before departing for Costa Rica to meet up with Grenada for the second leg of its World Cup Qualifying series. Also missed the match at Real Salt Lake (June 21) while representing Grenada. Was red-carded in the 74th minute of the Aug. 9 match against Chicago and served a mandatory one-game suspension at San Jose (Aug. 16). Served as the team's captain in Steve Ralston's absence on Aug. 30 against LA and scored his only goal of the season, tying the game in the 71st minute as the teams drew, 2-2. Started in the defensive midfield at Kansas City (Oct. 11), but was pushed into a more attacking role after Ralston left the game with an injury in the 17th minute. Started all five SuperLiga matches, scoring threegoals to tie for first in the competition. All three of his goals were headers off set pieces served by Steve Ralston. Recorded the game-tying strike at Chivas USA (July 20), and scored the only goal in the semifinal win over Atlante (July 30). In the final against Houston (Aug. 5), scored the game-tying goal in the 102nd minute and notched the team's second PK in penalty kicks of the 6-5 shootout victory. Started and captained the team in the U.S. Open Cup semifinals at D.C. United (Aug. 12). Started both matches in the CONCACAF Champions League qualifying round against Joe Public FC, and in the away leg in Trinidad, drew a penalty kick which Mauricio Castro converted for the Revs' lone goal in the series. Started both


matches against Chicago in the Eastern Conference Semifinal Series of the MLS Cup Playoffs. Captained the team for the final four games of the year after Steve Ralston suffered a broken leg at Kansas City (Oct. 11).

2007: An MLS Best XI selection at season's end. Was an MLS All-Star "First XI" honoree and started against Celtic FC at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in July. Started all 27 games in which he played during the regular season, missing two games with injuries and one with a red-card suspension. Scored four goals on the season: three penalty kicks (April 14 vs. TFC, May 26 vs. KC and July 22 vs. HOU) and the game-winner at Houston on May 19. Also added five assists, four of them game-winning assists. Recorded hisfirst assist in more than a year on May 12 at Los Angeles - on Taylor Twellman's game-winning goal in the 85th minute. Was shown a red card at D.C. on May 3 and sat out the game against Chicago on May 6. Sent Khano Smith in down the left for the game-winning goal in the 1-0 victory against Colorado on Sept. 29. Played a one-two with Steve Ralston against Columbus (Oct. 13), setting up Ralston's then game-tying goal in the 83rd minute. Started and played all 90 minutes in all four of the Revs' postseason games. Recorded two assists in postseason action, setting up the play that led to Taylor Twellman's game- and series-winning goal in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semifinal Series against New York,


and then setting up Twellman's go-ahead goal in the first half of MLS Cup 2007.

2006: An MLS All-Star "First XI" selection, but was unable to play in the league's all-star match against EPL champion Chelsea FC because of the Revs' rescheduled game at Chivas USA. Voted Revolution Best Defender by the New England soccer media. Scored three goals and added one assist while controlling the Revs' midfield. Notched two goals on May 6 in the Revs' 4-0 victory over Los Angeles at Gillette Stadium. Missed the final five games of the regular season after undergoing surgery to repair torn ligaments and nerves in his right hand, but returned to start the three postseason games for which he was available. Played all 120 minutes of MLS Cup 2006, convertinghis shot in the game-deciding penalty kicks.

2005: Elected to the league Best XI and All-Star teams. Voted Revolution Most Valuable Player by the New England soccer media. Considered by most observers to have been the MLS Select team's best player in the Trofeo Santiago Bernabeau match at Real Madrid on August 23. Added six goals to his usual tough-tackling, accurate-passing brand of play. Recorded his first-career two-goal game against the MetroStars at Giants Stadium on Sept. 17, also adding an assist in that game.

2004: In his sophomore season in MLS, Joseph staked a claim to being the premier contention midfielder in the league. Started and played in 23 regular season matches and all three Revs playoffs games, registering three regular-season assists. Missed two games in June to play


in World Cup qualifying with Grenada. Also missed action because of a broken nose (two games) and a hip flexor/quadriceps injury (three games). Accumulated just four regular season yellow cards despite playing an aggressive style, a testament to his good timing and tackling technique. Was a 2004 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star.

2003: Joseph became a force in central midfield during his rookie year with the Revolution, appearing in 28 games and finishing second on the club in minutes played with 2,466. Made his MLS debut on April 19 against Columbus at Gillette Stadium when he came on for Daniel Hernandez at halftime. One week later he made his first start in Dallas and was a fixture in Steve Nicol's starting lineup from that point on, missing just one game.Finished the season with two goals and two assists for six points and his strong partnership with José Cancela in central midfield helped spur the Revs to a 6-0-1 record during the final two months of the regular season. Played briefly in goal against Chicago on July 19. Recorded his first-career MLS point (an assist) on May 17 in a 3-0 victory over Chicago at home, then scored his first career MLS goal on Sept. 28 against Columbus in a 3-2, overtime victory at home.

BEFORE MLS: Joseph was originally drafted by the Revolution in the second round (14th overall) of the 2002 MLS SuperDraft. Pursued playing opportunities with teams in Italy and Germany before returning to the United States, where he played for the New York Freedoms of


the D3 Pro-League during the 2002 season. Scored seven goals and added one assist with the Freedoms.

COLLEGE: Began college career at Bryant & Stratton College in Syracuse, N.Y., for two years before transferring to St. John's University in 2000 ... earned NSCAA All-America honors at St. John's as a senior in 2001 … led the Red Storm to the NCAA College Cup semifinals in 2001 where they lost to former Revs teammate Pat Noonan's Indiana squad … a two-time NSCAA all-region and two-time All-BIG EAST selection … played defense, midfield and forward during his time at St. John's … his two-year goal total of 21 goals ranked 10th all-time at St. John's … scored 14 goals and added two assists as a junior playing forward, but retreated todefense as a senior, still managing to post seven goals and four assists in his final season.

GRENADA NATIONAL TEAM: Has appeared more than 20 times for the Grenada National Team ... has scored one goal, in Grenada’s 2-1 friendly win over Jamaica on June 10, 2008 ... was the 2007 Caribbean Player of the Year and the 2008 Grenada Footballer of the Year … named to the country’s 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad, but had to withdraw because of a bone bruise in his right knee … most recently appeared for Grenada in a pair of World Cup Qualifiers against Costa Rica on June 14 and June 21, 2008, playing the full 90 minutes in both matches ... Grenada drew in the first leg, 2-2, but dropped the


second leg, 3-0, and was eliminated from World Cup Qualifying as a result … played in the Copa Caribe, the pre-qualifying tournament for the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup, as well as World Cup Qualifiers ... played in CONCACAF region FIFA World Cup Qualifiers for Grenada in 2004 … named Grenada's Footballer of the Year in 2003.

PERSONAL: Graduated from St. John's (NY) with a degree in sports management ... nicknamed "Charlie" and "Chaz"... a citizen of Grenada, but his family moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn when he was a teenager and Joseph considers himself a New Yorker, as well as a Grenadian ... favorite soccer team other than the Revs is Arsenal ... favorite soccer memory is going to the NCAA College Cup with St. John's ... listens torap and reggae music ... favorite film is Scarface and favorite TV show is The Wire … began his own soccer academy – PROformance Soccer Academy (formerly called the Shalrie Joseph Academy) – where he focuses his attention in the offseason … one of his players from the Shalrie Joseph Academy, Zachery Herivaux, is now a member of the Revolution U16 squad … has a chocolate lab, Zola.


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It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then you hear a story about people overcoming all odds to help others and it completely changes your perspective of the world. The story of Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi is certainly one of these.

Haixia and Wenqi are two 53-year-old men from China who have faced incredible challenges in their lives. Haixia was born with congenital cataracts that caused him to be blind in one eye. He then lost sight in his one good eye after a work accident in 2000. Wenqi tragically lost both of his arms in an accident when he was only three years old and has been living asJameson Taillon Video

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A small meal-delivery robot suddenly caught fire in Berkeley, California, on Friday. The blaze was quickly tackled and no one was hurt, but the incident is nevertheless a troubling one for the fledgling robot delivery industry.

A Russian TV audience was impressed recently by an adult-sized "robot" that could dance and talk. But when some people began pointing out that its actions were a bit odd, the truth emerged ... it was a fella in a robot suit.


stations established in 2015Flaaaaash Gooordooon! The vocals of Queen front-man Freddie Mercury is still vibrantly heard when the name Flash Gordon is announced. After many failed attempts throughout the years, a Flash Gordon reboot is now in the works. Writers of the upcoming Star Trek 3 film Patrick McKay and John D. Payne are rumored to have been penned to write the new screenplay for the interstellar hero.

Flash Gordon centers on the titular character of the same name, he is a Yale Graduate and at times depicted as either a Polo player or an all-star football player. He first sets out to space with his scientist partner and they go around the galaxy helping those in need. His most notable enemy is Ming, a conqueror who rules his world harshly. Flash


Gordon represents the all American hero, who could do no wrong and always stood up for those who could not themselves.

Flash Gordon reboot is now in the works, but it actually started as a comic strip from the 1930’s originally created by Alex Raymond. The comic strip was inspired by the Buck Rogers comics and was actually created to compete against it. Since then, various incarnations of the comic strip have been created, from radio series to television and most notably in feature films. Almost all versions of Flash Gordon have been very campy in style, where logic seems to have been thrown out the window and the science in the sci-fi aspect was forgotten.

The most notable version is the 1980 Flash Gordon. The film was made totry to ride the coat-tails of Star Wars, Star Trek and Superman. However the film bombed, and was not received well critically. The film later found life in VHS and late night showings, creating a massive cult-following that stands strong today. The reasons it became a cult classic was due to the funky visuals of the film, the cast which included Max Von Sydow as Ming, and most of all the incredible soundtrack by Queen. The film was recently heavily referenced in the hit 2012 comedy Ted, where Sam Jones even appeared in a cameo role.

At the moment it is unclear of the actual status of the film, all that has been rumored is that Payne and McKay have developed the script. The new take on Flash Gordon


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The wholesale retailer eliminates 12 "red list" species from the seafood items it will sell in its warehouses, and vows to not resume sales unless their sources can be certified as sustainable. Full story »

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This week Oregon's crab fishery is celebrating its sustainability certification. Plus, we loving snacking on candy canes made with Oregon mint, as well as Mother Peach handmade caramels. And Katherine Cole has just the book for the aspiring sommelier in your life. Full story »

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Crab lovers thrilled at the news that Oregon's Dungeness season kicked off last week. Now, another sweet development: Oregon Dungeness crab has been certified by the Marine Stewardship Council. The London-based council’s seal of approval is meant to assure seafood buyers


that what’s in the fish case was caught and handled in a sustainable manner. Certification for the Dungeness followed... Full story »

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Portland OR (August, 2010) - A group of West Coast fishermen have partnered with leading retailer, Whole Foods Market to promote Northwest albacore throughout August. This is the third consecutive year that the supermarket chain will highlight sustainable tuna caught by members of the Western Fishboat Owners Association (WFOA). The partnership will be launched at the Bite of Oregon event... Full story »

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The Marine Stewardship Council has certified its first Russian fishery, recognizing the pink and chum salmon fishery on the Kuril island of Iturup for its sustainable fishing and environmental practices. The fishery is managed by the Russian government andThey wanted to build a new international revolutionary movement against the slaughter.

Lenin argued that the capitalists’ war was appalling, but represented an opportunity for revolutionaries and the working class.

He went on to say that to be effective against war it was necessary to go beyond pacifism and argue for a revolution to smash the system that creates war.

Lenin argued that socialists should call on workers to turn the war into a civil war against their own rulers.

He said that revolutionaries needed to argue with soldiers to not just lay down their weapons, but turn them on their rulers.

The Bolsheviks and Lenin did not win all of their demands.

But the outcome of the Kienthal conference was significantly more positive than Zimmerwald, at which delegates had agreed only to pacifist


Roger Avary, the co-writer of "Pulp Fiction" and the writer/director behind "Killing Zoe," is now writing and will soon be directing a movie based on the famed 2001 game "Return to Castle Wolfenstein."

According to an announcement from Panorama Media and producer Samuel Hadida, the adaptation will be an action-adventure movie "in the vein of 'Captain America' and 'Inglorious Basterds.' "

Hadida, who also produced the movie adaptations of the "Resident Evil" and "Silent Hill" video games, told Forbes that Avary (who won an Academy Award for his writing in "Pulp Fiction") has been working with id Software (the developers behind the Nazi-hunting first-person shooter) on the screenplay.

Hadida said the movie will star the game's protagonist — B.J. Blazkowicz — and should be ready for theaters in two years.

The filmis described in a press release:

The story follows a young US Army Captain and a British Special Agent on a top secret mission to Castle Wolfenstein, where Hitler will be for the unveiling of a new secret weapon. After reaching the Castle, our heroes are confronted with Himmler’s SS Paranormal Division and must fight, not only for their survival, but for a mission that could alter the course of the War.

This isn't the first time writer/director Avary has been involved in a video game adaptation. He also wrote the 2006 "Silent Hill" film. And it appears he's also a gamer.

"I've been playing the Wolfenstein games games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career,"


Sunday, July 29, 2007

Six Killers

They are the leading causes of illness and death in the United States today: heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, in that order. And they have a lot in common.

They are expensive - together, they account for 25 percent of the nation's annual health care expenditures, said Jonathan Skinner, a health economist at Dartmouth College.

They come in clusters - accumulations of plaque in arteries lead to heart attacks but also can lead to strokes and predispose to Alzheimer's disease. Diabetes can lead to heart disease, stroke and even cancer. Smoking can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as cancer and heart disease, which in turn predisposes to Alzheimer's.

And the outlook for them is improving - peopleon show in Berlin

Three bodies writhe in agony. Their limbs are distorted, their features unrecognizable, their entrails burst out. The Crucifixion triptych by Francis Bacon (the central panel of which is shown here) had no religious meaning for the painter, for whom the work was simply about the expression of extreme sensation. In Tiepolo's painting of the martyrdom of Saint Agatha, the young woman's ecstatic gaze is thrown heavenwards as she awaits the blow of her tormenter's sword. These two paintings are the artistic highlights of the exhibition Schmerz (Pain), which runs until 5 August at the Medical History Museum of Humboldt University and the neighbouring Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin.

The exhibition brings together artistic and medical views of pain. Opposite Bacon's Crucifixion is a glass cabinet containing


significant separation between the treated and control groups in clinical studies involving topical patches," said Chief Scientific Officer Dr. David A. Lee. "Before determining our next course of action, we intend to review the results of these two trials in relation to the positive placebo-controlled trials conducted in Europe."

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

A New Focus on Easing the Pain Palliative Care Helps The Very Ill. It May Also Keep Costs Down.

David Thibault grows orchids as a hobby, but the elegant flower on his bedside tray did little to lift his spirits. He stared out the window of his room at George Washington University Hospital, waiting for lab results that could tell him if he had months, weeks or maybe only days to live.

A month earlier, in April, Thibault andhis wife, Judy Thibault Klevins, had been preparing for a trip to Japan when he felt pain that was different from the pain he had long experienced from Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel ailment. It turned out to be small-bowel cancer. If the disease weren't so rare, he now ventured aloud, maybe more research money would have gone into it, maybe he wouldn't be facing death at age 67.

Joan Panke, a nurse practitioner, listened intently. The coordinator of GW's Palliative Care Service, Panke and her team ease the pain of those with serious or terminal illness. They walk families like the Thibaults through the difficult work of understanding options, making decisions and, sometimes, trying to find a measure of peace as they say goodbye.

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General Zia and DGISI Akhtar Abdur Rahman had very cordial relations with CIA director William Casey. To offset that uncomfortable closeness with Americans, Zia and Akhtar were portrayed as holy warriors of Islam and modern day Saladins. According to one close associate of Akhtar, ‘They (Casey and Akhtar) worked together in harmony, and in an atmosphere of mutual trust’. The most interesting remarks about the death of CIA Director, William Casey were made by Brigadier Yusuf. He states that, “It was a great blow to the Jehad when Casey died”. He did not elaborate whether by this definition one should count Casey as Shaheed (warrior who dies in battle in the cause of Islam). It will quite be amusing for Americans to know that oneof their former CIA director is actually a martyr of Islam. In fifty-five years, we have come full circle, and in 2002, a retired Major General laments about the US and gives a long list of grievances. He states, “Discarding General Ziaul Haq when no more needed must never be forgotten. The treatment meted out to Pakistan after the victory in Afghanistan in late eighties cannot be forgiven ... REFERENCE: Silent Soldier: The Man Behind The Afghan Jehad, Mohammad Yousaf(Lahore: Jang Publishers, 1993, Tenth Edition), p.80 and p. 81 as quoted in Tale of a love affair that never was: United States-Pakistan Defence Relations Columnist Hamid Hussain analyses an ON and OFF affair. http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/june/loveaffair.htm

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because


partnership into question," said a media statement prepared by the ISI but never released. A copy was obtained this week by the AP. The statement accused the CIA of using pressure tactics to free Davis. "It is hard to predict if the relationship will ever reach the level at which it was prior to the Davis episode," the statement said. "The onus of not stalling this relationship between the two agencies now squarely lies on the CIA." The ISI fears there are hundreds of CIA contracted spies operating in Pakistan without the knowledge of either the Pakistan government or the intelligence agency, a senior Pakistani intelligence official told the AP in an interview. He spoke only on condition he not be identified on grounds that exposure would compromiseGul himself) that Mr. Gul made any objection to the presence of US ambassador in these meetings, which had wide ranging impact on national security. It is probable that Mr. Gul was at that time a top contender for the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) race, therefore he didn’t wanted to be on the wrong side of the civil government. When he was sacked, then he found the gospel truth that US was not sincere. Another example is of former Chief of Afghan Cell of ISI, Brigadier (Retd) Muhammad Yusuf. For five long years, he was a major participant in a joint CIA-ISI venture of unprecedented scale in Afghanistan. During this time period, he worked with several different level US officials and visited CIA headquarters in Langley. In


central command last month, in the second of a series of articles by The Washington Post examining the political and diplomatic clout of regional commanders-in-chief of the US armed forces. In the first instalment published in Thursday's issue (and reported in Dawn on Friday), it was stated that it was Gen Zinni whom Gen Musharraf had first contacted when the latter had received a "stern protest" from the US administration after his coup ousting Nawaz Sharif. In the same article, Gen Zinni had also claimed that he had persuaded the Clinton administration to keep the diplomatic door to Pakistan open rather than clamp it shut as advocated by others. The instalment published on Friday is largely confined to Gen Zinni's preoccupations with the Central Asian Republics. It saysUS regional interests. Gen Anthony Zinni, commander-in-chief of US central command forces, who has visited Pakistan several times, told a Senate committee he was in constant touch with Gen Pervez Musharraf since he assumed power on Oct 12. His strong plea to the Congress to keep Pakistan engaged in some sort of a dialogue came during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the US defence budget, at the Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Gen Zinni said after the Oct 12 coup in Pakistan "the dynamics of our relations with Pakistan had changed dramatically." "While a return to a democratically-elected government remains an important US strategic interest, the reality of an interim period of military and technocratic rule in Pakistan seems inevitable," Zinni said.

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William Casey secretly meets with the head of the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) from 1984 until 1986, shortly before Casey’s death. The NBC report, quoting unnamed BCCI sources, will claim that Casey met with BCCI head Agha Hasan Abedi every few months in a luxury suite at the Madison Hotel in Washington. The two men allegedly discussed the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages transactions and CIA weapons shipments to the mujaheddin in Afghanistan. The CIA denies all the allegations. [Associated Press, 2/21/1992] But books by Time magazine and Wall Street Journal reporters will corroborate that Casey repeatedly met with Abedi. [Scott, 2007, pp. 116] Casey also meets with Asaf Ali, a BCCI-connected arms dealer, in Washington, DC, and in Pakistan. On one occasion, Casey has a meetingmilitary intelligence agencies of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, caused the catastrophic devastation of this poor country. On the evidence contained in Coll's book Ghost Wars, neither the Americans nor their victims in numerous Muslim and Third World countries will ever know peace until the Central Intelligence Agency has been abolished.

It should by now be generally accepted that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979 was deliberately provoked by the United States. In his memoir published in 1996, the former CIA director Robert Gates made it clear that the American intelligence services began to aid the mujahidin guerrillas not after the Soviet invasion, but six months before it. In an interview two years later with Le Nouvel Observateur, President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski proudly confirmed


Gates's assertion. "According to the official version of history," Brzezinski said, "CIA aid to the mujahidin began during 1980, that's to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan. But the reality, kept secret until now, is completely different: on 3 July 1979 President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And on the same day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained that in my opinion this aid would lead to a Soviet military intervention. "

Regret what? The secret operation was an excellent idea. It drew the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? On the day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter,saying, in essence: 'We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.'

Nouvel Observateur: "And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?" Brzezinski: "What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?"

Even though the demise of the Soviet Union owes more to Mikhail Gorbachev than to Afghanistan' s partisans, Brzezinski certainly helped produce "agitated Muslims," and the consequences have been obvious ever since. Carter, Brzezinski and their successors in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, including Gates, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Colin Powell, all bear


some responsibility for the 1.8 million Afghan casualties, 2.6 million refugees, and 10 million unexploded land-mines that followed from their decisions. They must also share the blame for the blowback that struck New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. After all, al-Qaida was an organization they helped create and arm.

TalkBack w/ Wajahat Khan & Lt. Gen. Hameed Gul Ep10 Pt1

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Charles Nesbitt Wilson (born June 1, 1933), is a former United States naval officer and former Democratic United States Representative from the 2nd congressional district in Texas. He is best known for leading Congress into supporting the largest-ever CIA covert operation, which supplied the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan after the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan took over during the Afghan Civil War andasked the Soviet Union to help suppress resistance from Mujahideen. In the 1980s, Charles Wilson, a colorful and powerful Democrat from the East Texas Bible Belt, was a member of a Congressional appropriations sub-committee. From that position of power he funneled billions of dollars in secret funding to the CIA, which used the money to purchase weapons to help the mujahideen drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. In those days, the mujahideen were viewed by the US as "freedom fighters" and were so-named by then-president Ronald Reagan, who praised them for "defending principles of independence and freedom that form the basis of global security and stability".

TalkBack w/ Wajahat Khan & Lt. Gen. Hameed Gul Ep10 Pt2

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In that Cold War environment, chasing the Russians out of the


country trumped all other considerations. Among the weapons funded by Congress were hundreds of Stinger missile systems that mujahideen forces used to counter the Russians' lethal Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships. And there were also tens of thousands of automatic weapons, antitank guns, and satellite intelligence maps. According to author George Crile, Wilson even brought his own belly dancer from Texas to Cairo to entertain the Egyptian defense minister, who was secretly supplying the mujahideen with millions of rounds of ammunition for the AK-47s the CIA was smuggling into Afghanistan. From a few million dollars in the early 1980s, support for the resistance grew to about $750 million a year by the end of the decade. Decisions were made in secret by Wilson and other lawmakers on the appropriationsis not without risks: a few of the militants have turned against the army because of Pakistan’s “betrayal” of the Taliban and cooperation with the United States in Afghanistan and in the “war on terror.” Moreover, the infrastructure that supports regional sectarian ism and Kashmir-Afghan jihadi activities can be hijacked for international terrorism, as demonstrated by the July 2005 London bomb blasts. The risk of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan, triggered by attacks similar to the ones carried out by the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba in Delhi after the October 2005 earthquake, cannot be dismissed either.

Yet evidence is scant that these organizations pose an uncontrollable threat. Also, a Pakistan headed by an Islamist party would not necessarily be unstable. In fact, in the existing power setup, politico-religious


organizations have often been used to channel popular resentment in a socially and politically acceptable way, preventing unrest. What the West perceives as a threat to the regime in Pakistan are manifestations of the Pakistani Army’s tactics to maintain political control. The army uses its need for modernist order to justify its continued claim on power and, with The risk of an Islamist takeover in Pakistan is a myth invented by the Pakistani military to consolidate its hold on power.

In fact, religious political parties and militant organizations are manipulated by the Pakistani Army to achieve its own objectives, domestically and abroad.The army, not the Islamists, is the real source of insecurity on the subcontinent. Sustainable security and stability in the region will be achieved only through the restorationof them had a showdown with Mark earlier in the day and had told him not to dictate terms but that had no effect. Amid all the security salsa with hi-tech American gadgetry, a s****y BMW outside the airbase terminal suddenly alarmed the American secret service agents when it started billowing smoke. The BMW was part of the elaborate US president’s Washington-imported cavalcade that had just lined up in the parking lot. It later transpired that the car radiator had heated up.

President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush commuted in Cobra and Black Hawk gunship helicopters during their brief stay in the capital. Land and aerial security cover were provided by heavily-armed vehicles and choppers that also included Chinooks. US secret service men and women were visible at


entry points and on rooftops during the Musharraf-Bush summit at the Aiwan-i-Sadr. They looked rather suspiciously at every person and vehicle entering the premises. Helicopters hovered above the presidency while Mr Bush was there. Even as the two leaders emerged from their summit meeting and walked towards the majestic courtyard of the Aiwan-i-Sadr, there was a feeling perhaps their body language did not emanate the kind of cordiality witnessed at their two earlier summit meetings, at the White House in February 2002 and at Camp David in June 2003. As expected the questions from the American media were on war on terror and democracy while those from the Pakistani media focussed Kashmir, civilian nuclear technology and beef in the strategic relations.

Even in the seating arrangement there was aclear division, with the American media on one side and the Pakistani media on the other. Both in front of their respective leaders and both well controlled. There was a telling statement by a senior American journalist who covers the White House and was in the media team accompanying the US president: “There is no such thing as independent media in the US any more, particularly after 9/11. It is now all corporate driven and any one who challenges the US administration’s national security policies, his or her patriotism is challenged by the White House.” An interesting observation made by him was that the White House had tried to project Mr Bush’s visit to Pakistan as an assurance to Americans of his resolve to fight terrorism, that as


commander-in-chief of America he was braving the high-risk ‘terrorist zones’ so he could engage with leaders there to strengthen US national security. The subtext of Mr Bush’s remarks at the press stakeout made that amply clear.

Yet another intriguing comment by this candid journalist was that the US media was being fed by some members of the Bush administration that if free and fair elections were held in Pakistan, there would be a danger of fundamentalists taking over the reins of power. His hunch was that this was perhaps an attempt by the White House to justify the Bush-Musharraf relationship. All took a sigh of relief when Air Force One flew off with Mr Bush and his delegation late on Saturday night at around 11pm. Life was finally backI wonder if our general will ask Bush to close down the biggest terror camp of them all, Guantanomo, where the terrorists are the US Army personnel who perform torture on the inmates. But why should he? He is after all implicated in these crimes against humanity. He and his Foreign Minister proudly proclaim that they are in the frontlines of the war against terror and that they have handed over more than 700 suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists to the US which incarcerates them illegally without trial and without recourse to any legal system in Guantanomo.

By their own words they admit that they have done illegal actions; midnight arrests of Pakistanis and foreigners and bundling into secret CIA flights without due process of law in front of Pakistani courts.


the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the FBI in countering terrorism, one possible negative aspect has been the creation of a vast network of CIA and FBI agents – mostly Pakistanis. Though intelligence cooperation between Pakistan and the US multiplied extensively after 9/11 and was aimed at the Taliban and al-Qaeda, many in Pakistan fear the network for these foreign agencies within Pakistan was also being used for other tasks, some probably falling into the definition of interference in our internal affairs.

Top authorities in Pakistan are said to be in knowledge of this phenomenal spread in the American spy agencies’ network as the country's intelligence agencies have already reported this matter and even identified a number of those on the payroll of the US agencies.

Besides others, alarge number of retired Army officers, including ex-brigadiers, are presently working here as American spies. An official of an intelligence agency, however, explained that spy agencies of different countries had their worldwide networks and they handled spy matters according to their resources and needs because importance of spying had increased tremendously after 9/11.

Because of the alleged presence of al-Qaeda-Taliban in Pakistan, the interest of the foreign intelligence agencies here has gone up. The official added that the US had the largest intelligence network in the world and Pakistan was also benefiting from this because through this network the CIA and FBI shared intelligence with Pakistan and gave important information to nab terrorists.

Pakistan allowed concessions to the US as part of intelligence cooperation in the controversial war on terror


of the US media have been reporting on this subject and the most significant report was in The Washington Post in 2002 when the influential newspaper claimed that the United States had organised its own espionage network in Pakistan due to lack of cooperation from the ISI in locating the al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives.

"The FBI decided to set up a Spider Group, a band of former Pakistani Army officers and others, after it concluded that lack of cooperation from the ISI made it impossible to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives in the tribal areas of the country.” Quoting a federal law-enforcement official in Washington, the newspaper reported that the US move marked an attempt by the FBI to develop "free flow of information" to US agents whopreviously had worked under some restriction with Pakistan's official Inter-Services Intelligence agency. The Spider Group, the report said, was also asked to recruit locals in Pakistan's tribal areas, where hundreds of wanted "terrorists" are allegedly holed up under the patronage of tribal chiefs. Members of the Spider Group include a mix of Muslim and Christian retired Army and intelligence officers and have been trained and equipped by the FBI.

Background interviews reveal that today the CIA's intelligence local network is far more extensive than that of the FBI. The sources said that during the initial years of War on Terror, the Americans were not satisfied with the intelligence gathering of local agencies in the tribal areas of Pakistan, so they launched their own agencies that had now developed a


vast network in the country.

A source quoted an incident in which the CIA officials once distributed awards amongst Pakistani intelligence people in the headquarters of the agency in Langley, Virginia. "This is perhaps unprecedented," the source said.

A spymaster of one of the country's intelligence agency reported to the Interior Ministry that a provincial head of a private security agency, besides others, was spying for the CIA. The security agency was contacted and the said official was removed. It was also reported that a large number of private security agencies personnel were doing espionage work.

A retired lieutenant general confided to this correspondent on condition of not being named that during his career he had gone to the US twice for military related training, where he was openly offered towork for the US. "I was praised and offered that why don't I join them," he said, adding that once an official encouraged him to inform the US about the problems of Pakistan's defence without even talking to his seniors.

He said the same intelligence officials asked him to settle his children in the US for better life and education. "I was openly told that I should not be worried about their expenses," the retired general said.

Meanwhile, a local journalist Azaz Syed told this correspondent that quite a few years back, he approached the legal section of the US embassy in Islamabad, after reading an advertisement in an international publication for recruitment of FBI agents for South Asia. For the purpose of doing an investigative story, he offered his


services for FBI. He said he offered his services to spy on Taliban in exchange for information from the US embassy but the diplomat interviewing him was not interested in Taliban but wanted info about civil bureaucracy. He was not ready to give any information either.

"I was told that I would get assignments relating to civil bureaucracy and in return would be paid well," Syed said, adding that later he did a story for an Urdu newspaper with which he was associated at that point of time.

The US Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – the spy military plane – are yet another source of concern for many here. The UAVs were allowed to do espionage in tribal areas of Pakistan for "specific jobs" only but since the UAVs werenot caught by radars, these spy planes crossed their limits a number of times.

Initially, the Pakistan Air Force objected to such US surveillance but the government decided otherwise because of US insistence that it was inevitable to track down the so-called al-Qaeda targets.

The sources revealed that the murdered top tribal leader resisting the US war on terror, Nek Muhammad, became the target of a UAV despite the peace deal he had signed with the then corps commander Lt Gen Safdar Hussain.

Getting uncomfortable with the UAV activities, some Pakistani officials have expressed their concerns at the highest level. The Pakistan Army is trying to develop its own UAV but so far these planes are not up to the required international standards. Pakistan has also been trying to buy these


message across clearly, Richard Armitage held a second meeting with Mahmood the same day, informing him that he would soon be handed specific American demands, to which Mahmood reiterated that Pakistan would cooperate. {Bush at War by Bob Woodward, published by Simon & Schuster, 2002, New York}, p 32. {Pakistan: Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett Jones, published by New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002}, p. 2.

General Mahmood on September 13, 2001, was handed a formal list of the US demands by Mr. Armitage and was asked to convey these to Musharraf and was also duly informed, for the sake of emphasis, that these were “not negotiable.” Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, and the assisstant secretary of state, Christina Rocca, had drafted the list in the shapeTaliban regime, end support for the Taliban, and assist the US in the aforementioned ways to destroy Osama and his network.

Having gone through the list, Mahmood declared that he was quite clear on the subject and that “he knew how the President thought, and the President would accept these points.” {Bush at War by Bob Woodward, published by Simon & Schuster, 2002, New York}, p 58-59. Interview: Richard Armitage, “Campaign Against Terror,” PBS (Frontline), April 19, 2002}

Mahmood then faxed the document to Musharraf. While the latter was going through it and in the process of weighing the pros and cons of each demand, his aide de camp that Colin Powell was on the line. Musharraf liked and respected Powell, and the conversation was not going to be a


such language, nor President Bush who said he was “taken aback” when he learnt what had been said, is being untruthful. What actually happened was that after his meeting with Richard Armitage, Lt Gen Mahmood Ahmed – who now wears a long, white beard and has reportedly gone Tableeghi – called Gen Musharraf from the Pakistan embassy in Washington. The conversation took place in Urdu and when the president asked him what the bottom line of the American message was, Gen Mahmood replied in Urdu that the Americans were intent on the removal of the Taliban regime and would not let Pakistan stand in their way and if Pakistan did not fall in line and cooperate, “wo hamari eent se eent baja dey gain” or words to thatthe so-called war on terror. Mehmood, who has already retired from the Army, is settled in Lahore but despite repeated attempts since Saturday last he is not available to offer his comments on the issue on which his statement really matters a lot. Every time the former ISI chief was approached at his Lahore residence telephone number, the home servant-cum-operator, who identified himself as Banaras Khan, gave the ready response, ‘General Saab is out of the city, he will Inshallah call you upon his return.’ On Saturday afternoon when initially contacted, Banaras said Mehmood would be back by the evening. However, later attempts the same evening and again on Monday and Tuesday, showed that Mehmood is still out of the city. Banaras has no answer when asked where


A painting of Puck, Shakespeare’s mischievous elf from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sitting on a toadstool as nude fairies dance under his feet will keep its 170-year connection with Preston after the Harris Museum and Art Gallery saved it from auction.

The 1840 canvas was created by Richard Dadd, the most famous of the Victorian “fairy painters”, two years before a descent into mental illness which saw the Chatham artist murder his father in 1843, leading to spells in Bedlam and Broadmoor. The dark undertones of the piece are thought to reflect Dadd’s turbulent mindset.

Thomas Birchall, a wealthy Preston solicitor who went on to become Mayor but was found to have had multiple mistresses, a number of illegitimate children and suspect financial dealings following his death, originally bought theOffice for National Statistics (ONS) Population of the United Kingdom by Country of Birth and Nationality report.

The Irish were the second-largest group, with 331,000 residing here. Romanian and Portuguese nationals are in joint third place, with 175,000 people from each country living in Britain.

These figures include only those living in the UK for at least a year.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has already said that the country would work in negotiations to "ensure that Poles living in Great Britain retain their privileges".

The Irish government has also announced its contingency plans now that the UK has voted to leave the EU, including making preparations for increased numbers of UK citizens applying for Irish passports.

Of those 2.9 million EU nationals living in the UK, about 2.15 million are working.

Five years


ago that figure was 1.33 million and 10 years ago it was 758,000.

There are about 1.19 million non-UK nationals from outside the EU working in the UK.

The figure of just under 1.2 million UK nationals living in the rest of the EU comes from the United Nations.

These are the best statistics available, although they are not perfect, with some countries counting international migrants by birthplace while others judge by the passport someone holds.

Of the 27 EU countries, Spain had the most UK nationals with just under 310,000 migrants from the UK living there in 2015. Ireland was second with 255,000 and France third with 185,000.

Of those UK nationals in Spain, 106,610 were claiming the UK state pension, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, whileAll posts tagged: British Police

Toby Young talks to Caroline Farrow, a Catholic journalist who recently found herself under investigation by the police for misgendering a transwoman. Caroline’s ordeal began six months ago when she appeared on a TV show called Good Morning Britain to debate Susie Green, a trans activist. That led to a chain of events that saw Caroline being investigated by the British police for misgendering Susie’s daughter Jackie, who was born male and underwent sexual reassignment surgery in Thailand at the age of 16.

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A 350-year-old mathematical mystery, that two pendulum clocks mounted together could swing in opposite directions, due to tiny vibrations in the beam caused by both clocks affecting their motions, is a step closing to having a formula derived.

And it could lead to a better understanding of medical conditions like epilepsy or even the behavior of predator-prey systems in the wild, University of Pittsburgh researchers report.

The "indirect coupling" effect mystery dates back to 1665, when Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, first observed that two pendulum clocks mounted together could swing in opposite directions. It was not mathematically analyzed until nearly 350 years later and deriving a formula that explains it remains a challenge to mathematicians but authors of a Physical Review Letters
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The 80-year-old lawmaker and former Navy pilot, who was re-elected to a sixth Senate term in November, has been recovering at home in Arizona since undergoing surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix last Friday to remove a blood clot from above his left eye.

Tissue analysis since that procedure revealed that a brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the clot, his office said.

Glioblastoma is considered a grade IV tumor, the most malignant of gliomas. It can be very aggressive and spread into other parts of the brain quickly, according to


non-invasive melanomas removed at least three times. He also overcame injuries suffered as prisoner of war in Vietnam, where he endured beatings and torture by his North Vietnamese captors.

His fellow members of Congress rushed to offer tributes to the lawmaker and wishes for his quick recovery. Known for an independent political streak, ready wit and strong opinions, McCain is one of the best-known and most popular U.S. lawmakers among his peers and the media.

A group of Republicans meeting to discuss healthcare policy on Wednesday evening prayed together for Mr. McCain. Senator Lindsey Graham, a close friend, said Mr. McCain had told him he was eager to get back to work, Senator John Hoeven told reporters.

While known as a fierce advocate for strong U.S. military action overseas, McCain alsoNavy pilot. His plane was shot down over Vietnam in 1967 and he spent 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war.

One of McCain's proudest moments as a U.S. senator was working to pass legislation banning torture in 2015.

When he was offered release because of his father's rank, Mr. McCain refused to be freed before those who had been held captive longer. He finally returned to the United States in 1973, with other prisoners of war.

Mr. McCain's absence this week has complicated efforts by Mr. Trump and his fellow Republicans to repeal Obama's Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. McCain's absence from Washington makes it difficult for McConnell to gather the 50 votes he needs in a chamber where the party holds only a 52-48-seat margin.

His absence could


Giraffe sculpture used as battering ram in Worcester burglary Published duration 3 September 2018

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A giraffe sculpture has been used as a battering ram in a burglary attempt.

"Dotty" was used to smash the window of a nearby sports shop after being removed from its plinth on Chapel Walk in Worcester shortly before 03:00 BST.

Worcester Stands Tall, which is behind the city-wide giraffe sculpture trail, said the sculpture was "badly damaged" and has been removed.

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Bob Carlisle (born September 29, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is a Grammy Award and Dove Award-winning American musician who performs Christian music. He performed with several bands, most notably Allies and Billy Thermal, before launching a solo career. He has two children, Brooke and Evan.

Carlisle is best known for his hit song “Butterfly Kisses”, which appeared on his third solo album. That album, originally titled Shades of Grace, was later re-released as Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) because of the success of the single. He co-wrote this song with former Allies partner Randy Thomas and for this they together won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Song. “Butterfly Kisses” also won a Dove Award for Song of the Year. This song was also a country09/05/09 - On this day in history — September 5, 1937 — Lucretia Ball, the owner of Block Island’s largest and most elegant hotel, the Ocean View, wrote a letter beginning “Your Excellency,” and chose some fortunate employee to hand-deliver the note to the USS Potomac anchored in New Harbor. The Potomac was the official yacht of the president of the United States.

The president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had left his home on the Hudson River September 2 and traveled 200 miles down Long Island Sound to Newport, Rhode Island.

On the afternoon of September 4, Roosevelt was off-loaded from the Potomac into a Navy tender and trolled for fish along the West Side of Block Island. After returning to the yacht, then anchored off the Coast Guard Station, the


after he contracted polio in 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s legs were paralyzed.

To expose his helplessness fully in public would reveal a situation the press, and even other politicians, refrained from publicizing during all four of FDR’s terms as president, right up to his death on April 12, 1945.

The President Roosevelt, though, did not disappoint everyone on Block Island.

Summer visitor Gwen Jacobsen, as a small child, was taken early in the morning to Payne’s Dock by her mother. Finding themselves the only ones there, Gwen waved to Roosevelt sitting on the back deck of his motor yacht. The president waved back, and she would always remember.

Later, FDR came to the dock ladder in the presidential tender and, as described by island resident Maizie Rose in her 1957 book, autographedSoap&Skin's new album Narrow comes out this month, and it sends Anja Plashg's stark gothic torch songs into even darker and more despairing places. She's recorded us a great mix, and speaks to Stephen Dalton about her new album

Berlin's landmark Volksbuehne theatre is a hulking great fortress of granite-columned gravitas that once served up inspirational Marxist dramas to East Germany's cultural elite. But on this snowy February night, every one of its 2000 seats is occupied by black-clad disciples seeking highly charged drama of a different kind. The Austrian noir-pop siren Anja Franziska Plaschg, aka Soap&Skin, is in town, and her army of vampire admirers is here to feast.

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Already a star in her native Austria, Plaschg recently collaborated on her own line of chocolate, infused with pig's blood and poppy seeds. Yes, really. On the day we speak, she has also just topped the Austrian charts with her second album, Narrow. But rather than embracing fame with open arms, she has fled Vienna to lie low in Hamburg, home base of her record label PIAS.

Narrow is an album of exquisite sadness and extreme beauty, of baroque orchestral electronica and piano laments. It opens with 'Vater', a stormy requiem for Plaschg's late father, who died in 2009. This should also be the album that blows away lazy comparisons between the sombre young Austrian and Nico - having portrayed the icy German chanteuse in a stageshow and paid homage at a concert with John Cale in 2009, the parallels are plain. But Narrow opens up a much deeper and broader sound world than her debut Lovetune For Vacuum, invoking a rich avant-pop pantheon from Patti Smith to Stina Nordenstam, Bjork to Aphex Twin.

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going through separate emotional states. I wrote this song in one year. It took one year.

You also cover the vintage Europop tune 'Voyage, Voyage' - a hit for French singer Desireless in 1986, before you were born. Why this song?

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This is the film by Sebastian Miese, who worked with Michael Haneke?

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A recent purge by Facebook and Twitter of a host of independent media sites has pushed thousands of people out of work and has killed one of the most effective forms of expressing political dissent.

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The Rev. Charles C. Garst, a priest at St. Dominic Catholic Church and former teacher at Father Judge High School, died Thanksgiving Day at age 65.

Garst, a native of Wilmington, Delaware, spent 44 years as a professed member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. Most recently, he served as parochial vicar at St. Dominic in Holmesburg, where he had been since 2010.

The Rev. Edward Kearns, St. Dominic’s pastor, said Garst was a “low-key kind of guy” who loved his dog, a German shepherd named Sebastian.

“Up here, people loved him because he was a likable guy,” Kearns said. “He was a good listener.”

“He had a dry wit. People enjoyed that,” he added. “He was very easy to live with. I lived with him for eight years.”

Garst wassuffering from kidney problems and had been seriously ill for the past three months, according to Kearns. Still, St. Dominic parishioners and fellow priests were hoping he would be able to recover.

“People were shocked,” Kearns said. “We had all hoped that he would beat this.”

Garst entered the Oblates after graduating from high school in 1971, and he was ordained in 1983, the same year he started teaching at Judge. He stayed at the high school until 1996 and served as assistant athletic director from 1992 to 1996.

During his ministry, Garst split his time between Wilmington and Philadelphia in addition to a brief stop at a church in Berks County, according to an obituary published by Hicks Funeral Home.

Garst also served as a chaplain to the Philadelphia and Wilmington


police departments and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He was described by one commanding officer as a “consummate professional,” according to the obituary.

A funeral Mass was held last week for Garst in Wilmington, and he was buried at Oblate Cemetery in Cecil County, Maryland. Donations in his memory can be made to the Oblate Development Fund, 2200 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19806. ••criticism for his strident anti-Trump art.

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expand it to everyone: Everyone gets a country estate with a lawn, everyone gets a car, and everyone gets told that their job makes them important. In practice this means lifeless suburbia, nightmare traffic, and even people with bad jobs are tricked into being emotionally invested in the system that exploits them. This is the message of the Timbuk 3 song "Just Another Movie":

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It's just another captain going down with his ship

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Ronda is a town for walking. Having safely negotiated the many twists and turns of the access road, leave your car at the petrol station and enter the Old Town through a gate in the remains of the Arab city wall.

Like all of the south of Spain, this village fell into Moorish hands in 735 and remained under various Arab rulers until the Reyes Catolicos, Isabel and Ferdinand, re-conquered their kingdom in 1485.

A long time of a very different culture which has left many marks here, among them the impressive city wall.

The canyon El Tajo

What really leaves you breathless though, is El Tajo, a huge gorge or canyon formed by the river Guadalquin which separates the Old Town from the New Town.

Both parts are connected by the New


Bridge which you have to cross to get from one part to another.

The best view of the bridge and tajo is from Casa de Don Bosco, a wonderful 20th century mansion located in the Old Town.

Famous for its tiled patio, carpets, fireplace and collection of period furniture, the true secret is the garden with a fountain where stone frogs spout water and where you can hang over a wrought iron banister and get the full panorama of canyon and bridge.

Before reaching Casa Bosco though, you´ll have passed through the leafy Plaza de Duquesa de Parcent which was the centre of social activities and bullfights before Spain´s oldest bullring was built in 1785.

Church Santa Maria Mayor

The park is bordered on one side by the church Santa Maria Mayor.

It’s acuriosity because the bell tower is shaped like the minaret it once was.

The side of the church has outside balconies to accommodate nobles and the royal family when they wanted to watch the bullfights and fiestas.

From there just amble along the cobble stoned streets of the Old Town and you´ll reach the wine museum.

Here you can taste wine or climb up to the first floor which is a museum.

It is exhibiting wine making and storing paraphernalia as well as a collection of traditional clothes.

Then, walk over the New bridge, take a peek at the remains of a much older Moorish bridge and end up at the bullring.

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Mitt Romney refuses to sign anti-gay marriage pledge by conservative Christian group

Mitt Romney has refused to sign a pledge opposing gay marriage, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to reject it.

The agreement, drawn up by a conservative Christian group in Iowa, calls on candidates to denounced same-sex marriage rights, pornography, same-sex military accommodations and forms of Islamic law.

Two of Romney's rivals, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, have already signed The Family Leader's 14-point pledge.

Rejection: Mitt Romney's decision makes him the first Republican presidential candidate not to sign the 14-point pledge against gay marriage

When it was first circulated last week, the introduction to the pledge stated that African American children were more likely to be raised in two-parent households when they were born into slavery than they aretoday.

The group removed that phrase and apologised after black ministers complained, but said it stands by the rest of the document.

Romney's spokesman, Andrea Saul, issued a written statement saying the former Massachusetts governor 'strongly supports traditional marriage', but that the oath 'contained references and provisions that were undignified and inappropriate for a presidential campaign'.

Bachmann and Santorum have been campaigning hard to court the influential social conservatives in Iowa, which holds the nation's first caucuses.

Romney's rejection of the pledge reflects his diminished focus on winning Iowa, where he spent $1 million during his 2008 presidential campaign only to finish second.

None of the other GOP presidential hopefuls, including former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, have said whether they will sign the pledge or not.

Signed


up: Presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have both put their names to the 14-point anti-gay marriage pledge

Romney, who supported rights for gay couples in Massachusetts, was criticised in Iowa by some Iowa social conservatives during his 2008 campaign, when he finished second in the caucuses after aggressively courting Christian conservatives.

In his second bid, Romney, who leads in national GOP polls, has cast himself as a national figure more focused on the economy.

The Family Leader, an organisation formed last year and positioning itself to be an influential player in the 2012 caucuses, said today they stand by the 14 policy positions listed under the promise to 'defend and to uphold the institution of marriage as only between one man and one woman'.

The points include the promise tobe faithful to their spouses, enforce the federal Defense of Marriage Act and support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

The group said signing the oath is a condition of winning its endorsement before the caucuses.

On the campaign trail: Mitt Romney, pictured here in New Hampshire during a July 4th parade, has diminished his focus on winning in Iowa

Julie Summa, director of marketing and public outreach for The Family Leader, said: 'We are standing firm that the 14 points of the marriage vow are right on target and we are creating higher standards for the presidential candidates.

'We are not backing away from that at all.'

Gay marriage has been a volatile issue in Iowa in recent years, and came to a head in 2009 when the Iowa Supreme Court struck


Oakwood Collegiate drama teacher Jeff Jones has been fired, the Toronto District School Board confirms, for distributing inappropriate blonde and dead baby jokes to his students.

In early January, parents say Jones distributed a seven-page handout filled with line after line of jokes about sexual violence, racism and dead babies. He was later put on home assignment by the board. Many of the more than 100 jokes cannot be printed in the Star.

It’s unclear what the assignment was, as there were no instructions or questions included with the pages of jokes.

Parents said students in the Grade 9 and 10 class were told to pick five jokes and prepare a comedy skit about them. A Grade 12 student claimed the jokes were examples students were to follow when writing their2009 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and
movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films
in Review. Find out which movies and artists were awarded top honors in film—including best picture, best actor and actress, and best director—for 2009.

Best Picture:

Up In The Air

Best Foreign Language Film:

A Prophet

Best Actor:

George Clooney, Up In The Air
Morgan Freeman, Invictus

Best Actress:

Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Actor:

Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Supporting Actress:

Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air

Best Ensemble Cast:

It's Complicated

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor

Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress:

Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

Best Director:

Clint Eastwood, Invictus

Best Directorial Debut:

Courtney Hunt, Frozen River

Best Original Screenplay:

Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

Best Documentary:

The Cove

Best Animated Feature:

UP

William K. Everson Award for


her yard have spurred more questions about the history of the land she lives on.

Government Hill is a suburb in San Antonio that was developed in the "Gilded Age" of San Antonio, from 1890 to 1930. The history of Government Hill is closely connected to Fort Sam Houston, which was built in 1876. By the end of the century, Government Hill was home to more than 12,000 people, according to the San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation.the revived version of  The Basil Brush Show in 2006, and also featured in Doctor Who three times. In 1965 she had an uncredited appearance in Undermind , (non-speaking) and other; uncredited, 1970s' roles in the Third Doctor serials Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Time Warrior. In 2006, she played Mrs Croot in the Tenth Doctor episode "Love & Monsters"; a second appearance as Mrs Croot was recorded for "The Runaway Bride", but was cut before transmission. She played Aunt Barbara in the CBBC programme Bear Behaving Badly from 2008 to 2010.

Prior to her death, she completed filming for In the Long Run, a Sky One comedy created by Idris Elba, due to be broadcast in April 2018.

Death
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begins with money and access to the high quality coaches and year-round games that come with joining a top-notch club team.

Immigrants have much higher rates of poverty than native-born Americans, are far less likely to have health insurance, and typically come from families without much education. So, while the desire to play soccer is there, as we have seen in the growth and popularity of soccer in high schools across the country, the ability to pay for club dues, and the control over one’s own time (can mom skip work to ferry you to practice?), are not.

Young Latino immigrant soccer players, who might flourish with a good coach in an organized club team, end up playing in amateur men’s league games after the high school season is over.This invention is directed to a tennis racket with an adjustable length handle which can be located in the desired position and clamped in place with the grip.
The conventional tennis racket has an open frame with strings across and has a handle fixed thereto. Tennis rackets with various fixed lengths are available on the market so that the player may buy a racket with a handle of a length which he believes most suitable. It is clear that as a young tennis player grows, with increasing arm length and increasing strength, he continually needs a longer handle on his racket. However, there are other situations in which adjustment of the length of the tennis racket is desirable. A longer handle gives more power by the player to the


characters, including an Eastern European mobster, ‘Gabor’, played by myself, an eccentric pawn shop owner (Gary Busey), an aging stripper (Margot Kidder), and a barber with an agenda (Lee Majors). The role of Gabor was a dream role for a character actor like me. Although, he is a ‘Mobster’, he’s not a stereotypical one; he has some secrets, so I tried to walk a very fine line with him.

BS: What was it like getting a chance to work with the likes of Edward Furlong, Margot Kidder, Gary Busey, and Lee Majors?

It was a tight 15 day shoot and I worked 9 (with overtime, of course). Since Eddie plays the title role and I’m the second lead, we spent a lot of time together on and off set. Itrespect and was very encouraging. Margot Kidder is still such a great actress – so natural. I love her scenes. I learned more about the craft of acting watching her work. Lee Majors was a childhood hero, so it was surreal meeting him. He actually approached me and introduced himself. A true gentleman; One of the nicest guys I’ve ever meet!

GC: Why should people go out and see Matt’s Chance, and will it be playing nationwide?

BS: Matt’s Chance will have its NY Premiere at the New York International Film Festival on Friday, June 14th at 6pm. SVA Theatre at 333 West 23rd Street. For tickets click here. It has already played in I think another dozen film festivals around the country and won a bunch of awards. The


dramedy will be hitting theaters in a limited release beginning in Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York tentatively in late October of this year! Immediately following that, the film will be released on VOD platforms including iTunes, Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu, Cable On Demand, etc., as well as on Blu-Ray and Dvd both online and in retail stores nationwide.”SINGAPORE: A 9-year-old girl was among five people injured in an accident along Lornie Highway on Saturday (Mar 7).

The police told CNA they were alerted to an accident involving two cars along Lornie Road towards Adam Road at around 4.25pm.

Two male drivers, aged 32 and 41, and two female passengers, aged 32 and 36, were taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

The girl was taken to KK Women's and Children's Hospital.

All of them were conscious.

Police investigations are ongoing.

Photos on social media showed two vehicles in the first and second lanes of the road.

The bonnets of a silver car and a white car were badly smashed.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force said they responded to the accident at about 4.45pm.


Russia asks USA to allow shipment of Sukhoi SuperJet 100 to Iran

The manufacturer of the Sukhoi Superjet 100, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA), sent a request to the Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury to approve the shipments to Iran.

“The SCA application is pending at OFAC. The term of its consideration is individual for each case, and is not regulated by this structure,” a representative of the company said.

In early August, the United Aircraft Construction Company (UAC), which the SCA is a part of, responded to the request of Lenta.ru that the relevant package of documents is in the process of preparation. The holding explained that the approval of OFAC is necessary because of SSJ100 aircraft contains American components.

In February 2017, Russian Minister of Energy,co-chairman of the Russian-Iranian intergovernmental commission, Alexander Novak, announced Iran‘s readiness to purchase 12 SSJ100 aircraft in the near future.

At the end of last year, Airbus and Boeing agreed with Tehran on the delivery of large quantities of passenger aircraft. The manufacturers will deliver 180 aircraft, the overall contracts amount was estimated at $34.6 billion.


against him in Virginia. On February 16, 1984, Mosley met with Schmidt and Richard White, an undercover Park Police officer, and they devised a plan for White to accompany Mosley to Singley's house and for White to purchase cocaine from Singley. White and Mosley then drove to Singley's house, where Mosley entered Singley's apartment alone. Singley and Mosley then returned to the car and left; White was driving, Singley sat in the front seat, and Mosley sat in the back seat. White was wired with a transmitter for his safety, which he used to pass the directions given to him by Singley to a police surveillance team.
Singley directed White to the corner of Sixteenth and W Street, S.E. She then got out of the car and walked towardsan apartment complex. When she returned to the car alone in about five minutes, she told them that the people she was dealing with did not trust her with the drugs and that they first wanted her to bring the money to them. White showed Singley $1,000, and told her he wanted to inspect a bag of cocaine before giving any money. Singley left again and returned about five minutes later with appellant Kibler.
Singley then got into the front passenger seat of Mosley's car. When Kibler started to get in the back seat, White stopped him, saying that he was dealing directly with Singley. Kibler eventually handed Singley, through the car window, an open green napkin containing crystalline white powder. Singley passed the napkin to White, who visually


time.

Which brings us back to the momentum issue.

In their chart on page 19, Gil and Levitt show that the intrade odds, and therefore the game probabilities, are constant in the fifteen minutes before a goal is scored.

Now, in any game, one team will be playing better than the other, even dominating the game. You would expect it to be that team that eventually scores the goal. But even though bettors are watching the game and can see which team is playing better, they did not bid up the odds of the dominating team winning before the goal was scored!

That is, suppose team A and team B initially have equal odds of winning. Team A comes out flying in the first half, dominating the play and getting several goodIf— by Rudyard Kipling | BILLY Footwear

I was first introduced to the words of Rudyard Kipling when I was around twelve years old. The location was Camp Parsons, a Boy Scout summer camp on the shores of Hood Canal in Washington State. An excerpt from Kipling's poem "The Explorer" is carved in a large, wooden plaque, which has remained prominently displayed in the Dining Hall for nearly as long as the camp has been in existence. The words are as follows:

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges—Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

I have mentioned in previous blog entries that I worked at Camp Parsons for six summers, but I have yet to mention Kipling's poem. On the lighter


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Haunted Canada: Banff Springs Hotel

Built in 1888, the Banff Springs Hotel—also known as the “Castle of the Rockies”—is a grand building in the middle of the forest in Banff, Alberta. Some famous guests have included Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth II and Helen Keller. The hotel is one of Canada’s famous haunted locations. It is most well-known for a ghost story about a phantom bride. The Hammerson Peters blog, which shares tales from Western Canada, describes the phantom bride’s story:

“According to the legend, a young couple was married in Banff sometime in the early 1930’s. It was arranged for their wedding banquet to be held in the Banff Springs Hotel, where the couple was renting the bridal suite. Before the beginning of the banquet, the newlywed brideascended a marble staircase up to the Cascade Ballroom to join her husband, who was waiting at the top. As she did so, her wedding gown brushed against one of the candles that lined the curved staircase and caught fire. In the panic that ensued, the bride tripped over her wedding dress, fell down the flight of marble stairs, broke her neck and died.

“It is said that her ghost has haunted the hotel ever since. Over the years, various hotel patrons and staff have reported seeing a phantasmal bride dancing alone in the Cascade Ballroom, or ascending the marble staircase on which the tragic incident is rumored to have taken place. Others have heard strange noises emanating from the bridal suite when the room was not in use.”


London (CNN) Putt-putting out into the Portsmouth channel on England's south coast, the small vessel is soon swallowed by the early morning fog.

To the uninitiated, the mist appears to cloak any landmark, bar the occasional cormorant marking time atop a buoy, but the boat's captain isn't fazed.

"You're a hunter but you can't see anything. It's like hunting bears with a blindfold."

This is how Matt Varndell describes his day at work fishing for clams. However, given its political dangers, economic risks and the uncertainty that still haunts the process, "blindfolded bear hunting" sounds like a metaphor for Brexit and the UK government's attempts to leave the European Union (EU).

While it only accounts for 0.12% of the UK economy , fishing has been at the heart of the rhetoric aroundBrexit. Paraded by the pro-Brexit camp as an icon of EU regulation strangling a quintessentially British industry and way of life, fishing has had an outsized presence in Brexit-related headlines.

But from seabed to table top, the wider economic "food chain" of British seafood -- catching, trading and serving fish -- highlights the Gordian Knot of issues that have bedeviled the UK's efforts to divorce from the EU.

The catch

Varndell has worked at sea since he was a teenager, when his father first took him out on his boat, the Versatile.

"It was the freedom of fishing that attracted me to this job. The unknown," he said. "Being at sea, the sea water gets in your blood."

This is not a career for the faint-hearted, however. Each tow of his dredge along


the sea floor yields just one or two clams all morning. A good tow may only drag up a dozen. At the end of the day he splits his catch 75-25 with his deck hand, Richard, netting between £400 and £450 ($522-$587) in total.

As he zigzags his boat through the waters near Portsmouth, Varndell rails at the suffocating hold he feels regulations have on his work.

"The legislation has gone beyond reasonable and the fleet is getting smaller and smaller by the year," he said.

British inshore fishing is regulated by local Inshore Fishery and Conservation Authorities (IFCA), who state their aim as balancing "social, environmental and economic benefits to ensure healthy seas, sustainable fisheries and a viable industry." Although a UK body, they enforce EU directives on managing themy fishing grounds do, I would do it," he said.

"There was a promise of taking back control of British waters," he said of the 2016 pro-Brexit referendum campaign. According to one pre-referendum poll, 92% of UK fishermen supported Brexit . "It wasn't the only reason I voted to leave but it was one of the main issues."

The trade

From the coast, fish flows through the hands of traders like Eric McLeod in British fish markets. His Portsmouth-based firm, Viviers, buys fish from local fishermen along the southern English coast as well as from abroad.

"I don't sell fish just in the UK. We export to mainly Spain, France and we used to sell a lot to Italy," he said.

Due to local tastes, the UK imports 70-80% of the fish Brits


657 F.Supp. 776 (1987)
OCEAN COVE CORPORATION RETIREMENT PLAN AND TRUST, Plaintiff,
v.
UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.
No. 85-8112-CIV.
United States District Court, S.D. Florida, Miami Division.
February 19, 1987.
*777 Stuart Gollinger, Westport, Conn., for plaintiff.
Michael J. King, and Jose F. DeLeon, Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND FINAL JUDGMENT
SPELLMAN, District Judge.
The Plaintiff is a qualified pension trust fund established by a written agreement of trust between Ocean Cove Corporation, a Florida Corporation, employer, and a named trustee. Over a four year period, from 1978 through 1981, the Plaintiff realized short term capital gains from investments in securities purchased on borrowed funds through a margin account. The Internal Revenue Service ("Service") assessed a deficiency on these tax obligations. The Plaintiff paid this deficiency, claimed a refund from thein much the same way that the coils of the spring influence one another. The compression generated by the sound source as it moves propagates down the length of the spring as each adjacent coil of the spring pushes against its neighbor. It is important to note that, although the wave travels from one end of the spring to the other, the individual coils remain in their same relative positions, being displaced first one way and then the other as the sound wave passes. As a result, each coil is first part of a compression as it is pushed toward the next coil and then part of a rarefaction as it recedes from the adjacent coil. In much the same way, any point in a sound conducting medium


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Dayton high school debaters have enjoyed success in recent years. That includes having some of their members continue their High School debate at the collegiate level. DHS debaters, who enrolled with Lee College through dual credit courses are eligible to compete in Lee College debate, at the same time, A 2020 Dayton Senior Ryan Roseman was a part of the Lee College squad that recently won the International Public Debate Association National Community College Championship. Roseman acknowledged that his role in the national tournament with Lee College was small, but he was excited about being a debater in high school and college at the same time. He was not the first from Dayton to do that. 2017 Dayton Debater Vanessa Rangel also competed with the LeeCollege Championship Debate Team. She was a four year member of Dayton Debate, earning a full scholarship to Lee in debate. She now wants to be a debate coach. Next year, Vanessa Rangel transfers to the University of Arkansas-Monticello, again on a full ride debate scholarship to major in Political Science and Communications. Sh plans to become a teacher and debate coach. Dayton Hi School Debate Coach James Kingsmill said being a part of a national collegiate championship team is an honor few debaters experience.


conservator of the peace, whatever power he has to commit
is by the common law: if he be considered only as a
Privy Counsellor, he is the only one at the board who has
exercised this authority of late years; if as a conservator,
he never binds to the peace; no other conservator ever did
that we can find: he has no power to administer an oath,
or take bail; but yet it must be admitted that he is in the
full exercise of this power to commit, for treason and seditious
libels against the Government, whatever was the
original source of that power; as appears from the cases of
The Queen and Derby, The King and Earbury, and Kendale
and Roe's case.

We must know what a Secretary of State is, before we
can tell whether he is within theBoston Universitys Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) seeks a passionate marketing and communications expert who can support effective branding of ISEs thought leadership and applied research. The ISE seeks to reach a number of different audiences, including sustainability leaders and enthusiasts, policymakers, regulators, the private sector, NGOs and foundations, individual philanthropists, engineers and scientists, specialized and mainstream media, and Boston University faculty, staff, students, and alumni. The ideal candidate will be ready to work with ISEs leadership and key ISE stakeholders to craft the overall strategic positioning and messaging, creating a unique identity in the growing sector of sustainable energy programs. Once the overall positioning and messaging are agreed upon, the Marketing and Communications Manager will be responsible for establishing the ISE brand in all aspects of the


It was originally listed for sale with a $5.75 million price tag in November 2015, before being reduced to $5.15 million and removed from the market in December.

It was last sold for $3.275 million in 2008 to Marlene Iglitzen, the widow of the late Chicago film critic and “At The Movies” host Gene Siskel, according to listing records and reports from the Chicago Tribune.

The apartment is on the third floor of the mansion, which is located on North State Parkway and was built in 1899 for a wealthy Chicago doctor, according to Curbed.

But that’s not what it’s most famous for. That happened in the 1959, when Chicago native Hugh Hefner moved in and started his empire, before he headed west in the 1970s and moved into his HolmbyHills, Los Angeles, Playboy mansion, which he still lives in, although it was recently sold.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Heffner’s office was located in his bedroom, and house guests included all five Rolling Stones members and Warren Beatty.

He lived on the second floor; the third and fourth floors, meanwhile, eventually became Bunny dorms where rent was $50 a month.

Features of the condo for sale include a dining room, eat-in kitchen, home office, en-suites in all bedrooms, a covered terrace and parking space for two cars.

“I bought it five days after it was listed,” Ms. Iglitzen said in a statement to the Tribune when the condo first hit the market.

“It was everything I wanted in a home: enormous windows in all directions, large scaled rooms and an outside


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