Ford allegedly had plans to revive the Bronco after his long sleep since the production version was discontinued in mid-1996. Let’s look at the Bronco history to refresh our memories, respectively. The Ford Bronco has been introduced for the first time in 1966 in the form of a two-door sport utility vehicle with a front engine layout to beat its main rivals in the small compact SUV segment, including Jeep CJ-5 and International Harvester Scout.

Thirty years later, Ford has decided to stop production of the legendary Bronco SUVs in mid-1996 due to market trends prefer four-door passenger vehicle at that time. And to answer the market demand, the Dearborn automaker decided to launch the Ford Expedition in the same year to replace the Bronco. The first-generation Expedition targetedTouching video shows Emily Zamourka, a homeless woman who was filmed by a LAPD officer singing opera in a subway station, reuniting with the officer behind the viral video. She has been offered a record deal following the video's popularity.


Here Are The Future African American Leaders In Radio

Now in its sixth year, our Future African American Leaders in Radio list, as it has in previous years, includes people from every aspect of the business and from all over the country. On the 2018 list, you’ll read about how several of them backed into radio almost by accident — but discovered they loved it (sounds like we may have a recruiting problem) and made a hugely successful career out of their opportunity. Many of them credit their success to having great mentors, strong faith, and the grit and desire to be the best at what they do. Every member of this list was nominated by a respected peer and voted on by a panel of experienced managers acrossso successful in radio — and in life. “It is because of the favor of the Lord that I have been successful, and how He has taught me the importance of having a good healthy attitude in every situation. It was not a college degree, which I do not have, that helped me, but attitude.” He goes on, “I was told on several occasions by top executives and department heads that they wanted to hire me because of my attitude. One wanted me to head up an aviation division he was creating for his corporation, and another was the president of Chicago’s NBC TV, where I eventually landed for 29 years. It was while there, being around and learning from great people, that I decided to become a


up sitting next to the promotions director, Mike Karsting. He told me about his job, which sounded interesting, and encouraged me to apply for an internship, which I did the following week. I became an intern, then was hired part-time. From there, a career in radio was born.” Tyus tells Radio Ink she’s been a success in radio because she eats details for breakfast. “I average over 75 events annually — everything from small community events to massive, talent-driven events for 2,000-plus people. The key to their success is in the smallest details: buying a door prize to generate entry-forms collection, anticipating any and all needs of sponsors at events, offering listeners special discounts to ensure repeat business. All these little things add up and ensure success.” Sheyesterday. That was a part-time weekend show. Six months later, I got my first full-time show, at KBXX/Houston — the first commercial Hip Hop station in the South. It was a very magical time for me. I grew up singing and performing, so to say that I was given the opportunity to play music on the radio was the stuff of dreams.” She goes on, “What I love most about radio is still the fact that I get to earn a living by playing music on the air. That amazingness is still never lost on me. I also love the conversations and those connections we make on a very personal level with people. I was on the radio at Z100 New York when the September 11 attacks happened


Chris Williams wears many hats. He’s responsible for everything that hits the airwaves, from music, personalities, and promotions to commercials, websites, and social media. He’s also the afternoon driver for WMBX (X 102.3). And like many jocks, Williams fell in love with radio at an early age. “I started working in radio professionally in 1996 at KMJM (Majic 108 FM) in St. Louis,” he says. “I was just a senior in high school, but had a passion for radio and wanted to pursue a career in the business. Even with the Internet and cable being widely available at the time, that mysterious voice behind the microphone is what really fascinated me. To me, radio jocks were the next best thing — they were bigger than life and werebrief with the Washington State Supreme Court in support of Arlene’s Flowers. Texas is joined in the Supreme Court amicus brief by the attorneys general from Arkansas, Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, along with Governor Matthew Bevin of Kentucky and Maine Governor Paul LePage.


probation, including

that he was not to have sexual contact with anyone other than his wife and that he was to

live at Union Gospel Mission. Appellant admitted that he had sexual contact with two

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men and that he did not immediately report to Union Gospel Mission. In addition,

appellant stated that he understood he was prohibited from having contact with minors,

but had hugged two minors and was briefly in a home alone with two minors. Appellant

stated that he was willing to cooperate with a treatment program.

affected lymph nodes, grade, histology, and ER and progesterone receptor [PR] status) was abstracted from pathology reports or obtained from cancer registry records. The population‐based probands reported on their exposures and dietary intake up to or during the year before diagnosis. All other women reported on their exposures and dietary intake up to or during the year before enrollment.

The Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR) is an international research infrastructure that was established in 1995, with 6 participating sites from the United States, Canada, and Australia that recruited breast cancer families either through population‐based cancer registries (population‐based families) or cancer clinics and community outreach (clinic‐based families). 9 Population‐based families were recruited through incident breast cancer cases identified by the regional cancer registries in the greater San Francisco Bay area,


the province of Ontario, Canada, and the metropolitan areas of Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Clinic‐based families were recruited from the local populations in New York City, Philadelphia, Utah, Ontario, and Melbourne/Sydney. The first family member recruited into the BCFR is referred to as the proband, regardless of breast cancer status. Population‐based probands were sampled according to site‐specific criteria based on sex, race/ethnicity, family history, and age at diagnosis. Permission was sought from the probands to contact eligible family members. Between 1996 and 2011, more than 13,000 families were recruited and followed prospectively. Because a different food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was used to assess dietary intake in Australia, the current analysis only includes women from the 5 North American BCFR sites who completed the same FFQ at baseline andJeremy Corbyn faced a new anti-Semitism storm last night after it was claimed he mocked a leading Jewish Labour MP behind her back by calling her 'the MP for Tel Aviv'.

The 'spiteful' jibe by the Labour leader was reportedly aimed at Louise Ellman, awarded a damehood by the Queen two months ago for her distinguished 30-year political career.

Mr Corbyn's alleged slur was revealed 24 hours after he tried to heal a rift with the Jewish community and admitted Labour had a 'real problem' with anti-Semitism.

Labour's troubles deepened last night when deputy leader Tom Watson warned the party would 'disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment' and be unfit for government unless it resolved the anti-Semitism row.

In an newspaper interview, he also called on Mr Corbyn to


'torturers'.

Jewish campaigners said 'outrageous' verses of the poem read out at the rally breached part of the internationally recognised definition of anti-Semitism – the key section that Labour controversially left out of its watered-down version.

Incriminating footage: Jeremy Corbyn addressing a pro-Palestinian rally in 2012 at which another speaker compared Israel's actions to the Nazis

Dame Louise has frequently criticised Mr Corbyn for failing to tackle anti-Semitism. It has led to repeated attempts by Left-wing activists in the pro-Corbyn Momentum group to sack her as MP for Liverpool Riverside.

A former aide to Mr Corbyn told The Mail on Sunday that they had heard him describe Dame Louise sarcastically as 'the Honourable Member for Tel Aviv' when her name was mentioned. 'I was very surprised and when I asked other membersof staff they said he often did it in private, though not to her face,' said the Labour insider.

The 'spiteful' jibe by the Labour leader was reportedly aimed at Louise Ellman (pictured)

Another senior Labour source said Dame Louise was commonly referred to as 'the Hon Member of Tel Aviv' by members of Mr Corbyn's staff. 'If her name crops up, or she appears on the office TV, they'll say, 'There she goes again, the Honourable member for Tel Aviv.' They can't stand her.' Last night, Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, condemned Mr Corbyn's 'spiteful' comment.

Born into a Jewish family in Manchester, Dame Louise, 72, was chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement until 2016 and is vice chairman of the Labour Friends of Israel. She denounced Mr


Corbyn for hosting a Holocaust Memorial Day event during which the Israeli government was compared to the Nazis.

In 2016, she backed a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn by rebel Labour MPs.

A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said last night the claim that he had called Dame Louise 'the MP for Tel Aviv' was 'a fabrication'.

The disclosure of Mr Corbyn's role at the 2012 pro-Palestine rally follows claims last week that he chaired a meeting in Parliament in 2010 in which a speaker compared Israel's actions to the Nazis.

Video footage of the 2012 meeting hosted in Conway Hall, Holborn, London by the Palestine Solidary Campaign shows the poem Love Letters To Gaza being recited by an actress. It was reportedly applauded by Mr Corbyn. The poem refers toan attempt by an unofficial 'freedom' flotilla of ships to break the blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip in 2011.

It includes the lines: 'It is not now the Nazi state but Israel that blocks the seas./It is not Auschwitz that stops the ship that carries hope and messages,/But those that might have died there..../The victims are now the torturers.'

Mr Corbyn was also highly critical of Israel in his speech at the meeting, which featured a backdrop comprising a map showing Palestine in place of Israel.

Labour's anti-Semitism revolt grew last night as Emily Benn, granddaughter of late Left-winger Tony Benn, said the only way to solve Labour's anti-Semitic rift was to sack Mr Corbyn.

His statement was 'utter rubbish', tweeted former Labour parliamentary candidate Ms Benn, niece of


Volquez no-hit bid fails in loss to Dodgers

San Diego Padres starting pitcher Edinson Volquez reacts to a safe call by first base umpire Marty Foster on a would-be inning-ending double play against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the fifth inning of a baseball game in San Diego, Saturday, June 22, 2013. The Dodgers scored a run on the play. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
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San Diego Padres starting pitcher Edinson Volquez reacts to a safe call by first base umpire Marty Foster on a would-be inning-ending double play against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the fifth inning of a baseball game in San Diego, Saturday, June 22, 2013. The Dodgers scored a run on the play. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
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There was no collarbone-shattering collision Saturday at Petco Park, where aScotchy, Scotch, Scotch: Anchorman fans celebrate Ron Burgundy Scotch Whisky

By Erin Smith

TN Paramount Film Company announced it will be launching Ron Burgundy Scotch Whisky, to coincide with the premiere of Anchorman 2, starring the cast of original characters including Will Ferrell n his role as TV newsman, Ron Burgundy.

TN Paramount Film Company announced it will be launching Ron Burgundy Scotch Whisky, to coincide with the premiere of Anchorman 2, starring the cast of original characters including Will Ferrell in his role as TV newsman, Ron Burgundy.

There will be cameo appearances by Nicole Kidman, Harrison Ford and Tine Fey. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, the original was released in 2004 with an opening weekend grossing $28m in the US.

In the original film, Ron Burgundy loves scotch and celebrates


the drink and at one point saying, "I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly..."

The sequel will again be featuring Ron Burgundy's love affair with Scotch Whisky.

The film will be released in the UK on December 20 and the whisky will be available in the UK market in late December through Drinksupermarket.com and Malcolm Cowan Ltd in 70cl bottles. The brand will be supported by press advertising to coincide with the release of the film.

The whisky is said to be selling well in the US and Canada where it has already been released.conferences

The coordinators of the planned SBE18-20 conferences that are part of the Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) series, held a meeting in Paris during 18-19 January, with the SBE partners who own and manage the series. Representatives of the series co-owners (Nils Larsson, Wim Bakens, Luis Bragança and Jean Félix) provided background on the series, which has been going since 2000, its objectives and future plans. Each event coordinator who attended then described the plans for their events.

It is about time to provide an update on the status of the SBE conference series. As most readers of this website are aware, the series is managed by CIB, iiSBE, UNEP-SBCI and FIDIC and operates on a three-year cycle. This year has a focus on planning, while next year will feature


at least 19 and probably 20 national events, to be climaxed in 2017 by the World SBE conference in Hong Kong. The attached file provides a current overview of the situation.

The process for establishing the 2016 SBE conferences is well underway. Proposals have been received and approved for national / regional events in Dubai, Malta, Hamburg, Porto, Zurich, Prague, Tallinn and Helsinki, and Cairo. More proposals are being prepared for Malmö, Manila and Torino, and others are also expected.

The global event for 2017, WSBE17 Hong Kong, was selected in October and that major event is tentatively scheduled for 5-7 June of 2017.

The deadline for SBE16 proposals is 20 February, and all conference organizers have been invited to attend a meeting of conference organizers in Paris on 5 and6 March. Representatives of the series owners, CIB, iiSBE, UNEP-SBCI and FIDIC as well as some of the series advisors will also attend.

The purpose of the meeting is for the various organizers to meet each other and to discuss matters of mutual interest and concern. We will report soon after this meeting.

The next cycle of conferences on sustainable building will consist of national or regional events in 2016, followed by a global conference in 2017. For this cycle, the international co-promoters have decided that a more appropriate title for the series is Sustainable Built Environment (SBE), rather than the Sustainable Building title used so far. This shift is a more appropriate reflection of the fact that we wish to cover small urban issues as well as building-scale concerns.

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Over the weekend, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post published the first video footage of a September 30 dangerous encounter in the South China Sea between a U.S. Navy destroyer and Chinese People’s Liberation Army destroyer. The footage, delivered to the Post by the British Ministry of Defense, shows the approach of the PLAN destroyer, a Type 052C vessel, the Lanzhou, toward USS Decatur, a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.

On September 30, USS Decatur conducted an innocent passage freedom of navigation operation within 12 nautical miles of several China-occupied features in the Spratly group in the South China Sea. The United States conducted operations of this kind starting in October 2015, when the Obama administration authorized the first known FONOP in the South China Sea within range


accepted Aguirre as a client without meeting him.   A relationship manager could accept a client that he did not know and had not met if the potential client had a very strong recommendation from a known, reputable source.   Giraldi circulated an interoffice memorandum ("the Benet memo") at BT that stated that Aguirre had been referred by Alberto Benet, whose family had been "Tier I clients" of Citibank for over 20 years.2  Giraldi was acquainted with Alberto Benet, a wealthy Mexican businessman and general director of ABSA, a Mexican financial services company, by virtue of having handled the Benet accounts at Citibank, Giraldi's former employer.   In order to generate business, Giraldi had given Benet BT promotional literature and his (Giraldi's) business card.  Benet testified that he had not, in fact, referred Aguirre to BT.   There was evidence that the referral may have come from another ABSA employee, Laura Machuca, who had received Giraldi's literature from Benet.   Further, the statement in the Benet Memo that Benet and his family had been Tier I clients (that is a client who had at least $10 million deposited with the bank) at Citibank for over 20 years was false.   The Benet family had an account with Citibank from 1983 that was worth $3 million, and was never designated a Tier I client during 1983-1987.   Because Giraldi handled Benet's Citibank account, he would have known that the information in his memo was false.

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signed by the three account holders on Aguirre's account and Giraldi was dated 6-27-89 in New York.   Giraldi's records showed that he was in Mexico City that day and could not have witnessed the signatures of the account holders.

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Eight months after Aguirre opened his BT accounts, Giraldi was asked to resign from BT.   He went to work for American Express Bank International (AEBI) and Aguirre moved his accounts to AEBI shortly thereafter.

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The government also introduced evidence that Aguirre had no legitimate source of wealth, which Giraldi would have discovered had he investigated his background.   Aguirre worked as a gas station manager in Mexico, was unsophisticated about financial matters, and had no banking references that showed wealth prior to 1989.   Giraldiwho was investigating irregularities in one of Aguirre's accounts shortly after Aguirre's reported death.   At that time, the government had seized Green Mountain, an AEBI account for which Giraldi served as account representative, pursuant to a criminal investigation of Rogelio Rodriguez.   Aguirre, Aguirre's wife and daughter each owned an interest in Green Mountain and Rodriguez was listed as the fourth owner.   This conversation was recorded without Giraldi's knowledge and the recording and transcript were admitted into evidence at trial.   During that conversation, Iglio asked Giraldi how he got hooked up with Aguirre.   Giraldi lied to Iglio, saying that Aguirre was a client of Banker's Trust where he worked earlier, and had been referred by Banker's Trust.


and experience in international banking.   He had attended banker training seminars that outlined typical money laundering schemes that were very similar to the banking practices that Giraldi used on behalf of Aguirre.   He had been trained and even served as a trainer in know-your-client practices that, had they been employed, would have exposed Aguirre's wealth as illegitimate.

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Further evidence showed that the wife of the drug lord Abrego was named on the original Aguirre Swiss bank account without proper documentation.   When proper documentation was requested, she withdrew from ownership rather than provide it.   The government offered this as circumstantial evidence that Giraldi knew that the money in the Aguirre accounts was not legitimate.

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Although there is no requirement that the Government provideCastellanos eventually transferred his account to AEBI.   Giraldi's successor at BT became suspicious of Castellanos because he could be reached only with pagers and codes.   In 1991, when BT asked Castellanos for identification, such as a valid passport or driver's license, he closed out the remainder of his BT account.   At AEBI, Castellanos's and Aguirre's accounts were cross collateralized.   Shortly after the execution of search warrants for records pertaining to Aguirre's accounts, Giraldi took steps to remove the link between the two depositors.   Also, there was a document that stated that Castellanos had been referred by a "former Citibank client."   The government argued that statement implied that Benet provided the referral, which he did not.

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Giraldi argues


About the Blog

Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights, a blog hosted by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), is a unique resource for journalists, policymakers, scholars, activists and others interested in understanding Venezuelan politics and human rights.

The contributors call it as they see it, providing insights on Venezuela’s politics that go beyond the polarized pro-Chavismo/anti-Chavismo debate. The views expressed in the posts are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect WOLA’s institutional positions.

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David Smilde, curator of the blog, is a WOLA Senior Fellow and the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University. He has lived in or worked on Venezuela since 1992. He is co-editor of Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics and Culture under Chávez (Duke 2011).

Geoff Ramsey isWOLA’s Associate for Venezuela. He is an avid observer of the situation in Venezuela—having helped coordinate WOLA’s response to and coverage of the December 2015 legislative elections from Caracas—as well as a regular contributor to WOLA’s Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights blog.

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WOLA is a leading research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas.

Capriles Seeks to Thread the Needle

The points include the release of all the detainees for “political causes,” including figures such as Leopoldo López and Iván Simonivis; the dismantlement of the “paramilitary” groups (meaning the pro-government colectivos); a stop to the criminalization of peaceful protests and human rights violations, torture, and repression; the selection of a mediator (the Catholic Church is proposed as possible candidate); and the removal of “politics and the Cuban government


from the armed forces.”

This mixture of general and concrete points is an attempt to provide the protests with clear objectives without asking for la salida (the exit or the solution) that more radical leaders are pushing for. Capriles has recently stated that the main, and presumably a priori, pointsfor negotiations would be the release of those arrested “for political causes” and the disarming of the colectivos. The government has been freeing students arrested during the protests, but the release of López and Simonovis, and the disarmament of the colectivos, seem unlikely in the short term.

Capriles has also proposed the organization of a new grassroots movement around what he calls Comandos de Defensa del Pueblo. On paper, these groups would transcend party lines and divisions and instead focus onof attempted illegal entry. Genaro Smith-Baltiher was convicted of attempted reentry into the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He appeals the district court's rulings that (1) he is collaterally estopped from challenging his status as an alien, (2) he is precluded from presenting evidence of his good faith reasonable belief that he did not need permission to reenter, and (3) his voluntary post-arrest statements to border inspectors are admissible although they were not electronically recorded. Additionally, he challenges the district court's discretionary denial of a continuance on the morning of trial and the constitutionality of his sentence. Because we agree that he is not collaterally estopped from challenging his status as an alien and that he is entitled to present evidence of his reasonable


that on at least four prior occasions, he had been deported and removed to Mexico for being an illegal alien found in the U.S.2 Consequently, the inspector placed him under arrest for attempting reentry without consent in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326.

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Smith waived his Miranda rights and the inspector transcribed handwritten notes of the interview. Smith stated that he was born in Tijuana, Mexico and provided the inspector with a Mexican birth certificate that confirmed his Mexican birthplace and that stated that both of his parents were Mexican nationals. He also said that he had told the first inspector that he was born in California, but he then acknowledged that he had been deported on at least four prior occasions and that he had not obtained permissionjudge replied that he did not intend to make a determination before trial: "I think that would be a fact question for the jury."

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Smith filed a motion to preclude the use of his prior guilty pleas. Although Smith has a sordid criminal history, its only relevance in this appeal is that in 1998 and 1999 he was convicted of charges related to illegal entry. He pled guilty in 1998 to being a deported alien found in the U.S. and in 1999 to illegal entry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1325. On both occasions, he stipulated as part of his guilty plea that he was not a U.S. citizen and in neither did he advance a claim of U.S. citizenship. In fact, the question of his derivative citizenship


provides critical evidence supporting his citizenship claim.

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The next day, just before the trial commenced, the district court reversed its prior ruling concerning the validity of Smith's specific intent defense, stating that evidence of his good faith reasonable belief that he was a citizen was not admissible because the offense requires only that he intend to enter without the Attorney General's permission, irrespective of his reason for not obtaining that consent. The court ruled that Smith's defense was based on a mistake of law and as such was not legally cognizable. The court's ruling had the effect of suppressing all evidence as to Smith's good faith belief that he was a citizen and that he, therefore, did not need official permission to enter.

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Defense counsel twice requested a recess inhis part as to his derivative citizenship was irrelevant. At trial, over defense objections, the court permitted the government to introduce, via Smith's prior guilty pleas, his testimony that he was not a U.S. citizen and that he would not unlawfully return to the U.S. The court permitted the government to use those pleas against him offensively, and barred him from offering any contrary evidence. As a result, Smith was precluded from challenging two elements of the offense and from presenting any evidence in support of two defenses — a derivative citizenship defense, namely, that he had derived U.S. citizenship through his American mother, and a reasonable belief defense, namely, that he reasonably believed that he was a derivative citizen and did not need the Attorney General's permission


a mistake of law or a mistake of fact. His alleged mistake is not one of pure fact in the sense that he does not deny that the territory he sought to enter was a part of the United States or assert that he believed he had obtained the Attorney General's consent to enter. But neither is the mistake one of pure law, as he does not contend that he was ignorant or unaware of the need for aliens to obtain the Attorney General's permission. Rather, Smith's alleged mistake relates to the facts relevant to his mother's citizenship status and the legal effect of her status on his own right to citizenship. Such a defense, if proved, would negate the mens rea element of the § 1326 attemptphysically present in the U.S. for a period of not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen. Smith alleges that his mother was born and baptized in New Mexico, and lived there and in other parts of the U.S. throughout her life. He had documentary evidence to support these contentions, including her New Mexico birth certificate, her baptismal records from a New Mexico church, INS Reports which stated that the investigation into the status of his mother revealed that she was born in the U.S., and affidavits of people living in the U.S., all of which attest that the mother was born in this country. He also would have presented testimony of other family members to the effect that


his mother is a U.S. citizen and that he was raised in San Diego with his family, attended school there, and worked in San Diego. These witnesses were in court and willing to testify on the morning of trial. Although we offer no opinion as to the credibility of Smith's evidence, that evidence, if deemed credible, would demonstrate that his mother was born in this country and was physically present here for a period of not less than five years, at least two of which were after she attained the age of fourteen. Although the government repeatedly characterizes the U.S. birth certificate of Smith's mother as "fraudulent" evidence, the validity of the birth certificate has never been litigated and there has never been a legal finding of fraud37-year-old Veeramani Sekar from Chennai, who works in a bank as a manager is hearing-impaired since birth. A few years ago he started learning the art of mime (performance without speaking by using body movements and facial expressions) to communicate better. Back then little did he know that he would end up using this art form to spread awareness about road safety.

It was on an unfortunate day in 2014, when Mr Sekar met with an accident while travelling with his daughter on his bike. Though, both escaped any significant injuries but the incident left a deep impact on him. He realised that on roads a split second is all the difference between life and death and the only option is to take precautions, to not just prevent accidents


but also curtail fatalities. He made spreading awareness about road safety the mission of his life. Since then, Mr Sekar has been using mime to sensitise people on the importance of obeying traffic rules like wearing helmets and seat belts, sticking to speed limits and avoid speeding, driving without distractions (mobile phones or eatables) and acknowledging the rights of pedestrians.

After this shocking accident, he joined Thozhan, an organisation which is actively working for the past 10 years across Chennai to spread awareness on road safety, under their initiative, ‘Accident Free Nation’. He gave the idea of using mime to reach out to people, to Thozhan founder M Radhakrishnan, who instantly agreed.

So far, Mr Sekar has given a number of performances at traffic signals in Chennai. In the availableas a communication tool to educate people on road safety Mr Sekar said that people easily understand the concept rather than a long speech or literature.

The mime act at traffic signals is in line with Thozhan’s thought process to engage with people rather than preach. As part of their ‘Accident Free Nation’ initiative, over 3,000 volunteers take to signals, parks and other places in the city, with sign-boards and other paraphernalia.

In terms of support from the authorities, Mr Sekar states that the traffic police officials help with necessary permissions for the mime performance at traffic signals.

Apart from traffic signals, Mr Sekar also performs at schools, colleges and corporate houses, as part of Thozhan’s road safety awareness campaigns. He also works towards training a team of members to use


WASHINGTON — About $112 million worth of planned Ohio military construction projects are in the pool of projects that may lose funding so that President Donald Trump can help finance a wall on the U.S.–Mexico border.

The list of potential cuts, which was released Monday by Senate Democrats, could impact the first installment of a long-coveted intelligence center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton as well as smaller construction projects at Camp Ravenna, Mansfield, Toledo and Youngstown. Trump has declared a national emergency in order to redirect federal dollars already approved by Congress for other uses to wall construction.

The overall pool of projects — which comes from fiscal years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 — totals $12.9 billion, which is far more than the $3.6 billion in231

The manga serialized in YOUNG GANGAN has become an anime series and Nendoroid!

The anime that is currently available to watch online, '+TIC ELDER SISTER' is going on sale on BD and DVD with new episodes. The BD/DVD set will also comes with a Nendoroid Nee-san! The set will contain a total of 12 episodes, as well as various extras such as non-stop versions of the opening and ending songs.

The included Nendoroid Nee-san can be posed in all sorts of ways from the series, and of course has the model castle standing on her head to prove she is the head of the modeling club. She comes with a total of three expressions, including a smiling face, an 'Olaola' face from episode two and the wacky expression seen in


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Updated: Jul 21, 2019 11:29 IST

In a macabre act, two youths murdered a man and brought along his severed head to the police station where they surrendered.

The horrific incident occurred on Saturday evening in Nampally ‘mandal’ (block) of Nalgonda district of Telangana.

The personnel at Nampally police station were shocked to see two youths - Mohammed Irfan and Mohammed Ghouse - entering the building with one of them holding a severed head in one hand and a sickle in the other. The two then confessed and surrendered.

According to police, the severed head is that of autorickshaw driver Saddam, 28. He was beheaded by the duo with a sickle used to cut coconuts.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Irfan and Ghouse murdered Saddam to avenge the death of a woman, who theyconsidered their sister. The woman, who was a widow, was taken to Hyderabad by Saddam some years ago. She was later found dead under suspicious circumstances in 2017 and the duo had blamed him for her death.

(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)


This invention relates generally to display banners and more specifically to reusable banners primarily for use at spectator and audience events such as athletic games and other entertainment and specialized venues.
Display banners are frequently and routinely used by institutions such as intermediate schools, high schools, colleges and universities typically in connection with sports related activities of the institution. However, display banners are also used for non-sports related events such as academic competitions, fund raising events and other similar events sanctioned or sponsored by such institutions. Banners are also used by many semi-professional and professional sports teams. Display banners, especially tear-through banners for school sponsored sporting events, are often used at pep rallies, games and fund raisers for such sports as football, soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball and wrestling.House defeats $700B financial markets bailout

Julie Hirschfeld Davis

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Sep 29, 2008 at 2:24 PM

WASHINGTON — In a stunning vote that shocked the capital and worldwide markets, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system, ignoring urgent warnings from President Bush and congressional leaders of both parties that the economy could nosedive without it.

WASHINGTON — In a stunning vote that shocked the capital and worldwide markets, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system, ignoring urgent warnings from President Bush and congressional leaders of both parties that the economy could nosedive without it.

Stocks plummeted on Wall Street even before the 228-205 vote to reject the bill was officially announced on the House floor.

As a digital screen


in the House chamber recorded a cascade of "no" votes against the bailout, Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley of New York shouted news of the falling Dow Jones industrials. "Six hundred points!" he yelled, jabbing his thumb downward. The decline was about 650 points shortly before the close of the trading day.

Bush and a host of leading congressional figures had implored the lawmakers to pass the legislation despite howls of protest from their constituents back home. Not enough members were willing to take the political risk just five weeks before an election.

"No" votes came from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. More than two-thirds of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats opposed the bill.

The overriding question for congressional leaders was what to do next. Congress hasDwayne Johnson Clarifies Fast 8 Conflict with Co-Stars

Over the past 15 years, Dwayne Johnson has gone from beloved WWE Superstar to bona fide movie star. The actor's constantly upbeat outlook has earned him legions of fans on social media, which is why many were surprised when he took to Facebook earlier this week, calling some of his unidentified male co-stars on Fast and Furious 8, "candy asses." While the actor still wouldn't identify which co-stars he's referring to, he did clarify this conflict in a new social media update.

The actor's post from earlier this week revealed that this is Dwayne Johnson's last week of shooting on Fast 8 and that he loves his female co-stars, but some of his male-co-stars aren't the "stand-up men" and "true professionals" that


difficult on the set. There was a report from 2014 that claims Furious 7 was held up because of Vin Diesel's refusal to come out of his trailer, making the rest of the cast wait hours before he was ready to shoot. Others believe The Rock may be referring to Scott Eastwood, who called out the rest of his cast members in an interview for going to their trailers between takes, while he tried to stay on set and learn from the filmmakers and their crew.

Regardless, it seems that the argument has been settled as Dwayne Johnson finishes out his last week on the set of Fast & Furious 8. The video he posted features stunt coordinator JJ Perry and his massive stunt team, who are seen gettingreading this article.

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On 1 July, voters in Mexico head to the polls for what might be the most significant general election in the last century.

Mexico is facing multiple crises including rising crime (over 29,000 homicides in 2017, a record), growing inequality (over 53 million Mexicans live below the poverty line), and numerous corruption scandals involving senior government officials, among them the out-going and deeply-unpopular President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is deeply unpopular. Picture: Getty Images

At stake in this election is the Presidency (individuals are limited to a single six-year term), the entire federal Congress (a 500-member lower house known as the Chamber of Deputies and a 128-member upper house called the Senate), a quarter of Mexico’s 32 governorships, and the mayoralties of dozens ofthe Presidency, the party AMLO founded in 2012, the Movement of National Regeneration (MORENA), may gain an absolute majority in the Congress. This would be the first time any party has had unified control of the federal government since 1997.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador is running for President for the third time, and is the favourite to win on July 1. Picture: Getty Images

Evolution from the ‘perfect dictatorship’ to a modern democracy

On paper, Mexico has long been a democratic federal republic, with divided powers and three levels of government. The federal government rules over 32 autonomous states, each of which has executive, legislative and judicial powers of its own; while the municipalities have mayors and local councils as well. But despite these legal mechanisms, political power in Mexico, historically,


has belonged to the President.

After a period of instability following the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, the founding of the National Revolutionary Party (now known as the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI) brought decades of stability to Mexican politics. The party governed the country, all states, and had overwhelming majorities in the Congress for almost 70 years.

‘The Party over the man’, was the only constraint on the President, who could not be re-elected but was able to designate their successor. The President had all the power but only during his term, after which he was obliged to leave office. This meant the Party dominated the country, through several Presidents, in contrast to many Latin American dictatorships where a charismatic leader would remain in power for severalyears.

This regime has been labelled the ‘perfect dictatorship’, due to its decades of one-party control while maintaining the appearance of a democratic country to the outside world.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador (right) has campaigned on eliminating corruption in Mexico. Picture: Getty Images

The PRI’s long dominance of Mexican politics began to erode after the 1976 election, when they ran the only Presidential candidate. International pressure forced the party to allow more political opposition, leading to broader party representation in the Congress and in some states. This process of increasing democratisation even led to the PRI losing control of the Presidency in 2000, though they regained it in 2012.

What about President Trump?

President Trump is well-known for his controversial use of Mexican-related issues since he announced his candidacy in 2015.

But as much


as he is a highly-divisive figure in the United States, he has managed to unite nearly all Mexicans across the entire political spectrum. Despite the high stakes in this election, all of the Presidential candidates have openly supported current President Peña Nieto in his dealings with President Trump.

Prospects for change

Given multiple domestic crises, a political establishment seen as hopelessly corrupt, and a truly competitive electoral field with most of the countries’ key offices up for grabs, the 2018 general election could be a major inflection point in Mexico’s history. No party outside of the centre-right PRI has gained unified control of the federal government in over a century.

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of an investigative journalist who reports on the series of deaths of motorists at a particular flyover. Directed by Pawan Kalyan, the film was initially made in Kannada starring Shraddha Srinath in 2016. The film went on to be widely appreciated, prompting the film to be remade in the other two South Indian languages.as "clinics" — which strikes me as a deceptive misuse of the word — and said they were planning to expand from three locations to 100 due to their popularity. He claimed that they received medical referrals from both the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre. Medew contacted both hospitals to verify the referrals, but was told by both hospitals that they do not refer patients to Lindsay's company or to any other "non-evidence-based" therapy. Moreover, the Head of Immunology and Allergy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Professor Jo Douglass told Medew that salt caves are actually dangerous for asthma sufferers, as the salt could trigger narrowing of the airways and an asthma attack. That little factoid is not something I found being marketed on any of


Jackson Heights, Queens. In that chapter, I also focus on the stories of Indian immigrants in the early 20th century who were not allowed to receive their citizenship because of the color of their skin.

Often, when I list the flavors I’ve included in my book, I get a lot of push-back about curry powder. Many people don’t consider it an American ingredient. But Indian immigrants have been coming to America for more than 100 years; and we have been cooking with curry powder in this country for over 200 hundred. In fact, a dish called Country Captain Chicken, a traditional dish of the American South, arrived in this country in the 19th century through our Anglo-immigrant roots.

The History

The origin of Country Captain Chickens begins late in the 16thcentury, when the East India Company was granted a royal charter by Queen Elizabeth. The charter gave the East India Company a monopoly within Britain on trade with the Far East; the company would focus on India.

As the East Indian Company rapidly expanded in the 19th century, more and more employees moved to the “Country,” as India was known. They were posted to a new station in another part of India every three years, which exposed them to culinary traditions all over the subcontinent. When these British workers traveled around the subcontinent, they were carried in a litter by a team of men, the carriers traded out at roadside taverns like horses. The litter itself was misery, being shaped like a wooden coffin in which the traveler slowly


home, they would take the foods they loved willy-nilly from all regions and serve them together. A bowl of Anglo curry could be accompanied by garnishes from everywhere: Persian hard-boiled eggs, Punjabi pickled lemon, Madras-style sliced raw onions, fried papadum bread, as well as British-style crispy bacon. The transient English officials created a trans-continental cuisine, which became the food they imported when they returned to England.

And that cuisine eventually traveled to America. Country Captain Chicken, a dish inspired by the bungalow dinners of the British, first showed up in America in Eliza Leslie’s 1857 cookbook Miss Leslie’s New Cookery Book. Although Leslie was born in Philadelphia, she lived in England from the ages of 5-11. It’s likely that as a girl she was exposed to the Anglo curriesbeing served in British households, and transported her love of spicy, fried Country Captain Chicken back to the States.

Curry powder ingredients according to a 19th century American recipe.

The Recipe

Leslie’s recipe asks the home cook to rub chicken parts in curry powder before frying them up crisp in butter and onions. The chicken is lifted out of the butter with a slotted spoon, and set aside to drain. A sauce is made from the butter and onions, with the addition of a few spoonfuls of coconut. It’s all served over rice, and the crispy chicken skin makes a lovely textural contrast to the sauce.

The Results

By the 1940s, Country Captain Chicken had spread from Philadelphia and appeared in the American South in church-fundraising cookbooks alongside Jello mold with marshmallows. It


maintains a crazy level of popularity to this day, with several Southern cities laying claim to its invention. In the contemporary version, the chicken, after being fried, is stewed in the oven in a tomato sauce. And the few spoonfuls of coconut in Leslie’s recipe are replaced by a whole assortment of toppings served table side: slivered almonds, raisins, chutney, orange sections, pineapple and crispy bacon — much liked the varied condiments on the tables of the East India Company in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In the South, these condiments are called “boys,” but according to one Savannah hostess, “Anything more than a five boy curry is considered pretentious north of Gaston Street.” Check out a modern recipe here.

To greet this enormous wave of immigration, there2013, the New York Times published an article called The Health Toll of Immigration:

“A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. … For the recently arrived, the quantity and accessibility of food speaks to the boundless promise of the United States. Esther Angeles remembers being amazed at the size of hamburgers — as big as dinner plates — when she first came to the United States from Mexico 15 years ago. “‘I thought, this is really a country of opportunity,’ she said. ‘Look at the size of the food!’”


Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström. “Tackling high and long-term unemployment now is essential. Continuing to help immigrants integrate will also ensure they can play their part in driving growth as the global economy recovers.”

Migration within the European Union rose by 15%, following a decline of almost 40% during the crisis. The trend of people leaving countries hardest hit by the crisis is accelerating, up by 45% from 2009 to 2011.

The number of Greeks and Spaniards moving to other EU countries has doubled since 2007, reaching 39,000 and 72,000 respectively. Germany saw a 73% increase of Greek immigrants between 2011 and 2012, close to 50% for Spanish and Portuguese nationals and 35% for Italians. Migration to the United States remained steady in 2011, rising by 2%. Italy saw a fallof the number of immigrants of 11% and immigration levels there are now 44% lower than in 2007. But the job market situation has worsened sharply for immigrants, with unemployment rising by almost five percentage points between 2008 and 2012, compared with a 3 point jump among the native-born. Immigrant youth and the low-skilled have been worst hit. The impact was strongest on migrants from Latin America and North Africa.

Long-term unemployment has risen sharply among migrants. The share of unemployed immigrants in OECD countries who have been out of work for more than a year increased from 31% in 2008 to 44% in 2012. Cash-strapped governments should avoid cutting systematically on integration programmes, but concentrate on measures that provide the largest pay off, such as language and professional


the vitality of the preparations and improved their effectiveness on the soils and plants. Trevor likened the preparation process to collecting fast flowing, oxygenated water from a fresh water stream. The Flow Form machine mimics the natural process of energising the water.

After touring the winery we tasted the Cullen range on the restaurant verandah overlooking the biodynamic vegetable patch. Trevor explained that since the introduction of biodynamics the fruit quality has improved to the point that only minimal intervention is needed in the winery to produce top quality wines that are now much more expressive of their terroir. He noted that the wines in recent years are better balanced with improved levels of acidity, greater phenolic complexity and lower alcohol levels.

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Currently, Amazon Originals available on Amazon Prime include:

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Amazon has also announced future series with Matthew Weiner — the creator of Mad Men — and acclaimed director DavidAn additional poll has confirmed Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s favorability is surging after the 2016 election.

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WINNIPEG—A wildlife group isn’t giving up on a real-life wild goose chase.

Staff and volunteers with the Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre in Winnipeg have been trying for weeks to catch a Canada goose that has made a car wash its home for the winter.

Animal care co-ordinator Tiffany Lui suspects the bird has an injured wing and was unable to fly south with its feathered friends.

The centre started receiving calls in October, when the season’s first snow blanketed the city, about an out-of-place goose in an area on the south side of the city, Lui said.

The bird seemed to take up more of a permanent residence in December in a snowbank outside the Shell gas station at Pembina Highway and Dalhousie Drive.

There have been repeated attempts to catch it withThe location is usually calm and tranquil which is significant considering that it is in the heart of one of the largest global megalopolises. The glowing tomb can be seen for miles at night. Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Jinnah's sister, Fatima Jinnah, are also buried besides Jinnah. Official and military ceremonies take place here on special occasions, especially on 23 March, 14 August, 11 September and 25 December. Dignitaries and officials from foreign countries also visit this place.

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lakh students were from the state board and 4,675 students belonged to the CBSE stream. “Of the 80,000 TN students who wrote NEET, at least 90% were from the state board. However, 50% of the questions asked in NEET were out-of-state syllabus for the state board students,“ the official said.

Counselling for medical admissions may start on July 17. Applications are likely to be be sold from Tuesday. The state wants to reserve 85% for state board stu dents this year, and lower the percentage for state board students in a phased manner, after the school education department introduces revised syllabus from Class 9.

Legal experts said the state has to notify its admission policy early next week before it begins sale of prospectus and application forms for medical anddental admissions. The counselling is likely to begin in the third week of July after the Centre completes counselling for seats in the all India quota. This year, for the first time, the state will conduct counselling for 24 government medical colleges as well as an almost equal number of seats in self-financing colleges and deemed universities.

Tamil Nadu, which scrapped entrance examinations for professional courses more than a decade ago, has been opposing a common entrance examination for MBBS BDS admissions. The state health minister C Vijaya Bhaskar tabled two Bills in the assembly to exempt the state from NEET for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses even after the Supreme Court made NEET mandatory in April 2016.The Act, however, is yet to be sent by the Centre for


to run over people
when the opportunity arises. Jacobs’ reception off the Tim
Hasselbeck swing pass was a good example of a back that understands
how to catch the football and get up field. Yours Truly has definitely
bought into the hype. He traded Mike MacGregor his 2006 3rd round
pick for three fifth round picks (two this year and one next)
and picked Jacobs at the top of the fifth round in a 40-man dynasty
league back in May. Yet, The Gut Check views Jacobs’ 2005
prospects as a potential injury fill-in and possible goal line
threat for those in TD-only leagues.

Anyone beginning to think Brandon
Lloyd is a preseason wonder? While The Gut Check believes
Lloyd will be the most consistent offensive threat in the 49ers
arsenal in 2005, and a potential breakout player, the 49er is
beginning toexcited about his
favorite player in football is Norm Chow giving McNair the freedom
to audible to any play at the line of scrimmage. Chow’s
predecessor, Mike Heimerdinger, restricted McNair to plays that
he called on the sideline, which frequently resulted in the Tennessee
QB having to make the best of some very difficult situations.
Despite this restriction, McNair has been one of the best 3rd
down QBs in football. Look for the Titan’s leader to not
only receive less punishment but also create more game-changing
plays. The Gut Check got McNair in two drafts this week. The first
was for $6 in an auction league among competing sites and the
second was in the 10th round of a local league as a backup to
Kerry Collins.

Off The Radar

McNair is an example of a player that scares most owners due
to


his previous issues with injury and the prospect of it happening
again. Another Titan that has plummeted down draft boards is TE
Ben Troupe. The second year player from Florida is in the
same class of athletes that are bringing the position back to
the offensive forefront: Gonzalez, Gates, Heap, Shockey, and McMichael.
Troupe is well ahead of schedule in his recovery from a pre-training
camp foot injury. Look for the Titans to line Troupe up outside
in what is basically a standard, one back-three receiver set or
two TE sets on the line. He’s going to have some big games
this year, and at a late round price.

Two-tight end sets should be a common site in Kansas City, where
a trusted source has told The Gut Check that Kris
Wilson could put up quality fantasy totals for alate pick that competed with LSU QB Matt Mauck
for a roster spot. Mauck, lacked the great arm but had the right
mindset while Van Pelt had the physical tools but lacked the proper
approach. But Van Pelt got serious about developing and has made
an excellent run at becoming the #2 QB behind Jake Plummer. "He
brings a lot of fire, a lot of passion to the game," Plummer
said of Van Pelt. "In some ways, he reminds me of myself
when I was younger." In fact, Van Pelt had a 40-yeard run
on a QB draw against the Texans last weekend.

A third young scrambling QB with quickly developing skills in
the passing game is Seahawks QB Seneca
Wallace. He’s sewn up the job backing up Matt Hasselbeck
and was especially impressive against the Saints last weekend.

RB Chris


the bill as a breakout candidate for The Gut Check’s
profile of receivers. Last week, Trent Dilfer described Bryant
as the most talented receiver he’s worked with thus far
in his NFL career—that includes Darrell Jackson and Koren
Robinson. Bryant can be had for a song in most leagues because
of the Braylon Edwards factor. Don’t pick the rookie when
you can have the starting primary receiver several rounds later!

Lost in the Cadillac Williams hype in Tampa is RB Derek
Watson the former South Carolina star. Watson was acquired
as a free agent from the Patriots after getting kicked off the
Gamecocks. He was later waived after succumbing to injury early
in camp. Watson is a powerful runner with excellent balance, vision,
and decent receiving skills. Watson actually got invited to camp
as a street free agent and has alreadyis
beginning to look like his future starting lineup's
version of a Hummer to complement his Cadillac. Definitely
wasn’t available here once mini-camp ended.

5.03

Justin Tuck

DE

An LB in college, but likely Strahan's
replacement in a few years. Very quick and aggressive.
Injuries dropped his senior year stock. He's a
guy Yours Truly is stashing for the future.

5.11

Justin Miller

CB

Miller is a great KR and ballhawk. Already
impressing NYJ coaches with muliple INTs in training
camp.

6.03

Stefan LeFors

QB

Watched LeFors at the East-West Shrine
Game an was very impressed with his skills. Also saw
him at Louisville a number of times and thought he has
a chance to develop into an NFL starter in the right
system.

8.03

Bill Swancutt

DE

Already cut him due to roster cut down
requirements, but will watch for as a possible waiver
selection down the road.

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radar sightings, visual sightings by military personnel arid an incident over Tehran, Iran. Although the documentation is not conclusive, he says the government probably recovered a crashed UFO and dead aliens in New Mexico in the late 1940s. Hastings says he is not a missionary or here to convert skeptics into believers, but he is a political activist, trying to force the government to open up its files on UFOs. He earns his living on the lecture circuit, although his fee is at the lower end of the usual spectrum. Hastings said a recent Gallup Poll revealed that 57 of Americans think UFOs are real, and 27 think they are imaginary. 1988 Metaphor unveiled Chris J. Miller Editor-in-Chief After one of the most successful pre-publication, promotional campaigns ever,the 1988 Metaphor, Weber State's student literary journal, was unveiled at a reception Thursday in the Union Building. Linda Nimori, student editor, gave invited guests a sneak preview of the 41 selections chosen from over 250 entries submitted to the Metaphor and called the entire project "a success." At the reception, faculty advisor Dr. Glen Wicse announced that Heather Kimball Hales will be the next editor for Metaphor. "This has been a successful year, and we tried a few new things. We had a very successful promotions campaign on campus, and the jurying for the entries was one of the most intense," said Nimori. "We wanted a readable and not so much scholarly (see METAPHOR on page 5) Arts & Entertainment page 5 Classifieds page 7 News page


did," he said. One of the departed economics faculty is Dr. Jim Smith, formerly a master teacher at Weber State. Now at Colorado State University, Smith said he received a 30 percent salary increase. But I didn't see a future at Weber. I had higher career aspirations," said Smith. Smith also cited the current administration's change in direction as outlined in the new mission statement as a major factor in his decision to leave Weber. "With the change in the mission statement, our priorities were very different. Previously, we had been putting our kids into Harvard. Suddenly, it didn't seem that that's what Weber was going to do anymore. "(Former President) Brady's goal was to make Weber the best undergraduate institution in Utah. I don't see that as"only ticket of admission here today is an open mind." Based on 8,000 pages of government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Hastings contends that the U. S. Government has perpetrated a covcrup concerning the validity and nature of UFO sightings. This coverup continues today. Hastings doesn't condemn the government agencies but thinks the public has a right to know.the truth. In addition to the White House, the agencies most involved are the CIA and the National Security Agency. (NSA) He maintains that these documents prove UFOs do exist and that the government has determined they are of extraterrestrial origin. But the government wanted to "to minimize concern as to prevent possible panic," he quoted from a government memorandum. Among the incidents he says were


suppressed are numerous radar sightings, visual sightings by military personnel arid an incident over Tehran, Iran. Although the documentation is not conclusive, he says the government probably recovered a crashed UFO and dead aliens in New Mexico in the late 1940s. Hastings says he is not a missionary or here to convert skeptics into believers, but he is a political activist, trying to force the government to open up its files on UFOs. He earns his living on the lecture circuit, although his fee is at the lower end of the usual spectrum. Hastings said a recent Gallup Poll revealed that 57 of Americans think UFOs are real, and 27 think they are imaginary. 1988 Metaphor unveiled Chris J. Miller Editor-in-Chief After one of the most successful pre-publication,promotional campaigns ever, the 1988 Metaphor, Weber State's student literary journal, was unveiled at a reception Thursday in the Union Building. Linda Nimori, student editor, gave invited guests a sneak preview of the 41 selections chosen from over 250 entries submitted to the Metaphor and called the entire project "a success." At the reception, faculty advisor Dr. Glen Wicse announced that Heather Kimball Hales will be the next editor for Metaphor. "This has been a successful year, and we tried a few new things. We had a very successful promotions campaign on campus, and the jurying for the entries was one of the most intense," said Nimori. "We wanted a readable and not so much scholarly (see METAPHOR on page 5) Arts & Entertainment page 5 Classifieds page


organization is Niemi, the one that played in the WHL. Also of note are the three Russians drafted. Max Gratchev played in the OHL and was released from the organization prior to last season. He spent this season bouncing between the ECHL and the AHL in the Senator's organization. Anton Klementyev was signed right after he was drafted and played in Bridgeport this past year. The other, some dude named Petrov, is currently playing in Russia although possibly not for long.

So will the new agreements affect the Isles draft strategy? It sure doesn't look like it. Even when drafting non-North American players, Snow and Jankowski prefer those who will be playing in North America the season after the draft. Of the twenty players drafted in the last threeSwedes drafted were in the 4th round or later meaning over half of the Swedes drafted since the lockout were in the later rounds.The numbers for the Finns are a bit more surprising: 34 of the 44 Finnish players were drafted in the 4th round or later. In 2009, Mikko Koskinen was the only Finn drafted above the 4th round. The only Norwegian drafted before the 6th round was the very un-Norwegian named and Colorado College bound Scott Winkler in the 3rd round by Dallas. Two Danes were selected in the 1st round, Lars Eller and Mikkel Bodker with Bodker playing in the OHL. The other four were drafted in the fourth round or later.

So what does this mean for the 2010 draft? Well I don't think it


reported on Jan 30, 2010:A Thai doctor yesterday claimed he could make a fungus that can cure several diseases and enhance men's sexual potency like Viagra

Dr Somyos Kittimankhong, a senior official with the Department of Disease Control, said he had not found any Internet search results showing that the caterpillar fungus, which is priced at several millions of baht a kilo, could be made to germinate in captivity, which he said he had done. [.........] Somyos said he spent three years of trial and error and several millions of his own baht trying to make the fungus germinate before he found out recently that Thai jasmine rice, mixed with other nutrients and some vitamins as plant foodstuff, could make it germinate. The fungus used was bought from ChinaDear Sri Arvind Kejriwal Ji, Congratulations for your party's second victory in Delhi.

We promise that any office bearer or member of Zakat Foundation of India shall never seek any personal favor from you or your government for ourselves or any other well placed individual.

During its second innings the UPA Govt in the centre generally ignored the restoration of justice to Muslims except toning up the Waqf law. Through a PowerPoint presentation made at Ahmedabad on 29 June 2013 in a program of Sri Narendra Modi, the ZFI President had eloquently narrated the reasons of Muslim disenchantment with his party and the required remedial measures. But a substantial improvement has yet to come. During the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and in the just concluded Delhi Assembly elections, Muslims overwhelmingly


Don King controlled the heavyweight championship at this time. The champions were the WBC’s Frank Bruno, the WBA’s Bruce Seldon and the IBF title was to be contested later in the year by Michael Moorer and Axel Schultz. Bruno was making the first defense of his WBC title. He had won the title six months previously

on an emotional evening at Wembley Stadium, London by out-pointing Oliver McCall In what was Bruno’s fourth attempt after unsuccessful shots at Tim Witherspoon, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis. There were calls for Bruno to defend his title against British rival Lennox Lewis. Three years previously, Lewis successfully defended against Bruno in a voluntary defense. Lewis was at the time WBC number one contender until for one reason or another, Mike Tyson wasinstalled as number one. Bruno however would receive more money for a defense against Tyson.

This was Tyson’s third comeback fight after his incarceration. In 1995, he defeated Peter McNeeley and Buster Mathis Jr. in routine comeback fights. Bruno was ringside for Tyson’s second comeback fight and the scene was set for Tyson and Bruno to meet again. In their first meeting seven years previously when Tyson was the undisputed champion, Bruno shook the champion in the first before eventually being stopped in the fifth. At the time of bout number two, there was still an element of the unknown, as Bruno, since their first meeting, had certainly matured as a fighter and Tyson for the first time in five years was meeting an opponent with genuine knockout power.

The


two would meet on March 16 1996, and as in the first fight, Bruno’s army of fans crossed the pond to take over the Las Vegas arena. It was almost as though Bruno was fighting at home. However, the occasion seemed to be too much for Bruno as he crossed himself countless times in his walk to the ring. Tyson looked his usually menacing self. Before the fight, Tyson said that he had no choice but to win and these were certainly ominous words for the champion. Both men were heavier than in their previous meeting with Bruno scaling 247-pounds and Tyson-220.

In round one, Tyson charged at Bruno but Bruno landed a couple of good shots, but already was given a warning by referee Mills Lane for hisholding and hitting tactics. Thirty seconds from the close of the round, Bruno was shaken by a big Tyson right hand and was cut over the left eye.

Round two followed the same pattern with some rough fighting from both men. Mills Lane this time warned both fighters. The round continued with Bruno holding Tyson but still being caught by some big shots. Bruno was also deducted a point from Lane as he was in the first Tyson meeting.

In round three Tyson’s speed was again the difference and the holding continued from Bruno. This time Mills Lane threatened disqualification. This however didn’t happen as Bruno, when turning southpaw, was caught by a vicious Tyson five-punch combination. With the champion against the ropes and defenseless, referee Mills Lane stepped in


and ended Bruno’s reign.

This fight was Bruno’s last as a professional boxer. Recurring eye problems that forced an operation before Bruno’s first professional fight again cropped up and he was forced to retire. Tyson would go on later in the year to unify the WBA and WBC versions of the crown, stopping Bruce Seldon in the first round. Tyson was stripped of the WBC version of the title however, as Lennox Lewis, who was now the number one contender was paid step aside money so Tyson could fight long-time rival Evander Holyfield in a fight that was originally scheduled for five years earlier.Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including, recently, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine and The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. The above story is an excerpt from his most recent book, The Man With the Poison Gun.

Shortly before 5 a.m. on August 10, 1961, Bogdan Stashinsky was waiting near his apartment building in Moscow to be picked up by his case officer, Yurii Aleksandrov. Before leaving, he put his household effects in order and destroyed the list of code phrases that he and his wife, Inge, had used in their correspondence over the past six months, he in Moscow, where the KGB kept an eye on


him, and she in East Berlin, where she had gone to have their newborn son. The only incriminating evidence remaining was what he carried on him—identification papers and documents, issued in the names of his numerous aliases, that he was taking to Berlin against the orders of his case officer. If they were discovered, the KGB would have no doubt about his real intentions.

He was risking his life to escape the suffocating embrace of the KGB, the ultra-secretive Soviet spy agency that had ensnared him when he was 19 years old and made him one of the highest-profile assassins in the world.

The story of Stashinsky’s defection from the KGB—which has never before been told in such detail—started when he fell in love with Inge Pohl, an East Germanwoman, in the spring of 1957. A son of Ukrainian patriots, he had been forced to spy on the anti-Soviet underground under the threat that his entire family would be arrested for helping the nationalist underground, and he was now in his seventh year of working for the Russian security agency. In the fall of 1957, he had ambushed the editor of a Ukrainian émigré newspaper on the stairs of a Munich office building and killed him with a top-secret spray gun that fired cyanide. Two years later, in October 1959, he scored an even bigger success, assassinating the top leader of the Ukrainian resistance hiding in Munich, Stepan Bandera, in the same way. He had told Inge nothing about his work for the KGB.

Stashinsky probably knew that


his work for the KGB would make his marriage to Inge difficult. He argued with his bosses over his desire to propose to a non-KGB-employed, non-Soviet woman. They tried to dissuade him, citing her lower social status and her German nationality; they gave him a new assignment in Moscow, offered to pay Inge a cash settlement—but Stashinsky was still not dissuaded.

Eventually, Stashinsky settled on an agreement with his KGB superiors: He could marry Inge, but she would have to acquire Soviet citizenship. She would also have to agree to help him in his KGB work. The KGB’s logic was simple. If Stashinsky would not marry a Soviet woman in service to the KGB, then his German wife would have to become a Soviet citizen and join the KGB.

Stashinskywas taken aback by the proposal—these conditions would make the marriage a trap for him and his fiancée, not a psychological escape from the embrace of the KGB. Nevertheless, it was the best he could get under the circumstances, and he was not going to let it slip through his fingers. But the KGB grew ever more suspicious as it eavesdropped on the newly married couple and heard them expressing criticism of the Soviet system. The KGB would not allow them to travel abroad together, and it prohibited Stashinsky from visiting Inge in East Berlin, where she had traveled to give birth to their son. But suddenly things changed. A family tragedy was about to crush the young couple, while presenting them with the opportunity they long dreamed


about—to escape the embrace of the KGB and start a new life for themselves in the West.

***

On the evening of Tuesday, August 8, 1961, Stashinsky took a call from Inge and learned that their son, Peter—the healthy boy born four months earlier—was dead. He had fallen ill, developed a high fever and died suddenly. Inge was disconsolate and wanted Stashinsky to come to Berlin. All Stashinsky could tell her was that he would talk to his bosses. He couldn’t contact his case officer, Lieutenant Colonel Yurii Aleksandrov, until the next morning.

During the sleepless night following Inge’s call, Stashinsky had devised a strategy that might bring him to Berlin, capitalizing on Inge’s precarious condition after the loss of her child. The couple had agreed some months earlier that defectionfrom the KGB and life in the West was their only chance at a normal life. Now, under the most tragic of circumstances, their plan had finally become possible. In the morning, he told Aleksandrov that “in her present state of mind she might do something in despair that would be harmful to the KGB,” such as turning to the German authorities and demanding his arrival in Berlin. That could blow his cover.

A few hours later, the case officer had good news for him—his request for travel to Berlin had finally been granted. Stashinsky could not wait to pass on the good news to Inge, whom he spoke to by phone later that day. They would see each other either tomorrow or the day after, he told his


anxious wife.

That evening, Aleksandrov told Stashinsky that everything was ready for his departure. He would go to Germany on a military plane the next morning and would need to be ready by 5 a.m. Aleksandrov would collect him near his apartment building. He asked Stashinsky to turn in all his KGB-issued documents and passes before leaving for Germany, keeping his travel document only. It was issued, as always, in the name of Aleksandr Krylov.

But in direct violation of Aleksandrov’s instructions, Stashinsky took the Joseph Lehmann identity card—his original identity—with him, which was good until April 1970, and a driver’s license in the same name. He also pocketed his Soviet passport and a Foreign Languages Institute student identity card, both issued in his real name. To these, he addedthe letter of reference that the KGB had provided for his enrollment at the institute. The letter mentioned the Order of the Red Banner—proof of the importance of the tasks he had carried out for the KGB. Stashinsky was ready not just to go to the West and request asylum, but to turn himself in and disclose the work he had done for the KGB.

On August 10, before dawn, Alexandrov picked up Stashinsky, armed with the documents and identification papers that would surely give him away and get him killed if he were discovered. When Stashinsky learned that Aleksandrov would accompany him on the trip to Berlin, his heart sank. He turned over to Aleksandrov the envelope with his identification papers and passes. Aleksandrov did not ask about


our step.”

On a map of Berlin and its environs, the trip from Dallgow to the western part of the city seems easy. Dallgow, located west of Berlin, bordered a section of the city that had been occupied by the Western Allies since 1945. The easiest way to get from Dallgow to West Berlin was to take a train heading east. In two stops, they would reach the relative safety of the western sector. But they did not dare show up at Dallgow railway station, where the KGB would certainly have agents posted. Fritz also told Stashinsky and Inge the alarming news he had heard from a friend: The police, desperate to stem the tide of refugees escaping to the West, were checking passengers’ documents at the station inStaaken, the last city before the border with West Berlin, turning back many East German passengers bound for the western part of the city.

Another route had to be found. Ultimately, Stashinsky decided that they would head for the nearby village of Falkensee, about three miles north of Dallgow, and try their luck there. Stashinsky, Inge and Fritz took the back entrance through the garden. Hidden by high shrubs, they walked to Falkensee.

Luckily, they were never stopped. The walk took them about 45 minutes. In Falkensee, Stashinsky decided to avoid the train and instead take a taxi. They found a taxi driver on a side street who agreed to take the three of them to East Berlin. He drove along the Berliner Ring Road, circling the city from the


north. As they crossed the border between East Germany and East Berlin, which were both under Soviet occupation, they were asked for documents. Stashinsky told the guards that he was returning home to East Berlin and produced an identity card in the name of Josef Lehmann. Had the card been found on Stashinsky by his KGB “protectors,” it could have cost him his life. But now, the guards waved them through.

Stashinsky and Inge decided that the time had come to say goodbye to Fritz as well. Inge gave him 300 East German marks to cover the funeral expenses and told him that they probably would not see each other for a while. If he was asked at home where the two had gone, he was to say thatthey were visiting relatives in Berlin. Fritz made his way to the S-Bahn rail transit station and bought a ticket to Staaken through West Berlin.

With Fritz gone, Stashinsky and Inge went to Schonhauser Allee, where they boarded the S-Bahn. Their luck held; the police did not get to their car. They got off the S-Bahn at Gesundbrunnen, the first station in West Berlin.

There was no time to savor the moment. Stashinsky and Inge grabbed a taxi and asked the driver to take them to the apartment of Inge’s aunt, who lived in West Berlin.

Stashinsky and Inge spent no more than half an hour at her aunt’s apartment and then went to the police station near Tempelhof, the airport from which Stashinsky had flown to Munich so many times.


Back then, he had wanted to avoid the police at all costs; now he believed that they were his only hope of salvation.

But the policemen were in no hurry. A Soviet intelligence officer wanting to turn himself in to the Americans? Was that for real? Heinz Villwok, Inge's uncle who negotiated the surrender, had to wait 20 minutes to talk to an officer. Then he waited again. After that, he spoke with police officials together with Inge. Finally they persuaded the police to call the Americans. It was already past 9 p.m., less than an hour before Aleksandrov would be certain to discover the Stashinskys’ disappearance, and three hours before the East German Army and police started unrolling their barbed wire—the start of the Berlin Wall.

Meanwhile, at Peter’sfuneral three hours before in Dallgow, KGB officers were beginning to realize something was amiss. Stashinsky and Inge hadn’t come. Georgii Sannikov, a 32-year-old KGB officer then working in Berlin under diplomatic cover, later described the shock felt by his KGB colleagues and superiors once they realized that Bogdan Stashinsky had defected. “The KGB operatives present at the child’s funeral were puzzled by the parents’ absence,” wrote Sannikov. “By the end of the day on 13 August 1961 it was clear that the Stashinskys had gone to the West.” KGB officers immediately started recalling agents whom Stashinsky knew or might have known from the West. Every measure was taken to find the defector and silence him before he could talk to the Americans.

What had happened in Berlin was


a major blow not only to Soviet intelligence operations but also to the international prestige of the Soviet Union and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev himself. The Western media were about to have a field day turning Khrushchev, a self-styled man of peace, into the assassin-in-chief. It was not just that a Soviet spy had been caught: This was an assassin who had taken orders and received awards from the top echelon of the KGB. “Khrushchev was very angry: they say he tore papers and threw things,” one of the KGB officers recalled later. “Anyone at all who had had anything to do with the matter was removed from his post, fired and put on trial.”

***

On August 13, the Soviet defector was the last thing on the mind ofthe chief of the CIA base, William Graver, who had just learned that the East Germans put up a barbed wire wall to separate the city in the middle of the night. He was trying to figure out what could be done if the Soviets crossed the border and took over West Berlin. He asked for evacuation plans but was told that no evacuation was possible: The Soviet armed forces had Berlin completely surrounded, and the Western Allies had few forces at their disposal to prevent an invasion. David Cornwell, who was then serving as a British intelligence officer in the West German capital of Bonn—and later became known under his pen name, John le Carre—remembered later that the British embassy personnel had discussed evacuation in secret conclave


but failed to develop a plausible plan: “Where do you evacuate to when the world is about to end?”

The CIA officers in West Berlin began to activate emergency links with their agents on the other side of the rapidly rising wall. They also monitored the situation on the ground in West Berlin, where the locals were growing angry at the lack of Western response to Soviet actions.

Once the initial panic at the CIA Berlin base was over, and they realized there’d be no invasion, Bogdan Stashinsky was flown from besieged West Berlin to Frankfurt, where he would spend the rest of the month in CIA custody. As attested by CIA veteran William Hood, “when possible” (as Hood wrote about his experience in Vienna), the CIA tried to transferdefectors promptly from places where the Soviets could get at them.

Stashinsky was flown to Frankfurt on August 13, 1961, while Inge stayed behind and was interrogated separately by the West German authorities. Stashinsky would be housed in a block of buildings used by the CIA and U.S. Army personnel, and there he would be interrogated repeatedly by CIA officers.

The first of the many problems that CIA interrogators faced in dealing with Stashinsky’s testimony, both in Berlin and then at the CIA interrogation center in Frankfurt, was that they could not establish his identity. The many documents he produced had three different names on them: Bogdan Stashinsky, Joseph Lehmann and Aleksandr Krylov. The CIA officers did not know which of them, if any, was authentic. The CIA also had


no way to verify Stashinsky’s career with the KGB, or his surprisingly candid claims that he had killed Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet. Besides, no one thought that Rebet had been assassinated, and what Stashinsky was telling the interrogators about Bandera ran counter to all the evidence they had collected so far and all the theories developed on the basis of it. The documents assembled in the CIA’s Bandera file suggested that he had been poisoned by someone close to him, not by a lone killer wandering the streets of Munich with a strange tube in his pocket.

On August 24, as Stashinsky was being interrogated in Frankfurt, the chief of the Soviet Russia section at CIA headquarters received a memorandum summarizing an old report on the Bandera murder.not considered a genuine defector, his interrogation was over in less than three weeks. The CIA decided to dump him on its West German hosts, where he would stand trial for the crimes he claimed to have committed.

Stashinsky’s hopes for security and freedom in the United States, nourished during long and lonely months in Moscow, were dashed. The information he was offering the Americans, and for which the Soviets were ready to kill him, was deemed fake—the Americans would not be saving him. Had he and Inge made a mistake in risking their lives and fleeing to the West? But he had no choice but to accept the new reality. “Stashinsky told the Agency officials,” reads a CIA report, “that at the time he came to the West,