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MCALLEN — A federal judge has given prison sentences to eight men who bought semi-automatic rifles in South Texas on behalf of organized crime in Mexico.The U.S. Attorney’s Office says U.S. District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Juan Manuel Barrientos Lopez, an illegal immigrant and alleged leader of the team of “straw buyers,” to five years in the prison. The sentence was the longest allowed by law for what was essentially lying about who was really buying the guns.

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Airlines to refund taxes DALLAS — The IRS is asking airlines to refund taxes to people who bought tickets before last weekend but are just now taking their trips. Those travelers might be owed a refund because Congress let the taxes expire. The Internal Revenue Service said on its website Wednesday that airlines can refund the taxes, just as they do when exchanging a refundable ticket that wasn’t used.

nation &world Atheists sue New York NEW YORK — A group representing atheists says the installation of a cross-shaped beam at the Sept. 11 museum is unconstitutional The American Atheists filed the suit in Manhattan State Supreme Court on Wednesday. The group says the museum is a public institution and should not reflect a specific religion. It asks for a judge to either order the cross removed or order that other religions be represented equally. Memorial President Joe Daniels says the museum’s mission is to tell the history of Sept. 11 through artifacts like the cross.

Mixed martial arts fighter and first-time action star Gina Carano fires away in Steven Soderbergh’s espionage thriller, Haywire.

Built Texas tough Dallas native Gina Carano kicks her way out of the ring and into movies Fighting record ◗ Carano, trained in Muay Thai and boxing, is 12-1-1 in her MMA career. The 5 foot 8, 145 pound ﬁghter was formerly ranked No. 3 in the world.

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nce called the “face of women’s mixed martial arts,” fighter, model and actress, Gina Carano, looks to land a knockout blow with her first action film, Haywire. The director and cast were on hand last Friday to show exclusive footage of the fighter’s transition from the cage at San Diego’s Comic Con. Born in Dallas, Texas, the 29-year-old Carano stars alongside Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) and Ewan McGregor in director Steven Soderbergh’s female revenge movie. “I saw Gina fighting on TV. I tuned in out of curiosity, and

literally thought, ‘why doesn’t someone build a movie around her?’ I’d never seen someone fight like that in a cage! Then two years ago exactly I took the train here to meet her to talk about being in a movie,” Soderbergh said. That conversation took place shortly after Carano’s August 2009 defeat to Cristiane Santos on Showtime’s Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg. The main

Haywire’s Comic Con teaser poster reveals the veteran supporting cast of Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas and Texas native, Bill Paxton.

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Twilight’s Kristen Stewart let a curse word slip in front of underage audience members at San Diego’s Comic Con July 21, causing her to cover her mouth in embarassment. Stewart immediately apologized before continuing to answer questions on Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1.

The Battalion On August 2, after months of studying Swahili and learning variations of foreign culture, one former A&M student will embark on a nine month journey across the Atlantic Ocean, to a remote location in eastern Africa to help sustainable agricultural and income security. Wilson Alarcon, who graduated in the spring with a bachelor’s in agricultural economics, said he has had his fair share of hardships. Born in Torrance, California, at six years old his family moved to the remote mountain tops of Nayarit, Mexico off the pacific coast. During this time, he lived without a local grocery store where electricity or running water be off for days. After nine years of living in this rural environment, his family — in search of a more stable environment — moved back to the United States and settled in their current San Antonio residence where Alarcon graduated from Torrance High.

Giving back ◗ To ﬁnd out more about the 2Seeds Network and follow Alarcon’s progress in Lutindi, Tanzania or to make a donation visit 2seeds.org/lutindi, thelutindiprogect. wordpress.com.

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event marked the first time two women headlined a major MMA bout. “I had just come off the Cyborg loss, so I was a little bit bummed,” Carano said. “I had a black eye that I was trying to cover up with makeup, and I picked [Soderbergh] up from the train station and we had an amazing four-hour talk — not really about anything but about life and experiences. And then at the end of it he said, ‘this either going to happen really fast or it’s not going to happen at all.’ And it happened.” With the Ocean’s heist series and Traffic under his belt, Soderbergh saw the potential in Carano to create a legitimate female action star — a woman more lethal than G.I. Joe, Channing Tatum, or for that matter, any actor out there. “I felt it would be interesting and unusual if we created a female character who performed physically, for real,” Soderbergh said. “No doubles, no cutting away. The rule was it had to be real, the result is that the film’s fights are shorter than you’re probably used to seeing in movie. In a realistic fight scene, somebody’s gonna get the drop kick and it’s over.” Tatum, the self-admitted gentlemen who was taught not to hit a woman, said he was reluctant to hit Carano when a scene called for him to smash her in the face with a

ketchup bottle. Carano would soon coax him out his gentlemen ways. “She called me a female p-word and then I had to do it for my masculinity. But then she hit me twice as hard and I didn’t want to hit her anymore. She pretty much kicked my [butt].” It didn’t take long for the audience to understand Carano’s fury, as Soderbergh’s footage showed an intense, fast-faced brawl in a hotel room between Carano and Fassbender as the two smashed and destroyed everything in their surroundings—ending with Fassbender’s submission and shot to the face. Though protective measures were taken, Soderbergh said padding did little to cushion Carano’s punches and knees to the gut. “She actually knocked someone out in rehearsal,” Tatum said. The fight scenes may come easier for Carano, but it’s the acting part that she said has really opened her eyes to the entire filmmaking process. “I just stayed open to it. I had to learn a lot about acting. I got acting 101. It ruined movies for me for a couple of months, but now I appreciate them even more.” It’s too early to tell if Carano has the acting chops to compliment her fighting skills, but Haywire certainly earned the appreciation of several fans in attendance. The verdict will be known when Haywire releases January 20, 2012.

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Alarcon said he is thankful he experienced those struggles because he can relate to millions of people throughout the globe living below the poverty line. The idea is this will help him assimilate into the diverse African population when he travels to Tanzania to help the community’s sustainable agricultural development through the Washington D.C. non-profit organization, 2Seeds Network. “It’s going to be scary, but they do have running water out of a pipe, electricity and cell phones, so it’s not going to be as remote as I originally thought,” Alarcon said. “I’ve never been to Africa so this is going to be a new experience and the more I look into Tanzania, the more excited I am. It’s a really beautiful country and the people are famous for being hospitable and welcoming to foreigners.” Currently in it’s second year running, 2Seeds Network is an organization that caters to a “young generation” of postgraduate students seeking to help small communities throughout Tanzania with sustainable agricultural development and income security. If accepted into the network, these students will be assigned teams and placed in various locations throughout Tanzania to oversee projects. Alarcon will be a project coordinator for the Lutindi project, located in the eastern hills of Tanzania. He will be working alongside a recent graduate student from USC Berkeley, Megan Burton, on the nine-month research stint. Sam Bonsey, director of project development and co-founder for 2Seeds said that, this year there are approximately nine “unique” programs operating out of Tanzania -- Magoma, Bombomajimoto, Kijungumoto, Kwakiliga, Tabora, Lutindi, Bungu, kariakoo, Korogwe — and are all different in response to the needs of each individual area. “Our teams work independently to assess the needs of the communities they live in, identify resources available, and develop their own local partnerships, and then identify their own local partners with whom to build projects,” Bonsey said. Alarcon heard about the network during his senior year through assistant professor of economics, Jonathan Meer, after recently completing a similar summer trip to Guatemala where he taught a class on gardening to school children and helped create a self-sustaining garden. Meer taught Alarcon in two classes — Economics of Education and Public Economics. He said it was Alarcon’s initiative that caught his eye and was the reason Meer encouraged him to apply to the outreach program. “I was very impressed with his academic abilities, his work ethic and his interest in broader problems,” Meer said. “I think he has excellent intuition for the sorts of issues that 2Seeds addresses.” Alarcon said both himself and Burton are working hard to raise a total of $12,000

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Wilson Alarcon learned Swahili to travel to Tanzania to help the local people. in funding to pay for their research because all projects are funded directly through the coordinators. Bonsey said the reason team members pay for their own funding is to make the project their own, and realize that 2Seeds is as much a financial investment as it is a timely one. “They get creative in their fundraising, and in doing so build a great sense of ownership over their projects. They also develop an extensive and committed network of investors to whom they are accountable, ” Bonsey said, “Nearly all of our project coordinators are not experts in agricultural development, and that’s the way we want it to be.” The pair have managed to raise 66 percent of their financial goal by spreading the word through digital media outlets including Facebook, Twitter and even a blog-site created for friends and family members to follow their progress in Tanzania. “The more people see our progress the more likely people are to make a donation,” Alarcon said. “We have a long way to go to raise the money — over the coming nine months we are supposed to raise the rest of it.” Alarcon’s brother, Edgar Alaracon, who is currently working on his masters of science in agricultural economics, hopes that his brothers “admirable” decision to study abroad will act as a stepping stone towards future globalization. “I love Wilson and I’m going to miss him a lot, but I think it’s a great opportunity,” Alarcon said. “I think it is something he his passionate about and he’s going to come back and share with us all of the fun and great things he has accomplished over there. It’s always interesting to learn and hear about other cultures and see how other people think and interact.” Whatever fate has in store for Alarcon in Tanzania, he said his only wish was to make his project the best it can be, and help the people of Lutindi lead better lives. “Last year the group in Lutindi tripled the harvest income by selling at the right time and had amazing results,” Alarcon said. “I want this mission to be even better and to be able to come back and show people positive changes.”

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