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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/3/2016 11:08:57 AM
	Report documents decades of abuse at elite boarding school September 1, 2016 FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2016, file photo, buildings at St. George's School sit on a hill in Middletown, R.I. A report issued Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, said that at least one in five girls who attended the elite Rhode Island boarding school in the 1970s was sexually abused by the same athletic trainer. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The elite boarding school St. George's became a kind of "private hell" for dozens of students in the 1970s and '80s who were manipulated and sexually abused by faculty and staff, according to a report issued Thursday by an independent investigator. One in five girls who attended the school in the 1970s was sexually abused by the same athletic trainer, and many others were subjected to abuse by nine other staff members from 1970 to 1989, the report found. More recently, a faculty member engaged in inappropriate conduct with several students in the 2000s, the report found. The report, by Boston lawyer Martin Murphy, found the school betrayed the trust of students and their parents and provided few, if any, places to turn for help. Murphy was hired by the Middletown school and the survivors' group SGS for Healing. The most prolific offender was athletic trainer Al Gibbs, who abused at least 31 girls, the report said. Gibbs was fired in 1980 after being caught taking photographs of a naked girl in his office, but the report found that he was paid a $1,200 annual grant for "distinguished service" that continued until he died in 1996. The school acknowledged in December that he abused 17 students. "For a long time, everybody said I was a liar," Katie Wales Lovkay, who said Gibbs abused her in 1979, told The Associated Press. "It feels really good to have this investigative report back me up." The AP ordinarily doesn't identify alleged victims of sexual abuse, but Lovkay agreed to be identified. Another teacher, Franklin Coleman, received a recommendation from the dean of the faculty despite being fired in 1988 for inappropriate sexual contact with a student, the report said. Fourteen students told investigators of abuse by Coleman, the report said. A working telephone number for Coleman couldn't be found. A man who reported being sexually abused by Coleman said the investigation accurately captured the campus environment, where students were often unsupervised and administrators covered up anything that could taint the school's reputation. "It was a lawless place," said the man, now in his 40s, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is a victim of sexual abuse. "There definitely were faculty who cared, but none of them protected me." The report also suggested that the current headmaster at the $58,000-per-year Episcopal school didn't adequately handle reports of misconduct by teacher Charles Thompson in 2004 and should have fired him rather than put him on leave . Thompson was accused of inappropriate behavior that included touching several students' legs. The report said he declined to be interviewed during the investigation. The headmaster previously announced he will step down next year . A man who said he was one of Thompson's victims, who declined to be identified because he said he was molested, told the AP on Thursday that while he felt validated by the report, he was disappointed that the school and headmaster, Eric Peterson, were not held more accountable for how they handled the 2004 incidents and "their repeated attempts to discredit my claims." The report criticized the current board of trustees for "victim shaming" in a statement this year that cast doubt on the validity of a police report filed about Thompson in 2005. Attorney Eric MacLeish, a St. George's alumnus who represented dozens of victims at the school, called the report the most comprehensive recounting to date of sexual abuse at an American boarding school. MacLeish said it was important to note that the school is a very different place today, and he applauded the board of trustees for their response. In a letter to the school community, Leslie Heaney, chair of the board of trustees, acknowledged the school's failure to respond appropriately to reports of misconduct, and apologized. Among other employees named in the report: — The Rev. Howard White Jr., who worked at the school from 1971 until he was fired in 1974. The report said three former students came forward with credible accounts of sexual abuse against him. He has also been accused of abusing children in New Hampshire, North Carolina and West Virginia. The report said White declined to be interviewed by investigators. — Timothy Tefft, a former English teacher who is accused of sexually abusing a sophomore boy in 1971. He was fired just months after being hired, "evidently for supplying alcohol to the hockey team over winter break," the report said. Tefft went on to teach elsewhere and is serving a federal prison term for receiving child pornography. — Susan Goddard, a part-time nurse at St. George's from 1976 to 1998. The report says Goddard engaged in sexual misconduct with a student in 1979 and 1980. The student told investigators that when Goddard distanced herself after his graduation, he attempted suicide. Goddard didn't immediately respond to a message left on her home phone. — William Lydgate Jr., who taught English at St. George's from 1968 to 1970. The report says Lydgate sexually assaulted at least one student and likely at least another. He couldn't immediately be reached for comment. The report found no danger posed by current administrator Robert Weston, who was placed on leave after secondhand allegations concerning his boundaries with students. Heaney on Thursday said Weston was welcome back. The school announced last month it had agreed to a settlement with up to 30 former students for an undisclosed amount. State police previously investigated and said they wouldn't bring charges for a variety of reasons, including the statute of limitations. The school, founded in 1896, counts among its graduates poet Ogden Nash, former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and members of the Bush political family. ___ Lavoie reported from Boston. (Yahoo News)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/3/2016 11:22:10 AM
	Trio strangled friend, then drove around with body disguised in hat and sunglasses, police say By Katie Mettler September 2 Preston Layfield, Tyler Mirabelli and Amanda Wayda have been arrested in connection with the death of their friend, Joshua Rose. Authorities believe Rose was having a health emergency but his friends avoided the hospital and dumped his body in a new county. (WNEP-TV) Joshua Rose needed a doctor, but the hospital is not where his young friends took him. Instead, the trio — two men and a woman — loaded the 21-year-old into a black Ford truck and drove past the emergency room, authorities said, despite the possibility that Rose may have been experiencing a drug overdose. Then they headed out of town. Between there and the woods where police found Rose’s body, authorities say, the trio placed a plastic bag over their friend’s head and strangled him with jumper cables while driving down the interstate. When they stopped to get gasoline at a Sunoco station, Rose’s body, still in the front seat of the truck, was disguised in a hat and sunglasses. Security cameras captured them on film. And once they reached that wooded spot in Susquehanna County, right beside the railroad tracks, they pushed his body over an embankment, documents say, turned around and drove away. Rose was missing for five days before authorities found him. This week, the 21-year-old’s trio of friends were arrested in connection to his death. Preston Layfield, 19, Tyler Mirabelli, 22, and Amanda Wayda, 20, face charges of aggravated assault and conspiracy, and investigators with the Pennsylvania State Police told CBS affiliate WYOU that additional, more serious charges are pending the results of an autopsy to determine cause of death. app-facebook The Scranton Times-Tribune el martes In local media reports, authorities did not give a motive for the trio’s behavior, but alluded to the possibility that Rose was having a health emergency that triggered his friends’ actions. “The individual was probably having some sort of significant medical problem,” State Police Cpl. Mark Prushinski told WYOU, “and for whatever their thought process was, it appears as though he was strangled.” As to why they avoided the hospital and instead drove north on I-81 into a new county, Prushinski only offered this: “At this time, we are not sure why they did that.” What details authorities do have come from a timeline Wayda presented to the state police, documented in an arrest affidavit obtained by The Washington Post. It begins like this: On the morning of Aug. 28 — three days after Rose died — Wayda called police to report she’d witnessed a murder. Wayda told authorities she had been hanging out at the Scranton home of her boyfriend, who is not named in the report, on Aug. 25 when Rose, a friend of hers, and his buddy, Layfield, came over. Soon after his arrival, Rose laid down for a nap. When Wayda went to check on him, according to the affidavit, she “noticed he didn’t look good and thought he was overdosing.” She then called another friend, Mirabelli, and asked him for a ride to the hospital. They piled in — Mirabelli behind the wheel, Rose in the front passenger seat and Wayda wedged between them. Layfield sat alone in the back, directly behind Rose, Wayda told police. Eyewitness News WBRE WYOU The truck bypassed the hospital and continued north on I-81. That’s when the trio’s stories start to diverge. According to Wayda, Layfield, sitting in the back, grabbed a pair of jumper cables, looped them around Rose’s neck and pulled until the man was dead. “Wayda said that she knew Rose was alive prior to the strangling,” reads the affidavit, “because she saw him breathing.” Layfield’s story is different. He admitted to police in an interview on Aug. 29 that he was the one who strangled Rose with the jumper cables, but said Wayda first placed a plastic bag over the victim’s head, according to the affidavit. Then, Layfield said, Wayda climbed into the backseat and handed him the jumper cables. She “told him he needed to do this,” the affidavit reads. So he did, Layfield told police, holding tight for about four minutes — while Mirabelli allegedly told him to pull harder. Layfield was even able to provide the precise location the alleged strangling began: Lackawanna County, Scott Township, mile marker 199. He also told police where they had dumped Rose’s body, according to the affidavit. State police said they discovered the missing man at 9:18 a.m. on Aug. 29, in the Hop Bottom area of Susquehanna County. It was Wayda who told authorities about their pit stop at the gas station and the incognito disguise they’d given their dead friend. Surveillance footage there captured Mirabelli walking into the store the night Rose died, wearing a green T-shirt and white plaid shorts. When state troopers spoke with Mirabelli days later at a Giant supermarket, he was wearing an outfit that resembled the one from that night. Green shirt. White plaid shorts. On both, troopers saw a small amount of red. It “appeared to be blood,” according to the affidavit. Inside his truck, authorities found jumper cables in the back seat and a multi-colored bucket hat. They also seized as evidence his suspect outfit and a pair of sunglasses, the report states. The three friends were subsequently arrested and charged. Wayda did not respond to a request for comment from the Associated Press. Court documents indicate Mirabelli has requested a public defender, the AP said, but it’s unclear if he has yet been assigned one. There is no attorney listed for Layfield, reported the AP. Police said Rose was from Luzerne, Pa., a small town outside Wilkes Barre, about 20 miles south of Scranton. According to his Facebook profile, Rose was a student at Luzerne County Community College. According to the affidavit, Rose was entered into the missing person’s database on Aug. 29. His mother, it says, had not seen him since Aug. 20 and last spoke with her son on the phone Aug. 24, the day before he died. (The Washington Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/3/2016 5:25:37 PM
	Thousands of dead fish washed ashore in Russia's Sverdlovsk region 30.08.2016 \| Source: Pravda.Ru AP photo A large-scale environmental disaster has occurred in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, URA.Ru reports. An unprecedented amount of dead fish have washed up on Chernoistochinsk lake in Nizhny Tagil on August 27 and 28. The lake is the main source of drinking water for residents of the city of Nizhny Tagil. The locals complained of putrid odor and unpleasant taste of water in the middle of the outgoing summer. As it turned out, the water did not meet organoleptic standards. The city administration requested financial assistance for the region. According to preliminary calculations, the region needs 11 billion rubles to ensure supplies of drinking water to local residents. According to URA.Ru, the prime suspect for the disaster is LLC Vodokanal-NT (Water Channel Nizhny Tagil). A week earlier, an administrative investigation was launched against the company into violations of water use rules for wastewater discharge into water bodies. The company has also repeatedly exceeded concentrations of chloride ions, suspended solids and aluminum in the water. Pravda.Ru - See more at: http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/economics/30-08-2016/135467-dead_fish-0/#sthash.rWZHyZgU.dpuf
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/3/2016 6:41:06 PM
	Risky alone, deadly together: Overdoses on combined prescriptions plague white women By Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating August 31 UNNATURAL CAUSES SICK AND DYING IN SMALL-TOWN AMERICA \| Since the turn of this century, death rates have risen for whites in midlife, particularly women. The Washington Post is exploring this trend and the forces driving it. Read part one, part two, part three, part four and part five. In Bakersfield, Calif., middle-aged white women are struggling with addictions. Some are dying. Meet three women tied together by pain. (Lee Powell/The Washington Post) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Karen Franklin leans against the sink in the pink-tiled bathroom of her childhood home, counting out pills. There’s a purple morphine tablet for chronic back pain, a blue Xanax for anxiety and a white probiotic for her stomach, which aches from all the other pills. In all, Franklin, 60, takes more than a dozen different prescription drugs, washing them down with tap water and puffing on a Marlboro while she waits for them to kick in. “They take the edge off, but that’s about it,” Franklin says. So she keeps a bottle of vodka handy for added relief, increasing her risk of joining the legions of American women dying from prescription-drug overdoses. While death rates are falling for blacks and Hispanics in middle age, whites are dying prematurely in growing numbers, particularly white women. One reason: a big increase in overdoses, primarily from opioids, but also from anti-anxiety drugs, which are often prescribed in tandem. Between 1999 and 2014, the number of middle-aged white women dying annually from opiate overdoses shot up 400 percent, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anti-anxiety drugs known as benzodiazepines contributed to a growing share of the 54,000 deaths over that period, reaching a third in the past several years, The Post found — though spotty reporting in death records means it is likely that the combination is even more widespread. Both drugs depress the central nervous system, temporarily easing pain and anxiety while suppressing respiration, heart rate and the gag reflex. Alcohol has the same effect, and combining any of these can be fatal. “They act like a dimmer switch on the central nervous system,” said Rear Adm. Susan Blumenthal, former U.S. assistant surgeon general and an expert on women’s health issues. “When taken in combination, a person’s breathing and heart will slow down, and can ultimately stop. People can go to sleep and never wake up.” White women are more likely than women of other races to be prescribed opiates, and far more likely to be prescribed both opiates and anti-anxiety drugs, according to an analysis of middle-aged participants in the latest National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. White women prescribed opiates are five times as likely as white men to be given that drug combination — helping to explain why white women may be at special risk. Federal health officials have recognized the danger. This spring, in a guideline that urged doctors to reduce the use of opioids for chronic pain, the CDC warned against prescribing them together with benzodiazepines, except for patients battling fatal diseases such as cancer. At the very least, the CDC urged doctors to warn patients of the risks, especially when the drugs are mixed with alcohol. Karen Franklin shows some of the pills she takes during an eight-hour period. She suffers from a back injury and lives with chronic pain. She said that despite taking morphine and other prescription medications, her pain level is usually a 10. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began requiring warning labels on opioids and benzodiazepines — nearly 400 products in total — with information about the potentially fatal consequences of taking these medications at the same time. “It is nothing short of a public health crisis when you see a substantial increase of avoidable overdose and death related to two widely used drug classes being taken together,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement. “We implore health care professionals to heed these new warnings and more carefully and thoroughly evaluate, on a patient-by-patient basis, whether the benefits of using opioids and benzodiazepines — or CNS depressants more generally — together outweigh these serious risks.” Federal officials have no power to mandate a change in doctors’ prescribing habits. Even if they did, a mandate would do little for patients such as Franklin who get their prescriptions from multiple physicians. “An opioid might be prescribed by a pain specialist while a general practitioner or a psychologist may prescribe the benzodiazepine. They may not know about one another,” said Deborah Dowell, lead author of the CDC’s new opioid guidelines. Franklin’s struggle began 17 years ago with a single prescription for Vicodin. At the time, she had her own home and managed a grocery store. But the side effects of long-term opioid use soon set in. Mounting anxiety. Sleeplessness. Depression. With each new problem, doctors sent her home with more pills. Now she lives with her 88-year-old father and spends her days shuffling between the TV, a refrigerator stocked with chocolate Ensure and the bathroom, which relatives call her sanctuary. Armed with a Bible and a carton of Marlboros, she prays for God’s protection, cracking the bathroom window to let the cigarette smoke drift into the back yard. Lately, Franklin has been blacking out. Her sister found her facedown in a plate of food, and she started using a walker after losing consciousness on her way to the mailbox. “What is happening right now is a slow suicide,” said her friend Ellen Eggert, a supervisor for the Kern County Mental Health Department. But Franklin is resisting Eggert’s appeals to seek help with her addictions. “I know it’s not good for me,” Franklin said. “But I would rather say my prayers and take my medication.” Bakersfield lies in the heart of Kern County, a vast sprawl of lush cropland in California’s Central Valley. Here, accidental overdoses among white women have tripled since 1999, according to federal health data, and suicides have doubled. The death toll has alarmed health-care workers like Eggert and given rise to a loose network of therapists, nurses, pastors and drug counselors struggling to understand a generation of women overwhelmed by modern life and undone by modern medicine. Some, like Franklin, begin their descent after an injury. Others seek relief from conditions related to menopause. Middle-aged women also are more likely than men to suffer from a variety of painful conditions, including lupus, migraines and rheumatoid arthritis. Whatever the complaint, doctors and drug companies have since the late 1990s responded with highly addictive painkillers, many of them central nervous system depressants previously reserved for the terminally ill. The more expansive use of opioids has fed an epidemic of dependency, leading to new prescriptions for anti-anxiety drugs and a rash of fatal overdoses. Read more
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Jan (aka) Jaz 7946 11687 Denver	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/3/2016 9:50:00 PM
	Millions of dead fish are found around the globe, here is a 2013 article Why Are Millions Of Fish Suddenly Dying In Mass Death Events All Over The Planet? August 11, 2013 Millions upon millions of fish are suddenly dying in mass death events all over the world, and nobody seems to know why it is happening. In many of the news reports that are linked to below, locals are quoted as saying that they have never seen anything like this before. So is there a connection between all of the fish deaths that are now occurring all over the planet? If there is a connection, is there anything that we can do to stop the fish die-off? Sadly, because the big mainstream news networks in the United States have been virtually silent about this phenomenon, most Americans have absolutely no idea that it is happening. Millions of fish are dying in mass death events every single month and most of the public is totally clueless. Please share the list posted below with as many people as you can. This list was originally started by Frank DiMora, but I have edited it and expanded it. If there were just three or four items on this list, you could dismiss these news stories as coincidences, but taken together this list really is quite startling… –July 18, 2013: 20 acres of fish ponds full of dead fish in Shandong, China –July 18, 2013: Hundreds of dead Stingrays wash ashore in Veracruz, Mexico –July 18, 2013: 10,000 lbs of dead fish found in a lake in Nanjing, China –July 18, 2013: Thousands of fish dead from “lack of rain” in Sugar Lake, Missouri –July 18, 2013: Large numbers of fish washing up on the shores of Lake Michigan –July 19, 2013: 2,000 dead fish found in a lake in Vollsmose, Denmark –July 19, 2013: Hundreds of fish turning up dead in Holter Lake, Montana –July 19, 2013: THOUSANDS OF TONS of fish have died in Lake Tondano, Indonesia –July 20, 2013: 3,000 fish found dead in a creek in Madison County, Ohio –July 21, 2013: Hundreds of fish found dead in a creek in Laille, France –July 22, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish found in Lake George, Massachusetts –July 22, 2013: Large fish kill at Grand Lake in St. Marys, Ohio –July 23, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish in a park pond in Youngstown, Ohio –July 24, 2013: Massive fish kill washes up in a lagoon in Venice, Italy –July 24, 2013: Thousands of dead fish in Lake Bulwell causes shock in Nottingham, England –July 24, 2013: 30,000 fish dying PER DAY in fish farms in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand –July 24, 2013: Masses of dead fish found in River Lea in England –July 24, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish found in Provo River, Utah –July 25, 2013: Hundreds of fish found dead in a park pond in Birmingham, England –July 26, 2013: Hundreds of thousands of fish dying from “red tide” in South Korea –July 26, 2013: Thousands of dead fish found floating in River Dender, Ath, Belgium –July 26, 2013: Mass fish die-off in a river in Moscow, Russia –July 26, 2013: 25,000 dead fish “is a mystery” in Pittville Lake in Gloucestershire, England –July 26, 2013: 20,000 fish die along a 5 mile stretch of river in Jiangshan, China –July 27, 2013: 10,000 dead fish found in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania –July 27, 2013: Mass death of fish “is a mystery” in a river in Skane, Sweden –July 27, 2013: Large fish kill in the Bahlui river, “cause unknown” in Romania –July 28, 2013: 1100 King Salmon found dead in a river in Petersburg, Alaska –July 29, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish wash ashore “due to pollution” on beach in Veracruz, Mexico –July 29, 2013: 7 TONS of dead fish recovered from the Keelung river in Taiwan –July 29, 2013: Thousands of fish die “due to heat and storms” in Handsworth Park, Birmingham, England –July 31, 2013: 3 TONS of fish die due to “lack of oxygen” in a river in Pilsen, Czech Republic –August 2, 2013: Thousands of fish dying all over Alaska –August 6, 2013: Up to 1000 lbs of dead fish washed ashore in Ylane, Finland –August 6, 2013: 840 dead Salmon found in a creek in Port Coquitlam, Canada –August 6, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish lining the shore of a pond in Toronto, Canada –August 6, 2013: 100,000 fish die in the Arkansas River –August 7, 2013: Thousands of dead fish found floating in a river in Hangzhou, China –August 8, 2013: Tons of fish washed up on the shores of Karachi, Pakistan –August 8, 2013: Tens of thousands of fish dying in lakes and rivers all over the U.K. And remember, the list compiled above represents less than a one month period. The truth is that we have been seeing massive fish die-offs all over the globe month after month. So why is this happening? Is there anything we can do to stop it? Quote: Thousands of dead fish washed ashore in Russia's Sverdlovsk region 30.08.2016 \| Source: Pravda.Ru AP photo A large-scale environmental disaster has occurred in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, URA.Ru reports. An unprecedented amount of dead fish have washed up on Chernoistochinsk lake in Nizhny Tagil on August 27 and 28. The lake is the main source of drinking water for residents of the city of Nizhny Tagil. The locals complained of putrid odor and unpleasant taste of water in the middle of the outgoing summer. As it turned out, the water did not meet organoleptic standards. The city administration requested financial assistance for the region. According to preliminary calculations, the region needs 11 billion rubles to ensure supplies of drinking water to local residents. According to URA.Ru, the prime suspect for the disaster is LLC Vodokanal-NT (Water Channel Nizhny Tagil). A week earlier, an administrative investigation was launched against the company into violations of water use rules for wastewater discharge into water bodies. The company has also repeatedly exceeded concentrations of chloride ions, suspended solids and aluminum in the water. Pravda.Ru - See more at: http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/economics/30-08-2016/135467-dead_fish-0/#sthash.rWZHyZgU.dpuf
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