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Saudis Tried to Pin Khobar Bombing on Iran
On June 25, 1996, a massive truck bomb exploded at a building in the Khobar Towers complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, which housed U.S. Air Force personnel, killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding 372.
Immediately after the blast, more than 125 agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were ordered to the site to sift for clues and begin the investigation of who was responsible. But when two U.S. embassy officers arrived at the scene of the devastation early the next morning, they found a bulldozer beginning to dig up the entire crime scene.
The Saudi bulldozing stopped only after Scott Erskine, the supervisory FBI special agent for international terrorism investigations, threatened that then-secretary of state Warren Christopher, who happened to be in Saudi Arabia when the bomb exploded, would intervene personally on the matter.
U.S. intelligence then intercepted communications from the highest levels of the Saudi government, including interior minister Prince Nayef, to the governor and other officials of Eastern Province instructing them to go through the motions of cooperating with U.S. officials on their investigation but to obstruct it at every turn.
That was the beginning of what interviews with more than a dozen sources familiar with the investigation and other information now available reveal was a systematic effort by the Saudis to obstruct any U.S. investigation of the bombing and to deceive the United States about who was responsible for the bombing.
The Saudi regime steered the FBI investigation toward Iran and its Saudi Shi'ite allies with the apparent intention of keeping U.S. officials away from a trail of evidence that would have led to Osama bin Laden and a complex set of ties between the regime and the Saudi terrorist organizer.
The key to the success of the Saudi deception was FBI director Louis Freeh, who took personal charge of the FBI investigation, letting it be known within the Bureau that he was the "case officer" for the probe, according to former FBI officials.
Freeh allowed Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan to convince him that Iran was involved in the bombing, and that President Bill Clinton, for whom he had formed a visceral dislike, "had no interest in confronting the fact that Iran had blown up the towers," as Freeh wrote in his memoirs.
The Khobar Towers investigation soon became Freeh's vendetta against Clinton. "Freeh was pursuing this for his own personal agenda," says former FBI agent Jack Cloonan.
A former high-ranking FBI official recalls that Freeh "was always meeting with Bandar." And many of the meetings were not in Freeh's office but at Bandar's 38-room home in McLean, Va.
Meanwhile, the Saudis were refusing the most basic FBI requests for cooperation. When Ray Mislock, who headed the National Security Division of the FBI's Washington field office, requested permission to go door to door to interview witnesses in the neighborhood, the Saudis refused.
"It's our responsibility," Mislock recalls being told. "We'll do the interviews."
But the Saudis never conducted such interviews. The same thing happened when Mislock requested access to phone records for the immediate area surrounding Khobar Towers.
Soon after the bombing, officials of the Saudi secret police, the Mabahith, began telling their FBI and CIA contacts that they had begun arresting members of a little-known Shi'ite group called "Saudi Hezbollah," which Saudi and U.S. intelligence had long believed was close to Iran. They claimed that they had extensive intelligence information linking the group to the Khobar Towers bombing.
But a now declassified July 1996 report by CIA analysts on the bombing reveals that the Mabahith claims were considered suspect. The report said the Mabahith "have not shown U.S. officials their evidence… nor provided many details on their investigation."
Nevertheless, Freeh quickly made Iranian and Saudi Shi'ite responsibility for the bombing the official premise of the investigation, excluding from the inquiry the hypothesis that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization had carried out the Khobar Towers bombing.
"There was never, ever a doubt in my mind about who did this," says a former FBI official involved in the investigation who refused to be identified.
FBI and CIA experts on Osama bin Laden tried unsuccessfully to play a role in the Khobar Towers investigation. Jack Cloonan, a member of the FBI's I-49 unit, which was building a legal case against bin Laden over previous terrorist actions, recalls asking the Washington field office (WFO), which had direct responsibility for the investigation, to allow such I-49 participation, only to be rebuffed.
"The WFO was hypersensitive and told us to f*ck off," says Cloonan.
The CIA's bin Laden unit, which had only been established in early 1996, was also excluded by CIA leadership from that Agency's work on the bombing.
Two or three days after the Khobar bombing, recalls Dan Coleman, an FBI agent assigned to the unit, the agency "locked down" its own investigation, creating an encrypted "passline" that limited access to information related to Khobar investigation to the handful of people at the CIA who were given that code.
The head of the bin Laden unit at the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center, Michael Scheuer, was not included among that small group.
Nevertheless, Scheuer instructed his staff to put together all the information the station had collected from all sources – human assets, electronic intercepts, and open sources – indicating that there would be an al-Qaeda operation in Saudi Arabia after the bombing in Riyadh the previous November.
The result was a four-page memo which ticked off the evidence that bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization had been planning a military operation involving explosives in Saudi in 1996.
"One of the places mentioned in the memo was Khobar," says Scheuer. "They were moving explosives from Port Said through Suez Canal to the Red Sea and to Yemen, then infiltrating them across the border with Saudi Arabia."
A few days after receiving the bin Laden unit's four-page memo, the head of the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center, Winston Wiley, one of the few CIA officials who was privy to information on the investigation, came to Scheuer's office and closed the door. Wiley opened up a folder which had only one document in it – a translated intercept of an internal Iranian communication in which there was a reference to Khobar Towers. "Are you satisfied?" Wiley asked.
Scheuer replied that it was only one piece of information in a much bigger universe of information that pointed in another direction. "If that's all there is," he told Wiley, "I would say it was very interesting and ought to be followed up, but it isn't definitive."
But the signal from the CIA leadership was clear: Iran had already been identified as responsible for the Khobar bombing plot, and there was no interest in pursuing the bin Laden angle.
In September 1996, bin Laden's former business agent Jamal al-Fadl, who had left al-Qaeda over personal grievances, walked into the U.S. embassy in Eritrea and immediately began providing the best intelligence the United States had ever gotten on bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
But the CIA and FBI made no effort take advantage of his knowledge to get information on possible al-Qaeda involvement in the Khobar Towers bombing, according to Dan Coleman, one of al-Fadl's FBI handlers.
"We were never given any questions to ask him about Khobar Towers," says Coleman.
This is the first of a five-part series, "Khobar Towers Investigated: How a Saudi Deception Protected Osama bin Laden." The series was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
(Inter Press Service)
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Before any of the regulars complain, this was the second most common question we got last month. (Nobody knows until they know.)
How to remove the SIM card in an iPhone or iPad
All recent iPhones and cellular-capable iPads come with SIM (subscribe identity module) card slots on their sides. A SIM card is how your carrier provides all the information your device needs to get on their network and access the voice and data services linked to your account. There may be times when you'll beed to swap the SIM card in your iPhone or iPad. If you upgrade to a new device you'll have to move the SIM card to that new device. If you're traveling and want to use a local SIM to avoid roaming charges, you'll have to swap it in. If something goes wrong with your SIM card you may even need to replace it. Whatever the reason, it's a super simple process and all you need is an Apple SIM-card remover tool or just a plain old paper clip!
What you need to remove the SIM card in your iPhone or iPad
The only thing you need in order to remove the SIM card in your iPhone or iPad is an Apple SIM card remover tool (which comes included in the box in some countries, especially when you buy an unlocked device) or a small bent paperclip.
If you're using a paper clip, straighten the long end until it projects out (see the photo above). If you're using something else, like tip of a small screwdriver, just make sure it fits into the SIM ejector slot. You don't want to mangle your device.
Find where your SIM tray is located on your iPhone or iPad model
Almost every iPhone comes equipped with a SIM card tray. The only exception was the CDMA variant of the iPhone 4. So if you have an iPhone 4s or newer, you have a SIM card slot. Here is where you can find it given your iPhone model:
- Original iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS: On the top of the iPhone in between the headphone jack and power button
- iPhone 4/4S/5/5s: On the right side of iPhone, the side opposite your mute switch and volume buttons
Only cellular capable iPads have SIM trays. If you have one, here is where you can find your SIM tray:
- Original iPad: Along the left side of the iPad towards the middle, opposite the side that contains the mute switch and volume buttons
- iPad 2/3/4: Along top left side of the iPad, opposite the side that contains the mute switch and volume buttons
- iPad Air: On the bottom right side of the iPad, the same side that contains the mute switch and volume buttons
How to remove the SIM card in an iPhone or iPad
- Insert the small paperclip you bent earlier into the small pin hole opening in the SIM tray.
- Apply a small amount of pressure until the SIM tray pops out of the iPhone or iPad. Don't apply pressure at an angle, only in the direction of the pin hole.
- Grab hold of the SIM tray and pull straight out.
- Swap your SIM card and re-insert the tray. Make sure you have installed the SIM in the correct orientation. Also make sure you are inserting the SIM tray in the correct orientation.
Keep in mind that you should never force a SIM tray back in place. You can break pins off the logic board and that can leave your iPhone or iPad unable to connect to any cellular network. Always make sure the SIM is installed in the tray correctly and that you're putting it back in your iPhone or iPad in the correct direction. An easy way to be sure is to line up the pin hole. This way you know you're putting it in correctly.
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How to remove the SIM card in an iPhone or iPad
lol nice
No apology needed. I'm pretty regular. I don't know how to do it. I have Sprint. Never needed to change a sim card. And When i had tmobile i never did it as i always just upgraded to a new phone.
I have one on my keychain :) have since the first gen iPhone came out. Also have one in the console of my car, you know, just in case.. SIM removal tool AND weapon
That's precisely why I didn't put mine on my keychain either. I learned that from painful experience with other little tools I used to have on my keychain. I keep my SIM tool in my 5S's box so I don't lose it.
FWIW: I keep an Apple SIM removal tool on my keychain. Comes in more handy than you'd think!
ha, same here. i've poked myself in the hand with it more times than i can count.
Very helpful for me. Although I am significantly older than 3, I am a relatively new iPhone user and have wondered where the SIM was.
Yeah, I was just amazed that this was an "article".
My wife wouldn't know how to remove the SIM on her iPhone. My in-laws would not know how to remove the SIM on their iPhones, either. Point being, not everyone knows let alone sees the little card that gets slid into the side of their devices upon activating in a store. And you really don't need to know what this is unless you swap devices, troubleshoot the device with the carrier or Apple or travel abroad and need to use a domestic SIM.
I had to teach my wife and in-laws what a SIM card was, why it was needed and explain the differences between the cards you get on Verizon versus AT&T. It is nice to have articles like this that I can forward to friends and family who are stumped. I like to take my time and give visuals during my explanations - but not everyone has that sort of time nor do I want to make my own tutorials.
And this is the type of comment we already addressed. read above please.
Can I swap out the SIM card on a verizon network no problem? And if so why did I have to wait three weeks for verizon to give me a ship date to send me my phone (i ordered it midnight first day) I could not buy it from apple. (I had the 4S already) now have 5S.
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I have the official Apple SIM removal tool; it came with my 5S (I bought a unlocked one). Normally I just use a paper clip as I don't normally carry the SIM removal tool with me and paper clips are pretty easy to find. Just be careful and gentle with the paper clip so you won't scratch your iPhone.
You must have the "gold edition" lol My 5s did not come with a SIM tool :(
What's the "gold edition?" My 5S is the black & space grey. I got it at the Apple Store so that might be why it came with a SIM tool.
You can get a pack of 5 sim card removal tools for less than $2 shipped on amazon they work better than messing around with a paper clip.
Well, if I have to remove a sim right NOW, odds are I don't want to wait to get a tool shipped to me on Amazon when I have a paperclip within two feet ;)
So you don't have a stapless staplers then?
Yes, a common complaint but actually easy to find: 1) It's rectangular shaped 2) It has a hole like computers have for disc-eject trays(Floppy/CD). I know that dates me but who cares Mac OS FTW every-time.
I was looking at this with my phone on one side and my desktop on the other.
She meant , "How to remove the SIM card "FROM" an iPhone or iPad". By the way, I am a foreigner and English is NOT my native language.
I might start carrying a sim tool around with me now after reading some of these comments.
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Can I move a Verizon Galaxy S3 SIM to a Verizon iPhone 6 Plus?
Thx you very much

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The president of Gadsden State Community College is out on paid administrative leave and an interim president is taking over.
The chancellor of the Alabama Community College System, Mark Heinrich, announced Monday that President Ray Staats was placed on paid administrative leave. Heinrich named William Blow acting president.
Blow is a retired executive from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. He served as interim president at Gadsden State before Staats was hired in 2011. His appointment is effective Aug. 1.
The change comes after a no confidence vote by Gadsden State employees in May. The vote among employees at campuses in Gadsden, Anniston and Centre was 312 expressing no confidence in Staats and 34 expressing confidence.
Staats was on the Gadsden campus Monday loading his personal items into his vehicle.


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WASHINGTON – The United States has spent billions of dollars to prevent terrorists from obtaining a weapon of mass destruction even as this week's bombings in Boston further show that a nuclear weapon or lethal bioagent is not necessary for causing significant harm.
Organized group plots against the U.S. homeland since Sept. 11, 2001 have all involved conventional means of attack. Beyond that have been a handful of instances in which individuals used the postal system to deliver disease materials -- notably this week's ricin letters to President Obama and at least one senator and the 2001 anthrax mailings.
Terrorism experts offer a range of reasons for why al-Qaida or other violent militants have never met their goal of carrying out a biological, chemical, nuclear or radiological attack on the United States or another nation. These include:
-- substantive efforts by the United States and partner nations to secure the most lethal WMD materials;
-- improved border security and visa checks that deny entry to possible foreign-born terrorists;
-- a lack of imagination and drive on the part of would-be terrorists to pursue the kind of novel but technically difficult attacks that could lead to widespread dispersal of unconventional materials;
-- a general haplessness on the part of the native-born U.S. extremists who have pursued WMD attacks, specifically involving weaponized pathogens;
-- elimination of most of al-Qaida's original leadership, notably those members with the most experience orchestrating large-scale attacks abroad; and
-- the Arab Spring uprisings have likely drawn down the pool of terrorists with the proper training and focus to organize WMD attacks abroad as they have opted instead to join movements to overthrow governments in places such as Syria and Yemen.
"We killed a lot of people. That was one thing," said Randall Larsen, founding director of the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center, referring to the deaths in recent years of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and any number of his direct or philosophical adherents.
Bin Laden is known to have exhorted his followers to seek weapons of mass destruction for use in attacks against the West. Leading al-Qaida propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki of the group's Yemen affiliate, who was killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike, used his Inspire magazine to encourage sympathizers to develop and carry out their own chemical and biological attacks.
Al-Qaida also had separate efforts in Afghanistan and Malaysia that worked on developing anthrax for use in attacks before they were broken up or abandoned following the September 2001 attacks.
In the last decade, the technological means to carry out new kinds of improvised WMD attacks such as those involving laboratory-engineered pathogens has become much more available. However, it can take some time for bad actors to recognize how these new technologies can open the doorway to heretofore unseen massively disruptive terrorist attacks, according to Larsen.
Passenger airplanes were flying across the United States for decades before any terrorists realized that they would make a highly destructive improvised weapon when flown at high speeds into skyscrapers filled with thousands of people, Larsen noted.
A 2012 analysis by terrorism experts at the New America Foundation detailed a number of disrupted unconventional weapon plots against the country that counterintuitively were much more likely to involve home-grown antigovernment groups and lone-wolf actors than Muslim extremists. "In the past decade, there is no evidence that jihadist extremists in the United States have acquired or attempted to acquire material to construct CBRN weapons," according to authors Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland.
They documented a number of failed domestic plots, often involving cyanide or ricin. Only former Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins was successful in actually carrying out such an effort, killing five people with anthrax spores in 2001.
"Right-wing and left-wing extremist groups and individuals have been far more likely to acquire toxins and to assemble the makings of radiological weapons than al-Qaida sympathizers," they said.


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The University of New Mexico ski team continues Rocky Mountain Ski Association competition when they travel to Jackson, Wyoming, for the University of Alaska-Anchorage meet. Racing begins on Thursday, January 13, with the men's and women's Alpine teams taking part in giant slalom competition. The Alpine teams will continue with slalom racing on Friday, January 14. The men's and women's Nordic teams will also hit the slopes on Friday. The women will race in a 5K Classic while the men will ski a 10K Classic. The meet concludes on Saturday, January 15, with the Nordic men completing a 15K freestyle race and the Nordic women skiing a 10K freestyle.
The Lobos are currently in fifth place in the RMISA after a slow start at the Utah Invitational last week. The Lobos have been training in Jackson, Wyoming, for last couple of days and are looking for improved performances this week. Denver leads the RMISA race with 568 points, followed by Utah (488), Colorado (486) and Alaska-Anchorage (452). The Lobos' 421 points keep them in the upper-half of the RMISA, but they will have some work to do to catch Denver in the regular season race. Montana State (373), Nevada (329), Western State (242), Whitman (191) and Boise State (66) round out the rest of the RMISA.
George Brooks is in his 35th season as the head coach of the Lobo ski team, which is coming off the most successful season of any program in UNM history. The Lobos won the 2004 NCAA Skiing Championship, the first national title in any sport at the University of New Mexico. The Lobos were picked third in Ski Racing Magazine's 2005 preseason top-10. UNM will host their home event at Taos and Red River, N.M., on February 11-12, 2005.
Alpine Notes
The men's Alpine squad won the Giant Slalom team competition at the season-opening Utah Invitational. All for of the Lobo men - Peter Roering (4th), Lars Loeseth (6th), Alex Mach (8th) and Alexander Freberg (14th) - finished in the top-15 at Utah.
Sophomore Alex Mach's 8th-place finish was a career-high.
Mach was the only Lobo to finish the Slalom race at Utah, placing 18th.
Junior Gladys Weidt had the best finish among the Alpine women in either the Slalom or Giant Slalom at Utah. She placed 11th in the women's slalom race.
Junior All-American Kathrin Spendier had the best showing among the women in the Giant Slalom with her 12th-place showing.
All four of the Lobo men are returning lettermen, including 2004 All-American juniors Peter Roering and Lars Loeseth.
The women return four letterwinners, including 2004 All-Americans Helena Woodrow and Kathrin Spendier.
Newcomers to the women's team include freshmen Lene Kaasa, Staci Rixford and Jessica Burns.
Nordic Notes
The women's Nordic team posted second place finishes in both the freestyle and classic races at Utah.
Junior All-American Trine Lundamo posted career-high second place finishes in both the women's classic and freestyle races at Utah.
Senior Andrea Roberts also posted career highs with a seventh place finish in the classic and a sixth place showing the freestyle.
The Lobo men were led by freshman Inge Kristofferson's pair of top-10's. He placed eighth in the classic and sixth in the freestyle at Utah.
The women's team skied without top-returner and two-time All-American Martina Stursova. She is training with the Czech National Team and will rejoin the Lobos at the Denver meet on January 28-29.
The men's team was also with out their top-returner, Geir-Endre Rogn. He did not ski at Utah due to an illness, but could be back for the Alaska-Anchorage meet this week.


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Never buy from a mechanic who promises that parts will last over the full lifetime of a vehicle. When mechanics use this claim, they are usually just trying to get you to spend more money unnecessarily. A common example is a car that has "lifetime" transmission fluid. While the transmission fluid will last quite a while, it won't last forever. It is best to change it at the 80,000 mile mark.
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In his own lifetime, Suzuki has witnessed an explosion of scientific knowledge as well as a huge change in our relationship with the planet-a tripling of the world's population, a greatly increased ecological footprint through the global economy, and a huge growth in technological capacity. These changes have had a dire effect on Earth's ecosystems and consequently on our own well-being. To deal with this crisis, we must realize that the laws of nature have priority over the forces of economics and that the planet simply cannot sustain unfettered growth. We must also recognize the limits of scientific reductionism and the need to adopt a more holistic point of view. Perhaps most important, we must join together as a single species to respond to the problems we face. Suzuki ends by saying that change begins with each of us; all it takes is imagination and a faith in the inherent generosity of Mother Earth.
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As The Legacy releases across Canada, our pre-eminent environmentalist will be at events in cities and towns across the country.
In these appearances, David Suzuki reflects on the massive changes in the world within his living memory - from explosive population growth, to massive technological developments, to the establishment of a global economy. Ultimately, he expresses his faith in human beings' capacity for innovation and he urges us all to dream of a better world and to make it happen.
Here is where and when you can catch David Suzuki starting in September.
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Two new staff for Princecroft Willis company
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Expanding company PW Payroll Solutions (PWPS) has taken on two new members of staff after relocating to Poole.
Ben Pilley and Nancy Ryder have joined the BACS registered payroll bureau as payroll administrators.
Their recruitment coincides with PWPS moving to the offices of parent company Princecroft Willis, the chartered accountants and business advisers, at Towngate House in Parkstone Road.
Ben, who lives in the Poole area, coaches junior football at AFC Burton in his spare time. A keen runner he is also taking part in this year's North Dorset Village and also Purbeck marathons.
Nancy has lived in the Bournemouth area since 1979 and has had a varied career including Post Office manager, HM Revenue & Customs staff trainer and a National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) assessor. Outside work her hobbies include longbow archery.
Formerly based in New Milton, PWPS has been providing payroll solutions to a range of businesses in the South for more than 20 years.
The bureau now employs seven people and is looking to take on a further two.
Mandy Gardiner, head of payroll services, said: "We need new staff to cope with a growth in demand for our services.
"More businesses are deciding to outsource their payroll responsibilities and are looking for an experienced provider which offers a personal service.
"Employers are feeling the pressure of not just having to understand and comply with new legislation surrounding payroll and pensions but also the repercussions if they get it wrong. Put all this together and you can understand why outsourcing is becoming more attractive as a solution," Mandy added.


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This may well be the most asinine commentary Grossi has ever written. There is no guarantee that Andrew Luck would be a quality qb anymore than Ryan Leaf. (remember him?) But the single BIGGEST asinine factor in Grossi's reasoning is the thought that even a Pro Bowl-caliber qb is the answer for us right now. In the famous words of Bernie Kosar, "The problems on this team go way beyond who's at quarterback." Surround McCoy with a receiver, a tight end, and an offensive tackle not named Joe Thomas who's worthy of starting in the NFL and this offense (and the team) could go places.
I find that McCoy is accurate when he's not running for his life in the pocket. He threw 2 touchdown passes yesterday and on both of them, guess what? He had more than 2 seconds to throw the ball without having to run like a mad banshee. The TD pass to Massaquoi was dead-on, a tight spiral that was perfectly thrown. The fact that we cannot run the ball efficiently is a product of a revamped O-line due to injury. That is also the same reason McCoy is not as accurate as we'd all like him to be. It doesn't help that the receivers cannot get separation on any consistent basis. Oh for the likes of Braylon Edwards now. Dropped passes and all, at least he got separation and drew some attention.
Mr. Shaw, you overlook one huge, important fact when comparing the tolerance for the Browns' failures as opposed to the Tribe- the Browns are actually trying to draw talent, to do better by paying for the free agents and giving lucrative contracts to any player who shows even a semblance of making an impact. The Dolans, on the other hand, had a golden opportunity to do the same thing after the '07 season. "We're waiting until we're comparative before we hand out big contracts to attract talent." Who was the big name in free agency we got after the '07 season? Jamey Carroll. That's it. Jamey Carroll. Mr. Lerner tried to lure proven, high-priced talent here: Jeff Garcia, Shaun Rogers, Scott Fujita to name three. That they didn't pan out due to injury or lack of talent around them certainly wasn't due to a reluctance to spend money. Paul Dolan said the goal was to compete every 5 years? What is he, nuts? Even if it's true, you don't tell that to the public. That's like saying, "I want to be a great doctor about every 3 months".
On the question about a Browns fan going to the Saints game- I live in New Orleans, have been here since '82, but remain a loyal Browns fan. New Orleans is about the most opponent-friendly town you can find. I have gone to a Saints/Browns game in '87, '90, and '02. Each time I wore my Browns' jersey, and each time I was around good-natured folks. The Saints fans are rabid, but honestly, I feel at home even as a "visiting" fan. I'd be way more afraid of being an opponents fan in Cleveland Browns' Stadium. You guys are nuts. I'd be thankful to leave Browns Stadium with my arse intact.
What's embarrassing is seeing a journalist of Bill Livingston's character go on and on and on about how "embarrassing" it is for the Browns to have not been in a Super Bowl.
If Super Bowls had been started about 6 years earlier, we'd have been in two of them.
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New dental practice planned for city
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PLANS have been submitted to turn an empty city centre shop into a dental practice.
Dr Mustafa Najat, of Rydal Gardens, West Bridgford, has put forward the proposals for the ground floor of 185-191 Huntingdon Street.
In a supporting statement, Dr Najat said: "A health centre is in walking distance from our location and there are lots of 'Pay and Display' parking spaces." The city council has not set a date for the application to be considered.


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Big Innings Lead No. 8 Louisville to Series Split
April 16, 2013
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Eighth-ranked Louisville busted up an early tie with a five-run third inning, adding a six-run frame in the fourth, leading the Cardinals to a 12-5 win to split the two-game series with No. 17 Kentucky, on a gorgeous Tuesday night in front of a season-high 3,589 at Cliff Hagan Stadium.


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Hit-and-run suspect arrested Friday morning
CCPD, U.S. Marshals arrest Rodriguez in Corpus Christi
CORPUS CHRISTI - Authorities on Friday arrested a woman accused of hitting a man with an SUV at a gas station last week then fleeing.
Corpus Christi police, along with a task force from the U.S. Marshal's office, arrested Herlinda Marie Rodriguez, 30, in the 1000 block of Nueces Bay Boulevard shortly after 10:30 a.m.
Rodriguez is accused of being the driver of an SUV that on Sept. 18 struck a 44-year-old man in the parking lot of a convenience store in the 5200 block of Saratoga Boulevard. The man suffered broken ribs, according to an arrest affidavit.
Task force officers followed several leads that resulted in Rodriguez's arrest, which was without incident, police said.
Rodriguez is being held in the Nueces County Jail on suspicion of failure to stop and render aid with bond set at $50,000.
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See video of students enjoying this year's International Bazaar. Video by Tricia Long.
While speakers blasted music from all over the world, students flocked to the UC Front Lawn for the 23rd annual International Bazaar.
A sumptuous feast for the eyes, ears, mind and especially the mouth, the International Bazaar featured over 20 tables run by different culturally or internationally focused clubs and organizations at Lehigh.
Students who attended Sunday's event were treated to a wide variety of music and performances, while many of those who manned the tables wore traditional costumes from their culture and presented facts about their countries.
For those who worked the event, it was a chance to teach their peers something new. Chang Liu '12 worked the Asian Cultural Society and Chinese Cultural Society tables. He said he loves coming to the International Bazaar because of how rewarding it is to see his fellow students open up their hearts and minds to other cultures.
"Of course I love selling food and raising money for the clubs," Liu said. "But it's really great seeing so many people share their cultures with others."
It's also quite a rewarding experience for the students who attend. Most agree: The highlight is the food. There are few occasions during which students can try pad thai, baklava, shrimp dumplings and crepes all at once.
But eating isn't the only thing to do. Students can take in a performance or just gain a little more international knowledge.
Julie Stewart '10 has attended every International Bazaar since coming to Lehigh. "This is my favorite campus event of the entire year," Stewart said. "My favorite thing is the different food, but I love seeing so many different cultures."
Nick Davis '13 attended the International Bazaar for the first time this year. "I hadn't really heard much about it," Davis said, "but I'm glad I came. I didn't know we had this many cultural organizations on campus."
This one-of-a-kind event leaves an indelible mark on Lehigh students who take the time out of a busy Sunday in April. They can get a great meal, meet some interesting people, and maybe even learn a thing or two about the many different cultures at Lehigh.
Story by John Gilpatrick
Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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Watson also sent a veiled message to the PGA of America during a video interview from Kansas City, Mo., that was shown on the Ryder Cup website. He said the matches played at Gleneagles would give Europe an advantage because the European Tour has had the Johnnie Walker Championship on the course the last several years.
The Ryder Cup in America tends to go to courses that had major championships that players don't see often. It was at Oakland Hills in 2004, where players had not been in eight years; at Valhalla in 2008, which previously held a PGA Championship in 2000; and at Medinah in 2012, which last held a major six years earlier.
Europe won in 2010 at Celtic Manor, where Graeme McDowell had won the Wales Open that year. McDowell won the clinching point in the Ryder Cup.
"One thing the Europeans have done _ I would do it, too, if I had the chance _ they play the Ryder Cup matches on courses where they play European tournaments," Watson said. "The more familiar you are with a golf course, the better you're going to play. That's a clear advantage."
Watson said one reason he nearly won the British Open at age 59 was because no one had seen Turnberry since 1994, and he knew how to play the course in the various windy conditions.


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BREAKING: Hummer Returning As Hybrid/Electric SUV Brand!
General Motors announced early this morning that the HUMMER brand, formerly dead after the transformation to new-GM and the DOA sale to a Chinese tractor company no one had ever heard of, would be returning next year as the world's only hybrid/EV/electric/environmentally-sensible/responsible/not embarrassing to Americans brand.
Jim Taylor, former manager of GM's HUMMER off-road brand, beamed with pride this morning as he made the announcement that everyone had been waiting for. Standing on the steps of GM's corporate headquarters on Renaissance Avenue in Detroit, MI, Jim began reading from the press release, his voice barely disguising his excitement.
"We were faced with a crucial decision. We could let the HUMMER brand, steeped in history and beloved by the entire American public, sink into the annals of history, another completely viable marque thrown away like Saturn. Or we could choose to re-invent it, re-imagine it, and fully realize it's potential. The choice was easy."
Above: a totally real picture.
So what will General Motors do with the HUMMER franchise, formally thought to be deader than the proverbial doornail? The answer may surprise you: HUMMER will be the the General's "Halo" brand for Hybrid and EV technology. Why?
"Well, the Volt was just the start," mused Jim. "We see a transmogrification of our plug-in Hybrid technology into other segments as a necessary economics-of-scale measure to justify the EV program's existence. We can't continue to sell cars like the Volt and it's better-looking cousing the Ampera as loss leaders. Those are the kind of expenses a short-sighted company like Honda would accept, but we're still about the bottom line here. So basically, Hummer fit the bill. I mean, they weren't doing anything - why not?"
Critics and fans of the Hummer brand are already beginning to worry that a hybrid Hummer would dilute the brand's image to the point of no return. Jim has a simple retort: "Well, the H3 was actually a Chevrolet Colorado, which was actually an Isuzu, so it's not really like we had any brand image to ruin in the first place. Any dolt with his head screwed on his shoulders the right way knows that civilian Hummers were just gussied-up Tahoes and Isuzu's anyway, so how much worse could a Hybrid be? I mean, come on. The H2? you can't go lower than that."
Future Hummers will put an emphasis on looking tough while going green - a difficult balance to strike. "Off road ability isn't going to be such a focus like it as before," says Jim, "because really, no HUMMER owners ever took them further off road than accidentally going over the parking block at the mall when they dropped their latte in their lap because they were trying to talk on their phone and pet their poodle at the same time."
The first fruit of the new HUMMER resuscitation will be called the H0.5. Rumor has it that the H0.5 will use a variant of the Volt's plug-in Hybrid system, with the turbocharged 1.4L from the Cruze mated to the rest of the normal Volt electriconic gubbins. This model will initially be front-wheel-drive only, but a Hybrid AWD (using electric motors to power the rear wheels) may come to market afterwards, if the consumer demands it.
Time will tell how this strategy plays out - but it's great to see a once-dead brand being used for something relevant, even if it's just a cynical marketing exercise to create "Green Cred" even though the overall environment impact of these vehicles (including production, disposal, and charging off the mostly coal-fired power grid) is considerably worse than a regular HUMMER.


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Womanist and Saying Who We Are
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When Romeo and Juliet first meet (Act1, Scene 5, Lines 95-109), their meeting takes the form of a sonnet. Why is this?
What effect did Shakespeare intend to create by depicting the lovers' meeting in this way?
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Traditionally, sonnets are the poetic expression of love. Shakespeare is creating a play in which the main characters fall in love quickly and marry - he has to accomplish this quickly, so that he can move the plot along to its tragic outcome. In the prologue, Shakespeare lets us know that the plot will involve two "star-crossed lovers". By using the language of a sonnet for their first meeting, Shakespeare is alerting the audience to the knowledge that it is these two characters to whom he was refering.
he made it a sonnet to show that it was love at first sight and how smooth romeo was.....thats wat i think and plus it made it so much better!!
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Vastu tips for Career Luck
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Sorry forsong time I took to put up a new post. I am making up for the lost time by putting some of the most powerful vastu tips to energize your career luck. Here they go:
- If you getting delay in promotion or increment check your direction of bed. It should not be in North West.
- To get timely promotion and success in career sleep in South West bed room.
- Place a conch in the North West direction of table to increase your global network.
- If South direction is open due to entrance or balcony place Ashoka trees there.
- If your entrance is facing South or South West direction stick a Copper Swastika on Entrance.
- If your entrance is facing South East direction stick a Silver Swastika on Entrance.
- Enrich your financial luck by placing Yellow flowers in North direction.
- If your kitchen is in North direction of home and you are facing monetary issues place a handful of Coriander seeds in the North direction of Kitchen.
- Display natures picture in drawing room and family photos in dining area.
- Your entrance should be well lit by yellow focused light.
- Use light in white shade light in bathroom.
- Display shade Net fabric curtains in North direction.
- Display dark shades heavy fabric curtains in South direction.
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IBEROSTAR Club Cala Barca
Our guests reviewsIBEROSTAR Club Cala Barca
Stuart Millard says: 11 months
Thoroughly enjoyed our time at Club Cala Barca and look forward to visiting an Iberostar hotel again.
"Our 7 night stay at the Iberostar Cala Barca was the first foreign holiday for our kids. Booked via Thomas Cook, we were sold on the all-inclusive package as we weren't certain how much (or how little) our kids would eat and drink (and I was quite keen on the all-inclusive beer!). Our flight out of BHX was the first of the day at 520am, meaning a very early start for our kids. We arrived at the hotel after a 60 minute transfer at around 11am and were issued our all-inclusive wristbands, but our room wasn't to be ready until 130pm. Not a problem though, as we had the run of the hotel and settled on the terrace overlooking the pool with a round of drinks. Seeing some of the other reviews posted on Tripadvisor in the last few days, I really don't see what some people are complaining about. Yes, it's a big complex and yes, it's busy - but remember, it's August and therefore at peak holiday time - they're going to have a LOT of people on site! There are three restaurants: Baleares, Pizzeria and the Mediterano. They all serve breakfast (at staggered times) and lunch, with the Pizzeria not serving an evening meal but is open all afternoon serving snacks and drinks. The food is good, very good. There's a wide choice available too, something for all but the fussiest of tastes. And, yes, it does get busy AT PEAK TIMES. The solution: don't go at those times! We'd tend to eat in the earlier sittings, so never found it an issue getting a table at all. I can agree that the traffic in the Baleares does mean it's a hazard navigating with a plate of food, but you can't blame the hotel for the behaviour of its guests. The breakfast options included; freshly cooked omlettes and fried eggs, fruit, cold meats and cheeses, yoghurts, pastries, croissants, breads, sausage, bacon, beans, scrambled eggs, rice (!) potatoes, cereals, crepes (chocolate spread and condiments available) - what OTHER choice are you people complaining about being needed? The evening meal selection was equally as vast - if you couldn't find anything to your liking, you're too fussy. We only used the restaurants once for lunch as we spent most of the lunch times around the kids pool, so ate at the snack bar (serving chips, burgers, hot dogs, chicken bites and ice creams). The local beer (Mahou) on draught was certainly drinkable, and the soft drinks were also varied (Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Coke, Tango, Tango Lemon, Sprite and Soda). The hotel staff are, to a person, fantastic. Always smiling, interacting with the guests, happy to help - not a single one of them wore anything less than a beaming smile (and there was no suggestion that this was forced either). Our room was in block 41, a 5-10 minute stroll from the main reception out of the way of much of the hub of the resort. At night, we could just about hear the on-site entertainment so the noise didn't disturb us. The AirCon in our room was excellent, and was left set at a cool 15c for the duration of our stay. Our room consisted of a double/twin to the rear (where the entrance door was), a corridor with bathroom off it (bathroom had a bath/shower-over combination) and a large living area with two sofa beds and a terrace. We elected to put the kids in the proper bedroom and have the lounge ourselves so that we didn't have to go to bed at the same time as them and could use the terrace in the evenings. The cleaning staff attended everyday and left the place spotless. Our room (4112) didn't have the sun on it directly for much of the day so didn't warm up excessively, but there was enough direct sunlight and warmth on the balcony to dry our wet beach towels in the afternoon. There was also a small fridge and a safe in the room (20 Euros for the week, plus a 5 Euro key rental). Pool towels are available to hire for a returnable 10 Euros each. Speaking of towels: there's a house rule of no reserving sunbeds. This is roundly ignored by all and sundry and, despite the protestations to the contrary from the hotel management, the staff do NOT remove towels placed out there. I'll admit, we did drop our towels off around the kids pool on a few sunbeds on our way to breakfast a couple of mornings. Some people have complained about kids using water pistols around the pool; lighten up. We boght our kids one each and set them boundaries for how and where they could use them. Yes, they occasionally overstepped those boundaries, and so did other people's children. But if you're precious enough to complain about a bit of sprayed water then DO NOT GO TO A FAMILY RESORT! We had one small issue with the kids pool when both of our kids (and a little girl from another family) cut their toes on something on the bottom of the pool. We reported it to the lifeguard who, only speaking a little English, summoned over a member of maintenance staff who spoke fluent English to speak to us. They had a look at the pool and found a tile sitting proud which they said would be looked at (this was on our last day so I can't comment if anything was done later). The beach on site was a gem. Yes, the beach bar isn't included in the all-in deal, but you get a 25% discount there if you choose to frequent it. The sea was clear and blue and WARM! I loved swimming in the sea, and my little lad took to it like a duck to water. Yes, the sand isn't the best for playing in but we spent a pleasant afternoon there. The hotel, and Thomas Cook, run their respective kids clubs. Our kids were content to stay by the pool with us so didn't attend any of the sessions available, but the staff from the kids club were great, open and friendly. Violetta puts in such a lot of effort, and we never saw her without a beaming smile. There are five pools on site; a kids pool and large swimming pool on the family side of the site, two main pools behind the main concourse and a final "Olympic" pool by blocks 55 & 56 (the "posh" blocks). All pools got busy, but in the high heat of a hot August that was expected. None of them were ever overcrowded though and they warmed up nicely in the midday heat. Asides from the restaurants and pools, there's various sports pitches at the rear of the complex, and a good sized convenience store (Star Market) and other smaller souvenir shops on site, as well as a small gym and a games room. If you want to venture outside of the complex, there's an hourly bus service that runs to nearby Porto Petro and Cala d'Or for about 5 Euros each, or you can take a taxi. We took a ride to Porto Petro for 5.50 Euros each way, and Cala d'Or for 9 Euros each way. As a first experience of Iberostar and Mallorca, we all had a great time. Our only gripe, and this is no fault of the hotel, was our early outbound and return flights - if you can get flights mid morning both ways, you'll not feel like you've lost a day somewhere. Would we return? To an Iberostar hotel yes. To Cala Barca, no - but only because we like to go to different places and very rarely stay in the same hotels anywhere that we go. We're so happy with our holiday (both from the point of view of the hotel and our travel agent) that - 2 days after we returned - we're already considering booking up somewhere hot for next summer. Thank you Iberostar and Thomas Cook for a fantastic holiday!"Rating: 10,0
J M Ward says: 11 months
would definintely come again
"This was my first stay at Iberostar and it was excellent. The staff were brilliant, always smiling, helpful and very friendly. Accommodation was clean and tidy. We staying in block 12. This was away from the main hotel area and was perfect. Own pool and bar. Patricia was so helpful behind the bar, smiling even when she had lots of cooking orders! I would definitely recommend as it's also within a 5-10min walk to the fabulous Mondrago beach! Thanks for providing us with a brilliant holiday :)"Rating: 10,0
Amanda Jayne Browne says: 11 months
Thankyou for a wonderful holiday experience,we will highly recommend this hotel!
"We had a fantastic holiday and a great stay in the club cala Barca,all the staff are polite,friendly and a massive asset to the hotel.We had a lovely roon which was cleaned to a high standard everyday,the food was delicious with a wide choice and for the children too. I was particularly impressed with the location of the hotel and the grounds of the hotel itself-which are again maintained to a high standard."Rating: 10,0
Alan W says: 11 months
Excellent Service, great facilities and good all inclusive option
"All the staff were extremely helpful and friendly. Lots to do and great facilities - lost count of the number of swimming pools. Tennis facilities excellent and sports staff were very helpful. Restaurants and bars were really good, good food and drinks and no queues even in August! Only slight negative was the usual overcrowding round the pools - you have to be up early to grab a lounger!"Rating: 9,0
Kelly Davies says: 12 months
"Excellent stay. Check in easy and quick, our request for central location and top floor were met, thank you very much. Even though we turned up at 10.45pm we were advised to get settled and then return to restaurant for some food at 11.15pm, much welcomed. Pools were good, food was good, staff were excellent and entertainment team very good."Rating: 9,0
Chris Harburn says: 12 months
"The Hotel and facilities were excellent. Entertainment was constant with programmes starting for all age groups early on the morning and finishing with some excellent shows on the night. The teams of cleaners, groundsmen, barmen and dining room staff kept the Hotel very clean. Food was fantastic with so much choice, especially if you like fish. We will certainly look to use Iberostar next year."Rating: 9,0


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From Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall, 1998) · Downloadable PDF Issues
Table of Contents: Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall, 1998)
- From the Editor
- Form the Link to Your Shtetl
- Town Research Updates
- Bobrka
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- Przemysl
- Extractors Needed For LDS Films
- Name Index – Man and G-d in Two Worlds
- Brody Records at YIVO
- Yizkor Book Update
- Podhajce Yizkor Book Available
- 1939 Biecz Residents Listed
- Town historian for Chrzanow and Brzesko
- Create a Web Page with GG Web Designer Mark Heckman
- Jewish Records Indexing – Poland Announces Business Directory Project
- The Brandt Farm
- Letters to the Editor
- Members Correction to Contact Information
- New Members & Their Research Interests
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KATHMANDU, JUN 17 - The government formulated the mental health policy 13 years ago, but officials of the concerned ministry are ignorant about the existence of the policy's "master copy" let alone its implementation.
"We recently got a copy of the policy from a staff of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP). But we have not seen the master copy bearing the authorised seal," said a source.
Even though the Cabinet had approved the National Mental Health Policy in 1997, the law has not been implemented.
Dr. Baburam Marasini, senior public health admi-nistrator at the MoHP, said the policy could not be implemented due to lack of required human resources. He, however, expressed ignorance about the original copy's whereabouts.
The policy aimed to provide mental health services to all Nepalis by 2000. The document had also envisaged development of the required manpower to provide mental health services at the grassroots. Had the policy been implemented, there would have been at least one clinical psychologist and provision for psychological counseling in each district hospital. It had also assured to protect human rights of mental patients and to generate awareness for holistic health approach.
"Health experts say that one person out of four suffers from mental illness and the toll is likely to rise. But, the government has turned a blind eye to such important issue," said Jagannath Lamichhane, a mental health rights activist. "I couldn't get a copy of the mental health policy for long. When I got one and went through it, I found it irrelevant because it focused only on medical facilities rather than psychological and social aspects."
Statistics at Patan Mental Hospital (PMH) show that there are 0.27 million patients of severe mental illness and 4 million general in Nepal. Mental illness covers 12 to 13 percent of the total number of illness in the country, according to a research of Dr. Surendra Serchan, PMH director. There are 400 beds for patients of mental illnesses across the country with 50 in PMH.
Experts maintain that the government's failure to implement the policy has added patients' woes.
"The policy should be implemented with necessary amendment," said Lamichhane.
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Small Town Familiarity Trips Up Suspected ID Thief
For a few years, authorities say Harold R. Taylor Jr. lived in relative obscurity in a flat, dry Western Kansas town small enough that the mailman delivers to names, not addresses.
The 37-year-old Taylor has been wanted in Kitsap County since August 2005, accused of stealing a database of more than 97,000 names and personal information from a Seattle radiology clinic, then using them to order scores of credit cards, according to court documents.
He avoided prosecution on those charges, until now -- when in little Oakley, he applied for a credit card in another man's name using his address, police there allege.
In a town of 2,000, it wasn't hard to spot a fake, said Oakley Police Chief Danny Shanks.
"We're a small town," he said. "Everybody kind of knows everybody."
The saga began in late 2002 after Taylor was investigated by Poulsbo and Sequim police -- the former where one of many of his alleged credit card victims resided and the latter where he lived -- he was arrested and booked into the Clallam County jail.
Soon after, however, he was released and left town. And that was the last time Poulsbo Police Detective Grant Romaine, primary investigator on the case, knew of his whereabouts.
Romaine, with help from Sequim authorities and some of the alleged local victims, re-traced Taylor's steps.
He'd worked at Per-se Technologies, a company that conducts billing for Seattle-area radiologists, until August 2002. So when he left the company, the detective suspected he took with him patients' personal information -- and when they searched his Sequim home, they allegedly found more than 97,000 names, 20,000 of which had their Social Security numbers printed out, Romaine said.
The detective contacted -- and was contacted -- by victims in King County, Bainbridge Island, and even one Poulsbo man who'd said he'd had at least four credit card applications made without his permission.
At first, Romaine believed he might have help tracking Taylor down from the U.S. Attorney, because of the amount of alleged identity theft coming in the form of new credit cards to Taylor's residence had even alarmed the postmaster, a federal agent, in Sequim.
But no federal charges ever came. And in 2005, before the statute of limitations ran out, now-retired Kitsap County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Warren K. Sharpe filed three counts of identity theft against Taylor.
The arrest warrant went out, but surprisingly, extraditing Taylor back to Washington fell short of happening -- by 80 miles, to be exact.
Romaine said for his alleged crime, despite the potential for hundreds of victims, the extradition process only covered as far east as Colorado.
Authorities in Oakley became aware of Taylor in March 2006, Chief Shanks said. They, too, knew of his warrants out of Western Washington, and for additional ones in Corona, Calif., where he's alleged to have used the same credit card scheme. But "we had no reason to pursue that," Shanks said, knowing about the extradition policy.
But in January this year, when Oakley Police alleged he'd stolen a local identity, Kitsap authorities were contacted, and county prosecutors here gave the go-ahead for an extradition.
Kitsap County Sheriff's deputies will fly to Kansas and go to the Thomas County jail, where Taylor has agreed to voluntarily return to Washington to face the charges, and not fight the extradition.
As for his own town's possible charges against Taylor, Chief Shanks said those can wait.
"I knew he had quite a bit up there he needed to take care of," he said.
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Like most colleges, CAPS is available to any student who wishes to discuss concerns in his or her life. Some of the topics that individuals bring to the counseling center include relationships with family members, friends or partners, academic difficulties, drug and/ or alcohol use, eating and body issues, loneliness, grief, loss, stress, life transitions, issues of personal growth and a wide range of other questions and concerns.
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