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Home News Analysis The Police Massacre in San Blas, El Salvador
The Police Massacre in San Blas, El Salvador
Roberto Valencia, Óscar Martínez y Daniel Valencia Caravantes
El Salvador's National Police (PNC, by its Spanish initials) claims its agents were attacked at a farm in San Jose Villanueva during the early morning of March 26, and that while "exchanging fire," the agents killed "eight members of a criminal structure." Their story is false. The facts, reconstructed by newspaper El Faro, indicate that those killed were summarily executed and arranged to appear as if they died in a shootout.
Dennis wasn't even a gang member. When the police knocked on his door there were already seven bodies littering the San Blas farm. Dennis' mother Consuelo was in the shed next to the house, surrounded by masked police officers. She was unable to see what happened to her son but could hear. Consuelo said the only person living upstairs was her son.
The shots had stopped. The police were shouting in front of the door to Dennis' room. He was on the phone to Chus, his uncle and the farm's overseer. "What do I do?" he asked.
This story was translated, edited for clarity, and published with permission from El Faro. See the Spanish original here.
Since the original publication of this story by El Faro on July 22, El Faro has reported receiving several threats. The newspaper has reported these threats to the Attorney General's Office of El Salvador, the police, and the Ministry of Security. The newspaper registered multiple threatening posts on their social media networks, such as one post that stated, "I hope to God to catch one of the damn rats employed at this garbage newspaper." There is also evidence that one of El Faro's journalists has been followed, in the weeks following the publication of this story.
Chus asked Dennis whether the people outside his door were police or gang members. Dennis said they were police, that he had heard them as they grabbed his mother, stepfather, and younger siblings downstairs. Chus encouraged him: "If it's the police, don't be scared. The police will respect you. When they tell you to open the door, do it and get on the ground."
"And my Dennis opened the door," said Consuelo.
Chus the overseer heard one of the police through the phone: "Who are you talking to?" Then the line was cut. He tried calling back many times but no one answered.
In the shed, sitting next to the brick surface they use to dry coffee beans, Consuelo could hear Dennis. "I heard when he opened the door and got out. I felt relieved to hear his voice. I asked the [police] to let him speak, to give him the chance to explain … but they didn't."
Consuelo Hernandez de Ramirez thinks her 20-year-old son Dennis Alexander Martinez Hernandez wanted to explain to the police that he'd lived and worked at the farm for six years as its clerk, keeping track of the hours worked by all employees. She believes he wanted to tell them that he actively served at the local branch of the Biblical Baptist Tabernacle church, and that if they searched his room they would find a bible, a watch, a small knife, a bed and a TV. That he knew nothing about weapons, that he was not a gang member.
After Denis' plea, no more voices were heard. Consuelo and her family — her husband Fidencio and their three young sons — heard the final shots of that morning. Two, maybe three shots, they don't remember exactly. An officer next to Consuelo heard them as well and shouted: "Cease fire! Cease fire!" But Dennis was already dead.
Revealing a Hidden Massacre
On the morning of March 26, 2015, eight people — including one woman and two minors — died under fire from agents of the PNC's special unit the Police Reaction Group (GPR by its Spanish initials). On paper it's considered one of El Salvador's best-trained units. The massacre happened at the San Blas coffee farm in El Matazano 2, a sector of San Jose Villanueva municipality, in La Libertad department.
The official version (pdf), repeated and spread by most media sources, indicted that the eight killed were members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), who died when police responded to an attack. "The subjects fired their weapons upon discovering the police, leading to an exchange in fire," said a PNC press release shortly after the event.
But that is not what happened.
El Faro interviewed four teenagers who escaped that morning with their lives; spoke with the families of those killed and reviewed the forensic evidence, autopsies and court files. El Faro also consulted with human rights experts, medical forensics, prosecutors and a shooting instructor. El Faro examined notes, photos and videos published after the massacre, and also visited the scene and the surrounding settlements. Most importantly, El Faro discovered that a family of farmworkers was also on the scene that night and witnessed — and suffered from — the GRP's operation.
This mountain of testimonies and documents indicated that the official version is false and that terms like "massacre," "summary executions," and "scene tampering" better describe what actually happened on March 26.
Why were the Mara Salvatrucha in San Blas?
The gangs had become a problem for Dennis and his family.
They didn't all show up at once. The first was Taz, the 34-year-old "palabrero," or leader of the Ayagualos Locos (ALS) clica. ALS is based in Ayagualo, a canton of Santa Tecla, which is separated from El Matazano 2 by a road running to the port of La Libertad. Taz arrived with his new girlfriend, a 16-year-old named Sonia. Consuelo remembers Taz asked Chus for a place to stay. Taz and his girlfriend moved into San Blas a month before the massacre.
A week after Taz' arrival, another gang member named Matador started showing up at the farm. The 40-year-old member of the Teclas Locos (TLS) clique had allowed the creation of the ALS, back in his day. Both cliques formed part of the MS13 "program" in La Libertad, which frequently made headlines in the Salvadoran press and included prominent leaders like Saul Antonio Turcios, alias "13," and Dionisio Aristides Umanzor, alias "Sirra."
Matador showed up roughly 20 days before the massacre. Taz introduced him to Chus, and Matador also asked for a place to stay on occasion. Chus did know how to refuse him.
According to multiple conversations that occurred during the investigation, Matador saw the farm as a good place to hide from the police. Since mid-February, the police had been carrying out aggressive operations, following the governments' symbolic end of the gang truce with the transfer of top gang leaders to the maximum security Zacatecoluca prison.
The easiest way to get to San Blas is via a dirt road which barely fits two cars at a time. It begins at the road leading to the port, passes through the El Matazano 2 canton, then it narrows further and give out three kilometers after the El Encanto golf course. San Blas is halfway between the canton and the gold course.
The property is owned by Francisco Eduardo Menendez Guirola. It was listed with the Commercial Registry in August 2014 as a coffee farm valued at over $110,000.
(The entrance to the San Blas farm. Photo by Roberto Valencia.)
It includes two cement houses, facing each other, with wood beams and sheet metal roofs. The houses are roughly 20 meters from each other. The main house, to the left of the farm's entrance, has three rooms. The other has two rooms, which function as an office and a storeroom. On one side of the main house the ground drops three meters. Here sits the shed and stacks of sheet metal. Next to the second house is a roofless crumbling structure, behind which is a latrine. Beyond the property, its coffee plants and tiny paths that allow access to a village called El Cajon, which is part of the Huizucar municipality.
The farm offered space and privacy for the new guests. The main house was enough. Matador occupied the small room, sporadically staying the night, while Taz and Sonia occupied the middle room. Dennis had been staying in the big room since 2009. Consuelo, her husband, and their three younger sons had been staying in the shed for six months prior to the massacre. Chus, the overseer and her brother, had recommended them to the boss. Chus had a home in El Matazano 2 and visited the farm daily.
After Taz appeared, visits by other gang members and collaborators became more frequent. They'd spend the day there, sometimes staying the night. They came and went. Almost all of them were born and raised in the surrounding areas. The four survivors of the massacre had been doing this since learning that Taz had moved to San Blas. They said they would visit not only to pass time, but also to harvest izote flowers, avocados, mangos, and bananas to sell in the Santa Tecla market. Chus had given them permission as the farm did not use the fruit, they said.
According to Adalberto Gonzalez, a pastor with 18 years of service at the Biblical Baptists Tabernacle's El Matazano 2 branch, "more than 20 young men," visited the farm during that period. Gonzalez remembered nights when Dennis would ask to sleep in the church after service because it was too dangerous at the farm. The pastor said Dennis made it clear the gang members had not asked permission. "They live easy and don't ask permission from anyone," was something Dennis told him. Gonzalez told Dennis to be careful on many occasions, and Dennis told him he wasn't involved with them in any way. "I study, work and go to church."
Consuelo said that in the days prior to the massacre Chus — a rural man who usually took his machete with him wherever he went — was "very resentful" and had dared to confront Matador about the constant visits and gang members' increasing use of the farm as a hideout. Chus told Matador that many of the workers were afraid to come to the farm, and the risk of police intervention was too great. Matador promised him the visitors would leave.
Despite Matador's promise, many were visiting the day of the massacre. Those visiting included alias "Saiper" from Panchimalco, "Bote" from San Jose Villanueva, "Garrobo" and "Güereja" from Las Brumas in Zaragoza, as well as the four survivors.
That night they made soup. The night was cold, almost everyone was wearing a sweater.
"We when finished the soup everyone went to sleep. Matador went to his room. Taz went with his woman. Dennis … doesn't count, he lived separate in his room. The rest of us were relaxing," said the youngest of the survivors.
The San Blas Massacre
The GRP didn't arrive in San Blas by accident. Someone called the National Police and told them there was unusually high gang presence at the farm on the evening of March 25. Around 10 active and aspiring Mara Salvatrucha members had congregated there from various surrounding towns. Also at the farm was Dennis, Sonia, Consuelo and her family.
The call informing the police of the unusual concentration of gang members said they were "armed" and "meeting to plan some crimes," according to a report following the incident.
"It wasn't the first time we'd visited since Taz started living there, and we decided to stay because they'd made soup," another survivor said.
The Santa Tecla police branch sought the GRP's help. They were like police shock troops; the unit that would get called in if there was a hostage situation in a bank. Dressed in grey camouflage, ski masks and bullet-proof vests; sporting equipment like M-16 machine guns, 9mm pistols, and stun grenades, the GRP marched on San Blas.
While there wasn't complete consensus on exactly when the assault began, most witnesses placed it sometime past midnight. By then all that remained of the gang members' soup was an empty pot on dying embers. Meanwhile, Dennis had been in his room for hours, after having a coffee with his mom in the shed. Taz, Sonia and Matador were also in their rooms.
The remaining gang members had divided into two groups. The younger members stayed up in the house talking, while the older members including Saiper, Güereja and Garrobo occupied the crumbling structure behind the second house.
"At one point Bote was with us, the younger guys. He came to give us some cigarettes and when he went back, that's when they killed him," a survivor said.
The GRP didn't come up the road in their vehicles but instead crossed through the coffee plants on foot from El Cajon. They entered the farm from its eastern side.
"They had the spotlight on Bote and said, 'It's the Police! Freeze!' And all at once they started firing. They even turned off their light and were shooting without seeing what they were hitting," a survivor said. His version coincides with what they other three surviving youths said.
The Teclas Locos gang member Ernesto Hernandez Aguirre, alias "Bote," was killed at age 17. The autopsy couldn't determine the exact number of bullets that struck him, but estimated around 20, along his head, chest and legs. His body fell near the door of the crumbling building, under some shabby blue wagon wheels that he might have been trying to use as cover. He was hit around five times near the right ear, which destroyed his head. "It's very difficult to hit the same place five times, you'd have to be an expert to control the shots," a PNC shooting instructor explained.
Minutes before being riddled with bullets, Bote had called his girlfriend. Investigators found his body near a machete. He was carrying a backpack full of clothes, and was wearing rings (esposas? – Ed.) and a hat which his girlfriend later said wasn't Bote's. When he was killed, Bote was wearing his favorite shoes: a pair of black Dombas.
(This photo was taken March 27, 2015, a day after the massacre, right where the body of gang member Ernesto Hernandez Aguirre, alias Bote, was found. Photo by Nelson Rauda Zablah.)
According to the crime scene report, Bote was not carrying a gun, but he ended up with at least 20 shots to his body.
"Upon detecting the police presence, the subject opened fire on the officers and were able to wound one of them," said a report given to the Prosecutor General. But the four remaining survivors say the police were the first to begin shooting that morning.
The moments following Bote's shooting are the hardest to reconstruct.
"The police climbed up to the patio and started shooting in all directions," said another of the four survivors.
The survivors lived through the event because they were in the hallway of the main house and instinctually started running from the sounds of the shooting, towards Las Oscuranas road. From there, they scattered into the woods. The four swear that the remaining gang members in the crumbling building were unarmed. However, after the massacre one of the dead was photographed with an assault rifle in his hand and the other two with shotguns.
The Mara Salvatrucha says its homies didn't fire a shot that night, but the official version speaks of a GRP agent being wounded in the leg during the "exchange of fire." Consuelo and Fidencio hear some of the officers referring to a colleagues' knee being hurt, but were unable to determine if it was caused by a bullet. Meanwhile, the Santa Tecla Legal Medicine Institute, which is legally obligated to report any injured officers, gave no indication of any police being hurt during the operation.
While this was occurring, Dennis, Matador, Taz and his girlfriend Sonia remained in their respective rooms.
The second phase of the operation involved taking the crumbling building, which Saiper, Güereja and Garrobo occupied while armed with an M-16 machine gun and two 12-gauge shotguns, according to the official report.
Some time may have passed between the police gunning down Bote, and then deciding to assault the crumbling building. The structures' facade was found riddled with bullets. Most of the bullets were concentrated in the building's principal entry point.
The police tossed an ALS09NR stun grenade into the structure. The device creates a disorienting sound blast and blinding light. Launching the grenade into the building was easy, since there was no roof.
It appears that the three gang members decided to risk it and escape out of the back of the structure, where the latrine was located, a septic tank in a cubicle of rusted metal sheets. The gang members may have hoped that the police had not taken position in the area, since no shots were coming from there.
But they were.
The 27-year-old Teclas Locos gang member Jose Antonio Gomez, alias "Güereja," fell roughly eight meters from the latrine. His body was found face down next to a concrete post, with a shotgun next to him, the handle close to his feet than his hands. The gun had five shells in its magazine and one in the chamber. A forensic medical expert who read the autopsy report couldn't explain the sequence of shots. "The exit wounds on his front and back suggest he was laying down. And then what? They turned him over? The investigation should clarify this … we can't really explain more." The undertakers advised Güereja's family not to open the casket during his wake.
(A police agent inspects the body of Jose Antonio Gomez, alias "Güereja," the morning of March 26. The forensic doctor who later examined the body counted 23 bullets. Photo by Marvin Recinos (AFP).)
The 29-year-old Teclas Locos member Manuel de Jesus Gutierrez, alias "Garrobo," made it a little further than his homeboy, some 15 meters from the latrine. He was also found disfigured by shots, with a shotgun next to him and shells scattered around his body. According to the autopsy, he died due to "projectile wounds to the head, thorax and abdomen." Among the 13 bullet wounds identified by forensics, two were located in the center of the head, and two others in his arm and forearm, as if he was covering himself.
The 34-year-old veteran of the Teclas Locos, Hugo Nelso Melara, alias "Saiper," ran south from the back of the structure and his body was found 20 meters from the latrine. He was killed by 10 shots, including one to the head, according to his autopsy, ending a life which began in the small town of Panchimalco and which then involved years in Chalatenango prison, where Saiper had been imprisoned for homicide. By day, March 26, there was an M-16 rifle next to his body. The rifle had 22 cartridges which had not been fired, and another one in the gun chamber.
It's impossible to exactly determine how much time passed between the time the three men died, and the officers' decision to empty the houses. The police rejected El Faro's requests to interview the director or deputy director of the GRP.
In the main house, Dennis, Matador, Taz and his girlfriend Sonia remained in their rooms. Consuelo and Fidencio were in the shed, with their three children who they made hide under the bed.
The explosions and shots were heard not only on the farm but in the surrounding areas. Witnesses agree the shooting lasted no longer than 45 minutes, while some estimate up to an hour and a half. Witnesses also agreed that there were calm periods of 10-15 minutes, before the shooting would begin again.
Witnesses also agreed that by the time the GRP officers arrived at the shed and asked Consuelo if anyone was in the main house, only Dennis and Sonia were still alive.
At the start of the incident, Consuelo had called Dennis. He advised the rest of the family to stay in the shed. Dennis then called his uncle Chus to tell him what was happening and ask his advice, but the end was already near.
Cornered, Taz and Matador decided to leave their rooms in the main house. Matador made it three meters in the outside patio, Taz made it four. The next morning, their bodies appeared just where the roof stopped sheltering the paio. Matador had his dark sweater pulled up to his chest; his enormous tattooed stomach to the air, as if he wanted to show he was unarmed. The photographs of Taz show him shirtless during a cold night, with his pants lowered to his buttocks and his underwear raised high.
Like their homies Güereja, Garrobo, and Saiper, they were found with weapons next to them. Matador with an unfired 9mm pistol and Taz with an M4 machine gun.
Without the testimony of the GRP agents, it's impossible to say what happened when the two left the house. But the consequences were certainly clear.
Mauricio Lopez Garcia, alias "Matador," age 40, member of the Teclas Locos and a gang member since the 1990's, died from four or five shots to the head and neck, two of which first passed through his right hand, according to the autopsy.A forensic expert hypothesized that Matador had his hands up as he was shot. Matador had spent more than a decade locked up in the Quezaltepeque and Chalatenango prisons. Apart from his face, he was covered in tattoos, with the letters "MS" on his neck. He'd spent the night before the massacre not at the farm but in Colon, with his girlfriend and mother of his only child, a six-month old baby.
The 34-year-old Ayagualos Locos gang member Jose Alfredo Aldana, alias "Taz," left his room before his girlfriend Sonia. He died of "wounds to his head, thorax and abdomen," according to his autopsy. Two of the bullets, in the head. A bullet wound in his left hand indicated that he was raising his hands in a defensive position, a forensic specialist said. "Yes, the first thing you do is raise your hands," responded the specialist when asked whether the wound was evidence of someone reacting defensively.
Shortly after Taz and Matador were dead, another group of GRP officers moved to Consuelo's shed. The family didn't resist. They opened up when told to do so. Nevertheless, Fidencio, who is in his 60's and should already be retired, suffered their wrath.
"They kicked him, threw him on the floor and held him at gunpoint," said Consuelo. "Another officer arrived and asked, 'What do we do with him?' The other said not to shoot him, since there were kids around."
Consuelo and the kids were placed outside the shed under some mango trees. Fidencio was kept on the ground at gunpoint.
"Thank God the other police said don't shoot him because of the kids," said Fidencio, "I thank God for that." Like his wife, he is a religious man, and like his wife, he does not know how to read or write.
But up in the main house, the massacre hadn't ended. Taz's teenage girlfriend Sonia was next.
"I just heard them yelling to open the doors and come out," Fidencio said.
Perhaps Sonia opened the door or maybe the GRP did.
Consuelo: They took her out before Dennis.
El Faro: What did she say? Did it sound like she was resisting?
Consuelo: No. I believe that when the man told her to kneel, she kneeled.
El Faro: You heard when the police told her to kneel?
Consuelo: Yes. 'Kneel!' they said. And then some words that I'm not going to repeat, and then…. I don't know what they were asking her, but she said, 'I don't know anything.' That I could make out clear. I guess she was kneeling or something.
El Faro: And then you heard shots?
Consuelo: Just one.
El Faro: There was no more gunfire?
Consuelo: Not after that.
Sonia Esmeralda Guerrero, age 16, died from a single gunshot wound to the mouth, which destroyed the upper part of her spinal column. According to her autopsy, the bullet entered centimeters from her lips, also destroying several teeth and part of her jaw. The eighth-grader was tall and happy and had been active in her church for several years. But she fell in love with Taz and didn't know how to say no when he asked her to live with him. Neither her family or Consuelo — who had grown close to her during Sonia's time on the farm — could imagine her brandishing a weapon. The four surviving gang members also deny that possibility.
"She was very posh," said the youngest of them. "She didn't even like to get her fingernails dirty."
This conflicts with the official version. Sonia's body was found with a Glock pistol in her left hand, a bullet magazine in her pocket, and another one stuffed into her bra, pressed against her small breasts, according to the crime scene report.
(These two images of Sonia Guerrero circulated on social media networks after the massacre. They were taken before forensic agents from Medicina Legal removed the bodies.)
However, a different photo of the crime scene shows the pistol in a different position and the bullet magazines have disappeared. One of the consulted forensic experts said bluntly, "It's impossible for the gun to have moved itself between photos. They probably fabricated this scene."
With Sonia dead, the police went to Dennis' room, which is when he called his uncle Chus, the overseer.
His mother, stepfather and brothers heard everything.
Dennis was shot through the head, according to his autopsy, entering the left frontal region, and then exiting below his right eye. The bullet was shot from above and went through his head in a downward trajectory. Another bullet hit his right arm, 12 centimeters from his shoulder, and stayed lodged inside of him.
By dawn, next to his body were two hooks and a knife.
Dennis wasn't even a gang member.
The March for Peace
On the morning of March 26, as the eight bodies on San Blas farm still waited for forensic teams to arrive, in San Salvador and other department capitals, the National Council for Citizen Security and the government of President Salvador Sanchez Ceren organized a march for peace. Some 200,000 participated, according to official numbers. Here are some of President Sanchez Ceren's comments during the event:
"This is a beautiful day, full of love, the streets of El Salvador are dressed in love."
"All are essential, no one is replaceable in this grand battle, this grand battle in which we need to show our love, in the home."
"We need to rescue our communities and co-exist in harmony."
"We need to rid our hearts of hate and learn tolerance, understanding, to comprehend that we are all indispensable in life."
"I pay tribute to all the victims of violence and crime in our country. We reaffirm our commitment that no crime will go unpunished."
On the morning of March 26, Consuelo and her family were taken to the PNC office in Santa Tecla. The Salvadoran governments knows that a family of farmers were at San Blas that night, but in the16 weeks that followed, Consuelo hasn't seen a single prosecutor, police, or representative from the Prosecutor General's human rights division. After a little over two weeks they returned to living in San Blas. No one has asked them what they witnessed that night.
On April 13, some 18 days after the massacre, President Sanchez Ceren boasted that 140 of the 481 homicides in March were gang members killed during confrontations with the PNC. At the time, March was El Salvador's most violent month in a decade. Dennis and Sonia were part of the president's statistics.
Chus the farm overseer disappeared 19 days after the massacre. His body appeared a day later, his face shredded by a machete.
On the morning of April 14, 2015, Jesus Hernandez Martinez, age 44, the San Blas farm overseer, brother of Consuelo and uncle to Dennis, left for work at 6.30 a.m. No one knew anything else about his whereabouts for more than 24 hours.
At 7.15 a.m. on April 15, a call to the Huizucar police station reported there was a body on the main street of the town of El Zapote. This area is not controlled by the Mara Salvatrucha, but their rivals the Barrio 18. A quarter of an hour later, a patrol arrived. Two hours later, a forensic specialist.
The autopsy said the body had five wounds produced from a sharp-edged weapon, such as a machete, to the face. There was also a blue nylon rope looped around his neck. The bones of his skull were crashed, as was his face and teeth. He died from asphyxiation and as a result from the slash wounds.
He carried no ID. His wife recognized him when she arrived to the Santa Tecla police station, asking to see photographs of bodies that had appeared in the last few hours. One of the photos was the body of Chus the overseer.
Chus was the last person to speak with Dennis. His cellphone – purchased just a few weeks ago – is missing, along with other personal items belonging to Dennis, such as his watch and Bible. Someone stole them from the room that morning. Two family members have since received calls from that same cell phone, weeks after Dennis was killed by the bullets of some GRP agent. They haven't dared to answer.
According to Consuelo, Chus was "indignant and hurt" after the massacre. He swore to many people that the police hadn't given his nephew a chance to surrender, that they killed him in cold blood. Chus was present while the police processed the scene, and he ranted, calling them assassins.
Afterwards, he was killed. When we asked Consuelo who she is afraid of, she said the police.
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The Story of the Santa Fe Wanderers
A better life and the beautiful game
Clarence Dennis
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The Santa Fe Wanderers have played in the Kansas City, Kansas Soccer League since 1998. (Contributed | Santa Fe Wanderers)
Published March 6th, 2020 at 11:00 AM
To say Luis Cadena plays for the name on the front of his jersey would be an understatement.
Cadena's a Wanderer by blood.
"He struggled quite a bit in the beginning," the 26-year-old said, quietly recounting a few details of his father Lorenzo Cadena's search for a better life in the United States.
That journey began in 1986, when the senior Cadena left his home and college enrollment in Chihuahua, Mexico, behind. The first stop out of Mexico was El Paso, Texas. He eventually made his way to Kansas City.
"He got here, he didn't know anybody, he didn't speak the language. He was living under the bridges in downtown Kansas City," Cadena said.
Months roughing it along Southwest Boulevard and in Argentine food kitchens went by in the unfamiliar heart of his brand-new country, until, thanks to a friend of a friend of a friend, work came with a residential painting company.
Cue the proverbial "American Dream."
The team poses for a photo after the 2010 league title game. (Courtesy | Santa Fe Wanderers)
"Over time he eventually started up his own business and his brothers were now in Kansas City as well — brothers in law and other family members. The community started to grow," Luis Cardena said.
And where the Cadenas are from, where there's community, there's soccer. Afterall, what's a better life without the beautiful game?
In 1998, Cadena, along with his brother Alonzo and a few friends, founded "Club de Futbol Chihuahua" — the team of most humble beginnings in the top tier of the Kansas City, Kansas Soccer League, the most competitive adult league in the state.
Sundays during soccer seasons start in the church and finish on the pitch. And while the two-part tradition spent with friends and family stuck, the club's original name did not.
Just before the turn of the millenium, "Club de Futbol Chihuahua" became the "Santa Fe Wanderers" — a nod to Lorenzo Cadena's odyssey into the unknown more than 10 years before.
Former Santa Fe Wanderer crests (Santa Fe Wanderers website)
"It was a team truly founded by immigrants," said Luis Cadena, who took over his family club as the Wanderer's player/owner in 2016. It was the logical next step for the then-college student, who spent a handful of seasons as a Wanderer, dating back to when the adults decided he was talented enough to be rostered.
Cadena played two years of college soccer at Johnson County Community College, then two more at MidAmerica Nazarene University. When it comes to his lifelong bond with soccer, along with his education, all of the credit goes to his father and the bold decision he made so many years ago.
Luis Cadena (second from left) poses for a pre-match photo. (Contributed | Santa Fe Wanderers)
In more than 20 years since its creation, the Wanderers have been a regular in the KCKASL, which fields a handful of other immigrant-centered teams from all over the world. Under Cadena's leadership, the club has expanded to compete in other semi-pro or regional leagues across the Midwest, like the new Great Plains Premier League and fields a roster that's competitive as ever.
Additionally, the club recently launched its youth program and has plans to support the next generation of players to come out of their community.
"We made it a tradition way back when the team was founded and just kind of found it as a gathering place for the family to reunite. Soccer kept the family tied together no matter which directions we were heading in life. It was just the meeting place for us," the second-generation Wanderer said.
"It touches back to the origins and the roots of where we came from."
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There is plenty of evidence that trade occurred between the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and the native cultures of the American Southwest. These groups were not unaware of each other, and their jostling was often felt in adjacent neighboring systems. The introduction of the horse to the plains Indians had the effect of extending their range and adding surprise to their arsenal. But the horse also brought contact with the remnants of Cortez's heritage in Mexico – the pandemic of European diseases that wiped out most of the indigenous population.
The epidemic that swept through the Pacific Northwest in the 1770's began over two hundred years earlier as soon as the first Europeans stepped off their boats in Hispaniola. In 1520 Cortez attacked the Aztecs and his Lieutenant Panfilo de Narvaez landed near the contemporary city of Vera Cruz. Among his troops was an African slave named Francisco Eguia, who had smallpox. The disease became a pandemic and quickly spread to the native population and swept through the Aztecs capital, Tenochtitlan.
In the 1770′s, the pandemic swept north from Guatemala. Soon it reached the Navaho pueblos in New Mexico and from there it moved onto the Comanche who traded with their linguistic cousins the Shoshones and Crows. The Shoshones' traditional territory bridged the Rockies where they traded both with the Blackfeet on the Plains and with the Kootenai and Piegan Indians on the western slopes of the Rockies. Following that vector it moved through the Salish Indians in Idaho and Montana, to the Nez Perce and on down the Columbia to the Chinook and coastal tribes. By the late 1770's the Pacific Northwest was engulfed in one of the most calamitous pandemics ever know to man.
What's significant about this new information is that the major destruction of the native populations occurred before the arrival of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest. Even before Gray crossed the Columbia bar the region had already been devastated by at least two smallpox scourges that killed almost 20% of the population. Lewis and Clark also noted evidence that an epidemic had passed through the area about 30 years before their arrival. But from 1825 until the time the first wagon trains arrived in 1843, over 90% of the Indians living in the Willamette Valley perished as a result of successive waves of disease sweeping though the Northwest.
The contemporary accounts by fur trappers during the periodic outbreaks of contagion are absolutely haunting as they soon found themselves traveling through a landscape of death. As they made their rounds and collected packets of pelts from local Indian trappers, fewer and fewer Indians turned up with pelts to trade. Soon the fur traders began to venture up into the mountains to see what had happened – only to find whole encampments filled with the dead or dying. Indians lay in their lodges too weak to fend for themselves. All around lay the corpses of those that had already perished. In one haunting incident, a fur trader asked about a village he had visited during his previous travels. He was told that not only had the entire village perished, but everyone who had known of the place had also died. Pausing, his local guide then quietly reflected saying, "of them remained not even a name"!
It is in this context of turmoil and catastrophe that the initial contact with European took place. Waterborne contact by Gray in 1792 followed hard on the heals of contagion that had hit the area in the 1770's and 1780's. Another epidemic hit in 1801, just before Lewis and Clark arrived. Ongoing contacts with European "coasters" brought repeated contact with small pox, malaria and diphtheria. By the time that settlers began to arrive in this area the tribes had been decimated. Many of the bands fell apart leaving their ancestral lands, sometimes moving in with the remnants of other tattered tribes. Trade and transportation routes collapsed. Local languages began to disappear as Chinook trade jargon and English began to replace the older languages. The renowned scholar, Henry Dobyens, that has done the greatest amount of work on establishing the actual population levels prior to contact, has estimated that in the first 130 years after contact more than 95% of the native peoples in the Americas perished.
Perhaps the most tragic of the local Indians were the Multnomahs that lived in numerous villages on Sauvie Island and along the banks of the lower Willamette River. They lived in large sturdy lodges colorfully decorated with carved totemic images and painted upright roof posts. The south shore of Sauvie Island was a busy place. Rows of brightly colored canoes with carved figures on the prow lined the channel. On the shore women worked on curing the meat and fish over fires, or weaving garments from rushes and cedar bark. The very old and young bustled along the shores tending to the fish traps, while the men of the village set the salmon nets in the river. Life was good for the Multnomahs, blessed as they were with a plethora of trout, salmon, sturgeon, elk, deer, wapato plant, camas lilies, salal berries, and even local tobacco.
But with the arrival of the white man on the Columbia all that came to a sudden and tragic end. Early settlers recall the Multnomahs in the thousands, but the introduction of the measles in 1829 and later the arrival of malaria quickly decimated the tribe.
Due to their proximity to Fort Vancouver the Multnomahs were frequent visitors at the fort, but one day they ceased coming. When people were sent to investigate they found the villages littered with hundreds of dead bodies. Only one woman was still alive and she told of a great sickness that had literally extinguished the Multnomahs. She too died hours later. It is thought that a recently arrived ship had introduced clouds of malarial mosquitos that had swarmed out of the ship's bilge and infected the Indians as they watched the vessel sail upriver to the fort.
In their legends the Multnomahs had told of a great canoe with white wings that would ascend the Columbia. When it came to rest in the evening it issued forth a great roar and a cloud that struck terror into the heart of all that heard and saw it. From the sides of the vessel came black clouds and wherever these noxious fumes alighted they brought utter death and destruction. And so it occurred.


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To quote my favorite Italian poet: "Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!"
Concise - and wrong. How does "rats!" go to "rapes!" Oy.
Sono sicuro che è stato eloquente e conciso.
Rammendilo! Ho scritto qualcosa ed è sparito dallo schermo! Ratti!
ANd all the above includes at least some of, or many of, or one of, the below aforementioned.
Of course not, Ms MLS. It's just that I won't get sued or taken away by the Copyright Polizei and cast into some oubliette at the Library of Congress to rot while their Inquisitors put me to the Questions. Like, "My son needs a book on the Normandy Invasion but it can't have any violence in it" or "Do you have a photograph of Moses?" Horrible, horrible.
Some of the theology courses I had were Sacramental Theology, Social Theology, Scriptural Theology, and Social Justice. Some of the philosophy courses were Logic (including both traditional and symbolic), Existentialism, Classical, Cosmology, and Contemporary Philosophical Thought. Drama (as drama, as opposed to drama as literature) included Shakespeare, Modern, Ancient, Medieval, and Contemporary; some of the classes included acting various parts.
Whoof!! For a minute I was beleaguered by sneering dark-garbed evil villains with snickering blades; I fought valiantly but their slurs and innuendos were more than I could bear. Suddenly, crashing through the clerestory windows on a white charger, the Lady Eiseley of the North, her wand breathing silver fire, came crashing and galloping, her noble steed breathing smoke and fire, the keen electric fire in her eyes spelling sure defeat to all minions of the Dark Side. Behold, my vitality restored, I booted the conquered vagabond knaves out the broken window and watched them plummet into the moat below.
I liked your poem, Amos.
Mr. MLS, Just because something is out of copyright doesn't mean you have the right to claim authorship. That you will claim it and are able to claim it (deceiving a few) doesn't make it right. What kind of theology did you study, or was it merely academic and not practicable?
Wow. It's worse than I thought.


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Чмир (як русизм — Чмирь) — українське прізвище.

Відомі носії:
 Чмир Олена Петрівна — директор Новгород-Сіверського центру дитячої та юнацької творчості, заслужений працівник освіти України.
 Чмир Павло Іванович (1920, с. Грузьке, Київщина — 1986) — журналіст, поет.
 Чмир Валерій Павлович (* 7 травня 1947, м. Пирятин, Полтавська обл.) — український лікар, письменник, журналіст, політик.
 Чмирь Юрій Павлович (* 1972) — член Партії Регіонів, заступник Глави Адміністрації Президента України
 Чмирь Сергій Михайлович (* 1961) — український політик, член СПУ
 Чмирь Олександр Вікторович — селищний голова Іванівської селищної ради Херсонської області.

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Passengers travelling this weekend are asked to check the LIAT website (www.liat.com), the LIAT Facebook Page, their local LIAT office, or to call the LIAT Call Centre from Antigua – 1-268-480-5582; toll free from the rest of the Caribbean – 1-888-844-5428 and from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands – 1-866-549-5428 for information on the status of their flights.
Customers are advised to continue monitoring radio stations for further updates.
Without impending disruption Liat always have delays, is nothing new to anyone. Liat it is time to pull your socks up and sort out management, time table and organising staff in order that your customers are not left waiting and unsure whether and when they are reaching Their final destination. No more excuses of delays.
Would you prefer Liat to fly despite the adverse weather condition?
I certainly know what my preference is!
Be pragmatic and stop spouting destructive criticism.


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You may think I'm joking, but West Virginia has some beautiful beaches. Sure, we're landlocked, and the closest ocean vacations are in Virginia and North Carolina, but West Virginia's lakes and rivers offer some great beaches, too. Here are a few favorites.
1. Summersville Lake
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The Battle Run area of Summersville Lake has a great beach.
2. Sutton Lake
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If you're visiting this lake in Braxton and Webster counties, check out Bee Run Beach.
3. Jennings Randolph Lake
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Jennings Randolph Lake is located in Mineral County, W.Va. and Garrett County, Maryland. If you visit, check out Shaw Beach.
4.. Tygart Lake State Park
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The beach area at Tygart Lake State Park had been closed for six years, but reopened in 2014. It has a renovated bathhouse and picnic area, gift shop and hourseshoe and Bocce ball courts. There are also kayaks for rent.
5. The Stuart Recreation Area in Elkins
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There's a nice beach at Shavers Fork in the Stuart Recreation Area of the Monongahela National Forest.
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Explore: Malaysia - Formalities
Clearance Agents
Yachting Essentials
Diplomatic Missions
It is now a requirement for all visitors to Malaysia to be fingerprinted. This may mean that marinas which previously handled all formalities, can no longer do so, and a visit to the official offices is required.
Note: It is now a requirement for private vessels over 24 meters to use a clearance agent if clearing in at Langkawi.
Motor Vessels/Yachts and any vessel over 24 meters are now required to use an Officially Approved agent to clear in and out.
There are 12 registered immigration clearance agents currently (see list here). It is recommended to appoint an agent in advance as they are required to prepare crew and passenger lists plus to screen for any stowaway or crew/passenger that requires a visa to enter Malaysia. Costs for an agent start from MYR150 (US$36).
Sailing Yachts with an auxiliary engine (or engines) are still permitted to clear in and out independently, however, using an agent is encouraged to simplify the procedure.
Any vessel with 5 or more persons on board, regardless of length or tonnage, is recommended to use an agent.
ARRIVAL FORMALITIES
General Process:
Yachts are only allowed to enter at one of the official ports of entry. It is important to fly the Q flag on arrival.
Visit offices in the following order:
1. Immigration: You will need to give copies of all passports and the ship's papers (go prepared as it's unlikely you will be able to make copies there). The Immigration form will need to be filled in (side 1 – boat details, side 2 – crew details), and you will be fingerprinted.
You then normally have several days to register with:
2. Jabatan Laut (Marine Department, also called Harbour Master's department): Take ship's papers (and a copy) and boat insurance documents. You will need to fill in more forms and they will give you a document in return.
3. Customs: Take last port clearance (Zarpe) and the Jabatan Laut document. See more details in the Customs section below.
In some ports, you may also be required to visit Health, who will want to see crew list, animals and health certificates. The Health Department may also require a de-ratting certificate or a de-ratting exemption certificate.
CLEARING OUT
Domestic Clearance:
If leaving (or arriving from) one Malaysia state to another (Sabah, Sarawak or the Malay peninsula), ensure to both clear in and out with all the above offices.
A new rule (see Immigration section below) states that Immigration must be visited in every port in Malaysia.
Sabah: Yachts need to have a port clearance document when leaving a port in Sabah (either for a local or an international destination). In the case of an accident/incident, it will be requested.
International Clearance:
When clearing out to leave the country, all the above offices must be visited (in reverse order) and a port clearance must be obtained from Customs.
Yachts are only allowed to leave Malaysia from official ports of entry, but if one wants to sail on to a place which does not have facilities for clearance, permission may be obtained when the port clearance is requested.
If clearing out of Malaysia to proceed to Thailand, ensure that crew who are planning to leave your boat there are noted as "passengers". This will avoid them having to place a bond on arrival in Thailand, which can be difficult to recover.
Last updated: December 2018
Immigration Procedure
All crew members must visit Immigration immediately upon arrival in person as fingerprinting is now required.
All visitors must have a passport valid for at least six months.
A visitor's pass may be issued on arrival at the port of entry. Its period of validity is at the discretion of the local Immigration officer and will depend on nationality, but is unlikely to be longer than 3 months.
Yacht crews heading to Thailand from Langkawi will not be issued 90 day (or for some nationalities 30 day) tourist visas on their return to Malaysia unless they have been 'away' for at least seven days (as per the order from the Director General of Malaysia dated 15th June 2017, stating that those who are issued a visitor pass and have stayed for the full or almost full term of their eligibility are required to be at least 7 days outside of Malaysia before returning).
The list of nationalities that receive a 90-day visa on arrival is ever-changing. See the Malaysian Government website for a useful table detailing the latest information, including which nationalities require a visa in advance.
Citizens of Israel have to apply for special permission.
Extensions are difficult to obtain. In principle, yachts may remain indefinitely, but this depends on getting extensions of the visitor's pass.
Moving from Port to Port
Yachts are required to clear with Immigration at every port in Malaysia.
This is a long-standing rule which is not utilised in all ports, however, cruisers have reported that it is currently being enforced in Langkawi and Penang and quite possibly other ports. The document given during check in before going to the next port is called the "Certificate of Clearance' and the crew/passenger are required to show the document at every port and submit the document at the last port before going to next international port.
It is highly likely that each Immigration office will want to take fingerprints as well.
Sabah & Sarawak:
Sabah and Sarawak have their own Immigration Law which varies slightly from the Peninsular Law. This means that yachts travelling between the Malay peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak are required to clear with Immigration at every port.
It is no longer the case that a new 90-day visitor's visa will be automatically issued on arrival in Sarawak or Sabah. Most visitors will only be granted the time remaining on their original Malaysian visa (Nationals from Commonwealth countries may be granted an extension). It is necessary to have your original visa cancelled or to the ensure you have enough time remaining on your visa before leaving Malaysia. It is also possible to make a quick visit to either Singapore or Thailand to obtain another 3-month visa.
Incoming Crew and Guests:
All visitors must possess adequate funds for their stay (at least 50 USD per day or 1000 USD per month, excluding place of stay).
Arriving by Yacht:
Private yachts are permitted to stay indefinitely in Malaysia.
Upon arrival Customs will want clearance documentation from your last foreign port, and may ask to keep a copy.
They may also ask for a crew list and a copy of the yacht's registration document. The Master of the yacht may be asked sign a form declaring that there are no illegal drugs or undeclared firearms aboard.
The requirement to list alcohol store in Langkawi has now been dropped but not at other entry ports.
Request for Clearance form issued at the Jabatan Laut will be exchanged for a pale yellow Clearance document. This document is important, and will need to be taken to Customs when later clearing in to the next port. Sometimes two copies are issued, one to be given to Customs at the next check-in, the other retained.
Officers are aware that plans sometimes change and understand if the stated destination is different. Customs may request that the Clearance be retained and re- presented later when clearing out.
Customs Regulations (Arriving by Yacht or Air):
The Malaysian authorities make it very clear that trafficking in illegal drugs carries the death penalty, and that this applies also to foreign nationals. This death penalty has been carried out.
Firearms must be declared and then sealed by the Customs officer. A permit for firearms is required.
All medications or health supplements must be in the original packaging. Visitors requiring an unusual medicine, or requiring the use of scheduled drugs, such as morphine tablets or the use of syringes, should carry a letter from the prescribing doctor.
Many other items are absolutely prohibited:
Any item from Israel.
Fruits from The Philippines and Indonesia, turtle eggs, daggers and flick knives, articles resembling syringes and poisonous chemicals. Any literature on communism.
It is advisable to check with the Customs Office on arrival if in doubt about any item.
Importing Parts/Spares:
An important note on importing spare parts into Malaysia generally. Yacht spares are duty free if for a yacht in transit. The official government document says:
"Spares for ships in transit must carry harmonized tariff code 9800.00.700 and with this is tax free. Applies only to goods intended for incorporation in ships or vessels for the purpose of their construction, repair, maintenance or for fitting out or equipping such vessels. The spares imported are to be solely used by such vessels of an international nature departing to a destination outside the country."
DHL are reported to be better than Fedex at achieving duty free import. Don't forget to include the harmonization code. Once the package arrives in Malaysia you will have to contact the local DHL office with your ship registration and captain's passport before they can get customs to release the goods.
Last updated: April 2019
Check the CDC website for the latest health warning to travellers in the area. Government and private hospitals charge for all services and private care is expensive.
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases:
CDC Recommends a typhoid and hepatitis A vaccination.
A Yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from all visitors coming from or going to/through Yellow fever endemic countries as listed on the Malaysian Government website
Food and Water Concerns:
You can get typhoid or hepatitis A through contaminated food or water in Malaysia.
Leptospirosis is present in many areas. Familiarize yourself with the signs by reading this article.
Mosquito-borne Diseases:
Malaysia has been noted as at risk from the zika virus.
Malaria prophylaxis is recommended for travels inland or to Sabah.
Dengue fever is present throughout Malaysia. Cases have increased considerably in the Penang area. Take appropriate precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.
Bats, monkeys, and feral cats and dogs may carry the rabies virus. If you are bitten, seek medical attention.
It is a requirement for yachts checking into Langkawi and Penang that they have third party insurance cover for their yachts. Be prepared to show these papers on check in and check out.
There are no fees for clearance during normal working hours.
Overtime fees are charged for clearance after working hours, at weekends and on public holidays. Penang has a 24-hour clearance service, but overtime is payable 1800-0700.
Light dues are payable at 20 cents per NRT. Harbor fees are payable according to tonnage and length.
Last updated: September 2018
The Security area Pulau Song Song and firing ranges as notified in Notices to Mariners are prohibited areas.
Vessels are not permitted to sail from 1800hrs to dawn in the waters along the coast of Eastern Sabah and Borneo.
It is prohibited to fill jerry cans with diesel at petrol stations. One jerry can per visit to the petrol station may be acceptable. How strictly the regulations are applied varies. Otherwise it is possible to get a permit to fill more than one can.
If intending to dive, a permit is required for Sipadan island (fee charged) and Layang Layang (excessive paperwork, but no fees). There are no fees for sailing around the other local national park waters but if boaters want to go to the islands they need to pay a landing fee (Rm100-200) and a daily Parks fee of Rm10 per pax for foreigners. No dropping anchors is permitted in park waters.
Although a multicultural country, the majority of the Malaysian population are Muslim. You should dress modestly, particularly in conservative and rural areas and when visiting places of worship.
You should respect local traditions, customs, laws, and religions, especially during the holy month of Ramadan.
There are severe penalties for all drug offenses.
There are currently 12 registered immigration clearance agents at Kuah Jetty Immigration, Langkawi (this list is expected to expand). Every registered agent is required to have a legal bond and money bond with the Immigration department. This is to ensure that there is no violation of the Immigration Law and the agents are responsible for the people on board.
Agents include:
1. Nautical Bits Sdn Bhd
2. Langkawi Andaman Ferry Ventures Sdn Bhd
3. Sea Splash Travel Sdn Bhd
4. Blue Water Star Sailing Sdn Bhd
5. Fazil Talib & Saudara Sdn Bhd
6. Tropical Charters Sdn Bhd
7. MT Asia Services Sdn Bhd
8. Punca Alam Enterprise
9. Maju Enterprise
10. APS Langkawi Sdn Bhd
11. SBM Shipping Freight (M) Sdn Bhd
12. Malaysian Shipping Agencies Sdn Bhd
Seal Superyachts Malaysia
Department of Veterinary Services Malaysia (DVS)
Also known as Jabatan Perkhidmatan Haiwan (JPH) in Malay.
The full information of the protocols required can be found at http://intranet.dvs.gov.my/index.php/pages/view/1627 (English option)
Animals will not be allowed ashore unless cleared by the health department and all the normal animal import protocols have been completed. Then an import permit must be obtained from the DVS.
There is no special provision for cruisers to be allowed to take their pets ashore and, it appears, the conditions for importing a pet might be difficult for a sailor to comply with.
Dogs and cats from other countries than the United Kingdom, Eire, Northern Ireland, Sweden, New Zealand, Japan, Brunei and Singapore are subject to quarantine of at least 7 days.
Last updated: November 2017


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Sometimes overshadowed by neighbours Liverpool and Manchester, St Helens is a substantial community in its own right, with a population of over 100,000. It was once among the world's largest producers of glass, and the World of Glass Museum in the town centre tells the industry's story. Other museums include the Museum of Road Transport, which displays many classic buses. There are two theatres in St Helens: the Theatre Royal and the Citadel Arts Centre. The town has a number of parks, including the 1890s Taylor Park and the more central Victoria Park. With your car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, you could also drive out to Sherdley Park in Sutton or Gaskell Park in Parr. St Helens is famous for its devotion to rugby league, and the town's professional team play at a new stadium on the outskirts. Popular attractions within a few miles of St Helens include Haydock Park Racecourse in Newton-le-Willows and the Carr Mill Dam reservoir. St Helens' Enterprise branch is outside the town centre on Liverpool Road, slightly off the A58 dual carriageway towards Liverpool.
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Shadows of the Moulin Rouge is a 1913 American silent drama film directed by Alice Guy and starring Fraunie Fraunholz, Claire Whitney and Joseph Levering. It was produced by Solax Studios at Fort Lee, then picked up for release by William Fox's Box Office Attractions, a forerunner of Fox Film.

Cast
 Fraunie Fraunholz as Dr. Chevrele
 Claire Whitney as Mrs. Dupont
 Joseph Levering as Mr. Dupont
 John Scott
 George Paxton

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Bibliography
 St. Pierre, Paul Matthew. E.A. Dupont and his Contribution to British Film: Varieté, Moulin Rouge, Piccadilly, Atlantic, Two Worlds, Cape Forlorn. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.

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MainAll NewsMiddle EastHamas Minister: First Israel, then the World
Hamas Minister: First Israel, then the World
Hamas minister vows to 'uproot the Jews' as first step toward global Islam, threatens to fire Muslim workers who fail to pray.
Tags: Global Jihad Hamas-Gaza Hamas Fathi Hamad
Dalit Halevy, Maayana Miskin , Dec 24 , 2013 7:11 PM
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The ultimate goal of the Hamas movement is to establish Islam worldwide, Hamas minister Fathi Hammad declared during a recent public address in Gaza.
"We shall liberate our land, Allah willing. We shall liberate our Al-Aqsa Mosque, and our cities and villages, as a prelude to the establishment of the future Islamic Caliphate. Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are at the threshold of a global Islamic civilization era," Hammad proclaimed.
"The fuel and spearhead of this era will be Gaza, and its mujahideen and leaders will be from Gaza, Allah willing," he added.
Hammad's speech was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
He then appealed to Fatah, which heads the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria, to stop negotiating with Israel.
"We just sit and talk to the Jews. Enough with that! Come join us, the legions of the believers, which have translated the Koran into victory, the law of the Prophet's ancestors into glory, and Jihad into liberation," he urged.
"We shall be coming with a third Intifada, an armed revolution, a Jihadi revolution, Allah willing," Hammad continued, adding that "Gaza and the West Bank will fuse together, along with our brothers within the 1948 borders, in a second Battle of Hattin, in order to uproot the Jews," referencing the defeat of Christian Crusader forces by Saladin's Muslim army in 1187.
Other sources quoted Hammad as warning that Hamas will fire any member of its armed forces, including the Gaza police, who does not take part in morning prayers.
Hammad, Hamas' Minister of the Interior, is known to support the institution of Islamic law (Sharia) in Gaza.


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South Carolina – The Palmetto State
by acronymmonster February 24, 2022 October 20, 2022
Smiling faces and beautiful places are not only the motto of one of the warmest states in America, but also the everyday reality of South Carolina, which is located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, washed by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. Luxurious colonial architecture and kilometer-long beaches are what millions of tourists who come to the state from all over the world meet. The coastline of the state is almost completely suitable for swimming and beach equipment, and the longest line of beaches stretches for almost 100 kilometers.
Luxurious colonial architecture and kilometer-long beaches are what millions of tourists come to South Carolina from all over the world.
It almost never snows in South Carolina. The minimum temperature of the winter months rarely falls below two degrees, and precipitation almost always falls in the form of hail.
Countryaah – Cities in South Carolina: List of all municipalities in the state of South Carolina, including cities and towns of South Carolina.
The state capital is Colombia.
The largest cities are Charleston, Rock Hill, Spartanburg.
You can get to South Carolina through the transit airports of the largest cities of the US Atlantic coast – New York, Atlanta, Charlotte and Philadelphia. Airplanes from Detroit, Dallas and Houston regularly fly to the capital of the state, Columbia. A railroad runs through the region and the famous Silver Star train runs from New York to Miami. Both cities have direct flights from Russia, so you can try this route as well. During the journey, the train passes through Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Savannah. The trip promises to be exciting.
Kongari National Park
Anyone who arrives in Colombia has the opportunity to visit one of the few tracts of relic forest on the East Coast of the United States. The park is located at a distance of thirty kilometers from the city, and you can get there by car within an hour. The terrain in Kongari is swampy, so wooden platforms are laid throughout the park, connected in a simple system for ease of movement. There are many rivers throughout the area of the relict forest, so tourists can rent a boat, kayak or Indian canoe. Camping is also allowed here, but you should be careful: in addition to bears, lynxes, coyotes and snakes, Kongari is full of alligators, which can be quite dangerous.
If you want to see a piece of America that existed here before the period of total industrialization, then you should definitely visit Charleston. The city became the first English settlement in this area, which is reflected in its architectural appearance. In the historical part of the city, many buildings of the colonial era have been preserved, and several estates of former planters have been turned into museums. By the way, the oldest museum in the United States operates in Charleston.
It is better to start your acquaintance with the old town from the Visitor Reception and Transportation Center, where you can leave your car and get free maps with tourist routes. You should definitely visit the "French Quarter" of the city, where today there is an overwhelming number of galleries. The French have not lived here for a long time, but it is this area of Charleston that is considered to be the oldest European settlement, even despite the fact that the city was founded by the British.
Charleston is home to one of the longest stretch bridges in the world at 471 meters long. The Charleston Bridge connects the city to the oceanfront suburbs.
One of the most amazing military memorial museums in the world has been opened in Charleston, the central exhibit of which is the aircraft carrier Yorktown, which took part in the Vietnam conflict. It's hard to believe, but tourists have access to absolutely all compartments of a huge colossus! On the deck of the ship is located aircraft carrier-based aviation. Even though the offensive weapons on fighters and helicopters are demilitarized, this does not affect the grandeur of such a project.
Currently, 25 carrier-based fighters are installed on the runway of the aircraft carrier Yorktown, including the legendary Phantom and Tomcat.
Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand
The Grand Strand is a coastal strip with excellent beaches, most of which falls on the state of South Carolina. More than 14 million people visit these beaches every year, thanks in large part to the well-established entertainment industry. The town of Myrtle Beach is home to several large family parks, as well as dozens of themed entertainment centers.
More than forty golf courses are open in Myrtle Beach, and thanks to the ideal climate and the availability of quality courses, the city attracts a very civilized audience.
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The capital of the state of South Carolina is a fairly large city (131.5 thousand inhabitants), which keeps a considerable share of American history.
In Colombia, there was the first skirmish, which practically marked the beginning of a civil war. Forts Sumter and Johnson, on the territory of which museums function, became the place of tragic actions.
Like every American city, Colombia has the "best establishment" in the country, which has become the luxurious Riverbanks Zoo, in which animals live in almost natural conditions.
At Riverbanks, zoologists were doing research trying to record the voice of giraffes, until then thought to be mute. It was here, along with the Ashborough Zoological Gardens, that scientists were able to prove that giraffes are capable of quite complex verbal communication.
Colombia even has its own castle, which was built on the lands of Huntington Beach Park, where one of the largest botanical collections on the continent is collected.
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Why Cotto vs. Canelo Will Be Fight of the Year
By Sarah Gruber
Photo edit by Liam Brady/RBRBoxing
This year was proclaimed to be the time that boxing was going to return to the upper echelon of American sports. The sport we all know and love is undoubtedly in an era of resurgence due to the return of boxing to network television, record breaking pay-per-view sales and most importantly the return of classic matchups that boxing fans have been longing for.
This year alone we have seen the likes of Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, Ruslan Provodnikov vs. Lucas Matthysse, Canelo Alvarez vs. James Kirkland and Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux. What an amazing year it has been for boxing, and yet we still are missing a clear pound-for-pound king, and lacking a fight that has lived up to its hype.
Could Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33) vs. Canelo Alvarez (45-1-1, 32) live up to expectations and be the best fight of 2015? Simply put, yes. This fight has all the correct ingredients for a fight of epic proportions. This is a middleweight title fight (for Canelo at least) with opponents who hail from rival countries, a resurgent veteran taking on a young rising star and not to mention their styles are sure to make for an explosive night of boxing.
Both fighters are looking to prove that they are ready to be seen as one of boxing's current best pound-for-pound fighters.
Cotto, after back-to-back losses, found a way to revive his career when he enlisted the assistance of veteran hall-of-fame cornerman Freddie Roach to be his lead trainer. Since 2012, Cotto is on a three-fight winning streak. Together, Cotto and Roach obtained the WBC middleweight title and easily defended it against Daniel Geale earlier this year. Since working with Roach, Cotto has acquired more strength and endurance and has also followed Roach's effective game plans to secure his victories.
Canelo has quickly become one of boxing's youngest and brightest stars. At only 25 years of age, Canelo has already fought in some great fights and suffered his only loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013. His impressive resume, large body frame, power-puncher style and willingness to fight the best have captured the attention of boxing fans worldwide. Winning a fight against Cotto could truly be his defining moment to solidify him a household name, not just in the boxing world, but possibly as a superstar athlete worldwide.
Canelo has already made headlines this year as he landed a thunderous knockout over American James Kirkland in the third round. This type of power style is undoubtedly entertaining and fans looks forward to see if he can do the same thing against a competitor as seasoned and highly skilled as Cotto.
Cotto is a boxer-puncher who likes to go to work to his opponent's body to break them down. He has moderate power, but Cotto is well-known his ferocious left hook. Cotto's style is very reminiscent of the way Julio Cesar Chavez used to abolish fighters with the left hook to the body. Since working with Roach, Cotto has applied more emphasis to his foot speed and movement allowing him to pick his shots more carefully and break his opponents down over the course of a fight.
This matchup will certainly give the audience a very good fight. Both Cotto and Canelo are eager to win for the pride of their country and solidify their place as one of boxing's best pound-for-pound fighters. One thing is for sure, this Saturday night you do not want to miss out as you could very well witness the best fight of 2015.
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A photo taken by Campbell River resident Brian Miller shows damage to a building struck by a car shortly before 8 a.m. on March 10, 2019. The collision caused a gas leak that shut down the Island Highway for several hours.
UPDATED: Driver lost consciousness before crash that caused gas leak
Island Highway closed for several hours following collision on Sunday
David Gordon Koch
The man who drove his car into a downtown business on Sunday said he lost consciousness moments before the collision, according to a local resident who dragged the man from the scene.
The crash caused a gas leak that closed the Island Highway for hours. Campbell River resident Brian Miller was driving to work when he arrived on the scene shortly before 8 a.m.
"I probably rolled up like 15, 20 seconds after he actually hit the wall," Miller said.
Miller pulled over after noticing a young woman running across the highway to help the driver. Miller called 911 and attended to the emergency.
Natural gas was rushing from a broken gas line when Miller approached the silver Toyota car, which had crossed the centre line from the northbound lane and smashed into the corner of Campbell River Collateral, a pawnbroker.
"The gas was blowing everywhere, you could hear it," Miller said.
The young woman was tapping on the window of the car. The car didn't appear badly damaged but the air was thick with the smell of gas, and Miller yelled at the young woman to back away.
Miller shouted at the man, asking if he was okay and whether he could step out of the car. He told the man not to start his engine to avoid an explosion. The man opened the door and "half fell out of the car," Miller said.
Miller dragged the man to a spot about 20 feet away, where he checked the man for injuries and covered him with a blanket. The driver, possibly in his 50s, didn't appear badly injured but seemed "super out of it."
As the smell of gas became stronger, Miller moved the driver further away from the scene of the crash with the help of another passerby. An ambulance soon arrived and took the man away.
The driver told Miller and the young woman who first attended the scene that he'd passed out at the wheel.
"He just said he just lost consciousness and woke up kinda into the wall," Miller said, adding that the driver also mentioned recent health problems.
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Campbell River Fire Rescue confirmed that a driver was taken to hospital after his vehicle crashed into Island Collateral at 870 Island Hwy. in an incident that caused a gas leak.
"When it impacted the building, it came in contact with the gas meter and sheared it off," said Cpt. John Baker, the commanding officer at the scene of the incident.
Firefighters responded to the crash shortly before 8 a.m., and arrived on-scene with BC Ambulance workers and RCMP. Workers from FortisBC, an energy company, arrived later.
"We've had gas escaping here since shortly before eight o'clock," Baker said around noon, as FortisBC workers emptied gas from a line ahead of repairs on the broken meter.
Firefighters planned to vent out several buildings after checking for residual gas in consultation with gas workers, Baker said.
He added that BC Hydro had shut down power at three businesses – Mom's Book Bin, Tyee Marine and Campbell River Collateral – on the west side of the road.
Traffic flaggers were turning vehicles away between Robert V. Ostler Park and 6th Avenue and the smell of natural gas still hung in the air. Pedestrian access to the area was also restricted.
The highway was open to single-lane alternating traffic by mid-afternoon on Sunday, and normal circulation has now resumed. The Campbell River RCMP didn't immediately respond to a request for information on Monday.
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A gas meter was sheared off in a single-vehicle crash on the Island Highway in central Campbell River on Sunday. Photo by David Gordon Koch/Campbell River Mirror
First responders at the scene of a gas leak following a motor vehicle incident on the Island Highway Sunday. Photo by David Gordon Koch/Campbell River Mirror
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