official told the BBC's Bilal Sarwary.

Those killed included civilians - some of them women and children - as well as men who had come to enrol, and officers in the Afghan army, he said.

A doctor in a hospital in Kunduz has told the BBC he received 33 dead bodies and that some of the injured were in a very serious condition.

This blast is just the latest in a series of attacks targeting Afghanistan's security forces and civilians, the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says.

In December 2010 Taliban attackers targeted Afghan military bases in Kunduz and in Kabul.

Increased attacks

The attack comes four days after the provincial police chief of Kunduz, Abdul Rahman Sayedkhili, was killed by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle in the city, along with four otherpeople. The Taliban say they carried out the attack.

And last month, 30 people died in another suicide bombing in the city.

The Taliban have been warning Afghans not to allow their sons and brothers to join the country's security services.

The police and army are undergoing a rapid expansion as they prepare to take control from foreign forces, due to end their combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014.

The United Nations has said the insurgents are changing their tactics and are now increasingly targeting civilians, in an effort to hinder the transition of power in the country, our Kabul correspondent adds.

A record number of civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year. More than 2,700 civilians died in 2010 - up 15% on the year before.

A UN report on civilian deaths said


huge exclamation point in the middle. Her whole family seems in on the action with little sister Ali Lohan sporting a new plumped up pair too.

Megan Fox

She claims to have never used Botox, and she can wiggle her forehead all she wants, but there's no doubt those lips are packing some artificial punch.

Adrienne Maloof

There are plenty of Real Housewives that could make this list, but the lips of Adrienne Maloof of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are especially noteworthy. Seeing as how her husband is a plastic surgeon, it's likely pretty easy for her to get plumped on demand -- dangerous.

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Clearly one of her biggest problems in life is knowing when to say when. Whether her lips are a result of injections or actual implants, I'm notStory highlights Jill Filipovic: Kelly's remarks about Civil War and compromise were terrifying revisionist history; a window into Trump White House

Filipovic: War was about slavery, about which there's no compromise. Kelly is churning up debate on this ugly fault line in US

Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and Nairobi, Kenya, and the author of the book "The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness." Follow her on Twitter. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) Was the American Civil War caused by seditious traitors who decided the hill they would die on was the one defending the racist enslavement of human beings, or was it that a simple inability to compromise led an honorable man who gave up his country to


fight for his state? According to White House chief of staff John Kelly, it's the latter.

Jill Filipovic

What terrifying revisionism -- and what a window into the Trump administration and the conservative ideology undergirding it.

"I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man," Kelly told Laura Ingraham , a conservative radio and television host, on her show last night. "He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which 150 years ago was more important than country. It was always loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it's different today. But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their consciencesome poignant glimpses of modern Vietnamese life: farmers tending their fields, great rivers, modern highways that abruptly become bumpy roads. The drive is especially breathtaking at dusk when the roads fill with bicycles, and everything takes on the same deep colors as the modern paintings you see in Hanoi's galleries. Somehow the setting sun seems enormous here as it dips into the cornfields on the horizon.

On the edge of the city the road dissolves into a maze of winding, narrow, wooded lanes. You are surrounded by roadside artisans, shops and taverns, then by graceful villas and commuters on bicycles, cyclos and motorbikes. Modern buildings appear from nowhere, looking so out of place that you have to wonder if they were dropped from the sky and just left where


Vietnam's most revered places. The cyclo ride from Hoan Kiem Lake takes only about five minutes. The Mausoleum is open only in the mornings, from 7.30 to 10.30 in the Summer and from 8.00 to 11.00 in the Winter. There are often large crowds, so arrive early.

This imposing shrine was built on the edge of Ba Dinh Square, the place where Ho Chi Minh delivered the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Viet Nam to half a million of his countrymen in 1945, following the surrender of the Japanese. The angular gray granite edifice stands stern and alone against the skyline. The street and square are usually so abandoned that the whole scene is enormously stately, like a miniature version of Tiananmen Square.

As you exit on theside of the building, look for the ornate yellow former Governor's Palace, which also faces Ba Dinh Square. Although not open to the public, it is a poignant contrast to Ho Chi Minh's House on Stilts, which sits along a tiny lake in the wooded park behind. He lived and worked here in incredible simplicity from 1958 to 1969. Built of teak, the little house is an architectural gem, and many of his personal things remain on display.

The One Pillar Pagoda is about 50 meters away. This little architectural curiosity gets its name because the shrine sits atop a single massive pedestal. The original was built by Emperor Ly Thai To, who was inspired by a dream.

The Ho Chi Minh Museum is probably Vietnam's most important contemporary architectural


achievement. Opened to the public in 1990 to commemorate Ho's centenary, the exhibits are like a huge scrapbook which chronicles his rather transient early years. Guides are available.
You can not help being overwhelmed by the serenity of Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) and Quoc Tu Giam (National University) from the moment you pass through their towering gates. Together, they form one of Asia's loveliest spots. Hidden from the humming metropolis behind high stone walls and ancient Frangipani trees are some of Vietnam's most magnificent religious structures and historical treasures. Great pools filled with blooming lotus bear names like "Well of Heavenly Clarity". Dating from 1076, this place was this part of Asia's most prestigious center of learning for aristocrats and the children of the Mandarins. The focal pointof the site is the Sanctuary dedicated to Confucius, which is filled with elaborate Chinese reliquary. Live performances of traditional folk music by costumed women are o-ngoing during public hours.

Hoan Kiem Lake

Although not at its geographical center, little Hoan Kiem Lake is the very heart of life in Hanoi. According to a 15th Century legend, a giant turtle presented Emperor Le Loi with a magic sword with which to defeat Chinese invadors. In accordance with their pact, the Emperor returned the sword to the turtle after a glorious victory in battle. Thus, the lake was named Hoan Kiem, or "restored sword."

The lake itself is like a living thing with a personality that changes continuously with the hour and the season. Some of your most vivid memories of Hanoi


might come from the 45-minute walks you take around Hoan Kiem at sunrise, at midday, and again after dark.
Shortly after dawn, hundreds of people take their daily exercise on the footpath that circles the lake. If you arrive around six you will see a dozen badminton games, scores of old people practicing Tai Chi, and many shirtless young men jogging or stretching.

During the day the lake belongs to tourists and to workers from surrounding government offices. Tour buses and taxis park at the northern end of the lake, near the gates and footbridge which lead to the Ngoc Son Pagoda. Scores of young people sell postcards, maps, and paperback books here. Others shine shoes or offer to memorialize your visit with photos taken with must surely be war-era35mm cameras. Although persistent, they are seldom rude. Many speak excellent English and are well worth having a conversation with.

Ngoc Son Pagoda sits on an islet at the northern end of the lake. The oldest structures in the complex date to 1225, though most of what you see was either built or reconstructed in the 19th century. In addition to the two beautifully ornate Confucianist sanctuaries dedicated to various long-dead humans, a huge stuffed turtle (which most certainly never swam in this lake) resides in a glass display case. The spot is lovely, not only for the ostentatious architecture, but for interesting people who take refuge from the city here. Your camera may capture old men playing checkers in the Pavilion of the Stelae, someone fishing quietly among


and TV weatherman Phil Connors is in Punxsutawney — a place he regards as embarrassingly drab — to report on the annual appearance of the local groundhog, famed for its ability to predict when Spring will come. Phil is no fan of small-town life or this lame tradition, and only the presence of fizzy young producer Rita promises to make the trip bearable.

Yet instead of getting lucky he finds himself trapped in a time loop, condemned to stumble through the same day again and again — at first an opportunity for mischief, and later a chance for redemption.

The book is the work of Danny Rubin, who wrote the original film script, and it has the same nerveless mix of fantasy and misanthropy. But while the movie’s spirit isARTICLE: San Diego ReaderCity Council Unanimously in Favor of Urban Agriculture Amendments

“Today was a landmark day for local agriculturalists as the City Council voted unanimously in favor of amendments to the municipal code which simplify the process for approving farmers’ markets on private property, make minor adjustments to community garden regulations, and ease restrictions for keeping chickens, goats, and bees.

In an affable session marked by laughter and applause, the Council heard from several supporting speakers ranging from Hoover High School geographic information system students to members of the San Diego Beekeeping Society, the San Diego County Farm Bureau, the Goat Justice League, Food Not Bombs, the International Rescue Committee, New Roots Community Farm, the San Diego Hunger Coalition, the One In Ten Coalition, as well as 55 written


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Opposition: Future Elevens
Date: Saturday 5th August
Venue: The Quay 3G
Kick off Time: 12:30
Arrival Time: 12:00
Reminders: Players to arrive in red home kit.(Reminder goalkeepers in all yellow kit when outfield playing in all red)

Opposition: Future Elevens
Date: Sunday 6th August
Venue: The Quay 3G
Kick off Time: 9:30
Arrival Time: 9:00
Reminders: Players to arrive in red home kit.(Reminder goalkeepers in all yellow kit when outfield playing in all red)

Under 15

Opposition: Custys FC
Date: Sunday 6th August
Venue: The Quay 3G
Kick off Time: 15:00
Arrival Time: 14:30
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Under 16

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Reminders: Players to arrive in red home kit.(Reminder goalkeepers in all yellow kit whenISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) is set to be air-linked with the rest of world after plans for restoration of Muzzafarabad Airport got underway, ARY News reported on Tuesday.

The plan was disclosed in a meeting attended by AJK Chief Secretary Mathar Niaz Rana with Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan International Airlines Air Marshal Arshad Malik in Jammu and Kashmir House, Islamabad.

The meeting principally decided to restore Muzaffarabad Airport for renovations and for operating commercial flights.

Read More: Kashmir Committee Chairman Fakhar Imam meets visiting Hurriyat leaders

It was also decided in the meeting that a feasibility report over the project will be submitted within a week to restore passenger flights from Islamabad to Muzaffarabad.

Prime Minister Imran Khan on June 20 had said that there was a huge potential of


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Her nightmarish watchtowers feature semi-dilapidated houses sat atop a tree, deliberately leaving it ambiguous as to whether the houses are growing out of the tree or vice versa. It doesn't paint a pretty picture of humanity and nature co-existing.

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Five storied female NASA pioneers will soon grace toy-store shelves, in Lego form.

The Danish company announced on Tuesday that it would produce the Women of NASA set, submitted by science writer Maia Weinstock.

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to be eligible.

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Astronaut Sally Ride , the first U.S. woman in space.

Nancy Grace Roman, who served as NASA's chief astronomer and is seen as "instrumental in making the Hubble Space Telescope a reality."

Astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.

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that USCIS erred in its denial of his adjustment application.         Melendez
claimed both general federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 and
      was the sole stockholder and chief operating officer, union officials, employee severance trust funds and an insurance company. More specifically, Smith is charged, inter alia, with providing kickbacks to union leaders for the right to administer their employee benefit plans, while simultaneously receiving kickbacks from the insurance company to whom he brought the unions' business. This indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Camden, New Jersey on February 22, 1983.
It is undisputed that the defendant had been compelled to testify under a grant of statutory immunity[1] before the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation ("SCI") during 1980. He was immunized on June 5, 1980, and testified before the SCI a total of eight times between that date and December 11, 1980. His first six appearances before


of Allen and the ensuing publicity in no way taints the prosecution of Smith, since it does not in any way derive from Smith's immunized testimony.

THE CAMDEN INVESTIGATION
26. George E. Wilson ("Wilson") is a special attorney with the Camden Field Office of the Newark, New Jersey Strike Force of the United States Department of Justice (8/3, p. 112).
27. The Camden Field Office of the Newark Strike Force began an investigation of Smith in early 1982 (8/31, p. 113). The Smith investigation had been transferred to Camden by United States District Judge J. William Ditter, Jr., of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in February 1982 (Id.)
28. In addition to Wilson, who directed the investigation, four other investigators in Camden worked on the Smith investigation. These were Fredric Knapp ("Knapp"),Room for tax cuts

The new fiscal framework set out yesterday by the Chancellor should allow scope for some tax cuts in the next budget. It is important these are not crowded out by further increases in spending. Tax cuts are the quickest way to boost real incomes and stimulate the economy. People should be able to spend more of their own income.

As the world economic slowdown continues, led by a world manufacturing recession, it is important the UK has an economic stimulus. The US is growing faster thanks to past big tax cuts, spending increases and recent interest rate cuts. Yesterday the Bank of England once again continued their squeeze, refusing to join the ECB, Fed, and the Central banks of China, Australia, Brazil and all the others


– so whence the scope for tax cuts?

About John Redwood

John Redwood won a free place at Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non executive chairman of a quoted industrial PLC, and chaired a manufacturing company with factories in Birmingham, Chicago, India and China. He is the MP for Wokingham, first elected in 1987.from supply depots to user vehicles through barrels and jerrycans is not only out-moded, it poses risk of diversion and misappropriation enroute also," the audit report said.It said unlike in the past, oil companies have a countrywide fuel distribution network now and they ensure supply within 5 km of human settlement anywhere in the country. "It would be advisable to entrust bulk of the distribution activities to the oil PSUs, with gradual elimination of ASC from the distribution activities." The ASC or Army Services Corps is responsible for distribution of fuel, oil and lubricants to army, air force, navy and other paramilitary forces.The study recommended the setting up of an integrated transportation command with an online portal to manage travel and logistics. It envisaged elimination of most of


leave a lot of room for corruption and leakages as pointed out in the CGDA reports.While large-scale corruption in procurement of high-profile items such as howitzers and helicopters often grab headlines, even small leakages add up to a lot. In 2010-11, for instance, the CGDA found leakage of Rs 103 crore in a quick audit of procurement under special financial powers delegated to army commanders.An audit last year into travel expense reimbursement to air force personnel detected about 3,500 fake claims, including those by 400 officers up to the level of air commodore. The audit by the DehraDun-based principal controller of defence accounts found rampant use of bogus and forged tickets and hotel bills to claims refunds. The fraud was estimated to have cost Rs 350 crore inthe business-as-usual approach is not an option any more as that would mean erosion of the existing military capability."One of most upmarket shopping complexes in Delhi is located opposite the prime minister’s official residence, 7 Race Course road. Located inside the Willingdon Camp of the Indian air force (IAF), the Santushti Complex hosts several topend boutiques selling fabrics to furniture and is frequented by well-heeled residents of the capital and foreign tourists.Last month, the Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) found that though the complex is built on defence land with public funds and is treated as a regimental complex, it is in fact a commercial venture. Alleging that the complex is maintained for the benefit of the rich and powerful and not for defence personnel, the report


says the IAF is keeping control of the land "in an unauthorised manner without perhaps informing the ministry of defence". It said though the complex generates huge amounts of revenue, only half of it is being deposited with the proper authorities.The IAF dismissed the allegations as baseless. In an emailed reply to ET’s questions, an IAF spokesperson said, "In compliance of the directions of the Government of India, Ministry of Defence, the (Santushti) Complex is being administered as per the guidelines laid down, including collection, accounting and depositing of the revenues in the Government treasury, as prescribed."The authority to decide as to who will exercise the administrative control over the Santushti Shopping Complex is within the purview of the defence ministry. The competent authority has decided that theTypography

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Minhaj ul Quran International (London) achieved a significant first this Christmas by being the only Muslim organisation to attend Church on a Christmas day and help their Christian friends distribute food to the homeless. Over 35 volunteers from Minhaj ul Quran International (London) attended Emmanuel Church in Forest Gate to help their Christian friends hand out food and presents to the Homeless. Muslims joined in the carol singing and observed the Christmas service beautifully conducted by Reverend Chigor Chike Vicar of Emmanuel Church with St Peter. This was a true message of love and social cohesion where the Reverend and all his congregation welcomed their Muslim friends.

This was the great occasion for Muslims to represent the true beauty and peace of Islam, as exemplified by the Prophet


The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing - Edmund Burke

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines brighter and brighter until the full day. (Proverbs 4:18).

This site is about shining light on the ideology of Islam. Traditional (unreformed) Islam is like a cloak of darkness being laid over the world and Burke’s words uttered so many years ago are as true today as when he uttered them.

Dr. Warner has had a life-long interest in religion and its effects on history. He has studied the source texts of the major religions for decades. Even before the destruction of the World Trade Center he had predicted the war between Islam and America. The day after 9/11he decided to make the source texts of Islam available for the average person.

Douglas Kear Murray is a British writer, journalist and commentator. He was the founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion and is currently the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society and associate editor of The Spectator.

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Ayaan’s Hirsi Alijourney began in Somalia in 1969 where, as a young girl, she was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). From very early on, she questioned the subjugation of women she saw all around her; while listening to a sermon on the many


ways women should be obedient to their husbands, she couldn’t resist asking, “Must our husbands obey us too?”

DROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of sixteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Coming in 2017 is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies).

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Nonie Darwish is an American human rights activist, writer, public speaker and founder of Arabs For Israel. She is the author of the book Now they Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror. Her second book is Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Her speech topics cover human rights, with an emphasis on women’s’ rights and minority rights in the Middle East.

Ingrid Carlqvist is a Swedish writer, editor and journalist. Together with Lars Hedegaard, she used to run the online newspaper Dispatch International. According to Carlqvist, the newspaper is critical of Islam and its purpose is to


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With Rick Perry and Mitt Romney now leading the field, the Republican 2012 presidential contest is creating a new chapter in the story of two men who have occasionally clashed and who have markedly different personal styles.

In 2006, during a meeting in Austin, Mr. Perry, the Texas governor, questioned a decision Mr. Romney, then the governor of Massachusetts, had made as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Mr. Romney had hired the media adviser Alex Castellanos for the group, though Mr. Castellanos was working...in Afghanistan in 1991, the young computer-science student Zain Abidin Mohammed Husain Abu Zubaydah had no idea of the fateful journey he was embarking on — a journey that, 10 years later, would land him in a CIA black-site prison and then in Guantanamo Bay, branded by President George W. Bush as "one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States."

"I am actually scared," he conceded in his diary. "Not of a bullet or a shell, rather of the future itself. If I decide to settle here, it means that I will cancel my education and there is no harm in that, God willing; jihad is a good thing, and I will stay."

Abu Zubaydah arrived in Afghanistan from Mysore, India, where he


wipe out all my past since the moment I was born until this moment, by God, I will not hesitate one bit.

He shares his doubts and his shames, his fears and his hurts, his tastes, his quirks (fear that he's growing a belly prompts a regimen of fasting three days a week in a mujahedeen training camp) and his evolving beliefs. He even details his struggles to contain a sometimes rampant libido within the strictures of his religious moral code.

Abu Zubaydah writes as a troubled young man filled with ambivalence over the path he's chosen, driven by his desire to escape a broken, sometimes violent home in Saudi Arabia and his outsider status there: "a Palestinian like me with no homeland, no passport and no identity. One whowas destined to be born in a country that is not his and live among people who viewed him primarily as a refugee ... I used to dread being looked down upon by the society; stateless and displaced."

The Palestinian national trauma is an inherited memory; it's the personal injuries of his childhood that most haunt him — like the moment he saw his father beating his mother, who had become embroiled in a fistfight with her sister-in-law, as Abu Zubaydah and his older brother, Mahir, screamed for the adults to stop.

After that moment, Abu Zubaydah recalls, he never witnessed "a happy day" in his family. He seems to remember only "yelling, crying, and weeping." Sometime later, his mother and father argued again, and he was standing next to


"Every one has a lengthy story specific to him, and each one of them came here as an emigrant. Sometimes they share a dark past and other times sharing white castles. Yet one thing unites them in addition to migration for Allah's cause; escaping reality, life after it turned all dark and full of sins and temptations, and even from imprisonment."

But Abu Zubaydah had stepped, unknowingly, into a historical vacuum. It was an infrastructure set up by the Saudis, backed by the CIA and facilitated by Pakistani intelligence that had rallied young Arab men like Zubaydah (and Osama bin Laden, although he isn't mentioned in this first volume) to join the jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviet invaders, that enabled their passage to the front lines and thatrelayed home heroic tales of their sacrifices in battle against the infidels. But that infrastructure had outlived its purpose: Zubaydah arrived in Afghanistan two years after the Soviets departed, to join a messy fight pitting Moscow's erstwhile protege Mohammad Najibullah against a number of Afghan mujahedeen factions, some of which were also fighting one another.

The Arab countries that had encouraged these young men to go to Afghanistan didn't want them to return home, radicalized, to challenge the pro-Western regimes that, even as Abu Zubaydah arrived in Afghanistan, were making common cause with the United States to eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait. "There seems to be no future," he writes. "And if there is one; nothing is better than jihad for Almighty Allah's cause."

The diary does not explain his


decision, prompted by a friend (their discussions are not recorded in the diary), to leave his university life in India for a brief sojourn of military training in Afghanistan. It simply records the decision.

"Yesterday and only yesterday I decided to go to Afghanistan," Abu Zubaydah writes on Jan. 6, 1991.

Abu Zubaydah writes that he considered traveling there before, but his plan never came to fruition because "the objective was not developed and pure."

The purpose of his trip was to receive training and then return to India to finish his studies.

"The intent is bona fide, God willing. Almost everything is ready except I am scared of the circumstances. Yet I trust in God, and we seek refuge in him."

Still, arriving in Afghanistan, the lonely, dislocated, suicidal, depressive and sexuallyfrustrated 19-year-old Palestinian thinks of the Nivea cream he hasn't taken to protect his skin from the dry cold, and he hesitates at the threshold between the troubled life he knows and the seductive vision of martyrdom in holy war that beckons.

I do not have sex for religious reasons, although, thank God, I am confident of my manhood.

The only directly political statements chronicled in the diary before Abu Zubaydah announces his decision to go to Afghanistan concern the Palestinian cause. At a weekly gathering with friends during his teenage years in Riyadh, where he and other young men would get together, "perhaps at nine or ten at night, with few pushes, tackling, karate, dancing and laughs," he clashed with a close friend over whether to support the Palestinian


struggle led by the secular PLO and Yasser Arafat, for whom he later noted his loathing. "My viewpoint states that jihad and the path to Palestine has to be strictly Islamic," Abu Zubaydah writes. His friend Muhammad Abu Asbah disagrees, "saying that the main thing is liberation; regardless of the leader or the army, even if they were not Muslims."

That clash ended the friendship, another lost in a long list of disappointments and betrayals chronicled in the diary, reinforcing his despair at the world. In India, although he is studying the subject of his choice, his alienation deepens. The diary reflects late nights disconsolately listening to love songs by the pop crooner Chris de Burgh (of "Lady in Red" fame) and puffing on cigarettes. "Although I hate (smoking),emotional turmoil captured earlier in the diary: mood swings and thoughts of suicide — even noting one failed attempt — and recurring episodes of anger and shame as he recounts a family history of emotional abuse and confrontation with his parents.

And then there's the sex — and the sense of shame his biological drives induce in him.

"Her kisses are hovering over my hot submissive body as I am reciting surat Al-Kursi so I don't commit the grand one," notes a diary entry written from a camp in Afghanistan, in which he recounts in salacious detail an episode of unconsummated foreplay in bed with his Christian housemaid, Flumina, in Mysore. Temptation rears up constantly, first and foremost through this servant, who he insists is pestering him for sex.

They share


as well as support to both Arab and Afghan Mujahideen."

"From that office branches many houses for the incoming mujahideen from outside Afghanistan, Arabs and others. These houses are: Al-Faitheen (The Conquerors), Al-Shuhadaa' (The Martyrs), and Al-Ansar (The Supporters) where all the Saudis, Yemenis, Algerians, and Palestinians are. It is for distribution of the organization and not for any other purposes such as; discrimination and nationalism …"

Abu Zubaydah also explains that everyone is given a nickname for "secretive reasons" and that his alias is "Abu-Huraya." Several weeks later, he writes, he decided to abandon "Abu-Huraya" as his pseudonym and use his real family name. Former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan wrote in his book "The Black Banners" that after Abu Zubaydah lost his memory from a shrapnel wound, othermujahedeen would tell him, "Your name is Abu Zubaydah."

"This is why he was one of the few terrorists who operated under his actual name rather than an alias," Soufan wrote, a claim that the diary contradicts.

He's gone off to training camps — Bari and his final destination, Khaldan — where he's learned to use everything from an AK-47 to mortars, 82 mm artillery and everything else the Red Army had used and lost in Afghanistan, as well as M16 rifles and other U.S. weapons.

But as the initial elation of his immersion in the pursuit of martyrdom fades, depression and anxiety remain present. One night he weeps while praying with other fighters. He wonders, in the diary, if his tears expressed fear or happiness.

He writes of dreams he has


about his family and how he misses them. But then he reminds himself of the relationship he had with his well-off but stingy father and how, on one occasion, he went to a hospital to sell his blood for "three hundred Saudi Riyals" because he needed money for food and cigarettes.

With the binoculars … I was able to clearly see seven tanks in one row … pointing their turret guns towards the mountain which I was on … I expected death in any given moment.

At the camp, he is shaken up by a letter he receives from his father in response to a letter he sent his parents when he left India, informing them of his decision to turn his life over to what he calls "jihad." His'Your brother (Hesham) has cancer and has gone through a urinary system surgery; he is a skeleton with no hair or eyelashes even.' At this point I felt crippled. I took a pause for a few moments away from the letter to think of my beloved brother … "

The painful news about Hesham proved ineffective in persuading Abu Zubaydah to abandon jihad and return home. But the family's efforts to convince him intensified when his brother Mahir showed up at his training camp on May 1, 1991. Mahir, Abu Zubaydah writes, was studying to be a doctor in Pakistan. (He is now a renowned heart surgeon in Saudi Arabia.) He describes Mahir as "obedient" and his father's favorite. As children, they both tried to get their father’s attention


lose hundreds of men in a failed effort to capture the town of Gardez.

There he sees comrades torn apart by land mines and shrapnel. An entry from Oct. 10, 1991, describes a battle scene in which he witnesses scores of his "brothers" cut down by advancing government tanks. He survives because he's been sent by the Khaldan camp's emir, Abu Binan, to serve as a lookout, surveying the carnage from a mountaintop.

"With the binoculars … I was able to clearly see seven tanks in one row … pointing their turret guns towards the mountain which I was on … I expected death in any given moment."

A group of mujahedeen arrive with "a quantity of American made mortar shells." Then he hears an explosion near the mujahedeen’s artillery.

"I rushedto the place only to be dumbfounded … the gun barrel had exploded because an American artillery shell had been 'doctored' — prepared especially to blow up the shooter as soon as it is placed inside the gun barrel — The mortar had exploded and anyone near it was fatally injured … I rushed with some of the brothers from the neighboring center, to the injured, but there weren't any injured … everyone was martyred."

Among the dead, he writes, is Abu Binan. Abu Zubaydah describes a blood-soaked tableau strewn with body parts that he collects. He records Abu Binan’s last words, "Take care of the weapons" and "la mort," French for death.

Abu Zubaydah is deeply affected by the loss of the Khaldan camp emir. "Only God knows the


amount of love and respect I had for him."

The fighting intensifies after that.

"In one day … one sees death more than 100 times here …" he writes in October 1991, the same month Najibullah, the president of Afghanistan, reported that his forces defeated a two-week siege of Gardez by mujahedeen in what The New York Times said was "one of the fiercest army bombardments in Afghanistan's 12-year civil war."

While at Gardez, he receives a package from his sister Wafa that includes one of his favorite pastries, mamul, and a letter that includes a poem from his mother:

"Lamented are my fate and my days
I found none who tried to rush to my rescue … He is my son and he will definitely return And he will know that obeyingme is the best Jihad"

The letter, which bears tears drawn in red ink, depresses him, and he vows to "throw it into the fire" to avoid the temptation to reread it. He intends to respond to his mother by quoting a verse from the Quran. But thoughts of family continue to haunt him on the front line.

In mid-August 1991, Abu Zubaydah writes about his desire to marry and father a son: "my own son; play with him, be kind to him and even spank him. Yes! Spank him, why not?"

The next day a Palestinian-American family with a child visits the camp. "It is the little one that I felt excited to see," Abu Zubaydah writes, "I don't know why! … the machinegun he was holding makes his appearance


even more beautiful … I could only watch him and the emotion almost swarming out of my chest and choking me."

After the child leaves the camp, Abu Zubaydah writes that he misses his family, "my mother's smile, my father's laugh, the yelling of my younger siblings, and the look of my sisters sitting at their study desk or arguing or kidding around as innocent little children … I miss my mother's cooking."

And he's aware of the conflict between his aspiration for martyrdom and his more conventional desires. "In spite of my yearning for sooner martyrdom, yet it is the truth that I am not denying; I am longing to a good wife, a small house, a child and the word 'Papa.'"

He would remain in Gardez until 1992. It'John Tognolini has been a rare voice and witness for justice in Australia, chronicling the struggles of Indigenous Australians and veterans and the deceptions of power from behind the facades of a society that prefers not to know. I salute him.'
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Why is Manning kept in solitary confinement? And what role did Assange play in Manning's leaks? We answer these questions and more.

Both the award-winning documentary film director Michael Moore and the celebrated whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg have called 22-year-old U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning a hero in the fight for free information. Ironically Manning's own fate is presently unknown, since much information leading to his arrest is being withheld. Since his detention in May last year, Manning has been in solitary confinement under


conditions criticized for being inhumane and torturous. According to his lawyer, Army court-martial defense attorney David E. Coombs, Manning is only allowed to leave his cell one hour a day and has no contact with other prisoners.

Even in his cell, his activities are strongly restricted. The light is kept turned on 24 hours a day, he is prohibited from possessing personal items or exercising, and he has no access to basic items such as sheets or pillows. What is the reason for this treatment? Manning is accused of being WikiLeaks' source for the 250,000 U.S. State Department cables published since November and for being the source of the "collateral murder" video, showing civilians and two Reuters reporters being killed in a 2007 U.S. air raid in Baghdad. Heturning Manning over to the authorities.

Why did Lamo inform the FBI?

Lamo has claimed he acted out of sheer concern with national security. He told the Australian journalist Patrick Gray, from Risky Busyness, that he tried to prevent the lives of other human beings from being seriously and adversely effected by the leakage of classified material. The justification rings hollow considering Lamo himself is a longtime hacker convicted of a felony. Even more bizarre is the fact that Lamo, a couple of months prior to leaking the story, donated money to WikiLeaks and expressed his support for the organization. So if Lamo's concern with homeland security is true it brings up another question.

Why did Lamo leak the chat logs to Wired?

According to his own statement, Lamo wanted to ensure


that Manning was painted as a human being rather than a terrorist before arrested by the U.S. authorities. The statement rings hollow in light of the curious connection between Lamo and Kevin Poulsen, Wired's senior editor, investigated by Greenwald. Poulsen is not only a journalist but also, like Lamo, a previous hacker convicted of a felony and sentenced to three years in jail. Throughout his hacking career, Lamo went to Poulsen for coverage of his activities. When Lamo had successfully hacked a company, he informed Poulsen, who then went to the company with information about the break-in, offered Lamo's cooperation and afterward reported the hacking incident in the news. Lamo thus used Poulsen to carry out his hacking adventures while Poulsen took advantage of Lamo as insider sourcebuckets collect the particulate material in the boot portion of the bucket elevator and then pass around the lower pulley of the bucket elevator and then continue to move upwardly along the upward run of the elongated flexible structure. A motor drives the lower pulley and therefore drives the elongated flexible structure with the buckets. At the upper pulley of the bucket elevator, the buckets dispense the particulate material which then exits through a discharge chute. Vertically orientated bucket elevators often times require centrifugal force to get the particulate material out of the buckets and into the discharge chute and often times referred to as “centrifugal discharge elevators”. One of the problems with conventional bucket elevators is that the particulate material is released outwardly because of centrifugal force


safety of rivastigmine for patients with dementia of Alzheimer's type. The Specialized Register of the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group (CDCIG), The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL and LILACS were searched on 27 March 2008 using the terms: Rivastigmine OR exelon OR ENA OR "SDZ ENA 713" . The CDCIG Specialized Register contains records from all major health care databases (The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, LILACS) as well as from many clinical trials registries and grey literature sources. All unconfounded, double-blind, randomized trials in which treatment with rivastigmine was administered to patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type for more than two weeks and its effects compared with those of placebo in a parallel group of patients. One reviewer (JSB) applied study selection criteria,Thoughts from a mind trying to release itself from the ideals of its time.

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Beards are in fashion among scholars today. It is amusing that they were also in fashion among the Stoic street-preachers of ancient Rome. According to the poet Horace, Roman boys enjoyed annoying these wise men by pulling on their beards. Imagine now giving a tug to the facial hair that belonged to a tenured professor at Harvard. Do you think, even if he taught the works of Horace in his classes and encouraged his students to laugh at the self-importance of the philsophers being mocked, that he would be capable of seeing himself in the mirror that Horace was holding up for him?


   Appeal from the United States District Court
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        Percy Anderson, District Judge, Presiding

                  Argued and Submitted
          October 18, 2006—Pasadena, California

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      Before: Harry Pregerson, Ronald M. Gould, and
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       sealed containers and load the containers onto
airplanes. The airplanes may depart for foreign airports or
first fly to another domestic hub before leaving the United
States.

  On September 30, 2003, as part of an outbound interdiction
operation, Customs Officer Christopher Crace opened a ran-
domly selected package sent by Abbouchi from Diamond Bar,
California, and addressed to someone in Lebanon. Inside the
package was a sealed envelope containing two social security
cards and two permanent resident alien cards. Crace also
found a photocopy of a permanent resident alien card, hand-
written notes, and an identification booklet written in Arabic.
Crace notified his superior, and they determined that the pack-
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the package to the Los
Angeles ICE office on October 24, 2003. ICE Senior Special
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gin of the package to the UPS Store in Diamond Bar, Califor-
nia. The store’s owner identified Abbouchi as the package’s
sender.

  On January 21, 2004, Agent Paul Yokoyama from the
Office of the Inspector General for the Social Security
Administration interviewed Abbouchi. Abbouchi signed a
Miranda waiver and admitted mailing a UPS package to Leb-
anon. Abbouchi claimed the package contained his military
booklet and some other personal documents. Initially,
Abbouchi denied that he knowingly sent the social security
and permanent residency cards. Further investigation pro-
duced evidence that Abbouchi had on other occasions sent to
Lebanon fraudulent documents that the recipients could have
used to enter the United States illegally.
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He demeaned her, her two older sisters and her younger brother, and punished them with a belt when they didn’t meet his exacting standards.

Indian Country News is a weekly note from High Country News, as we continue to broaden our coverage of tribal affairs across the West. Patricia Roybal Caballero was a freshman lawmaker in New Mexico’s House of Representatives when she walked into a popular Santa Fe restaurant in 2013 for a meeting with some of her colleagues.

Gov. Susana Martinez left office with low approval ratings, according to Morning Consult.
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for jobs and growth in the UK," Fiona Hall, who heads the Lib Dem group in the European Parliament, said.

"Liberal Democrats have always been passionate about improving the EU. However, we have made it clear that the balance of competences review should not be used to make a shopping list of powers to be repatriated back to the UK."

'Pretence'

Downing Street said the prime minister's views about Europe were "clear" and he believed it was important the public had "the evidence and analysis" to consider the question of the UK's membership.

But the UK Independence Party (UKIP)) said the prime minister was being "disingenuous" since Conservative MEPs had voted for more than 60% of legislative proposals debated in the European Parliament this year.

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The championship leader conceded Hamilton had simply been "the better man" in qualifying.

"We always expected Mercedes to be very quick, especially in the last segment," Vettel added. "Lewis did a better job today and got a good lap. He was the better man today.

"I thought we could step it up and find a bit of time. I lost a bit into Turn 2, and then lost two tenths out of the second corner and then I knew I had to catch up, which I did until the end of the lap which I did to get the same as before.

"Nevertheless the car was very good, I was happy this morning, happy this morning and we should be good in the race."

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Today, the Center for American Progress and AAPI Data released its full report, completing the series on the state of Asian American and Pacific Islander, or AAPI, communities. Since the release of the first factsheets in April—and as the federal government has made significant efforts to improve data collection on AAPIs in line with an executive order from President Barack Obama—CAP and AAPI Data have released factsheets examining how the rise of the fastest-growing demographic in the United States will affect a variety of key policy areas.

From 2000 to 2010—and since the release of the 2010 Census—AAPIs are the two fastest growing racial groups in the United States. The implications of these groups’ rapid growth, coupled with the lack of detailed data collection that captures their diversity, arevast and cover a wide array of issues, such as:

Asian Americans are a rapidly growing part of the electorate, making an average gain of about 500,000 voters every four years.

Naturalization of Asian immigrants has outnumbered naturalization of immigrants from any other continent, undeniably contributing to our nation’s economy in multiple ways.

The size of the Asian American labor force has been growing faster than for any other racial or ethnic group.

However, as the research highlights, there are stark differences in outcomes within various AAPI racial categories: While some groups, such as Indian Americans and Chinese Americans, rank among the highest in terms of concentration in management and professional occupations—and have incomes higher than the national average—other groups such as Cambodian Americans, Hmong Americans, Laotian Americans, and Vietnamese Americans have


MACON, Ga. -- Former Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones and four-time Pro Bowler Hines Ward are among eight who will be inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame this month.

Jones retired in 2012 after spending his entire career with the Braves. He recently returned to the team as a special assistant.

Ward played wide receiver, running back and quarterback at the University of Georgia before 14 seasons with the Steelers. He was MVP of Super Bowl XL.

Other inductees announced on Friday include NBA analyst and former player Mike Glenn, former longtime University of Georgia broadcaster Phil Schaffer, high school football coach Luther Welsh, former Georgia Tech and NFL wide receiver Jimmy Robinson, and basketball players and coaches Patricia Roberts and Glenn Wilkes.

The induction ceremony is scheduled for Feb.A woman walks past the Alexandria Theater, which has sat vacant since 2004, at 18th Avenue and Geary Boulevard in the Richmond District on Friday, June 21, 2019. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner)

After a near-15 year vacancy, the Richmond District’s Alexandria Theater will be repurposed into a multi-story recreational and educational facility featuring a two swimming pools and office space.

With a 4-1 vote on Thursday, the San Francisco planning commission gave the greenlight to modified plans for the project by approving a conditional use authorization.

The original project plans, approved in 2013, included an adjacent residential building which has since been constructed, as well as commercial spaces on the ground floor, a restaurant on the second floor and a small theater at the corner of 18th Avenue and Geary Boulevard.

The


project ultimately moving forward will feature an adult and a children’s swimming pool on the theater’s ground floor, and a learning center on the second floor that will host after-school educational programs and lend itself for community use in the mornings and evenings. It also includes the addition of a third level within the theater that will provide professional office space.

The project plans also call for locker rooms in the basement and a ground floor viewing gallery.

Architect Jonathan Pearlman told the commission that the theater’s historic features— such as a bronze railing, interior murals, a chandelier dangling from its ceiling, its historic exterior columns and box office— will be preserved. Built in 1923, the theater was renovated in 1942 and shut its doors in 2004.

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Tell us your favorite story from teaching at your NICS school.

I LOVE teaching Social Studies to international children!!! So many cultural perspectives I've never even thought about! I'm teaching World War 2 in Japan! I'm teaching the European explorers who made slaves out of the barbarians from other countries. I'm teaching the bible and God's role in all of it! God is so good and reminds us of His divine presence in all areas of history!

What makes teaching at NICS so special?

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by James L. Merriner

Barack Obama's loss to Bobby Rush eight years ago in a race for Congress is usually seen as a thorough drubbing, but in fact Obama laid the groundwork that year for spectacular fundraising successes in his later campaigns—notably, as of March 31st, Obama's presidential campaign had raised a record $234 million. By contrast, Obama raised a modest $509,000 to run against Rush, but along the way he picked up contributors and fundraisers such as Penny Pritzker, heiress of the Hyatt Hotels chain.

Financial disclosure forms for Obama's campaigns for the state senate in 1996 and 1998 list few well-known names in Democratic Party fundraising circles, aside from Lewis Manilow, the developer and arts patron, and Antoin "Tony" Rezko, thelow-income housing developer later indicted on charges of influence peddling. For the 2000 primary, Congressman Rush outraised Obama by nearly $300,000. Perhaps more significant is the fact that Obama's finance chair was his longtime friend Martin Nesbitt, president of an off-airport parking company partly owned by the Pritzker family. Nesbitt also is vice president of the Pritzker Realty Group, headed by Penny Pritzker.

Pritzker gave $1,000 to Obama's 2000 campaign, the legal maximum at the time. In 2002, Nesbitt arranged for Pritzker to meet with Obama and his wife, Michelle, at Pritzker's vacation home in Michigan. Soon, Pritzker chaired the finance committee for Obama's 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate, which raised nearly $15 million. She now is the finance chair of Obama's presidential campaign. (Her brother Jay Robert


"J. B." Pritzker is national chair of Citizens for Hillary.)

Another significant supporter enlisted by Obama in the 2000 campaign was Bettylu Saltzman, who has been a fundraiser for liberal politics since she backed Bill Singer's successful campaign for alderman in 1969. She is the daughter of the late developer Philip M. Klutznick, former U.S. secretary of commerce.

It was in 2000 also that Obama first parlayed his Harvard and legal connections into considerable campaign underwriting. His contributors included Laurence H. Tribe, the noted Harvard law professor; Scott Turow, the Chicago attorney and author of legal thrillers; Douglas R. Baird, former dean of the University of Chicago Law School; Robert W. Bennett, former dean of the Northwestern University Law School; and Judson Miner, who had given Obama his first full-timein Fremantle on 28 May was met with extensive hospitality, which was reciprocated where possible by the sailors with invitations and tours of their vessel. There were opportunities for shore leave, but these were limited as Australia was only in port for three days, and had to sail early on 1 June for Melbourne.Frame and Baker, Mutiny!, p. 100

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The three Exten proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court began on 1 July 1974 when EAI, Gerald M. Exten and Mary Ellen Exten each filed a petition for an arrangement pursuant to Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 (the Act), 11 U.S.C. §§ 701-799 (1976).[2] In January 1975, the debtors filed a plan of arrangement (original plan), and in March 1975, EAI filed a modified plan of arrangement (modified plan).
The modified plan changed the original plan in two material respects. Under the original plan, the unsecured creditors, including National and Sundowner, were to receive $360,000 in deferred payments as settlement andand were still attorneys of record for EAI), Charles Tatelbaum, (who was a member of Schimmel & Tatelbaum, P.A.), Alvin Pomerantz (who had lent money to EAI during the Chapter XI proceedings) and Gerald M. Exten as limited partners. Gerald M. Exten was also named as the partnership's sole general partner.[4]
In July 1978, Sundowner and National filed with Judge Kaiser an application for removal of Lance Billingsley, Esq., as trustee under the mortgage. National and Sundowner also moved that a Creditor's committee be appointed. After a hearing, Judge Kaiser entered an order dated 2 August 1978 substituting Gerald S. Klein, Esq. and Dale A. Cooter, Esq. for Lance Billingsley, Esq. as trustees under the mortgage and directed the debtors "to promptly execute a mortgage conforming to the plan


Dick Fosbury has few regrets about the fallout from Mexico 1968, but his tale gives any stars born at London 2012 some food for thought.

Fosbury was an anomaly at the Olympics. His gold-medal winning performance in the high jump received grander recognition than those afforded to others because of the unique technique he adopted - the "Fosbury Flop".

People put me on a pedestal and kept me there. I didn't want to be on a pedestal. I received my medal and I wanted to be back on the ground with everyone else

Dick Fosbury

The success of his innovation made the 21-year-old one of the four positive standout athletics stories for the United States that year - the others being Bob Beamon's epic leap in the long jump, Jim Hines's sub-10second 100m and Lee Evans's sub-44 second 400m.

But it was the saga of the unassuming Oregon State University student that made him the number one target for some media organisations.

"I arrived back from the Games at the end of the October and still had two months free before returning to college," Fosbury told BBC Sport.

"I had invitations to appear on TV programmes and one of those was The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on NBC.

"I remember comedian Bill Cosby was on that night too - he was a former high jumper. They got me to jump on stage; I slipped at the first attempt but then managed to clear 6ft.

"I was also a guest on the Dating Game with decathlon champion Bill Toomey. Neither one of us was


selected but it was fun nonetheless. Then there was also an invitation event in Berlin that I attended - that was the first time I had jumped in Europe.

"It was all great, but I came back to the reality of classes in January. I jumped a few more times indoors, until I took a break.

"I was mentally exhausted. I was burnt out from having jumped 10 months of the previous year.

"There was also too much attention. People put me on a pedestal and kept me there. I didn't want to be on a pedestal. I received my medal and I wanted to be back on the ground with everyone else."

The path to fame and pain began in Oregon. Fosbury initially used his 6ft 5in frame on the basketballcourts, but he also had another passion at school.

"We had many options in those days - you could become an artist and become involved in music. We also had theatre.

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Olympic champion Dick Fosbury reveals what he believes is the limit in the men's high jump

"I loved to participate in singing and did some work on stage in different musicals which always conflicted with sport. Our coaches wanted us to concentrate on their sport."

Fosbury was eventually forced to focus, so he left basketball and theatre behind and chose to pursue a high-jump career.

The American began experimenting with the 'flop' at school which, encouraged by his coaches, he had all but perfected by the time he was in higher education.

Like many of those


competing in London, the youngster had to sacrifice a normal university life, and at times his education, to stay on track for the Olympics.

"My results were really starting to come through. But at same time I was having success in athletics, my academic side was not doing so well," he continued.

His approach to the Games was far more relaxed than that of elite athletes today. In fact, if UK Athletics chief Charles van Commenee caught any of his athletes getting up to what Fosbury managed on the eve of the Games, then who knows what consequences would face them.

"I ran around with a couple of athletes at the time - one was a javelin thrower who was older than me," said Fosbury.

High jump techniques

Straddle: The jumper approaches thebar and rolls over the bar head first, facing the ground

Scissors: The jumper approaches the bar and jumps over legs first, facing upwards

Fosbury Flop: The jumper approaches the bar and jumps over head first, facing upwards, arching the back

"He had a couple of young ladies bring his Volkswagen bus down to Mexico City.

"We had wheels. We went downtown to the pyramids - it was the day before the Olympic torch was coming to the stadium. We spent the night out there.

"I learnt to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission. I didn't tell my coach I was going to do these activities. He wasn't around full time, anyway."

He did not harm his chances and in the Olympic final Fosbury cleared an Olympic record 2.24m on his third attempt


to land gold, with team-mate Ed Caruthers failing to clear the height.

Fosbury fought another battle later in life when he was diagnosed with stage one lymphoma in 2007. He overcame what was "one of the most difficult times" he had to deal with and is now clear of cancer.

It was perhaps that realisation of the fragility of life that has shaped Fosbury's philosophy.

"There is expectation for athletes to focus on their performances, but at same time we have to live our lives," added the 65-year-old, who now runs athletics camps in the United States.

"Be safe, but experience the Games. I think coming to London will be a tremendous experience for all these athletes. East London will provide the Olympians great exposure to people from all over the world."The Montgomery True Blues battery, Capt. W. G. Andrews, was
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gave it a passing glance. It goes without saying that the same woman would not have had the luxury of driving lessons, much less with an Orthodox Jewish teacher, had she been living in Saudi Arabia.

It's the two gay men walking hand-in-hand along the Tel Aviv beachfront. No one looked at them, and no one questioned their right to display their affection. Try repeating the same scene in some neighboring countries.

It's the Friday crowd at a mosque in Jaffa. Muslims are free to enter as they please, to pray, to affirm their faith. The scene is repeated throughout Israel. Meanwhile, Christians in Iraq are targeted for death; Copts in Egypt face daily marginalization; Saudi Arabia bans any public display of Christianity; and Jews have been largely driven outdeserves a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here, children in need of advanced cardiac care come, often below the radar. They arrive from Iraq, the West Bank, Gaza, and other Arab places. They receive world-class treatment. It's free, offered by doctors and nurses who wish to assert their commitment to coexistence. Yet, these very same individuals know that, in many cases, their work will go unacknowledged. The families are fearful of admitting they sought help in Israel, even as, thanks to Israelis, their children have been given a new lease on life.

It's the vibrancy of the Israeli debate on just about everything, including, centrally, the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians. The story goes that U.S. President Harry Truman met Israeli President Chaim Weizmann shortly after Israel's establishment


in 1948. They got into a discussion about who had the tougher job. Truman said: "With respect, I'm president of 140 million people." Weizmann retorted: "True, but I'm president of one million presidents."

Whether it's the political parties, the Knesset, the media, civil society, or the street, Israelis are assertive, self-critical, and reflective of a wide range of viewpoints.

It's the Israelis who are now planning the restoration of the Carmel Forest, after a deadly fire killed 44 people and destroyed 8,000 acres of exquisite nature. Israelis took an arid and barren land and, despite the unimaginably harsh conditions, lovingly planted one tree after another, so that Israel can justifiably claim today that it's one of the few countries with more wooded land than it had a century ago.

It's thePhil And John: The Derby duo with built in grassroots appeal

It took four journos (Fran James, Gavin Drake, Tony Cummings and
Jonathan Day), three interviews and a couple of years to piece
together a Phil And
John interview not made incoherent with explosions of laughter.
Yet, it's a serious time for the Derby duo. Recipients of a special
international award at the Dove Awards two years back, today the band
have momentarily put aside thoughts of the lucrative American CCM
market, started their own record company and produced the album they'd
always wanted to make, an acoustic orientated one. It's gone straight
to number one in Cross Rhythms Contemporary Chart. This then is Phil And John, 1990,
1991 and 1992.

Back in 1983 Phil And
John told the old Buzz magazine "musically we're not very good at
all". For some observers


of Britain's Christian music scene, the duo's
commendable candour only expresses an inescapable fact, that these
doyens of the British Christian subculture have gained their secure
foothold in church hall and Christian fests not by musical brilliance
but a drolly laconic stage act. As recorded for posterity on their
'Live' album, Phil Baggaley and John Hartley's ability to crack up an
audience while conveying the naturalness of working class lads has
taken them a long way. But it would be unfair to write off the duo as
musical lightweights. Phil And John have worked hard at their
musical chops over the past decade. The banality of many of the early
Kingsway recordings has been long overcome and with Word (UK) they
have cut a series of goodish albums. The problem has been P&J's
stylistic lapses. The duo offered the occasionallybemused album buyer
crisp acoustic pop with 'Waiting For Summer' (1985), synth-programmed
CCM with 'Lonely Dancer' (1987) and 60s pop-rock throwback with 'Don't
Look Now It's the Hallelujah Brothers' (1989). It was the unexpected
success of 'Lonely Dancer' which pressured the duo into attempting to
recreate the synth-pop formula with 'Shine Like America' (1991). But
no more

American Christian radio hits emerged from that and, disillusioned
with their dealings with Word (UK), the duo struck out on their own
earlier this year. Now with their own booking agency (Sounds Like
Promotions) and record company (R Records, marketed into Christian
bookstores through Kingsway) and a determination to record music they
liked rather than music the market place dictated Phil And John have a new
lease of life.

Phil And John have
been mates all their lives. Childhood friends, the duo grew up in a
Nottinghamshire