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Forty Years Since George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” Released; Nine Years Since George Left Us

• November 29, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Love, Memoir, Music, Public Television, Religion, Spirituality, Television, The Beatles, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "All Things Must Pass", "Rubber Soul", "The Concert for George", Anniversary, Assassination, Beatle, Britain, David Crosby, Death, George Harrison, High School, India, Indians, Jim Croce, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Knife Attack, Los Angeles California, Lung Cancer, Memorial, Music, Paul McCartney, PBS, Phase, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Religious, Singer Songwriter, Sitar, Solo Album, Spiritual Rock, The Beatles, The Seventies, Tribute

The Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover Foundation Sponsors a Walk-Run Against Bullying

• September 13, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Class, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Education, Gang Violence, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Advocate, African Americans, Anti-Bullying, Anti-Gay Remarks, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Black Mother, Black Women, Blacks, Bullying, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover Foundation, Carl Walker-Hoover, Chairperson, Charter School, Children, Civil Rights, Female Bullies, Focus on the Family, Gangs, Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, GLSEN, Governor Duval Patrick, Gwynetta Sneed, Harassment, High School, Irish Immigrant, Junior High, LGBT, Male Bullies, Massachusetts, Middle-Class, Motherhood, Parents, Phoebe Prince, Police, Poor, PTA, Racism, Rape, Scholarship, School Administrators, Schools, Single Black Mother, Snitching, Springfield MA, Stalking, Teachers, Walk-Run

“Suddenly” Dane County Has a Heroin Problem? Five Overdose Deaths Reported in January

• February 11, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Class, Columbia, Crime, Drug Culture/Industry, Drug Overdoses, Health, Laos, Nigeria, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "The Isthmus", Chicago IL, Columbia, Dane County, Dealers, Dominican Republic, Drug Overdose, Drug Overdoses, Heroin, High School, Hillbilly Heroin, Interdiction, Junior High, Madison, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Milton WI, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee WI, Mount Horeb, Nigeria, Oxycontin, Prevention, Rehabiliation, Rock County, Sgt. Gordy Disch, Smack, Students, The Dane County Narcotics and Gang Task Force, Youth

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Flying Into Patchy Fog, Kobe Bryant’s Pilot Had a Decision to Make January 28, 2020
The weather was good when the helicopter with nine passengers left Orange County. But as they flew north, it quickly grew worse.
Doctors Could Face Criminal Charges for Treating Transgender Teens January 27, 2020
In South Dakota and other states, lawmakers are considering bills that would restrict access to hormone treatment and surgeries for young transgender people.
‘There’s Nothing Left’: An Inferno Tears Through Alabama Boat Dock, Killing 8 January 28, 2020
The fire tore through a wooden dock in Scottsboro, destroying dozens of boats and plunging survivors into the water.
The 9 Victims of the Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant January 28, 2020
A college baseball coach. A pilot with years of experience. Young basketball players and their parents. Here is what we know about everyone on board.
Impeachment Briefing: Day 2 of Trump’s Defense January 28, 2020
John Bolton’s revelations, and the question of whether he would testify, loomed over the Senate trial.
California Father Charged With Murdering Five of His Infant Children January 28, 2020
New DNA technology helped officials crack a case that had stalled for a dozen years.
Dershowitz argues that nothing Bolton is said to have written would be impeachable. January 28, 2020
Alan Dershowitz argued that demands by United States presidents for specific actions by foreign governments are common.
Guantánamo Testimony Exposes Role of Doctors in C.I.A. Interrogations January 28, 2020
The hearings have showed the role of medical professionals, including keeping count during waterboarding sessions, in the agency black sites where prisoners were tortured.

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Coronavirus: China death toll climbs to 106 with first fatality in Beijing – live updates January 28, 2020
US updates travel warning to China to highest level as mayor of Wuhan admits authorities were too slow in releasing information about virus. Follow the latest newsWuhan mayor admits mistakesWhat is the coronavirus and how worried should we be about it?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infection 4.03am GMT With millions largely confined to their homes […]
Prince Andrew giving 'zero' cooperation to Epstein inquiry, say US prosecutors January 27, 2020
US attorney for southern district of New York says so far Andrew has not responded to a request for an interviewPrince Andrew has provided “zero” cooperation with the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking inquiry, US prosecutors said on Monday, despite earlier promises to help investigations in any way possible.Speaking outside Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, Geoffre […]
Trump's impeachment defense team glosses over new Bolton allegations January 28, 2020
The ex-national security adviser’s book, which reportedly implicates the president over Ukraine, is hardly mentioned as trial continuesLawyers for Donald Trump opted for a high-risk strategy in the sixth day of the president’s impeachment trial on Monday, avoiding mention of a major new development in the case even as Trump tweeted about it and some Republic […]
Kobe Bryant: investigators on scene to determine cause of helicopter crash January 28, 2020
Medical examiner said rugged terrain complicated efforts to recover remains of nine victims killed in Sunday crash outside LAInvestigators worked on a rugged hillside outside Los Angeles on Monday to determine the cause of the helicopter crash that killed retired basketball star Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others About 20 investigators scoured […]
New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern sets September date for poll January 28, 2020
Prime minister says vote will be held on 19 September after ‘positive, factual and robust’ campaignPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced her country’s next general election will be held on 19 September, firing the starting pistol on a campaign race lasting more than seven months.On Tuesday, Ardern said the forthcoming election campaign would be “positi […]
'I realized I'm being raped': accuser gives tearful testimony at Weinstein trial January 27, 2020
Miriam Haley was the second of six women slated to testifyAccuser: ‘I didn’t know how to deal with it’Miriam Haley, a former production assistant for the Weinstein Company, gave tearful testimony on Monday, the fourth day of the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein.She described how the film producer allegedly assaulted her in 2006. Continue reading...
Giant fire in Alabama marina kills at least eight January 28, 2020
Blaze that began in early hours Monday destroys at least 35 boats and cuts off escape routesA huge fire killed at least eight people and destroyed dozens of boats in an Alabama marina early on Monday, with witnesses describing a terrifying, fast-moving blaze and fire officials warning the death toll could rise.Tommy Jones, a Jackson county park marina reside […]
Belgium's King Albert II admits he fathered child in 1960s affair January 27, 2020
King acknowledges result of court-ordered DNA test linking him to Delphine BoëlKing Albert II, who abdicated from the Belgian throne in mysterious circumstances in 2013, has acknowledged having fathered a child during an extramarital affair in the 1960s, following the result of a court-ordered DNA test.Delphine Boël has been fighting in the courts for six ye […]

The BBC

Coronavirus: Death toll climbs to 106 as China tightens measures January 28, 2020
Transport restrictions have been further tightened as the number of new infections almost doubles.
Kobe Bryant: Investigators work to determine cause of crash January 28, 2020
Nine people, including Bryant's teenage daughter Gianna, were killed in Sunday's crash.
Petition calls for Kobe Bryant to be added to NBA logo January 28, 2020
More than a million people have backed the campaign after Bryant's death on Sunday.
Could John Bolton be an impeachment game-changer? January 27, 2020
Democrats hope the ex-White House aide's book could deliver a plot twist in the president's trial.
Prince Andrew gives 'zero co-operation' over Epstein inquiry, US prosecutor says January 27, 2020
A US prosecutor says the FBI has contacted the Duke of York's lawyers as part of an investigation.
Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test January 27, 2020
Albert II has admitted he has a fourth child after years of fighting the paternity claim.
Auschwitz 75 years on: Holocaust Day prompts new anti-Semitism warnings January 27, 2020
World leaders warn of resurgent hatred, 75 years after the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp was liberated.
Alabama fire: Eight killed as blaze engulfs 35 boats in marina January 27, 2020
The aluminium roof of the wooden dock in a marina in Alabama collapsed, and some of the boats sank.