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The Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League on Tuesday agreed in principle to a restructuring plan that would see the organisations merge in a 12-12-18 structure.
Green told RangersTV: "I haven't read anything other than what is in the press and if that is what we have sat here eagerly awaiting to transform Scottish football, my advice to the board of Rangers is the quicker we can leave Scottish football the better. I can't see anything that is going to transform the finances, the status or the excitement."
If the new format was rubber-stamped for next season, Irn-Bru Third Division leaders Rangers would remain in the bottom tier of Scottish football regardless of any title success this term, albeit with the potential time frame for a return to the top-flight remaining the same.
The SPL needs an 11-1 majority among its clubs but the idea has already been informally approved by all 12. The SFL needs 22 of its clubs to back the plans, with a 16-10-16 plan previously being agreed unanimously by the 30 clubs.
Rangers, as associate members of the SFL, will not have a vote on the issue and expressed their unhappiness at not being invited to participate in the talks.
The article on the club's website, written by new director of communications James Traynor, also described the reconstruction plans as an "abomination". According to Green, the remainder of Rangers' season will be rendered meaningless if the proposals are accepted.
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Customized browsing indexes for sorting client search results must be defined manually. To create a browsing index, or virtual list view (VLV) index, use the following procedure. This section also includes procedures for adding or modifying browsing index entries and for regenerating browsing indexes.
For parts of this procedure, you can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. Other parts of the procedure can only be done using the command line.
Add new browsing index entries or edit existing browsing index entries by using the ldapmodify command.
For instructions, see To Add or Modify Browsing Index Entries.
Run the dsconf reindex command to generate the new set of browsing indexes to be maintained by the server.
For instructions, see To Regenerate Browsing Indexes.
A browsing index is specific to a given search on a given base entry and its subtree. The browsing index configuration is defined in the database configuration of the suffix that contains the entry.
Configure the vlvBase, vlvScope, and vlvFilter attributes for each browsing index on a directory server.
These attributes configure the base of the search, the scope of the search, and a filter for the search. These attributes use the vlvSearch object class.
Configure the vlvSort attribute for each browsing index.
This attribute specifies the name of the attribute or attributes that sort the index. This entry is a child of the first entry and uses the vlvIndex object class to specify which attributes to sort and in what order.
The following example uses the ldapmodify command to create the browsing index configuration entries:
$ ldapmodify -a -h host -p port -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - Enter bind password: dn: cn=people_browsing_index, cn=database-name, cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config objectClass: top objectClass: vlvSearch cn: Browsing ou=People vlvBase: ou=People,dc=example,dc=com vlvScope: 1 vlvFilter: (objectclass=inetOrgPerson) dn: cn=Sort rev employeenumber, cn=people_browsing_index, cn=database-name,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config objectClass: top objectClass: vlvIndex cn: Sort rev employeenumber vlvSort: -employeenumber ^D
The vlvScope is one of the following:
0 for the base entry alone
1 for the immediate children of the base
2 for the entire subtree rooted at the base
The vlvFilter is the same LDAP filter that is used in the client search operations. Because all browsing index entries are located in the same place, you should use descriptive cn values to name your browsing indexes.
Each vlvSearch entry must have at least one vlvIndex entry. The vlvSort attribute is a list of attribute names that defines the attribute to sort on and the sorting order. The dash ( -) in front of an attribute name indicates reverse ordering. You can define more than one index for a search by defining several vlvIndex entries. With the previous example, you could add the following entry:
$ ldapmodify -a -h host -p port -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - dn: cn=Sort sn givenname uid, cn=people_browsing_index, cn=database-name,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config objectClass: top objectClass: vlvIndex cn: Sort sn givenname uid vlvSort: sn givenname uid ^D
To modify a browsing index configuration, edit the corresponding vlvSearch entry or the corresponding vlvIndex entry.
To remove a browsing index so that the browsing index is no longer maintained by the server, remove the individual vlvIndex entries.
Alternatively, if only one vlvIndex entry exists, remove both the vlvSearch entry and the vlvIndex entry.
After you have created the browsing index entries, generate the new browsing indexes for the attributes specified.
$ dsadm reindex -l -t attr-index instance-path suffix-DN
The command scans the directory contents and creates a database file for the browsing index.
The following example generates the browsing index that you defined in the previous section:
$ dsadm reindex -l -b database-name -t Browsing /local/dsInst \ ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
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It has been one year since 10 inches of rain fell June 16–20 on ground saturated by a 10-inch rainfall on Memorial Day weekend.
The waters rose and the region had its worst flood in recent history. It was said to be a 500-year flood. Duluth and St. Louis County suffered damage but, by far, the worst damage occurred in Carlton County.
The high waters traveled south, and northern Pine County also suffered heavy damage.
One year later, owners of homes that are not able to be salvaged are awaiting a buy-out. The Minnesota Legislature approved $10 million in funding during a special session last August to be used to purchase the homes.
The damaged homes in Pine County eligible for the buy-out total $6.5 million, according to information from the Pine County Assessor's Office.
Some properties qualify for federal funding. Seventy-five percent of the federal funds are matched by 25 percent of state funding.
After the homes are purchased, the buildings are removed, the wells capped, and the septic tanks removed or crushed, and the electrical service removed. The properties must be returned to a natural condition within 90 days after the buy-out.
The City of Barnum has closed a purchase, using the DNR funds, on one home that was damaged beyond repair on the west side of the city, said Pat Oman of the Barnum City Council. A total of five properties in Barnum and five properties in Moose Lake will be bought out by each city with the state DNR funding, and each property will be turned into green space. Those properties can never be the sites for future homes, they can only be used for parks, public gardens, parking lots or tree plantings.
The properties are purchased at pre-flood values.
To streamline the process, the city council in Barnum is now the planning commission.
The planning commission is discussing how to best use two adjoining pieces of property in the center of the city that will be vacated after buy-outs.
The buy-out process has been delayed on one home next to the park in Barnum because of its historical significance. It was said that it had been built originally as a home for railroad construction workers.
Four or five units on the first floor of Parkside Apartments in Barnum are still not occupied.
Three of the seven units in the Felgin building near the Parkside Apartments are now occupied. The Hawk Shop and Berube's Auto did not receive flood damage.
Lou's Rustic Diner in Barnum was heavily damaged but Lou and Robin Paulson took on the expense of rehabilitating the diner themselves, said Oman.
Other commercial buildings in Barnum have been rehabilitated and are occupied once again.
Infrastructure in Barnum, such as the sewage pumps, were damaged and replaced with pumps that will work under water.
The gazebo in the park floated away during the flood. The contractor that had constructed the original gazebo has been hired to re-build the gazebo. It will be anchored firmly.
The gazebo had been constructed as a memorial to Mavis Juntunen. The memorial plaque was found and will be put back in place on the new gazebo.
Carlton County allocated $2 million in Minnesota Investment Funding, and those funds have been used in loans to businesses that had received heavy damage, such as C & C Builders in Barnum and Lampert Lumber in Moose Lake.
Residents in both Barnum and Moose Lake, where residents were able to remain in their homes, could apply for low interest loans through the Small Business Administration and Quick Start.
However, applicants had to be income eligible. Senior citizens with a will or a life estate did not qualify for the loans.
"Those loans only helped a small percentage of the people," said Oman. "They could only get a maximum of $40,000, and a lot of them had $100,000 in damage. A lot of lessons were learned."
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds have been used for rehabilitation. Tom Paull, the Moose Lake Flood Manager, said that 51 damaged sites, including streets and buildings, were identified in the city. Repairs to 14 of the 51 sites have been completed or are under construction.
The sewage pumps in Moose Lake had failed during the flood. The pumps had been removed, dried out, and replaced. Three options are under consideration to prevent damage during future floods.
Work on the little league field behind the school has just been completed, and the kids will be able to play ball on the field once again.
The bill for the repairs to the Moose Lake School totaled $850,000. FEMA funds have been received to reimburse all but $30,000 of the cost of the repairs. The final payment is expected soon.
The air quality in the school has been monitored and will continue to be monitored. The levels of mold spores have been within acceptable limits.
School started two months after the flood, and the building was ready for occupancy, except for the media center. That was completed and opened a few weeks later.
"It was a lot of work done by a lot of people," said Superintendent Robert Indihar. "We were able to give the school a facelift with new sheetrock, new paint and a thorough cleaning. But the infrastructure issues are still there."
To aid people recovering from damages caused by the flood, the Moose Lake Flood Relief Fund was set up. Over $80,000 in donations passed through the fund. Applicants could request up to $750 to replace appliances or for other expenses caused by the flood.
The accumulated monies in the fund have been distributed, and the fund was closed on June 13.
Funds are still available from Flood Homes with Hope, a regional fund.
In addition to damages to homes and infrastructure, residents experienced psychological damage. Counseling was available, and Camp Noah was held last summer to give kids the tools to cope with the devastating events in their lives.
"The camp gives the kids resiliency," said Wendy Hjelmberg of Hope Lutheran Church, Moose Lake, where the camp is held. "It was started in the Red River Valley after the flood there, and it also has been used to help kids after wildfires. The camp gives them tools. Natural disasters take control away from adults and kids. The camp gives tools to kids to be able to manage in a crisis or tragedy. They learn great life skills. They learn that they are all God's children, first of all, and that they will be okay."
The camp will be held from June 24-28 this year at Hope Lutheran, and students from the Willow River School District will be attending.
"There are people in the community who are living with the effects of the flood every day," said Cindy Carlson, a member of the administration team for the Moose Lake Flood Relief Fund, in an interview several months ago.
To mark the first anniversary of the flood and to celebrate the area's resilience and recovery, a street dance has been set for Saturday, June 22, on Elm Avenue in downtown Moose Lake near the civic and community center from 2–10 p.m. Proceeds will assist those affected by the 2012 flood.


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NACME is responsible for more than $4 million in scholarships awarded annually to underrepresented minority (URM) students, with more than $1.6 million awarded in NACME's funded scholarships and $2.4 million more through our partner institutions' in-kind support. In 2016, NACME expects to support approximately 1,300 underrepresented minority engineering students.
Scholarships for Engineering Students K-12
Starting in January 2016, NACME will no longer have direct involvement in K-12 programming. As a result, we will not be administering pre-engineering scholarships at this time.
NACME Scholars (Block Grant) Program
Through the NACME Scholars Program, NACME provides block grants to colleges and universities that, in turn, award the money to talented African American, American Indian, and Latino students enrolled in engineering programs as part of their financial aid packages.
The NACME's Scholars (Block Grant) Program provides minority college scholarship support in the form of a lump sum grant to partner institutions who enroll students from three sources – first-year students identified by NACME or the partner universities, transfer students from two-year colleges, and currently enrolled students who have completed at least one year of engineering study.
University Eligibility
Academic institutions that wish to participate in the scholars grant program must demonstrate a commitment to minority student success that is evidenced in their recruitment, admission, retention, education, and graduation (RAREG) of African American, American Indian, and Latino engineering college students.
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To be eligible for the NACME Scholars Program students must enroll and be pursing a degree in an engineering program at a partner university, be a URM, and maintain a minimum required GPA (from 2.5 – 2.8). For Fellowships, GPA requirements differ according to the fellowship. Click here for more details about underrepresented minority group scholarships (African American, American Indian, and Latino) and other special scholarship programs for minorities.
Academic performance criteria for NACME support differs somewhat for each student stream.
- High school seniors must be accepted by the university's college of engineering (at the end of the freshman year, NACME assumes a minimum GPA of 2.5 on a scale of 4.0).
- Currently enrolled students must have completed a calculus, physics, or chemistry course, earning at least a "B," and be accepted into engineering.
- Two-year community college transfers, i.e., those accepted for their third year of engineering study, must enter with at least a 2.7 cumulative GPA on a scale of a 4.0 and an Associate Degree in engineering science (or the equivalent program of study).
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Reporting Requirements
The academic institution provides NACME with a report at the end of the grant period that includes graduation and retention rates as well as biographical information, GPA, and dollar amount of support for each NACME Scholar.
Expectations for Continuance
Partnership agreements are reviewed at the end of five years. Grants are renewed annually to compare institutional performance against established enrollment and graduation goals. NACME expects evidence of continuous improvement toward parity. Such indicators of success would include in the aggregate rising GPAs, reduction in retention rate between NACME Scholars and comparison group (e.g., other minority engineering students or non-minority engineering students), and stable or decreasing time to degree.
NACME In-Kind/Associate Programs
We also encourage universities and colleges not already engaged in our NACME Scholarship Programs to provide in-kind scholarship support to underrepresented minority engineering students attending your school.
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The NACME Fellows Program was created to provide an opportunity for individuals and companies interested in establishing a named minority scholarship program in support of NACME's mission to increase the representation of underrepresented minorities in engineering. This will be accomplished by ensuring that more engineering scholarships for minorities are available.
Current NACME Fellowships and Endowments
George Campbell, Jr. Fellowship in Engineering
Dr. George Campbell, Jr. served as NACME's president and CEO for 11 years. This scholarship honors Dr. Campbell's service to the mission and vision of increasing the representation of underrepresented minority students in engineering. One student is selected in the sophomore year. The recipient is awarded $5,000 for up to three years. The minimum grade point average required is 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
Sidney and Katherine Friend Scholarship
Joint endowment established between NACME and Polytechnic University. One first-year student is selected and supported for a maximum of five years. The recipient is awarded $2,500 each year. The minimum grade point average required is 2.8 on a 4.0 scale.
William Randolph Hearst Endowment Scholarship
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation supported the creation of this endowed scholarship. Two students are selected in either the first or second year. The recipients are awarded $2,500 each for up to four years. The minimum grade point average required is 2.8 on a 4.0 scale.
Phillip D. Reed Undergraduate Endowment Fellowship
Philip D. Reed endowment fellowship is made possible through an endowment from the Philip D. Reed Foundation. One student is selected in the sophomore year. The award provides $5,000 for up to three years.
The Bechtel Undergraduate Fellowship Award
The Bechtel Undergraduate Fellowship Award is financial support program that encourages and recognizes high academic achievement of students interested in pursuing a corporate career in a construction-related engineering discipline. The award is accompanied by internship and mentoring opportunities. Two students are selected in their junior year. The recipients are awarded $2,500 each for up to two years. The minimum grade point average required is 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
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Additional Minority Scholarship Resources
Scholarships.com - A listing of scholarships for minorities.
Finaid.com - Information about scholarships and fellowships for minority students. Native American students should also visit the Financial Aid for Native American Students page.
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|Since independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has experienced considerable political and military upheaval. In 1980, a military coup established authoritarian dictator Joao Bernardo 'Nino' VIEIRA as president. Despite setting a path to a market economy and multiparty system, VIEIRA's regime was characterized by the suppression of political opposition and the purging of political rivals. Several coup attempts through the 1980s and early 1990s failed to unseat him. In 1994 VIEIRA was elected president in the country's first free, multiparty election. A military mutiny and resulting civil war in 1998 eventually led to VIEIRA's ouster in May 1999. In February 2000, a transitional government turned over power to opposition leader Kumba YALA after he was elected president in transparent polling. In September 2003, after only three years in office, YALA was overthrown in a bloodless military coup, and businessman Henrique ROSA was sworn in as interim president. In 2005, former President VIEIRA was reelected, pledging to pursue economic development and national reconciliation; he was assassinated in March 2009. Malam Bacai SANHA was elected in an emergency election held in June 2009, but he passed away in January 2012 from a long-term illness. A military coup in April 2012 prevented Guinea-Bissau's second-round presidential election - to determine SANHA's successor - from taking place. Following mediation by the Economic Community of Western African States, a civilian transitional government assumed power in 2012 and remained until Jose Mario VAZ won a free and fair election in 2014. A long-running dispute between factions in the ruling PAIGC party has brought the government to a political impasse; there have been five prime ministers since August 2015.
This small country is swampy along its western coast and low-lying inland
|Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 36,125 sq km
land: 28,120 sq km
water: 8,005 sq km
Size comparison: slightly less than three times the size of Connecticut
|Land Boundaries:
|total: 762 km border countries (2): Guinea 421 km, Senegal 341 km
|350 km
|Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
|tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds
|mostly low-lying coastal plain with a deeply indented estuarine coastline rising to savanna in east; numerous off-shore islands including the Arquipelago Dos Bijagos consisting of 18 main islands and many small islets
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|fish, timber, phosphates, bauxite, clay, granite, limestone, unexploited deposits of petroleum
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 44.8% arable land 8.2%; permanent crops 6.9%; permanent pasture 29.7% forest: 55.2%
other: 0% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|250 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze may reduce visibility during dry season; brush fires
|Current Environment Issues:
|deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; overfishing
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Bissau-Guinean(s)
adjective: Bissau-Guinean
|Ethnic groups:
|Fulani 28.5%, Balanta 22.5%, Mandinga 14.7%, Papel 9.1%, Manjaco 8.3%, Beafada 3.5%, Mancanha 3.1%, Bijago 2.1%, Felupe 1.7%, Mansoanca 1.4%, Balanta Mane 1%, other 1.8%, none 2.2% (2008 est.)
|Crioulo 90.4%, Portuguese 27.1% (official), French 5.1%, English 2.9%, other 2.4% note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2008 est.)
|Muslim 45.1%, Christian 22.1%, animist 14.9%, none 2%, unspecified 15.9% (2008 est.)
|1,759,159 (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 39.28% (male 344,976/female 346,102)
15-24 years: 20.17% (male 176,050/female 178,842)
25-54 years: 32.53% (male 285,258/female 286,955)
55-64 years: 4.62% (male 31,030/female 50,215)
65 years and over: 3.4% (male 22,121/female 37,610) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 78.4%
youth dependency ratio: 72.8%
elderly dependency ratio: 5.7%
potential support ratio: 17.7% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 20 years
male: 19.5 years
female: 20.5 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|1.88% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|32.9 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|14.1 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 49.3% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 4.13% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|BISSAU (capital) 492,000 (2015)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.62 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.6 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|549 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 87.5 deaths/1,000 live births male: 96.9 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 77.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 50.6 years male: 48.6 years
female: 52.7 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|4.16 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|14.2% (2010)
|Health expenditures:
|5.6% of GDP (2014)
|Physicians density:
|0.1 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
|Hospital bed density:
|1 beds/1,000 population (2009)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 98.8% of population
rural: 60.3% of population
total: 79.3% of population
urban: 1.2% of population
rural: 39.7% of population
total: 20.7% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 33.5% of population
rural: 8.5% of population
total: 20.8% of population
urban: 66.5% of population
rural: 91.5% of population
total: 79.2% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|3.69% (2014 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|42,000 (2014 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|1,900 (2014 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|6.3% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|17% (2014)
|Education expenditures:
|2.2% of GDP (2013)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 59.9%
male: 71.8%
female: 48.3% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 9 years male: NA
female: NA (2006)
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|Country name:
| `conventional long form: Republic of Guinea-Bissau
conventional short form: Guinea-Bissau
local long form: Republica da Guine-Bissau
local short form: Guine-Bissau
former: Portuguese Guinea note: the country is named after the Guinea region of West Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea and stretches north to the Sahel; "Bissau" distinguishes the country from neighboring Guinea
|Government type:
|semi-presidential republic
| name: Bissau
geographic coordinates: 11 51 N, 15 35 W
time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|9 regions (regioes, singular - regiao); Bafata, Biombo, Bissau, Bolama/Bijagos, Cacheu, Gabu, Oio, Quinara, Tombali
|24 September 1973 (declared); 10 September 1974 (from Portugal)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 24 September (1973)
|promulgated 16 May 1984; amended 1991, 1993, 1996; note - constitution suspended following military coup in April 2012 and restored in 2014 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of civil law which incorporated Portuguese law at independence and influenced by early French civil code and customary law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Jose Mario VAZ (since 17 June 2014)
head of government: Prime Minister Umaro Sissoco EMBALO (since 18 November 2016)
cabinet: Cabinet nominated by the prime minister, appointed by the president elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in two rounds if needed for a 5-year term (no term limits); election last held on 13 April 2014 with a runoff on 18 May 2014 (next to be held in 2019); prime minister appointed by the president after consultation with party leaders in the National People's Assembly
election results: first round - Jose Mario VAZ (PAIGC) 41%, Nuno Gomez NABIAM (independent) 25.1%, other 33.9%; Jose Mario VAZ elected president in second round - Jose Mario VAZ 61.9%, Nuno Gomez NABIAM 38.1%
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral National People's Assembly or Assembleia Nacional Popular (102 seats; members directly elected in 2 single- and 27 multi-seat constituencies by closed party-list proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 13 April 2014 (next to be held in 2018)
election results: percent of vote by party - PAIGC 48.0%, PRS 30.8%, other parties 21.2%; seats by party - PAIGC 57, PRS 41, other 4
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court or Suprema Tribunal Justica (consists of 9 judges and organized into Civil, Criminal, and Social and Administrative Disputes Chambers); note - the Supreme Court has both appellate and constitutional jurisdiction judge selection and term of office: judges nominated by the Higher Council of the Magistrate, a major government organ responsible for judge appointments, dismissals, and judiciary discipline; judges appointed by the president for life
subordinate courts: Appeal Court; regional (first instance) courts; military court
|Political parties and leaders:
|African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde or PAIGC [Domingos Simoes PEREIRA] Democratic Convergence Party or PCD [Vicente FERNANDES] New Democracy Party or PND [Mamadu Iaia DJALO] Party for Social Renewal or PRS [Alberto NAMBEIA] Republican Party for Independence and Development or PRID [Aristides GOMES] Union for Change or UM [Agnelo REGALA]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Chamber of Commerce of Agriculture, Industry, and Services
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AOSIS, AU, CPLP, ECOWAS, FAO, FZ, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|black star; national colors: red, yellow, green, black
|National anthem:
| name: "Esta e a Nossa Patria Bem Amada" (This Is Our Beloved Country)
lyrics/music: Amilcar Lopes CABRAL/XIAO He
note: adopted 1974; a delegation from then Portuguese Guinea visited China in 1963 and heard music by XIAO He; Amilcar Lopes CABRAL, the leader of Guinea-Bissau's independence movement, asked the composer to create a piece that would inspire his people to struggle for independence
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
|chief of mission: none; note - Guinea-Bissau does not have official representation in Washington, DC
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
|the US Embassy suspended operations on 14 June 1998 in the midst of violent conflict between forces loyal to then President VIEIRA and a military-led junta; the US Ambassador to Senegal, currently Ambassador James P. ZUMWALT, is accredited to Guinea-Bissau
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Guinea-Bissau is highly dependent on subsistence agriculture, cashew nut exports, and foreign assistance. Two out of three Bissau-Guineans remain below the absolute poverty line. The legal economy is based on farming and fishing, but illegal logging and trafficking in narcotics are also important economic activities. The combination of limited economic prospects, weak institutions, and favorable geography have made this West African country a way station for drugs bound for Europe while trade in illegal logging, food, and fishing is also significant. Guinea-Bissau has substantial potential for development of mineral resources including phosphates, bauxite, and mineral sands. The country's climate and soil make it feasible to grow a wide range of cash crops, fruit, vegetables, and tubers; however, cashews generate more than 80% of export receipts and are the main source of income for many rural communities. With renewed donor support following elections in April-May 2014 and a successful regional bond issuance, the government of Guinea-Bissau made progress paying salaries, settling domestic arrears, and gaining more control over revenues and expenditures, but was deposed by the President in August 2015. A political stalemate since then has resulted in weak governance.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $2.851 billion (2016 est.) $2.72 billion (2015 est.) $2.596 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $1.168 billion (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|4.8% (2016 est.) 4.8% (2015 est.) 2.5% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,600 (2016 est.) $1,500 (2015 est.) $1,500 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|11.1% of GDP (2016 est.) 11.5% of GDP (2015 est.) 7.5% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 92.2%
government consumption: 11.4%
investment in fixed capital: 6.1%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 20.7%
imports of goods and services: -30.4% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 92.2%
government consumption: 11.4%
investment in fixed capital: 6.1%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 20.7%
imports of goods and services: -30.4% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|rice, corn, beans, cassava (manioc, tapioca), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish
|agricultural products processing, beer, soft drinks
|Industrial production growth rate:
|0.7% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|731,300 (2013 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 82% industry and
services: 18% (2000 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|Population below poverty line:
|67% (2015 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 2.9%
highest 10%: 28% (2002)
| revenues: $171.3 million
expenditures: $212.7 million (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|14.7% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5% (2016 est.) 1.4% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$20 million (2016 est.) -$11 million (2015 est.)
|$163.2 million (2016 est.) $202.9 million (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|fish, shrimp; cashews, peanuts, palm kernels, raw and sawn lumber
|Exports - partners:
|India 63.5%, Nigeria 20.3%, China 5.7%, Togo 5.6% (2015)
|$196.8 million (2016 est.) $199.5 million (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products
|Imports - partners:
|Portugal 27.1%, Senegal 12.8%, China 6.5%, Spain 5.5%, Cuba 4.8% (2015)
|Debt - external:
|$1.095 billion (31 December 2010 est.) $941.5 million (31 December 2000 est.)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 605.7 (2016 est.) 591.45 (2015 est.) 591.45 (2014 est.) 494.42 (2013 est.) 510.53 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|34 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|31.62 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|39,000 kW (2015 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|99% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|0% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|1% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|2,500 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|2,423 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|500,000 Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 1.238 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 72 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: small system including a combination of microwave radio relay, open-wire lines, radiotelephone, and mobile cellular communications
domestic: fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile cellular teledensity is roughly 70 per 100 persons
international: country code - 245 (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|1 state-owned TV station and a second station, Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP) Africa, is operated by Portuguese public broadcaster (RTP); 1 state-owned radio station, several private radio stations, and some community radio stations; multiple interna (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 61,000 percent of population: 3.5% (July 2015 est.)
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|8 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 2
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 6
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 3 (2013)
| total 3,455 km
paved: 965 km
unpaved: 2,490 km (2002)
|(rivers are partially navigable; many inlets and creeks provide shallow-water access to much of interior) (2012)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Bissau, Buba, Cacheu, Farim
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|Military branches:
|People's Revolutionary Armed Force (FARP): Army, Navy, National Air Force (Forca Aerea Nacional); Presidential Guard (2012)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18-25 years of age for selective compulsory military service (Air Force service is voluntary); 16 years of age or younger, with parental consent, for voluntary service (2013)
|Military expenditures:
|1.85% of GDP (2012) 1.81% of GDP (2011) 1.85% of GDP (2010)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|in 2006, political instability within Senegal's Casamance region resulted in thousands of Senegalese refugees, cross-border raids, and arms smuggling into Guinea-Bissau
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
|refugees (country of origin): 8,601 (Senegal) (2015)
|Illicit drugs:
|increasingly important transit country for South American cocaine en route to Europe; enabling environment for trafficker operations due to pervasive corruption; archipelago-like geography near the capital facilitates drug smuggling
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shafnutz05 wrote:Ugh...Come on ET
It'sagreatdayforhockey! wrote:So, team that scored first has lost every game right?
Rocco wrote:NashvilleCat wrote:The U wrote:Not a penalty
I didn't see the first one - was it legit?
Philly embellished them like Letang does when someone gets close to his hair.
shafnutz05 wrote:Yeah I like Tangradi getting this experience
Godric wrote:It'sagreatdayforhockey! wrote:So, team that scored first has lost every game right?
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John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman will remain in prison after he was denied parole for the ninth time.
Chapman was jailed for second degree murder in 1981, after shooting The Beatles musician four times outside his home in New York City's The Dakota building the previous year. He received a sentence of 20 years to life in prison for his crime.
Last week the 61-year-old went before the New York Board of Parole's three person panel, who denied his latest request to be released, according to editors at the New York Daily News.
Chapman, who is currently imprisoned in Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, New York, will have to wait until 2018 before he can go before the Board of Parole panel again.
The newspaper reports that since his preceding parole hearing, in 2014, the Board of Parole had received five letters campaigning for his release, and two requesting he remain in prison.
One of the letters opposing Chapman's release reportedly came from Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.
Chapman and his sister Gloria have written to Ono in an attempt to change her mind about his release, with Gloria telling Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, "Mark and I both wrote letters to her. He isn't angry or upset that she has pleaded with judges not to release him. I think he understands."
Lennon's death shocked fans around the world, with many attending a memorial on 14 December at which a 10 minute silence was observed in memory of the Imagine singer.


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McKenzie Hayes led Tell City, 3-1, with 12 points, 11 rebounds, six blocked shots and four steals.
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On the evening of July 21, 1980, in Washington, D.C., Dawud Salahuddin, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American convert to Islam who was born David Theodore Belfield, prepared to commit murder. In an empty office at the Iranian Interest Section of the Algerian Embassy, on Wisconsin Avenue, where he worked as a security guard, he loaded a Browning semi-automatic pistol, test-fired it out a window into an alleyway, and stashed it in a gym bag. Then he went to sleep on a couch. The Iranian Embassy had been closed down a few months earlier, as United States relations with Iran continued to deteriorate after the overthrow of the Shah, in early 1979, the installation of the repressive regime of Ayatollah Khomeini, and the ongoing hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran.
The next morning, Salahuddin woke before dawn and prayed. He walked along Wisconsin Avenue to a designated spot, where a friend, also an African-American and a Muslim, met him in a rental car, and together they drove northwest, toward the Maryland border. In the passenger seat, Salahuddin changed into a mailman's uniform and put on a pair of cotton gloves. He stuffed the pistol into a large Jiffy bag. On Idaho Avenue not far from the National Cathedral, another friend, a postal worker, was waiting with a mail-delivery jeep. Salahuddin drove the jeep by himself to Bethesda, Maryland. He stopped at a pay phone outside a diner to call the home of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former press attaché at the Iranian Embassy in Washington, who had become an outspoken opponent of Ayatollah Khomeini. When Tabatabai answered, Salahuddin hung up. Minutes later, at around eleven-forty, he parked the jeep in front of Tabatabai's house, on a quiet cul-de-sac, and walked to the door carrying what looked like two special-delivery packages. He held one package, a decoy crammed with newspapers, in front; it obscured the second package, inside which Salahuddin held the pistol in his right hand, his finger on the trigger. The house was used as a meeting place for the Iran Freedom Foundation, a counter-revolutionary group, and one of Tabatabai's associates answered the door. Salahuddin asked for Tabatabai—saying that the delivery required his signature—and when he appeared Salahuddin shot him three times in the abdomen and fled. Forty-five minutes later, at 12:34 P.M., Tabatabai was pronounced dead at Suburban Hospital.
Salahuddin had been keeping a high profile, associating publicly with known Muslim radicals, and the police and the F.B.I. had been aware of him for some time. The morning after the killing, the authorities in Montgomery County, Maryland, obtained a warrant for David Theodore Belfield's arrest on a charge of murder. The plot, which involved many accomplices and dubious alibis, had unravelled quickly. The homicide report described the shooting as a "political assassination," and noted that "the deceased was the founder of an organization whose goal was the overthrow of the present regime in Iran." The killing fit into an over-all scheme of violence precipitated by political upheaval in the Muslim world. In a July 29, 1980, editorial, the Washington Post said the murder in Bethesda was "part of a wider pattern" in which insecure Persian Gulf governments "turn to the gun to rid themselves of their expatriate opponents." Eleven days before Salahuddin murdered Tabatabai, gunmen in Paris, posing as reporters, had tried to kill Shahpur Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister of Iran under the Shah (a later attempt, in 1991, succeeded), and, in December of 1979, a nephew of the Shah had been assassinated, also in Paris.
After shooting Tabatabai, Salahuddin abandoned the jeep a few blocks from the murder scene, where his friend was waiting with the rental car, and they made their way to Montreal. There Salahuddin booked a flight to Paris with a connection to Geneva. On the flight, he picked up a July 24th copy of the International Herald Tribune and read a story about the Tabatabai killing. The F.B.I. had identified the "mailman" as David Theodore Belfield, the name on Salahuddin's passport. Somehow, he cleared customs in Geneva, but he had to wait seven days at the Iranian Consulate there for a visa to go on to Iran.
Salahuddin reached Tehran on July 31, 1980. Except for short periods in other Muslim countries and in North Korea, he has been in Iran ever since, and now lives in a comfortable garden apartment in an enclave of Turkish émigrés, about forty-five miles outside Tehran, with his wife, who is Iranian. Salahuddin speaks Farsi and works as a freelance writer.
On the street in Tehran, Salahuddin looks more like a visiting Islamic scholar from Qom than like a murderer. He is about six feet tall, has a closely cropped beard, and wears a knee-length tunic. "Generally, I blend in," Salahuddin said earlier this year. "I could be an Iranian Arab or an Iranian Baluch." He is a cordial, soft-spoken, and, it seems, even-tempered man. Yet he has declared that he is ready to kill again, "in certain circumstances." He also approves of bombing buildings if, in his opinion, they are "symbols of arrogant American power."
Salahuddin is beyond the reach of American law: the United States has no extradition treaty with Iran. Various attempts over the years to bring him to justice have failed. An F.B.I. spokesman told me that he is "unaware of any other approaches" to get Salahuddin back. If he were somehow lured to another country and caught, Salahuddin would face trial in Maryland. "It's an open case," Douglas Gansler, the Montgomery County prosecutor, told me. "The Iranians came here to recruit homegrown terrorists, and they found one in Salahuddin."
C.I.A. officers have maintained a keen interest in him. Although his capture would be a triumph for law enforcement, Salahuddin may be, from an intelligence perspective, more useful left in place. His efforts on behalf of the revolution have afforded him a high level of access to the inner circle of the government, especially among moderates and others interested in rapprochement with the United States. Intelligence sources have also speculated that he could provide information on the Iranian presence in northwestern Afghanistan, a contested area that Pakistan may have designs on. Salahuddin is known to have a close relationship with Ismail Khan, the warlord governing the region around Herat, in western Afghanistan, where American companies have considered building a pipeline for oil from the Caspian Sea, as an alternative to Saudi Arabian oil.
In conversations that took place over five days in Tehran last February, Salahuddin admitted to murdering Tabatabai. "I shot him," Salahuddin said, with no sign of discomfort or remorse, when I asked him about the killing during our first meeting. In a later e-mail, Salahuddin insisted that there was nothing "murderous" in his killing of Tabatabai. "It was an act of war," he wrote, and a religious duty. "In Islamic religious terms, taking a life is sometimes sanctioned and even highly praised, and I thought that event was just such a time." Some interpretations of Islamic law allow for killing when it is seen as a way to protect the Muslim community, and Salahuddin seems to have appropriated this view for his own ends. He was, by his own description, an "angry and alienated" African-American with "a good dose of rage with the American establishment." He told me that if the opportunity to kill Tabatabai had not come along, he is sure that he would have done something else like it, or something on an even larger scale. "I was primed for violence, and I thought about cratering the White House a quarter century before Al Qaeda did," he wrote to me. "It would be accurate to say that my biggest aspiration was to bring America to its knees, but I didn't know how."
Salahuddin grew up in Bay Shore, Long Island, as Teddy Belfield, the third of five children—four boys and a girl—in a churchgoing Baptist family that had moved to New York from North Carolina in the early fifties. His parents both worked at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, in Brentwood, his mother, Argenta, as a nurse's aide in the wards, his father, Charles, in the laundry room. Charles Belfield moonlighted as a security guard at Newsday and as a bouncer at a Bay Shore night club. Salahuddin still refers to America as home, and much of his talk is about his boyhood in Bay Shore: about the Bay Shore Bombers, a fast-pitch softball team; the high-school gymnasium where he first dunked a basketball; and shopping sprees at Ripley's, Lorry's, and Florsheim's. "He was right out of G.Q., with those half-gator shoes, thick-and-thin nylon socks, and a pinkie ring," his sister told me. A high-school friend remembers him as "the all-American boy . . . liked by blacks and whites." Yet throughout his childhood, Salahuddin said, he was deeply troubled by his race. "Maybe the most damage that was done to me as a kid was that it was somehow an indecency, an insufficiency, certainly a shame not to be white." From his earliest years, as a pupil at the predominantly white Brook Avenue Elementary School, in Bay Shore, he said, "I understood that the less black you were, hey, you had a little more breathing space. But you still had a problem." He remembered a project in third grade which required all the students to bring in an ingredient to make soup. One of his classmates, a very dark-skinned boy named Johnny Carter, brought a can of corn. "Now, what I saw," Salahuddin told me, "was when that soup was cooked, all my classmates who I thought were my friends picked the corn out of their soup. And to this day I remember that, and to this day I remember how I felt for Johnny."
In 1963, when he was in seventh grade, Salahuddin watched the television footage of Eugene (Bull) Connor, the police chief of Birmingham, Alabama, turning back civil-rights marchers with fire hoses and attack dogs. He began to develop "an implacable hatred toward all symbols of American authority." By his senior year in high school, he was refusing to salute the flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance. He told his sister to listen to the words of the pledge: "They don't apply to everyone."
These resentments, he said, were nourished by the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., by his reading about slavery, and by what he saw at Johnny White's, the night club where his father worked, in the black section of Bay Shore. "Johnny White's was more instructive than anything else," he said. "It was the repository of all the bad things slavery had done to the minds and hearts of black men." He spent a lot of time there in his early teens, and witnessed barroom violence: shootings and knifings, and bottles broken over people's heads. Salahuddin said that he began drinking at thirteen, getting "blind drunk" a number of times. By the time he was sixteen, he had a gun, and on one occasion pistol-whipped a teen-ager who had stolen a television set from his house. "I was about to shoot him," Salahuddin said, "when another guy grabbed my arm."
All the Belfield children went to college. Teddy entered Howard University, in Washington, in 1968, but he quit after one semester, having lost interest in his classes, and worked as a day laborer on construction projects. "This put me in direct touch with a class of black men that I had known every day of my youth, but now I was working with them," he wrote to me. "These men had no education, rarely a stable family, lots of them were alcoholics, and not one had a future." Salahuddin said he came to believe that "black America is the Third World in a First World setting," and that "it is dangerous and unsustainable for all concerned."
Throughout the years that Salahuddin spent in Washington, his closest non-Muslim friend was a fellow New Yorker who had taken the African name Brother Oleigi, and who is now a recreational therapist working with autistic children in Maryland. Oleigi remembers Salahuddin as an avid reader—works by W. E. B. DuBois and the historian Carter G. Woodson; Ferdinand Lundberg's "The Rich and the Super-Rich"—"who could quote a passage from a book verbatim and give you the page it was on." Oleigi, however, said that he had no inkling in July, 1980, of what his friend was about to do.
At a loft that was a gathering place for black writers and activists, Salahuddin met a Korean War veteran he admired, who told him, "I'm not talking to you anymore until you read the Koran." When he did, Salahuddin found that Islam was "color-blind." In February, 1969, when he was eighteen, he converted, taking the name Dawud Salahuddin, after the twelfth-century Muslim warrior. Despairing over the future of the black man in America, he joined a fringe organization called the Black Man's Volunteer Army of Liberation, which encouraged urban blacks to return to Africa and become farmers. (He quit after a few months, convinced that the group was a scam and that its leader was a police informer.) During this period, he became the editor of a small Islamic newspaper in Washington and spent much of his time at mosques. Salahuddin also said he had committed "grab and run" robberies of jewelry stores and pawnshops, for which he was never apprehended or charged: "I would ask for the biggest plate of gold they had, dump it into a big, empty pocket in my coat, and out the door."
In the months following his conversion, Salahuddin began to meet Islamic revolutionaries, including some who were later involved in the overthrow of the Shah. He spent time at an Iranian student center that was run by Bahram Nahidian, Ayatollah Khomeini's main operative in the United States. The center, used as a meeting place and a staging area for pro-Khomeini demonstrations, has long since shut down (it is now a private residence), and Nahidian is thought to be living in northern Virginia.
Sometime in the early seventies, Salahuddin began visiting high-security prisons and jails in Washington and its environs. His purpose, he said, was to bring the message of Islam to black inmates. The police suspect that these visits were part of a recruitment effort, possibly paid for by Iran. "The inmates got a twenty-five-cent tour of Islam, but the visits were to find recruits for political activities and violence," a police source told me.
In May of 1975, Salahuddin met Said Ramadan, an Egyptian lawyer and Islamic scholar, who was the guest speaker at a prayer service at the Islamic Center, a large mosque on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington. Ramadan, the founder and head of the Centre Islamique, in Geneva, had been living in exile in Switzerland since the nineteen-fifties. Salahuddin describes Ramadan, who was his adviser and spiritual guide until his death, in 1995, as "the international point man for the Muslim Brotherhood." (The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, was, according to Salahuddin, the inspiration for almost every militant group in the Muslim world. Ramadan's father-in-law was its founder.)
During the summer of 1975, Ramadan stayed with Salahuddin in a house in Washington about a mile from the Howard University campus. They often talked through the night. "I don't think another human being, including my biological parents, knew me any better," Salahuddin said. One subject they discussed was Salahuddin's personality, particularly his capacity for violent action. Ramadan, he said, assured him that if he were to commit such an act he wouldn't be emotionally scarred by it—it would "be accomplished and simply forgotten."
In December of 1979, Salahuddin called Ramadan in Geneva to seek his advice about working for the Iranians as a security guard. It was ten months after the overthrow of the Shah, and Ayatollah Khomeini, now in power in Iran, was on guard against a counter-revolution. Salahuddin said he remembers Ramadan telling him to do everything he possibly could on Khomeini's behalf. "His tone was emphatic," Salahuddin said, "and for me it was taken as a command."
Salahuddin told me that Ramadan hadn't known about his plans to kill Tabatabai, but an article in the Washington Post on August 8, 1980, reported that there were three calls around the time of the murder to Ramadan's Geneva home from pay phones near the Iranian diplomatic office. A law-enforcement source involved in the Tabatabai case told me that investigators believed the calls were made by a Salahuddin "handler," a Khomeini operative in the United States, who was not charged in the murder.
The man who recruited him to kill Tabatabai, Salahuddin told me, was "someone in Washington" who was "passing along instructions" from the Iranian government. He would not divulge the identity of his "contact," and would say only that he believes he met him at the Iranian student center: "At no point did I advertise myself as a hit man, though it was clear to people who knew me that I had no profound fear of violence or of the authorities." Salahuddin said that he was given "a chunk of cash" (actually, five thousand dollars) and five weeks to get the job done. "What I regret is my shoddy planning, which put friends of mine behind bars for years," he said. Police and F.B.I. agents found that, in addition to the driver of the rental car and the postal worker, Salahuddin had had at least three other accomplices: one who had rented the getaway car, one who later wiped it clean of fingerprints, and one who staged a hijacking to create an alibi for the postman who had lent Salahuddin his jeep. In all, ten of Salahuddin's associates—most of them African-American Muslims who, like him, had met Iranian revolutionaries at mosques or other Muslim gathering places in Washington—were arrested and prosecuted, five as accomplices in the murder and five on unrelated charges, including bank robberies and illegal gun possession.
The D.C. police intelligence division already had a thick file on Salahuddin. He had been arrested in New York on November 4, 1979—the day the siege of the American Embassy in Tehran began—with Bahram Nahidian, Ayatollah Khomeini's operative, and a group of pro-Khomeini demonstrators who briefly chained themselves to the railings at the crown of the Statue of Liberty and unfurled a banner denouncing the Shah. In the spring of 1980, tensions developed between the conservative leadership of the Islamic Center on Massachusetts Avenue and a group of militant pro-Khomeini Iranians and African-American Muslims. On April 2nd, the director and the assistant director of the center told police that the revolutionary faction was threatening a violent takeover of the mosque. Salahuddin and Nahidian were thought to be the ringleaders. The police feared that the trouble at the mosque might be a ploy to incite police action against Muslims and generate the kind of television images—Muslims at worship being attacked by helmeted police in the nation's capital—that would jeopardize the American hostage situation in Tehran and set off an international call to arms.
Salahuddin described himself as a "time bomb," whose raging anger was harnessed by the Iranian government. When the emissary from Tehran approached Salahuddin about killing Tabatabai, he said he tried without success to get the emissary to authorize him to assassinate two Americans instead. "If you want to make an impact, you don't kill an exiled Iranian," he said he told the emissary. "That's not a big deal." He did not disclose that he had already done his "homework" on the two other targets: Kermit Roosevelt, a former C.I.A. official who had helped bring the Shah to power, in 1953; and Henry Kissinger, whom he had pinpointed because of Kissinger's involvement in the bombing of Cambodia and the coup against Salvador Allende, in Chile. "Did you ever see footage of the attack on Allende in the Presidential Palace?" Salahuddin asked me in Tehran. "Why is that O.K., but an attempt on the White House is a mark of unutterable inhumanity?"
I asked Salahuddin what he thought he would have accomplished by assassinating Kissinger. "It's like this—you deal with a bully," he began. "You go to school the first day, a guy takes your lunch money, and that's going to go on every day of the year until you do something to him that will discourage that kind of behavior." He added that even though he knew there was "an excellent chance" that he would get shot by Kissinger's bodyguards, he was prepared to go ahead. "I don't see myself as being in love with danger," he wrote in an e-mail, but "the excitement of it is a psychic drug and in the midst of potential life-and-death circumstances you understand what it is to be alive."
Salahuddin discovered, in his early years in Iran, that even though he believed in violent jihad, there were limits to his militancy. In the eighties, he said, a branch of Iranian military intelligence asked him to hijack planes, but, he said, "there is something about being trapped inside of something that I would not give in to." He added, "I might do other things if it's just bang and gone, but the idea of keeping people under pressure. . . . "
Salahuddin says that he has received no direct payments from the Iranian government aside from the five thousand dollars for killing Tabatabai. "Some people believe that I am on some special government payroll, but no one has ever given me a sinecure job in Tehran, nor have I ever been subsidized in any meaningful way." He said that he worked briefly for the Revolutionary Guards as an English teacher; that he was the moderator, last year, of a twice-weekly news program on Iranian television; and that for nine years he was an editor, editorial writer, and war correspondent for one of Tehran's four English-language newspapers. Salahuddin told me that in February, 1991, he went to Iraq to cover the Gulf War and obtained an interview with Abu Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist who led the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
Salahuddin also travelled in the militant Muslim world as a kind of diplomat for Said Ramadan: "I presented myself as Ramadan's envoy, and that was with his encouragement." Salahuddin wrote that in 1986 he made "certain representations on behalf of Ramadan to Muammar Qaddafi" through one of Qaddafi's cousins, and in 1995 he said he delivered a message from Ramadan to President Burhanuddin Rabbani, in Afghanistan, warning him that the Taliban had ties to the C.I.A. From December of 1986 to May of 1988, Salahuddin said, he served in Afghanistan as a soldier with the mujahideen.
In 1993, shortly after the first bombing of the World Trade Center, when intelligence agents were desperate for information, a former intelligence detective named Carl Shoffler, who served with federal agents on an interagency counter-terrorism task force in Washington, got in touch with Salahuddin. Detective Tom Cauffiel, of the Montgomery County police department, told me, "Carl figured that Dawud might be one of the few people who knew what the bombing was about, and might know what else was on the agenda, what other targets."
Salahuddin began a back-channel relationship with American authorities and talked about returning to the United States to stand trial in the murder of Tabatabai. "I was serious about it at the time," Salahuddin acknowledged, "and Carl was the one guy who might have brought me home."
"The idea," Cauffiel said, "was to use the leverage of the murder to find out what he knows." Salahuddin told Shoffler that the bombing was directly related to the United States military presence in Saudi Arabia—an inflammatory issue among radical Muslims.
On March 5, 1994, at Shoffler's urging, Salahuddin sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno. It was his only formal contact with the United States government. In the letter, he laid out his terms "for mediating between the U.S. and certain key figures in the worldwide Islamic movement" and for providing information on some of his "work" for Iran. "The price for this service is freedom from all prosecution to the charges I face in the Bethesda affair," Salahuddin wrote the Attorney General. Salahuddin said that he never received an answer from Reno or from anyone else. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said that no record of Salahuddin's letter exists. In 1996, before a deal could be worked out, Shoffler died of pancreatitis, and Salahuddin's interest in surrendering faded. He learned of Shoffler's death in an e-mail from a former C.I.A. officer named Jack Platt. "I went through the files and got the e-mail address that Carl was using," Platt told me. Salahuddin, he said, sent him back an e-mail and then called: "He was very distraught. Two times he said, 'I just can't believe it,' and I said, 'Well, you just have to.' "
In May of 2001, Salahuddin resurfaced in an unlikely way: as an actor in the Iranian film "Kandahar," which was shown at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and released worldwide soon afterward. The film is based on the true story of an exiled Afghan woman's journey home to find a friend who is threatening suicide because of harsh treatment by the Taliban. "Kandahar" created controversy, first in Iran, because it focussed attention on the country's failure to provide schooling for Afghan refugee children, and then in the United States and Europe, for the casting of an accused assassin in a prominent role. (Salahuddin is listed as Hassan Tantai in the credits.) The film's director, in a statement on his Web site, says that he likes to use non-actors in his films, and takes no responsibility for Salahuddin's past. "I am not nosy about their lives," he writes. "I am an artist, not a judge, or a policeman, or an F.B.I. agent." Salahuddin, who refuses to say how he got the part, plays a compassionate American doctor who befriends the Afghan woman. For most of the film, the doctor wears a fake full beard to fit in among the Afghan men, but in one brief scene he removes it. From that scene, a friend of the Tabatabai family recognized Salahuddin and immediately called Mohammad Reza Tabatabai, the twin brother of Ali Akbar. "I was horrified," Tabatabai told me. "By taking off the beard, he was saying, 'O.K., I killed a man, but here I am, a movie star, and nobody can do anything about it.' "
One afternoon, Salahuddin joined me for tea and biscuits in my hotel room. I asked him, as I had several times before, to tell me what he thought of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. Was it mass murder? "It was nothing less than that," he answered. "The religion allows you to kill people, but it's very strict about whom you can kill." He went on, "The World Trade Center was obviously a symbolic target and the one the bombers concentrated the most on, yet from a religious point of view Muslims are forbidden to kill civilians and noncombatants. It is something that I have always been very careful about."
Salahuddin told me that, as it happens, one of his cousins was a survivor of the attack on the Pentagon and that his family's doctor in Bay Shore lost a son in the World Trade Center. Nonetheless, he said, to my astonishment, "I had no problem with the Pentagon. I felt sorry for the people who died there, especially the civilians, but in a situation like that they knew where they were working." He added, "If I had to choose a target in Washington, it would be the White House."
When I asked him if he thought Mohamed Atta, one of the pilots who crashed into the towers, was an aberration, he said, "I would think that Egyptian society in particular and Saudi Arabia to a lesser extent have been incubating this type of personality for decades." Iran has tended to use surrogate organizations and operatives for its terrorist activities.
Salahuddin was sharply critical of the regime that had recruited him and given him asylum. "The Iranians of my immediate association turned out to be far from paragons of virtue," he said. "The corruption here among the highest levels of the mullahs is incredible—it includes financial malfeasance, gross human-rights violations, extrajudicial murder, and two systems of justice, one for the mullahs, and one for citizens."
The freedom with which Salahuddin attacks the mullahs suggests an immunity perhaps earned by his successful execution of an "act of war"—or maybe it merely suggests recklessness, for he is well aware of the risk of dissent in Iran. He has told me that his present circumstances are "not sustainable" and, in an e-mail just before my arrival in Tehran, he wrote, "If you don't see me at the airport, it means I am either dead or under arrest."
Salahuddin is clearly looking for a way out of Iran. The events of September 11th and the new paradigm for the revolutionary—suicide—have left him behind. He is restless, and ill at ease in his adopted country.
"What's ahead for you?" I asked him, as we were being driven to the airport along a pitch-black, deserted back road.
"Sitting here right now talking to you, I frankly don't know," he said. "I'm at an impasse." Later, in an e-mail, Salahuddin wrote that he is "in one of those rocky patches of reinvention." He is fighting despair. "Depression is one of the dangers of long exile," he wrote to me. "I suffer from bouts of it. Over the past five years I would say that four months out of the year I am in some degree of mental depression."
One option for Salahuddin is to give himself up and face prosecution for the murder of Tabatabai, but he is unwilling to do this: "The idea that I go home and go to jail is something that I cannot really countenance." Salahuddin said he takes solace in the fact that he is alive. "Had I stayed home, I doubt that I would have made it through the eighties. I am sure that I would not have died of natural causes and equally certain that I would not have died alone." ♦


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Hi Stu!! I found it in the end!LOL!! must say the one on Pamelas site is GORGEOUS! I'd like one of those, however like you I only ever see the same ones as you :cry: Warmest Wishes, John
I only ever see these vases in clear and dare I confess that I do own one but it does stay out of sight in the guest room although I do think the burgundy ones are pretty.
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Author: forget the feds, let cities move the country forward
Bruce Katz, the Brookings Institution vice president who lauds Portlands sustainability business sector in a new book, appeared in town Wednesday to discuss the role and obligation of cities to fix the nations broken political and economic systems.
The national government, like Elvis, has left the building, and they dont seem to be coming back any time soon, Katz told a luncheon audience at Portland State University, in an appearance sponsored by PSU-based First Stop Portland and the universitys Institute for Sustainable Solutions.
The nation has some unfinished business as it emerges from the Great Recession, Katz said: rebuilding jobs. One-third of the nation now is in poverty or near poverty, he said, a quantum leap in one decade.
With the federal government missing in action, Katz said, its the nations cities and metro areas that have the talent, community networks, economic clout and wherewithal to seize the initiative and rebuild the nation.
Were an urban country. These places are the engines of our economy, he said. This is the time for them to step up and do the right work to restructure their economies and put themselves on the right path.
It was as recently as the late-1980s, he noted, when cities were seen as the garbage cans of society. Yet now they are centers of vibrancy on all levels.
Katz and Jennifer Bradley recently released The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy. In the book, the authors cite Portland as one of their lead examples.
The fact that Portland is now exporting its sustainable-oriented services and products to the rest of the world is remarkable, Katz said. Its something youd expect in a Copenhagen or progressive German city, he said, but not an American city.
Katz said one thing cities can do is provide universal preschool, something studies show can have longterm benefits to an economy and lift people out of poverty. Washington aint gonna do it, he said. States are not gonna do it.
He also is a big promoter of vocational education, and assuring that high schools work to help youth transition into the work place.
Katz scoffed at cities that have rezoned their land to remove industrial-zoned properties. Portland, he noted, is a trading city, and a major industrial center, which should build on that strength.
In an interview after the luncheon, Katz scored the United States for having an anti-manufacturing policy.
In Germany, he said, they dont call industry the old economy. Rather, the Germans have learned to reap the benefits of a more open world trade system, by investing in infrastructure, in training their work force and being purposeful in strategies to nurture manufacturing.
Katz said in research for his book, he actually studied the speeches of former Oregon Gov. Tom McCall, to understand the climate that produced the nations first urban growth boundary and other land-use planning advances.
Portlanders have a set of communal values, he found, and he says thats partly ground in its citizens appreciation for its environment.


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Reality Check: Hatch Chile Burger at Fuddruckers
Reviews of fast food burgers and a look at how the real life version compares to the advertised beauty shot.
Fuddruckers recently added a spicy new item to send-off summer: Hatch Chile Burgers, featuring a fresh, never frozen, beef patty topped with pepper jack cheese and grilled Hatch chiles. It's a special, limited-time-only item that you can get it in four sizes, ranging from 1/3 of a pound to a full pound, and top it off with whatever you want from the condiments bar.
I went with a 1/3-pounder ($7.49), and added only the essentials: a slice of tomato, a sprinkle of shredded lettuce, and a few pickled jalapeños.
The grilled chilies are sliced thinly, layered on top of the cheese, and dusted with cracked black pepper and seasoned salt. Heat-wise, they're medium-spicy, with earthy undertones, and go a long way to ratchet up the flavor profile of the burger. Unfortunately, they are unpleasantly mushy, a theme that continues with the beef.
The beef was a pitiful shade of grey, had no char or crust whatsoever, and looked like it had been steamed, not grilled. It was moist, but it registered as wet and soggy, as opposed to juicy. Even Fudds, whose website says "a burger is only as good as its beef" would have to agree that this one was an unqualified bust.
The mis-firing of the patty and the chile made the burger one big, soggy, mushball. The only element that had any real texture was the shredded lettuce.
The bun wasn't great either. The top half was the same height as the bottom half and the patty, combined. It was also too heavily buttered and the texture was more like a dinner roll than a burger bun, which meant it squished down to nearly nothing.
After reading the comments in my review of Fudd's exotic burgers and Kenji's review of their baseline cheeseburger, it's clear that there are some quality control issues from location to location. The Fudds closest to me (in Mission Valley, San Diego) might not be representative of the chain as a whole.
In addition to executing the burger poorly, this location was out of pepperjack cheese and the batteries in the buzzer that was supposed to alert me that my burger is ready were dead, so it sat under the heat lamp until I came in from outside to look for it.
If the location near you is more reliable, the Hatch Chile Cheeseburger is worth a try, but if not, I'd skip it, and Fuddruckers, altogether.
I can't believe that I wasted my 100th AHT review on such a sucky burger...but five minutes later, all was right in the world.
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