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Sunday, 14 July 2013
Hundreds of new charges filed in US kidnap case
FILE - In this July 3, 2013 file photo, Ariel Castro is led into Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland for a pretrial hearing. A 977-count indictment against Castro was filed Friday, July 12, 2013 including aggravated murder, kidnapping and rape charges, but does not yet carry death penalty specifications. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
FILE - In this July 3, 2013 file photo, Ariel Castro is led into Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland for a pretrial hearing. A 977-count indictment against Castro was filed Friday, July 12, 2013 including aggravated murder, kidnapping and rape charges, but does not yet carry death penalty specifications. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? The litany of charges against a Cleveland man outline in numbing detail the crimes his victims allegedly suffered over 10 years of imprisonment: August 2002, kidnapping. September 2004, kidnapping. November 2006, aggravated murder.
Christmas Day 2006, rape.
A new 977-count indictment filed Friday provides a painful look at what prosecutors say was a decade of captivity for three women in suspect Ariel Castro's home in a rough Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood. Among the most serious charges: that he caused the death of one of his victims' fetuses by punching and starving her.
Among the most haunting: that he assaulted the women throughout their captivity, causing psychological harm to them and to the daughter he fathered with one of them through assault. And in another newly unveiled accusation, the indictment also alleges that on the same day that the child was born, Christmas of 2006, Castro raped one of the other women, who had helped deliver the baby.
"Today's indictment moves us closer to resolution of this gruesome case," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said in a statement.
Castro, 53, is accused of kidnapping the three women and holding them captive ? sometimes restrained in chains ? along with the 6-year-old girl he fathered.
He is charged with two counts of aggravated murder related to one act, saying he purposely caused the unlawful termination of the pregnancy of one of the women. The new, 576-page indictment also charges him with 512 counts of kidnapping, 446 counts of rape, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, six counts of felonious assault, three counts of child endangerment and one count of possessing criminal tools.
Authorities say the filing covers the entire period that the women were imprisoned, from 2002 until May of this year, superseding an earlier indictment that listed accusations for only some of the years. The indictment does not include charges that could carry a death sentence, but McGinty said he is still reserving that option. Castro will be arraigned on the new charges Wednesday. He is scheduled for trial Aug. 5.
Castro pleaded not guilty to the earlier indictment of 329 counts. A message was left with his attorney Friday seeking comment on the new charges. His legal team has hinted Castro would plead guilty if the death penalty was off the table.
A communications firm representing the women said they would not comment. The women released a three-minute video this week thanking the community for its support.
News that the women had been found alive electrified the Cleveland area, where two of the victims were household names after years of searches, publicity and vigils. But elation soon turned to shock as allegations about their treatment began to emerge.
Castro is accused of repeatedly restraining the women, sometimes chaining them to a pole in a basement ? once with a motorcycle helmet over one of the women's heads ? to a bedroom heater or inside a van. It says one of the women tried to escape and he assaulted her with a vacuum cord around her neck.
Later, Castro moved them to upstairs rooms where they were kept as virtual prisoners, according to investigators.
All the while, Castro continued driving a school bus and playing bass in local bands, with fellow musicians saying they never suspected a thing. He was fired as a bus driver last fall after leaving his bus unattended for several hours.
The picture of Castro as a friendly musician began to erode soon after the women were freed, as family members told of a man who terrorized his common-law wife, beating her and locking her in an apartment and the same house where the women were later kept.
Castro was arrested May 6, shortly after one of the women broke through a door and yelled to neighbors for help.
The women ? Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight ? disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each said they had accepted a ride from Castro, who remained friends with DeJesus' family and even attended vigils over the years marking her disappearance.
Berry, 27, told officers that she was forced to give birth in a plastic pool in the house so it would be easier to clean up. Berry said she, her baby and the two other women rescued with her had never been to a doctor during their captivity.
Knight, 32, said her five pregnancies ended after Castro starved her for at least two weeks and "repeatedly punched her in the stomach until she miscarried," authorities said.
She also said Castro forced her to deliver Berry's baby under threat of death if the baby died. She said that when the newborn stopped breathing, she revived her through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Castro has been held on $8 million bail. Cuyahoga County jail logs show him spending most of his time sleeping, lying on his bunk, watching TV and occasionally drawing or exercising.
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Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.
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Saturday, 13 July 2013
India's industrial production falls 1.6 pct in May
MUMBAI, India -- India's industrial production for the month of May fell by 1.6 percent from the previous year, the latest sign that Asia's third-largest economy continues to struggle.
Weak mining and manufacturing performance dragged down industrial output for May, according to figures released Friday by the Central Statistics Office. The April numbers had showed growth of 2.3 percent.
Mining production was down 5.7 percent and manufacturing fell by 2 percent over the previous year. The electricity sector's output grew by 6.2 percent.
India's once-bright economic outlook has been marred in recent months by stalling growth rates, high inflation and deficits in both its current accounts and the government budget.
Gross domestic product growth for the quarter ending in March was just 4.8 percent, down from the 8 to 9 percent level of just a few years ago.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/12/3496801/indias-industrial-production-falls.html
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Friday, 12 July 2013
'Big Brother's' Aaryn: I didn't say anything racist
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Aaryn Gries.
Her unabashedly racist comments have been heard on the "Big Brother" online live feeds, and just a few days ago, several of Aaryn Gries' most offensive lines made it to the prime-time show. But according to this season's most notorious houseguest, she hasn't said a single racist thing.
Sure, slams against Korean-American and African-American players left fans so outraged that they urged CBS to remove her and others who've made similar racist, homophobic and sexist statements from the competition. And the modeling agency Gries was signed to, Zephyr Talent, was so troubled by what they witnessed they dropped her. But, hey, what do they know?
Actually, it's really more of a case of what Gries doesn't know. Sequestered in the "Big Brother" house, she remains unaware of the fallout from her remarks. In fact, it seems she doesn't even remember the remarks she's made at all.
As seen on the live feed Tuesday, fellow houseguest Amanda Zuckerman met up with Gries in the Head of Household bedroom and warned her that some in the house were upset about things she's said. During the meeting, Zuckerman urged Gries, "friend-to-friend," to "be mindful" of what she says in the future and added that a general apology "would go a really far way" to making amends.
Just one problem: Gries can't see what she could possibly need to make amends for.
"That's the most obnoxious, annoying thing I've ever heard," she said after Zuckerman made the suggestion.
When she learned that one of the things in particular that bothered African-American player Candice Stewart was that when Stewart asked Gries what her middle name was, Gries shot back, "Shaniqua."
"That had nothing to do with anything," an obviously annoyed Gries said. "The reason I said that was that it was the first name I thought of. I'm sick of being grilled about my life."
She then firmly decided that she wouldn't apologize for anything.
"I haven't said anything racist," Gries insisted.
And besides, she feels that she's had a lot to deal with too, what with people commenting on her blonde hair.
"The call me Barbie and say all sorts of (expletive) about me being blonde all the time," she ranted to Zuckerman. "So what's the difference?"
A shorter, edited version of the exchange, which didn't include Gries' claim that she'd never said anything racist, aired on Thursday night's episode of "Big Brother."
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/big-brothers-aaryn-i-havent-said-anything-racist-6C10607266
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Egypt?s Military Adventure ? OpEd
By Neville Teller
July 12, 2013
As ever, Shakespeare puts it perfectly:
What?s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
What has happened in Egypt is, frankly, a coup d??tat. The army has overthrown the elected government and arrested the president and the leaders of what was the governing party, the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet the US administration has so far studiously avoided designating recent events as a military coup, and the UK has been equally bashful.
This ?American paralysis? as Peter Oborne, chief political correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph puts it, results from an obscure piece of US legislation, the Foreign Assistance Act, which stipulates that US aid shall not be awarded ?to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by a military coup or decree?.
If Mohammed Morsi was not the ?duly elected head of government?, and if he was not ?deposed by a military coup or decree?, then words have ceased to have their meaning, and black is white. However, since Washington has no desire ? regardless of which entity has its hands on the levers of power ? to sever its military support for Egypt, and with it Egypt?s continued maintenance of its peace treaty with Israel, it is important that the words ?military coup? are not uttered in Washington, or it seems in London, intent as it is on not causing embarrassment to its US ally.
The US Foreign Assistance Act does not specify that subsequent actions by the instigators of a military coup can mitigate the effect of the legislation. If such a loophole existed it could be argued that, on engineering the overthrow of the administration, army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi did not assume power himself ? as his predecessor, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, had done back in the 1950s ? but quickly installed the president of the supreme constitutional court, Adli Mansour, as interim head of state, assisted by an interim council and a technocratic government.
A day later Mansour named 76-year-old economist and former finance minister Hazem el Beblawi as transitional prime minister, and former United Nations nuclear agency chief, Mohamed El Baradei, as deputy to the president. The interim administration announced that it would set to work to devise a new constitution leading to parliamentary and presidential elections.
Do these semi-democratic moves ? semi-democratic because all are taken under the aegis, and with the approval, of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ? justify Washington?s hesitation to designate the events as a military coup? The US would be happier, perhaps, to dub them ?Egypt?s military adventure?. After all, an adventure trail can lead you to all manner of unexpected places ? and a truly democratic outcome is perhaps one possibility.
Not if the Muslim Brotherhood has its way, however. Riding high as it was only a month ago, its president. Mohammed Morsi, was systematically using his mandate to seize authoritarian powers, including legislative and executive powers that were beyond judicial oversight, and was well on his way to entrenching the profoundly undemocratic rule of the Muslim Brotherhood on Egypt. The patience of a goodly proportion of the secular-minded Egyptian public finally snapped. On July 4, Tahrir, an independent Egyptian daily, ran an English-language headline at the top of its front page, addressing US President Obama directly: ?It?s a Revolution ? Not a Coup, Mr Obama!?
Further justification, perhaps, for Washington?s reluctance to call a spade a spade ? a stance certainly not shared by the ousted Muslim Brotherhood. They have no difficulty with the word.
?We will continue our peaceful resistance to the bloody military coup against constitutional legitimacy,? they announced, vowing to defy the military?s removal of President Morsi, and to continue to resist until he is reinstated. They insist they will never work with the interim rulers.
The explanation of what has occurred might lie deeper than is generally assumed, for there have been rumors of collusion by the US in the overthrow of the Morsi administration. If true, this might explain Washington?s subsequent espousal of Egypt?s interim administration and its clear intention to continue its military and financial support.
A Reuters report on July 3, citing unnamed Egyptian military sources, stated: ?Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached the tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria.?
According to Washington sources, the Egyptian Army kept its American counterparts fully informed about the plans to remove Morsi by no later than July 1, the day that the top Egyptian commanders made their decision to move. After an estimated 8-10 million Egyptians turned out in mass peaceful rallies on June 30, demanding Morsi?s removal, Egypt?s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces determined that it was its ?civic duty? to deliver on the popular demands.
It is also alleged that the subsequent semi-democratic moves by army chief el-Sissi followed discussions between Egyptian military leaders and their American counterparts, including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, JCS Chairman Dempsey, and Central Command head General Lloyd Austin. During these deliberations the US made it clear that the Army could not take power directly, but needed to create a civilian interim government and move to the drafting of a new constitution and popular elections immediately.
Nor do the rumors stop there. The well-informed Israeli website DEBKA noted: ?The Egyptian military high command was not working alone when its operations headquarters put together the July 3 takeover of power from the Muslim Brotherhood: it was coordinated closely down to the last detail with the palaces of the Saudi and UAE rulers, and the operations rooms of their intelligence services.?
Egypt?s latest military adventure has only just got under way. The overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood president and administration seems to have won the support of the US, the UK and a number of Arab regimes fearful of Islamist extremists. Egypt is likely to move forward from this point, rather than back as the Muslim Brotherhood would wish, for de facto administrations usually triumph over de jure ones, In politics, as we have surely learned over the past century, ?might makes right?.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eurasiareview/VsnE/~3/Glr9ozPNDww/
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Enable SMS count on galaxy s3 lock screen?
When I first got my galaxy the at the lock screen I could see an icon with a count of unread text messages on the right side of the screen, but now it has disappeared and I did not see any settings for it in the lock screen menu under settings. Is there a solution to this or was this the result of an update?
Source: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/48934/enable-sms-count-on-galaxy-s3-lock-screen
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