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(CBS) “Rites of Passage” is the theme for this year’s sold-out Burning Man festival, which began Monday in the Nevada desert. This is the 25th anniversary of Burning Man, a celebration of art, invention and independence. And for the first time, the event, which continues through Saturday, has been sold out. Attendance is limited to 50,000 people a day. In the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno, 배팅 게임 participants create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. Food is available to buy, but artists and artisans are encouraged to swap and barter, not sell, their goods. It began in 1986 when Larry Harvey and Jerry James burned an 8-foot effigy on a California beach in honor of summer solstice. An effigy is burned every year at the end of the event. Four years after the first burning, the festival was moved to the remote Nevada desert where it has been gaining participants ever since. It also has been gaining activities which this year, in addition to the giant art installations, include cooking classes yoga courses and bocce ball tournaments. Smaller,year-round events also are scheduled...

(AP) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A man visiting a gem exhibition in Sri Lanka’s capital swallowed a 1.5 carat diamond in front of the owner and was taken by police to a hospital, where an X-ray showed the $13,000 stone inside him. Exhibitor Suresh Wijekoon said the man was behaving suspiciously at his stalls and when he reached closer to the suspect, the man suddenly swallowed the diamond at his hand before Suresh alerted police at the exhibition venue. Chou Wan, a 32-year-old from China, is in custody pending further investigation, police spokesman Ajith Rohana said. An X-ray proved the diamond was inside Chou’s body, said hospital director Dr. Anil Jasinghe at Colombo National, where the suspect was taken for the test. Suresh, owner of Belgrade International Pvt Ltd, said the diamond weighed about 1.5 carats. It was worth $13,636, Rohana said. Sri Lanka does not mine diamonds but is renowned for other highly treasured gems. Facets Sri Lanka 2012 is the island nation’s annual largest gem and 홀덤클럽포커 jewelry exhibition and it attracts a large number of local and foreign...

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES – A judge wants to know whether Chris Brown is being a good neighbor. On Thursday, Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg ordered prosecutors to get more details about neighborhood complaints about the R&B singer before his next Oct. 12 court hearing. Brown is on probation for a 2009 attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna. Pictures: 실전바둑이게임 Chris BrownPictures: Rihanna The judge said she had received several calls from Brown’s neighbors, but said she had not spoken directly to the people. She did not seem overly concerned about the complaints, but wanted more information about them and where Brown would complete his community service. According to TMZ, the singer’s neighbors claim he parks in handicapped spaces, blasts music at all hours and vandalizes the property. Brown had served 581 hours of community service in Virginia as of January, but needs to complete six months’ worth of community labor to complete the terms of his probation. He recently moved to West Hollywood, Calif., and his attorney Mark Geragos said Brown may ask to complete his service in California. Geragos downplayed the neighbor dispute, saying Brown was not at fault for some of the complaints. Geragos said West Hollywood city officials have dismissed more than $15,000 in parking citations Brown racked up for parking in a handicapped space at his condominium complex because those were the spaces assigned to him. Brown...

(CBS News) UNITED NATIONS – With “acrimonious fault lines” between members blocking action by the United Nations Security Council on Syria’s escalating civil war, as a senior European diplomat put it to CBS News, the General Assembly came together Tuesday – for the second time – to shine a light on the issue and try to present a more unified front. More in After the Arab Spring Diplomats accused both President Bashar Assad’s government and 솔레어카지노 the opposition of violating human rights. They pointed to the recent report that more than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August alone. They called on nations to meet the appeals for humanitarian aid. In the end, however, and with great frustration, they threw up their hands. There is, after all, not much that the General Assembly can do. Syria opposition calls for “Marshall Plan” post-Assad100K fled Syria war in August aloneSyria: No talks with rebels until they’re crushed The U.N.’s hopes for diplomacy now rest with seasoned Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, the global body’s new envoy to Syria, who has taken over Kofi Annan’s role as negotiator-in-chief after the former U.N. secretary-general quit the position having accomplished little. “The destruction is reaching catastrophic proportions,” Brahimi told the General Assembly’s 193 member nations. “The support of the international community is indispensable and very urgent.” Brahimi’s pleas came two days after he told the...