Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to World War II: the Nazis' dogged obsession with a Finnish mutt who gave not a howl, but a heil.

And, just as absurdly, the totalitarian state that dominated most of Europe was unable to do much about the canine's paw-raising parody of Germany's Fuehrer.

Open gallery view The undated photo taken from a book on the history of Finnish Tamro Group shows Tor Borg and his dog Jackie. The dog was dubbed Hitler by Borg's wife as it raised its paw for the Nazi salute. Credit: AP

In the months preceding Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, Berlin's Foreign Office commanded its diplomats in the Nazi-friendly country to gather evidence on the dog and its owner - and even plotted to destroythe owner's pharmaceutical business.

Historians were unaware of the scheme until some 30 files containing correspondence and diplomatic cables were found by a researcher in the Foreign Office archives.

Klaus Hillenbrand, an expert on the Nazi period who examined the documents, called the episode completely bizarre.

Just months before the Nazis launched their attack on the Soviet Union, they had nothing better to do than to obsess about this dog, he told The Associated Press.

The Dalmatian mix named Jackie was owned by Tor Borg, a businessman from the Finnish city of Tampere. Borg's wife Josefine, a German citizen known for her anti-Nazi sentiments, dubbed the dog Hitler because of the way it raised a paw high in the air, much like Germans greeting the Fuehrer with a cry of Heil Hitler!

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one photo, Borg, a jovial businessman known for his sense of humor, appears with Jackie by his side wearing a pair of round sunglasses.

On Jan. 29, 1941, the German vice consul in Helsinki, Willy Erkelenz, wrote that a witness, who does not want to be named, said ... he saw and heard how Borg's dog reacted to the command 'Hitler' by raising its paw.

Borg was ordered to the German Embassy in Helsinki and questioned about his dog's unusual greeting habits.

The businessman denied ever calling the dog by the German dictator's name, but acknowledged that his wife called the dog Hitler. He tried to play down the accusations, saying the paw-raising only happened a few times in 1933 - shortly after Hitler came to power.

Borg assured the Nazi diplomatsthat he never did anything that could be seen as an insult against the German Reich, according to the documents.

The zealous diplomats in Helsinki did not believe him and wrote back to Berlin that Borg, even though he claims otherwise, is not telling the truth.

The ministries involved - the Foreign Office, the Economy Ministry and even Hitler's Chancellory - meticulously reported all their findings about the hound.

The Economy Ministry announced that the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben, which supplied Borg's wholesale trade with pharmaceuticals, agreed to cut all ties, which would have destroyed his business.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office was looking for ways to bring Borg to trial for insulting Hitler. But in the end, none of the witnesses were willing to repeat their accusations in front of a


judge.

So, when on March 21, 1941, the Foreign Office asked the Chancellory whether to press charges against Borg, the reply came back: Considering that the circumstances could not be solved completely, it is not necessary to press charges.

There's no evidence Hitler, who owned a German Shepherd named Blondi, was ever told of the case, even if it made it all the way to his Chancellory, Hillenbrand said.

Finland cooperated with Nazi Germany during WWII, and Helsinki was one of the few European capitals the Nazis never occupied.

As for Borg, he and his company survived the war unscathed. He died in 1959 at age 60; his wife Josefine passed away in 1971.

Borg's company Tampereen Rohduskuppa Oy went on to become Tamro Group, the leading wholesale company for pharmaceuticals in thestory to appear in the Department of First Stories. His first story, E.Q. Griffen Earns His Name, was published in the December, 1968 issue of EQMM while Josh was a teenager in high school. I met Josh a number of years ago at a Dell Magazine pre-Edgar gathering. In fact, I think he was accompanied by his daughter, who at the time was a teenager herself. Josh was very close with Ed Hoch, and collaborated with him on at least one story. “History on the Bedroom Wall” is a very different sort of story for Josh. In fact, with the Ani DeFranco themed story of the murder of a college coed, this short, effective thriller shows the influence of the younger collaborator.

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(CNN) — Every March 8 is International Women's Day, which can be marked with anything from giving flowers and chocolates to taking to the streets in protest.

But this year Italy, where the day is known as Festa Della Donna, is upping the ante by giving all women free admission to museums and cultural sites throughout the country, from famous landmarks like Florence's Uffizi as well as ancient historical sites like Pompeii.

Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage announced in 2017 that the project, known as " 8 Marzo al Museo " (March 8 at the Museum) would "celebrate the feminine world."

And it's not just about free museum entry -- the cultural institutions are making a point to feature both work from female artists and pieces that celebrate notable women, including"saints and prostitutes, goddesses and commoners, intellectuals and artists, actresses and martyrs, writers and poets, mothers, Madonnas and revolutionaries."

So if you can't simply hop on a plane to Italy to take advantage of the free tickets, all's not lost: Museitani, the official Instagram account of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, has been featuring some female-centric works of art, all chosen by some of the country's top curators, on its account.

Festa Della Donna is commonly marked in Italy with gifts of yellow mimosa flowers, a tradition which began after World War II. It's also fashionable to incorporate the bright yellow color into clothing, jewelry, or even cakes every March 8.

However, the holiday has its roots in political activism.

The first one was marked in New York City in 1909 as


a way to call attention to dangerous working conditions many women faced, specifically in the garment industry.

This year, many American women will walk off the job on March 8 as part of the "A Day Without a Woman" protest, which addresses the wage gap and other inequalities faced by women in the workplace.A new report released Tuesday claims that the number of people in poverty in the U.S. is being undercounted by three million due to "inflation inequality," the process by which prices rise more quickly for those on the bottom end of the economy.

Groundwork Collaborative's "The Cost of Being Poor" (pdf) examines the way that inflation inequality is making it difficult to accurately calculate the number of people living in poverty.

The study relies on research by co-author and London School of Economics professor Xavier Jaravel, who found earlier in 2019 that "annual inflation rates for those at the bottom of the income distribution are substantially higher than for those at the top of the income distribution, effectively increasing income inequality."

Using this methodology as a starting point for the analysis,


After two decades, the Ontario Provincial Police have received substantial tips that are helping them advance their investigation into what happened to four seniors who disappeared from the province's Muskoka region in the late 1990s, The Fifth Estate has learned.

Joan Lawrence, John Crofts, Ralph Grant and John Semple vanished from retirement homes owned by a local family under what police say are suspicious circumstances. Their disappearances were initially treated as missing persons investigations, but are now considered by police to be homicides.

OPP Det. Insp. Rob Matthews told The Fifth Estate the case is moving forward in a substantial way after they received a "significant" number of tips and information following a news conference this summer and media attention to the case.

"It's amazing," said Matthews, who has been workingphoto of a van that Lawrence was moved to shortly after police began investigating care homes run by the Laan family. In police documents obtained by The Fifth Estate, a police informant who lived on the property with Lawrence said this was the last place she was living before she disappeared. (Ontario Provincial Police)

In 1998, the OPP began investigating the conditions of care homes being run by a local family in Muskoka.

Siblings Kathrine, Walter, Paul and David Laan had purchased residential homes in the area and operated them as what they described as "Christian retirement homes," with names like Cedar Pines and Fernglen Manor.

Over the course of their operation, four residents disappeared from the Laan family homes: 77-year-old Lawrence, a former newspaper reporter and aspiring author; 69-year-old Grant,


a family man and former auto parts salesman; 70-year-old Crofts, a former Eaton's employee and father of twin boys; and 89-year-old Semple, a father, grandfather and war veteran.

In late 1998, a resident of one of the homes where Lawrence was living reported to his social worker that he thought she was missing. It was during the investigation into Lawrence's disappearance that police realized three men had also disappeared.

The Fifth Estate approached David and Walter Laan for comment, and they declined to speak. Paul Laan has not responded to a request for comment. The Fifth Estate has learned that Kathrine Laan died in July.

Lawrence, left, Ralph (Dougie) Grant, John Crofts and John Semple are four seniors who disappeared while living in residences owned by the Laan family in Ontario'srecord began at the age of 18 and continued over 24 years — with convictions for property offences, breaking and entering, fraud and impersonating a police officer.

By the age of 25, their sister, Kathrine Laan, had spent time in jail for drug possession, theft and extortion. Then, in 1997, it was discovered that she had stolen nearly $30,000 from the Muskoka Christian School. She was the school's volunteer treasurer at the time. She was sentenced to nine months in custody.

Cheques stolen from residents

Not long after Kathrine was found stealing money from the school, she and three of her brothers — all four Laan family members who shared in the ownership of the retirement homes — were charged with stealing pension and old age security cheques from residents of


homes they operated before and for years after their deaths, at least $100,000 in all.

It was later in the investigation that the OPP would learn 12 more people died while being cared for by the Laans — making that 16 in total over about seven years. Police say they've looked into those 12 deaths and say they are not considered suspicious.

Police recently confirmed all 16 residents who died had their money stolen before and after their deaths.

The Fifth Estate has learned Lawrence paid the Laans more than $600 per month to live in this garden shed in the late '90s. Police say the shed had no insulation and had a hole in the wall with an extension cord running through it for electricity. (Ontario Provincial Police)

According to courtdocuments obtained by The Fifth Estate, Kathrine Laan received a nine-month conditional sentence in connection with some of those thefts.

Paul and Walter Laan received sentences that included probation and community service. Paul was given a restitution order to pay back more than $20,000, and Walter more than $10,000. Charges against David Laan were withdrawn.

None of them went to jail.

No alarm bells at the time

One of those people who died while being cared for by the Laans was 76-year old John Jefferson (Jeff) Hurley.

Hurley lived at Cedar Pines, one of the homes run by the Laans, for a few years until his death in 1996.

His son, Michael Hurley, wasn't aware his father's money was being stolen until a 2017 investigation by The Fifth Estate revealed that Kathrine, Walter, Paul


and David Laan had been involved in fraud in connection with residents at the homes they operated.

Michael Hurley's father, John Jefferson (Jeff) Hurley, lived in the care of the Laan family at Cedar Pines, one of the homes they ran in the '90s. Hurley wasn't aware that members of the family had been convicted of stealing money from his father. (John Badcock/CBC)

Hurley made several visits to Cedar Pines to see his father and said he didn't think anything was off at the time.

"It appeared to be clean and well-kept," he said. "There was nothing there that would send an alarm bell off into my head. I looked around and went, oh it seems OK."

Hurley met Kathrine and Walter Laan during his visits. "They were the ones that werealways there when I went."

But in hindsight, he has questions.

"When [my father] did call me, I always got the feeling that there was someone on staff in the room with him," Hurley told The Fifth Estate.

'No digging beyond that'

In 1996, his father fell ill and was moved to hospital in Huntsville. About a week later, his father died.

When Hurley inquired with the Canada Pension Plan about his father's survivor benefits paid to the next of kin to assist with the costs of a funeral, he was told that the payout had been made to "the other applicant."

John Jefferson (Jeff) Hurley was a resident of one of the homes operated by the Laan family. Police say Hurley is one of the 16 people who the Laans were stealing money


from before and after their deaths. (Ousama Farag/CBC)

But Hurley was the only surviving family member of his father's family.

"I didn't get suspicious, only in so far as we couldn't pay the bill to the funeral home. But we didn't do any digging beyond that."

He said at the time he assumed his father owed rent payments to the care home.

Hurley said police called him two years after his father died — around 1998, when their investigation began — but didn't offer him any new information. They wanted his impressions of the Laan family and the care homes.

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Court documents obtained by The Fifth Estate show that Hurley's father was one of 12 peoplepolice say the Laans were stealing money from after they died — and in Hurley's case, cashing his pension cheques for four years after he died.

Hurley received a letter from Kathrine Laan shortly after his father died, saying that his father had become like family to them and that they loved him.

His father's lifeline

The Fifth Estate showed Hurley the court documents, which show the date on the charging documents against the Laan family is just days after he received that letter.

"[Kathrine] was a con artist," Hurley said after realizing the letter and the date they began stealing his money were almost identical. "And she was a very good one, apparently."

Many of the people who lived at Laan homes were homeless, mentally ill or had no family left. OPP


say they think the Laans sought out people who had no family or friends to look out for them.

Hurley said reflecting back now, he thinks the only reason his father lived as long as he did is because, unlike in many other cases, his father had family to watch out for him.

OPP Det. Insp. Rob Matthews has been investigating the disappearance of four seniors from Muskoka for more than two decades. (Ousama Farag/CBC)

"Occasionally I would get a phone call from Kathrine or occasionally I would call her to give me the rundown on him," he said. "That was probably his lifeline that kept him from either disappearing or dying quietly in a bed there."

For those four who disappeared and had no one to look out for them, MatthewsThere was considerable skepticism surrounding the ‘risk on’ effort the capital markets pushed through the end of last week – a serious weight for a safe haven like the US dollar. However, as traders returned to the market after the extended holiday, sentiment would even out and offer the benchmark currency a better read…at least that was the theory. With the start of the new trading week, we have seen neither a commitment in speculative positioning (trend development) in support of or opposition to risky positioning nor a significant rebound in participation (volume). In fact, on the open of the new trading week, we witnessed the benchmark for moral hazard-supported sentiment – the S&P 500 and other US equity market benchmarks – hold near the highs the reached


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He said: “The gig was 45 mins away. I deserve this.”

But the comic’s luck only got worse, and he announced that his train had been cancelled.

Instead he had to catch a train to Newport - in the opposite direction to home - in order to make a connection.

Although he was unable to entertain his fans back in Hertford, others on Twitter did see the funny side.

Clara Cole tweeted: “you literally couldn't make that error up how on earth does a person do that?!?!”

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cure — those with a TBI just learn ways to work around their injury. One way to alleviate the ailments of TBI may be through yoga.

Ohleger, a 29-year-old Army veteran, sustained injuries from blasts while serving in Iraq. A few months ago, some friends started talking up a yoga class they’d been going to at the Wounded Warrior Project's Pittsburgh office. After a lot of urging, he agreed to go. Then he told his wife Audrey.

"When he told me he was going to yoga I said, 'Are you kidding?" she said laughing. "Because it’s the last place I thought I would see him go."

Teaching that series of Wounded Warriors classes was yoga instructor Janna Leyde. She said initially there was some resistance from her students.

"To teach a Woundedinjury in a car accident. His frontal lobe, which affects things like executive function, was impaired.

His injury changed both of their lives.

"To see him, he is normal, he looks normal, but he couldn’t balance a bank account, he couldn’t hold a job, he just couldn’t do all of those things because of the injury in his brain, and so it was a very challenging way to grow up with that kind of a father," she said. "It was a lot of role reversal within a family."

Years later, practicing yoga regularly helped her deal with the emotions she had suppressed around her father’s injury. Eventually, she became a yoga teacher. And then on visits to her parent’s home in rural Mercer County, she started teaching her father some basic


The unavoidable fact is that uncertainty often breeds belt tightening among consumers; something that was witnessed in the wake of the recession in 2009, which gave way to the rise of discount retailers and a shift in the way that the public used their disposable income.

History repeating

It is reasonable to assume that a similar approach in 2016 could see consumers adjust their recreational habits in line with reduced spending, and – as always – one of the first things to be affected is the family holiday.

As well as the rise of the discount grocer, the post-recession environment also gave way to the concept of the staycation – the return of the great British holiday.

Indeed, there was a significant rise in the number of people choosing to stay inthe UK for their holiday, with a notable shift towards more frequent, shorter weekend breaks than the traditional two-week trip to mainland Europe.

As well as saving on air fares, it meant consumers were also not at the mercy of exchange rates – something that is again at the forefront of the travel agenda in the wake of the pound’s slight fall against the euro and other currencies in recent weeks.

While this may not be great news for overseas tour operators, it certainly is for domestic venues, which could see a marked rise in business in the summer months and beyond.

Shifting tastes

Figures from Visit England show that 2016 has already seen a rise in the number of people choosing to holiday in the UK, with a 23 per cent


of the villa, which was sinking.

The sinkhole, which is in the middle of the villa, is about 40 to 50 feet in diameter, Cuellar said. He said authorities think it was getting deeper but couldn’t tell early todayif it was growing outward.

The villa houses 24 units and about 20 people were staying in it at the time, Cuellar said.

Authorities were called to the scene, about 10 miles west of Disney World, late Sunday where they found that the building was making popping sounds and windows were breaking.

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Luis Perez, who was staying at a villaAuthorities in the United States have marked the destruction of the Cali Cartel's business empire by removing economic sanctions against over 300 people and entities linked to the organization, but there are indications that individuals tied to the cartel continue to participate in illegal activity.

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puts viewers in the perspective of a tree growing in the Amazon rainforest.

Plugging into U.S. politics

One high-profile world premiere is Jack Bryan’s Active Measures, a film about espionage that touches on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and features interviews with Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

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social and economic factors in the poor white's connections with the rest of the community. What is missing is a sense of purpose or a clear-cut conception of the meaning of his existence. His state of aimlessness, of purposelessness, and of footlooseneess expresses itself not merely in laziness and general inefficiency, but also in demoralizing habits, crime, insanity, and disease.

Edgar Thompson said about poor whites in 1947 exactly what Paul Ryan is saying about poor blacks today. Thompson's "tradition of … indifference to profitable labor" is Ryan's "generations of men not even thinking about working." Both Thompson and Ryan reject social and economic causes of poverty in favor of a theory that puts the onus on some especially deviant and somehow resilient subculture of vice and laziness.

If wepush further back in time, we find even more of this sort of theorizing. In Dixie's Forgotten People, Wayne Flynt details accounts left by Freedman's Bureau workers about poor whites, some of which declare that "poor whites lacked ambition; they were violent, sexually promiscuous people who did not respect human life." We even saw the rhetoric across the sea during the Irish famine, which a number of English aristocrats chalked up to the defective character of Irish people.

In other words, anywhere you find poor people, you also find non-poor people theorizing their cultural inferiority and dysfunction. Maybe it's the case that all of these groups of poor people were "born lazy and had a relapse," a joke Edgar Thompson tells about poor whites in the South. However, the


Gynaecologist's three-year ordeal ends as 'fantasist with excessive libido' drops her case

A woman who accused her gynaecologist of giving her ‘leg buckling orgasms’ on the consulting couch has dramatically withdrawn her case.

Bibi Giles’s harassment claim against consultant Angus Thomson was effectively torpedoed when another doctor – a GP – threatened to tell the court that she had pestered him for sex in the past.

Mrs Giles withdrew the case yesterday morning and agreed to pay £30,000 in legal costs for Mr Thomson.

Claims: Bibi and Peter Giles arriving at Worcester County Court yesterday

Last night the former model, 50, was branded an ‘attention-seeking fantasist’ with an ‘excessive libido’.

Mr Thomson, 40, who has been supported by his GP wife Lucy throughout the five-day trial, broke down as he described how the allegationson Monday with my professional reputation intact.’

Guyana-born Mrs Giles had sued her private consultant for £50,000 at Worcester County Court for triggering two intense orgasms within 90 seconds during an internal examination in 2006 while a nurse stood just feet away.

She claimed he then sexually harassed her over a six-month period and pressured her to have an affair.

Mr Thomson claimed that Mrs Giles was an ‘infatuated’ patient who lied and bombarded him with phone calls. He continued to take the ‘bizarre’ calls because he wanted to continue his duty of care, he said.

Mrs Giles had waived her right to anonymity in an attempt to flush out more of his ‘victims’, she claimed.

Ironically, this brought the case to the attention of her former GP Dr William Dowley.

On Thursday Dr


had never occurred. She has got form. She has pestered a doctor in the past.’

He accepted the settlement, saying: ‘This fully exonerates Mr Thomson and leaves his professional reputation intact. He has no doubt learned that there are limits to compassion and professional concern that he can volunteer to his patients.’

Mrs Giles and her husband Peter, 65, refused to comment. But a worker at the Money Box shop near the court described how Mrs Giles told him that doctors had ‘ganged up’ on her.

She told him she was concerned that her 15-year- old daughter would be bullied at her private school because of the graphic nature of the case.

Mrs Giles, who modelled in the U.S., has met Princess Anne and the Guyanese president at functions.

A source close towas Cold and Heat.
On one side, to the north, was Nivlheim, with frost and fog. On the other side, in the south, was Muspelheim, a sea of raging flames guarded by Surt. Between them there was nothing, except for a huge abyss, Ginnungagap. Here, in this vast nothingness – between light and darkness – all life was created, in the meeting between ice and fire. Slowly, the ice started to melt – and shaped by the cold, but awakened by the heat, a strange creature arose – a huge troll. The troll was a hermaphrodite, and its name was Yme.
Where the ice melted, the drops formed another creature – a giant cow; Audhumbla. The milk flowed like rivers from her big teats, and this is how Yme found


food. Audhumbla immediately began to lick the salty, frosty stones that lay all around her and the giant. Up from one of the stones the cow suddenly licked some long hair, and the next day a head and a face appeared. The third day the cow finally managed to lick off the entire body. It was a man, big and beautiful. Bure was his name – and from him descends the gods, the ones we know as Aesirs.
The giant Yme got children with himself. While he was asleep, he began to sweat, and suddenly, out from the left armpit grew a male and a female being. Yme’s legs mated and bore a son with six heads; Thrudgelmir, father of Bergelme. This is the start of the frost giants;Jotner – a mythological race that lives in Jotunheimen, one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology.
The different creatures mated and got children. Odin is the son of the Jotner Bestla and Bure’s son Bor. It became increasingly more frost giants, and they only created disorder and chaos. One day, Odin and his brothers Vilje and Ve made an uprising against Yme and his family. The fierce battle was won by Odin and his brothers. They killed the giant and a tidal wave of blood washed over the Aesirs’ enemies and drowned them all, except the Jotner Bergelme and his wife. From this Jotner pair, who fled into the mist and hid, derives all subsequent generations of frost giants. Also Audhumla – the first cow – must have


been washed over the edge, because after this carnage no one has seen or heard anything about her.
The Aesirs dragged the dead Yme to the midst of the Ginnungagap and placed him as a lid over the abyss. His blood was transformed to sea, and his meat to land. The bones became mountains and cliffs. The teeth and shattered bone fragments became stones and scree, while his hair trees and grass. The gods threw his brain mass high up in the air, and clouds were created. The skull was used as a firmament. The gods caught sparks from Muspelheim and attached them to the skull so we got sun, moon and stars.

Small worms crawled out of Yme’s corpse. These were the origins of the dwarfs who lived inunderground caves and grottoes. The Aesirs chose four of them to support the firmament and to guard the four corners. These dwarfs are named Østre (Eastern), Vestre (Western), Nordre (Northern) and Søndre (Southern).

Still Honoring Thor
Thor (Scandinavian languages; Tor, Old Norse; Þórr) is one of the most important gods in Norse mythology. He is Odin’s eldest son and his mother is the personified earth, Fjörgyn. Thor ruled the weather, particularly thunderstorms, and it was said that both thunder and lightning were created while he rode in a chariot pulled by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstrkjerra, while he struck with his hammer, Mjölnir. He was also the god of harvest and war. Thursday (“Thor’s day”), and many Scandinavian places and persons are named after him.
According to Scandinavian folklore, Thursday was


the sector. Scotland’s healthy winds and proximity to Norway made it a natural site for Statoil’s first floating offshore wind farm. Policy support, including a goal to generate 100 percent of Scotland’s electricity from renewables by 2020, also helped. The small size of the wind farm made the project easier to develop, by capping the financial risk. (By coincidence, the United States’ first offshore wind farm, Block Island, also consisted of five 6-megawatt turbines.) Costs: The long and declining road Statoil built its first floating wind turbine off the Norwegian coast in 2009, a reminder of the long time scales that can be required to vet, validate and verify newly developed capital intensive technologies. In its more than eight years of operation, the Hywind Demo has endured Categorychain.

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If you had asked me to predict which brand would debut a new logo on its Fall 2017 runway, I wouldn't have guessed Fendi. The brand already has both an iconic logo print and logo hardware that longchamp outlet it has barely capitalized on during the recent resurgence of that look in the accessories market, but for Fall 2017, those things sit alongside the Fendi brand markers we all know and love from the 90s and mulberry replica handbags early 2000s. The new logo hardware is featured prominently on a slew of new flap bags, and it's an open circle with an F resting on its side at the bottom, as though it fell that way. The new replica designer handbags logo's best use by


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The US vice-president, Mike Pence, has skipped a dinner ahead of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony where he was expected to share a table with North Korea’s head of state, in a sign of Washington’s intention to snub officials from the North at the Games. Pence briefly exchanged greetings with attendees at the dinner, including the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, but avoided Kim Yong-nam, North Korea’s ceremonial head of state, who is the highest level official ever to go to the South. North Korea’s high-level diplomatic delegation, which arrived in the South on Friday, also includes Kim Jong-un’s sister. Kim Yo-jong, who became the first


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At launch, the RX-8 was available in various models in different markets around the world. The variations according to different markets are as follows:

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"Aha, then she knows it was a man?"

"Yes, at least she remembers that. And he gave her the copy, typewritten, and she clipped it to the order for the composing room. Here it is. But it doesn't tell us anything."

"Except that the writer was not used to a typewriter; and it is done on a piece of cheap linen correspondence paper; and the ribbon was in poor condition. What does she remember about the man's appearance?"

"She thinks he wore a blue suit. It might have been a dark grey."

"Useless. What else?"

"Not a thing. Believe


Pearl spoke in undertones over their coffee.

"Come on. I'll take you home."

"You will not."

"Don't argue. Get your things."

"Don't speak to me like that. I'll go by myself."

"And chance what Dutchy will have to say about it? You come with me. I've got to talk to you."

"I don't want to talk to you."

"Yes you do. Don't be a fool. We've got to get together about this thing or we'll never hear the end of it."

"I can't go with you. I don't want to see you, ever again."

"I know all that. But we've got to leave this place together. Please."

And so they left the party as quickly and unobtrusively as they could, and Solly helped Pearl into his tiny Morris quite as though they wanted to be together.

"Now," said Solly,the matter," said Mrs. Bridgetower, "I am sure that we can leave it in his capable hands."

"You mean that you don't intend to take any action yourself, Louisa," said Miss Pottinger.

"I have not yet decided what I shall do," said Mrs. Bridgetower, with a reserved smile.

"You don't intend to take this lying down, I suppose?"

"I think you know that it is not my way to pass over a slight, Puss dear."

"Well, it is now three days since that piece appeared, and your friends are wondering when you are going to declare yourself."

"My friends need not be concerned; my real friends know, I am sure, that I am not one to take hasty or ill-advised action in any matter. I have not the robust health which would permit me


engagement notice was capable of a defamatory meaning," said Balmer. "You can't tell what a jury might make of a thing like this. They might think it was a huge joke. One outburst from your client in court and they would be very likely to do so."

"Don't tell me what a jury is likely to do, sir," said Mr. Snelgrove. "I know just as much about juries as you do. The standard in such matters is what the Reasonable Man might think."

"Are you putting forward your client as the Reasonable Man?" asked Mr. Balmer. The Professor growled, but was hushed by Mr. Snelgrove. Mr. Balmer pressed his advantage.

"My own opinion is that the Reasonable Man would say that my clients have been ill-used, and are, in fact, innocentFor a man on the verge of losing his job and blamed for eroding the power of American diplomacy, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is still in the mood for making a jokes.

At a recent speech in Washington, DC, before his South Asia trip, Tillerson wished everyone "Happy Diwali," a Hindu festival often marked by fireworks, and then quipped, "I don't need any fireworks. I'm getting too many fireworks around me already".

Everyone laughed, including Tillerson himself, and for a good reason. It is easy to find comedy in Tillerson's predicament. He has been accused of calling President Donald Trump a "moron" - something he has not denied. Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has accused Trump of "castrating" Tillerson, an allegation that


prompted the secretary of state to declare on national TV, "I checked. I am fully intact." For those keeping track, he is the second Trump appointee who has referenced male anatomy to defend his role in government.

However, peel back the spectacle on Tillerson's short tenure and a picture emerges of a Trump administration that is gutting the Department of State, challenging its very reason for existing, pushing aside foreign policy experts in favour of CEOs, and redefining US approaches to diplomacy that will take years to undo, even if Tillerson is ousted.

Sources close to Tillerson said he will not survive past January 2018. Even if he leaves sooner, the damage is already done. In September, Tillerson announced plans to trim the State Department's budget by close to 30keeping the place secure.

It's a curious thing: Trump has filled his cabinet with people who in many ways would like to see the very departments they head up eliminated. Tillerson is no different. He admitted he did not even want the job and in interviews brags about how much he dislikes Washington, DC. Madeline Albright, a former Democratic Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, recently said that what worries her about Tillerson is that he does not seem to be enjoying his job.

The result is a State Department that is at its weakest in years. During George W Bush's administration, the Department of State was sidelined in favour of the Department of Defense, which led diplomacy when the US waged war on Iraq. But Bush never undermined


the State Department by tweeting or kept the State Department out of foreign policy meetings, as Trump is reported to have done with Tillerson's team.

After all, Trump seems to question why he needs an expensive apparatus like the State Department when he can convey his thoughts to North Korea's 'Little Rocket Man' directly on Twitter.

I worked for a State Department grantee in the early 2000s and while it was tense then between the State Department and the White House, I have never seen a mess like the one Trump created. Partly this is because of who is staffing Trump's government right now. The State Department has always had its share of political appointees from the business world. When I worked in the US Congress, I saw it there,is a free microblogging social media website with 152 million registered daily users.[@ref8] Furthermore, over 500 million people visit Twitter per month without logging into an account.[@ref9]

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was sneaky productive in just one season. Tyler Mizenko's "heavy mid-90s sinker" clearly works.

And it's okay if you've never heard the name Nicol Parra, mostly because he's 19, not named Gustavo Cabrera, and has been hiding in Santo Domingo playing for San Francisco's Dominican Summer League team since 2011. But worth noting is that his .416 on-base percentage in 471 career plate appearances is a ridiculous 203 points higher than his career batting average. That puts his BB% at 22.2 percent, two percentage points higher than the Giants' new hitting instructor named Barry.

So what does all of this mean? It means you are free to kindly ask opposing pitchers to stop plunking Mac Williamson, who has been hit by a pitch once every six games since being draftedin 2011. For comparison, Craig Biggio was hit an average of once every 10 games in his 20-year major-league career, and now stands second all-time in HBPs.

And it means that Brett Bochy may be a victim of the Pacific Coast League's wrath. In three pro seasons, including a disappointing 2013 in Fresno, Bochy has still managed to hold his career WHIP below one.

Here's to Bruce and Brett sharing a major-league dugout one day.


                        April 8, 2005

          BEFORE: BARRY, AMBRO, and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges

                              (Filed: April 14, 2005)

                            OPINION OF THE COURT

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.
       Pilar Campisi, as administrator of the estate of Richard Campisi, appeals from an

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My husband Bob had an unusual day off that day. Because we knew in advance he was getting it, we’d scheduled a brunch meeting with someone to discuss a potential partnership in our business, and then planned some other things while our son was in high school. Our daughter was away at college.

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Scores dead in Isis assaults on Syrian seaside cities

Isis asserts it carried out suicide and car bomb attacks in Jableh and Tartous, which until now had escaped worst of conflict

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of explosions that killed more than 120 people in a loyalist coastal enclavethat has remained the most tightly controlled part of Syria throughout the civil war.

The assaults targeted Tartous, which hosts a Russian naval base, and Jableh, 50 miles to the north. Both cities had been spared the destruction that has laid garbage to other parts of the country over more than five years.

Isis announced that the explosions were its work within hours of sending suicide bombers and car bombs into the area.

Four explosions, several carried out by suicide bombers, causedchaos in Jableh, killing more than 70 people, while three more detonated near a petrol station in Tartous, killing about 50 people and maiming scores more.

The terror group said it was targeting supporters of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and collects of the Alawite sect, to which Assad and many of Syrias ruling class belong.

Assad has been heavily backed by Russia since the war began. Moscows backing had become more resolute over the past seven months, after Vladimir Putin launched a large-scale intervention last October against rebel groups and jihadis, which has since laid garbage to many opposition-held areas in northern Syria.

The Russian naval base in Tartous has been Moscows largest naval fixture outside the former Soviet Union for more than 40 years. Moscow also maintains a large


listening post in the area and has built an airbase near Latakia.

While Tartous and Jableh had previously been hit by rocket fire, neither Isis nor other jihadi groups , nor the mainstream Syrian opponent, had managed to launch a large-scale assault in the area. Isis has a small presence in the countryside near Hama to the immediate east of Tartous; however, it operates mainly to the east of Aleppo, several hundred miles away.

Much of Syrias north-west coast, including Latakia, has remained loyal to Assad and he retains considerable influence there and in the adjoining Alawite heartland, from where many senior military officers and establishment figures have been drawn over the 45 years that the Assad family has ruled Syria.

The assaults are highly symbolic for Isis, which has beenbattered on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria over recent months, losing up to 30% of the territory it held in late 2014, after the groups leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, anointed himself as the leader of a new Islamic Caliphate that straddled the borders of both countries.

A US-led air campaign has pushed the group out of much of northern Iraq, and a Russian-backed land offensive in March deposed it from the ancient city of Palmyra , north-east of Damascus. Despite the losses, Isis retains pockets of influence across the country, which it uses to spark conflicts along the Lebanese perimeter, in the southern suburbiums of Damascus, near Hama to the west and close to Deraa near the Jordanian border.

As it has lost control of geographical areas, the terror


group has increasingly tried to assert itself by launching co-ordinated bombings, which have been signature ploys throughout all the groups incarnations. Attacks similar to the Tartous strikes have been launched in Shia neighbourhoods of Baghdad in recent weeks, where more than 200 people have been killed. Scores died in similar bombings in Damascus and near Homs earlier this year.

Opposition groups, which are nominally led by an exiled political administration, accuse the Assad regime and Russia of bombing communities controlled by opponent fighters with impunity, and paying scant attention to Isis.

Russia has claimed there is little distinction between jihadi fighters and opposition groups who are fighting to oust Assad.Faculty & Administration

John Patrick Dolan is President and CEO of the California Desert Trial Academy College of Law. Dean Dolan has practiced law in the State of California since 1978. Additionally, he is admitted to practice before various Federal jurisdictions and before the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

He is a California State Bar Certified Specialist in Criminal law and is the author of twelve best-selling books, including his classic Negotiate like the Pros. Dean Dolan received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University at Fullerton in 1971 and his Juris Doctor from Western State University College of Law in 1977.

Irene Garcia Dolan is Registrar, Director of Admissions. Mrs. Dolan is co-founder and President of LawTalk MCLE, Inc., the parent company of the California


Desert Trial Academy College of Law. She has supervised all record keeping and compliance for LawTalk MCLE, Inc. for the past 22 years.

Sue Steding is Dean of Students. Dean Steding served the Office of the District Attorney of Riverside County for more than 34 years. She tried over 100 criminal cases and served as the supervisor of the eastern county prosecution offices for over 20 years. She was the first Chief Assistant District Attorney and longest serving prosecutor in the history of Riverside County. She co-authored California CriminalTrialbook published by West Publishing Company in 1990.

She was licensed to practice law in both the states of Washington and California and currently maintains her license in California. Dean Steding is a graduate of the University of San Diego School ofLaw, achieving her Juris Doctor with the class of 1975. She is also a graduate of the University of Washington with a cum laude degree in History in 1972.

Philip Drucker is currently a sole practitioner based in the Coachella Valley. In 1980, Philip graduated from UCLA with a BA degree in Fine Art. He earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1999 through the University of La Verne, School of Law.

Professor Drucker’s initial legal experience came in the form of litigation in the field of employment law. Recently, he has focused his attention on small business start-ups and maintenance, particularly as related to the acquisition and protection of intellectual property rights.

Professor Drucker is also the former Dean of Abraham Lincoln University, School of Law (ALU). ALU is and remains


a pioneer in the field of legal online learning. While teaching at American Heritage University, School of Law, Mr. Drucker achieved the title of Professor Emeritus.

Mr. Bochnewich graduated from California Western School of Law, San Diego with his Juris Doctor Degree in 1992. Peter M. Bochnewich is a litigator and civil trial attorney with a highly regarded focus on trust and estate litigation. He currently represents clients in all manner of trust and estate disputes, and is frequently in court and in trial on numerous trust and estate matters each year.

Mr. Bochnewich reputation has grown with a consistent history of very good results and satisfied clients, over many years. He has represented clients throughout the Inland Empire and Southern California, and occasionally in other jurisdictions. Mr. Bochnewich ishonored to have been named to the volunteer position of President of the Board of the Boys & Girls club of the Coachella Valley.

Andrea Bouchard graduated from Cal State University San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus in 2008 with a B.A. in Criminal Justice. While completing her undergraduate curriculum she obtained her Level III P.O.S.T. (Peace Officer Standards & Training) Certification from the College of the Desert Public Safety Academy, graduating number one academically. Professor Bouchard attended Trinity Law School in Orange County where she was awarded her Juris Doctorate and multiple American Jurisprudence Awards.

Professor Bouchard was sworn in as a member of the State Bar of California in 2012, and is currently a Criminal Defense and Family Law attorney with the firm, Dolan Law Offices, APC located in


Indio, CA.

Graham Davies, Barrister, studied law at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where his extra-curricular activities included a term as President of the Cambridge Union Society. He went on to complete the Vocational Course at the Inns Of Court School of Law and was called to the English Bar in 1986.

After joining the Chambers of David Batcup QC, he practiced for 12 years on the London and South Eastern Circuit, focusing mainly on criminal and matrimonial cases. Mr. Davies is also a Professional Speaker and TV pundit who has become the UK’s toughest presentation coach. His book, unimaginatively entitled The Presentation Coach, has become a bestseller. He is the on-screen expert used by the BBC, CNN and Sky News to rip apart major political speeches.

Mr. Davies now coaches lawyers,politicians and chief executives in several jurisdictions on how to present themselves with more impact and less pomposity. Mr. Davies resides in London, England.

Professor Doling is a life-long resident of the Desert. She was born in Palm Springs. Ms. Doling graduated from California Western School of law, San Diego with her Juris Doctor Degree in 1999. She is licensed to practice in California and Nevada. Ms. Doling is a staunch advocate for consumer and debtor rights, representing clients in personal and business bankruptcy for more than 15 years. Ms. Doling was honored with the National Distinguished Service Award in 2013 from the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA).

Additionally, in 2015, Ms. Doling was selected to serve as the State Chair for NACBA for the Central District of


California, the largest District in the country. She also serves on the Board of the Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum and is a frequent panel speaker, nationally and locally on bankruptcy issues. Professor Doling is also licensed real estate broker negotiating real estate transactions for individuals, businesses, and bankruptcy trustees.

Professor Doling opened her law firm in Palm Desert in 2001, with a satellite office in Yucca Valley. Her practice is limited almost exclusively to bankruptcy and tax matters.

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Professor Robert Evans’ decision in 2007 to follow in the footsteps of his father, James W. Evans, a well-known commercial banking litigator, came after more than twenty years as an entrepreneur, having owned and operated restaurants in Palm Desert and West Hollywood. In 2011, Robert graduated from AbrahamLincoln University, School of Law, in Los Angeles, and promptly passed the California Bar Exam.

Following his admission to practice law in all California courts and the United States Central District of California, Robert grew a small business litigation and transactional practice, while also engaging in contract work for several other litigation firms, including Schorr Law Corporation and the Tostrud Law Group in Century City. In 2012, Robert relocated to Palm Desert and joined Anderholt Whittaker LLP, a boutique transaction and litigation firm specializing in real estate, business, estate planning, probate, and intellectual property.

Robert was recently on a panel of distinguished attorneys chosen by Law Seminars International to speak about Negotiating Common Area and Maintenance Fees in Commercial Leases that was attended by landlords, property managers, and attorneys. Robert


has also appeared on local television and radio programs, as well as having been a contributor to the Desert Sun’s business section. Robert also serves as a director for the non-profit group ‘The Ophelia Project’.

Professor Evans worked as a sole practitioner from 1996 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2008. From 2002 to 2004, he was a partner with the Law Offices of Evans & Plott LLP and, from 1985 to 1996, Evans worked for MacLachlan, Burford & Arias as an associate and partner. He was an associate with Furness, Flory & Middlebrook from 1981 to 1985 and held the same position with Harding & Miller from 1979 to 1981. He earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Citrus Belt Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree fromthe University of California, Riverside.

Mr. Hanover, a native of the Inland Empire, graduated from the law school at USC in June 1965, ranked 3d in his class, selected to Order of the Coif and served as a law review editor. He was admitted to practice in Jan 1966. He was honored to receive the Martindale-Hubbard rating of AV- Preeminent, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability. After practicing for 25 years in the San Fernando Valley with broad experience that included criminal law, corporate, pension and profit sharing, family law, commercial litigation, real estate litigation and transactional work, he relocated to the Coachella Valley in 1991 where he has since practiced exclusively in the field of bankruptcy. He currently practices with his law partner, Summer Shaw.

Mr. Hanover


has been a real estate broker since 1979 and an active owner of full service real estate companies engaged in brokerage, syndicated investments and property management. While in the San Fernando Valley, he was a member of the board of trustees of the San Fernando Valley Bar Ass’n, served as a Judge Pro Tem and on the arbitration panel for the Los Angeles Superior Court. Since relocating to the CV, he has served on the Desert Bar Fee Arbitration Panel and as a mediator for the United States Bankruptcy Court.

Justice Miller was born in Whittier, California, and grew up in Glendora, California. He attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1975. Justice Miller was awarded his JurisDoctor in 1978 from Pepperdine University School of Law. In 1995 Justice Miller was appointed to the Riverside Superior Court by Governor Pete Wilson. He served as the Presiding Judge in the Riverside County Superior Court from January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2004.In June of 2006 Justice Miller was appointed to the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Justice Miller has served on many state and local committees including the California Judges Association. He is currently serving on the Judicial Council, as Chair of the Executive and Planning Committee; the Commission on the Future of California’s Court System; the Commission on Access to Justice; and Vice Chair of the Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions. Justice Miller is also active in many


local programs including the Boys & Girls Club, of which he is currently the President and also on the National Area Council Committee; and he is a founding member of the Warren E. Slaughter American Inn of Court.

Professor Moyer is an AV Rated attorney who currently serves as a mediator and arbitrator in civil litigated matters. He practiced law in the State of California for over 38 years and is admitted to practice before various Federal District Courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was a Civil litigator in Los Angeles from 1986-2010, whose practice emphasized Professional Errors and Omissions and Product Liability defense.

Mr. Moyer was a trial attorney with the Office of the Public Defender of Los Angeles County from 1970-1985. He received his JurisDoctor Degree from U.C.L.A. in 1969 and his Bachelors Degree cum laude from U.C.L.A. in 1966.

Professor Peter Nolan graduated with honors in 1992 from Fresno State with a BA in Psychology and minor in Chicano-Latino Studies. Pete put himself through evening law classes at Loyola Law School. After graduation in 1999 he was hired by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. Since 2008, he has been prosecuting exclusively homicides.Professor Nolan has many professional accolades, including twice winning the Eastern Division “Felony Prosecutor of the Year” in 2008 and 2009. In 2012, Pete was honored as the Countywide “Prosecutor of the Year”. In June 2013 Professor Nolan was named statewide Prosecutor of the Year by the California District Attorneys Association.

Douglas S. Phillips is a partner in the Litigation practice


group of Best Best & Krieger LLP. Before joining Best Best & Krieger LLP in October 1986, he was with the firm of Erwin, Andelson & Eldred in the Coachella Valley. Mr. Phillips is experienced in civil litigation, appellate law, municipal, environmental and condemnation law.

Mr. Phillips has represented public agencies and private parties in all types of municipal litigation. Mr. Phillips has provided legal services as Deputy City Attorney to the cities of Palm Desert, Indio, Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage, Desert Hot Springs, Needles, Cathedral City, and Coachella. He is currently a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Palm Desert, and represents the City of Indian Wells in litigation matters.

Mr. Phillips is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the Riverside CountyBar Association and the Desert Bar Association.

Mr. Phillips has been an instructor at Chapman University since 1983. He graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 and from Syracuse University College of Law in 1976. Mr. Phillips was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1977.

Commissioner Reed worked as sole practitioner from 1996 to 2014. Her areas of practice were criminal defense and family law. She was a contract lawyer with the Desert Defenders Conflict Panel also from 1996 to 2014. She served as a Planning Commissioner with the City of Indio, from 2004 to 2010, with two terms as Chair. She was Chair of the Nuisance Abatement Appeals Board for the City of Indio from 2000 to 2004.

Commissioner Reed has coached Indio


High Schools Mock Trial team for 8 of the last 12 years. Prior to becoming an attorney, she worked for the Riverside Courts as a Probate and Family Law Examiner/Investigator. She earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Western State College of Law and an Associate of Science degree in Business Management from College of the Desert.

Born in Mexico and raised in Santa Ana, California, Attorney Rosa Elena Sahagún prides herself in her continuous effort to serve the community at large. Her high school years were marked by the birth of her son. Despite the difficulties that this entailed, she graduated with honors from Santa Ana High School, earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Chapman University, graduating also with honors, and completed her Juris Doctorate at Chapman UniversitySchool of Law. She began practicing law in began in 2002. In 2006, she established The Law Offices of Rosa Elena Sahagún, which allowed her to strengthen her already close ties with the community through her volunteer work. Attorney Sahagún’s practice includes criminal defense, immigration law, family law, and civil litigation. Immigration law remains one of her key areas of practice. As a law student, one of her Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit case resulted in a published decision: VARGAS-GARCIA v. INS, 287 F.3d 882 (9th Cir. 2002). Attorney Sahagún most recently obtained local and national press for her pro bono work representing the community in battling immigration fraud. She has been at the helm of community organization in the plight to inform those who


often are the targets of immigration scams.

For the past five years, Attorney Sahagún has been a regular collaborator as a legal analyst for CNN En Español where she addresses legal problems concerning the Hollywood celebrities. She has also been interviewed by Telemundo, Noticias Univision 34, En Contexto (Channel 52), CBS, The Press Enterprise, Fontana Herald News, Hispanic Lifestyle Magazine and The Desert Sun. Attorney Sahagún has been named Attorney of the Year by Inland Empire Latino Lawyers Association for her volunteer work. The State Bar of California has recognized Ms. Sahagun’s pro bono work and has awarded her several W. Wiley Manuel. Additionally, her work has also been recognized by local congressmen, state senators, and assembly members in California. Most recently, La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language newspaper inthe United States, recognized Attorney Sahagun’s community work by naming her a Distinguished Woman in 2014 (Mujer Destacada), specifically for her work in preventing immigration fraud.

Professor Samuel Trussell has an undergraduate degree in History and a Master’s degree in Humanities from San Francisco State University. He holds Secondary, Bilingual and Community College teaching credentials, having taught History & Humanities at the Community College level, as well as English & ESL at the middle and high school levels. He graduated in the top 10% of his class from Southwestern Law School, where he attended night classes while teaching days.

He began his legal career with the Appellate Department of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. From there he moved to the desert where he has practiced personal injury law since


1986. He has litigated many cases in that field in both state and federal trial and appellate courts. His areas of emphasis include wrongful death, products liability, medical malpractice and insurance coverage disputes. Professor Trussell is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of California, the Desert Bar Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association

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This new program begins fall semester, 2017 for the incoming first year students. The instructional program will expand with eachnew class. The program will be fully available to all four classes by fall 2020.

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Each year Gettysburg College's students, faculty, and staff have new ideas to promote sustainability and environmental awareness.

Three events have remained popular enough to take place annually, from weeklong national competitions, to Earth Day tie-dye extravaganzas and locally produced meals at the Dining Hall, Gettysburg College shows its green pride year after year.Muslim loyalty and belonging: some reflections on the psychosocial background

Abdal-Hakim Murad

Posted Mar 8, 2003

The world is at present in the grip of fear. We fear an unknown absence that hides behind the mundanity of our experience; perhaps ubiquitous and confident, perhaps broken and at an end. Symbols of human communication such as the internet and the airlines have suddenly acquired a double meaning as the scene for a radical failure of communication. Above all, the fear is that of the unprecedented, as the world enters an age drastically unlike its predecessors, an age in which the religions are fragmenting into countless islands of opinion at a time when their members - and the world - are most insistently in need of their serene and consistent guidance.

Our silence in


made plain to me by the director of the Swedish Islamic Academy. He told me that consistently, during his quarter-century as a Muslim in Stockholm, whenever he mentions that he is a Sufi, people lean forward to learn more. When he mentions Islam, they lean back, alarmed. Is this merely the expression of prejudice? Perhaps. But Muslims should also consider the possibility that educated Western people may be sincerely, rather than cynically, horrified by expressions of Islamic identity politics; and may be sincerely, rather than superficially, impressed by the literature and practice of traditional spiritual Islam. No-one who wishes to practice da‘wa in the West, or among Westernised Muslims, can afford to bypass that reality.

Once the sakina has been found again, once religion becomes a matter of thein the London Blitz. After the war, his behaviour grew erratic, and his marriage ended painfully, inflicting shock-waves on children and a wider world of relatives. Years afterwards the reason for it became clear. One night, after an air-raid, he had pulled from the rubble of a building the body of a small girl who looked exactly like his own daughter. The trauma of that moment never left him until he died, fifty years later. That trauma lives on, subtly, in the lives of all his descendants.

Those who take the lives of women and children, indiscriminately, and simply because they live on the other side of a frontier, should remember that they are inflicting wounds on other lives as well that can never properly be healed.

What is required,


and Islamic centres are in the grip of a small minority of worshippers who care nothing for peaceful coexistence with their fellow citizens, and whose hearts and minds are overseas. Most Muslims here, however, wish to be accepted as full and respected partners in the project of building a just and prosperous society, and do not wish their places of worship to be directed by the representatives of other governments or zealot political movements. Neither are they at ease with the reinvention of religion as a ritual of distress. This majority must now speak out. Sullenness, jealousy, lack of tawakkul, lack of optimism, all these are vices which must be transcended. And that transcending can only take place where religion is once again centred on the love andprotect the integrity of creation. But Muslims are not committed to jumping ship. In British India, a political context far less egalitarian than the one we inhabit here, there were few who chose the option of hijra to Afghanistan. The ulema overwhelmingly stayed in place, and were not prominent during the Mutiny. ‘Some scholars,’ as a historian of the period notes, ‘held that a country remained daru’l-Islam as long as a single provision of the Law was kept in force. [16] Once the bitterness of the Mutiny had subsided, the Muslims were a peaceful presence who contributed much to the deeply flawed but stable global enterprise that was the British Empire. Those Pathans who fought and died at Monte Cassino, the Hausas of the Nigeria Regiment who fought


with the Chindits in Burma; the Bengali Lascars who died in the Battle of the Atlantic, were not conscripts, they were volunteers. Fighting against a common totalitarian enemy they were engaged, in the broad understanding of the term, in a jihad. One cannot deplore too strongly the attempt by a few Muslims, such as Ataullah Kopanski, to present Nazism as a potential ally for Islam. [17] Clearly, had National Socialism triumphed, its scientists would have aimed at the elimination or reduction to servile status of all the non-white races of the world, not excepting the followers of Islam. To fight for the Allies was unquestionably a jihad.

More recently, the struggle against communism effectively united Muslims and Christendom, a long alliance which both sides seem to have forgotten within Islam’, ISIM Newsletter 10 (July, 2002), 6, makes the following incendiary claim about the September 11 attacks: ‘The West […] has sought comfort in the convenient thought that it is only a renegade breakaway group of Muslim fundamentalists who have struck out in violence. Most Muslims do not share that view.’

16. Barbara Metcalf, Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband 1860-1900 (Princeton, 1982), 51. For the muted role of the ulema during the Mutiny, see p. 82.

17. Ataullah Kopanski, Sabres of Two Easts: an untold history of Muslims in Eastern Europe (Islamabad, 1995).


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Palestinians hold funeral for attacker shot by Israeli soldiers

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Dozens of people take part in the funeral of a Palestinian man who was shot dead after posing as journalist and stabbing an Israeli soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. Diane Hodges reports.If you want some indication of how extreme parts of Israeli political opinion have become, then read the chilling piece by Gilad Sharon, the son of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, in today's Jerusalem Post.

After writing that the civilians of Gaza "are not innocent" since they elected Hamas, Sharon declares:

We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.

While Sharon's invocation of Hiroshima is shocking, he isn't the first prominent figure to make the comparison between Gaza and Japan. Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister and the leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu (which recently merged with Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud) said in January 2009, during the last


major Israeli assault on Gaza, that Israel

must continue to fight Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II. Then, too, the occupation of the country was unnecessary.

His remarks were widely interpreted as a reference to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Would Israel ever consider such a solution? It sounds unthinkable, but Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed in October 2009 that Lieberman "had threatened to use nuclear weapons against Gaza" (see the final line of this Guardian report).bottom edge and a
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Introduction
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The Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the former Soviet republics that are now part of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It has one of the largest and fastest expanding economies in Central Asia, growing an estimated 9% between 2000 and 2007. In 2011, Kazakhstan marked the 20^th^ anniversary of post-Soviet independence by introducing new social policies designed to strengthen its domestic socioeconomic standing and political position in the international community. In addition, the central government of Kazakhstan has prioritized several goals aimed at diversifying the economy beyond its reliance on oil, natural gas, and other extractive industries, decreasing dependence on the government sector, and increasing competitiveness of the state as a whole. A key area of the central government's interest is the improvement of population health.

Despitethat are now being developed at the Kazakhstan School of Public Health to strengthen population health in the country and the Central Asian Region.

Socio-demographic and Health Status Profile
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The population of Kazakhstan is currently estimated (as of 2011) to be 16.5 million, with a growth rate of 1.235%.[@b2-cajgh-01-30] The World Bank[@b3-cajgh-01-30] has estimated the Gross National Product to be \$149.06 billion in 2010, with a per capita gross national income of \$6,280, which is below the average of other European Region states.

Life Expectancy
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The World Health Organization (WHO) health profile for Kazakhstan, which is located within the WHO European Region, estimates the average overall life expectancy at birth to be 64 years (59 years for males and 70 years for females), which lags behind the regional average of 75 for


training to those populations most at-risk and focuses on increasing TB and HIV knowledge and prevention as well as training for providers on stigma reduction.

Immunizations
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Kazakhstan has been officially considered a poliomyelitis free country by the WHO since 2002, with the national immunization coverage at 98 percent in 2010. Concerning other vaccine-preventable diseases, coverage in 2010 for BCG was at 96%, measles-containing vaccine (MCV) at 98%, and DTP1 and DTP3 were at 99%. Vaccination against 21 infectious diseases is conducted in Kazakhstan. In accordance with the national calendar of prophylactic vaccination, children under two years old are given vaccine treatment against 11 infectious diseases. A National Advisory Committee on Immunization was established in spring 2012 with the aim of being an advisory body to deal with the issues ofdiseases through programs that are now being implemented at the national, regional, and local levels. An Interministerial Coordination Committee on AIDS coordinates an inter-agency system of HIV/AIDS centers that are implementing a National Strategic Program on HIV/AIDS Prevention to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic and related diseases. Finally, a National Centre for Healthy Lifestyles focuses on health promotion and disease prevention, including drug abuse and trafficking, alcohol and tobacco use, maternal and child health, nutrition, and environmental health. In addition, primary health care providers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and several international agencies, including USAID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Bank, and WHO, provide a range of consultative, programmatic, and other public health services that support domestic public health efforts in Kazakhstan and throughout the


of the Aral Sea during the 1960s, when Soviet irrigation projects destroyed what was then the fourth largest lake in the world. The destruction of the lake has left the lake bed and surrounding land polluted and the region economically depressed.

Perhaps the most pressing challenges for public health are of organizational, political, and philosophical nature. According to the WHO, the "biggest challenge of the country's health sector in the domain of public health lies in clarifying, coordinating and streamlining the roles and responsibilities of different agencies responsible for public health and health promotion activities."[@b16-cajgh-01-30] Moreover, related to this is making the promotion of health a core responsibility for all of the government ministries.[@b19-cajgh-01-30] The new policy argues for "whole-of-government" and "whole-of-society" approaches that will consolidate the ideas encompassedfrom achieving breakthroughs in the improvement of population health in a region where the public health needs are critical to advancing the goals of civil society, further economic development, and regional security. The recent attention given to population health and evidence-based practice has catalyzed interest in the region to build the necessary research culture and institutional infrastructure that can support multidisciplinary research to inform policies and practice, not only in Kazakhstan but also across institutions in the region. Such a culture and infrastructure exists in Western Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom, where the benefits of robust national mechanisms for funding research and institutional infrastructures to support competitive procurement of funds is evident in the history of research discoveries that have altered the course of the human


condition for the better.

Priorities for Building Public Health Capacity
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Against this backdrop and despite negative trends in many lifestyle indicators and the apparent lack of resources for public health, much has been achieved in the last decade to provide a foundation for the improvement of population health going forward. The establishment of various state programs and many organizations in the field of public health, such as the Kazakhstan School of Public Health (KSPH), has created the essential conditions for the development of a post-Soviet, modern public health movement in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The central government of Kazakhstan has created a National Coordination Council on Health Protection, the aim of which is the development and maintenance of interactions between central and local executive bodies and international and other organizations forthan 12,000 professionals have received professional preparation in public health since 1998.

KSPH is an institutional member of the Asian Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH), the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), and the International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education (IUHPE). Although in recent years new faculties and departments of public health have been established in the country, KSPH remains the flagship professional preparation program in the field of public health in the Central Asian region. As the only well recognized school of public health in the Central Asian Region, KSPH is now pursuing the development of public health capacity in five key priority areas that are critical to advancing public health knowledge and practice in Kazakhstan and the region.

1.


for improved health. Consistent with the WHO's expectation that Member States in the European Region focus on reducing health inequities that are socially determined, Kazakhstan is currently making progress to improve education, employment, and housing conditions. Efforts to prevent diseases related to poor nutrition, poor sanitation, and poor water supplies also continue to be a priority.[@b25-cajgh-01-30] However, more than three decades after the Declaration of Alma-Ata, which was adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care convened in Kazakhstan in 1978, improving social circumstances remains a priority that has not fully matured. The newly reconstituted Department of Population Health and Social Sciences at KSPH has been leading the development of work on health economics, health impact assessment, and social determinants of health. Recent Master Classes sponsored withbetween KSPH and the University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, currently provides for ongoing teaching and consultative support in HIA, including the use of HIA in research and as a tool for benchmarking that can inform public health policy and practice. The National Coordination Council on Health Protection seems to be a promising infrastructure within which to situate capacity for HIA, not only at the project level but also the policy level in Kazakhstan.

4. Strengthening Scientific Communication and Exchange
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A fourth priority is improving public health through scientific communication and exchange. KSPH is focusing on this priority by doing two things. The first involves emphasizing the importance of professional development and, specifically, the value of English as a second language for all of its faculty and students. Fluency in English


and published in Russian, Kazakh, and English. Expanding the range of published content to include more reports of public health research and commentary, and strengthening the editorial board and peer review capacity of the journal, are key priorities for KSPH, the home of the journal editorial offices.

5. Building Public Health Workforce Capacity in Education and Training
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The final critical priority is capacity-building in public health professional education and training. KSPH is cooperating with international organizations such as the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), the European Union TACIS Project on Strengthening Environmental Information and Observation Capacity in the Commonwealth Independent States, and other organizations, such as UNICEF, the USAID ZdravPlus Project, and WHO, to achieve institutional reforms and training and education for improving teaching programs on public health and healthpromotion. In addition, it is working on collaborative research and education projects with the British Council, Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), Environmental Resources Management (ERM), and the CDC Central Asia Regional Office. KSPH also currently collaborates with several academic institutions, including the Columbia University Global Research Center of Central Asia and the Columbia University schools of education, public health and social work; Ohio University; Semmelweiss University (Hungary); the University at Albany of the State University of New York; and the University of Southern Denmark. KSPH is at the vanguard of efforts to strengthen public health professional education and training and bring its public health curriculum into line with current international standards, including the integration of European and global core competencies and quality assurance standards for health


Continued interest and support of the global public health community--- particularly that of WHO---in developing and sustaining international collaborative research and training efforts will be critical and promises to accelerate the process of public health capacity building that is so critical to the future of Kazakhstan and the region.

The work on this paper was supported, in part, by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Allegrante, Aringazina, and Gulis) and the Soros Open Society Foundations (OSF Europe Foundation) Higher Education Support Program, Academic Fellowship Program (Allegrante). We thank Rector Zhanna Kalmatayeva and Kalissa Dosbayeva, Assyl Nurbayev, Aigul Shinbolatova, Gainel Ussatayeva, and others at the Kazakhstan School of Public Health, whose assistance and participation in the May 2012 Master Classes conducted by Professors Allegrante and Gulis generatedstatus from the central government for years.

Kishanganj, where Muslims constitute about 70% of the population, is among the most backward districts of Bihar, with a high poverty rate and a low literacy level.

The Kishanganj panchayat diktat comes barely two months after a similar decision was taken by an assembly of elders at a village in Muzaffarpur district in north Bihar.

The Muzaffarpur panchayat had advised a 14-year-old rape victim to accept Rs 2 lakh from the alleged rapist and abort her pregnancy.

The women's police station in-charge who received the Kishanganj girl's complaint said, "We are probing the matter to ascertain the authenticity of the complaint."

According to the police official, the minor is from an extremely poor family. Her parents are labourers: the father often migrates in search of work


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At the spring 2013 shows, makeup artists didn't play it safe. They experimented with color (scarlet lips at Rochas), placement (floating liner at Michael Kors), and products (small bits of fabric replaced eyeliner at Fendi). But despite their unconventional approach, the makeup looked more cool than kooky. Here are the top ten makeup looks we can't wait to try.

At Marc Jacobs, makeup artist François Nars looked to Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick to inspire his "black-and-white monochromatic makeup." He applied matte foundation and filled in the brows with Nars eye shadow in Bali and Bengali to create a "graphic, sharp shape." He lined the top lashes with black liner, and smudged black shadow along the lower lids. Nars also blended black shadow intoMercy Mission

Holly di Marco used to think that joining the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire was a good career move. However, she is beginning to doubt her judgment, for her rebel comrades treat her as nothing but a lowly mercenary, never to be entrusted with anything important.
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