GOLIATH

“Goliath! Goliath!” Goliath sighed, stretched his over-large, muscled limbs, then rocked into a sitting position from where he’d been lying.
There were benefits to being the largest man in the Philistine army. A foot and a half taller than the closest, he was something of a celebrity. He got his own tent where the other men had to share. He didn’t have to muster with the rank and file, and stare down other armies as they were doing right now. Women were eager to be with him, men wanted to befriend him. But as he ducked out of his tent and blinked in the morning sun to look for the person who had been hailing him, he also thought about the down side to being a military celebrity.
Every timethe Philistine army faced another, the call would go out to have a champion come forth and face Goliath in single battle. The big man despised his role. He had no taste for war, would rather have been at home on his parents farm. Being as big and agile as he was, however, meant that hadn’t been an option. He’d been recruited at a young age, already a head taller than all of his contemporaries, and pushed into the role of champion.
His dreams were full of the memories of men, warriors who had fought him and perished. Some would run, and he would hack them down, in full view of both armies. Others would fight, terrified or mad or convinced of their own immortality. They all fell to


Simon Berry is piggybacking on Coca-Cola's distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most.

You can buy a Coke pretty much anywhere on Earth. Thanks to a vast network of local suppliers, Coca-Cola has almost completely solved distribution, getting its product into every nook and cranny where commerce reaches. There are places in the world where it's easier to get a Coke than clean water. In the 1980s, Berry was an aid worker in Zambia, and when he looked at Coke's success, he saw an opportunity.

"Child mortality was very high and the second-biggest killer was diarrhea, which is simple to prevent," he says. The standard treatment is oral rehydration solution, or ORS, which is essentially salt, sugar and water. "I had the idea offull strength of choir and congregation. That
is the word by which the apostle denotes the
absolute nature of the Deity as compared with
created matter. " In Him all things are
Amen." That is the title with which the seer
of the apocalypse invokes the advent of his
Divine Master at the conclusion of the vision :
"Amen, Veni Domine Jesu." That is the
title which the Master assumed to Himself,
"Amen, I say to you." And that is the title
by which the Egyptian priests of old addressed
the secret Deity—Amen, that is to say, in
Egyptian, " The Hidden One."

That the existence of the one God was widely
known by some classes of men at least among
the nations of antiquity there can be little
doubt. Among the Chinese, according to the
ttiost eminent authority, Dr. Legge, the word Ti
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(1942), established an on-going conspiracy between appellant, one Josalito Garcia and others to violate the narcotics laws.  It also established that appellant aided and abetted the distribution of approximately one ounce of cocaine by Garcia to a government agent on May 20, 1976.

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Briefly summarized, the government's evidence of conspiracy and distribution consisted of the testimony of government agents who participated in discussions with appellant and others, including Hugo Saito, a government informant who acted as interpreter1 for appellant during these discussions and the corroborative testimony of other surveilling agents.  The cocaine that was actually distributed to government Agent Schnakenberg by Garcia was introduced in evidence.  Largely at appellant's instigation and on his repeated assurances, Agent Schnakenberg had no less than nine meetings with appellant leadingthe United States Attorney's office on August 17, 1977 that probable cause existed to make an arrest, government agents proceeded to appellant's apartment on August 18.  One agent knocked on the door and identified himself either as a mailman or superintendent.  When appellant opened the door, he was placed under arrest.  Appellant was taken into the apartment and placed on a bed with (and handcuffed to) Sansone, who was also arrested.  The agents looked in all of the rooms.  In the room where appellant was detained they observed and seized a wallet laying open upon a table alongside some small change and a billfold containing approximately $3,200 in $100 bills laying on a bureau.  An agent was permitted to testify at trial


not affect the jury's verdict and was harmless beyond reasonable doubt.

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Affirmed.

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 Of the U. S. Court of Appeals (8th Cir.), sitting by designation

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 Of the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation

1
 Appellant spoke only French at the meetings.  Hugo did not testify at the trial

2
 On May 14, 1976, Agent Schnakenberg first met with appellant and Hugo.  Schnakenberg accepted appellant's price of $40,000 per kilogram for five kilograms.  A second meeting later that night included Agent Finnerty, who spoke French.  Appellant agreed to supply a sample on May 17, 1976.  They met again on May 17; when appellant said he had been unable to obtain a sample, another meeting was held the same day.  Appellant gave more assurances, but nota sample.  Appellant met again with the agents the next evening, but appellant said he had been unable to locate Garcia, who would deliver the cocaine.  Following an ultimatum by Schnakenberg, appellant met again two more times that night.  Garcia finally arrived but was recalcitrant.  Appellant spoke to Garcia separately and then reassured the agents.  Two more meetings on May 20 produced the sample.  On the night of the sale, appellant and Agents Schnakenberg and Finnerty sat in a tavern waiting for Garcia's arrival.  At about 8:00 p. m., appellant received a telephone call after which he informed the agents that the sale would occur a half hour later than had been expected.  The agents agreed and at 8:30 p.


flooding were worse due to climate change”, he added.

Flash flooding

Allied to this, climate change was increasing the risks of flash flooding in the summers months, as had occurred in Donegal recently, Dr Stott noted.

The latest research on human-induced climate change confirmed its impact on heatwaves, which had become more extreme, as evidenced by “Heatwave Lucifer” in Europe this summer which saw temperatures reaching the mid-40s around the Mediterranean and resulted in a 15 per cent increase in admissions to hospitals in Italy.

There was, nonetheless, a “wealth of scientific evidence showing that limiting the rise in global average surface temperature will help avoid some of the most dangerous impacts of climate change – including limiting flooding from sea level rise”, he added.

Paul Bradley in the hall of his floodedgovernment the status-quo the world over, with the likely impact of reducing migratory pressures on Germany itself by shifting human traffic to other nations.

The implications of the compact were realised after the text of the agreement had been reached in 2017, with President Donald Trump leading the United States out of the UN plan for migration. Emboldened by that action, several other states including Australia, Israel, Austria, and Hungary also withdrew.

Merkel: EU States Must Prepare to Hand National Sovereignty over to Brussels https://t.co/ZaeSQ2jYqz — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 23, 2018

The timing of Merkel’s remarks are significant. New Year’s Eve celebrations became perhaps indelibly associated with the migrant crisis Dr Merkel unleashed upon Europe in 2015, when mass sexual assaults took place in a number of German cities, most


1960s, as fertility remained stubbornly high even while infant mortality and death rates fell rapidly.

How do you increase your spiritual wellness?

Food is always a little short, and someone is always striking. It is not easy to find common groundbetween governments, entrepreneurs, the middle class and the poorwhen peoples priorities and incentives are set so wide apart. But in the last two decades, this depressing vision of Indias population as an overwhelming burden has been turned on its head. Like me, he remains an optimist, a sober optimist, but an optimist about his countrys future.

11 The Sprinter (light rail) provided service to a new station on the northeast corner of the campus in economic planning environmental conservation essay 2008. 28 In 2011, around 53 percent of students were inthe College of Arts and Sciences, 20 percent in the College of Business Administration, 6 percent in the College of Education, 6 percent in the School of Nursing, and 5 percent undeclared. Most parents could only afford to send their children to state schools that had weak standards and taught only in the regional languages. For information on international transfer, contact the international student center at the institution you plan to attend. The first class in had 448 students (only upper class students were initially admitted). And Bangalore has Nandanas in Nilekani. There was little in common in ideas across this divide, and Indias reformers stood at one bank and stared across, appalled at what they saw. Her son Rajiv Gandhi, who came to power to help Mummy


agreements entered into thereunder, a contractual right arising out of the act could not be termed property for purposes of the fifth amendment. Id. at 55, 106 S.Ct. at 2398.
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Steve Hickey is a member of the South Dakota State House and a religious leader and the sort of person who will send letters to newspaper editors calling for doctors to declare that being gay is dangerous, with a "list of side effects would read far longer than anything we hear on a Cialis commercial." The letter was titled, "A One Way Alley for the Garbage Truck."

Get it? Hickey, who is a pastor at the Church at the Gate in Sioux Falls, is drawing an analogy between that alley and anal sex. He fleshes the idea out a bit more in the letter. "Pardon a crude comparison but regarding men with men, we are talking about a one-way alley


south and may try to ambush you near Grenoble in a few days time.

Never checked stock but in my updated 1918 scenario they certainly are in France on the first turn, January 1918. Second Army is in Paris and First Army with AEF HQ under Pershing are behind the lines in north-eastern France and the valley of the Meuse.

When last I found myself in that part of France walking parts of the Verdun battlefield we ate an excellent lunch of a sausage baguette with pomme frites and a small beer from a "chip-truck" in the parking lot of the big US monument at the Montefaucon.

From there it was off to find Rossignol in an attempt to locate the 1914 battlefield but all we found was the village monumentdu morte in remarkably bad condition.

Well tonight I'm in St Hippolyte in the Jura but I went via Arracourt which some of you may know from the small scenario in The Operational Art of War. There I found another Sherman tank by the road and a description of the battle which was about the biggest tank battle for the US before the Bulge. However, it was also the place where the US suffered its first three casualties of WW1 and there is a memorial to that too.

This whole area is full of history for wargamers be they interested in Marlborough, Napoleon, Franco Prussian, WW1, WW2. I daresay history went on before that too.


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Busy spring, summer seasons ahead for Fremont County area

Plenty of events, activities planned for community

By CARIE CANTERBURY canterburyc@ cañoncitydailyrecord.com

Posted:
03/15/2013 08:58:39 PM MDT

It's time to get out the calendars and save some dates.

There won't be a dull moment in Cañon City or Fremont County this spring and summer. Event planners and organizers from across the community have been busy scheduling events from the annual Blossom festivities to the new and upcoming Ride the Rockies event.

Now is a good time to begin planning vacations around upcoming events so families won't miss out on summer fun, and it also is the perfect time to start inviting family and friends to see what Fremont County has to offer.

One of the bigger events this summer is June 14 when Ride the Rockiesmakes a stop in Cañon City.

"It's going to be a great opportunity to showcase our whole community, and we hope we'll have a really good turn out for the pig party at Macon Street Plaza," said Beth Katchmar, who represents the Fremont County Tourism Council, the Cañon City Chamber of Commerce and the Cañon City Merchants Association.

Hundreds of bicyclists are expected to spend the last night of their seven-day, 513-mile trek in Cañon City. The ride begins in Telluride June 8 and wraps up June 15 in Colorado Springs.

"They will ride across the Royal Gorge Bridge and then arrive in town about 11 o'clock that Friday morning," Katchmar said. "Then, they will go the middle school, where they will camp.

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Nonprofit groups are invited to participate by setting up


booths at the Cañon City Middle School or at Macon Plaza to offer goods, services or information about their organizations.

The tour is represented by all 50 states and 18 foreign countries. It is a non-competitive event open to cyclists of all ages and riders who are encouraged to ride at their own pace.

In addition to the cyclists, organizers, family members and others accompany the group on their journey, bringing in hundreds of people to Fremont County for the weekend.

On the evening of June 14, Macon Plaza will offer live music, a beer tent, vendors, food and more.

"The biggest thing is to get these people to come back," Katchmar said. "It could be upwards of 3,500 people coming to town that one day."

The group will make its way outof town June 15 with a stop in Florence before making their way to the finish line in Colorado Springs.

"The Florence merchants are going to open at 5 o'clock in the morning and so hopefully people will do some shopping over there and they're prepared to ship things," Katchmar said.

For more information on Ride the Rockies and their visit to Cañon City, call 275-2331.

The Bicycle Tour of Colorado also is expected to roll into town June 22 during their loop tour.

"It's a group out of Denver with 500 to 750 people," Katchmar said. "They will stay at Cañon City High School and then go to the Royal Gorge Whitewater Festival for their party."

The group will spend the night in town when they come back through on June 29.


The midnight launch of the Wii U is a perfect time to reflect on the craze, six years ago, surrounding its predecessor, and the industry-transforming success of the Wii. And there really is no finer story you could read about that than what Rob Crossley has written for CVG.

Microsoft and Sony both had their shots at acquiring the motion control technology that would make their consoles second- and-third place to Nintendo. Had either done so, it could have been the end of console making for Nintendo, whose GameCube was in dire straits.

By 2001, the man whose patents would form the workings of the Wii Remote had sat through two humiliating presentations to dismissive Sony and Microsoft executives. So when Nintendo's executives started arguing in Japanese in front ofhim, he thought he would take strike three.

"And then, in the middle of this debate that was getting louder and louder, [Nintendo chairman Atsushi] Asada barked something and there was total silence," said the inventor, Tom Quinn, in his first interview on the Wii. Asada decided unilaterally to buy Quinn's technology and a stake in his business.

Crossley weaves together an outstanding narrative, laying out all the forces and personalities in play, and everything at stake as Nintendo mounted its unlikely comeback on the Wii. In addition to getting Quinn, Crossley also gets valuable insight on Nintendo's internal deliberations from George Harrison, the former head of corporate communications for Nintendo of America. The story portrays an old, proud company determined to regain its No. 1 status, yet cunning enough


Tai Yuen (constituency)

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The constituency returns one district councillor to the Tai Po District Council, with an election every four years.

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Her footsteps crunched against thE dry leaves of autumn. She thoughr here was as good a place as ever to practice. She needed control. And what better place to learn to control the forces within her than where most of that force was born. Her firey hair shone in the fading light of sunset and she began her routine

Quintus bounded along after roku, he had joined the other bears in excited honey hunting. Until the ursaram saw Ember and pranced over to the fire mage, tackling her to the ground.

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Patients queue at a hospital in China. More than 300,000 people require organ transplant operations every year.

Secret transplants

According to the report, thousands of people are being executed in China in secret and their organs harvested for use in transplant operations.

So who is being killed? The authors say mainly imprisoned religious and ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, underground Christians, and practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.

While much of China's organ transplant system is kept secret, official figures show that 2,766 volunteers donated organs in 2015, with 7,785 large organs acquired.

Official figures put the number of transplant operations at around 10,000 a year, which the report disputes.

The authors point to publicly available statements and records released by hospitals across China claiming they carried out thousands ofhas been trafficking in organs for profit for far too long and we have strong evidence that Falun Gong practitioners were singled out for organ harvesting," said Representative Chris Smith, who co-chairs the committee.

In a statement released online , Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, former chair of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the Chinese government's "ghoulish and inhumane practice of robbing individuals of their freedom, throwing them in labor camps or prisons, and then executing them and harvesting their organs for transplants is beyond the pale of comprehension and must be opposed universally and ended unconditionally."

'Good intentions'

For decades, Chinese officials strenuously denied that they harvested organs from prisoners, calling claims to the contrary "vicious slander."

Finally in 2005, officials admitted that the practice took place and promised to reform


it.

Five years later however, Huang Jiefu, director of the China Organ Donation Committee, told medical journal The Lancet that more than 90% of transplant organs still came from executed prisoners.

China carries out more executions annually than the rest of the world put together , at least 2,400 in 2014, according to Death Penalty Worldwide. Official Chinese figures are not reported.

In late 2014, China announced that it would switch to a completely voluntary donation-based system.

This pronouncement was greeted with great skepticism however, given that between 2012 and 2013, only around 1,400 people signed up to donate (compared to the more than 300,000 in need of organ transplants every year).

Since then, the government has seen limited success in getting people to sign up to the national register.

One 86-year-old woman, surnamedhas no force of law," the medical journal BMJ said

The phasing out of executed prisoners' organs is a "semantic trick," Professor Li Huige of Johannes Gutenberg University said in a recent report commissioned by the European Parliament.

He pointed to statements by Huang to Chinese state media that "death row prisoners are also citizens."

"If (they) are willing to atone for their crime by donating organs, they should be encouraged," Huang told People's Daily

By redefining prisoners as regular citizens, Li says, "China's national organ donation system may be abused for the whitewashing of organs from both death row prisoners and prisoners of conscience."

In an open letter to the Lancet, five doctors wrote that "China is still using death row inmates' organs. The only difference is that these organs are now


Fashion On Show

Designer exhibits turn couture into an experience

Implications - Although the catwalk offers an exciting and engaging experience for fashion consumers, it's such a brief affair that the magic associated with a great runway show is often quickly forgotten. For designers who want to really stick in the consumer mindset, however, an option is to take a cue from historic fashion exhibits and design shows and create a limited-time exhibit of their own. This way, the designer's best works can be showcased in a way that captivates and immerses the consumer in an unparalleled fashion experience.

From December 11, 2011 to May 6, 2012, the Groninger Museum, located in the Netherlands, will be hosting an exhibit titled Alaïa. Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century. This exhibition represents theIsaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Google Apples Are Falling

Sir Isaac Newton surrounded by symbols of some of his greatest findings.

Illustration by Jean-Leon Huens, National Geographic Stock

Kate Ravilious in York, England

for National Geographic News

January 4, 2010

Today on the Google home page, an animated apple is falling, over and over, with a satisfying plunk—a 367th birthday tribute to Sir Isaac Newton.

The English scientist was born especially tiny but grew into a massive intellect and still looms large, thanks to his findings on gravity, light, motion, mathematics, and more.

Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward.

"He showed that the force that makes the apple fall and


that holds us on the ground is the same as the force that keeps the moon and planets in their orbits," said Martin Rees, President of Britain's Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science, which was once headed by Newton himself.

"His theory of gravity wouldn't have got us global positioning satellites," said Jeremy Gray, a mathematical historian at the Milton Keynes, U.K-based Open University. "But it was enough to develop space travel."

Isaac Newton, Underachiever?

Born two to three months prematurely on January 4, 1643, in a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England, Isaac Newton was a tiny baby who, according to his mother, could have fit inside a quart mug. A practical child, he enjoyed constructing models, including a tiny mill that actually ground flour—powered by a mouse runningin a wheel.

Admitted to the University of Cambridge on 1661, Newton at first failed to shine as a student.

In 1665 the school temporarily closed because of a bubonic plague epidemic and Newton returned home to Lincolnshire for two years. It was then that the apple-falling brainstorm occurred, and he described his years on hiatus as "the prime of my age for invention."

Despite his apparent affinity for private study, Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667 and served as a mathematics professor and in other capacities until 1696.

Isaac Newton: More Than Master of Gravity

Decoding gravity was only part of Newton's contribution to mathematics and science. His other major mathematical pre-occupation was calculus, and along with German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, Newton developed differentiation and integration—techniques that remain fundamental to mathematicians and


scientists.

Meanwhile, his interest in optics led him to propose, correctly, that white light is actually the combination of light of all the colors of the rainbow. This, in turn, made plain the cause of chromatic aberration—inaccurate color reproduction—in the telescopes of the day. (Related: "Galileo's Telescope at 400: From Spyglasses to Hubble.")

Following his apple insight, Newton developed the three laws of motion, which are, in his own words:

• Newton's Law of Inertia: Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

• Newton's Law of Acceleration: Force is equal to the change in momentum (mV) per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration [expressed inthe famous equation F = ma].

• Newton's Law of Action and Reaction: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Newton published his findings in 1687 in a book called Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) commonly known as the Principia.

"Newton's Principia made him famous—few people read it, and even fewer understood it, but everyone knew that it was a great work, rather like Einstein's Theory of Relativity over two hundred years later," writes mathematician Robert Wilson of the Open University in an article on a university Web site.

Isaac Newton's "Unattractive Personality"

Despite his wealth of discoveries Isaac Newton wasn't well liked, particularly in old age, when he served as the head of Britain's Royal Mint, served in Parliament, and write on religion, among other


things.

"As a personality, Newton was unattractive—solitary and reclusive when young, vain and vindictive in his later years, when he tyrannized the Royal Society and vigorously sabotaged his rivals," the Royal Society's Rees said.

Sir David Wallace, director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, U.K., added, "He was a complex character, who also pursued alchemy"—the search for a method to turn base metals into gold—"and, as Master of the Mint, showed no clemency towards coiners [counterfeiters] sentenced to death."

In 1727, at 84, Sir Isaac Newton died in his sleep and was buried with pomp and ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.Game designers love to hide things in their virtual worlds. An in-joke, a weird object, a strange play mode – whatever it is, they're usually all discovered within weeks of release. But YouTube gamer Lord Zedd has just found a secret feature in Halo 3 seven years after the launch of the classic sci-fi shooter.

It turns out that if you load the game up on Christmas day (or change your Xbox 360 clock to make your machine think it's Christmas day), then press both Xbox thumbsticks down, the loading screen shows a new view of the eponymous Halo space ring, complete with a scrolling message reading, "Happy Birthday Lauren". The text, it seems, was included by one member of the development team, Adrian Perez, who directed it to


his wife and never expected it to be found.

Bungie, the studio behind the Halo titles, had hinted to fans on at least two occasions that a final hidden treat – or "easter egg" in gaming parlance – remained stashed away in the game after many others were found. Now finally, the seasonal treat is available to all – and 170,000 have already watched the video.

Implanting hidden features, items and messages in games has been around since the very beginning of the industry. Warren Robinett, designer of 1979 title Adventure claims the term was coined by an executive at Atari where the practice was actively encouraged. Memorable examples have included Indiana Jones's remains showing up in Fallout: New Vegas and the bit in Metal Gear Solid 3 where aWelcome to the Body Farm

Beyond the border of an ordinary parking lot lies the most cutting-edge graveyard in the world … and a hands-on lab for cops and forensic anthropologists.

It was Valentine's Day when the gravediggers finished. The crew stood there waiting, their long-sleeved shirts drenched from a mixture of cold rain and sweat. At their feet were the holes—four of them—dug deep into the heavy clay. Nearby, young women and men in rubber gloves and medical gowns prepared to haul the cadavers down the hill.

Picking their way through the barren woodland, they carried 10 bodies to the burial site. Into the first ditch, the widest, they placed six corpses. In the second, they arranged three more. Just one body went into the third grave. The last was


do at the facility is predominantly based on decomposition,” says center director Dawnie Steadman, “but we’re expanding that tremendously.” Now, as the bodies rest in those four anonymous graves, the center is primed to undertake a cutting-edge three-year experiment that may help scientists uncover clandestine burial sites in the world’s most dangerous conflict zones. With the help of laser technology, the reach of the body farm is about to grow exponentially, and the findings will shed light on some of history’s most heinous unsolved crimes.

PLOTTING THE FARM

Back in 1969, the director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation needed some advice. He had a dead cow on his hands and was trying to determine when it had died. At the time, cattle rustling was a local problem. Rustlers killedcows in the field, butchered them on the spot, hung up the meat in refrigerated trucks, and sped off. With thousands of acres to manage, ranchers rarely discovered the carcasses before several weeks had passed. Inevitably, they would call the police. But the cops were powerless—without knowing when the cows had died, there was no way to build a timeline and narrow the suspects.

The investigator figured that if anyone could age a bovine carcass, it was Bill Bass, a 41-year-old forensic anthropology professor at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Bass sometimes lent a hand identifying skeletal remains for the agency and local law enforcement. He could look at a pile of bones and read clues in them: who the person was, what had happened. Bass’s credentials were


help estimate, with incredible accuracy, how long a person had been dead based on atmospheric conditions.

There are also the bugs. One of Bass’s graduate students tracked the insects that feed on corpses. Blowflies are first on the scene, and they’re crucial in helping determine time of death. As soon as the flies land, they begin laying eggs in a body’s damp orifices (eyes, mouth, nose, open wounds), and the life cycle of the insects marks the hours since death occurred. The method proved highly accurate when atmospheric conditions were taken into account, and it put entomology at the forefront of forensic science.

As the anthropology program expanded to offer a Ph.D. degree, Bass started running field courses for cops and FBI agents. He became a star member of investigativearms you with enough knowledge and enough resources to recognize and know what you may have,” he says. “I consider Dr. Bass a national treasure.”

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With hundreds of people signing up every year to donate their remains to the body farm, the center continues to grow. And recently, it acquired a new piece of land that promises to take forensic research to a whole new level. In 2007, a Vancouver-based forensic anthropologist named Amy Mundorff was rock climbing in Squamish, British Columbia. Mundorff, who carries a Prada key chain emblazoned with a skull and crossbones, was a veteran of the New York medical examiner’s office. She’d been injured as a first responder at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and then spent years identifying the remains of victims


before relocating to the West Coast. With her on the cliffs was an old friend, Michael Medler, a geographer at Western Washington University.

As the two scientists scaled the face of granite masiffs, they chatted about their research. Mundorff wanted to use her experience in New York to tackle global human rights issues, but she knew about the field’s frustrations. While attempting to recover a victim of the 1995 genocide in Bosnia, one of her colleagues had followed a tip and dug around the suspected grave site, only to come up empty-handed. All the known graves in Bosnia had been excavated, Mundorff told Medler, yet more than 7000 people were still missing. Where could they be? Without better technology, the mystery might never be solved. Forensic scientists working withwere unsuccessful.

Finally, in 2009, Mundorff took a job as a professor at the University of Tennessee’s anthropology department and moved to Knoxville. Now she had the resources, the land, and the support of an internationally renowned institution. She called Medler and told him that they were going to test their theory. Medler was thrilled; he would consult from afar.

As soon as Mundorff arrived in Tennessee, she began doing the spadework for the lidar project while also working on a study examining the DNA in skeletal remains. Six months in, she got an email from a prospective graduate student named Katie Corcoran who had been using lidar on archaeological sites; Corcoran wanted to apply the same technology to finding mass grave sites. “I was blown away because she literally


resident killer whales, which are usually found off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, are an endangered species. If you're lucky, though, you might be able to hear a pod of the killer whales chattering away from the comfort of your own home. A website spotted by The Kansas City Star lets you live stream the calls of killer whales from your phone or laptop. Dubbed Orcasound, it uses hydrophones (underwater microphones) to pick up oceanic sounds from two areas off the coast of Washington.

On the website, listeners can choose between the two locations. One is the Orcasound Lab in Haro Strait, which is situated off the coast of Washington's San Juan Islands—the "summertime habitat" of this specific ecotype of whale, according to the website. TheProject finds ‘Love’ in gay couples across South

It all started with a simple request from a couple looking for a photographer.

Photographers Shalem Mathew and Mitch Kitter were approached by a lesbian couple who rejected by other local photographers because they are gay. Their problems inspired Shalem and Mitch to create a series documenting same-sex couples from their native Alaska. The result was a year-long process of shooting a diverse range of couples from across the state, and a gallery for the culmination of their work, the Love is Love Project, in 2012.

Now, Mathew and Kitter are broadening the scope of Love is Love. Earlier this year, they launched a Kickstarter campaign for $25,000 to help fund their travel to more states to photograph LGBT couples for an upcoming


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Twin Peaks is one of the most influential and innovative programmes in television history - writer and broadcaster Danny Leigh goes for a walk in the woods to explain why.

Before The Killing, True Detective and The X Files, there was Twin Peaks. The programme made its debut in America in the spring of 1990. By the time it arrived in the UK six months later, millions of people in Britain too were asking 'Who killed Laura Palmer?

At first glance Twin Peaks simply looked to be a quirky murder mystery. But it soon revealed itself to be much, much more. Its


creators David Lynch and Mark Frost brought the experimental edge of art house cinema into the living room, and though the series ran for only 15 months, its 30 episodes changed the television landscape and popular culture forever.

It's been 25 years since we first entered the 'cherry pie' logging town and met Agent Dale Cooper, the Log Lady, and the terrifying Bob. To mark the anniversary Danny will have 'water-cooler moments' with Lynch-inspired director Richard Ayoade and crime writer Denise Mina. We'll pay homage to the soundtrack that influenced musicians from the 90s to today with DJ Rob da Bank. Andy Burns, author of Twin Peaks history Wrapped in Plastic, explains how the programme still ripples through popular culture today. And Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, senior lecturer in media(CNN) - David O'Brien couldn't help himself. After the September 11 terrorist attacks, he became obsessed.

O'Brien read the stories of 9/11 victims over and over, stunned by what he was discovering.

He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke-choked stairwells of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, "I love you."

"I was obsessed with these stories," says O'Brien, a Catholic historian at the University of Dayton in Ohio. "There were so many stories of self-sacrifice, not just by the first responders, but by people fleeing the building. There was this revelation of goodness."

O'Brien saw an Easter message


we're number one. The term "American" even reflects a certain arrogance. It casually discounts millions of people living in Central and Latin America.

The 9/11 attacks, though, forced many Americans to confront their limitations, says Rev. Thomas Long, a nationally known pastor who has been active in post 9/11 interfaith efforts.

"We're losing the power of the American empire and becoming more a nation among nations," says Long, a religion professor at Emory University in Atlanta. "The world is a much more dangerous and fragile place economically."

How Americans cope with their loss of power is ultimately a theological question, Long says. It's the same question the ancient Hebrews confronted in the Old and New Testaments when they faced national calamities.

The chosen people had to learn how to be humble people,a religion," says Charles Kammer, a religion professor at the College of Wooster in Ohio.

Kammer says Graham and Robertson helped fuel the rise of "Christo-Americanism," a distorted form of Christianity that blends nationalism, conservative paranoia and Christian rhetoric.

"A segment of the religious community in the United States has been at the forefront of an anti-Islamic crusade that has helped to generate a climate of hatred and distrust toward all Muslims," says Kammer.

Other strains of Christo-Americanism have swept through America before.

After 9/11, some political leaders said terrorists hated the U.S. because of "our freedoms." But America's record on granting those freedoms to its citizens is mixed, says Lynn Neal, co-editor of the book, "Religious Intolerance in America."

In the 19th century, the U.S government passed numerous laws preventing Native American


leaders, just like previous generations said they wanted to be human rights activists or environmentalists," says Eboo Patel, who founded the Interfaith Youth Core in 2002.

Patel says at least 250 colleges have signed up for the White House interfaith program, which he helped design. The program encourages students of different faiths to work together on service projects.

"These young leaders will make interfaith cooperation a social norm in America, similar to multiculturalism and volunteerism," Patel says.

These new leaders include people like Sarrah Shahawy, a Muslim-American medical student at Harvard University and the daughter of Egyptian immigrants.

After 9/11, Shahawy says she felt the responsibility to educate people about Islam. She became an interfaith leader at the University of Southern California, where she noticed a steady increase in student participation in9/11. They got loud.

Atheist leaders such as Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," and Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," wrote best-selling books. Atheist groups launched national media campaigns with bold billboard messages such as "Christmas is a myth."

The pugnacious journalist Christopher Hitchens became the public face of a more combative form of atheism as he went on talk shows and lectures to defend not believing in God.

Criticism of all religion, not just fanatical cults, was no longer taboo after 9/11, says Daniel Dennett, a philosophy professor with Tufts University in Massachusetts.

"Atheist-bashing is now, like gay-bashing, no longer an activity that can be indulged in with impunity by politicians or commentators," Dennett says.

Atheists were driven to become more vocal because of the 9/11 attacks and


America's reaction, says David Silverman, president of American Atheists. He says many atheists were disgusted when President George W. Bush and leaders in the religious right reacted to the attack by invoking "God is on our side" rhetoric while launching a "war on terror."

They adopted one form of religious extremism while condemning another, he says.

"It really showed atheists why religion should not be in power. Religion is dangerous, even our own religion," Silverman says.

Atheists are still the most disparaged group in America, but there's less stigma attached to being one, he says.

"The more noise that we make, the easier it us to accept us," Silverman says. "Most people know atheists now. They knew them before, but didn't know they were atheists."

Many Americans knew the people who perished on9/11 as well, but they didn't know they were heroes until later, says David O'Brien, the Catholic historian who compulsively read the 9/11 obituaries.

O'Brien was so moved by the stories he read that he decided to write an essay for America magazine, a national Catholic weekly, entitled, "9/11 Then and Now."

He wrote: On 9/11, "Our people, my people, were tested and, for a shining moment ... they were found worthy."

He said many 9/11 victims didn't panic as their end drew near. They "thought not of themselves, but others ... when the chips were down." They saw themselves not as individuals, but as members of a "single human family."

So should we, he says, as we face new challenges 10 years later. The 9/11 victims aren't just heroes; they're our


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All my adult life I have had to live with others, and after threeMILTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia farmer says his beloved miniature donkey named Sammy was literally scared to death by this year’s Fourth of July fireworks. Now he and an animal rights group want Georgia to ban rockets that go boom.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wrote to Gov. Brian Kemp, House Speaker David Ralston and others Wednesday asking for a “Sammy’s law” limiting fireworks to the non-explosive, non-aerial varieties.

John Bogino tells WGCL-TV that Sammy and his other farm animals are like pets to him. His pet donkey of 22 years died last month, and he says Sammy wasn’t his first animal to die because of fireworks. He says one of his horses fled explosions in late July several years ago and had to be euthanized due


the transition off fossil fuels for the rest of the world.

The resolution also references the fact that the U.S. — because of its vast resources and contribution to the problem — has a role to play in speeding along the transition off fossil fuels for the rest of the world. Indeed, President Donald Trump bragged in his State of the Union address this week that the United States has become a net-exporter of oil and gas. Fossil fuel companies are continuing to explore for new reserves — mostly for export — in places like the Permian and Appalachian basins, which could have a catastrophic climate impact. Companies being able to exploit those reserves hinges on their ability to build new infrastructure like Liquid National Gas terminals that allow"The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras had 150 floats last night, not one float protested about the killing of gays by Islamic State, which I thought was rather more serious than Catholic church problems," he said.

Gay men and women have been targeted by ISIS in its attacks against civilians over the last year, with reports that they have been thrown from buildings in public executions.

Former Labor politician Gary Johns was a panelist on the show and labelled Australian LGBT groups "self indulgent".

"It's all about them and their job prospects. So there's no solidarity with gays and women around the world and essentially, they're anti-Western," said Mr Johns.

Bolt also admonished Australia's art community for not speaking out against ISIS destruction of historical artifacts.

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28 U.S.C. § 1332.

BACKGROUND
This action arises out of a fire which occurred at 528 Buckeye Street in Toledo, Ohio on November 14, 1998. Residents of the home included Mrs. Ladean Knotts, age 60[1], as well as her son Martin and his wife who lived in the upstairs portion of *1033 the home. A second son, Melvin, lived nearby with his children, Michael, age 3, and Harley, age 1. Ladean's daughter, Lisa Amerson, also lived nearby with her children Milisa Knotts, age 14, Samuel Amerson, age 5, Nathaniel Amerson, age 3, and Chelsea Amerson, age 14 months. Mr. Larry Pringle, Ladean's significant other, was presently living with Lisa Amerson during renovations[2] to the 528 Buckeye Street address. During a regular day, Lisa and Melvin brought their children to Mrs.Knotts' home while they worked and Milisa Amerson[3] babysat.
The front of the Buckeye Street residence faced south and the house had a front porch with a front entrance. On entering the home, there was a small alcove. To the left of the alcove there was a stairway leading to the second story where Mrs. Knotts' son Martin lived. To the right of the alcove was a doorway leading to the living room which was functioning as Mrs. Knotts' bedroom. Behind or to the north of the living room/bedroom was a dining room which was under renovation. Melvin Knotts and Mr. Pringle had installed new wiring, breaker boxes and outlets several weeks before the fire. According to Melvin Knotts, the local utility company had approved and inspected all new


wiring for the renovation before the power was activated. At the time of the fire, drywall had been installed on the north and east walls of the dining room and there was drywall leaning in the northeast corner of the dining room while plywood was leaning against the east wall.
On the south wall of the dining room, a space heater was plugged into an electrical outlet. That space heater was hooked up to a gas tank located in the basement. On the day of the fire, Melvin Knotts observed that the space heater in the kitchen was not turned on, but Milisa Amerson testified that the heater was on. A second space heater was located near the north wall of the living room/bedroom and, according to Martin Knotts,it was activated.
Just shortly before the fire, Melvin Knotts purchased two Black & Decker Versapak battery chargers at a Meijer Store. The battery charger consisted of (1) a transformer which was plugged into an electrical outlet and (2) a charger base capable of charging two batteries at one time. According to Melvin Knotts, the charger base had an opening on the back of its plastic housing which allowed it to be hung from a nail on a wall. At the time of the fire, the battery charger was plugged into the top outlet of a duplex receptacle on the northeast wall of the dining room. The outlet was approximately one foot above the floor. The lower outlet was covered by a childproof plastic cap. The battery charger hung


from a nail approximately five and a half feet above the floor. The transformer and the receptacle into which it was plugged were obscured by the drywall leaning against the wall; however, Melvin Knotts stated that the drywall was not leaning on the power cord of the battery charger.
On the morning of November 14, 1998, Martin Knotts rose before 5:00 a.m. to prepare to go to work. Before leaving the house, he walked through the downstairs living room/bedroom and into the dining room to make coffee. After chatting with his mother, Martin unplugged a utility light which was plugged into an outlet in the dining room located behind the space heater. Mrs. Knotts had complained that the light, which was hanging from the rafters in the dining room,was bothering *1034 her. Martin also testified that he may have unplugged the dining room space heater and turned off its gas valve (located on the floor), but he is unsure.
At approximately 5:30 a.m. Melvin Knotts came by the home to drop off insulation and picked up a set of batteries located in the battery charger. Melvin then placed another set of batteries into the charger. He left the home about thirty minutes later.
Lisa Amerson arrived around 8:15 a.m. with her and Melvin's children. Fourteen year old Milisa Amerson was to babysit Samuel, Nathaniel, Chelsea, Michael and Harley. According to Milisa, the children stayed in the living room of the Knotts home and were not permitted in the dining or any back rooms due to the ongoing renovations.
At


around 10:00 a.m., Milisa's friend, Kristy Williams, arrived with her baby to visit. Shortly thereafter, both girls heard a buzzing noise but could not determine its source or origin. Milisa then fed the children lunch and thereafter, she, Kristy and Kristy's baby went outside to take out the garbage. When Milisa went outside, Nathaniel was napping on the bed with Mrs. Knotts.
Minutes after Milisa was outside, Samuel ran outside to alert Milisa as to the fire. Milisa went into the house and saw a wall on fire. She then attempted to get all of the children out of the home and then went back to rescue her grandmother. During that rescue attempt, one year old Harley wandered back into the house and up the stairs. Milisa was unableto get her grandmother out of the house and two neighbors actually dragged Milisa to safety just prior to firefighters arriving on the scene. Both Harley and Mrs. Knotts died in the fire.
A subsequent investigation was conducted by the Toledo Fire Department. The origin of the fire was determined to have been located at the east wall of the dining room. The investigation initially ruled the cause of fire as undetermined. However, after interviewing family members, including two of the children, a supplemental report found the fire "was accidental and all indications point[ed] to a[sic] electrical battery charger used for charging cordless tools."
Plaintiffs Melvin Knotts and Lisa Amerson as administrators of the decedents' estates initiated this action against Black & Decker asserting wrongful death and product liability claims.


overheat and potentially cause a fire due to a lack of thermal protection in its design. (Pltf's Opp. at p. 9.) The Defendant challenges Dr. Kramerich's opinions as being inadmissible as they fail to comport with Daubert's requirements of reliability and assistance to the jury. See also Fed.R.Evid. 702.
The Court has carefully reviewed Dr. Kramerich's deposition testimony of November 13, 2001, his subsequent affidavit of March 24, 2002, as well as multiple exhibits submitted by Plaintiffs in support of their opposition. After review of the memoranda submitted and review of the relevant case law, the Court concludes that Dr. Kramerich's testimony fails to meet the requirements under Daubert and is also inadmissible.

1. Items Relied Upon by Dr. Kramerich
In coming to his conclusions, Dr. Kramerich reviewed documents from thetremendous interest in the NFL, we are particularly excited to expand Sunday NFL Countdown and Fantasy Football Now to three hours, with each show offering a distinct pregame experience featuring our expert hosts, analysts and insiders.”

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Sept. 1, 2014, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Poland. On that day in 1939, Germany launched the invasion of Poland, marking the beginning of hostilities in World War II. Sixty million people died in the conflict over the next six years, including 6 million Jews murdered in Hitler’s so-called “Final Solution.”

My dad was one of the lucky few to escape from Prague on the Kindertransport in August 1939 — only days before the invasion and the termination of the transports. He found safe harbor in London where, years later, he met his British bride. My mom turned 93 this month. She remembers meeting him like it was yesterday.

It wasn’t until they moved to Pasadena in 1945 that they discovered his mother had survived — havingpercent of those surveyed have heard of the Holocaust. In Eastern Europe, where most of the atrocities occurred, 82 percent have heard of the Holocaust.

In Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, there is more ignorance about the Holocaust and the Jewish people in general. In Asia, only 44 percent of the people have heard of the Holocaust, but add this to the fact that 91 percent of Asians have never met a Jewish person. In sub-Saharan Africa, only 24 percent of the people have heard of the Holocaust and 83 percent of sub-Saharan Africans have never met a Jewish person.

In the ADL survey, the area designated “MENA” (Middle East and North Africa) included most of the Arab world as well as Iran and Turkey. The overall measure of anti-Semitism in


install them at the interface between the brick veneer and the framed wall. The solution was to wrap the entire rough opening with a butyl flashing tape and then secure and caulk the “block frame” window unit in place, covering the tape with a snap-on window trim. (See the photos.)

More upgrades were made throughout the house, such as new Energy Star appliances, a variable-speed pool pump to replace an aging single-speed pump and LED lighting upgrades to complement the overall lighting redesign. New energy-efficient bathroom fans also were installed.

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As the project moves into the final stages of completion, BARA and Qualified Remodeler hope you follow its progress by visiting ForResidentialPros.com/BuildingAmerica. The web page showcases articles and videos designed to educate remodelers and the general public about innovative,Macular degeneration in an arc welder.
A male welder who had been working in an industrial machine plant for more than 20 years experienced acute intense pain in his left eye with continuous lacrimation while performing arc welding in 1997. Later in 1997, at the age of 39 yr, macular edema was found in his left eye. He was diagnosed with macular degeneration (MD) of the left eye in 2002, and with right eye MD in 2004. Radiation in the visible and near infrared (IR) spectra penetrates the eye and is absorbed by the retina, possibly causing thermal or photochemical damage. Such retinal damage may be permanent and, therefore, sight-threatening. The young age and history of an acute painful eye injury are not consistent with age related macular degeneration


Thursday, January 06, 2011

Book review: Disciple of the Dog by R. Scott Bakker

Disciple Manning is a private eye with a difference. He can't forget anything... literally, he has a complete photographic memory of all conversations and experiences that he has had. Manning is contacted by a family in distress, their daughter who had run away to join a New Age cult has gone missing and they hire Manning to find her. Manning is a fascinating character, far from the PI from central casting. Dope smoking, womanizing, but most of all he is a complete cynic, which leads to several witty (and occasionally laugh-out-loud) moments. Manning decamps to a rustic Pennsylvania town, where he meets to messianic cult leader along with the local law enforcement. Hooking up with aImage caption The VidyaGyan school is aimed at giving an elite education to rural, underprivileged families

Is this the most oversubscribed school in the world?

The VidyaGyan Leadership Academy, a boarding school in India's Uttar Pradesh state, is offering an elite education for pupils drawn from the rural poor.

There are about 200 places on offer each year - but such is the appetite for families to get a better life for their children, there are 250,000 applications.

The school, set up by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, is completely free, and offers the type of education usually available only to the very wealthy.

Roshni Nadar Malhotra, a businesswoman and trustee of the foundation, says the school has been modelled on India's private schools, which put students on the pathway to top universities and


the school.

These children from the poorest rural families, a deliberate mix of religions and castes, then receive a high-cost education, exposing them to ideas and opportunities.

It is an intensive process, designed to create a "stepping stone" to top universities in India or abroad.

Image copyright AFP Image caption The school has been founded to help clever poor pupils from Uttar Pradesh

It has become such a phenomenon that there are now coaching academies dedicated to training people for the test.

So far the school has cost the foundation £59m - and Ms Malhotra says there have been questions about whether the money would have been better spent on teaching basic literacy to much bigger numbers of young people.

The final intake of 200 pupils stands compared with Uttar Pradesh's population of about200 million.

More stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective and how to get in touch

But Ms Malhotra says the distinct purpose of the school is to create a leadership academy focusing on providing a chance for disadvantaged youngsters to compete with India's elite.

These are the children of poor, uneducated farmers, and she wants them to be equipped to reach the top in politics, business or sport.

Image caption The school is intended to provide a stepping stone to top universities

And she says there is a "ripple effect" on the home villages of these pupils, as they see their young people being able to go to a top university in India or in Europe or the United States.

"When students get into a great


university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope."

There are also expectations of paying back to their local communities. In the summer, when they go home, they have to carry out a socially useful project, such as providing cleaner water, clearing away rubbish or finding a safer way of cooking.

"It's about getting their hands dirty and finding out how to solve problems," says Ms Malhotra.

Image caption Once pupils are accepted, everything in the school is free for families

The school's first graduates have left with "stellar results", but she also wants them to be equipped to compete with international students anywhere.

"It's not just about getting in, they need to be able to survive. All of a sudden you're thrown in with other highlyto exempt Damascus from that “half of all eligible voters” requirement.

In 2016, Damascus voters again approved dissolving their city. City officials responded by clearing out the town coffers, with millions of dollars going to Clackamas County to cover public services and refunds to property owners.

The main intersection in Damascus, at the corner of Foster Road and Highway 212. Allison Frost / OPB

Fight To Keep Damascus A City

But supporters of Damascus remaining a city challenged the 2015 Oregon law used to lower the bar for disincorporation. Some residents of the city contended that in spite of the conflict and challenges of running the new city, that it remained preferable to disincorporation and allowing county leaders and nearby cities to manage the community.

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In March, I set out for Pamplona, Spain, to join the jury of Malofiej 19. For three days, we judged hundreds of entries in the digital contest, while colleagues on the print side saw over 1,000 entries. Check out the awards here.

Other jury members came from all over the world — Germany, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Italy, and the United States. I met a ton of awesome people who share a passion for infographics and alternative forms of storytelling. Gert Nielson keeps a good log of the goings on at his blog,Norway remembers Utoeya and Oslo victims, one year on Published duration 22 July 2012

media caption Jens Stoltenberg: 'Let us honour the dead'

Norway has commemorated one year since 77 people were killed and 242 hurt in gun and bomb attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utoeya.

PM Jens Stoltenberg laid a wreath in Oslo before travelling to Utoeya, where he was joined by hundreds of people, including relatives of the dead.

Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted carrying out the two attacks, remains on trial.

"The killer failed; the people have won," Mr Stoltenberg said.

Most of the dead were young activists with the Labour Party who had been staying on Utoeya as part of a summer camp.

National debate

Church services, a concert and other events were held around Norway.

"It's been a


very heavy year for all of us. Not a day has passed the tragedy has not filled the room," Mr Stoltenberg said at a wreath-laying ceremony in Oslo.

"The bomb and bullets were aimed at changing Norway. The Norwegian people responded by embracing our values," he said.

"Let us honour the dead by being happy about the life they had, and the life we share."

King Harald and other members of the royal family joined Mr Stoltenberg at a memorial service in Oslo.

Later, Mr Stoltenberg gave a speech to Labour Party youth on Utoeya before laying a wreath there at 18:45 - the time a year ago when Breivik was arrested.

One of those who revisited the island was 24-year-old Tore Sinding Bekkedal, who said summer camps should be held on theisland again soon.

"There are some people who want to take it slow, but I'm way over the other end of the scale. I'll pitch a tent there as soon as practically possible," Mr Bekkedal said.

In the evening, a national memorial concert with mainly Norwegian musicians was held.

Hundreds of relatives and survivors held a private service on Utoeya on Sunday morning.

Christin Bjelland, the mother of a survivor of the shootings, said the commemorations were especially important for the bereaved.

"What happened here is so huge, there were so many affected, that I think it means a lot to come together for those who wish and feel the love and care between all the affected," she said.

Tolerance and democracy

Many of the buildings that were damaged in the bomb attack have not


yet been fully repaired.

The prime minister's office and the ministry of health buildings are still covered in plastic.

The attacks, regarded as the worst act of violence in Norway since World War II, sparked a national debate about the nature of tolerance and democracy in the country.

Breivik, who has been on trial for three months, has tried to justify the attacks by claiming he was trying to stop Muslims from taking over Norway.

But the government, and much of the population, have actively promoted tolerance and openness to counter Breivik's views.

"I think that people thought it a bit naive to cling to these values of openness in a situation like that," said Vegard Groeslie Wennesland, a Labour Party activist who survived the attack.

"But I think it's more naive to thinkAfter all couple of weeks after publication of official design sketches Nissan Motor, on the Internet there were the images showing more traditional and quiet appearance.

Alternation of generations Nissan Micra (in Japan March) should take place already in the end of the next year, having marked itself arrival of new global model Nissan to offer which the company is full determination in more than in 150 countries of the world. The initial sketches showing courageous enough decisions looked especially unusual. Actually all can appear a little bit more prosy, that, nevertheless, will not belittle consumer qualities new Nissan Micra.

2011 Nissan Micra

Debut Nissan Micra should take place 2011 modelling years in first half of next year. It's not excluded what for the first time to see the car in


metal it will be possible in the spring on the international motor show in Geneva.

Novelty sales will begin by the end of 2010. Such models as Citroen C3 and Ford Fiesta become basic competitors Micra in Europe, but is remarkable, that assemblage of the Japanese car will not be carried out any more in the Europe (present generation Micra make in the Great Britain).

Commercial adv: Nissan Micra

Manufacture of a novelty for Europe will adjust at the new Indian enterprise of alliance Renault-Nissan in the city of Chenai. In total assemblage of model it is planned to carry out in five countries, including in Thailand and China.

If concerning appearance new Micra much starts to clear up, about a technical stuffing of updated version Nissan Micra the official information whileThe family of a British woman who fled to join Islamic State in Syria have said they are 'sickened' by a poem she wrote praising the massacre in Tunisia and attacks in Kuwait and France.

Former private schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood left her home in Glasgow in November 2013 and married a militant from the terror group in February last year.

She has since posted a series of radical messages under the nom de guerre Umm Layth, including a call for others to copy the murder of soldier Lee Rigby and the Boston Marathon bombing.

In her most recent blog post, the 20-year-old celebrated Friday's terror strikes as 'revenge' and 'a day that will go down in history'.

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Jihadi bride: Former private schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood (pictured) left her home in


Glasgow in November 2013 and married a militant from the terror group. She has now posted a poem praising the Tunisia massacre

Her family have today condemned the poem, describing it as 'twisted and evil' and saying there was 'no glory' and 'no god' at work in the 'cowardly' strikes. Above, her parents, Muzaffar and Khalida Mahmood last year

It emerged in the wake of the shooting at the Tunisian beach resort which left 38 tourists - including 18 Britons - dead, the suicide bombing at a mosque in Kuwait and the beheading in France.

The poem read: 'In 3 different locations a family was born. It's name was change, freedom and revenge.'

It continued: 'Kuwait, France and Tunisia is where they reside. They left a mark which will always remain. Permanentand blunt.'

HATE POEM BY THE JIHADI BRIDE In 3 different locations a family was born. Its name was change, freedom and revenge. Kuwait, France and Tunisia is where they reside. They left a mark which will always remain. Permanent and blunt. Advertisement

Her family have today condemned the poem, describing it as 'twisted and evil' and saying there was 'no glory' and 'no god' at work in the 'cowardly' strikes.

A statement released by their lawyer said: 'The family of Aqsa Mahmood became aware yesterday of her blog Umm Layth posting praise for the attacks in Tunisia, France and Kuwait.

'They are full of rage at her latest diatribe masquerading as Islam during the holy month of Ramadan.

'Whilst their daughter may have destroyed any chance of happiness for her own family,


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Yet, at the same time, one of our own parliamentarians himself travels to Pakistan where he name-checks the leader of the Mumbai bombers to


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A national youth corps member has become and instant sensation in his Abuja camp because of his resolve to make it in life despite his physical condition.

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Posts on the topic of "Jewish History"

Back what seems like a lifetime ago, I was making the transition from working in the field of entertainment to working for Jewish causes. The first job I got was as an American liaison for Yitzhak Shamir during his tenure as Israeli Prime Minister (the two of us, pictured here).

Shamir had moved to Israel in 1935, leaving behind his family who were all murdered in the Holocaust. His father had succeeded in escaping from a German death train, only to return to his Polish village where he was promptly beaten to death by childhood friends.

These events greatly informed Shamir's political views, and in the 1940s he became a leader of the Stern Gang whose goal was to drive the British colonialists outof Israel, thus paving the way for Jewish independence.

Yet while Shamir was a firm ideologue, his greatness lay in his ability to be a pragmatist at the same time. Though he was committed to Jewish settlement throughout the Land of Israel, he attended the 1991 Madrid Conference becoming the first Israeli Prime Minister to enter into negotiations with the Palestinians.

On one hand, Shamir was very forthright in Israel's right to defend itself, while on the other hand during the 1991 Gulf War he took the difficult strategic measure of not striking back when Saddam Hussein was hurling scud missiles onto Tel Aviv.

It is these two sides – tough yet compromising – that enabled him to serve so ably.

When he first came to Israel, he changed his family name


to Shamir, which is, according to Talmudic lore (Gittin 68b), the name of a worm which can cut through stone. It was used to produce the blocks of the Holy Temple, since metal cutting implements were not appropriate in a place devoted to peace.

To me this sums up Yitzhak Shamir: Firmly devoted to peace, yet stronger than iron and not afraid to use it when necessary.

Yitzhak Shamir has died at age 96, and is being buried today in Jerusalem. He was not a politician who sought glory, fame or riches; he served with modesty and unswerving devotion. May his memory be for a blessing.

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July 4, 2012 7:17 AM

In memory .....

Israel was indeed fortunate to have had a leader of his wisdom and character, displaying the rightby socialist elements from within the Jewish agency,were a driving force in hastening the departure of the colonial
occupier from Palestine.
Militarily Britain could not be beaten. However politically, the economic cost of maintaining a large garrison to combat the Freedom Fighters, could not be justified at a time when Britain was undergoing hardship recovering from WW2.
With the British gone the State of Israel came into being.
Since 1948 the nationalist parties in Israel have done all possible to ensure the survival of a country surrounded by implaccable enemies - Mr Shamir with his role in Govt. and as PM was a leading figure in this never ending battle.
It is only to be hoped that the present and future generation of Israelis will heed his advice - aquired during a lifetime


British and the Arabs during the war. They even attempted to make an alliance with Germany. Later after Stern was killed by the Birtish, Shamir took over Lehi. He ordered the assination of Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in Ciaro. He wanted to assisnate Lord Cunningham, the British High Commisioner of Palestine, but the security was too tight, so they choose Lord Moyne. Later in 1948 Shamir ordered the successful assination Count Folke Bernadotte, the first UN mediator. Bernadotte had dsitinguished himself during the war by saving thousands of Jews from German concentration camps. They were evacuated to Sweden.
This goes to show yesterday's terrorist is today's statestman.

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July 8, 2012 2:06 AM

corrections to Haim

1. Irgun Zvai leumi was an underground organisation opposing the British colonial rule - theyworld that David in the Hebrew Bible is not connected to David in the Koran, Solomon in the Hebrew Bible is not connected to Solomon in the Koran… and unfortunately, many researchers deny the Exodus of those oppressed people who were liberated by a great leader, like Moses the Muslim, the believing leader, the great Muslim, who was succeeded by Saul, the leader of these Muslims in liberating Palestine. This was the first Palestinian liberation through armed struggle to liberate Palestine…"

This outrage is the latest Palestinian effort to dismiss Jewish nationhood, a corollary to the repeated denial of any Jewish connection to the Holy Land. "The claims of historic and religious ties between Jews and Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history," reads the Palestinian National Charter