CONWAY, Ark. -- The top official of the University of Central Arkansas says the "campus is safe" after a shooting that killed two people near a dormitory but he is promising a review of the school's security measures.
One person was wounded in the shooting late Sunday.
Interim President Tom Courtway canceled Monday's classes at the 12,500-student campus.
Police say officers are seeking four suspects but say there is no continuing threat at the school 30 miles north of Little Rock. Police say the suspects are not students at the university.
Campus police Lt. Rhonda Swindle said the dead were 18-year-old Ryan Henderson and 19-year-old and Chavares Block, 1both students. The wounded person was not a university student.
Egyptian security forces arrested a senior civil servant and his wife for organizing orgies and swinging parties and hosting wife swaps, local press reported Sunday.
An investigation revealed that 44 Egyptian families responded to an Internet ad placed by the government employee and his wife soliciting participants for the orgies that were held over three months at the culprit's house, the Egyptian independent al-Masry al-Youm reported Sunday.
The couple had sex with three couples from among the applicants. The man said that the couples who came to his orgies had to have an official marriage contract and not the unofficial (Urfi) one. Otherwise, they were not admitted. "The rest were rejected because they were not pleasant," the paper quoted him as saying.
Egyptian security officials reportedly received classified information about emails sent by the 49 year-old-Iraqi Jew and his 28-year-old schoolteacher wife inviting couples to engage in swinging parties at their house.
The parties usually took the form of orgies, but occasionally some couples would meet privately in the bedrooms then come out and tell the other what happened in detail.
The accused man said he got the idea from a porn movie, and that his wife agreed. They send invitations to couples throughout Greater Cairo and received several responses.
The couple confessed to their crime during interrogation. The two offenders were detained for four days while the prosecution prepared an indictment bill to refer them to the criminal court.
Police also arrested a lawyer who was finalizing a wife swap and a couple from the Gulf who were seeking a swap for the weekend.
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An Iraqi Jew is a senior civil servant in Egypt? The scandle is overwhelming.
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He probably only became an Iraqi Jew AFTER getting arrested.
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The funny part about this is once it hits the newspapers, it will give a LOT of couples ideas.
As an aside, there is a "corrupt block" theory. It is that when a "seed couple" of swingers moves into an area, it sometimes results in other people in the immediate area swinging as well.
So there are eight or ten blocks where nothing like that happens, then one "corrupt block" where it seems like everybody who lives there are swingers.
From Sgt Mom, who writes books as Celia Hayes, comes a historical novel...well, actually, three historical novels, The Adelsverein Trilogy. It's about a largely-unknown episode in Texas history:
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Thanks NS! The Trilogy has lashings of everything readers want in a historical novel set in Texas - romance, adventure, feuds, Indian raids, a couple of wars... and cows. Lots of cows!
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The Germans or the cows, Jack?
The Germans were eyed with a bit of suspicion during World War One, unfortunatly - which is when they began switching over to teaching more English in the schools. I haven't seen that there was any particular hostility directed against them in World War Two - because of course, they had all been in Texas for nearly a hundred years by then. The Germany they had come from was long-gone by that point.
The commander of the Navy in the Pacific during WWII was Chester Nimitz, whose grandfather, C.H. Nimitz was one of the early settlers of Fredericksburg, Texas. C.H. appears as a fairly prominent character in all three books.
As for the cows, what Steve said.
(I have also been informed by my publisher that True West Magazine will have a review of Book One in the next issue. I haven't actually seen the review yet, so my fingers are still crossed as to if it will actually appear...)
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Wow. That's sure some gripping, informative, clear cut, unambiguous video there.
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Wow! What are the odds of Syria TV having cameras rolling on site at some minor village construction site? Pencil-neck should have bought a PowerBall ticket!
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I love the part about the debarked troops firing wildly on construction workers and civilians as soon as they set foot on the ground. And the A10 which is heard firing in the background is probably aiming at random goat herders. CF is right, this just doesn't feel right without GHG. He has that magic.
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"What are the odds of Syria TV having cameras rolling on site at some minor village construction site?"
Pretty good when they're assigned to photograph Syrian choppers through wax paper.
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It's very queer -- I saw no sign of human life except that the camera was operated. Granted, I was looking for people walking around and working, perhaps the sounds of hammering and cement mixers, a bit of classic construction worker cursing, whistles as the guard's wife walked by -- why a guard tower at a construction site, is that normal? Perhaps Old Patriot and others can explain what I would have noticed had I been properly trained.
Still, the Americans have said it was a Special Forces raid, so the footage must be real... whatever it shows.
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"What are the odds of Syria TV having cameras rolling on site at some minor village construction site?"
To; cut some slack at the syrian propaganda guys, the footage most probably is shot by a local, using cellphone or whatever, and was retrieved by the officials later. That's why it shows nothing, past the helicos and the strafing sound far away, because it's made by a guy who just happened to be in the vicinity, not on site, and who doesn't really know what he's doing but films anyway. You know the type, now it's seen everywhere, people filming stuff with their cellphones, holding them at arm's lenght, looks pretty sordid when it's an accident or something, this is the arab version.
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my 4 year olds toy camera records better than that
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TW - you'll have to give me some time - I'm still on a dial-up connection.
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looks like cellphone video to me.
i am just glad we finally decided to take on the issue in syria instead of letting the jihadis have a safe haven. better late than never.
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The sounds of miniguns is heartwarming. I wonder how the ambasador handled this one. I would love to hear him tell the Syrians that as long as they harbor AQ they will be a target....
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A government sanctioned child protection agency is looking into reports of a marriage between a 12-year-old girl and a Muslim cleric who reportedly planned to marry more minors, according to press reports on Sunday. "We want to clarify first with Ulfa's parents whether the marriage has taken place before taking any action," the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) chairwoman Masnah Sari told The Jakarta Post.
Masnah added that the KPAI would also question the girl's parents, the minister who married the couple and witnesses of the marriage between Ulfa and Pujiono Cahyo, known as Syech Puji. Puji is a 43-year-old rich businessman who owns a Muslim boarding school in Central Java. He made headlines in local newspapers after donating billions of rupiah to the poor during the fasting month of Ramadan. His first wife is 26.
He had said the marriage of Aug. 8 was attended by "thousands" of people at his home, the paper reported. "If the marriage has taken place, the KPAI itself will take legal action as this would violate at least six laws," she told the daily.
Under the Indonesian law, a woman must be at least 16 years old to marry. Marriage with a minor carries a maximum of five years.
A Central Java police commander told the Post that the police would investigate the case. "We will ask whether Puji has slept (with his new wife)," he said. According to Masnah, marriage with a minor violates the laws on child protection, marriage, health, labor and welfare.
The criminal code also states that any sexual involvement with minors is a crime. The law on child protection defines children as those under 18 and threatens those who marry or authorize marriages with minors with a maximum of five years in jail or a fine of Rp 100 million. The 1974 marriage law says a woman must be at least 16 to marry.
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Egyptian security forces arrested a senior civil servant and his wife for organizing orgies and swinging parties and hosting wife swaps, local press reported Sunday.
A government sanctioned child protection agency is looking into reports of a marriage between a 12-year-old girl and a Muslim cleric who reportedly planned to marry more minors, according to press reports on Sunday. "We want to clarify first with Ulfa's parents whether the marriage has taken place before taking any action," the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) chairwoman Masnah Sari told The Jakarta Post.
