condo-flipping factory, laundering money from illegal activities through the President’s first semi-successful overseas venture. Several of the early tenants are now on the run or in prison.

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Several aspects of the Panama sales raised red flags, according to experts. For example, some buyers bought blocks of units. Purchases were typically made anonymously through shell corporations registered in Panama. That allowed some buyers to change the ownership of the unit in secret, simply by changing the ownership of the company. They often used so-called bearer shares, allowing a stake in a company to be transferred simply by passing a piece of paper.

Lots of buyers were profiting handsomely from rapid flips of condos, but not theNagpur Test: England inching closer to historic series win

Nagpur, Dec.16 (ANI): England on Sunday appeared to be inching closer to achieving its dream of a historic series victory against India on Indian soil after nearly three decades, with their middle order batsmen digging in to keep host team bowlers at bay, while at the same time adding crucial runs in their second innings.

At the close of play on the fourth day of the Nagpur Test, England in their second innings had scored 161 for the loss of three wickets, and an overal lead of 165. Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell were unbeaten on 66 and 24 respectively at the close of play. With a day remaining in the match, India will have to indulge in some swashbuckling tactics,


both in the bowling and batting departments, to achieve a much needed victory to ensure a drawn series.

Earlier, after India had allowed England to gain a four-run lead by declaring at 326 for the loss of nine wickets, the visitors lost their openers during the afternoon session of play. By tea, they had built a labourious lead of 85.

Opener Alastair Cook was the first England wicket to fall and he was followed by Nick Compton, who fell on the stroke of the tea interval, LBW to P.Ojha.

Chances of a result in favour of India are receding with England having only have one aim in mind - to keep a hold on their precious 2-1 series lead. A draw seems inevitable.

Cook and Compton ensured there were no early alarmsas they cautiously reached lunch. Compton struck the day's first boundary, five minutes before the break, when he edged a very full delivery from R Ashwin to third man. Cook had reached 5 from 78 balls before finding the rope with a cover drive from another very full ball.

For the second time in the match, Cook was removed through an umpiring error from Kumar Dharmasena when he played forward to Ashwin and the ball spun past the outside edge. There was a strong appeal, and there was a noise, but replays confirmed that Cook's bat had struck the ground and he had missed the ball. It left Cook with a match tally off 14 off 121 balls, but it did nothing to dilute the epic nature of his


series which ended with 562 runs.

Compton's solidity alongside Cook has been one of the major plusses to come out of this series. His defence had been firm throughout the session but in the final over before tea he was given lbw to Pragyan Ojha. Replays suggested an inside edge but the ball was also caught in the gully so the presence of DRS would only have changed the mode of dismissal.

Kevin Pietersen was bowled by Ravinder Jadeja after choosing to leave a ball that was pitched just outside the off-stump. The ball, however, turned sufficiently to push the off peg back. Pietersen scored six of 30 deliveries

One of more interesting moments of the day involved Jonathan Trott. A delivery from Ravindra Jadeja slipped out of the spinner's hand,while the collar is put on. If the dog begins to get up, or gets up on his own after the collar is on, be sure to sit him back down immediately. Only begin the walk after the dog has sat calmly to have the collar put on, and continued to sit calmly as the leash is attached.

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Role(s): DJ Full name: Cara Delevingne Occupation: Radio Gender: Female Place of birth: London, England Nationality: English

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne (born 12 August 1992 in London, England) is a British fashion model, voice actress, model, actress, and socialite who voices herself as the DJ of Non Stop Pop FM in Grand Theft Auto V.

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Biography

Delevingne is an English model and actress, winner of "Model of the Year" at the 2012 British Fashion Awards. She has had a varied career in the fashion world. First it was the face of Burberry Beauty campaign in 2012, the face of the spring/summer 2011 collection - 2012 Burberry and a long list of brands such as H&M, Zara, and Chanel. She starred in films such as Paper Towns and Suicide Squad. Her initialvoiceover work for GTA V predates all but one credit of her film acting career, making her role as DJ Cara one of her first acting performances.

In-Game Persona

GTA's Cara is presented as a hyper-energetic fan of dance-pop, fixated on making people get up and dance. It's implied that she might be on ecstasy as she hosts her radio show, since she reminds herself (and her audience) to "stay hydrated" before commercial breaks, unless they want to pass out. Fainting spells due to dehydration is a common side-effect of recurring ecstasy use.

She's also presented as a big fan of the game Righteous Slaughter 7 and its series to the point where she often plays the game during commercial breaks. Although, she takes offense to the game's fan community, citing


how obnoxious and profanity-prone players are on the live audio chat by claiming if males who played the game were nicer, more females would play. It is also presented that she enjoyed watching the film The Loneliest Robot in Great Britain, which may be a reference to the fact she is of British origin.

On the whole, DJ Cara exhibits a cheery on-air disposition and emphasizes enjoying life.

Relationship with GTA Saga

Cara followed Karl Lagerfeld (radio DJ K109 The Studio), as a personality from the fashion world chosen to DJ a GTA radio station. Cara had posted on Twitter that she would be a DJ in GTA V; she is the DJ on the station Non Stop Pop FM. The enhanced version of GTA V includes a number of introductionsand other dialogue by Cara that weren't in the original release. These were recorded in a second recording session, rather than being held from the original session, as she tweeted that she was back with Rockstar to update her clips for new versions of the game.

Quotes


GREETINGS FROM THE BARRICADES: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia

Amid the chaos and violence of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II's opponents printed and distributed vast quantities of picture postcards. Easy to share, hide and smuggle, postcards were a way to beat the censor and spread a message of defiance. Produced by a diverse set of revolutionaries, liberals and opportunists, the content of these cards is equally wide-ranging: from satirical caricatures directed against the government to rare photographs of early revolutionary demonstrations. Many are darkly humorous, combining laughter with a sense of raw indignation at the injustices of life in Imperial Russia.

Tobie Mathew spent six years in and out of the Russian archives researching his new book on the subject: Greetings From The Barricades – the firstmajor study of the design, production, and distribution of anti-tsarist postcards.

In this talk, Tobie will offer an illustrated overview of opposition postcards under the Tsars, showing how this vibrant new form of communication served to spread revolutionary belief and disrupt the Imperial status quo.

Tobie Mathew is a writer and historian specialising in Russian graphic art and propaganda. He has previously lived in Almaty, Kiev, and Moscow, where he spent three years working as a journalist for The Associated Press. He is now based in London.


Santa Clarita band Full Safari invites public into the wild for inaugural festival

Dozens of fans crammed into mosh pits and wandered through a gala of artwork by Santa Clarita artists, during Full Safari’s Inaugural Music and Arts Festival.

Tucked into the tract homes of a Valencia neighborhood, Santa Clarita band Full Safari brought together numerous artists to showcase their work in front of fans at the North Park Clubhouse.

The band played at the festival as well, making it their latest show after several other live gigs around the greater Los Angeles area.

But it was a challenge organizing their own festival.

“It’s very hard,” said Joey Voge, a singer and guitarist for Full Safari. “Our approach towards it is to do the best we can in both areas. We actually putInternet outage. It was disrupted for eight days in December, a few days after U.S. President Barack Obama warned of a "proportional response" to North Korea following the North's alleged hacking of Sony Pictures.

Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, virtually admitted in March that December's Internet blackout was payback for the Sony hacking.

In November, a group of hackers broke into the computer networks of Sony Pictures Entertainment and released emails of its senior executives and personal information about employees. They demanded that "The Interview," a film comedy that portrayed the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, not be released.

The FBI stood by its conclusion that North Korea was behind the cyber attack, though the reclusive nation strongly denied involvement.


are quitting the profession.”

Every profession has hazards, but in journalism this is disheartening, particularly for women. “Things are improving, but slowly,” she said.

Shimul said male bosses also undermine female journalists and ignore them when it comes to covering important and challenging news beats like that of crime and PMO (the Prime Minister’s Office).

Shahiduzzaman, Editor of News Network, a leading non-profit media support organisation of Bangladesh, said the atmosphere in Bangladesh for female journalists is still far from ideal.

Shahiduzzaman, also a Representative and Senior Adviser for South Asia with Inter Press Service (IPS), said it was the News Network that first came forward in the mid-1990s to provide journalism training to female university graduates by offering them fellowships.

He said News Network has so far provided training to nearly 300Amco

The Amco was an American automobile manufactured primarily for the export market, designed by D.M. Eller and built by American Motors, Inc. of New York City from 1917 to 1922.

Between 1919 and 1920 the company produced cars that had left- or right-hand steering optional.  The cars were marketed in a single color: beige.  Each carried a radiator specially designed for tropical climates. Amcos were powered by Golden, Belknap & Swartz (GB&S) 35 hp inline-four engine, and they had a wheelbase of .

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Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The new government in Myanmar headed by President Htin Kyaw of National League for Democracy though de facto led by Aung San Suu Kyi has completed over two months in power. The current Myanmar regime faces many daunting challenges both at home as also in its evolving relationships with neighours and other major powers.

Internally, speeding up the peace process and reconciliation with the numerous ethnic armed groups of Myanmar remains one of the key issues that need to be dealt with in an earlier timeframe.

Aung San Suu Kyi who has become a State Counsellor and looks after four portfolios has taken on the task of bringing about peace and reconciliation through what she describes as a 21st Century Panglong Conference. Going back inhistory it was Gen. Aung San, father of Suu Kyi and a well respected leader of Burma who had convened Panglong Conference in 1947. The overall objective then was to obtain independence from the British and keep Burma unified as a union of states by giving a degree of autonomy to the federated units. Ethnic minorities’ leaders since independence have been struggling to realize the fruits of the Panglong agreement reached subsequently after the independence.

On the other hand Tatmadaw led by Commander-in-Chief Senior-Gen Min Aung Hlaing has a history of supporting a unitary system of government as opposed to a federation of states as agreed to in the Panglong Agreement. Further, in the last six months and especially so in the past one month many ethnic armed groups


avoid clashes, so thatpeace can be achieved through the current political system.

While the new government is occupied with internal issues the major powers have been reaching out to the new government in a bid to realize their politico-strategic, economic and security interests in Myanmar. First off the block was China who sent its Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Myanmar in the first week of April to bolster its ties with the new regime. Not only Wang Yi met his counterpart Suu Kyi he also met the head of the other power centre in Naypidaw, that is, Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. China has been cultivating Aung San Suu Kyi for some time now; last year much before the elections she visited China on invitation from the Beijing leadership. Despiteeven though New Delhi considers Myanmar as the lynchpin in its ‘Act East Policy’ as also as a strategic land bridge to the ASEAN community. Notwithstanding the fact that Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, Industry & Commerce Minister was the first Minister from India to visit Myanmar from 18 to 20 May after the new government took over in Myanmar there appears to be a degree of reticence and tardiness in reaching out to the new dispensation. She led a 25 member delegation of Indian CEO’s to an India-Myanmar Business Conclave at Yangon where she also had discussions with Mr. U Win Khaing, Myanmar Minister for Construction, Dr. Than Myint, Myanmar Minister for Commerce and U Khin Maung Cho, Myanmar Minister for Industry. The visit seems to have been confined


Fantasy and Pluralism: Unpacking the Religious Sources of The Wheel of Time

One of the best Fantasy series produced in the last 50 years, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s The Wheel of Time, a 15 book series of almost 15,000 pages produced over a 24 year span, encompasses a fantastic worldview displaying a pluralistic coherence of religious elements found in world religions. Jordan masterfully constructs a world guided by a pluralistic coherence of various aspects of world religions that depicts various theological ideas ranging from Indian conceptions of reality to Daoist cosmology and Christian soteriological themes of redemption, love, and reconciliation undergirding a vibrant mythological narrative and religious worldview embedded in the series displaying a plethora of religious ideas in The Wheel of Time. In this piece, I wouldleader sought to seal the bore shutting away the Dark One forever—unsuccessfully. In response, the Dark One tainted the Male half of the One power with his essence, causing all Male Aes Sedai to go insane and change the surface of the world. People fled in all directions, fleeing to dry land when the waters swallowed up full cities and mountains. The face of the Earth has changed and fear and distrust was instilled within every heart with the name Aes Sedai. And yet the world awaited the rebirth of the one blamed for this destruction, the Dragon, the Kinslayer, who was prophesied to both break the world again and seal the Dark One away forever. Here the series starts with his rebirth and tells his story.

The mythos


of Wheel of Time:

There is a deistic creator.

The creator created cosmos to govern itself: The Wheel of Time/Pattern.

There was a Fall (the Bore) opening Shai’tan into the world.

The is a savior figure who leads the Children of Light against the Dark (the Dragon).

The original Savior figure failed to adequately seal the bore resulting in prophecy and reincarnation.

The Dragon is reborn (reincarnated) to perfectly seal the Bore.

Religious Elements Behind The Wheel of Time

Throughout The Wheel of Time there are certain religious elements and symbols behind the series that Jordan used to construct his fantasy world. The following is an exegesis of theological themes found in The Wheel of Time. The series is dominated by a systematic expression of a pluralistic construct of the religious worldview that combines eastern andbetter (though the end of the series is of course, open-ended on this question so this remains speculative). In Indian religion, Reality and human life is governed by the pursuit and performance of dharma and Karma as a cosmic law, entailing impersonal descriptive and prescriptive dimensions of order, righteousness, and justice (entailed in the concept of Karma).

The Tri-Murti, (three main gods in postclassical Hinduism) Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, entail a cosmic maintenance of dharma: Brahma the creator of Dharma, Vishnu the Preserver of Dharma, and Shiva the destroyer and renewer of Dharma. Entailed within this cyclical conception of renewal is: 1. the origination of dharma which; 2. must be preserved against chaos and; 3. will be destroyed when it is beyond redemption and recreated again in perfect Dharma.


dark (indicating opposites), but, within each, there is a small seed of the other (indicating each side needing the other for balance). Young-Chan Ro states that, “The Yin-Yang principle was not only a cosmic principle but also an ontological and anthropological principle. In fact, the Yin-yang principle has permeated in every aspect of life of all beings and it has become a symbol of the universe, the human, and all other beings” (Ro 2013, 151).

Likewise in The Wheel of Time, one sees the inversion of the Yin/Yang symbol in terms of gender: while the male represents light balanced with the darkness of yin in Daoism, the white flame represents the female half of the one power and the dark dragon’s fang represents the male half of the onebut must sacrifice himself for the redemption of the world (to seal the Dark One away forever). At the end of The Gathering Storm, book 12 of the series, not only is the Dragon Reborn redeemed but the tension in his memories between insanity of Lews Therin and his own life must be reconciled and redeemed through union. Through a moving passage within the mind of the Dragon Reborn on the brink of self-destruction, the inner dialogue displays the redemption of the dragon named Kinslayer. Lews Therin Kinslayer was named so because in his insanity he killed everyone he loved before his own self-destruction. With the Dragon Reborn’s love for family, three women, and friends he could not embrace the insanity of Lews Therin for fear of following


Royal Wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason is now a chart-topper

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By Kyle Macdonald

The Royal Wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has shot to the top of the US iTunes pop chart with his album ‘Inspiration’.

This is an incredible moment in classical and pop music.

Saturday's wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex St George's Chapel in Windsor was watched by millions around the world, and while all still recover from a weekend of celebrations, an extraordinary classical legacy has emerged.

What music was played at the Royal Wedding? >

The service featured musical highlights from soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, trumpeter David Blackadder, the chapel choir and organ, not to mention that powerful gospel performance from The Kingdom Choir, and finally: 19-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

Who is Sheku Kanneh-Mason? >

Following Sheku's performance of works byFifty years ago, three astronauts and two digital computers took off for the Moon. A few days later, half a billion earthlings watched murky television images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin clambering out of the Apollo 11 lunar module and leaving the first human bootprints in the powdery soil of the Sea of Tranquility. (Michael Collins, the command module pilot, remained in lunar orbit.) The astronauts became instant celebrities. The computers that helped guide and control the spacecraft earned fame only in a smaller community of technophiles. Yet Armstrong’s small step for a man also marked a giant leap for digital computing technology.

Stacked printouts of software for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) form a tower five and a half feet tall, the height of Margaret H. Hamilton,


disseminate this material. On the other hand, those creative and energetic amateurs have done a brilliant job of bringing the history back to life. Their success is almost as remarkable as that of the original AGC programmers.

In recent years printouts from several other Apollo missions have been made available to Burkey and his collaborators, mostly by members of the MIT team who had retained private copies. Those programs have also been scanned, transcribed, and reassembled. All the scans and the transcribed source code are available at the Virtual AGC website, http://ibiblio.org/apollo . Also posted there are programming manuals, engineering drawings, and roughly 1,400 memos, reports, and other contemporaneous documents.

Meanwhile, Burkey was building not only a simulator, called the Virtual AGC, but also a new version of the assembler.(Initially he had no access to the source code for the original assembler, which in any case would not run on modern hardware.) A crucial test of the whole effort was running the transcribed Apollo 11 source code through the new assembler and comparing the binary output with the 1969 original. After a few rounds of proofreading and correcting—some of the scans were barely legible—the old and new binaries matched bit for bit.

Burkey learned that the Instrumentation Laboratory had deposited listings of some Apollo 11 software with the MIT Museum, but the terms of the donation did not allow them to be freely distributed. After long negotiations, Deborah Douglas, director of collections at the museum, secured the release of the printouts, and Burkey arranged to have them scanned.


interview below focuses on her years in the Apollo program, for the associated Computing Science column “Moonshot Computing” in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions. It was conducted by email in 2017 and has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Initially, Hamilton worked mainly on a subset of programs common to both the command module (CM) and the lunar module (LM) of the Apollo spacecraft, each of which had its own guidance computer. She also made a specialty of methods for detecting and coping with errors. Later she took on wider managerial responsibilities. During the later Apollo flights, she was director of software engineering for all onboard software.

By 1963 Hamilton was ready to go back to school. She had a mathematics degree from Earlham College inprogram in one big lump?

MHH: Of course, everyone has a unique perspective on how things were organized within the AGC on-board flight software part of the MIT Apollo project, depending on when a person joined the project, how long one was on the project, what one's experiences were within the "field" before joining the project, what one did while on the project, and where this fit into in the overall structure within the project. Much "knowledge" was passed down (like limericks) from others who were involved in the project in earlier times under different circumstances than when the project was in its "heyday." In fact, my daughter, when she was about 4 or 5 years old, had her own perspective on how things were in the early days.


in place to ensure that all the modules within the flight software—including all aspects of the modules such as those related to timing, data and priority—were completely integrated (meaning there would be no interface errors within, between, and among all modules, both during development and in real-time).

The task at hand included developing the CM, the LM, and the systems-software. Updates were continuously being submitted into the software from hundreds of people, over time and over many releases, for each and every mission (when software for one mission was often being worked on concurrently with software for other missions). The task included making sure everything would play together and that the software would successfully interface to, and work together with, all the other systems, including the hardware, peopleware, andof the people involved in the development of the software, and the other is the organization of the software itself. A matrix-management approach was used for the organization of the people involved in the project for the manned missions. There were the line managers, each of whom was in charge of the people who were experts within a particular subject, and there were the project-oriented managers (one for the CM and one for the LM for each mission), each of whom served as a go-between for NASA and MIT.

This PDF is an excerpt from a summary of the MIT-IL Apollo project along with the Lab's official upper management "chart" created around the time of Apollo 8 (note the use of words instead of graphics to describe the organization).


The writeup was put together by the Lab's financial people, at the request of MIT and NASA, in order for it to become part of NASA's public celebration of Apollo 11. It was written by MIT-IL for MIT from the perspective of MIT. Note that the on-board flight software group is referred to as Guidance Programs in the "chart," because it was the group responsible for the Apollo Guidance Computer on-board flight software. Eventually, the write-up was included as one of the exhibits, prepared by MIT together with NASA, to become part of the celebration of the Apollo 11 mission for the first landing on the Moon, at the Moon Show, Hayden Gallery, MIT, sponsored by the MIT Committee on the Visual Arts, in September 1969.

The responsibilities ofsuch as violations of coding rules or interface errors. Several rope mothers were in the on-board flight software group at a given time, because software for several missions was usually being developed concurrently. Rope mothers could have been male or female.

Regarding collaboration—whether it took place among coworkers or between the organizations involved, working with others, interaction with others, interfacing to others, learning from one another, working on things together, working out things together—it was more often than not an iterative effort, such as with RAD or spiral development, that was in play. That iteration also happened between developers or between the developers and users (both on a lower and higher level, such as between MIT and NASA). We all worked together amazingly well, no doubt partly because of


The Sound of Johnny Cash is the twelfth album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released in 1962 (see 1962 in music). Among other songs, it contains "In the Jailhouse Now", a Jimmie Rodgerscover which reached No. 8 on the Country charts, and "Delia's Gone", which Cash would re-record years later, on American Recordings, in 1994. Cash would also go on to record a significantly slower, more ballad-like version of "I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now", which was ultimately released in 2006 on American V: A Hundred Highways as the last track on the album.

During the recording sessions for the album, Cash rerecorded his Sun Records hits "Folsom Prison Blues", "Hey Porter" and "I Walk the Line", but none of these versions were ultimately used on the albumAlexis DeJoria prepared for Pomona II

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The Alexis DeJoria Racing Team Looks to Pomona to Set the Tone for the 2012 Season

Alexis De Joria, Tequila Patron Monte Carlo

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Venice, CA (November 9, 2011) – As the 2011 NHRA season comes to an end, Kalitta Motorsports’ driver Alexis DeJoria, and the Tequila Patrün Toyota Camry Funny Car team look to finish with a bang! In what will be their fourth race, the newly formed Nitro team hopes to finish out the year in Pomona leaving fans wanting more. In order to preserve Alexis’ rookie status for the 2012 season, their first full season, Team Patrün was only able to compete in four races this year, with Pomona being the fourth and final event.

While


Rio Ferdinand has warned Arsenal that Wayne Rooney is ready to end his goalscoring drought in spectacular fashion - starting tonight.

Rooney has not scored in open play for Manchester United since March 30, his two goals this season coming from the penalty spot in the Premier League and Champions League.

Injuries, a sex scandal and his ill-advised contract saga with United all combined to make it the worst start to a season in Rooney's career but close friend Ferdinand said the forward is close to returning to his best form.

And with Premier League leaders Arsenal visiting Old Trafford tonight, Ferdinand said Rooney's return to full fitness and sharpness could not have come at a better time for Sir Alex Ferguson's side.

"Everyone knows what happened over the last couple ofweeks beforehand but Wayne's come back and he's looking sharp," said Ferdinand. "He didn't score in our last game but he looked sharp and set up a good number of chances for other people.

"It's only a matter of time before he scores and then goes on one of those runs where he scores loads of goals. Just having him back around the place in a good mood is fantastic. He's a great lad to have around and long may it continue.

"Arsenal are a good team but I'm concentrating more on what we've got in our dressing-room. I'm confident in our team and the individuals as a collective that we can go out there and beat any team and I'll be looking to do that on Monday."

United's next two


games could go a long way to defining their title challenge. After tonight's encounter with Arsene Wenger's side, United travel to Chelsea next Sunday for another potentially seismic top-of-the-table clash.

And although this season's title race is shaping up to be one of the closest for years, with United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham all in the mix, Ferdinand said he remained confident Fergie's men have what it takes to claim a record 19th title.

"Arsenal and Chelsea are very big games for us," said Ferdinand. "We're playing two of the teams at the top of the league back-to-back. They'll be hard games but games we all enjoy playing in.

"They'll be big spectacles with everybody watching and we'll be going out there to win. Fingers crossed we can doon other Hanse Group boat brands including Moody, Dehler and Fjord. For more information on Fusion’s contract with the Hanse Yachts, FUSION or its entire line of marine audio products, please visit www.FusionElectronics.com

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All of the sudden we have approached the final leg of the summer journey with the dog days of August now in full gear, and the fall season well within an earshot. Of course the eighth month of the year is a prime vacation period, and many in our midst are preparing to travel. The baseball season playoffs are beginning to take some kind of shape, and as a Yankees fan I am most pleased with the way things are developing. The summer school program I have been teaching since late June ends this coming Friday, August 7th, leaving a bit more than three weeks for a summer respite. Lucille also has approximately the same time off until she reports back in near the end of the month.

TheThe secret of Yankees ace Wang

He's just one man, one man with just one pitch. The ball comes at hitters on a flat plane, thigh-high, at somewhere between 90 and 95 mph, then it takes a sudden plunge, some seven to eight inches toward the dirt.

It's a pitch that's won him more games over the last two years than any other hurler in major league baseball, a pitch that's turned him into the ace of the most famous sports franchise in the world. It's a pitch, his countrymen insist, that influences the stock market in the world's 19th-largest economy, a pitch that has made him the biggest sports star to come out of Asia since Yao Ming, a pitch that, on this sultry January afternoon in Tainan, Taiwan,


is the reason why he can't have a piece of cake.

He sits in the passenger seat of a midnight-blue minivan with tinted windows as it squeezes through a swarm of cars and motorbikes, on the city's main avenue. Peering through the side window he spots a line of customers at a street vendor's cart and decides that he wants what they want: a small piece of cake stuffed with red bean -- a local specialty he won't be able to get once he returns to the U.S. in another week. But because he is Chien-Ming Wang, pitcher for the New York Yankees, he can't step out of his vehicle, or even roll down his window, without making news in the next day's papers. "The street food, it's whatI miss most in America," he says in a rare moment of wistfulness. Wang could dispatch his bodyguard, Daniel, who is driving, but left waiting in a parked van, Wang would surely be recognized through the front windshield. It happened two years ago, when, on his way home from the airport, a mob of more than a thousand blocked the narrow street to his home. For more than a hour, he sat with his wife in a stationary car, surrounded by the throng until 40 policemen arrived.

So to the notion of buying a piece of cake, Wang says, "Forget it," and the van rolls on, headed to a gym, where it pulls up to the rear entrance. Inside, he walks through a succession of darkened rooms and into


an empty workout area. He lifts weights for an hour. Other than for the rare public appearance, trips to the gym are pretty much the only times that he leaves his apartment in Tainan, his off-season home. Some 7,800 miles from New York City, in his native country -- where his famously stoic face gazes from billboards, ATMs, credit cards, cellphones, bags of potato chips, milk cartons; where the people call him, simply, Taiwan zhiguang (the pride and glory of Taiwan) -- Chien-Ming Wang is everywhere and nowhere, a hero and a prisoner. For an intensely private, excruciatingly shy 28-year-old, being a national icon is a heavy burden. "It's crazy," he says in his slow and soft voice. "I think, This is strange. I'm just one man."

With thestart of the 2008 baseball season, he was back on the front pages of the Taiwanese newspapers, back as the lead story on so many of the country's television news shows. Yes, it was a thrill to win his first Opening Day start, and, yes, he came within a fluke home run (rightfielder Bobby Abreu mistimed his leap on a catchable fly ball) and a bunt single of a no-hitter against the Red Sox last Friday night. Yet, the best start of his four-year big league career doesn't wash away the disappointment of last October. Six months ago he sat alone in the home dugout, a blank stare of disbelief on his face as a grisly silence enveloped Yankee Stadium during Game 4 of the American League Division


Series. It was only the second inning, and already Wang had been yanked after retiring just three hitters while allowing four runs -- a meltdown that came four days after he'd been hammered for eight runs over 4 2/3 innings in New York's Game 1 loss. When the night was over, after his team had been eliminated by the Cleveland Indians, there was no way around it: Tagged with two of his team's three postseason defeats, Wang was the one player most responsible for yet another premature Yankees playoff exit.

Wang had been exposed as a one-pitch anomaly, or so said the baseball cognoscenti, the scribes and the sabermetricians who've long proclaimed the 6-foot-3, 225-pound righthander the beneficiary of a large amount of good fortune. How else to explainwhy a pitcher with a minuscule strikeout rate, who misses fewer bats than almost every other major league starter, could be so successful? No, Wang's October wasn't just a pair of fluke performances in an otherwise accomplished season, nor was it the result of a tired arm, but rather the sign of something larger. This, the skeptics said, was perhaps where the end began.

Situated on a coastal plain in western Taiwan, 170 miles south of Taipei, Tainan is the country's fourth-largest city and is known for its greasy street snacks, for its ornate ancient temples and for baseball. During Taiwan's nearly three decades of dominance in the Little League World Series -- between 1969 and '96, a Taiwanese team left Williamsport, Pa., with the winner's trophy 17 times


-- Tainan produced five of those world champions.

Tainan is also the home of the three Taiwanese players in the major leagues today: Wang has been joined by Chin-Lung Hu and Hong-Chih Kuo, both with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The No. 3 prospect in the Dodgers system as rated by Baseball America, and the most valuable player of last year's MLB Futures Game, Hu, 24, is a diminutive, slick-fielding shortstop who is expected to replace Rafael Furcal after Furcal's contract runs out at the end of this season. Kuo, a 26-year-old lefthanded pitcher with a linebacker's build, is regarded by scouts as the most naturally gifted pitcher to come out of Taiwan; two years ago he was L.A.'s Game 2 pitcher in a first-round playoff series against the NewYork Mets, but he has since been slowed by arm injuries and moved to the bullpen.

Hu and Kuo are everything that Wang is not: bubbly, charismatic, at ease in the public eye. But they are not nearly as famous as the Yankees righthander, whose success story is known throughout Taiwan. The adopted son of workers in a metal utensil manufacturing company, Wang played Little League but was never regarded as a standout while growing up in Tainan. "In high school, he was kind of terrible," says Louis Yu, a sportswriter who covered Wang then. "He was tall and very, very skinny. His delivery wasn't smooth, and his fastball was not impressive."

In 1998 Wang enrolled at the Taipei Physical Education College, about the same time Taiwanese-born Chin-hui Tsao was


turning the heads of the Colorado Rockies, who would sign the righthanded pitcher in October 1999. By Wang's second year of college, he began showing a low-90s fastball, which caught the attention of the Seattle Mariners, who offered Wang a $1 million signing bonus in May 2000. "The first time we saw him in a nine-inning game," says Mariners scout Jamey Storvick, "he threw harder as the game went along. That's one thing we liked: He took it to another level in pressure situations." Seattle, however, didn't know that Yankees scout John Cox and team international scouting director Gordon Blakeley had seen Wang pitch in a college tournament in Taipei. Just as Wang was about to sign with Seattle, with him and his family sitting at home inTainan wearing Mariners caps, New York swooped in with a $1.9 million offer. "While we knew Tsao could be a star," Yu says, "Wang never had a great game in high school or college like him. People in Taiwan were surprised [the Yankees] gave him so much money. No one thought he could be a star."

Fourteen starts into his professional career Wang blew out his shoulder and sat out the entire 2001 season following surgery. He was told by the Yankees that he had to bag his out pitch, the slider, to ease the stress on his arm. In the summer of '04 he learned the pitch that would change his career. During a bullpen session shortly after his promotion to Triple A Columbus, Clippers pitching coach Neil


Allen approached him with a suggestion. "Try this," Allen said to Wang, holding the ball with his index and middle fingers along the seams that framed the ball's sweet spot. "Push harder here," he said, tapping his index finger against the ball.

Wang began throwing and, he recalls, "the ball started to drop." It took only a few starts in Columbus before the sinker became his signature pitch, and the results were immediate: Wang finished the year 5-1 with a 2.01 ERA. The following April he was called up to replace the injured Jaret Wright in the Yankees' rotation and went 8-5 with a 4.02 ERA while logging the third-most innings (116 1/3) among the team's starters in 2005. Wang's sinker gradually earned a reputation as one of thegame's filthiest pitches. "An ultimate weapon, like Johan Santana and his changeup," says Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte. "It's the best sinker I've ever seen."

Halfway around the globe, in a baseball-crazed country starved for somebody to root for, Wangmania took off. In Taiwan, fans had been heartbroken by the decision of the Chinese Taipei baseball association in 1997 to pull out of Little League World Series competition rather than abide by a rule that allowed only schools or districts with enrollments of under 1,000 to participate. (The island returned to competition in 2003.) And while there has been a professional league in Taiwan since the early 1990s, a series of gambling scandals in the late '90s precipitated a massive drop in attendance. "Baseball has been in the Taiwanese people's


blood since it was brought here by the Japanese some 100 years ago," says Ben Shao, press director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, "and Wang is the baseball star we've been waiting to pour our hearts into."

After his rookie season Wang returned home to a hero's welcome, receiving an invitation to meet President Chen Shui-Bian. By the time Wang returned home after the 2006 season, in which he went 19-6 with a 3.63 ERA and finished second in American League Cy Young voting, he was more popular than the president. "There's no question that he has more impact than anyone else in our country," says Shao. "The way we look at it, a president is in office for no more than eight years, then someone elsecomes along. Wang, he's everlasting."

Now Taiwan's major newspapers charge a higher advertising rate for issues published on a day that Wang pitches, as well as the day after each start. The country's largest circulation daily, Apple Daily, estimates that it sells as many as 300,000 extra papers on days that carry reports of another Wang victory. Endorsements that have come Wang's way include McDonald's, Ford, E Sun Bank (one of the largest in Taiwan) and computer-maker Acer, which claims that Wang's name alone has increased its product sales by 10% and lowered the average age of its consumer by almost four years.

A lagging economy, political scandal (the president's wife, Wu Shu-Chen, and three aides were charged with embezzlement, while former Vice Interior Minister Yen Wan-Ching was recently convicted


in a bribery case) and escalating tensions with China have made this a nervous time for the Taiwanese people. "Wang, he's our only consensus," says Shao. Referring to the government's combative legislative branch, which is renowned for in-chamber brawling among lawmakers, Shao says, "When our congressmen are debating, they'll stop their fighting, watch Wang pitch, then go back to fighting when the inning is over."

Last year a study in a Taiwanese business journal, Money Weekly, found a correlation between Wang's pitching performances and the fluctuations of the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The report attributed a 25% index rise last summer to Wang's strong June and July. "We absolutely believe it to be true," Shao says of the relationship between Wang's performance and last summer's bull market. "Psychologically, how [Wang]does has a huge effect on the Taiwanese people. If he does well, people are in a good mood, and they go out and spend money. If he doesn't, you walk around and you can see people depressed. It's a very personal matter to the Taiwanese people." (For the record, the country's stock index was up roughly 6%, through Monday, since Wang's first start this season, on April 1.)

In their coverage of pop stars and politicians, the Taiwanese papers can be as cruel as the New York tabloids; when it comes to their Taiwan zhiguang, they generally do not pry into his personal life. (Still, six Taiwanese TV networks, four newspapers and a wire service have reporters in the U.S. covering him on a daily basis during the


known second baseman Robinson Cano the longest -- the two rose through the minors together and were promoted to the majors within a week of each other in the spring of 2005 -- but neither can recall the last time they socialized outside the ballpark. "[Wang] sits there and goes through all his stacks of fan mail," says Yankees centerfielder Johnny Damon, who has lockered next to Wang for the last two years. "He looks at his car magazines. I know he likes cars. I know he likes expensive watches. But that's pretty much it."

Many U.S. reporters who cover Wang assume he's reserved because of the halting manner in which he speaks English, but he talks that way in his own language in his own country. When askedabout Wang, former college teammate Kao Lin-Jie says, "His face never had an expression. He didn't say anything. He was just . . . strange."

Wang's former college coach, Kao Ying-Chieh, recalls, "He always sat alone during lunch. Once our team took a trip to the Alisan mountains [outside of Taipei]. The team went down to a creek, and everyone jumped in and played around. But Chien-Ming wasn't there. I looked up and saw him on the bridge, looking down at the creek, alone. That just tells you what kind of person he is."

Wang was raised by an aunt and uncle who adopted him at a young age. During the baseball season Chien-Ming and his wife, Chia-Ling, whom he met in his first year of college and married in


December 2003, live in a modest three-bedroom house in Fort Lee, N.J. In the off-season he, Chia-Ling and his adoptive parents share an apartment in Tainan, where he spends the days playing Nintendo Wii, watching scary movies and eating his mother's cooking. The most animated he gets is when he's talking about expensive cars. "I want to be just like Moose," Wang says with a smile, referring to Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina, who owns a collection of vintage cars.

"He's very simple," says Yu, the sportswriter. "But I think that is good for him when pitching on a team like the Yankees, in a city like New York, where there's so much pressure. He doesn't get too excited. He's in his own world."

While many other ballplayers from Taiwan havesuffered physical breakdowns at a young age, Wang is still pitching into his late 20s. Tsao was the Rockies' minor league pitcher of the year in 2003, but over the past five seasons he made five trips to the disabled list, had two arm surgeries and logged only eight major league starts. The 26-year-old Tsao is trying to reclaim his career with the Kansas City Royals' Triple A affiliate in Omaha. Kuo, the Dodgers lefthander, had two Tommy John operations in the last five seasons, during which he worked a total of 102 innings. At the start of the 2008 season there were 25 Taiwanese players under contract to MLB organizations, roughly a quarter of whom were pitchers who have spent time on the disabled list.

Grueling training regimens


in Taiwanese colleges and professional leagues have been blamed for the short careers of pitchers. When he was 18, Tsao says, he followed a half hour of long toss with a three-hour bullpen session and an hour of pitching live batting practice. He once started three games in a four-game tournament. But many believe that the arm abuse begins even earlier. "By the time they get to college, they're already damaged," says the director of Asian scouting of one major league team.

"In the Little Leagues, it's about quantity of practice, not quality," says Kao, Wang's college coach who also was an assistant on the Tainan team that won the 1986 Little League World Series. "Mentally, we push the kids too hard, which is why so many don't gois based in Taiwan. "One thing going for him is that he's got a real smooth delivery."

But even if Wang stays healthy, how long can he continue to perform as a No. 1 starter? Go to any Yankees fan forum on the Internet and you'll find extensive debate on the topic, Is a Chien-Ming Wang decline inevitable? In 2006, when Wang had the best season of his career, he averaged a major-league-low 3.14 strikeouts per nine innings while hitters put the ball in play in 84.2% of their plate appearances against him (the highest percentage among major league starters). Last year Wang won 19 games for the second straight season, had a 4.70 strikeout rate (10th lowest in the majors) and saw hitters put the ball in play


was business, of course, but the words stung him almost as much as what happened in October. When he arrived at spring training, he vowed to work with new pitching coach Dave Eiland on fully incorporating a changeup and slider into his repertoire. "He's going to be more than a one-pitch pitcher," Eiland declared.

Until this season Wang had relied on his sinker roughly 90% of the time. During some outings, catcher Jorge Posada would go an entire game without calling for anything but the sinker. Through his first three starts this season, however, Wang had expanded his arsenal to include sliders 15% of the time and changeups 8%. "After [what happened in] the playoffs, I know I still have a lot to prove; I'm still working," he said,Borussia Dortmund prepared to talk with Real Madrid over sale of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored 60 goals in 86 Bundesliga games

Borussia Dortmund say they are prepared to hold talks with Real Madrid over sale of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, despite the Spanish club's transfer embargo.

But the Bundesliga club insist they are not in a position to have to sell the impressive striker, who was a target for Manchester City during the summer.

Real are currently appealing their two-transfer-window ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but, as things stand, cannot sign any players until January 2018.

Ahead of Dortmund's clash with Sporting Lisbon in the Champion League this week, chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said: "If Real Madrid come in we will talk, but it won't be easy.

"We want him to


stay with us. Unlike the players who left us in recent times, Aubameyang has a long-term contract until 2020.

"There's no pressure. I don't have the impression he wants to move."

Aubameyang, who has scored 60 goals in 86 Bundesliga appearances, said in February that he had promised his dying grandfather that he would one-day play for Real Madrid, but later insisted they were not the only club he would consider as his next move.

Just two years earlier, Marsh had named Apatosaurus ajax—the “deceptive lizard”—from a partial skeleton found in the Jurassic rock of Colorado.

Brontosaurus quickly gained fame because it was among the first dinosaurs the public encountered. An illustration of its skeleton “was the first dinosaur restoration to get a wide circulation,” points out North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences historian Paul Brinkman. This “helped spread the popularity of Brontosaurus in an era before dinosaurs proliferated widely in natural history museums.” And once museums started to put up skeletons of Brontosaurus—the first was assembled in New York City in 1905—the dinosaur’s popularity only grew.

But as anyone who has strolled through an up-to-date museum hall knows, the name Brontosaurus was eventually abandoned. In 1903, paleontologist Elmer Riggs found that most of the


traits that seemed to distinguish Marsh's two specimens had to do with differences in growth, and it was more likely that the skeletons belonged to the same genus. Since it was named first, Apatosaurus had priority over Brontosaurus. Despite the extreme similarity between Marsh’s skeletons, Riggs recognized that they differed just enough to be regarded as different species. Therefore Apatosaurus ajax would remain in place, and Brontosaurus was changed to Apatosaurus excelsus. It took a while for museums to follow suit, but by the 1970s everyone finally got on board with the shift.

Bringing Brontosaurus back from scientific obsolescence would be the equivalent of restoring Pluto to the status of planet. And much like the drawn-out debate over the extraterrestrial body, the status of Brontosaurus relies on definitions andFor Michael Davis, it all started with an accidentally rented film.

Years ago, in a time when video stores were still common, Davis and his brother had received their allowance and decided to rent a wrestling VHS from a Red Deer Blockbuster. They mistakenly rented a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) video instead.

Michael Davis says that people in MMA want to see locals succeed. (Supplied) "It just blew my mind, we were in judo and wrestling at that time, and I was hooked," said Davis.

Since then, mixed martial arts (MMA) has been his goal.

Fast forward a decade and a half and Michael Davis was well on the way to fighting in the UFC.

He racked up an eight-fight win streak and was ranked the number one 125 lb fighter in Canada.


He was in talks with the UFC and the future looked bright.

Then he suffered a bad ankle injury and had to get surgery on his Achilles' tendon.

Now, two years later, the 28-year-old is trying to get back to his former position and Alberta's MMA community is helping out.

A golden opportunity

Davis was just starting his comeback when he got a break.

"I just got flooded with messages and my manager got ahold of me and told me I have to go to Vegas," said Davis.

His manager, and all those sending him messages, were talking about the tryouts for the 24th season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will take place on April 25th. The winner of the reality show tournament will get a UFC title shot.

It's a golden ticket — oneof April, one day after his first fight back from injury, Davis will board a plane en route to Las Vegas knowing the odds are stacked against him.

There has never been a Canadian winner in an Ultimate Fighter shot in the United States and Davis knows the competition will be strong.

But he has a secret weapon up his sleeve: a little provincial spirit.

"I'll be bringing some Alberta down there with me."


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There's no question that 1968 was a pivotal year in civil rights history. In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis; the Fair Housing Act was passed; two U.S. athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, took a stand and raised their fists in a monumental salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics; and Star Trek aired the first intergalactic and interracial on-screen kiss. All this, while the U.S. was embroiled in the Vietnam War.

On a cold evening in Manhattan's Chinatown, Mei Lum sits at the front counter of her family's century-old store. She's closed the porcelain shop for the night, and is tapping away on her laptop, tying up loose ends for the multi-day Lunar New YearIndians, still use it as part of their citizenship requirements.

In two weeks, 39-year-old Rottanak Kong will board a plane to Cambodia. He'll be accompanied by dozens of other Cambodians with deportation orders.

Kong — along with many in his situation — has not returned to Cambodia since his family left as a refugees. They fled the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, which killed more than two million people.

He was detained by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement in mid-October. More than a decade ago, he was arrested for joyriding and sentenced to a year in prison, according to his lawyer. Because of that arrest, he is being deported.

When I was 16, I was sitting with my best friend in a park by the Connecticut River on a tumble of rocks. We


why Korean megastars haven't been able to break into the American market.

A judge ruled Wednesday that the descendants of enslaved people who were owned by members of the Cherokee Nation — known as Cherokee Freedmen — have citizenship rights.

"The Cherokee Nation can continue to define itself as it sees fit," U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan wrote in his ruling, "but must do so equally and evenhandedly with respect to native Cherokees and the descendants of Cherokee Freedmen."to be entitled to prevail as a matter of law.
There is no genuine issue as to any material fact. Plaintiff James F. Burger was employed by Rosenberg Brothers and Company at its Fresno, California, packing plant during the packing season of 1927, and was re-employed each year thereafter up to and including 1940, starting each season's work in July and finishing late in the year.
The Rosenberg Company buys, sells and processes dried fruit. While the Company's largest business is in raisins, it also handles apricots, peaches, nectarines, figs and prunes. The Company claims to be the largest packer and distributor of dried fruit in the world and to handle one-third of all dried fruit business in the United States.
The Company neither owns nor operates any farms or orchards,


but purchases fruit outright from growers for processing at one of its numerous packing plants. The Fresno plant is one of the largest, employing during the peak of each season between 1,500 and 2,000 persons to grade, process, *621 pack, and ship dried fruit purchased from growers in the San Joaquin Valley. Employees required for these operations include weighers, graders, maintenance and repairmen, electricians, truck drivers, fruit rollers, box paperers, box makers and fibre printers.
The Company makes all sales from its head office at San Francisco. Most sales are through brokers to wholesalers and jobbers, but numerous sales are made directly to the Government, and to various chain stores and bakeries. Orders received at the San Francisco office are transmitted to the Company's various packing plants to befruit and harvesting it, the typical farmer hauls it to his cutting shed where his cutters slice the fruit, remove the pits, and then place the halves on drying trays which are then set in the sun. In the case of peaches, apricots, and nectarines, the grower-dryer also sulphurs them. The dried fruit is then packed into sweat boxes or sacks and is delivered and sold to the packing company. Apparently prior to the establishment of modern methods of merchandising, the dried fruit was marketed by the grower to the consumer in substantially the same state of preparation in which it is now when delivered and sold to the packing company."
The packing company's function is "to receive that fruit, grade it, clean it, wash it, sulphur it, fumigate


the remuneration therefor not to be included as "wages" in computing plaintiffs' benefits.
The facts standing beyond dispute, the issue for decision is one of law: whether or not, after January 1, 1940, Burger's work of emptying containers of dried fruit into hoppers of grading and processing machines at the packing house of the Rosenberg Company was "agricultural labor" within the meaning of the Act, as amended.
From the time the legislation was originally enacted in 1935 until the 1939 amendment became effective January 1, 1940, Congress had made no attempt to define the term "agricultural labor" in either the Social Security Act or applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Congress had, however, empowered the Social Security Board and the Secretary of the Treasury to make and publish administrativeservice (though not performed in the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a farm) performed in the handling, planting, freezing, grading, storing, or delivering to storage or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, any agricultural or horticultural commodity, provided such service is performed as an incident to ordinary farming operations or, in the case of fruits and vegetables, as an incident to the preparation of fruits or vegetables for market. The provisions of the paragraph, however, do not extend to services performed in connection with commercial canning or commercial freezing, nor to services performed in connection with any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its delivery to a terminal market for distribution for consumption.
"The expression `as an incident to ordinary farming


effect, it seems equally clear that the "market" Congress meant is the "growers' market"  the place or point where and the time when the ordinary producer or grower of the commodity customarily parts with economic interest in its future form or destiny.
Up to that point, services performed by anyone for the account of the grower or producer stand exempt from employment taxes as being "agricultural labor." Beyond that point  beyond the normal market of the producer or grower  the commodity must bear the burden of the taxes, regardless of who owns it.
Applied to the case at bar, this interpretation of "market" means that in order to fall within the exempting provisions of paragraph (4) of the definition, Burger's services must have been performed for theaccount of the grower, regardless of whether performed in the employ of the grower or a cooperative or a commercial handler, and must have been so performed as an incident to the preparation of the dried fruit for "market"  i.e. for sale or other disposition by the grower in the form and at the stage of processing in which such fruit is normally or customarily disposed of by the ordinary grower.
By either test, then, Burger's services were performed after sale and delivery of the dried fruit by the grower to "market" or to a "terminal market"; hence, after "agricultural labor" in connection with such dried fruit had ceased. Accordingly, the questioned 1940 payments for Burger's services should be treated as "wages" within the coverage of the Act.
This


that for dried fruit the "terminal market" and the growers' market are one. The services *628 of employees like Burger are performed not for the account of any grower, but for the sole account of a commercial handler engaged in the middleman business of placing the dried fruit in channels of "distribution for consumption."
The decision of the Social Security Board under review observes that "It was the purpose of the 1939 Amendment to clarify the agricultural labor exemption and to include therein certain services which had not been held exempt under the original Act but which were regarded as `an integral part of farming activities'."
The Board then proceeds to determine, as a matter of law, "that Congress intended that services, such as were performed by the claimant inthe spraying services were performed. However, Kadrmas denied owing Dickinson Air for the crop spraying. Kadrmas alleged that Dickinson Air was negligent in applying the chemicals, causing damage to and destroying many russian olive and caragana trees planted in a shelter belt located adjacent to one of the fields that was treated. Kadrmas also served a counterclaim with his answer in which he alleged the aerial crop spraying by Dickinson Air was negligently performed and killed two tree rows valued at approximately $2,500.00.
The matter was tried in district court on October 18, 1985. Kadrmas admitted the contentions Dickinson Air asserted in its complaint and the trial proceeded only upon the issues presented by Kadrmas in his counterclaim. Accordingly, Kadrmas was permitted to present his case first. The only


evidence presented to the trial court upon which it based its decision to grant Dickinson Air's motion to dismiss the counterclaim was presented by Kadrmas. This evidence included a number of exhibits and the testimony of Keary Kadrmas, his wife, Sharmane, and LaVerne Linnel, the extension agent for Dunn County.
Kadrmas' presentation at trial elicited the following facts: In June 1983, Kadrmas hired Dickinson Air Services to aerially spray approximately 592 acres of his wheat crop. The parties agreed upon a contract price and Dickinson Air performed its obligation under the contract by spraying Kadrmas' wheat fields sometime in June.
Subsequently, in the later part of July 1983, Kadrmas and his wife began to notice damage to seedling russian olive and caragana *56 trees located in a shelter belt adjacentto one of the fields sprayed by Dickinson Air. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kadrmas testified that they observed the trees at least every other day, and in late July or early August they noticed that the trees looked strange, droopy and not very healthy looking. Mrs. Kadrmas testified that both she and her husband realized the chemical spray must have reached the trees.[1] Kadrmas then contacted LaVerne Linnel in order to confirm his belief that it was the spray that damaged his trees.
Linnel testified that, in response to Kadrmas' request, he went out to the Kadrmas farm on either August 10th or August 12, 1983, to inspect the damage to the trees. Linnel also stated that within one week of his inspection he called and left a message


Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner has composed a highly regarded catalog of chamber and orchestral music. Critic Tim Page writes: "Melinda Wagner's work suggests what the painter Henri Rousseau might have created had he written music - the bright, deep colors; the sense of fantasy that is both explicit and somewhat mysterious. It is music that is just as smart as it is sensual, as brainy as it is beautiful. Wagner is one of my favorite composers, and my admiration grows with every new work." This CD presents premiere recordings of three important works in Wagner's output, performed by leading advocates of the music of our time. Also available from Bridge is Melinda Wagner's Pulitzer Prize-winning Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion (1998).the eastern part of the municipality to the centre of Lisbon, commuter population has increased substantially.

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The municipality of Mafra is served by a road network that includes national highways (EN8, EN9, EN116 and EN247) and secondary municipal roadways, permitting access to the municipalities of Torres Vedras, Sintra, Loures, Sobral de Monte Agraço and Lisbon. In addition, the municipality is served by the A8 highway (Lisbon-Leiria), with connections to Venda do Pinheiro, Malveira and Enxara dos Cavaleiros, and the A21 highway (Ericeira–Mafra–Malveira), with connections to Ericeira, Mafra Oeste, Mafra Este, Malveira and Venda do Pinheiro, which have improved the movement of passengers and commerce, and consequently, the development of the region.

Public transport services are handled by the companies Barraqueiro Transportes, SA, Rodoviária de Lisboa and Isidoro Duarte with services


at Abaco and distributed supplies to hurricane survivors. On Grand Bahama, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship dropped off 10,000 meals, 10,000 bottles of water and more than 180 generators, as well as diapers and flashlights. American Airlines said it flew a Boeing 737 from Miami to Nassau to drop off 14,000 pounds of relief supplies. The airline is also giving frequent-flyer points to customers who donate at least $25 to the Red Cross. Troops from the Rhode Island National Guard will be heading to the Bahamas to help. The Guard will mobilize three C-130 cargo aircraft that will depart from the Quonset Air National Guard Base on Friday, state officials said. The community was known as The Mudd – or ‘Da Mudd,’ as it’s often pronounced – andfor the search, what I saw, when I lose him, anything could happen. You had sharks swimming in the water. Anything can happen.’

As it turns out, the American Coast Guard and the British Royal Navy aren’t the only foreign military to be deployed on the rescue mission.

As USNI News reports;

The Navy and Marine Corps are poised to offer disaster relief in the Bahamas if requested, as officials continue to survey destruction left by Hurricane Dorian. As of Thursday afternoon, the Navy had not received a request to provide personnel or equipment to assist recovery efforts in the Bahamas, Navy officials told USNI News. Amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5) and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit were already conducting amphibious ready group (ARG)/MEU exercises in the Atlantic before Hurricane


Freedom Before Independence In 1942, five years before India was declared free from the hands of the British. There was a little village in the heart of Karnataka who declared themselves free, blocked out the British and instated a ten year old boy as the ruler of Issuru. This is the story of Issuru, the first village in India to declare itself free. Told by the last two surviving freedom fighters of Issuru. Huchuraayapa, 111 years old and Halamma, 98 years old.

[Note: The visuals in this story (apart from the portraits) are artistic recreations of the incidents by the authors.]

‘We were ready to breathe our last so that our country could breathe its first’ – Huchuraayapa, Freedom Fighter, Issuru. Karnataka.

‘We have known each other for almost a centurywas standing on the other side of the market, looking at Huchuraayapa whisper that he was a rice farmer. I remember that so vividly because we were simple people who took care of the earth given to us by our forefathers. My brother, the Amaldar was the only freedom fighter in the village. He had walked the Dandi march with Mahatma Gandhi. Only he truly understood what the struggle meant. The rest of us were only used to the suffering. Each day, he would try explain to us about freedom and all that comes with it. Today was different, he strode out of the house with a purpose like no other. I knew he was going to show us what freedom looked like.

He came to me and he


asked politely, ‘Who are you? And what do you want?’ I replied without blinking – I am Halamma and I am a freedom fighter.

I watched Halamma declare that she was a freedom fighter. I remember that so well because she was the last one to do it. And it was right before the moment when Jaya was named as our ruler. The ruler of a free Issuru. The ruler of a free India.

I had just shouted that I was a freedom fighter in front of my brother. He had nodded like he always did and took the hand of a little boy in the corner. His name was Jaya. He held his hand high, looked around at all of us and proclaimed him the leader of Issuru. WeMemphis Tigers Merchandise, Miami Beach Bowl Champs Shirt and Gear

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The only fact that matters for Yankees fans, however: no World Series appearances. The 2010s were the first decade since the 1910s that the Yankees didn't make a trip to the World Series -- that was the decade before a certain Sultan of Swat was acquired from the Boston Red Sox.

Hey, on the bright side, at least the Yankees finished in first place for the first time since 2012. They had gone six consecutive seasons


without a division title. Still, 103 wins and an American League Championship Series loss to the Houston Astros for the second time in three seasons only created a final sense of frustration. That is not good enough for a franchise and its fans, who treat World Series appearances like a birthright.

It's especially frustrating in light of what happened last offseason. After acquiring James Paxton, DJ LeMahieu, Zack Britton and Troy Tulowitzki, the back cover of the New York Daily News termed them the "Snore 4." In spring training, asked why the Yankees hadn't signed Manny Machado or Bryce Harper, Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner said, "I get hammered every year about something. If you don't win the World Series, that's perfectly justifiable."

The ironic thing is Gio Urshela had ain the way of signing a big free-agent pitcher. Among the starters they signed in those years were David Cone (re-signing him after initially acquiring him in a trade), David Wells, Mike Mussina, Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens (bringing both back to New York), A.J. Burnett and CC Sabathia.

After spending that $471 million in free agency resulted in an 84-78 record in 2014, the Yankees haven't played in that market. Sixteen players have signed for $100 million-plus, none of them landing with the Yankees. The $100 million pitchers the Yankees didn't sign: Max Scherzer, Jon Lester, David Price, Zack Greinke, Johnny Cueto, Jordan Zimmermann, Yu Darvish and Patrick Corbin. Certainly a mixed bag there, but with Scherzer in pinstripes, maybe the Yankees win it all in 2017 and


spend to match last year's payroll. But they also have a lot of money coming off the books after 2020, including Ellsbury, Tanaka, Paxton, LeMahieu and possibly J.A. Happ (who has a vesting option). In other words, they could sign Cole, assume a one-year hike in payroll (which they can easily afford) and then revert to 2019 levels.

Now, Cole might not want to pitch in New York, and Strasburg will probably go back to the Nationals. The Yankees might also think they have enough starting pitching depth with a healthy Luis Severino, Paxton, Tanaka, Happ, Domingo German and Jordan Montgomery, plus Garcia (who struck out 165 in 111⅓ innings in the minors) and King (who battled injuries in 2019 but dominated the minors in 2018). New pitching coach22 runs. In the division series loss to the Red Sox in 2018, the Yankees hit just .214 and scored 14 runs in four games. In the 2017 ALCS loss to the Astros, they hit .205 and scored 22 runs in seven games.

It has been the offense that has killed the Yankees in the postseason. Rendon bats right-handed, but he's otherwise a perfect fit. As we saw in October, he hits good pitching. He puts the ball in play (unlike some of the do-or-die Yankees sluggers). Put him in the No. 3 spot and he takes a lot of pressure off of everyone else. You can still keep Urshela as a super-utility guy (he could play second with LeMahieu sliding over to first) and trade Andujar for pitching


and Hong Kong.

Although the company saw demand drop by 9 per cent last year during the global economic downturn, it has seen a significant recovery. "We are hopeful about further development in the Gulf region," Provost said, adding that exports to Asia Pacific, especially China, will be significant.

The facility is in the last phase of start-up and will be operational in August.

Laboratories, administration offices, production and packaging are all located in the building.

The Dubai plant allows Cabot to better meet increasing demand for masterbatch in the Middle East, Europe and the Asia Pacific.

"This new move not only reflects the confidence the company has in Dubai and Jafza but also proves that Jafza is still one of the most favoured investment destinations for international companies looking to base themselvesfew years but also over the next generation."

But the changes won't kick in right away. The Government will start making the adjustments in 2023 and phase them in gradually over six years.

The 500-page document highlights spending cuts on everything from environmental monitoring to military spending to funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, along with scrapping the money-losing penny in the process.

The Conservatives held a minority government for the past five years until last May when it rose to majority status.

By wielding a majority position, the Government no longer has to pander to the opposition parties with a socially democratic budget.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been striving for a budget surplus and this budget, while more modest than analysts expected, enables that mandate for the next three years.

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Two major outbreaks that occurred in the past led to the discovery of hantaviruses and directed the attention of researchers toward the hantavirus-associated diseases. The first outbreak occurred during the Korean War (1950--1953), with more than 3000 cases of illness reported among the United Nations troops. The disease was initially named "Korean hemorrhagic fever" and is now commonly referred to as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). The second outbreak, which occurred in the Four Corners region of the United States in 1993, triggered the attention of the World Health Organization toward a new highly lethal disease. The disease was initially referred to as four-corner disease and is now called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) or hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). Hantaviruses cause serious human illness with aConflict Kitchen: Restaurant That Serves Cuisine From Countries the US Has Conflict With

Located in Pittsburgh, the Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. The food is served out of a take-out-style storefront that rotates identities every six months to highlight another country and the idea is to spark dialogue and engage the community. Each iteration of the project is augmented by events, performances, and discussions that seek to expand the engagement the public has with the culture, politics, and issues at stake within the focus country. Often live international Skype dinner parties between citizens of Pittsburgh and professionals, documentary filmmakers and activists from the conflicting nations are organized.

Conflict Kitchen is the brainchild of three artists,


John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski who started the project in 2010.

The project works with communities in Pittsburgh that representative of the different conflict countries, and they come up with a menu of the street food you would find in the major cities of each country. They have included vegetarian and sometimes vegan options on every menu, and have so far covered food from Afghanistan, Iran, and Venezuela, with Cuba and North Korea planned for the future. With each iteration, the store front is redesigned and the restaurant name is spelled in the language of the country the project is highlighting. The food comes packaged in custom-designed wrappers that include interviews with Iranians both in Iran and the United States on subjects ranging from street food andBEIJING—As Chinese markets vacillated one day last month, Zhang Jie stood in a stock-trading hall and did the natural thing: She danced a stiff-armed shimmy reminiscent of the Macarena.

Afternoon trading had begun, and people were trailing in from the cold. After a spirited game of cards and a prolonged snack of home-pickled vegetables, 58-year-old Ms. Zhang was in a good mood.

“Is today more volatile than it was yesterday?” she called across the hall to a retiree by a computer.

The man nodded.

“Got it, brother!” she shouted back, then returned to chatting with friends.


A long-delayed car factory in Casa Grande is expected to break ground within months.

Ryan Randazzo | The Republic | azcentral.com

Corrections & Clarifications: In a previous version of this story, the time frame on when Lucid Motors plans to break ground on its factory in Casa Grande was incorrect. Also, the party that commissioned the economic analysis of the project was incorrect.

Electric-car startup Lucid Motors plans to break ground within months on a massive Casa Grande factory expected to produce its first car before the end of 2020, a company official said Friday.

The ambitious plans for a factory that will employ about 745 people in its first phase would be a major boon for the Pinal County economy, should the plans come to fruition.

When Gov. Doug Ducey announcedfactory will contribute to $32.3 billion in economic benefit to the region over 20 years once it is built, according to an analysis the city and county commissioned.

The city and county also will reap about $33.5 million in taxes from the factory, he said.

When pressed on wages at the factory, Boike said he was unsure but thought the jobs would pay about $17 to $18 an hour. The economic analysis he referenced cites an average wage of $19 an hour for the first phase, though that includes construction jobs as well.

The factory initially will produce about 20,000 vehicles a year, Boike said. But plans for subsequent additions will bring the capacity to 130,000 a year, he said.

The economic analysis indicates the total investment from the factory and its


vehicles much like Tesla — online, with customers picking them up or having them delivered to their home, Boike said.

Boike said the batteries are expected to last 10 years and can travel 400 miles on a charge. In addition to chargers at owners' homes, they will rely on charging stations built by Electrify America to recharge on the road.

He said it takes about half an hour to recharge the battery 80 percent, which would give the car a 320 mile range before the next charge.

The compact electric motor frees up space in the design, allowing Lucid to design a car with plenty of room for passengers, he said.

The design allows the two rear seats in the Lucid vehicle to fully recline, and without an engine up front, Lucidwhich runs from Beachley to Flintshire, was not the work of Offa, King of Mercia, but was repaired by him. It existed when the Romans were in England, for five Roman roads cross it. Offa availed himself of it as a line of demarcation that was sufficiently serviceable, though by no means tallying with his territory either in extent or position.


(Bankr.E.D.Ark. Apr. 29, 1997).

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The original owner of the convenience stores now under the name Jr. Food Mart was a man named Everett Attebury. In 1985, Attebury sold his stock to W.T. Paine. Attebury continued with the company as president until the pendency of Jr. Food Mart's first bankruptcy case when his contract was terminated.
In April 1987, Gregory Graham and W.T. Paine incorporated W.T.P., Inc., with W.T. Paine holding 100% percent of the shares of the company. The name of this corporation was changed on September 18, 1992, to Arkco Corporation, Inc. At that time, the number of directors for each of the corporations was also changed from one, W.T. Paine, to two, W.T. Paine and Garland Ridenour. Garland Ridenour was elected President of each of the eight corporationsand became a 50% shareholder of Arkco. Arkco is also the 100% shareholder of numerous other entities, including Jr. Food Mart.
On November 5, 1990, Jr. Food Mart of Arkansas, Inc. filed a chapter 11 petition, Case No. 90-50419. The plan of reorganization, confirmed on June 22, 1992, created a trust which was responsible for paying allowed claims and made Union Planters Bank the trustee. The plan required the debtor to make yearly payments to the trustee for ten years with Union Planters to distribute the payments to its beneficiaries, the general unsecured creditors. Payments were made for four years.
At some point Paine and Ridenour ceased to be amicable business partners and the status of officer and directors was in disarray.[1] In 1994, Garland Ridenour was a director of


Arko Corporation, the parent of Jr. Food Mart, as well as the president of Arkco. By Order of the state court, effective September 2, 1994, W.T. Paine was removed as a director of Arkco. Paine instituted a lawsuit and, on December 20, 1996, Arkco and its counsel learned that the state court intended to enter judgment against Arkco and its subsidiaries, in favor of Paine, in an amount in excess of two million dollars. The state court filed its findings of fact and conclusions of law on December 23, 1996.
The next day, December 24, 1996, Jr. Food Mart and its seven related entities filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Paine filed a motion to dismiss each of the cases as being filed in badwere set for February and April 1998 and the matters were taken under advisement. In September 1998, Jr. Food Mart defaulted on its sixth plan payment and Union Planters amended its complaint to include this default. Its Amended Motion for Summary Judgment was set for hearing on January 28, 1999.
While this litigation was pursued, Paine and Ridenour continued their litigation over the dissolution of Arkco, the parent corporation of Jr. Food Mart, in which they were each fifty percent shareholders. The Arkansas circuit court ordered Ridenour to receive the stock of Jr. Food Mart but required that Jr. Food Mart pay Paine from its cash reserves. In June 1998, over $600,000 was directed by Jr. Food Mart to Paine or on his behalf.
In September 1998, Jr. Food Mart


transferred assets to Arkco Petroleum, an entity owned and controlled by Ridenour. In December 1998, Jr. Food Mart transferred its remaining operational assets, including leases, inventory and equipment to Arkco Petroleum.
On January 6, 1999, Union Planters, Everett Attebury[2] and the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration filed an involuntary chapter 7 petition. Ridenour determined that Jr. Food Mart would not contest the petition.[3] The debtor's listed unsecured creditors include Arkco Petroleum (the entity to whom Ridenour effected transfer of Jr. Food Mart's assets), the state taxing authority, W.T. Paine, Everett Attebury, a life insurance company insuring the life of Attebury, one lessor, Union Planters, and the attorneys involved in the second bankruptcy cases. The only entity unrelated to the ongoing state court litigation is the state taxing authority Union Planters attempts to discredit the objecting creditor's motives by asserting that he may be concerned that his collection on the two million dollar judgment may be avoided as a preference. It appears, however, that receipt of those funds is outside the preference period, even were he an insider. Moreover, although Paine may be the only creditor "objecting" to the bankruptcy, at least one other  the co-chair of the creditor's committee in the 1990 case and the Authorized Committee Representative for the trust beneficiaries  testified that he was not in favor of the involuntary bankruptcy filing. He had not been consulted, however, prior to the filing.


of steel tariffs or quotas as increased costs on everyday items like automobiles. Perhaps that is why every living former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers wrote a letter to Trump urging him to avoid steel tariffs.

When the president was elected, he promised to “drain the swamp,” by which he presumably meant that he wanted to put an end to the crony capitalism that has plagued Washington for too long. It’s a classic tale where industries rise or fall not on their own merits, but due to their ability to bend the levers of government power to confer benefits on themselves or shield themselves from competition.

With more than 150 anti-dumping and countervailing duties, steel is already probably the most heavily protected domestic industry. It is, in short,mean foreign retaliation against American exports — ensnaring unrelated industries in a global tit-for-tat.

After the Section 232 investigation was announced, Jean Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, warned that the EU would retaliate in a similar fashion against new steel import restrictions imposed by the United States. The European Union’s list of potential targets for retaliation was savvy politics; it included bourbon and dairy products, among other items. Bourbon, it should be noted, is a primary export from Kentucky, home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, while dairy is a primary export from Wisconsin, home of House Speaker Paul Ryan. In other words, steel tariffs or quotas could trigger retaliation against American exports and cause a political headache for the White House.

While steel import restrictions may temporarily


bailout. The Yak-38 attack aircraft was manufactured serially for fifteen years, starting from the year 1974. During this time, was built 231 machine of this class. Serial manufacturing involved in the aircraft factory in the city of Saratov. This device was widely used on aircraft carriers of the USSR.

History of the attack aircraft Yak-38

His history is closely related to the creation of the previous Yak-36 aircraft, since many units were used precisely from this machine. The Yak-38 assault aircraft made its first flight in 1970 for the first time. In the future, pilots worked on the technique of take-off on short distances, the first such indicators reached the tester Yu.I. Churilov. In addition to the deck-based aircraft, this aircraft was used in military conflicts over land. Thus, in80, four such vehicles were sent to support our troops in Afghanistan. These machines carried out combat sorties for four months, while one was lost for technical reasons.

The machine did not have much success with the sailors, and its not really like to use on aircraft carriers, due to the fact that it had insufficient thrust-marine applications. Also drawback was the fact that at high temperatures and high humidity the aircraft had almost constant problems with take-off, and he had a short range.

When operating this machine has become a leader in the number of accidents and loss of life. Pilots only saves automatic ejection system. At the end of the year 89 this unit ceased to produce, and all the planes were transferred to the land base, and


after a while they are generally removed from the Air Force. With 2004, data stormtroopers were deposited.

It is worth noting that in 85 by members of Yakovlev Design Bureau has created a qualitative modification of the Yak-38M, which had the highest performance. Lockers In this model, it was found two PTB and was strengthened combat power of the machine. On the basis of the Yak-38 planned to create a fighter, which was placed on aircraft carriers. Here, designers planned to increase the area of the wing and equip cars more fuel tanks. Ultimately, these projects have remained only on paper.

Design features of the Yak-38

The plane is made in the scheme cantilever mid and is an all-metal construction. As the base metal was taken aluminum and its alloys, titaniumyear. Attack aircraft Yak-38M was in service in the Air Force of Ukraine and Russia to 2000 years.

History of the Yak-38M

The impetus for the creation of this unit was the appearance of the British aircraft with vertical take-off, which had a great time on the flight characteristics. In turn, the Soviet leadership has set a target to establish a similar device effective on the basis of already existing attack aircraft Yak-38. All these events were accompanied by the modernization of the old system and the creation of a qualitatively new unit.

The main task of the designers was to create a more powerful engine that would provide an effective vertical takeoff and greater traction in horizontal flight. To do this under the guidance of the designer O. Tabor was


created an improved version of the main engine, which is designated as P-28-300. He gave the car traction in 6700 kg for vertical flight and 7100 kg when flying in a horizontal plane. They were modernized and lifting equipment that got traction in 3250 kgs and designated RD-38.

Production of the Yak-38M began in 82 year at the Saratov factory, which has produced Yak-38. And the first separation from the runway the aircraft produced in the late autumn of the same year, when this test machine took off vertically to a height of 7 meters. Complete horizontal flight was carried out in late winter 83 years. Factory tests and flights took place from December to June 82 83 years. After that, the unit was transferred to the State Commissionfor further tests. All state tests for attack aircraft Yak-38M were completed in 85 year and failed.

The serial production of the attack hit the 1984 year. He produced in the same factory as its predecessor, in the city of Saratov, for four years. During this time it was created 50 aircraft.

Design features of attack aircraft Yak-38M

When upgrading the device, the main changes were made to the engines, since all the forces of the designers of this industry were involved. The engine nozzles and the location of the air intakes were changed. These innovations allowed to increase the lifting power of the device by 500 kilograms. The fuselage remained practically the same, only the place of the air intakes was changed. This unit received a new front landing gear,