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SIOUX FALLS (KSFY) – Sioux Falls has been selected to join a nationwide program to improve how cities share data and public information practices.

“This is an exciting opportunity for Sioux Falls,” said Daren Ketcham, Director of Community Development for the City of Sioux Falls.

The project is known as the “What Works Cities” initiative. Mayor Mike Huether announced Tuesday that Sioux Falls was one of five cities added to the program.   Continue reading “Sioux Falls selected to join ‘What Works Cities’ initiative”

Yahoo News

The AK-12 assault rifle has passed military field tests and meets all of the Russian armed forces’ design and operational standards, gunmaker Kalashnikov Concern says, according to Jane’s 360.

The AK-12’s success in military trials sets it up to become the standard weapon for soldiers in Russia’s Ratnik — or Warrior — future weapon system.

Work on the AK-12 began in 2011 with the AK-200 as a base model. Kalashnikov Concern presented prototypes in early 2012, and the first generation of the weapon was also successful in military tests.

Continue reading “The Russian military’s new assault rifle has passed its field tests”

Sweet Liberty

PREFACE

My reason for writing this book is very simple: I would like to keep the record straight. I want to put in permanent form the full story of my experiences as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russians during the war, when I served for two crucial years, from May 1942 to June 1944, both at Newark Airport and at the big air base at Grand Falls, Montana.

I went into the Army as a businessman in my forties and a veteran of World War I. From the First, as my story shows, I worked wholeheartedly on behalf of the Russians because, like everyone else, I considered it my duty to do so. That they were satisfied with my efforts is indicated by the fact that it was Colonel Kotikov, head of the Russian mission at Great Falls, who requested my promotion to Major.   Continue reading “How Wars Are MADE: From Major Jordan’s Diaries”

Yahoo News

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.

Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City.   Continue reading “Tower of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs”

USA Today

ASBURY PARK, N.J. — The social media comments on Facebook and other sites were raw, hateful.

The outpouring of invectives was sparked by the arrest last week of 14 residents of Lakewood, N.J., including the rabbi of a congregation, on public assistance fraud charges. The early morning raids ignited a firestorm of anti-Semitism against a municipality of 100,000 that has a majority of Orthodox Jewish residents.

“The allegations and the charges levied against (the defendants) have nothing to do with their religion,” said Joshua Cohen, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, New Jersey Region. “That’s why we’re deeply concerned when we see comments online, whether it’s on newspaper websites or social media, that are anti-Semitic.”   Continue reading “New Jersey welfare fraud arrests spark anti-Semitic sentiment”

Jim Fetzer

Anonymous 2

A lawyer named Gugsa Abraham (Abe) Dabela was found in his overturned car on a lonely country road close to his home in small, upscale Redding, CT. The local police, including chief Douglas Fuchs, determined right away that the car had crashed and overturned because Mr. Dabela had been drinking. Dabela was so embarrassed that he shot himself in the back of the head inside the car, they said. A shoe print was found on his back. Perhaps he trampled on himself too?

Attorney Dabela, a bachelor, used to frequent a couple of local establishments where also Redding police and firemen could be found on a regular basis. Were tongues being let loose there? Did Mr. Dabela hear something that he found troubling? [Editor’s note:His background appears impeccable:
Continue reading “Sandy Hook “Collateral Damage”? Lawyer found in overturned car, bullet in head, declared “sucide””

CNN – by Eric Levenson and Samira Said

Workers taking down a controversial Confederate monument in St. Louis have discovered a 102-year-old time capsule buried in its base.

Removal of the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park began Monday as part of an agreement between St. Louis and the Missouri Civil War Museum.

The copper time capsule was sealed in the center of the very bottom of the monument about a month before it was completed, said Mark Trout, executive director of the Missouri Civil War Museum, who knew about the capsule’s existence from historical documents.   Continue reading “Time capsule found as Confederate monument taken down in St. Louis”

Fast Forward – by Jesse Bernstein

Six more arrests have been made in connection with a sprawling welfare scheme in Lakewood, according to the Asbury Park Press. These follows eight prior arrests that had been made earlier in the week.

“This is just the beginning,” said a law enforcement agent close to the investigation.

Those arrested Tuesday were Yitzchok and Sora Kanarek, Chaim and Liatt Ehrman, and William and Faigy Friedman. According to the report:   Continue reading “6 More Jews Arrested In Mushrooming Lakewood Benefits Scam”

The Tennessean – by Scott Broden

Convicted ex-sheriff Robert Arnold relocated Tuesday from an Atlanta penitentiary to a Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Ala., according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

Arnold pleaded guilty to wire fraud, honest services fraud and extortion on Jan. 18 at the federal courthouse in Nashville.

U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Aspen sentenced Arnold on May 5 to 50 months in prison that would include about eight months of previous time served.  Continue reading “Convicted ex-sheriff Robert Arnold moved to Montgomery, Ala., prison camp”