sentence: Munich 1856: four maps that will change your view of the city

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a mental asylum, where today young people are said to meet.


sentence: a crypt chapel, where they are now digging tunnels for the S-Bahn.

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sentence: allotment holders cultivate the soil of former farmers.

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sentence: the oldest official map of Munich brings captivating stories to light.

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it is annoying when geographical maps are not up-to-date.


anyone who has ever got worked up because the car's sat-nav is showing a green field instead of a bypass knows that.


sentence: the historical maps of the digital BayernAtlas, an offering from the State Government's Geoportal Bayern, are anything but up-to-date - and yet it is precisely for this reason that they are so informative.

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sentence: especially when one compares them with current online maps.


sentence: then it becomes clear how the towns and municipalities in the distribution area of Munich's Merkur newspaper have changed since the 19th century.

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the digital BayernAtlas is a patchwork quilt that one doesn't quite recognise for what it is at first.


sentence: within the large overview map, were worked in detailed maps for towns and municipalities, so-called original-lay-of-the-land sheets.


according to information from the Bavarian Surveying and Mapping Authority, these came into being between 1810 and 1864 and arise out of the first survey of Bavaria.


their commissioner: Napoleon.


sentence: the French army commander had occupied Bavaria since the spring in 1800, during the War of the Second Coalition with Austria.

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Napoleon wanted to gain an overview of the occupied land and commissioned a topographical survey - naturally for military purposes.


sentence: even if the French troops finally retreated with the Treaty of Lunéville from 9th February 1801: it was the current neighbours who had the idea to create a comprehensive map of Bavaria.

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sentence: Elector Max IV. Joseph propelled the project further forward, founding the "Topographical Bureau" - and with that, the Bavarian Surveying and Mapping Authority.

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the original lay-of-the-land sheet for Munich originates from 1856 and, like all the others, can be found on the website of the Bavarian State Library.


sentence: the comparison of past / present is most impressive taking the example of the state capital.

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sentence: the city has stretched out in all directions and coalesced.


sentence: an example of this is Untersendling, which still appears relatively isolated on the map from 1856.

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sentence: Sendling was incorporated as an urban district of Munich 21 years after the map was created.

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sentence: today, Untersendling lies in the middle of the city.


sentence: around 1856, Untersendling's houses are concentrated along what is today Plinganserstraße, which was first named in 1878 after Georg Sebastian Plinganser, a ringleader of the Bavarian farmers' revolt against Austria in 1705.

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sentence: where the West Park is today, one sees nothing but field - at first sight: upon zooming in, a more detailed small-scale map with dozens of lines and numbers appears: hand-numbered plots from the so-called "original record," from which the property tax was derived.

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sentence: today, it is no longer farmers who occupy small parcels there - rather, it is allotment holders of the "Land in Sonne" facility.

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a large green area is apparent to the north of Untersendling.


sentence: Theresienwiese, since 1810 the scene of Oktoberfest, was in the 19th century still actually a "Wiese" - a meadow - and not a concrete wasteland.

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sentence: on the other side of the Isar, the historical map gives an insight into the history of psychiatric medicine.

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sentence: in the original lay-of-the-land sheet, in the area where today the borough of Au-Haidhausen is, one can make out not only the street name "am Gasteig" or the elevation "Auf der Lüften" - but can actually read in large letters "mental asylum."

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yes, here on Auerfeldstraße, they once imprisoned people with delusions.


the Munich district mental asylum "Auf der Auer Lüften" had come to life there in 1858 / 59.


sentence: from 1872, Dr. Bernhard von Gudden led the institution - the psychiatrist who is associated with the death of King Ludwig II.

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"he was progressive for his time and ended, for example, the practice of chaining up the so-called mad men.


sentence: what is more, he forbade the staff from using violence against the inmates, "says Hermann Wilhelm, leader of the Haidhausen Museum, which has been busying itself for an exhibition with the establishment.

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sentence: originally there was place for 280 patients; later this was expanded to 500 places.

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sentence: at some point even this capacity was no longer enough - the reason why the district mental asylum in Haar was constructed in 1905.

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the Isar Amper Clinic, East Munich, has been located there since 2006, one of the largest psychiatric units in Germany.


on the plot of the former Auer institution, young people now meet in the Munich Salesianum.


sentence: the order acquired the building complex in 1920 and converted it into a youth centre with training programmes.

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to the west lies the football pitch of TSV München Ost, and to the east, residential houses from the 1980s.


in 2015, the "Casa Don Bosco" nursery was built - in the architectural style of the original mental asylum building, which had been destroyed in the Second World War in bomb attacks.


Marienplatz was recorded as the "main square" in around 1856, and Kaufingerstraße was called "Kaufinger Gasse."


sentence: the Second World War also brought a decisive change to the heart of Munich.

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the bombs of the Allies tore many holes in the city centre in December 1944.


one big one remains up to this day - at the Marienhof.


sentence: the English Institute, small commercial premises and a crypt chapel from the Middle Ages once stood in the Marienhof, where these days, preparations for the second S-Bahn main line are underway, with first digging to follow on 5th April 2017.

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sentence: you can use the slider control to compare the old Munich map with the aerial view from today - and to fill in the hole at the Marienhof.


civil rights group issues travel warning for Missouri


sentence: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has put out an alert for people of color traveling to Missouri because of the state's discriminatory policies and racist attacks.

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sentence: "the NAACP Travel Advisory for the state of Missouri, effective through August 28th, 2017, calls for African American travelers, visitors and Missourians to pay special attention and exercise extreme caution when traveling throughout the state given the series of questionable, race-based incidents occurring statewide recently, and noted therein," the group's statement reads.

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sentence: a recent Missouri law making it harder for people to win discrimination lawsuits, as well as the state's law enforcement disproportionately targeting minorities prompted the group to issue the travel alert, the NAACP said.

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"you have violations of civil rights that are happening to people.


sentence: they're being pulled over because of their skin color, they're being beaten up or killed, "the president of the Missouri NAACP, Rod Chapel, told The Kansas City Star.

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sentence: "we are hearing complaints at a rate we haven't heard before."

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sentence: it is the first such warning that the organization has issued for a state in the US.

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sentence: the group cited incidents such as racial slurs against black students at the University of Missouri and the death of Tory Sanders, 28, a black man from Tennessee.

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sentence: Sanders died under questionable circumstances earlier this year after he ran out of gas while traveling through the state, and was taken into custody by Missouri police without being accused of a crime.

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sentence: the advisory also points to a recent report by the Missouri Attorney General's Office showing that black drivers in the state were 75 percent more likely to be pulled over than whites.

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sentence: "the advisory is for people to be aware, and warn their families and friends and co-workers of what could happen in Missouri," Chapel said.

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sentence: "people need to be ready, whether it's bringing bail money with them, or letting relatives know they are traveling through the state."

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sentence: Missouri recorded 100 hate crimes in 2015, according to the latest figures from the FBI's hate crime reporting program, ranking the state at 16th in the country in terms of the number of such violations.

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sentence: the travel warning is also a response to a new Missouri law that would make it more difficult to sue a business for housing or employment discrimination.

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sentence: previously, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had issued travel advisories for Texas and Arizona after the states passed immigration enforcement laws requiring local law enforcement to detain people on immigration violations which the ACLU said would increase racial profiling.

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sentence: travel warnings are usually issued by the State Department for other countries, but lately, advocacy groups have resorted to the measure in response to certain laws and trends inside the US.

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pasture fence project is fundamental


sentence: the Fischerbach pasture fence project is a successful project and will be continued next year.

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members of the Bundestag for the CDU Peter Weiß and Kordula Kovac got a first-hand view.


sentence: representatives from the Fischerbach local CDU group met with mayor Thomas Schneider and the two representatives at Rechtgrabenhof farm, belonging to the Schwendemann family.

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sentence: to start with, Markus Schwendemann gave insights into his business, in which he cultivates 55 hectares of pasture and 40 hectares of woodland, keeps 40 milk cows and just as many young stock, and accommodates five apartments of holiday makers.

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sentence: Schwendemann says that, for him, there is no alternative to the "Black Forest milk" marketing channel he uses for the milk from his cows.

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only regional produce is served to the holiday-makers.


since he is also BLHV chairman for Fischerbach, he described the pasture fence project as "fundamentally important."


I can't make a profit on that kind of steep-sloping ground.


grassland areas make for a lot of work, a lot has to be done with the string trimmer.


sentence: "we have to grapple with the conditions and with the topography here," stressed Schwendemann.

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sentence: in 2003, he took over his parents' business and he manages this without chemical crop protection and fertilisers, even if it's not an organic farm that he's running.

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for Mayor Thomas Schneider, it was clear that "the community has recognised the importance of the pasture fence project and is happy to have the Leader funding."


sentence: the farmers need support to the tune of 3000 to 4000 euros per hectare.

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sentence: one hopes that with that, afforestation of the area could then be drawn out for a long while.

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sentence: "the biggest asset that we have are the people who work in agriculture and who give thought to how to bring their businesses forward," stressed the mayor.

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sentence: the farmers are often the target of criticism thanks to the funding.


using the pasture fence funding, a total of 25 plots from eleven participants were fenced off in 2013.


sentence: the areas kept open with these amount to 40 hectares, which may not be afforested until at least 2023.


sentence: of the total costs, to the tune of 71,500 euros, half was funded via Leader, and a quarter was borne by the community of Fischerbach.

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sentence: the farmers were thus left with 12,610 euros, which they had to invest in the 16.2-kilometre pasture fence.

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sentence: "the great advantage is the longevity of the fences," explained Schwendemann.

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sentence: Kordula Kovac stressed: "you're doing a really good job. without farmers we'd not be able to function."

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sentence: Peter Weiß is also standing firm: "first-class foodstuffs are produced here."

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the Baden-Württemberg directive on countryside conservation (LPR) makes the government funding of pasture fences possible.


sentence: its goal is to keep the Black Forest open.

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a prerequisite is the existence of one of the funding scenarios as outlined by the LPR.


sentence: in addition, the fenced-off area is not allowed to be farmable with a tractor (gradient of over 35 per cent) and must therefore be threatened with afforestation.


sentence: for the 2018 Fischerbach pasture fence project, an application is currently underway from eight participants with 24 plots who would like to build just shy of 16 kilometres of fence.

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sentence: the areas of land to be kept open equate to 35 hectares; the calculated costs amount to more than 112,000 euros.

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is nothing sacred?


now Trump's White House is targeting the Statue of Liberty


sentence: the surest mark of regime change is when they start attacking the statues.

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Americans appreciate this as well as anyone - hence the carefully stage-manged toppling of Saddam Hussein in Firdos square in Baghdad in 2003.


sentence: Stephen Miller, one of the key ideologues of the Trump regime, surely knew what he was doing when he took a symbolic axe to the Statue of Liberty in a heated argument with CNN's Jim Acosta over the president's proposals to drastically limit legal immigration.

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sentence: in fairness, Miller did not attack the statue itself.

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a horde of boat-trip owners and Liberty impersonators would have lynched him if he did.


sentence: but he did attack its meaning, and in particular the meaning ascribed to it when Emma Lazarus's famous poem was added to its base in 1903, 17 years after the monument itself was completed.

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sentence: as Miller scolded Acosta: "I don't want to get off into a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is... a symbol of American liberty lighting the world.

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sentence: the poem that you're referring to, that was added later and is not part of the original Statue of Liberty. "

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sentence: Miller is factually correct, but as he put it himself, this is not really about history.


sentence: it is about the contemporary resonance of Lazarus's startling words, the only ones in which a state has appeared to invite not just any old immigrants, but the poorest of the poor: "your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

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there has never been a time when the "wretched refuse" has been more visible on our screens.


sentence: Miller was not engaging in literary criticism - he was making it clear that these people are not welcome in Trump's USA.

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sentence: this conflict about the meaning of a statue is part of a wider political and cultural war: it is really a conflict about the meaning of America.


sentence: Lazarus - and her friends who campaigned to place her words at the base after her death - knew very well that they were engaging in a highly political act.

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sentence: the sculpture was intended to mark the connections between French and American republicanism by representing in a well-worn classical trope, the female embodiment of Liberty.

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Lazarus changed that meaning: in her poem the female figure is no longer abstract - she has a voice.


sentence: and she gives herself a very different name: mother of Exiles.

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sentence: the marrying of the poem to the image is a brilliant feminist coup and a devastating attack on American nativism.

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sentence: and just as Lazarus changed the meaning of the statue, rightwingers have long wanted to change it back.

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sentence: the great loudmouth Rush Limbaugh, a kind of John the Baptist for the coming of Trump, argued in 2010 that Liberty is not inviting anyone in, but is rather an early neocon, taking the American flame out to the benighted world: "lady Liberty is stepping forward.

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sentence: she is meant to be carrying the torch of liberty from the United States to the rest of the world.

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sentence: the torch is not to light the way to the United States. "


rather unusually, Limbaugh actually hit on something.


sentence: the meaning of the statue is entirely a matter of the angle of perception.

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sentence: Lazarus's great imaginative act was to see it as it would be seen by exhausted, wretched but hopeful people on the decks of ships after long and often dreadful journeys.

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sentence: it is literally about seeing the world from the perspective of people seeking refuge and a chance to better their lives.

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sentence: her statue speaks back to them the words of hope and welcome they need to hear.

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and of course, this is not the perspective Miller and Trump want ever to recognise.


sentence: their torch is meant not to light the way, but to inflame the hatreds that are their only source of power.

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sentence: world Championships 2017: Neil Black praises Scottish members of Team GB

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sentence: Eilidh Doyle recalls a time when only two Scots made the GB team

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sentence: UK Athletics' performance director Neil Black says the 16-strong Scottish contingent in the World Championships squad will make "a massive contribution to the team."


sentence: a record number of Scottish athletes have been selected for London 2017, which starts on Friday.

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black believes "there's something special evolving" in Scotland and UK athletics must learn from that.


"we embrace it and we're trying to understand it and we'll push on that until we work it out," Black said.


sentence: "I speak to people in the Scottish Institute of Sport and they think it's something to do with what they've done.

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Scottish Athletics think it's something to do with what they've done.


British athletics: it's something to do with what they've done.


and the guy on the corner street, too.


sentence: whatever the combination of circumstances, it's absolutely brilliant. "

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sentence: several of the Scottish athletes are medal contenders, including Laura Muir and Andrew Butchart - who will race against Sir Mo Farah in the 5,000m, while Eilidh Doyle was voted by the squad to be team captain.

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"Eilidh is slightly modest.


sentence: her captain's speech was incredible, "says Black.

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sentence: "a number of athletes, whether they were Scottish or wherever they live or train, walked out of that room feeling hugely proud and really motivated.

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sentence: the passion and real feeling that Eilidh naturally put into it were great. "

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sentence: the Commonwealth silver medallist, who will compete in the 400m hurdles at her fifth World Championships, says it's "incredible" 16 Scots are in the British team.


sentence: Scotland's previous best total of athletes at the worlds was seven, achieved in 1983 and 2015.


sentence: Middle-distance runner Muir is leading the way, having set five British and two European records in the past year.

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she will go in the 1500m and the 5,000m.


sentence: Chris O'Hare, who runs in the 1500m, is another Scot to watch, following a great season that included victory at the British Team trials and the Anniversary Games.

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sentence: Doyle remembers her first world championships, when the only other Scot in the team was Lee McConnell.


sentence: the team captain says she's "hugely proud" of the fact so many of her compatriots have not only made the team, but, in some cases, will be challenging for medals and competing to make finals.

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sentence: "the special thing about being team captain is that it was voted for by the other members of the team, so that it was such a huge honour anyway but to know that your teammates have voted for you and chosen you made it extra-special for me," she added.


sentence: "obviously, I'm very proud of all the Scots who've made the team.


it just shows how far we've come.


sentence: and they're here as well-established athletes, athletes that are going to be looking to get on podiums.


sentence: as for my captain's speech?


yeah, I think it went well.


sentence: I just drew on the fact that we're very lucky in this situation in that we've got a home World Championships.

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so it's really just the importance of drawing on that home support and thriving on the fact that we're back at the Olympic Stadium.


sentence: I'm getting a second chance to go out there and compete and it's just going to be such an amazing atmosphere out there. "

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sentence: blocking critics from Facebook: don't run for public office, if you can't take heat from voters

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sentence: the father of our country knew something about bad press.

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sentence: Americans loved George Washington, but it didn't take long for newspapers to start slamming him on everything from domestic policy to his political principles.

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he chafed at the criticism, sure.


sentence: but he did not silence his critics.

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sentence: because back in 1783, Washington said, "the freedom of Speech may be taken away - and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter."

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that brings me to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who needs to work on being more like Washington.


sentence: Hogan's staff has blocked and deleted the posts of at least 450 people who voiced their opinions on his official Facebook page.

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sentence: and the American Civil Liberties Union sued him for that earlier this week.

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sentence: the governor's staff dismissed the lawsuit as frivolous, and the online commentary was rich with a "who cares?" backlash.

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"it's only Facebook," plenty of folks said.


but it matters.


and it especially matters when it's a guy like Hogan.


sentence: this is a Republican governor in an overwhelmingly Democratic state who is astonishingly popular.

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sentence: he has the second-highest approval rating of the nation's 50 governors.

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Hogan is not a reactionary hothead.


he's shown a steady hand in leading his state and a stern adherence to principles.


sentence: he's also been pretty deft at using Facebook as a primary means to connect with his constituents, playfully debuting his hairless head after chemo treatments on his page.

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sentence: so blocking people who come to the governor's page - which is a public forum, labeled as official and administered by staff members paid public tax dollars - is unnecessary and ultimately dangerous.

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sentence: in an interview with The Washington Post, Hogan spokeswoman Amelia Chasse defended the governor's actions, arguing that blocking the comments was nothing more than moderating them.

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sentence: but it's too easy to use the image of trolls or spammers or hateful folks lashing out online.

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sentence: the Post talked to some of the real people blocked by Hogan.

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sentence: and they're just that - real people talking to their elected leaders: a teacher, a business owner and a pastor, not trolls.

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sentence: they all said that their comments were respectful, thoughtful and not profane.


sentence: the pastor quoted the Bible in his post, appealing to Hogan's Catholic faith.

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attorney Lakshmi Sarma Ramani of Bowie, Md., wasn't hateful, but she asked about hate crimes.


sentence: "I politely commented that I was disappointed in his lack of response to hate crimes and other recent news items," she wrote in the comment section of The Post's news story.

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sentence: "I also do not appreciate that idea that when a number of people comment on the same topic, they are immediately disregarded by some as a so-called collective effort, rather than recognized as a large group of concerned citizens."

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sentence: what the governor's staff called a "concentrated spam attack" others would probably call "advocacy."

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sentence: the Facebook era makes it easy to tailor a message by simply blocking a critic or deleting a negative comment.

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sentence: it's a lot cleaner than the old days, when doing the same would have required sending staff out to collect and burn newspapers with critical editorials or arresting and silencing protesters.

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but that's exactly what's happening, only digitally.


Hogan isn't the first public official to be criticized for defanging Facebook and other social media.


President Trump is being sued by Twitter users who were blocked from his Twitter feed.


sentence: one of the first landmark rulings on this issue came down last week in Virginia.

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the chair of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors violated the First Amendment, according to U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris in Alexandria, when she banned a constituent from her Facebook page.


sentence: and in Kentucky, Gov. Matt Bevin (R) also got a visit from the ACLU over his use of Facebook and Twitter.

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this shouldn't be so hard.


in Washington's time, the era of affordable postage had an impact much like the Internet.


sentence: the number of newspapers quadrupled between 1776 and 1800, and anonymous letter writers hammered his leadership.


and even back then, Washington had anonymous trolls.


sentence: people using the pseudonyms "Juricola," "Valerius," "Belisarius," and "Portius" all wrote letters to newspapers trashing Washington's decisions.

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sentence: Petitions criticizing his stand on the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation with Britain overwhelmed his office, according to the historical documents collected by the online Papers of George Washington Project.

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but he did not silence them.


sentence: freedom of speech, dissent and discourse lie at the very foundation of our nation.

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and true leadership means accepting that.


Ronan Rafferty hopes for home comforts at Renaissance Club


sentence: former European No 1 Ronan Rafferty will be hoping for home comforts over the next three days as the Renaissance Club in East Lothian hosts the 25th edition of the Scottish Senior Open.

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sentence: the Northern Irishman, who led next door at Archerfield Links heading into the final round last year before losing out to Paul Eales, is attached to the new venue and is acting as tournament ambassador on behalf of the club's founder and CEO Jerry Sarvadi.

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"I watched Renaissance Club being built, and we're seeing it come to its glory with this event," said Rafferty.


sentence: "the players will see this course at its finest, it is in fabulous condition.

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sentence: Jerry has done a fabulous job setting this place up.

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sentence: he's a keen advocate of this game and is proud of his achievement here.

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sentence: this is a great showcase for this course. "

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Englishman Eales is looking forward to defending a championship for the first time despite winning on both the European Tour and European Challenge Tour in his 32-year career.


sentence: "this does feel really special," said the Southport-based player.

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sentence: "I didn't get to defend the Extremadura Open because that was taken off the schedule the year after I won it.


coming back to this part of the world is magical.


sentence: it's a wonderful place to play golf in.

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sentence: the memories from last year are coming back and it was special for me and my wife Sharon to win last year.

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it was a really special time and one we will always cherish. "


sentence: making his return to action on home soil is Gary Orr, who joined the European Senior Tour after turning 50 earlier this year.


this event will be his first Scottish appearance since the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open in 2013.


sentence: "it always means a little bit more when you're playing at home," said Helensburgh man Orr.

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sentence: "you want to do well; but you do feel that extra pressure.

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sentence: I've really enjoyed playing again and I've played some solid golf.

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I'm happy with how it's going so far. "


sentence: joining the trio in the field are former Masters winner Ian Woosnam and Senior major champions Paul Broadhurst, Roger Chapman, Mark James and Mark McNulty.

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sentence: Orr and former Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance are among six Scots in the field, the others being Andrew Oldcorn, Stephen McAllister, Bill Longmuir and Ross Drummond.


sentence: admission is free of charge, with car parking charged at £5 per car with one occupant and £10 per car with two or more occupants.

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all proceeds go to Prostate Cancer UK.


fewer lung cancer deaths due to passive smoking


sentence: in past two decades, an ever decreasing number of people have died from lung cancer due to passive smoking.

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sentence: this is the conclusion drawn by scientists from the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in a study.

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sentence: "according to our estimations, 167 lung cancer deaths a year can be attributed to passive smoking," said study leader Heiko Becher.

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sentence: for comparison, he referred to one of his own studies on this topic from 1994.

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sentence: back then, there were still 400 lung cancer deaths due to passive smoking every year in Germany.


sentence: the new study is published in the "International Journal of Public Health."


home connections prove to be very complex


the building works in villinger Straße are in full throw and "are more or less on schedule," according to the manager of the construction yard, Fred Heinze.


sentence: in terms of home connections, the situation is more complicated than expected, since lots of things are hidden in the substrate that were not noted in the plans.

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sentence: the traffic, which always disrupts building works, poses a big problem for the Stumpp company construction crew.

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sentence: "the ignorance of car drivers around red lights and barriers is really huge," reports Heinze.

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the street is closed off and only the public busses are allowed to drive through.


sentence: Angelo Caruso, Marvin Kostorz and Tim Kostorz from the Stumpp company have been engaged in the works on the bridges for weeks.

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sentence: "the hot days were pretty exhausting, for sure.

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sentence: but luckily we were supplied with cold mineral water by our friend Fritz Matt, "explained Marvin Kostorz.

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sentence: poverty and Death in Indonesia's Land of Gold

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sentence: when Bardina Degei cooks dinner, she doesn't use a stove.

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she rarely even uses a pot.


sentence: in her wooden home in Enarotali, the capital of Paniai regency in the restive Indonesian province of Papua, the housewife usually just places a sweet potato - known locally as "nota" - directly into the fireplace.

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sentence: after half-an-hour, the charred tuber is retrieved and devoured with eager, unwashed hands.

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sentence: Degei sits on the mud floor - she has no furniture - which is where she also performs her daily chores, such as washing clothes with murky water from the nearby swamp.

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sentence: a bucket in a roofless room serves as a latrine.

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sentence: as the youngest of her husband's four wives, she has been assigned no fields to tend.

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sentence: polygamy is common here.

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sentence: of course, working late can be dangerous: most of the village men are unemployed and many drink heavily, plus there are the soldiers.

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"no one dares to walk around the village after 5 p.m.," she says.


sentence: it's a rare glimpse of daily life in the highlands of Papua, a former Dutch colony that was absorbed into Indonesia in 1969 following a controversial referendum, when just 1,026 elders were forced to vote through a public show of hands before occupying troops.

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sentence: an existing movement agitating for independence against Dutch rule swiftly turned its ire against the Jakarta government, which maintains tight control over the region, barring foreign journalists or rights monitors.

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sentence: in 2003, the province was officially split into Papua and West Papua, with independent Papua New Guinea occupying the eastern part of the island.

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sentence: Enarotali is as remote as it is desolate; the journey here involves a 90-minute flight from the provincial capital Jayapura to Nabire, and then a stomach-churning five-hour drive by hire car.

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there is no public transport.


sentence: the town of some 19,000 people consists of wooden houses ringed by bamboo fencing, corrugated iron roofs transformed by rust into varying tawny shades.

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sentence: very few Indonesians have made the journey here, let alone journalists, and practically no foreigners.

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before Christian missionaries arrived, Mee Pago Papuans worshiped a God named Uga Tamee.


sentence: there were other changes, too.

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sentence: "we were not used to wearing these clothes," says Degei, indicating her vividly colored, hand-woven turban, dark shirt and a bright skirt.

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sentence: "before, we only wore leaves on our bodies."

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sentence: Papua is Indonesia's poorest province, where 28% of people live below the poverty line and with some of the worst infant mortality and literacy rates in Asia.


but it is also Indonesia's land of gold.


sentence: the world's largest and most profitable gold mine, Grasberg, owned by Phoenix-based Freeport McMoran, lies just 60 miles from Paniai, a highland province around the size of New Jersey and home to 153,000 people.

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sentence: in 2015 alone, Freeport mined some $3.1 billion worth of gold and copper here.

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in addition, Papua boasts timber resources worth an estimated $78 billion.


sentence: these riches are, however, a source of misery for Papuans, ensuring Indonesia's powerful military maintains a suffocating presence.

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sentence: a 2005 investigation in The New York Times reported that Freeport paid local military personnel and units nearly $20 million between 1998 and 2004, including up to $150,000 to a single officer.

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sentence: Papuan calls for greater autonomy threaten this golden goose, and are dealt with mercilessly.

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sentence: according to rights activists, more than 500,000 Papuans have been killed, and thousands more have been raped, tortured and imprisoned by the Indonesian military since 1969.

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sentence: mass killings in Papua's tribal highlands during the 1970s amounted to genocide, according to the Asia Human Rights Commission.

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sentence: Indonesian police arrested more than 3,900 peaceful protesters in the region last year alone.

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sentence: we Will Lose Everything, a 2016 report by the Archdiocese of Brisbane, contains testimony of atrocities committed the previous year, such as extrajudicial executions, torture - rape and electrocution are especially popular, according to another report - and the brutal crushing of peaceful demonstrations.

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sentence: "it's difficult to count the number of victims as incidents happen every week," says Andreas Harsono, Indonesia researcher for Human Rights Watch.

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sentence: the screws have tightened as Papua's resources bring an influx of settlers from elsewhere in Indonesia.

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sentence: the province's 3.5 million population is 83% Christian, but the demographic is changing as Muslim economic migrants arrive from Indonesia's populous islands of Java, Borneo, Sumatra and Sulawesi.

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sentence: Javanese warung canteens sell fried chicken and gado-gado mixed-vegetables served with peanut sauce.

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sentence: local people struggle to compete.

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sentence: "the migrants started to sell chicken and vegetables in the traditional market cheaper than the local Papuans," explains Abeth You, a 24-year-old Paniai native who moved to the provincial capital Jayapura for work.

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sentence: "it made the native Papuans - the mama-mama [the women] of Papua - lose their market."

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sentence: Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, vowed to address the inequalities and rights abuses in Papua during his election campaign in 2014.

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sentence: the former carpenter secured 27 of Papua's total 29 districts - including Paniai - on the way to the Presidential Palace in Jakarta.

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but precious little has changed in Papua, and today local people feel betrayed.


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sentence: in fact, Paniai suffered a nadir just two months after Jokowi's October inauguration.

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sentence: on Dec. 7, 2014 a group of 11 children were outside singing Christmas carols in front of a bonfire in Enarotali when two Indonesian soldiers on a motorbike broke through the gloom.

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sentence: the startled children told them that they should turn on their headlights.

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sentence: one of the soldiers took umbrage at their tone and later returned with four soldiers, according to local Pastor Yavedt Tebai.


sentence: the soldiers, who had been drinking, chased and beat the group with their rifle butts, said victims and witnesses.

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sentence: then one of the soldiers fired into the group of children.


sentence: one child, 16-year-old Yulianus Yeimo, was beaten so badly he fell into a coma.

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sentence: a couple of hours later, the nearby government Election Commission building was set ablaze, and things escalated the following day.

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sentence: about 1,000 young Papuan men, women and children gathered on a soccer field in front of the local police station and military command center to demand justice.

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sentence: they carried ceremonial hunting bows and performed the waita dance - running in circles and simulating birdsong - of Papua's Mee Pago tribe.

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sentence: some protesters started hurling stones at police and military posts.

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sentence: as tempers grew more heated, an order was sent to the soldiers through internal radio: "if the masses offer resistance more than three times, shoot them dead," it said, according to an official document seen by TIME that has not been released to the local media.

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sentence: Yeremias Kayame, 56, the head of the Kego Koto neighborhood of Enarotali, saw the impending danger and appealed for calm, imploring the crowd to go back home.

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nobody was in the mood to listen.


sentence: "when I turned around I suddenly got shot in my left wrist," he told TIME on the porch of his brightly painted wooden house.

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sentence: Kayame still doesn't know who fired but says the bullet came from the ranks of amassed soldiers.

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"it was crowded, many shots were fired," he adds.


sentence: local man Alfius Youw was hit three times, according to his cousin who witnessed the shootings.

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sentence: "I ran to him and examined his body to make sure it was him," Yohanes, who like many Indonesians only goes by one name, told TIME somberly.

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"I saw he was dead... I kissed him."


the Papua Police Chief Inspector General Yotje Mende told reporters that his officers were only "securing" their station because it was under attack.


"we have to defend ourselves when people threaten to kill us," Papua Police spokesperson, Commissioner Pudjo Sulistiyo said in 2015.


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according to Human Rights Watch, five young protesters were killed and many more injured.


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sentence: three weeks later, Jokowi gave an impassioned speech in Jayapura, where he expressed sympathies with the victims' families and vowed to address the historic abuses in Papua.

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sentence: "I want this case to be solved immediately so it won't ever happen again in the future," he said.

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sentence: security Minister Wiranto said in October 2016 that he was setting up a non-judicial mechanism to settle historic human-rights violations.

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but the excuses started almost immediately.


"most of the violations occurred a long time ago.


some were in the '90s and in early 2000s.


the point is we are committed to addressing these violations, but there are processes to go through, "he said.


sentence: then Wiranto backtracked when speaking to TIME in Jakarta on June 5, saying he has no plans to establish a grievance mechanism in Papua.

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instead, "All will be settled by law," he said.


sentence: Wiranto, who the U.N. has indicted for "crimes against humanity" relating to more than 1,000 deaths during East Timor's bloody 1999 independence vote, said that 11 cases of human-rights violations in Papua have already been settled, including the Paniai incident.

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sentence: families of the Paniai victims greeted such claims with grim incredulity.


sentence: "I've been interviewed four times for the past three years, but there has been no progress at all," Yohanes says.

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"I'm tired."


sentence: he says that years later, he still lives in fear.

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"I'm afraid," he says.


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sentence: his brother Yacobus echoed the view that people in Paniai are fearful of discussing the incident.


sentence: he says he was beaten by the military after helping to bury four of the victims.


sentence: "after burying the bodies, the military came looking for me," he says.

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the shootings haven't stopped.


sentence: on Tuesday, Indonesian police shot at villagers in Paniai's neighboring Deiyai regency.

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sentence: one person died and 17 others were wounded, including children, during a confrontation between villagers and the manager of a construction company who refused to help transport an unconscious man to hospital.

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sentence: the man, 24-year-old Ravianus Douw who drowned while he was fishing in a nearby river, died on the way to hospital.

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sentence: incensed villagers protested in front of the company's site office.

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sentence: police said the villagers threw rocks at officers, who responded by firing warning shots.

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sentence: but locals say the mobile brigade (Indonesian paramilitary police) began shooting at the crowd, killing one.

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sentence: "we were so panicked, we are afraid there will be revenge," 29-year-old Dominggu Badii, who lives near the hospital and witnessed the injured being hurried in, tells TIME.

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sentence: the Deiyai parliament has called for the officers involved to be held to account and the police mobile brigade to be withdrawn from the area.

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Paniai has always been a troublespot for the Indonesian government.


sentence: the lack of meaningful development feeds the discontent of the tribal Mee, Moni, Dani, and Damal peoples, who live sprawled across Papua's verdant central highlands.

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sentence: many joined the Free Papua Movement (OPM), the rebel army that claims to defend the rights of the Papuans by launching sporadic attacks and kidnapping raids on Indonesian soldiers.

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sentence: some of the top OPM leaders hail from Paniai, including Tadius Yogi and Daniel Yudas Kogoya.

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sentence: in response, thousands of people in Paniai have been arrested and arbitrarily detained by the military in recent years, under the guise of "safeguarding national sovereignty."

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some never reappear.


sentence: among the people of Papua, Paniai is known as "a tragic, forgotten place."

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sentence: poverty feeds the discontent.

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sentence: the little rice on sale in Enarotali is too expensive for locals to buy.

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sentence: bread is just as out of reach.

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people here grow everything they eat: mainly nota plus some fruit and leafy vegetables.


sentence: farming is the job of the women, who each can maintain four or five fields of the sweet potato.

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sentence: they usually keep most of the harvest for the family, with the rest sold in the local market.

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ten pieces of nota cost only 10,000 Indonesian rupiah (75 cents).


sentence: over time, economic inequalities have grown between the native Papuans and the new migrants, who have arrived in greater numbers since the opening of a new air routes to Nabire Airport.

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what few jobs exist typically go to the better-educated and wealthier migrants.


Papuans rarely have the capital or the necessary skills to run their own businesses competitively.


sentence: "the young people are not interested to stay in the village... because there's no jobs or money here," says John Gobai, the chairman of the tribal council of Paniai.

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sentence: isolation keeps the world's eyes off Papua.

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in addition, reporting restrictions for international media remain tight.


sentence: earlier this year, French journalists Franck Escudie and Basille Longchamp were deported from Papua for a "lack of coordination with related institutions" despite having been granted rare permission to film.

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sentence: according to Phelim Kine, Deputy Asia Director of Human Rights Watch, Jokowi's election campaign pledges to lift reporting restrictions to boost transparency and development have not been realized.

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sentence: "there are new hazards for foreign journalists attempting to report from Indonesia's restive easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua: visa denial and blacklisting," he said in a statement.

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sentence: the lack of press scrutiny means international pressure on the Indonesian government has been largely limited to Papua's immediate neighbors.

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sentence: in March, six Pacific nations - Tonga, Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, and the Solomon Islands - urged the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate the "various and widespread violations" in Papua, including the Paniai shooting.

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sentence: these same countries have historically backed the OPM.

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sentence: Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arrmanatha Nasir shrugged off the group's allegations, telling journalists in Jakarta, "In Indonesia, a democratic system still applies and there's free media so it's hard for the evidence of human rights cases to be covered up."

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local people want more foreign governments to take note.


sentence: when an official delegation from the Netherlands, headed by the nation's human rights ambassador Kees Van Baar, visited Jayapura on May 4, local people broke their silence, beseeching, "We want freedom," according to a source who also attended the meeting but who asked to stay anonymous.

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Indonesia has another presidential election in 2019, but Papuans say they are unlikely to vote again for Jokowi.


sentence: "Jokowi is a person who has good intentions, but he is surrounded by the people who are involved in the Paniai shooting," says Gobai, the tribal council chairman.

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sentence: he wants Jokowi to know that the Paniai people, aside from living under the looming threat of a rapacious military, wallow in destitution, with paltry education and health services.

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sentence: Gobai says the Paniai people, like other Papuans, consider their vote to Jokowi as a "debt" he must repay.

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sentence: "they don't need money, they just want justice," he says.

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sentence: despite the threats and intimidation, families of the Paniai shooting victims carried out one last symbolic act of defiance: burying one victim's body on land just opposite the police and military station.

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sentence: knowing that justice may never be served, at least they won't let those responsible forget their crimes.

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sentence: "a member of our family has been killed," says Yacobus, head bowed.

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"what else could we do?"


sentence: fire engulfs Dubai's' Torch 'skyscraper for second time

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sentence: a fire ripped through one of the world's tallest residential towers in Dubai on Friday, forcing hundreds of occupants to flee the 337 metre-tall, 79-storey structure.

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sentence: it's the second blaze to sweep through the high-rise - which happens to be called the Torch tower - in just two years.

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sentence: the building was evacuated, no injuries were reported, and there was no immediate word on the cause of the blaze.

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sentence: "we were sleeping and we woke up to the fire alarm and people screaming.

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sentence: we ran down the stairs and it took us about 10 minutes to reach from the 50th floor, "a resident who gave his name as George told Reuters.

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sentence: Dubai's civil defence authorities said firefighting squads put out the blaze at around 4.00 am local time (0000 GMT) and were cooling the building.


the government said it was working on providing shelter for those affected.


sentence: the incident may revive questions about the safety of materials used on the exteriors of tall buildings across the world.

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sentence: an investigation by the management of the Torch after its 2015 fire found that most of the damage was to the cladding, exterior panelling used for decoration or insulation.

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sentence: in the UK, police have said they believe the system of insulation and cladding panels on London's Grenfell Tower may have contributed to the rapid spread of a fire there in June in which some 80 people died.

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sentence: no Davis Cup reform: best-of-five continues

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sentence: the president of the International Tennis Federation has failed with his big Davis Cup coup in the general assembly.

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sentence: at the meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, the (for this sport) revolutionary suggestion to from now on play the Davis Cup singles over only best-of-three sets received just shy - by a whisker - of the necessary two-thirds majority in support.

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the admittedly often very long, but for that reason also greatly treasured, five-set classics are therefore surviving in the traditional competition.


sentence: 63.54 per cent of the member countries voted in favour of the reform; ITF president David Haggerty's objective was therefore only just missed.

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"we respect the decision, but are disappointed that our member nations have not accepted the entire reform package for the Davis Cup and Fed Cup.


sentence: we need change in order to secure the long-term future of this iconic and historic competition, "said Haggerty.

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there will continue to be work done to improve the competition.


sentence: after many objections beforehand already, the suggestion to hold the final at a neutral location did not even make it to the vote.

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sentence: new from 2018 are only comparatively small details: so, in future, the finalists of the David Cup and Fed Cup will have the right to host in the first round the following year.

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sentence: in order to keep costs to a minimum for organisers, the requirements in matters of training courts etc. are being simplified and the players will not have to give so many official media appointments ahead of the Davis Cup.

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more than 1 in 5 US travellers carry prohibited items onto aircraft, survey finds


sentence: a survey of airline passengers found that more than 20 per cent had knowingly or unknowingly smuggled prohibited items past the US Transportation Security Administration checkpoints onto the aircraft, including at least 6 per cent who boarded the plane while unintentionally carrying prohibited knives or other bladed objects.

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sentence: less than 1 per cent claimed that they discovered belatedly that they had mistakenly travelled with firearms, ammunition or explosives.

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sentence: the survey of more than 1000 people - which was conducted by a jet-chartering service Stratos Jet Charters Inc. - also found that younger travellers were more likely to flout the rules.

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sentence: of the respondents who admitted knowingly trying to fly with something banned by the TSA, 19.7 per cent were millennials, compared with less than 15 per cent who were members of Generation X.

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sentence: the most common items whisked past TSA agents on purpose were food and liquids.

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sentence: more than 3 per cent admitted knowingly carrying bladed items past security, while 2.2 per cent of female respondents and 3.7 per cent of male respondents also acknowledged intentionally carrying prohibited drugs onto the aircraft.

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sentence: the company said it surveyed travellers around the country to find out how many had accidentally brought contraband through airport security and how many had done so on purpose.

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sentence: it's no surprise that the people most likely to haul contraband past security - knowingly or unknowingly - were those who fly the most.

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sentence: as the company points out, however, the TSA guidelines are somewhat complicated and confusing.


people are often uncertain of what liquids they can carry or how much of them.


sentence: so it's no surprise that the largest amount of stuff seized by the TSA happens to be forbidden liquids.


sentence: for a time, people thought the TSA might be treating books as contraband.

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liquids are allowed on domestic flights, but not on international ones.


sentence: Elon Musk doesn't care: tens of thousands of Tesla customers cancel their orders

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sentence: electronics-multi-talent Elon Musk likes to brag about the huge number of pre-orders for his new Tesla "Model 3."

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sentence: up until now, he has withheld the fact that a portion of these customers have already cancelled their non-binding reservations.

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sentence: alongside the always triumphant figures for sales increases and the even more gigantic sales targets, with the announcement of the most recent quarterly financial statement, Tesla boss Elon Musk has for the first time had to reveal another, less glamorous number: that of the cancellations for the new mass-market Model 3.

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sentence: in recent months, Musk had frequently used those more than 500,000 pre-orders to talk up the new car, for which distribution is just starting.

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Musk now concedes that of the 518,000 total pre-orders, 63,000 have already been retracted.


sentence: critics had time and again pointed out that they were only non-binding reservations.

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sentence: in cases of cancellation, Tesla pays the 1000-euro (in the USA, 1000-US-dollar, and in Great Britain, 1000-pound) "reservation deposit" back in its entirety.

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there are currently 455,000 such non-binding reservations, conceded Musk in a conference call with analysts.


sentence: however, the Tesla boss does not believe that the cancellation of as of yet 12 per cent of all orders could become a problem.

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sentence: his argument: the challenge for ambitious growth targets is not in demand but on the production side.

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sentence: last year, Tesla delivered 84,000 vehicles.

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sentence: in 2018 - all models taken together - it is said to be 500,000, and in 2020, a million.

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the demand is therefore clearly there.


sentence: according to Musk, a further 1800 reservations arrive each day.

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sentence: anyone who orders a "Model 3" today is looking at delivery in the second half of 2018 at the earliest - that's if Tesla manages to get its brand-spanking new production lines going, as of yet never tested in practice, without any major interruptions and at maximum capacity.

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sentence: many experts doubt whether that's possible.

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sentence: should there be major delays, however, the non-binding nature of the reservations could become a problem for Tesla.

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sentence: for the company cannot then prevent unsatisfied customers from running away in droves.

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sentence: EPA Chief Pruitt backtracks on Delaying Obama-Era Rules to Reduce Emissions

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sentence: one day after getting sued by 15 states, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt reversed his earlier decision to delay implementation of Obama-era rules reducing emissions of smog-causing air pollutants.

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sentence: Pruitt presented the change as his agency being more responsive than past administrations to the needs of state environmental regulators.

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sentence: he made no mention of the legal challenge filed against his prior position in a federal appeals court.

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sentence: at issue is an Oct. 1 deadline for states to begin meeting 2015 standards for ground-level ozone.

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sentence: Pruitt announced in June he would delay compliance by one year to give his agency more time to study the plan and avoid "interfering with local decisions or impeding economic growth."

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sentence: Pruitt, who was Oklahoma's state attorney general prior to his appointment by President Donald Trump, has long served as a reliable opponent of stricter environmental regulations.

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sentence: since arriving in Washington, Pruitt has repeatedly moved to block or delay regulations opposed by the chemical and fossil-fuel industries.

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sentence: Wednesday's sudden reversal is the latest legal setback for Pruitt's regulatory rollback agenda.

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sentence: last month, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled the EPA administrator overstepped his authority in trying to delay implementation of an Obama administration rule requiring oil and gas companies to monitor and reduce methane leaks.

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sentence: in a statement issued Wednesday evening, Pruitt suggested his about-face on ozone standards simply reinforced the EPA's commitment to working with states through the complex process of meeting the new standards on time.

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sentence: "under previous administrations, EPA would often fail to meet designation deadlines, and then wait to be sued by activist groups and others, agreeing in a settlement to set schedules for designation," said Pruitt, who sued EPA more than a dozen times in his prior job.

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"we do not believe in regulation through litigation, and we take deadlines seriously.


sentence: we also take the statute and the authority it gives us seriously. "


sentence: still, the EPA's statement said Pruitt may at some point once again use his "delay authority and all other authority legally available" to ensure regulations "are founded on sound policy and the best available information."

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Republicans in Congress are pushing for a broader rewrite of the ozone rules.


sentence: a House bill approved last month seeks to delay implementation of the 2015 rules at least eight years.

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sentence: the measure has not yet been brought to a vote in the Senate.

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sentence: new York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who led the coalition of states that sued the EPA this week, said the group intends to keep up the legal pressure.

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sentence: "the EPA's reversal - following our lawsuits - is an important win for the health and safety of those 6.7 million New Yorkers, and the over 115 million Americans directly impacted by smog pouring into their communities," Schneiderman said.

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sentence: new York was joined in the case by California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, and the District of Columbia.

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sentence: ground-level ozone is created when common pollutants emitted by cars, power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants and other sources react in the atmosphere to sunlight.

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sentence: the resulting smog can cause serious breathing problems among sensitive groups of people, contributing to thousands of premature deaths each year.

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sentence: public health advocates and environmentalists cheered Pruitt's surprising change of course.

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sentence: "it's disturbing how much pressure it took to get this commonsense step from the guy in charge of protecting the air we breathe," said Lori Ann Burd of the Center for Biological Diversity.

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"we've got to keep fighting the Trump administration's ideological crusade to pander to polluters and special interests."


sentence: Tumlingen is celebrating 750 years of the St. Hilarius Church

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sentence: 750 years of the St. Hilarius Church: to mark the anniversary of the mountain church, invitations are being issued to a serenade in the old cemetery grounds in Tumlingen on Sunday 16th July at 4.30pm.

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sentence: due to its idyllic setting and beautiful view over the village, the historical site of St. Hilarius is a beloved place to tarry a while.

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sentence: visitors to the sixth benefit serenade can let themselves be enchanted by this powerful place.

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sentence: the Friends and Supporters of Tumlingen have made the rescue and preservation of the oldest building in the area their concern.

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Walter Martini stresses: "it is a one-of-a-kind rural jewel."


sentence: the St. Hilarius chapel was first mentioned in records in 1267 in the Württemberg register: count Hermann von Sulz sold "the mountain with the parish church for Tumlingen on it, together with the Bailiwick" to Master Eberhard von Horb and his brother Dietrich for 20 silver marks.

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sentence: according to the text of the official document, aside from the former parish church, a lordly farm also stood on the Tumlingen mountain, which itself owned the church, or the right of patronage, and not the other way around.

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people therefore also lived there too.


as is apparent from the upper administrative office for Freudenstadt's description in 1858, the "mountain" was, alongside the lower village and the upper village that can just about be made out still in the appearance of Tumlingen today, the village's third, grand centre of settlement.


sentence: all maps from the time of around 1600 substantiate this historical reality.

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the right of patronage arose out of the Early Middle-Age proprietary church law.


sentence: a lord who built and furnished a church and staffed it with a priest still remained the owner of this church and was also able to bequeath this proprietary church right.


associated with this was the right to appoint a priest or nominate a new priest to the bishop.


sentence: there were three altars in the church and two bells in the tower.

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the larger of the two shattered at Christmas 1673.


sentence: the newly acquired bell then first chimed in 1692, but had to later be surrendered in the Second World War, in 1942.

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during the 30 Years War (1616 to 1648) the window panes were smashed in and the bell ropes stolen.


sentence: the roof was leaky.

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sentence: in 1796, French troops made camp in the vicinity of the church.


sentence: they brought out the pulpit and the pews and used them as firewood.

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sentence: the remains of the church threatened to collapse in 1809.


up until 1869, the Hilarius cemetery in Tumlingen served as the last place of rest for Hörschweiler's dead.


sentence: in 1823, the cemetery was expanded and the Hilarius church was demolished.


only the church tower was left standing.


sentence: on new year's eve of 1834, a storm cleaved the church tower and half of it collapsed.

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sentence: in order to prevent an accident, the tower was pulled down.


sentence: only the dwarf tower that is still present today survived as witness of the church's 750-year-old history.

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today Horst Kallenberger and Rolf-Dieter Wasem from the "Industrious Pensioners" care for the Hilarius site, as successors of Dieter Dockhorn.


sentence: as event organiser, the Friends and Supporters of Tumlingen are issuing invitations to the sixth serenade in the old cemetery to St. Hilarius Chapel, on Sunday 16th July.

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it is being arranged by the Kepler Gymnasium, Freudenstadt, combo, with speeches from Kurt Kübler and Reinhold Matteis.


municipal administrator Hartmut Romann gave the closing words.


sentence: the programme starts at 4.30pm.

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last admission is at 3.30pm.


sentence: the serenade will be rounded off with drinks in front of the cemetery.


sentence: "enjoy a summer's evening under the shadows of old trees and with a wide view over the meadows right up to forest," invite the organisers, emphasising the fantastic view.

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sentence: the serenade will only take place in the case of dry weather.

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the organisers are hoping for many backers in favour of preserving the historic St. Hilarius site, which is important to Tumlingen and to Hörschweiler.


the Friends and Supporters of Tumlingen feel especially bound to take care of their local region, as serenade organiser Walter Martini reinforced.


Association wants to have wind turbine approval examined


sentence: "Boisheim wehrt sich," sees no legal basis for the construction and has therefore turned to the District Administrator.

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sentence: the association "Boisheim wehrt sich" has called on District Administrator Andreas Coenen (CDU) to retract his approval for the construction of planned wind turbines in Boisheimer Nette.

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they say it was unlawful.


sentence: the association argues that at the time the approval was given on 30th December 2016, no wind turbines could have been approved in Bosheimer Nette, since at that time only one wind energy concentration zone existed in Viersen, on the city boundary with Schwalmtal.


sentence: construction and operation of wind energy plants are in principle possible within this concentration zone, but at the same time, the concentration zone has an exclusion against the use of wind energy for the rest of the city area.


sentence: such zones are said to prevent "asparagusisation" of the landscape.

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sentence: the city of Viersen had in fact passed a resolution for a second wind energy concentration zone in Boisheimer Nette a few days earlier, through an amendment to the local land-use plan - but the Düsseldorf regional government had not approved it due to a formal error.

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"due to the lack of legal planning requirements, the approval decision that was issued is still unlawful, and should therefore be retracted as well," said Christoph Erkens, chairman of "Boisheim wehrt sich."


sentence: the current state of affairs: the city council once again passed a resolution for the wind concentration zone in Boisheimer Nette before the summer break; approval from the regional government is still pending.

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Erkens: "grant of approval for the construction of wind turbines on this site is therefore precluded by planning law."


sentence: the district confirms receipt of the call for action.

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sentence: "the relevant correspondence was received by the district of Viersen in the last week," declared a spokesperson.

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sentence: the district is taking it as a reason to investigate the matter afresh.


however, it is not expected to lead to a stop in proceedings.


sentence: with a view to the proceedings underway at the administrative court, the district did not want to comment on Thursday on the content of the arguments put forward by the association "Boisheim wehrt sich."


sentence: new Re, a subsidiary of NEW, is planning construction of four wind turbines, each 200 metres high, on a plot by Bosheimer Nette.

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sentence: the company, in which the city of Viersen holds indirect participating interests, had concluded lease agreements with the owner of the roughly 65-hectare site last year already.

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sentence: the construction of the four wind turbines should cover the energy requirements of around 11,400 households - that equates to around a fifth of the energy requirements of all Viersen households.

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new Re wants to invest around 20 million euros.


sentence: last summer, Viersen city council gave the green light for the purchase of three wind turbines in the Linnich wind park near Aachen, as well as a share in a wind energy plant in Übachpalenberg in the district of Heinsberg.

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sentence: car and tractor crash together: woman dies in terrible accident

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a terrible accident occurred on Friday morning at around 10am on the L 333 between Niederwallmenach and bogel (Rhein-Lahn district).


sentence: in it, a woman was fatally injured.

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two other people were mildly injured.


sentence: the road remained closed for hours.

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sentence: according to police information, a 17-year-old woman from Bornich, practising accompanied driving in her car with her 53-year old mother, the accompanying driver, was using the L 333 in the direction of bogel.

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sentence: town and dealers plan "hometown shopping" weekend

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bad Langensalzaer and people from the region are to newly discover the shopping opportunities in their town centre in September.


sentence: the trade association and town authorities want to use the weekend of the 8th and 9th September to entice residents to a shopping spree in the town centre.


sentence: as chairman of the trade association Christian König announced, the "home-town shopping" weekend is meant to make customers aware of what offers their own town has available aside from the usual supermarket goods.

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sentence: a market with local suppliers is thus planned, similar to the weekly market.

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sentence: in addition, homegrown companies are to give showcases, with their apprenticeship places.

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furthermore, the businesses in the town centre are to invite people to come "midnight shopping."


the campaign is not only for residents of the town and the nearby region.


sentence: adverts on the radio, an online video and printed bags that allude to the campaign weekend are in preparation, Christian König tells us.

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town authorities and the trade association are cooperating with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.


sentence: the trade association and the town are thus entering a further stage of the "attractive town centre" project.

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to this belong new offerings such as the first "active day" for the fountain festival along with Sunday trading, talks with all the traders and proprietors to induce people to actively participate.


sentence: attractive offers on the Saturday and waiving of parking fees on this day are also part of the concept.

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in addition, new and existing customer bases can be developed.


sentence: this includes spa guests and tourists.

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but many locals too had lost sight of the town centre for shopping.


sentence: ultimately, it all has to contribute to breathing life into the town centre - right up to landlords, businesses across the whole town and associations.

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sentence: we have to overcome the lethargy with a network that has partly built up, König had said in the spring.

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Brigit Streich, head of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce centre in Mühlhausen communicated that five Thüringen towns are taking part in the nation's third "hometown shopping" day.


alongside Bad Lagensalza, these are Weimar, Sömmerda, Heiligenstadt and Bleicherode.


sentence: the day is intended to "promote appreciation for local trade and emphasise more strongly its importance for the common good of our towns," said Streich.

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sentence: the campaign, under the leadership of the Chamber for Industry and Commerce and with many partners, also brings home that all citizens can themselves influence their immediate environment with their shopping behaviour.

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sentence: two dead and several injured after explosion in US school

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during construction works, there was a huge gas explosion in the school building.


another nine people were wounded.


sentence: at a gas explosion in the US city of Minneapolis, two people have died and nine others have been injured, some of which seriously.

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according to information from the fire department, one injured person was still in a critical condition on Wednesday (local time).


sentence: one person died as a part of the school building collapsed during the explosion.

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someone initially classed as missing was later also recovered dead.


sentence: the dead were employees at the school.


authorities suspected works on a gas pipe to be the cause of the accident.


sentence: being holiday time, only a few people were in the Minnehaha Academy building.

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sentence: Trump pressured Mexico on border wall payment according to leaked phone call transcripts

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sentence: transcripts of phone calls between US President Donald Trump and leaders of Mexico and Australia have been leaked by the Washington Post.

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sentence: on 27th January in a phone call to Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, Trump urged him to stop publicly saying he would not pay for a proposed border wall.

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sentence: the US President berated him for publicly denouncing the wall, reportedly saying to him "You cannot say that to the press."

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sentence: Trump launched his presidential campaign on a promise to build a wall along the US southern border and vowed to make Mexico pay for the project.

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transcripts of his first call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were also published revealing a tense exchange.


Mr Trump told Mr Turnbull a deal for the US to take on refugees headed for Australia was "ridiculous," "rotten" and "stupid," insisting the deal, brokered under the Obama administration, would make him look like "a dope" after he had proposed a ban on refugee resettlement in the US.


sentence: Mr Trump ended the call after telling Mr Turnbull "this is the most unpleasant call all day."

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Moore's Ford Massacre: activists reenact Racist Lynching as a Call for Justice


sentence: a 1948 Ford Mercury passed through a group of onlookers in rural Monroe, Georgia, and rumbled toward the small Moore's Ford Bridge.

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sentence: before the car, which had four black passengers and a white driver, could reach the bridge, a group of white men with guns stepped forward to block its path.

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sentence: the leader of the mob - a middle aged man in a pinstriped suit - took a long drag on his cigar and peered through the windshield.

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inside, the occupants reeled in fear.


sentence: "we want that n----r Roger!" the man barked.


sentence: "get him out of the car!"