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Genesis 11-45: Lives of the Patriarchs
Genesis 33:18 – 34:31
In these studies in the lives of the patriarchs we have looked at Jacob's twenty-year journey from Bethel ("the house of God") to Peniel ("the face of God"). Jacob's wrestling match with the angel of the Lord was the climax of this long trek. In his brokenness the patriarch was renamed "Israel" ("he who prevails with God"). Following that holy encounter, Jacob was reconciled at last with his brother Esau, and was able to return home in peace.
After this long-awaited triumph it seems a quiet transition of leadership to the fourth generation will follow, but suddenly everything falls apart. Jacob's daughter is raped, and two of his enraged sons retaliate by annihilating an entire city, desecrating the covenant symbol of circumcision by using it as a tool for murder. This story has no true heroes. So painful is it that one scholar commented: "This narrative will surely not be widely used in theological exposition."1
But despite its difficulty, I find it to be a vital reminder of how Christians can easily lose their sense of identity and mission and accommodate themselves to the world around. The cost for Jacob and his family will be immeasurable.
Introduction: Jacob stops short of his destination
Now Jacob came safely [lit. "peace"] to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan- aram, and camped before (facing) the city. He bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money. Then he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-israel. (33:18-20, NASB)
For the first time in the Jacob story, peace (shalom), not conflict, surrounds the patriarch. Following twenty years of strife with his parents, his wives, his father-in-law and his brother, he is finally at peace. How especially sweet it must have been to reconcile with his brother Esau at Peniel, following the greatest battle of his life. But peace can have its own set of temptations, and they cast their spell on the patriarch. Captivated by the "face" of the city (a subtle echo reminding us that he has left "Peniel" – "the face of God"), with its alluring idolatry, Jacob gives up his spiritual pilgrimage for a plot of land. There he digs a well (John 4:5- 6), and builds an altar to worship. Though he raises his colors in that place, his worship is in the wrong place, far short of his destination (Bethel), and it is done in the wrong order of things. Worship is no longer the driving force of his life, but, rather, an addendum of praise after he has achieved his real goal of financial security. We wonder how could the patriarch revert back to his old ways after wrestling with God at Peniel? Perhaps it is better to ask, how do we do the very same thing?
Notice that Jacob's backsliding is not a total flight from God, but a subtle feeding of appetites that have been scorched with longing. Who among us would not long for community, security and a permanent home after being a fugitive on the run for twenty years? And when longings run deep and we are suddenly "faced" with the attractive solutions of the world, it is easy to accommodate ourselves to its ways to achieve our ends. For decades we have seen the same story played out in this valley, as the lure of the exponential wealth of the high-tech industries fed many people's longstanding dreams of financial security and independence like never before. In the process, faith wasn't always abandoned; it was merely given a back seat. The result for many who accommodated themselves to the relentless demands of the idols in the workplace was that, like Jacob, the cost of the choices made would be paid in the form of lost sons and daughters.
Our text faithfully tells the story of unfaithfulness in the midst of painful family dynamics, and how God speaks to Jacob's silent shame.
Literary Outline (Bruce Waltke2)
A Shechem son of Hamor rapes Jacob's daughter Dinah (34:1-4)
B Reactions to the rape (34:5-24)
1. Reactions (or inaction) of Jacob and sons to defilement
2. Reactions of Hamor and Shechem: proposed intermarriage
3. Reactions of Jacob clan and Shechemites: a treacherous treaty
A' Jacob's sons' rape [city of] Shechem (34:25-29)
B' Reactions to the plunder (34:30-31)
1. Reaction of Jacob
2. Reaction of sons
I. The Rape of Dinah (34:1-4)
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit [lit. "to see"] the daughters of the land. When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force. He was deeply attracted [lit. "his soul cleaved"] to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this young girl for a wife." (34:1-4)
The narrator does not infer how long Jacob was in Succoth before coming to Shechem. Only later we learn that Joseph "who must have been just a little older than Dinah (cf. 30:21), is seventeen some time after Jacob leaves Shechem (37:2), making Dinah at best about sixteen at that time. In all likelihood, the rape of Dinah takes place about a decade after Jacob leaves Paddan Aram; his sons are about sixteen to twenty-two, old enough to fight, and Dinah about fifteen, a nubile girl."3
The narrator underscores the fact that Dinah is Leah's daughter. We are left to wonder how Jacob, who had little affection for Dinah's mother, will react to his only daughter. Captivated by the view of the alluring city, in her naive curiosity Dinah ventures out from her father's camp to take part in Canaanite social life. An unwise act, as Sarna suggests: "Girls of a marriageable age would not normally leave a rural encampment to go unchaperoned into an alien city."4 But we must remember that it was her father who, in his search of financial security, placed her dangerously close to Canaanite influences. Hardly had Dinah laid her eyes on the city than the town prince laid his eyes on her. This spoiled "son" is used to getting whatever he wanted. His lusts quickly give way to rape, without even a whisper of protest from his conscience.
Having conquered the young girl, Shechem finds he has deep feelings for her and begins to court her. Consummating his brutality with tenderness, yet offering no apology or taking responsibility for his actions, he is a typical abuser. In very disrespectful tones he demands that his father get this young girl for him, as if she were a commodity to be purchased. The narrator censures Shechem's actions by placing the customary verbs of courtship in reverse order. In the biblical view, courtship begins with tender speech (lit. "he spoke to the heart"), which in turn blossoms into a commitment of love (ahavah), and then, only after taking wedding vows, does a man have the right to cleave (dabaq, Gen 2:24) to his wife and enjoy the sexual relationship. But Canaanite culture, blinded by its sensual idolatry, betrays no sense of moral outrage when everything is done in reverse. Sadly, our modern world follows suit.
If we feel outrage at this unthinkable act, how will Dinah's father react when he gets the news that his "only" daughter has been raped?
II. Reactions to Dinah's rape (34:5-24)
A. Reactions of Jacob and his sons (34:5-7)
Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in. Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. (34:5-7)
No reaction by Jacob is recorded upon his hearing the news. There is no greater pain for a daughter in this situation than to be faced with the silence of her father. It's like a slap in the face. Even worse, we can't be certain whether Jacob even sent word of the rape to his sons. Did they find out after they arrived home?5 The narrator leaves us in ambiguity.
By contrast, Jacob's sons respond to their sister with proper familial concern. Upon hearing the news, they are stabbed by grief and riveted by anger at such a detestable act. Wenham explains that the term "grieve" "is used to express the most intense form of human emotion, a mixture of rage and bitter anguish"6 (see Gen 6:6). The narrator's use of the term "defiled" further raises the stakes that this is more than an individual crime with moral guilt, for the act has rendered Dinah "unclean." "Ricoeur has shown that an elemental notion of ritual uncleanness is more powerful, more compelling, and more dangerous than a judgment of moral guilt. That is, the woman is not simply taken. She is made ritually unacceptable…The shift of images from guilt to defilement makes the issue much more outrageous in the perception of Israel."7 The sons further condemn Jacob for his lack of rage over his honor being disgraced by the rape of his daughter. The shocking act is a reprehensible violation against Israel, the father of this family. Pain penetrates to the core of this home and echoes on all levels, human, familial, national, and religious.
With father and sons now occupying different emotional camps, Hamor begins marriage negotiations for his son.
B. Reactions of Hamor and Shechem (34:8-12)
But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage. Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves. Thus you shall live with us, and the land shall be open before you; live and trade in it and acquire property in it." (34:8-10)
Hamor makes his offer in the most positive terms, speaking solely of his son's affection while making no mention of the crime. Then in typical Canaanite fashion, he opens wide the world of social and economic intercourse, so that they might become "one people." "The last time such a proposal ('one people') was made was in the building of the city of Babylon (11:6)."8 Such a proposal flew in the face of the mandate for Israel to be a distinct people; but for the Canaanites, it signified the ideal. That the proposal still has a modern ring to it is evident in today's attempts to create worldwide unity without religious or moral distinctions.
To further sweeten the proposal, Hamor's son steps forward to add a little generosity of his own.
Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me. Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage." (34:11-12)
Shechem politely offers Jacob's family a blank check for the bridal price. He paints himself as a royal "giver"–a little ironic for one who has already "taken." He hopes the lure of financial gain will cause these foreigners to turn a blind eye to what they consider "inappropriate" behavior. He is oblivious to the rage seething within the sons. Will the offer of money quench their rage, or escalate it?
C. Reactions of Jacob clan and Shechemites (34:13-24)
But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us. Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you be circumcised, then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people. But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go." (34:13-17)
Silent once again, Jacob allows his sons to do the negotiating for him. He is probably relieved that they are taking the lead in this delicate matter. His own compromise prevents him from taking the initiative. But the narrator is quick to point out that what follows is anything but the truth, and springs from their rage over what had happened to their sister.9
The sons reject any offer of money and seemingly move the discussion to the higher ground of religious principle. They insist that to "give" their sister to someone who was not circumcised would be a "disgrace" to them. Therefore no amount of money would be sufficient. Only mass conversion, symbolized by the rite of circumcision, will do. Then and only then will they consent to intermarry with the Canaanites. As they conclude they insist that this offer is non-negotiable. If the Hivites do not consent, they will "take" their sister and go.
At this juncture in the negotiations the Hivites already have the upper hand, for Dinah is being held against her will, or at least "detained" in Shechem's house. As Sternberg comments: "So, for all their fine language, the Hivites leave their interlocutors no real choice: they again and again ask to be 'given' in due form, but, in marriage negotiations, as in rape, they start with a unilateral taking."10
Now their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son. The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father. (34:18-19)
Once Shechem hears the condition of circumcision he wastes no time conforming. His lovesick heart more than soothes his pain. But getting him to submit to the knife is one thing; getting the whole town to comply is quite another. How in the world is he going to sell "circumcision" to every male in the city? The narrator feeds our optimism by recording the weight that Shechem carried in those parts. It seems his example will go a long way to convince the populace. So father and son make their way to the city gate, the setting for all commercial and legal transactions, to plead their case.
So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, "These men are friendly with us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage, and give our daughters to them. Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised. Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will live with us." (34:20-23)
Like all good politicians, Hamor and Shechem know how to "spin" their case. They know what arguments to offer, what to leave out, and how to arrange their points so as to put their proposal in the best light. Notice that no mention is made of the personal motive driving these negotiations–Shechem's affections for the girl. They argue solely for the good of the community and the increased economic prospects the risk-free agreement entails. With the seeds of prosperity firmly implanted, the stipulation of circumcision seems minimal. To seal the proposal, they actually breach the contract by offering dominance, not "co-habitation," suggesting that all Israel's wealth and property will be theirs. What shrewd salesmen! They would do well in today's corporate world.
All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. (34:24)
That day marked a historic moment for father and son. They had worked their magical negotiating skills in perfect tandem to achieve this massive "merger" just to acquire the girl. Without a dissenting vote, the whole town returns home, carried away with dreams of economic prosperity. Though we are fully aware of the deceitfulness of these negotiations, we are unprepared for what happens next: Jacob's sons rape the city.
III. Jacob's sons rape the city of Shechem (34:25-29)
Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went forth. (34:25-26)
With every male in Shechem incapacitated, Dinah's two brothers, Simeon and Levi, attack the city. Seething with rage over what happened to their sister, they take up the sword and kill every male in the place. "Some poetic justice does attach to the discovery that Shechem's punishment started exactly where his sexual crime did, and that the self-inflicted soreness made the rest easy."11 The key verb of the text ("take") matches perfectly with Shechem's earlier action. Just as he "took" Dinah, the brothers now "take" the sword to "take" their sister back. By the end it is clear that this was a military assault to break through several lines of defense to their sister, who was being held hostage at Shechem's home. This certainly gives us empathy for Levi and Simeon, who will not allow her to be dishonored. But the punishment is way out of proportion to the crime. What follows goes beyond justice, to rape and orgy-like pillage.
Jacob's sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister. They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field; and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all that was in the houses. (34:27-29)
While Simeon and Levi are rescuing their sister, the rest of the brothers act like their Canaanite counterparts and rape the city. This is anything but holy war, where the spoils are respectfully dedicated to God; these spoils feed their own greed. In one fell swoop they come upon the slain like vultures and take everything in sight. In the ponderous description of the looting we feel a sense of horror that no boundary is sacred. There is a sharp distinction between Levi and Simeon and the rest of their brothers. The two take all the risk, while the rest merely capture the spoils of the slain, and they alone return home to face the music from an angry father.
IV. Reactions to the plunder (34:30-31)
A. Reaction of Jacob (34:30)
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household." (34:30)
Simeon and Levi get more than an earful from their father. Jacob, who showed no anger or grief when his daughter was raped, now finds it appropriate to vent all his wrath. But sadly, he finds the slaughter reprehensible only in its consequences. He says nothing about Dinah's honor, makes no mention of their bravery, and can't distinguish between the motives behind their rescue of her and the greed of their brothers. The self-consumed Jacob is blinded with self-pity. Eight times in one verse he uses the first person pronoun. In terms of the modern idiom, Jacob is saying, "It's all about me." Waltke sums it up well: "At the beginning of this cultically defiling rape episode, Jacob by his silence is much too passive. At the end, when he finally opens his mouth, he betrays fear, not faith. He struggles neither with God nor humans. The narrator appropriately uses his old label, Jacob, not his new name, Israel."12
Even though these two sons are later censured and disqualified from leadership in Israel for their violence (Gen 49:5-7), the narrator still gives them "the last word, not to mention the silence after."13
B. Reaction of the sons (34:31)
But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?" (34:31)
The fact that the narrator uses the indefinite pronoun "he" leaves us with two possible readings. If the "he" refers to Shechem, they are saying to their father, "Damn the consequences! You may disown Dinah as your daughter, but we will fight to death for her honor, for she is our sister." What painful words to a father who has shirked his responsibility! Or perhaps, as Sternberg suggests, the conversation took place under their breath as they left their father's presence, and the "he" refers not to Shechem but to Jacob. Disdainfully they censure their father for his willingness to receive gifts in exchange for Dinah's rape. "He who twiddles his thumbs about the rape and deems the gifts fair compensation is as guilty of making a whore of Dinah as the rapist and giver himself."14 If the first reading is painful, the second is even more condemning, as it places their father in the role of the Canaanite abuser. The sordid tale ends with these words left ringing in Jacob's ears.
This story is passionately and brutally honest about the human condition. Though void of any true heroes, it strikes ground zero on the stage of human tragedy, where God attempts to awaken us out of our own compromises.
Reflections from Shechem
1. We are never immune to compromise.
The disaster in Shechem reminds us of how quickly we can stray from our calling as Christians. We are never immune to compromise. Like Jacob, we can be especially vulnerable following times of intense spiritual victory, when we are reveling in "peace." Though I'm usually prepared for spiritual warfare before a ministry trip, I seldom pray about the temptations I might face when the "battles" are over, and am often surprised when they come. May God in his grace keep us ever mindful of our vulnerability.
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for Thy courts above.
2. The lure of compromise is subtle, yet powerful.
The appeal of the compromise made at Shechem is not to forsake God, but to displace him, to delay or postpone our pilgrimage to the heavenly Zion until we have achieved some deep longing through partnership with the world. So we continue to worship, but like Jacob, worship now takes a back seat to our real longings for worldly security. The point at issue is that, for the comfort of Shechem, Jacob forsook his holy vows to return to Bethel. We too must remember that our pilgrimage is not over until we die. There are no retirement comfort stations for the Christian to relax in before death. Instead we are called to be faithful pilgrims, giving witness to the cause of Christ and his gospel wherever he sends us, until we reach our heavenly home.
3. The cost of compromise is immeasurable.
All Jacob wanted was a home, but losing sight of his God in the process cost him dearly. He loses his daughter to rape, then he loses the respect of his sons who now despise him. (In the next scene, Reuben will show his contempt by sleeping with Bilhah, his father's concubine). Finally, Jacob loses his identity, becoming a curse to those around him instead of a blessing. As Moses would later write: "I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate me" (Exod 20:5). This is not teaching fatalism. Rather, it is a severe warning that idolatry is contagious and has a way of escalating through the generations. So parents must be careful to guard their own hearts against accommodation with the world, lest their children follow their example.
4. Though Jacob is silent, God is not silent.
The most painful aspect of this text is that just when a father is needed most, Jacob is silent. Compromise has robbed him of the ability to speak, the very thing that makes us human. It is a shameful silence in Shechem. But the good news is that even though Jacob is silent, God is not. Earlier we said that there are no true heroes in this text, for no one escapes the narrator's censure. But God's voice still resounds through marred mirrors to awaken Jacob out of his own compromise and model for him how he should act as a father. Jacob's Canaanite counterpart, Hamor, though morally depraved, functions as a better father to Shechem than Jacob does with his sons. He takes initiative with his son, works in concert with him, and serves him at great personal cost and physical discomfort. Again we see as in the case of all the patriarchs, when compromise sets in, God is able to use non-believers to rebuke his people both by word and deed.
And Dinah's brothers, torn by grief and rage, model for Jacob how a daughter's pain deserves to be mourned. Because God loves Jacob he will teach him to mourn as a father should. It won't be long before this silent father will wail in pain over the loss of everything he loves: Rachel his wife, Joseph his son, and finally, Benjamin. In that inconsolable grief he will come to see how God mourned when Dinah was raped.
5. Shechem revisited and sanctified.
Finally, we discover that God never forgot what happened at Shechem. When we are riveted in pain, the greatest gift we can receive is when someone comes into the dark world and weeps with us. After September 11 last year, our President went to Ground Zero and stood on top of the rubble of the two collapsed towers and wept with the firemen. The highest official in the land came to console a nation in its grief. This is what God did. Two thousand years after Dinah's rape, God came in person through his Son and paid a visit to Shechem (John 4).
This is a place whose memory most young girls in Israel would just as soon forget. And when Jesus arrives, its spiritual condition was much the same as when Jacob left it: dominated by compromise, intermarriage, and distorted worship. There, in the same spot where Jacob sold out and dug his well, Jesus encounters a woman. She is a grown-up Dinah: outcast, lonely, and, we can surmise, tormented by the sexual abuse of more than one man. She lives in her world, isolated in silence. But here is the new Jacob who is not silent to one living in shame. She is given a voice. Amazingly, after just a short interchange, their conversation turns from the water in Jacob's well to living water, and from the failed men she had lived with to the hope of the Messiah. With one glimpse of the Messiah she runs to the town with the wonderful news, "Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Messiah, is it?" (John 4:29). Thus is the memory of the desecration at Shechem transformed and made holy.
Perhaps this culmination of this story leaves us with a paradigm for healing. Is God saying that we can go back to even our darkest memories, and in the pit of pain he will visit us? When we hear his voice in that terrible place, dark wells of pain will turn into springs of living water, and those once weighed down by sorrow's shame will fly free like the birds of the heavens.
1. Walter Brueggemann, Genesis (Atlanta: John Knox, 1982), 279.
2. Bruce Waltke, Genesis (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001), 458.
3. Waltke, Genesis, 459.
4. Nahum Sarna, Genesis (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989), 233.
5. Meir Sternberg, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 452, makes this point giving two possible readings of the text: (a) "Jacob's sons came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved and very angry"; or (b) "Jacob's son's came in from the field. When they heard it, the men were grieved and very angry."
6. Gordon Wenham, Genesis 1-15 (Waco, Tex.: Word, 1987), 144.
7. Brueggemann, Genesis, 275-6.
8. John H. Sailhamer, The Pentateuch as Narrative (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), 200.
9. Sternberg, Poetics, 463, points out that "the choice to mention the deceit in advance is much the lesser of two evils. Though it introduces a note of censure, the timely warning manages to keep the brothers far more sympathetic than would any delayed disclosure."
10. Sternberg, Poetics, 456-7.
12. Waltke, Genesis, 459.
13. This is John Felstiner's description of "Shulamith" in Paul Celan's poem, "Deathfugue." Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (New Haven: Yale University Press), 41.
14. Sternberg, Poetics, 475.
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Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-PINGOTHER, Content-Type

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Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400

Finally, Access-Control-Max-Age gives the value in seconds for how long the response to the preflight request can be cached for without sending another preflight request. In this case, 86400 seconds is 24 hours. Note that each browser has a maximum internal value that takes precedence when the Access-Control-Max-Age is greater.

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Location: Elk Grove Blvd. / E. Park Dr.
S-1 and S-2 (Sacramento residents) were passengers in a vehicle that was stopped for a vehicle code violation. A records check revealed that that both suspects had active warrants out for their arrest. S-1 was also found to be in possession of a controlled substance. Both suspects were arrested then transported to the main jail.
S-1 (W. Sacramento resident) was operating a motor vehicle that was stopped for a vehicle code violation. A records check revealed that S-1 had an active warrant out for his arrest. S-1 was arrested then transported to the main jail.
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Location: Duryea Dr. / Vintage Park Dr.
S-1 (Sacramento resident) was contacted while walking in the parking lot of a closed business. Upon contact, a records check revealed that S-1 had two active warrants out for her arrest. A search of S-1 led to the discovery of a controlled substance and narcotic paraphernalia. S-1 was arrested then transported to the main jail.
Location: Elk Grove Blvd. / Shorelake Dr.
The victim was seated inside a vehicle when two unknown suspects approached. One of the suspects grabbed personal property that was on the victim's lap, while the second suspect pulled the victim out of the vehicle. The suspects fled in an unknown direction. No additional information at this time.
S-1 (Elk Grove resident) and V-2 were involved in a verbal argument that escalated into a physical altercation. During the altercation, V-1 attempted to break up the altercation and was struck by S-1. S-1 was arrested then transported to the main jail. V-1 was granted an emergency protective order against S-1.
Location: 5300 block of Privet Ln.
S-1 (Sacramento resident) arrived at the above location and discharged a firearm into the upstairs window of a relative's home. S-1 fled the scene in a vehicle before officers arrived. When officers arrived, they were provided with an information regarding S-1. Physically evidence was located at the scene related to the shooting. S-1 also sent a threatening text message to one of the occupants inside the residence. Officers responded to S-1's residence in Sacramento and located S-1 inside his vehicle. S-1 was arrested after a brief struggle. A shotgun and ammunition were located inside the suspect's vehicle. S-1 was arrested then transported to the main jail.
S-1 (Elk Grove resident) and V-1 were involved in a verbal argument that escalated into a physical altercation. During the altercation, S-1 pushed and slapped V-1. V-1 suffered a visible injury and there were two small children present during the altercation. S-1 was arrested then transported to the main jail.
Location: 9000 block of Chianti Way.
Location: 9900 Elk Grove Florin Rd.
S-1 (Elk Grove resident) was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for a vehicle code violation. S-1 was found to be in possession of a narcotic. S-1 was arrested then transported to the main jail.


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Q: "was insisting that he come visit" or "was insisting that he should come visit" Am I constructing the subjunctive correctly in this sentence:

Mary explained that Sarah was insisting that her son Rino come visit his father at New York.

Or should I write this instead:

Mary explained that Sarah was insisting that her son Rino should come visit his father at New York.

A: The first sentence is indeed in the subjunctive mood. I'm not sure if the second one would still be considered subjunctive, but nevertheless, it is perfectly acceptable.
Well, except for one thing. We wouldn't say "at New York", we would say "in New York".

A: I would say, "Mary explained that Sarah was insisting that her son, Rino, come visit his father [in] New York."  However, I would write, "Mary explained that Sarah was insisting that her son, Rino, come to visit his father in New York."  I might also drop the "come to" and just say or write, "that her son, Rino, visit his father in New York" because this is more formal than "come visit".  "Come visit" is an informal way of saying it in English, usually American English; it should be "come to visit" because it needs the infinitive form after "come" rather than the bare infinitive.  This isn't always the case as some verbs take bare infinitives directly after them.  In this situation, however, it's more informal than anything else.  People like faster ways to say things in any language and no one wants to say adscititious words like "to" there when they lack substance and are merely relational in context. Here, the word "to" would be a function word rather than a content word.  Function words have little semantic content of their own and simply indicate a grammatical relationship.
Also, it probably should be "go" instead of "come" unless Mary lived in New York and were asking her daughter to come to New York to visit her father.  Otherwise, it would be "go visit" or "go to visit".


A gorgeous Irish pendant featuring Ireland's favorite emblem, the Shamrock. Crafted in stunning detail, this beautiful necklace features a Connemara Marble bead at the center. A quintessentially Irish gift. Hallmarked at Dublin Castle.


It's hard to find something Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine don't know about each other.
"The show is our stories and our secrets," Erskine said.
"It's a lot of secrets," Konkle added.
Set in a middle school in 2000, the Hulu comedy has the pair playing lightly fictionalized versions of themselves in seventh grade, surrounded by actual 13-year-old actors. Watching the show feels remarkably intimate, like reading a teenager's very funny diary. In 10 half-hour episodes, we see Anna and Maya discover masturbation, thongs and second base. Maya gets her period for the first time, and Anna survives a terrible first kiss. The show has bullying and divorce and racism.
Being 13 is so often a total nightmare, defined by feelings of guilt and shame. I remember being confused about pretty much everything at that age: what to wear, what to say — even what to want. All that drama and all those authentically high stakes were exactly what Erskine and Konkle were looking for as storytellers.
This was especially true of the episode "Posh," which is based on Erskine's experience of dressing up as the Spice Girls with her white friends. Erskine, whose father is white and mother is Japanese, was told she had to play the pop group's sole black member, Mel B, also known as Scary Spice, because of her race. At the time, none of Erskine's friends stood up for her. But in the show, with the benefit of a script written by adults, Anna desperately tries to make amends.
Anna's attempts to solve racism only end up hurting Maya more, and the episode becomes a sendup of a "white person being like, 'I'm going to fix this for you,' and that really not being the answer," Konkle said.
Even as Konkle's character does a better job of reacting to racism than she herself did at 13, she worried about her performance hitting the right note and not making Anna seem like the victim. It was a difficult episode to film; at one point, Erskine broke down on the set, and then Konkle immediately broke down, too.
There are other middle school memories that "Pen15" does not try to correct. Konkle's abiding memory of her first kiss is of using her whole hand to wipe her mouth afterward. In the show, Anna has her first kiss with Brendan, a boy she meets in band. "He put his tongue in my mouth, and he did like a torpedo cat tongue and, like, drilled my mouth," Anna tells Maya afterward.
When Maya gets her period, she keeps it a secret, which Erskine also did for an entire year. Maya's mother is played by Erskine's real mother, Mutsuko Erskine, whose acting debut here has been so well received she's now getting calls for auditions. The set for Anna's house looked so much like Konkle's home before her parents got divorced that walking into it for the first time really threw her.
Like many aspects of the show, Anna and Maya's relationship plays out on several levels: In the first episode, Anna describes Maya as "the rainbow gel pen in a sea of blue and black writing utensils," but their shared plea of "don't leave me" in the finale had tears streaming down my face.
That final episode was one of the moments when I forgot that the actors weren't middle schoolers themselves. "That was always the dream that people would forget for a minute that we were adults," Konkle said.
My suspension of disbelief was, in large part, because of how well the pair depict the physicality of being 13. "I was always a thin girl growing up, and I was very self-conscious about my stomach," Konkle said. That was especially true after Britney Spears's "Baby One More Time" video came out. This led to her character's habit of standing with her hand held against her opposite hip.
For Erskine, acting starts with her character's physicality, and that informs what's happening on the inside. She remembered hunching to try to hide the fact she was developing breasts, and so did Maya. Just as they drew on memories from middle school, their bodies have remembered what being 13 was like, too.
Hulu hasn't renewed the show for a second season yet, but if it does, Erskine and Konkle plan to keep their characters suspended in seventh grade, "like 'The Simpsons,'" Konkle said. They have plenty more traumatic middle school experiences to mine, from Erskine's getting reprimanded for showing some boys a girl's bedroom at a party, to Konkle's waking her mom up in the middle of the night to tell her she had gotten in some very minor trouble.


A friend of mine broke their heart open in front of me yesterday.
Oh how it aches to see such pure, unfiltered, beauty.
How can this be beautiful?
How can so much raw sadness and hurting be so beautiful?
It is beautiful because my friend shared with me the truth of what love means to them right now.
Being trusted with that is a privilege.
The beauty is in the power and potential that owning this truth brings with it. I saw them rally the troops right before my eyes.
They are ready now. They slew the next dragon on their quest. They have stood with their raw heart beating in their hand and they have held its beauty. Now they know what to do with it.
That is a stunning act to witness.
After our conversation I thought of my friend many times and felt quite emotional.
Because I know that someone who has the courage to let a friend hold their breaking heart with them can do anything.
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Medal of Honor Recipient "Woody" Williams Keynotes ALMBS Veterans Appreciation Assembly
Woody Williams
Hershel "Woody" Williams was born on a dairy farm in 1923 in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Battle of Iwo Jima with the 21st Marines, 3d Marine Division. During the battle, Mr. Williams displayed "valiant devotion to duty" and service above self as he "enabled his company to reach its objective". Mr. Williams' actions, commitment to his fellow service members, and heroism were recognized on October 5, 1945, when he received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Truman at the White House. Mr. Williams is the sole surviving Marine from WWII, to wear the Medal of Honor.
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Sons of The American Legion Detachment of West Virginia Commander Rocky Fox Speaks to ALMBS
Rocky Allen Fox was born in Berkeley Springs to Asher E.and Violet V. Smith-Fox on July 22,1958. Rocky attended Berkeley Grade School and graduated from Berkeley Springs High School in 1978. While in high school Rocky excelled in the sport of wrestling ,earning the title of By-State Champion three consecutive years. During high school Rocky attend James Rumsey Vo-Tec earning a journeyman title in masonry. Rocky is an avid whitetail deer hunter and has been with several nephews and a grandson as they bagged their first big one.
After working as a mason and construction for many years he now has worked for Morgan County School Board for the last thirteen years. He loves to interact with the students at Pleasant View Elementary as well as the teachers and parents.
Rocky has held nearly every office in his squadron and is presently serving as Finance Officer.


Students using the computers in Drinko Library. Students have been recieving a flood of "phishy" emails.
Students and faculty all across campus may be noticing a spike in the rate of "odd" emails they are receiving recently.
The files can come in several forms. Some students have reported getting emails that looked like they contained emails from chain retail stores and some talked about getting emails that were talking about bank information.
The Information Technology Department said this problem can't necessarily be fixed, but it will run its course.
The department said if someone receives an email that looks "phishy," it suggests to not open it. If the email does get opened, the department said not give out any personal information. According to IT, the university would never ask for information because it already has it all. If personal information gets out, it will potentially spread the email virus even further.
When looking at a legitimate campus-sent email, IT said to look for the signatures of the sender. There will be a first and last name signature at the end of the email, a phone number for contact purposes and an official title of the sender.
IT said if someone has any concerns, they can go to the information service desk in Drinko Library to get everything straightened out.


A Christians Top priority should be how do they relate to their Maker and Savior.
The ancient Greeks Built great structures in their efforts to serve their gods. So also do many Christians.
And just like the Greeks we go to these churches showing awe on our faces. Surly we express we are swerving the Living God by coming together in this building. But our God has unfortunate news for all of us. We may build thousands of extravagant buildings but our God does not dwell in buildings.
How can we mere human beings lock the God of the universe into four walls? However the great I Am is pointing us to something where as if we pay attention to it will aid us in giving our hearts over to Him.
Grace is the genesis of our walk with God. But Jesus' life, death, and resurrection is not the end all of our salvation.
Jesus Himself the one who wrote these commandments on stone says to us His people anything you put before Me is an idol and if you are to be My people do not do it. If you place Me first in your life in this time of earths history you must be willing to lose all you have in this world for Me your Creator.
If we are not willing to give are all in all for Jesus then we are breaking this the first commandment and unless we repent and turn from doing this our rebellion will bring us to the fire.


Gilchrist is a self proclaimed legend!
London, November 13 : Former Australian captain and wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist has claimed himself to be a legend in his newly released autobiography: " Adam Gilchrist: The Man. The Cricketer. The Legend."
The Australian, who is known for his famous knock of double century against South Africa, had accumulated runs at an average of more than 47, combining 416 dismissals with the gloves during his test match career. His strike rate is among the highest in the history of both One-day and Test match cricket.
Perth, Dec 13 : The International Cricket Council (ICC) Friday inducted Adam Gilchrist into the Cricket Hall of Fame at a simple ceremony during the tea interval of the third Ashes Test match between Australia and England at the Western Australia Cricket Association (WACA) ground here.
Gilchrist received his commemorative cap from Cricket Australia (CA) chairman and ICC director Wally Edwards in front of a large and appreciative crowd. England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman and ICC director Giles Clarke, WACA chairman and vice-president Sam Gannon, and WACA president and ICC Cricket Hall of Famer Dennis Lillee were also present.
New Delhi, Nov 12 : Australian great Adam Gilchrist feels Sachin Tendulkar has not overstayed in international cricket and is happy to see the master blaster calling time on his phenomenal career at home.
Tendulkar retires after playing his 200th Test against the West Indies starting Thursday.
"What Sachin has been contributing to that Indian team is special. It is not just about the runs," said Gilchrist at a promotional event at the Australian High Commission here Tuesday.
New Delhi, April 2 : Adam Gilchrist and Darren Lehmann as captain and coach, respectively, of Kings XI Punjab is a big boost for the team's chances in the sixth edition of Indian Premier League. The duo helped the Deccan Chargers win the IPL title in 2009 and Punjab fans will hope they can repeat the feat.
The key foreign players in the franchise are Azhar Mahmood, Dimitri Mascarenhas, David Hussey and Luke Pomersbach, who comes back to Punjab from Royal Challengers Bangalore.
According to the media reports, former wicket-keeping great Adam Gilchrist has backed Australian bowlers to do well against England after they failed to impress against Ireland and Middlesex batsmen.
Australia begins its five-match series of one-day games against England on Tuesday.
London, Nov 19 : English county club Middlesex have signed up Adam Gilchrist for next season's Twenty20 Cup and are now looking to get Sachin Tendulkar on board as well.
Tendulkar is mulling over the offer to form a dynamic partnership with Gilchrist at the top of the order. But Tendulkar needs an approval from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) but the Middlesex chief executive, Vinny Codrington is hopeful of signing up the player soon.
New Delhi, Oct 28 : Former Australian wicket-keeper-batsmen Adam Gilchrist feels so much cricket is being played these days that it has led to a "spectator fatigue."
Gilchrist, who was here Wednesday as an ambassador for University of Wollongong, said that administrators need to look into the problem of hectic scheduling. The prolific batsman also backed Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's disapproval of the timing of the ongoing seven-match series against India.
Chennai, Oct 25 : Former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist has said that the seven-match one-day series between India and Australia would be "hard fought".
The first game of the series is being played in Vadodra today.
The Indian Premier League's (IPL-2) champions, Deccan Chargers has crashed out of the T20 Champions League after losing to Trinidad and Tobago in the last match of the league phase at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Deccan Chargers skipper Adam Gilchrist won the toss and elected to field first. Trinidad scored 149 runs for loss of 7 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. W Perkins was top scorer with 38 runs in 32 balls. F Edwards took three wickets for the Deccan.
Former Australian wicket-keeper has warned over the issue of day-night test matches as the International Cricket Council (ICC) has cleared the way for first ever day-night test match which will be played next year.
In the ICC board meeting at Lord's, it was confirmed that a day-night Test match could be tried out next year if all the factors associated with it were feasible.
Adam Gilchrist topped the list in terms of value of a player in IPL-2. As Adam led his team towards a glorious victory, he has surprised cricket fans and analysts.
Adam scored total 753 runs including batting, bowling and fielding performance conveyed in terms of runs and without including his excellent captaincy skills.
Gilchrist scored 583 runs of the bat with bonus of 88 runs bonus for high strike rate and 170 runs for wicket-keeping.
A single skill is not enough to be on top, all-round skills are required.
Johannesburg (S. Africa), May 25 : Deccan Chargers skipper and former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist on Sunday hailed all-rounder Andrew Symonds as a "great team man" after the team was declared the 2009 Indian Premier League champions.
The Deccan Chargers beat the Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in an exciting final.
Melbourne, Apr 12 : Adam Gilchrist has backed Indian Premier League teammate Andrew Symonds to continue his rebirth and force his way into Australia''s squad for the Ashes.
Symonds has been picked in Australia''s one-day squad for the upcoming series against Pakistan and the preliminary squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in signs the selectors are willing to forgive his tumultuous summer.
Gilchrist believes the troubled match winner''s Test career is not over either. Symonds has not represented his country since the Boxing Day Test against South Africa.
London, Apr. 1 : Former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist will give the 2009 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord''s on June 24.
The 37-year-old, still playing Twenty20 cricket for Indian Premier League side Deccan Chargers, will be the youngest person to give the lecture, established in 2001 in memory of former England captain Colin Cowdrey.
Gilchrist was on the winning side in 73 of his 96 Tests, the last of which he played in 2008, and was a key member of the all-conquering Australia team which has dominated world cricket since the late 1990s.
Perth, Jan. 20 : Former Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist has urged New South Wales batsman David Warner to learn to relax first, and said that once he does that, the runs will flow again.
Gilchrist, who played 287 one-day internationals during his nearly decade-long career, was quoted by Fox Sports as saying: "Don''t put too much pressure on yourself, I always felt that pressure came from within, it is not a matter of the headlines or the air time that you received."
London, Nov 5 : Adam Gilchrist has warned England's that after their flop show at 20million dollar Stanford series they will face more misery in the Ashes next summer.
The retirement of the legendary wicketkeeper, along with Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, sparked talk of an Australian decline.
After Adam Gilchrist's remarks over Sachin Tendulkar's honesty on the famous ''Monkeygate'' issue provoked angry reactions from Indian cricketing fraternity, the Indian batting maestro said the Australian called him up to clarify the whole issue and added that the matter was blown out of proportion.
"He said his comments have been taken out of context," added Tendulkar. However, the master-blaster batsman refused to comment any further on the issue.
Sydney, Nov. 14: Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist has been named Australia's greatest one-day international cricketer of all-time.
Gilchrist, on his 36th birthday, was handed the honour by his peers, with all 163 players to have represented Australia in ODIs invited to vote on the best, reports Fox Sports.
In total, 110 players voted and Gilchrist won comfortably with 38 per cent of the poll from his captain Ricky Ponting (19 per cent) and former skipper Steve Waugh(14 per cent).
Three-time World Cup winner Gilchrist received the honour at an Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) function at Bellerive Oval in Hobart on Wednesday, where the second Test against Sri Lanka starts on Friday.
Sydney, Nov 6 : Australian vice-captain Sydney, Nov 6 : Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist has hinted that he might bid adieu to international cricket at the end of this season.
Revealing that he had pondered retirement during the last season's Ashes series, the swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batsman said that he was uncertain whether he would continue playing in the next season.


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Senate passes Employment Non-Discrimination Act, bill heads to the House
A monumental bill that passed the Senate last November is set to reconvene in the U.S. House of Representatives this upcoming year.
The bill is called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013. A similar bill was attempted almost 20 years ago but failed by one vote.
Details of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
Specifically, the bill prohibits employers from engaging in workplace discrimination on the basis on a person's "actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity." An employer is defined under the law as one who has 15 or more employees or is classified as an employment agency or labor organization.
The law will make it unlawful for an employer to fire, hire, classify, or segregate employees based on their sexual orientation or gender preference.
The law will also prohibit employer discrimination against such employees regarding pay or other "privileges of employment," like bonus or benefits.
Employers are also prohibited from retaliating against or taking discriminatory action against employees who oppose the unlawful conduct. The law also bars employers from taking negative action against employees who make a claim, testify or assist in an employment law violation investigation.
Although the new law applies to almost all types of employees, religious institutions and the military will be exempt from the conditions.
Chances of success
According to supporters, this new federal law will be the "final step" in stopping discriminatory action against all individuals in the workplace.
It remains to be seen whether there will be enough votes in the House of Representatives to pass the bill and make it a real law. There hasn't been a bill similar to the ENDA introduced in Congress in over 20 years.
Many employee advocates are confident that some version of the ENDA will eventually pass both chambers and be signed into law because, they argue, cultural views are simply different today than they were two decades ago.
For instance, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA as well as states' advancements on pro-gay marriages have changed America forever. Further, many businesses, including several Fortune 500 companies, have voluntarily implemented employment policies that prohibit discrimination against gay, bisexual or transgendered individuals in the workplace.
"One party in one house of Congress should not stand in the way of millions of Americans who want to go to work each day and simply be judged by the job they do," President Obama indicated in a recent statement.
The House is set to reconvene this month.


The irises that line the sides and compete with the bullrushes at the shallow end of our big irrigation pond are leaning sideways into the steadily dropping water level. It has been so dry this season that we have drawn down the pond to keep the vegetable garden damp during this fragile stage of the small plants` development. In all their fresh flowering glory, down they lie amidst the reflections of sky and overhanging trees. Sad too, with all the associations there are with feelings of transience.
What is positive though, is that I can make the leap from this piece of nature outside of myself and feel it in my own emotions and thoughts. Connections are important, and those irises have shared their message with me more poignantly than if they had stayed upright and faded in the usual course of time.
It is a little backwards I know, to think this way, because we are taught that such an association of feeling to nature is a transfer of our own human moods to things outside ourselves: - I see the fallen flowers and project my own sad thoughts onto them. This is such an ingrained way of understanding the world that it takes a major shake of the head to imagine the opposite; that the irises and I are sharing a passing mood of nature. We express the whole thing and the whole thing expresses us. The reflections, the water, the fallen flowers and I are twining our lives together.
We 'walk in beauty' as the Navajo poem says, but more accurately perhaps we walk inside of beauty: we are all singing the same song and the song is singing us.
' The entire earth is the true human body.' Dogen. - a 13th century Buddhist.


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By Press Trust of India | Dehradun | Last Updated at April 17 2018 22:40 IST
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat today urged investors in Thailand to invest in the state, as it has emerged as one of the most preferred investment destinations in the country.
The chief minister also emphasised the government's investor-friendly policies,availability of basic facilitiesand good climate to attract investment.
Addressing a seminar on food processing in Bangkok, Rawat said a single window system has been put in place for speedy clearance of investment proposals in the state, where the rate ofelectricity for industries is lowest compared to other states, an official release here said.
He also underscored the state's investment potential in food processing and the concessions being offered to entrepreneurs to invest in the sector.
The chief minister also highlighted steps being taken by his government to promote organised farming of aromatic and medicinal plants, which abound in the Himalayan state whose great climate and scenic beauty attracts visitors from all over the world.
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Malou Aamund (born 28 July 1969, in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish businesswoman. She serves as the CEO of Google Denmark and board member of DSV A/S, KIRKBI A/S and WS Audiology. She has previously held executive positions at IBM and Microsoft. She is a former member of the Folketing for the party Venstre. In the parliamentary elections in November 2007, she was elected as a member of the party New Alliance but changed party on 5 February 2008. She acted as the Spokesperson for innovation, research and higher education for the liberal party Venstre.

She is the daughter of business leader Asger Aamund and artist Susanne Aamund, and is married to Mikael Bertelsen, who is a TV and Radio personality, with whom she has three children. She has previously been in a relationship with Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

On 4 January 2011, Aamund announced that she was leaving politics and returning to her business career to become a Sales Director for Microsoft Denmark.

In September 2016 it was announced, that Aamund would take on the role as managing director for Google Denmark.

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Medicare is federal health insurance offered primarily to people age 65 and older, and to people under age 65 with certain disabilities. Medicare started with just two parts—Part A (hospital coverage) and Part B (medical coverage). Later, as the needs of Medicare plan members changed, the federal government added Part C and Part D.
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When you receive care, you pay a Part A deductible and coinsurance. These are out-of-pocket expenses. You're responsible for paying these expenses unless you have a separate health insurance plan to cover them.
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Firefighters in Canada are fighting to contain several forest fires that have destroyed large swathes of land in the eastern province of Quebec.
The fires, thought to have been caused by lightning strikes, have sent clouds of smoke over the country's border with the United States as far as Boston and Washington DC.
Up to 500 firefighters have been dropping water from planes over a group of 45 fires in the Lake St Jean region around 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Quebec City.
However they are being hampered by a lack of rain - none has been forecast until Thursday - and a tendency for the water to evaporate before it hits the fires.
"These are really big fires, we are using firebreaks, sprinklers, hoses and motorized pumps," spokesman for the Quebec Forest Service Eric Santerre told the Associated Press news agency.
"We need rain to bring down the amount of smoke before we can go in."
A further 75 firefighters have dug firebreaks and poured water on a second group of about 40 fires in the Nemiscau region south of James Bay, where around 630 people were evacuated from villages because of safety fears.
Smoke has blanketed the city of Montreal, leading city officials to warn children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems to remain indoors due to health fears.
The US states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania also advised residents with respiratory and heart conditions to stay indoors, with New York and New Jersey's warnings extending state-wide, Pennsylvania's extending to 20 counties.
Since the fires began last week up to 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of land have been destroyed, officials from Quebec's forest fire protection service said.


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Stora Torget är ett det centrala marknadstorget i Gamla staden i Hjo.

Hjo fick sina stadsprivilegier under 1400-talet och grundstrukturen för tomter och gator i Gamla stan finns kvar från medeltiden. Söder om Hjoån möttes den nord-sydliga landsvägen utmed Vättern och infartsvägen västerifrån, och ett marknadstorg växte upp vid vägskälet. Den ursprungliga kyrkan i Hjo vid torget kan ha uppförts någon gång vid slutet av 1200-talet eller i början av 1300-talet. Vägarna finns kvar i dagens gatunät: Hamngatan mot norr och Askersund, Torggatan mot väster och Västergötlands slättbygder samt Långgatan mot söder och Jönköping.

Stora Torget är ett av de äldre svenska småstadstorg som mest behållit sin gamla prägel. Den äldsta kända kartan över Hjo från 1696 visar marknadstorget, kyrkan och rådstugan i centrum och de tre landsvägarna som strålar ut från stadskärnan. Den medeltida staden bebyggdes med träbyggnader på ofta långsmala tomter i kvarter runt torget. Medeltida byggnader, ofta i liggtimmer, uppfördes vid denna tid med uthus och bodar som vette ut mot gatorna och bostadshusen inne på gårdarna.

Kring torget byggdes de förnämsta hantverksgårdarna och även några större köpmannagårdar. Dessa har över tiden dominerat torgmiljön. Under sent 1800-tal inrymdes detaljhandel i husens bottenvåningar mot torget i flertalet bostadshus. Rådhuset har också ledat vid torget. Ett fåtal nya byggnader har tillkommit under 1900-talet, bland annat Stadshuset 1936–1938, men den nya byggnaderna har med något undantag anslutit till torgets småstadskaraktär.

Den senaste omgestaltningen av Stora Torget gjordes 2011/2012, då det gjordes om till ett gångfartsområde, och belades med gatsten i sin helhet utan kantsten för särskilda trottoarer. Antalet uppställningsplatser för bilar minskades.

På torget står en fontänskulptur i brons av David Wretling, Kvinnan vid brunnen från 1963, som var det första offentliga konstverket i staden. År 2012 placerades där också en kompassros i granit, skapad av Per-Göran Ylander.

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Erik Holmström och Ulf Larsson: Kulturmiljöer i Hjo stad, utgiven av Västarvet Kulturmiljö, Västarkivet, Västra Götalandsregionen 2017, på Hjo stads webbplats den 26 maj 2017, sidorna 63–76

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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Saturday that the government had specific information about Mumbai blasts accused Dawood Ibrahim's presence in Pakistan.
He said India had made its stand on terrorism plain and clear and it was now Pakistan's turn to react.
Speaking at a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party workers here, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said Dawood was in Pakistan for sure and even the Pakistan government was aware that the coordinates of the dreaded terrorist were available with India.
Stating that Dawood was on top of the most wanted list in India, he said Pakistan needed to understand that it has to act and not just dish out assurances which were not working on the ground.


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What Is The Purpose Of The Research Report?
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Reports could aim at different purposes and hence the form of the written report would vary according to the situation. If it is important to identify the purpose of the report so that it can be tailored accordingly. If the purpose is simply to offer details on some specific areas of the interest requested by a manager, the report can be very narrowly focused and provide the desired information to the manger in a brief format. On the other hand the report is intended to sell an idea to management then it has to be more detailed and convincing as to how the proposed idea is an improvement and should be adopted. Here the emphasis would be directed on presenting all the relevant information backed by the necessary data to persuade the reader to buy into the idea.
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Scientists specialising in nanotechnology at Harvard University are pioneering the use of thin strands of miniscule mesh as a new alternative treatment for brain conditions such as Parkinson's disease.
Made of gold wires sandwiched between layers of a polymer, the mesh threads are small enough to fit in a syringe needle for injecting into the brain. Similar to deep brain stimulation (DBS) – a common electrical treatment for people with Parkinson's – the mesh is designed to deliver electric jolts to stimulate specific neurons and alleviate symptoms like tremors.
While DBS is more invasive, with its use of bulky electrodes that can disrupt the brain's neurons and cause scarring, the new tiny ribbons of mesh are far more discreet and spread out into a fishnet-like structure forming 'holes' which are large enough for neurons to pass through freely. This permeability to neurons mimics the flexibility of brain tissue and reduces scarring.
As Professor Charles Lieber, one of the leading researchers within this field, explains: "After injecting the device into the brain, the tissue re-arranges to completely fill gaps and integrate among the mesh electronics with no evidence for chronic immune response or the type of tissue scarring that occurs with all implanted DBS devices and other probes today.
The procedure of delivery by syringe injection seems to be a less invasive method, avoiding the more extensive DBS implantation surgery. But is there more to the mesh than meets the eye?
"The mesh is a million times more flexible than the implants used in DBS and behaves very much like a polymer – if you put it in a cup of water, it is freely suspended and fluctuating versus a pencil-like DBS probe," says Lieber.
Part of that lower risk approach is Lieber's belief that the mesh technology will "usher in an age of precision" for DBS treatments, and make it possible to accurately 'treat' specific regions of the brain – without disturbing other non-affected parts.
Even though Lieber and his team believe mesh electronics to be a more advantageous and lower risk, just how viable is it as an alternative to DBS?
Initial experiments have been carried out on living mice, and once inside the brain, the mesh device was able to safely stimulate individual neurons and measure the cells' behaviour for more than a year.
With clinical trials on people with epilepsy set to begin soon, Lieber is confident this latest advance in nanotechnology will open up a whole new strand of treatments for Parkinson's and beyond.


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Hillary Clinton lends support to Malachy McAllister over deportation campaign
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Malachy McAllister photographed with Hillary Clinton earlier this year.Debbie McGoldrick
Malachy McAllister won the support of Hillary Clinton on Monday night in his ongoing quest to avoid deportation next Monday, April 25. McAllister, a resident of the U.S. for 20 years who fled his home in Belfast after Loyalist paramilitaries attacked it with gunfire in 1988, met with Clinton at an Irish American rally hosted by John Fitzpatrick at the Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel.
"She was shocked to hear that my case is still going on, that it hasn't been settled," McAllister told the Irish Voice on Tuesday morning.
"She remembered me from my speaking at a Brehon Law Society event in 2004. She was very surprised that I'm facing deportation."
McAllister was accompanied to the Clinton meeting by attorney Brian O'Dwyer, who stressed to Clinton the importance the Irish American community places on McAllister's case and his goal to remain in the U.S. with his family which includes a four-year-old son.
"She gave me great time and consideration and I was very grateful for that," said McAllister, a resident of Rutherford, New Jersey who owns a successful contracting business and recently opened an Irish pub in Manhattan.
Last week, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez and Congressman Bill Pascrell introduced a private bill, HR 4920, seeking to block the deportation ordered by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which sent a letter to McAllister last month ordering him to report to an ICE office in Newark, New Jersey for deportation. McAllister's status in the U.S. has received an order of deferred action each year while his case for legalization continues in the courts, after a denial of his political asylum application.
McAllister, a former member of the INLA who served three years in prison in the 1980s for his role in the outlawed paramilitary group, also traveled to Washington, D.C. last week for a meeting with political supporters on Capitol Hill. A letter signed by 44 members of the House and Senate to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and ICE Director Sarah Saldana is also circulating on his behalf.
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has also written to the Department of Homeland Security, stressing the importance of continuing to secure the Good Friday peace deal in the North, and the bad signal that would be sent if McAllister were to be deported.
"We have great support in Washington, Joe Crowley, Peter King, Richie Neal, so many. We met with politicians and everyone is doing everything they can," McAllister said.
The congressional letter urges Johnson and Saldana to continue granting deferred action to McAllister.
"For the past 20 years, Mr. McAllister has lived in the Tri-State New York/New Jersey area, contributing to American society and raising his family in safety and security. We urge you to consider fully his current contributions and weigh them against the circumstances surrounding his previous convictions, which we believe provider a greater context that is critical to developing an understanding of Mr. McAllister's background," the letter says.
"Mr. McAllister presents no threat to the safety and security of the United States, or to any other country, and his offenses are historical, committed over 30 years ago in the course of a now much-resolved centuries old political conflict. He clearly meets the department's guidelines for prosecutorial discretion on a number of different grounds, not least because he has resided here for decades and has a very young U.S. citizen child and family who depend on him, and which will suffer significant adverse consequences of his removal."
With less than a week to go before the April 25 deportation deadline, McAllister is understandably nervous.
"The clock is ticking, and we've done everything we can do," said McAllister, who hopes that Johnson, a native of New York, will take note of all the local political support McAllister has and suspend the deportation order.
On Tuesday, AOH National President Brendan Moore sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to take note of HR 4920 and the support that it has.
"Your colleagues are asking Homeland Security to suspend the deportation order on Malachy McAllister, a long time New Jersey resident and respected Irish community leader and business owner," Moore wrote.
"I ask you on behalf of our fellow AOH member, Malachy McAllister, his young family and all of those like him who continue to promote Peace in Ireland, to encourage HSE Director Jeh Johnson to allow Malachy to stay with his family in the USA."
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The Canadian Media Producers Association's (CMPA) Prime Time in Ottawa conference is a national networking event for Canada's most prominent business leaders, decision-makers and policy experts in the television, film and digital media production industry.
This year's Prime Time conference will focus on the future of the industry in the age of experimentation. With subject matter from the practical to the visionary, international and Canadian speakers will explore top-of-mind issues among the screen-based media industries; accessing financing from digital players, finding new audiences and exploring the creative and business potentials of new platforms like mobile and VR.
Panels, keynotes, roundtables and debates will also discuss international markets for export and partnerships and new models for distribution and ancillary revenue. Keynote speakers include Sandra Stern, President of Lionsgate Television Group, and Van Toffler, CEO and Co-Founder of Gunpowder & Sky.
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