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Magic: New York's Longest Running Off-Broadway Magic Show: 14+ years: "Monday Night Magic."
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"Monday Night Magic" premiered on June 23rd, 1997, at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, an Off-Broadway theater in New York City's Greenwich Village. The show can currently be seen at The Players Theatre (located at 115 MacDougal Street, less than three blocks from where the show began in 1997, and the run is open-ended.
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The Black Hole Cygnus Crew
The rest of the Palomino crew grows suspicious of the faceless drones' human-like behavior: Booth sees a robot limping and Holland witnesses a robot funeral and discovers the Cygnus crew's personal items in the ship's living quarters. Old B. O. B. ("BiO-sanitation Battalion"), a battered early-model robot similar to V. I. N. CENT, explains that the faceless drones are in fact the human crew, who mutinied when Reinhardt refused to return to Earth and had been lobotomized and "reprogrammed" by Reinhardt to serve him. McCrae's father had led the mutiny and was killed. Using telepathy, V. I. N. CENT tells Kate the truth about what happened. When Kate tells Durant, he removes the reflective faceplate from a "drone" to reveal the zombie-like face of a crew member. Appalled, Durant tries to flee the bridge with Kate, but Maximilian kills him. Reinhardt takes Kate prisoner, ordering his sentry robots to take her to the ship's hospital bay to be lobotomized.

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Cape Town - Andile Jali says he still has unfinished business in African football and will be looking to win the CAF Champions League now that he is back in South Africa.
The Bafana Bafana midfielder said one of his goals is to win the CAF Champions League, having come close while he was still playing for Orlando Pirates, where they lost in the final to Al Ahly in 2013.
Jali is back in the country after parting ways with KV Oostende in Belgium, where he has been playing since leaving Pirates in 2014.
The midfielder's future is still undecided as he continues to be linked with the Premiership powerhouses, but stated that he has left everything in the hands of his management to find him a new home.
Jali told Metro FM: "I still want to win trophies. I did not come back just to be back at home.
"I am not just here to play and enjoy the game. I still want to win more trophies - especially the CAF Champions League.
"If I can win the Champions League, then I will say, 'ok, I have done it.'
"I did not come here for money, I came here for my family and whatever offers that will be on the table. I will hear from my manager, Mike Makaab. It's not on me, He is doing everything."


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Tens of thousands feared dead in 7.0-magnitude quake
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Haitian President Rene Preval told CNN that the death toll had already reached between 30,000 and 50,000 after his impoverished nation was struck by a 7.0-magnitude quake on Tuesday.
Haitians woke to face the devastation on Thursday after sleeping outside in the streets and parks, fearful of more aftershocks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake tore through the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Thursday.
Streets were lined with the bloodied, twisted bodies of the dead and injured after the massive earthquake ripped apart the city, bringing the presidential palace and UN headquarters crashing down and ravaging hillside shanties.
After another terrifying night rocked by aftershocks, the pitiful cries of those still trapped could be heard from under the cascade of rubble, cement and metal.
Haitian President Rene Preval told CNN on Wednesday that the death toll had already reached between 30,000 and 50,000. Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said the number of dead could eventually reach "well over 100,000".
The UN alone paid a heavy price, with at least 14 UN staffers confirmed dead in the collapse of the mission's main headquarters in Port-au-Prince. More than 200 UN foreign staff are still unaccounted for.
Preval confirmed that the head of the UN mission in Haiti, Tunisian national Hedi Annabi, was among the fatalities -- an announcement the UN was unable to corroborate.
Preval also said the devastation in Port-au-Prince was "unimaginable".
"Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them," Preval told the Miami Herald.it
Lacking heavy equipment, Haitians frantically dug with their hands as they sought to pull victims from the ruins of Port-au-Prince, witnesses said. As the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, Haiti is ill-prepared to handle such a catastrophe.
About 1,400 French nationals live in Haiti, including 1,200 in Port-au-Prince. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the embassy was still searching for at least 50 French people who "may have found themselves in very dangerous places".
Kouchner added that French Secretary of State for Cooperation Alain Joyandet, who is responsible for foreign aid, was scheduled to visit Haiti on Saturday.
The UN reported that the airport in Port-au-Prince airport was operational and that a massive aid operation was underway.
Collapsed buildings
The presidential palace: Following the quake, it was seen in ruins, its domes collapsed on to flattened walls.
Hotel Montana: The luxury hotel that attracts tourists and business travellers collapsed; about 100 of its 300 guests have been evacuated. But 200 foreigners remain missing at the Hotel Montana according to French Secretary of State for Cooperation Alain Joyandet.
The headquarters of the UN mission: All those who were in the headquarters of the UN mission when the building collapsed are likely dead, including the head of the UN Haiti Peacekeeper mission, Hedi Annabi of Tunisia. Up to 250 UN foreign staff in Haiti are still unaccounted for.
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Fortnite Season 5 is coming out with a bang but before we say goodbye to Season 4, Epic is hosting a +100% XP weekend
Fortnite Battle Royale's Season 4 is coming to an end, but fret not. A new season is right around the corner. In a post on Reddit, Epic Games announced the start date and time for Season 5.
Fortnite Season 5 will begin on July 12 at 4:00 a.m. EDT (08:00 GMT).
Now that we know the date and time, all that's left to do is wait for the giant rocket to strike. We know that will happen at the end of Season 4 which has been extended by two days.
Of course, the end of Season 4 means you only have two more weeks to complete your challenges and reach Battle Pass Tier 100 and level 80 to unlock all of your Battle Pass cosmetics.
To help you with that, Epic is running a +100% XP weekend. This will only count towards your overall level, not your Battle Pass Tier. The extra XP weekend begins Friday, June 29 at 4:00 a.m. EDT (08:00 GMT) and ends on July 2 at 3:00 a.m. EDT (07:00 GMT).


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Even small additional contributions to your account each month can make a big difference to the size of your super account. There are two ways you can make extra contributions to your super: before tax and after tax.
You can make extra contributions by 'sacrificing' some of your salary. The extra contributions go directly from your salary into your super, the same way your normal super guarantee contributions are paid by your employer.
Your take home pay will be less, however there are potential tax benefits worth considering. Your super is taxed at 15%. If your income tax rate is higher than 15%, then you will save money on tax.
You can make extra contributions in lump sums from your normal take home pay. This is not taxed as you've already paid the tax on the income.
There are limits to the amount you can add to your super account after-tax. The 2018 - 2019 financial year, the non-concessional cap is $100,000 for all individuals 65 years of age or under. Limits also apply depending on much you already have in your super account.
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If you earn less than $52,697 p.a. and make a personal contribution into your super, you may be eligible for the Government co-contribution and receive up to $500 extra into your super each year. For eligibility criteria, see the ATO website.
Want to help your spouse's super? If you spouse earns less than $37,000 a year and you add as much as $3,000 into their super, you could get an 18% tax offset. saving you up to $540 in tax.
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My calf healed amazingly quickly. After 10 days of rest had achieved nothing I expected to be sore for a bit longer but after only 2 days of easy running the discomfort was 95% gone, there was just a trace left on Thursday and by now I cannot feel a thing. That's always a relief of course, but I certainly did expect it to go away, but maybe not quite so quickly.
What's mostly out of whack right now is not my body but my mind (no smart comments, please. That's Niamh's job). My pacing gauge seems to be completely misaligned at the moment, I had plenty of moments in the last few days where I could have sworn that I was running relaxed and easy 7:30 pace and then a look at the Garmin gave me everything down to 6:45 pace instead. I kept slowing down dozens of times, basically each time after glancing at the watch, but today I finally tired of this and let the body dictate its own natural pace. It's definitely faster than what I would advice a runner in the same situation to run, but then again I reckon that running entirely on feel cannot be all that bad.
The weather has been reasonably okay, it was freezing cold but dry until yesterday, and now it's rather windy but so far I haven't had to run in the rain yet. Obviously that's going to change sooner rather than later but right now I'm happy enough with the conditions.
Connemara is only a week away and I try not to think too much about it. It's not a race but a training run and I can slow down as much as I need without sacrificing a time goal. Of course I haven't done a lot of miles since Tralee, but I have been doing this ultra running before and I think I'll be ok.
The Easter egg hunt was a great success, we were down in Valentia and had 4 content children of our won plus two happy nieces. The Easter bunny has done his job for another year.
- 28 Mar
- 8 miles, 59:48, 7:29 pace, HR 149
- 29 Mar
- 8 miles, 58:39, 7:20 pace, HR 156
- 30 Mar
- 5 miles, 36:35, 7:17 pace, HR 149
- 31 Mar
- 10 miles, 1:11:18, 7:08 pace, HR 157


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I had never tried Beco before, but I loved wearing my kiddos when they were young. My sister in law had the Gemini and I just ohhh'd and awww'd over it. It had so many carry styles, the "cool" element of the carrier worked great in the HOT humid sun and was it was just so sleek looking. So I got one of my own and now I'm hooked! Truly a great, well made carrier that will last through multiple kids. 💕💕
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An operations manager of a new generation bank in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, Folorunso Ademola Rasaq, has confessed before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that the Branch Manager of the Bank, Iwejuo Joseph Nna, was the account officer to Ebiwise Resources Limited, Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited, Rotato Inter-link Services Limited and Pluto Property & Investment Company Limited.
The four companies are being prosecuted by the EFCC on a 23-counts charge of concealment and retention of proceeds of crime to the tune of over N1,667,162,800.00 (One billion, six hundred and sixty seven million, one hundred and sixty two thousand, eight hundred Naira). The accused persons are: Waripamo-Owei Emmanuel Dudafa, Iwejuo Joseph Nna a.k.a. Taiwo A. Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah. Justice Idris adjourned the case till September 26, 2016 for continuation of trial.


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Good point. Joseph Smith, why try to hide this? I would have thought that the History of the Church (written by Joseph Smith) actually helped the LDS Church, but it incriminates it. Using something as simple as this to describe Joseph Smith is not presentism, but simplicity. A simplistic overview of the truth of a matter shines more light on the truthfulness than endless, run-on research. People can know all the facts and research, yet still be so deceived. Why? They twist the facts to be "faith-promoting," which unfortunately happens to faithful Mormons.
How much twisting needs to happen before you get so tired and burned out, trying to prove something to someone else?
A girl who knew Joseph Smith said,
"He [Joseph Smith, Jr.] talked incessantly about himself, what he had done and could do more than other mortals, and remarked that he was a 'giant, physically and mentally.' In fact, he seemed to forget that he was a man." (Charlotte Haven, "A Girl's Letters From Nauvoo," Overland Monthly, San Francisco, volume 16, December 1890, pp. 616-638)
Proverbs 16:18 says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Joseph Smith's life ended prematurely, as he was shot in June of 1844. His lifestyle and pride that led up to his death was something that brought about his downfall. Some pits that people fall into in life are dug by others. Some pits that people fall into are self-dug. Joseph Smith's pit was self-dug because of how he lived during the last few years of his life.
1 Thessalonians 2:3-7 says,
"For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ…"
Joseph Smith was guilty of deceit, fraud, and false teaching. Obviously there are several things Joseph Smith taught that were true. This is why he is very deceptive, because deception is always mixed with some truth, which is why Mormonism is so deceptive. If Joseph Smith came along and said, "We should worship a blue Hindu goddess with six arms," that would not be as deceptive. It would be more than obvious that Joseph Smith was a fraud if he said that. Since his experience was more like, "the Heavenly Father and Jesus showed up to me in the woods," that deals with more familiar terms and hooks traditional Christians in pretty easily, and that is how it is more deceptive.
Being anti-Mormonism is not anti-Mormon, because loving people is what we are all about. I am most definitely not anti-Mormon. The LDS Church institution likes to label those who come against LDS teachings as "anti-Mormon." In a way, I can see why. They want to protect their members from such things. This can be misleading, because we are anti-Mormon in the sense that we are against Mormon teachings that defy Truth, but we are not anti-Mormon in the sense that we are against the people of Mormonism. After all, Mormon people are very nice and respectable. Mormons deserve more respect and civility from evangelical Christians. We can hold hands with them and celebrate their family values and their urge to protect our nation's constitution. I admire the Latter-day Saints for standing up against drugs and alcohol, and for wanting to protect religious freedom and traditional, biblical marriage.
It is not like there are Mormons who are not saved. Don't misunderstand what I am saying. I am not saying that Mormonism as a religious system teaches a saving message. I am saying that there are rank-in-file Mormons out there who I believe really do know Jesus! I have met some of them! Would I encourage them to stay in Mormonism? No. Just like there are people whom I know who were Muslims who had a conversion experience with Jesus in a vision and afterward, worship at the Mosque, not praying to Allah, but to Jesus Christ. Just like there are people who could be in the Jehovah's Witness system and come to know Jesus Christ. Not because of their religious system, but because Jesus can show up to whomever He wants to! Our Heavenly Father loves drawing people to Himself!
People may have their hearts right with God, but may still need some work with certain theologies in their heads.
Some people, like some ardent Southern Baptists I know, (and bless their hearts), love to make sure that everyone they meet has a proper and correct theology for EVERYTHING. If that person does not, they feel like it is their job to correct it all to get them saved, as if they are not saved in the first place. They feel the need to quote Bible verses at every family get-together, to talk about the End Times in Christmas letters, yet at the same time, they don't even realize that their approach needs to be checked. Yes, we need to safeguard against false teachings, and I am definitely aware of that, as I am one who used to believe in all LDS teachings, but we need to love them and approach them like Jesus did. Get to know them as people, first and foremost!!! After all, stop seeing Mormons as simply conversion objects, and see them as wonderful creations of God!
Look at the picture above. Picture this as Jesus hugging a Mormon. For an evangelical Christian who might say, "Mormons won't make it to heaven," I have news for you: the way that God sees Mormons as people is like this picture depicts; Jesus loves them and died for them too!
Even though I have a huge passion for talking with Mormons, befriending them with the right motive, and loving them, I must still stand up for the truth to expose false teachings of Mormonism that contradict and stand against the Bible. I have read about stories where people stand on street corners, holding signs that say "Joseph Lied" or "You're in a Cult!" I have read saddening stories about how LDS meetinghouses and wards are burned down, vandalized, or trespassed and damaged, or where people set copies of the Book of Mormon ablaze and set them on the front steps of LDS ward buildings. This deeply saddens me. I feel for the Mormons, because treating them like they are sub-human is not okay. God created Mormons, and He loves them! Jesus Christ died for every single Mormon, just like He died for you and I! He loves Mormons so much! Even though I have a passion to bring to light certain errors in Mormonism, I have an even bigger passion and heart to depict the love of Jesus Christ to any and all Mormons.
This is my first and foremost mission, to show the love of God to Mormons.
Mormons, to all of you who have been hurt by evangelical Christians in some way, I am sorry. Deeply. I have been slandered against by certain people in my own family when I believed in Mormonism myself, and I know what it feels like to be told you are believing cultic things, and that you are weird and that you have no sense of any truth. My heart goes out to you. Mormons, we need to try to understand each other better. Not simply to try and convert each other, but we need to love each other and discuss the Bible and the real questions: Who is God? Why are we sinners? How are we justified from sin? I am not going to argue with Mormons about not drinking coffee and tea. I'm not going to debate their take on polygamy even. When we preach Christ and Him crucified, then that is the core of everything. When a Mormon finds a relationship with Jesus, then all that other stuff will get worked out.
I would never fight a Mormon in the sense of silly arguing, for the war we fight is not against each other in a physical sense. This goes beyond emotions. Ephesians 6:12 says, "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."
Yes, it is important to get the right information. But even if someone has all the right information, it doesn't mean they have the revelation about what that information really means. I urge faithful, active, and even doubting Latter-day Saints to read the New Testament as a child, and to let the Holy Spirit lead you into what you are reading.
Joseph Smith gives this interesting quote:
I agree with him in a sense. Of course we are to go to God in prayer to obtain divine teaching! But if we are told something from a preacher, a spirit, a prophet, a pastor, or any website or person, we must test it with the biblical model of testing: making sure it agrees with the scriptures: the 66 books of the Bible!
In Acts 17, Paul and Silas travelled to Berea. Acts 17:10-13 (NKJV) says,
"When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men. But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds."
Notice how it says that the people in Berea were more "fair-minded" than those in Thessalonica! Why were they? Because they received what Paul was saying by searching the Scriptures to find out whether or not those things being said were true. They were commended for this! What was the scripture that was being referred to? The already-written scripture at the time, the Old Testament. Now, when people heard Joseph Smith's King Follett Discourse, they should have searched the scriptures daily to find out whether Joseph Smith was saying the truth about God. Joseph Smith said that God had not always been God in the past, but became God through obedience to the eternal laws of heaven. In that blasphemous model, laws would be more eternal than our God is! Nonsense! God is the uncreated creator!
Mormons at the time should have went to the scriptures at the time to test Joseph Smith. What scriptures? The Old and New Testaments. They could have seen that Isaiah blows Joseph Smith's comments out of the water. So in Joseph Smith's quote in the picture above, he says we shouldn't go to books, but rather to God. We need to go to God, AND to the Bible to get divine teachings!
I loved Joseph Smith when I believed in LDS doctrines before. I used to cling to everything he said, until I found out the contradictions in his teachings.
Here is a sobering quote from Emerson:
In closing, I must say that when I believed in Mormon doctrines, I knew that there were things that did not line up or agree with past LDS teachings. I fell into the vulgar mistake that Ralph Waldo Emerson is talking about; I believed I was persecuted as an almost-Mormon when I found out things that contradicted each other from within Mormonism. I felt as if "Anti-Mormons" were just mean and "Anti-Mormon" literature was false and rude, when really, it was truthful, even if the approach of it was dry at times.
What do we do with those contradictions? Let them go, and cling only to God and His Word, the Bible!
My Grandma Lee once told me that people who study to learn about how to detect counterfeit money actually study the real dollar bill, not the fake ones, so then they know the counterfeit bill based off of the true bill, not because they studied the false bill so much. Even though I write and research on Mormonism, I must never forget to focus on the Bible and the Truth even more!
Study the good fruit, that's how you can know when to detect the bad fruit.
Just some food for thought 🙂


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Imagining Ancient Women
University of Alberta Press, Co-published with Canadian Literature Centre, $10.95
Annabel Lyon, MFA'96
Discusses how to avoid the pitfalls of creating historical fictional characters and how to make them believable in modern times.
Dark Inside
Simon and Schuster, $19.99
Jeyn Roberts, BA'06
Youth fiction about four teenagers on the same road in a world gone mad.
Viking, $19.50
Kim Purcell, BA'94
A thriller ripped from the headlines about modern-day slavery in America.
The Invisible Alibi
AuthorHouse, $25.03
Ivan Narayan, BA'06
1940s crime novella about a missing young woman.
A Sense of the Sea: Our View of the Sea and How We Got It
Glen Margaret Publishing, $17.95
Brian G. Whitehouse, BSc'76
Sailor and oceanographer Brian Whitehouse presents the sea we grew up with and introduces the one that is coming.
First Nations 101
Adaawx Publishing, $21
Lynda Gray, BSW'99
Lynda Gray provides readers with a broad overview of the diverse and complex lives of First Nations people.
Simply Read Books, $18.95
Cynthia Heinrichs, BA'93
Ages 4 and up
Picture book about the diving women or "mermaids" of South Korea.
Also by Cynthia:
Under the Mound
Simply Read Books, $19.95
Young-adult fiction set in 12th century Scotland about a band of Viking/Scottish invaders who take shelter from a blizzard in an ancient burial mound.
Presenting with Credibility: Practical Tools and Techniques for Effective Presentations
Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Press, $19.95
Bruna Martinuzzi, BA'81, MA'84
In a concise, easy-to-follow format, readers learn how to have presence and dynamism as a speaker.
Manual for the Soul: A Guide to the Energies of Life
White Pup Press, $68
Marguerite Paquin, BEd'67, MA'80
An in-depth analysis on the energies encoded by the Sacred Maya Calendar and the impact of those energies on daily life.
Gracie's Got a Secret
MW Books, $9.95
Heather Conn, BA '81
Children's story about the friendships a goldfish makes and the lessons she learns when she escapes her fishbowl.
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism
UBC Press, $34.95
Dr. Grace L.X. Woo, LLB'90
Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Vancouver Noir
Anvil Press, $25
John Belshaw, BA'79, and Diane Purvey, BA'82, PhD'01
Looks at the period from the 1930s to the 1960s in Vancouver, complete with noir-style, vintage photos from the era.
The Village of Many Hats
Oolichan Books, $9.95
Caroline Woodward, BA'74
Novella for seven to 10 year-olds told from the point of view of a nine-year-old girl who, along with a wise-hat maker, saves her village after tragedy strikes.
The Sometimes Lake
Thistledown Press, $18.95
Sandy Bonny, BSc'00
Compilation of short fiction stories in settings ranging from Alberta's Badlands to the grasslands of the prairies. At the vortex of these surprising plots churns Bonny's keen interest in science and its unexpected effect on human action and emotion.


text: German architectural studio Graft Architects, inspired a unique form of an Italian sculptor, painter and theorist of Futurism Umberto Boccioni and iconic images of the developing dress Marilyn Monroe, have created elegant snow-white "tablecloth" Phantom, which is about to soar into the air. It seems that under it was the missing table covered with a magician. However, the fragility and ephemeral nature of this unusual object is deceptive. Snow-white table is very solid and stable structure, characteristics of which were amply demonstrated in numerous exhibitions.


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FRANKFURT - Judges will give their verdict on Friday and sentence a 20-year-old German accused of fighting for Islamic State in Syria in the first case of its kind in Germany, where dozens of suspected home-grown jihadis are awaiting trial.
Prosecutors are asking for a jail term of four years and three months for the man, known only as Kreshnik B., who was born in Germany to Kosovan parents. They say he spent six months in Syria last year fighting and being trained by the insurgents.
His lawyer says he went to Syria to help support Syrians trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and has asked judges for a maximum term of three years and three months.
Judges in the months-long trial have indicated that they may show leniency if he cooperates with authorities.
Islamic State militants have captured large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, beheaded Western prisoners, killed many non-Sunni Muslims and declared a caliphate governed by sharia law in the heart of the Middle East.
Thousands of Western volunteers have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join militant groups, raising fears in Europe and the United States of attacks by returning fighters, and authorities are cracking down on them and on fundraisers and recruiters.
About 550 German citizens have joined Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and about 60 have been killed, some as suicide bombers, authorities say. Some 180 are believed to have returned to Germany. Prosecutors are investigating about 300 others.
French judges last month sentenced a returning jihadi to seven years in prison, in the first verdict of its kind there, even though he spent only 10 days in Syria and did not fight.
Britain has sentenced two brothers to four and three-and-a-half year prison terms for attending training in Syria.
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This iconic bar beneath the Fenway Park bleachers is strictly 21 and over on game nights, but on all other weekdays, it's open to all. There's a fenced-in area that offers field-level views — a perfect photo opp for sports fans even without the boys on the field. (Foursquare also publishes an entire list of Boston's best sports bars.)
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Proudly proclaiming its status as "Boston's only after hours dance club," Rise also sets itself up nicely as a safe haven for the under 21 crowd to congregate and dance the night away. Actually, dance the day away might be a little more appropriate, given the fact that Rise is actually open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday holidays from 1:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., making the club a perfect getaway for the young 'n hip jet set who are still a wee too young to indulge in any of the city's 21+ bars or nightclubs. A $20 cover ($10 discounted with college ID) earns you a multilevel dance oasis with a trippy, psychedelic atmosphere, professional DJ sets and a widely diverse clientele from all ages, backgrounds and sexual orientations. This is clearly a unique adventure for Boston clubbers of any age.
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As one of Boston's longstanding LGBT nightclubs, Machine embraces clientele all of shapes and sizes, yet it's their 18+ Friday night events which should prove as the biggest draw for Boston's dance and fun hungry night owls who are seeking out a star crossed excursion. In fact, you'll be apt to find plenty of straight guys and girls joining in on the Friday night fun, which includes drag queen hosts and go-go dancers-a-plenty. Top 40 hits from Ke$ha, Rhianna, Gaga and Katy Perry all make the rounds on Machine's hot and happenin' dance floor, which invites any and all to come out, shake it off and dance away their problems.
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Boston, MA 02215
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Although the Paradise Rock Club doesn't always put on 18+ shows, most of the concerts that pass through "The Dise's" doors allow the younger crowd prime access to some of the hippest and hottest rock acts on the planet, all set within an ultra-cool and chic set-up. Decor and atmosphere lend a lot of credence to The Paradise as one of the city's oldest concert venues, where almost any standing spot offers a cool vantage point of the on-stage action. The front lounge area also offers food, drink and four huge flat screens for sports action. Just don't try and slam dance at this classic club––The Paradise enforces a strict "no moshing" policy.
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Looking for a cool place to take that visiting, under 21 niece, nephew or cousin, yet stumped for ideas which don't involve having to watch copious bumping and/or grinding (and the inevitable awkwardness which follows)? Why not try the Improv Asylum, which hosts its own brand of renegade comedy, described as being "a cross between 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' and 'Saturday Night Live!'" While there is a full bar here at the Faneuil Hall area, Hanover St. location (the Improv Aslyum ventures all throughout the city, doing guest spots and corporate events at many Bostonian bars and clubs), 18+ comedy mongers are allowed in with ID, which makes this rebel comedy show a unique night out on the town. Make sure you stick around for the midnight "raunch: show, as well, which promises the sort of down 'n dirty comedy not offered during the 10 p.m. or early shows.
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George Pacheco has been writing professionally about arts and entertainment for over a decade. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, George currently resides in a humble New England home with his wife, cat and massive music and film collection. His work can be found at Examiner.com.


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The sliding door is a typical Asian feature, used to add grace to a home and make for seamless, space-saving living in our urban realities. The shoji screen, delicate stenciled doors and robust barn-style examples are only the tip of the iceberg, with numerous styles stepping on to the design horizon. But are these doors really as convenient as they seem? Let's take a closer look and analyse the pros and cons of the sliding door…
The facade of a home bearing sliding doors is usually neatly framed by metal or wood, standing in tandem with the linear look of a modern home. This ensures that there is an opening and closing of doors and windows, which don't disrupt the flow of the boxes and frames. The outdoors also comes alive in a picturesque way once it is framed by such doors and windows. Take a cue from this one designed by the architects at Furukawa Design Office.
While sleek, seamless looks are the obvious advantage of this installation, they also serve the purpose of creating privacy and expanding a space at the same time. If you install such a door between two spaces, you can be sure of gaining privacy with just one push! At the same time, you can slide the doors open to make the dining room or terrace merge with the living room, creating a large space for a grand party.
The open layout that is achieved with the help of such doors is indisputable. One can easily conjure up an open space with the slide of a single door. This can bring the outdoors inside and create a vast airy expanse, unhindered by swinging doors which would otherwise have taken up precious space when closed.
This kind of an installation can add layers to the smallest of spaces and make the promise of style surprises with each layer. This will ensure that the detailing, in design terms, has depth. Light can also flow in and out of the space depending on your mood and the time of the day. These doors can actually double as windows and glass walls.
These doors are not the easiest when it comes to cleaning and maintaining. The portion where the doors slide and overlap cannot be cleaned very easily, unless you slide both the doors on opposite sides, which is again quite time consuming. Moreover, dirt tends to settle in the nooks and brackets below.
The rooms bordered by sliding doors may have relatively little sound insulation, as the seal is less robust than that of traditional doors or windows. All in all, sliding doors are a brilliant space-saving solution, providing you're able to overlook minor cleaning and soundproofing disadvantages.
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You are probably aware that the Indian government has been gunning at Research in Motion – the manufacturer of the popular Blackberry series of handsets, due to concerns over the misuse of Blackberry's encrypted messaging system by terrorists. Towards the end of August, RIM finally appeared to have succeeded in placating the government's concerns by agreeing to set up a server in India. However, according to The Economic Times, RIM's woes are far from being over.
The department of telecommunications (DoT) has rejected the solution proposed by Research in Motion on the grounds that it doesn't allow security agencies to obtain email and chat communications in plain text (unencrypted/decrypted) form.
RIM has been under fire from several nations including Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Even the United Nation's telecommunications agency urged it to share data with law enforcement agencies. RIM has been insisting that it doesn't have a magical key to decrypt the data which is protected using end to end encryption. It will be interesting to see how RIM responds to this new development. If it doesn't manage to come up with a satisfactory solution by the end of this month, then the one million BlackBerry subscribers in India might have to do without BlackBerry services like e-mail and chat.


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7 October 2020
Dozens of tools thought to have belonged to Neanderthals have been dug up at an archaeological site called Beedings in West Sussex, UK, as reported by Christine McGourty, BBC Science Correspondent.
Dr Matthew Pope, of University College London, said the discovery provides new insights into the life of a thriving community of hunters at the site.
The tools could have been used to hunt horses, mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. The archaeologists, funded by English Heritage, have been carrying out their investigations over the last few weeks. It is the first modern scientific investigation of the site since it was discovered in 1900.
"It's exciting to think that there's a real possibility these were left by some of the last Neanderthal hunting groups to occupy northern Europe," said Dr Pope. "The impression they give is of a population in complete command of both landscape and natural raw materials with a flourishing technology - not a people on the edge of extinction."
When the site was first discovered at the start of the 20th Century, there were 2,300 stone tools found when the foundations were being dug for a huge new house to be built there. But for many years, the tools were considered to be fakes. All but a few hundred of them were thrown down a well and never seen again. The tools were only recently recognised to be of international importance, following research by Roger Jacobi of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project. He demonstrated last year that the Beedings material showed strong resemblances with other tools from northern Europe dating to between 35,000 and 42,000 years old. The latest finds now provides definitively that the original discovery was genuine, according to Dr Pope.
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) first appear in the fossil record about 230,000 years ago and, at their peak, ranged across Europe and parts of western Asia. Our evolutionary cousins became extinct in most of Europe about 35,000 years ago, but small pockets survived much later than this in southern Iberia. As reported by Rebecca Morelle of the BBC, 'the cause of these ancient humans' demise is hotly debated and a variety of theories have been put forward.'
Competition with modern humans (Homo sapiens) - who arrived on the European continent about 40,000 years ago - as well as climate change, have long been discussed as culprits for the Neanderthals' extinction across much of their former range 35,000 years ago. But pockets of these ancient humans appear to have survived in southern Iberia until much more recently than they did elsewhere - perhaps until 24,000 years ago.
The Beedings excavation:
"There were some questions about the validity of the earlier find, but our excavations have proved beyond doubt that the material discovered here was genuine and originated from fissures within the local sandstone." He said Neanderthal hunters were drawn to the hill over a long period of time, presumably for excellent views of the game herds grazing on the surrounding plains.
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Jesus drew lines in the moral landscape of Israel. He opposed the religious hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Sadducees and set a proper distinction between what is holy and what is hypocrisy (Matt. 23). For this, He was killed. But, the powerful testimony He left before His death and after His resurrection is recorded in the Bible. His words and life are a beacon of light to all who want truth and desire to know the difference between right and wrong. With Jesus, there were absolutes. With Jesus, there really is such a thing as truth and error, right and wrong.
However, in today's world relativism is a serious problem not only for the secular, but also for the sacred. In the world people are taught to not pass judgments on others about their beliefs or lifestyle preferences, especially if those beliefs and lifestyles contradict the Bible. Sin is considered an anachronous and meaningless concept. The world does not want the Christian to shine a holy light on its sin. Instead, the world wants to have its sin without condemnation and without guilt. The world offers a philosophy of "It is right if it is right for you," and "What is wrong for you is not necessarily wrong for anyone else." In relativism there are no absolutes. There are no paradoxes. This makes it easy to do what is right in its own eyes.
It doesn't take long for any serious Bible student to recognize the problems in the Christian church as well. We see so-called Christian denominations and churches that approve of homosexuality, or couples living together, etc., and that teach a weak doctrine of God, sin, Christ, and salvation. Unfortunately, these kinds of churches are in bed with their secular mistress and are being seduced into further and further spiritual adulteries. In other words, the lines that Jesus drew so sharply in the Gospels that separate the sacred from the secular are becoming more and more blurred by the relativism of today as it seeps into the Christian church.
The blunt truth is, however, that there is an absolute right and wrong. We find it in the Bible which says that homosexuality is a sin. It is not an "alternate lifestyle." It is a rebellious act of people who oppose the God-ordained institution of marriage between a man and a woman (Gen. 2:18-25). The Bible says that living together is a sin. It is wrong since it is the participation of the sexual union outside of the covenant establishment of marriage. The Bible teaches us about husbands and wives, not about "significant others." The Bible teaches us to NOT bow to social norms if they contradict Gods' word. Therefore, it is always wrong to lie, to commit adultery, to steal, to bear false witness, etc. It is wrong because God says it is wrong.
Furthermore, doctrine is important and there can be no compromise on the truth of what God has revealed. There is only one God in all existence who has always been God (Isaiah 43:10; 44:6,8; Psalm 90:2). God is a trinity (three persons in the Godhead - Matt. 28:18-20; 2 Cor. 13:14). Jesus is the Word made flesh (John 1:1,14). Jesus is the ONLY way to salvation (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). If you do not believe and trust in Christ alone for salvation, you are damned to eternal hell (John 3:77-18; Matt. 25:46). These are only some of the many truths of the Bible that are under attack from the world and from the cults and other false religions.
If we Christians are to sharpen the lines of truth and morality, we must first know what the truth is. We must know what the Bible actually says about right and wrong, about doctrine, about God, etc. And then, we must be willing to say, "That is sin" when we see sin. We must be willing to stand up for righteousness, even if it costs us. Far too many Christians let the world give them comfort and safety in exchange for integrity and truth. The manifestation of this compromise is found in liberal theology and churches with social agendas. The world wants to blur the lines of distinction between the absolutes of morality and truth and lies and compromise. It wants no more blurred lines, but the church is supposed to sharpen those lines.
But, should we be a people that stand united in truth with fists raised in defiance against the world's relativism and moral compromise? Well, yes and no. Yes in that we are always to stand up for what is right. No, in that if standing up for what is right is not done in love, then our message of truth cannot be heard. Truth without love is hypocrisy. Love without truth is is a lie. Both truth and love must be presented in harmony. The Christian church should be true and it should also be beautiful. In other words, it should teach what is right and it should LIVE what is right. "But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith," (1 Tim. 1:5).
In your life are you living both the truth and the love that Jesus presented to us? Are you proclaiming truth at work? Are you teaching it at home? Are you standing up for truth in society? And, are you proclaiming truth in love? Are you teaching truth by a loving example? Are you standing up for truth with love as your foundation?
Lest I risk teaching moralism and further the degradation of truth in the world, I must make it clear that both truth and love are based on the cross of Christ. At the cross we see the perfection of truth and love realized together on the hard lines of that bloodied tree. It is true that Jesus died and rose again. It is true that His love for us bought us our salvation. It is true that the cross is the only hope for mankind. It is true that people need to die to themselves. It is true that love is sacrificial and that it can cost us our lives. It is true that there is such a thing as sin and it is true that we can point out what is right and wrong in the world because Jesus lived what was right and wrong, died, and rose from the dead to prove that what He said was true.
The church that has lost its truth is a false church. The church that has lost its love is a godless church. The more the lines are blurred between the sacred and the secular, the more we move towards apostasy. No! We must lovingly trace out the lines already drawn and lovingly point out that there is a right and a wrong. But pointing this out must be preceded by living the truth, not in simply proclaiming it in a form stripped of love.
We need to make sure that the lines between the sacred and the secular do not become blurred. We must make sure that they are sharp. We must proclaim Christ and Him crucified and that He alone is the way, the truth, and the life. Without Him judgment follows.
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This week's three featured members of the Arizona Law community--two of the three musicians on the side--are new graduate Alex Hecker, Adjunct Professor and alumnus Greg Sakall, and alumna Staci Vierthaler. I would also like to ask for your help in updating your contact information here. Enjoy!
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Alex Hecker (JD '13, BA '09)
Alex Hecker has been a Wildcat his entire life. Being a lawyer--particularly a corporate lawyer--is something he grew into more slowly.
Alex is a law clerk at the Tucson firm of Hecker & Muehlebach, PLLC, where his father and fellow double Wildcat Lawrence M. Hecker Jr. (JD '72, BA '69) is a principal. The firm's other partner is well-known Wildcat L. Matthew Muehlebach (JD '96, BA '91), former member of the men's basketball team and one of the first Arizona "Gumbies."
Alex remembers, "Ever since I was young, I have been at least vaguely interested in the law because of my dad. That being said, I shifted back and forth on 'what I want to be when I grow up' on almost a week-to-week basis. By the time I got to college at the U of A, I was convinced I was going to be the next great jazz guitarist. At some point, however, I realized my passion for the guitar did not translate as well as I'd hoped into the pursuit of a music degree."
Alex earned his BA in Latin American studies and anthropology with the goal of going to law school "and advocating for the rights of some as-yet undiscovered indigenous tribe in Latin America." Specializing in corporate law was not part of the equation.
"I had pretty much ruled out joining the family business and pursuing corporate law. I feared long hours and death by suffocation under an ever-expanding mountain of paperwork. At some point in my first year of law school, however, my opinions about what my father does began to change. Perhaps it was the discovery that long, exhausting hours are not unique to transactional attorneys; or that there's a lot more to litigation than badgering witnesses and making emotional closing statements that culminate in the jurors honoring your soul-stirring argument!"
Alex grew more open-minded about corporate law. "I discovered that corporate lawyers, especially those interested in small business and entrepreneurship, help people in ways that few other lawyers can," he says. "We assist people in achieving dreams that they have had for their entire lives. We also help foster economic development in our community by helping to facilitate investment in local businesses, thereby creating new jobs."
Alex credits several Arizona Law professors with sparking his passion for business law and related fields. "Larry Ponoroff was the first teacher that really got me interested in commercial law. William Sjostrom, one of the brightest men I have ever met, got me more excited about commercial law than anyone other than my dad. Michael Curley (BA/BS '97) and Derek Bambauer, who is a great addition to the faculty, impressed upon me that a working knowledge of intellectual property is an essential arrow in the quiver of any good business lawyer."
He adds, "I would never have believed as a 1L that I would enjoy tax law, but thanks to Professor Mona Hymel, it was my favorite subject." Outside the classroom, Alex singles out his summer externship in the chambers of Federal District Court Judge Stephen McNamee (JD '69, MA '67) as a highlight of his law school career.
He worked at Hecker & Muehlebach last summer "to make sure I would like corporate law in practice," he says. "As it turns out, it's way more rewarding than I ever would have expected. The biggest thing working for my dad has taught me is that not only can corporate lawyers have an incredibly positive impact on their community; it is the very nature of the job."
You can connect with Alex at his LinkedIn page.
Greg Sakall earned his BA in Spanish and history from Hillsdale College in Michigan before returning to his hometown of Tucson to obtain his JD from Arizona Law. After graduating summa cum laude in 2001, he was a law clerk for the Hon. William D. Browning (JD '60, BS '54) and the Hon. Cindy K. Jorgenson (JD '77, BS '74) of the US District Court for the District of Arizona.
In 2004 he joined Goldberg & Osborne as a staff attorney in the Tucson litigation office, where he focuses on insurance bad faith, commercial trucking accidents, and dramshop cases. In 2012 his partner David Diamond (JD '86, BA '82) and Greg obtained a $2.785 million judgment for their clients in a Federal Tort Claims Act case.
As a student, Greg was business editor of Arizona Law Review. He remains actively engaged with Arizona Law today, as an extremely effective and popular adjunct associate professor. His courses have included Arizona Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Insurance, Legal Analysis, and Legal Writing and Research.
"My favorite course to teach is Arizona Civil Procedure," Greg says. "I've taught it for eight years and designed it to focus on those areas in civil litigation where the Arizona state court's practices diverge from the federal court practice. The goal of the course is to help students be familiar with the Arizona rules and more ready to hit the ground running for their first job or next clerkship. The students are always engaged, as they've already had a clerkship or internship and are interested in knowing more about the differences. Also, I always call in some favors and have several guest speakers come in during the semester, so I get to learn something new as well."
Greg also has been an active volunteer for the College, serving on several committees. In 2011 he received the University of Arizona Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumni Volunteer Award. In his spare time (!) he teaches CLE courses, chairs the Rules Committee for the Pima County Bar Association, is a PCBA board member, is a volunteer judge pro tem, and is involved with several community organizations.
Greg lives in Tucson with his wife, Jennifer Wortman, and their two sons Grady and Alton. Jen is an Opening Minds through the Arts teacher with the Tucson Unified School District and an assistant director with the Tucson Girls Chorus.
You can learn more about Greg here.
Staci Vierthaler (JD '08, BA '02)
Staci Vierthaler is coming up on her fourth anniversary as a defense attorney with the Pima County Public Defender's Office. She was proactive in her effort to land the job.
"I applied for this job before there was an opening," she says, "sending letters to then-Public Defender Bob Hirsh (JD '64, BS '60) and to Public Defender Lori Lefferts (JD '85, BS '82), and letting them know how much I wanted to work here. Eventually, there was an opening, and I ended up being hired."
Like so many at the Pima County PD's office, Staci is an Arizona Law grad. But she shares something else with several of them: a side gig playing in the rock band the Gotes, which includes attorneys and staff in the PD's office, along with some of their friends. Members include drummer Frank Leto (JD '74, BA '70), an attorney in the office's Appellate Division; bass player Rick Kingston (JD '84, BA '78), a defense attorney specializing in sex crimes cases; and lead vocalist and Arizona Law Professor Susie Salmon.
Though with the Gotes (so named because the band formed after playing at a party on a goat farm), Staci plays keyboards, she has toured the world as a classically trained harpist and has performed with the U of A student group HarpFusion. She learned of her colleagues' work with the Gotes in her first days at the PD's office, never guessing she would one day join them onstage.
As Professor Salmon recalls, "Frank Leto filled in on drums at a holiday gig a few years ago, and we never allowed him to escape. Staci, failing to learn from Frank's mistake, volunteered to play keyboards for a holiday show in 2011 and has been with the band ever since."
"Staci is an incredibly accomplished musician," notes Leto, the longest-serving attorney at the Pima County PD. "She's also about three generations younger than I, so it does make things interesting when we play together." He jokes, "She thinks the Beatles are classical musicians like Bach and Mozart, while I was brought up with the British Invasion!"
A native of Kansas, Staci graduated the University of Arizona with a BA in philosophy in 2002. Before joining the PD, she had already gained invaluable legal experience working with Arizona Law's Child Advocacy Clinic and as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Stephen C. Villarreal (JD '75, BA '72) with the Pima County Superior Court.
Staci is excited about the Gotes' show on Thursday at the "Battle of the Lawyer Bands" at the State Bar of Arizona 2013 Annual Convention. It will be the group's first time performing at the State Bar, where they will challenge Los Big Grandes, featuring Christopher J. Smith (JD '85), Hardy Smith (JD '85), Judge Philip Espinosa (JD '83, BA '78), Gene Goldsmith (JD '85, MA '81) and Peter Akmajian (JD '84, BA '80); and the band Guilty as Sin.
While the State Bar may provide the group's largest audience, the Gotes also have played for dozens of other venues, ranging from the Arizona Public Defender Association Annual Conference and Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law's "LawLawPalooza," to house parties and bars and fundraisers for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, where Staci, an ardent dog lover, serves on the organizing committee for the annual "Putting on the Dog" gala.
Aside from debuting at the State Bar, Staci looks forward to another first: She'll be teaching legal writing to 1Ls at Arizona Law as an adjunct this fall. "I'm excited to be returning to the campus and being a part of the U of A Law community again," she says.
Learn more about Staci here.
Online Recurring Giving: Green, Great, Grateful
Are you wondering how you can make a difference? A gift to the Arizona Law Fund allows us to support student scholarships, fellowships and grants and provide new career development initiatives. Our online option to make monthly gifts using a credit card is an easier, greener way to support Arizona Law: www.law.arizona.edu/give.
Every gift matters. Recurring giving is a way to show your steady support for the College of Law as we continue to guide one of the world's great public law schools through changing and challenging times.
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In an effort to stay in closer contact with all of our alumni, we are asking you to update your contact information this summer. Please help us by filling out the brief form at the link below. Let us know the best way to contact you. Tell us more about your career and how we can better serve you! You can find the form here.
Movers and Shakers
Ted Vogt (JD '10) Appointed Director of State Veterans' Services
Janson "Ted" Vogt was appointed director of the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services by Governor Jan Brewer on June 11. A veteran of the US Air Force,Ted has served as an intelligence officer and commander of a 26-person unit providing counterterrorism and threat information, with posts in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as other countries. He has practiced law at the Law Offices of Gerald K. Smith and John C. Smith since 2010 and was an elected member of the Arizona House of Representatives, where he was a strong advocate for veterans, from 2010 to 2013.
Lesle Jansen (LLM '09) Appointed to Commission on Human Rights Working Group
Lesle Jansen has been appointed to the Commission on Human and Peoples Rights' Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa. She is an attorney at Natural Justice, a nonprofit organization in South Africa focusing on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the self-determination of Indigenous peoples and local communities. Prior to completing her LLM in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy, she was an attorney for the South African Human Rights Commission and the Legal Assistance Centre-Namibia, where she worked with the San community on land and human rights cases. She also received an LLM in Rule of Law for Development from Loyola University in Chicago.
Reception to Meet the Dean During the State Bar -- Friday, June 21
Wine and Cheese Reception hosted by Fennemore Craig, 2394 East Camelback, Suite 600, Phoenix RSVP
Other Opportunities to Meet Dean Miller:
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* Portland, OR - June 26, Stoel Rives LLP, 4-6pm RSVP
* Washington, DC - July 10
* San Francisco - July 18
* Sacramento July 29
* Chicago, NY, Boston - August 5-7
University of Arizona Alumni Association Events
*Welcome the Wildcats to Chicago -- Sunday, June 23
Join Wildcat Football Lettermen Howard Powers (BS '91) and Arden Weitzman (BA '92) for this special alumni event in Chicago. For more information, visit WindyCityCats Welcome.
*Annual BayCats Day with the San Francisco Giants -- Saturday, July 27
Join alumni and Greg Byrne, U of A vice president of athletics, at AT&T Park. For more information, visit Annual Day. We know many of you follow our big sibling, the U of A Athletic Department's "Wildcat Wednesday" newsletter. We are working with Greg and his team to bring in more speakers in the fascinating area of sports law. To know more, you can contact me here.
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Culturally Responsive Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (CRPBIS) is an educational initiative grounded in local to global justice theory with the ultimate goal of educational systems change. Using Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and various types of data collection, four local schools are working with members of their communities to identify tensions within school, pose new solutions, and test their effectiveness.
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For the leader. A psalm of David:
How blessed are those who care for the poor!
When calamity comes, Adonai will save them.
Adonai will preserve them, keep them alive,
and make them happy in the land.
You will not hand them over
to the whims of their enemies.
Adonai sustains them on their sickbed;
when they lie ill, you make them recover. vs 1-4
The Eternal's provision for the poor, and how they are esteemed by Him is very evident in the Torah. Indeed it seems that one of the main reasons we receive a blessing is so that we can turn around and bless others. In Judaism this is called Tzedekah . The closest word in English with a comparable meaning is "charity", however, it is more than than that. Charity is more spontaneous, whereas, tzedekah is an obligation set forth by the Most High. The literal meaning of the word is righteousness or justice, and comes from the the Hebrew word Tzadik. If we say someone is a Tzadik, we proclaim them to be righteous. Tzedekah refers to our obligation to do what is right and just with regard to those who are poor.
Exodus 23:11; Leviticus 19:9-10, 25:35; Deuteronomy 14:28-29; 15:7-11, all of these verses from the Torah instruct us on our obligation to care for those who are less fortunate than ourselves. If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. Isaiah 58:10. We are in turn blessed and as David teaches, we will recover from illness, and when calamity strikes The Eternal will save.
Learn to do good!
Seek justice, relieve the oppressed,
defend orphans, plead for the widow. Isaiah 1:17
Shabbat Shalom!
In Yeshua,
Hadassah Michal


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This Cutlass Rallye 350 has been in the same family since 1996. The car is a well-preserved older restoration. It was shown at multiple Oldsmobile Club of America events. Overall this is in an Excellent condition and ready to be enjoyed by a new owner that can take care of it, drive it, show it, and give it the attention that it deserves. Serious inquiries only. Shown by appointment only.
This is a Lansing built "33687" Cutlass "S" Hardtop. It is a 4 speed, Non-AC with center console.
Excellent body and paint with correct stripes.
W-25 Factory Fiberglass Hood with steel frame
W-35 rear deck lid spoiler
D-35 1970 unique sport mirrors
N-10 dual exhaust with the cut out rear bumper
It has the correct smooth 1970 fenders.
Body Tag shows paint code - -
Broadcast card shows paint code 51 51 Sebring Yellow but does not show W-45
The undercarriage can use detailing, but it still has the factory undercoating.
Excellent Interior. Black buckets seats with black center console.
Rallye Pac Gauges (Tic-Tock-Tach)
N-34 Custom Sport steering wheel.
AM Radio.
Shoulder Seat Belts
Under the Hood:
Number matching Oldsmobile L74 350 4-bbl. Number 6 Heads.
Muncie 4-speed transmission (Not sure if M-20 or M-21)
Correct carburetor 7040250 which was recently rebuilt.
Correct factory OAI Air cleaner (Ram Air for the Pontiac folks) with 5 drain holes and the large snorkel hole.
4-Core Radiator (Harrison )
4-Core Radiator Support & Top Plate
Center hood bumper for the OAI hood latch (from the factory not add-on)
Engine bay is very nice overall but can use some minor detailing for the purists.
Rear Differential:
Limited slip 12 bolt posi rear axle. 3:91 gear ratio
Brakes Suspension:
FE2 Rallye suspension with Manual Drum Brakes.
New rear brake job and new cables installed last month.
Correct Oldsmobile Super Stock III wheels with period correct Polyglas Firestone Wide Oval size (G70-14)
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JVC Everio GZ-MG255
At a glance info
Size matters, and both big and small camcorders have their own places in the world. A huge expensive camcorder like the Panasonic AG-HVX200 will produce amazing footage, but it's just not the best choice for every occasion. If you're shooting home movies and family gatherings, you might not want to fiddle around with a giant, professional video camera and its stacks of MiniDV tapes. You probably want something compact and convenient, like the JVC Everio GZ-MG255 hard drive camcorder.
Like all JVC Everio camcorders, the MG255 cuts a very small profile. It measures less than three inches thick and wide, and weighs less than a pound with its battery. This relatively lightweight, readily palmable design makes the camcorder easy to carry around. It's too big to comfortably slip into most jacket pockets, but it should fit into almost any bag. This small size comes at a price, though; like every JVC Everio except the high-definition GZ-HD7, the MG255 lacks a viewfinder, forcing you to use the 2.7-inch LCD.
A tiny joystick mounted on the flip-out LCD screen lets you navigate the MG255's various menus. A function button sits conveniently just below the joystick, offering access to the most commonly used settings. For more complicated controls, you have to reach over to the camcorder's body to hit the Menu button. Four additional controls sit next to the Menu button, including playback, automatic/manual mode toggle, and Direct DVD and Direct Backup buttons. Direct DVD and Direct Backup let you burn your movies to a DVD recorder or back them up to a computer's hard drive. Like all Everio camcorders, the MG255 is compatible with JVC's Share Station external DVD burners.
With a 30GB hard drive, the MG255 can shoot up to 37.5 hours of MPEG-2 video. Of course, you'll only get those 37-plus hours if you shoot at the camcorder's lowest setting. If you shoot at the higher-quality Fine or Ultra-fine modes, you can expect to fit between 7-10 hours of footage on the camcorder. Given recent trends in hard-drive-based camcorders, we would've expected to see a more efficient, high-quality MPEG-4 video format, such as H.264. MPEG-4 video codecs tend to fit more video into a smaller amount of data, and likely would have extended the MG255's video life. However, MPEG-2 is simple enough to work with, and still offers plenty of recording time. Besides the hard drive, the MG255 can accept SDHC memory cards. However, you can only record still photos to the cards, and since you can do that with the hard drive as well, the SD card slot isn't very useful.


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European venture capital flows decline by 20% in Q2
Europe's venture capital investment fell by 20% in Q2, according to KPMG's latest Venture Pulse report.
The decline was mainly driven by a sharp fall in UK venture capital investment, down by more than 40% from the previous quarter, partly as a result of Brexit.
"The outcome of the UK's referendum to leave the European Union has introduced new uncertainties into the VC market ones that could linger in the quarters and years ahead. With no defined plan in place as of yet for an exit, however, most investors recognize that knee jerk reactions post Brexit are not the right solution," the report reads.
Despite the drop in funding, deal activity in Europe climbed by 5% to to 385 for the quarter. After dropping sharply in Q1 2016, seed-stage deal share jumped back to 49% of all European deals, widening the gap versus other regions.
VC-backed companies in Europe have seen so far his year $6.3bn invested across 750 deals, which compares with a peak in funding and deal activity in 2015, with $14bn invested across 1600 deals (see image below).
Global deal activity fell to 1,886 deals, the lowest volume of deals since Q2 2013 – and down 6% from the 2,008 deals seen in Q1 2016. Financing ticked up 3% to $27.4bn, mostly buoyed by $1bn-plus rounds to "decacorns" such as Uber, Snapchat and Didi Chuxing. Decacorns refer to private investor-backed companies with a private market valuation of greater than $10bn.
The decacorn megarounds also lifted funding figures in North America and Asia – up 10% to $17.1bn and 3% to $7.4bn quarter to quarter, respectively. However, both regions saw noticeable declines in deal activity, with North America down 8% from Q1 while Asia fell 12%.


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Since 1980 we've been one of the most known restaurants in Desenzano del Garda. The restaurant pizzeria 'Al ceppo' has been at your service for nearly forty years and recently it has been managed by a new staff, young and dynamic.You can taste the typical italian kitchen with delightful creativity and high quality ingredients which exalt the genuine and traditional tastes. Seafood and lake specialties, highly selected meat dishes are masterfully orchestrated to satisfy the most demanding palates they wait for you in a comfortable and elegant atmosphere with a fantastic lake view. The pizza department tries to follow as close as possible the seasonality of products, trying also to give life to innovative recipes of unique flavors.
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The next destination on our Balinese exploration was the famous rice terraces of Bali! "Subak" is the cooperative social system that controls the water that irrigates the agriculture of Bali, and it is interconnected with the Balinese water temples. Water from natural springs and river canals flow through the temples, and then is divvied out to the rice terraces. It is therefore easy to understand why temples and worship is so...Read More
The Rice Terraces of Bali
Visiting Bali's Water Temple
After leaving the Strawberry fields with a box of berries that we picked, our next stop was Pura Ulun Dana Bratan, otherwise known as one of Bali's water temples. This temple is used for offering ceremonies to the Balinese water, lake and river goddess, Dewi Danu. It was built in 1663, is located on Lake Bratan, and enjoys an elevation of 4000 feet. This lake is central to much of Balinese irrigation, which is why this temple is quite...Read More
Strawberry Picking in Bali
One of the perks of staying in our beautiful rental in Bali was that our landlord also happened to be a independent tour guide/driver! He has operated his own tour/taxi service for years, and since he is also a Bali native, we turned to him for advice about what was worth seeing in Bali during our 3 1/2 week stay. We went on several all-day trips with him, fully trusting him to show us Bali at its best! First of all, I must strongly...Read More
Balinese Temples, Worship, and Life
Bali captured our hearts the same day we arrived. The daily scenes seemed like a snapshot out of National Geographic. As we drove from the Denpasar airport to Ubud, and then in other areas throughout the island…I dreamt of capturing it all from a camera strapped to my forehead. The struggle between the urge to capture and preserve the images I saw via photos, and the desire to simply enjoy life in the moment, was constant. In Bali, I felt...Read More
Our Expat life in Bali
Okay, admittedly we were expats living in Bali for only 3 1/2 weeks…but it was a lovely 3 1/2 weeks! When people ask us where our favorite place has been in our travels thus far, Jared and I always answer, "Bali!" Since most things are best shared with photos…I will share our life through a photographic essay. For starters…motorbikes were our preferred mode of transportation. Jared took two of the kids on his bike, and I took...Read More
Ubud's Monkey Forest
One week during our stay in Ubud, my friend Sabina suggested that we ditch the hubbies and kids and go out on a photo shoot to practice our photography skills! We jumped on a motorbike together, and off we went! Me on my motorbike… We started driving, and ended up going to one place, and one place only: Ubud's Monkey Forest. In fact, we opted to not even go in the monkey sanctuary, but simply park our bikes and walk on the free...Read More


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I want a garden. Not just that, I want to be a gardener. I want to step barefoot into the backyard to harvest a salad. I want to heal using herbs that wind into the depths of our property. I want to fill dye-pots with hues plucked from a medieval-style plot. I want to send Eleanor out to pick favorite blooms to decorate our dinner table. I want a wide brimmed hat and dirt under my fingernails. Then, I remember that this is a rented home and close the door.
This has been a sabotaging obstacle for me: this pesky renting, this tiny apartment. I keep myself from doing projects because I'm waiting for a bigger bedroom, an attic sewing room, a pantry, and that garden I truly can call my own. For years, I've been shying away from tending a garden because of the ever-present hope that we might move.
A little while ago I went to a garage sale with my sister-in-law in a very poor rural area. The house wasn't much to look at, but the garden was sensational. It was brilliantly covered with beautiful flowers and herbs. She had small gardens with decorations and vignettes scattered throughout. She spoke with great fondness about her plants. It was clear that she was devoted to them and in turn, they gave her great joy. My sister said, "she's really bloomed where she's planted." I agreed but was internally thinking it a bit of a cliche- one of those phrases you see on stepping stones or fence plaques. But after we got into the car, I though more about it. She really did bloom, very literally, where she was. She created an oasis of beauty spread out before her double-wide. Maybe I could, too.
Indeed, it's expensive and a lot of work to start a proper garden when we might just leave it. But little things have been creeping into the yard- the determined mint, the strawberries that might actually produce if the woodchucks don't get to them first, and a scattering of cheery violets and other little flowers and greenery fill the gaps between the blades of grass. If these plants aren't speaking to me, my seven year-old certainly is! I need to succumb to the fact that I surely have years -plural!- to continue living here and make it bloom.
It might be nice for the next tenants to have a little beauty left behind.
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