was trying to stop "smugglers attempting an illegal border crossing".

Agent Mesa said in court documents that he opened fire after rocks were thrown at him from across the border, including by Sergio.

Mobile phone footage showed that Sergio was struck as he peeked out from behind a pillar, according to the petitioner's brief.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Maria Guadalupe Guereca visits the grave of her son, Sergio Hernandez, in Juarez, Mexico

US officials decided against prosecuting Agent Mesa, arguing the Justice Department lacked jurisdiction on the Mexican side of the border.

Though Mexican officials charged Agent Mesa with murder, the Obama administration refused to extradite him.

The teenager's parents sued Agent Mesa for damages, but lower courts dismissed the lawsuit. The Supreme Court agreed to take up the case in October.

TheTrail Advisory: San Juan National Forest to Close

The San Juan National Forest (SJNF) is amongst the most beautiful overland destinations in North America, but if your summer plans lead you there, you may want to check their website. According to the SJNF rangers, a stage three fire closure is expected to be signed into place tomorrow, due to extreme drought conditions. The US Forest Service clarified further saying:

“The purpose of the closure is to protect natural resources and public safety due to the danger of wildland fire. The closure order will prohibit entry into the San Juan National Forest, including entry by the general public, most administrative entry by Forest Service employees, and most uses authorized under Forest Service permits and contracts. This means that forest campgrounds, day


DARTMOUTH, NS – Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE) has announced that they have partnered with Sport Nova Scotia on a plan to create a year-round, multi-use sports venue that will be open to the broader public for amateur and recreational sport, and serve as the home for the proposed Atlantic Canadian CFL team.

SSE also announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Canada Lands Company outlining the parameters of a potential deal that would see the community sports and entertainment hub integrated into Shannon Park.

Some key Sport Nova Scotia member organizations currently plan to use the proposed facility, which will be open for their use over 300 days per year. This includes significant after-school and weekend use from local and recreational athletics and sport amateur clubsRights of passengers in bus and coach transport (debate)
President
The next item is the report by Antonio Cancian, on behalf of Parliament's delegation to the Conciliation Committee, on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (00063/2010 - -.
Antonio Cancian
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the negotiation that I led by myself for the first year and then, during conciliation - the first conciliation procedure after the Treaty of Lisbon, I would note - with the guidance of Mrs Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou and the support of the Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, Mr Simpson, has been more arduous and difficult


to all involved in the work on this legislative proposal and, in particular, to Vice-President Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Brian Simpson - Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, Mr Cancian - the rapporteur, and the shadow rapporteurs, for their work. Together, they have had to bring the legislative process to a successful outcome.
My thanks also go to Commissioner Kallas and his team and to their counterparts from the secretariats in Parliament and the Council. Together, they worked tirelessly in helping to move things forward. Last but not least, I would like to express my appreciation for the excellent work of the Belgian Presidency in securing the necessary support within the Council for the compromise reached in the Conciliation Committee.
I am convinced that the joint text resulting from the ConciliationCommittee meeting represents a fair balance between the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and the interests of carriers, most of which are small- and medium-sized enterprises.
In the Council's view, the main objective of the regulation is to grant rights to passengers travelling on regular services where the scheduled distance is equal to, or more than, 250 kilometres. Furthermore, a guaranteed number of rights will apply independently of the distance travelled. The new rules focus, in particular, on helping disabled persons and passengers with reduced mobility.
In the discussions between the three institutions, we were able to find mutually acceptable solutions on a number of difficult issues, namely the scope, the rights of passengers in the event of cancellations or delays, compensation and assistance in the event


eight years, is a long time to wait at bus stops for new legislation.
There is, of course, something good to be found in the compromise achieved. In the original Council position, there were only three basic rights for passengers regardless of distance. I am pleased that there are 12 in the final compromise, and that special attention is being paid to the needs of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility. The entry into force of the regulation will make it easier for the disabled to travel on buses and coaches. At the same time, it puts them on a more equal footing with other passengers.
When the new legislation enters into force, the Member States must ensure that the regulations are implemented effectively and appropriately. This is inNamaniku ATK has been doing popular tributes to Attack on Titan since before its anime adaptation debuted

Chaika original character designer Namaniku ATK has been doing popular tributes to Attack on Titan since before its anime adaptation debuted. Their work was also featured on the end card for AoT episode 17 and mini visual novels with third and sixth Japanese Blu-rays. Leading into the Comiket 86 debut of their latest doujinshi, they've posted their take on Mikasa's gyaru look from the manga's volume 14 joke postscript.


was only partial and not total, and that the court's charge is erroneous as given, and inadequate.
The testimony shows that Mrs. Emma Jackson and her sons, Joseph, thirteen, and James, seventeen and a half, at the time of James' injury, lived together on upper Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore County, where the family had lived for fifteen years. The husband lived elsewhere and for some years had contributed nothing to his wife and children. Mrs. Jackson had supported the family until James went to work just about the time he became sixteen. Mrs. Jackson was employed at a weekly wage of $37.00 and James received $35.00. Mrs. Jackson's take home pay varied from $32.00 most weeks to $28.00 or $29.00 the one week in the month she paidconsiderations, `deprived of the rights of total dependents, when otherwise entitled thereto'. On the undisputed facts they were dependent primarily on the grandmother and mother respectively, and never were entitled to the rights of total dependents." Certainly, in any aspect of the case before us, there was nothing temporary or occasional in the contribution made to Joseph by the mother. She had supported the family long before James went to work and she supported Joseph after James was injured, in part, at least. During the time James was working, she provided shelter, which included the home and, presumably, heat, when it was needed, as well as medical protection and the family transportation. In addition, depending on which way the testimony is read as to the use of the


otherwise in money's worth." There was testimony in the instant case that permitted a finding that Mrs. Jackson contributed in whole or in part three of the four items of shelter, food, clothing and education and that her contributions were pecuniary support to Joseph, in money, services or money's worth, and were consequential, and neither gratuitous, temporary nor occasional.
The statement from the Larkin Case, incorporated by the trial court in his charge, is entirely correct as an abstract statement of the law. We have had occasion before to note that correct abstract statements of law may be very misleading *300 if they are used as an instruction in a case where the facts are such that the statement has little application or relevance. As we have seen, therequested by the appellants, because a finding of the State Industrial Accident Commission, unappealed from, was that Mrs. Jackson was partially dependent upon James and, therefore, Joseph could not be found to be partially dependent on Mrs. Jackson. We think that the contention of the appellees is not sound. In States Engineering Co. v. Harris, 157 Md. 487, a father was found to be dependent upon his deceased son who, at the time of his death, was living with his father and stepmother. The earnings of the father and the son were all given to the stepmother, and with the exception of $5.00 or $6.00 a week which were returned to the son, were used for family expenses. It was held that the fact that the contributions of


an A-list art team, and this exclusive preview of Hawkman: Found #1 shows how pairing Hitch with the legendary inker like Nowlan brings out the meticulous detail of the pencils with smooth, confident lines and delicate shading.

Since leaving DC, Jeff Lemire has played in the Marvel and Valiant sandboxes while also building his own superhero universe in the pages of Black Hammer, this year’s Eisner Award winner for Best New Series, and he’s at his best when he has creative freedom. Over at Marvel, Lemire did some strong work on Moon Knight and All-New Hawkeye, but was buried under editorial restrictions for Extraordinary X-Men, a book completely devoid of passion. Hopefully DC will give him plenty of room to bring his distinct point of view to his newissue 400,000 work permits in 2017. That is roughly one new migrant worker for every 10 Americans who entered the workforce that year. The huge inflow has also jammed the immigration courts, ensuring that new migrants can work for a few years before a judge decides their case.

The inflow of asylum-seeking migrants, nonetheless, is far smaller than the inflow of legal immigrants and temporary visa-workers, which added roughly 2 workers in 2017 for every four Americans who entered the workforce.

Nationwide, the U.S. establishment’s economic policy of using legal migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries


no videos and was made in 2006, the account in the video was made in 2005, and the account linked was made in 2008. The videos are on this channel but they were uploaded last year. As the channel commenters pointed out, we don't know how "fortress" uploaded a video of himself in transit to his "demise" if he was killed after making it.

The commenters have also pointed out that the shovel he is shown using is the same shovel in the pictures of Al1 burying the 9000 pounds. It is also stated that the article about the murder does not exist. The most damning bit of evidence is in the puzzle site's source code. This was explained in the second comment down from the one you linked.& Red Carbon Fiber Forza lighter and full creamy smoke immediately came pumping out of the stick. Hay and tobacco are the first flavor note I tasted from my first few puffs.

In the first section of this smoking experience I tasted flavor notes of hay, tobacco, coffee and a underlying sweetness. The medium dense ash was a nice grey color and the burn was almost even. The smoke continued to kick out of this stick full and creamy.

In the second third of this cigar the burn remained the same and the smoke still was full and creamy. I tasted notes of sweet raisins, and white pepper, which was the predominate flavor in this third.

The last third and the burn didn't change and I tapped off the grey ash


Pentagon By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY McClatchy Newspapers Over the last 12 months, 1,042 soldiers, Marines, sailors and Air Force personnel have given their lives in the terrible duty that is war. Thousands more have come home on stretchers, horribly wounded and facing months or years in military hospitals. This week, I'm turning my space over to a good friend and former roommate, Army Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, who recently completed a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq and is now back at the Pentagon. Here's Lt. Col. Bateman's account of a little-known ceremony that fills the halls of the Army corridor of the Pentagon with cheers, applause and many tears every Friday morning. It first appeared on May 17 on the Weblog of media critic and pundit EricAlterman at the Media Matters for America Website. "It is 110 yards from the "E" ring to the "A" ring of the Pentagon. This section of the Pentagon is newly renovated; the floors shine, the hallway is broad, and the lighting is bright. At this instant the entire length of the corridor is packed with officers, a few sergeants and some civilians, all crammed tightly three and four deep against the walls. There are thousands here. This hallway, more than any other, is the `Army' hallway. The G3 offices line one side, G2 the other, G8 is around the corner; all Army. Moderate conversations flow in a low buzz. Friends, who may not have seen each other for a few weeks, or a few years, spot each other,


cross the way and renew. Everyone shifts to ensure an open path remains down the center. The air conditioning system was not designed for this press of bodies in this area. The temperature is rising already. Nobody cares. "10:36 hours: The clapping starts at the E-Ring. That is the outermost of the five rings of the Pentagon and it is closest to the entrance to the building. This clapping is low, sustained, hearty. It is applause with a deep emotion behind it as it moves forward in a wave down the length of the hallway. "A steady rolling wave of sound it is, moving at the pace of the soldier in the wheelchair who marks the forward edge with his presence. He is the first. He is missingthe greater part of one leg, and some of his wounds are still suppurating By his age I expect that he is a private, or perhaps a private first class. "Captains, majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels meet his gaze and nod as they applaud, soldier to soldier. Three years ago when I described one of these events, those lining the hallways were somewhat different. The applause a little wilder, perhaps in private guilt for not having shared in the burden ... yet. "Now almost everyone lining the hallway is, like the man in the wheelchair, also a combat veteran. This steadies the applause, but I think deepens the sentiment. We have all been there now. The soldier's chair is pushed by, I believe, a full colonel. "Behind him,


insist upon getting out of their chairs, to march as best they can with their chin held up, down this hallway, through this most unique audience. Some are catching handshakes and smiling like a politician at a Fourth of July parade. More than a couple of them seem amazed and are smiling shyly. "There are families with them as well: the 18-year-old war-bride pushing her 19-year-old husband's wheelchair and not quite understanding why her husband is so affected by this, the boy she grew up with, now a man, who had never shed a tear is crying; the older immigrant Latino parents who have, perhaps more than their wounded mid-20s son, an appreciation for the emotion given on their son's behalf. No man in that hallway, walking orChunjang

In Korean, Chunjiang may refer to:
 Brigadier General. See Brigadier General#Korea
 Korean name for sweet bean sauce


of GDP expenditures, making North Korea --- dollar for dollar --- the world's most militaristic state.

North Korea is said to have an extensive chemical weapons program. A report by the Federation of American Scientists says that North Korea has chemical stockpiles of at least 180-250 tons of reserve-weaponized agents.

A plethora of nukes minus 30% is still a whole lotta nukes - it would still leave the US with 1,500-1,675 warheads. If it ever comes to a point where 1,500 nuclear bombs going off isn't enough, then the world is toast and nothing else will matter.

catcher22 wrote:

North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement.

The North relies heavily on international aid to feed its people andarsenal by 30%?????

A plethora of nukes minus 30% is still a whole lotta nukes - it would still leave the US with 1,500-1,675 warheads. If it ever comes to a point where 1,500 nuclear bombs going off isn't enough, then the world is toast and nothing else will matter.

catcher22 wrote:

North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement.

The North relies heavily on international aid to feed its people and fuel resources for its one million-man army.

The Korean People's Army encompasses the army, navy and air force and has 1.08 million active personnel and 4.7 million in reserves.

Military expenditures account for 31.3 percent of GDP expenditures, making North Korea --- dollar for dollar --- the world's


most militaristic state.

North Korea is said to have an extensive chemical weapons program. A report by the Federation of American Scientists says that North Korea has chemical stockpiles of at least 180-250 tons of reserve-weaponized agents.

Those first 2 facts kind of make the point that NK won't be taking over the world any time soon. Lets all chill.

North Korea is the least visited country in the world – only 1,800 Westerners make the trip each year.

The border with China has become porous, with people moving back and forth and some in the area using Chinese mobile phone networks with smuggled handsets.

Until 1987 no visitors from "non-aligned" countries were allowed; by 1993, around 50 western tourists a year were visiting. Now just under 2,000 a year go there, alongwith up to 30,000 Chinese tourists, accompanied by guides at all times. Photographs are inspected – and often deleted – before tourists leave.

The government operates a semi-hereditary system of social discrimination whereby all citizens are classified into 53 subgroups under overall security ratings – 'core', 'wavering', and 'hostile' – based on their family's perceived loyalty to the regime. This rating determines virtually every facet of a person's life, including employment and educational opportunities, place of residence, access to medical facilities, and even access to stores

Kim Jong Il - Official biographers say that the 67-year-old was born in a military camp on Baekdu Mountain, his birth foretold by a swallow and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.


According to Soviet records, however, he was born in a Siberian village.

His former sushi chef described a man with a violent temper and a love for large quantities of Hennessy VSOP cognac. Banquets used to last up to four days; his Pleasure Brigade, handpicked young women, provided the entertainment, sometimes ordered to dance naked.

According to North Korean media, Kim's accomplishments are legion. His official biography says he has composed six operas and according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, he has described himself as an internet expert.

Pyongyang's eight cinemas are said to be frequently closed due to lack of power; when open, they screen domestic propaganda movies with inspiring titles such as The Fate of a Self-Defence Corps Man.

Crossroads are overseen by female traffic police, reportedly hand-pickedby Kim Jong-il for their beauty – although men manage the roundabouts. Traffic lights are in place, but rarely used.

The "pleasure girls" that Kim Jong-il has (the Mansions Special Volunteer Corps in DPRK-speak) are the responsibility of a unit of the party's Central Committee who scour all the country's schools for prospective applicants. These girls aren't exactly kidnapped, but it's worth a significant improvement in their families' standard of living to go and be a sex slave for the Dear Leader. After all, it's a sign of loyalty to enthusiastically give over your daughter to serve the the great General. There are schools to which these girls are sent where they learn Kim Jong-il's particular turn-ons.

This system started under his father, who believed that having sex with young


available at an extra charge. Window casings are 2¾ inches wide instead of 3½ inches wide in one scaled-down model that Wieland is just now putting on the market. In another, company officials want to move a master-bedroom window from the side wall of the house to the rear. Smaller houses come on smaller lots, and having a window on the side makes it hard to avoid noticing that the neighbor’s house is just a few yards away.

The other day, Mr. Kingsfield, the company’s sales chief, pulled into a golf-club development near Canton, Ga., and stopped at a lot where workers were listening to mariachi music as they stacked bricks to form the facade of a 3,335-square-foot home called the Madison.

A couple of years ago, a new houseQuarterly Community Service Volunteer Recognition

The City of St. Marys is accepting applications to recognize people on a quarterly basis (January, April, July and October) that contribute through community service in St. Marys. Applications can be found in Document Center on City home page.Abigail Delprado and Arianna House are the first recipients for their clean-up work at the Paupers Cemetery in St. Marys.


select market participants, Jacobs Consultancy hosts an annual, non-affiliated petroleum coke conference and reception. At this two-day conference, we bring together the industry’s leading experts in the anode-grade and fuel-grade petroleum coke markets.

The Jacobs Consultancy Annual Petcoke Conference is an opportunity for market participants from various industries to freely exchange views on technical and market-oriented matters. Sessions have focused on the following issues: availability, production and quality of green and calcined petroleum coke; factors affecting future petcoke production; fuel-grade applications; freight markets, refinery trends, cement, and power industry opportunities for petcoke usage; and world economic trends.

Due to the fast growing coke industry in Asia, in 2010, Jacobs Consultancy held its first Asian Annual Petcoke Conference. The conference, held in various cities in the Eastern region of the world,to maintain positions on the environment that the party "establishment" has understood for some time now need to be modernized to achieve electoral success in the decades ahead. I believe that the first half of 2017 will present the best opportunity in a generation for conservatives to revisit their anomalous quarter-century of opposition to conservation, and my plan is to resume an ambitious schedule of events and appearances in support of this goal toward the end of the first quarter.

Because my main objective this year has been to promote Getting to Green’s call for bipartisan cooperation on the environment, I have refrained from making comments that could be construed as partisan. The time has come, however, when silence regarding the forthcoming election is no longer a morally supportable


Washington (CNN) Two Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Friday criticizing the administration's response to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance and asking for information about what they describe as the President's "ongoing personal enrichment from Saudi government payments."

The letter, signed by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, accuses the President of giving "undue credence to the Saudi government's unbelievable stories and denials," and states, "Your administration's response calls into question whether you are acting based on the American public's interests or your own private interests."

In light of that, the lawmakers say they are writing "to request additional information about your ongoing personal enrichment from Saudi government payments."

Hoping to win back the majority in the US House ofactress
 Robert Pulcini, Class of 1989 (Camden) — Academy Award nominated documentary and feature filmmaker, co-director of American Splendor
 Sheryl Lee Ralph, English Lit/Theatre degree, 1975 — original Deena Jones in the Broadway smash hit musical Dreamgirls, winner of six Tony Awards
 Roy Scheider — actor (Jaws, Sorcerer)
 Henry Selick, Attended for a year — director ( Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline  )
 Michael Sorvino — actor, son of Paul Sorvino
 Dina Spybey — actress ( Disney's The Haunted Mansion)
 Sebastian Stan, Class of 2005 — actor (Captain America: The First Avenger, The Covenant)
 Aaron Stanford, Class of 2000, — actor (X2, Tadpole)
 Kurt Sutter, Class of 1986 — writer (The Shield), creator of Sons of Anarchy Daniel Travis — actor (Open Water)
 Paul Wesley — actor


Bay Buccaneers)

Powerlifting

 Lev Susany, Class of 2011 — Australian powerlifter and Commonwealth record holder

Soccer
 Jon Conway, Class of 1999 — goalkeeper for Chicago Fire
 Josh Gros, Class of 2003 — midfielder for D.C. United
 Nick LaBrocca, Class of 2006 — midfielder for Colorado Rapids
 Alexi Lalas, Class of 1991 — former U.S. Soccer National Team member, former President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Galaxy
 Carli Lloyd — midfielder for the United States women's national soccer team and the Manchester City W.F.C.
 Steve Mokone — player for FC Barcelona and South Africa
 Peter Vermes, Class of 1987 — former U.S. Soccer National Team member, former professional player in Major League Soccer

Swimming
 George Kojac — member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame; gold medalist in swimmingat the 1928 Summer Olympics
 Walter Spence — member of International Swimming Hall of Fame; broke five world records in his first year of competitive swimming (1925)

Wrestling
 Nick Catone — retired professional mixed martial artist who competed in the UFC
 Anthony Ashnault — 2019 NCAA Wrestling Champion, 149 lb weight class.  4-time NCAA All-American
 Nick Suriano — 2019 NCAA Wrestling Champion, 133 lb weight class, first wrestling national champion for Rutgers

MMA
 Mickey Gall — professional mixed martial arts fighter, currently fighting in the Welterweight Division of the UFC

Hockey
Andrew Barroway — majority owner and chairman of the Arizona Coyotes.

Business
 Greg Brown, Class of 1982 — President and Co-CEO of Motorola; CEO of the Broadband Mobility Solutions Business Unit
 John Joseph "Jack" Byrne, Jr. — Chairman and GEO of


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Christiane has been practicing yoga for over 10 years. Her yogic journey began in 2000 as a student of Swami Nirmal (now at the Satyananda Centre in London) at the Fitness First gym in Kensal Rise, London. She experienced various teachers in different Fitness Firsts in Central London and around Clapham Junction before changing gyms and meeting Alexa Kho at LA FItness in Piccadilly Circus, London. Christiane attended Alexa's Anusara classes as well as her workshops.
In January 2011 she enrolls in a 200hr Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training course with Rebecca Ffrench at YogaLondon. Vinyasa Flow isa modern form of yoga that comes from Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and follows Sri K Pattabhi Jois. She quickly become passionate of this discipline and wants to deepen her knowledge; this brings her to meet and attend many workshops with Stewart Gilchrist, Shiva Rea, John Scott, Danny Paradise...all very famous teachers around the world. Being in the presence of such teachers is a significant experience for Christiane, in terms of her yogic journey, personal transformation and growth as well as understanding of yoga.
After 11years in London, she moves to Milan to deepen and continue her journey. In Milan she teaches privately (1:1 and group classes) as well as in various yoga and dance centers. Milan is where her love for Ashtanga Vinyasa deepens and grows, bringing her to


attend workshops with Lino Miele, Sharath Jois and most recently Kino MacGregor...all original students of Guruji, Sri K Pattabhi Jois. All of this culminates with a long awaited and long overdue trip to India, the birthplace of Yoga. Here Christiane deepens her practice and knowledge of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga by doing a 200hr Ashtanga Vinyasa TTC with Yogi Kamal Singh at Tattvaa Yogashala in Rishikesh India. After the monthlong course, her travels take her around India practicing with various other world renown teachers, namely with Sri V. Sheshadri in Mysore and with Rolf and Marci Naujokat in Goa.
In 2013 Christiane decides to embark on yet another yoga adventure, this time in Aerial Yoga! The course was divided into two weekends: level I in April and level II inPublic will have their say on station future

James Illingworth

A consultation will start next month on the future of St Helens fire stations after service bosses opted to open the issue to public debate.

The two options up for consideration are an outright closure of Eccleston station or a merger with St Helens, creating a new site on Canal Street.

A 12-week consultation period will start from August 3 with public meetings held across the borough.

Chief Fire Officer Dan Stephens said: “The proposals are intended to minimise the impact of the ongoing cuts to the Authority budget and maintain as fast a response as possible to all parts of St Helens district.”

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service has had to make savings of £20m due to governments budget cuts.

St Helens North MP


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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Judge Altonaga remembers Judge Davis

On Monday, May 24, 2010, you shared the story of U.S. District Judge Edward B. Davis, following his passing as a result of complications from open-heart surgery. I write you this letter in the event you would like to share some of my thoughts in the Southern District of Florida Blog.I had the extraordinary good fortune of being hired by Judge Davis to be his February term law clerk, or "even"them encouragement and advice on trial practice. In the late afternoons, the chambers was filled with the sound of his laughter and that of the late Judge Eugene Spellman, for they were good friends and at the end of the day Judge Spellman would come to the Judge’s office where stories were shared and a moment of relaxation seized. When the Judge hired us, he would make clear the work day started at 8:00 a.m. and we were to stay with him until he left, which was usually after 7:00 p.m. He worked very hard, and while we all did as well, it was without undue pressure. Certainly I never felt any pressure from him; he always gave assurances that it would all work out.

Whenever I had occasion


to travel with the Judge to Key West for trials, he and his wife Pat would include me in their dinners at the end of the work days. In keeping with the Judge’s casual and informal manner, the Courtroom Deputy, Michael Beck, and I would join the Judge and his wife in their hotel room, and from there we would all go together to share a meal.I, along with countless of his law clerks, have had the extraordinary good fortune of having been offered the opportunity to share Judge Davis. We each became a part of the Judge’s family, so much so, that when after one reunion he sent me a copy of a group picture and signed it, "To Cecilia, my favorite law clerk and judge," Ibelieved it. I came to discover later that he signed copies of the picture in the same way for each of his law clerks, letting each know he or she was his "favorite!" That picture, and another of the two of us in his chambers so many years ago, rests beside my computer where I am reminded daily of the "gentle giant" who has had such an impact on my life.

Judge Davis was my source of inspiration and I credit him with my desire to become a judge. He administered my oath as judge on three separate occasions, the last of which was as a federal district judge. When I joined the Southern District of Florida in 2003, I was humbled to occupy his former office and courtroom.

Judge


Davis was the face of kindness, fairness and compassion in our court. May God bless and keep him.

The Southern District of Florida blog was started by David Oscar Markus, who is a criminal trial and appellate lawyer in Miami, Florida. He frequently practices in federal courts around the country, including his hometown, the Southern District of Florida and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a former law clerk to then-Chief Judge of the District, Edward B. Davis.snooze, with Dolittle standing twitchily nearby. At that point, we spotted three other clan males approaching in the tall grass just beyond the den clearing. Dolittle saw them too, and his posture changed completely. He stood up straight and stared intently in their direction, pawing the ground and seeming to send a clear message: Back off. The other changed course to avoid the den and slunk past without even shooting a glance at Grimace. Dolittle was flexing his alpha-male muscles.

The animal who showed up in North Territory a few days later was a shadow of that Dolittle. We found him lying in the middle of the road, wounded, exhausted and thin. We decided to hang out and see what would happen to him – half out of scientific


interest, half out of worry that the first North animal that saw him would finish him off. But over the next two hours a procession of North-clan hyenas wandered past Dolittle during their morning perambulations, and none of them seemed terribly concerned with the invader. High-ranked Joni gave him an idle sniff – he answered with an intensely submissive posture and she went on her way, trailing young Hooker who barely looked at Dolittle. Later a mixed-sex group of young adults – Leprechaun (m), Arrow (f) and Peepers (f) – thought he was interesting enough to check out from a distance of about 30 meters. Dolittle heaved himself up from his convalescent nap and trotted another 20 meters away, and the three North-ers headed casually in the oppositeTag Info

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Convicted pedophile and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has been found in the fetakl position is his prison cell in what is being called an attempted suicide.

He was found semi-conscious with marks on his neck in the prison facility he is being held in during his trial, News 4 New York reported.

Accused pedophile and wealthy Manhattan financier Jeffrey Epstein was found injured and in a fetal position inside his cell at a New York City jail, according to sources close to the investigation.

Epstein, who is being held in Metropolitan Correctional Center during his trial for conspiracy and sex trafficking, was found semi-conscious with marks on his neck, two sources told News 4. Investigators are trying to piece together exactly what happened.

Two sources tell News 4 that Epstein mayhave tried to hang himself, while a third source cautioned that the injuries were not serious and questioned if Epstein might be using it as a way to get a transfer.

TRENDING: FBI Official Assigned To Trump-Russia Probe Admits Bombshell: There Was a 'Get Trump' Attitude

A fourth source said an assault has not been ruled out, and that another inmate was questioned. The inmate who investigators have talked to in Lower Manhattan facility has been identified as Nicholas Tartaglione, according to a source. Tartaglione is a former Orange County police officer who was arrested in December 2016 and accused of killing four men in an alleged cocaine distribution conspiracy, then burying their bodies in his yard in Otisville, according to court records.

Sources told News 4 investigators questioned Tartaglione, and


Image caption Cardinal Keith O'Brien claims the Act of Settlement enshrines religious bigotry

The leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland has called for a 310 year-old law banning Catholics from taking the throne to be repealed.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien said the Act of Settlement of 1701 was hampering efforts to curb sectarianism.

His comments came after First Minister Alex Salmond described sectarianism as a parasite in the game of football.

Cardinal O'Brien claimed the law amounted to sectarianism as much as chanting bigoted songs on the terraces.

Despite widespread education campaigns, supporters of the two main Glasgow clubs, Celtic and Rangers are regularly accused of singing bigoted songs.

Both clubs condemn bigoted singing - but while the European body UEFA has sanctioned Rangers three times, the Scottish football authorities have yet to takeany action.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said that "in principle" he supports reforming the law on royal succession to allow first-born female heirs to take the throne and remove the ban on Catholics becoming king or queen or marrying the heir to the throne.

However, he said the decision would have to be approved by all Commonwealth countries.


Humanity’s a failed experiment

Walking the path to extinction

Spinning its wheels endlessly

Grease them with oil and uranium

Blindly consuming mass manufactured faith

Mankind is a festering parasite

Relentlessly draining its host dry

Nailing belief to a cross of genocide

this video needs to be redone without so much repetition and contemporary images like this —

My soul bleeeds to see the 4th World end… and the 5th rise…

First World – the Mineral Kingdom

Second World – the Plant Kingdom

Third Word – the Animal Kingdom

Fourth World – the Human Kingdom

Fifth World – the _______ Kingdom (plz don’t say Annanaki lol)Leon Halip/Getty Images

After a dominant sophomore campaign at the University of Michigan, guard Nik Stauskas has declared for the 2014 NBA draft, the program confirmed Tuesday in a release announcing his and Glenn Robinson III"s decision to go pro:

Stauskas talked about the decision to go pro in a release from the program:

For as long as I can remember I have had a goal of playing in the NBA, whether it was on my backyard court or winning the Big Ten title at Crisler Center. Following some heartfelt discussions with my family, Coach [John] Beilein and the rest of the coaching staff, I am ready to pursue my goals and begin my NBA career. What cannot be understated is how the University of Michigan has helped prepare me for


this moment both on and off the court. This great university took a chance on me and gave me the opportunity to achieve my college basketball dreams. I hope in some small way, I was able provide some lasting moments. As I move forward into this next stage of my life, it cannot be said enough how thankful I am to the Wolverine fans for embracing me. I will always be a Wolverine at heart.

Stauskas will join an already stacked 2014 draft class, but his unique skill set should allow him to stand out above many of his peers.

He was a driving force behind the Wolverines' run to the NCAA title game in 2013 as a freshman, and he took his game to another level this past season.With Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. making the leap to the NBA, Stauskas became head coach John Beilein's go-to player.

Stauskas averaged 17.5 points per game and proved to be one of the most dangerous long-range threats in college basketball with 92 three-point field goals made. He was far from a one-dimensional player, though, as he dished out 3.3 assists per contest and proved capable of attacking the rim as well.

Despite the fact that Stauskas seemingly didn't have much left to prove at the collegiate level, the Canadian phenom took his time when it came to making a decision about his future.

Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com reported on April 10 that Stauskas had decided to enter the draft, but Stauskas made it clear that he was still considering all


possibilities:

Also, according to Brendan F. Quinn of MLive.com, Stauskas sent a text on April 10 about hearing from the NBA advisory board.

"Let people know that I just heard from the NBA advisory committee (on April 9) and haven't jumped to any conclusions yet," Stauskas wrote. "I'm not in a rush to make this decision. I believe I will have my decision ready after this weekend."

Apparently Stauskas was content with the advisory committee's assessment, as he ultimately decided that jumping to the NBA was the best possible option for him.

Although Michigan fans have to be disappointed that they'll be without their star for the 2014-15 college basketball season, Tyler Duffy of The Big Lead was among many analysts who urged Stauskas to try his hand at the next level:

Stauskasmay not be able to usurp the likes of Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid atop the draft, but he seemingly has all the makings of a lottery pick.

He can hit shots from anywhere on the floor, is athletic enough to create his own shots and has great size at 6'6" and 205 pounds.

Stauskas could certainly stand to add a bit more bulk to his frame, which would help immensely on the defensive end, but his offensive abilities are already good enough to make an impact in the NBA.

Even so, it can be argued that Stauskas might have been better off staying in school for one more year. He almost certainly would have improved on his already strong numbers, plus he may have had less elite talent to contend


CHAPEL HILL – After persistent protests, spearheaded by professional activists on the Left and fueled by the ‘woke’ social justice culture that tends to permeate college campuses, the ‘Silent Same’ Confederate statue was torn down by a mob of protesters last August. Many wondered why, after weeks of standing guard to prevent vandalism and violence, the UNC police were overcome by a mob of college co-eds?

Well, a new post-mortem of sorts focusing on the police response to those protests that culminated in the tearing down of the statue was released on Friday, and it points to “serious deficiencies” by UNC law enforcement.

“Lawyers from Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP and law enforcement management consultants from Hillard Heintze LLC wrote the after-action assessment and report. They interviewed dozens ofleft knee, a tearing of the ligaments and the support of the knee joint, an injury to the cartilage of the joint. As a result he has an unstable knee which permanently disables him from doing many kinds of work, although he might not be disabled from performing office duties. He testified that he was in the tenth grade in high school, ambitious to improve himself, that he had gone to school for 11 years and was planning to continue on through college. He said he would like to have an office job, be a superintendent or supervisor; that he wanted to go to college and improve himself for that kind of work, rather than climb telephone poles or run a machine. He did not want to have


no way of evaluating the extent of the knowledge, if any, of the jurors in that regard or its influence on their verdicts. As indicated by the trier of the facts in Denny v. Garavaglia, 333 Mich 317, 326, and by the trial court in the instant case in denying defendants' motion for a new trial as to Robert Vink, a comparison of present with past verdicts is not helpful for that reason. As to the extent of various verdicts under differing circumstances, see 15 Am Jur, Damages, § 220, and cases cited.
During Robert's stay in the hospital his leg was in traction and in a cast, he suffered pain every day, also later while the leg was still in a cast, which kept him awake at night,and afterward during the 7-1/2 months he was compelled to wear a brace. At the time of trial he still had pain in his knee and a slight limp. The leg still ached in bad weather and pained him when the attempted to stoop over. He is unable to engage in sports and active work. His earning capacity has at least temporarily been impaired. He had earned $500 from his work while in school up to the time of trial, mostly by setting pins in a bowling alley, and doing other outside work, all of which he has been unable to do since his injury. Medical testimony also showed a reasonable certainty of future arthritis due to the injury.
The record before us establishes that Robert endured pain and


Written by Eponine Howarth (LLB)

The opinion that the European Union is governed by ‘unelected bureaucrats’ is commonly held by europhobes and an argument wielded by the Leave campaign in the referendum on the British exit of the European Union. The claim refers to the powers of the Commission in particular, one of the executive bodies of the EU, partly composed of a ‘bureaucracy’ of civil servants. However, the idea that ‘the EU is governed by unelected bureaucrats” exhibits a very strong misunderstanding of how the EU is governed, as well as the role played by the Commission in EU governance. This article explains the extent of the Commission’s powers in the EU’s institutional architecture and the extent to which the Commission is accountable when exercising those powers.

First ofall, the claim that the EU is run by “unelected bureaucrats” shows a deep misunderstanding of European executive politics. The EU is governed by a dual executive: the Council and the Commission (Hix, 2011). The Council of the European Union where ministers from the member states meet regularly to adopt policies and legislation is divided by sector and deals with day-to-day policy making. The European Council is the formation where heads of state meet at least four times a year to discuss the overall direction of EU policies. The heads of state and government are not unelected bureaucrats, but directly or indirectly elected by voters in each member state. The ministers in the Council of the European Union are representatives of democratically elected national governments and therefore indirectly


accountable, rather than being unelected bureaucrats.

Instead, the sentence ‘the EU is governed by unelected bureaucrats’ is directed at the role of the Commission. The Commission is composed of a bureaucracy or administration, divided into Directorates-General (DGs), run by civil servants, and a ‘government’, the College of Commissioners, where each member state nominates a commissioner that has to be approved by the European Parliament. However, although it is technically true to call one part of the Commission, the civil servants, ‘unelected bureaucrats’, the expression equally applies to national civil servants, which also happen to be ’unelected bureaucrats’. Every government has bureaucrats which are by nature unelected. While the EU has around 33,000 of them, the British government employs over 400,000 civil servants. In addition, there is the complaint ‘thatMarin, and the threat that the European Parliament would use a vote of censure – although it had failed the first time. The Commission is also accountable to the Council through the system of comitology, composed of national government officials who scrutinise the Commision’s implementation measures. Due to the separation of powers, the legislators are also able to scrutinise the executive. And although Hix (2000) is critical of the comitology system, due to its lack of transparency, amongst other things, these national civil servants are not governors of the European Union. Finally, the President of the Commission, since the Lisbon Treaty and the implementation of Article 17(7) of the TEU, is indirectly ‘elected’, as the Council has to ‘take into account’ the result of the European Parliament elections


fantastic to know that it aims for the good and long lasting recovery of the patients in the rehab center. The medical practitioners like the doctors and medical staff like the nurses and aids are very good and polite and at the same time very efficient in their respective task. The medical staffs like the doctor are now well trained to do the care and they are aiming to improve the condition of the addicts and to live back to his or her previous activities and usual day to day works.Five Thousand Political Prisoners Revolt Against Regime in Soviet Prison

January 1, 1924

Riga (May. 19)

Five thousand political prisoners in the Moscow fortress, Butirka, revolted last night against the overcrowding in the prison, and the severe regime under which they are being held. In their rage the prisoners pulled down the fixtures and destroyed the walls, windows and various objects in their cells. The next morning a detachment of the “Ogpu,” the newly re-organized Cheka, was sent to the prison to quell the mutiny.

Many of the prionsers were undressed and terribly beaten. Among them were the prionsers Lechtmann, who was arrested for professing Socialistic Zionism, the Zionist Dobkin, who was arrested for belonging to the Hechalutz, and Dr. Sorkin, also a Zionist. Those charged with the instigation of the disturbance


Impact of prior treatment on long-term outcome of peroral endoscopic myotomy in pediatric achalasia.
Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is emerging as an effective treatment for achalasia in children. Long-term outcomes of POEM and impact of prior treatment are not known in pediatric population. In this study, we aim to evaluate the long-term efficacy of POEM in children with achalasia. Children (≤18 years) with achalasia who underwent POEM and completed at least 36 months of follow-up were included in the study. Long-term clinical success (Eckardt ≤3) was evaluated and compared between treatment naïve versus prior treated cases. A total of 53 children underwent POEM at our center during the study period. Of these, 17 children completed at least 3 years of follow-up and were included in the study. Eight childrenSamus, who tells Little Mac and Sukapon that she needs their help. The scene quickly focuses on the door closing, and then opening on a castle.

Simon, Duck Hunt Dog, Hunter, and Shanoa all walk out of the castle as Duck Hunt Dog sniffs the ground and follows a trail to the Virtual Boy Factory. They arrive and meet up with Wario, Kyle Hyde, and Game Boy Camera. They head inside the factory, and the scene then cuts back to the cage with ROB in it. The Prime Minister takes one of R.O.B's coils, and proceeds to take off his robes to reveal he is a Virtual Boy and that his body is now complete. R.O.B is shoved onto the ground as Virtual Boy rockets off to find the


Smash Mansion and make "Sami pay for her deeds".

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Pokemon Trainers Arena

Our trailer begins with Alder on a mountain, meditating. Suddenly, a giant wave comes in, with Archie and Shelly coming in. Alder disappears in smoke and appears behind Archie. The wave washes over and the three battle.

As the three battle, Valerie floats down with Butterfrees carrying her down and proceeds to kick the three with telescoping heels. The trailer ends with Valerie floating away towards a castle.

Metroid: Genesis

The screen flashes to purple and green, which oozes around then forms into the Metroid Genesis logo, which then oozes down again, this time forming some kind of body. As the ooze forms the body, we see the complete product, which is Alex, the new protagonist for Metroid Genesis. Alex thenaims her laser cannon and shoots the screen, which goes black.

After the presentation, a isolated part of a bigger picture shows up on Toroko's FCS page.

What does this mean? I dunno, find out later.

Fantendo Visual Novel: Fracture

Fantendo Smash Bros. Shattered

The trailer opens with Leah Needlenam setting up her hospital with her looking over a needle with red fluid in it. The scene suddenly shifts to the mountains where she walks alone. There is dirt on her face and she walks across a lake and climbs up the mountain. There she comes across a giant version of the Twisted Cross symbol, which has a band around it that floats off.

Leah then proceeds down mountains and walks to the shore and continues to walk into the water where she gets


on her knees and pulls at her face in anguish. A wave comes over her as she stands up and crosses her arms, where she begins to descend into the ocean.

Whales surround Leah as she falls and eventually she falls to the bottom where X-Ray and Beth Operatino are revealed to also be crossing their arms. We then cut back to Leah looking at the needle, and she looks at her hands at they begin to fade away. The trailer closes as the camera pans back with X-Ray asleep on a operating table and the needle falls out of Leah's fading hands.usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.

the quantity contained in a box: She bought a box of candy as a gift.

[Chiefly Brit.]a gift or present: a Christmas box.

See post-office box.

a compartment or section in a public place, shut or railed off for the accommodation of a small number of people, esp. in a theater, opera house, sports stadium, etc.

a small enclosure or area in a courtroom, for witnesses or the jury.

a small shelter: a sentry's box.

[Brit.]

a small house, cabin, or cottage, as for use while hunting: a shooting box.

a telephone booth.

a wardrobe trunk.

See box stall.

the driver's seat on a coach.

the section of a wagon in which passengers or parcels are carried.

the section of a truck in which cargo is carried.

the


be kept separated.

to confuse someone or something.

box out, [Basketball.]to position oneself between an opposing player and the basket to hinder the opposing player from rebounding or tipping in a shot; block out.

box′like′, adj.

Office

of•fice
(ô′fis, of′is),USA pronunciation n.

a room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted: the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office.

a room assigned to a specific person or a group of persons in a commercial or industrial organization: Her office is next to mine.

a business or professional organization: He went to work in an architect's office.

the staff or designated part of a staff at a commercial or industrial organization: The whole office was at his wedding.

a position of duty, trust, orauthority, esp. in the government, a corporation, a society, or the like: She was elected twice to the office of president.

employment or position as an official: to seek office.

the duty, function, or part of a particular person or agency: to act in the office of adviser.

(cap.) an operating agency or division of certain departments of the U.S. Government: Office of Community Services.

(cap.) [Brit.]a major administrative unit or department of the national government: the Foreign Office.

hint, signal, or warning; high sign.

Often, offices. something, whether good or bad, done or said for or to another: He obtained a position through the offices of a friend.

[Eccles.]

the prescribed order or form for a service of the church or for devotional use.

the services so prescribed.

Also called divine office. the prayers, readings from Scripture,


Visual Arts from Canada & Around the World

Photo History – Snow

Visionary photographer William Notman (1826–1891) owed his early fame to portraits in snowy settings typical of Canada’s winters, shot entirely in studio! What did he use for snow? Lambswool, salt and paint. (So different from what the continent is going through this week.)

An exhibit on through April at the Canadian Museum of History lets you experience 19th century Canada through the lens of this pioneer, the first Canadian photographer to gain an international reputation.users about the said products such as the product price etc.

Another feature that Instagram is rolling out is the Donation Sticker for Instagram Stories. This new feature will allow users to as their followers to raise money for various nonprofit organizations. According to Instagram, 100% of the donation collection via Instagram Stories will go to the said organizations they money has been raised for. Users can track the donation – amount and the users who donated – right from their Instagram Story pan by swiping up on the screen. This new Donation Sticker feature for Instagram Stories is now available in the United States and will be rolled out across the world soon.

Additionally, Facebook is testing another new modification – not a feature tough but alteration – that


former downstairs neighbor in her luxury New York City building.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

The New York Daily News reported former neighbor Elizabeth Hazan signed ownership of the $2 million two-bedroom unit to Real Estate Holdings Group in July.

The company contends Rivers and others ripped wires from the unit’s cable box and squirted glue in its locks. It says building officials recently denied Hazan access to the apartment.

The paper says Hazan has a long-running battle with Rivers over unpaid condo fees.

A lawyer for Rivers says he’s preparing a response to the suit. Rivers lives in the building’s $30 million upstairs penthouse.

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NEW YORK — The Jonas Brothers have canceled their upcoming tour over creative differences.

Brothers Joe, Kevin and Nick were scheduled tobegin their 19-date tour Friday in Upper Darby. Spokesman Jesse Derris confirmed the cancellation and said fans can get a refund at the point of purchase. The group tweeted about the tour as recently as Tuesday, posting a picture of a poster for the Pennsylvania stop.

The New Jersey trio shot to fame in 2007 with the release of their self-titled debut.

They had been scheduled to release their first album since 2009 soon, but the future of that project is unclear.

People magazine first reported the cancellation.

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NASSAU, Bahamas — Comic actor Craig Robinson, 41, was detained Wednesday for drug possession as he tried to leave the Bahamas and was ordered to pay a fine, authorities said.

The actor best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on NBC’s “The


Office” was stopped as he tried to board a plane in the capital, Nassau, and head back to the United States. Customs agents found a small amount of marijuana and pills deemed suspicious, said Supt. Stephen Dean of the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

“It was nothing major,” Dean said.

Robinson, who was in the Bahamas for a comedy show, was taken into custody and appeared before a magistrate, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of drug possession. Prosecutor Ercel Dorsett told the court that Robinson had a half gram of marijuana and 18 ecstasy pills.

The actor, who appeared calm in a shorts and T-shirt and was not accompanied by a lawyer, told the court he brought the drugs from the United States and did not know they were illegalVijayan, who has bloated beyond recognition, to Monica Bedi – perhaps she likes the idea of being under ‘house arrest’ to ara ra ra.. Ketaki Dave, to a sad looking Raja Chowdhury (for those wondering who he is – he’s TV actress Shwetha Tiwari’s estranged husband), this show promises to provide non-stop drama every single night.

Speaking of drama, those expecting fireworks from Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan when the former appeared on Dus Ka Dum were in for a disappointment. Contrary to all the speculation, the stars bonded like long-lost buddies, the only time one saw a flicker of annoyance on Salman’s visage was when Akshay wickedly asked him when he was planning to get married. Katrina, who was also part of the show played the coy, dumb


lives take them in different directions for the first time.

Introspective and occasionally volatile Carmen is looking forward to spending quality time with her out-of-state dad, who she hasn’t seen much of since he divorced her mother years ago; super-confident star athlete Bridget is heading for a soccer camp in Mexico; soft-spoken Lena, a gifted artist as beautiful as her drawings, is set to discover her heritage – and an unexpected romance – on a trip to her grandparents’ home in Greece; and sharp-witted rebel Tibby will reluctantly remain in town, stocking shelves at the local discount store while working on a video “documentary” to expose what she sees as the banality of everyday life.

On a shopping trip together the day before their paths diverge, the friends find arivalry that started on the small screen will now spill over on to the big screen too. While Prachi scored over Roshni on television, it remains to be seen who will score better on the big screen.

She started off with fashion shows and modeling and has been doing Oriya and Bengali films. But Namrata Thapa finds television more interesting. She has done shows like Kya Hadsa Kya Haqeeqat, Vaidehi, CID, Ravan and Naagin and is currently playing the central character of Rani Madanlekha, wife of King Vikramaditya, in Mahima Shani Dev Ki.

“The King is under the spell of Shanidev and Rani Madanlekha stands by him in difficult times. The range of my role is interesting as I get to play a queen as well as a pauper,” says


hard rock sound.

One characteristic of the band that might appeal to critics was that at a time when new-age sound is creating a buzz, these four guys from the North East offered the almost “forgotten” 80s hard rock sound (resembling bands like Rainbow and Dio).

Another Vertigo Rush was the next band on the stage. With their trademark numbers (Vibe, Conclave), AVR offered some “Tool-like” progressive sound to the audience (later Akhilesh, the guitarist of the band, confirmed Tool as one of their inspirations). Except the vocals (Viraj’s vocals sounded ordinary), AVR did “everything” right (as they had Nihkil Rufuzz from Superfuzz on bass and Akhilesh utilised the wah-wah to the fullest and his slide guitar solos did impress a few guitar aspirants). Later in the evening, AVR wasto the event. The best part was Salman Khan, who performed on some popular songs from his films. Among other performers were Rakhi Sawant, Kamya and Rajiv, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Navin Prabhakar.

JUST like Bhootnath (with Amitabh Bachchan taking the role of a ghost), this movie is aimed at the young ones.

But this movie is better than Bhootnath not only because it has a better cast but because of the seamless use of graphics to make the story more interesting. And the cinematography (Sudeep Chatterjee) is fantastic.

And there’s none of the melancholy that pervaded Bhootnath.

This is surprising since the story deals with four children who are orphaned after their parents are killed in an accident.

The car driver, Ranbir (Saif Ali Khan) is ordered by the courts to take care of


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HBO Picks Up Veep, Armando Iannucci’s New Comedy Series

It seems that HBO is dominating the headlines today, but this can only be good news. Today they have announced that they have picked up Veep which is a new comedy series created, written and directed by Armando Iannucci. The pilot has already been filmed and it stars Julia-Louis Dreyfus in the lead role who becomes the Vice President of the USA and is shocked when the job doesn’t turn out how she thought it would.Iannucci is a real comedy hero, especially in Britain, where his TV series The Thick of It is one of the finest comedies to come out of TV in years. He’s probably most known to the US for his Oscar-nominated film In the Loop whichwas announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Iannucci co-wrote and directed the pilot of the series, which he executive produces along with Frank Rich of New York Magazine and Christopher Godsick (“Take the Lead”); Simon Blackwell, who co-wrote the pilot, co-executive produces and Julia Louis-Dreyfus produces. VEEP, which is expected to shoot in Baltimore, will begin production this fall for 2012 debut on HBO.

Set in Washington, D.C., VEEP stars Louis-Dreyfus as former Senator Selina Meyer, who becomes Vice President, only to discover the job is nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. Bradshaw plays Sue, Vice President Meyer’s assistant; Chlumsky plays Amy, her chief of staff; Hale plays Gary, her right-hand man; Scott plays Dan, an ambitious director of communications for a senator;


working, and 70 percent of families were living on less than US $1 a day in May 2008, said the WHO report.

In the third quarter of 2008, 51 percent of Palestinians lived below the poverty line (56 percent for Gazans and 48 percent for those in the West Bank), with 19 percent living in extreme poverty.

In the second half of 2008, one third of West Bank households and 71 percent of Gaza households received food assistance, with food accounting for roughly half total household expenditures — making families highly vulnerable to food price fluctuations. In May 2008, 56 percent of Gazans and 25 percent of West Bank residents were deemed food insecure by the UN. Chronic malnutrition has risen in Gaza over the past few years to reachhas begun to address this shortcoming, leading to an important increase in synthetic efficiency without jeopardizing selectivity and enhanced reactivity. The first example of catalytic tether formation, albeit for the moment limited to metal-free transformations, constitutes an even more efficient approach, and paves the way for future impressive breakthroughs.

We thank EPFL and the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 200021_159920) for financial support.

Ugo OrcelUgo Orcel was born in Annecy (France). He carried out his undergraduate studies at the ENSC Montpellier (France), where he completed his "diplôme d\'ingénieur" and his MSc. In 2012, he started his PhD studies at the EPF Lausanne (Switzerland), under the supervision of Prof. Jérôme Waser. His research focuses on palladium-catalyzed olefins difunctionalization reactions.

Jérôme WaserJérôme Waser was born in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland in 1977. He


obtained is chemistry Diploma at ETH Zurich in 2001. From 2002 to 2006, he was a PhD student at ETH Zurich with Prof. Erick M. Carreira. He then joined Prof. Barry M. Trost at Stanford University as a SNF postdoctoral fellow. From 2007 to 2014, he was an assistant professor at EPF Lausanne (EPFL). Since June 2014, he has been associate professor at EPFL. He is a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant 2013 and the Werner prize of the Swiss Chemical Society 2014.
with the writer of this book when he and his wife, Kathy, were directing a dynamic Campus Crusade for Christ ministry at the University of Wisconsin. Because of his spiritual leadership and developmental skills in management, we asked Paul to coordinate Explo '72, an unprecedented weeklong student training event for eighty thousand. Soon after that I asked him to direct the Campus Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.

Paul brought the same godly faith and leadership he exhibited in his other assignments to the JESUS film production and distribution. Both Paul and I are grateful for the vast army of men and women God has raised to show the JESUS film night after night around the world, often at the risk of their lives.

The stories of God's preparation of


Staubach of Maasailand—until he told them he had become a Christian. Then everything changed. The other warriors forced him to fight them, and even though he defeated them all, they stole his cattle and persecuted him and made his life unbearable.

"He left his manyatta, and we met him a few months later. With very little coaching he learned to share his faith, and for the last six or eight months he's been walking from one manyatta to the next, talking to his people about Jesus."

"Did he have anything to do with getting into the manyatta we're going to now?" I asked.

"It's a direct result of his witnessing. He's fearless! A few months ago he was talking to a witch doctor in a village near here when the witchto God for yet another adventure. Looking back on the struggle I had put up, trying to keep God away from the controls of my life, seemed so foolish now. Yet I had been convinced that committing my life to Christ would mean no more than being sentenced to a kind of gray boredom. I could not have been more wrong.

It was not until a close friend asked what I was going to do with my life that I really gave God much serious thought. Just graduated from college, I wanted to make some money and find some excitement. I was only fooling around with God—until someone who loved me looked me straight in the eye and asked, "When are you going to get off the fence?"

That night


who had never heard. What could compare with this? What better thing could I do with my life? In the days that followed, many who would have died without Christ turned to Him because we brought the message of salvation. What we were doing had an eternal purpose with eternal results. How I wished every Christian could taste the excitement of sharing Christ on the "frontier," in the uttermost parts of the earth. Bored and blasé Christians would never feel the same about their faith again. It was an experience beyond words. Intoxicating. And completely humbling.

Then I understood what C. T. Studd must have felt when he returned to his home in England, hoping to recruit others to help in the pioneer mission venture he began in Africa.I wondered during the thirty-five seconds I had to prepare. What do they know about Jesus and God? Probably nothing. The Bible? They have never heard of it.

Then I found myself with an interpreter at my side while everyone waited. The giant African moon bathed the one hundred or so upturned Maasai faces with a gentle light, giving them a silvered beauty.

"I have come tonight to tell you about the greatest God in the universe and His Son, Jesus. The God I speak of created this world. He made the grass, the animals, and all cattle. He is the most powerful Person in the universe. He will live forever; He lives now in a great home beyond the sky, and He cares about you and me.

"Men have always


or spear—but Jesus makes it possible for us to be with God. Tomorrow we will explain how Jesus can get God to accept us even though we have done bad things."

It was a beginning, but I realized how much I took for granted. I saw, too, how the film explained it all so much quicker and clearer than I ever could.

One of the team members leaned up against a dung hut. "What happens now?" I asked him.

"Get some sleep," he said. "We'll go back to Nairobi in the morning for the equipment we need and try to make it back by dark. Then we'll try it again."

Jim Green and I decided to find our sleeping quarters, but instead found ourselves in the grip of several strong hands. Wethan two thousand warriors by the fourth night, plus many women and small children, living in the manyatta. The dancing and drinking continued night and day, with the atmosphere rowdy and wild. Everyone on the team felt tense and apprehensive.

Several hundred new warriors arrived one day at the manyatta, but refused to join in with the others. They stayed separated, kept to themselves, and stood on the outer edges of the circle, watching the dancing and festivities from a distance.

As darkness approached, the tension mounted, and Steve called the team together for a time of prayer. One by one, each member thanked God for giving him this rare opportunity and for what He planned to do. While they prayed, the fervor of the warriors' dancing climbed to a


Joseph Kihoro asked how many would like to invite Jesus Christ into their lives. Nearly 90 percent responded.

Today the Maasai continue to respond to the gospel, and many home churches have started. They do not erect church buildings because they are a nomadic people, but it is not unusual to pass by a tall African thorn tree in the plains near the Tanzania border and find a growing congregation gathered underneath, worshiping together.

* * *

Missionary/writer Don Richardson said that every people has a "redemptive analogy," a part of their culture and accepted custom through which they can receive forgiveness. The pastor of a thorn-tree church about a four-hour drive from Nairobi shared with me a most remarkable story about the Maasai concept of sin and forgiveness.

It was springin Africa, spring of the year of forgiveness. The witch doctor made his preparations, and as he lay by the few things needed for his journey, his heart was heavy. He was an old man. The task had fallen to him before, yet he never grew used to it: the pain, the fear, the unfairness to the one chosen and to his family. He straightened his aging shoulders. He would do what he had to do. The price must be paid for this generation.

He traveled many miles on foot to a manyatta far from his own. There he met with the medicine man of that Maasai tribe, and together they fell on their faces and prayed earnestly to Satan. For hours they prayed, seeking what the old witch


who would live as an outcast, paying for the sins of his generation with the rest of his life. The price of redemption was too high.

The day arrived, and the ceremony began that would point to the man who would be the scapegoat for the manyatta. The people of the village encircled the witch doctor and the four men. Rhythmically they swayed back and forth, waiting . . . waiting. Kneeling on the hardened ground in the center of the men, the old witch doctor raised his hand above his head and cast several small, marked pebbles at the feet of each man in turn. Then it was done. One had been chosen with the casting of lots. All were redeemed at the price of this one.

The scapegoatstood silently, his arms at his sides as the people moved away, away to celebrate the forgiveness of their sins and the return of the three men not chosen.

He looked into the eyes of his wife. His heart longed to hold her to him just one last time, but it could not be done. He was never to feel the touch of a human hand again. Death awaited anyone who touched an outcast.

His children wept with broken hearts. His mother and wife embraced and together wailed their agony of loss. Yet it was his father he would never forget as he watched the old man he revered slowly turn away from him. For a brief moment he had held his gaze—then it was gone, and he knew the


again, and the same voice said simply: "Dr. Bright wants you to see this man now. He'll be there within the hour." Then he hung up.

In less than an hour, I heard a knock at the cabin door. The tall, slender man standing on the porch was loaded down with projector, films, and cords. I took an armload of film canisters from him, and he stuck out his hand.

"I'm John Heyman," he said. "Thank you for taking the time. I know you're busy."

"We are." I grasped his outstretched hand. "We'll have to limit you to thirty minutes, John. I hope you'll understand, especially after the long drive up here."

He set to work threading the projector, explaining briefly his credentials and what we were about to see. John hopedI asked, "Would you like to pray this prayer of invitation?"

"I really would," he said.

With emotion thick in his voice, Larry prayed a very simple prayer of invitation to the Lord.

* * *

Before Larry or anyone else could experience the message of JESUS, however, months of hard work and long, grueling hours went into the completion of the film. There were times when we thought production might never end, but one day the director shouted, "That's a wrap!" and for the last time cameras and crews shut down and started toward home.

After seven months of pressure and fatigue, working in Middle Eastern temperatures from freezing to frying, our weary little "family" disbanded forever. The last frames of JESUS had been captured. The impossible achieved!

The filming phase was complete,


away in twenty cities!

Not only the evening crowds reached large capacity; the matinees did well also, thanks to the United States Catholic Committee. Anna Greves, an educational consultant from Akron, Ohio, organized a massive effort to bring Catholic school children to special morning and afternoon matinees. An office staff of ten in Akron worked around the clock to get tickets to thousands of schools and to make sure the managers were there to open the theaters for the special morning shows. By the end of the theater run, more than 250,000 Catholic school children had seen JESUS.

In addition, the communications office for the U.S. Catholic Charismatic Renewal shipped tickets to prayer group leaders all over the country. Sister Rosemary in San Bernardino, California, sold more than eight thousandEnglish, to appear to be speaking the language on the sound track. This process of replacing a sound track with new sound, in this case another language, is called "dubbing." At every dubbing location, biblical, linguistic, theological, and theatrical experts were assembled.

The first task to tackle involved answering several unusual but necessary questions: Can we edit Scripture? Which words should be omitted when the new language takes longer to speak than English? Which version of the Bible should we use? Who are the primary practicing Christians in the target country, and which versions would they approve? How should the name Jesus be spelled? Which voice accent should Jesus have? Upper class? Lower class? Middle class? And on and on . . .

Despite the challenges on every hand, translations


road was slick with mud, and she struggled to keep the little truck out of the drainage ditches on either side.

Gunfire seemed to come from everywhere, and suddenly Diana knew the truck had been hit. The wheel jerked violently in her hands. Over her fear and the crackling sounds of gunfire, she yelled, "Pray!" Suddenly the road made a sharp turn and started down a steep incline.

"Thank You, Jesus! Thank You, Jesus!" Anita cried out over and over. All she could think of was how grateful she felt for each moment they stayed on the road. Life was a gift straight from the hand of God.

Within a few moments they drove out of the range of gunfire, and Diana regained control of the truck. They sped on inblues, walking miles in their bare feet to get here.

It was a festive occasion, this showing of the film JESUS. The choirs from nearby Catholic and Anglican churches gathered to sing. Pastors from churches all around the area came, excited that JESUS had come to Kasaka at last.

One national pastor from several miles away said there had been an exciting increase in his congregation since the film came to their area. Attendance grew from less than thirty at services to more than six hundred within a year. The difference? Training that film teams made available to nationals, teaching them to share their faith. This pastor's congregation now had ten or twelve teams that went out daily to witness for Christ, and they were reaping a bountiful harvest.

"After we


and the laws they instructed him to live by never helped. Still he gambled; still he had no peace. Where was the freedom he so desperately longed to know?

His questions increased until one afternoon the mullah threw his hands over his head in exasperation. "I do not have the answers you seek, Subawi." he said. He pointed to the bookshelves lining his wall. "There. Take what you will from my shelves and find it yourself."

Subawi looked at title after title, and the one called Holy Bible caught his attention. A friend had mentioned it to him a long time before. He lifted the black-bound book from the mullah's shelf, tucked it under his arm and headed for home.

Subawi had heard that a very powerful mullah named Jesus wasanswering my questions. "Would you like me to lead you in a prayer so that you can invite Jesus to become your personal Savior?"

"Yes," she said, and there in that circle of believers, in a language I could not understand, phrase by translated phrase, another child entered the kingdom. We said "Amen," and her friends rushed to her, hugging her, weeping together with genuine joy.

By 1988, despite martial law, food shortages, and tremendous political turmoil, more than seven million people throughout Poland had seen JESUS. It has been shown during lunch hours in many factories of Gdansk where the Solidarity movement began. We are grateful to the authorities who permitted these showings.

* * *

We should not have been surprised—after all, God is the God of the impossible—but when


into the palms of their hands, then pointing to themselves, they testified to the fact that Jesus had died for them.

Between the showing of the film and my visit, more than sixty who saw JESUS had died, but for them there had been one last chance.

* * *

David Dass uses the film to work among the lepers. "Most of our work is in the slums and in the seven leper colonies within a few miles of here," he told me. There has been an encouraging response among the lepers, in particular the children.

"Many of the children contract the disease from their parents," he said, "mainly because they already suffer from malnutrition, and their resistance is run down. We feed them porridge every morning to try to build themthey have been almost overlooked by those with the good news—but not quite. In 1955 a young Wycliffe translator named Lillian Howland went to Central America to begin translation work on the New Testament. Thirty years later she completed the translation, but few Garifunas responded to the gospel. David Dickson heard that she mastered the language and began to study it under her tutelage. He now is the only white man to speak it fluently. As he learned the language, his burden to reach the Garifunas increased. He saw the JESUS film as an opportunity to spread the message quickly.

Not long after, David and two Garifunas left the palm-lined beaches and jungles of Honduras and flew to San Bernardino, California, to dub the film into their language. A


counterfeit federal reserve notes.   On April 2, 1986, his parole was revoked.   In February 1987, Glumb filed six habeas corpus petitions.   After a series of appeals, his parole date was advanced six months.   Glumb's terms of parole remained unchanged following his statutory interim hearing on March 28, 1988.   The Parole Commission's decision was affirmed by the National Appeals Board on August 2, 1988.

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Glumb's present petition, brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, raises five grounds for relief.   The magistrate below correctly held that three of these claims were barred by the successive writ rule because they had been previously litigated and adjudicated in Glumb's prior habeas proceedings.1  See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(a).   Likewise, petitioner'stheir incredibly talented staff in furthering the protection of human rights, and bringing Artsakh’s already improving human rights situation up to the international standards that are befitting of a modern democracy,” DerGrigorian said about his appointment.

DerGrigorian is an economist and international development consultant, with an area focus on the South Caucasus. He serves as the founding executive director of the Artsakh Human Rights Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving the protection of fundamental human rights in Artsakh.

DerGrigorian has also consulted for a number of international human rights organizations and development agencies, including the HALO Trust, Transparency International, and the United Nations Development Program. In addition, he has worked as a programs coordinator for the Open Society Foundations in Armenia. DerGrigorian holds two master’s degrees from the London School


Elena, a Scientology Volunteer Minister who recently returned home to the United States from Haiti, shares her experiences working the night shift at the General Hospital critical care unit.

“There was an old lady who was so thin you could count her bones. She had probably not been doing well before the earthquake, and although there was really nothing wrong with her medically, the doctor decided to keep her in the hospital, concerned she would die if he discharged her. She was lying in bed, eyes shut, not eating or reacting to anything at all. I held her and fed her—tiny pieces of food, piece by piece, hoping it would make a difference.

“When I came back the next day, the first thing I saw was this woman, sitting upImage copyright Getty Images Image caption Boris Johnson holding a kipper at the Conservative leadership hustings

Claim: EU regulations require kipper suppliers to keep their products cool with ice pillows when they are delivered.

Verdict: This is not true. EU regulation covers fresh fish, not smoked fish. The UK's Food Standard Agency says food manufacturers must transport food so it is fit to eat. This might require a "cool bag".

Speaking at the final hustings before the next prime minister is announced, leadership candidate Boris Johnson pulled a kipper out from under the podium.

Waving the smoked fish in the air, he said the manufacturer of the kipper - from the Isle of Man - was "utterly furious" with EU regulations.

"After decades of sending kippers like this through the post he has


In More Than Music, Maddie and Jared go on a show called The Sound, which is a lot like The Voice but with bands instead of individual singers. For the next few weeks I want to showcase some of the songs their band performs during their time on the show.

First up, "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers and "Uprising" by Muse. I love the guitar in both these songs and thought they would be fun for Maddie to play, plus they have great vocals I can imagine Jared belting out.

More Than Music comes out June 17th, and I'm SO thankful for the support of the bloggers, readers, and authors who have helped spread the word already. I've been completely blown away by the response so far!knowingly fail[ed] to report to the local law enforcement authority, to wit:
chief of police of Fort Worth, Texas, or his designee, with whom Defendant is
required to register once each 90-day period and with whom Defendant is
registered under the sex offender registration program, not earlier than the
83rd day before the 90th day and not later than the 98th day after the 90th day
following the 17th day of September, 1992, the date Defendant first registered
under the sex offender registration program to verify the information in the
registration form maintained by said law enforcement authority and the
Defendant had a conviction or adjudication for a sexually violent offense or
had been convicted or adjudicated two or more times, namely, a conviction for
aggravated rape with a deadly weapon, to wit: a knife, on the 3rd


day of
September, 1985, in the Criminal District Court Number Two of Tarrant County,
Texas, in cause number 215875A, and a conviction for aggravated rape with a
deadly weapon, to wit: a knife, on the 3rd day of September, 1985, in the
Criminal District Court Number Two of Tarrant County, Texas, in cause number
215874A, and Defendant=s
duty to register expires under article 62.12(A) of the Texas Code of Criminal
Procedure,

And
it is further presented to said court that prior to the commission of the
offense or offenses set out above the said defendant had been convicted of an
offense under article 62, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, to wit: failure to
comply with sex offender registration requirements in cause number 0820943D on
the 20th day of May, 2002, in the criminal district Court Number Four of
Tarrant County, Texas[.]

The presentmentcouples due process and equal protection of the laws."

The circuit court has jurisdiction over Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The panel's decision will not take effect until at least Aug. 18 while circuit clerks defending the state's ban decide whether to appeal to the full appellate court or the Supreme Court.

Like the first appeals court panel to rule on the issue this year in Utah and Oklahoma, the three-judge panel was deeply divided. But Floyd, considered the swing vote, came down on the side of same-sex marriage. Judge Roger Gregory, originally appointed by Bill Clinton in 2000, joined the majority. Presiding Judge Paul Niemeyer, a George H.W. Bush nominee, dissented.

"I do strongly disagree with the assertion that same-sex marriage is subject to the same


constitutional protections as the traditional right to marry," Niemeyer said. "I would reverse the district court's judgment and defer to Virginia's political choice in defining marriage as only between one man and one woman."

The Virginia case, which involves two couples seeking to marry in the state and two couples seeking to have their marriages from other states recognized, now gives the Supreme Court a choice. It can hear the Utah or Oklahoma cases from the 10th Circuit, wait for Virginia's to be appealed, or defer action even longer for other gay marriage cases scheduled for appellate hearings in August, September and beyond.

One way or another, legal experts agree the high court likely will accept a case for its 2014 term beginning in October or the 2015 term thatsame-sex couples without violating the equal protection and due process clauses of the Constitution.

Since then, district judges in 18 states have struck down bans on gay marriage or ruled that marriages performed elsewhere must be recognized in their states. Only the Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia cases have been heard by appeals courts so far.

"The 4th Circuit has affirmed that equality is not just a California value or a New York value — it's a fundamental American value," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's leading gay rights organization.

The 10th Circuit appeals court includes Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming, as well as New Mexico, where same-sex couples already can marry. The precedent set by the Utah and Oklahoma rulings applies to all those states,


but the panel blocked them from taking effect pending appeal. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has said he will seek seek Supreme Court review.

Other appellate court cases involving marriage bans in Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin will be argued in August and September. Appeals also are pending from Arkansas, Texas and Colorado.

The high court ruled last June that the federal government must recognize legal same-sex marriages, and it cleared the way for California to become the 13th state where gay men and lesbians could marry. Since then, six other states have legalized gay marriages by legislative action or court order — New Jersey, New Mexico, Illinois, Hawaii and, most recently, Pennsylvania and Oregon.

More than 70 lawsuits are pending in all 31 states that stillhave prohibitions. Some raise specific issues such as divorce or death benefits.

The Virginia case stands out for at least three reasons. It comes from the South, a region that has yet to embrace gay marriage. The state attorney general is the first at the appellate level to refuse to defend such a law since the California case that made it to the Supreme Court last year. And the lawyers for the original gay and lesbian plaintiffs, Theodore Olson and David Boies, are the same ones who won gay marriage rights in California last year.

"Today's decision stands as a testament that all Americans are created equal, and denying loving gay and lesbian couples the opportunity to marry is indefensible," Olson said.

After the verdict was announced, North Carolina Attorney General


plummeted. Fast forward to 2013 and the technology began catching up to the vision for the movie. Still, when Ben and his team decamped to the South West coast of Africa for a gruelling six-month desert shoot, there were just as many unknowns as there were knowns.

SCRATCHING PLAN A

Plan A was for Ben to be sitting in the sanitised comfort of an OB-style truck, making tweaks to finely tuned levels coming from DPA lavs on Lectrosonics packs, RF’ed back to base as the production would roll back and forth past him in the desert.

Ben Osmo: “In the original brief the vehicles might drive 500 metres to a kilometre away from us. In other words they might travel 1, 2, 3km-max, then stop. We did the first test andWAR RIG CABIN

At the risk of painting Ben Osmo as some kind of comedic Carry On Recording character in the desert, I should let him explain how he and his team solved the principal technical conundrum: how to mic and record eight actors in a fast-moving truck cabin where distance is an issue, ambient noise is punishing, and the fact your trying to send RF from a rusty steel cage is also a big problem. The solution deserves a round of applause:

Ben Osmo: “There are eight principal cast inside the War Rig cabin and they were fitted with Lectrosonics SMV or SMQV transmitters with DPA 4063 lapel mics. There was an antenna hidden inside the cabin with a coax cable to the interior of the tanker. In the


the senior high school. At a meeting of the Board on March 13, 1978, he presented a formal resolution to withdraw the magazine from the school library (Plaintiffs' Exhibit 2, Resolution of Alan C. Thomaier) appending thereto photocopies of classified advertisement sections from one of the issues of the magazine (Plaintiffs' Exhibit 5). At the meeting of the Board on March 27, 1978, Thomaier moved, seconded by member Stylianos, to have this resolution voted upon. Board members Sheer, Berman, and Chairman Ouellette suggested that the interim guidelines should be followed, and the procedure for review was explained by Superintendent Masse. Stylianos took the position that the Board members were not bound by these interim guidelines and that "in some cases they should act instantaneously" *1272 (Plaintiffs' Exhibit 2).By a five to three vote, the motion carried, and subsequently the subscription to MS magazine was canceled and all issues were removed from the school library (Plaintiffs' Exhibit 10).
Thomaier's objection to the periodical focused largely on the fact that it contained advertisements for "vibrators", contraceptives, materials dealing with lesbianism and witchcraft, and gay material. He also objected to advertisements for what he described as a pro-communist newspaper ("The Guardian") and advertisements suggesting trips to Cuba. In addition he felt that the magazine encouraged students and teachers to send away for records made by known communist folk singers. Board member Stylianos, a former school teacher and principal, took the position that the proper test for material to be available for reading by high school students was whether it


could be read aloud to his daughter in a classroom.
Plaintiff Salvail testified that she found MS of value in her assigned high school courses, as it discussed important social issues from a feminist viewpoint. She further testified that sexual matters were openly discussed at the Nashua senior high school and that she worked afternoons in a store where vibrators were sold. Ann Hostage, an English teacher, testified that she had assigned research in the magazine to several of her pupils, and plaintiff Hodge, another English teacher, said that he often assigned writings to his students on topics to be chosen by them and that his students had found the magazine valuable as a research tool.
Joseph Dionne, holder of a Master's degree in Library Science, himself a former assistantlibrarian at Nashua Public Library, testified that he had reviewed the issues of MS for the months of October 1977 through April 1978. He testified flatly that the magazine was neither obscene, patently offensive, nor in contravention of community standards, and that he felt that it was of value as a research tool. He also produced evidence that the magazine is indexed in the traditional type of reference volumes available to librarians for selection of books and periodicals. (Plaintiffs' Exhibits 7, 8.)
Joan McNamara, coordinator of instructional materials for the Concord senior high school, also possessed of a Master's degree in Library Science, testified that her high school has used MS magazine since 1975, that it is not obscene, that it is not patently offensive, that it does not


contravene community standards, and that it has a substantial degree of use by students at Concord High School. Board members Ouellette, Sheer, and Berman who had cast dissenting votes at the March 27, 1978, meeting, testified that they had done so because they felt that the Board should have followed the interim guidelines.
At a meeting of the Board on April 10, 1978, which was largely attended by the public, a number of letters (including one from member Carolyn Mason who had been unable to attend the meeting on March 27) from teachers and others were introduced relative to the failure to follow the review procedure with respect to MS magazine. In addition, a number of people spoke both pro and con relative to the action of the Board.
Subsequentto the commencement of the litigation herein, the Board met on March 27, 1979, having reviewed and scrutinized the issues of MS which had been removed from the library. At the meeting they voted to return the December 1977 and January 1978 issues of the magazine with classified ads excised. The Board also approved at such meeting final revised guidelines for the selection of instructional material which, as worded, were clearly applicable to (any Nashua resident) and would therefore include any member of the Board (Defendants' Exhibit C).

THE LAW
It is, of course, clear that the Board is required neither to provide a library for the Nashua senior high school nor to choose any particular books therefor, but, once having created such a privilege for the benefits of its