force.

'Shocked and troubled'

ZDF, the German public TV broadcaster, said it would not show any more repeats of the 281 episodes of Derrick, which were made between 1974 and 1998.

"ZDF is shocked and troubled by the news that Horst Tappert was a member of the Waffen SS," spokesman Peter Bogenschuetz told AFP news agency.

"We have no plans to broadcast any more reruns."

Generations of Germans watched the show set in Munich, with its distinctive, baggy-eyed detective.

The series was popular abroad too, shown on TV screens as far afield as Russia, China and South Africa.

Reacting to the revelations, Dutch public television channel Omroep MAX said it had scrapped plans to show around 20 episodes of Derrick from July.

"I was shocked by the news, you don't expect something like that," chairman Jana year of study in Poitiers. He worked on a Doctorat d'université at the Sorbonne on Ali Pasha of Yannina, and spent 1964 to 1966 in Greece studying fortresses built by Ali Pasha in Epirus.

Wine career
Back in France, his interest in gastronomy and wine grew, from a passing interest which early friends in France had sparked to a serious search for what eluded him. Winroth published his first article on wine on January 31, 1967, in the international edition of The New York Times, using his first and middle names — the middle (Winroth), a maternal family name, means "wine root" in old Swedish. The article concerned the "Coupe du meilleur pot", a distinction awarded annually by the gastronomic journal La Table et la Route and by the


they finally attained Appellation d'origine contrôlée status in 2000. He continued writing, with samples arriving by mail and truck and articles dispatched by fax, until his retirement in 2000.

He was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 2004.

Jon Winroth died in the Clinique Saint-Gatien in Tours on July 15, 2006, at the age of 70 years, of complications of his renal disease, after 32½ years of home dialysis.

See also
 List of wine personalities

References

External links
 Archive of articles by Jon Winroth broneer.org  (in French)
 Sélection d'articles écrits par Jon Winroth (in French)
 Broneer.org : Jon Winroth biography (in French)

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Category:AmericanAngela Barnes, Andy Hamilton, Zoe Lyons and Hugo Rifkind join Miles for a satirical look at the week's news.

Miles Jupp is joined by Angela Barnes, Andy Hamilton, Zoe Lyons and Hugo Rifkind for a satirical look at the week's news. This week the panel discuss Theresa May's response to the chemical attacks in Syria, Donald Trump's lawyer's uninvited guests and an overpriced bag of stones.

Written by Sarah Campbell, Jon Hunter, James Kettle and Laura Major with additional material by Simon Alcock.

Produced by Joe Nunnery.

A BBC Studios Production.


Winter Strikes a Blow, but Expect a Spring Payback

If new hiring was delayed, expect a rebound in employment gains this spring, along with a rebound in other measures of economic activity.

Is the economy's growth potential hibernating for the winter? The Federal Reserve's so-called beige book, a survey of current economic conditions published eight times a year, reported last week that in January and February "unusually severe weather" brought a "slight decline in activity" in New York and Philadelphia and slower growth in other regions. The February employment report, released on Friday, counted 626,000 "not at work" due to "bad weather," compared with 253,000 in February of...Spent many hours in November sitting in on sessions and perusing posters at the Geological Society of America annual meeting; one goal was to see what’s up with the evolution of elevation of the U.S. Cordillera.

First a quick recap. There are two camps, more or less, on each side of the Cordillera. The old mountains camp on both sides points mainly to oxygen and hydrogen isotope variations in proxies for precipitation. There are also attempts to retrodeform the lithosphere resulting in thick crust and high elevations. The dominant counterargument is that the paleometeorology used to interpret the isotopic values is flawed. On the young mountain side, classical geologic observations are invoked, including apparent tilting of river channels and the recent incision events in many places. The counterargument to


least we cut off our theoretical nose to spite our parsimonious face….

It used to be when we thought what the southwestern U.S. looked like at 85 million years ago, back in the Cretaceous, we thought things were pretty simple. There was a nice volcanic arc running from the Sierra down through the Mojave into the (restored) Peninsular Ranges. To the east was a fold-and-thrust belt extending nicely from well up in Canada down to the Las Vegas area in continuous fashion before taking a left turn to angle more erratically into more complex geology across Arizona and New Mexico. East of that was the foreland, its western edge bowed down under the weight of those fold-thrust mountains and the torrent of sediment washed off those ranges toward theundocumented immigrants—weren't speaking up. King worried in an interview this week that some Republicans were buying into the message of the pro-reform camp.

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But by Wednesday afternoon, he seemed noticeably reassured on both fronts, energized by the crowd and encouraged by the support of his newly vocal coalition.

The camps are becoming clearer, King told National Journal during the rally. "But," he added, "ours is getting bigger."

Convinced that his views couldn't get a fair hearing in the halls of Congress, King organized the all-day event and invited activists and like-minded members to rally against "amnesty" for illegal immigrants. He couldn't have asked for better timing, or a bigger turnout. Thanks to an "Audit the IRS" rally on the West Lawn of the Capitol— which didn't start until later in the


Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania; Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah; and Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia. Several other members—Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina and Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina among them—attended the event but did not speak.

If King has 70 House Republicans in his camp—and he might, according to some Hill aides—scores of them didn't show up on Wednesday. But those who did launched an unabashed attack on their pro-reform colleagues in the House and Senate.

Fleming likened the legislative process behind the Senate bill to that of "Obamacare," saying: "Same road, same mistakes." Lummis tied the immigration effort to the IRS and Benghazi investigations, encouraging the activists in attendance to "keep up" the pressure on their elected officials. Yoho pulled out a pocket-sized copy of theConstitution, and challenged his pro-reform colleagues in both chambers to explore its contents.

Bachmann received the most boisterous welcome of any speaker Wednesday morning, and greeted the crowd like a conquering hero, calling the event "a beautiful family reunion." At a glance, it could have been; the crowd was almost exclusively white. At one point, a young Hispanic man was spotted working the crowd. But his presence was unwelcome: He was handing out fliers advocating for the DREAM Act.

Bachmann, who delivered the closing remarks of the morning session, invited dozens of children onto the stage as she argued that bad immigration policy could imperil their future. "Amnesty costs a fortune," she told the crowd, cradling an infant in her arms. "It could also cost us our nation." The crowd


responded with booming chants of "U-S-A!"

A common theme was the need for increased border security, and the failures of the 1986 "Amnesty Act" that gave citizenship to 3 million illegal immigrants without closing off the border as promised. At one point, King mocked lawmakers who dismissed the viability of a 2,000-mile fence. "Have you seen the Great Wall of China?" King said to cheers.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made a surprise appearance at the event. The only member of the upper chamber to attend, Cruz said his colleagues in the Senate are pushing the same plan that was promised—and never delivered—in 1986. "If you fool me once, shame on you," Cruz said. "If you fool me twice, shame on me."

King and several other speakers expressed skepticism that the Houseleadership would protect their conservative principles, despite Boehner's promise Tuesday not to bring an immigration bill to the floor without the support of a majority of Republicans. King said he believes Boehner is "moving closer to our rule-of-law position," but said he still worries that a bill negotiated in a conference between the House and Senate could wind up coming to the floor without similar consent.

The longest and most emotional speech belonged to Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, who recently authored a controversial study on the fiscal impact of immigration reform. Rector's homily, delivered in a sometimes-screeching tone, challenged Tuesday's report from the Congressional Budget Office, which he said is "always wrong" with its scoring. (He then cited CBO's finding that the Senate bill would lower wages


for American workers.)

Rector warned about "cradle-to-the-grave" entitlements for new residents, emphasized that illegal immigrants have "on average a 10th-grade education," and attacked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Rector said "hasn't read his own bill."

King said earlier this week that he'd invited several pro-reform Republicans—including Rubio, the most high-profile member of the Gang of Eight—to attend Wednesday's rally. If Rubio accepted, King said with a laugh, they could "have a Lincoln-Douglas style debate" in front of the crowd.

Rubio did not attend, of course. But there were loud, cascading boos at nearly every mention of his name.By PTI

COIMBATORE: A section of law students here today offered Rs one crore to the producers of the film 'Mersal' and actor Vijay, if they proved that Singapore is providing free medical care.

If they failed to prove, the producer and Vijay should give them Rs one crore for giving wrong information to the public through their film without any basis, the students said in a petition submitted to police today.

A dialogue in the film says medical care is free in Singapore, which was incorrect, they said.

By giving false information, the film was inciting the people against the Government, they said.

Stating that the film also wanted to construct hospital in the places of temple, thus speaking ill against Hindu places of worship, the students said that the actor denigrated


the sanctity of the shrines by entering with chappals on.

In view of this, police should register a case against the director, actors Vijay and Vadivelu and the producers Thenandal Films for giving false information and hurting the sentiments of Hindus, they said.

Meanwhile, Hindu Makkal Katchi president, Arjun Sampath also took serious objection the way the film has projected the digital India and GST.

The BJP had protested against the film over dialogues allegedly flaying the GST.

Tamil Nadu BJP leaders, including state unit chief Tamilisai Soundararajan and national secretary H Raja, have strongly opposed references to the GST in the just-released Tamil movie and claimed dialogues in it were "highly inappropriate.robustly, and mortgage rates remain low, all of which contribute to stronger housing markets.”

The MBA estimates new single-family home sales were running at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 510,000 units in March 2015, based on data from the BAS. The new home sales estimate is derived using mortgage application information from the BAS, as well as assumptions regarding market coverage and other factors.

The seasonally adjusted estimate for March is an increase of 4.7 percent from the February pace of 487,000 units. On an unadjusted basis, the MBA estimates that there were 49,000 new home sales in March 2015, an increase of 16.7 percent from 42,000 new home sales in February.

MBA’s Builder Application Survey tracks application volume from mortgage subsidiaries of home builders across the country. Utilizing this


Discuss the latest comic book news and front page articles, read or post your own reviews of comics, and talk about anything comic book related. Threads from the two subforums below will also show up here. News Stand topics can also be read and posted in from The Asylum.

DC has announced the new creative teams for the Green Lantern line, along with a surprise series.

Green Lantern - Robert Venditti and Billy Tan

Green Lantern Corps - Joshua Hale Fialkov and Bernard Chang

Green Lantern: New Guardians - Justin Jordan and Brad Walker

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an opaque box with a lid. At the start of each trial, a puppet appeared at the center of the stage and placed a colored ball in one of the boxes. The actor wore a visor covering her eyes to eliminate the possibility of using eye gaze as a cue to where she would search. She did, however, always follow the puppet\'s movements with her head.

In four familiarization trials, children observed how the puppet opened the lid of the left- or right-hand box, put the ball into it, closed the lid, and then disappeared. After this, the actor retrieved the ball by reaching through the corresponding window on the left- or right-hand side. Before the window began to open, both windows were illuminated (for 1 s) and a chimethe right- and the left-hand-box (in this order), and then disappeared from the scene. Then the sound of a phone ringing was heard, whereupon the actor turned away from the stage as if she was attending to the sound. As soon as the actor turned around, the puppet returned, retrieved the ball from the box, closed the lid, and disappeared from the scene. Once the phone stopped ringing, the actor turned back, the windows were illuminated, and the chime sounded.

In the FB2 condition, the puppet also put the ball into the left-hand box but disappeared from the scene right after this and before the phone was ringing and the actor turned around. Then the puppet returned, retrieved the ball from the left-hand box, placed it in the center


Y-shaped tunnel. In two familiarization trials the triangle chases the ball until it enters the Y-shaped tunnel from the bottom end. It then waits until the ball reappears (either at the left or right top end) and hides in a box at that end. The triangle then moves into the tunnel and reappears at the same end as the ball. The two test trials are identical to the familiarization trials up to the point where the ball enters the box. At this point the triangle either leaves the scene, the ball moves from the box at one end of the tunnel to the box at the other end and the triangle then reappears to the scene (false belief condition) or the triangle witnesses that the ball moved tochange of law that occurred during the course of the first case, he lost the first case. We hold that the Secretary is barred.

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coin, which has been floating around the pockets and coin jars of America for 64 years now, and the times in which it was stamped out of the metal sheet some 400 miles to the northwest.

It was a transitional time. The world was five years out of World War II, Europe and Japan were rebuilding, and Stalin still ruled the Soviet Union with murderous intensity. McCarthyism was in full roar as the Korean War started up. Ralph Bunche won the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering peace between Israel and the Arab states.

President Harry Truman authorized development of the hydrogen bomb and, later in the year, was the target of an unrelated assassination attempt by Puerto Rican separatists. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush turned 4 years old; BarackSOFIA, Bulgaria (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Do not be under a delusion. Bulgaria is not such an important factor in the UN and NATO, despite our membership. Our country turned out to be in the right place at the right time as far as the international arms trade is concerned.

And although Bulgaria has neither breached the UN Arms Trade Treaty, nor threatened with its activities its NATO membership, the Bulgarian companies in the sector “military production” have been experiencing their Renaissance over the recent years, thanks to deals, breaching some major rules.

Background of ISIS

Everything began in 2006 after the murder of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, when the Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri succeeded him and renamed the terrorist organization to ISI – Islamic State of Iraq. Four years later Masri followed the


destiny of Zarqawi and he was succeeded by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Within those years it also began the civil war in Syria and the chance ISI to become a large-scale terrorist organization was available. ISI started war with the Syrian army, taking advantage of the situation in the country and this led to the control over large territories. In those years, the name was changed and the latest terrorism was already called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

Years of progress of ISIS followed, and the emblematic places of Fallujah, Mosul and Tikrit in Iraq were already under “their possession.”

Now we ask ourselves – why CIA and GRU did not make a military-political analysis of the emerging terrorist group right from the very beginning, provided that there were sufficientreasons for that to happen.

Or maybe they did!?

How the USA created Black Sea Road

In the years when a civil war ranged in Syria on one hand, and ISIS rampaged with its laws on the other hand, the United States and Russia saw different opportunities. The United States wanted to overthrow one more “dictator”, Russia – to retain the legitimately elected president. This, however, is the version for the public.

In fact, the USA saw the unique opportunity to oppose to the Russian Federation by increasing the existing in the region conflict, by which to disturb planned big arms supplies of RosOboronExport. However, it could not do that directly and that is why it had to create the so called Black Sea Road, i.e. a way in which to do


what they had planned, and namely – armament and training of the National Army for the Liberation of Syria, which, through American money, to oppose the Syrian dictator Assad. They knew that Russia would support the government of Syria, through which it would enter a “research mode” from a distance of thousands miles.

An increase of the US military budgets followed in the next years, as well as purchases of weapons and ammunition on a mass scale from the former socialist countries, including Bulgaria.

Black Sea Road has an elementary logic – in order to be saved big expenses for transportation of weapons and some “international legal obstacles” to be avoided, the Pentagon purchases weapons from the former socialist countries, and by using Bulgaria and Romania as a distribution hub,operations command). SOCOM started even in October 2015 with the delivery of 50 tons of ammunition and missiles, and that was only the beginning. According to the report of the Organized Crime and Corruption Report Project (OCCRP), it followed a purchase of weapons and ammunition at the amount of $238 million from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.

According to the requirements of the Pentagon, “the list of purchases” continued to be filled in with thousands of AK-47s and RPGs.

Although, SOCOM was not included and acknowledged in the Syria Train and Equip Program, within a journalistic investigation, the Pentagon had to officially acknowledge that the subdivision in question had been really assigned the task for delivery of weapons and ammunition for the


and NATO member states.

Another supplier of the Pentagon is the company Picatinny Arsenal. Headquartered in New Jersey and not so big, it has a serious lobby in the face of the republican congressman – Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, who has even shared a special place for Picatinny Arsenal on his web page. It fell into the field of vision of OCCRP, after they had noticed that the Pentagon had corrected, through erasing, the final destination of the weapons, purchased from Bulgaria. According to initial information, Iraq and Syria were the final delivery points, but after the intervention of the Pentagon they were deleted. Fortunately, the OCCRP investigative journalists had cleverly copied the original document, which we can show you.

In the same time, another independent organization – Conflict Armament Research(CAR) went even farther and went to a place in Syria, where it filmed and categorized the weapons taken away from ISIS.

Thus, for example, in 2016 the Iraqi police forces took away from the ISIS forces a rocket-propelled grenade produced in Bulgaria – 9M111MB-1 ATGW, about which Bulgaria admitted that it was exported in 2015 and the end user was the US department. As of the moment there is not an answer from the USA how that weapon has turned out to be in the hands of ISIS.

Another example is from the beginning of 2017 when in Mosul, the Iraqi units again took away from the ISIS forces the same model of rocket-propelled grenade. Bulgaria again confirmed that the grenade was exported and sold to the US department,


activities, reviewed by now. But the overall picture acquires its nuances.

The CAR`s investigator Damien Spleeters says: “So how exactly did American weapons end up with ISIS? According to a July 19, 2017, report in The Washington Post, the US government secretly trained and armed Syrian rebels from 2013 until mid-2017, at which point the Trump administration discontinued the program—in part over fears that US weapons were ending up in the wrong hands. The US government did not reply to multiple requests for comment on how these weapons wound up in the hands of Syrian rebels or in an ISIS munitions factory. The government also declined to comment on whether the US violated the terms of its end-user certificate and, by extension, failed to comply with the United Nationsgolf clubs while playoff–bound teams ramp up for the annual war of attrition that will yield an eventual battle-scarred, deserving champion.

Leafs President Brendan Shanahan and General Manager Lou Lamoriello have added an interesting wrinkle this season by replacing a number of tenured Leaf veterans who have either moved on via trade or have been shut-down for the season with a smattering of promising, talented rookies looking to make a lasting impression.

Watching the fresh-faced and super-skilled William Nylander negotiate his way through the NHL jungle minus the pressures of actually having to win is a pretty good deal for both the fans and the player. He gets to find his rhythm and timing against the best in the game, while we all get a glimpse of what looks like


might argue took a few games to find his legs as well as his touch with the puck, shows flashes of offensive dominance. He’s developing quite a knack for holding onto the biscuit just long enough to freeze goalies and create optimal looks, as well as a deft touch as a passer. With five points in his last two games, the young Swede drafted 8th overall in 2014 has seven points (four goals, three assists) in 12 outings. More importantly he’s learning how to adapt and apply his skills and vision at the NHL level, a challenge which has eluded a number of prospects over the years.

Hyman forechecks like he is getting paid bonus money to do so. He is clearly undaunted by the challenge of competing againstWalter Klien (November 27, 1928 - February 10, 1991) was an Austrian pianist.
Klien was born in Graz. His mother was the artist Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957). She emigrated to the United States in 1929, and their only further contact was by correspondence. Klien studied piano with Josef Dichler at the Music Academy in Vienna and with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. He also studied composition with Paul Hindemith.


need for you to say this much."

"But..." Richard had not finished speaking when a stream of martial will scanned his body. It forced back the words he was about to say, leaving only a grudging gaze in his eyes.

Prince Zuoxian and the other five Sacred Generals had been waiting for very long in the seething dark clouds above Buluo City.

The Mourning Abyss Sacred General said, displeased, "Hmph, the Sacred Fire Order's old fox only knows how to slack off. He hasn't put in much effort despite fighting for so long."

"He's afraid of that Fang Xingjian. Before there's any news of Fang Xingjian, he won't dare to go all out. There's no need to care about him," Prince Zuoxian said in a deep voice as he looked down atBuluo City. "Has the formation been set up?"

The Misery Abyss Sacred General, who was like an ascetic monk, said, "The Windthunder God-Perishing Great Formation has been set up. Under my control, this formation can change the geomagnetic forces, control the heavenly thunders, and has the prowess to annihilate all lives."

Prince Zuoxian then asked, "Has the Myriad Poison and Souls been prepared?"

The Mourning Abyss Sacred General-who had a pale countenance, thin figure, and specialized in refining medicine and concocting poison-let out a cough and said, "This is a sinister poison, and it has been refined into my martial will. When Fang Xingjian comes, I'll teach him a good lesson."

Prince Zuoxian then looked toward the Sun-Shooting Sacred General and enquired, "How are Senior's preparations?"

The Sun-Shooting Sacred General was the most


experienced Divine level expert on the plains. He was now stroking a strangely shaped longbow which had been forged from bones, looking at it with great reminiscence, admiration, and a hint of excitement.

"This Genesis Bow was forged by our kingdom's first leader. The Pope of that generation personally channeled in his divine art, and it has a 100% success rate of hitting.

"This time around, His Majesty even specially bestowed me with three Starscorpion Arrows These have been specially refined from countless ferocious beasts that His Majesty caught from the ice plains in the extreme north and from the depths of the ocean.

"Once hit by it, the person will definitely be subjected to endless illusions, and their battle prowess will be reduced by at least 30% for no reason."

"Good."Prince Zuoxian nodded and looked toward the last Divine level expert present. It was a man with a strong physique who was completely wrapped up in armor. He was the Unobliterable Sacred General from the 11 Sacred Generals.

The Unobliterable Sacred General was said to have the greatest defense amongst the 11 Sacred Land, and the armor he wore had not been forged from ordinary metal. Instead, martial will had been used to soften several hundred types of heavenly and earthly treasures in order to forge this Frost Jade Armor. As his martial will grew stronger, the armor would be able to fend off all sorts of attacks and repel the martial wills of others.

"Unobliterable Sacred General, if Fang Xingjian comes later, the two of us will hold him


also said that if there's a need to, he'll take action personally."

"What?"

"His Majesty is also going to take action?"

"How is this Fang Xingjian deserving to be so highly regarded by His Majesty?"

When everyone heard this news, their expression turned into that of astonishment. It had already been two years since the Heavenly Lion King had personally taken action.

However, people who had seen the Heavenly Lion King would all know that not only had he not weakened, but he was even getting stronger by the day. He was improving at an unbelievable rate with each passing day.

At present, the Heavenly Lion King gave off an increasingly deep and unfathomable feeling to them. He might even be able to break through tier five of the Divine level at any moment.

Thefrom the skies. It pressed down on the dark clouds, causing them to seethe continuously. The clouds also seemed to be boiling up like boiling water.

"He's here." Prince Zuoxian's gaze flickered as he raised his head to look up into the sky.

Accompanied by a rumbling explosion, the dark clouds were torn apart, forming a large hole. Disguised as Fang Xingjian, the Black Mage King walked down from the sky, and an explosive martial will gushed out toward the great formation.

...

One day later, 15,000 kilometers down into the Sun...

Fang Xingjian sat cross-legged in the sea of flames. Before him, there were four longswords that glimmered like thunderbolts, like lightning, yet also like light, like time, and like space. They darted about to and fro, hovering around Fang Xingjian.

Right now,


these four longswords had already been reforged by Fang Xingjian and had all turned into materials that were similar to that of the Impasse Armor's, if not better.

At the very least, even with Fang Xingjian's 5,200 points of martial will, he was unable to shatter these four longswords when they were filled with energy. Their sturdiness had surpassed that of all natural materials.

Of course, this sturdiness needed to be sustained by the constant depletion of energy, using nuclear forces to arrange all sorts of microparticles in the microscopic world.

While Fang Xingjian was cultivating, he suddenly frowned. He sensed something from his Sudden Inspiration.

With a sigh, Fang Xingjian drew back all four longswords into his body. Although he had managed to reforge all four longswords this time around, hewas unable to perfectly merge them into his body.

'It's a pity that it isn't fully completed.' However, at the next moment, hints of killing intent were released from Fang Xingjian's eyes.

After that, he shot out toward Earth with a flash.

In the sky above Demonic City, the Gold Mage King looked at the night sky while waiting.

The Gold Mage King skipped the formalities and explained outright, "The Steel Lion Kingdom has headed south and joined forces with the Sand Country to attack the Empire. The Black Mage King headed to the Beize Region to render assistance but was surrounded and attacked.

"Right now, he has fallen into their formation and is seriously injured."


Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Hagel: "American dominance... can no longer be taken for granted"

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before the US entered World War Two.

Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming the active-duty Army to 440,000-450,000 personnel, down from 520,000 currently.

Cold War-era Air Force fleets - the U-2 spy plane and the A-10 attack jet - will also be retired.

The US defence budget remains higher than during most of the Cold War.

'Difficult decisions ahead'

Analysis Chuck Hagel said reducing the number of active-duty soldiers to its lowest level in 74 years wasn't without risk and would likely compromise the ability to fight multiple conflicts simultaneously, but he was confident theUS would still be able to to defeat any aggressor. Military spending doubled after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks but has slowly started to decline in response to the country's budget crisis, and Mr Hagel said the country no longer felt inclined to engage in the kind of long and costly operations it had mounted in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not only fiscal pragmatism that has caused the US to curtail its military ambitions of course. After more than a decade of war the American people have clearly grown tired of conflict - and the impact it can make on the families of those on the front line.

On Monday, Mr Hagel noted the US military had come under pressure to downsize after two costly foreign


wars.

"This is a time for reality," he said.

"This is a budget that recognises the reality of the magnitude of our fiscal challenges."

The number of active-duty US Army members was already expected to be pared down to 490,000, as the US prepares to end its combat role in Afghanistan later this year.

Mr Hagel added: "Since we are no longer sizing the force for prolonged stability operations, an Army of this size is larger than required to meet the demands of our defence strategy."

He said the administration would also recommend closing some domestic military bases in 2017, though such proposals have been rejected by Congress in recent years.

The Pentagon chief went on to unveil plans for changes to pay and benefits, including curbing housing allowances and limiting pay raises.

'No retreat'

However,is gearing up for November's midterm elections.

Reaction to the proposal was swift, with Republican members warning such cuts could hurt military readiness.

"This is not the time for us to begin to retreat, and certainly not the time to cut our military," Republican Representative Michael Turner told Bloomberg News.

The proposed Army staffing levels would be the lowest since 1940, when the US employed 267,767 active-duty soldiers. The US entered that conflict in 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

By the end of World War Two, there were 8.2 million active-duty US Army members, according to figures provided on Monday by the Pentagon.

The number was 482,000 in 2000, a year before the attacks of 11 September 2001. After those attacks, the force peaked at 566,000 in 2010.


Underneath Shakeel Khan's dark mustache, he usually wore a warm smile.

At his Johnson City restaurant, Halal Bites, the grilled chicken over rice was a fan favorite. Khan wasn't above handing out free food sometimes or catering at his nearby mosque.

The father of three, a Pakistani native who came to the U.S. — specifically Brooklyn, New York — about 15 years ago and moved to Broome County about two years ago, is being remembered for his sense of community spirit. Khan, 50, was shot and killed Saturday night outside his restaurant on Riverside Drive by a masked suspect now being sought by Johnson City police.

Imam Anas Shaikh of the Islamic Association of the Southern Tier, who knew Khan and his family well, says the most difficult part of thistragedy is trying to answer why it happened.

When he was shot, around 10 p.m. Saturday, Khan was just closing up for the night.

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"It was the most inhumane, senseless thing you could imagine," Shaikh said Tuesday of Khan's death. "He was a community member who just liked to help others."

A GoFundMe page for Khan's family has raised over $30,000 of its now $40,000 goal. Khan is survived by his wife, two sons ages 8 and 12 and a 14-year-old daughter, all of whom attend school in the Vestal Central School District — Khan was the family's main source of income.

"Though no amount of money ever could heal the pain of the family or bring back the peace that was shattered,


we hope to help them take care of their needs for the next few months as they struggle to live after their life has been turned upside down by this senseless act," the GoFundMe page stated.

Johnson City Police Chief Brent Dodge said the investigation remained ongoing Tuesday.

The suspect has not been identified and police haven't commented on a suspected motive in the shooting, which was Broome County's fourth homicide of 2019.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Johnson City detectives at 607-729-9321.

'Generous heart, beautiful character'

The last time Shaikh, who's served as imam to the Johnson City mosque for nearly seven years, saw Khan was Friday night — the day before he was killed.

Known as a very social family, the Khans helped set up for afamily program at the mosque. Nearly 250 people showed up.

Khan moved to the Binghamton area from Brooklyn to establish his business and raise the family. The GoFundMe page says Khan is being remembered best for his "generous heart and beautiful character."

Customers have described Halal Bites as a family favorite in the area. And Khan was the kind of restaurateur they enjoyed chatting and meeting with.

Shaikh said he was one of the many frequent diners at Halal Bites; the chicken shawarma sandwich was his personal favorite item on the menu.

Proceeds collected through the GoFundMe page will be given to Khan's family by the local Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier.

"We also ask everyone to pray that Allah gives them patience and peace and that the culprit is found and


given justice," the IOST said in a statement on the GoFundMe page.

Khan's funeral services were scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in Brooklyn. He will be buried in his hometown in Pakistan; the family is flying out there with him Tuesday night.

"They're of course heartbroken and sad," Shaikh said, "but they're holding together."

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This Bolt Action campaign book will focus on the conflict in the area most commonly referred to as the Western Desert - a campaign theatre reaching from the Libyan city of Tripoli to Cairo, and the Egyptian Nile valley, a distance of some 1300 miles, a featuring some of the most hostile terrains on Earth.

It covers a period of time from September 1940 when Mussolini's Italian Army invaded British-held Egypt to the final retreat


this adverse judgment.
We reverse the trial court's judgment and remand the cause for a new trial.

Background
On June 19, 1990, appellant Jerry Edward Mann was severely injured in a traffic accident involving a Texas Dyno Chem, Inc. truck driven by appellee Rolando Ramirez. Originally, Ramirez brought an action against Mann for injuries suffered in the accident. The Mann family, appellants, filed a counter-claim against Ramirez and his employer, Texas Dyno Chem, Inc., for injuries suffered by Mann, which left him a quadriplegic. Following entry of an order realigning the parties, the Manns proceeded to trial against appellees Ramirez and Texas Dyno Chem, Inc.
Ramirez was driving an oil field servicing truck for Texas Dyno Chem when it was struck by Mann's pickup truck. Mann testified that Ramirez was backing thetruck onto a county road when Mann came over a hill and struck the left rear side of the truck. Mann contended that Ramirez negligently operated his truck and that Texas Dyno Chem was vicariously liable for his negligence and for certain independent acts and/or omissions that were negligent and the proximate cause of the accident. Ramirez testified that he was making a left turn from the county road into a private road. Appellees asserted that Mann's negligence in failing to keep a proper lookout, driving at an excessive rate of speed, and failing to apply brakes in a timely fashion was the proximate cause of the accident. Both sides presented expert witness testimony from accident reconstructionists in support of their respective positions. The jury found that only


Mann was negligent and the court rendered a takenothing verdict upon this finding.
After the verdict was rendered and before entry of the judgment, Mann filed a Motion for Mistrial, alleging that the District Clerk, Brenda Fudge, had improperly summoned and excused members of the jury panel in violation of state regulations and the county's jury selection plan. This misconduct, according to Mann, deprived him of a jury composed of a representative cross-section of the community and resulted in a trial that was materially unfair. Mann further alleged that Fudge's misconduct stemmed from her personal "interest" in the case, based upon her admitted intimate relationship with David Massengale, the Area Manager of Texas Dyno Chem, who served as the company's corporate representative at trial. Prior to and at thetime of the trial, Fudge and Massengale were living together and expecting a baby. Their relationship was common knowledge within the community.
Because the trial was held during the summer in a small community in which both the parties and news of the accident would be well-known to many people, the District Clerk summoned 250 jurors rather than the *277 usual 175. Pursuant to required procedures, the Clerk requested that the tax collector's office prepare the list, which was randomly generated by computer. The list was drawn on June 29, 1993, with the case being set for the week of July 12, 1993. The Clerk's office then sent the list to the Sheriff's office for service. Undeliverable summonses were returned to the Clerk's office, where "no service" was noted


on the Clerk's master juror list. Following the mailing of the summonses, the Clerk's office began receiving affidavits of statutory exemptions, as well as calls from those seeking exemptions or excuses. Although many of the excuses noted on the Clerk's working copy of the list are for statutory exemptions, such as "children" and "overage," others reflect either no recorded excuse or nonstatutory excuses such as "vacation," "out of state," or "hospital," which were admittedly not cleared by the presiding judges, as required by the jury selection plan of Frio County. It is conceded that the Clerk improperly excused jurors for nonstatutory excuses.
According to District Clerk Brenda Fudge's testimony at the hearing on the motion for mistrial, the returned summonses and exemption affidavits were usually thrown away "once theany lack of randomness in the impaneling jury.
The relevant facts are again worth noting. This case was called for trial on July 12, 1993. During the hearing on the motion for mistrial, Brenda Fudge recalled that she had summoned 250 potential jurors. Usually only 150 to 175 jurors would be summoned for a civil case. The reason for this larger number was, according to Fudge, the nature of the case and the fact that all parties were well known in the community.
The selection and summoning of the 250-member panel was handled not by the district clerk's office, but by the Tax Collector and the Sheriff of Frio County. On June 29, 1993, the Tax Collector, using his computer, generated a randomly selected list of 250 jurors. This list


was received by the deputy district clerk, Dawn McCormick. The district clerk's office then certified that the list had been drawn and delivered it to the sheriff's office. The sheriff's office had the responsibility for preparing, sending out and monitoring any returned summons to the persons on the jury list. The sheriff's office delivered any envelopes returned as undeliverable to the district clerk's office. When the district clerk's office received these envelopes, a notation of "No Service" was made on the jury list beside each prospective juror's name whose summons had been returned.
Brenda Fudge was on sick leave from June 30, 1993 through July 7, 1993. Dawn McCormick was left in charge of handling juror excuses during Fudge's absence. Fudge took no excuses while she was out onOf these, fewer than five were handled by the district clerk. Most of the excuses, in fact, were handled by Fudge's deputy, Dawn McCormick.
The majority, however, says it analyzes the record "through the unique prism of the relationships of the interested parties," a euphemism for the admitted intimate relationship between Brenda Fudge and David Massengale, the corporate representative of Texas Dyno Chem, Inc. Noting the admitted statutory violations of the jury selection process, the majority concludes there was a "materially unfair trial as a matter of law," and (noting it would reach the same decision under a harmful error analysis) holds the trial court abused its discretion. The implicit assumption is that Fudge was somehow manipulating the jury panel for the apparent benefit of her paramour, and that


Grady Roberts or to John Bull, could it?
A No, ma'am.
Q And, in fact, since Burl Brock has been associated with this case have you also or are you also aware that he's known of your relationship with David Massengale?
A If I'm not mistaken he has known.
More importantly, the majority gives scant regard to the work of the trial judge, who thoroughly inquired into appellants' allegations both at the hearing on the motion for mistrial and at the hearing on the motion for new trial. Not only was he the judge of the witnesses' credibility, but he witnessed much of the selection process. He had an opportunity to observe the litigants, the advocates, and the court personnel. Further, he thoroughly reviewed the events following the jury's verdict. He concludedLaminate (more commonly known as plastic laminate) is a product which has been used in this country for decades as a countertop surface or a veneer for numerous articles of furniture, cabinetry and other architectural features. Laminate flooring (also known as plastic laminate flooring) was first introduced in the United States around 1994 by the Swedish company Pergo AB. Its initial product line consisted of planks made of laminated wood which were approximately 8″ wide and 48″ long, and which came in an assortment of wood tone finishes. Since that time, many other companies (such as Formica Corporation and Wilsonart International) have manufactured plastic laminate, and it is now an exceedingly popular floor covering.
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'Graceland' Recap: Pistols at Dawn! (Or in the Living Room)

This week's episode of Graceland begins where the last one ended, with Jakes in a destructive jerk spiral. "Tinker Bell" opens with him making a drunk return to Graceland and trying to break into his old room, now occupied by Zelanski. Johnny tries to be a friend, so Jakes head-butts him. So far I'm not really seeing much difference between drunk Jakes and sober Jakes. Everyone wakes up and breaks up the fight, but Mike has to make a late arrival to hide the fact that he spent the night in Paige's room. Mike also somehow ends up with the deciding voice in this situation, so for the moment he


If Prosecutors Investigate Trump Tower Meeting, Here's How They Might Tackle ItA former federal prosecutor told NPR one place to start in thinking about the potential legal ramifications of the meeting is to consider a possible conspiracy charge.

If Prosecutors Investigate Trump Tower Meeting, Here's How They Might Tackle It

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Donald Trump Jr., executive vice president of The Trump Organization, announces that the family's company is launching a new hotel chain inspired by his and brother Eric's Trump's travels with their father's campaign onsummer."

But the meeting turned out to be a bust, Trump Jr. said on Fox News last week. He added that Kushner left the meeting after about five minutes and Manafort spent most of the meeting on his phone. "It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame," he also said. (Veselnitskaya has told NBC News that she never had any damaging information on Hillary Clinton and never had any intention to provide any at the meeting. Trump Jr. said in a statement to the New York Times that at the meeting "it quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information" and that "that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext" because Veselnitskaya changed the subject to Russian adoptions and the Magnitsky Act.)

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Jacob Christopher Hudson, 22, of Hendersonville, was arrested Tuesday after authorities responded to a breaking and entering incident in progress at a home in the 50th block of Knoll Ridge Road in Mills River, according to a Saturday news release from the Henderson County Sheriff's Office.

Hudson fled on foot but deputies chased him and were able to arrest him, authorities said. The incident took place at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Deputies initially charged Hudson with resisting a public officer and felony possession with intent to sell and deliver. He was released on bond Thursday on these two charges.

After authorities received a search warrant for his vehicle and recovered all stolen property from the victim's residence authorities charged him with 10 additional offenses, the sheriff's office said.

According to the sheriff's office,the whole wall of the cage had been taken away. In front of them was a sea of kids. Shouting, screaming, crying. A hundred cries of “Mama! Papi!”

But Chico was smart. He knew how to get his mother’s attention.

“Alejandra!” he cried at the top of his voice. Her name. Hers, and hers alone. There were a hundred Mamas here, but only one Alejandra.

Francisco grinned at him and joined in. The the other kids spotted them and started doing it themselves. Dozens of names being shouted, like the most jumbled up, crazy song you’d ever heard.

Then there was a squealing noise, and they all stopped just as quickly as they’d started. The man, the one with the scar, was standing on a platform in front of them, with a


trampled.

Chico watched, horrified. HIs legs had gone soft and his feet were stuck to the floor. The crowd was moving past him and he was getting further and further from the front. The men shoved them all into line, a shaking, shuddering line that refused to do as it was told.

Then he realised he’d lost the feel of Francisco’s hand over his. He pulled his fist up to his face, blinking. His stomach felt funny, like the time when he hadn’t had anything to eat for two days.

“Francisco! Francisco!”

He walked up and down the edge of the crowd, trying to spot his brother. Kids scowled at him, pulling closer together and keeping him from diving in. Then he spotted him.

“Francisco!”

“Chico!” His brother looked cross but pleased at theat him, the black man with skin so dark it made his eyes glow. He said something Chico didn’t understand.

“My brother’s in there,” he said.

The man shrugged. “No habla Espanol,” he said, loudly as if he thought Chico was deaf or something. He pointed to the back of the line.

Chico let his shoulders drop and walked slowly to where the man was pointing. Kids laughed at him as he passed, calling him names and poking him when he got too close. The man turned and went back to the front.

Then he spotted him again; Francisco. He could see the side of his face past a group of little kids like him. He screwed up his face and hurled himself in between them. They yelled at him but he


was stronger than them. Francisco was getting nearer.

“Hey! Stop pushing in, worm.”

A boy shoved him back out of the line. He staggered back and landed on his butt. The little kids pointed at him and giggled. One of them was naked, pee dribbling down his leg.

Chico lay on the ground for a few moments, looking at the line of kids. They were moving slowly forwards. Were the grown ups at the front? If he waited long enough, would he find Mama?

“Back of the line, back of the line,” chanted the kids. He brushed his trousers down. He’d forgotten that he needed to pee now. He walked to the back of the line, trying not to listen.

The smallest kids were at the back, the runty ones that had lostbrothers and sisters or not been able to stand up for themselves. He scowled at them. He wasn’t like them; he was a big, brave boy. Papi told him, so it had to be true. He pulled his shoulders back, took a deep breath, and took his place behind them, shuffling forwards as they did.

After what felt like hours he could see the grown ups at the front again. The kids were past them, spilling out into another space behind yet another wire fence. He could see more grown ups with them, grown ups not wearing uniforms. He held his breath and held in the need to pee, stronger now it had come back.

Finally he was at the front. The nice lady was there, sitting behind a table.


Researchers at Rice University say the White House 'Zero Tolerance' program on illegal immigrants has not stopped employers from hiring illegals, especially in today's super tight labor market, and it has only created another class of criminals, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, one of the authors of the report, tells News Radio 1200 WOAI's Michael Board that 'Zero Tolerance,' combined with stricter anti illegal immigrant laws in Texas, have had the 'unintended consequences' of creating new profit opportunities for criminal gangs--'labor brokers' who deliver illegal immigrants to job sites, in exchange for a cut of their pay.

"With this course of 'Zero Tolerance,' the labor brokers then tell the illegal immigrants, 'I can just contact ICE and tell them you are here illegally, so I'm not goingFive candidates are competing for three seats on the Madison school board, with the general election on April 2, 2013.

The political context for the races is explosive, given Gov. Scott Walker's revolutionary proposals for education in Wisconsin: cuts to public school funding, an expansion of the voucher program, and a revamping of teachers' evaluations and bargaining rights.

In Madison, the issues are particularly complex, with the intense disagreements over the district's achievement gap between white and minority students.

In this competitive series of elections, there are numerous candidate forums and listening sessions under way, and we thought we'd pose our own questions to candidates.

This week, we ask the candidates about charter schools, whether they'd like to see their expansion in the district, and if so, how they should operate within


HBO is pushing sexual boundaries with its upcoming show, "Euphoria," to such an extent that one media watchdog group is calling for the network's parent company AT&T to pull the plug before it makes it into families' living rooms.

Created by Sam Levinson, son of Hollywood uber-director Barry Levinson, the drama series follows a group of high school students "as they navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media,” per the show's official logline. But the series has come under harsh criticism by some, who find its content far too graphic and explicit for the teen audience it seeks to attract.

In one episode, per the Hollywood Reporter, "close to 30 penises flash onscreen" and in the premiere one character "commits statutory rape witha 17-year-old trans girl" and the show's lead, Zendaya, 22, overdoses on drugs.

RUSSIA PLANNING ITS OWN CHERNOBYL TV SERIES AFTER COUNTRY REPORTEDLY UNHAPPY WITH HBO'S VERSION OF EVENTS

In fact, the content is so disturbing that actor Brian "Astro" Bradley, 22, who shot scenes in the pilot episode, reportedly opted to quit the series.

Parents Television Council President Tim Winter warned in a press release that "HBO, with its new high school centered show ‘Euphoria,’ appears to be overtly, intentionally, marketing extremely graphic adult content – sex, violence, profanity and drug use – to teens and preteens."

Winter explained to Fox News that even though HBO has said this show was intended for adults, that concept "was entirely refuted by the showrunner because [Levinson] said that 'parents will freak over this


show.' That is a demonstration of who he is targeting with this show. HBO is now internationally marketing this content to children."

HBO programming president Casey Bloys previously insisted, "[Euphoria's] not for everyone" — it'll inevitably get people talking" but "it's not sensational to be sensational" and supported Levinson's darker-themed approach to growing up a teen in 2019 because many the scenes are taken directly from his life.

'GAME OF THRONES' CAST GETS EMOTIONAL READING THE FINALE IN HBO DOCUMENTARY 'THE LAST WATCH'

"It may seem boundary-pushing, and the idea of putting them on TV may be, but somebody lived them," Bloys added.

Winter refutes the HBO exec's explanation, even though he says he's not watched the show (it has not yet aired).

He said to Fox News, "What HBO is doing withthe ghosts have called him. The ghosts go with Shakthi, but Jettu manages to convince Massu, and he agrees to fulfill the wishes of the ghosts. He starts fulfilling the wishes of all the ghosts. He first fulfills the wish of the ghost of a woman named Padma (Rethika Srinivas) which is to see her son, who is blind. Massu is frustrated to learn that he is accidentally responsible for Padma's death. As a sort of seeking forgiveness, he guides her son, takes care of him, and gets his eyes operated upon. Her wish fulfilled, Padma attains salvation. This incident moves Massu, and he fulfills the wish of every ghost. Meanwhile, Shakthi manages to use Massu to kill another person, Madhivadhanan aka Madhi (Charles Vinoth), an MLA and


to the cast and would be playing a prominent role, however, he was replaced by Parthiban. Actors Sriman, Karunas and Daniel Annie Pope of Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara (2013) fame were reported to be playing the roles of spirits in the film. On 10 August 2014, actress Vidyullekha Raman informed that she would be a part of the project. The next day, actor-director Samuthirakani was announced to be part of the project. Sanjay Bharathi was given a supporting role and participated in the Hyderabad schedule.

In November 2014, Amy Jackson opted out of the project, explaining that the makers had changed her character and the script, which would have resulted in her shooting only for half the number of days than she was initially committed to. She was replaced byChristmas Eve Services – Christmas with Friends

Today, December 24th., there will be two services at St. Timothy’s. The Spanish language service will be held at 7p.m. with the band under the direction of Luis Sosa playing traditional & contemporary music. At 10:30 p.m. an English language service will feature special music, the chancel choir & visiting musicians under the direction of David Taylor. There will be refreshments in the parish hall after the later service. Members of the Altar Guild have worked hard to beautify the church, come & be blessed by the experience while you worship.


The Tanis digs, marked by excavation platforms and
equipment, are swarming with Nazis and hundreds of Arab workers.
Belloq pursues a frustrating search for the Well of the Souls on
a ridge-top. Disguised as Arabs, Sallah and Indy stealthily move
toward the map room a short distance away, where the sun will be
perfectly positioned at about nine in the morning. In the center
of a mound of dirt is a circular hole/entrance - an open skylight
high above the map room.

Indy descends into the map room on a long length of
rope. Their plan is that Sallah will immediately pull him up when
he tugs on one end of the rope. At the far end of the beautifully
decorated room - with walls covered by carvings and frescoes - is
an elaborate relief map. It shows a miniaturestone model or replica
of the ancient city of Tanis. A beam of sunlight from the skylight
floods the room with a stream of light. As Indy surveys the map room
below, Sallah is mistaken for a servant by the Germans and the rope
is confiscated. He is detained next to a jeep, a short distance from
the mound.

In the map room with little time left to spare before
nine A.M., Indy brushes off dirt from the mosaic base line for the
staff. He deciphers and calculates from the stone inscription hieroglyphics
on the floor where the staff must be positioned. He attaches the
headpiece at the top of the Staff of Ra and places the staff's base
in the correct depression on the baseline. In a transcendent, exciting
moment, the sunlight moves along the wall and floor and


the tents'
openings and finds Marion gagged and bound to a tent pole as a hostage.
He is relieved to realize that "they must have switched baskets." As
Indy pulls out his knife to cut her ties, he suddenly stops when
he realizes that if she is freed, the Nazis will find her gone and
his presence at Tanis will be detected. They would comb the place
for both of them and interrupt his obsessive search for the Ark.
He replaces the gag back on her mouth, as she protests, kicks, and
screams at him. He kisses her on her forehead and promises: "I'll
be back to get ya," and then hurries out of the tent. Using
a surveyor's instrument on a high sand ridge, Indy uses his readings
to view the virgin spot in the sand where hemust begin digging.

High-ranking Nazis are becoming exasperated and impatient
with Belloq. They suggest that "the girl" (to whom he takes
a protective fancy), who was in possession of the original medallion
for years, may be able to help them. Toht also reappears - his crisp "Heil
Hitler" salute reveals that his palm is scarred and burned with
the exact imprint of the medallion.

With help from a small band of Sallah's diggers, Indy
begins the work of excavating the new location nearby. After the
bright red sun sets, ominous storm clouds appear and lightning flashes.
The storm intensifies when the diggers hit stone - part of the heavy
entry door to an underground chamber, the Well of Souls. Crowbarring
the edge of the slab open, they unearth the historic tomb. Holding
torches, Jones and Sallah peer into the asp-ridden cavern


From a tray of food, Marion begins to eat and then
she is entertained by Belloq, who offers her a new white dress and
shoes to wear. He slyly watches her disrobe through a small mirror
reflection.

As he attempts to get information from her regarding
the location of the ark, she also attempts to lure him into a drinking
contest while covering a knife that lies on the table. They both
become very drunk. (Belloq has a high tolerance for the alcohol,
claiming he grew up on the stuff - his family label.) They laugh
uproariously when she pulls a knife on her captor. When she attempts
to back out of the tent, she is halted by the sudden appearance of
Toht, who threatens her: "We meet again, Fraulein. You Americans,
you're all the same with overdressing for thewrong occasions." The
sadistic German takes out an evil-looking chain device that looks
like a weapon - it is actually a coat hanger. He sits down across
from Belloq and Marion and asks: "Now, what shall we talk about?"

Indy carefully lowers himself into the chamber, but
falls to the floor where he lands directly face-to-face with a flaring
cobra in an excruciatingly horrific moment. [Visible is a piece of
plexiglass that separates Harrison Ford from the lethal snake.] Indy
sprays kerosene from canisters onto the snakes, and then ignites
many of the snakes with his torch. Sallah and Indy approach a stone
altar/platform at the far end of the underground chamber. Pushing
together with all their strength, they remove the top of the large
protective stone chest that encloses the Lost Ark. Fitting wooden
poles through the rings on the


side of the Ark to avoid touching
it, they lift the Ark clear of its stone chest. It is awesomely beautiful
- a gold-overlaid rectangular box, with two sculptured gold angels
mounted to face each other on top.

At sunrise, the Ark is placed in a wooden crate, and
then hauled up to the surface with ropes. (Meanwhile on a nearby
ridge, Belloq notices the digging and discovers their alternate site.)
The torches have begun to burn out and the snakes move menacingly
closer. Sallah climbs out of the chamber on a rope, but the exit
rope for Indy drops loosely at his feet. Looking up, Indy sees Belloq
(with his Nazi men) staring and waving to him from the opening above:

Belloq: Why, Dr. Jones, whatever are you doing in
such a nasty place?
Jones: Why don't you come onHer weight causes him to fall
to the ground and almost into the snakes. After Belloq bids them
'adieu,' the evil Toht giggles as he walks away from the tomb. Marion's
scream of "Nooooo!" is cut off sharply as the tomb is sealed
up, and both Belloq and Sallah cringe in horror and shut their eyes.

When the heavy stone door seals the chamber, the torches
inside the tomb begin to extinguish themselves due to lack of oxygen.
Indy hands a torch to Marion, instructing: "Wave it at anything
that slithers." Indy also questions her about the dress she
is wearing and wonders aloud how hard she was really trying to escape.

Examining the walls and seeing snakes slithering out
through holes, Indy figures that the secret chamber is probably connected
to other chambers already excavated by the Nazis. He


has a brilliant
idea - he climbs up one of the pillar columns/statues and braces
himself between the tall pillar and the top of the chamber and then
pushes against it with all his might. After rocking it, the pillar
breaks loose and falls like a tree as Indy rides on top of it. It
smashes through the chamber wall, just as the last torch burns itself
out.

More horrors are revealed in the pharaoh's tomb on
the other side of the broken wall. It opens into catacombs full of
cascading, moldering mummies, sarcophagi and skulls (one has a snake
slithering out of its mouth). A nervous wreck, Marion thinks Indy
hasn't survived. But then, she is grabbed by Indy as he shows her
their exit - a crack in the corner of the chamber through which sunlight
beams. Once theymiraculously make their way into the daylight from
the abandoned excavation, as luck would have it, their escape occurs
above an improvised, crude desert airstrip serving the digs. The
two are within sight of the Flying Wing airplane with twirling propellers
that will soon carry the Ark to Hitler. First crouching under its
wing near the plane, Indy quickly subdues a monkey wrench-wielding
German mechanic. Then he faces a second, burly, bald and shirtless
opponent.

In an exciting sequence, the two fight and punch at
each other as the plane's pilot tries to get a clear shot at Indy
from the cockpit. Marion bashes the pilot (Frank Marshall, the producer
of the film in a bit part) over the head, and knocks him into the
throttle. His weight revs up the plane, causing it to rotate in a
circle around one


set of blocked plane tires. The plane's cockpit
cover shuts above her, but she is able to take over the plane's machine
gun. On the tarmac, the two opponents continue to fight within inches
of the plane's lethal propeller blades. Marion's gun fire punctuates
refueling tanks. Spilled fuel floods the entire area and quickly
catches fire. Soon, the burning fuel will ignite the fueling truck
and the airplane.

The big German doesn't see the spinning, whirring blades
roar toward him from behind. The propellers hack him to death - a
red spray of blood covers everything (the cockpit window and the
Nazi flag) to register his offscreen demise. Indy frees Marion from
the cockpit and runs from the flaming scene to safety. When the entire
plane explodes in a huge fireball, Belloq senses that "Jones!" was
responsible for the massive destruction.know. I'm making this up as I go.

From among one of the tents, Indy suddenly bursts into
view atop a magnificent white Arabian stallion (as a classic western-style
hero), and gallops off across the desert in pursuit of the truck.

Jones' impromptu chase is one of the most exciting
chase sequences ever filmed, similar to Westerns with runaway stagecoaches.
He cuts cross-country to catch up with the convoy that appears in
view far below him. He follows along on a parallel ridge, and then
descends to the road to ride alongside one of the trucks. He leaps
from his horse onto the rear of the canvas-topped truck, tosses the
guard from the passenger seat, and begins grappling with the driver.
After negotiating some difficult steering, terrain, and obstacles
in the path, Indy tosses the driver out and takes control


of the
wheel.

During various stages of the chase, Indy forces several
escort vehicles off the road. After some unsuccessful, but hair-raising
attempts of Nazi guards in the back of his truck to oust Indy from
the wheel, he is weakened when one guard shoots him in the left arm.
The last remaining guard reaches the truck's cab from above. Indy
is tossed through the windshield and ends up hanging from a hood
ornament in the front of the fast-moving truck. When the ornament
bends and cracks off, he grabs onto the grill. The grill bars snap
one by one and Indy clings to the fender of the front tire.

To avoid being rammed in the back of the car ahead,
Indy lowers himself under the engine where he clings tenuously beneath
the vehicle. He makes his way to the truck'srear wheel axle - he
even gets dragged behind the truck while attached by his bullwhip.
Eventually, he pulls himself forward and lifts himself up onto the
rear of the truck, crawls back in, works his way back to the cab,
and jumps into the driver's cab. Angered, he throws the driver out
through the already-broken windshield. With the situation reversed,
the Nazi cannot duplicate Indy's acrobatics and is crushed to death.

Just outside of Cairo, Indy forces the staff car off
the road and sends it down an embankment. Indy's interference causes
Belloq to curse his own driver: "Idiot. Idiot." Then, Indy
speeds off toward Cairo, enters its narrow streets, and drives into
a gaping garage opening in the center of Omar's Square where Omar,
Sallah and his men are waiting to hide it. Indy conceals the truck
in Omar's


garage, covered by tenting. The truck and garage are further
hidden by a hastily-assembled mini-bazaar of Omar's and Sallah's
friends. When the Nazi staff car pulls up, they desperately look
for the truck but cannot locate it - the Ark has been successfully
recaptured. Sallah informs Indy of the next step:

Sallah: Everything at last has been arranged.
Indy: The Ark...
Sallah: ...is on board. Nothing is lacking now that you are here,
or what is left of you.

A trustworthy, black ship captain named Mr. Katanga
(George Harris) has been commissioned by Sallah at the Cairo waterfront
docks to take the wounded Jones and Marion (and the Ark in the cargo
hold) in an old tramp steamer named the Bantu Wind to England.
When Marion says goodbye to Sallah, she gives him a kiss each for
Fayah, his children, then forhimself (on the lips). A delighted
Sallah walks away singing "A British Tar Is a Soaring Soul,
As Free as a Mountain Bird..." from Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS
Pinafore.

On board, Marion appears in a white, silky nightgown
lent to her by Katanga:
"I've got a feeling I'm not the first woman to travel with these
pirates."
While they both look at themselves at opposite sides of a mirror, Marion
flips it up and slams the mirror into Indy's face. A cutaway to the
exterior of the steamer accentuates the echoing volume of Indy's scream.
Marion and Indy have a short while to rekindle their romance in the
film's only 'love' scene, but Indy is suffering in pain:

Marion: You're not the man I knew ten years ago.
Indy: It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

Indy tells her that the only


place it doesn't hurt
on his body is his left elbow. She kisses it for him and he prompts
her to continue kissing him - on the forehead next, then on his right
eye and his lips. But he soon falls asleep as Marion ponders: "We
never seem to get a break, do we?"

In the hold, the ship's rats are nervous and agitated
by the crate holding the Ark - it hums loudly, and the Nazi swastika
symbol on the crate's surface is scorched. The couple's bliss is
short-lived. By the next morning - Indy thinks something is wrong
when the ship turns quiet and its engines have stopped. He loads
his gun and goes on deck to check out what is wrong.

A German submarine [the same model used in the German
U-boat film Das Boot (1981)] hasovertaken the steamer and
is sending over a boarding party. The Nazis quickly take over the
ship, herd the pirates on deck, repossess the Ark, and seize Marion
from the cabin.

Jones cannot be found as he manages to hide in a funnel
while the steamer is searched - Katanga tells the Germans an alibi: "Jones
is dead." Desiring Marion once again, Belloq angrily demands
to take her: "The girl goes with me. It will be part of my compensation.
I'm sure your Fuhrer will approve."

As the German submarine sails away, Jones is viewed
clinging to the top of the vessel. The submarine is sailed to a mysterious
island in the middle of the Aegean Sea, somewhere southeast of Greece
(the journey is superimposed on a map), where a Nazi base has been
built in its hollow interior. Jones disguises


is ritualistically opened - he is greedy in
the belief that the Ark will give him and the Nazis ultimate power.
[Belloq's acquisition of 'Jewish' characteristics, and his frequent
opposing nature to the will of the Nazis may be met with the punishment
of death.] The momentous event is being documented by a film crew,
and dozens of Nazi soldiers anxiously anticipate the removal of the
Ark's lid.

The film's finale contains the most-remembered, intense
scene of all when God's fiery vengeance is visited upon the Nazis.
[The scene is reminiscent of the opening of the Great Whatsit box
in the climax of Kiss Me, Deadly (1955).]
When the gold lid is removed by two Nazi soldiers, Belloq reaches
in to discover only fine grains of sand within. (Have the stone tablets
of the ten commandments disintegrated?) But the Ark unleasheselectrical
energy and charges, zapping all electrical lights, apparatus and
machines in the arena. Things turn dark, and then a loud humming
noise emanates from within the Ark. Inside the box itself, there
is a wondrous, brilliant light, and a white smoke undulates out of
it and blankets the ground. Indy warns Marion to look away (similar
to the Biblical story of Lot warning his wife not to watch the destruction
of Sodom, or Adam and Eve's knowledge of the forbidden fruit and
subsequent loss of innocence in the Garden of Eden):

Belloq has an obsessed, transcendent look on his face
- he believes that the blinding light in the Ark is beautiful. Ghostly
spirits hypnotically zoom around everyone - but apparently, God's
wrath has been summoned, as the forms change from wondrous to deadly
visions. Belloq is besieged by the


ghostly images and screams in
horror - the interlopers are punished by a lethal dose of death for
breaking the sacred taboo. The villain is consumed by flames, and
piercing firebolts and shafts of fire zap the rest of the Nazis through
the heart. One firebolt actually travels through one of the movie
cameras, destroying the visual evidence of the event! Toht's head,
along with the heads of several other commanding Nazis, melts into
dripping ooze by the extreme heat, while Belloq's head explodes.

The climactic firestorm creates a rushing vacuum of
wind and a rising plume of fire above the island. Suddenly, the blinding
fire in the heavenly sky reverses itself, and the fire is sucked
and swallowed up by the Ark. When the forces are returned inside
the Ark, the lid slams down tightly and neatly shuts and“This is a fairly neutral candidate for us,” the Head of the Committee noted.

The draft report might be submitted to the Commission by September 20, says the Council of Europe website in its turn. The document should reflect results of the ad hoc work of the PACE Bureau on the harmonization of the activities of the statutory bodies of the Council of Europe (the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe). Russia took part in the meetings of the ad hoc committee and sent its proposals on the reform of the Assembly, including questions on abolition of articles on regulations that would deprive a delegation of key powers.


point since 1942. The White House claims that pure politics is what's behind the investigative fervor, with Chief of Staff John Podesta likening congressional zeal to Captain Ahab's relentless pursuit of Moby Dick: "They do it for hate's sake," he said last week. The White House sees a new probe surrounding Mr. Clinton's decision to grant clemency to 16 Puerto Rican nationalists as a case in point. Under fire for refusing to give Congress subpoenaed documents, the White House is reminding lawmakers that clemency is an executive function not subject to congressional oversight. Indeed, Democrats in Congress didn't subpoena the Bush administration after the president granted controversial pardons to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and four others in the Iran-contra scandal, says James Pfiffner, a professor of government atof congressional investigations, ranging from influence peddling by White House staff to misdirection of the Korean War. McCarthyism, Watergate, the Iran-contra scandal - major investigations have hit every president in post-war history, says Mayhew, a professor at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

'Gotcha' mentality Still, many observers - and certainly the White House - believe this is the most investigated administration in history, fueled in part by a gotcha mentality that has gripped the media ever since Watergate. Researchers like Harwood see the trend as destructive to public life, and John Zogby, an independent pollster, warns that if Republicans hope to make election hay of all of their investigations, they should think again. While their probes may appeal to the Republican base, the public has repudiated them twice,


Telltale Games Closing, TWD Final Season May Not Finish

This has simply been a horrible month for studio closures.

Telltale Games, a studio that made a huge name for itself with 2012’s GOTY The Walking Dead has announced that it will be shutting down amid difficult financial challenges. The studio became a household name for gamers as they crafted a tremendous number of beloved licensed adventure games (based on properties like Batman, Game of Thrones, Guardians of the Galaxy, and many others). Issuing a statement earlier today, Telltale explains:

Today Telltale Games made the difficult decision to begin a majority studio closure following a year marked by insurmountable challenges. A majority of the company’s employees were dismissed earlier this morning, with a small group of 25 employees staying on to fulfillHere’s a trivia question for you. What Russian song has been translated into at least 15 languages with the English-language version getting to #1 spot in the UK Singles Chart? What is this song that has been covered by such artists as Bing Crosby and Dolly Parton and its melody was sampled by 50Cent?

Of course, it’s Дорогой длинною (Along the long road) known in the West as Those Were the Days.

The modern day version, the lyrics to which follow, are somewhat different from the original one popularized by Тамара Церетели and Александр Вертинский almost a century ago. You will also notice that the English text of Those Were the Days has nothing to do with the original Russian version.

Since the song is still popular and the tune is


defendant for the tractor as promised the defendant decided to repossess his vehicle. During the early morning hours of September 14, 1974, defendant removed his tractor which had Buice's trailer attached to it from the latter's property to his own premises. Defendant testified that he removed the trailer because it was impossible for him at the time to disconnect the vehicles. Later on the same day, Buice found his trailer at the defendant's place of business where he made demand for its return. According to Buice's testimony, the defendant stated "Tony McClure owes me $1,800, and the only way you are going to get your trailer is to pay me $1,800." Defendant while testifying in his own behalf stated that after Buice advised defendant that he, Buice, wouldobtain a warrant for defendant's arrest, he disengaged the trailer from the tractor and "I carried the trailer to Acworth, Georgia, and dropped it on a vacant piece of lake property that I owned ...," where it remained for approximately the next 18 months. Defendant admitted that he told no one, other than his lawyers, where the trailer was located during this period. Held:
1. The defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to authorize a conviction. Assuming but not deciding that defendant was justified in taking the truck and trailer because of an impossibility to disconnect them and thus acquired lawful possession of the trailer, the evidence that defendant would not return the trailer to the owner on demand until the owner paid a debt on the truck


at that time, owed the bank approximately $500,000 on equipment used by his freight line. His tractors were turned over to the bank but the missing tractor could not be located for approximately three months. The bank found the tractor near Macon but instructions to the sheriff to pick it up were unsuccessful. McClure was finally located and agreed to bring the tractor in. He did not. Defendant notified his friends that he was offering a reward to anyone who could locate the tractor. He was called by a friend at 1:30 a. m. who located the tractor at the home of Danny Buice's father  Mr. W. D. Buice, Jr. Defendant and another person went to Mr. Buice's home at 2:30 or 3 a. m. and attemptedto repossess his tractor. Both persons described defendant's attempt to disconnect the trailer but because it did not have any front wheels which could be lowered to support the front when disconnected from the tractor it fell down on the frame of the tractor as the tractor was driven forward. A light came on in the house and dogs were barking so defendant drove the tractor, with trailer attached, to his place of business. The next day defendant found in the glove compartment, a lease wherein Tony McClure had leased the Freightliner tractor and Carley trailer to Harry Poole Incorporated during the time that he had possession of them. In the lease, McClure stated that he owned the tractor and trailer.
The following day, Mr. Buice and his son


nice metaphor." " A metaphor, right." "It could be read this way." "It's present in the picture and can thus be interpreted that way." "Another thing is striking and relatively typical:" "We're dealing here with a film from 1974, right?" "It was released in the heyday of the giallo thriller." "And what's interesting is that the movies that are well-known today films like Tenebre and such, were made during the genre's late phase." "Like New York Ripper and so on." "They hold a special status in that genre while the majority of the gialli with a classic structure..." " ...were made in the period from '68 to '75." " Absolutely." " In the actual heyday of the giallo." " Exactly." "So this is a film that was producedthe strange 10th protagonist who clue to his salient dandy-like attire..." " ...occupies a special position..." " Explain "dandy"." "A dandy is a style that played a special role in the late 18th and early 19th-century." "It's a person who lived for his spleens, his strange interests and who doesn't have to worry about existential things." "Basically a man living a life of luxury..." " ...who only lives for his own pleasures." " Like Alex in A Clockwork Orange." "Exactly." "Characters like that who don't have a daily working life and who display their eccentricity by behaving dandy-like, ...also expressed through their clothing." "In the 60s, especially thanks to the "Swinging London" there was this trend of preserving the dandy for the modern age with the "Carnaby-Street-Style"." "Several


if they're listening to the commentary." "She's the only one who will survive, which makes her the main character here since she goes through a transformation over the course of the film." "In any case, she's played by Rosanna Schiaffino who was in many other genre films as well." "I could mention a few of them:" "The Heroes by Duccio Tessari with Rod Steiger." "Or The Witch in Love by Damiano Damiani La strega in amore is the original title." "She also was in Castellari's Das Pferd kam ohne Socken [German title of Hector the Mighty meaning "The Horse Came Without Socks"]." "What was it thinking?" "Um, from 1972." "She was in that too." " A comedy." "And the others..." " The forgotten film of Castellari." "Right." "Unjustlyso..." "Almost all of the other actors were also very active in genre productions." "We can get back to them from time to time over the course of the commentary." "The Mystery Man, for example, who's played by Eduardo Filipone was also in Pasolini's Arabian Nights which is not... well, which is in the broadest sense also a genre work." "Yes, Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" as it's called was Pasolini's venture into the commercial Italian cinema of that time by creating a mixture of an episodic structure similar to the mondo films, along with the depiction of foreign cultures and times," "...and the conventionalized portrayal of sex which dealt more or less openly, foremost, with nudity." "And that was actually perceived as genuine genre cinema." "And it got


in several others as well." "That might be a hint that she's one of the most important characters, ...for the viewer at least, who's supposed to see himself in her in some moments." "It's very important here that we bring to mind this film's genre blendings:" "Firstly, the psycho thriller or the giallo thriller." "Many gialli aren't simply crime films but also feature elements citing psychological motives for the crime or put the protagonists' fear into the actual focus and not just the solving of the crime." "Whereas there's not even an investigator-character here." "You could say now that all the characters investigate on their own and that several persons are perpetrators here - two of them and one character remains impalpable:" "The Mystery Man." "Then again, ascame with yellow covers." "And in this series not only the hard-boiled novels by Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain were published, ...which actually were templates for 40s film noirs, ...but also novels by Agatha Christie." "Now you might say:" ""Hm, Agatha Christie..."" ""...is more on the stuffy side, very British and rural."" "At the same time, however, the narrative patterns in Christie's novels and especially in the novel "Ten Little Indians"..." " Um, what was the German title again?" " I think it was "Ten Little Negroes"." " Oh yes..." " But I'm not sure if it got changed by now." "In "Zehn kleine Indianerlein"?" "[bad German for "Ten Little Indians"]" " Maybe..." " I don't know..." "I think in Germany it's usually also called "Ten Little


"And despite the approximation via zooming, we still keep our distance." "And this distance remains tangible which leads to the fact that especially in the American film language which more or less became the standard you very rarely see zooms." "It's very interesting that European and particularly the Italian cinema and also Hong Kong cinema, by the way, rely very heavily on zooms and that the influence and the success of genre cinema from Italy and Hong Kong in the late 60s and early 70s caused people like Sam Peckinpah, for example in 1969's The Wild Bunch to employ the zoom again, inspired by the Italo-westerns." "Which is actually very unusual." "It's also present in the works of Stanley Kubrick, in Shining for instance." " That's also aIntroduction {#s1}
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develop more robust cost and schedule estimates.
[Footnote 8] We are continuing to review TSA's development and
implementation of Secure Flight in response to requests from the U.S.
Senate (Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and its
Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security; Committee on
Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security; Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Committee on the
Judiciary) and the U.S. House of Representatives (Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on Homeland Security, and
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform). In addition, the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, requires that we report to the
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives
on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) certification of 10
conditions outlined in section 522(a) of the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2005, related to the development and
implementation of the Secure Flightsuch a watch-list-matching capability.[Footnote 32] Shortly
after suspending work on the CAPPS II program in August 2004, TSA
initiated development of Secure Flight, a program that the agency
expects will allow the federal government to perform watch-list
matching for passengers on all flights within the United States and
ultimately for international flights with departures from or arrivals
in the United States.
In February 2006, we testified that although some progress had been
made in developing Secure Flight, long-standing issues related to
systems development and testing, program management, privacy
protections, and redress remained.[Footnote 33] We reported in
testimony that as a result of these deficiencies the program was at
risk of failure. Following our February 2006 testimony, TSA announced a
temporary suspension of Secure Flight's development to reassess program
goals and capabilities. TSA completed this reassessment in January
2007, moved forward to complete its


the
century, it was a concerned citizen
named Paul Kroegel who donated
his time and stepped in to stop the
killing. From his home on the Indian
River Lagoon in Florida, Paul
witnessed thousands of pelicans and
other marsh birds being annihilated
on their nests to feed the demands of
the plume hungry fashion industry.
Paul Kroegel made a promise to
protect the wildlife of Pelican Island.
Nearly 100 years later we (the U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service) are
sustaining that promise. Kroegel,
who would eventually become the
first Refuge Manager in the Nation,
started a volunteer legacy that today
nearly 29,000 people uphold.
A Legacy of
Volunteerism
A Few 1999 Program Highlights
Need: More Volunteer Coordinator positions around the country to
manage the growing number of volunteers on refuges and hatcheries.
Response: The National Wildlife Refuge System Volunteer and
Community Partnership Enhancement Act of 1998 authorized up to 20
Volunteer Pilot Programs. Toand
Support Group Highlights
The Coastal Wildlife Refuge Society
(NC) was a major partner in the
creation of the Charles Kuralt Trail.
The Trail is a driving tour that links
eleven national wildlife refuges and
one fish hatchery in eastern North
Carolina and Virginia. Two
Interpretive Waysides are in place
with more to come.
The Atlantic Audubon Society (NJ)
designed a new and exciting program
called the “Refuge Series of Birding”
to raise community awareness of the
Edwin B. Forsythe NWR. They
invited community members to
partake in a short fun-filled trip
around the refuge in search of as
many bird species as they could find.
Contestants came from near and
far and Audubon member John
Williamson “umpired” the event.
A great day was had by all!
Members of the Alaska Natural
History Association (AK)
successfully raised more than
$40,000 to continue running the
Kodiak Summer Science and Salmon
Camp after funding had been
eliminated.
The Friends of Bombay


Hook NWR
(DE) and the refuge’s volunteers
won Delaware’s “Governors’s
Outstanding Environmental Group
Award” for their hard work and
dedication in supporting the refuge
and its mission!
The Sequoia Audubon Society (CA)
helped secure the transfer of Bair
Island in San Francisco Bay to the
National Wildlife Refuge System.
We will now spare the unique habitat
on this island from the threat of
development. The ARK group
educates the public about the
habitats and uses of the island.
Partnerships and Support Groups
Atlantic Audubon Society members partaking in the Refuge Series of Birding at
Edwin B. Forsythe NWR (NJ).
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This year the National Wildlife
Refuge Association and the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation
sponsored the National Wildlife
Refuge System Awards. Among
them are the Volunteer of the Year
Award and the Support Group of the
Year Award, two of the most
prestigious honors in the Refuge
System. They present these at an
awards ceremony held during the
annualsatellite analyses of
DNA from North American black
bears and wolves.
Steve Williams at Kealia Pond NWR
(HI) trained and managed 22 other
volunteers to monitor the
endangered hawksbill sea turtles
nesting on non-refuge property
along Maui beaches. His attention to
detail and his outreach effort
concerning the turtles has allowed
us to work “beyond our boundaries.”
Mark Burkholder plays an
important role at Seal Beach
National Wildlife Refuge (CA). He
has taken the lead role in the native
plant garden where he is involved in
all aspects of the project including
soil sampling, trail building,
planting, and mulching. We use
these plants to restore native coastal
sage shrub. Mark is the editor of the
“Friends of Seal Beach National
Wildlife Refuge” newsletter and is
an active member of the Support
Groups Board of Directors.
Recognition of
Outstanding Volunteers
Arizona Ecological Services Office
volunteer, Julia Wesley, removes a
hummingbird from a mist net.
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Wildlife
For the past several years, Chad
Gideon