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Friday, May 3, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
PIKE COUNTY MAGISTRATE JUDGE WINS IN GEORGIA SUPREME COURT MAY 1,2013
County Loses the Callaway-Ingram Lawsuit Before the Georgia Supreme Court
By Editor Becky Watts
ZEBULON - In a unanimous decision by the Georgia Supreme Court issued this week, the Pike County Board of Commissioners lost their appeal against the mandamus that had been decided for Pike County Magistrate Marcia Callaway-Ingram by Superior Court in September of 2012. In the September lawsuit, a judge ruled that the Pike County Commission had interfered with the operations of Magistrate Court and illegally lowered the salary of the Chief Magistrate Judge during a term of office. When commissioners lost their case in Superior Court, they appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court.
In the final opinion, the Georgia Supreme Court found that Judge Callaway-Ingram had been performing the the duties of Chief Magistrate between the time that Judge Priscilla Killingsworth left office in the middle of her term of office and prior to the county reducing her salary as incoming appointed judge. The court found that she is entitled to back pay for this two years of office served.
The court also found evidence that the county interfered with operations of that office when a couple of applications for a position in Magistrate Court were held at the Commission office. These applications were ultimately turned over after one of the applicants called Magistrate and calls were made between the two offices--see prior articles with links below for more information. The court also ruled that the county failed to budget adequate funds for Magistrate Court during the budget crisis in Pike County that was handled by the County Commission under the direction of then County Manager Bill Sawyer by saying that the budget crisis affected Magistrate Court more than other county departments. The Court ruled that the county not be allowed to continue with salary and postion reductions included in this lawsuit and that the Pike County Commission should not interfere with Judge Callaway-Ingram's ability to hire personnel for her office.
To read the ruling of the Georgia Supreme Court in its entirety, click here.
By Editor Becky Watts
ZEBULON - In a unanimous decision by the Georgia Supreme Court issued this week, the Pike County Board of Commissioners lost their appeal against the mandamus that had been decided for Pike County Magistrate Marcia Callaway-Ingram by Superior Court in September of 2012. In the September lawsuit, a judge ruled that the Pike County Commission had interfered with the operations of Magistrate Court and illegally lowered the salary of the Chief Magistrate Judge during a term of office. When commissioners lost their case in Superior Court, they appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court.
In the final opinion, the Georgia Supreme Court found that Judge Callaway-Ingram had been performing the the duties of Chief Magistrate between the time that Judge Priscilla Killingsworth left office in the middle of her term of office and prior to the county reducing her salary as incoming appointed judge. The court found that she is entitled to back pay for this two years of office served.
The court also found evidence that the county interfered with operations of that office when a couple of applications for a position in Magistrate Court were held at the Commission office. These applications were ultimately turned over after one of the applicants called Magistrate and calls were made between the two offices--see prior articles with links below for more information. The court also ruled that the county failed to budget adequate funds for Magistrate Court during the budget crisis in Pike County that was handled by the County Commission under the direction of then County Manager Bill Sawyer by saying that the budget crisis affected Magistrate Court more than other county departments. The Court ruled that the county not be allowed to continue with salary and postion reductions included in this lawsuit and that the Pike County Commission should not interfere with Judge Callaway-Ingram's ability to hire personnel for her office.
To read the ruling of the Georgia Supreme Court in its entirety, click here.
Jail death due to meth toxicity
Jail death due to meth toxicity
"when someone asks for help in jail or not they shold be helped !! A MANS LIFE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED JUST BY TAKING HIM TO THE HOSPITAL !!!!!
"when someone asks for help in jail or not they shold be helped !! A MANS LIFE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED JUST BY TAKING HIM TO THE HOSPITAL !!!!!Wednesday, May 1, 2013
ANGLES IN MY LIFE
PLEASE HELP HANNAH ARNOLD !!!!
SPALDING COUNTY IS HOLDING HER BECAUSE SHE TOLD JOSH PITTS A LIE!!!!
THIS IS VIRGIL BROWNS NIECE !!!!!!
TERRY BEVIN WAS HANDED A $2000 BOND
FROM JOE CHARLES BOSTWICK AND HE
WANTS TO TRIPP AND NOT RELEASE HER!!!
BE HONEST AND TRUTHFUL HANNAH ARNOLD BE STRONG I WILL NEVER LOSE HOPE , GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED FOR ALL WHO HAVE TRIED TO MISTREAT YOU!!!!! I LOVE YOU AND AMBER LOVES YOU AND SABRINA LOVES YOU AND TAYLOR NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS CAUSE SHE BROKE MY HEART !!!!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Saturday, April 6, 2013
GOD SENDS POWERFUL MESSAGE TO NORTH KOREA !!!!!
powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck in eastern Russia near the border with China and North Korea.
The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of the quake, which struck at shortly after midnight (local time) was southwest of Vladivostok, around 9 kilometres from the Russian border town of Zarubino, at a depth of 561kms.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake.
A 6.1-magnitude quake struck Russia's far east last month, and a 6.9 quake rocked the region in February. Neither caused significant damage.
An underground formation in the area known as the Kuril-Kamchatka arc is considered one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
Since 1900, seven powerful earthquakes of magnitude 8.3 or greater have occurred along the arc, according to the USGS.
AFP
To powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck in eastern Russia near the border with China and North Korea.
The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of the quake, which struck at shortly after midnight (local time) was southwest of Vladivostok, around 9 kilometres from the Russian border town of Zarubino, at a depth of 561kms.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake.
A 6.1-magnitude quake struck Russia's far east last month, and a 6.9 quake rocked the region in February. Neither caused significant damage.
An underground formation in the area known as the Kuril-Kamchatka arc is considered one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
Since 1900, seven powerful earthquakes of magnitude 8.3 or greater have occurred along the arc, according to the USGS.
AFP
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Nuclear-like in its intensity, Russian meteor blast is the largest since 1908
Nuclear-like in its intensity, Russian meteor blast is the largest since 1908NBC's Tom Costello reports.
A meteor flared through the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region early Friday, triggering an atomic bomb-sized shock wave that injured more than a thousand people, blew out windows and caused some Russians to fear the end of the world.
NASA said it was the largest reported fireball since the Tunguska event in 1908 — an asteroid explosion that flattened millions of trees over 820 square miles of remote Siberian forest.
Friday's event was witnessed by throngs of Russians in Chelyabinsk, a city of 1.1 million in western Siberia. Multiple amateur videos posted online showed the meteor’s flaring arc stretching hundreds of miles across the sky. Other videos from the scene captured the sound of a loud boom, followed by a cacophony of car alarms. One video showed the hurried evacuation of an office building in Chelyabinsk.
“There was panic. People had no idea what was happening. Everyone was going around to people’s houses to check if they were OK,” Chelyabinsk resident Sergey Hametov told The Associated Press. “We saw a big burst of light then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud thundering sound.”
Another resident described the meteorite's flash.
"I was standing at a bus stop, seeing off my girlfriend," Andrei, a local resident who did not give his second name, told Reuters. "Then there was a flash and I saw a trail of smoke across the sky and felt a shock wave that smashed windows."
The impact involved a 50-foot-wide (15-meter-wide), 7,000-ton asteroid that zoomed in from space at a velocity of 40,000 mph (18 kilometers per second), NASA officials said. They said the shock of atmospheric entry blasted the rock apart at a height of 12 to 15 miles (20 to 25 kilometers), releasing the energy equivalent of 300 to 500 kilotons of TNT. That's more than 10 times the energy released by the atom bombs that exploded over Japan at the end of World War II. In fact, NASA said its estimates were based on readings from infrasound sensors that were set up by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization to detect nuclear blasts.
The fireball hit just hours before a 150-foot-wide asteroid, known as 2012 DA14, came within 17,200 miles of Earth during an unusually close but harmless flyby. NASA officials said there was no connection between the two events. "It's simply a coincidence," said Paul Chodas, an asteroid researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA said the flash momentarily shone brighter than the sun — an assessment that was echoed by eyewitnesses in Chelyabinsk.
"I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day," Viktor Prokofiev told Reuters. "I felt like I was blinded by headlights.”
No fatalities were reported, but Russia's Interior Ministry said about 1,100 people sought medical care after the shock wave. About 50 were hospitalized. Most of the injured were cut by glass from windows that were shattered by the blast's shock wave. More than 200 children at Chelyabinsk schools were said to be among the injured.
Chelyabinsk resident Marat Lobkovsky's experience was typical: "I went to see what that flash in the sky was about," he told AP. "And then the window glass shattered, bouncing back on me. My beard was cut open, but not deep. They patched me up, it’s OK now."
Another city resident, Valya Kazakov, said the brilliant flare and loud explosion caused older women in his neighborhood to fear that the world was ending.
City officials told AP that 3,000 buildings in the Chelyabinsk region were damaged, including a zinc factory warehouse that lost its roof and part of a wall because of the shock wave's battering. Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said as many as 10,000 police were mobilized to aid in the recovery and remove debris.
There were no significant disturbances to public utilities or communications, Vladimir Stepanov of the Emergency Situation Ministry told Itar-Tass. "No serious consequences have been so far recorded," Stepanov said. "There has been no disruption in the rail and air transport work."
A search was conducted to find any fragments that survived when the space rock blew itself apart. A photo provided by the Chelyabinsk regional police department showed a 20-foot-wide (6-meter-wide) hole in the ice covering a lake near the town of Chebakul where some of the fragments reportedly fell.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, speaks to NBC's Lester Holt about the meteor and asteroid that approached Earth on Friday.
The shallow angle at which the meteor crossed the sky over Chelyabinsk contributed to the amount of damage, according to Margaret Campbell-Brown, an astronomer and physicist at the University of Western Ontario. “It’s like a sonic boom,” Campbell-Brown said of the shock wave. “A sonic boom from a plane can shatter windows, but this sonic boom was much stronger than a plane."
It was a once-in-a-decade event, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson told TODAY on Friday. He explained that the meteor impact was the physics equivalent of hitting a brick wall. “When you hit a brick wall, you basically explode, and that’s what happened here, and it exploded in midair,” Tyson said.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the incident showed the need for the world's nations to develop a system to intercept objects falling from space. "At the moment, neither we nor the Americans have such technologies" to shoot down meteors or asteroids, he said, according to the Interfax news agency.
Coincidentally, experts from NASA and other agencies were at a U.N. space conference in Vienna on Friday to discuss strategies for developing an asteroid early warning system.
Yekaterina Pustynnikova / Chelyabinsk.ru via AP
A huge meteor flared through the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region, triggering a powerful shock wave that injured nearly a thousand people, blew out windows and reportedly caused the roof of a factory to collapse.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
ASTEROID HITS RUSSIA
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meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.
The spectacle deeply frightened many Russians, with some elderly women declaring that the world was coming to an end. Many of the injured were cut by flying glass as they flocked to windows, curious about what had produced such a blinding flash of light.
The meteor -- estimated to be about 10 tons and 49 feet wide -- entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered into pieces about 18-32 miles above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement. But even small asteroids pack a tremendous punch, explained Andrew Cheng of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
"It doesn’t take a very large object. A 10-meter size object already packs the same energy as a nuclear bomb," Cheng, who led a 2000-2001 mission for NASA to orbit and land on an asteroid, told FoxNews.com.
'It doesn’t take a very large object. A 10-meter size object already packs the same energy as a nuclear bomb.'
- Andrew Cheng of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, who led a 2001 mission to orbit and land on an asteroid
Amateur video showed an object speeding across the sky about 9:20 a.m. local time, just after sunrise, leaving a thick white contrail and an intense flash.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/15/injuries-reported-after-meteorite-falls-in-russia-ural-mountains/#ixzz2L2gsdeE0
meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.
The spectacle deeply frightened many Russians, with some elderly women declaring that the world was coming to an end. Many of the injured were cut by flying glass as they flocked to windows, curious about what had produced such a blinding flash of light.
The meteor -- estimated to be about 10 tons and 49 feet wide -- entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered into pieces about 18-32 miles above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement. But even small asteroids pack a tremendous punch, explained Andrew Cheng of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
"It doesn’t take a very large object. A 10-meter size object already packs the same energy as a nuclear bomb," Cheng, who led a 2000-2001 mission for NASA to orbit and land on an asteroid, told FoxNews.com.
'It doesn’t take a very large object. A 10-meter size object already packs the same energy as a nuclear bomb.'
- Andrew Cheng of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, who led a 2001 mission to orbit and land on an asteroid
Amateur video showed an object speeding across the sky about 9:20 a.m. local time, just after sunrise, leaving a thick white contrail and an intense flash.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/15/injuries-reported-after-meteorite-falls-in-russia-ural-mountains/#ixzz2L2gsdeE0
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