Moore police report shows officers found a juvenile and an adult man inside.

The district attorney has confirmed the adult is Senator Ralph Shortey.

The 35-year-old republican is involved with teens on a regular basis through the YMCA Youth in government program and as a senior staffer at Boys State.

When asked why he was in that motel room, he said “he was just there to hang out with his friend.”

That friend is a teenage boy whose parents told police “has a history of soliciting himself on Craigslist for sexual conduct.”

Inside a backpack, police say they found an “open box of condoms.”

Some of the details in the report are unclear because of the redacted information, but it appears the teen told his girlfriend earlier that “he was going to get paidEthnic tensions between the Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar have existed for decades. In August 2017, violence erupted with an attack by a Muslim terror group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, or Arsa, on Rakhine police posts. The military subsequently launched a brutal anti-Rohingya campaign, sparking a mass exodus to Bangladesh.

Human rights activists have criticised Aung San Suu-Kyi, the leader of Myanmar, for not publicly condemning the army's attacks and for failing to protect the Rohingya community from what the UN has described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

James Lavender, a London-based businessman and the founder of social enterprise 'incubator' IDEAS Globally, travelled to the northern Rakhine state in western Myanmar to document the stories of both Buddhists and Rohingya caught up in the


conflict.

A Rohingya village

My guide first took me to a Rohingya village, where I spoke to the village leader about the conflict.

It was the only house in the village with concrete walls and floor; the inside was cool and quiet. The man motioned for me to sit down on one of the tiny plastic chairs bunched around a makeshift table.

"How old is this community?" I asked.

"There have been Rohingya here in this village for over 100 years."

"I have heard some people say the Rohingya are from Bangladesh. Is that true?"

He leaned forwards and clasped his hands, looking up at me: "We are from Myanmar. My parents and my grandparents were born here. We are not Bangladesh."

"Can any of you work in the town?" I asked.

"No," he said bitterly, actuallyThose northern townships. Many hide in the jungle."

"Who are they hiding from?"

"From the Muslim terrorists." He took my arm. "Come."

We climbed a steep flight of stairs into another room. It was quieter here, but still filled with people, mostly women and babies. They sat in orderly spaces and sunlight fell across the wooden floor. Red Cross boxes were stacked next to each group. "All Rakhine people," he told me, as we walked to the end of the room.

It was interesting that whenever I heard the word 'Rakhine' used, it was only for the Buddhist population of Rakhine State. Imagine calling an English person 'British' but never using that word for other nationalities within the United Kingdom.

A monk wrapped in yellow-orange robes strolled over. "These people are all fleeing


might be expected to impact on the side of the vehicle provided with the impact girder. The impact girder can be mounted at its ends on the vehicle body, for example, on parts of the door frame when the impact girder is to be provided in the door of the vehicle. In the case of impact girders which are located in a side wall region other than a door, the impact girder can be affixed at its ends to the struts, braces or other parts of the vehicle body itself.
To maximize the deformation work and thus attenuate the impact to the greatest possible degree and thereby protect the occupants of the vehicle against the lateral impact, the deformation resistance of the impact girder should be only slightly smallerschool with a 3G football pitch and nursery class (opened August 2017) roughly where the buildings of Newton Farm itself previously stood. Barratt Developments, Miller Homes and Taylor Wimpey are the house builders involved - the latter firm is also in overall control of the whole project.

Future development over the next 10 years, involving another 900 houses and two local parks, encompasses land on the site of Newton House. The main road will complete a ‘loop’ back to the railway station. A retail zone for the district is also planned to be close to the station; however as of 2018 there was no confirmation as to when this commercial area would be built, what exact design it would have, or what businesses would be tenants. With development having


Wolfman in London: Joe Johnston resurrects a Universal horror legend

Werewolf? No, whenwolf…as in, when is director Joe Johnston's remake of the 1941 Universal classic The Wolf Man being released?

That was the question among the lycanthropic legions of horror buffs, who watched The Wolfman—one word—starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving, wander like a werewolf through the moors, unmoored. Universal in 2007 had announced the release date as Nov. 12, 2008, under original director Mark Romanek. But after Romanek left over creative differences in January 2008 and Johnston came on, the release got pushed three months to Feb, 12, 2009, then to April 3, then to Nov. 6, and finally to Friday, Feb. 12, 2010.

And now in late December 2009, just before Christmas, a genialJohnston, 59, is still doing final touches. "We're still doing ADR," he explains, using the common term for "automated dialogue replacement" or "additional dialogue recording," a.k.a. the standard practice of dubbing soundtrack dialogue that was recorded inaudibly or changed after shooting wrapped. "Emily Blunt is on a picture in New York and she was unable to do her ADR this week [as scheduled]. So we're sort of scrambling because she can't do it until January. She only has four hours worth of ADR, but it's going to be a race to finish now." As well, in November, esteemed editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch both came aboard to re-cut Dennis Virkler's original edit.

Johnston, who directed the hits Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and Jumanji (1995), the critically


of the Lon Chaney, Jr. classic, which was written by Curt Siodmak and directed by George Waggner, the new version was a longtime dream of Del Toro, who in addition to starring as the cursed Lawrence Talbot also shepherded the film for years, and has a producer credit.

"Benicio had said to me that The Wolf Man was his favorite movie when he was growing up," Johnston confides. "In fact, he said that one of the reasons he wanted to get into acting was so that he could eventually, someday, play the Wolf Man. He came to the project with his own vision of what the character is and who Lawrence Talbot is."

Johnston, for his part, had his own vision for the film, and believes he inherited the jobin Gwen Conliffe—an antique-shop owner (Evelyn Ankers) in the original, his murdered brother's fiancée (Blunt) here—and on encountering a werewolf contracts the curse. Unlike the 1941 film, which was set in the present day, the remake takes place in 19th-century Victorian England, and adds Scotland Yard inspector Francis Aberline (Weaving), a fictionalized version of the real-life London Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector Frederick "Francis" Abberline, one of the main constabulary on the Jack the Ripper case.

Johnston had only three weeks of pre-production, he says, because the studio "had already spent so much money and had gone down this road with Mark Romanek, and said, 'We have to start shooting the movie at this point.' I think a lot of it involved possibly actors' contracts and a release date. Fortunately


the holders of county bonds should apply to the county auditor to issue his warrant upon the treasurer for the payment of either principal or interest. It is the auditor's duty to issue the proper warrants and deliver them to the treasurer without request of the bondholders.
5.

SAME-INTEREST O:1il INTEREST.

Holders of county bonds, issued under the laws of Ohio, which stipUlated for the payment of interest semi-annually, part only of the bonds having coupons therefor attached, and the semi-annual installments of interest not being paid when due, are entitled to recover interest upon all such semi-annual installments from the date they became due.

At Law. Thomas et Thomas, for plaintiff. White, McKnight &; White, for defendant. SAGE, J. The plaintiff sues to recovel' the principal and interest of certain bondsbearing interest at 6 per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, issued in the year 1870 by the county of Brown, to pay the cost of improving a county road. The plaintiff also claims interest upon the unpaid installments of interest from their maturity. The first defense admits the issuing of the bonds to the contractor who constructed and completed the road, and their transfer to the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff is entitled to recover the amount of th(l bonds, with interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum. Defendants say that they have always been ready and willing to pay the plaintiff the amount so admitted to be due, upon presentation of the bonds and coupons, and the delivery of tIlem for cancellation, which plaintiff


plaintiff never in person, or by agent or attorney, presented his bonds to the auditor of the county for redemption and cancellation, or demanded from the auditor his upon the treasurer for the payment of the same. The defendants also allege that since 1878 there have been at all times funds in the treasury of said county ample for the payment of said bonds, and 6 per cent. per ttnnum interest thereon. The third and last defense is that said coupons were never presented to the auditor, and warrants obtained from him for their payment by the treasurer. Defendants admit that about the twentyseventh of May, 1881, said bonds and coupons were presented to the treasurer of Brown county by the plaintiff, and payment demanded, with a demandalso for interest on the coupons, which was refused, but the treasurer offered to pay the bonds, with simple interest, on the surrender of the bonds and coupons, which was declined. The pla.intiff replies that it was understood by and between the county commissioners and the parties to whom the bonds were delivered, and at the time of their delivery, that the same should be paid by the treasurer of the county directly, without the warrant of the auditor, in accordance with the uniform custom in said county, and that in accordance with said custom the auditor at all times refused to issue warrants in such cases. He also denies the allegation of the answer that the treasurer, in May, 1881, offered to pay principal and simple interest,


and avers that at that time the treasurer informed him that he had no funds wherewith to make payment, and denies that there ever was money in the treasury to pay the plaintiff's demands. These are all the allegations of the reply necessary for the purposes of this decision. The improvement of the road was ordered, and an assessment made by the county commissioners, in the year 1866, upon a petition under the act of April 5, 1866. 63 Ohio Laws, 114. The act authorizes the commissioners to issue the bonds of the county for the payment of the expense of the improvement, payable in installments, or at intervals, not extending in all beyond the period of five years, and bearing interest at 6 per centum per annum,particular material to this case. The sRving clause of the act of 1867 prevented that acf, and the repeal of the act of 1866, from affecting the proceedings, including the assessment, for the improvement of the road to pay the cost of which the bonds sued upon were issued, and, in the opinion of this court, reserved to the commissioners the right to issue bonds in payment of the expense of said improvement, as provided in the act of 1866. The act of 1867 was not amendatory; it was new legislation relating to the same subject-matter as the act of 1866, which it repealed. The general reservation of all right acquired and liabilities incurred, included the right vested in the county commissioners to issue bonds to pay the


expense of the improvement which had been ordered, and the assessment made before the passage of the act of 1867. But if the bonds depend for their validity upon the act of 1867, or the amendment of 1869, the result in this case would not be affected, as we shall presently see. The validity of the bonds must be sustained upon that act and amendment, if not upon the act of 1866; for it cannot be concluded that the legislature intended, notwithstanding the reservation in the act in 1867 in favor of rights accrued and liabilities incurred, to nullify that reservation by taking away from the commissioners the right to issue bonds for any improvement ordered, and for which an assessment had been made under the act of1866. The bonds in this case were issued in No payments of prin. cipal or interest have been made. They are payable 48 months afte\ date, with interest at 6 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually. Some of the bonds have interest coupons, and the interest is payable "on presentation of proper coupon." Others are without coupons, and provide upon their face for the semi-annual payment of interest. The validity of the proceedings, of the order for the improvement, and of the assessment under which the bonds sued upon were issued, was contested, and during the litigations, which continued until late in the year 1877, no assessments were collected. The first payment into the county treasury on account of assessments was in February, 1878, and until then there


were no funds available for the payment of principal or interest of bonds. Neither bonds nor coupons were in the mean time presented for payment. On the twenty-seventh of May, 1881, the plaintiff, by his attorney, presented his bonds and coupons and demanded payment, with interest upon the coupons from the date of their maturity. At the maturity of the coupons, and of the bonds, there were no funds in the county treasury for their payment. That was sufficient excuse for the failure to present them and demand payment. The stipulation for the payment of the interest on presentation of the proper coupon imported on the part of the commissioners

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that the county would have the money in the treasury ready for payment when the interest became due.upon this point. In construing the statutes of a state, the United States courts adopt and follow the decisions of the courts of the state. There is another consideration which, in view of the reasoning of the court in Cook v. Conrtright, cited above, sheds light upon this branch of the case. The county commissioners were authorized to issue the bonds of the county, payable in installments, or at intervals, not extending in all beyond the period of five years. They could, if they saw fit, make them payable, some in one month, some in three months, some in six months, and others at any other intervals within five years,-all bearing interest at 6 per centum per annum,-and thus provide for the payment of interest monthly or quarterly


counties in this state, is

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the act of February 28, 1859. 56 Ohio Laws, 28. It makes it the duty of the county auditor to draw at the proper time his warrant upon the treasurer for the payment of such installments of principal and interest as may be then due, and to deliver the same to the treasurer, and the duty of the treasurer to thereupon make payment. The law now in force (Rev. St. Ohio, § 1063) contains the Bame provision in effect. It is nowhere made the duty of the holder of the securities to apply to the auditor for a warrant. That is between the auditor and the treasurer, and the bondholder has nothing whatever to do with it, and is not responsible forin Brown county, ever since the passage of the law of 1867 authorizing the improvement of county roads by assessment, for the treasurer to pay the bonds and coupons issued for such improvement without such warrant upon presentation to him of the bonds or coupons, provided there was money in the treasury applicable to the payment of the same. It is enough to sary of this custom that it is not worth the slightest' consideration. It was at all times the auditor's duty to look to the statute. There was no such money in the treasury until February 28, 1878, when there was paid upon assessments the sum of $2,426.95. In August, 1878, were paid $359.54, and subsequently there were payments from year to year until in Feuruary,


objection to the jurisdiction of this court has been heretofore disposed of, and need not be further considered. It is not well taken.

UNITED STATES v. SHRIVER.

(Distriot Oourt, S. D. fllinois. 1885.

INTERNAL REVENUE-RETAIL LIQUOR DEALER'S LICENSE.

A party having paid special tax as retail liquor dealer at a particular town, who fills orders received by mail to ship liqnors in retail quantities to another town, there to be delivered to the party so ordering upon payment of the price of the liquor, together with the express charges, is liable to the payment of special tax as retail liquor dealer at the place where such delivery is made.

Indictment for carrying on business of retail liquor dealer at Fairfield, Illinois, without payment of special tax. James A. Connolly, Dist. Atty., for prosecution.Bluford Wilson and J. Bowman, for defense. TREAT, J. The defendant is indicted for carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer at Fairfield, Illinois, without having paid the special tax required by the laws of the United States. It appears that his residence and regular place of business were at Shawneetown, Illinois, where he carried on business as wholesale and retail liquor dealer, having paid his special tax as such; and so far as his business was carried on there, it appears to have been in strict accordance with the law. But it appears that he went to Fairfield, Illinois, to solicit trade, taking with him samples of his liquors which he exhibited to different persons there; took some orders, and while there made a contract


Maia Magrakvelidze, doctoral student in physics, has been selected for the 2013 K-State Physics Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Award from the physics department.

She is researching the dissociation dynamics of diatomic molecules in intense laser fields. Her doctoral adviser is Uwe Thumm, professor of physics.

She received her bachelor's degree and master's degree in condensed matter physics from Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. She also received a master's degree in atomic and molecular physics from Kansas State University in 2009.life last September.

An inquest into the death heard that 18 year old Jayden Lowe was spending £30 per month on hormone treatment and receiving testosterone by mail. However, Jayden’s mother, Claire Lowe, has called for a second inquest after discovering that Jayden had received the hormone treatment from GenderGP, which operated without a licence between March 2017 and February 2018.

The website was run by husband and wife, Mike and Helen Webberley, who were associated with the charity Mermaids. They have both been suspended by the British Medical Council, pending investigation, but Helen Webberley, who treated children as young as twelve, has already been found guilty of illegally providing healthcare services from her home.

1st July

FairPlayForWomen published a guest post by the Greater Manchester Resisters called “Are Lesbians Welcome at


his school for insisting to his teacher that “There are only two genders”, continued. It was revealed that Murray has not just been excluded for a few weeks but has been removed from school completely.

3rd July

The Royal College of Psychiatrists was tweeting about its International Congress conference and posted the “Genderbread Graphic” much beloved of trans lobby groups. Though colourful, this graphic is entirely without scientific basis and adheres rigidly to narrow gender stereotypes of femininity and masculinity. It has been widely debunked and derided on internet sites and social media.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists followed this up by later tweeting approvingly of the situation in Iran where transgenderism is “More accepted than being gay”

They have apparently failed to grasp that the Iranian religious fundamentalist government actually forcesHALIFAX - Another great white shark has been detected off Nova Scotia.

A tag attached to Savannah, a 210-kilogram shark, pinged Monday morning off Barren Island on the province's eastern shore.

It joins a 600-kilogram tagged shark named Hilton, who has spent more than a week along Nova Scotia's south shore, and most recently pinged Monday night off Peggy's Cove outside Halifax.

Both sharks were tagged by the research group Ocearch, and are being watched closely through an Ocearch tracking map and their own Twitter feeds with thousands of followers.

Ocearch chair Chris Fischer has said the sharks could be using Nova Scotia's Sable Island as a place to mate.

The sharks are also likely drawn to the province to feed on seals.

On Tuesday, Hilton's Twitter feed responded to a tweet showing seals


off Grandmother's Cove near Lunenburg, N.S., with a drool emoji and the words: "Mmmm yummy seals."

Rear Admiral John Newton, who commands Canada's East Coast navy, also tweeted a photo Monday of a south shore inlet, saying "@HiltonTheShark has been scaring the seals right up into our cove today. First time seeing them hanging in the shallows."

On Monday, Hilton had tweeted a map showing his Nova Scotia location and called to another Twitter-using shark: "Hey @SharkSavannah, come on up. Lots of good eating here!"

In November, a 900-kilogram great white named Lydia - who also has her own Ocearch-managed Twitter account - was among two tracking off Nova Scotia.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy says the animal is the largest predatory fish in the world, with a powerful jaw full ofof the rooms have romantic faux French balconies and sliding doors). There are three conference rooms (one large, two smaller); 24/7 business/conference center, state-of-the-art fitness center/spa, 24/7 room service, gourmet coffee shop leased to caterer Pearl Griffin; guest concierge, gift/souvenir shop/art gallery with prints by AndrT Guichard, of Gallery Guichard; a nearly completed upscale restaurant and a lounge. In the lobby and hallways, there’s lots of Black art and several originals are by Dale Washington.

Lobby dTcor is by Cecil Hayes, an African American interior designer ranked among the world’s top. Her award-winning dTcor has been featured on the pages of Architectural Digest, New York Times, Washington Post, Florida Design and Southern Living. Her signature luxury furniture line, the Mikala Collection (consoles, tables, upholstery, etc.) is evident throughout the


hotel.

Several top-level execs and other essential staff are on board, including Wilma Davis, a marketing maven, drumming up convention business. An official grand opening is slated for late June or early July. Scholarship Soiree–Fisk Univ. alums were here, there and everywhere with friend folks and kinfolk filling DuSable Museum to capacity-plus for That’s Entertainment, a scholarship benefit hosted by the Chicago Area Fisk University Alumni Association.

“Big Mac”–Don Thompson, president of McDonald’s USA, receives the prestigious Harold H. Hines Jr. Benefactor’s Award from UNCF at its 2008 Black & White Ball: Living the Legacy Gala on June 7 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel. The coveted Legacy Award will go to Clear Channel Radio Chicago. The 2007 Gala, chaired by Richard Stephens of The Boeing Co., the presenting sponsor, raisedWatch the first trailer above and check out the official synopsis after the jump!

Carter is a seemingly well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce. Having survived the madness of his parents’ divorce, Carter now has a successful career and supportive girlfriend. But when his younger brother gets engaged, Carter is forced to reunite his bitterly divorced parents and their new spouses for the wedding, causing the chaos of his childhood to return including his wacky therapist.


developed by Goat, Wolf, & Cabbage LLC, manufactured by Breaking Games and distributed by Blackbox. The game was designed by Max Temkin, Mike Boxleiter and Tommy Maranges, with artwork created by Mackenzie Schubert, and first released on August 25, 2016.

The standard edition is identical to the edition of Secret Hitler that shipped to Kickstarter backers in 2016, including foil inlays on the boards and wooden placards for the Chancellor and President.Players are secretly divided into two teams: the liberals, who have a majority, and the fascists, who are hidden to everyone but each other. If the liberals can learn to trust each other, they have enough votes to control the elections and save the day. But the fascists will say whatever it takes to get elected, advance theirgames readily defeat strict categorization, but here are the important commonalities to the social deduction games I’ll discuss:

Players are assigned to a team in secret.

There’s a Good Team, which has a majority, and a Bad Team, which has more information.

The Bad Team must hurt the Good Team in secret.

The Good Team must figure out who is on the Bad Team to prevent further interference, but they have limited information, which forces them to rely on social cues.

The asymmetry of more people vs. more information is, for me, the engine that makes social deduction games go. They are, at their core, (and this gets at the inherently political nature of the genre) about a well-coordinated minority convincing less-informed members of the majority to vote against their own interests.

The most


I met Trish and James of Broadcast for the first time in 1999. It was in NYC. My roommate Olivier and I traveled all the way from Montreal to attend Broadcast's first North Amercan show. It was at the Bowery Ballroom. I wasn't even 21. I was a huge fan, obviously. I asked their manager, Martin Pike (who also manages Stereolab) if it was possible to get an interview with the band, which he organized for me. I had a radioshow specialized in British pop back then, it was at CISM, Université de Montréal's campus radio station. The interview happened. And we became friends. I have no clue how it happened but it did. We met a few more times over the years but there were numerous emails.all sound really phoney but that's how I felt as I was writing There Is A Voice.. The lyrics were inspired by emails that Trish sent me about two years ago now. One of them was describing a huge winter storm that happened in the UK. She was describing how the canal right by their home was all transformed, frozen, and that everything looked "quite alien". But I also wanted to make the song about Trish's voice, that voice that was present so often in my life. It had to be about her voice.

This track was recorded by James Cargill of Broadcast in 2003. It was after we spent some time at a studio in Birmingham where they were working on The HaHa Sound. I was playing on


of some sound effects created with the help of a Roland Space Echo, thanks to my friend Philippe Roberge, an tape-delay device that Trish used to use a lot on her vocals in the last few years. And my friend Simon Tremblay (AKA James Bay) did the mastering, giving the track more presence and depth. As a huge Broadcast fan, I think Simon was happy to contribute to the track.

The song is messy, there are tons of things to listen to... including some 60s electronic music samples. I felt like using some samples was also adequate because Broadcast was one of the first bands that used samples that I was immediately drawn to, on "Work and Non Work" which was the first music I ever heard by them...of Expo 67, the universal exhibition that happened in 1967 in Montreal. I was asked to write some original music for the project and I asked James Cargill if he'd be interesed in collaborating on a few tracks. The music is meant to be a sound portrait of some of the pavillions that are still on the site today. The French Pavillion is now Montreal's casino - a shame really because the building has a unique architecture. But the music was written so that we can really feel the language of the building's architecture. James contributed to this b-side with some spaced-out arpeggios sound that are meant to represent "the spinning movement" that its metallic structure creates.

James and I wrote a track inspired by The Man, a massive


New GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY International Trailer Features More Rocket Raccoon

Marvel has released a new Guardians of the Galaxy international trailer that features more Rocket Raccoon, less classic rock, and additional focus on the story. While I was already sold on director James Gunn’s intergalactic adventure, this new trailer will get a lot more regular moviegoers excited for the movie. As most of you know, the story follows five intergalactic misfits—Peter Quill aka Starlord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), and Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper)—as they set out to recapture a powerful and mysterious orb from the villainous Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace).

Hit the jump to check out the new Guardians of the Galaxy international trailer and clickhere for our full rundown of the highlights from the recent Guardians Q&A. The film also stars Benicio Del Toro, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Rooker, and Glenn Close. Guardians of the Galaxy opens in 3D on August 1st.

Trailer via Marvel.

Here’s the official synopsis for Guardians of the Galaxy:

From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team – the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed epic space adventure, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions


Public frustration is growing over federal agencies' resistance to providing records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to journalists and open government advocates.

"We have a weaker FOIA law than Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico and Russia," said David Cuillier, president of the Society of Professional Journalists.

"FOIA is terribly, terribly broken. It needs more than just invigoration, it needs resuscitation,” he said in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Cuillier cited the World Press Freedom Index for 2014, in which the U.S. dropped 13 points, down to 46th place, behind countries such as Romania and Botswana. The index is prepared by Reporters Without Borders, a journalism advocacy group based in France.

Daniel Metcalfe, executive director of Collaboration on Government Secrecy at American University, told the committee that the openness-in-government community hasdirector of openthegovernment.org.

"If the government were not convinced that the requested document would advance the public interest, a requester would still have the opportunity to ask a court to independently weigh the government's needs in invoking the privilege," she said.

Gavin Baker, policy analyst at the Center for Effective Government, said the implementation of a public interest balancing test to Exemption 5 would be a helpful step forward.

The FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2013 would give the Office of Government Information Service more independence and empower it to recommend FOIA administration improvements to Congress. The bill passed the House in February and was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The OGIS was established to review agencies' policies, procedures and compliance and to provide mediation services to resolve FOIA disputes.

"We


think that was one of the key provisions of that bill," Baker said.

Baker's group made public a FOIA scorecard earlier this week, in which seven of 15 major federal agencies received Fs.

The Justice Department, which oversees FOIA compliance in the executive branch, created guidelines in 2009 to help agencies reduce response backlogs.

"The attorney general's guidelines did not require implementing regulations. We have been working steadily and very aggressively since they were issued in 2009 to implement those guidelines not just at DOJ, but across the government," Melanie Pustay, director of the DOJ's Office of Information Policy, told the committee.

Pustay outlined five Obama administration initiatives she said were designed to modernize FOIA, including establishing an online FOIA portal, developing a common FOIA regulation that applies to all agencies, andCheuk Yuk (Bosco Wong)is a major figure in the financial industry who has no problems with crossing boundaries and playing dirty tricks for his own benefits. For this, he has long been a target of the Commercial Crime Bureau. Cheuk Yuk is much obsessed in the game of money and power, such that he neglects his family and friends. His wife and master have successively passed away because of him; however, he still felt no remorse, and instead, his ways have even worsened. Cheuk Yuk's brother-in-law, Chow San Yung (Ben Wong), being a member of the CCB, vows to have Cheuk Yuk prosecuted and brought to justice. His senior Ho Seung Yi (Sharon Chan) and subordinate Chi Nga (Kate Tsui) also work together with him to collect evidence.


San Yung, at first, had high hopes for Chi Nga and even views her as his apprentice; however, Chi Nga suddenly resigns from her position as a CCB member and joins Cheuk Yuk's company. She first gains the trust of Cheuk Yuk's second wife, Fong Ming Yu (Nancy Wu) and then assists Cheuk Yuk to battle the female tycoon of the financial industry, Chai Pui Guen (Elena Kong). Eventually, Chi Nga seems to have the entire situation under her control, and even Cheuk Yuk's fiery ambition appears to have been engulfed. In the battlefield of the financial industry, where there is countless bloodshed and slaughtering, who will decide the final victory?He's a real sweetheart, to so something like this. What a dirtball Arpaio is! I hope he ends up in jail:

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio dropped a bombshell in court Thursday when he said his former lawyer had hired a private investigator to look into the wife of the federal judge presiding over a contempt of court case against the sheriff.

The hearing took the strange turn after Arpaio had finished his testimony and Judge Murray Snow began asking him questions, including whether the sheriff was investigating his family.

Arpaio said he believed his former lawyer, Tim Casey, had hired a private investigator to look into his wife. The investigation stemmed from a purported comment Snow's wife made about the judge not wanting Arpaio to get re-elected in


WASHINGTON — A few days later, it all seems too perfect: The Houston Astros clinched the American League pennant last Saturday with a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning by Jose Altuve, their leader and heartbeat. Minute Maid Park erupted in joy. The Astros would be hosting the opening games of the World Series for the first time, and they would have their best pitchers rested and ready.

Now, as the World Series moves to Washington for the first time in 86 years, it is the Nationals who have seized the moment, and the Astros are reeling. Houston’s aces, Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander, lost in consecutive games for the first time all season. After a one-run loss in the opener, the Astros were humiliated inLast Friday, an unidentified female police officer in Euharlee, Ga. Fatally shot 17-year-old Christopher Roupe after officers showed up with a probation warrant for Roupe's father. A Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesperson alleged Roupe answered the door holding a handgun, while the family's attorney claims Roupe was holding a Wii controller and opened the door after the cops knocked but failed to identify themselves. The officer shot Roupe once in the chest, killing him. WSB-TV in Atlanta also relays witness accounts:

Neighbors said they ran to the home after they heard the shot.

"When we got up there, they said there was a Wii remote in his hand and she shot him," said Tia Howard, who lives a few doors down.

Neighbor Ken Yates said he saw the female officer moments


after the fatal shot.

"This is tragic. She came out of this house. She put her head in her hands and she was sobbing. Supposedly, he opened the door with a BB gun and in my opinion I think he was playing a game with his neighborhood buddies," said Yates.happens in Saudi Arabia," Harrison said.

"It is time the authorities in Saudi Arabia start respecting their international legal obligations and remove these terrible punishments from the law."

According to Amnesty, such a sentence would contravene the United Nations Convention against Torture, to which Saudi Arabia is a signatory, as well as the Principles of Medical Ethics adopted by the UN General Assembly.

A spokesperson for Britain's Foreign Office said the agency was "deeply concerned" about the reports and called on the Saudi government to change the sentence.

"We urge the Saudi authorities to ensure that this grotesque punishment is not carried out. Such practices are prohibited under international law and have no place in any society," the spokesperson said in a statement.

Judges in Saudi Arabia are known to impose punishments such


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I started this six week journey in Copenhagen and ended it there. I walked down the shopping streets and stared at all the beautiful people. The tall blonde danes were everywhere, striding in their pencil jeans and cropped jackets.

In my wandering down side streets, I became enamored with the city’s charm as evidenced through the colors of the buildings, the windows, the bicycles at rest.

I visited the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, a museum that specialized in sculpture. The sculptures moved me deeply. They were set in royal blue chambers in a very free fashion, almost as if they milled about each night after the doors were locked and froze where ever they happened to be the next morning.

The Oldest of the Line by Stephan Sinding.

Aisland was peacefully quiet apart from the birds’ constant calls. The views were spectacular. Leah worked on a watercolor, Felicia and Daria rested. I wandered. It was a restorative place.

In 1980, when I was a sophomore in college, I spent the summer in Amsterdam working at The Shelter, a Christian sponsored youth hostel in the red-light district. An Irishman named Kevin McGrady with crinkly eyes and a taunting sense of humor became my flirtatious friend. We spent the summer working together and one night we went out for what felt like a date. It was casual but we were away from the Hostel and alone which made it an event. All I remember is that we teased each other, walked the canals and he told me he had


a decision to make but wouldn’t tell me what. Years later I learned that in 1982, Kevin returned to Ireland, turned himself in, was convicted for crimes committed including several murders while he had been a member of the IRA’s 4th Battalion of the Belfast Brigade. In 1983, he was the star witness in the third Supergrass trial, resulting in the arrest and conviction of several IRA members.

On this trip to Belfast, Felicia and Daria had arranged for us to take a Black Cab Tour which focused on the political murals and the “Peace line” between the Nationalists (Catholics) and Loyalists (Protestants.)

This 90 minute tour turned into 3 hours as our wonderful guide first took us along the peace line on the Catholic side and then crossed overthe trip if he knew the name and he stated he didn’t. The more time we spent with him, the more I came to believe that he knew much more about the IRA’s workings than he was acknowledging. It was a difficult afternoon–so many people died, so many fallen young people painted on the walls at the ends of each of their blocks. While peace is in the wind, there is still violence–a bomb went off there last week.

On Wednesday, June 16th, 2015, I picked up my friend Felicia and her sister Daria at the Dublin airport. We drove cross country to Killarney where we spent the night. The next day began our four day tour up the western coast of Ireland. Thursday morning was bright, crisp, and


of Aughnamullen; that she was from Derrygooney and he was from Mountain Lodge; that their ages and dates of birth were confirmed; that a man named Samuel Boyd was a witness; thus validating that Samuel Boyd in the USA that I suspected was closely related.

I also received a copy of her sister’s civic marriage record ten years later in Cootehill.

It confirms that Margret and Susan are sisters–the father is the same and the place of Derrygooney is the same for both Margaret and her husband John Fleming.

After this Dublin research, I picked up a rental car and drove to Monaghan where I spent two nights.

I learned through records at a local library (in Clones) that a James Boyd reportedly rented (was a tenant farmer) 3 acres of landin 1829ish in Derrygooney. He is the only James Boyd in that area listed. In the 1860’s, he had doubled the amount of land he is renting and has a few more buildings on it.

By 1886, the land goes to a Mary Boyd and we hear no more about James; presumably he died. Mary lives on the land until her death in 1904 according to the parish of Aghnamullen records where she was buried. Her age is listed to be 74, meaning she was born in 1830.

If she was born in 1830, she couldn’t be Susan’s mother. She would have to be a sister of Susan’s, perhaps one who stayed behind when the rest of the family left for America. She never married because she kept her name


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Jobs Canada promises to connect attendees with more than 15,000 employment opportunities across Canada at its job fairs, all for the cost of a few dollars.

One of those fairs took place Monday at the Radisson Hotel on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg.

In advertisements online, Jobs Canada said the event would give job seekers face time with 11 employers, all eager to hire. The ad was widely shared on social media and even posted by the Government of Manitoba on a website geared toward newcomers—but attendees the CBC spoke to said the $2 admission wasn't worth it.

Abdulhi Mohamed said he was disappointed with the Jobs Canada job fair in Winnipeg on Monday. (CBC) Abdulhi Mohamed, a high school student, was expecting to learn about dozens of job opportunities to helphim pay for college or university. Mohamed brought a stack of resumes with him and was prepared for interviews. He thought, in his words, he would get "hired on the spot."

Instead, Mohamed left disappointed like everyone else, he said.

"They didn't even take my resumes," said Mohamed.

"A waste of money ... a ripoff," said fellow attendee Salman Ahmed, of the event.

Jobs Canada advertised 11 employers, including Sun Life Financial, Canada Post and Statistics Canada, would be available to meet job seekers like Ahmed and Mohamed.

"We saw only five jobs. Real estate and Tim Horton's that was it. They said McDonald's was coming, Canada Post was coming. There were no jobs," said Mohamed.

A description for the job fair on Jobs Canada's Eventbrite page describes it as an "incredible and outstanding


adopted in 2004 at a meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. The Declaration first lists all the ills of the current world: poverty, famine, wars, limited access to drugs, environmental degradation, and pandemic disease. Then it argues without transition that they are "directly related to the development of neoliberal economic globalisation... an ideology that claims to be without alternative, demanding an endless flow of sacrifices from the poor and creation", and then argues that Neoliberalism "...makes false promises that it can save the world through the creation of wealth and prosperity, claiming sovereignty over life and demanding total allegiance, which amounts to idolatry". Wow. Neoliberalism appears thus to be a powerful cult, that could be thus be competing against established religions.

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at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Coroner's Office. All deaths registered in 2017 which mentioned drugs (e.g., \"opiate toxicity,\" \"mixed drug toxicity,\" \"chronic drug misuse,\" etc.) in the cause of death were identified for further review. Initially, those coroner reports that returned with a verdict of \"suicide\" following the inquest were removed. Subsequently, those files which were \"open\" for an inquest were also removed, along with those in which the cause of death was not related to drug toxicity (e.g., \"hypovolemic arrest\"). Thirty cases of unintentional drug-related deaths registered in 2017 in Cambridgeshire were identified.

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"Today these (cyber) attacks are not about vandalism any more, today it's about cash," said Roger Halbheer, Microsoft's chief security advisor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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in
the books. Brief attention will also be given to humor, one of several
characteristics common to books from all five countries.

Though this report involves books
in which awards were announced in 2003 and 2004, it is part of a larger study
covering 24 years, back to awards announced in 1981. This presentation is
a part of the American Reading Forum’s 25th anniversary. The
presenters’ collection does include the winners of the awards for 1980, but they
were never included in the study; they were added to the collection after the
study was well underway.

This report is the seventh about parts of the total study that have been given
at annual meetings of the American Reading Forum. Summaries of the
previous presentations, all included in yearbooks of the American Reading Forum,
are the following:

Aaron, I. E., & Hutchinson, S.M.(2003). Most
recent (2002) contenders for and winners of children’s book awards in five
English-speaking countries. In W. Trathen (Ed.) Reading at the
Crossroads: Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, XXIII.

The two presenters began collecting award winners only from the five countries
in 1986, 19 years ago. They collected winners back an additional five years, to
1981. In each of the earlier years through 1991, approximately 10 to 12
winning titles were added to the collection. In 1992, 13 years ago, all
contenders (finalists) as well as winners were collected, accounting for up to
as many as 75 to 80 titles each year. The 2003-2004 books of concern in this
report total 154. It should be noted that Great Britain’s award dates are
those in which the books were originally published; the remaining four countries
list the year in


which the awards were given, one year after publication.

The Awards,
Announcement Dates, and Sources of Books

The Awards

The selected award categories and the sponsoring organizations are the
following:

The collection began with Caldecott and Newbery Medals of the American Library

Association. The selected award categories from the four
non-U.S. countries were those the two presenters concluded were most like those
of the United States awards.

Library associations administer the awards in Canada (CLA) and in the United
States (ALA). The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA), which includes
librarians, handles the Australia awards. The awards in Great Britain are given
by CILIP, a recent merger of librarians and information professionals. New
Zealand’s awards are administered by LIANZA, which also includes both librarians
and information specialists.

All five countries have awards for illustration and for quality of literature.
Australia has two in-between categories (A2-ElementaryReaders, A3- Younger
Readers). The A2-Elementary

Reader’s titles were considered as illustration and the
A3-Younger Reader’s books as quality of literature. Throughout the rest of this
report, the letters and numbers in the above listing of awards (as A1, A2, C1)
will be used to identify award categories

Announcement Dates

Award announcement dates vary some from year to year and from country to
country. All countries except the United States announce shortlists, usually
from approximately four to as many as 10 titles for each award, depending upon
the country, several weeks to several months before winners are selected from
the shortlisted books. The United States announces winners and honor books at
the winter meeting of the American Library Association. Announcement dates for
2004 are given in Figure 1.

Figure 1. 2004 Announcement Dates for Shortlists and
Winners

ShortlistsWinners

Australia
April
6
August 20

Canada April
12
June 9

Great
Britain
April
30
July 9

New
Zealand
August
9
September 14

United
States
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January 12

Sources


of Books

Figure 2 lists the sources used in 2003 and 2004 for obtaining books. A single
bookstore in each of the four non-U.S. countries serves as the source for the
shortlisted books. Several local bookstores are used to obtain the United States
titles and those non-U.S. titles available in the United States.

Figure 2. Sources of Books

Australia: Angus & Robertson Bookworld, Melbourne

Canada: Mabel’s Fables, Toronto

Great Britain: Harrods, London

New Zealand: Children’s Bookshop, Auckland (Ponsonby)

United States: Local bookstores

Availability of
Non-U.S. Titles in the United States

When the study began in 1986, very few of the non-U.S. titles were available in
the United States. The situation is quite different today, as may be noted
in the table below. Almost all (90%/93%) of the Canadian and the British books
are published or distributed in the United States. One-half (48%) of the
Australiapeople in
British books; and African Americans, Latin Americans, and Asian Americans in
the United States books. These are just examples of the many people young
readers meet as they read these books. Mary titles also focus on the majority
populations in the countries. Across countries and groups, it may amaze young
readers to learn that people are so much alike, regardless of where they live.

Other Places

Books can take readers on trips to other places. Settings for the titles from
five countries often are in the country in which the books were first published.
However, occasional settings are in other countries, as may be noted in the
titles in the samples listed below.

A1 (2003)
In Flanders Fields (Flanders)

A1 (2004) Two Summers (Rural Australia)

A2 (2004) Little Humpty (Australian outback)

A3 (2003 The Barrumbi Kids (Australian outback)

A4 (2004) How to


Make a Bird (Melbourne)

C1 (2003) The ArtRoom(Northwest Canada)

C1 (2004) Ode to Newfoundland (Newfoundland)

C2 (2004) Hana’s Suitcase (Japan/Austria/Canada)

C2 (2004) Last Days of Africville (Halifax)

G1 (2003) The Shape Game (London)

G2 (2002) The Edge (England)

N1 (2003) The Immigrants (New Zealand/Australia)

N2 (2004) Jacko Moran Sniper (Flanders/New Zealand)

N2 (2004) Thunder Road(Auckland)

U2 (2003) Hoot (Florida)

Commonalities Across
Countries

Common elements (such as settings, characteristics, and themes) can be seen in
books from all five countries. Winners and finalists across countries have
stories involving humor, bullies, good family relations, dysfunctional families,
prejudice, and war. The titles listed below all contain examples of humor,
to illustrate one of the elements common across countries. Some of these
books will bring smiles to the faces of young readers; others will make them
laugh out loud. People laugh - and cry - in a universal language.

A1 (2003) DiarySir Cavendish Boyle (lyrics)/ Geoff Butler
(ill.) Ode to Newfoundland. Tundra. (US:
Tundra, 2003) (All ages) Butler’s love for Newfoundland is shown in the
illustrations accompanying the lyrics of the provincial anthem of Newfoundland
and of Labrador. The illustrations give readers a tour of parts of the
Province and include native plants and animals. An Afterword explains the
background of a number of the illustrations. (Verse/Information)

C1 (2004) Chieri Uegak/ Stephane Jorisch (ill.) Suki’s
Kimono. Kids Can Press. (US: Kids Can Press, 2003) (K-3)
Strong-willed Suki, despite protests of her two older sisters, insists on
wearing to school on the first day the blue kimono and clogs her
grandmother (obachan) had given her; her obachan had then taken her to a
street festival. Fellow first graders had snickered at first but then applauded
when she demonstrated a dance she had seen


at the festival. After school, Suki’s
sisters complained that nobody had noticed their new clothes. Suki’s kimono, in
contrast, had made her the center of attention. Watercolor illustrations carry
out the Japanese theme. (Realistic fiction)

(PS-up) Sad-faced French bear Albert Le Blanc, newly arrived
in a toy store, gets the attention of the other toys. They put on a show to try
to make the toy bear smile. The accidental fall of one of the clumsy performers
not only makes the bear grin but makes him laugh out loud. (Fantasy)

G1 (2003) Anthony Browne. The Shape Game. Doubleday.
(US: FSG, 2003) (2-up) In text and illustrations, Browne tells of a family visit
to the Tate Gallery in London, a day he says changed his life. He presents
copies of selected Gallery paintings with his family viewing them, or
occasionally withthe family being part of the paintings. His mother’s shape
game played on the way home from the Gallery is one he continues to play.
(Autobiography)

*N1 (2003) Allan Bagnall/Sarah Wilkins (ill.) The
Immigrants. Maillinson Rendel. After her mother’s death, Maria leaves Sydney
aboard a small ship to find her father in the New Zealand gold fields. The story
setting is 1858. Young Ihaia, a Maori crewmember, talked the captain into
letting Maria serve as ship’s cook to pay for her passage. Maria and Ihaia spend
much time together on the trip. On the weeklong crossing of the Tasman Sea, they
ran into a bad storm but were able to keep afloat. Colorful illustrations add
depth to the story. An epilogue reports that Maria and her friend Ihaia later
married and remained in New Zealand. Several Maori words are


family members develops. (Realistic fiction)

A4 (2004) David Metzenthen. Boys
of Blood & Bone. Penguin Australia. (US: Penguin, 2004) This story
interweaves present-day Australians and a small group of young World War I
Aussie soldiers at Flanders. Henry, soon to be off to University, learns about
Andy, who was killed in World War I fighting, from Andy’s war diary kept by his
fiancé, now 101 years old. Actions described occurred in a small Australian town
and in Melbourne, France, Scotland, and England. The devastation and horrors of
trench warfare are described vividly. (Realistic fiction/Historical fiction)

*C2 (2003) Karen Levine: Hana’s
Suitcase. Second Story Press. (US: Whitman, 2003) (5-8) The suitcase of a
young Jewish girl, who died at Auschwitz, on display in a small Holocaust museum
in Japan, motivates the Director to trace the history of the suitcase’s owner.
Young readerswill learn much about the tragic Holocaust from the interweaving
of historical fiction and information, supported by photographs.
(Information/Historical fiction)

C2 (2004) Dorothy Perkyns. Last
Days of Africville. Beach House Publishing. (US: Beach House Publishing,
2003) (4-7) Twelve-year-old Selina, an African Canadian living in the Halifax
area in the mid 1960s, is the main character in the story about relationships,
prejudice, and survival. As the only black student in her sixth grade class, she
faces prejudice from fellow students, but it is counteracted by her superior
academic performance and her athletic ability. Uncertainty arises for her
and her community when the city council plans to abolish Africville for other
construction. (Realistic fiction)

*C2 (2002) Sharon Creech. Ruby
Holler. Bloomsbury. (US: HarperCollins, 2002) (3-7) The 13-year-old
“trouble” twins, Dallas (a dreamer) and Florida (a rebel), have spent their
entire lives in a run-down orphanage,


spelled briefly by stays in foster homes,
until foster parents quickly return them to the orphanage. Then Sairy and
Tiller, a country couple, take then to their isolated but peaceful Ruby Holler
home. Good cooking, understanding, and patience lead the twins to feel loved and
wanted. (Realistic fiction)

G2 (2003) Mark Haddon. The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. David Fickling. (US:
Doubleday, 2003) (7-up) Haddon, in this skillfully written novel, set in Swindon
and in London, takes readers into the narrowed world of 15-year-old autistic
Christopher, a genius in mathematics and in science. When falsely accused of
killing a neighbor’s dog, he sets out to find the real killer – and also learns
a family secret. The vivid descriptions (sad with touches of humor) of the
effects his condition has upon him, his parents, and those hemeets will help
readers to understand autism better. (Realistic fiction)

N2 (2003) Margaret Mahy. Alchemy.
HarperCollins. (US: McElderry, 2003) (7-up) Seventeen-year-old Roland and
classmate Jess, a recluse who is ridiculed by her peers, are drawn together,
first by trickery and then by similar supernatural abilities, in this tale
involving blackmail, unbridled ambition of a politician/magician, and alchemy.
(Fantasy)

*N2 (2004) Ken Catran. Jacko
Moran Sniper. Lothian. In this sequel to Letters from the
Coffin-Trenches, shortlisted in 2003 for this same award, Jacko, a street
kid from a dysfunctional family, found his element in the army and became an
expert sniper and a World War I hero fighting in the trenches of Flanders. When
Jacko returned to civilian life after the war, he had very serious adjustment
problems. The story, set mostly on the terrible battlefields of Flanders, is
well written but is strong


emotional fare.

U2 (2003) Stephanie S. Tolan.
Surviving the Applewhites. HarperCollins. (4-7) Teenage (13) spike-haired
Jake, kicked out of Rhode Island schools and foster homes, comes to North
Carolina to live with his grandfather. After Jake is expelled from his North
Carolina school, he is enrolled in a “home school” run by the disorganized
Applewhite family. Jake survives, thanks to attention from four-year-old Destiny
and the family dog plus a singing role in a community musical production.
(Realistic fiction)

U2 (2004) Jim Murphy. An American
Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.
Clarion Books. A mysterious fever devastated Philadelphia, the Nation’s capital,
killing several thousand people and causing mass evacuations (including
President Washington and other government leaders). Medical doctors and others
debated causes and treatments. This book is a scholarly, documented look back at
an important partA Corner of the Universe. Scholastic.
(4-7)

Stephanie S. Tolan. Surviving the
Applewhites. HarperCollins. (4-7)

In Summary

This report focused mainly on people and places in recent (2003/2004) winners of
and contenders for the top children’s book awards in five mainly English
speaking countries: Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the
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Jenna Yuille, a chief petitioner of the measure, lost her mother in the Clackamas mall shooting. She said she believes stricter gun storage laws could save lives because guns stored unsafely "pose an immediate danger." Paul Kemp, whose brother-in-law was one of three killed during the 2012 mall shooting, is also a chief petitioner.

In its announcement of the potential ballot measure, the group Oregonians for Safe Gun Storage cited figures claiming that school shooters often use weapons stored unsafely by their parents or relatives and that safe gun storage laws may cut down on teen suicides and accidental child shootings.

Initiative Petition 44 is the second gun-related measure that may make the November ballot in Oregon. The first, aproposal brought by Portland clergy and numbered Initiative Petition 43, would ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in Oregon. Supporters of each measure must collect at least 88,184 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Activists in Oregon and in other states have publicly pushed for new gun control laws following the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Following the shooting, in which 17 students and staff were killed, millions joined in protest marches around the nation, and some state legislatures – including Oregon's – have passed or debated new gun control laws.


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There is only "one baptism" worthy of important mention:

(Mark 1:8) I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The Jerusalem Decree given by the Apostles years after they began their commission. It was made to declare what they then believed necessary to lead the Gentiles to salvation. In it, we find nothing at all regarding a requirement for water baptism.

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(Acts 15:22-29) 22 Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

23 They wrote this letter by them: The apostles,to enter into the kingdom of God.

Where do I find this water since a man is not able to enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born?

(John 7:38) Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

You mean this water comes from "belief"?

Yes.

Look at the chapters. You are simply jumping verses and trying to connect two unrelated verses using "water" to discredit the unity of rite of baptism.

The grab and pull is unimpressive.

John 13:5afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded.

John 13:8Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.' Jesus


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the Collins's cook.

The Colonel is a wonderful character, as he generally is expected to be! He
plays an interesting role in the story and even turns his hand to match-making!
The bond of trust and the sense of openness which he and Elizabeth build
throughout the story is sweet, as well as results in some rather amusing
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Madeleine is a very caring lady who comes to know Elizabeth very well due to
the amount of time she spends in the sick room with Madeline, thanks to the
positive effect only Elizabeth seems


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Eddie had started his big league career with the White Sox in 1944, putting together four consecutive seasons of double digit victories and almost matching double digit losses in the Windy City. In February of 1948, the Yankees traded three players to Chicago including their starting catcher, Aaron Robinson in exchange for the southpaw Lopat, who had been born and grew up on the upper east side of New York City. Not only did the trade bring New York a great pitcher, this same deal also cleared the way for Yogi Berra to take over as the team’s starting backstop.

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With the approaching rains spelling hardship yet again for pregnant women, 130 village homemakers rolled up their sleeves and took up the task of building the 2 km lifeline!

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Fed up of dealing with an unresponsive administration and stubborn landowners who would not part with their land, 130 women of the Nima village took matters into their own hands, pooled their resources and constructed a 2 km road, reported Telegraph.

“It (lack of a road) was especially painful during the rainy season,” a Nima resident told Telegraph. “Wecould not even get to the block headquarters, hardly 2.5 km from our village. Many deaths have occurred—especially of pregnant women—as they could not reach the health centres in time.”

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The women behind this road construction said that three or four years ago, the government began working on the village road project, but it didn’t amount to anything.

“Some three-four years ago, the local administration did initiate land acquisition to build a road but due to protests by landowners the plan had to be abandoned,” Jhalo Devi, a Nima resident, told the publication.

However, seeing the women in action and their intense desire to construct a village road, the erstwhile stubborn landowners gave


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Once the women received all the necessary consent from landowners, they constructed the road in three days with some assistance from the men in the village.

“Many women from the two villages, Jorarpur and Durgapur, also joined us. The men in our homes first completed the groundwork. We carried sand, soil and stones from the riverbank nearby and barren lands. We would start work at sunrise and end in the evening. Now, light vehicles can easily ply on the road,” Usha Devi, another resident of Nima told the publication.

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The Banka district administration has praised the efforts of these women.

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In a marathon session, the Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (124 Amendment) Bill, 2019 that provides 10% reservation to the economically weaker section of the General category in jobs and education with an overwhelming majority on Tuesday. Seen as a 'masterstroke' by the Narendra Modi government in the election year, the Bill will be presented in the Rajya Sabha today. While the Bill was passed in the Lower House virtually unopposed, it will be interesting to see how the Opposition parties react to the Bill. Meanwhile, as part of BJP's 'Mission 100', Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address two rallies in UP's Agra and Maharashtra's Solapur today. The Congress has also gone into combat mode for the 2019 battle with party chief Rahul Gandhi kicking off theMamata aide Mukul Roy.

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Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah's convoy has met with an accident on Bengaluru-Mysuru highway. No injuries reported. A complaint has been registered in Srirangapatna police station in Mandya district.

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HAL chief meets Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman alongof the 'Mahagathbandhan'. The party will continue to remain equidistant from both the BJP and the Congress: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

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granted to the economically weaker section in the general category, our principle of 'sabka sath, sabka vikas' has been further strengthened.

12:09 (IST) Facebook Twitter Whats app Linked In Union Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot tables the 10% quota bill in Rajya Sabha

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which Scully had hinted, that perhaps Hopkins had not stuck around this long through resilience and spirit, but with ducking and bluster and elbows. Maybe he was an actor, a nagging sourness in the collective fightgoer gut whispered, an evasive paper tiger. In the past, even Hopkins’ detractors had to acknowledge his courage. Now they could assert that he was no longer fighting for love of the sport, but out of delusion, or vanity — or, worse, for checks. His record refuted this … and yet the sourness persisted.

In the background, meanwhile, buzzing like tape hiss behind this enmity-filled feedback loop, was that longer-standing, more dispiriting proposition that boxing fans live with every day — that the sport itself has become an act, a travesty stage for neuroticmillionaire infants. A few weeks earlier, Floyd Mayweather had knocked out Victor Ortiz in the fourth round with two sucker punches after Ortiz head-butted him. Mayweather had made upwards of $30 million essentially to quarrel with his father on HBO. Hopkins had walked away with $1 million, Dawson with slightly less, for what? To train for a few weeks and get upstaged by their undercard, evidently. Scully was saying more than he knew, or perhaps he knew exactly what he was saying, when he spoke of Moore and Charles and Benton.

Two weeks after the fight, in the backroom of a gym in Philadelphia, I asked Hopkins why, in his opinion, the crowd in Los Angeles turned on him.

“First, what I heard with the crowd, was quiet. For a


the Dawson fight, in late September, I made the pilgrimage to Philadelphia, that lost capital of prizefighting, to watch Hopkins train.

Hopkins has prepared for fights in hallowed boxing hideaways — the Poconos, the Catskills, Miami Beach — but these days he works out at a new gym, Joe Hand’s, in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. In view of the high-rise central business district and abutting the colonial brick of Old City, Northern Liberties is a postcard for gentrification, its factories now sports bars, its refurbished row houses home to young professionals who’ve pushed up rents and pushed out such places as Champs, the gym where Hopkins trained for his first fights. Situated above an auto body shop, Champs had kerosene heaters, horsehair heavy bags, and no showers.I stood looking at the crouched young southpaw, out of the locker room came trainer Bobby Watts, 31 years after the Hagler fight, his left eye immobile and half-closed, a Velcro brace wrapped around his waist, his hand extended in greeting.)

A stretch of wall near the front is given over to framed photos of Hopkins, who made his amateur debut, not far from here, at age 10. Bernard Hopkins Sr., a garbageman and drinker who later died of liver cancer, had boxed, as had two uncles, JuJu Hopkins and Artie McCloud, the latter a promising middleweight until he was locked up. Like him, Bernard, the second of eight children, enjoyed trouble too much to focus on training. Some of it was a matter of familial pride — “My


sisters benefited from my behavior, because when they had boyfriends, they thought twice about slapping them or abusing them,” Hopkins once said, “the downside is they had less boyfriends” — but most of it wasn’t. He was arrested a total of about 30 times, by his estimate, on charges of assault, robbery, making terroristic threats, receiving stolen property, resisting arrest, and marijuana use, and stabbed in three separate altercations, before being sentenced to 18 years in prison. He had just turned 17. While he was inside, his younger brother, Michael, was shot to death. Hopkins’ mother, Shirley, said of her only remaining son, “I felt safer when he was in there.” (Shirley died in 2002.)

When she visited Graterford Penitentiary every week, Hopkins kept from her the stories ofhis stints in solitary confinement, of the beatings he administered and witnessed, the rapes he overheard. He told her instead about an imam in D-block who’d given him a Koran to study. Having seen Hopkins in the ring, the imam also gave him a newborn Muslim name: Saladin Abdul Muhammad, after the 12th-century warrior sultan, scourge and envy of crusaders and coreligionists alike. In the prison gym, meanwhile, Hopkins came under the tutelage of Smokey Wilson, a prospect from the north side who’d landed a life sentence. When Hopkins left Graterford, Wilson, there to this day, gave him a photograph of the two of them. “You will be the middleweight champion one day,” read the inscription.

In the latter half of his career, Hopkins has become known as a