well lit and where police are present, and that there would be CCTV there.
The initiative is part of a wider plan at tackling violence against women in public, reports the Guardian.
Doyle said it is an attempt to say to people, “if you are in the city and it is late at night there are places where it is safe to be picked up”.
“I challenge every city in the world to make a guarantee that any women is safe in the city at any time,” he said, adding he believes it is “not possible”.
He said that Melbourne is a “very safe city” but such safe havens were needed.
After Jill’s death, the Victorian government ordered an audit of the CCTV network in Melbourne, ABC News reported at the time nu skin hong kong. The aim was to identify any blackspots in the city or suburbs.
The Foundation to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children was launched in Australia late in July, by the Commonwealth Minister for the Status of Women, the Hon Julie Collins MP, and the Victorian Minister for Community Services, the Hon Mary Wooldridge MP.
