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Today, the Sacramento Kings announced a mentoring event with Sacramento youth and the recognition of youth scholarship recipients at the California Classic Summer League. The summer NBA exhibition in Sacramento tips off on Monday, July 1 with double header action when the Los Angeles Lakers take on the Miami Heat at 6 p.m. – and closing out the night when the Kings host the Golden State Warriors at 8 p.m.

On Monday, prior to the series tip-off, the Kings will host a career mentoring session with youth associated with the Build.Black. Coalition and players from the Kings and Queens Rise Co-Ed Basketball League. These youth will get an opportunity to talk with Kings and Sierra Health Foundation staff on career development and create vision boards for their futures inArcade, Meadowview, Fruitridge and Foothill Farms/ North Highlands. Kings two-way player Wenyen Gabriel and mascot Slamson have visited with players during the games. The league, which plays each Saturday during June and July, has five more games to play before their tournament on July 23 at Golden 1 Center.

On Wednesday, July 3, during the games the Kings will also announce a portion of the winners of the Team Up For Change scholarship funding designed to benefit local youth pursuing advanced training in law enforcement and higher education. The funding, which was announced during the day-long Team Up for Change summit to address social injustice, includes 50 scholarships in the amount of $1,000 awarded by the Sacramento Police Foundation Criminal Justice Magnet School Academy and Sierra Health Foundation, with


The spectators and participants form an eye-boggling throng of wriggling colors and patterns.

The horsemen, divided into teams that were organised months before, proceeded up the hill to the starting point. The team leaders at the finish line blow their whistles, and the stampede begins. The riders, who have no conception of horseback riding , bounce all over, yelling and having a great time. They come barrelling down to the finish, all splattered with mud, for a “pit stop” – a slug of aguardiente awarded by the team leaders. Then back up the hill for the next run. The whistles blow, and down again, at full, out-of-contol gallop.

Each time the bouncing increases, and the riders seem to spend more time up in the air than on the saddle. Thenright into the mud, with the others riding over and around him. Another jinete, his foot caught in the stirrup, is dragged down the entire course, and then up again and back for more.

This goes on and on through the afternoon, until fewer and fewer riders are aboard their mounts, and more and more pass out in whatever place and position they lost consciousness. This “catharsis” the townfolk explain, takes place only once a year. The rest of the time the todosanteros are sober and somber……they say.

It is all quite tam , they add, compared to the way it used to be up until a few years ago. Before, the race took place right down the main street of the village, and in addition to the goal of


of clothing and textiles.

And in the placita in front of the church, where two large crosses used to stand (one very tall, made of wood and the other shorter, made of stone) there is a Mam-style merry-go-round, with beatifully hand-carved and decorated horses and several marimba bands. Another main attraction here are the tumultuous bailes de los conquistadores. The costumes are unbelievably elaborate for the dances of the moors, the deer, the bulls, and the Spanish cortisans, with full head masks, whish themselves are museum pieces.

Will all this is going on, there is much activity in the cemetery for this dia de todos los santos, and more events are planned for the following All Souls Day, el dia de los muertos. All cemetaries are located to the westbe interpreted as “polar”, like the recent work by TEPCO workers and government officials to speed up the removal of spent fuel from Reactor 4 after assuring its absolute safety in inspection after inspection, and multiple operations to shore up the decrepit structure.

All parties in the debate are defending their own enormous stakes in the outcome, and the Japanese government and nuclear industry are working to provide a unified message of safety and control. This is having a tremendous impact not only on the affected regions, but the neighboring areas as well.

The communication and ties between local and national government agencies are breaking down under the strain, and the distance between the citizens and its leaders seems now farther apart than it has in decades. Protest rallies across


from his more pressing efforts of tax reform and restarting nuclear power plants.

The solution is not as easy as it may sound as the Japanese government is under critical pressure to make decontamination efforts more effective and more efficient. The Environment Ministry had been previously working to have many areas to be fully cleaned by March 2014, but that target date now seemingly impossible to achieve as the agency has not even developed decontamination plans for six of the eleven municipalities located in a no-entry zone.

Decontamination vs. Recontamination

Many areas which were decontaminated last fall have been found to have returned to the same levels of radiation only a few short months later and prevent inhabitation. There are still no dates for when many of the residents can returnhome to areas in the northeastern prefecture of Japan.

This week the government has started the first decontamination projects in one of the former no-entry zones around Tamura City. The lack of response has meant local residents are required to volunteer to aid in the decontamination efforts, and even forced the government to hire private contractors to perform decontamination work, which increases the risk to both the workers and the communities themselves.

A more startling fact may be that the Ministry has not been able to acquire enough space for temporary storage of contaminated soil and other waste. The government had planned to build temporary storage sites around the Fukushima Daiichi site to store the waste until its final disposal, but is facing fierce opposition from the locals in response


Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that President Obama holds an unrealistic view of how to achieve peace in the Middle East, saying that Israel would never pull back to the boundaries that the American president said a day earlier must be the basis for negotiations.

The unusual Oval Office exchange, following a nearly two-hour meeting, laid bare the fundamental differences between Obama and the hawkish leader of the chief U.S. ally in the Middle East. Republicans on Capitol Hill, meanwhile, injected partisan politics into the debate by vowing to formally condemn Obama’s position toward Israel in a resolution next week.

Obama and Netanyahu are allies only by tradition, and their relationship lacks personal warmth and is tested often by their differing political views. As they acknowledged their divisionsAmid all the hues and cries on actress abduction and assault case, actor Dileep and wife Kavya Madhavan visited Kodungallur Bhagavathy Temple.

The couple reached the temple on Tuesday early morning. They entered the main building through north entrance before anyone could spot them.

They offered 28 gold pendants (swarna thali) before the deity and prayed. Dileep and Kavya also offered Shathru Samhara pushpanjali, a pooja believed to destroy the enemies. They spent the whole day in the temple and left at 5 pm.

Dileep and Kavya visited the temple amid rumours that the police might question the actor and director Nadirshah again in actor attack case. Another speculation is that the officials have prepared a new questionnaire.

The cops had earlier grilled Dileep and director Nadirshah for 13 hours on June


dandiya celebrations. Shiva was unable to accompany her, it being a strictly ladies’ festival. However, he missed her too much so he disguised himself as a woman and joined the dance. Mid-way through, his ghunghat slipped and his non-female nature was revealed. Luckily for him, Krishna (also present in defiance of the ladies’-only-rule) embraced him and announced him as the god in their midst.  And I always thought of these two as belonging to different universes.

The dance-dramas were followed by the fashion show. The contestants participated as couples, dressed in traditional Marwar finery. The men of course, were women dressed as so. They were graded on costume, jewelery, body language and couple synchronization. I was too busy staring open-mouthed at the grand display and scrambling for myearly twenties. While in college and afterwards, I was hosting, promoting, and performing in the extreme counterculture scene in New York City. Many of the artists I was in contact with were members of the Church of Satan. The milestone was the Blood Axis show I promoted and was DJ for in 2005, a show which had several COS members performing and many in attendance. One of the major principles of the Church of Satan is that they’re not a proselyting religion and don’t require Satanists to join unless they can benefit from it. At that point I recognized the fact that I was benefiting from the support of the organization and wished to pay that back as well as continue my involvement with their cabal. Since then,


I’ve worked with a number of members, both in public and behind the scenes, on a variety of projects. This includes being a director at our podcast network, Radio Free Satan, and working with Satanic book publishers, one of our clothing manufacturers, musicians, writers, video producers, and more. In time, I worked directly with High Priest Peter Gilmore and High Priestess Peggy Nadramia and got to spend more time with them at their Black House. On Halloween of 2013, I was granted the title of Reverend/Priest, which recognizes me as a representative of the organization and our philosophy.

PEGGY NADRAMIA: I’ve been a Satanist since the 1970s when I first read The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey. The attitude and principles espoused therein closely matched my own viewGREEN BAY -- Neighbors in Green Bay are on edge after seeing a person dressed like a clown by the intersection of Mason and Adams Street around 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.

The pictures are going viral on Facebook. The original post has almost 8,000 shares. A Facebook page has also been created to post future sightings of the clown, called Gags - The Green Bay Clown.

Police say they've received a few calls about the clown.

"A person can walk down the sidewalk dressed however they want as long as they're in a place they legally can be, and they're not in a place that has a closing time, like a park," said Captain Kevin Warych with the Green Bay Police Department.

Police say their options are limited in dealing with the situation.


what about Burt, remember him, my friend from City College who sat next to me, purposely, every week, because he thought I needed protection from the harsh world, just as he insisted on walking curbside to shield me from traffic? He was fond of quoting, in a dramatic and sonorous voice, "Unless she is willful, and full of disastrous genius she will sink into convention." He died, you know, of cancer, several years ago, and I sat in his apartment the afternoon he died, kissed him on the mouth and said, "Bye, Burt, I love you." To which he gruffly replied, "Bye." Oh, I know these scenes are ones you have quietly observed, again and again, people come and go, in every sense of the word, but youLondon 10th of March Juche 104(2016)
The Association
For the Study of Songun Politics UK(ASSPUK), the Juche
Idea Study Group of England(JISGE) and the UK Korean Friendship
Association(UK KFA) today issued a statement in support of the statement
released by the Committee For the Peaceful Reunification of Korea on the 10th of March
"Park Geun Hye Regime's Anti-DPRK "Sanctions" Will Only Precipitate Its Ruin";Recently ,slavishly following their US imperialist masters, the south Korean fascist puppets announced so-called 'independent ' and'additional sanctions' . Of course south Korea has no independence to speak of so any such sanctions are but a mere imitation of the US and UNSC ones, there is nothing independent about them.
It is the south Korean fascist puppets and their Yankee overlords that are responsible for the tense situation on the Korean peninsula


become Latin America’s largest carrier.

Two other carriers, Avianca Brasil and Azul Linhas Aéreas, are controlled by foreign owners with Brazilian citizenship.

Attracting investors to buy into Brazilian airlines might not be easy due to jet fuel taxes and falling domestic traffic due to the recession. Despite huge market shares, Brazilian carriers have struggled to make a profit.

Plans to open up land to foreign purchases again, however, are bound to draw plenty of investors in Brazil’s expanding agribusiness industry that is seeking new partners.

Brazil restricted the sale of land to foreign investors in 2010 due to concerns that countries such as China could take control of large segments of arable land in the midst of a super commodity boom.

Companies in Brazil’s commodities sector have pushed to review the rules toAnnisquam River

The Annisquam River is a tidal, salt-water estuary in Annisquam and Gloucester, Massachusetts, connecting Annisquam Harbor on the north to Gloucester Harbor on the south. The segment between Gloucester Harbor and the Newburyport/Rockport Line bridge is also known as the Blynman Canal.

The estuary is about  long, navigable, and open to the ocean at both ends. Its surface area is . The name "Annisquam" comes from an Algonquian term meaning "top of the rock, containing <wanashque>, "on top of", and <-ompsk>, "rock". The first European settlement in Annisquam was established in 1631. The river was dredged by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1965 to create a channel some  deep, and  wide. Annisquam Harbor Light stands on the east, Cape Ann, side of


for tasting, such as a single-variety Winesap, mixed russet, or one of many orchard blends.

Newport Vineyards was originally planted in 1977 on a hill overlooking Rhode Island Sound with the goal of producing fine wines and as a way of preserving beautiful agricultural land from rapid development. Aquidneck Island is blessed with one of the most desirable farming areas in the country, if not the world. This extraordinary micro-climate is created by a combination of the warm waters of the Gulf Stream to the south and the moderating effects of Narragansett Bay.

Rhode Island- Little Rhody is packed with 400 miles of coastline and 20 percent of the country’s historic landmarks. Newport is the sailing capital of the world, and home to the famed Gilded Age mansions. Rhode IslandRussian Politician Arkady Dvorkovich Crowned World Chess HeadChess

The former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich, was on Wednesday crowned as the new King of FIDE or World Chess Federation.

The 46-year-old Dvorkovich was elected as the new president with a clear-cut majority over his rival and incumbent Deputy President Georgis Makropoulos, at the 89th FIDE Congress held at Batumi in Georgia.

The other contender Nigel Short, British Grand Master, who had said that the FIDE Presidential poll is a three-horse race, proclaimed his withdrawal from the contest in favor of Dvorkovich during his speech.

With Dvorkovich's victory, the long incumbency of Makropoulos at FIDE comes to the conclusion.

India's D.V.Sundar, Vice President, AICF and FIDE was part of Makropoulos team for the position of General Secretary.

"While it is sad that Sundar's


BAGHDAD: The US-backed Iraqi offensive to take back Mosul from Daesh gained fresh momentum on Thursday, with an armored division trying to advance into the city from the northern side.

The militants are now besieged in the northwestern corner of Mosul, which includes the historic Old City center, the medieval Grand Al-Nuri Mosque and its landmark leaning minaret where their black flag has been flying since June 2014.

The Iraqi Army’s 9th Armored Division and the Rapid Response units of the Interior Ministry have opened a new front in the northwest of the city, the military said in a statement.

The attack will help the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) and Interior Ministry Federal Police troops who are painstakingly advancing from the south.

“Our forces are making a steady advance in the firstCommissioner: Gunman tied children's feet together

Miller: The call came in from a school teacher, stating a male entered a school and had taken hostages. Now this school is a small one-room schoolhouse, it's an Amish school, there were approximately 15 males between the ages of 6 and 13 attending school there, as well as somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 12 females also attending school between the ages of 6 and 13.

(State police were outside the school and trying to establish communication with the suspect when they got a call from the local 911 dispatcher.)

Miller: They had spoken to the actor, the suspect, who had told them that if the state police don't remove themselves from the premises in 10 seconds he's going to -- he's going


through the doors.

We had to break the windows. The troopers broke the windows and were able to get in, found the suspect dead on the floor of the schoolhouse. He's still in there now. In addition, we found three -- we had three other students, female students between the ages of 6 and 13, that were shot and killed at the scene.

It appears that the suspect entered the school with the intention of taking hostages. Like I said, he came with 2 x 6's, 2 x 4's and these weapons.

When he initially went into the school, he apparently displayed a handgun. And he was -- he was having some discussion with the class. He was talking about what he had in his hand.

At that time he apparently toldthe kids to line up in front of the blackboard. At that -- at that moment, he began to -- he had ties with him like wire ties, as well as flex cuffs. He began to tie the females, the children's, feet together.

He then took the boys -- there was exactly 15 boys there between 6 and 13. He let them leave. He also allowed one female, adult female who was pregnant with a child, to leave. He also allowed three other adult females who had infant children with them to leave.

At the time he let them leave, the teacher was able to get out at that time. And that's why she was able to go and get a phone and dial 911 and alert us of the


situation.

As we said, two -- one shotgun and one handgun were found next to the suspect by our troopers who responded into the school. We have, as I said, three students are confirmed dead. There were seven that we know of right now -- there were seven injured victims taken to the following hospitals: Lehigh General Hospital, Hershey Medical Center, Christian Hospital in Delaware, Redding Hospital, and Children's Hospital in Philadelphia.

We know that the individuals that were removed from the school suffered from gunshot wounds. It appears that when he began shooting the victims, these victims were shot execution style in the head.

(Miller identified the suspect as Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old truck driver who worked nights. He said Roberts took his children to the school busstop Monday morning as usual. That was the last time his wife saw him.)

Miller: She had left the residence, she came back home and discovered that there were several notes there that were along the lines of suicide notes to each of the kids. So she read these notes and she tried to contact him right away and was unable to reach him.

At approximately 11:00, he called her. He did not tell her where he was, but he stated that he wasn't coming home and that he had left notes for her and the children to explain his actions. And he said that "the police are here, but I'm not coming home." He told her he loved her, and that was it. And shortly thereafter is when the


trailer near the city of Guadalajara.

Neighbors’ complaints about the truck caused authorities to change its location a few times. It went from a morgue parking lot to another government-run lot, before it finally wound up in a field behind a housing development. The bodies were stored in the truck due to overcrowding at morgues.

State and local authorities have struggled as an unprecedented number of bodies pile up from Mexico’s rising tide of violence. Officials recorded 16,339 homicides across Mexico in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 17 percent from the same period of 2017. Morgues in several of the country’s states have run out of room.

“This is a demonstration of insensitivity on the part of some public servants,” said Roberto Lopez Lara, the Jalisco[Repeat cesarean delivery by the Zurich city wound physician Johann Jakob Locher 1817/18].
Caesarean delivery was rarely practised in the early nineteenth century and was considered highly dangerous, being both technically and morally controversial. In view of this, Johann Jakob Locher's performance of two consecutive caesareans attracted international attention. Not only contemporary printed literature, but also the archive material and specimens presented in this journal for the first time provide a uniquely detailed account of the operations. The University of Zurich's Institute and Museum of the History of Medicine were able to acquire the preserved pelvis of the patient in 1983.


Friday, September 16, 2016

Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia moved to dismiss public corruption charges against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, and his wife, Maureen McDonnell. The decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously vacated the former Governor’s corruption conviction earlier this summer. McDonnell v. United States, 579 U. S. ____ (2016). The government’s decision not to further pursue charges against the McDonnells is a signal that prosecutors are paying heed to the Supreme Court’s warnings about over-aggressive interpretations of criminal statutes and that they had scant additional evidence against the McDonnells.

In January 2014, McDonnell and his wife were indicted on federal corruption charges for allegedly receiving improper gifts and loans from a Virginia businessman. The charges related to $175,000 inITANAGAR: China's People's Liberation Army released on Tuesday the 21-year-old Indian man who was abducted on March 19 from near the McMahon line in Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, a defence spokesman said. Togley Singkam, who was handed over to the Indian Army personnel guarding the border, was immediately put into quarantine amid fear of coronavirus infection, Defence PRO Lt Col P Khongsai said.When the incident came to light, the Indian Army swung into action and approached the Chinese side utilising the established border management mechanism. Owing to peace and tranquility existing in the region and the bonhomie that has developed between both the border guarding forces, Singkam was handed over to the Indian Army on Tuesday, he said.This has provided immense relief to the family members


of Singkam and also to the people of the area, he said.Singkam has been quarantined by the Indian Army and will be handed over to his family after 14 days, the official said.Singkam along with his two friends -- Gamshi Chadar and Ronya Nade -- had gone fishing and to collect traditional herbs from the land belonging to the Naa clan of Tagin community on March 19 when the Chinese security personnel allegedly ambushed them.While his other two friends could successfully escape, Singkam was abducted at gunpoint by the Chinese security personnel.The Tagin Cultural Society had approached the governor on March 27, urging him to take steps for Singkam's release.A complaint was also filed by Singkam's family at the Nacho police station on March 23.The McMahon Line demarcatesthe boundary between the Tibet autonomous region of China and Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as its own.The McMahon Line is not properly demarcated and small cement pillars erected on the Indian side often get covered under wild growth.A number of organisations in the state had appealed to the state government for taking up the matter with the Centre for the safe release of the man.The Siyum Nacho Limeking Taksing Students Union (SNLTSU) had also threatened to launch a democratic movement in the state capital, if his early and safe release was not ensured.


plummeting stock prices scared off buyers.

Chinese officials have accused foreign car makers of earning exorbitant profits by dominating the market and controlling the sale of auto parts. In 2014 China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, began an investigation into foreign car makers' parts pricing. The investigation led to a $46 million fine on Audi and Chrysler, and prompted car makers including Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co. to cut prices on new cars and auto-parts.

Car prices in China are high by international standards, even as the country's economy is growing at its slowest pace in 25 years. As of November, the same midsize sedan and big sport-utility vehicle were pricier in China than in the U.S., according to car makers' websites. For example, anThe programme is part of the broader Rugby Americas investment supported by World Rugby to assist in growing the game

The next generation of North American Major League Rugby (MLR) and test match talent is on showcase this week in Glendale, Colorado for a week-long combine from 17-22 June.

Held at RugbyTown USA, the home of the Glendale Raptors of MLR, the World Rugby funded combine focuses on identifying and developing players aged 18 to 24 in the hopes of fast-tracking preparation for these athletes to make the jump to the next tier of competition.

The programme is part of the broader Rugby Americas investment supported by World Rugby to assist in growing the overall capacity and knowledge within all areas.

“The goal of the week is to identify emerging players and


players from other sports with the capabilities of playing Rugby,” said Scott Wisemantel, High Performance Consultant to World Rugby. “Underpinning the rugby sessions are technical and tactical workshops and physical testing as well as psychology, nutrition, player welfare and team building exercises.”

This year’s combine is hoping to build off last Fall’s camp, where 15 South American players earned MLR contacts in 2019.

READ REVIEW OF 2018 COMBINE >>

More than just player development, the week includes coach shadowing, analyst training, strength and conditioning shadowing and elite referee development with more than 15 participants from across North America in attendance.

An exhibition match against Vail RFC will be held at the end of the week-long camp in order to give coaching staff an opportunity to assess players in a full match competition.The camp roster includes players with varied rugby experience, from test match to crossover and targeted athletes. Coach Wisemantel hopes to capitalize on each players’ talent and abilities to form a cohesive group capable of performing under pressure under tight timelines.

“We aim to bring them together as a team by having a dual focus. Individual testing and development coupled with the fact we play a game as a team at the end of the week with all players getting equal game time. Players are assessed on what they bring on and off the field - character of the person as well as their athletic rugby playing ability,” said Wisemantel.

This past weekend MLR wrapped up its second season of competition, with Seattle Seawolves defeating San Diego Legion at a


sold-out Torero Stadium in San Diego. The nine-team competition will see the addition of two additional franchises – Old Glory RFC and New England Free Jacks – in 2020. In order to maintain and increase high-level competition, these combines are essential in developing and preparing regional players to excel on a domestic and international stage.

“This camp and ones like it are vital to underpinning the MLR and the national team. We want to create a pool of talent in North America that not only sees them qualify for Rugby World Cups, but sees them as competitive teams,” added Wisemantel. “We hope to have players at this camp that will represent either the USA or Canada at the next Rugby World Cup in 2023.”

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Michael Jackson's estate has criticised a documentary alleging the late pop star sexually abused children.

Leaving Neverland will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this month and includes interviews with two alleged victims of Jackson.

Representatives for Jackson's estate have responded in a statement.

"This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson," it said.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Fans gathered at Jackson's former Neverland home after his death

Two men who appear in the film say they were aged seven and 10 when Jackson befriended them and their families.

Now in their 30s, they allege they were sexually abused by the late singer.

Police raided Jackson's Neverland


Ranch in California - referenced in the film's title - in 2003 while investigating allegations Jackson had molested a 13-year-old boy.

'Power of celebrity'

The case went to trial and Jackson was acquitted of all charges in 2005.

The synopsis for the documentary reads: "Through gut-wrenching interviews with the now-adult men and their families, Leaving Neverland crafts a portrait of sustained exploitation and deception, documenting the power of celebrity that allowed a revered figure to infiltrate the lives of starstruck children and their parents."

The two-part film is directed by Dan Reed, who is also behind documentaries including The Valley, Terror in Mumbai and The Paedophile Hunter.

It will debut at Sundance in Utah on 25 and 26 January and will be shown on Channel 4 in Spring 2019.

The film is a co-productionthe Man, Reckless,
Veteran Silas, Mere Mortals; and The Laramie Project. Michael would like to dedicate this
performance to his mother and his gorgeous girlfriend.
Christian Briones (Donald) is a History major. He is glad to be back on stage after last
appearing in the one-man show, "Case lOSn presented last May by The Midnight Theatre Co.
He thanks everybody who has given him the opportunity to work on stage again, including
Director Rachel Dickson, The Midnight Theatre Co. and last, but not least, God. "Love life and
live love.n Christian is a current recipient of a Saunders Drama Scholarship.
Michael Diaz (Kolenkhov) is a Communication major happily in his junior year. This is his
fifth play at UHD and his second major production. He is looking forward to graduating and
hopefully being awarded an internship at Disney's


Theatrical Company in New York City this
summer. Michael is a current recipient of a Stokes Drama Scholarship .
Ashley Early (Essie) After a long hiatus, Ashley is thrilled to be back onstage at UHD. Her
earlier performances here include roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Black Coffee and The
Mandrake. Ashley would like to thank her family and friends for being the heart and soul of
everything she's done. Love ya!
Ever Flore& (Mr. De Pinna) is a sophomore majoring in Interna tional Business. He was
previously seen in the student-directed One-Acts. "Being in the One-Acts was an exciting
and amazing experience. I am happy to be performing with such a wonderful cast. I hope
everyone enjoys this play as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to life. n
James M. Greathouse IV (Henderson) is agraduate of the University of Houston-Downtown.
He majored in Psychology with a minor in Sociology. James is no stranger to the stage having
entertained audiences around the Southwest region of the U.S. as a headliner and s inging
background for major recording artists. Always a singer first in his heart, he put acting on
the back burner to pursue his music career. He has wanted an opportunity to get back to the
acting stage for some time and felt that this production came at a great time for him to do
so. His favorite quote is from the poet-playwright, Langston Hughes: • ... the only way to get a
thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you11 finish it ... •.

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Silva; ana Paola Chavez.
About the Actors
Ernesto Albarran (Paul Sycamore) is a senior majoring in Psychology. "This is my second
performance at UHD. Last semester I directed my fi rst play ever and it was an amazing
experience. I want to dedicate this performance to my love, Christina, and our four beautiful
kids. Thank you for allowing me to do this!
Michael Barrick (Mr. Kirbyl is a sophomore and is participating in his third production at
UHD. He has been performing in Houston for over ten years and is a proud member of the
board of directors at The Company Onstage Theater located in Westbury Square. Michael's
previous credits include: Plaz.a Suite, Rumors, Balm in Gilead, Anns and the Man, Reckless,
Veteran Silas, Mere Mortals; and The Laramie Project. Michael would like to dedicate this
performance to hismother and his gorgeous girlfriend.
Christian Briones (Donald) is a History major. He is glad to be back on stage after last
appearing in the one-man show, "Case lOSn presented last May by The Midnight Theatre Co.
He thanks everybody who has given him the opportunity to work on stage again, including
Director Rachel Dickson, The Midnight Theatre Co. and last, but not least, God. "Love life and
live love.n Christian is a current recipient of a Saunders Drama Scholarship.
Michael Diaz (Kolenkhov) is a Communication major happily in his junior year. This is his
fifth play at UHD and his second major production. He is looking forward to graduating and
hopefully being awarded an internship at Disney's Theatrical Company in New York City this
summer. Michael is a current recipient of a Stokes Drama Scholarship .
Ashley


Early (Essie) After a long hiatus, Ashley is thrilled to be back onstage at UHD. Her
earlier performances here include roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Black Coffee and The
Mandrake. Ashley would like to thank her family and friends for being the heart and soul of
everything she's done. Love ya!
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 Dennis Dugan as Richie Brockelman
 Robert Hogan as Sgt. Ted Coopersmith
 Barbara Bosson as Sharon Deterson
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Cancellation
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the year honours.

He's done more in his 67 NRL games than most players manage to fit into an entire career and Nick Cotric knows Canberra are just three good games away from their ultimate goal.

For all of his excellent play including impressing in game one of State of Origin, Cotric has yet to experience the harsh and unforgiving spotlight of the NRL finals.

Despite having come through a run to end the season which essentially simulated the finals, Cotric knows a trip to Melbourne in week one will be tough to prepare for.

"It's the same and different, there's pressure in Origin and it's a packed house and you're playing against the best guys, so it was a big learning curve for me," he said.

"It was a good learning experienceso hopefully I can take that back to here at club level, so I can do the best I can for the guys.

"Being such a tight group and all of the work, the sweat and tears we've put in ever since the preseason, hopefully that means we're all excited for the weeks ahead."

Despite debuting in Origin, it’s been far from a perfect season for the 20-year-old.

A minor syndesmosis injury kept him out of Origin II while he became the first person to be sent off for a dangerous throw since Peter Driscoll in 1995 when he up-ended Dragons centre Tim Lafai in Round 17.

His time away from the game, especially in the punishing rehab room at the Raiders, means Cotric does not want to waste the next month.

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group of six men including Joseph Smith organize "The Church of Jesus
Christ of the Latter-day Saints" (later often called the Mormon Church)
in Fayette, New York

July 1847

Leading
a band of Mormons fleeing persecution in the East, Brigham Young
(successor to the martyred Joseph Smith) arrives in the valley of the
Great Salt Lake (in present day Utah) and declares it the permanent
home of his people.

1850

A
territorial government is established in Utah, with Brigham Young its
first governor.

1856

Brigham
Young announces the Reformation, a plan to arouse religious
consciousness among Mormons that also had the effect of encouraging
fanaticism and suspicion of outsiders.

January 14, 1857

The
Utah legislature reorganizes the territorial militia by reactivating
what was called the Nauvoo Legion. Daniel Wells is named
commander-in-chief of the Legion.

Spring 1857

Reports
of harassment of federal officials and destruction of court records by
Mormons convince President Buchanan to


send an army to Utah to quell
the "rebellion." (A federal judge, a territorial surveyor, and
the U.S. marshal--all the federal officials in Utah except for one
Indian agent--fled the territory on April 15, convinced that they were
about to be killed.)

April and May 1857

Several
extended families leave Arkansas on what is planned to be a long
emigration via wagon train to California. The route for the
Fancher party, consisting of about 140 men, women, and children, will
eventually take them through Utah. In May, Parley Pratt, one of
the original apostles of the LDS Church, is
murdered in western Arkansas by an aggrieved husband whose wife Pratt
had taken.

June 1857

News
of Parley Pratt's killing reaches Utah in late June and inflames Mormon
hostility against non-Mormons.

July 1857

Word
reaches Mormon officials in Utah that a federal army is on its way to
the Territoryto quiet what federal officials call "a rebellion."

September 1, 1857

As
the Fancher party camps 70 miles north of Mountain Meadows, Brigham
Young meets in Salt Lake City with southern Indian chiefs to devise a
strategy to stop overland emigration through southern Utah. In
the
meeting, according to an entry in the diary of Dimick Huntington,
Young's brother-in-law, Young encouraged the Indians to seize "all the
cattle" on the "south route" to California.

September 4, 1857

The
Fancher party arrives in Cedar City, Utah. About this time, Isaac
Haight, second in command of the Nauvoo Legion's southern brigade,
tells John Lee that he planned to arm the Paiute Indians and "send them
after the emigrants." Two chiefs meet with Haight and John Higbee
and receive orders to kill the Fancher party members and take their
property as spoil.

September 5, 1857

John
Lee heads south and camps


with his Paiute war party. Men ordered
by Haight and Higbee to participate in the action against the emigrants
are told to report to a place in the hills near the ranch of Jacob
Hamblin. The Fancher party heads south toward Mountain Meadows.

September 6, 1857

Brigham
Young, in a sermon, declares that the Almighty recognizes Mormon Utah
as a free and independent people, no longer bound by the laws of the
United States.

September 7, 1857

The
Fancher party, encamped near Mountain Meadows, wakes to gunfire coming
from about 40 to 50 (some accounts give a much higher number) Indians
and Mormons disguised as Indians. The well-armed Fancher party
puts up strong resistance and the battle turns into a siege.
Haight, responding to pressure from some Mormons, sends a courier to
Brigham Young (a 600-mile round trip that would take at least four
days)
informinghim of the situation at Mountain Meadows and asking him what
to do next.

September 8-10, 1857

Mormon
reinforcements, totally about 100 men, arrive at Mountain Meadows and
join the fight. Haight and Colonel William Dame, the head of
southern Utah's militia, are kept informed of developments. A
meeting is held at Dame's house at which he says, "My orders are that
the emigrants [except the youngest children] must be done away with." On
September 10, militia commanders ring the town bell in Cedar City,
calling out trusted members of the Nauvoo Legion. The same day,
the messenger carrying news to Salt Lake gives Haight's letter to
Brigham Young. Young, according to published Mormon reports,
sends a message back to let the Indians "do as they please," but--as
for Mormon participation in the siege--if they will leave Utah, "let
them go in peace."

September


11, 1857

Mormon
leaders devise a plan to end the stand-off. Carrying a white
flag, Mormons meet with members of the Fancher party and pledge the
emigrants safe passage back to Cedar City as a way of getting them to
give up their arms. The Fancher party is divided into two wagons,
carrying the wounded and
the youngest children ("the innocent blood"), with the older children
and women marching behind, followed by the men, marching in single
file. The men are led off to a place near the side of the road
where Higbee orders a group of Mormons guards to begin the killing: "Do
your duty!" A quarter of a mile away, John Lee leads the
wagons until they reach a point where Nelphi Johnson orders the
slaughter of the women and older
children. Men rush at the party from bothsides, and the killing
continues amidst "hideous, demon-like yells." It is over in just
a few minutes. 120 members of the Fancher party are dead. The
youngest children, those under about age seven, are taken away.

September 12, 1857

Col.
Dame and Lt. Col. Haight visit the massacre site with John Lee.
Dame seemed appalled at what he saw and said, "I did not think there
were so many of them [women and children], or I would not have had
anything to do with it." Dame's comment angered Haight, who
expressed concern that Dame might try to throw the blame on him for an
action that he ordered. (Lee's account) The men pledge to keep
Mormon participation in the massacre secret.

September 13, 1857

The
messenger sent to ask of Brigham Young what to do with the emigrants at
Mountain Meadows returns to Cedar


City and presents a letter from Young
to Isaac Haight. "Too late, too late," Haight says as he reads
the letter and begins to cry.

September 15, 1857

Brigham
Young issues a proclamation (of questionable legality) declaring
martial law in the Utah Territory. The proclamation prohibits
"all armed forces...from entering this Territory," orders the Nauvoo
Legion to prepare for an invasion, and prohibits any person from
passing through the Territory without a permit from "the proper
officer."

September 16 or 17, 1857

Brigham
Young hears his first reports concerning Mormon participation in the
massacre at Mountain Meadows.

September 20, 1857

John
Lee leaves for Salt Lake, where he will provide Young with a detailed
account of the massacre. According to Lee, Young first expresses
dismay and concern that the massacre will damage the LDS
reputation. The next day, however, Young tells Lee, "I asked the
Lord if it wasall right for the deed to be done, to take away the
vision of the deed from my mind, and the Lord did so, and I feel first
rate. It is all right. The only fear I have is from
traitors."

September 27, 1857

Garland
Hurt, the federal Indian agent for the Territory, hears reports that he
will be assassinated by Mormons who fear that he knows too much about
the massacre and, with the help of Utes, flees to safety.

October 1857

Federal
forces, under General Albert Johnston, sent to suppress the Utah
rebellion decide to overwinter at Fort Bridger, rather than fight the
men of the Nauvoo Legion guarding the canyons leading to Salt
Lake. Meanwhile, the first published reports of the massacre
begin to appear in the press. The reports place much of the blame
on Mormon fanatics, and many people


call for military action against
those responsible. The San Francisco
Bulletin, for example, calls for "a crusade against Utah which
will crush out this beast of heresy forever."

November 20, 1857

Lee
writes a fictionalized report of the massacre, attributing all the
killing to the Indians, and sends it do Young.

January 6, 1858

Brigham
Young submits a report to the Indian Commissioner laying the blame for
the massacre on mistreatment of Indians by non-Mormons.

February 25, 1858

Thomas
Kane, sent to Utah by President Buchanan to attempt to work out a
peaceful solution to the Utah problem, arrives in Salt Lake City.

March 18, 1858

Congress
debates the massacre at Mountain Meadows. It orders an inquiry.

April 1858

Alfred
Cumming, the newly appointed governor of Utah sent from Washington,
arrives in Salt Lake to assume office. Cumming announces that he
will head south to begin an investigation of the massacre.Young
assures Cumming that he is also determined to get to the truth of the
matter, and Cumming seems to believe him.

May 11, 1858

Gov.
Cumming declares the California trail open and says emigrants can once
again "pass through Utah territory without hindrance or molestation."

June 26, 1858

Federal
troops (one-fourth of the United States Army) march through Salt Lake
City toward their headquarters at Camp Floyd, forty miles away.
They do so after Young, recognizing the overwhelming size of the
federal force, accepted federal terms--including a pardon for acts of
rebellion.

August 6, 1858

George
A. Smith, one of the twelve apostles in the LDS Church, begins drafting
an apostolic report on the massacre. The report blames the
emigrants for inciting Indians. It also places John Lee at the
scene, thus identifying him as the best possible Mormon scapegoat for
the crime. (Historian Juanita Brooks believes


to be the person
ultimately responsible for the massacre, having told Dame to issue the
order that all the emigrants be killed.)

November 1858

U.
S. District Judge John Cradlebaugh arrives in Utah and begins to take
an immediate interest in prosecuting those responsible for the
massacre. Prosecution will be frustrated by a Utah law that
places jury selection in the hands of Mormon officials.

March 1859

Indian
Superintendent Jacob Forney travels through southern Utah, rounding up
children orphaned by the massacre. He eventually retrieves 17
children.

April 1859

Judge
Cradlebaugh issues arrest warrants for John D. Lee, Isaac Haight, and
John Higbee. The men, all accused in connection with the Mountain
Meadows murders, flee.

May 5-6, 1859

The
army and Judge Cradlebaugh inspect the massacre scene. Skulls,
bones, masses of women's hair, and bits of clothing still litter the
scene. Remains of the victims are buried by troops.
Cradlebaugh follows uphis visit with a letter to President Buchanan
outlining his conclusion that the murders were committed "by order of
council."

May 12, 1859

An
arrest warrant is issued for Brigham Young. He appears
voluntarily before Judge Joseph Smith (in a Mormon probate court) to
give a statement about the massacre, in which he accused of being an
accessory after the fact. The case is apparently dismissed for
lack of evidence.

June 3, 1859

The
federal case against 38 Mormons for the massacre is essentially dropped
when the U. S. Marshal declares his unwillingness to make arrests
without federal troops to protect him from local citizens, and that
help is not provided.

August 13, 1859

A
report from the scene of the massacre, accompanied by a grisly cover
sketch, appears in Harper's Weekly.

December 12, 1859

Indian
Superintendent Forney arrives in Washington, D.C. with the two oldest
surviving boys from the massacre.


Forney hopes the boys will be
allowed to testify before Congress.

1860

With
the Union ready to split apart, interest in prosecuting the Mountain
Meadows massacre begins to wane. In Utah, Governor Cumming is
unwilling to press prosecution, which he sees as futile: "God
Almighty couldn't convict the butchers unless Brigham Young was
willing."

1861

With
the onset of the Civil War, federal troops leave Utah.

1862

Abraham
Lincoln appoints non-Mormons to fill all federal offices in Utah and
signs a law outlawing polygamy, although the law is largely ignored in
Utah.

March 1864

John
D. Lee, a man with a domineering personality who repeatedly boasted of
his role in the massacre, is relieved of his position as elder of the
Harmony, Utah branch of the LDS.

1868

Gov.
J. Wilson Schaffer, appointed by President Grant, abolishes the Nauvoo
Legion. The Mormon political condition generally begins to
deteriorate.

1870-71

Charles
W. Wandell, under the pen name "Argus,"writes a series of stories in
the Utah Reporter challenging Brigham Young's response to the Mountain
Meadows massacre. Wandell's articles eventually produce the first
confession by a massacre participant. About this time, Young
meets with Lee, Haight, Dame, and others involved in the
massacre. Historians suggest that Young singles out Lee to take
the blame, confident in the belief that Lee will do as he is told at
any trial. Lee is excommunicated.

April 10, 1871

Philip
Klingensmith, a former LDS bishop who subsequently left the Church,
appears in a Nevada court and swears out an account of the massacre,
including his own role in it.

1874

Congress
passes the Poland Act, which redefines the jurisdiction of courts in
Utah. The law restricted the authority of Mormon-controlled
probate courts and opened Utah juries to non-Mormons. The Poland
Act finally makes prosecution for the murders at Mountain


Meadows a
real possibility.

John
Lee, a fugitive for fifteen years, is captured in a chicken coop near
Panguitch, Utah. Soon thereafter, federal authorities arrest
William Dame.

July 23, 1875

The
trial of John Lee opens in the courtroom of Judge Jacob Boreman.
Payment for Lee's defense is arranged by Brigham Young. The
prosecution's star witness is Philip Klingensmith.

August 5, 1875

The
trial of John Lee ends in a hung jury, with the nine Mormon jurors
voting to acquit and the three non-Mormon jurors voting to
convict. The trial, however, severely tarnishes the reputation of
the LDS Church in the eyes of most Americans.

September 1, 1875

George
A. Smith dies.

Summer 1876

Prosecutor
Sumner Howard, the new U. S. attorney for Utah, makes a deal with
Brigham Young. Young agrees to find witnesses to convict John Lee
in return for his affidavit being placed in evidence (largely
exonerating him) and chargesare dropped against William Dame and other
Mormon officials.

September 14, 1876

The
second trial of John Lee opens in Beaver, Utah. Numerous Mormons
testify against Lee, but the testimony does not implicate other
Mormons. Lee asks that no witnesses testify in his behalf.

September 20, 1876

After
only a few hours of deliberation, an all-Mormon jury convicts John Lee.

Winter 1876-77

While
his appeals play out, John Lee writes his autobiography and confession,
which he gives to his attorney, William Bishop, and which is later
published under the title, Mormonism
Unveiled.

March 23, 1877

John
Lee is executed by firing squad while sitting on his coffin in Mountain
Meadows.

August 29, 1877

Brigham
Young dies, possibly of appendicitis.

August 3. 1999

A
back hoe's claw exposes the skeletal remains of men, women, and
children
massacred in 1857.

September 11, 1999

Gordon
B. Hinckley, President of the LDS Church, dedicates a new monument to
the victims of the 1857


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("Hey, it got the Raptors to the finals," he added.)

The idea was to speak directly to a Liberal attack line, though that rebuttal was weakened when — on the same day Scheer was delivering his speech — a Conservative MP quoted New Zealand's worst mass killer to attack a Muslim witness's credibility before the Commons standing committee on justice and human rights.

Scheer's immigration speech followed the same strategy he employed in rolling back his earlier promise to balance the federal budget within two years, by pushing the timeline out to five years.

The Liberals have been warning Canadians of the dire consequences of the cuts that would be needed to wipe out the deficit in just two years. So Scheer is trying to


limit the damage a Trudeau-led government can do to the country by limiting the prime minister to one term. It seems clear that there is a growing audience for that message.

Wooing the 'Blue Liberals'

The SNC Lavalin controversy and a series of self-inflicted wounds have wiped out the Liberals' former lead in the polls. The Conservatives are running TV ads (in heavy rotation during the Raptors' run to the finals) that seek to reinforce voters' growing doubts about Trudeau.

Their primary targets are the so-called Blue Liberals — voters who have supported the governing party but are less comfortable than the prime minister and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are with serial multi-billion-dollar deficits.

Many Conservatives feel the leftward shift of the Liberals under Trudeau has orphaned the bulk of those BlueMarine technical advisor of the film was Colonel Jacob G. Goldberg (1911–2008), who served 30 years in the Marine Corps.

Reception
When the White House was interested in Warner Bros. making a film on John F. Kennedy's exploits as the commander of PT 109, Jack L. Warner sent a print of Marines, Let's Go to display Raoul Walsh's expertise for making the movie about Kennedy. The president hated the film, however, and Warner Bros. had to choose a new director for PT 109.

Cast
 Tom Tryon as Pfc. Roth
 David Hedison as Pfc. Chatfield
 Tom Reese as Pfc. McCaffrey
 Linda Hutchings as Grace
 Barbara Stuart as Ina

See also

List of films featuring the United States Marine Corps

References

External links
 Howard Thompson, "'Marines, Let's Go!' Comes to Paramount" (review), The New York Times, August


2015 Belize International Film Festival

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belize International Film Festival, one of the film festivals in the Region, showcasing a significant number of Caribbean films. This year’s Festival will be held from July 17-19, at the Belize Ocean Club. Let’s take a look at the Caribbean films there this year.

Two musicians from Tel Aviv, Israel travel to Jamaica to record an album with forgotten reggae artists from the past. The film follows Ariel Tagar (Kalbata) and Uri Wertheim (Mixmonster), from their basement studio in Tel Aviv, all the way to the Kingston ghettos, looking for their favourite singers of days gone by. In Jamaica, they encounter a strange, often challenging culture while trying to achieve their goal. A unique musical journey intocircle trapping her father and brother.

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Deal With It Trailer – Eng

DREADLOCKS STORY is a historical page which exhibits the bonds of survival of African and Indian culture in Jamaica in view of up-front anti-slavery and anti-imperialist struggles! Due to British colonists, Indians and African descendants have met in the plantations and created something absolutely unique and indispensable to express what they had been oppressed by.

The film has been shot in 4 countries (India, Jamaica, France and the USA), in 4 languages (Hindi, Jamaican Patois, French and English), with 4 local crews. That has sharpened the director’s flexibility!

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DREADLOCKS STORY – Documentary trailer

Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution, directed and produced by Caribbean filmmaker Bruce Paddington, explores the achievements and shortcomings of the People’s Revolutionary


Government (1979-1983) of Grenada as it attempted to forge a new revolutionary society. The film focuses on the year 1983, with gripping and previously unseen archival footage, as well as firsthand recollections of persons who witnessed the tragic events of October 19. It examines the circumstances surrounding the execution of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and his close colleagues, whose bodies were never recovered. With its the multiple perspectives and different narratives, the film explores this key event in the recent history of the Caribbean and raises questions which must be answered.

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FORWARD EVER: THE KILLING OF A REVOLUTION Trailer – TWN

Pan, an instrument, an ensemble and music, created in Trinidad during the 1940’s by urban street gangs turned into orchestras, shaping oil drums into tonal instruments. TodayPan has adherents from all over the world. Still Trinidad remain the Mecca, where each year man and woman who stake all on their art and passion come to compete for the world championship of Pan, the Panorama, with philharmonic orchestras of over 100 musicians. The fictional part, the violent story of the ones who through their struggle, carried the destiny of this new instrument, bring the keys to the understanding of the modern characters and of this global human adventure.

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A celebration of Derek Walcott’s poetry and Caribbean culture. Derek Walcott, Literature Nobel Laureate has traveled the world while remaining closely connected to his beloved island St. Lucia. As a poet, playwright, painter and even as a flmmaker, Derek Walcott has


been hymning the Caribbean for over 60 years. This documentary presents an intimate portrait of him, set in his beloved native island St. Lucia. The place he always longs for, when he is taken to far away places by his universally acclaimed work. What moves and inspires this great poet? Who are the people whose lives became poetry through his writings? And how do they experience the gift of language of their friend, their mentor, and their father? This flm explores the poetry of Derek Walcott, the landscapes and people that inspire it. The flm observes Walcott in places essential to his work and life, and gathers the thoughts of some of his closest childhood friends. Most importantly, this documentary is a celebration of the greatest gift Walcotthas given the world: his poetry.

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Trailer Poetry is an island, Derek Walcott. A film by Ida Does

Following on from A Story about Wendy (2012), when she was dumped by her fiancé and sought to get her life back together, Wendy Phillips returns in the second chapter of her adventures. Excited to start work at Quirky TV as Simone Davies’ personal assistant, Wendy proves that she is dedicated and efficient. But when she inadvertently discovers information that reveals what really happened to Simone’s previous assistants, Wendy realises that her life is in danger.

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A Story About Wendy 2 (2014) Official Trailer

If you’re in Belize or planning to visit during the time of the Festival, stop by and check out the films.


Teenage boy denies Alesha rape and murder Published duration 10 December 2018 Related Topics Murder of Alesha MacPhail

image copyright Facebook image caption Alesha MacPhail died just days into her school holidays in July

A 16-year-old boy is to stand trial charged with abducting, raping and murdering six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute.

The teenager - who cannot be named for legal reasons - made his first public appearance in court on Monday.

His QC Brian McConnachie pled not guilty on his behalf and he will stand trial in February.

Alesha's mother was given special permission to be present in court to see the proceedings.

Prosecutors allege the accused boy was armed with a knife when he took Alesha from her bed at a house in Ardbeg Road in Rothesay in July.

Itis claimed he then carried the schoolgirl to the site of the former Kyles Hydropathic Hotel on the island.

image copyright Facebook image caption Alesha MacPhail's mother was allowed to watch proceedings in court

The indictment at the High Court in Glasgow stated he took off Alesha's clothes, shook her violently before placing his hands over her nose, mouth and around her neck.

'Disposing of clothes'

The boy is said to have "applied pressure" to her face, inflicted injuries by "means unknown", with prosecutors alleging he went on to rape and murder Alesha.

The teenager then faces a separate charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

It is alleged he went to another house in Ardbeg Road before disposing of the clothes he had worn and then taking a shower to remove


blood from his body.

This was said to have been done in a bid to "destroy or conceal evidence".

image caption Police investigated after the body of the six-year-old was discovered on the Isle of Bute

QC Brian McConnachie entered a not guilty plea on the 16-year-old's behalf.

The advocate said: "He pleads not guilty to both charges on the indictment."

Both Mr McConnachie and prosecutor Iain McSporran QC told the court they were ready for a trial to be set.

Mr McSporran said: "Trial is expected to last 10 days"

Judge Lady Rae then fixed a trial to begin next February.

Alesha's mother Georgina Lochrane, from Airdrie, who is a witness in the case, was given special permission by Lady Rae to be present in court to see the proceedings against the teenager accused ofShanghai

Day tour in Shanghai. Visit Yu Yuan Garden and the "old" market area in morning. Walk along the Bund and see the river and Shanghai life. Enjoy acrobatic show in evening. (B,L,D)

Your cruise program includes a visit to Fengdu, the Ghost City, supposed to be home to demons and a meeting place between earth and the other place. Take a cable car or walk up the hill. You can see a lot from the top. Temples, statues and relics tell the stories.

Also, there is a cruise by progressively smaller boats up a tributary of the Yangtze were you can see the Lesser Three Gorges, Longmen Gorge, Bawu Gorges, Dicui Gorge. The last bit of the cruise is done is a small boat pulled along by strong boatmen.

The Three


Gorges are spectacular, even after the water has risen following the famous Three Gorges Dam project.

Xiling Gorge-

Starting at the mouth of the Fragrant Stream in the west and ending at the Nanjin Pass of Yichang in the east. Xiling Gorge, the longest gorge, covers a length of 76 kilometres.

Wu Gorge-

Starting at the Daning River in the Wushan County, Sichuan Province. A section of 44 kilometres, this gorge is known for its grand and beautiful views. Here the river is hemmed in by steep faces of the peaks of the Wushan mountains. These 12 peaks and the swirling mist which surrounds them are the features of this gorge.

Qutang Gorge-

Starting at White King Town in the west and ending at the Daxi Stream in the east. Qutang Gorge is onlyCangshan Mountain. Continue on to the colourful morning market at nearby Xizhou where you will have a chance to wander its cobblestoned streets and admire the houses built in the original Bai Minority architectural style. Enjoy the "Three Courses Tea" ceremony and a traditional dance performance. After lunch visit the Old Town of Dali, the national historical and cultural cities. The present day Dali City was built in 1382 during the ming Dynasty to the west of the old town. (B,L,D)

Day 11 15/09/2011 Thursday Dali/Lijiang

Travel to Lijiang by couch- through the mountains, very beautiful. Lijiang is also known as Dayan Town. This city is a "living museum" with its maze of cobblestoned streets criss-crossed by canals, ornately carved wooden buildings and teahouses. Visit the local market on Sifang


came either by market alignment, or simply from an
internal catalog.

Most of their insights came from internal dashboards fueled by Nielsen, GFK,
Kantar (amazing sources by the way), and many private studies.

The thing is, they got to where they are because they had the Mass
Media(Communication) and Distribution upper hand for years. TV, the king for
many years, was the most effective way to get to the masses but it was
extremely expensive - yet they had the financial muscle so they just had to
pump GRPs.

Same goes for Retail Distribution, they built good distribution
channels/partnerships - people wanted their products, they had emotional
relationships with their brands.

But times change... first it started with retailers creating their own brands
(distribution brands) because they built the financial muscle to advertise
them, and had the distribution channels, they just hadcut down margins to win
in price and win the volume game...

Now it's the internet - people who know what their doing can reach a specific
audience, deliver great messages, build amazing brands, and have great
distribution channels - such as Amazon.

It's a loud market, and they mumble terms, jargon's and keywords they don't
fully understand. They have historial brands, with amazing value, yet they are
not connecting with people like some of these brands are doing.

Maybe they are so big they don't even notice it in their market shares, but
some of these numbers aren't even known in their holy reports... and it chips
off, day by day. They are also too proud to assume their are not doing a good
job - they rather blame agencies and create pitches instead of taking
accountability.

I've quit the


inquiry on July 25.

He could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday.

At least 170 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army in what it has called border protection during weekly protests that began in late March. One Israeli soldier has been killed.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted in May to set up the investigation into the killings. Israel said it was being demonized and that the inquiry was intended to undermine its right to self-defense.

Crane, recently retired as a Syracuse University professor, worked for decades for the U.S. government, including as senior inspector general in the Department of Defense. When chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone he indicted the then Liberian leader Charles Taylor for war crimes.

The remaining members of the Commission ofimaging study was performed using a database of existing patient computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest and abdomen to confirm the topographical landmarks defined in the first part of the study. The spine was used as a reference for both studies. The location of the eighth costochondral junction was defined relative to the spinal processes along with its location on the lower rib cage hemiperimeter in the transverse plane starting at the corresponding spinous process. The eighth costochondral junction was in line with the spinal process of the twelfth thoracic vertebra in the vast majority of cases and located at two-thirds of the lower rib cage hemiperimeter from the posterior median sulcus, regardless of the patient's chest shape, age and gender. This junction was always located under


India falls in a list of nations whose governments do not have an official or preferred religion, a PEW report announced on Tuesday.

The report, which covered 199 countries and territories from around the world, said that 106 countries (53%) don't have an official or preferred religion. 43 nations (22%) had an official state religion, 40 nations (20%) had preferred or favoured religion, while 10 nations (5%) were hostile to religious institutions.

"No country names Hinduism as its official state religion – though India has a powerful Hindu political party, and Nepal came close to enshrining Hinduism in 2015, when the rejection of a constitutional amendment declaring Hinduism as the state religion led to a confrontation between pro-Hindu protesters and police," the report added.

27 countries officially enshrine Islam as theis a tendency in smoking a pipe for saliva to work its way down the stem of the pipe and into the bowl. When this saliva takes part in the combustion process, the smoke not only has an unpleasant "bite", but the smell of the smoke which drips into the air is also somewhat unpleasant. It has been suggested that some of the difficulties experienced in pipe smoking can be removed by tamping or compressing the tobacco, and flat, round tampers have been provided in the past for this purpose, the tamper sometimes being combined with other pipe smoking tools. This process of compressing the entire body of tobacco in the pipe has not been successful in removing the difficulties and, as a matter of fact, compressing the


to the health of the smoker, because undesirable chemicals are not present in the smoke.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide a pipe smoking system in which the area of burning tobacco is smaller than in a conventional system, so that a bowl which is filled with tobacco takes longer to burn and the smoke is cooler.
Another object of the invention is the provision of a pipe smoking system in which burning takes place through the center of the body of tobacco in the bowl, so that burning does not burn only down one side of the bowl, so that the smoke does not contain burned ash, wood or saliva from the surface of the bowl, and so that ash and tar doGeorge Soros View Facebook?

An obstacle to innovation?

Facebook (FB) is preparing to report its 4Q17 results after recently coming under fire from billionaire investor George Soros. Soros owns nearly 110,000 Facebook shares, although he greatly reduced his exposure to the stock alongside others such as Twitter (TWTR) in 3Q17. report its 4Q17 results after recently coming under fire from billionaire investor George Soros. Soros owns nearly 110,000 Facebook shares, although he greatly reduced his exposure to the stock alongside others such as Twitter (TWTR) in 3Q17.

By May a movement developed called," Freedom From Facebook" involving MoveOn.org, Demand Progress, Public Citizen, and the Open Markets Institute which are four groups with ties to George Soros. What these companies have in common was a large progressive move to rally support to


Arachnophobia could be a product of human evolution, according to new research.

Spiders presented such a great danger to humans during the early evolutionary stages that a fear of the species became part of our DNA.

In Africa, early in human evolution, those with a keen ability to spot the creatures outlived their less wary counterparts, according to The Sunday Times.

Joshua New of Columbia University in New York said: “A number of spider species with potent, vertebrate-specific venoms populated Africa long before hominoids... and have co-existed there for tens of millions of years.”

10 Deadliest Animals In The World Show all 10 1 /10 10 Deadliest Animals In The World 10 Deadliest Animals In The World 10: Poison Dart Frog They might look cute, but the backs of the Amazonian poisonAnimals In The World 6: Crocodile The stealth and combined strength of a crocodile allows it to lie in the water undetected, before it strikes, drags its pray underwater, barrel rolls and dismembers it. 10 Deadliest Animals In The World 5: African Lion These big cats are ruthlessly agile, armed with razor-sharp teeth and talons and near-perfect hunters. 10 Deadliest Animals In The World 4: Great White Shark These kings of the sea have 3,000 teeth with which to tear their pray to shreds. On average, are 15ft long and 5,000lb, and can detect a drop of blood in 25 gallons of water. 10 Deadliest Animals In The World 3: Australian Box Jellyfish Each tentacle has 5,000 stinging cells and enough toxin to kill 60 humans. Each jellyfish


person told them a particular fact. For example, Tom Cruise told me that "the average person takes 12 minutes to fall asleep."

In the first experiment for destination memory accuracy, older adults' performance was 21% worse than their younger counterparts.

In the second experiment for source memory accuracy, older and younger adults performed about the same (60% for young, 50% for old) in recollecting which famous face told them a particular fact.

The study was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, U.S. National Institute on Aging, and a Baycrest Jack and Rita Catherall Award.

The study follows an earlier one published last year in Psychological Science by Dr. Gopie (Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute) and Dr. Colin M. MacLeod (University of Waterloo). That10 workers were killed and 40 injured in an explosion of gas cylinders at the chemical factory in Dhule

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and took stock of the situation arising out of the explosion at a chemical factory in Dhule in which at least 10 people were killed on Saturday.

During the telephonic conversation, the Chief Minister conveyed to the Union Home Minister that the state government has been doing its best to help those who are in distress.

"Anguished to learn about the loss of lives due to explosion at a chemical factory in Dhule, Maharashtra. Have spoken to CM @Dev_Fadnavis, state govt is doing everything possible to assist the people in need. My condolences with the bereaved families. May injured


recover soon," Mr Shah tweeted.

At least 10 workers were killed and 40 injured in an explosion of gas cylinders at the chemical factory in Dhule district of Maharashtra.

Several teams of police, disaster management, fire brigade were conducting rescue operations at the site.

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Animal rights activist says negligence, torture and unscientific training methods take a toll on pachyderms

There seems to be no end to the woes of captive elephants in the State. Negligence, torture and unscientific training methods claimed the lives of 16 captive elephants in the State in the past eight months, V.K. Venkitachalam, secretary of the Thrissur-based Heritage Animal Task Force, has alleged.

The latest victim is 58-year-old Nandilath Arjun that was found dead in its waterlogged tethering ground near Kundannur in Thrissur district on August 14. The elephant looked skinny due to starvation and lack of care, alleged Mr. Venkitachalam. In a similar incident, elephant Mukkomban Ganapathy, 56, was found dead in its tethering place, also waterlogged, near the Neeleswaram church in the Kaladi-Malayattoor area on August 12. Theanimal rights activist said this elephant too was very weak due to starvation.

Mullathu Kailas, a 32-year-old elephant, died at Korattikkara in the district on August 2.

In waterlogged areas

In a letter to the Director, Project Elephant, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Mr. Venkitachalam said that all the 16 elephants were deprived of proper food and veterinary care.

Many of them were tethered in waterlogged places, he said.

An elephant named Aaralam Siva, 22, captured by Forest Department from Kannur district and kept at the Muthanga forest elephant camp, was found dead on July 28, inside its kraal with wounds all over its body.

Akkavila Kannan, 17, was found dead at its tethering place near Kodaly in Thrissur on January 25 with severe injuries on its body.

Thottekkattu Karthikeyan, aged 30, died on February


and Dhakshayani (89) of Travancore Devaswam Board that died in Thiruvananthapuram on January 6) were all kept in open spaces without proper shelter.

“All these 16 elephants were kept at open spaces without having a shelter by persons having no statutory ownership certificates issued by the Kerala Chief Wildlife Warden,” said Mr. Venkitachalam

According to the Kerala State Forest Department, there were 521 elephants in captivity in the State as per a census conducted by it as per the order of the Supreme Court on November 1, 2018. The Task Force urged the Director, Project Elephant, to constitute a high-level committee to conduct enquiry into the deaths of elephants and initiate penal action against persons responsible for the deaths.The British-born Patrick Anderson (1915-1973) was a Montreal poet and teacher. He taught at Selwyn House School from 1940 to 1946 and at McGill University between 1948 and 1950. In 1942, Anderson and fellow Montreal poet Frank R. Scott founded Preview, a Modernist literary magazine whose orientation was said to be "cosmopolitan" -- orientated for inspiration towards the English poets of the 1930s. The author contends with the claim that Anderson exemplifies the failure of Canadian Modernist cosmopolitanism. She explores the potential value and limitation of Anderson’s works as what she terms “colonial cosmopolitanism”. She views colonial cosmopolitanism as a form of cosmopolitan thought that brings its inherent contradiction to the fore. The author argues that Anderson’s travel writing, with its inward gaze, self-critical narration, and engagement with


the flushing gas injected in through the inlet mostly flows along the paths between the partitions and exists via the outlet.
Preferably, the plasma display further comprises a guide wall for enclosing the picture display area, the inlet, the outlet and the blocks.
Preferably, the inlet and the outlet are formed in the rear substrate, facing each other in a diagonal direction.In reading about the mother of Mary Queen of Scots, Marie of Guise, I came across a touching story about Marie of Guise’s father, Claude, Duke of Guise. Claude was a cousin of King Francis I of France’s mother, Louise of Savoy. Duke Claude and King Francis were very close friends. Francis decided soon after he ascended the throne of France at the age of twenty-one, that he was the rightful heir to the Duchy of Milan. Milan had been in French hands at one time but the Swiss had taken it militarily and appointed the Italian Duke Massimiliano Sforza as its ruler. Duke Massimiliano was a good-for-nothing sort and it probably would have been easy to defeat him but the Swiss decided to defend the duchy against


attack.

Francis gathered an army to make an assault on Milan. Duke Claude, his brother Duke Antony and their younger brother Ferry joined the King’s army and went with him into battle. Francis hauled maybe as many as seventy cannons and his troops over the Alps on a newly made road through a previously unknown route at a pass called the Col d’Argentière. At the time this was considered a formidable achievement; equal to Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps. The astonishing appearance of the French army on the plains of Piedmont shocked the Italians and the Swiss.

The two armies met at Marignano outside of Milan in what is now Italy on September 13, 1515. King Francis had organized each division of his army with a combination of cavalry, infantryand artillery. The Swiss had no artillery or cavalry yet they were very successful in their first attack. More attacks and counter-attacks came until darkness fell. Both armies stopped fighting and rested. In the morning, the battle began anew. It was a heavy and cruel confrontation but the French eventually were victorious.

The Guise brothers, Claude, Antony and Ferry had become separated during the action. Antony frantically searched for his brothers. Even the King’s retinue joined the search, combing the field. Eventually they found Ferry dead. Claude was found too but he looked to be mortally wounded.

He had no fewer than twenty one wounds. His right arm was shattered, his thigh had been pierced by an arquebus ball and his horse had been killed beneath him, falling on him


and pinning him on the ground. When Claude’s esquire Adam Fouvert saw the plight of his master during the battle, he fell on top of him, shielding him. As the enemy drove forward Adam was killed. But Claude had somehow managed to survive. Claude received immediate medical treatment and was able to ride in triumph into Milan by the side of King Francis on October 16, 1515. Upon his return home to his duchy of Guise several months later, he saw his newborn baby daughter Marie of Guise for the first time.

Further reading: “Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots” by Rosalind K. MarshallThis invention relates to the recovery of heavy oil from subterranean sand formations containing viscous tar-like petroleum materials. In one of its aspects this invention relates to the recovery of heavy oil by thermal driving techniques. In still another of its aspects this invention relates to maintaining optimum porosity of the tar sand formation during thermal driving of heavy oil through the formation. In still another of its aspects this invention relates to the introduction of foam into a tar sand formation as an aid in thermal drive technique for removing heavy oil from a tar sand reservoir.
Large deposits of tar sands such as those in the Athabasca district of Alberta, Canada, have been found in various parts of the world. These tar sand deposits can extend over


philosophy. "There is no philosophy of killing Sikhs in the Congress," he told NDTV in an interview.

Quite apart from the fact that it would come as no great relief to the families of victims that the deaths of their family members were not philosophically motivated, this is simply untrue. Since 1984 all those who collaborated in the violence have systematically been rewarded within the Congress, a process that has continued even today. Sajjan Kumar’s son was given the ticket for the recent Delhi elections and the recently announced chief of the Delhi Congress Arvinder 'Lovely' is the son of a man who distinguished himself in the city by his fervent attempts to ensure that HKL Bhagat was not blamed for the 1984 killings. The sins of the fathersprovoking the outrage they would have if they were made about a party other than the Congress. In the Business Standard Mihir S Sharma, whose bias in this matter borders on the communal, actually went on to argue that he would consider 1984 relevant today 'when I see a spate of attacks on Sikhs by Congressmen across north India in 2013'.

This denial of the truth by otherwise respected members of the secular class in Delhi is understandable. Long years of social commonality through collegial friendship or interactions that start as professional linkages between bureaucrats and Congress politicians and then go down generations have tied together Delhi’s secular elite with a certain section of the Congress leadership. This is the elite that is often represented in most of the


Ed Krizek was born in New York City and lives in Swarthmore, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. He holds a BA and MS from University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and MPH from Columbia University. He is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County, has published over seventy articles, poems and short stories in various publications, and won prizes in several poetry and short story competitions. He is a board member of the Philadelphia Writers Conference, and also a board member of Mad Poets Society for many years and he handles MPS' email press announcements. You can see more of his work at www.edkrizekwriting.com and follow his blog www.edkrizek.com.US Secretary of State Colin Powell holding up a vial that could be used to hold anthrax, in his presentation to the UN in February 2003, ahead of the Iraq invasion. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/EPA

It has been 10 long years since "Shock and Awe" – the opening bombardment of Baghdad – lit up the skies above the Tigris. A decade later, we know far more about the case the Bush administration made to the world to justify its war of choice to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Books like Hubris by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, and British commission and US Senate reports have catalogued the extent to which intelligence was misused to mislead the public.

Yet, even as the intervening period has brought profound change for theUnited States and its


role in the world, have we learned the lessons of that disastrous period? And what were those lessons?

For nearly a year prior to the invasion, President Bush and his administration peppered the airwaves with serious accusations against Saddam Hussein, including claims of aluminum tubes that could be used in centrifuges to enrich uranium, and of Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium yellowcake from Africa. The intelligence supporting the claims was either not believed or was highly disputed by the experts. But that did not stop senior government officials from repeating them incessantly; nor did it prevent the powerful neoconservative ideologues who were the war's most fervent supporters from parroting them with menacingly jingoistic passion.

As a covert CIA operations officer working frantically in the months before the war to findand verify hard intelligence about Iraq's presumed WMD program, Valerie was keenly interested in watching Secretary of State Colin Powell address the United Nations on 6 February 2003. His reputation and service to the United States was stellar, and he was viewed as the lone moderate inside what many others considered to be a hawkish cabinet.

As Valerie watched the speech unfold on TV from CIA headquarters that morning, she experienced what can only be described as "cognitive dissonance". It became clear, as Powell laid out the case for war (with CIA Director George Tenet sitting conspicuously just behind the secretary's right shoulder), that his robust claims about the state of Iraqi WMD simply did not match the intelligence which she had worked on daily for months.

Powell's claim from


a discredited defector code-named "Curveball" on Iraq's biological weapons capability was particularly alarming. Valerie knew that "Curveball" had been deemed a "fabricator" by the agency, meaning that none of his intelligence could be believed.

The implications suddenly become obvious: we were watching a kabuki play and the outcome was predetermined. The Bush administration was determined to go to war, however bad the intelligence, and not even Secretary of State Powell was going to stand in the way.

Joe, too, watched Powell's speech, wondering whether the secretary would repeat the statement, first made by President Bush in his state of the union address several days earlier , that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." At the request of the CIA, Joehad investigated that claim in February 2002, as it pertained to Niger and had reported back to the agency that there was no evidence to support the charge. Tellingly, Colin Powell made no mention at the UN of any Iraqi effort to seek uranium, either from Niger or anywhere else in Africa.

Rumors of a Niger-Iraq uranium deal had first surfaced in Rome in 2001, as documents purporting to be related to the sale of 500 metric tonnes of yellowcake (a lightly refined uranium ore) circulated in intelligence circles and among journalists. Those documents were later found to be forgeries, but by the time the charge made its way into the president's speech, it had already been largely discounted by both the State Department and the CIA. The agency's


director told the White House three times not to use the claim because the CIA believed it to be false.

The now infamous 16 words made it into the state of the union speech only by agreement between the White House and the CIA to attribute the charge to the British government, which had published such a claim in its "White Paper" on Iraq, in September 2002. Unfortunately, as then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw testified to the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee in June 2003, the British claim had been based on separate intelligence from the forged documents, and that the British had not shared their intelligence with the US government.

In sum, we are left to believe that a significant part of President Bush's case for warwas based on intelligence that neither he nor his intelligence officials had even seen. The declassification of several documents in recent years, and a US Senate investigation report published in 2008 conclude that there was far closer collusion between the Bush and Blair administrations than the Straw testimony suggests. Yet, the British government to this day continues to stand behind its "separate intelligence" – which it has yet to make public.

The Powell address to the UN and the Niger-Iraq saga are but two examples of the efforts of the Bush administration to manipulate intelligence to support its political objectives and the lengths to which it went to secure support for its war. As former White House press secretary Scott McClellan put it:

"Bush and his White House were engaging


merits
but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage –
torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment
without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not
change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side… The nationalist not
only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a
remarkable capacity of not even hearing about them.

These two
agents had excellent relations with Tehran's street gangs, and Roosevelt told
them he now wished to use those gangs to set off riots around the city. To his
dismay, they replied that they could no longer help him because the risk of
arrest had become too great. This was a potentially fatal blow to Roosevelt's
new plan. He responded in the best traditionof secret agents. First he offered
the two agents $50,000 to continue working with him. They remained unmoved.
Then he added the second part of his deal: if the men refused, he would kill
them. That changed their minds. They left the embassy compound with a briefcase
full of cash and a renewed willingness to help. That week, a plaque of violence
descended on Tehran. Gangs of thugs ran wildly through the streets, breaking
shop windows, firing guns into mosques, beating passersby, and shouting 'Long Live Mossadeqh and Communism!' Other
thugs, claiming alliance to the self-exciled shah attacked the first ones.
Leaders of both factions were actually working for Roosevelt...

By the
early 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. was a senior officer in the CIA's Middle
Eastern division.[citation needed] At that time, there was a
political crisis centered in Iran that