Scott Cohen, with confiscated red abalone.

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Peter Adam

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Annette Cordero (left) and Susan Christol Deacon

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John Olson

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Daraka Larimore-Hall

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Kevin McKiernan

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Ocean Meadows in 1960

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Kurds have elevated “Apo” Öcalan, the imprisoned rebel leader, to cult-like status in Syria.

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Ocean Meadows Golf Course

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Photos of the Assad regime posted outside the mukhabarat (police) station in Derik, Syria. Syrian police spotted the writer taking this picture.

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Ocean Meadows Golf Course

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Some of the roads in northern Syria are now controlled by armed Kurds who are seeking autonomy.

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Kurds in northern Syria have formed secret militias called People’s Protection Units (YPG).

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John Olson

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A Syrian Kurd and her child in the Camp Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. Since April, some 29,000 Syrian Kurds fleeing the war in Syria have been given asylum at Camp Domiz.

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Kurdish rebels, with a heavy Russian-made DShK machine gun mounted on a truck, enter the town of Derik, Syria.

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This regional map shows Kurdistan in red, a geo-cultural area that overlaps four countries.

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Shepherds helped to smuggle the writer into Syria.

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Mother and daughter attend a Kurdish rally in Derik, Syria. The girl has the colors of the Kurdish flag wrapped around her neck.

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KURDISH MILITIA IN SYRIA: A young woman and other new recruits train at a secret base near the Iraqi and Turkish border.

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Sculptor Donald Davis is influenced by Roman art and architecture.

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Kirsten and Alexis Moore at the Christmas tree lighting at Westmont Nov. 28

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Kirsten and Alex Moore after the Warriors won their first ever Golden State Athletic Conference regular season championship Feb. 21, 2012.

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Christen Portillo (Yardi), Camie Cohee Barnwell and Heather Lahr (Citrix), Erin Ervin and Ariana Arcenas-Utley (Deckers), and Anna Markmann (Yardi) with Jane Lindsey, Foodbank Chief Development & Resource Officer, represent just some of the local companies participating in the Foodbank’s Annual Food & Funds Drive Corporate Challenge.

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