how famous the theme became — decades later, it’s regularly performed by marching bands — fame eluded Stevens.

Stevens never moved in a major way into scoring movies unlike contemporaries of his such as John Williams (who, ironically, received the job of scoring the 1969 Steve McQueen film The Reivers from Stevens when CBS was releasing films, according to the Burlingame Thriller commentary track) and Lalo Schifrin.

Stevens died in 1991. His Five-O theme outlived him, however. When the 2010 version of the show debuted, its pilot originally had a “rock music” arrangement that made the rounds on social media before the new show’s debut.

It wasn’t received well. The new series quickly commissioned a more traditional sounding version, which debuted at the 2010 San Diego Comic Book Con. Some ofCarleton College - Bachelor's Degree

Carleton College is a private, liberal arts college, that is located in Northfield, Minnesota. The college offers bachelor's degrees, with some of the academic departments and programs available including Computer Science, Environmental Studies, and Political Science.

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Carleton College was founded in 1866, and is the fourth oldest private institution of higher education in the state of Minnesota. The college has witnessed plenty of growth both to the student enrollment and to the campus. Some of the addition on campus included the opening of the Recreation Center in 2000, and the installation of a wind turbine, which was the first college owned turbine in the US.

Carleton College has nearly 2000 students that represent 50 US states and 35 different countries. The college offers Bachelor of


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This program is designed to equip students with the theoretical and practical knowledge of Public Health. The program offersIsrael will start buying some fruit and vegetables from the Gaza Strip next week, a partial resumption of imports halted when the Islamist group Hamas took over the Palestinian territory in 2007, Israeli officials said on Thursday.

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They said the measure was designed to help a Gaza economy devastated by last year's war with Israel, and to make up for a shortfall in produce from Israeli farmlands left fallow during the current Jewish lunar calendar year in accordance with biblical law.

The move was welcomed by Jamal Abu al-Naja, director of the Gaza Vegetable Production and Export Association, who said he hoped it would help make up farmers losses and eventually encourage working farms to seek bank funding to expand their production.

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Some Palestinian farmers stopped cultivating their fields all together or sold their land to housing developers after Israeli markets were closed to them in 2007.

Israel, which has been facing international calls to ease its blockade of Gaza, has been gradually relaxing restrictions on commerce across its fortified border since the July-August war which caused widespread destruction in the enclave.

It has allowed Israeli transit of Gaza-produced vegetables and Palestinian merchants to the West Bank, and for Gaza farmers to bring tractors in via Israel since November.

COGAT, the Israeli military agencies that oversees civilian interaction with Gaza, said a shipment of tomatoes and eggplants would be brought in from the territory on Sunday.

"Future stages are expected to include a wider variety of vegetables, totalling 1,000 to 1,500 tonnes. Each tonneis valued at approximately 3,000 shekels ($750)," COGAT said in a statement, adding that the imports were scheduled to run the duration of the Jewish calendar year that expires in September.

COGAT deals with civilian authorities but shuns Hamas, which seized Gaza in a 2007 civil war with the forces of US-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas and Abbas reconciled last year, giving rise to a Palestinian unity government.

"The steps taken are meant to support the Palestinian population while segregating the Hamas organisation, which is a terror entity that prevents the reconstruction of Gaza and uses its resources," COGAT head Major-General Yoav Mordechai said.

Abu al-Naja from the Gaza Vegetable Production and Export Association said Israeli authorities had already carried out quality tests on tomato, eggplant, cucumber and zucchini samples.

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It's busy days ahead for Conan Exiles, as the game launches on Xbox One in the Game Preview program on August 16. That's also the day that the game's first expansion, The Frozen North, will arrive for both Xbox One and the previously released PC edition.

With the launch of The Frozen North, which will be free, Conan Exiles enters what developer Funcom says is "phase two" of the game's Early Access period. The game has been revamped "from top to bottom," Funcom says. Combat now supports light and heavy attacks, while the loot system has been revamped as well, the developer said. Check out the video below to hear directly from Funcom about what's new in Conan Exiles' "bigger and better" second phase.

The version of Conan Exiles comingThis article is part of our special report European economy: On the road to recovery or still in stagnation?.

Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier presented the German government’s autumn projection to journalists last week in his customary sober manner. “The German economy is going through the longest period of upturn since 1966,” he said.

The forecast he made for the German economy sounded near flawless. While economic growth is predicted to slightly drop by 2020, wages will rise, as will consumption, there is supposed to be greater investment again and Germany will head towards full employment.

Germany has recovered well from the euro crisis but not all eurozone countries have fared so well. Many states are still struggling with high unemployment – almost one in five Spaniards


trade balance surplus for three years in a row.

US President Donald Trump is not alone in being bothered by this – “the Germans are bad, very bad” – the IMF and the European Commission complain repeatedly that Germany should adhere to the 6% trade balance surplus, as specified by the EU. Higher figures endanger the eurozone’s stability – a painful lesson learnt from the euro crisis.

There are also other member states crossing the 6% line. For instance, the trade surpluses of Ireland, the Netherlands and Malta were significantly higher. However, in absolute numbers, the German export capacity stands out far beyond the European mean. The data from the first quarter of 2018 illustrates this difference: Austria, in second place, had a surplus of €5.3 billion. In contrast, thehands of populist parties. With the EU elections approaching, they speak of hypocrisy and criticise Germany’s alleged supremacy in the EU. Such rebellion again the “EU establishment”, as seen in Italy these days, could become a popular election campaign tactic, some say.

Nevertheless, Altmaier has revised downwards his forecast for the German economy – and also its trade balance. “The central risk is the further escalation of the global trade war, which could also hit German exports hard,” he said. Mentions were also made of Brexit and the economic crises in Turkey and Argentina.

Exporting a lot of goods means that the German economy is heavily dependent on international events. Industry representatives are accordingly concerned about Brexit.

In the event of a hard Brexit, which could involve tariffs, trade barriers and


officials since he moved to San Diego from Florida in the mid-'70s. A retired butcher, Poppell speaks with a faint Southern drawl.

He declined to be interviewed for this story, but elsewhere over the years he has described himself as a "liberal" whose avocation since boyhood has been the natural enjoyment of sex and the human body. "It teaches people they don't have to cheat," he said about his E Street sex club in a December 1996 Associated Press story. "They can be open and honest -- and care about people's needs."

In the past, Poppell has couched his "swingers" clubs -- where adults pay an entrance fee to have consensual sex with whomever -- as churches, and in one instance, as a health club. But Poppell was repeatedly shutdown for zoning violations. In 1983, he was convicted of operating a brothel in Solana Beach. By the time he bought the site of what would be Thad's Social Club on E Street in 1991, however, he had mastered the zoning rules and anti-prostitution laws.

Poppell still lives on E Street. Parked outside is his late-model gold Mercedes with vanity plates that spell "POPPELL." But the scene is more hillbilly hollow than Playboy mansion: rusting discarded appliances and broken-down chain-link fences are the rule, not electronic gates and grandiloquent statuary.

In contrast with Poppell's sexual libertarianism, Vargas plays up his Catholic background and spouts conservative social values, scolding homeless advocates, for example, for encouraging freeloaders.

A critical point in the case is whether Vargas had any factual basis for his assertion


that Poppell had "infested" the community with drugs and prostitution. "I personally walked the 3400 block of E Street...in 1992, soon after [the club] had ceased operating, when I [was] seeking election to the U.S. Congress and later the San Diego City Council," he said in an August 1 declaration filed with the court. "A number of residents told me about the plaintiff's club, how its operation had disrupted the neighborhood and disturbed the residents, and how relieved they were when it closed. Various citizens specifically told me that patrons of the club would litter the block with, among other things, used condoms, needles, and syringes...."

But Vargas has yet to produce one person who made those charges to him. "We're looking for that," Devaney said last week. Ona further odd note, the area that Vargas claims to have canvassed is almost bereft of residents. And according to surveys conducted by Poppell, the few people who do live there have never heard of Vargas.

"The fact that these needles and syringes were found in the 3400 block of E Street only on Saturday and Sunday mornings, after plaintiff's club had operated on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively," Vargas notes in the declaration, "led me to the conclusion that plaintiff's patrons were using illegal drugs on those nights. It was that conclusion that led me to make the alleged defamatory statement attributed to me....

"Mr. Poppell infested the neighborhood with drugs as certainly as the owner of a flea-ridden dog infests his neighbor's house with fleas when he brings


in this study. I thank Assistant Professor Mitsuo Hara of Nagoya University for his kind support. I am thankful for the significant experimental efforts and results of Dr. Takayuki Uekusa, Dr. Yuichi Morikawa, Dr. Hafiz Ashraful Haque, Mr. Yusuke Koizuka, Mr. Tomoya Murase, Dr. Masami Sano, Dr. Kei Fukuhara, Mr. Yuki Nagashima, and many graduate students in our laboratory at Nagoya University. The real‐time in situ GI‐SAXS observation studies were collaborative work with Assistant Professor Yuya Shinohara and Prof. Yoshiyuki Amemiya of the University of Tokyo. This work was supported by a Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific Research (B: 25286025) from JSPS and the PRESTO Program from JST.

Shusaku Nagano is an Associate Professor at Nagoya University Venture Business Laboratory. He received his B.S. (1995) and M.S. (1997) degrees in chemistryfrom Gakushuin University and his Ph.D. degree (2001) from Tokyo Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Takahiro Seki. From 1998 to 1999, he worked in the Central Research Laboratories at Nihon Parkerizing Co. Ltd. as a researcher. In 2001, he joined the central research center at Ricoh Company Ltd. as a researcher. In 2002, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. Since 2011, he has been an Associate Professor at the Nagoya University Venture Business Laboratory. He has been working on interdisciplinary research in polymer chemistry and polymer physics, focusing on liquid‐crystalline polymers, photoresponsive polymers, polymer semiconductor devices, polymer surfaces, and polymer ultrathin films.

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"The commission's award of the license was the product of a corrupt process to favor Wynn" and the commissioners' action "has irreparably tainted the gaming licensing process," the suit says. The city wants a judge to revoke the casino license and bar the commissioners from taking further actions involving the sole eastern Massachusetts casino license.

And after the license was awarded last September, the suit alleges, the commission bent the rules several more times to make sure Wynn kept it even though his company had not met key conditions and deadlines.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh Wednesday filed a greatly expanded version of Boston's lawsuit against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, alleging the agency repeatedly violated the state's casino law and its own rules to make sure Steve Wynn was granted aoriginally filed in January. But it provides new details about a series of 16 actions the gambling commission took, allegedly in violation of the law, to help Wynn.

It also contains several new allegations, including a charge that Wynn's "representatives" knew that two criminals had owned the Everett land, but did virtually nothing to make sure they were no longer involved when they signed an option agreement with FBT Everett Realty, the owners of record, in December 2012.

Charles Lightbody, a convicted felon, and two of the principals of FBT Realty, are under state and federal indictment for allegedly covering up Lightbody's continuing ownership interest until at least 2013.

The commission should have disqualified Wynn because of the involvement of criminals, the lawsuit says. The gambling commission has concluded that the


ago, so clearly there are many people interested in the revenue and job creation our project will bring to Everett."

The suit also alleges that commission chairman Stephen Crosby was much closer to one of the Everett landowners than he has disclosed. Crosby acknowledged in the summer of 2013 that he had been in business with Lohnes in the 1980s, but said he rarely saw him.

But the two men had actually socialized at least 20 times since Lohnes bailed out Crosby's failing company in the 1980s, the city alleges. In May 2012, soon after a Wynn abandoned plans for a casino in Foxborough, Lohnes hosted a dinner party for Crosby and his wife, the suit says.

The suit states that Crosby should have recused himself as soon as he learnedin 2012 that Lohnes owned the land where Wynn wanted to build the casino. But he did not reveal the relationship until being questioned by State Police investigating the possibility of secret landowners, in August 2013.

Crosby did not withdraw from the debate over the land until December 2013; several months later he withdrew entirely from deliberations over the eastern Massachusetts license.

According to the suit, the commission has taken 16 actions that violated the state's gambling rules since Wynn first filed its license application in January 2013.

The commission, led by Crosby, had vigorously endorsed a proposal requiring an applicant to be deemed suitable by the commission before it could sign an agreement with its host community and hold a local election. Wynn and the city of Everett, the suit


alleges, wanted to reverse the sequence to increase pressure on the gambling commission by demonstrating that Everett voters embraced the plan.

After Wynn called Crosby, which city lawyers allege was a prohibited ex-parte communication, the chairman "in a complete about-face" asked the panel to reassess its position. His fellow commissioners objected at first but eventually yielded, the suit says.

"Chairman Crosby did Wynn's bidding and swayed the commission," the city's lawyers wrote.

The day after the commission voted to change the rule, Wynn signed a host community agreement with Everett. Two months later, Everett voters overwhelmingly approved the casino plan. The election occurred six months before Wynn was deemed suitable by the gambling commission.

The city alleges the commission took several other actions to benefit Wynn, including choosing a different company toconduct a suitability investigation of his company after Wynn complained to Crosby about Spectrum Gaming.

Spectrum Gaming had been sharply critical of gambling activities in Macau, where Wynn has a casino. At the time, the complaint says, there were pending shareholder suits against Wynn and a US Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of a donation Wynn Macau made to the University of Macau Development Foundation.

In addition, the city lawyers allege, the commission let Wynn buy land from the T for its entrance more than 60 days after the license was issued, an alleged violation of state regulations. The sale also violated public bidding laws and a requirement for an environmental review, the suit states.

The gambling commission has said the 60 day rule applies only to the property where the


flow and possible cost reductions with simulation experts, and the advantages and disadvantages of various material choices with specialists in materials supply.

Every day was busy for all demonstrating continulusly throughout the show.

Here we see Uwe OneCNC Germany (left) demonstrating OneCNCXR2 to a customer.

Euromold being a specialist mold show brings many users directly interested in mold manufacture and OneCNC is fortunate to have experienced staff on hand.

Here Stepan OneCNC Germany (left) demonstrating the product to Thomas (middle) a long time customer and user of OneCNC in Germany. Sebastian OneCNC Poland eagerly looks on to sse what is being shown to such an experienced user.

Here we see Sebastian OneCNC Poland demonstrating OneCNC to a group of prospective users. Sebastian speaks he first language Polish but is also fluent in Germanyallowing a broad range of communication skills in demonstrating and supporting OneCNC Products.

Allan OneCNC Denmark (second from right) showing his experiences in OneCNC to Uwe OneCNC Germany (left}. Allan has many years of practical experience in the industry and an accomplished 5 axis designer programmer and CNC machinist.

The six-day EMO Hannover 2007 exhibition ended on Saturday to a shower of accolades. This was because there were more exhibitors, more visitors, more international flair. And this, despite the shortened shortened exhibition by two days from previous.

166,500 visitors came to Hannover, Germany between the dates of 17 and 22 September to buy machines, look at CAD/CAM place orders and find out about the latest developments in the world of metal-working. This represented an increase of 4 percent over the previous


involve tracking war-hardened Brits.

Scotland Yard said it was aware of the inflammatory al-Qaeda article. A spokesman added: “Appropriate steps have been put in place, including providing relevant security advice.”

While the Cheltenham festival earlier this month passed off peacefully, there are still fears for the Queen’s trip to Epsom for the Derby in the summer.

She attends the race, which is on June 7, religiously, every year along with other members of the Royal Family.

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The Queen also attends every day of Royal Ascot each year where she takes part in a carriage procession before the races start. That would make her an easy target for terrorists.

As well as the call to attack sporting events, the Inspire article also lists several major targets in Britain, America and France, including London’sEpidermal nevus syndrome with isolated enlargement of one temporal lobe: a case report.
A 5-month-old girl presented with infantile spasms and psychomotor retardation. She was born with epidermal nevi on the right side of the head, the right arm and the back. MRI of the head showed a right hemimegalencephaly limited to the temporal lobe. There were no MRI signs of neocortical dysplasia. Ultrasonography revealed multiple cysts in both ovaria and a small solid lesion in the left adrenal gland. Hemimegalencephaly represents an overgrowth phenomenon; the isolated temporal lobe hypertrophy can be explained as a mild expression of hemimegalencephaly. To our knowledge this has not been described before.


the law on charitable exemptions is sufficiently clear to indicate the board's ruling is incompatible with New Mexico's Constitution. The application of the facts has resulted in an erroneous conclusion of law.
The relevant provision of the New Mexico Constitution reads as follows:
"The property of the United States, the state and all counties, towns, cities and school districts, and other municipal corporations, public libraries, community ditches and all laterals thereof, all church property, all property used for educational or charitable purposes, all cemeteries not used or held for private or corporate profit, and all bonds of the state of New Mexico, and of the counties, municipalities and districts thereof shall be exempt from taxation." Art. VIII, § 3, N.M.Constitution (as amended 1971).
New Mexico in contrast with a number ofDavid W. Arnebeck is Rickson Black Belt in Jiu Jitsu and a member of Rickson’s JJGF (Jiu jitsu Global Federation). He owns three martial arts centers in the Twin Cities area. On 10th of February, 2015, after 19 years on martial arts training, he was promoted to a 2nd Degree Jiu Jitsu Black Belt by Rickson Gracie.

David Arnebeck’s Sexual Condemnations

In 1996, according to court records, David Arnebeck was first convicted of a prostitution-related misdemeanor in Minneapolis.

Back in 2013, on October 24, according to Startribune he was sentenced to workhouse for fondling a 15 year old girl as she slept in his house:

“According to the criminal complaint, a 15-year-old girl was asleep last December during one of her frequent overnights at Arnebeck’s house when he started touching her sexually


colour band registration scheme on behalf of UK brewers.
The colour band combinations are created using colours:

The colours shades derive from the British Standard BS 4800 series (1972) but similar shades are also used from the RAL system.
The bands are applied side by side, separated by a small gap, usually between the rolling rings of the containers.
– Single Bands are only noted to be in use because these pre-dated the scheme and were not allocated on an organised basis.
– Double Bands were originally registered by the BBPA exclusively on behalf of individual companies. However, some smaller brewers adopted similar colour bands without knowledge of the registration scheme and every effort has been made since to avoid duplication.
– Triple Bands were adopted when double colour combinations were exhausted.

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RT Spanish interviews Baltasar Garzón, leading the law team in the case of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower.

Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and whilst Ecuador has granted him diplomatic asylum on the grounds of political persecution, he is unable to leave, as the U.K. will not grant him safe passage out of the country.

The U.K. government seeks to extradite him to Sweden to face questioning in an alleged sexual assault case. U.K. officials have vowed to arrest him should he step outside the embassy building.

In the interview, Garzón explains why Assange is "worth defending". He explains that the threat to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London by the U.K. authorities is merely


welfare system undertaken by her Social Democratic predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, at great cost to his political career.

To defend its long-term competitiveness, analysts say, Germany needs to be investing in infrastructure and its work force. With an unemployment rate of only 3.6 percent, the country will face labor shortages unless it can integrate immigrants into the work force. That will require more investment in education and training.

Corporations have a strong interest in political decisions that will be made in Brussels in coming years, such as common defense policy and the choice of a successor to Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, whose stimulus measures helped bolster the eurozone’s economy.INDUSTRY, Calif. (KABC) -- Corinthian Colleges shut down all 28 of its campuses, including 23 in California, on Monday.The move will displace some 16,000 students mid-semester."I started crying, obviously, because I take time out of my day to spend away from my kids," said one student. "If you work, you pay out of pocket for your loans, and they just kick you out, like close the doors on you."The Santa Ana Company did not return calls for comment. On its website, the company said it has not been able to reach a deal to sell its campuses in California and are working with other schools to help students continue their education.The closures include Heald College campuses in California, Hawaii and Oregon, as well as Everest and WyoTech schools


in California, Arizona and New York.Corinthian was one of the country's largest for-profit educational institutions. It collapsed last summer after a cash shortage and fraud allegations."These poor students. They deserve better and I don't know who is responsible for it, but shame on them for doing what they did," instructor Steve Balloch said.The Department of Education alleges that Corinthian failed to comply with requests to address allegations of falsifying job placement data and altering grades and attendance records. It agreed to sell or close its campuses under pressure from the department.Earlier this month, the department fined subsidiary Heald College $30 million, alleging the school had shown a pattern of falsifying post-graduation employment data.In one instance, the company's Honolulu campus declared a student had found work in her chosenDespite the ensuing media stir and calls to Borough Hall the video generated Tuesday, Mayor Mary Lou Hannon said she saw no reason to discipline Kessler, who said he made the video to draw attention to gun rights. Hannon noted he did it on his own time and violated no laws.

"Each member of council, each employee and each citizen is not only entitled to their own political opinions, but also the right to express them," she said in a prepared statement. "We will not take action to quash free speech, whether or not each member of council or any member of council agrees with it."

In the two-minute, 45-second video posted July 15, Kessler doesn't identify himself as police chief. Wearing a black T-shirt and baseball cap, he appears


the video may generate some borough discussion at its meeting Thursday as to whether some guidelines should be imposed. She declined to go into detail.

In a phone interview from Texas where he is vacationing, Kessler said he couldn't recall which guns were on the video but said he believed they were selective-fire, which has semiautomatic and automatic options. The video appears to show several shots being fired as he holds back the trigger.

A federal permit is required to possess automatic weapons. Military and law enforcement officers can also possess them. Kessler said he had those guns as a law enforcement officer authorized by the mayor. He said he was training, but the video is not related to his job as chief of the one-officer department where he makes$15.25 an hour.

He said he was on private property in the borough where he target-practices.

Kessler said he made the video and other videos to draw attention to efforts to restrict guns. He specifically pointed to public statements that politicians made after the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults died. He called the shooting "a tragedy" but condemned the person who shot the gun, not the gun.

Kessler, the borough's chief for 14 years and a freshman member of the North Schuylkill School Board, said he used profanity to get attention. He said he's gotten thousands of emails over the last two weeks from supporters across the nation.

The YouTube video, which jumped from 3,280 hits late Monday night to nearly 20,000 after mass media


reported it Tuesday, is the latest in Kessler's push for gun rights.

He has made a name for himself among gun advocates, often speaking at pro-gun rallies and conservative radio talk shows. He uses a variety of platforms, posting videos of himself on YouTube and audio recordings on Spreaker.com under the title "The Chief Kessler Show."

His lengthy audio messages touch on a wide range of subjects, including his distaste of the Obama administration, which he called corrupt, vindictive and racist, and how he finds it absurd that people in this country illegally are protected under the Constitution.

Kessler has also organized a volunteer group called the Constitutional Security Force. According to the group's website, Chiefkessler.com, the group does not consider itself a militia but will take up arms to protectagainst tyranny.

In January, Kessler drafted a resolution the borough adopted that calls for "nullifying all federal, state or local acts in violation of the Second Amendment."

Kessler's most recent posting caused a stir around Gilberton, with several stopping by and calling Borough Hall to voice their opinions.

Most people in the Schuylkill County borough of fewer than 800 residents just outside Mahanoy City know Kessler and had a mixed reaction to the video.

"It's not like he's lenient, but he's understanding when he pulls you over for going a few miles above the speed limit," said local mechanic Jeff McCarthy, smiling as he spoke from his own experience. "He does his job, you know, but when you're a cop and part of the school board, you can't go off like that."

Resident


William Wetzel also said he knows Kessler from when he's been on duty in the neighborhood — and from when Kessler issued him a speeding ticket.

"He's a little rough around the edges," Wetzel said, "but he doesn't come off as a bad guy. He does his job, gets both sides of every story. I know he's a big gun advocate, but that just part of our freedom."

Charles Hepler, school board president in the North Schuylkill School District, said he had not seen the video. He declined to comment because the board has not had time to review or discuss it.Hillary Clinton Comes Out in Support of Chuck Schumer's 9/11 Bill In an interview on "This Week" she said she was unfamiliar with the bill

 -- In a break with the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton has come out in support of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue foreign sponsors of terrorism in federal court, her spokesman Nick Merrill said today.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is pushing for the legislation, while the Obama administration has been lobbying to block the bill.

Although the bill made the front page of Saturday's New York Times and has been in the news for weeks, this morning on "This Week," Clinton told George Stephanopoulos she was not familiar with the details and would not


ensure that everyone has the right to live in conditions of dignity, respect and peace; and WHEREAS, the city of Spartanburg continues to advocate for the elimination of all forms of discrimination and is committed to equal treatment of all people; and WHERE, Pride Week celebrations contribute to reducing discrimination, isolation, and barriers faced by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Two Spirited community. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Junie L. White, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the city of Spartanburg, and on behalf of my fellow City Council members, do hereby proclaim June 19, 2010, as: LGBT PRIDE DAY.”

After Dogan complained, the mayor amended the proclamation:

… he removed the words, “On behalf of my fellow City Council members,” from the proclamation to, “Keepan extendable latch bolt that engages the electric rim strike, and the electric rim strike may be configured to secure the door alone or may be used in combination with other known security systems to secure the door. The known electric rim strike generally is mounted to the doorframe and defines an opening in the jam face of the doorframe for receiving the latch bolt from the lockset mounted to the door.
The known electric rim strike also defines an opening in the frame face contiguous with the opening in the jam face of the doorframe. The known electric rim strike includes a pivotable keeper that selectively closes the opening in the frame face, and a bolt projecting from the edge of the door engages the electric rim strike


through the opening in the jam face. The known electric rim strike also includes a blocking element that selectively prevents the keeper from rotating and allows the keeper to rotate, and a solenoid that selectively moves the blocking element from a first position, in which the blocking element prevents the rotation of the keeper, to a second position, in which the blocking element allows the rotation of the keeper, and vice versa.
Specifically, when the keeper rotates, the keeper uncovers or opens the frame face opening, which allows the bolt to freely move through the opening, and thereby allows the door to be opened.
Nevertheless, in such known electric rim strikes, portions of the electric rim strike may protrude into the door frame, and the door frame may have toIn February, 1989, Francis Fukuyama gave a talk on international relations at the University of Chicago. Fukuyama was thirty-six years old, and on his way from a job at the RAND Corporation, in Santa Monica, where he had worked as an expert on Soviet foreign policy, to a post as the deputy director of policy planning at the State Department, in Washington.

It was a good moment for talking about international relations, and a good moment for Soviet experts especially, because, two months earlier, on December 7, 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev had announced, in a speech at the United Nations, that the Soviet Union would no longer intervene in the affairs of its Eastern European satellite states. Those nations could now become democratic. It was the beginning of the end


of the Cold War.

At RAND, Fukuyama had produced focussed analyses of Soviet policy. In Chicago, he permitted himself to think big. His talk came to the attention of Owen Harries, an editor at a Washington journal called The National Interest, and Harries offered to publish it. The article was titled “The End of History?” It came out in the summer of 1989, and it turned the foreign-policy world on its ear.

Fukuyama’s argument was that, with the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union, the last ideological alternative to liberalism had been eliminated. Fascism had been killed off in the Second World War, and now Communism was imploding. In states, like China, that called themselves Communist, political and economic reforms were heading in the direction of a liberal order.

So, ifbeen fulfilled. There would be a “Common Marketization” of international relations and the world would achieve homeostasis.

Even among little magazines, The National Interest was little. Launched in 1985 by Irving Kristol, the leading figure in neoconservatism, it had by 1989 a circulation of six thousand. Fukuyama himself was virtually unknown outside the world of professional Sovietologists, people not given to eschatological reflection. But the “end of history” claim was picked up in the mainstream press, Fukuyama was profiled by James Atlas in the New York Times Magazine, and his article was debated in Britain and in France and translated into many languages, from Japanese to Icelandic. Some of the responses to “The End of History?” were dismissive; almost all of them were skeptical. But somehow the phrase found


its way into post-Cold War thought, and it stuck.

One of the reasons for the stickiness was that Fukuyama was lucky. He got out about six months ahead of the curve—his article appearing before the Velvet Revolution, in Czechoslovakia, and before the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, in November, 1989. Fukuyama was betting on present trends continuing, always a high-risk gamble in the international-relations business.

Any number of things might have happened for Gorbachev’s promise not to cash out: political resistance within the Soviet Union, the refusal of the Eastern European puppet regimes to cede power, the United States misplaying its hand. But events in Europe unfolded more or less according to Fukuyama’s prediction, and, on December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union voted itself out of existence. The Cold WarJuly of that year, Kennan published the so-called X article, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” in Foreign Affairs. It appeared anonymously—signed with an “X”—but once the press learned his identity the article was received as an official statement of American Cold War policy.

“The Sources of Soviet Conduct” defined the containment doctrine, according to which the aim of American policy was to keep the Soviet Union inside its box. The United States did not need to intervene in Soviet affairs, Kennan believed, because Communism was bound to collapse from its own inefficiency. Four decades later, when “The End of History?” appeared, that is exactly what seemed to be happening. That April, Kennan, then eighty-five, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to declare that the Cold War was over.


sent a raven to Daenerys for help, and Dany, in her most resplendent white winter coat, flew all three of her dragons north to help out. Though she did help and managed to bring all the men back, including the coveted white walker, she lost one crucial tool in this trade: her dragon Viserion, who slipped under the icy water and was reanimated by the Night King in the final moment of the episode.

Back at Winterfell, Arya and Sansa continue to verbally spar with one another. Find it all a bit unbelievable? So do I. Sansa has become wise to the manipulations of others, especially Littlefinger, so I find it hard to believe that she would all of a sudden confide in him- even listening to his adviceThe Wedding Filming Company

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Sandro is 23. He's played 16 times for Brazil and is quickly becoming the fulcrum around which Andre Villas-Boas is building his resurgent Tottenham side. And away from the training ground, he fancies himself as a budding guitar hero.

In an exclusive commission, to promote a big interview in Saturday's Daily Mail, Sportsmail chief photographer Andy Hooper has captured Sandro demonstrating his rockstar credentials at his Chigwell home.

His love of British pop music shines through as he belts out numbers from Coldplay and the Black Eyed Peas at the recording studio he has had built in his Essex house.Fairfax 'uninterested' in APN stake

8:30 AM Tuesday Nov 25, 2008

Fairfax Media has ruled out buying the big chunk of APN News & Media, owner of The New Zealand Herald, on the market.

Irish media company Independent News & Media, led by chief executive Sir Tony O'Reilly, said it was carrying out a strategic review of its 39.1 per cent holding in APN, following a number of unsolicited expressions of interest in the stake.

As well as the Herald, APN publishes the Listener, a range of regional newspapers in this country and Australia, as well as being half owner of NewstalkZB stable The Radio Network.

Today Fairfax newspaper The Dominion Post quoted Fairfax chief executive David Kirk saying: "We don't have any intentions with APN and we won't be part of the


(sale) process."

Mr Kirk was in Wellington to speak to clients of sharebrokers First NZ Capital.

"There were no assets (in APN) that we were particularly seeking," he said. He ruled out Fairfax buying The New Zealand Herald alone should it be sold in a break-up of APN.

Fairfax wanted to retain an investment grade rating and spare cash would go to pay debt as a priority, Mr Kirk said.

With such a low share price at present, Fairfax would not be "remotely interested in raising equity for an acquisition", Mr Kirk said.

Fairfax Media's shares traded at A$1.33 ($1.59) yesterday, down from about A$4.50 at the start of the year.

Earlier this month Standard & Poor's Ratings Services warned that Fairfax's leverage was at the high end of expectations for its BBB minuscar shakes on its wheels. Becky watches the wing mirrors, noticing every movement, every fierce headlight. Harry watches the cars behind. Leon keeps his eyes on the road; if someone is coming after them, there isn't much they can do but keep going.

The car slows at a red light and Becky sees TVs blazing brightly through the windows of some flats. One man's adjusting a younger man's collar. Sorting the edges out, smiling proudly. _What am I going to do about the rent? Work?_ Her thoughts are wringing their hands and pulling their hair. Kaleidoscopic slides, repeating. Pete's face, fuming. The hotel room where he set her up. She holds on to her knees. Harry is watching from the back seat. She sits forwards and reaches and finds


families in Hampstead and her evenings at the front desk of the library, reading textbooks.

Graham was studying law at King's. In the evenings he pored over books in a hash cloud, memorising cases. At first they nodded at each other, and soon the nods turned into smiles. When it was closing time, Miriam began to look forward to waking Graham up and telling him he had to go. The third time it happened, she asked him out for a drink. They found a late-night seedy King's Cross bar and giggled easily.

He was clumsy and charming and they lingered in the corridors when she was making her rounds, delivering the books back to their shelves. She found herself staring at pages and not being able to take in athe paper, she reaches for another cigarette. Lights it, smokes deeply. She watches Joey, the shark, the coke on the table, notices Leon's presence against the wall behind the sofa Joey's sitting on, hidden, breathing with the bass from upstairs. _Man's a fucking joker_. _Got to give him that_.

'Look, Joey,' Harry says, calmly, like she's tired of all this. 'The price is fixed as far as I'm concerned. If you want to make your sale, we'll make it now, at the price I've been paying since I began dealing with Pico, seven years ago. If you don't want to make the sale at that price, I'm not interested.'

Joey's eyes are bulging slightly; there is something, some shift, taking place in his face. He lets out a laugh, and


At a table by the back door that leads out to a smoking yard, a group of younger women in pretty tops and tight jeans gossip and drink red wine.

Mitch finishes the medley and speaks into the mic. 'Well, that was some songs about surfing, and if the lovely lady at the bar wants to surf some beer up this way that would be much appreciated!' He grins into feedback and silence. 'Let's get some more surf action from the bar, shall we, ladies and gents?' he says enthusiastically.

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'Are you asking for a beer, Mitch?' she says.

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Great Britain's alienation of the Boers was particularly amplified by the decision to abolish slavery in all its colonies in 1834. All 35,000 slaves registered with the Cape governor were to be freed and given rights on par with other citizens, although in most cases their masters could retain them as apprentices until 1838. Many Boers,


him. Bantjes’s writing skills would prove invaluable in recording events as the journey unfolded.

On 8 September 1834, the Kommissietrek of 20 men and one woman, including a retinue of coloured servants, set off from Grahamstown for Natal with 14 wagons. Moving through the Eastern Cape, they were welcomed by the Xhosa who were in dispute with the neighbouring Zulu King Dingane ka Senzangakhona, and they passed unharmed into Natal. They travelled more or less the same route that Smith and Berg had taken two years earlier.

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When Trump first ran for president, many Ukrainians began to panic about how he might sell out their country. This was a rational fear, given how little alarm Trump displayed over the invasion of Crimea. They were especially terrified after the Republican Party softened its official platform plank that had urged military support for Ukraine. Trump’s against-the-odds victory required that the Ukrainian government rush to embrace the new president, to deflect accusations that it had somehow conspired to bolster Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Sucking up to Trump became a highest matter of the national interest.

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It’s now my great honor to introduce Dr Elahé Omidyar Mir Djalali who was instrumental in bringing together this unique dialogue on Sufisim and Buddhism. Founder and President of the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, Dr Mir-Djalali is a lifelong and unwavering advocate for the preservation and advancement of Persian culture. Under her leadership, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has become a premier institution for the preservation, transmission and instruction of Persian culture and studies worldwide, supporting endeavors in the US, Europe and Asia. In 2007 the institute made a leadership gift in support of the Persian Studies Program at this University, strengthening the academic program through funding the Roshan Institute chairin Persian Studies as well as graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships and an endowment for the Persian programs. In recognition of this generosity, the Center for Persian Studies within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures is now known as Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland.

For the past two years I have had the privilege of working closely with Dr Mir Djalali and I have come to know her as a person of great integrity. She is brilliant and gracious, humble and determined, words I do not apply lightly and I am honored to call her my friend. As an extension of her work and her multicultural background, Dr Mir Djalali diligently promotes efforts to improve intercultural communication. Born in Iran, she was educated in


France and the United States, receiving master’s degrees from the Sorbonne and the Georgetown University and a doctorate with distinction in linguistics from the Sorbonne. She is an accomplished author and has published works in and is fluent in French, English and Persian. In addition to her own writings she has volunteered untold time and energy translating Sufi texts into French and English. In this context she has become a great admirer of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and his commitment to shared human values. It is my pleasure to present to you Dr Elahé Omidyar Mir Djalali.

Dr Elahé Omidyar Mir Djalali: Thank you Dean Thornton Dill. Your remarks are so humbling that I am speechless to reply. Your Holiness, President Wallace Loh and distinguished audience, onbehalf of Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute with its mission “Enlightenment through Education” we are pleased and privileged to be able to contribute to this great event, “A Meeting of Two Oceans, Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism.”

It is a tremendous honor to be in the presence of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet and to have him inspire and guide our dialogue. His Holiness is a paragon of peace; he has taught people throughout the world about solving human problems through transforming humane attitudes, about compassion as the foundation of world peace, and about understanding commonalities in the goals and ethics of all major religions. Recognizing that the world has grown smaller and all peoples have become almost one community, His Holiness has been tireless in his


efforts to foster a greater sense of universal responsibility to deal with common threats to our global security and environment. His lifelong work in promoting values of altruism, love and compassion and in particular his non-violent campaign to end Chinese domination of his homeland have been recognized by awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

On a personal level, when I first met His Holiness in Dharamsala, India, I was inspired not only by his message of peace and global unity, but also by his warmth and serene presence. I have subsequently read his inspirational writings and followed his lectures and teachings for several days in Toulouse, France, and on multiple other occasions. The teachings of His Holiness have been a continuous reminder of the core values, highresonates so forcefully for me in the teachings of His Holiness. In this spirit of shared values, it is with immense gratitude that I wish to thank His Holiness for agreeing to participate in this Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism. Thanks are due to the University of Maryland and to all those who have worked so hard to make this event happen.

It is also my special pleasure to introduce Dr Fatemeh Keshavarz. Since last year she has served as Director of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland and occupied the Roshan Institute Chair in Persian Language and Literature. prior to that she taught for over twenty years at Washington University in St Louis, where she chaired the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages


and Literatures from 2004 to 2011. She was born and raised in Shiraz, Iran, and educated at Shiraz University and the University of London. She is the author of award-winning books, numerous journal articles and inspirational poetry.

Dr Keshavarz will present a few thoughts on the significance of poetry and music as expressions of spirituality in Sufi practices. She will participate in a welcoming "spiritual gift" to His Holiness, combining the Sufi teaching with /dam/ (human breath) and "reed," the world’s simplest and oldest instrument. May this momentous occasion be an opening to the "Oneness" of all faiths and religions based on shared human values that connect us all together, regardless of ethnicity, gender and social status. Thank you. Dr Keshavarz.

Dr Fatemeh Keshavarz: Thank you Dr Mir-Djalali for yourand as we’ve seen, Sufis believe that poetry and music are especially rich in this regard. And once awakened, the spiritual heart can grow, and gradually replace the petty, lower self that suppressed it in the first place. This process of controlling and eventually replacing the lower self with the spiritual heart is often seen as a long and arduous journey, during which the heart needs to be nurtured with care and patience.

On this journey, the Sufi tries to dismantle the social, everyday self, to peel it off, layer by layer, in order to uncover the heart, and then works to cultivate the spiritual organ, the heart, in order to become one with it. This journey, from selfishness to selflessness, from the lower self to the higher, reformed


spiritual personhood is fundamental to all Sufi thought and practice. Interestingly, as the Sufi progresses from one station to the next on this journey, he or she begins to approach all beings with a sense of deep, existential humility and unwavering altruism. By erasing any and all traces of self-centeredness through the cultivation of the spiritual heart, the Sufi has turned the self into a mirror that faithfully reflects the whole of being: all is one, everything is interconnected; we are all united in this quest we call “life.” With this realization, the Sufi is transformed into a selfless servant who labors incessantly to improve the lot of others. He or she aims to rescue people from the depths of selfishness and direct them toward the height ofthe reason why Sufis organize themselves into communities around renowned Sufi masters, but nevertheless refuse to separate themselves out from society as distinct groups. They live as regular people within their larger communities, urban or rural. Their organizations often literally become community centers that provide all kinds of services to the larger society around them in the form of food, shelter, spiritual and material assistance, religious guidance, therapy, socialization, education and genuinely nourishing entertainment.

This embeddedness of the Sufis in society, this communal instinct, this socially engaged face marks the completion of the Sufi journey. The Sufi has conquered and tamed the petty lower self, replaced it with a higher, spiritual sense of personhood and turned the springs of love and compassion that flow forth from that spiritual person


Ahmet, it is indeed a special privilege and an honor to be called on to present to His Holiness the Dalai Lama some remarks on the past and future encounters between Hindus, Buddhists and Sufis and I am grateful for this opportunity. Doubtless there are some who will question the possibility of genuine engagement between these spiritual traditions, particularly in view of the strict beliefs sometimes associated with the Islamic environment in which Sufism arose. People may, indeed, be disturbed by the conflicts between Hindus and Muslims that have marred the history of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. And they may well be troubled by the fault lines that exist between Buddhists and Muslims in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Burma; and beyond the memories of religious difference, therehuman spirit. So, the thirteenth-century Christian thinker, Ramon Llull learned Arabic and composed writings on love in the style of the Sufis. Likewise, Abraham Maimonides, grandson of the famous Jewish philosopher, wrote extensively on the inner path or tariqah of Sufism, which he saw as being very much in harmony with Judaism.

More extensively, for centuries, generations of Persian-speaking Hindu scholars were employed as secretaries in the Mughal Empire and trained in the study of classical Persian poetry. Since so much of Persian literature is saturated with the teachings of Sufism, it is not surprising that many of these Hindu scholars were deeply affected by the mystical insights of Rumi and Hafez and others. The story of these remarkable encounters between Hindus and Sufis, including many translations of Sanskrit


to reconcile all the differences and contradictions between the different philosophies, I told him that what he was doing was probably extra, unnecessary work.

All of the great Buddhist masters raised a lot of different questions and arguments with the other ancient Indian traditions. One master, Dharmakirti, really wanted to learn about the philosophies he argued against, but it was difficult because the deeper concepts were given orally by the guru to one or two trusted disciples, never written down or given publicly. Although for a short while he became the servant of a Hindu master, it was still very difficult to get these secret teachings. Then he requested the guru’s wife, who told the guru that their servant was so devoted and wanted to learn more, but it10th single "Neptune☆Sagashite" hits Japanese stores on August 7

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of those living here are from the indigenous Sami community - some of Scandinavia's earliest inhabitants, who live in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. But Sami people accounted for about two-thirds of the 83 victims and 92 perpetrators identified in the police report on sexual abuse, and discrimination and racism had an impact on how the story played out.

By 2005, Nina Iversen was a mother. Worried about her children, and the threat to them of sexual abuse, she was in touch with child welfare services. Again she spoke about her own experiences. She told her doctor.

"I told everyone," she says. "But to be listened to, you had to have the right background. Someone like me, who comes from a poor family, just got ignored."

image caption Signposts are bilingual,with place names in Sami and Norwegian

Iversen was not the only one trying to get the authorities' attention. In 2007, desperate Sami parents of a child who had been sexually abused wrote a letter to the prime minister asking for help. The letter gained traction in the media - people expected action.

At that time, Anna Kuoljok, a deacon in the Norwegian Church, and her husband Ingar, a lawyer - both of them Sami - were in touch with 20 families whose children had been sexually exploited. The couple spoke up at public meetings attended by local politicians, health workers, the police and other authorities.

image caption Anna and Ingar Kuoljok, outside the Sami hut used as a church

"They thought it couldn't be true there were so many cases -


same time, Nina Iversen - and she was not alone - was trying to tell her story, but was not listened to.

Ethnic divisions were compounded by geography and politics - the more Sami-identifying village of Drag in the west, separated from the more Norwegian village of Kjopsvik in the east, where most authorities were based.

Nearly another decade would pass before the abuse story broke in the press. Those years were difficult and lonely for Nina Iversen. She was depressed, and posted a poem about sexual abuse on Facebook, writing 'TYSFJORD' in angry block capitals.

Another local woman with experiences similar to Iversen's saw it and got in touch. She said she was already talking to two freelance journalists. And then the ball started rolling. Nina contacted other victims sheknew, including women in her extended family. On 11 June 2016 a national newspaper, Verdens Gang, published the story of sexual abuse in Tysfjord based on the testimony of 11 survivors - women and men.

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The reaction was immediate. Tone Vangen, Nordland Police District's chief, was relaxing at home that Saturday. She abandoned her weekend from the moment she read the press report.

"This was really serious. We had to put it at the top of our priority list - the main aim was to prevent further cases of sexual abuse in Tysfjord. The following Monday we started to build the organisation that could start the investigation."

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ashamed to talk about it because from a Norwegian point of view, we can't understand it. But it was very important for Sami people that we did."

That understanding would result in the first prosecution in the Tysfjord case - a man who gained access to women by claiming the power to heal and to drive away evil spirits, who sexually assaulted his victims during "treatment" sessions. He was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.

The Sami in Norway

About 60,000 Sami people live in Norway

Many of Tysfjord's Sami residents arrived in the 1960s and 70s, from remote areas in the interior

At the time the government was making attempts to "Norwegianise" the Sami - children in Sami families were often brought up to speak only Norwegian

Only people with Norwegian names wereallowed to buy property, and only those who could speak Norwegian could buy land

By 2016, Nina Iversen's abusers were dead, so she would never see justice done in court.

But she was very happy to collaborate with the police. Meanwhile, in the weeks after VG published its story, about 40 victims sought help from the local doctor, Fred Andersen. The youngest was 10, the oldest 80.

"We had to give them huge medical and psychiatric support," he says. "It's been a very heavy burden. The young people will survive and come out of this with new strengths and self-respect. But the elderly, and those of 50 or 60 who are unemployed with psychiatric problems, they suffer."

Inevitably, questions have been asked about why it is Sami people who feature so largely


by the police in the course of their investigation. But of the 151 documented cases in Tysfjord, only a handful will go to court because in most cases the time-limit for prosecution has elapsed. This means many alleged sex abusers still live in this small, close-knit community.

Not long ago, Nina Iversen was thinking about moving back to Tysfjord. One afternoon she went and had a look around Kjopsvik. But while she was there she saw three people who had been accused of abuse close to the primary school gates.

"There were children walking home from school while these people were roaming around. It was just awful," she says.

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It is police officer Aslak Finvik's job to monitor these men - and a few women.

"Every one of thema circle of life that embraces God, people, animals and nature.

"So we must find a way to live together, because everybody is in this circle of life," she says.

When the police report was published in November 2017, police chief Tone Vangen apologised to the people of Tysfjord.

"The job the police did until June 2016 was not good enough," she says. "This crime affected a lot of people for a long time."

Slowly, trust is being nurtured in Tysfjord. Child protection training is in place, and Norway's national government is funding projects to promote cohesion and build resilience. Community events are better attended now by both Sami people and Norwegians - a concert celebrating Sami music and culture was attended by 700 people earlier this month.

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A woman in Burlington, Iowa, was reportedly shot and killed by a police officer outside her home, in front of her 4-year-old son and her husband.

According to reports, 34-year-old Autumn Mae Steele was arrested on Jan. 5 on a charge of domestic abuse. After being released from jail, Steele was told she could not return to her home without an officer to escort her. When she returned to her home to retrieve her things, she reportedly got into a dispute with her husband, Gabriel, as he was loading their 4-year-old son into the car.

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The officer who escorted Steele to her home reportedly tried to break up the altercation, and while he was attempting to intervene, the family’s dog reportedly approached. The officer allegedlyfelt threatened by the dog and pulled out his gun to shoot it. As he fired shots at the dog, one of the bullets reportedly hit the 34-year-old mother in the chest.

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Steele was taken to a local hospital by ambulance but later died of a gunshot wound to the chest. The officer responsible for the woman’s death has not been named, and an


Two temporary crew members working a recent stop on the Weeknd's Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour have been accused of rape. Police sources told TMZ Tuesday that a woman filed a report with Ohio State University officers alleging she was raped following the Sept. 19 show at the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus. The Weeknd was not involved and had already left the premises at the time of the alleged assault.

The report, according to TMZ, was filed Sept. 20 and alleges that the woman was raped "in a backstage area" by the two men. The attack was possibly recorded, sources added. Police said the "weapons" used during the alleged assault included hands, feet, and teeth. All involved parties were reportedly intoxicated at the time.

Touring productions routinely employtemporary crew members for each stop. The two men accused of rape, though hired to work the Weeknd’s Columbus stop, are not connected with the XO co-founder's usual team.

In a joint statement to TMZ Tuesday, XO and Live Nation confirmed the two men had been fired. "Upon learning of the accusations that two members of our tour staff are facing, we immediately terminated their employment," the statement said. "We are working with the authorities to ensure they have access to any information or assistance they may need."

The Weeknd's Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour will continue hitting arenas across North America through November. The production then heads overseas for a run of Australia dates.

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Morgan County Council, the Utah Transit Authority has proposed unique transportation options for the county.

If Morgan voters approve a sales tax increase in November, UTA could be coming to the county, but not in their traditional big buses. In response to a November request from the Morgan County Council, the Utah Transit Authority has proposed unique transportation options for the county.

There’s a new state parks employee in town, and he has some new plans for East Canyon State Park.

There’s a new state parks employee in town, and he has some new plans for East Canyon State Park.
While the reservoir is a popular destination for boating, fishing and camping, Park Manager Chris Haramoto hopes to draw on the history of the area to increase visitors to the state park.

TheFamilySearch nearly 20 years ago. It started as a DOS program and then eventually was ported to Windows. It has been one of the more widely used record mangers for genealogical work, particularly among members of the Church of

By asking their human resource consultant to write up a job description, the Morgan County Council is moving ahead with creating a county facilities manager to oversee three departments. The new job description will help the council settle on a salary range in the future.

By asking their human resource consultant to write up a job description, the Morgan County Council is moving ahead with creating a county facilities manager to oversee three departments. The new job description will help the council settle on a salary range in the future.

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of building permits is on the rise this year, said Morgan County Councilwoman Ronda Kippen. So far this year, 20 applicants have filed building permits. That is an increase compared to four at this time last year.

County seeing uptick in building permits

The number of building permits is on the rise this year, said Morgan County Councilwoman Ronda Kippen. So far this year, 20 applicants have filed building permits. That is an increase compared to four at this time last year.

The Morgan County School Board is happy to announce that work on the Trojan Century Center continues to make progress. The construction manager has informed the district that the building will be ready for occupancy in late March or early April. The Board has tentatively set an open houseand dedication date of May 8, 2012.

The Morgan County School Board is happy to announce that work on the Trojan Century Center continues to make progress. The construction manager has informed the district that the building will be ready for occupancy in late March or early April. The Board has tentatively set an open house and dedication date of May 8, 2012.

Though it has only been open since May, Bingham’s Custom Meats has earned quite the following. This can be attributed to the passion, owner Nathan Bingham has for quality meat. While looking for a job after his mission, Nathan found one in a local grocery store. There he started in the meat department as a wrapper. After a while he moved on up and learned to cut.

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and the bus facility. Morgan resident and Design West Production Manager Darrell Erickson represented the company at the November 9 meeting. Design West’s bid for the two projects came in at $110,500. Four firms were under consideration with bids ranging from $190,400 to $110,500.

In the county council meeting on Tuesday night, the council considered applicants for the district four council position. This position was recently vacated by Member Rod Haslam, who is suffering with health problems. The applicants were Fred Jacobson, Jim Jones, and Ronda Kippen.
Jacobson, Jones and Kippen appeared together before the council and answered questions. The candidates began with a summary of themselves and their qualifications.

In the county council meeting on Tuesday night, the council considered applicants for the district four council position. This position wasby Piot’s team in Yambuku in 1976. The current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was once actually called Zaire, is also Ebola Zaire, but is not the same as the current West African strain.

Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever. It presents like most any other viral fever, with severe headaches, runny snot, puking, diarrhea, muscle aches, fatigue, and mental vagueness (“depersonalization”). It also causes intravascular hemolysis and DIC, which stands for disseminated intravascular coagulation and means, pretty much, “your blood clots randomly until it runs out of clotting stuff, then it never clots at all.” It is this profusion of blood clots and uncontrolled bleeding that leads to the rash (small specks of bleeding from capillaries under the skin), the black vomit (bleeding into the stomach)


When Marsha Armstrong Acheampong was called to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's office three years ago, she had no idea why.

"I thought I had done something wrong," she said.

But what could that have been? She was interning at the city's Office of Prison Re-entry, not exactly the kind of position that would earn the mayor's wrath.

"I was nervous," said Acheampong, 35. "I had no idea what was going on. I was just an intern, and a college student."

The mayor got right to the point.

"He just looked at me and said, 'Here's what you're going to do.' "

This was in the early fall of 2015. A few weeks earlier, Baraka had been in Detroit, where he saw how that city ran a large and successful summer employment program.

"That was it,"you, but he knows you can handle it," Acheampong said.

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Since taking over as program coordinator, Acheampong has forged partnerships with the new Newark ShopRite; the city's Dunkin' Donuts; Vonda's Kitchen, a Southern comfort food restaurant, and hundreds of other businesses that have put students to work.

"We have kids everywhere," she said. "The firehouses, the prosecutor's office, day cares, churches, Beth Israel. ... We recruit sites, and people want to help because they know we are raising the next workforce."

Part of that workforce was in her Broad Street office last week, just days before they started work Monday. Groups of kids in training squeezed past each other in the crowded hall. Questions flew. Answers flew back. It was chaotic, but in an excited way.


These kids were going to have jobs.

James Timmons, a manager at Vonda's Kitchen, told the story of a girl who worked last summer assisting waitresses and working the front desk. She's back this summer and "can do all those jobs by herself," he said.

"ShopRite's goal is to always hire our young people in the summer program for year-round employment," Acheampong said.

"Basically, it's a winning situation for the businesses," she said. "They get to train their employees on the city's dime."

The biggest challenge of the program is to take kids with no job experience and instill in them a work ethic that will lead to success.

Damon Redmond runs the Young Money Manager program, where 20 young adults, usually college students, do peer-to-peer financial coaching with the kids in theabout building a strong community, a lesson she learned from her aunt, Davine Armstrong.

"My aunt is an anesthesiologist, but she teaches at East Side High," she said. "She always put the community first and believed in empowering people. Not just her, but my whole family is like that."

Acheampong's sense of empathy perhaps comes from being raised by two deaf parents.

"People who live here (Newark) sometimes limit their neighbors," she said, meaning they don't believe the population as a whole can succeed.

"But everyone is an opportunity," she said. "Everyone has a chance to succeed.

"This program is not just about getting kids off the street," Acheampong said. "It's about giving them skills for the rest of their lives and training a workforce, so they can be great employees for the


Palay output rebound expected in Q1 2016

THE government expects palay output to bounce back strongly in the first quarter of next year as the rainfall from Typhoon Lando (international name: Koppu) replenished dams and irrigation facilities, making it possible for farmers to plant palay earlier than usual.

This comes after a slump in output was recorded in the second half as a result of insufficient irrigation and rainfall.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) said earlier the rice sector suffered massively from unrealized plantings as a result of the delayed release and inadequate irrigation water, late occurrence of rains, and some areas that were left fallow.

The wet season should have started in mid-April, but instead came in June to July.
Damage caused by typhoons in major rice-producing areas had also contributed toI arrived in Birmingham, Warwickshire, on February 22, 1939. I was 14-1/2 years old. My mother had died when I was six. My father was sent to Dachau on Kristallnacht 1938. He was released in 1939 and was able to emigrate to France but did not survive the war. Since he had not returned to Vienna before I left, I never saw him again. The aunt who had reared me after my mother died went to Shanghai and eventually came to New York in 1949.

As arranged in Vienna, I stayed with the Blanckensee family who were in their thirties and had two young children. My Viennese High School English served me fairly well but at the beginning Mrs. Blanckensee and I conversed with the aid of a pocket


dictionary passed back and forth between us in front of the open fireplace. Mrs. Blanckensee introduced me to the books she had read as a girl and my English improved rapidly. Both Mr. and Mrs. Blanckensee were active in the Birmingham Refugee Committee. Mrs. Blanckensee would take me along when she visited children who had been placed, mostly with Jewish families, in the Birmingham area. I would be her translator since some of the children barely spoke English. Many of the children had a hard time with separation and their behavior would baffle the foster parents. Mrs. Blanckensee counseled them thereby providing me with an informal introduction to social work. Soon after I arrived I was enrolled in Edgbaston College — actually a private High School.

Although the monthsbefore the beginning of the War were very intense, life with the Blanckensees was comfortable and I was accepted as a member of the family. I waited anxiously for the mail that was then delivered 5 times a day and would bring news from my relatives in Vienna. Eventually they too would emigrate to England except my aged paternal grandparents who (surprisingly) died in Vienna in the early 1940s. They had found it unbearable saying good-bye to me before I left.

When war broke out in September 1939, I had to separate from the Blanckensee family and was evacuated with my school to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. I witnessed the wartime separation of children from their parents. Unlike the refugee children, however, most of the evacuated children were eventually reunited with


their parents. The Birmingham children joined their peers at Tewkesbury High School. I lived a small town life with four different families — grocer, clerk, garage owner and plumber but maintained my contact with the Blanckensee family.

After graduation from High School I joined my relatives in Bedford, where I met a GI who was to become my husband several years later when we were all in New York.

Amazingly I still have contact with three of my classmates from my Tewkesbury High School days as well as my English teacher whom I greatly admired in my High School days.involving two junior high school girls who baby-sat for his children. The actswhich allegedly involved sexually suggestive comments and occasional patting of buttocksoccurred at his personal residence over the summer. Billmeyer adamantly denied the conduct had any sexual overtones, but in October he entered an "Alford" plea to two counts of simple assault and paid two fifty-dollar fines plus court costs.
Billmeyer's continued employment at the school prompted the girls' parents to register complaints with the administration. Based on the district's policy against sexual harassment, Billmeyer was ultimately discharged in February 1994. Claiming his discharge constituted an unfair "evaluation" under the parties' collective bargaining agreement, Billmeyer filed a timely grievance. When informal procedures failed to resolve the case, it was scheduled for arbitration.
The school district challenged the arbitrability of


Finally, Steve Hardy, who I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and who edits one of my favorite blogs, Creative Generalist, muses on the conference, Louisville and bourbon. Thanks, Steve, for coming to town. I hope to see you again!

09/15/2007

Ray Bradbury greets the audience, saying he fell in love, and with his loves changing, he met many fortunes.

He's preserved these loves all his life. In 1939, he saw Buck Rogers and "he forced me to jump into the future and I never came back. He loved the drawings and illustrations of Mars that appeared in books and periodicals. In his twenties, he began to write short stories about Mars.

He said he always wanted to be a playwright. Instead of going to school, he went to the library. To this day, hisfavorite place is in the center of a library, surrounded by the great writers in history.

From the age of 12 he's written everyday of his life, he says.

"Be your own person. Don't listen to anyone else. You must love what you do and do what you love." He says that he learned to "get rid of anyone who doubted me."

His first stories appeared in "Weird Tales."

Writing "is what I loved. That's the thing that I must tell you over an over." All these things he learned in the library, he says.

And "be careful to whom you listen."

He explains that through the years "he wrote his Martian stories" his young wife supported them. He told the story of traveling to New York City and talking to a prospective publisher,


who suggested to him that he might want to weave all the Martian stories he had written into a tapestry and call it the "Martian Chronicles."

He stayed up all night to put the material together into an outline for his prospective editor, which paid him $700 the next day. On that very day, he sold the Illustrated Man to the same buyer for $700 as well.

He told a story about running to a carnival to see "Mr. Electrical" and the "Illustrated Man" at the age of twelve, "exchanging philosophies" with the people who worked there, one of whom believed that the young boy was the reincarnated comrade who had been killed in World War I.

He also recounts the story of writing Fahrenheit 451 over a period of days"Time Warps" and "Parallel Worlds," popular books on physics.

The presentation starts with a thumping video of the city of the future. In 2057 the video says we'll all live in a wired world full of ambient technology.

Michio Kaku takes the stage, pointing out to laughter that the list of 100 smartest people he is on (mentioned in the introduction) also contains Madonna.

Now, in this point in time, there are opportunities available to recent generations.

Poking fun at physicists, he tells a joke about a priest, a lawyer and a theoretical physicist, who are about to face the guillotine. The priest is spared by a miracle and the lawyer by justice. The physicist last words were that he knew little about God and the law, but he knew one thing.


In the beginning these four forces were one.

He believes the string theory is particularly satisfying because it has a beginning, as mentioned in Genesis, as well as the timelessness of Buddhism.

Gravity holds you and me together. The electromagnetic force has led to the Internet and unimaginable communications options. He quickly runs through a number of home and portable devices that will intelligently keep us connected.

The nuclear force holds atoms together. Instead of memorizing all the particles he had to memorize, in the future, he hopes that PhD students will simply say "string theory."

He describes the "strings" in the theory, which can instantaneously change and construct something new. All the particles he had to memorize are nothing but musical notes on a "rubber band."

"The Mind of God is cosmicmusic resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace."

"The universe is expanding" it's true. "It's expanding into 11 dimensional hyperspace." And like a fish out of water, we spend all of our time in three dimensions.

Dimensional thinking also has a literary history, citing the book Flatland. It also has a visual arts past. In Medieval era it was believed that a God's eye view demanded two dimensional figures.

Da Vinci brought a third dimension to art in his pieces such as the Last Supper. Picasso and Salvador Dali painted time, the fourth dimension.

"Well If time and space can have higher dimensions, can they be bent?"

An Oxford mathematician wrote physics masked as children's literature, he says. His name was Lewis Carroll. Like Carroll's imaginary world, the shortest line between two points is NOT


problem. Clearly there are large swaths of the world without power, and without power there aren't writers with access to the Web. A single fiber strand, he says, connects Africa to the Web.

He also shows a colored map. Two dozen countries block access altogether. Aside from physical and political barriers, there are also attention maps Ethan has been working on. Countries represented in blue are, simply put, not part of the discussion in the media.

A friend, Kwame Appiah, has a book out called Cosmopolitianism, which raises the question, what does it mean to be a global citizen? We're more connected than ever. Ethan, however, politely disagrees.

He talks about the problems and challenges of Nigeria. It has wealth. But most people associate Internet scams with the country; the scamare people who want to build those bridges.

Ethan shows the blog of a Saudi man called Saudi Jeans. Turns out he's an ardent feminist, mostly because places where he might meet women are very limited. He argues on his blog for a woman's right to drive.

Ethan points to a U.S. Chinese blogger who translates Chinese blogs into English.

Rather than saying certain banned words, Chinese bloggers have become very creative with puns.

70 Million people of around the world talk using blogs. "You need a guide to these voices." With that, Ethan introduces Georgia Popplewell and Amira Al Hussaini.

Georgia talks about her experience getting trackbacks from Global Voices to her blog, which led to her becoming a volunteer author. She did that beginning in 2005. She is currently the managing


editor for Globalvoicesonline.org.

She recounts the early history of Global Voices, which was founded in 2004 by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Fellows at the Berman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

There are two managing editors. The co-managing editor lives in New York. There are 20 regional language editors, two tech guys, one outreach director, one advocacy director, 100 plus volunteer authors and translators.

"Global Voices aggregates, curates and amplifies the global conversation online - shining a light on places and people other media often ignore," according to one slide.

The volunteers give content. Regional editors serve as a check on the credibility of bloggers. She explains that Global Voices has also undergone a transition from English-only to being published in many other languages.

The articles run the gamut,just like other blogs. Georgia demonstrates how to search Global Voices and to provide comments.

Running a bit short on time, Amira provides an overview of her work with Global Voices and offers her perspective as an Arab woman on what she sees and hears.

Georgia Popplewell, who will be presenting this morning on the panel The World is NOT Flat, made this picture available at Flickr of Architecture for Humanity founder Cameron Sinclair during his presentation, "We Don't Ship." Thank you Georgia for using Creative Commons!

09/14/2007

James McLurkin is speaking. The title to his presentation is "Dances with Robots: The Story of One Engineer, 112 Little Robots and the Toys, Insects, and Star Wars Movies that made it all Possible."

He begins lightly with the three laws from I, Robot and


can tackle the dull, dirty and dangerous jobs and cites several examples, like finding earthquake survivors, where they would perform very valuable services.

What if we sent 200 instead of 2 robots to Mars?

In his first demonstration, he shows how they might move away from the lander and form up to go somewhere. Seven depart for a different location, leaving a few behind. Giving a command, he sends the remainder to join the first cluster.

He then spreads them out to the sound of music, having them flock toward a point on the stage. One of the biggest problems, he says, is figuring out how the group can define boundaries so that they remain coherent.

Each robot is sharing information with infrared transmitters so that they can stay together. The sharedinformation contains location information. They can also relay information among themselves to send alerts or to dynamically react to events.

He next has the robots orbit around an important find, perhaps a newly-discovered Martian fossil.

To leave the Red Planet the robots line up behind the highest ID'd robot. The lowest designated robot brings up the rear and the whole blinking convoy proceeds toward a landmark, perhaps a recovery ship.

Much of his inspiration comes from the insect world, which exhibits complex group behaviors. There is a couple of hundred years of biological observation to draw on. Discussing Honey Bees he calls it "Beeware." Other insect software can be derived from ant scent trails used during foraging.

The "magic of complexity" arises from local interactions, which develop into complex group behaviors.

He then


tax your machine, he says. BMX bicycles taught him real mechanical systems. As he got older radio control cars from the hobby store taught him more about mobility and how, he adds, to avoid heavy, ankle-damaging radio control cars.

He details his undergraduate and graduate work quickly and then proceeds to his second robotic demonstration, which he dubs the "Martian band." The group begins to slowly beeping and chiming, syncopated at first, and then later, in time.

The group then reforms to into like groups, much like a symphony. Together they play the Star Wars theme. And with that, he concludes.

"Embrace the volatility" - The fashion business is volatile. And "sometimes the only support for your conviction is the conviction with which you say it."

"Ignore the rules" - Don't payattention to the leading voices offering their thoughts. Plunge ahead despite the fear because "you'll never be ready." She says the isolation and newness of New Zealand contributed to her work. Her country gave women the vote in 1893 and "Getting off it" and "on with it" is part of the culture. Like Craig Nevill-Manning who spoke earlier and is also New Zealander, she references the idea that with a "'number 8' wire approach" you can do anything.

"Everything inspires" - Inspiration can come from anywhere, which is important since the industry starts new every year. To prove her point, she runs through several images of her work from initial idea to finish. They're informed by cultural references mined from 1950's teen movies to the mannish styles of Diane


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the site and began assessing damages."

Several hours after Tuesday's explosion, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin praised NiSource's safety systems and the company's quick response in shutting down the gas-flow to the fire.

"The safety measures that are in place, the cutoffs, they worked fine, so immediately after, the pipes, the shutoffs, went into closed mode and the gas shut off," Tomblin told reporters early Tuesday evening.

But later Tuesday night, NTSB investigators said that it took company officials more than an hour to isolate the section of transmission pipeline where the blast occurred, and begin to stem the flow of fuel to the huge fire that erupted over I-77 and nearby homes.

The flow was manually shut off on the west at the Lanham compressor station and at another location east offrom mainstream fans. The band toured much of the following two years with then up and coming bands such as Poison the Well, Blood Has Been Shed, Every Time I Die, Drowningman, and Eighteen Visions.

The Rebirth of Tragedy had been 2 years in the making. It was produced by Killswitch Engage's vocalist Howard Jones. He commented about the band that "Without a doubt Twelve Tribes is unique; nobody has what they have, and knowing them as people as well as musicians made me jump at the opportunity to get involved. To me, this is what music is." Their Ferret Records debut is a documentation of their struggles, successes and personal growth as musicians. They went on to share the stage with bands such as Lamb of God, Killswitch


one of the best players in the world put a hurting on some old geezers.

The concern is that Hendry may just about fall into that category. Depends on whether this is a retirement thing or not. Lets be honest, his days at the top are just about the come to an end.

yep 3 more PTCs and Shanghai left before his days at the top end.

i honestly can see him doing a Doherty / Day / King / Perry when he finally drops out of the top 16 and heading closer towards dropping out of the top 32 than back into the top 16.

UK Champs - 3040Welsh Open - 1900China Open - 3500World Champs - 3800

these are the points he has to lose as the season progresses too

to putWikiLeaks has released the first 200 of a cache of 5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence firm.

The emails originated not from a whistleblower, but instead from a series of hacking attacks against Stratfor in December 2011, carried out by the online activist collective Anonymous.

Anonymous apparently passed the emails to WikiLeaks in the weeks following the attack. The whistleblowing website then recruited, according to its statement, 25 media partners to work on the document cache.

Stratfor describes itself as a provider of "strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs", with a claimed 300,000 subscribers.

WikiLeaks said the documents contained details of the inner workings of the private intelligence agency, links between government and private intelligence, and commentary on WikiLeaks itself.

"The material contains privileged