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Regarding Hafsa's Suhuf (RA), they did survive until the time of
Mu`awiya (RA) but were then destroyed by Mu`awiya's Amir over Madina,
Marwan ibn al-Hakam. It seems she did, indeed, disobey `Uthman's (RA)
categorical order to burn all but his codex:
Imam al-Bukhari narrates in his Sahih (6:183-184) from Anas ibn Malik (RA)
that Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman came to `Uthman at the time the people of Sham
were battling for the conquest of Armenia and Azerbaijan [~year 25H] with
the people of Iraq. Their divergences in Qur'anic reading had alarmed
Hudhayfa, so he said to `Uthman: "O Commander of the Believers! Rescue
(adrik) this Umma before they differ over the Book the way the Jews and
Christians differed." Whereupon `Uthman wrote to Hafsah: "Send us the
folios (suhuf) so that we copy them then we shall return them to you."
Hafsa then sent them to `Uthman who ordered Zayd ibn Thabit, `Abd Allah
ibn al-Zubayr, Sa`id ibn al-`As, and `Abd Allah ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham
who copied those folios into the volumes (masahif). `Uthman said to the
group - the three Qurayshis: "If you find yourselves differing, [the three
of] you and Zayd ibn Thabit in anything of the Qur'an, write it in the
tongue of the Quraysh. For it was not revealed but in their tongue." They
did [as instructed] and when they finished copying the folios into the
volumes, `Uthman returned the folios to Hafsa, sent one mushaf to each
region from those they had copied, then ordered that all other [copies] of
the Qur'an in each and every folio or volume be burnt.
In his commentary on the above hadith in Fath al-Bari, at the line "when
they finished copying the folios into the volumes, `Uthman returned the
folios to Hafsa," Ibn Hajar says:
"Abu `Ubayd [a tashif for Abu `Ubayda al-Qasim ibn Sallam as proven below]
and Ibn Abi Dawud [in Kitab al-Masahif] added: with a chain from Shu`ayb,
from Ibn Shihab who said: Salim ibn `Abd Allah ibn `Umar told me:
"'Marwan used to send courier to Hafsa - meaning, when he was governor of
al-Madina on behalf of Mu`awiya - asking her for the folios from which the
Qur'an had been copied [kutiba minha] but she would refuse to give them to
him.' Salim continued: 'When Hafsa died and we returned from her burial,
Marwan sent an imperative request to `Abd Allah ibn `Umar for those folios
to be sent to him, whereupon `Abd Allah ibn `Umar sent them to him. Then
Marwan gave an order so they were ripped up (fashuqqiqat). He said: 'I
only did this because I feared that after the passing of time, some
doubter might foster doubt with regard to those folios.'
"The wording in Abu `Ubayda's narration has: 'so they were torn up'
(famuzziqat). Abu `Ubayd [sic] said: 'It is unheard of that Marwan tore up
the folios except in this narration.' I say: Ibn Abi Dawud narrated it
with a chain from Yunus ibn Yazid, from Ibn Shihab, in a similar wording
which has:
"'When Marwan was governor of Madina he sent courier to Hafsa asking her
for the folios but she refused him access to them.' He [Ibn Shihab
al-Zuhri] said: 'Salim ibn `Abd Allah [ibn `Umar] narrated to me saying:
"When Hafsa died..."' and he narrated it [as above] and said in it: 'So he
had them ripped up and burnt' (fashaqqaqaha wa harraqaha).
"And this addition also came up in the narration of `Umara ibn Ghuzayya,
also an abridged one, but he, also made it part of the narration of Zayd
ibn Thabit who said in it: 'So he had it washed out thoroughly
(faghassalaha ghaslan)'.... And all this can be reconciled by saying that
this was done with all the folios - renting, them washing out, then
burning - and it is possible that the word [harraqaha] be read
'kharraqaha' (he had them rent) so that he has them first torn up then
washed out, and Allah knows best."
These Suhuf were of course the Mushaf of Abu Bakr (RA) kept by `Umar, then
kept by his daughter Hafsa the Mother of the Believers, wAllahu a`lam.
Hajj Gibril
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Well, i've been using twittr for a few decads now, and despite all the propaganda everyone else sent my way, it's been very boring. No, twittr has not revolutionized my communication. No, twittr has not completely changed how i talk to the world. No, twittr didn't help me reach thousands and millions of new readers and friends and professional contacts. Tell the truth, twittr was almost useless.
Of course, you always learn, and weirdly enough my experience with twittr kicked me into seeing a new angle, connecting some dots, at what had previously been one of the most puzzling issues i had with media: Why does TV suck so much?
For, you know, as a medium TV should be able to convey both good and bad content. But that is not how things turn out: Everything on TV sucks big.
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text: Christiane Amanpour had one burning question for Bashar Ja-afari, Syria's UN Ambassador: "How do you sleep at night?" The CNN correspondent interviewed Ja-afari on Tuesday as members of Congress debated the U.S. response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. During the interview, which grew somewhat heated at times, Amanpour asked: "How do you sleep at night, Mr. Ja-afari, defending a regime and government that has caused so much bloodshed and that has really crossed the line from any kind of civil war into weapons of mass destruction? Into one the highest crimes of international law? How do you personally sleep at night?" Click here to watch the exchange.


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12 July 2019 (*)
(Appeal — EU trade mark — Article 170a(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — No request that an appeal be allowed to proceed — Appeal inadmissible)
In Case C‑412/19 P,
APPEAL under Article 56 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, brought on 27 May 2019,
Xianhao Pan, residing in Rome (Italy), represented by M. Oliva, avvocato,
the other parties to the proceedings being:
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO),
defendant at first instance,
Entertainment One UK Ltd, established in London (United Kingdom),
intervener at first instance,
makes the following
1 By his appeal, Mr Xianhao Pan asks the Court of Justice to set aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 21 March 2019, Pan v EUIPO — Entertainment One UK (TOBBIA) (T‑777/17, not published, EU:T:2019:180) by which the latter dismissed Mr Xianhao Pan's action seeking the annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 14 September 2017 (Case R 1776/2016-1), relating to invalidity proceedings between, on the one hand, the appellant and, on the other hand, Entertainment One UK and Astley Baker Davies.
2 The appeal falls within the scope of Article 58a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union ('the Statute').
3 It follows from the last sentence of Article 170a(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice that, where an appeal falls within the scope of Article 58a of the Statute, a request that the appeal be allowed to proceed must be submitted with that appeal; if there is no such request, the appeal is inadmissible.
4 In this instance, the appeal was received by the Court Registry by email on 18 May 2019, and the original of that document was lodged on 27 May 2019.
5 On 28 May 2019, the Registry invited the appellant to put his appeal in order by submitting the request required under Article 170a(1) of the Rules of Procedure by 4 June 2019 at the latest.
6 The request referred to in the paragraph above was submitted to the Registry by email on 4 June 2019. On the same day, the appellant's attention was drawn to the wording of Article 57(7) of the Rules of Procedure, which provides that the date on which a copy of the signed original of a procedural document is received at the Registry by telefax or any other technical means of communication available to the Court is deemed to be the date of lodgment for the purposes of compliance with the procedural time limits, provided that the signed original of that document is lodged at the Registry no later than 10 days thereafter.
7 On 14 June 2019, that is to say 10 days after the email referred to above was sent, the original of the appellant's request that the appeal be allowed to proceed had yet to be lodged at the Registry.
8 Accordingly, the appeal must be dismissed as inadmissible pursuant to the last sentence of Article 170a(1) of the Rules of Procedure.
On those grounds, the Vice-President of the Court hereby orders:
The appeal is dismissed as inadmissible.
Luxembourg, 12 July 2019.
A. Calot Escobar
R. Silva de Lapuerta
* Language of the case: English.


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Billy the Kid, the 19th-century American West outlaw, scrawled "Time is short" on a sheet of paper -- an 1881 letter to a territorial governor that Guernsey's auctioneer Joanne Grant discovered sifting through artifacts piled in a warehouse in cash-strapped Harrisburg, Pa. "We're still discovering important things," Grant said in an interview. On July 11, potential bidders will tour the building to get a look at wagons, wooden Indians and thousands of other items that former Mayor Stephen Reed amassed in his failed attempt to build a municipal Wild West museum. Four days later, the New York-based auction house will sell the collection stored at the warehouse, located across the street from a trash-to-energy plant that has pushed the city into state receivership and to the brink of bankruptcy. Reed's collection for the museum that was never built was valued at $8.3 million when it was pledged as collateral for a 2006 loan by Harrisburg's Metro Bank to the state's capital, according to Bob Philbin, the municipality's chief operating officer. The city skipped a payment on the credit in May after defaulting twice on general-obligation debt. "Turning these artifacts into cash is something the city needs right now," said William Lynch, the state-appointed receiver for Harrisburg. Reed didn't return an email seeking comment. After unloading the Western items, Harrisburg may also dispose of the incinerator and lease its parking system to ease a $350 million debt burden almost seven times its general-fund budget. It will join other communities from Hercules, Calif., to Detroit, itself flirting with bankruptcy, in shedding assets to raise cash. In the U.S. auto-industry capital, Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has said his representatives have met with officials of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which owns works by Vincent Van Gogh and Diego Rivera. The museum "contends that the collection is held by a public trust and cannot be used for any purpose other than exhibition," the emergency manager said in a June 14 proposal to creditors. Yet "further dialogue is anticipated," he said. While Detroit tests creditors, other distressed municipalities are moving to raise funds even as localities are defaulting at the slowest pace since at least 2009 and borrowing costs hover near the lowest in decades. In Harrisburg, the memorabilia sale may benefit from the Old West genre holding up well, compared with other collectible categories, since the recession that ended in 2009, said Tom Slater, director of Americana auctions at Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. Pieces that are closely associated with key Western figures fetch high prices, such as $2.3 million that energy billionaire William Koch paid two years ago for the only known photograph of Billy the Kid, he said. The gunman, born about 1859 to an Irish immigrant mother, lived in New York's slums before heading west in the next decade, according to a biography on the Public Broadcasting Service's website. He was shot to death in New Mexico in 1881 after escaping from jail. Billy the Kid's March 21, 1881, letter to Lew Wallace, dated three months before his death, may bring "six-figure" bids if it's authentic, said Slater. While Arlan Ettinger, Guernsey's chief executive officer, declined to estimate how much the city might reap in the sale, "at the moment, the forecast is good," he said in an interview at the warehouse, where he and his employees were hanging paintings and labeling revolvers. Reed, a Democrat who served as mayor for 28 years until 2010, spent more than $8 million in public funds to accumulate the Western artifacts. The purchases ended up in disarray in storage spaces around the city of about 50,000. "There was no rhyme or reason that we could decipher in terms of why things were thrown into boxes, why boxes were stacked on top of other boxes, and all put into spaces that you couldn't walk," Ettinger said. "There was just no room." Most, such as Doc Holliday's dentist's chair, come from the American West or are modern goods with a Western look, such as saddles, he said. Reed, 63, also bought African masks and relics from other eras, such as World War II General George Patton's U.S. Army shirt, complete with stars on the collar. Besides the jumble, Reed left residents a crippling legacy of the incinerator, which was overhauled and expanded yet failed to generate enough revenue to pay off its debt. Harrisburg first defaulted on the securities in 2009. Dauphin County, of which Harrisburg is the seat, and bond insurer Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., a unit of Hamilton, Bermuda-based Assured Guaranty Ltd., have covered the payments since. An incinerator bond due in 2034 traded July 3 at an average yield of 5.05 percent, 1.22 percentage points over benchmark debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The penalty has narrowed since Jan. 2, when the security traded at an average yield of 5.16 percent for a spread of 2.66 percentage points. Lynch, who was appointed receiver in May 2012, plans to release a fiscal blueprint that will detail how much the city can raise from a sale of the incinerator and lease of its parking system to repay creditors. A state judge must approve the plan, as well as how the proceeds of the auction should be spent. The former mayor's Western collection was pledged as collateral for the $7.2 million loan in 2006 from Metro Bancorp Inc.'s Metro Bank unit that was used to help pay off an earlier note issuance. Harrisburg skipped a $872,502 payment on the loan. Natalie Neyer, a spokeswoman for the bank, declined to comment. Lynch, meanwhile, says he isn't depending on the Wild West sale as he negotiates with creditors. "It's worth whatever someone will pay you for it," he said.
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text: It's like I've always said — kids are no good, and they only lead to trouble, especially in horror movies. Case in point: this poor computer ghost from Pulse 2 (the direct to DVD sequel to Pulse) just wants to reach out and hug her kiddies, and what does the child do? Cause her to break apart and crumble, just as she was about to give her daughter a haircut. In the sequel, humans have to flee the villages and head to the remote hills, as dead people have found a way into the living world through the internet. Pulse 2 will be released in stores September 30, with Pulse 3 quickly on it's heels.


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Small Titan: Mercedes-Benz Citan Commercial Van Shows Its Face
The Mercedes-Benz Citan commercial van is the first product to result from the Renault-Nissan-Daimler partnership -- and after months of teaser sketches, the compact van -- which is essentially a reskinned Renault Kangoo -- debuts this week at the RAI commercial vehicles show in Amsterdam. Mercedes' new commercial van joins the automaker's existing van family alongside the Sprinter and Vito.
Mercedes revealed the Citan before its scheduled public debut at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover in September. The Citan, which combines the words "city" and "titan," will continue the momentum Mercedes has in the commercial van market. Mercedes-Benz Van boss Volker Mornhinweg reports 2011 was the most successful year in the division's history, and is convinced the Citan will gain a 4-5 percent market share of the emerging segment.
"We aim to sell more than 400,000 units worldwide by 2015," Mornhinweg said in a release. In Europe, the market has quickly grown to 700,000 units.
The Citan is available in three lengths (155, 170, and 185 inches) the van will be offered as a panel van, multi-purpose van, and passenger-hauling crew bus. The multi-purpose vehicle, the Citan Mixto, is based on the 185-inch version, and offers a foldable rear bench seat and two sliding doors. The third, the 170-inch Citan crewbus, is available as a five-seater with a foldable rear bench seat and sliding door (sliding doors on both sides is optional).
Engine options include three direct-injection turbodiesel engines ranging from 75 to 110 hp, as well as a supercharged gas engine that puts out 114 hp. Engines will be paired to a five- or six-speed transmission. Mercedes' BlueEfficiency package -- with stop/start tech, low rolling-resistance tires, as well as a battery and generator management system -- is standard on the gas variant, and optional for the diesel versions.
Before the Mercedes-Benz Citan launches in Europe this fall, we expect to have additional information on future products resulting from the partnership between Daimler and Renault-Nissan.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 29 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Hello - Me Again! The last two contests I ran were so much fun, I thought I would do one for my own site.
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This is for a complete remake of: http://www.tucson-web-design.net
We Do NOT like this layout.
For those of you who don't know me, here are my last two:
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Pay is with PayPal. WesternUnion will be considered if you agree that the charges can be taken out of the prize money. Other forms will be considered if there isn't cost to me and it is secure.
I will upload our logo in a seperate post.
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Clean - Clean -Clean & professional.
It must have a spot for a Client Spotlight.
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Hey Folks,
In January I'm going to Kenya for 3 weeks, 2 weeks safari/ wildlife and 5 days to a week Mount Kenya.
I just wanted to do something extra than the the tourist route (Naro Moru) to Lenana, but on the other hand I think the actual climb to Batian will be a bit to much (especially for my Girlfriend, who hasn't real (outdoor)climbing experience). Do you think it might be possible to hire a guide just for summit? Or do you think she won't make it anyway to the summit (Batian). And are such a guides affordable? (for example this http://www.themountainschool.com/expeditions/mount-kenya.html#8 isn't what I would call affordable).
And are there any other more challeging hikes/climbs than the classical hiking route to Lenana. Some glacier walking etc are no problem and would be nice.
I was also considering to the Mount Kenya summit circuit or one of the less popular hikingroutes(Simiron...) .
And something different I am not planning to take all my safari equipement (photo-equipment + tripods etc) do you know any place where I would be able to store it SAFE !? while we are on the mountain?
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Cynthia Caywood, PhD
Professor, English
- Ph.D., Duke University, English
- M.A., University of Exeter, England; English
- B.A., University of Kansas, English
- Caywood is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Cynthia L. Caywood, PhD, has been a member of the faculty since 1984. She currently serves as co-director of the London Summer Program. In the English department, Caywood offers undergraduate courses on restoration and eighteenth century British literature, world drama, and women's literature and graduate courses in seventeenth and eighteenth century drama. Her research interests include Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, and August Wilson, with special interests in British and American theatre history, stage production, and feminist theory.
Areas of Expertise
History of British literature
Scholarly Work
Caywood's research has focused on writing theory, seventeenth and eighteenth century women writers, and August Wilson. Her volume of essays, Teaching Writing: Pedagogy, Gender and Equity (1987), co-edited with Gillian Overing, addresses the relationship between writing theory, teaching practices, and gender. Her work on Aphra Behn, which examines Behn's language, rhetorical strategies, and dramaturgy, has appeared in Restoration, Literary London, and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama. Caywood has also served as a dramaturg on restoration and eighteenth century theatre productions, including The Recruiting Officer, Sir Patient Fancy, and Lovers and Executioners. With Richard James, she was commissioned to adapt Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for Center Repertory Company, where it is staged annually. Her most recent work, August Wilson, a special issue of College Literature devoted to the great African-American playwright, was edited with Carlton Floyd and published in 2009.
Cynthia Caywood and Carlton Floyd
"'She Make you Right with Yourself' Aunt Ester, Masculine Loss and Cultural Redemption in August Wilson's Cycle Plays."
College Literature Special Issue 36.2 (Spring 2009): 74-95.
Areas of Interest
Caywood has taught a variety of courses at USD, including composition, surveys in the history of British literature and of the English language as well as courses in seventeenth and eighteenth century drama, fiction and poetry. In addition to teaching departmental courses, Caywood has participated in team-taught, interdisciplinary freshman seminars in gender studies. Other team-teaching projects for the Honors programs have focused on satire, restoration Britain, war in literature and art, and capital punishment. Caywood is also a former recipient of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies teaching award and USD's Davies Award for Faculty Achievement. She was awarded a University Professorship in 2001.


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S.F.'s plastic bag ban may be unhealthy
San Francisco passed America's "first-in-the-nation" ban on plastic bags in chain grocery stores and drugstores in 2007. In a research paper for the Wharton School Institute for Law and Economics, law professors Jonathan Klick and Joshua Wright crunched state and federal data on emergency room admissions and food-borne-illness deaths and figured that the San Francisco ban "led to an increase in infections immediately upon implementation."
They found a 46 percent rise in food-borne-illness deaths. The bottom line: "Our results suggest that the San Francisco ban led to, conservatively, 5.4 annual additional deaths."
Is San Francisco's bag ban a killer? Conceivably, yes, but probably not.
Intuitively, the Wharton findings make sense. The city's anti-bag laws are designed to drive consumers to reusable bags. Consumer advice types warn people about the dangers of said bags becoming germ incubators. I got this from the TLC website:
"Designate specific bags for meats and fish. Wash these bags regularly - preferably after each shopping trip - to get rid of bacteria. If your bag is fabric, toss it in the washing machine with jeans, and if it's a plastic material, let it soak in a basin filled with soapy water and either the juice of half a lemon or about a quarter cup of vinegar."
Ask your friends and family how many of them regularly wash their reusable bags - ask how many folks ever have done any of the above steps - and you can intuit that a ban on plastic bags might not be the brightest idea.
San Francisco health officer Tomás Aragón reviewed the Wharton paper and found "a biologically plausible hypothesis" but "sloppy" research. "It's a complicated topic. It's a little surprising that he would put this out there without a peer review," he added. If the professors had consulted with an epidemiologist, they would have understood how the city's unique demographics contribute to specific intestinal issues. (Unlike Aragón, I'm trying to be delicate here and not share too much information.)
In short, the doctor concluded that the study raised more questions than it answered.
Dave Heylen of the California Grocers Association ripped the study for not understanding something really basic about how the San Francisco bag ban worked at first. "People weren't using reusable bags, they were using paper bags," Heylen said.
Be it noted, the grocers have supported proposals for a statewide ban on plastic bags - which would require supermarkets to charge for single-use bags - because they provide what the sponsor of Sacramento's latest effort, Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, calls "uniformity of experience" for shoppers and store owners. (It also means big stores can charge for bags and blame the government.)
For his part, Klick told me he cannot "rule out the possibility that there was something peculiar that happened in San Francisco." Maybe the cause isn't the bag ban. That's why there should be more studies that look into death rates and food-borne-illness reports in the many communities - San Jose and San Mateo and Alameda counties, for example - that have passed bag laws since then-Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi introduced a bill to make San Francisco America's first city to ban plastic bags.
Mayor Ed Lee's office said the mayor will look into the health consequences of the city's now-tougher bag laws if Aragón so recommends. That doesn't seem likely. Likewise, Levine didn't sound particularly concerned.
Maybe they should be. More than 60 California communities have bag bans, which means more Californians are using reusable bags. Most families probably aren't washing them. And that's not healthy.
California politicians didn't even bother studying the possible health effects of their anti-bag laws. They were in such a hurry to tell their constituents what's best for them, they forgot to check how their busybody scheme might go wrong.
More reasons to oppose bag bans
-- It's another nanny state law that coerces law-abiding shoppers to change their conduct.
-- Single-use bags are not the problem. In 2011, they represented 0.13 percent of California's total waste stream.
-- According to the British Environment Agency, consumers have to reuse a cloth bag 131 times to present lesser global warming impact than conventional bags.
-- When consumers wash reusable cloth bags, they can wear out, which undermines the environmental benefits.
Debra J. Saunders is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @DebraJSaunders


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Colombia's sexiest export Sofia Vergara is flying high in Hollywood and taking to the skies in this spring's Soul Plane. Is this the start of a Latin-bombshell revolution?
This feature originally appeared in Complex's April/May 2004 issue.
Bet you wish you were one of these valets. Another party on Sunset Boully is winding down, and a bunch of celebrities are waiting impatiently for their cars outside the club. The guys on parking detail, suited up in ill-fitting polyester uniforms, are scrambling to get a piece of A-list action—'cause everyone knows that's where the big tips are at. Except, in this instance, the last thing on the valets' minds is the cash, and this particular car's not even that banging. No, like any hot-blooded male, these guys just want to catch a glimpse of the ride's owner, a leggy girl with feline eyes and sun-kissed skin. The scenario is not that uncommon for 32-year-old model-turned-actress Sofia Vergara, who totally gets that her fortunate appearance has its pluses.
"I get to do no lines," she says. "In L.A., I've gone to nightclubs where Justin Timberlake and people like that are waiting for their cars, and I'll come out and be the first to get mine." It's not like she's ever going to go home with a valet. But as Michael Rappaport's character in the film Beautiful Girls put it: "A beautiful girl is like bottled promise." Right––fantasy is a powerful force. So powerful that in this world, or at least in Hollywood, beauty equals privilege. It's not just Vergara's effervescent personality that's earned her a string of professional opportunities. Sure, she's always been committed to her endeavors, but there's no denying that her good looks have played a part in her success.
One such job led to an offer from Colombian broadcasting giant Univision to host the lighthearted, Miami-based travel show Fuera De Serie. Four years later, at age 27, she moved on to Univision's A Que No Te Atreves, a Fear Factor–type reality series in which regular people perform ludicrous acts. "People only got paid like $50, so it was crazy to see what they would do," she says mischievously. "One time a guy jumped out of a plane naked. Another time, this girl came on set and put huge cockroaches in her bra and underpants." Not that every viewer tuned in for the stunts––Sofia's skimpy, hip-hugging outfits were reason enough for most men to watch every week.
Spanish-language networks are often criticized for their overly sexualized portrayal of women—after all, the ass-pinching, hot-tubbing antics of most variety shows are pretty much all they have going for them as far as content. Did Sofia ever feel as if she was being objectified? "Not really," she says. "It's all based on the ratings, so whatever works, we keep on doing it." But surely constant leering from men must make a girl wanna break bones? "You know, the thing is that Latin men like sexy stuff." Erm, make that all men. Which is probably why Sofia decided to treat her fans to her own barometer-busting, hot-as-hell website, sofiavergara.com. It's racy, alright––no wonder it gets an average of 12 million hits each month.
Where are the struggling- actor stories about callus-inducing waitress jobs, closet-sized apartments, embarrassing auditions and ramen-noodle dinners? Sofia's penchant for lucky breaks is enviable and almost unnerving, but it's hard to dislike someone with such an optimistic, anything-goes outlook. Like Special Ed, this girl's got it made. Now living in L.A. with her 12-year-old son Manolo, Vergara has become a bona fide actress—last year, she joined Roselyn Sanchez and Jaci Velasquez in Chasing Papi, one of the first Latin chick-flicks aimed at the mass market. Next up is a role as a stewardess in Soul Plane, a comedy due this month about a black airline's maiden flight. The cast also includes Kevin Hart, D.L. Hughley, Method Man, Snoop Dogg and Tom Arnold. Jessy Terrero, who directed the spoof, had no trouble getting Vergara to shine on camera. "Girls sometimes, when they're that beautiful, have been spoiled throughout life by men, and they're usually lazy in terms of the effort they give," he says candidly. "But Sofia worked really hard in this film—that's why we expanded her character and gave her more love."
For her part, Vergara says she enjoyed the time on set with her costars, particularly Meth: "He's a very nice guy. Really crazy." But the self-proclaimed hip-hop fan spends more time working with rap stars these days than hanging out with them; instead of accompanying her homegirls to Mark Ronson parties, this single mom is more likely to be rolling with Manolo to the local video game arcade.
"The arcade is like my office!" she admits. Wow, a woman who can go toe-to-toe with Max Payne and Lara Croft––if that's not dream-girl-central, we don't know what is. No wonder Vergara's been romantically linked to a host of eligible bachelors, including British crooner Craig David, ballplayer Alex Rodriguez, rap mogul Sean Combs and actor Mark Wahlberg. Asked what her favorite dating activity is, she coos, "I love salsa and merengue." So, potential suitors beware: you will be expected to do more than a half-assed two-step. Would she go on a second date with a man who can't dance? Sofia smiles, then lowers her voice coquettishly: "He'd better dance!" Your wish is our command.
ADDITIONAL CREDITS: (HAIR) Darian Reign/Sager French. (MAKEUP) Veronica Laurence. FIRST & COVER IMAGE: Top by Curve / Bloomers by Le Petite Coquette / Shoes by Stella McCartney. SECOND IMAGE: Tank by Gucci. THIRD IMAGE: Tank by James Perse / Brooch by Vionet, LA. FOURTH IMAGE: Dress by Petro Zilla.


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The following was originally published in the 2014 edition of Baseball Prospectus. In a departure from established practice, this year's edition features contributions from a wide array of outside writers, who came through with a series of essays that shows off the full stylistic diversity of contemporary baseball writing. They're funny and sharp and incisive, and make a great complement to the annual's usual mix of esoteric statistical analysis and informed inside scuttlebutt. All of this is to say you should pick up this year's edition—if you like baseball at all, you'll dig it.
The fate of the Miami Marlins, in 2014 and years to come, will not in any meaningful way depend upon Chris Valaika. This is also true of every other major-league team. It's true because Chris Valaika is Chris Valaika, a fringy owns-a-bunch-of-gloves infield type who has done some striking out and some playing-of-various-positions and not much else over small parts of three big league seasons, the most recent of which came in Miami in 2013.
But the statement above is also true, in a more immediate sense, because Chris Valaika will not be with the Marlins in 2014—he signed a minor league deal with the Cubs a couple weeks before Thanksgiving after earning a career-high 70 plate appearances with the second-worst team in baseball. But, for all the mostly negligible impact that Valaika made with the Marlins—16 strikeouts and a homer, a fifth of a negative win per WARP—his brief time in Miami says something about this team's immediate future, queasy present and cynical, cyclical, prototypically Floridian past.
Which sounds sweeping, but mostly means this: The Marlins are too messed-up a place to work for this particular minor league journeyman. Valaika is a special case, maybe. He was one of several Marlins players who went to ownership with complaints that first-time hitting coach Tino Martinez was sort of extremely forceful and sort of just a jerk to some of the young players in his charge early in the season, laying hands and dropping f-bombs on Valaika and Derek Dietrich after they were reluctant to pick up balls during soft toss sessions. This eventually led to Martinez resigning, and further led to Valaika and Dietrich—who figured to have a bigger role with the Marlins in the future than Valaika—being punished with demotions, and later having subsequent promotions personally vetoed by owner Jeffrey Loria himself. For short, baseball fans refer to this sort of thing as Some Real Marlins Shit.
This would seem to be no way to think or talk about a team that has won two World Series in the last 16 years, but the Marlins are a unique organization, and the 2014 Marlins, for all the talent and promise on their roster—yes, even without Chris Valaika—are screwed in a uniquely Marlins way, and for some thoroughly Marlins reasons. The Marlins have one of the better farm systems in baseball, and several of its best players—2013 Rookie of the Year and precocious swaggy super-ace Jose Fernandez and outfielders Christian Yelich, Marcell Ozuna and Jake Marisnick—have already shown varying degrees of promise in the bigs. There is reason, in that sense, for hope, and even reason to think the Marlins might be an interesting team to watch. But, finally and fundamentally, the Marlins are the Marlins—a team that has won and could win again, but which nevertheless exudes a specific type of willful, wanton hopelessness that no other big-league team can match.
When Valaika signed his minor league deal with the Cubs, his agent served up what seemed like a bit of transactional boilerplate—his client was, apparently, "excited to be with a first-class organization." The Miami Herald puzzled over whether this remark was a subtle dig at the Marlins; this was worth the parsing because Valaika's agent also represents Giancarlo Stanton, the best hitter in the Marlins organization and arguably the National League East, and a player the team would do well not to alienate.
But leave aside the hot-stove overparsing and pseudo-psychoanalytic Stantonian soothsaying for a moment—not to mention the reasonable question of why and whether Stanton, the one really good position player on Miami's roster, would want to play for this team any longer than he absolutely must—and look at what this resolutely minor Valaika transaction coldly and damningly is. The Miami Marlins are a big league franchise in a major American city, a place in which it is possible to have more or less unconscionable amounts of fun; they're a team with a splashy new facility; and they're lousy enough to offer opportunities galore for big-league playing time.
All inarguably true, and yet, all things considered, Chris Valaika decided he'd rather spend much of the next year of his life in Iowa City, waiting for Darwin Barney to strain an oblique. That's the Marlins, and that's the problem.
The 1998 Marlins lost 108 games; they're the only team in franchise history to post a worse record than 2013's 100-loss team. That '98 team was a strange one, mostly because it entered the season as a defending World Series champion and then willfully and very quickly turned itself into an expansion team. There was a poignantly brief Mike Piazza cameo, and a little bit of end-stage Donn Pall and a weirdly large amount of Todd Dunwoody, and 74 innings and 14 starts given over to Andy Larkin, who allowed 156 baserunners and 87 runs in that stretch.
Some bad teams are stranger than others, but all bad teams are weird in something like this way—lifers collect their last weary big-league passport stamps, randos and goofs seize their last best shots or GIDP their way towards a pension, and young players are sprung, too early and terrified, into actual counts-in-the-standings action. Your Andy Larkins are allowed to give up a home run every 20 or so batters over the course of a season because your Andy Larkins are honestly the best pitchers available at the moment.
This is why they're bad teams, and most every organization has this sort of season—a weird summer of bleary recess in which senior citizens and hobos and toddlers tear-ass ineffectually around the same shabby lot. For the 1998 Marlins, Jim Leyland was the lunch lady barking Winston-scented warnings against horseplay and waiting for management to get on the stick. When the Marlins won it all in 2003, just a handful of players remained from that '98 team, let alone 1997's champion. One of those alumni was backup catcher Mike Redmond, now entering his second year as Miami's manager.
Through the dim magic of post hoc ergo propter hoc, we can say—and maybe even be correct—that this sort of failure can lead to a certain kind of success. Bonds are forged and chops are established and learning is done on the job. We are mostly imagining this, but we could someday imagine it about the 2013 Marlins, which was very definitively that type of bad team.
If every franchise goes through some version of this rock-bottom rebuilding, it's worth noting that the Marlins, first under founding owner Wayne Huizenga and then under current owner Jeffrey Loria, seem to go through it more readily and ruthlessly than others. Miami's bad teams have gotten worse, and follow more closely on the good ones. In the decade since the team's last World Series, the bad teams have mostly just followed each other, with the team slipping off the old cycle of resounding bust and triumphant boom and settling into a wildly enervating sort of perpetual and intentional and vexingly profitable betwixt-and-between mediocrity.
The old brutal tear-downs have stopped giving way to significant build-outs, and the false dawn of 2012—when the team rather haphazardly spent six figures to append a passel of free agents to the team's young core—quickly fed another clammy, frantic cashing-out. The star-studded Marlins that very briefly existed—Jose Reyes and Mark Buehrle and (um) Heath Bell, all with the team for only slightly longer than ur-punchline Piazza—didn't win, and didn't draw fans to the team's splashy new taxpayer-funded, human-unfriendly stadium that Loria built through frank and brazen white-collar criminality.
And so the general manager who built that team—the same GM who built the team's 2003 World Series winners—rapidly tore it down at his owner's behest, before that flawed roster was given a chance to reach anything like its level. And then, after the season, the owner fired the GM, whose name is Larry Beinfest and who had been on the job for 12 seasons. Beinfest restocked the farm system in deals that sent the erstwhile stars to Los Angeles and Toronto and Detroit, but the nauseous year that preceded his departure made it difficult to think much of the team's future, and to believe that the seasick present really does have a horizon. It is tough, in short, to believe that the Marlins will somehow stop doing Marlins things.
There could be another good team stirring under this newest coat of ash, but The Marlins Thing is not just an abstract problem. The baseball questions have prosaic baseball answers—the young players will develop or they won't; Greg Dobbs will play a lot, and play a lot like Greg Dobbs; new veterans will check into the Miami Marlins Hospice and ride out the last portion of their careers' shoulder in relative peace and quiet. The bigger question—how this greasy present could give way to a happier future, and whether the Marlins can be more than what they've been under Loria and his doof-junta—is a tougher one.
How many times can a team do this particular thing in this particular way, to itself and its employees and the people expected to care about the team, and for how long, before it becomes unsustainable and toxic? It is possible, scanning the farm system and the degraded National League East, to imagine the Marlins as a competitive enough baseball team. But it is also difficult not to see them as a bigger and sadder and more emblematic thing, the sort of towering crude pop art that wouldn't be out of place in Jeffrey Loria's esteemed personal collection—a garish crystallization of all the predatory, ravenously shameless pastel brutality at work in the Miamis of Charles Willeford and Elmore Leonard and Michael Mann and Rick Ross; a bleak example of the dissolving social compact between teams and their communities; proof of the friction between longstanding community-oriented loyalties and the corrosive effects of impunity and vast profit.
None of which conflicts are, it should be noted, unique to this particular messed-up franchise. But the Marlins also really are unique. As they presently exist, the Marlins are baseball's most robustly haunted ghost-yacht, bobbing away far from land with the caviar still cool in the fridge, but the crew spookily absent and various creaks and silences alternating exactly as they ought not—a big glossy chunk of luxurious jetsam, with various leaks slowly weeping the whole gilded thing down to the bottom.
"We want to get out there and get going," Marlins President David Samson told Fox Sports Florida early in the offseason. "We're getting ready for another season, and we're going to win more. I promise you this: We're not going to lose 100 games next year. Not close."
Samson, Loria's stepson and a man who bragged in a speech to local swells about ripping off Miami's taxpayers on the $600 million funding for the team's stadium, is not an easy person to agree with. But he is probably not wrong. It is difficult to lose 100 games two seasons in a row, even for a team that's only faintly trying not to lose 100 games.
The young players already with the team will develop; Yelich, in particular, could be an All-Star. Others who have not yet arrived could do so during 2014, including lefty starters Andrew Heaney, Adam Conley and Justin Nicolino and ace defensive backstop J.T. Realmuto. Marisnick and Ozuna, despite their big league auditions in '13, may need more time in the minors, although possibly not much more. If there's a plan to speak of in Miami, this is it: graduate a class of prospects onto the big-league roster and let them grow up together into what could be a very good team if some percentage reach their potential. Most of those prospects don't quite project as stars—Heaney is the only top-of-the-rotation big league arm in the farm system by most rankings and Marisnick and Realmuto, for all their considerable tools and defensive chops, have not yet hit especially well, even in the minors. They will all, however, be exactly as cheap and exactly as controllable—and exactly as unpredictable and contingent on circumstance and likely to bust—as any other rookies.
Which brings us back to the haunted yacht. The Marlins' roster, as it stands, is mostly holes—the team got production below replacement level from every infield position besides third base in 2013, with shortstop Adeiny Hechevarria, another piece acquired in the Great Toronto Ship-Off, standing out as a Yuniesky Betancourtian disaster. By spring, the Marlins will find players to fill those positions, one way or another—either with the young players they develop or with the kind of castoffs the Marlins usually wind up rescuing. The team that results will do its best to win games under these circumstances. It happens every year.
But that's just it. If it is possible to look at the Miami Marlins and imagine an intriguing future and promising present, there is also the crucial, crippling contextual counterweight of The Marlins Thing. The team's goal is to have its young players grow up healthy and strong and productive, which is as reasonable a plan as any. But the environment in which those kids will grow up—subject to the weird whims of a meddlesome, bullying owner; playing in the pastel tomb of a stadium he built; working in an atmosphere of cheesy, chiseling disregard and towering uncommitment—is not a happy or nurturing or safe or healthy one. We might as well wish the kids well.
David Roth is a co-founder of and editor at The Classical, and a writer for SB Nation.


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Notes and observations from Thursday's CU scrimmage, the first of August camp:
Junior quarterback Tyler Hansen took the snaps on the first possession. And after the scrimmage, senior wideout Scotty McKnight told reporters that that Hansen had the upper hand over senior Cody Hawkins. However, coach Dan Hawkins said he is not ready to name a starting quarterback.
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Cody Hawkins, getting fewer snaps with the No. 1 offense, went 17-for-31 for 182 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions.
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"We had trouble with that last year and we need to score when we're down there," offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau said.
— The scrimmage went three hours but was almost injury-free until sophomore safety Vince Ewing suffered what appeared to be an injury to his left knee.
— With all the talk of the new receivers, it was sophomore Will Jefferson who led with seven catches for 88 yards. Jefferson also blocked one punt and nearly blocked another. Jefferson seemed to be all over the place but fretted afterward that he failed to haul in a long throw by Hansen that went off his finger tips because he hesitated for an instant.
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Local villagers are hired to help at a JPAC dig site near Ta Oy, Laos on Wednesday, November 7, 2012. The recovery team is searching for the remains of an American Marine unaccounted for from the Vietnam war. This wreckage is not far from where Spooky 21, an AC-47 gunship crashed during Vietnam. (Khampha Bouaphanh/MCT)
May 25, 2013Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Washington Bureau
TA-OY, Laos — Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his twin-prop AC-47 was easily visible against a blue sky as he banked west.
The cargo plane-turned-gunship was on its way to Laos; its mission was top secret.
Jeffords put the South China Sea at his back and the plane lumbered over a landscape mimicking the twists and folds of an unmade bed. The flight plan showed that he and his five-member crew would be returning to base in under six hours. Back in time for a late lunch.
But that was without complications, and this was the Vietnam War.
Just over halfway through what had been up to that point an uneventful flight, at 10:56 a.m., two U.S. planes in the area picked up a UHF radio broadcast:
"Mayday, Spooky 21. Mayday."
Then the plane disappeared, swallowed up in the dense green foliage of the Southeast Asian jungle.
This is a story of that flight, and the nearly half-century it took to find and bring home its six crew members. Guiding that effort through all those years was the pledge that those who go into battle make to each other: No matter what, we will come back for you. You will not be forgotten. You will not be left behind.
It is also the story of how a six-hour combat mission at a time when America was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam would test the limits of forensic science, and the faith and patience of the grieving sons, daughters, wives and parents of the six lost airmen.
Besides Jeffords, a 40-year-old pilot from Florence, S.C., the Air Force crew was made up of the navigator, Maj. Joseph Christiano, 43, of Rochester, N.Y.; the co-pilot, 1st Lt. Dennis L. Eilers, 27, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and the weapons and ammo gang of Tech Sgt. William K. Colwell, 44, of Glen Cove, N.Y.; Staff Sgt. Arden K. Hassenger, 32, of Lebanon, Ore.; and Tech Sgt. Larry C. Thornton, 33, of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Two months before, 2-year-old Jeffrey Christiano had clung to the frame of his family's front door, crying, "Daddy don't go!" as he watched his father walk away.
As the crew members lifted off that morning, their families back home in the states were preparing for their first Christmas without them. They received the news that the plane had vanished that same day. Christmas Eve became one of the hardest days of the year.
This was what those who began the search for Spooky 21 knew: It had been headed for the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and its crew had never been seen again. That was the essence of what was officially labeled case file 0222.
The case file notes that the initial actions included "extensive searches" in the immediate aftermath of the plane's disappearance, near the "strike location and in a fifty-mile-wide corridor on the route from Da Nang." But that brief description went on to state, "Subsequent search efforts were terminated on 26 December 1965."
There was a war on, after all.
Spooky 21's mission was covert but vital to the war. It was part of a secret combat operation known as Tiger Hound, a search-and-destroy mission aimed at the trail, a series of dirt and stone paths hidden in the Laotian jungle that served as an enemy supply line. It connected the communist North Vietnamese military with its allies in the Viet Cong insurgency hiding in the south.
The winding, narrow, jungle-covered corridor through neighboring Laos enabled the fighters from the north to avoid the South Vietnamese army and its American allies digging in along the demilitarized zone 80 miles north of the airfield in Da Nang. But the trail, named for the North Vietnamese leader, was more like a network of capillaries than a set route. And it was keeping Vietnam from becoming a traditional war, fought along a single front.
"Without the Ho Chi Minh Trail," said military historian James Willbanks, "the war doesn't go on."
The morning it disappeared, Spooky 21 roared west toward Laos, passing peaks crowned by tall trees and valley floors cut by fast rivers, covered in rice paddies or choked with bamboo. Villagers moved up and down the knife-sharp slopes with ease. But the heavy tree cover made it a hell of a place to find and fight an enemy.
The plan was for the crew to find and destroy its target — a way station hidden beneath the thick foliage, typically home to ammunition depots and anti-aircraft batteries. They were expected back at Da Nang about 1:30 p.m.
But on a clear morning, like that Christmas Eve day, gunners hidden beneath the jungle leaves could spot a big fat target like Spooky etched against the blue sky long before the crew could see them.
Most Laotian villagers had fled the region to escape the war. But they weren't the problem. It was the North Vietnamese moving along the trail, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail had never been busier.
By 1965, the U.S. military resolved to do something about it. Bomb one path and the North Vietnamese army's Group 559 — a military team strung along the trail like a version of Pony Express way stations, and tasked with keeping it open — simply redirected traffic several hundred yards over to a similarly primitive route while it patched up the first one.
But the trail ran through Laos and Cambodia, and cutting it in half would have meant expanding the Vietnam War into a regional war. Closing it would have required an invading and occupying ground force, a prospect that had little appeal.
The U.S. was stepping on the gas, however, as far as expanding its presence in South Vietnam. The 23,000 troops stationed there in 1964 had risen to 185,000 by the end of 1965, when Spooky 21 left Da Nang. The number would continue to climb until it peaked in 1968 at more than half a million.
But as the number of American troops increased, so did Soviet and Chinese support for the North Vietnamese. The American air campaign wasn't enough to stop the flow of weapons, ammo — even food — often stacked onto comically overloaded bikes or stuffed into baskets and lashed to donkeys, sometimes even to elephants.
Desperate for a more accurate and lasting way than bombing to hit and continue hitting a target, the old workhorse C-47 cargo plane had been outfitted with three electric miniguns, bolted to the floor and pointed out holes where windows had been.
After a year of tests, the plane was in its first month as a response to the increased activity on the trail. "Spooky" was its call signal, an homage to its ability to break Viet Cong night attacks on American bases.
But among the enemy, its nickname was "Dragon." Tracer rounds, especially at night, made it look like the propeller-drive plane was spitting fire at the ground.
Jeffords controlled the aim of Spooky's guns from the pilot's seat. In the plane's belly, Hassenger helped make sure the ammo didn't jam. The only blond in an otherwise brown-haired group of airmen, his was job simple: Once they started raining fire on the enemy, the fire didn't stop.
Hassenger had volunteered for the job because he thought it was the future. Also, his family could use the combat pay. His wife, Sherrie, said that her husband was a military man and made for his role.
Still, like the rest of his crew, he was new to this war, and he hadn't volunteered for an easy task. A three-second burst from Spooky could cover a football field-sized area with a bullet every couple of yards. The plane carried a lot of ammo, about 24,000 rounds. But if things got hairy, the guns could burn through that in less than three minutes.
Beyond the challenge, however, was the danger. Spooky was fearsome in fight, but vulnerable. These early missions, like the Christmas Eve 1965 sortie over Laos, were part of the learning curve.
Shortly after takeoff, Christiano — the runt of the crew at 5'6″, but stocky and packing as much weight onto his frame as his taller crewmates — got instructions to redirect to different target coordinates. The original destination had been a patch of jungle about 100 miles straight west. The new one was another patch about 23 miles south of that, still about 100 miles from Da Nang.
Records indicate Spooky 21 turned west toward the target. Jeffords' airborne chatter during the next couple of hours revealed nothing unusual. Everything appeared to be going according to plan.
But then came the "mayday" call.
For years, only rumor surfaced about the plane or its crew. There were stories that the airmen were alive but captive. Some of the wives, not even certain if they were truly widows, quietly hoped their men had simply been captured, and had carved out new lives half a world away. Sherrie Hassenger figured her Arden would have been an asset in Laos, teaching villagers the finer points of woodworking and furniture making.
The U.S. military dutifully tracked down each rumor but could never substantiate any. Still, the resulting limbo was torture for the families.
By 1982, when Christiano's son, Jeffrey, was an 18-year-old senior wrestling for his high school team in Rochester, N.Y., the crew had all been declared dead.
At that time, Jeffrey was hoping to get into the U.S. Air Force Academy, to follow in his father's footsteps. In February of that year, on a date he had long ago circled on his calendar, he was focused on a wrestling match. Win it and he'd qualify for the state championships. He was good, and he had figured he'd be in a position to go for state.
Just as the match started, he quickly glanced up at the stands, as he always did, hoping somehow his dad would be there. He knew it was impossible. Still. …
His mom was in the stands, but she didn't really get wrestling.
The match didn't go well. Jeffrey still thinks the referee awarded a few points to his opponent too easily. After he lost, his mother approached him in the hallway.
"Did you win?" she asked, smiling.
Jeffrey loved his mom, but he recalls thinking, "I could really use a dad today."
He thought about that a lot in those days.
Finally, after years of little progress, a possible break came on Jan. 19, 1993.
A joint U.S.-Lao People's Democratic Republic team went to a village in Xekong Province, near their target site, spoke to villagers about Spooky 21 and surveyed the ground. Still, the result was the same: no information, no wreckage.
A local village chief also stirred optimism at one point during a search for a different missing crew when he said that a two-propeller plane had gone down 5 to 8 kilometers away, close to the Spooky 21 target area. But a subsequent search found nothing.
Case file 0222 recounts the fruitless chases. It was tucked away in a cabinet at Hawaii's Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. Its motto: "Until they're home." Like tens of thousands of other files, it outlines how the military hunts down the remains of missing troops. It also included records of the post-disappearance promotions of the crew members, as well as correspondence with surviving family members, like the letters from wives who disagreed with the ruling that their husbands were dead.
Then on Jan. 13, 1995, three decades after the crew disappeared, a Laotian identified only as "Mr. Thongkhoun" in Savannakhet Province, about 70 miles northwest of the previous search, spoke to a different investigating team.
He said that he'd seen a large propeller plane in December 1965 or January 1966 flying low, with heavy smoke pouring out. It hit a large tree and spun into a rice field.
Mr. Thongkhoun didn't see any parachutes or other aircraft in the area, nor did he hear anyone mention a surviving pilot or crew. But he hadn't actually poked around where the plane had hit until 10 years later.
His account put Spooky 21 far off course, outside what was thought to be the likely search area. But by expanding the area, records showed that three planes, including Spooky 21, had possibly crashed in that region of Laos, and two had been accounted for.
Mr. Thongkhoun sounded sure of the story. And the plane he described sounded like an AC-47.
The team began to wonder: Could this finally be Spooky 21?
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Classes were canceled and parents were told to pick up their children at a nearby shopping center.
The school is making counselors available.
Police haven't said what prompted the shooting.
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