The National Weather Service has issued multiple alerts for parts of central Maryland.

A flash flood emergency is in effect Saturday night for Howard County and southwestern Baltimore County, where officials said flash flooding was occurring and multiple water rescues had to be performed. Related: Water Rescues Underway in Ellicott City, Drivers Advised to Stay Inside

A flash flood warning is in effect until 4:15 a.m. on Sunday for parts of central Maryland. Flash flooding is already occurring in the region. Approximately 4 to 5 inches of rain have fallen in a short period of time, the National Weather Service reported before 9 p.m.

The following areas are included in the warning: Anne Arundel, Baltimore (city and county), Carroll, Frederick, Howard and Montgomery. Weather officials advise drivers to turn around—don't drown—ifThe CLC was overrun with monkeys 2 weeks ago, as two year 4 classes from Sir Harold Jackson School arrived in order to animate the story Monkey Do, Monkey See. The classes read the story as part of a literacy project at school, then they made some beautiful sets and props to bring to the CLC. Once here they animated the story using Stop Motion Pro – not my favourite animation software, but the one we have for the PCs. Whilst one group was animating, the other group used Comic Life to create a comic strip version of the story, then they swapped at lunchtime. The groups will finish their animations at school, using Windows Movie Maker to add titles, credits, voiceovers and music.

The students worked really well


They came with costumes and props and acted out scenes inspired by the book Street Child by Berlie Doherty in the form of news reports. These were filmed in front of the green screen, so that they could use photos of the era as backgrounds. They included stealing from the pie shop, escape from the workhouse and a family being evicted from their house. Following filming, they edited the clips in Windows Movie Maker to create their finished film.

The result looks fantastic, and the pupils all enjoyed the experience. Here is a short audio clip from their teacher:If
we could have made up a little bit on one series of runs, maybe we could
have caught a couple of cars, maybe we would have been in the pack of cars
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I am the co-founder and editor of Arthur Magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) and curator of the three Arthur music festival events (Arthurfest, ArthurBall, and Arthur Nights) (2005-6). Prior to that I was a district office staffer for Congressman Henry A. Waxman, a DJ at Silver Lake pirate radio station KBLT, a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications, an editor at Mean magazine, and a freelance journalist contributing work to LAWeekly, Mojo, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Vibe, Rap Pages and many other print and online outlets. An extended piece I wrote on


Fela Kuti was selected for the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 anthology. In 2006, I was one of five Angelenos listed in the Music section of Los Angeles Magazine's annual "Power" issue. In 2007-8, I produced a blog called "Nature Trumps," about the L.A. River. Today, I live a peaceful life in the rural wilderness of Joshua Tree, California, where I am a partner in JTHomesteader.com with Stephanie Smith.On the site of a former comprehensive in Reading, a new school is being built to cater for five- to 19-year-olds on the autistic spectrum. The Thames Valley School is one of the new breed of free schools in England set up to fill a local need.

Due to open next month, the school's head teacher, Fiona Veitch, is already hard at work - even though it isn't fully built.

Received wisdom in recent years has told us that mainstreaming disabled children is the best way forward. But Veitch says although regular state schools have tried hard, a specialist environment is needed to bring out the best in some pupils on the autistic spectrum.

More on the school

Thames Valley School is a free school - a collaboration between the National Autistic


Society (NAS), local authorities, voluntary groups, schools and parents. The government agreed with community stakeholders that there is a need for this kind of specialist school in the area.

It is one of five free schools for children with special educational needs to open in England this September, joining three which opened in September 2012 - the latter two autism specific:

Rosewood School, Southampton

City of Peterborough Academy special school

Lighthouse School, Leeds

NAS has government permission to open two further free schools in September 2014, one in London and one in East Cheshire.

"Many of the children we have have been permanently excluded from one or two schools or are on really reduced timetables and go into school for an hour or two a day, so that's why it's so important we getthe spectrum. These were used to help with the design of the school. She is also an adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Autism.

The ready-prepared building blocks of the school were created off-site and arrived a month ago. Construction has been underway since then, with the ambitious target of opening on 16 September.

With advice, Veitch has worked with an architect to design the school to be autism-friendly, and spends long hours each day making sure it's the best they can achieve.

"I've got an office on the building site. It's really important because it means I can see exactly what the builders are doing, that they understand what they're doing and why they're doing it," says Veitch, who has 24 years of experience in the field and


Hopper, looked like he just walked away from not being able to drop a mud pie in his "backup sink" because he was wearing a surly grin. Stomper, on the other hand, looked to be happy to be alive. Seriously, the guy must have been in his 70's, but he still had that chiseled old athlete look, complete with flabby underarms and overtanned chest. Their match consisted of Stomper laying in some Seth Green-like weak ass strikes while Dirty sold them pretty well. Horner looked younger in 93 than he looked in 85 and Candido was trying to show promise back in his youthful years. Their match wasn't very good; there really wasn't a structure to it, nor did it become a cool ass bare knuckle brawl likemost Southern matches have to fall back on. I'm not sure if Candido's cry baby gimmick was working on the fans, but apparently it worked on Tammy Sytch, who loves anything attached to her nipples- take that where you will. Lee and Smothers were the two headliners in this promotion, and the fans wondered why they were nailing the doors shut on their exit from the arena that night. The coal miner's glove was actually an oven mitt with heavy tin foil wrapped around it, so unless they were planning to pull some Nestle Tollhouse out of an oven, the weapon reallly had no use. But, they sold it anyways. Next, the main event. Rage in the Cage, which as a match was designed identically to War Games,


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Thursday, 23 July 2015

The Dales Way - Day Three - Grassington to Hubberholme (15th June 2015)

We certainly had a very peaceful night's stay at The Black Horse Hotel in Grassington. Even though our visit coincided with the Grassington Festival, the streets were silent and apart from us there was only one other guest staying at the hotel. For some reason, he had beenwas already familiar with many of the delights that awaited us.I appreciated the fact that the hotel served us our breakfast at 8 a.m., which was half an hour earlier than their usual time and enabled us to get a reasonably early start. The sun was shining and it was pleasantly warm as we headed out of Grassington, passing by a little shop with a plaque explaining that this was once the blacksmith's forge owned by Tom Lee, the notorious murderer we'd learned about the previous day.

Tom Lee's Blacksmith's Shop

The Dales Way left Grassington at the northern end of the village, leading us along a narrow lane which climbed towards fields enclosed by drystone walls.

Lane out of Grassington

After a steady climb we crossed a ladder stile and stopped


for the night at Hubberholme. Unusually for the Dales there was no one else around, the only sound being the occasional bleating of sheep or the cry of a curlew.

Solitary tree

So far the majority of our Dales Way walk had been alongside the banks of the River Wharfe and it made a very pleasant change to be on the higher ground, among the limestone which so typifies the Yorkshire Dales. Stepping off the path for a while I paused to wait until a break in the clouds allowed the sunlight to illuminate the hillside ahead of us, the foreground dotted with fragments of limestone pavement.

Limestone Scar

At the top of the hill, in an area known as Old Pasture, we passed the well-preserved remains of an old lime kiln.A field lime kiln such as this one was ideally situated to exploit the limestone which can be found in the many outcrops surrounding it. The limestone would have been burned to produce quicklime which was then slaked with water to produce calcium hydroxide (slaked lime). This was mostly used to improve grassland by reducing the acidity of the soil, especially on reclaimed moorland during the enclosures of the 18th and 19th centuries. Slaked lime was also an important ingredient in making lime mortar.

Lime Kiln

After a short walk from the lime kiln we reached the head of Conistone Dib, a deep limestone gorge with views down towards the village of Kilnsey. At the top of Dib Scar we crossed a track known as Mastiles Lane which was once


river. To reach the village we crossed over a bridge known as Election Bridge, so named because it was built following an electoral pledge made by a prospective member of parliament after the original was destroyed by a flood in 1748.

Election Bridge

Buckden is a very pretty small village which nestles at the foot of Buckden Pike. It has a population of around 200 people, a shop, an outdoor centre and a very nice pub, The Buck Inn. To get to the Buck Inn just entailed a short detour off our route and, as my shoulders were aching a bit, I decided I really needed to remove my rucksack and have a sit down. And if that short break also involved another beer, well, so much the better. Beerreally does an excellent job of numbing aching muscles I find. A pint of Theakston's Old Peculier really hit the spot and soon had me back on my feet and raring to go, with just a mile and a half remaining before we'd reach Hubberholme.

Leaving Buckden

Now the Wharfe was little more than a stream, flowing sedately over a rocky bed. The late afternoon had become overcast and the air alongside the banks of the river was thick with midges. Fortunately I had anticipated this and had liberally covered myself with not only Jungle Formula repellent but also an added layer of Avon's Skin So Soft (a DEET-free, pleasantly scented yet highly effective midge deterrent).

The Upper Wharfe

The final section of the day's walk was completed along a quiet country


lane at the end of which we got the first sight of our base for the night, the very pretty George Inn at Hubberholme. I'd been especially looking forward to spending a night at The George which had been the favourite watering hole of the famous playwright and author J.B. Priestley whose ashes were scattered at the church nearby. Priestley had described Hubberholme as "the smallest, pleasantest place in the world" and it was soon very easy to see why.As we stepped over the threshold of this charming Dales inn we were instantly greeted by a cheerful voice from behind the bar."Good afternoon! You have reached your destination!"The voice belonged to Ed, the George's landlord, an extremely pleasant and friendly man who immediately walked round from behind theImage copyright Getty Images Image caption Beyonce and Prince dominate in the album and singles charts

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Beyonce's "visual album" sold 73,000 copies, making it the second-fastest selling artist record of 2016, behind David Bowie's Blackstar.

Fifteen of Prince's albums made it into the chart as fans rushed to buy his music following his sudden death.

Six are in the top 40 with The Very Best Of, Ultimate and Purple Rain at two, three and four.

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Record label Warner Music, which published most of his classic albums, said more CDs were being pressed this week.

Ultimate, which was released in 2006, reached a new peak at three after first only making it to number six when it was first released in 2006.

The Purple Rain soundtrack at four, is up on its previous peak of seven when it was first released in 1984. Dirty Mind, which entered the chart at 61, did not previously chart in the UK.

TOP FIVE ALBUMS 1) Beyonce Lemonade 2) Prince The Very Best Of 3) Prince Ultimate 4) Prince Purple Rain 5) Sia This isActing

Beyonce's Lemonade sold 10,000 copies via streaming - which is the biggest streaming sales since they were introduced into the chart last year.

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Six Prince tracks entered the top 100, with Purple Rain the highest entry at number six. The track peaked at eight when it was first released in 1984.

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Katherine Jenkins was at seven with Celebration, her album commemorating the Queen's 90th birthday. It is also number one on the classical album chart - giving the singertenth of the time would make good and noble
pictures for you out of water-colour. I could go on giving you almost
numberless instances of this great commercial mistake; but I should
only weary and confuse you. I therefore commend also this head of our
subject to your own meditation, and proceed to the last I named--the
last I shall task your patience with to-night. You know we are now
considering how to apply our genius; and we were to do it as
economists, in three ways:--

  To _various_ work;
  To _easy_ work;
  To _lasting_ work.

This lasting of the work, then, is our final question.

Many of you may, perhaps, remember that Michael Angelo was once
commanded by Pietro di Medici to mould a statue out of snow, and that
he obeyed the command.[7] I


that splendour of dress did not cost
suffering or hunger, we might not put the splendour better in other
things than dress. And, supposing our mode of dress were really
graceful or beautiful, this might be a very doubtful question; for I
believe true nobleness of dress to be an important means of education,
as it certainly is a necessity to any nation which wishes to possess
living art, concerned with portraiture of human nature. No good
historical painting ever yet existed, or ever can exist, where the
dresses of the people of the time are not beautiful: and had it not
been for the lovely and fantastic dressing of the 13th to the 16th
centuries, neither French, nor Florentine, nor Venetian art could have
risen to anything like the rank it reached. Still, even then, the best
dressing wasgreatest: which of two
personal sacrifices dares and accepts the largest: which, out of the
avenues of beneficence, treads always that which opens farthest into
the blue fields of futurity: that character, in fine, which, in those
words taken by us at first for the description of a Queen among the
nations, looks less to the present power than to the distant promise;
"Strength and honour are in her clothing--and she shall rejoice IN
TIME TO COME."

LECTURE II.

The heads of our subject which remain for our consideration this
evening are, you will remember, the accumulation and the distribution
of works of art. Our complete inquiry fell into four divisions--first,
how to get our genius; then, how to apply our genius; then, how to
accumulate its results; and lastly, how to distribute them. We
considered, last evening, how to discover and


be made cheap,
beyond a certain point; for the amount of pleasure that you can
receive from any great work, depends wholly on the quantity of
attention and energy of mind you can bring to bear upon it. Now, that
attention and energy depend much more on the freshness of the thing
than you would at all suppose; unless you very carefully studied the
movements of your own minds. If you see things of the same kind and of
equal value very frequently, your reverence for them is infallibly
diminished, your powers of attention get gradually wearied, and your
interest and enthusiasm worn out; and you cannot in that state bring
to any given work the energy necessary to enjoy it. If, indeed, the
question were only between enjoying a great many pictures each a
little, or one picture veryit produces, you will
never have too little art; and if, on the other hand, you never force
an artist to work hurriedly, for daily bread, nor imperfectly, because
you would rather have showy works than complete ones, you will never
have too much. Do not force the multiplication of art, and you will
not have it too cheap; do not wantonly destroy it, and you will not
have it too dear.

"But who wantonly destroys it?" you will ask. Why, we all do. Perhaps
you thought, when I came to this part of our subject, corresponding to
that set forth in our housewife's economy by the "keeping her
embroidery from the moth," that I was going to tell you only how to
take better care of pictures, how to clean them, and varnish them, and
where to put them


and, instead of
being long-armed only, has the much greater gift of being
long-headed--you think it perfectly just that he should use his
intellect to take the bread out of the mouths of all the other men in
the town who are of the same trade with him; or use his breadth and
sweep of sight to gather some branch of the commerce of the country
into one great cobweb, of which he is himself to be the central
spider, making every thread vibrate with the points of his claws, and
commanding every avenue with the facets of his eyes. You see no
injustice in this.

But there is injustice; and, let us trust, one of which honourable men
will at no very distant period disdain to be guilty. In some degree,
however, it is indeed not unjust; in somenot sources of
wealth, except so far as they give the habits of industry and
acquisitiveness. If a boy is clumsy and lazy, we shall do good if we
can persuade him to carve cherrystones and fly kites; and this use of
his fingers and limbs may eventually be the cause of his becoming a
wealthy and happy man; but we must not therefore argue that
cherrystones are valuable property, or that kite-flying is a
profitable mode of passing time. In like manner, a nation always
wastes its time and labour _directly_, when it invents a new want of a
frivolous kind, and yet the invention of such a want may be the sign
of a healthy activity, and the labour undergone to satisfy the new
want may lead, _indirectly_, to useful discoveries or to noble arts;
so that a


should be taught, or
being found incapable of work through sickness, should be tended; but
that being found objecting to work, they should be set, under
compulsion of the strictest nature, to the more painful and degrading
forms of necessary toil, especially to that in mines and other places
of danger (such danger being, however, diminished to the utmost by
careful regulation and discipline) and the due wages of such work be
retained--cost of compulsion first abstracted--to be at the workman's
command, so soon as he has come to sounder mind respecting the laws of
employment.

4. Lastly,--that for the old and destitute, comfort and home should be
provided; which provision, when misfortune had been by the working of
such a system sifted from guilt, would be honourable instead of
disgraceful to the receiver. For (I repeat this passage out of     will find they are as truly manufactured articles as
        anything else, and it is just because our present system of
        political economy gives so large a stimulus to that
        manufacture that you may know it to be a false one. We had
        better seek for a system which will develop honest men, than
        for one which will deal cunningly with vagabonds. Let us
        reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed
        in


beings is
attainable by other means than by money. As I said a few pages back,
the money power is always imperfect and doubtful; there are many
things which cannot be reached with it, others which cannot be
retained by it. Many joys may be given to men which cannot be bought
for gold, and many fidelities found in them which cannot be rewarded
with it.

Trite enough,--the reader thinks. Yes: but it is not so trite,--I wish
it were,--that in this moral power, quite inscrutable and immeasurable
though it be, there is a monetary value just as real as that
represented by more ponderous currencies. A man's hand may be full of
invisible gold, and the wave of it, or the grasp, shall do more than
another's with a shower of bullion. This invisible gold, also, does
not necessarily diminishan hour for
him in return, we obtain an unjust advantage. If, on the contrary, we
promise to work an hour and a half for him in return, he has an unjust
advantage. The justice consists in absolute exchange; or, if there be
any respect to the stations of the parties, it will not be in favour
of the employer: there is certainly no equitable reason in a man's
being poor, that if he give me a pound of bread to-day, I should
return him less than a pound of bread to-morrow; or any equitable
reason in a man's being uneducated, that if he uses a certain quantity
of skill and knowledge in my service, I should use a less quantity of
skill and knowledge in his. Perhaps, ultimately, it may appear
desirable, or, to say the least, gracious,


my last paper that nothing in history had
ever been so disgraceful to human intellect as the acceptance among us
of the common doctrines of political economy as a science. I have many
grounds for saying this, but one of the chief may be given in few
words. I know no previous instance in history of a nation's
establishing a systematic disobedience to the first principles of its
professed religion. The writings which we (verbally) esteem as divine,
not only denounce the love of money as the source of all evil, and as
an idolatry abhorred of the Deity, but declare mammon service to be
the accurate and irreconcileable opposite of God's service; and,
whenever they speak of riches absolute, and poverty absolute, declare
woe to the rich, and blessing to the poor. Whereupon we forthwith
investigate a science ofmust allow no loose terms in
it.

We have, therefore, to ascertain in the above definition, first, what
is the meaning of "having," or the nature of Possession. Then, what is
the meaning of "useful," or the nature of Utility.

And first of possession. At the crossing of the transepts of Milan
Cathedral has lain, for three hundred years, the embalmed body of St.
Carlo Borromeo. It holds a golden crosier, and has a cross of emeralds
on its breast. Admitting the crosier and emeralds to be useful
articles, is the body to be considered as "having" them? Do they, in
the politico-economical sense of property, belong to it? If not, and
if we may, therefore, conclude generally that a dead body cannot
possess property, what degree and period of animation in the body will
render possession possible?

As thus: lately in


person has, another cannot have; and that every
atom of substance, of whatever kind, used or consumed, is so much
human life spent; which, if it issue in the saving present life, or
gaining more, is well spent, but if not, is either so much life
prevented, or so much slain. In all buying, consider, first, what
condition of existence you cause in the producers of what you buy;
secondly, whether the sum you have paid is just to the producer, and
in due proportion lodged in his hands;[65] thirdly, to how much clear
use, for food, knowledge, or joy, this that you have bought can be
put; and fourthly, to whom and in what way it can be most speedily and
serviceably distributed: in all dealings whatsoever insisting on
entire openness and stern fulfilment; and in all doings,not gold,--not a particle of it. It is
        yellow, and glittering, and like enough to the real
        metal,--but see--it is brittle, cat-gold, 'iron firestone.'
        Out of this, heap it as high as you will, you will get so
        much steel and brimstone--nothing else; and in a year or
        two, when (had you known a little of right economy) you
        might have had quiet roof-trees over your heads, and a fair
        account at your banker's, you shall instead have to


are proportioned to the additional
coinage, the worth of the existing currency will be raised.

Arbitrary control and issues of currency affect the production of
wealth, by acting on the hopes and fears of men; and are, under
certain circumstances, wise. But the issue of additional currency to
meet the exigencies of immediate expense, is merely one of the
disguised forms of borrowing or taxing.

It is, however, in the present low state of economical knowledge,
often possible for Governments to venture on an issue of currency,
when they could not venture on an additional loan or tax, because the
real operation of such issue is not understood by the people, and the
pressure of it is irregularly distributed, and with an unperceived
gradation. Finally, the use of substances of intrinsic value as the
materials of a currency, is a barbarism;--a statements made in them; were, indeed, such authorities
        wisely sought for and shown, there would be no occasion for
        my writing at all. Even in the scattered passages referring
        to this subject in three books of Carlyle's:--"Sartor
        Resartus"; "Past and Present"; and the "Latter-Day
        Pamphlets"; all has been said that needs to be said, and far
        better than I shall ever say it again. But the habit of the
        public mind at the present is to require everything


it must
develop by its uses. And the issue of this investigation will be to
show us that Economy does not depend merely on principles of "demand
and supply," but primarily on what is demanded, and what is supplied.

Question Second. What is the quantity of the store in relation to the
population? It follows from what has been already stated that the
accurate form in which this question has to be put is--"What quantity
of each article composing the store exists in proportion to the real
need for it by the population?" But we shall for the time assume, in
order to keep all our terms at the simplest, that the store is wholly
composed of useful articles, and accurately proportioned to the
several needs of them.

Now it does not follow, because the store is large in proportionand the seller has
        lost. The present rage for cheapness is either, therefore,
        simply and literally, a rage for badness of all commodities,
        or it is an attempt to find persons whose necessities will
        force them to let you have more than you should for your
        money. It is quite easy to produce such persons, and in
        large numbers; for the more distress there is in a nation,
        the more cheapness of this sort you can obtain, and your


currency itself is not in the slightest degree
founded more on the worth of the article for which the gold is
exchangeable. It is just as accurate to say, "So many pounds are worth
an acre of land," as "An acre of land is worth so many pounds." The
worth of gold, of land, of houses, and of food, and of all other
things, depends at any moment on the existing quantities and relative
demands for all and each; and a change in the worth of, or demand for,
any one, involves an instantaneously correspondent change in the
worth, and demand for, all the rest--a change as inevitable and as
accurately balanced (though often in its process as untraceable) as
the change in volume of the outflowing river from some vast lake,
caused by change in the volume ofprecept
        given to each of these spirits for its deliverance is--Turn
        thine eyes to the lucre (lure) which the Eternal King rolls
        with the mighty wheels: otherwise, the wheels of the
        "Greater Fortune," of which the constellation is ascending
        when Dante's dream begins. Compare George Herbert,--

                                "Lift up thy head;
          Take stars for


     Titania ([Greek: titene]), "the queen;" Benedict and
        Beatrice, "blessed and blessing;" Valentine and Proteus,
        enduring (or strong) (valens) and changeful. Iago and
        Iachimo have evidently the same root--probably the Spanish
        Iago, Jacob, "the supplanter." Leonatus, and other such
        names are interpreted, or played with, in the plays
        themselves. For the interpretation of Sycorax, and reference
        to her raven's feather, I am indebted to Mr. John R. Wise.

I should dwell, even in these prefatory papers,My Savoyard squirrels would pass a pleasant time
        of it under the snow-laden pine-branches, if they always
        declined to economize because no one would pay them interest
        on nuts.

Not but that also this game of life-giving-and-taking is, in the end,
somewhat more costly than other forms of play might be. Rifle practice
is, indeed, a not unhealthy pastime, and a feather on the top of the
head is a pleasing appendage; but while learning the stops and
fingering of the sweet instrument, does no one ever calculate the cost
of an overture? What melody does Tityrus meditate on his tenderly
spiral pipe? The leaden seed of it, broad cast, true conical "Dents de
Lion"


But, not to be led too far into the
     subtleness of these myths, respecting them all I have but
     this to say: Even in very simple parables, it is not always
     easy to attach indisputable meaning to every part of them. I
     recollect some years ago, throwing an assembly of learned
     persons who had met to delight themselves with
     interpretations of the parable of the prodigal son
     (interpretations which had up to that moment gone very
     smoothly) into high indignation, by inadvertently asking who
     the prodigal son was, and what was toofficial audience scheduled on the Monday before the vote.

Over the weekend, she collected 11,000 signatures on a petition from educators all over the state, plus letters from parents and teachers, all of which she hand-delivered.

When Toomey nevertheless cast his vote for DeVos, Kruk's reaction was immediate: She decided to run for school board.

By all accounts, the election has sparked a surge of political interest among young Democrats and progressives. Similar upwellings have happened after other presidential campaigns, such as the Tea Party movement's surge after Barack Obama's election in 2008.

"Since Betsy DeVos' confirmation, we've had a flood of people come and say specifically, 'I want to run for school board to protect the schools in my hometown,' " says Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, a newly


launched progressive political action committee dedicated to drafting Millennials for down-ballot races from state legislatures on down. Run for Something offers advice, introductions and, for some candidates, help with fundraising.

NPR Ed spoke with four young first-time school board candidates from around the country.

All say they were influenced by the national energy around politics and education, but each says there was a more traditional motivation: to help kids in their communities.

1. The Princeton grad

Newtown Township, Pa.

Allison Kruk is a financial journalist who moved to Newtown Township, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, after college. She and her boyfriend have no children, but she interned in schools and tutored in New Jersey prisons throughout college.

It wasn't until she spent that weekend collecting letters from people concerned about problems that touch publicschools, from gun violence to worries about immigration, that she thought of herself as someone who could make a difference through politics.

"I don't just want to sign an online petition or write a post on Twitter or Facebook," says Kruk. "I want to be on the ground. Involved on the local level."

She notes that Democrats didn't even put up a nominee in Newtown Township's 2015 school board elections. "That's something that Democrats and progressives more generally are realizing is essential to build a political movement."

2. The son of survivors

Glendale, Calif.

Shant Sahakian, 31, grew up in Los Angeles County in one of the largest Armenian communities in the United States. Glendale is proud of its diversity, which also includes Hispanics, African-Americans, Koreans and Filipinos. And it's proud of its


public schools, which are separate from the LA Unified School District.

Sahakian's first son was born one day before the presidential election last fall.

"We came home on Election Day, I ran over to the polls, voted, and I was holding my son as I was watching the results thinking, 'What have I done? What am I bringing you into?' " The election solidified his decision to "graduate to a new level of public service" by running for school board.

Sahakian founded a software company at the age of 14 that he still runs today. His platform centers on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics); career pathways; expanding dual-language immersion; and requiring financial literacy.

"With California being so underfunded, what we're missing is a vision of where public education needs togo," he says. "I'm hoping my technology experience and business background will help bring direction so it's truly a 21st century education."

Having DeVos as education secretary troubles Sahakian, but also increases his resolve. "It's a little bit concerning that she's going in with so little experience," he says. "I'm worried about what changes are going to come down the pike that we at the local level have to figure out how to manage to and continue to give a solid public education."

3. The mental health advocate

Jefferson City, Mo.

When they moved to Jefferson City, Victoria Sterling, 32, and her fiance were "excited about putting down roots," she says, and eventually adopting a child. But the people she met advised her to choose private schools.

"I saw that there was a


lack of trust in the school system," she says. "People are concerned about whether taxpayer dollars are being used wisely."

Sterling declared her candidacy for school board on Jan. 3. For her, she says, it wasn't DeVos or national politics, but local issues that inspired her. Her platform is transparency: She wants to live-stream all school board meetings to the public. And she plans to apply the skills from her day job, as an abuse and neglect investigator for the state's department of mental health, to investigate and correct any mismanagement.

Jefferson City voted two-thirds for Trump; the school board election is nonpartisan, and Sterling prefers not to disclose her political affiliation.

"National politics is having a divisive effect on education issues," she notes.

She adds that, in talking with local voters,even those who advocate choice or send their own children to the many parochial schools, she is able to make the case that strong public schools are important:

"Public education builds our future workforce, and the school scores are what people look at when they decide whether to live here."

4. The second generation

Norristown, Pa.

Shae Ashe just turned 27. He was born and raised in this borough northwest of Philadelphia, and his mother served on the school board for a dozen years.

With many residents of the diverse district renting their homes, he says, the local property tax base is slight. Plus, hundreds of local students attend charter schools up to 10 miles outside the district, which further cuts into the funding for those who remain.

"A lot of people here in


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       {¶Shooting reported at Osceola Mills VFW hall, two sent to hospital

A fight in the tiny borough of Osceola Mills turned violent Wednesday when two men were shot.

There was supposed to be a spaghetti dinner at the VFW post on Lingle Street but, instead, the block was taped off, with state police vehicles, Decatur Township police and Columbia Fire Company personnel swarming in front.

According to Clearfield County District Attorney Bill Shaw, state police at Clearfield were called to a shooting. The incident involved two Clearfield County men who were transported to UPMC Altoona with gunshot wounds.

Shaw said he could give no condition report and did not release the names of the individuals pending notification of family.

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The past Jewish year has seen a dramatic increase in immigration to Israel from Ukraine.

According to figures published Wednesday by the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, the number of immigrants who have arrived in the country from Ukraine since last Rosh Hashanah totaled 6,900 – a 50 percent jump from the previous year. The exodus has been attributed to the political turmoil in the country.

Another 5,900 immigrants arrived in the country from Russia – 23 percent more than the previous year.

It is noteworthy that the many of these immigrants from the former Soviet Union are not defined as Jewish by religious law and therefore cannot marry in the country without undergoing an Orthodox conversion. To be considered Jewish under religious law, or halakha, an individualeconomy and rising anti-Semitism explain the sharp rise in immigration from France in recent years.

Altogether, the number of new immigrants arriving in Israel during the Jewish year of 5775 was 29,500, representing an increase of 13 percent. Almost half of the total number came from Ukraine and France. The top destination for these newcomers was Tel Aviv, with Netanya coming in a close second, followed by Jerusalem.

Based on these figures, Minister of Immigrant Absorption Ze’ev Elkin predicted that the total number of immigrants arriving in Israel in 2015 would reach somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000 – a record for the past decade. “This is a window of opportunity that the State of Israel cannot miss,” he said.

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky noted that in recent years, the majority


of new immigrants to Israel have been coming from democratic Western countries. “These immigrants’ free choice to live in Israel, and their preference for Israel over other countries, is the true triumph of Zionism,” he said.

Immigration from North America was steady at about 3,600 (less that half the number of arrivals from France). Another 690 new immigrants arrived in the country from the United Kingdom (up 13 percent), 400 from Italy (up 30 percent) and 290 from Belgium (steady).

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Yanking Out Lawns Saves Water and Money

Above: It only took a few water bills last summer to change the attitudes of Scripps Ranch homeowners Meg Kaufman and Norm Bornstein. They pulled out their lawn and replaced it with water conservation landscaping.

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The San Diego County Water Authority says nearly 60 percent of our drinking water is used for lawns and other landscaping. Mandatory outdoor water restrictions means some lawns will go brown this summer. But, as KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce tells us, some people are pulling up their grass. It's part of our week-long series: "H2NO: San Diego Going Dry."

Above: Jacobs converted a steep slope on the south side of the home from ice plant to a drought-tolerant bedding plant. He added burlap under the new beddingto prevent water from flowing down the slope onto the sidewalk and street below.

The San Diego County Water Authority says nearly 60 percent of our drinking water is used for lawns and other landscaping. Mandatory outdoor water restrictions means some lawns will go brown this summer. But, as KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce tells us, some people are pulling up their grass. It's part of our week-long series: "H2NO: San Diego Going Dry."

More of us may need to become deviants to stretch our limited water supply.

"It is normal when you drive down the street to see every front yard have a large lawn," Maureen Stapleton says. "That is tradition."

Stapleton is the General Manager of the San Diego County Water Authority.

"And what is standing out now are those that


Stone Age Homo sapiens.

"In the process," he said, "we were able to determine that the extinct relatives of today's humans primarily fed on large herbivorous mammals, such as mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses."

Bocherens and his colleagues analyzed Neanderthal and animal remains from two excavation sites in Belgium. They also looked at the diet of modern humans from the same time period, 45,000–40,000 years ago. The animals included mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, wild horses, reindeer, European bison, cave hyenas, bears, lions and wolves.

Isotope analysis of the collagen (component of connective tissue) in the various bones demonstrated that the Neanderthals' diet differed markedly from that of other predatory animals living at the same time.

Photos: What Did Prehistoric Humans Eat?

"Previously, it was assumed that the Neanderthals utilized the same food sources as theirCentennial Plaza, originally opened in 2008 as part of the organization’s festivities surrounding its 100th Anniversary, had been earmarked for development in the past year as part of the Tour des Canadiens condominium project. The official launch of the first phase of the latter was held on Thursday morning. In recent months there had been much discussion as to how the Plaza would be re-incorporated into the Bell Centre environs with the multitude of construction projects in the immediate vicinity, yet Canadiens owner Geoff Molson laid to rest all speculation in unveiling the striking vision for what is effectively considered the team’s “outdoor museum”.

“It has always been essential for us to honor our greatest legends and teams, coupled with the bricks personalized by fans as testament to their


passion and attachment to the club, in an area accessible to the public at large for generations in a setting worthy of the iconic moments and history it celebrates,” said Molson. “We are happy to unveil to you our vision for what will become the permanent home for Centennial Plaza, a place Montrealers and visitors to the city will be able to enjoy for decades to come.”

Slated to open in 2016 alongside the new Tour Deloitte office tower, the next iteration of Centennial Plaza will be found on the eastern part of the Bell Centre – outdoors and adjacent to Windsor Court and the Montreal Canadiens Hall of Fame. It will comprise every element of its predecessor, including the 100 greatest moments through the team’s first century, tributesto all 24 Stanley Cup-winning clubs and the 17 men whose jerseys have been retired by the organization, the four statues honoring Howie Morenz, Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau, and Guy Lafleur, the team’s logo monument featuring all major award winners and every player through the first 100 years of the franchise, and the thousands of fan-personalized bricks.

Molson also confirmed that due to the risk of damage inherent in the removal and storage of existing bricks, the club would absorb the cost of ordering an entirely new set of bricks complete with the original inscriptions made by fans.Centennial Plaza will once again be accessible to the public 365 days a year. Situated next to a redesigned courtyard by the Tour Deloitte, when complete the space as a whole promises


Zags return to Spokane after loss to North Carolina

Matt Bouldin signs a fan's shirt after returning from the NCAA Tournament

SPOKANE, Wash. - The Gonzaga Men's Basketball team arrived at the Spokane International Airport just after 1:00 p.m Saturday.

On the tarmac the Zags boarded three buses that took them to campus. They arrived on campus just after 1:30 p.m. where they were welcomed by about a dozen fans some who had been waiting for them since 10:30 Saturday morning.

The Bulldogs return after loosing to North Carolina 98-77 in Memphis Friday night. North Carolina advances to the Elite 8 round of the tournament. They'll play Oklahoma on Sunday

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Gonzaga's season ends with loss to North Carolina

The good? Gonzaga held North Carolina tojust a handful of points at the end of the first half. The bad? The Zags couldn't score enough to catch up in either half. The result? North Carolina advances to the Elite 8, and Gonzaga returns to Spokane to watch the rest of the tournament from home.

Ty Lawson, sore foot and all, led North Carolina through the first half. He scored inside. He scored outside. He dished the ball off to the open man. He was in complete control of the game, while Gonzaga couldn't ever find a rhythm for more than a couple of minutes.

"We ran into a great basketball team tonight," said Gonzaga coach Mark Few. "They played great. When they are shooting the ball like that I think it's going to be tough for


anybody to beat them."

Gonzaga guard Matt Bouldin, who wasn't as effective as he normally is for the Zags, might have been sick. Few didn't offer up any comments regarding his performance however, and reporters didn't ask. The possibility Bouldin could have been sick was brought up by UNC coach Roy Williams after the game.

When Gonzaga went on a 12-2 run in the second half and looked like they were going somewhere, Bobby Frasor was there to put the Zags back in their place, scoring two-straight treys. Wayne Ellington followed up with a drive that resulted in a three-point play at the free throw line to cap a 9-0 run. North Carolina's largest lead, 28 points, came at 3:28 in the second half.

Tyler Hansbrough dominated inside, scoring 24 andcnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); });

Following a Tuesday hearing before a seven justice panel of the High Court of Justice over whether the Rabbinical High Court can order the mother of a one-year-old boy to circumcise her son in keeping with the wishes of the boy's father, the mother said, "'Social pressure is no reason to force cutting my son's body as nature and the universe naturally created him."The mother and the father are in divorce proceedings before the Netanya Rabbinical Court which intervened in the parents' dispute over whether to circumcise their son, ruling that it was in the boy's best interests to be circumcised.The Netanya Rabbinical Court even went a step further, fining the mother NIS 500 per day until she had her son


circumcised.Next, the Rabbinical High Court confirmed the Netanya Rabbinical Court's order.The identity of all of the family members is under a court gag-order.Following the Netanya Rabbinical Court's order, the mother on December 18, 2013, petitioned through the Justice Ministry's Legal Assistance Division to the High Court of Justice to intervene on the grounds that the Netanya Rabbinical Court did not have authority over whether parents circumcise their children.Justice Yoram Danziger froze the Rabbinical Court's ruling the same day the petition was filed.The High Court then requested Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein's opinion who wrote on February 11 that he also believed that the Rabbinical Court had exceeded its authority in intervening on the circumcision issue.The High Court began the hearing saying that it centered around three questions: does any judicialU.S. President Donald Trump standing next to Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, during a group picture at the start of the Group of 20 summit on 28 June 2019.

President Donald Trump said on Saturday he appreciated Saudi Arabia's purchase of U.S. military equipment, calling Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a "friend of mine" who had worked to open up the country with economic and social reforms.

Trump's plan to boost defense sales to the kingdom has hit obstacles in Congress, where Democrats and some fellow Republicans are not happy about human rights abuses, including the murder last year of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"It's an honor to be with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, a friend of mine — a man who has really done things


in the last five years in terms of opening up Saudi Arabia," Trump said ahead of a bilateral meeting with the crown prince, known as MBS, in Osaka, Japan.

"I think especially what you've done for women and seeing what's happening — it's like a revolution in a very positive way," he added on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) summit.

"We're trying to do our best for our country, Saudi Arabia, and it's a long journey," the crown prince said.

The Senate this month voted to block the sale of billions of dollars of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries, rejecting Trump's decision to sidestep Congress's review of such deals by declaring an emergency over Iran.

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Did you watch the US U-20s this spring in the CONCACAF Championship, and then the U-20 World Cup? Sporting Kansas City Homegrown Erik Palmer-Brown wore the captain's armband, and played the first tournament at defensive midfield, then the second at his natural position of center back. He was something past "very good" in both spots, and solidified his position as one of the world's better center back prospects.

So it shouldn't be a surprise that news of Palmer-Brown's imminent departure from Sporting KC broke over the weekend. Kristian Dyer had it first, then Sam McDowell confirmed it, and then Jeff Carlisle did the same.

The surprise is which team it was that jumped into the picture and claimed his signature. Palmer-Brown has reportedly signed a pre-contract with Manchester City, oneof the highest-spending teams in the highest-spending league in the world. They laid out just over a quarter-billion dollars this summer, and just under that mark last summer and the summer before, and they'll almost certainly do the same next year.

How, in a squad like that, will Palmer-Brown fit?

The answer is "he won't." Here's the salient graph from Carlisle's article:

Palmer-Brown, 20, will finish out the current season with SKC and join up with Man City in January, after his current contract expires. He is then expected to spend the rest of the 2017-18 European season on loan.

EPB has been on loan before – he spent last year on loan with Porto, playing in the "B" squad for the Portuguese giants, and SKC fully expected them to purchase him


clubs This includes the likes of Yangel Herrera to NYCFC(*) Angelino previously played for NYCFC, and is with NAC Breda this year

The chances of eventually being sold by MCFC to a smaller European team are higher than the the chances of ever playing significant minutes for MCFC RSL's Albert Rusnak, Columbus's Mohammed Abu and Colorado's Nana Boateng are all former highly rated MCFC prospects who went on a ton of loans while under contract and were eventually sold in Europe before making their way to MLS this offseason

(*) Just so everyone knows, there is nearly zero chance EPB returns to MLS to play for NYCFC. Sporting made him a substantial contract offer, which means that they hold his MLS rights, which means that if MCFC wanted to loanhim to NYCFC, then NYCFC would have to part with some assets. My guess is Peter Vermes's demands would be all the GAM and TAM. All of it.

Palmer-Brown has a ton of potential – he could end up being really good. But there's no doubt he's going out on loan. This is similar to the gambit Matt Miazga took after the 2015 season, when he signed off on a transfer from RBNY to Chelsea for $5 million. He made two appearances for the Blues in the spring of 2016 and has spent the bulk of the last 15 months on loan with Vitesse Arnhem of the Eredivisie.

Vitesse is to Chelsea as NAC Breda is to MCFC: An affiliate rather than a club that's owned outright. Miazga, one of


four Chelsea players currently on loan there, helped lead Vitesse to the first piece of significant silverware in their 125-year history last season as they won the Dutch Cup. He's back with them this season, and if he plays well... he probably still won't end up playing for Chelsea next year.

The gap between a mid-flight team in the Netherlands and the very top of the EPL is too great, so if Miazga really does excel this season, that means one of two things:

1) Chelsea fall in love with him and decide he does, indeed, have a future at the club, so they loan him out to a bottom-of-the-table EPL team for 2018/19, which is what happened with Ruben Loftus-Cheek this season. That is the next proving ground forVitesse get bupkis. If there's a player who's slightly less good, but who they own and who could maybe make them $1 million in the transfer market, guess who'll play?

CFG have smoothed this process out more than any other team/entity in the world. Patrick Vieira has an interest in developing Herrera because Herrera's awesome and helps him win games, but also because NYCFC and MCFC operate under the same umbrella. It probably shouldn't shock anybody, then, if Herrera's next stop on his journey is with Girona FC, a newly promoted La Liga team that CFG just bought 44% of. If he goes from MLS to the best league in the world and keeps playing as well as he has been, then he's either one step closer to being


ready for MCFC, or CFG will be one step closer to selling him for significantly more cash. Either way, though, he'll be going to a team that has a legitimate, layered interest in developing him.

There are currently five MCFC players on loan at Girona. EPB almost certainly won't start his CFG journey there, and is instead likely to do his first season in the Eredivisie with NAC Breda. If he excels – and he's definitely good enough to do so – then perhaps he'll end up scoring himself a loan to Girona for 2018/19, or maybe 2019/20. And if that goes well, then maybe he'll end up, one day, wearing Sky Blue and playing at the City of Manchester Stadium.

It is a mazy and uncertain career path he'sMissouri. Its purpose was to challenge the lawfulness of certain practices and conditions at the State Board of Training Schools facility at Boonville, Missouri (hereinafter referred to as T.S.B.) as they affected the plaintiff class of juveniles. This court requested the parties to attempt to resolve their differences through negotiation, and such attempts were immediately begun. The negotiations were unavoidably delayed during the spring of 1974, because of a potential governmental reorganization which meant that in all probability many of the named defendants would not continue in positions of authority and responsibility in regard to the operation of the T.S.B. later than mid-summer, 1974, and that new defendants could not be identified until that time. The original defendants were unwilling to bind unknown successors by their own decisions.


poorly ventilated, and often filthy, as was the common area which they faced. Three fans and a single small air-conditioning vent, which was not operating at the time the suit was filed, were totally inadequate to dispel the uncomfortable heat and the foul odors which permeated this part of the facility. The juveniles housed in these cells ate their meals lying on their stomachs on the cell floors, reaching out through the bars to get food placed on the floor just outside each cell door. The paper plates on which meals were served were too large to pass between the barred openings in the doors.
Juveniles in these four cells were left unattended except for the short periods when institution staff brought meals. No staff member was on continuouswas afforded any hearing, either administrative or judicial, prior to such a transfer.
In the year 1973, one or more juveniles committed to the custody of the State Board of Training Schools and confined at the T.S.B. were indefinitely confined in cells in the Administration Building pending hearings under Section 219.230, subd. 2 (RSMo 1973 Supp.), the statute governing hearings on transfers of juveniles to the Department of Corrections. However, this statute expired on January 1, 1975, and the defendants agree therefore that such indefinite confinements will no longer take place.
In each of the years 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1974, one or more juveniles committed to the custody of the State Board of Training Schools and confined at the T.S.B. were confined in cells in the Administration Building indefinitely,


pending possible hearings under Secton 211.071 (RSMo 1969), the statute governing hearings on prosecutions of juveniles under the general law.

B. NAMED PLAINTIFF

The named plaintiff in this action, Lavon Harris, was admitted to the T.S.B. on October 4, 1972, and released on September 24, 1973, after an unsuccessful attempt by the deputy juvenile officer of Cooper County to certify him for trial as an adult. During the period of his commitment to the T.S.B., Lavon Harris spent one hundred and eighty-three days (five different confinements) in the T.S.B. cells. One of these confinements was one hundred and twenty days in duration. He spent sixteen days in the Pettis County Jail, and seven days in the Cole County Jail. Thus, during a total T.S.B. commitment of three hundred and fifty-fiveto confine juveniles who are committed to the T.S.B., and the defendants agree to dismantle the cell doors.
2. Each juvenile who is committed to the T.S.B. shall, upon his arrival, be given written notice as to which offenses may result in his being incarcerated in any of the fourteen cells on the second floor of the Administration Building.
3. When any juvenile is charged with an offense which may result in his incarceration in any of the fourteen cells on the second floor, he shall be afforded a hearing to ascertain his guilt or innocence. Such hearings shall be conducted as soon as possible, but no later than within twenty-four hours after his initial confinement. The hearings shall be conducted by an impartial three-person panel of staff members not


for contraband in the presence of the juvenile-addressee; other than such physical inspection, no tampering, delaying, opening, reading, copying or censoring of any mail shall be permitted. Attorney-client mail shall be neither opened nor inspected. There shall be no limitations as to how often or with whom a child may correspond unless a complaint is received from the person being corresponded with.
9. Juveniles who are confined in their cells shall be notified at the time of their incarceration that they may see a minister or priest on request.
10. Juveniles committed to the cells shall be provided a minimum period of one hour's recreation daily outside the cells, such recreation to include vigorous physical exercise.
11. Non-academic reading materials of a broad variety shall be regularly provided by the librarianbe informed of the transfer of any juvenile of the T.S.B. to a county jail. Also, she shall be informed of the holding of any juvenile in the detention unit for trial as an adult if such incarceration will exceed seven days. In the event of her death, or her resignation from the National Juvenile Law Center, prior to the expiration of the two-year period, the attorney who is then Director of the National Juvenile Law Center shall chose another staff attorney who shall have such access to the T.S.B. and the juveniles confined therein.


Harvard student charged in bomb hoax released on bail

BOSTON — A Harvard University student who told investigators that he had made a hoax bomb threat to avoid taking a final exam was released on a $100,000 bond by a federal judge on Wednesday.

The student, 20-year-old Eldo Kim, was charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with making the e-mailed threat that triggered evacuations on campus. If convicted, he could face a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine.

Kim was brought into court in handcuffs and wore Harvard sweatpants and a gray T-shirt. He did not enter a plea and spoke only to confirm to Magistrate Judge Judith Dein that he understood he has a right to remain silent anda right to an attorney.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin told the judge that prosecutors and Kim's legal representatives had begun "discussing alternatives to detention" for the student prior to the hearing.Dein called a temporary halt to the proceedings to allow those talks to develop.

Harvard officials on Monday evacuated four buildings, including classroom facilities and a dorm, at the heart of the Ivy League school's centuries-old campus in Cambridge, Mass., after receiving e-mails claiming that "shrapnel bombs" had been placed in two of the buildings.

The threat came about eight months after two homemade pressure-cooker bombs filled with nails and ball bearings blew up at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264. It drew a heavy response from local, state and federal law enforcement


agents.

An agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation tracked Kim down on Monday night at his Harvard campus dorm, where the student confessed to sending the hoax e-mails to university police, several administrators and the student newspaper.

The message said bombs had been placed in two of four named buildings and added, "guess correctly ... be quick for they will go off soon."

"Kim stated that he was in Emerson Hall at 9:00 a.m. when the fire alarm sounded and the building was evacuated," said an affidavit by the FBI agent. "According to Kim, upon hearing the alarm, he knew that his plan had worked."

Kim is a sophomore, the Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported. He is a U.S. citizen who had renounced his Korean citizenship.

An attorney representing Kim, Allison Burr,declined any comment to reporters after the proceeding.One observer said it was unusual to see federal, rather than state or local, prosecutors take on a hoax case at a university, but that their involvement likely reflected the costs and high visibility of the massive law-enforcement response, as well as post-9/11 and post-marathon jitters.

"We see the strong arm of the federal government being brought to bear in the prosecutorial process of this kid, and I think it goes hand-in-hand with that law enforcement response," said Tom Nolan, chairman of the criminal justice department at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and a former Boston Police official.

"There's no way that a massive police response and the shutdown of several buildings at Harvard University is going to result in


Easily Accessible Blanding Boulevard Location Offers Weekly Educational Sessions

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Case Study: A Taste of Game Student Masterclass

On Wednesday 27th September Simon Gray from the Food Teachers Centre spend a busy but pleasant day preparing locally sourced Pheasant with over
120 year 9 & 10 students at St Luke’s School in Exeter.

The whole purpose of the day was to support students in preparing for their GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition and give them a taste of game. The
students were amazing and they learnt new food preparation skills: they portioned a dressed Pheasant and made an amazing Pheasant Breast bruschetta.

Supported by the Taste of Game; who donated all the game birds from a local shoot, the students were able to experience the preparation, cooking, presentation
and taste of this classically English treat during the British Food Fortnight.

Joe Mann


the new food teacher at St Luke’s school said “I am so proud of the student’s enthusiasm and their willingness to try something new to them.
There is a real buzz around the school. We will definitely be cooking more game in the future”

The Food Teachers Centre has joined forces with The Taste of Game to bring produce that the majority of school children would not normally experience
to promote the use of sustainable British food in homes across the country.

The Game Changer programme will roll on with both exciting Continuing Professional Development (CPD) workshops for food teachers and master classes
for students in schools across the country, thanks to the generous support of the Taste of Game and local shoots.

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The campaign Love British Food, the nationalUpdate, 4 February: Science published an 'editorial retraction' of the 2004 chemistry paper on 4 February, 2016. It stated that neither Feldheim nor Eaton agreed to the retraction, and that Gugliotti could not be reached for comment.

A long-running battle over findings reported in a 2004 chemistry paper in Science1 may finally be drawing to a close.

On 21 January, Marcia McNutt, the journal’s editor-in-chief, published an ‘editorial expression of concern’ saying that Science would either retract or correct the paper, which described using RNA to assemble nanoparticles made of palladium.

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the research, and in 2013 the agency's inspector-general recommended that it make a finding of research misconduct, alleging that the authors had falsified data in the paper. In a final report in 2015,


metal. The work hinted that RNA might have a role in producing inorganic materials in the environment. It has been cited more than 135 times.

But Stefan Franzen, another chemist at NCSU, soon raised questions about the work. In a series of publications, he challenged whether the team had really seen RNA-driven action2 or stable palladium crystals3. Franzen filed a formal complaint to NCSU, which kicked off a series of investigations.

In the 2013 report, the NSF inspector-general found that the researchers had omitted experimental details and overstated the results, and recommended a finding of research misconduct. In 2015, the agency declined to make such a finding, but did issue a letter of reprimand and ban the authors from funding.

Feldheim says that he agrees with the NSF final report thatA "major breakthrough" in battling HIV was achieved with the help of Nvidia's Tesla GPU accelerators, the graphics chip maker said Wednesday.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have "determined the precise chemical structure of the HIV 'capsid,' a protein shell that protects the virus's genetic material and is a key to its virulence," Nvidia said in a statement describing how the team conducted an "all-atom simulation of HIV" on the Tesla-powered Blue Waters supercomputer.

Blue Waters is a Cray XK7 supercomputer with 3,000 Nvidia Tesla K20X GPU accelerators. The research team, which published its findings in the current issue of Nature, ran the "largest simulation ever published" on Blue Waters, an experiment that involved mapping an incredible 64 million atoms to simulate the HIV capsid (pictured).

"It


wake of the brutal assassination of one of our Prime Ministers. The same retaliation took place in North East India beginning with the Mizos, where the common man was torn asunder between forces of militarism and militancy, and still is. The common man is the worst sufferer in both the regions of North East and Jammu and Kashmir.

Then there is religious fanaticism seen in the light of the Hindu Muslim divide. Godhra came and Gujarat followed, in abysmal ways, but there have been instances of the true sufferers being the poor or the common person especially in Gujarat.

The Hindu Muslim divide in India has to be understood against the backdrop of the country, clearly wedged in between feelings of separatism, fanned by political leaders and a machinating BritishGovt. which was loth to leave the country, and wanted to sound a final death knell. One forgot Islamic contributions to the country in the form of architecture, art, language etc. The argumentative Indian in Amartya Sen's words was undoubtedly Akbar who in the sixteenth century with his prescient eyes saw an undivided and unified India. He was 'argumentative' as Sen states like Asoka and Tagore, because in early times even before independence they intuitively saw a unified cosmic culture in the best Indian traditions. Tagore also was a visionary as he saw a composite world order.

The' argument' has stopped now, there are skirmishes between politicians and fractious elements.

What is the 'argument'?

To extend Sen's exegesis, it is one of sublimated order, tolerance, religious and cultural, a pan Indian


Of Tenants And Tentacles: 'BTTM FDRS' Confronts Gentrification In Comic Horror Form

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When young urbanites move into poor neighborhoods in search of cheap rents and local color, they often get more than they bargained for. What they don't usually get are body parts spilling over toilet bowl rims and face-eating tentacles crawling out of ventilation systems. That's the kind of visceral revenge meted out in BTTM FDRS, Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore's comedic horror comic. Daniels, who wrote BTTM FDRS, and Passmore, who illustrated it, wanted to distill the complex politics of gentrification into digestible (well, really fairly indigestible) form.

Daniels told me that gentrification was on his mind a lot when he began the project. "I think it's the samehave a recycling program.

"It's an extra effort, but we feel it's important to be conscientious about the environment," he said.

Mandel said paper from computer printouts is sorted, with blanks pulled out, saved and reused. His company hasn't needed to buy prescription pads since it started recycling.

He also finds it's good for morale. "The staff realizes you are concerned," he said, and noted that the good feeling generated by his attitude filters down to their interactions with customers.

"Everyone takes a team attitude," he said.

The company plans to construct its own building in the future, and Mandel said it will be a green building.

Of course, for some companies, their reason for being is green, for example, organic food stores or manufacturers of clothing made from natural fibers only.

Floorworks, a Toronto-based


should be overwhelming; given the security threats it is facing over multiple territorial disputes in the South China Sea and across its borders.
It is also the same story in other nuclear weapon states — Russia, France, Britain, Israel and North Korea. One can assume that more than half the world’s people want nuclear weapons to defend themselves.
But when asked in general terms, a majority of the earthlings will call for the elimination of nuclear weapons. In Japan, which ironically takes shelter under the nuclear umbrella of the US, only 5 percent of the people back nuclear weapons. They rejected Trump’s campaign trail proposal that Japan and South Korea should develop their own nuclear weapons to counter the threat from North Korea.
Why cannot nuclear powers follow the example ofUnited Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons. None of the nine nuclear power states was among them. Understandable! But why was Sri Lanka, which supported the resolution for the treaty, not among them? Sri Lanka’s absence was mysterious and conspicuous. After all, the country in the 1970s spearheaded a campaign to declare the Indian Ocean a peace zone, free of nuclear weapons. Did Sri Lanka wilt under the pressure from nuclear powers? Certainly, the failure to sign the treaty amounts to a serious omission and a crime against humanity. In an apparent attempt to mitigate the blame, the Government last week published regulations declaring Sri Lanka a nuclear-weapons free country. A lame act!(This article first appeared in the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka)


2017 was signed into law. This Bill establishes a new gas tax to help fund road repair and maintenance throughout the State.

Under the old gas tax, consumers paid 59.87 cents per gallon in State and Federal taxes. This was a flat tax that never adjusted with inflation and, as costs of road construction rose over the last 40 years, the available funding became less and less able to keep up with the growing cost of road maintenance. The old gas tax was also split unevenly with the majority going to reconstructing the State highway system. Small municipalities like Cloverdale received only enough money to perform minor maintenance projects like pothole repairs. As a result, many of our streets have deteriorated to the point where reconstruction (the most expensivehaving certain intentions and “trying to create an image of Turkey cooperating with ISIL.”The New York Times recently reported that Turkey had not taken sufficient measures to end the trade, at the same time as implementing an open door policy to foreign fighters into Syria to wage jihad with ISIL.Oil smuggling has long been an issue both from Iraq and Syria, especially after the first Iraqi war when a global ban on oil shipments from Iraq was imposed.This gave rise to an important sector, with locals on all sides of the borders profiting considerably from the black market using hundreds of tankers and hidden pipelines.After ISIL recently secured authority over oil reserves in Iraq and Syria, concerns rose that it had generated millions of dollars of revenue from


the document. A tip-off was received via the fraud hotline that Mettler was drawing a double salary from the City and Stellenbosch municipality with the knowledge of Van Deventer, according to the document.

Mettler left the city at the end of December 2016, with the effective date of termination of service being January, 31 2017, said City of Cape Town municipal manager Achmat Ebrahim.

“The City was unaware that she had taken up a position with full payment at the Stellenbosch Municipality with effect from January 1. However, as soon as the City was alerted by the pension fund of the potential double payment, it commenced with a process of recovering any overpaid amounts,” he said.

The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has called for Mettler’s head, saying the municipalityDIRECT ‘DEPARTURE’ FOR GOOD UNIVERSE PRODUCED BY JIM WHITAKER

Los Angeles (May 15, 2013) – Good Universe announced today that Billy Ray (The Hunger Games, Breach, Shattered Glass, and the upcoming Captain Phillips) will direct DEPARTURE for the studio, from an original script he wrote. Jim Whitaker (The Odd Life of Timothy Green, American Gangster) will produce the sci-fi/romance. Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Spencer Wong will oversee the project on behalf of Good Universe. Elizabeth Ingold will oversee for Whitaker Entertainment. Good Universe has the project on the fast-track and will begin casting right away.

Based on the true story of a never-explained avionic phenomenon, DEPARTURE follows a brilliant Miami-based FAA investigator who is obsessed with learning how a 727 suddenly vanished into thin air and


of the temple’s main lawn is the world peace pagoda, a replica of a pagoda found at the Bulguska Temple in South Korea. The pagoda’s three levels represent the three basic forms of all existence: the world of form, formlessness, and the world beyond. It also represents the three foundations of Buddhism: Buddha, the law, and the brotherhood of the monks.

Megan Shute

At the base of the pagoda rests a small urn, where “sari,” or calcified remains of the Buddha are held. Revered as genuine relics of the historic Buddha, the sari was gifted to Mu Ryang Sa by a temple in Sri Lanka.

Megan Shute

Tucked away into a quiet corner between the main hall and memorial hall is the Garden of Ji Jang Bosal. where more than a thousandexpenses, but denied the claim for penalties and attorney's fees.
The plaintiff testified that shortly after the accident he was taken by the employer to the emergency room of Lafayette General Hospital where he was x-rayed and released for treatment by Dr. Michael Heard, who is an orthopedic surgeon in Lafayette. This physician prescribed medicine and physical therapy for about two months and then recommended a CAT scan or a myelogram. Why he did not continue with Doctor Heard for further evaluation and treatment does not appear in the record, but plaintiff then went to see Dr. John Tassin, who seemed to have been his regular doctor in Ville Platte. Doctor Tassin referred him to Dr. Steven Snatic, another orthopedic surgeon in Lafayette. A CAT scan of the plaintiff's


back and neck was normal, and Doctor Snatic advised the plaintiff to take physical therapy for two more weeks and return to his office as he thought he could then recommend his return to work on light duty. Instead, the plaintiff traveled to Dickinson, Texas, to see Dr. Charles A. Borne, Jr., a neurosurgeon who had performed a back surgery on him in Lake Charles in 1977. Doctor Borne obtained a myelogram on December 4, 1984, which he said showed significant nerve root impingement at L3-4 for which he operated on April 18, 1985. Doctor Borne believed the plaintiff's disability is total at the present time and may be permanent.
The plaintiff was not represented by counsel prior to the operation and dealt with an adjuster, Harvey Hemphill, whowas handling the case for the defendant. Hemphill was not informed that the plaintiff was going to see Doctor Borne until after the myelogram was performed and then he and the plaintiff discussed the recommended surgery. Hemphill told him the defendant was not legally responsible for nor would it pay for treatment outside of Louisiana. The plaintiff also testified that Hemphill told him the company would not pay any more medical bills for treatment in Louisiana. However, he admitted on cross-examination that Hemphill said he could go back and see Doctor Snatic and have another myelogram, but he did not do this because of the pain he experienced from the last one.
The plaintiff admitted he knew there were other doctors in Louisiana who could perform the recommended operation.


In fact, Dr. John Jackson of Metairie had operated on his back, apparently with success, after the 1977 operation by Doctor Borne because the plaintiff continued to have trouble with his back some time after the surgery. In spite of this, plaintiff said one of his reasons for having the operation in Texas was that he was satisfied with Doctor Borne's prior surgery. Another reason was that in May, 1984, he injured his back while employed by the State of Louisiana at Chicot Park and his medical expenses for treatment by Doctor Borne were paid by the State. He therefore thought that the employer had to pay out-of-state medical expenses in spite of Hemphill having told him to the contrary before the April 18, 1985 surgery.
In a ratherthis state, one of which seems to have performed successful corrective surgery on his back after Doctor Borne's operation in 1977. He also admitted that Hemphill told him he could obtain further evaluation and treatment by Doctor Snatic, to whom he was referred by his own physician. So his contention that the defendant refused to pay for any further medical bills is to say the least questionable, as is his contention that he was ignorant of the law quoted above.
Aside from the fact that Hemphill told plaintiff about the law before the April 18, 1985 operation, ignorance of the law is no excuse for noncompliance. La.C.C. Art. 7. Likewise, his justification for the Texas surgery, i.e., that he was unable to obtain an appointment for four or five


vector velocity field , the Navier–Stokes equations are

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These differential equations are the analogues for deformable materials to Newton's equations of motion for particles – the Navier–Stokes equations describe changes in momentum (force) in response to pressure  and viscosity, parameterized by the kinematic viscosity  here. Occasionally, body forces, such as the gravitational force or Lorentz force are added to the equations.

Solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations for a given physical problem must be sought with the help of calculus. In practical terms, only the simplest cases can be solved exactly in this way. These cases generally involve non-turbulent, steady flow in which the Reynolds number is small. For more complex cases, especially those involving turbulence, such as global weather systems, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and many more, solutions ofsomething that fails to obey a particular property—for example, most fluids with long molecular chains can react in a non-Newtonian manner.

Equations for a Newtonian fluid

The constant of proportionality between the viscous stress tensor and the velocity gradient is known as the viscosity. A simple equation to describe incompressible Newtonian fluid behavior is

where
 is the shear stress exerted by the fluid ("drag")
 is the fluid viscosity—a constant of proportionality
 is the velocity gradient perpendicular to the direction of shear.

For a Newtonian fluid, the viscosity, by definition, depends only on temperature and pressure, not on the forces acting upon it. If the fluid is incompressible the equation governing the viscous stress (in Cartesian coordinates) is

where
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You may approve or disapprove of prostitution as much as you want, but the fact is that ever since the earliest human cultures started to develop, prostitution developed too. As temples, marketplaces, and local customs evolved and thrived in the days of ancient Mesopotamia, so did prostitution. Hence it is sometimes referred to as the world’s oldest profession.

When Sumerian culture established itself in the territory of Mesopotamia, one of the most prominent cults was that of the goddess Inanna, who was known later as Ishtar in other regional cultures. Her figure unquestionably inspired a universal admiration across the entire Middle East. Among other things, she emerged as the patron of prostitutes and public houses, and part of her worship likely included temple prostitution as well.

Many centuries after theheyday of ancient Mesopotamia, prostitution also became part of the society of Ancient Greece, where the word “pornai” meant prostitute; reportedly, it is from this Greek word that we derived the word pornography in the English language.

Prostitution in Ancient Greek society was reasonably accepted, and Athens emerged as one of its foreknown centers, where brothels flourished and attracted not only locals but also foreign travelers, merchants, and sailors who came to the city for business. Beginning from the Archaic period of Athens in between the 8th and the 5th centuries B.C., prostitution lingered well into the Classical era.

Like any other occupation, it was required by law that everyone in the business paid taxes on their income, which could mean the status of this profession was perhaps more advanced


than it is nowadays in many countries worldwide. Quite often, prostitutes first came in as slaves, or they were foreign women with limited rights but were allowed to make earnings by offering sex services.

Slave women who ended up in the business were frequently able to make enough money so they could buy their freedom. Many also opted to continue with the occupation, as they retained more independence and were not controlled by men, as was the case with married Athenian women.

The pornai had the option to work in brothels, but they were able to offer their services on the streets too. Some records even tell of genuine “advertising” some of the women used. They would put on special sandals that left imprints of the message “follow me” onthe ground, in the dirt, as they lured new clients to certain areas of the city.

There were also the higher class prostitutes, called “hetairai,” which translates to “female companion,” and the difference was that the hetairai were well educated with talents in arts. Mostly they were the courtesans of the upper classes. Men prostituted as well, and they were called pornoi. Despite offering their services to women, more often than not, they served other men too, usually of older age.

As prostitution never ceased being a lucrative business both for brothel owners and independent workers, particularly in the case of ancient Athens, this gave a sense of infamy to the city. However, it always gave reasons for travelers to stop at the docks and spend several days there. It


meant more cash flow for Athens, which helped the city strengthen its position of influence and power on the shores of the Mediterranean.

It was far from the case that only foreigners were allowed to spend time with prostitutes; married men also went after them, with expectations that their wives would pretend nothing happened. Evidence suggests at least one case where a woman from Athens filed for a divorce from her husband due to his involvement with a prostitute, but her efforts were unsuccessful.

For younger men, it was even more common to visit the infamous zones of the city. Back in those days, Athenian men would rarely step into marriage before the age of 30, by which time many gained sexual experience in the company of prostitutes. More accountstell that some prostitutes became concubines to younger men, or even their wives. There was one downside in such scenario, though. If a child came out from this type of relationship, it was not counted a citizen.

(Courtesan and her client, Attican Pelike with red figures by Polygnotus, c. 430 BCE, National Archaeological Museum of Athens)

Children were in fact one of the biggest downsides of the profession. If women in the business fell pregnant, they were left with two options: to either raise the infant alone or to opt for infanticide, which unfortunately was a common practice.

Perhaps the brighter side of the profession was the independence it allowed, also the certainty of some power, as money always came in. Some women reportedly ran brothels on their own. They were


employee protection.  It is not incumbent upon us to consider whether the Commission abused discretion which it was never pressed to invoke.48

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The Brotherhood characterizes as unlawful several consequences of the merger of L & N's South Hammond Yard operations with operations at Yard Center.  L & N employees at South Hammond Yard were transferred to MoPac's employ at Yard Center.  L & N's seniority rosters for the transferred employees were integrated into the seniority rosters for MoPac employees there.  Collective bargaining agreements secured by the transferred employees at South Hammond Yard, as well as protective conditions derived from a prior merger with another railroad, the Brotherhood claims, were abrogated along the way.  The Brotherhood chargesThis is what you call a real shot in the dark. Don got made only because its principal cast Amitabh Bachchan, Pran and Zeenat Aman wanted to help out producer Nariman Irani with his debts. They took a Salim-Javed script that everyone else in the industry had rejected and turned it into a modest production so that some money could be made out of it. The character of Don is inspired by Shammi Kapoor's role in China Town (1962). Irani lost his life during the three years that it took to can Don. It was Manoj Kumar's idea to shoot the song Khaike paan Banaraswala to add some zing to the movie. And it is the popularity of the song that made the audiences flock to watch Don.


Everyone knows today Don is considered one of Amitabh Bachchan?s most iconic films, having inspired its own remake franchise with Shah Rukh Khan and Farhan Akhtar. Bachchan won the Filmfare Best Actor Award for his behemoth double role performance.

DID YOU KNOW?

1. The profits from the film were given to Irani's widow to settle her husband's debts.2. Zeenat Aman did not take any fee for her work.of 23 priorities; only 2 appeared on every executive's list and only 7 on the lists of more than three members; indeed 13 of the 23 priorities appeared on only one list. In other cases, the team doesn't agree about how performance should be assessed, who the company's top performers are, or how to motivate the organization to achieve its stated objectives.

Lack of deep understanding. In some cases, the top team agrees on plans, but subsequent actions are inconsistent with its decisions. This problem reflects the tendency of top teams to focus on making decisions without examining the assumptions, the criteria, and the rationales behind them.

Lack of strategic focus. Top teams without a common direction spend more time on business as usual and on "fire fighting" than on


team members. Because the top team's conduct is mimicked lower down in the organization, this kind of behavior can come to pervade it.

An inability to renew

Although many top teams recognize the importance of organizational renewal, few of them institute processes that revitalize effort and commitment. Three problems can make it hard for members of a team to step back and honestly assess their own performance. These problems often have their origin in the team members' experience as middle managers. Most executives have climbed functional silos and are accustomed to defending their organizational turf. It is often difficult for such people to make the leap to broad strategic issues that have a bottom-line impact. Frequently, executives also can't adapt their leadership style to life at the top, where interactionscentralized functional silos with semi-autonomous business units led by a smaller top team. At first, the new organization seemed to be taking shape, but months after its formation the CEO saw that the senior team was struggling to manage the performance of the company's business units, to respond to crises, and to develop a corporate strategy. He feared that the team's lackluster performance would hold back the rest of the organization. A quick survey of managers a level below the top team confirmed his fears: the top team, it appeared, was "running behind," "stuck in old behavior," and "generally not very helpful."

How could the performance of the senior team be improved quickly without reverting to the command-and-control system? The CEO felt that the team was missing important opportunities


to expand the business while focusing on trivial issues. Further, he wondered why only half of the team participated in debate and whether the others had no opinion or were simply afraid to argue their own points of view.

After reviewing the feedback from the leaders of business units, the top team began the process of improvement by acknowledging that it needed to change its approach, and quickly. As a next step, the members of the team identified their top ten priorities—and discovered a range of conflicting views. The team tried to sort these priorities and to define a common strategy. Meanwhile, a facilitator observed the team at work and later interviewed its members at length. Thus, their poor interaction was added to the range of issues under consideration.

Theteam committed itself to monthly one-day sessions focusing on major strategic issues, and the facilitator tracked its progress on interaction. These sessions addressed a series of topics—talent, strategy, performance, growth—that stretched the team's thinking and opened new opportunities for the company. Between sessions, subgroups of two or three members worked on issues for the full team to debate and resolve.

Over a three-month period, there was an improvement in all three dimensions of team performance:

1. A common direction
The team members were much more explicit about their individual and collective roles, including responsibilities and behavior. They also reached consensus on a number of business fundamentals: strategy, performance, people, and organization. As a result, the top team now plays a much more active role in leading the corporate strategy.

2. More effective