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"Good morning Dallas,Texas! Welcome to Unleash the Power Within!" .

Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman says five people were taken to a hospital and more than 30 people attending the event in Dallas have been treated for burns after the motivational speaker encouraged them to walk on hot coals.

Ambulances were lined up outside the convention center just after 11 p.m. Those who were more seriously injured were taken to the Parkland Hospital Burn Center.

A statement issued by Robbins Research International said, in part:
"In Dallas tonight, someone not familiar with the fire walk observed the event and called 911 erroneously reporting hundreds of people requiring medical attention for severe burns.   We are pleased to have completed another successful fire walk for 7,000 guests and look forward to the remainder of an outstanding weekend with them."

The coal-walking venue was set up on a parking lot to the north side of the convention center. The injured could be seen limping back to the convention center to seek treatment, according to people on the scene.
It's not the first time people have been hurt at Robbins' seminars.  Feel The Burn?   Just a thought.

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Even at the best of times Britain has always been a semi-detached member of the EU.  Since then Britain has often been more skeptical of the European project than committed to it; the country has been called “the awkward partner”.

Britain eventually joined in 1973, as Europe seemed to be doing so well economically.  Over the past few decades British governments have kept their distance as others within Europe pursued "ever closer union". Britain did not join the single currency, and it is not a member of the Schengen passport-free travel zone.

Traditional hostility to the EU has increased in recent years with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of east Europeans to find work, and Migrants,  who became a source of threat to the stability.

The country could become like Switzerland, which has an association with the EU, or more like Norway and Iceland, which are inside the European Economic Area, and thus the internal market, but with no power to change the rules of that market. Or, Britain might find a spurned EU an unwilling partner.  It is every where.        Just a thought

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Dual citizenship is a tricky subject in Austria since it is largely illegal. But its Turkish population has reportedly been registering in both their country of homeland and their new adopted country.

The country’s politicians are now reacting to the Turkish referendum and the fact that over 73% of Austria-based voters supported the push for constitutional change.

The result of perceptions in Austria that Turks, among the largest groups of migrants to the country,  refuse to assimilate even decades after arriving. Such fears are part of larger Europe-wide concerns that migrants represent a threat to the continent's values. 

If found to be holding dual citizenship illegally, then offenders would be stripped of their Austrian citizenship as well as incurring a €5,000 fine. Officials hope that these punishments will act as a deterrent.              Just a thought.

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A popular French fitness model has died after being hit by an exploding whipped-cream dispenser. The horrifying accident occurred, when the pressurized canister Rebecca Burger was using at home blew up and collided with her chest, sending her into cardiac arrest.  French media report that medics were able to get Burger’s heart beating again, but she was unconscious at the hospital and died the very next day, sadly.

For years, consumer groups have been warning that defective connectors in those devices can cause the nitrous-oxide chargers to break off and shoot out “like a rubber bullet.” Dispensers operate by piercing what are frankly very volatile capsules with pins to fill their canisters with gas — something that doesn’t sound very safe at all when it’s put in those terms. Projectile capsules have reportedly broken teeth and put out eyes, and a victim in France who suffered six broken ribs and a cracked sternum told the press in 2013: “I was told that if the shock and blast had been facing the heart, I would be dead now.”

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A former government employee has been arrested and charged with providing top-secret documents to a Chinese intelligence in exchange for $25,000 and lying to investigators.

Kevin Mallory,  could face the death penalty "if certain conditions are met." His top-secret security clearance was terminated in October 2012 when he left government service. 

Prosecutors allege Mallory, a U.S. citizen who speaks fluent Mandarin, traveled to Shanghai in March and April and met with a person who said he worked for the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS), a Chinese think tank that the FBI said frequently provides cover for Chinese intelligence operatives.

According to the affidavit, Mallory consented to a search of a device he used to communicate with the Chinese operative during an interview with FBI agents on May 24. Investigators allegedly discovered messages on the device from Mallory to the operative in which he described obscuring classification markings on documents transmitted to the operative.

In one message on May 5, Mallory allegedly told the operative "your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid for," according to the affidavit.