sunstroke, hyperthermia, and exposure (coming in fifth was drowning: people often died crossing the Rio Grande in Texas). Mind you, immigrant border crossers had been dying on the US- Mexico border for years; the previous peak year was 1988, when 355 people perished while attempting desert crossings or the currents of the Rio Grande. It had declined to as few as 180 in 1994, when, suddenly, it began to rise again, beginning in 1995, breaking the old record in 2000 when 370 people died. In 2004, some 460 migrants died, and by 2005, more than 500 people were perishing in the desert.

Much of this was happening on people’s private lands along the border or on federal lands leased out to ranchers who worked them. And so naturally thosepeople were increasingly coming face to face with the brutal realities being created by American border policies—the dead and the dying and the desperate, all wandering through the desert in hopes of reaching the Promised Land. Most of these encounters were simply with people who wanted a drink of water, but some were not so benign, and these moments could be fraught with danger, at least in the minds of the ranchers if not in reality. The crossers also left trash in the desert that was a danger to livestock, and they frequently cut fences, meaning the loss of livestock, especially if they wandered into Mexico.

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pieces. It's very representative of the horror genre in general, from the turn of last century up until modern times. You can see the development of horror movie posters and all the different trends that they went through. For instance, movie posters from the '30s are very vivid and have very lush details. When I look at them, I get a sense of romance and whatnot, and that makes sense because back in the '30s, the most successful type of movie were romance movies, relationship movies. To reel in that audience, those ticket buyers, the studios would design the horror movie posters so that they looked like romance movies. It's a very, very subtle thing. It's a very stylized look... The '50s were heavy on women in eitherArtist's description:

This painting is a view of Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly National Park in Arizona. I have camped and explored the canyon from the rim and the bottom of the canyon with a Navajo guide. It is a lovely area and is the home of Navajo people now, however it was the home of ancestral Puebloan people in ancient times. Spider Rock is a special sacred site to Native people.

Artist's description:

This painting is a view of Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly National Park in Arizona. I have camped and explored the canyon from the rim and the bottom of the canyon with a Navajo guide. It is a lovely area and is the home of Navajo people now, however it was the home of ancestral


In an interview with The New York Times, Wilmore said the name was changed to avoid "brand confusion"

Larry Wilmore's Comedy Central show won't be titled The Minority Report; instead it will take a cue from one of the channel's flagship shows.

The new series was retitled The Nightly Show and will premiere on Jan. 19, according to The New York Times.

Wilmore, a former correspondent on The Daily Show, was named in May as the host of the forthcoming 11:30 pm show, which will take the place of The Colbert Report. When the comedian's show was first announced, the original title was The Minority Report With Larry Wilmore.

In an interview with the Times, Wilmore said the name was changed to avoid "brand confusion."

“It was never intended to be a showIt was on the fifth day of clearing my dead father's possessions that I chanced upon one of his journals—the edges of its cover bug-eaten and rotting, the lined-paper a mellow, milky shade—and flipping through it randomly, my eyes fell on one particular passage that mentioned my mother's miscarriage in 1974.

The passage was stark, brief, and because it was written in traditional Chinese, took me a long while to read:

Sent Lee Ching to the K.K. Women's Hospital today. She had a great deal of pain this morning, and was kept in observation for several hours. The doctor told us the baby had died inside her. He didn't say from what, or why. He told us that he would perform a simple procedure to remove the baby. It wouldn't


hurt too much, he said. We let him. Then he gave some painkillers for Lee Ching and she slept soundly, thankfully. He told me, later on, it was a boy. My son.

I told this to my older brother Tommy, who had just broken up with Eric, his boyfriend of three years, and moved back home, taking up the same room he had before he left, a room that we had previously used to store boxes and cartons of my father's books, magazines and newspaper cuttings. My father had worked as a copy editor in the Chinese division of the local newspapers; he held on to this job for a good twenty-nine years before his retirement two years ago. He was a hoarder, as my mother used to nag,it was still too early to talk about it, the hurt was still fresh.

'What? What do you mean, almost?' Tommy asked, looking up from the Chinese newspaper he was reading, curiosity spreading like wild fire across his puzzled face. He adjusted his spectacles, pushing it back. Like my father, my brother wore spectacles; he had been wearing them since he was in secondary school, something that grew out of his late-night reading on the bed, under the covers and in bad light. He was always reading when he was a kid, and my father bought him every book he wanted, openly delighted by the fact that his son—his favourite—was a fervent reader, an intellectual, just like him. Even when Tommy came out to him about his relationship with


page, digging into the unknown past. He went into one of his strange spells, wrapping himself with a thick shroud of quietude and concentration that blocked out everything else around him. It was something he did more often these days.

'Why did you think Pa and Ma hid it from us?' I asked, trying to break the uncomfortable spell.

He turned to me, pausing his finger at a sentence, and said, 'I don't know. I guess they must have their reasons for not telling us.' He returned to the page and left me to clear the dirty plates from the dining table.

Whatever reasons my parents had for not telling us about this death in the family, they had taken it to their graves; my mother died shortly after I graduated,by my father towards Eric over the course of the dinner deterred my brother from inviting him back for other family gatherings. Now with him back in the house, I could hardly move about without bumping into him, and sometimes when he wanted to find me or talk to me, he would barge into my room without knocking on the door. I told myself to bear with it; he was still going through a tough phase in his life, he deserved more patience from me. So I put up with his erratic intrusions and kept up the cordial balance of our new living arrangements.

'Yes, I knew. I read his journals before you did,' I said, a trace of irritation in my voice. 'Remember, he was a first-time father,


argue with him. One thing that I had learnt about my brother as we were growing up was that once he was convinced of something—an idea, a theory or a gut-feel—he would stick to it, come hell or high water, defending it to the very end. It was best to leave him alone, to his convictions, to his own devices. He was stubborn and mule-headed, but not without a tenacious sense of purpose and perseverance.

In most things, this character trait worked well for him, but when it came to his relationship, it proved to be more problematic, even fatalistic. He could only see things in a certain way—his way—and anything else was secondary, less worthy for his consideration. He only saw and believed what he wanted to seehome one evening four years ago. Tommy wanted to pick up some winter jackets that he had left in his old room; the couple was planning a two-week holiday in Paris and Barcelona at the end of November. I was writing in my room when I heard loud muffled voices coming from the living room. As I was introduced to Eric, I could see, from the corner of my eye, my father picking up his newspapers and cup of jasmine tea, peering knowingly above the black spectacles that hung loosely on the bridge of his nose. He stood up, headed for his room and closed the door with a loud thud. He never came out after that. Eric and I exchanged pleasantries while Tommy went into his room,


my father's closed door, shouted, 'Pa, we're going off!' and hearing no reply, sighed and left.

That night, after dinner, I saw my father taking out his blue-cover journal and started writing in it. I sat down at the dining table, wanting to talk to him about my brother and Eric, but he dismissed me with a hard glare. I always thought of my father's reticence as an innate, indivisible part of his strict upbringing, the inflexible ways and ideas of the old, but over time I began to see it as an inevitable offshoot from his quiet, introvert personality, something he nurtured and cultivated with careful effort and attention, like the bonsai plants he kept. In a strange way, Tommy was more like my father than I was.

WhatI had picked up from my father was the habit of writing, though it was only in my early twenties that I decided to try my hand at it. I quit my first job as a service engineer with a telecommunication company—I had earned a diploma in Mechatronics from a local polytechnic with above-average grades and absolutely no interest—and took up a four-year part-time English Literature course at a tertiary institution. My father kept his thoughts about this to himself. He paid for the first two years of my studies while I, through sporadic writing assignments for little-known art magazines and copywriting on a temporary basis with an event cum marketing communication outfit, managed to pay off the rest of my studies with all of my earnings. Through


his contacts in the newspapers, I would get a few writing jobs from the lifestyle editor of the English broadsheet, though after a while, this income source petered out after a series of articles that I'd written was ruthlessly commented upon and heavily edited by the editor. We never discussed this, but I knew my father must have heard something. After this incident, I refused to take up any more writing assignment from my father's contacts.

My father often brought back work from the office and during the evenings, he would be sitting at the dining table with a thick red pen and a ruler, making changes on the drafts of Chinese articles and features. When he had gone through a few rounds, he would read aloud the finaledited piece, and if he was pleased with the changes, he would fax it back to the office and call up a colleague to submit it on his behalf. Once, en route to the kitchen for a drink, I picked up a piece on the changing socio-political policies of China, riddled with red circles, scratch-outs and neat blocks of Chinese characters, and found myself stuck after reading the third line. I had to skip one word out of three, and even then, the meaning of each sentence or phrase still eluded me completely.

I once read somewhere that the language of the heart is the language that one thinks, feels, read, analyses and dreams with, so it is with the English language for me; it has been the default


heart-language that I live and work with, for as long as I can remember. While my father never tried to force Tommy and me to use the Chinese language while we were growing up, he would, however, keep a tight rein on his usage of it in his daily life through the Chinese newspapers, books and TV shows. He never once talked to us or replied anything in English, though he understood it sufficiently to know what we were saying to him. His heart was a full Chinese heart, while for us it was a divided one, split with warring loyalties and factions.

As I started reading my father's journals, I couldn't help but wonder how much I knew of my father, and how well I knew him throughthe Chinese language, the lingua franca of his heart.

*

I heard Eric's voice from behind closed door when I came back from a day of writing at the public library. His pair of red-and-blue streaked New Balance shoes was worn at the soles and looked badly in need of a wash. He was a competitive tennis player and played whenever he had the opportunity; he tried to coach Tommy but after a few training sessions, my brother lost the initial interest and enthusiasm. From constantly playing in the sun, Eric acquired a perpetual dark tan on his arms and legs, and a lighter tone around his eyes from wearing his Oakley shades. He can never sit still, Tommy told me once.

I cleared my throat deliberately when I entered the


pride for my father who found it gratifying to have two university graduates in the family as he only had up to primary four school education. He was the one who wanted the family portrait taken in the first place. Four months later, my mother died from a car accident. I made a mental note to take down the portrait and stow it away in the storeroom. My father's eyes seemed to be surveying the room, attentive to the scene before him.

I was about to head for my room, eyes lowered to the floor, when my brother suddenly said, 'Haven't we quarrelled enough about this?'

Eric glared at Tommy and levelled his eyes on me, a look of incredulity on his face. His lips parted slightly, as if aboutthe language in my heart, but nothing came up. But I remembered coming across a passage that struck me like a blow out of nowhere. It was written in November 1977, a month before Tommy was born.

Lee Ching just woke up from a bad dream. I heard her shouts coming from the bedroom. She was gripping her stomach when I came in, the tendons jumping in her skin. She was soaked all over, and she looked frightened, scared out of her wits in fact. I held her and she began to cry on my chest, mumbling nonsensical words, something about not wanting to live anymore if the baby inside her was taken away again. She cried inconsolably. I held her to me; she felt like a dying bird


talking on his mobile, and guessing from his agitated tone, I knew it was Eric on the line. They were still going at it, trying to come to some form of reconciliation, and I could sense Tommy backing down, becoming less resistant. But still he showed no signs of wanting to move back with Eric. All he wanted to talk about were my dead parents' past lives; about his own life, he kept a tight lid.

Then one day, I told Tommy about my plans, something that I had been mulling over, should he move back to Eric's, whether I should sublet the spare bedrooms for extra income or to sell the flat and move into a smaller place. Tommy had come into my room, and was fishing outjournals, even years after the miscarriage and after we were born, he still brought up my dead brother from time to time. It was understandable as my mother carried the ghost of our dead brother with her all her life; she never did let him go. And so, in his kindness and love for my mother, my father had chosen to share her irreparable sadness and indulgence. He went as far as to shield us from it.

Taken from his journal, dated 21 April 1983:

I took the boys to the zoo together while Lee Ching rested at home. She couldn't get out of bed this morning, and she barely said a word. The boys raised such a ruckus, trying to stir her out of the bed. She screamed at


the two of us in the end; he would take ten of them and I'd keep nine. He kept the earlier half of my father's life, while I took the latter part of it. As for the fountain pen, wedding photograph and shirt, Tommy told me to keep it. 'Maybe you can find some inspiration from these items to write a story or something,' he said. I raised my eyebrows, but kept my lips sealed.

The day I completed the short story about my father and my eldest brother was the day Tommy moved out of the house, to move back with Eric. I heard Tommy opening the front door and when I went into the living room, I saw Eric sitting on the sofa, a look of contentmentroom and took up the short story that I had written. I read through it once more and let everything sink in. The house was silent and a gentle breeze went through it, rousing the curtains and ruffling the shirts hanging on wiry clothes hangers. I tried to imagine the sound of footsteps and whispers floating in the air in the quiet flat, and the history of my family as we had once lived, between the walls, in-between the spaces. I thought about my mother, and my father, and the brother I lost even before I knew him.

I held the short story in my hand and searched my drawers for a lighter.

'For you, Pa.'

I brought the orange flame to the edge of the papers and watched it burn,


A white police officer has been charged with first-degree manslaughter after she shot an unarmed black pastor dead while he had his hands up.

Prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have filed charges against Betty Shelby after she fatally gunned down 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on September 16.

Dashcam and aerial footage of the shooting and its aftermath showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby with his arms in the air.

A warrant has been issued for her arrest and arrangements are now being made for her to surrender. If convicted, she faces between fours years and the maximum sentence of life in prison.

The Tulsa County District Attorney's office said Officer Shelby 'reacted unreasonably by escalating the situation' by 'becoming emotionally involved to the point that she overreacted.'

Crutcher's twin sister, Tiffany, spoke to reporters outsideof the Tulsa County Courthouse on Thursday and said that the family is pleased Shelby has been charged.

Betty Shelby (left) has been charged with first-degree manslaughter after shooting unarmed black man Terence Crutcher (right) dead

Crutcher, 40, pictured with his twin sister, Tiffany, was shot dead while his arms were in the air

She said that they hope the district attorney vigorously prosecutes the case and obtains a conviction.

Tiffany added that she hopes a criminal conviction will help bring an end to the killing of innocent citizens by police.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said she hopes a first-degree manslaughter charge against Shelby provides some peace to the man's family and to the people of Tulsa.

In a statement Thursday, Fallin complimented Tulsa's police chief, mayor, district attorney and citizens for helping to


keep peace and order "during this difficult time."

Fallin also urged Tulsa residents to be patient as the case works its way through the justice system and noted that Shelby is innocent until proven guilty.

Crutcher's death sparked huge protests, with demonstrators demanding Shelby's arrest.

Video shows Crutcher (pictured in a white t-shirt) had his hands up when he was gunned down by police officers on September 16

The footage of the moments before and after the shooting does not offer a clear view of when Shelby fired the single shot that killed Crutcher.

Her attorney has said Crutcher was not following police commands and that Shelby opened fire when the man began to reach into his SUV window.

But Crutcher's family immediately discounted that claim, saying the father of four posed no threatto the officers, and police said Crutcher did not have gun on him or in his vehicle.

Shelby, who joined the Tulsa Police Department in December 2011, was en route to a domestic violence call when she encountered Crutcher's vehicle abandoned on a city street, straddling the center line.

Shelby did not activate her patrol car's dashboard camera, so no footage exists of what first happened between the two before other officers arrived.

A close-up from a dashcam shows the moments before Crutcher was shot. His death caused an outcry in Tulsa

The police footage shows Crutcher approaching the driver's side of the SUV, then more officers walk up and Crutcher appears to lower his hands and place them on the vehicle.

AUDIO FROM HELICOPTER OFFICER 1: 'He's got his hands up for


that day to help somebody.

'Things didn't go the way they should have. And it ended up as an officer-involved shooting.

'She was on her way to a domestic disturbance call.'

As she was driving she came across Crutcher, who according to Shelby was in the middle of the road looking down.

His SUV was blocking traffic. The engine was still running, which Shelby thought was odd, as she assumed it had broken down.

Wood said it is 'important to remember' that Shelby was on the scene for around a minute-and-a-half before the shots were fired.

Crutcher, pictured in the white shirt being filmed by a Tulsa Police helicopter after his car broke down in the middle of the road on Friday night, was shot dead shortly afterwards

Officers followed Crutcher back to his carwith their weapons drawn

Officers in the helicopter predicted their ground colleagues were going to use their taser

Seconds later, Crutcher was laying on the ground with the call 'shots fired' on the radio

When Shelby asked Crutcher, pictured left with his father, if he was the owner of the stalled SUV, he allegedly mumbled incoherently in response

When Shelby approached the car, the doors were closed, and the windows were open. She then saw Crutcher walking toward her, Wood said.

The lawyer then said Shelby asked Crutcher: 'Hey, is this your car?'

Crutcher didn't respond, simply dropping his head while continuing to look at Shelby, 'kind of under his brow,' Wood told ABC.

Crutcher then began to put his hand into his left pocket, so Shelby told said: 'Hey, please keep your hands out


of your pocket while you're talking to me. Let's deal with his car.'

He then pulled his hand away and put his hands up in the air, even though he was not instructed to do so.

Wood said that his client also found this odd.

People hold signs at a 'protest for justice'. Around 100 people gathered at the scene of the shooting earlier this week

When Shelby tried to talk to Crutcher, he just mumbled in response, Wood claims.

By around this point, Shelby, a drug recognition expert, believed Crutcher was 'on something,' Wood said.

Shelby radioed in that she had a subject 'who is not following commands.' She out her gun and told Crutcher to get on his knees, Wood said.

She pulled out a gun instead of a Taser because she thoughthe had a weapon.

Her initial plan was to book him for public intoxication, Wood told ABC.

Shelby ordered Crutcher to stop multiple times as Crutcher walked toward the SUV with his hands up, Wood said.

But those orders cannot be heard on the dashcam video.

The clip which shows the fatal shooting starts as another patrol car pulls up to the scene. By this point, Shelby is already pointing the gun at Crutcher.

Earlier this year, a former volunteer deputy with the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office was sentenced to four years in prison after he was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Eric Harris.

Community leaders who watched the video expressed shock and outrage about what they saw, but called for a calm reaction


N Out is not doing it right.

Brandon Montour – Montour had a slower start to the week, but eventually picked it up in the last two games. He had an assist in the Kings game and the go ahead goal in the Canucks game. We are starting to see him blossom into a really good offensive D-man. He was above 50% in all major shot metrics.

Andrew Cogliano – Yes, Cogliano missed some golden opportunities during the week, like the one in the first few minutes of the Canucks game, but he put himself in those positions and deserves a lot of credit for that. On top of that he was above 60% in all major shot metrics, which is really impressive. Silfverberg and Cogliano are doing pretty wellpretty quiet week in a good way. He was above 50% in most major categories but had a few turnovers that led to scoring chances against. He was steady which is exactly what this team needs. He is the best example of a 3-star performance. Beauchemin is 100% McDonalds

Ondrej Kase – Poor, poor Kase. He was having a pretty solid week up until the hit he took against the Kings. He was around 50% in most categories but barely played over two games so it’s hard to give a developed opinion. Hopefully he can get well soon.

Chris Wagner – Wagner surprised me a bit with his performance this week. He did not really produce a whole lot of points, with only 1 assist, but was solid at 5v5.


team he still had the worst CF%, FF%, SOG%, GF%, and HDCF% at 5v5 on the entire team. He was on the ice for 0 goals for and 3 goals against at 5v5 and the Ducks only allowed 7 5v5 goals during this stretch. On top of this he made a boneheaded turnover that directly lead to the Canucks goal and took 3 penalties in these four games. Bieksa was the worst Duck of the week and is the only 1 star performance. He was as bad as Taco Bell this week

Unranked

(My cut off to be ranked is having played in over half the games that week for skaters and started a game for Goalies):

Jaycob Megna (1 Game Played), Kevin Roy (1 Game Played), Jared Boll (2 Gamesthe mass market. The general public has discovered board games and the hobby is growing quickly. Our own board games sales are up 35% this year. Publishers tell independent stores multiple sales channels are for the greater good. As mass market shoppers discover new games, they'll naturally gravitate towards independent stores to pick up expansions and follow up games, items the mass market stores don't carry. It's a gateway sales channel.

The expansion paradox is this: As board game sales increase for independent retailers and the number of great board games proliferate, why does an independent store want to carry slower turning expansions and secondary games? Inventory being a zero sum game, an independent store owner can cherry pick the good stuff, you know, like the mass market stores.

But


massively failed at running game stores. They closed all 80 of their stores in 2003, many of which were known for extravagances that demonstrated they had no idea how difficult it was to run such an enterprise, let alone 80 of them. They also took down The Game Keeper, which they acquired, ending what was the only national chain of game stores, with over 100 locations. The game trade hasn't seen a national chain since and probably won't.

Third, and this is a big one, the state of game stores in this country is entirely an expression of Wizards of the Coasts policies in the marketplace. The vast majority of game stores exist because of the success of Magic: The Gathering. The absence of this one game would craterits costs and it's worth paying a little extra for that. The tables and chairs that allow for the community to grow and provide enjoyment has a cost. The extra rent on that open space has value, even if we don't expect them to pay for it like every other entertainment venue in their lives. We explain that right now, they can take that game home or in the back and satisfy their game related desires.

We make them realize that we are real people, living among them in their community, not NPCs or cogs in their machine, or as Amazon employs, hapless location tagged warehouse runners, timed and measured in their ability to find your discounted item in a sweltering warehouse while being short changed on their pay.


Veterans Against the War led a few thousand activists from the Rage show in a march to the Pepsi center, where the DNC was meeting. They were calling out the Dems for hypocrisy in continuing to fund the war, and were asking to meet with them.

It was too bad to have to work, but it was kind of neat to be part of the observing public for a change, rather than always the activist in the demo who is wondering how other people are observing things. It was also neat to watch everything alongside all my coworkers, and to see their reactions to things. It was kind of great to see all that, something that, in my own small way, I did help to make possible, and tohelped to lay some more of that ground work for what will be a very long political process- to change the direction in which the US is headed.

Recorded from June-August 2005 at Buried Electric studios, v2.0.
Mastered by John Coursey at Unititled Studios,
Washington DC, in October 2005.
Released October 2005.

Irsch Tomb Ich

Recorded from September-October 2006 at Buried Electric 2.0. Except for track 12 (recorded jan 2006), and tracks 10 and 11 (recorded in july 2006).
Mastered by Xavier Swafford in November 2006 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Released Novemeber 2006.

Scars and Stripes

All tracks written and recorded from January-August 2007 at Buried Electric 2.0.
Mastered by Xavier Swafford from September-November 2007 in Bethesda, Maryland.Released December 2nd, 2007.

Cybernetic Overload

All songs are remixes of songs previous written and released by Bajskorv. These remixes were made at different times


and by different artists from September 2007 to January 2009.
A few physical copies of this CD, with a shorter tracklist to allow for size, were produced in Jan '09 by Buried Electric.
Mastered by Xavier Swafford from January 2008- January 2009 in Bethesda, Maryland. Released January, 2009.Taika Waititi has criticized his home country New Zealand for being racist.

In an interview for Dazed and Confused magazine, the half-Polynesian actor/director spoke frankly about his love for the place where he grew up, but called out the overt racism towards Maori and Polynesian people.

“I think New Zealand is the best place on the planet, but it’s a racist place,” said 42-year-old Waititi, who last year starred in a campaign for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, aimed at tackling racism in his home country.

He recalled a time when, as a youngster, he was not allowed to work on the cash register when he was employed at a grocery store.

“I really cherish the memories of how I grew up, (but) it was actually pretty s**t, growing up poor


with no major outside investment and having completed just one small crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund the first production run. And somehow, along the very winding and counterintuitive path this rag-tag group of young men have taken, they've managed to create a successful--and perhaps even admirable--business.

Only, it barely resembles a business.

"To Be Funny and to Have People Like Us"

I called Temkin, the 26-year-old Chicago-based game designer and graphic artist who's something of a ringleader for his co-creators of Cards, to ask if what he and his friends have created is merely an extraordinarily profitable hobby. He tells me the company behind Cards is indeed incorporated and that the company recently obtained a business address--a sort of small-scale co-working-space Temkin manages. (Temkin also takes graphic-design freelance gigs andgot them howling was called Cardenfreude (a portmanteau of "card" and "schaudenfreude," a German word that translates roughly to "deriving pleasure from another's misfortune") that entailed asking and answering absurd questions. The game was fun, but didn't stick until both the questions and the answers were pre-written out on highly interchangeable cards.

"It was the first game we'd made up that we were still thinking about when we woke up in the morning," Temkin says. "It was still really, really funny."

He didn't know it would resonate outside his small circle until each of the eight guys brought a deck back to his respective colleges with him in early 2009.

"We each had the experience that once someone played, they'd want their own copy," he says. "And once you started playing,


an hour later there'd be 30 people in your dorm room."

During spring break of 2009, the group reconvened, and worked on setting up a website for the game, and uploading the cards. The name morphed to Cards Against Humanity, a play on Crimes Against Humanity. They designed a logo. For the next two years, the game was simply free-for-the-taking online, under a Creative Commons license. In 2011, the group decided to go for producing it in physical form.

Instead of seeking venture capital or a cash infusion from an angel investor, they took the project straight to Kickstarter. It raised more than $15,000, and before long, this little hobby required sophisticated branding, a manufacturer, a supply chain, and distribution. It had no choice but be a business.

Only, these eighttested properly." He also noted that while he's an investor in several fast-growth startups, including Evernote, Uber, and Twitter, and enjoys, that, he is well aware that most tech startups built under today's model fail.

Entrepreneur Catherine Herdlick has built her own games that have become company-like entities, not unlike Cards Against Humanity. She has also worked at larger gaming companies, including Electronic Arts, and says there can be frustrations involved with adding bureaucracy to something that was previously a passion project--despite that growing a company might not seem unnatural to game designer.

"When you are a game designer, you are in control of a fairly closed system. You are designing the rules, and you are creating an experience. That's not that different than creating a business, which is in


Richard Donner who famously directed Superman and Stuart Baird, one of the most respected film editors in Hollywood. But then, he also directed Star Trek Nemesis, so fuck that guy.

I feel for the guy, I really do. When faced with having to live up to the legacy of his father, a man who will be remembered as the Michaelangelo of the 21st century, Goro wisely tried to forge his own path in a different field and be his own man. He studies landscaping, becomes a construction consultant and even helped to design the Ghibli museum which he then became the director of. At 34. I mean, this guy has done some amazing things, right? That is a damn impressive resume. More than I’ll ever accomplish, that’s for sure.

Andas though both she and Perry initiate the fights – which, at least as far as we have seen, is not true. Watch as Perry watches her. Watch as he picks up the thread. He leads with saying that he and Celeste fight and then ‘make love’, which he rephrases to something more accurate, but the tone has been set and from then on Celeste lets him control the narrative. She lets him make the confession that he is physical. She lets him call it ‘grabbing by the shoulders’, rather than the slap we saw last episode, or the chokehold we see this episode. Look at the way she stares at him as he stammers out that boyish, halting, Bowdlerised confession. Look at the way that she seizes


Will Burns will become the latest rookie on the grid for the 2017 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship having put pen to paper with Team HARD.

The 2016 Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup runner-up is to compete in one of the team’s newly-acquired trio of Volkswagen CC’s – a car with an undoubted track record of success in recent seasons.

Burns will make the step up to the BTCC following perhaps the most successful of five seasons in the single-make Ginetta competition. The Western-super-Mare racer finished runner-up, taking the championship challenge right down to the wire in 2016, taking 17 podiums and three race wins – bringing him to the attention of Team HARD Team Principal, Tony Gilham.

A test at Snetterton in the outfit’s Toyota Avensis – a first for1961 was really only in the
dawn of the Space Age,
with the first successful communications satellites having been launched just a few years
earlier in 1957. The first suborbital rocket launch occurred in 1944 when the Germans sent
a V-2 rocket above the
Kármán line (100 km,
62 mi) which separates Earth's atmosphere from outer space.
Albert II,
a rhesus monkey, was the first primate to reach space aboard a V-2 in 1949. Technology was
moving pretty quickly in the aerospace realm, both with airplanes and with rockets. Model
rockets were a big thing for boys (and a few girls) of the era, and similar advances in materials
and methods were being reported in the pages of American Modeler and other magazines.
The chart here of drag coefficients of various nose cone shapes is really interesting, but
not surprising to


were sharply pointed and angled. Fins were made with sharp leading edges and bluff or
blunt trailing edges. The high-performance models of that time were short and squat. In reality,
model rockets were really scaled-down "big ones."

It was John Bonine, the 1960 National NAR Champ, and his father, Jim; who first got the
notion that maybe this wasn't the way to design model rockets. Wind tunnel tests on model
rockets began to indicate. that something was wrong with design.

The Aerodynamics Department of the Air Force Academy had made some wind tunnel runs on
Aerobee-Hi models at 50 mph air speed. The data was amazing: it showed that the drag on the
Aerobee-Hi model was quite high and that its drag coefficient was on the order of 10 to 15
times higher than for the bigJapanese police control a checkpoint near the edge of the "exclusion zone" that surrounds the nuclear plant.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

This is another perspective of the Unit 4 reactor building at the nuclear plant.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

Officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company and Japanese journalists take a bus tour of the crippled nuclear plant.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

This photograph of the Unit 4 reactor building of the nuclear plant was taken through a bus window.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

From a bus window, photographer David Guttenfelder caught this view of the damaged nuclear power plant.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

The bus that took journalists and officials to the plant passes by a newly build sea barricade.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

Workers line up to pick up their protective clothing.

Photograph


by David Guttenfelder, AP

In this changing room, nuclear plant workers store their street clothes—and get dressed again after they've finished their shift.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

Workers in protective suits and masks prepare to enter the emergency operation center at the nuclear plant.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

A worker is screened for radiation before entering the emergency operation center at the nuclear plant.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

Employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Company work at the emergency operation center at the nuclear plant.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

A man is checked for radiation after arriving at a vehicle decontamination center.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

Workers in protective garb enter a screening post.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

After removing his protective suit, a worker is examined by a radiation screening machine.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder,AP

Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear plant head out after their radiation screening.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

Used protective suits pile up outside the nuclear plant. They will eventually be placed inside containers.

Photograph by David Guttenfelder, AP

Workers in protective suits gather near their lockers inside the emergency operation center at the nuclear plant.

Photographer's Journal: Scenes From Japan's Devastated Nuclear Plant

By David Guttenfelder

In June, National Geographic sent AP photographer David Guttenfelder into the "exclusion zone" around Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The earthquake and tsunami in March had triggered a meltdown at the plant; more than 70,000 residents in the vicinity were evacuated. His images are featured in the December edition.

In November, Guttenfelder visited the nuclear power plant itself and witnessed a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned vehicles,


crumbling reactor buildings, piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months earlier.

On November 12, the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were opened to a small group of media for the first time since March, when the earthquake and tsunami triggered explosions and the reactors melted down. I was the only non-Japanese photographer allowed in.

We had to wear white suits to protect against radiation, a full respirator mask, two pairs of gloves, and plastic booties over our shoes. Officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which runs the plant, covered my cameras with plastic bags and taped them shut, making it very difficult to change settings, switch lenses, or swap out batteries and memory cards without contaminating the gear. They toldGrimm 021: Cinderella

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At Modern Day Marine 2018, BAE Systems displayed a more lethal version of an ACV. While the turret configuration hasn't been bought by the U.S. Marine Corps, the company is showing off potential in that area.

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. ― The winner of a contract to develop the Marine Corps new amphibious combat vehicle, the first of its kind in four decades, showcased a potential variant that would give commanders eyes on all areas of the littoral battlefield, on-board drones and targeted hand offs to any ACV in their formations.

BAE Systems guided reporters through the interior of the vehicle, on display at this year’s Modern Day Marine Expo in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday.

The variant isn’t one that the Marines have yet requested, but John Swift, program directorHellen Murshali

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He spoke seemingly extemporaneously, drawing heavily on his Catholic faith. But he did not mention the fresh questions about whether he has changed his position to join Clinton's in wanting to overturn a law that bars taxpayer dollars from being used for abortion.

The vice presidential nominee said he was proud of how “upbeat positive” the Democrats' convention was compared to the Republican one last week in Cleveland, which Kaine said was “a journey through Donald Trump’s mind -- and that is a very frightening place.”

Kaine was joined on stage his wife, Anne Holton, and Clinton by her husband, former President Bill Clinton. The image was subtle, butremarkable: For the first time in American history, the two women onstage were not the spouses of the candidates.

Bill Clinton seems to be so far navigating the uncharted territory of potentially being America’s first "first gentleman." He was spotted playing with balloons on the convention floor Thursday night as his wife waved to the cameras with her running-mate, and the former president kept a smile on his face Friday as he sat a few feet behind his wife. Bill Clinton did not speak at the event.

It had to be one of very few times in recent decades that Bill Clinton has ever sat on a stage and never gone to the microphone.

Philadelphia has always been good to the Clintons and Friday was no exception. “We trust Hillary!" a


Lichtenberg's Avertissement

Lichtenberg's Avertissement, written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, is a poster intended to deter the citizens of Göttingen, Germany, from attending the performance of Jacob Philadelphia in 1777. The performance was supposed to be an exhibition of scientific experiments; however, Lichtenberg considered it to be a magic show. He was angered by the alleged deception and posted the following satire in order to persuade people to avoid the performance. As a result of the extravagant claims that were posted, Philadelphia left Göttingen without giving any exhibitions.

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The Avertissement reads as follows:

Warning

All fanciers of supernatural physics will, by this poster, be made known that a few days ago, the world-famous magician Philadelphus Philadelphia, who has been mentioned by Cardanus in his book on the nature of the supernatural by callingThe present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Double Impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens walleriana, and hereinafter referred to by the name xe2x80x98Boddblorgxe2x80x99.
The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Lompoc, Calif. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new compact Double Impatiens cultivars with fully double flowers, excellent branching, and attractive flower and foliage colors.
The new Impatiens originated from a cross made by the Inventor in October, 1998, of a proprietary Impatiens walleriana selection identified as 8IM16-10, not patented, as the female, or seed parent, with a proprietary Impatiens walleriana selection identified as 8IM751-2, not patented, as the male, or pollen parent. The cultivar xe2x80x98Boddblorgxe2x80x99 was discovered and selected by the Inventor as


Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose hectic international diplomacy has focused on bilateral meetings and visits, will miss the UNGA session again this year, leaving Sushma Swaraj as the standard-bearer.

By | Published: 9:42 am 6:03 pm

United Nations: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will arrive here on Sunday to represent India at the annual UN General Assembly (UNGA) session with a packed schedule of super diplomacy among an array of world leaders.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose hectic international diplomacy has focused on bilateral meetings and visits, will miss the UNGA session again this year, leaving Sushma Swaraj as the standard-bearer.

Outlining India’s goals that the minister will pursue at the session, New Delhi’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin on Saturday said: “Our agenda is broad, forward-looking, expansive, has objectives which are globalspecialised groups like the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the Non-aligned Movement, G4 made up of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan to lobby for Security Council expansion, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and G77 group of developing nations, Kumar said.

She is also slated to be one of the speakers at a high-level roundtable on climate change on Tuesday.

Akbaruddin said that the External Affairs Minister was expected to focus on solar energy programmes, which are Modi’s priorities for fighting climate change.

Previewing India’s participation in the Assembly session, Akbaruddin said it was built around five pillars: UN reform, counter-terrorism, migration, climate change and peacekeeping.

However, Sushma Swaraj will not participate in the ceremony for signing the treaty to ban


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech to the United Nations - September 23, 2011

Summary:
Netanyahu discusses the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians and accuses the United Nations for unjustly singling out his country. He also suggests that militant Islam is one of the major challenges facing the Middle East and the world.

Document Text

Binyamin Netanyahu: Thank you, Mr. President.

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the
moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the
Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people
of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we
have made peace. I extend it to the people of Turkey, with respect and
good will. I extend it to the people of Libya and Tunisia,lives.

Prime Minister Olmert afterwards made an even more sweeping offer, in 2008. President Abbas didn't even respond to it.

But Israel did more than just make sweeping offers. We actually left
territory. We withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 and from every square inch
of Gaza in 2005. That didn't calm the Islamic storm, the militant
Islamic storm that threatens us. It only brought the storm closer and
make it stronger.

Hezbollah and Hamas fired thousands of rockets against our cities
from the very territories we vacated. See, when Israel left Lebanon and
Gaza, the moderates didn't defeat the radicals, the moderates were
devoured by the radicals. And I regret to say that international troops
like UNIFIL in Lebanon and UBAM (ph) in Gaza didn't stop the radicals
from attacking Israel.

We left Gaza hoping for peace.

We didn't freeze the settlements


all the
territories it captured in the Six-Day War. It talked about withdrawal
from territories, to secure and defensible boundaries. And to defend
itself, Israel must therefore maintain a long-term Israeli military
presence in critical strategic areas in the West Bank.

I explained this to President Abbas. He answered that if a
Palestinian state was to be a sovereign country, it could never accept
such arrangements. Why not? America has had troops in Japan, Germany and
South Korea for more than a half a century. Britain has had an airspace
in Cyprus or rather an air base in Cyprus. France has forces in three
independent African nations. None of these states claim that they're not
sovereign countries.

And there are many other vital security issues that also must be
addressed. Take the issue of airspace. Again, Israel's small dimensions
create huge securitya name of the Jewish
official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. That's
my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years
earlier to Benjamin -- Binyamin -- the son of Jacob, who was also known
as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and
Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence
in the land ever since.

And for those Jews who were exiled from our land, they never stopped
dreaming of coming back: Jews in Spain, on the eve of their expulsion;
Jews in the Ukraine, fleeing the pogroms; Jews fighting the Warsaw
Ghetto, as the Nazis were circling around it. They never stopped
praying, they never stopped yearning. They whispered: Next year in
Jerusalem. Next year in the promised land.

As the prime


minister of Israel, I speak for a hundred generations of
Jews who were dispersed throughout the lands, who suffered every evil
under the Sun, but who never gave up hope of restoring their national
life in the one and only Jewish state.

Ladies and gentlemen, I continue to hope that President Abbas will be
my partner in peace. I've worked hard to advance that peace. The day I
came into office, I called for direct negotiations without
preconditions. President Abbas didn't respond. I outlined a vision of
peace of two states for two peoples. He still didn't respond. I removed
hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints, to ease freedom of movement in
the Palestinian areas; this facilitated a fantastic growth in the
Palestinian economy. But again -- no response. I took the unprecedented
step of freezing new buildings in the settlementsin darkness will see a great
light." Let that light be the light of peace.

Document Text

Binyamin Netanyahu: Thank you, Mr. President.

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the
moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the
Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people
of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we
have made peace. I extend it to the people of Turkey, with respect and
good will. I extend it to the people of Libya and Tunisia, with
admiration for those trying to build a democratic future. I extend it to
the other peoples of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with whom
we want to forge a new beginning. I extend it to the people of


Palestinians are
armed only with their hopes and dreams. Yeah, hopes, dreams and 10,000
missiles and Grad rockets supplied by Iran, not to mention the river of
lethal weapons now flowing into Gaza from the Sinai, from Libya, and
from elsewhere.

Thousands of missiles have already rained down on our cities. So you
might understand that, given all this,Israelis rightly ask: What's to
prevent this from happening again in the West Bank? See, most of our
major cities in the south of the country are within a few dozen
kilometers from Gaza. But in the center of the country, opposite the
West Bank, our cities are a few hundred meters or at most a few
kilometers away from the edge of the West Bank.

So I want to ask you. Would any of you -- would any of you bring
dangerperspective, because you're all in the
city. That's about two-thirds the length of Manhattan. It's the distance
between Battery Park and Columbia University. And don't forget that the
people who live in Brooklyn and New Jersey are considerably nicer than
some of Israel's neighbors.

So how do you -- how do you protect such a tiny country, surrounded
by people sworn to its destruction and armed to the teeth by Iran?
Obviously you can't defend it from within that narrow space alone.
Israel needs greater strategic depth, and that's exactly why Security
Council Resolution 242 didn't require Israel to leave all the
territories it captured in the Six-Day War. It talked about withdrawal
from territories, to secure and defensible boundaries. And to defend
itself, Israel must therefore maintain a long-term Israeli military
presence in critical strategic areas in the West Bank.

I


our face and explode the peace.

The Palestinians should first make peace with Israel and then get
their state. But I also want to tell you this. After such a peace
agreement is signed, Israel will not be the last country to welcome a
Palestinian state as a new member of the United Nations. We will be the
first.

And there's one more thing. Hamas has been violating international
law by holding our soldier Gilad Shalit captive for five years.

They haven't given even one Red Cross visit. He's held in a dungeon,
in darkness, against all international norms. Gilad Shalit is the son of
Aviva and Noam Shalit. He is the grandson of Zvi Shalit, who escaped
the Holocaust by coming to the -- in the 1930s as a boy to the land of
Israel. Gilad Shalit is thestart taking Israel's security requirements
seriously and when they stop denying our historical connection to our
ancient homeland.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like
accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of
Anglicizing London. You know why we're called "Jews"? Because we come
from Judea.

In my office in Jerusalem, there's a -- there's an ancient seal. It's
a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal
was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700
years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish
official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. That's
my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years
earlier to Benjamin -- Binyamin -- the son of Jacob, who


was also known
as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and
Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence
in the land ever since.

And for those Jews who were exiled from our land, they never stopped
dreaming of coming back: Jews in Spain, on the eve of their expulsion;
Jews in the Ukraine, fleeing the pogroms; Jews fighting the Warsaw
Ghetto, as the Nazis were circling around it. They never stopped
praying, they never stopped yearning. They whispered: Next year in
Jerusalem. Next year in the promised land.

As the prime minister of Israel, I speak for a hundred generations of
Jews who were dispersed throughout the lands, who suffered every evil
under the Sun, but who never gave up hope of restoring their national
life in the one and onlyFor her next series, N.K. Jemisin is coming home — sort of.

The beloved fantasy writer has certainly been keeping busy since becoming the first person ever to win the Hugo Award’s Best Novel prize three years in a row in 2018, getting to work on a Green Lantern comic and the first installment in an epic new series. Earlier this year, EW got a first look at the former; now, EW can present an exclusive preview of the latter: The City We Became.

The novel, publishing next spring, is set in Jemisin’s hometown of New York, but anyone familiar with the Broken Earth trilogy author’s work should expect it won’t be the city as we know it. The City We Became follows five New Yorkers who must come together


The Finance Ministry is preparing to punish several former and current civil servants, including former National Tax Agency Commissioner Nobuhisa Sagawa, over the document falsification in the Moritomo Gakuen scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, sources say.

The ministry will acknowledge that Sagawa, then director-general of the Financial Bureau, and other state officials were involved in the manipulation and consider taking disciplinary actions that may include pay cuts, the sources said.

It is also expected to question the responsibility of Budget Bureau Director-General Shigeaki Okamoto, who as deputy vice minister was in charge of managing official documents at the ministry.

Finance Minister Taro Aso has said he intends to punish any officials found involved in the scandal after the results of an investigation by the Osaka DistrictPublic Prosecutor’s Office are released.

On Friday, Aso told a news conference that he wants to appoint successors for Sagawa and former Vice Minister of Finance Junichi Fukuda, who resigned last month over sex harassment allegations, “by the end of the ongoing session” of the Diet on June 20 if the results of the probe are available.

In February 2017, it was learned that the Finance Ministry’s Kinki Local Finance Bureau had sold a plot of state land at a huge discount to ultranationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen. Abe’s wife, Akie, had been appointed honorary principal of an elementary school Moritomo planned to build on the land.

Between the February revelation and April the same year, Akie’s name and other descriptions in documents related to the shady land sale were deleted


or manipulated in the detailed records of the sale negotiations.

At the request of opposition parties, the ministry is scheduled to submit the original, unaltered documents to the Diet on Wednesday.

On March 9, Sagawa resigned as head of the tax agency, mainly for disrupting Diet deliberations with his testimony on the document-tampering. He also took a 20 percent pay cut for three months for undermining trust in state property administration.

Aso has signaled the ministry could impose a stricter punishment on Sagawa, depending on the results of the investigation.back to the gaol for a bit after being nicked for a trio of misdemeanors, including public intoxication, resisting arrest and criminal mischief.

Friday, Feb. 3:
It looks like a couple of citizens of Pipe Creek starting celebrating the weekend by going one toke over the line and were both arrested for possessing less than two ounces of pot.

A Scofflaw from San Antonio also thought he could get away with driving without a license. He, too, thought wrong.

Yet another fine, upstanding Criminal from the Cowboy Capital led an officer on a merry chase before being nabbed for evading arrest, felony evading arrest with a vehicle and, for good measure, jes plain ole resisting arrest.

Saturday, Jan. 4:
A moron from Morfessboro (huh?) was picked up for his first DWI.

A Bad-Tempered Banderan found


On Wednesday night, a Columbus, Ohio, police shot and killed 13-year-old Tyre King when they responded to a call about an armed robbery in the area. On Thursday, the police involved in the case have stated that the boy was carrying a BB gun when he was shot and it looked “practically identical” to a police weapon.

Officers were allegedly seeking information on an armed robbery in the area and said that they approached Tyre King with two other boys, and him and one other took off before the police could question them. The Columbus Division of Police released a statement that the police thought the two matched the description of the suspects and gave pursuit, only to end up in an alley where King, who was an eighthgrader, pulled “what looked like handgun from his waistband.” In the incident which followed, Tyre King was shot multiple times by the police officer.

13-year-old Tyre King shot and killed by officer who says BB gun looked like a real weapon. [Photo released by King Family Lawyer]

The weapon that was recovered from the scene of the shooting death proved to be a BB gun that had an attached laser sight. At a press conference Thursday morning, Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs took the time to display a photo of a BB gun with a laser scoop on it that she says is an exact replica of the BB gun that Tyre had on him when he was shot and killed. She also went on to state that the gun


the lawyers for King’s family, disputed the version of events the police are giving. He said that King was a typical 13-year-old boy who would have had no reason to act the way the police are saying and it would be “out of his normal character.” Walton also spoke of “multiple witnesses that we have been made aware of that do not corroborate the current narrative.” The legal team for the family will be pursuing an independent investigation into the shooting death of Tyre King by Officer Bryan Mason.

The moment news of the shooting broke, the public began making instant comparisons to the November 2014 death of another black child with a toy gun, Tamir Rice. At the age of 12, Tamir Rice was fatally shot by aenergy of the irreversible inactivation in the absence and in the presence of trehalose. The apparent activation energy in the absence and in the presence of trehalose were 67 and 99 Kcal/mol, respectively. The activation energy calculated from intrinsic rate constants was higher in the absence (30 Kcal/mol) than in the presence of trehalose (16 Kcal/mol), showing that kinetics of the irreversible inactivation step increased in the presence of trehalose. In fact, trehalose stabilized only the reversible step of thermal denaturation of cutinase.


as its backup.

But McConnell had to get through an environmental impact study with no unexpected barriers. On Wednesday, the Pentagon said it completed studies for McConnell and Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma, which will be the new training base. Both passed.

In February, the Air Force announced the new Boeing-built tanker will be called Pegasus, naming it after the winged horse from Greek mythology that delivered lightning bolts for Zeus. Some people may also remember a red Pegasus as the trademark on Mobil gas station signs before that company merged with Exxon.

The Air Force is fond of naming its fighters for birds of prey and its bombers something macho, like Lancer, or mysterious, like Spirit. But previous tankers have had more prosaic names. The KC-135, which Pegasus replaces,is the Stratotanker, as was its predecessor the KC-97. That may have been a nod to the fact that they were assigned to refuel bombers for the Strategic Air Command. The KC-10 tanker is named the Extender.

An Air Force spokeswoman said Pegasus was selected by the department’s Community Relations Division. It was announced in a “soft rollout” by Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh at an Air Force Association symposium.


is that the Pirates haven’t won on a Friday this season — they have even been shut out three times, which includes a near no-hitter tossed by Justin Verlander on the 18th.

Pirates’ Pitching

The best thing for the Pirates this season has been their pitching, and by a large margin. Their team ERA of 3.33 is third in the National League.

A.J. Burnett is the best Pirates starter this season and by far. Despite his ERA hovering around 5.00, Burnett has only had one rocky start, which was a 2 2/3 inning debacle against the St. Louis Cardinals in which he allowed 12 runs. If you subtract that game, his ERA is 2.06, which would be fifth in the Majors and the National League. At home this season, Burnett hasfive teams that he has never pitched against. Bedard performs fairly well at home as opposed to on the road, going 0-2, which is a horrible indicator of his performance, with an ERA of 3.15 and a WHIP of 1.35.

HOT

Andrew McCutchen has been tearing the league a new you-know-what over his past 15 games. In those 15 games, McCutchen has hit .400/.426/.764, yes, he has a slugging percentage of .764, with six home runs (of his seven season roundtrippers), and 16 RBI. Rod Barajas has been warm, but not hot, over his last ten games, hitting a triple-slash of .343/.351/.686 with three home runs. I would really like to say that other players have been hot lately, but there have only been two, which is pretty good —


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to share continuity as a franchise with the current St. Louis Cardinals;[10][11]

The AA went bankrupt after the 1891 season and the Browns transferred to the National League. This time, the club entered an era of stark futility. Between 1892 and 1919, St. Louis managed just five winning seasons, finished in last or next-to-last place sixteen times, and ended four seasons with 100 losses or more. The nadir was the 1897 season: a 29–102 record for a franchise-worst .221 winning percentage.[3] St. Louis' 84-67 finish as the Perfectos would be the team's best finish between the AA era and Sam Breadon's purchase of the team.[22] As the "Perfectos", the team wore their jersey with a cardinal red trim and sock striping.[22] Later that season, St. Louis Republic sportswriter WillieMcHale included an account in a column of a female fan he heard remarking about the uniforms, "What a lovely shade of cardinal." Fans liked the moniker "Cardinals" and, the next year, popularity for the nickname induced an official change to Cardinals.[22]

In 2009, the Cardinals reached 10,000 wins, dating to when they first played in the American Association (AA).[d][88][89] St. Louis returned to the playoffs in 2011, first surmounting the largest games-won deficit after 130 games (at 10.5) to upstage the Atlanta Braves on the final day for the wild card playoff berth.[90] In Game 3 of the World Series, Pujols became just third player to hit three home runs in a World Series game.[91] In Game 6, third baseman David Freese and outfielder Lance Berkman each tied


the score on the Cardinals' final strike – the first such occurrence in any game in MLB history – and St. Louis defeated the Texas Rangers later that game with a walk-off home run from Freese.[92] After winning that Series, La Russa retired and became the only manager to do so after winning a title. He also finished with the most wins for managers in franchise history with 1,408.[93][94]

La Russa's successor, Mike Matheny, helped extend St. Louis' playoff run as he became the first manager in the division play era to guide the Cardinals to the NLCS and playoffs in his first two seasons.[95] In 2014, the Cardinals extended their NLCS streak to 4, with their 3-1 series victory over the Dodgers, in the NLDS. Ten days afterbeing eliminated from the postseason by the San Francisco Giants, rookie outfielder Oscar Taveras was killed in a car accident while traveling to his hometown Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic.[96] On November 17, they acquired Atlanta Braves right-fielder Jason Heyward (who had just come off a Gold Glove-winning season) to replace Taveras.[97] On June 16, 2015, the FBI and the Justice Department started an investigation on the Cardinals for possibly hacking the Houston Astros. It is unknown if this hack was done by a group of executives, or everyone in the Cardinals front office.[98]

Ballpark Village, a mixed-use development located across Clark Street from Busch Stadium, is targeted to enhance the ballpark goers' experience. Phase 1 of the development, completed for the start of the 2014 season, includes


entertainment venues, restaurants, and retail. Anchored by Cardinals Nation (which includes the Cardinals Hall of Fame, a two-story Cardinals-themed restaurant and all-inclusive rooftop seating for 300+ fans featuring spectacular views of the field across the street), a 20,000 sq ft Budweiser Brew House, FOX Sports Midwest Live! and PBR, the $100 million phase 1 development of Ballpark Village promises to be a vibrant gathering space throughout the year, not just during the baseball season.[109]

Busch Stadium is the Cardinals' fourth home ballpark and the third of that name. The Cardinals' original home ballpark was Sportsman's Park from 1882–1892 when they played in the American Association and were known as the Browns. In 1893, the Browns moved to a new ballpark five blocks northwest of Sportsman's Park which would serveas their home from 1893-1920. The new park was originally called New Sportsman's Park but became more commonly referred to as Robison Field.[22] Midway through the 1920 season the Cardinals abandoned Robison Field and returned to the original Sportsman's Park and became tenants of their American League rivals, the St. Louis Browns. In 1953, the Anheuser-Busch Brewery purchased the Cardinals and the new owner subsequently also purchased Sportsman's Park from the Browns and renamed it Busch Stadium, later becoming Busch I. The Browns then left St. Louis for Baltimore after the season. The Cardinals built Busch Memorial Stadium, or Busch II, in downtown St. Louis, opened it during the 1966 season and played there until 2005.[48] It was built as the multi-purpose home of both the baseball Cardinals


and the St. Louis football Cardinals, now the Arizona Cardinals. The current Busch Stadium was constructed adjacent to, and partly atop, the site of Busch Memorial Stadium.

The Cardinals have had few logos throughout their history, although those logos have evolved over time. The first logo associated with the Cardinals was an interlocking "SL" that appeared on the team's caps and or sleeves as early as 1900. Those early uniforms usually featured the name "St. Louis" on white home and gray road uniforms which both had cardinal red accents. In 1920, the "SL" largely disappeared from the team's uniforms, and for the next 20 years the team wore caps that were white with red striping and a red bill.

The original "birds on the bat" logo, which first appeared in1922.

In 1922, the Cardinals wore uniforms for the first time that featured the two familiar cardinal birds perched on a baseball bat over the name "Cardinals" with the letter "C" of the word hooked over the bat. The concept of the birds originated after general managerBranch Rickey noticed a colorful cardboard arrangement featuring cardinal birds on a table in a Presbyterianchurch in Ferguson, Missouri, at which he was speaking. The arrangement's production was by a woman named Allie May Schmidt. Schmidt's father, a graphic designer, helped Ricky make the logo a familiar staple on Cardinals uniforms.[111] Colloquially referred to as the "birds on the bat," it initially appeared with the birds perched on a black bat and "Cardinals" in printed letters. An alternate version of this logo with


"St. Louis" replacing "Cardinals" appeared in 1930 and was the primary logo in 1931 and 1932 before "Cardinals" returned. In 1940, the now-familiar "StL" logo was introduced on the team's caps. The interlocking "StL" has undergone several slight modifications over the years but has appeared on the team's caps every year since. The first appearance of the "STL" in 1940 coincided with the introduction of navy blue as a uniform color. From 1940 until 1955, the team wore navy blue caps with red bills and a red interlocking "StL" while the jerseys featured both cardinal red and navy blue accents. In 1951, the "birds on the bat" logo was changed to feature a yellow baseball bat.[112]

The current "birds on the bat" logo introduced in 1998.

In 1956, the Cardinalschanged their caps to solid blue with a red "StL," removing the red bill. Also, for that season only, the Cardinals wore a script "Cardinals" wordmark on their uniforms excluding the "birds on the bat." An updated version of the "birds on the bat" logo returned in 1957 with the word "Cardinals" written in cursive beneath the bat. In 1962, the Cardinals became the first National League team to display players' names on the back of their jerseys. In 1964, while retaining their blue caps for road games, the Cardinals changed their home caps to all red with a white interlocking "StL". The next year, they changed their road caps to red as well. In 1967, the birds on the bat emblem on the jersey was again tweaked,


making the birds more realistic and changing the position of their tails relative to the bat and this version remained on all Cardinals game jerseys through 1997.

In 1971, following the trend in baseball at the time, the Cardinals replaced the traditional flannel front-button shirts and pants with belts with new pullover knit jerseys and elastic waist pants. Another trend in baseball led the Cardinals to change their road uniforms from gray to light blue from 1976–1984. In 1992, the Cardinals returned to wearing traditional button-down shirts and pants with belts. That same year they also began wearing an all-navy cap with a red "StL" on the road only while wearing the same red and white cap at home games. In 1998, the "birds on the bat" was updatedfor the first time in 30 years with more detailed birds and bolder letters. That year, St. Louis introduced a cap featuring a single cardinal bird perched on a bat worn only on Sunday home games. The new birds on the bat design was modified again the next year, with yellow beaks and white eyes replacing the red beaks and yellow eyes of the 1998 version. Uniform numbers also returned to the front of the jerseys in 1999 after a two-year absence.[112]

On November 16, 2012, the Cardinals unveiled a new alternate uniform to be worn at home games on Saturdays beginning with the 2013 season.[dated info] The modified jersey, cream-colored with red trim on the sleeves and down the front, was the first since 1932 in which "St.


Louis" will be used instead of "Cardinals" and retained the "birds on the bat."[113] 2013 also saw the team adopt their red caps as their main uniform for both home and away games; the navy cap was retained as an alternate, used mainly against other red-capped teams. Over the years, the Cardinals have released various marketing logos depicting anthropomorphized cardinals in a pitching stance, swinging a baseball bat, or wearing a baseball cap that never became part of the game uniform.[112]

The team mascot is an anthropomorphic cardinal wearing the team's uniform named Fredbird. He is assisted by Team Fredbird, a group of eleven women who entertain fans from the field and on top of the dugouts.

While unofficial, the Rally Squirrel became an unexpected phenomenon during the 2011 postseason.Making its "debut" in Game 3 of the NLDS on Oct 4, a squirrel ran across home plate in the middle of a pitch from Roy Oswalt of the Phillies to the Cardinals' Skip Schumaker. The Cardinals would win Game 4 and subsequently Game 5 (Oct. 7) in Philadelphia to advance to the NLCS, symbolizing the squirrel's "role" in the victory. The squirrel was popularized as "Buschie the Rally Squirrel"[114] As a tribute to the popularity of the squirrel, a small depiction of the Rally Squirrel is also included on the official World Series rings the team received. It shows up under the "STL" logo on the side of the ring.

Fredbird sparked controversy in May 2015, when he was asked by a fan for a photograph and handed


him a sign that said "Police Lives Matter". The team later claimed that Fredbird should not be involved in any political activity or social commentary.

The Cardinals–Cubs rivalry refers to games between the Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs. The rivalry is also known as the Downstate Illinois rivalry or the I-55 Series (in earlier years as the Route 66 Series) as both cities are located along Interstate 55 (which itself succeeded the famous U.S. Route 66). The Cubs lead the series 1,104–1,065 through June 14, 2013,[115] while the Cardinals lead in National League pennants with 19 against the Cubs' 16. The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era (1901–present), while all 19 of the Cardinals' pennants have been won since 1901. The Cardinalsalso have an edge when it comes to World Series successes, having won 11 championships to the Cubs' two. The Cardinals also have an advantage over their Chicago rivals in the regular season standings since the Cubs last participated in a World Series (1945): in the 66 seasons from 1946 through 2013, the Cardinals have finished ahead of the Cubs 51 times. In that same span, the Cardinals have had 47 seasons in which their winning percentage was over .500, while the Cubs have finished over that mark 19 times (they finished at an even .500 twice). Games featuring the Cardinals and Cubs see numerous visiting fans in either Busch Stadium in St. Louis or Wrigley Field in Chicago.[116] When the National League split into two and then


three divisions, the Cardinals and Cubs remained together. This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years.

Although both teams play in the state of Missouri, they did not play each other for the first time until the 1985 World Series, which the Royals won in seven games, but which is perhaps best remembered for a controversial call from umpire Don Denkinger in Game 6. Due to their geographical proximity, the teams have faced each other every regular season in interleague play since it started in 1997. This is also referred to as the "Show Me Series" or the "I-70 Series", as both cities are located in Missouri and are connected by Interstate 70. The two teams are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their rivalry in 2015.

Aninvestment group led by William DeWitt, Jr. owns the St. Louis Cardinals, having bought the team from Anheuser-Busch (AB) in 1996.[117] As with other periods of the Cardinals' transaction history, doubt loomed as to whether the purchaser would keep the team in St. Louis, due to the city's status as a "small market," which appear to handicap a club's competitiveness. Such was the case when Sam Breadon put the Cardinals up for sale in 1947: then-NL PresidentFord Frick proposed moving the Cardinals to Chicago.[118] When AB placed the Cardinals for sale in 1995, they publicly expressed intention to find a buyer who would keep the club in St. Louis.[119] In March 1996, AB sold the team for $147 million to a partnership headed by Southwest Bank's Drew Baur,


Hanser and DeWitt, Jr.[118] Civic Center Redevelopment, a subsidiary of AB, held the parking garages and adjacent property and also transferred them to the Baur ownership group.[120] Baur's group then sold the garages to another investment group, lowering the net franchise purchase price to about $100 million, about $10 million less than Financial World's value of the team at the time $110 million.[119][121]

Current Cincinnati Reds owners Bob Castellini and brothers Thomas Williams and W. Joseph Williams Jr. each once owned a stake in the Cardinals dating back to the Baur-DeWitt group's purchase of the team. To allow their purchase of the Reds in 2005, the rest of the group bought out Castellini's and the Williams brothers' shares, totaling an estimated thirteen percent. At that time, the Forbes valuedcountry and are among the league's leaders in television ratings and attendance every season."[125] Concurrent with the growth of Major League Baseball, the Cardinals value has increased significantly since the Baur-DeWitt purchase. In 2000, the franchise was valued at $219 million,[126] a growth rate of 374% through 2014. The franchise's value grew 12.7% from 2013 to 2014.

2 Net of stadium revenues used for debt payments.3 Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.4 Includes benefits and bonuses.5 Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of MLB. Playoff wins count twice as much as regular season wins. A score of 120 means that the team achieved 20% more victories per dollar of payroll compared with the league average in 2010.

Besides Ballpark Village, which has now


finished its first phase, opening on March 27,[132][133] and considered a smashing success with the first phase of the project totaling 120,000 square feet (11,000 m2).[134] the Cardinals own four of their Minor League Baseball affililiates:

MVP Awards: Sixteen different Cardinal players have won a total of twenty Most Valuable Player awards, the most recent being Albert Pujols in 2009. Pujols and Stan Musial have collected the most MVPs with three apiece. Bob Gibson won both the Cy Young Award and the MVP award in 1968.[157] The Cardinals are second only to the New York Yankees' 22 MVP awards.[158]

Triple Crown: Four of the sixteen batting Triple Crowns in the major leagues (including three of only six in the National League) were by Cardinals. Tip O'Neill won the only AmericanAssociation Triple Crown and the first in franchise history in 1887. Rogers Hornsby became the only two-time winner in NL history when he did it in 1922 and 1925 (Ted Williams won two AL Triple Crowns). Joe Medwick's Triple Crown in 1937 is the last in the history of the National League.[160] Hornsby's 1925 numbers led the entire major leagues, making him one of only five players to have won this expanded Triple Crown.

2 Grand Slams in a single inning:Fernando Tatís is the only player in Major League history to hit two grand slam home runs in the same inning, on April 23, 1999. Both were against Chan Ho Park of the Dodgers.[165]

Players listed in bold are depicted on their Hall of Fame plaques wearing a Browns or


Cardinals cap insignia.

* Has no insignia on his cap due to playing at a time when caps bore no insignia.

† Played for the AL St. Louis Browns, but not the NL St. Louis club. Because of their status as the only Major League team remaining in St. Louis, the Cardinals franchise chose to honor Sisler as a St. Louis-based player.

In 2014, the Cardinals announced the reopening of the franchise Hall of Fame after six years on hiatus. A formal selection process will recognize former Cardinals as Cardinals Hall of Famers each year. In conjunction, the team released the names of 22 former players and personnel to be inducted for the inaugural class of 2014.[166]

The Cardinals have retired twelve total jersey numbers––second in MLB only to the New YorkYankees' eighteen––in honoring fourteen total former players and club personnel on the left field wall at Busch Stadium.[167][168] A fifteenth, Jackie Robinson, is honored by all MLB teams.[169] It should be noted that, during the time Rogers Hornsby had played, the Cardinals did not have any numbers on their uniforms. This practice had begun with the Cleveland Indians in 1920. Thus, Hornsby had no number to retire.

25:Mark McGwire's (1B, 1997-2001) number has not been reissued since he retired. McGwire returned to the Cardinals as hitting coach from 2010-2012, before becoming hitting coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2013 to be closer to his family. Beginning with the 2015 season, #25 has been reissued to Cardinals bench coach David Bell. The number holds historical significance within the Bell


baseball family.

57:Darryl Kile's (P, 2000–02) number has not been reissued since his death in the middle of the 2002 season. Along with Josh Hancock's number 32, another active pitcher deceased in the middle of the season, they are honored with small circular logos bearing their initials and numbers on the wall of the Cardinal bullpen. During the 2014 playoffs, but following the Cardinals' elimination, rookie and star prospect Oscar Taveras was killed in a car accident. His number was added along with Kile's and Hancock's in the home bullpen, however his number was reissued the following season to close friend Carlos Martinez.[172]

The 2011 season marked the Cardinals' return to KMOX following five seasons on KTRS (550 AM), a station which is 50 percent owned by the Cardinals. Witha partnership spanning seven decades, and continuously since 1954, its conclusion realized after the 2005 season when CBS Radio and the Cardinals failed to reach terms on a new rights agreement. However, frustrated by the underpowered coverage of 5,000-watt KTRS, the Cardinals reached a new deal with KMOX in 2011.

Mike Shannon will announce 30 fewer games in 2013, compared to the 15 he took off in 2012, and in previous seasons. Most of the games will be road games and three-city trips. He has been announcing Cardinals' games starting in 1972, making 2013 his 41st year announcing. He turns 74 in July.[173] He has announced Cardinals' games for more years than anyone except Jack Buck (1954–58, 1961-2001) who announced for 46 years.

Cardinals Kids, a program aimed at the


team's younger fans, airs weekly in-season on Fox Sports Midwest. It's hosted by former Cardinals pitcher Andy Benes, team mascot Fredbird, and Busch Stadium Public Address announcer John "The U-Man" Ulett. The 30-minute show began airing in 2003 and presents team news, player profiles, and Cardinals team history in a kid-friendly manner along with games and trivia.[175]

A weekly magazine program, This Week in Cardinal Nation, airs on St. Louis' NBC affiliate KSDK. Cardinals games had been seen on KSDK (and its predecessor, KSD-TV) from 1947 through 1958, 1963 through 1987, and 2007 until 2010. KPLR-TV was the Cardinals' other over-the-air broadcaster, carrying games from 1959 through 1962 and from 1988 until 2006.

^In 2001, the Cardinals and the Houston Astros finished the season with identical records of 93–69 andfinished tied for first place in the Central Division standings. The Baseball Hall of Fame wrote they were both awarded a co-championship.[1] According to the Cardinals' website, this was "the first shared championship in major-league history".[2] For playoff seeding, the NL Central slot went to Houston and St. Louis was awarded the wild card berth.

^In 1981, the Cardinals finished with the overall best record in the East Division. However, a players' strike in the middle of the season forced the season to be split into two halves. St. Louis finished second in both halves and was thereby deprived of a post-season appearance.

^Most sources consider the 1882 Brown Stockings to represent the beginning of the St. Louis Cardinals (if it was not the even earlier 1875 or 1878 clubs)


but the St. Louis Cardinals baseball club itself considers its history to have begun in 1892 when the team (still called the St. Louis Browns) joined the National League.[14][15]

^Although the St. Louis Cardinals do not officially recognize their era in the American Association (AA) as part of their Major League history, Major League Baseball recognized that incarnation of the AA in 1968, as well as other historic leagues, existing as former Major Leagues.

^Lupica, Matt (January 2012). "Busch Stadium". The Baseball Stadium Insider: A Comprehensive Dissection of All Thirty Ballparks, the Legendary Players, and the Memorable Moments. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse. p. 221. A lifetime .358 hitter, Hornsby was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1942, and the Cardinals honored him alongside the retired numbers with the 'SL' symbolMunoz sustained lacerations to his head and underwent surgery for a leg injury, according to a spokesman for Sen. Munoz.

An off-duty Cook County sheriff's officer who was working as an elections investigator for the Chicago Board of Commissioners followed the man and provided police with the license plate number of the car.

Police said in a statement today that police went to Bergmann's home where they found Bergmann's car and arrested him. Bergmann allegedly admitted his involvement, police said.


back behind the bar a couple of nights a week.

Mr. Jacobson, a graphic designer by day, is talking about giving the faux-Tudor, half-timbered exterior a new paint job. But inside, the Irish kitsch mementos and the plaques celebrating softball teams from the ’70s and local firefighters who died on 9/11 have been left alone.

So far, the most notable change has been the computerized cash register system that Mr. Connor, who works in information technology, installed. The ability to pay with a credit card is a popular novelty, even if some of the older waitresses are struggling to get the hang of the system and persist in calling out drink orders to the bartenders, rather than waiting for a printout to pop up behind the bar.

But for the most4 more official visitors, and Chris Holtmann's race to assemble the 2018 class: Ohio State basketball recruiting

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Some thoughts on Ohio State basketball recruiting, and notes on four more official visitors this week.

By Bill Landis, cleveland.com

• New Ohio State basketball coach Chris Holtmann would like to have some, if not all, of his 2018 recruiting class committed before the early signing period in November. The Buckeyes can't go into the wide gap between November and the regular signing period in April without at least a couple of pieces in that group solidified.

That would be a bad sign, and make the race to assemble this class even more chaotic than it's already been. The well usually dries up significantly after November, and Ohio State doesn't want to


be stuck hunting the graduate transfer market to piece together a foundational class.

• But that's a future worry. There's still time to get players on campus and lock down some prospects that have long been at the top of Holtmann's wish list, some dating back to his time at Butler.

Some of those players were on campus last week, with Ohio State hosting four-star prospects Elijah Weaver, Luther Muhammad and Jaedon LeDee on official visits. Consider Weaver and Muhammad the Buckeyes' top two targets at guard, and last weekend's visits seem to have gone well for both. LeDee, a forward, is more of a long shot at this point, but someone to keep in mind.

No doubt the relationships Holtmann's staff started with Weaver and Muhammad at Butler are helping.Weaver was the first player in 2018 to receive a scholarship offer from the new Ohio State coaching staff.

It's seemingly down to Ohio State and Florida for Weaver, who is scheduled to visit the Gators this weekend. He also has an official visit scheduled with Oklahoma State on Sept. 22. A decision could come by the end of the month. Ohio State is currently the leader in the 247Sports crystal ball for the No. 36 prospect in the country.

Muhammad, the No. 83 player in the class, still has official visits set with Xavier and West Virginia, and St. John's continues to push for the New Jersey product. The Buckeyes may still be trailing behind St. John's at this point.

• Holtmann is also scheduled for an in-home visit with


three-star Ohio wing Justin Ahrens. The former Ohio State commit, who re-opened his recruitment after Thad Matta was fired, is also set for an official visit to campus next weekend. Ahrens is likely Holtmann's last shot to land an Ohio prospect in this class.

Ahrens is the No. 7 player in the state, which boasts a talented crop of 2018 prospects. Five of the top six are committed elsewhere: Darius Bazley (Syracuse), Jerome Hunter (Indiana), Pete Nance (Northwestern), Dwayne Cohill (Dayton) and Dane Goodwin (Notre Dame) are all off the board for Ohio State. The No. 4 player -- four-star Cincinnati Moeller forward Jaxson Hayes -- has an Ohio State offer, and is someone the Buckeyes would like to add. But he has visits set with Texas and Xavier,1838, Perkins School located in Boston, Massachusetts, an educational institute for visually impaired students, began introducing physical education programs for their students. In the 1870s, the Ohio school for the Deaf instituted organised sports into the school for their students. Pehr Henrik Ling, who founded the Swedish School of Sports and Health Sciences in 1813 in Stockholm, Sweden developed medical gymnastic programs for people with disabilities in 1884.

Legislation
The legislation for the APE in Australia is as follows:
 Disability Discrimination Act 1992 provides protection against any person that is discriminated against because of a disability.
 Disability Standards for Education 2005 defines the responsibilities of educational institutions for students with disabilities. It also ensures that students with disabilities have access and are engaging in education on the same basis