"Whereas his life has shown that no adversary can overcome, and no feat can deter, free men in the defense of their freedom....

"Now therefore I, ... President of the United States of America, under the authority contained in an Act of the 88th Congress, do hereby declare [him] an honorary citizen of the United States of America."

The president was John F. Kennedy. The prime minister receiving honorary US citizenship was Sir Winston Churchill, who had a remarkable wartime relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt.

But the words could just as easily be said today by President Bush of Tony Blair, who has been as staunch a friend of America in difficult times as one could hope for.

Probably no British prime minister could hope to rival Churchill's reputation as a giantin the affairs of nations. But Mr. Blair comes close to emulating his devotion to the Anglo-American alliance. He has held firm to that alliance at awesome political cost. In the face of anti-American opposition from many of his own countrymen, Blair has seen his poll figures slump, and his career in politics draw to a close. Last week, in the face of a revolt from within his own Labor Party, he was pressured to set a deadline for his resignation.

His political offense is that he has cast in his lot with an American presi- dent, tumbling a brutal regime in Iraq, and sending British troops to join in that liberation. Furthermore, he shares Mr. Bush's passionate belief, now dismissed as naive by some critics, that all men


and women deserve freedom, even in the most benighted lands of Islam.

Congress has conferred honorary citizenship on foreign nationals only a handful of times. Surely Blair, as his premiership now draws to a close, deserves such recognition for his rock-solid commitment to the Anglo- American alliance in a world that is changing all around it.

Like Blair, Churchill had his political defeats and humiliations. His warnings before 1939 of the mounting menace of Hitler went unheeded by many.

His attempts to see Britain re-armed for the coming fray ran into opposition. After steering Britain through World War II to victory, he was unceremoniously dumped by the electorate. During his time out of office, he continued his relationship with various international leaders. In 1946, at the invitation of President Truman, hegave his historic address at Westminster College, in Fulton, Mo., where he called for closer Anglo-American cooperation in the face of threatening Soviet expansionism.

When the Conservative Party won the general election of 1951, he returned as prime minister, to strengthen Anglo-American relations.

That alliance has survived even when one leader has been right of political center and the other left of center. In one sense, Blair and Bush are an odd political couple – a demo- cratic socialist party prime minister and a conservative American president. But the ties that bind Britain and the United States go deeper than party politics. They have a common language (well, with a few anomalies such as "mudguard" for fender, "bonnet" for hood, and "boot" for trunk). They have a common heritage, and


a common set of principles and values. In time of war, they have generally stood shoulder to shoulder.

Standing fast with Bush on the Iraq war has cost Blair. Although he was the first Labor leader to win three successive terms in office, his party now sees him as a liability. His opponents have been pressuring him to stand down for a successor to lead the party in the next election, expected in 2009. Blair was obliged last week to promise that he will resign within 12 months, although he did not specify when. His presumed successor, who will face the Conservative Party in the next election, is Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. But opponents and loyalists within the Labour Party of both Blair and Mr. Brown havebeen dueling politically and publicly in a manner that leaves their party in seeming disarray ahead of its annual conference later this month.

It would be fitting, as Blair moves into the twilight of his political career, to reward his loyalty to the Anglo-American alliance with honorary American citizenship.

• John Hughes, a former editor of the Monitor, is editor and chief operating officer of the Deseret Morning News.


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Today, Hyder is the CEO of Marketing Zen Group, and she's been recognized as a leader in digital marketing trends by Business Week, Forbes, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. She has traveled the world as a keynote speaker — leading discussions everywhere from the White House to Cairo — and


are now in the same pain and anguish that us mere TV viewers have been suffering these last six seasons. Game of Thrones has never failed to shock and amaze me, and this season was no different, with some of the most rewarding and heartbreaking moments you will ever watch on television. With only 13 episodes now remaining (split over two seasons), season six has officially ended act two of the story of Westeros, setting up what will be a jaw-dropping final act. In my top ten films of 2016 article, I made the point that some argue the quality of television is surpassing what is being released in cinemas. No other episodes could make that case this year other than the final two episodes of Game ofwould end up in the final film, QT changed his mind (thank the lord!) and ended up making this cold, tension filled, three-hour long, western epic. The story of eight shady characters holed up in a cabin whilst a blizzard is happening outside is told in classic Tarantino fashion: non-linear chapters, rhythmic dialogue, a stellar cast, an incredible score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (his first in 35 years), and blood. A…lot…of…blood.

Favourite Quote: “Move a little strange, you’re gonna get a bullet. Not a warning, not a question…a bullet”

6. The Big Short

In the months between 2011 and 2012, I did my Masters degree on Global Banking and Finance. Of course, a major chunk of it was dedicated to the 2007-2008 financial crisis and the subprime mortgage crisis, a


to live with his aunt Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and her husband Hector (Sam Neill). As the film unravels, Ricky and Uncle Hec find themselves going on the run in the wild New Zealand bush and become part of a national manhunt. This is not only the funniest film of the year, its the best comedy in the last decade. There are endless jokes and quotes in this film that will make you cry with laughter, delivered by the amazing Sam Neill and the revelation that is Julian Dennison. The quick back-and-forth between Ricky and Hector is so wonderful, I can imagine both the actors must’ve found it so hard to keep a straight face when delivering their lines. And man that script. Written and directed by TaikaEnvironmental news from California and beyond

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A Van Nuys metal-plating business has agreed to pay a $100,000 fine to settle charges that it mishandled hazardous waste.

Inspectors from the Environmental Protection Agency and Los Angeles County Fire Department found that Crown Chrome Plating, a division of TMW Corp., a supplier of transportation services, had multiple hazardous wastes on site without a permit in April 2009, a violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. There were also four other waste-handling violations associated with having the materials in the facility.

The hazardous material included paint wastes, alkaline and acidic corrosive liquids, and sludges containing heavy metals such as chromium and lead, which the EPA said were not properly stored or handled. Staff


Nigeria: Black Africa's New Gospel of Reconciliation

Lagos — Gospel music as it is traditionally known is bound for a newer significance in the first Gospel and Roots International Festival scheduled for the Republic of Benin later in the year, writes Olayiwola Adeniji

Nigeria's King Sunny Ade will join some of the world's most popular gospel artistes that will congregate at Cotonou, the capital city of Benin Republic between October 27 and November 3 this year for what has been tagged as the first ever Gospel and Roots International Festival.

According to Agence Beninnoise Pour La Reconciliation Et Le development (Reconciliation & Development Agency), organisers of the festival, the week-long event is a celebration of reconciliation and has been designed to bring together some of the most renowned gospel artistes fromthe United States of America and Africa. It is according to Simon Pierre Adovelande, an outgrowth of the historic conference of Leaders on Reconciliation and Development which was held in Cotonou in December of 1999 which enjoyed the participation of various personalities of diverse origins including Heads of State, members of the Black Diaspora, Europeans, world leaders, intellectuals, and business people among others.

"This conference has as a principal objective to reflect and exchange ideas and to put together some basic principles in order to achieve a true and necessary reconciliation between the descendants of the black slaves spread out throughout the world and their brothers and sisters in Africa."

It was at that conference that it was agreed that music, specifically that of the gospel genre could be exploited


to play a vital role in expressing this new challenge to the world's black community. This then gave birth to the organisation of an International festival of Gospel and Roots as one of the principal activities in the process of reconciliation. This, according to Adovelande will not only bring together the stars and groups of gospel artistes from all corners of the world but will be an emotional meeting between brothers and sisters who have been separated by certain unfortunate historical happenstances. "Again, it will afford Africans from different parts of the world to recover parts of their culture and heritage that the greed of men had caused them to lose."

As a build up to this spiritual reconnection of Blacks and Africans in the Diaspora and those inthe homeland, an international press conference which will spell out details of the week long festival has been scheduled for the International Conference Center, Cotonou on Friday this week. THISDAY however gathered from Charles Migan, the Chief Executive of Diapason, a communication consultancy outfit which is connected to the festival that being the first of its kind and a new dimension in the struggle to cement the spiritual and cultural bond between all black peoples of the world, especially against the background of what seemed to be the inadequacies of earlier efforts, the festival will provide a veritable platform for the Republic of Benin to host each year the greatest festival of Gospel music in Africa, "a cultural event of international scope, a window that cannot be over


looked and an important meeting point for all participants and partners in the reconciliation process."

Also, the festival which in the main is supposed to serve as a base for the periodic forums for the exchange of ideas and meetings to analyse and formulate proposals for initiatives concerning the process of reconciliation and development, will also help to promote Gospel music in Africa through a commitment to professional training for African composers, promoters and technicians and to provide support for the exchange of ideas and contacts between the artistes and international promoters.

It isn't going to be all about music. According to the organisers, the International festival will also address all levels of the African population in general and Benin in particular as well as the Black Diaspora in America,the performers and representatives from the United States, honorary citizenship. They will also visit areas raided by the slave traders which it is hoped will open the way to internal reconciliation but also permit the evolution of the sister city concept.

While King Sunny Ade will be flying the Nigerian flag at the festival, six groups will be coming from the United States and these include; Ron Kenoly who is very popular on the continent, L.A Samuel, Angie Spivy, Righteous Riders and Spiritual Jubilation Choir. Roberte Laporal will be coming in from France while Rebecca Malope will be the sole entry from South Africa. The Schekina group will come in from Ivory Coast while Mawu Pe Nu Se comes in from Togo. The host country will present five different


groups while Marcel Boungou is expected from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For Ron Kenoly, the festival is not just another of his numerous engagements across the globe, it is truly another instance of homecoming. Only in April, he was at a similar festival in far away Barbados where he treated Gospel music lovers to a rare musical offering. "Dr. Kenoly had ministered in Barbados on two previous occasions; however, the March 16 concert was the first time that he was accompanied in Barbados by his live band, and this was a real treat for Barbadians", said producer Adrian Agard.

Another important feature of the visit was that worship leaders, musicians and singers for the first time, had the opportunity to benefit from a worship workshop presented by Dr. Kenolythe win column in the final four games.

Another win for this team will be no easy task. The best chance they have is coming up this week when they travel to New York to face the Jets. After that, the Raiders final three games will be against the three division rivals -- Chiefs, Chargers, and Broncos.

The Jets put up an abysmal performance against the Dolphins last Sunday. Rookie starting quarterback Geno Smith has not thrown a touchdown pass since October 20 and he was so bad last week he was benched in favor of undrafted rookie, Matt Simms, who didn't fare much better.

Earlier in the season, the Jets somehow managed to beat the Patriots and Saints but they also got embarrassed in some losses. They were blown out


TJ contributed to the neurosurgical issues. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Dr. Siepmann received financial compensation for academic leadership of the Master's Program in Clinical Research at Dresden International University. Dr. Siepmann's research is supported by Prothena Biosciences. Dr. Siepmann serves in the editorial boards of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, American Journal of Pharmacological Sciences and Journal of Contemporary Medical Education.

This work is part of a Master's thesis (PMS) of the Master's Program in Clinical Research, Center for Clinical Research and Management Education, Division of Health Care Sciences, Dresden International University, Dresden, Germany.
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My Dad has been doing well as far as NED but we have a new concern now. He's had terrible chest pains a couple of times in the past few weeks. He got them once just from coughing, it hit him again one day in the shower and then again one time when he actually was doing something strenuous. He said that he shakes and sweats when he gets them.

He had an appointment with a cardiologist yesterday who said that he thinks he has the start of some "heart problems". He did an EKG yesterday and took his blood pressure (which was good.) I asked my father what else he said and that was basically it. He didn't say


Charis Bible College staff, Carlie Terradez and Healing School Director, Daniel Amstutz, teaching at CBC-Kansas City. (Click to enlarge)In previous posts we have brought you news and testimonies from Charis Bible College's School of Healing in Colorado Springs. The school, directed by Daniel Amstutz, has seen some wonderful fruit since it opened its doors in March of 2011. Last month, several staff members and a 14 member team of students, took the School of Healing on the road for the first time. The team traveled from Colorado to minister at CBC-Kansas City's opening rally.

According to healing school staff member, Carlie Terradez, Daniel's assistant, it was Andrew's idea to send the team; his rigorous schedule prevented him being able to participate in the school's November opening. Although he couldnot be there, he wanted to give the new directors, Mark and Charla Eastwood, a boost and help promote the new Early in the Praise and Worship service. (Click to enlarge)campus in Overland Park, KS, so Andrew asked the staff to take a group to the rally.

More than 400 people attended the meeting, and by the end of the event, the venue was standing room only. A majority of the crowd came forward for prayer during the evening, and the students, both from Colorado and CBC-KC, let the love of God flow and attendees were not disappointed.

Signs and wonders followed a time of worship and prayer, and according to one staff member, the team saw so many miracles it was hard to keep track of them all. Highlights


from the evening included the double healing of an elderly couple; both received renewal for their aged bodies. The woman's eyes were healed from blindness, and her husband's hearing was restored.As the evening progressed people continued to show up.. CBC students continued bringing chairs in until it became staning room only.(Click to enlarge)

One man came to the healing school event with a thyroid tumor. It was reported that the mass was noticeably swollen and blue, and was protruding from his neck. The man indicated that the tumor was damaging his vocal chords and hindering his voice. As the minister prayed the lump went away, the man's skin became a healthy flesh color and his voice returned to normal. Praise God!

With the success of the meeting in the KansasA man was killed when he fell from a bicycle and was struck by a Red Line train on Chicago’s South Side Saturday afternoon.

Around 1:15, the man was riding a bicycle on the 35th St. station platform near Guaranteed Rate Field in the Bridgeport neighborhood when he lost balance and fell onto the track level just as a train was entering the station, according to CTA spokesman Brian Steele.

He fell onto the northbound track and the Howard-bound train struck and killed him, Steele and fire officials said.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office could not confirm the fatality. Further details, including the man’s age and identity, were not immediately available.

Red Line service was suspended between Roosevelt and 47th for about 90 minutes, with shuttle buses provided between those stops.

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"awaken child awaken open your eyes.' -jin tried to open his eyes with all his might but he couldn't trying to muster his strength he fought to open his eyes. Jin hit the bottom of this darkness and a flash of light spead threw this darkness with such intensity jins eyes shot open. The light died down and jin found himself on a grassy plan the wind blew gently. this made jin blood red hair flail about. " where am I" jin sat up and looked around to see people wandering around.-

-jin sat up and noticed his close had changed and even his health had returned being it lead to the head of his human life. Jin got up to his feet and looked around some more heWarren — About 150 law enforcement officers smashed a long-running drug ring that was a major supplier of hard drugs during raids Wednesday at 10 homes in Detroit and Highland Park, authorities said.

Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer and Kent Kleinschmidt, an assistant special agent in charge of the Detroit office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said at a news conference that the raids resulted from an investigation that started in January and netted as-yet untold sums of money, weapons and drugs. Eight people — seven men and one woman — were arrested.

"This particular organization is a major supplier of heroin, fentanyl and crack in Metro Detroit," Dwyer said.

The U.S. Attorney's Office and DEA requested that much of the details regarding those arrested, including names and locations, be withheld


buys nine months ago in Detroit and in Warren, "moving up the ladder" in the group by making more than two dozen "buys," Dwyer said.

"This was a highly organized, sophisticated operation," he said. "One of the houses were where sales were made; another where drugs were cut, prepared and packaged; and the cash was kept at a third house."

Warren Mayor James Fouts said he was proud of his officers and city's involvement in helping to knock out "dealers of death."

He said it is the second time this year that Warren officers have gone into Detroit to make arrests of suspects he compared to terrorists because of the harm they cause to law-abiding citizens..

"This should act as a warning to drug dealers who think that they are safe —amounts of torque to tighten.
Pneumatic rotary tools typically include an output member (e.g., a socket) sized to engage the fastener. Pressurized air flows through the tool and drives an air motor which in turn drives the socket. Air typically flows to the motor through one of two passages. When air flows through a first passage, it drives the motor in a forward (generally tightening) direction. When air flows through a second passage, it drives the motor in a reverse (generally loosening) direction.
A valve is used to direct the air flow to the first or second passage. Typically, the valve includes a directional channel to direct the air to the desired passage and an arm connected to the valve for moving the directional channel to the desired position. In


Starry Night, a nightclub/theater now known as Roseland located at 8 NW Sixth Ave in Portland’s Old Town, opened in December, 1982. The Willamette Week announced the opening of this new music venue, saying there was “not a bad seat in the house.” A week later, announcing a concert by local band Nu Shooz, Willamette Week said, “While Starry Night may be a strategic venue for national acts, with its capacity of 967, at the same time it hopes to be a comfortable performance hall for local bands.”The man behind Starry Night, Larry Hurwitz, who “turned a rundown church in the heart of Portland’s skid road into the city’s largest, most successful concert hall (PDXS 12/10/98)”, has an obscure history. Very little information is available on him beforestreet people of Old Town.Until 1986 Sav-Mor Grub had been Club 101, a tavern that appealed to a tough crowd of street people and drug addicts. In 1986 Club 101 lost its liquor license and Sav-Mor Grub was born. The crowd of toughs and street people still gathered on the corner drinking fortified wine. The Oregonian called the corner of NW Sixth and Couch “a festering sore in the eyes of the police and the business community."On July 22, 1989 an arson fire was extinguished at Sav-Mor Grub, the fire did $125,000 worth of damage. On August 24, 1989 two huge explosions tore through Sav-Mor Grub at 4:26 a.m. The resulting three-alarm fire not only destroyed the grocery store, but also Henry's Resale, Portland Tattoo Shop and Demetri's


been sold through a neighboring club, Day For Night 135 NW Fifth Ave, which was owned by Larry Hurwitz’s father-in-law. Some concert goers with fake tickets said they had bought them from Hurwitz personally.When questioned by the police, Hurwitz said he knew nothing of the counterfeiting, but suspected one of his employees. On January 23 the story hit the Oregonian. That night Larry Hurwitz summoned his employee Tim Moreau, 21, to his office.Hurwitz later claimed that he confronted Moreau about the fake tickets and they had an emotional meeting. Finally Moreau admitted the counterfeiting and agreed to turn over the money. Moreau said he would have to lead Larry to where the money was hidden.According to Hurwitz’s story, Moreau eluded him at a stoplight and drove off intoA Word by Any Other Meaning: Konglish

by Jeffrey Miller What is Konglish?

English words with a different meaning

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Foreigner in distress

Konglish in the classroom The English language by its very hybrid nature is delightfully peppered (not to mention seasoned) with hundreds of words that have been borrowed from other languages. From ketchup and yoghurt (Turkey) to sushi (Japanese) and taekwondo (Korean) these words have formed the unique tapestry of the English language. On the other hand, what happens when another language borrows words from English and tries to incorporate them into that language without regard to syntax, grammar, or even pronunciation? The result can often be a humorous linguistic concoction of English usage. What is Konglish? In Korea, the mixture of Korean and English words to form words


that are used by Koreans but only after making a direct translation from Korean to English. One of the more obvious examples is the word Konglish, which is formed by taking the initial syllable of Korean (Ko), removing the 'E' of English and then combining the remaining parts of the two words. top English words with a different meaning One of the more harmless uses of Konglish involves words with 'false cognates'. Take for example the word dessert. In English, this word could be defined as 'an after dinner treat', but in Korea, the term dessert is an example of a word in which the meaning has been altered slightly. While it is still served after a meal, it refers to either a cup of coffee, tea, orout class, another Konglish term used to describe an outing outside of the classroom usually to a coffee shop or restaurant, one of my students came up with a variation on the theme: Let's have the Dutch pay. I looked around to see if there was anyone from Holland in the coffee shop. Other examples of these 'fabricated words' include cash corner (ATM), oil bank (gas station), hand phone (mobile phone), light Coke (diet Coke) and one of my all time favourites, MacGyver knife (swiss army knife). The name of the main character in a popular American TV show that was being shown in Korea when I came here, MacGyver was known for his ingenious escapades with his trusty swiss army knife. top Pronunciation Sometimes the pronunciation of


though. But as psychotherapist Looking for a sex friend with benefits in vergara Morris points out, sex changes everything: Yet intimacy has a profound effect on the emotions, which can be very confusing, especially for women. So friends with benefits relationships are often more emotionally confusing and upsetting for women.

She insists she enjoys their arrangement, but admits it can be unsettling. She said she has decided to draw a line under Friends with Benefits Meanwhile, Malcolm, 28, a computer analyst living in Barking, Essex, is wondering how to tell Martina that he has met a woman he wants to have a conventional, committed relationship with. Both ways, I win. All the more so because it was Malcolm who asked Martina out in the first place after they bumpedinto each other on a visit back to the hometown where they had once been school friends. Martina, a youth support worker from Pinner, Middlesex, explains: So she and Malcolm started emailing each other.

Next, they agreed to meet in London and enjoyed several dates. Are they destined to fail, or become romantic relationships? Though the answers to these questions are often individual and highly specific, an understanding of the role of the FWB relationship is beginning to develop among sexual scientists. A FWB relationship, in general, is a mutual connection between two people that lies somewhere on the spectrum between a friend and a partner. The key to this relationship is that it requires some degree of sexual intimacy.

Most people agree that this relationship is not based purely


personal agenda o white wash minister Bathiudeen but it is our duty to reveal that the public that the alleged person for the disaster is not Bathiudeen but president Gamarala.

Although president Gamarala was the real supplier to the bomb factory, he covered that and exposed Bathiudeen as the offender to the public because it was the president who has said Bathiudeen to leave the country. President who has called Bathiudeen and said, he has lots of pressure to arrest him, therefore to leave the country for few days. Since he cannot deny the request of the president minister Bathiudeen has left the country without telling even the premier. Now the whole country assumes that Bathiudeen left the country in fear that he supplied copper to the bombers factory.of symbols and
symbolism. Children at these grade levels learn about the many layers
and functions within a community and how to recognize them.
Last May, Clark
Farnsworth invited Linda to present SLATER’s Traveling Classroom
program with the Museum in a Bag series to his G.E. retirees’
monthly luncheon group. After the luncheon, a gentleman named
Frank Travers asked Linda if she would be interested in
speaking to a group that he is associated with. You bet! After
further conversation, one thing lead to another and Linda mentioned
that the SLATER is interested in attending the Boy Scout Camporee in
the fall. As it turns out, Frank is involved at the leadership level
with the Scouts as well as the coordination and facilitation of the
Camporee. Back at the ship and several e-mails later in August, Linda
was invited and attended the


finally finished and on display
in our briefing/classroom. The Museum is indebted to Frank
McClatchie who served with one of these hunter/killer groups as a
radioman on board USS NEAL H. SCOTT DE769 in 1945. Frank designed,
built, and donated the electronics in the simulator, and, as an
original radio operator of the huff/duff, attests to the authenticity
of the display. He also researched German documents, and made the
large chart used in the display. This high frequency direction finder
re-creation has an authentic cathode ray tube display which
demonstrates the operation of the World War II model DAQ/DAU Radio
Direction Finder equipment. The actual DAU equipment is on display in
SLATER’s aft emergency radio room. This type of equipment was
installed on approximately half of the U.S. Navy’s Destroyer
Escorts in 1943 to 1945. The equipment enabled DEs to takeof the crew left,
as the water slowly crept across the parking lot. I came back at 1700
and the water was over the seawall and the parking lot was completely
covered, thigh deep. The adjacent roads were all completely flooded,
and the only way to get to the ship was to remove barricades and go
backwards on the highway entrance ramps. Barry Witte and Gary
Sheedy joined me and we watched transfixed as the water rose
until 2030 when we saw it receding. At that point we packed it in for
the night.
The following
morning, Tuesday, we arrived to a parking lot that was a sea of mud.
The water had fallen to three feet below the seawall. As Erik Collin
began valiantly washing our end of the parking lot, Barry Witte
began checking out the power issues. The


power to the ship meggered
out fine and he had the ship back on line by 0930. However, water had
gotten into the feeder to the trailer, so he spent the morning
sucking out the conduit and blowing air through the line. By noon the
trailer was back on line.
About this time
Mayor Jennings sent City crews down in force. We had help from
the Water Department, Department of General Services, the Port and
the Fire Department removing the mud and hosing off the wharf and the
adjacent roads. By Wednesday morning we were ready for business and
back open for tours. In short, the ship, whaleboat and paint float
came through fine. The mooring worked just as we would have hoped.
However, for those of you who were familiar with the old mooring
arrangement and the 15 waterlogged camelsA search of the home of Santino Williams Legan, the man law enforcement says shot and killed three people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, has turned up materials on white supremacy and radical Islam, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Federal law enforcement sources told the Chronicle that the makings of "massive attack" were found in the Walker Lake, Nevada rental home where the shooter was staying. Among the items found were a gas mask, "numerous" hard drives, a bulletproof vest and "reading material on white supremacy and radical Islam."

An Instagram account purportedly belonging to the shooter also referenced white supremacist ideology, recommending "Might is Right" by Ragnar Redbeard.

Written under a pseudonym in the late 1800s, the book is a defense of Anglo-Saxon and male supremacy,


and argues that weakness shows moral inferiority. It is also full of anti-Semitic rhetoric.

"It's widely popular and present among ethnocentric white nationalists of all levels, from suit-and-tie white supremacists to neo-Nazis," Keegan Hankes, a senior analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center's intelligence project, told Rolling Stone.

MORE: Nevada store owner who sold Gilroy shooting suspect the gun: 'I hope you rot in hell'

Federal and local law enforcement are still investigating Legan's motives.

"I would say that we are not closer to understanding that motive, what happens within the psyche of a 19-year-old kid. I can't speak to that," Craig Fair of the San Francisco FBI office told the Associated Press. "Determining the motive is an exceptionally important thing for law enforcement to try to understand one, why they didThe next retro-inspired member of the Volkswagen family might be a people-mover that harkens back to the iconic Bus, a new report coming out of England finds.

Designed largely with the North American market in mind, the yet-unnamed 21st century Bus will be markedly inspired by the original, rear-engined model that was built in various forms from late 1949 up until 2013. Like the Microbus concept (pictured) that was introduced in 2001, the updated model will share three important styling cues with the original hippy Bus.

“First the wide, solid, D-pillar, second the boxy design of the center section and, thirdly, the front end must have a very short overhang. The distance from the A-pillar to the front end must be very short,” explained Hans-Jakob Neusser, Volkswagen’s development chief, in


situ hybridization revealed that PACAP and PAC1 mRNAs were restricted to neural cells. PAC1 gene expression was observed mainly in the ventricular zone in the ventral parts of the prosencephalon, mensencephalon, rhombencephalon, and anterior spinal cord. In contrast, PACAP mRNA was localized exclusively in postmitotic cells in the dorsolateral parts of the rhombencephalon and entire spinal cord. Most PACAP mRNA-containing cells were characterized as Rohon-Beard neurons. Exposure of early embryos to UV irradiation, which ventralizes embryos and inhibits neural induction, reduced the expression of PACAP and PAC1 genes. These results suggest that PACAP may be involved in the early development of the embryonic Xenopus neural tube.Emily Gielnik’s first-half goal proved the difference as Australia secured their second win over Chile in four days, albeit with another unconvincing display against the No 37-ranked South Americans in Adelaide.

Sam Kerr, whose immediate club future is expected to be announced imminently, laid on the only goal of the game on 23 minutes for Gielnik, who finished neatly from an acute angle.

But Kerr passed up a good chance to get her own name on the scoresheet before the break when the Matildas captain saw her spot kick, which she had won herself, saved by Chilean goalkeeper Natalia Campos. The Europe-bound Kerr nearly atoned for that miss when she struck the bar soon after the restart but try as they might, the Matildas could not add to Gielnik’s strike.

On


unconscious, and only after a vision of Ying and the dramatic cries of Feng in an otherwise silenced arena, does a semi-conscious Su manage to stand up. He is declared the winner.

The film ends with a seemingly restored Su practising his moves of old but with long hair reminiscent of the insane period of his life, with Feng and (presumably, in Su's mind) Ying observing. Su has seemingly found his passion.

Cast
Vincent Zhao as Su Can / Beggar So
Zhou Xun as Xiao Ying
Jay Chou as God of Wushu
Michelle Yeoh as Sister Yu / Yu Shu Lien
Andy On as Yuan Lie
David Carradine as Anton
Guo Xiaodong as Colonel Ma
Feng Xiaogang as Pick pocket
Cung Le as Militia Leader
Gordon Liu as Old Sage / Drunken God
Bryan Leung as Su Wan-kun
Jacky Heung as ImperialAfter obtaining his medical degrees Jones specialised in neurology and took a number of posts in London Hospitals. It was through his association with the surgeon Wilfred Trotter that Jones recalled first hearing of Freud’s work. Having worked together as surgeons at University College Hospital they had become close friends, with Trotter taking the role of mentor and confidant to his younger colleague. They had in common a wide-ranging interest in philosophy and literature, as well as a growing interest in Continental psychiatric literature and the new forms of clinical therapy it surveyed. By 1905 they were sharing accommodation above Harley Street consulting rooms with Jones’s sister, Elizabeth (later to become Trotter’s wife), installed as housekeeper. Jones, appalled at what he had seen of the institutionalised treatment of


the “insane”, began experimenting with hypnotic techniques in his clinical work.

It was in 1905 in a German psychiatric journal that Jones first encountered Freud’s writings, in the form of the famous Dora case-history. It was thus he formed, as his autobiography records: “the deep impression of there being a man in Vienna who actually listened with attention to every word his patients said to him...a revolutionary difference from the attitude of previous physicians...” (Jones 1959:159).

Unfortunately for Jones the medical establishment of Edwardian England was deeply antagonistic to Freudian theory and in this context Jones’s early attempts to employ psychoanalytic insights in his clinical work proved less than circumspect. In 1906 he was tried and acquitted over allegations of improper conduct with pupils in a London school. In 1908,1898: born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 30
 1920: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Case Institute of Technology
 1923: M.S., Case Institute of Technology
 1928: Ph.D., physical chemistry, Western Reserve University
 1929: associate professor in 1929, Case Institute of Technology
 1936-1948: full professor and chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Case Institute of Technology
 1948: director of research, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, Baltimore
 1949: vice-president, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
 1952: president of a division, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
 1954: vice president and director of the chemical division, the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation
 1956: executive vice president, the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation

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Redknapp, now in charge at QPR, was heavily linked with the England post when he was managing Tottenham, only for Roy Hodgson to be appointed in the wake of Fabio Capello's departure.

And, in excerpts from his autobiography which have been published this week, Redknapp wrote: "All the senior players seemed to be up for me to get the job.

"I got quite a few text messages at the time from players saying they would love me to manage England: Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand,


John Terry."

However, speaking ahead of England's vital World Cup qualifier against Montenegro on Friday, Gerrard said: "I can clear it up. I didn't text Harry Redknapp's personal phone, I have never had his personal number.

"But I am a big fan of Harry's and close friends with Jamie (Redknapp's son, a former Liverpool and England midfielder).

"I had a conversation with Jamie round about that time when Harry was on everyone's lips. He was the favourite and it was only a matter of days before he was going to be manager.

"I said to Jamie on the phone 'send the best to your dad and, if he gets the job, we'll all back him and we'll support him'.

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England face Montenegro and then Poland next Tuesday, both at Wembley, knowing a pair of victories will guarantee their participation in next summer's World Cup in Brazil.

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Independence man struck by car, killed

GEORGEVILLE — An Independence man died shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday after being struck by a car as he stood along the highway in front of his home.

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The congressman, who announced his bid in the crowded Democratic on Monday, is proposing a ban on and federal buyback of all 15 million assault weapons in the U.S. The 38-year-old congressman wants to exempt law enforcement agencies and shooting clubs.

"We should take the most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the most dangerous people," Swalwell said in his campaign launch video. The video also plays up his roots in Iowa, a state that could be critical because it's the first to hold a caucus for the 2020 presidential elections.

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Still, Swalwell is seen as a long-shot candidate with several other rivals already showing stronger polling among likely voters, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. BernieThe major objectives of the Center are to advance our understanding of learning disabilities through a multidisciplinary and integrative effort. The central theme of the research program is tackling complexities of learning disabilities in context. We do so by applying state-of-the-art methods that make realistic models of learning disabilities tractable. Our approach is multi-disciplinary, with representation from fields of molecular genetics, behavior genetics, teacher education, educational psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science. The Center comprises six projects and four cores. Project I, Definition, Classification, and Subtyping develops and tests a new multivariate model of learning disabilities. Project II, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, and the Classroom Environment, examines the learning context of students with reading disabilities. Project III, A Longitudinal and Experimental Investigation of Written Expression, examines


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awareness of their own distinction. And there was, come to think of it, one player with her hair in braids, one of the freshmen who'd been allowed to travel with the team, who smiled and said: "Cool." But the rest of the Auburn Tigers were a narrow-eyed lot, and they regarded me with cool inscrutability. I could not have suspected, much less known, what they, even then, had to know -- that the very dream I extolled would, within the space of days, be broken and that the bastion of simple joy I described would, before the next season began, lay in ruins, with their coaches disgraced, their athletic director resigned in the wake of scandal and investigation, and two of the players on the bus shunned byin the mirror every morning, I say, 'Hello, Awesome.'"

It was March 24, 2017, and Clint Myers was at that time possibly the greatest, maybe the most famous and definitely the most recognizable coach in college softball. He had won two national championships at Arizona State, in 2008 and 2011, and had made Auburn a title contender within two years of his arrival in 2013. He was inducted to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2015, and on the weekend I traveled with his team to Gainesville, Florida, he was seeking his 1,500th combined win as a softball and men's baseball coach. He wasn't just a successful coach and teacher; he was a transformational one who, in the words of ESPN softball analyst and two-time Olympic


softball gold medalist Michele Smith, did "something almost unprecedented -- he made average players good players and good players great ones. He took .250 hitters and made them into .400 hitters."

Like all winning coaches, Myers did it by persuading his players to buy into his process, or his program, or what he called his philosophy -- by persuading them to surrender something of themselves, including their autonomy, to the cause of the greater good, the byproduct of which just happened to be winning.

He made them cry, he said. Just that morning, he told most of his freshmen that they couldn't board the bus and had to stay behind in Auburn, and one of them had cried in his office for half an hour. It was a power thatseemed to discomfit and dismay him -- "they tend to cry when they come to my office. I don't know why that is." But he also cried with them, because he was involved in so many aspects of their lives, from the tragedies they experienced back home to the occasional miscreancy of their boyfriends. "I meet all their boyfriends," he said. "I believe that they should be treated like ladies, like their opinion matters, like they're important. Because they're important to me." Of course, they also cried when they lost the Women's College World Series in 2016, but he told them they had nothing to be ashamed of. They had done what he had asked them to do. They had performed "at the highest level on the biggest


stage," and more important, they understood what he wanted them to understand: that greatness is a way of life. "I believe," he said, "that these girls have accepted the philosophy of making the world a better place one at-bat and one play at a time."

But there was something else about Clint Myers: He was an old man. Though only 65, he could have passed for 80, with a raw, pained pinkish face, eyes dark with watchfulness, a parroty mouth given to grimace and white hair dented by a lifetime of ball caps. He wore black spectacles and white support socks, and though sealed in what seemed a permanent layering of coaching gear -- the billowing nylon pullover in Auburn orange, the polyester shorts in Auburn blue -- hebore an unmistakable resemblance to the Letterman sidekick Larry "Bud" Melman, with the same gnomic peculiarity. He was still feared and fearsome on the field and so exacting that a big yellow stopwatch hung from his neck like an article of religious devotion. But as he was growing old, he was not just, in his words, "mellowing," but becoming so familiar and downright cute that some of his players treated him like a mascot and called him Coachie. He was also in the process of trying to extend his legacy with the girls by relinquishing power to the men.

He called the men boys because they were his sons; Casey was 38 and Corey was 36. But they were men. They did not call him Coachie, but rarely did


they call him Dad. They called him Coach, and Corey's children called him Grandpa Coach. Like their father, the sons had played baseball at very high levels -- Casey in college and in the minors, Corey as a touted prospect who never made it to the majors -- and like their father they had decided to build their lives around the invincible calculus of the three-strike out and the three-out inning. Indeed, Casey had been working as a minor league coach and Corey as a coach for the Birmingham Bolts, a softball travel team that functions as the source for much of Auburn's roster, when Coach left Arizona State and came with his wife, Katie, to "the loveliest village on the Plains," between Atlanta and Montgomery. He haddone it for them; he had come to Auburn at least in part because Arizona State wouldn't let him work with Corey and Auburn would. Now he had what he wanted; the coach's sons were coaches, and he lived between a split reflection of himself, Casey the thinker and teacher, and Corey -- well, as Corey told me, "If you want to know what [Coach] was like when he was young, just look at me." Coach was, in his own words, "an arrogant prick, self-proclaimed" as a young man, and certainly Corey had some of that belligerent arrogance about him, combined with the almost pleading insecurity of an heir. His father had chosen him as his successor; Corey was, after all, a father and a husband himself and


now worked as associate head coach. "When we put this thing together, that was the plan," Coach told me. "It would be Corey's program, Casey would help, and I'd come on as a volunteer coach. I would get to be a consultant. I would love to raise money, I would love to holler at umpires from the stands, I would love to support these guys in every way and say, 'Those are my boys!'"

And there it was. When I traveled with the Auburn softball team, Clint Myers was on the verge of achieving an ambition that was nothing less than dynastic. He was on the verge of making Auburn softball a family business, closely held, and he was in the process of making his players believe that hisfamily was also their family, with the men and the girls sharing a single table. All were invited; all were welcome; and when the bus finally stopped rolling and the team went to its first practice at the University of Florida's softball field, I stood on the outside of a meeting the coaches had with their players, and Coach motioned me in. "Come on, Tom," he said. "You can go to any meeting you want, and you can ask any question you want. You're part of the family now."

I believed him.

I believed them, the men, the girls, the graduate assistants, the trainers, the assistant SID and his videographer, the team manager, the associate professor of kinesiology who worked with Coach to bring a scientific basis to his sometimes


whimsical decision-making, and the big bald bus driver named Robin. And so, the first night, when the whole traveling caravan finally settled down to dinner in a Gainesville restaurant, I saw a place at the long banquet table set for the players and only the players and asked if I could sit down. The player next to the open seat was senior third baseman Kasey Cooper, the most lauded and accomplished of the Tigers, espnW's 2016 Player of the Year.

"No," she said flatly, before explaining that the seat was spoken for.

The girls had created a family of their own. They had come to Auburn because Auburn, a land grant institution of 30,000 students, was "all about family." They played for the Myerses because the Myerses were not onlyall about family, they were a family -- "they're all blood relatives and they all live next to one another," one of the players told me as a measure of her approval. With the exception of the players recruited from the softball hotbed of Southern California, they were, for the most part, from the state of Alabama, and if they weren't, they were from the South. Most were raised either in small towns or the suburbs; they were overwhelmingly white and Christian and conservative. They never asked me about my work; they asked me about my family, and one afternoon, when I was sitting by myself at one of the round tables in the hotel conference room that had been reserved for the use of the players, Kasey


Cooper walked up and said to me, with her characteristic absence of preamble, "Don't you miss your wife and your daughter?" I told her I did, and she wound up sitting and telling me about her plans to become a surgeon. She was a naturally shy person whose success had forced her to speak for her team, a trial she endured with public aplomb and private discomfort; she wanted to be a surgeon because it was the only job that would allow her to help humanity and at the same time remain in control and essentially alone. "I hate people," she said for effect, but also with something like resignation.

It was what made the family of girls like the real thing: They were cranky and sometimes unfriendly, theywere exclusive rather than inclusive, and they adhered to rigorous protocols that set them apart, whether eating or boarding the bus. Like most families, they also had a member who was as set apart from them as they were set apart from everyone else. She was a player who did not often play, but she stood out because she was so often alone. Wherever the team was, she wasn't, and she was always occupied by the life apparently unfolding on her phone. I would have thought her simply standoffish if she didn't also seem so sad, as isolated as she was enigmatic.

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Then again, none of the Auburn Tigers looked as happy or as happy-go-lucky as I expected them to be ... or, indeed, as I wanted them


to be. My softball story was to be about joy, and yet the team as a whole exuded an atmosphere of toil and trouble, especially when it started losing. In the first game at Florida, the Tigers took a lead into the seventh and then lost on two unearned runs after a dropped fly ball; in the second game, they sagged and surrendered as soon as Florida pitcher Kelly Barnhill released her first 70 mph rise ball with her signature scream. The losses divided the team along what I took to be conventional lines -- between the self-described gamers who wanted Coach to reclaim some of his old arrogance and chew them out, and the polite Southern girls who wanted to spend time with their parents in thehotel lobby. But that wasn't it, not at all. The division was ongoing and deep-seated. It wasn't the result of something as incidental as the loss of a couple of games but rather something fundamental and therefore irrevocable. They had been indoctrinated into the belief that Coach belonged to their family and they belonged to Coach's. They were about to learn once and for all that the family of the girls never mattered as much as the Myers men.

"Your eyes lied," Corey Myers said at the team's Monday morning meeting before the final game at Florida. He had videos of each at-bat his players took against Kelly Barnhill, each futile and foolhardy swing that led to their 16 strikeouts. He was telling them now that their difficulties were


a problem of perception. They had seen what wasn't there and hadn't seen what was.

They had never doubted his knowledge of the game, nor his ability to teach it. What they had questioned all along was their own eyes -- if they had in fact seen what they thought they'd seen. So now they listened to their associate head coach, and later, when they went to the batting cages at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium, Corey noticed not only how they were swinging their bats but also the quiet resolve they brought to the task. "I like this," he said. "You girls are very ... tranquilo." He skidded one palm off the other, and repeated the word as if he liked the sound. "Tranquilo."

"I have to tell you thatI will do whatever I have to do to protect my family." Clint Myers

It was the last tranquil moment Corey would have as the associate head coach of the Auburn Tigers, because even as the players took swings in the cages, something was happening outside on the field. Some of the players had obtained evidence that they indeed had seen something they thought they'd seen, and now some were crying. They were passing phones back and forth and clapping their hands over their mouths in shock or bursting into angry and heartbroken tears when they saw what was on the screen. But what was on the screen? What could be on the screen? I had not a clue; I ascribed what I was witnessing to the incendiary power


of gossip in close quarters. Then I settled down to watch Auburn play Florida in softball.

It happened to be a great game, replete with everything I love about the sport. With Auburn ahead 1-0 in the seventh inning, Florida had two outs, a runner on second and the team's best hitter at the plate. She cracked a line drive off the knee of Auburn starter Kaylee Carlson, whom I had seen before the game staring aghast at the screen of a phone with her hand over her mouth. She made the play, calmly picking the ball from the grass and throwing to first before limping off the field with the win. She was one of the gamers; so was shortstop Haley Fagan, who, when the teams lined upto shake hands, declined the hand of Florida coach Tim Walton, who had once kicked two of her sisters and a dear friend named Cheyenne Coyle off his team. But this was a very different night, and as Fagan brushed past him, Walton brought his extended hand to her shoulder. Believing she had been shoved, she shoved him back, and the rest lives on as a video that went viral: teammates restraining Fagan, Fagan shouting imprecations at Walton, and an electric charge of mayhem that seems entirely incommensurate to the initial physical contact.

I didn't understand. I didn't understand when Coach gathered his players together and marched them back to the bus as one. I didn't understand when, even as her teammates climbed onto the bus, the player I'd


identified either as an enigma or an outcast remained far apart from them, furiously using her phone. I didn't understand even when, on the plane back home, Coach went up and down the aisle, forbidding his players from using their phones and going on social media. I didn't understand until three days later, when Corey Myers resigned because, as he explained in a statement, "it became clear to me that my relationship with my family needs to be my top priority right now."

May I say right now that I liked Clint Myers? We hit it off. At night, I'd go to talk with him in his hotel suite while he watched SportsCenter, and I liked his philosophical bent and his oddball singularity, even in the company of hissons. But of course the question of whether I liked him or not was beside the point. Two days after Corey resigned, I took my family to watch Auburn play Georgia in a road series and introduced my teenage daughter to Coach. He greeted her graciously and then asked if she wanted to attend one of his summer softball camps in Auburn. And at that moment, I understood that all his talk of family was not merely motivational rhetoric or even manipulative subterfuge. It was a primal commitment he had no choice but to honor, to the exclusion of all benefit of the doubt.

The next day, I drove again to Athens and met him in his hotel room to ask him questions in the aftermath of Corey's departure.


He was with Katie, his plainspoken wife, who sat propped by pillows reading a book in her hotel bed. Coach sat in a chair and told me he wouldn't answer any questions about Corey but that he would talk about softball. And so I asked him about himself and about the dissolution of the dreams he brought to the Auburn softball program. He answered that he didn't know if the dream had dissolved because Corey might still come back. Katie had been listening as she read. "Oh, c'mon, Clint! It's over!" she said.

A month later, I drove to Knoxville for the SEC softball tournament and met Coach in another hotel. "Hello, my friend," he said. "Are you here for a social visit or are you still writing a"40 years of coaching and reflecting on the importance of spending quality time with my wife, my children and my grandchildren," and Casey followed. Assistant coach Scott Woodard, a sandpapery Myers loyalist who used to baby-sit the boys, served as interim head coach until Sept. 14, when athletic director Jay Jacobs named Mickey Dean, from James Madison University, as his permanent replacement. Two months later, Jacobs himself resigned, faced with a cascade of scandal involving multiple sports.

And yet when I travel to Auburn this March for the game between the Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide, I don't go to take a tally of who and what is gone. Nor do I go to contemplate all over again the joys unique to softball, or even to enjoy a


Thomas E. Smith, Jr. Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Erik R. Barnett, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.
Before WILKINSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and Glen E. CONRAD, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Judge CONRAD joined.
OPINION
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

1
Defendants Thomas E. Smith, Jr. and Tyrone Smallwood appeal their convictions and sentences arising from their participation in a large crack cocaine conspiracy and the murder of Conrad Shelton. Defendants primarily contend that the district court assumed the role of a prosecutor by rehabilitating government witnesses and frequently interrupting defense counsel's cross-examination. They further argue that venue was lacking in the EasternFleming, who has since pleaded guilty. Evidence adduced at trial revealed an extensive conspiracy dedicated to selling crack cocaine, and we shall undertake only a summary of those events relevant to the issues presented here.

3
Smith and Smallwood worked as partners in Fleming's distribution scheme. The two maintained several residences, including a Washington, D.C., apartment that Smith had rented under an alias. Defendants utilized this apartment to store drugs and convert powder cocaine into crack. Smith also used his alias to lease a house in Hyattsville, Maryland. On November 4, 1996, authorities searched this home, found both defendants present, and discovered Smallwood attempting to flush drugs down a toilet. As part of the raid, officers seized drugs, drug paraphernalia, firearms, body armor, cash, and vehicles, including Smith's Toyota Land


Cruiser, which defendants had used to facilitate drug transactions. Other evidence introduced at trial showed that Smallwood had sold large amounts of crack cocaine on numerous occasions, including two separate sales of one-eighth of a kilogram of crack for $2800, one of which was conducted near a community swimming pool. When confronted by the FBI in 2001, Smith stated: "I am definitely guilty of a drug conspiracy and dealing drugs in the past."

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Smallwood also had a role as an enforcer in Fleming's drug network, frequently accompanying Fleming on missions to confront individuals whom Fleming suspected of spreading rumors and stealing crack. On one mission, Fleming, with Smallwood present, shot a member of his own crew, later discarding his weapon in the Anacostia River. On another, Smallwood joined Flemingto interrogate an individual who had spread a story that Fleming was cooperating with authorities. Fleming later arranged to have this man killed.

5
Much of the evidence presented at trial concerned the murder of Conrad Shelton, an addict who did odd jobs for Smith and Smallwood in exchange for crack cocaine. Shelton's handyman duties included washing cars for defendants and their associates. Anthony Brown, who pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting Shelton's murder, testified that Shelton was not paid in crack until he finished the washing because Shelton would otherwise rush through the job in order to get high.

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In early 1996, Smallwood discovered that one of his apartments had been robbed, and drugs and money taken. Smallwood suspected that Shelton — with his knowledge of defendants' residences and drug


operation — had played a role in the theft. On February 11, 1996, Shelton received several phone calls, and told his girlfriend, Barbara Wyatt, that he was going to Smallwood's apartment. According to Wyatt, Shelton was nervous and agitated because he had been involved in stealing crack from Smallwood. Shelton was seen with more crack than usual that day.

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Once Shelton arrived at Smallwood's apartment, Smallwood accused Shelton of organizing the burglary, and threatened to kill him. Smallwood, Smith, Anthony Brown, and Shelton then got in a car so that Shelton could help the defendants locate the person who had stolen Smallwood's drugs and cash. They eventually parked the car at the mouth of an alley in Washington, D.C., and while Brown acted as a lookout, Smith shot Sheltonin the head. Both defendants thereafter fired multiple rounds into Shelton's body, twelve shots in all. Two of Shelton's head wounds contained soot and stipple, suggesting shots fired at point-blank range. Ballistic examinations further revealed that the bullets and cartridges at the scene of the murder matched guns that defendants habitually carried and that they were seen with that evening. Shelton's murder went unsolved for some time. Years later, when confronted by the FBI, Smith admitted that he often beat Shelton when narcotics or money were missing, and that he "could straighten out the story and clarify what happened when [Shelton] was killed."

8
On December 23, 2003, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted Smith for conspiracy to distribute more than fifty grams of cocaine


prior to Shelton's death, the following colloquy took place:

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Prosecution: What, if anything, did you see Ty [Smallwood] do then?

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The Witness: He was — he looked at Conrad [Shelton], then he went and turned the music up, and he grabbed one of the guns, and he pointed it to his head, and he was like, "I should kill you." But he didn't at the time.

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The Court: Pointed at whose head?

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The Witness: At Conrad.

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The Court: Who pointed it?

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The Witness: Tyrone Smallwood.

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The Court: Who pointed the gun?

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The Witness: Ty pointed the gun.

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The Court: Next question.

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Defendants further contend that the district court was particularly aggressive during defense counsel's cross-examination of Brown, making at least nineteen sua sponte objections to various questions and repeatedly punctuating the proceedings with requests for counsel to speedhad wanted to see in Bill 148 that were not included and the NDP did not mention in their platform. Some of these reforms include:

Workers given two weeks notice of their schedules.

7 paid personal emergency leave days.

Protection against contract flipping in all industries.

The ability of workers at multiple locations of the same franchise to be able to bargain together.

Banning of replacement workers.

Better rules around overtime.

Real pay transparency in workplaces to enforce equal pay for equal work.

Paid breaks for all workers.

Expansion of the ESA to include workers like Uber drivers.

Whatever the result on June 7, the labour movement needs to continue to build on the successes of the Fight for $15 and Fairness and the Make if Fair campaigns to continue to build working class power in Ontario.


It's bad enough when 18 year olds get executed and infants get flash-bang grenaded. Do we as a country have to knowingly send children to their death as well? Apparently so.

Between five and ten migrant children have been killed since February after the United States deported them back to Honduras, a morgue director told the Los Angeles Times. ... San Pedro Sula morgue director Hector Hernandez told the Los Angeles Times that his morgue has taken in 42 dead children since February. According to an interview with relatives by the LA Times, one teenager was shot dead hours after getting deported. ... Hugo Ramon Maldonado of the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in Honduras believes that about 80 percent of Hondurans making the exodus are fleeing
      With a bag of nuts
      I'd like to be buried
      and with the freshest of teeth.
      When there is gnashing
      where I lie,
      one can surmise:
      He's at it,
      still he.

~~~
skore
I'd translate the last two lines slightly different:

      With a bag of nuts
      I'd like to be buried
      and with the freshest of teeth.
      When there


but I remember
getting very fascinated with it. Kind of like Murakami but I found Murakami
easier to read. Time to read 'The tin drum' again.

R.I.P Mr grass.

~~~
ukigumo
I quite enjoyed the "Tin Drum" but I admit that I lost a bit of respect for
the man when it was revealed he had worked for the Stasi.

Still, it is a great loss of a great writer.

~~~
thomasz
He didn't work for the STASI, he volunteered for the Waffen SS.

> Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In May 1945,
> after service as a soldier in the Waffen SS, he was taken prisoner by U.S.
> forces and released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, he
> began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction he frequently returned toBaccarin as Leslie Thompkins, Sean Pertwee as Alfred, Robin Lord Taylor as The Penguin, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle/the future Catwoman, Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma/the Riddler, Jessica Lucas as Tabitha Galavan, Chris Chalk as Lucius Fox, Drew Powell as Butch Gilzean/Solomon Grundy, Alexander Siddig as Ra's Ah Ghul, Crystal Reed as Sofia Falcone

Guest Cast: Michael Maize as Grady, Maria Benedict as Cherry, Camila Perez as Firefly, Christopher Convery as Martin, Larry Pine as Mayor Burke


ect from admissions. They
play a part vastly bigger than what people imagine in determining admissions.

~~~
sopooneo
I have mixed feelings about this. A friend of mine grew up very poor in a tiny
rural town with no known family that ever went to college. But he worked at a
nearly superhuman level in high school and got into an Ivy league school.

He is also charming and funny and by his third year was friends with
influential enough people that he was attending THE White House Christmas
party.

Now he works where and for whom he wants because he has connections in the
upper level of society that like him and know his competence. Without legacy
admissions for him to make friends with, all that might not have happened.

Merit admissions give the legacies legitimacy. Legacy admissions give the
superhumansGoogle is on the hunt for new talent

Under the internet search giant's Code Jam competition, entrants will have to crack "some of the toughest computer coding challenges around".

Contestants will first compete online for 500 places in the first round and then 200 spots in the second round.

A total of 50 finalists will then be flown to Dublin for the final deciders.

Talent spotting

Google said it hoped the competition would enable it to find and attract top engineering talent to its growing number of European research and development centres.

"Code Jam is one of the many ways we try and support engineering, programming and computer science communities around the world," said Google's UK engineering site director.

"This new European competition is one way for us to engage with smart people who enjoy


And yet I look at her. I see nothing but her face
when we are there, and afterwards I think about it. What harm is there?
She sins in her throat. I know it."

Sora Nanna hitched her shoulders impatiently again, and said nothing.
The two women descended through the steep and narrow street, slippery
and wet with slimy, coal black mud that glittered on the rough
cobble-stones. Nanna walked first, and Annetta followed close behind
her, keeping step, and setting her feet exactly where her mother had
trod, with the instinctive certainty of the born mountaineer. With heads
erect and shoulders square, each with one hand on her hip and the other
hanging down, they carried their burdens swiftly and safely, with a
swinging, undulating gait as though it were a pleasure to them to move,
and would requireAddolorata was silent, realizing how far she had
forgotten herself, and startled by the abbess's terrified eyes and
excited tone. But she was naturally a far more daring woman than she
herself knew. Though her face was pale, her lips smiled at her good
aunt's fright.

"But that is not an answer--just to cry 'blasphemy!'" she said. "The
question is clear--"

She did not finish the sentence. The abbess was really beside herself
with religious terror. With almost violent hands she dragged and thrust
her niece down till Maria fell upon her knees.

"Pray, child! Pray, before it is too late!" she cried. "Pray on your
knees that this possession may pass, before your soul is lost forever!"

She herself knelt beside the girl upon the stones, still clasping her
and pressing her down. And she prayed aloud, long, fervently, almost
wildly,


again and
again, closer and closer to her ear. Her hands had dropped from her
forehead and lay upon the table. With bent head she listened.

"Come, my darling," he continued, fast and low. "I have a beautiful
home, my father's home, my mother's--your laws and vows are nothing to
them. You shall be honoured, loved--ah, dear! adored, worshipped--you do
not know what we will do for you, to fill your life with sweet things.
All your life, Maria, from to-morrow. Instead of pain and penance and
everlasting suffering and weariness, you shall have all that the world
holds of love and peace and flowers. And you shall sing your whole heart
out when you will, and have music to play with from year's beginning to
year's end and year's end again. Sweet, let me tell you how Ithe close choir, to sit in her seat amongst the rest,
and sing holy songs with the others, restfully unhappy as many of them
were. She knew far too well how strongly her heart could beat, and how
icy cold her hands could grow when love was near her. Yet she shuddered
with horror at what she had promised to do. She would struggle to the
last, but she must yield when she heard his voice, and felt his hand, at
the very last moment, when they should be at the garden gate, he drawing
her on, she looking back.

It was perjury and sacrilege, and earthly shame, and eternal damnation.
Nothing less. And the words had full and deadly meaning for her. It
mattered little that he should think differently, being of another
faith, or rather, of no


perpetually in the evening, and wine made him melancholic and
morose, though it did not seem to affect him otherwise. Little by
little, however, it was dulling the early keenness of his intellect,
though it hardly touched his constitution at all. He was lean and bony
still, as in the old days, but paler in the face, and he had allowed his
red beard to grow. It was streaked with grey, and there were small,
nervous lines about his eyes, as well as deep furrows on his forehead
and face.

Dalrymple had found in the artist world a man who was something of a
companion to him at times,--a very young man, whom he could not
understand, though his own dogmatic temper made him as a rule believe
that he understood most things and most men. But this particular
individualto be' is a question
admirably calculated to draw out the resources of the intellect in
argument, if you are inclined for that sort of diversion. It is a very
good thing, a very good thing for a man to consider and weigh that
question while he is young. Before he goes to sleep, you know, Griggs,
before he goes to sleep."

"'For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come--'" Griggs quoted,
and stopped.

"'When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.' You do not know your
Shakespeare, young man."

"'Must give us pause,'" continued Griggs. "I was thinking of the dreams,
not of the rest."

[Illustration:

          "Fire and sleet and candle-light;
             And Christ receive thy soul."

--Vol.


only she herself
could judge of her own sincerity.

Of late, however, she had felt that there was something very wrong in
all her recent life. The certainty of it dawned by degrees, and then
burst upon her suddenly one day when she was with Reanda.

She had long ago noticed the change in his manner, the harassed look,
and the sad ring in his voice, and for a time his suffering was her
sorrow, and there was a painful pleasure in being able to feel for him
with all her heart. He had gone through a phase which had lasted many
months, and the change was great between his former and his present
self. He had suffered, but indifference was creeping upon him. It was
clear enough. Nothing interested him but his art, and perhaps her own
conversation, thoughway to turn. Just then there were
heavy splashing footsteps close to her.

"Permit me, Signora," said a voice that was rough and had an odd accent,
though the tone was polite, and a huge umbrella was held over her head.

She shrank back against the wall quickly, in womanly fear of a strange
man.

"No, thank you!" she exclaimed in answer.

"But yes!" said the man. "It rains. You are getting an illness,
Signora."

The faint light showed her that she would be safe enough in accepting
the offer. The man was evidently a peasant from the mountains, and he
was certainly not young. His vast black cloak was turned back a little
by his arm and showed the lining of green flannel and the blue clothes
with broad silver buttons which he wore.

"Thank you," she said, for she was


stood still for a few
moments. He could almost have smiled at himself as he paused. He had
been out more than an hour and had done nothing, thought out nothing,
made no definite plan for the future. His present poverty, which was
desperate enough, had put on a carnival mask and laughed at him, as it
were, and ran away when he tried to grapple with it and look it in the
face. Gloria was there, upstairs in that tall house on which the morning
sun was shining, and nothing else could possibly matter. But if anything
mattered, it would be simple to talk it over together and to decide it
in common.

Suddenly he felt ashamed of himself and of the confusion of his own
intelligence. There was something meek and childish in standing still at
the streetwith Reanda's indifference. It was wicked
to fight duels and unchristian to seek revenge. She knew that, and it
was a conviction as well as an opinion. But a man who allowed another to
take his wife from him and did not resent the injury could not command
her respect. Something in her blood revolted against such tameness,
though she would not for all the world have had Reanda take Gloria back.
Between the two opposites of conviction and instinct, she did not know
what to do. Moreover, Reanda had struck his wife. He admitted it, though
apologetically and with every extenuating circumstance which he could
remember.

"Yes," he answered. "I know that I did wrong. Am I infallible? Holy
Saint Patience! I could bear no more. But it is clear that she was
waiting for a reason for leaving


vent for her
pent-up suffering. It could make no difference, and Griggs could never
know. Her strange position put the point of faithfulness out of the
question. She was in love with her husband, and the man who loved her
held her to her play of love by the terror she felt of what lay behind
his gentleness. She dreamed once that he had found out the truth, and
was tearing her head from her body with those hands of his, slowly,
almost gently, with mysterious eyes and still face. She woke, and found
that the heavy tress of her hair was twisted round her throat and was
choking her; but the impression remained, and her dread of Griggs
increased, and it became harder and harder to act her part.

At the same time the attraction of secretly writingAn
evil death on him and all his house! Stefanone says it always. I also
may say it once. It was he. He took our daughter. Stefanone went after
them, but they had the beast of the convent gardener. It was a good
beast, and they made it run. Stefanone heard of them all the way to the
sea, but the twenty-four hours had passed, and the war-ship was far out.
He could see it. Could he go to the war-ship? It had cannons. They would
have killed him. Then I should have had neither daughter nor husband. So
he came back."

The long habit of acting had made Gloria strong, but her hands shook on
the closed volume. She had known that her mother had been an Italian,
that they had left Italy suddenly and had been married


came again. Then there was
a sort of struggle.

In an instant Gloria was standing up on the bed to her full height. And
the hot, still room rang with a burst of desperate, ear-breaking song,
in majestic, passionate, ascending intervals.

          "Calpesta il mio cadavere, ma salva il Trovator!"

The last great, true note died away. For one instant she stood up still,
with outstretched hands, white, motionless. Then the flame in the dark
eyes broke and went out, and Gloria fell down dead.

"Maria Addolorata! Maria Addolorata!" Nanna screamed in deadly terror,
as she heard the transcendent voice that one time, like a voice from the
grave.

She sank down, fainting upon the floor, and the little child rolled from
her slackened arms upon the coarse bricks and lay onhe had done. The golden light of his one short happiness shone
through the shrouding veil of fatal time. In his own eyes, with his
beliefs, he had not even sinned in taking what he had loved so well. But
all the sorrow he saw, came from that deed. Francesca Campodonico's eyes
were as clear and true as her heart. But he knew that Reanda's life was
everything on earth to her, and he guessed that she was to lose that,
too, before long. He would willingly have parted with his own, but
through all his being there was a rough, manly courage that forbade the
last act of fear, and there was a stern old Scottish belief that it was
wrong--plainly wrong.

He did not wish to see Paul Griggs any more than he had wished to


right. He laid his hand upon the pile of letters, and looked
at the small fire to see whether it were burning well. Under his hand he
felt something hard inside the uppermost envelope. His fate was upon
him--the fate he had so often defied to do its worst, since all that he
had was dead and was his forever.

Without another thought, he took from the envelope the letter it
contained, and the hard thing which was inside the letter. He held it a
moment in his hand, and it flamed in the beam of sunlight that fell
across the end of the table, and dazzled him. Then he realized what it
was. It was Gloria's wedding ring, and twisted round and round it and in
and out of it was a lock of her red auburnhe was aware of a man in black beside him, like
himself, ghastly to see, with shadows and fires for eyes, and thin,
parted lips that showed wolfish teeth, strong, stern, with iron hands.

"You are dead," said his own voice out of the other's mouth. "You are
dead, and I am Gorlias."

Then the strong teeth were set and the lips closed, and the gladiator's
unmatched arms wound themselves upon the other's strength, with grip and
clutch and strain not of earthly men.

Silent and terrible, they wrestled in fight, arm to arm, bone to bone,
breath to breath. Hour after hour they strove in the still room. The sun
went westering away, the shadows deepened. The night came stealing black
and lonely through the window. Foot to foot, breast to breast, in the
dark, they bowed themselves one


the result of the conversation.
His mind was a medley of cunning and simplicity backed by an absolutely
unforgiving temper and great caution. His plan had seemed exceedingly
good. Lord Redin and Griggs would have supped together, and the former
would very naturally have gone home alone. Stefanone was oddly surprised
that Griggs should not have acceded to the proposition at once, though
in reality there was not the slightest of small reasons for his doing
so.

It was long since anything had happened to rouse Griggs into thinking
about any individual human being as anything more than a bit of the
world's furniture, to be worn out and thrown away in the course of time,
out of sight. But something in the absolutely gratuitous nature of
Stefanone's advice moved his suspicions. He saw, with his intimate
knowledge of the Romantable. Then he brought bread, a measure of wine, an iron spoon, and
a two-pronged fork.

Stefanone eat the soup without a word, breaking great pieces of bread
into it. Then he pulled out his clasp-knife and opened it; the long
blade, keen as a razor and slightly curved, but dark and dull in colour,
snapped to its place, as the ring at the back fell into the
corresponding sharp notch. With affected delicacy, Stefanone held it
between his thumb and one finger and drew the edge across the fat boiled
meat, which fell into pieces almost at a touch, though it was tough and
stringy. The host watched the operation approvingly. At that time it was
forbidden to carry such knives in Rome, unless the point were round and
blunt. The Roman always stabs; he never cuts his


    after the story is finished is exactly what the
          fine reader desires and the novelist intends. . . .
          It has no defects. It is neither trifling nor
          trivial. It is a work of art. It is
          perfect."--_Boston Beacon._

AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN.

       *       *       *       *       *

          MACMILLAN & CO.,
students into these vines, but Scotty ducked under the tangle and ran off, promising to distract the Fae with his Dwarvish knack for traversing passageways.

Just then, a fluffy sheep ran by, bleating in terror before turning back into a Dwarf. Hot on his heels (or hooves) came Makirn—lieutenant to Lord Twyl himself—who cackled madly, casting spell after spell.

Well. I will not be impersonated by some flittering Faerie. I unleashed a barrage so ferocious it scorched Makirn-shaped holes into the hedges. I am sure he escaped to plague Silverwood another day, but he may think twice before answering another botched summons into Quicksilver College.

When we found Scotty cowering as a squirrel under a shrubbery, Fiona and her minions had the gall to laugh. I am not one to give


has returned from active deployment within the last six months. Service member ID’s and a copy of recent orders may be presented when participating in fitness activities.

Are the immediate family members of actively deployed National Guard and actively deployed Reservists eligible?

Actively deployed National Guard and actively deployed Reservists and their immediate family members (may be parents, siblings, spouses, children) are eligible to redeem hours pledged through this initiative when the National Guard or Reservist anticipates deployment in the next six months, is currently deployed, or has returned from deployment in the last six months. Service member ID’s and a copy of recent orders may be presented when participating in fitness activities.

The Joining Forces initiative includes widows/widowers and immediate family members of those who have been killed while servingwho later married William McBride. Anna and her husband Bill took in Aunt Grace after the death of their mother in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic:

Anna Thomas McBride

Here is Anna and her husband William McBride much later in life. Probably taken in the mid-1940s:

Anna and William McBride

Finally, here is a picture of Grace Thomas (1916-1999) herself on her wedding day, 11 June 1941. Grace was the sister of my grandfather, Frederick Thomas Jr. She married James McDonald (1914-1982). I’ve been meaning to write more about her, but haven’t managed to get around to it yet.

The photo was taken in front of the family home at 186 Summit Street in Burlington, Vermont.

Grace Thomas McDonald, Wedding Day.

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Although it would seem playing bad teams would be good news for a team as successful recently as the Steelers, it is one of two departments in which they’ve consistently been deficient.

(The other is anything to do with the Patriots.)

Pittsburgh is chasing its fourth consecutive playoff berth, and sixth this decade, despite a persistent, nagging struggle to deal with broken opponents. In their past 17 games on the road against opponents with sub-.500 records, the Steelers are 5-12. Since Mike Tomlin became head coach in 2007, the Steelers are 21-15 when favored by


three or more points in road games, one of the poorest such records in the NFL.

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This is a phenomenon that has defied expectation. Are they a poor road team generally? Nope. The Steelers won road playoff games each of the past two seasons and posted winning road records two of the past three years. Their road record under Tomlin is 45-36, a mark that compares well with the 50-38 of Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy, his closest peer in terms of longevity and success.

Like a running back using his vision to find the most inviting gap in the defense, Tomlin came into his Tuesday press conference anticipating the Steelers’ issues in this department could become a theme for the week.1-4 Dolphins team that won nine of its final 11 games in 2016.

Tomlin maybe pushed his argument a bit too aggressively by suggesting the Bears were not as bad as 0-2, that their two defeats and the overwhelming margin of their loss at Tampa Bay could be the product of “statistics” such as turnovers, of which Chicago committed four against the Bucs.

Some of those "statistics" can be the product of being not very good. Some can be bad luck. Many who follow the Bears already have concluded the source of their calamity is quarterback Mike Glennon, who has two touchdown passes and two interceptions to date. Those two defeats dropped his NFL career record as a starting QB to 5-15.

One of those victories, though, came in September 2014


against the Steelers at Heinz Field, with Pittsburgh on the way to an AFC North championship and the Glennon-led Tampa Bay Bucs on the way to 2-14.

The Steelers ought to recognize by now that although "playing down to the competition" isn't such a far trip in the NFL — with even the league’s poorest teams lining up some elite players and rosters full of professionals — their opposition for the division titles is routinely ferocious and for playoff advantages is supreme.

The Steelers won last season's AFC North by a matter of inches, when Antonio Brown extended the football over the goal line while being smothered by three Ravens. And they haven't won in New England since 2008, when they beat the Patriots with Tom Brady out injured. TheyAfghan National Army (ANA) soldiers march during a ceremony in a military base in the Guzara district of Herat province, Feb. 28, 2019. Getty

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Authorities are investigating an errant U.S. bombing of an Afghan military base in the country's south that killed at least five Afghan troops, a lawmaker said Thursday. The soldiers were killed by friendly fire Wednesday in what was supposed to be a precision airstrike by U.S. forces supporting Afghan soldiers battling insurgents near the city of Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province.

The Defense Ministry earlier said the fatalities were the result of a miscommunication between Afghan troops on the ground and forces in the air, without providing details.

Lawmaker Obaidullah Barikzai from Uruzgan province told The Associated Press that Afghan soldiers inside the base


in Tarin Kot believed a darkened convoy approaching the base was the Taliban -- not U.S. and Afghan forces -- and opened fire, invoking a blistering retaliation.

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The Taliban often travel in convoys with no vehicle lights on, Barikzai said.

A U.S. airstrike was called in to aid the under-fire convoy, he added. It hit the Afghan army base, barely 2.5 miles from the governor's house and the shootout continued for hours as residents hunkered inside their homes.

The U.S. military said Wednesday it responded to incoming fire on Afghan and U.S. forces on the ground and attempted to come to their defense by conducting a precision airstrike.

"We are operating in a complex environment where enemy fighters do not wear uniforms and use stolen militaryvehicles to attack government forces," said the U.S. mission spokesman Bob Purtiman.

Barikzai said many of the wounded in the deadly incident were in critical condition but did not provide details.

In other developments, the Taliban slammed the U.S. State Department's 2018 human rights report, released Wednesday for singling out the Taliban for attacks against civilians. The report also took note of what it said were extrajudicial killings by Afghan security forces as well as the Kabul government's rampant corruption.

"The U.S. is an occupier country directly involved in crimes against humanity," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. "The show of concern and sadness about human rights by such a criminal state is preposterous and comical."

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