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The Russian president sent words of solidarity to French President Francois Hollande and the entire French people, his spokesman says
A huge fire has broken out at the vast 'Jungle' refugee camp near the French port of Calais, just hours after a string of bloody attacks struck Paris, leaving over 100 dead. The Calais deputy mayor told RT that the authorities are trying to tackle the blaze.
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Police control crowds leaving the Stade de France where explosions were reported to have detonated outside the stadium during the France vs German friendly match near Paris, November 13, 2015.
Police control crowds leaving the Stade de France where explosions were reported to have detonated outside the stadium during the France vs German friendly match near Paris, November 13, 2015.
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Researchers from the PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) performed one of the largest studies analyzing child abuse in military families. Its findings were published Friday in the American Journal of Public Health.
"This study is the first to reveal an increased risk when soldiers with young children return home from deployment," David Rubin, co-director of PolicyLab and the report's senior author, said in a statement. "This really demonstrates that elevated stress when a soldier returns home can have real and potentially devastating consequences for some military families."
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Juvenile Court Judge Scott Johansen rescinded his order, according to court documents obtained by CNN on Friday.
He amended Tuesday's first ruling, crossing out the line in the order that read, "The Court orders the Division to place the child with a duly married, heterosexual foster-adoptive couple within one week."
And the growing clash of squatters and abandoned properties suggests a boom-bust housing disaster for the economy.
The phenomenon was notable after the 2006 housing bubble popped, and has resurfaced in strikingly similar circumstances for many struggling Americans.
News8 in Tampa reported on the caustic reaction by law enforcement to squatters it believes may be using a manual that has been published and sold on Amazon on strategies about how to squat, for those "willing to take the risk":
Crooks find empty houses all over Tampa Bay and make themselves at home. And now, 8 On Your Side uncovered training manuals on the internet. They teach how to get away with squatting.
The handbooks are brazen. A pamphlet for sale on Amazon for $61.20. An entry on Wiki-How entices tells squatters how to "take a whole house from someone if you're willing to take the risk."
It points out the best areas to squat and even advises to spruce up the home to throw off suspicious neighbors.
Comment: If your only choice is to be exposed to the elements or take shelter in a perfectly intact home, which would you choose? Expect to see more of this as the American economy goes further down the toilet.
Flames and smoke can be seen at the site of an oil train's derailment near Galena, Illinois
But according to a new report out this week from Waterkeeper Alliance, ForestEthics and Riverkeeper, since 2008, oil train traffic has increased more than 5,000 percent along routes "leading from oil fields in central Canada, the Great Plains and the Rockies to refineries and crude oil hubs along our nation's coasts." The environmental advocacy groups' report describes the significant threat posed by explosive crude oil "bomb trains" traveling across aging and neglected US rail infrastructure.
Comment: While the US infrastructure has been crumbling for decades, there may be something rather suspicious linking a few of the recent oil train derailments that bears further consideration:
Another Buffett-owned oil tanker train derails in Wisconsin one day after Obama kills Keystone XL pipeline
1. AVOID CATS
In the past black cats were linked with witches and the devil and so it is still seen as unlucky when a black cat crosses your path in France. Records show that during the Middle Ages cats of all colours were so feared they were gathered together and burnt in villages and especially on Shrove Tuesday and the Fête de la Saint-Jean in June. Black cats in the UK, in contrast, bring good luck. The difference in outlook could be explained by the story that Napoleon saw a black cat before the battle of Waterloo, the outcome showing that it brought luck to the English and was a bad omen for the French.
2. DON'T CARRY CATS ACROSS WATER
It is unlucky to cross a stream with a cat in your arms and the death of a cat will be followed by the death of someone under the same roof.
3. LOOK OUT FOR SNEEZING CATS
On a positive note, if a cat sneezes near a bride on her wedding day the marriage will be a happy one.
4. AS FOR DOGS...
One French superstition, which many might feel difficult to avoid while walking in a town, is stepping in dog dirt. If the left foot is the unfortunate offender that is seemingly all right as it will bring you good luck, but if it is the right foot you are unlucky - in either case you have dog dirt on your shoe.
5. AND HORSES
Horseshoes above the door bring luck in France as in the UK, but many hang them with the points to the bottom, so that the luck and its protective powers will shower down on you.
James Files, 72, has been moved from a high-security jail to a less secure one in Illinois in preparation for his release.
His extraordinary claims in a filmed prison interview have become an internet sensation since being put on the web by Dutch film-maker Wim Dankbaar.
Now the CIA and other US secret agencies are bracing themselves for a fresh wave of conspiracy theories as Files identifies himself as the missing piece of the jigsaw in the Kennedy plot.
Controversially, he says there was collusion between the Mafia and the CIA to kill 46-year-old Kennedy, claims which could lead to him being called to give testimony on oath in Washington.
Comment: James Files' claims are hardly new. He has been saying for quite a while that he was involved in the JFK assassination. The question is whether he is speaking out to muddy the waters, or was truly involved.
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Livingston (New Jersey) High School Hall of Fame member, Dr. V A Shiva Ayyadurai threw down the gauntlet to the Monsanto Company, claiming it would be next to impossible for the agro-giant to disprove his claim that safety assessment standards for genetically-modified organisms (GMO) are nonexistent.
"If Monsanto can disprove the fact that there are no safety assessment standards for GMOs, the conclusion of our fourth paper, then I will give them my $10 million building," Ayyadurai, also a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, told Patch.
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