access to visit the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, dedicated to honoring the lives and stories of our Veterans."

The museum's website indicates that active-duty personnel will pay an admission fee of either $15 (for higher ranks and pay grades) and $12 for those of lower rank. Gold Star families, who have experienced a loved one being killed in service, also won't pay.

The museum held a reservation-only grand opening Saturday, and admission was free for everyone who visited over the weekend, although timed passes obtained in advance were required. Wednesday was the first day the museum opened to the public, with tickets sold in advance online or at the door.

John Bittel, a 70-year-old Air Force veteran of the Vietnam era, was among several people who reached out to TheDispatch wondering why veterans had to pay to get into the national museum and memorial built to honor them.

Bittel said Wednesday that he was pleased to hear that museum officials had reversed what he thought was an ill-advised policy.

"This is the right thing to do," the Grove City resident said. "I thought it was ironic that veterans would have to pay at a museum built for them."

He now plans to visit.

Overall, the Columbus Downtown Development Corp., the developer of the museum, raised $82 million for the project, including a $40.6 million donation from local philanthropists Leslie H. and Abigail Wexner. About $75 million was for construction, and the remainder was to cover startup costs. Amy Taylor, chief operating officer of the CDDC, has said the money raised also


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RON – Rest Over Night: term used in calculating total trip length. Rest Over 1 Night (RO1N)SELRES – Selected Reservist: traditional ‘weekend warrior’; not fullI. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to digital cinema. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for creating a playlist in a digital cinema system.
II. Description of the Related Art
In the traditional film industry, theatre operators receive reels of celluloid film from a studio or through a distributor for eventual presentation in a theatre auditorium. The reels of film include the feature program (a full-length motion picture) and a plurality of previews and other promotional material, often referred to as trailers. The theatre operator may also be required or choose to present some its own trailers, often comprising of local promotional and advertising material.
For presentation, a theatre operator builds a “platter”, or playlist. This involves sequencing reels of celluloid film in the


order in which it is to be presented, and physically splicing together the film to be played by the projector. In between trailers, or between a trailer and the feature, it is sometimes desirable to display a “black screen”. A black screen is several seconds of blank film, which provides for a transition and somewhat of a dramatic affect between different trailers or features. To create a black screen, the theatre operator physically splices blank film into the desired areas in the same manner as trailers are put together.
A theatre operator also inserts cues and milestones onto celluloid film by physically attaching trigger strips onto the film. Cues may be attached in between programming, or within a particular feature or trailer. Currently, a theatre operator controls auditorium environmentthrough the use of a theatre automation systems. Theatre automation systems control such functions as turning lights on and off, opening and closing curtains, and changing the projector lens. Theatre automation systems control these functions by reading a trigger strip physically placed onto the film as the film passes through a reader connected to the theatre automation system. Trigger strips are typically metallic or optical pieces of tape adhered onto the film. When the tape passes under the reader, an electrical signal is output to the theatre automation system. There are many theatre automation systems available and no uniform way in which theatre automation systems operate. That is, where a trigger strip is placed relative to a frame on the film will cause different theatre automation systems to


behave differently. For example, a trigger strip may be placed on a left edge of the film, called an inboard cue, the center of the film, called a center cue, or the right edge of the film, called an outboard cue. Other theatre automation systems interpret only a single trigger strip regardless of where the trigger strip is placed relative to a frame on the film, or mandate in what position the strip must be placed (inboard, center, or outboard) in order to be read. Further still, other theatre automation systems attach meaning to combinations or sequences of trigger strips.
If a theatre operator wants to insert a cue during a presentation of a program, as studios sometimes mandate, the operator must physically look at the frames on theObituary: Donald Wilkerson

July 8, 1928 - Oct. 8, 2008

July 8, 1928 - Oct. 8, 2008

October 11, 2008

ELKHART - Donald Wilkerson, 80, passed away at 10:37 p.m. Wednesday in the Hospice House, South Bend. He is survived by his wife, Marietta; daughters, Robin (Byron) Copeland and Tami Wilkerson; sons, David (Denise) Wilkerson, Greg (Eileen) Wilkerson, and Mark Wilkerson; and one sister Norma Jean (Al) Owens. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Elkhart, where visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Visitation will also be held from 2-6 p.m. Sunday at Billings Funeral Home.


Raul Longhorn, or Raulcules (RAUL-Cue-Lees) is a Fremennik character played by Bit. What started off as a somewhat joke character (Ex: Raul's ridiculous past/childhood) has turned into Bit's most played/most liked character, and is now considered one of his main reasons why he still role-plays today.

Contents

Appearance

Casual:

Raul's normal attrire could vary from different shirtless outfits of platelegs, pants, dress pants, dragon leather, ect. He travels with his long horned helmet on him at most times, only wearing it occasionally. He travels shirtless due to the nice weather he does not get to experience in the northern lands.

Battle:

Raul's battle equiptment contains various parts. He wears his long horned helmet for head protection, his chest/back is covered in a plate of iron metal, followed by various iron chain's to cover therest of his torso. Underneath his firt set of armour, he wears a padded gambeson for extra protection at a light weight advantage. This gambeson follows all the way down to his knees, for upper theigh protection. He wears leight leather boots, with a thin piece of steel covering the toe/top area. His leather gloves contain steel spikes, for extra damage when in a hand to hand combat situation. His weapons of choice are is granite mace, when used with two hands could crush the mightiest of foes. Or he used his large steel greatsword, to sever the heads of even greater enemies than him.

The Construction of Raulcules

Raul was born on a normal, calm day. Though he came out of the womb, and it was nothing less than


the greatest thing the village of Rellekka has layed it's eyes on. Raul, nicnamed Raulcules due to his giant-like features from birth, was born.

Within the first few years of his life, Raul learned the basics of hunting, cooking, and crafting. Him and his father were as close as they were to their beards, and Raul's father is the one who taught him everything. Raulcules excelled passed anyone, due to his extreme growth at a young age and his love for being powerful. It was about his sixth year of age when everything changed...

The New Life of the Grizzly Man

One day, Raul and his father were out to hunt some animals that were off in the lands of the Fremennik Province. The father of Raul's tracking was wrong andthey became lost. Days went by, Raul and his father were totally lost.

Luckily, Raul and his father found a cave to stay the night in. Unable to build a fire due to the wet wood from the rain that came down before, they decided to take their chances and sleep in the cave while it was nothing but darkness, as a puny cave scares no Fremennik! The next moring, Raul woke up with his father gone. He also may have noticed that he was surrounded by a clan of Grizzly Bears. Armed with a knife, Raul was ready to fight. Though after Raul took out the alpha of the clan, the wolves respected Raul in his ways of fighting in defense. Raul skinned the huge bear and made


sure it did not go to waste. He also created a shrine for the first kill he ever accomplished. The other bears then looked up to Raul, and Raul learned from the bears.

Over the next 17 years Raul lived the bears, developing his own fighting and hunting styles. He became a "Grizzly Man", and even though he lived in the wild, Raul grew enormously. Raul caught the most food out of his whole clan, and provided the grizzlys with fresh meat every day. He also developed his own training meathod (Where one finds the heaviest object close to them, and proceeds to lift, throw, squad, toss, hurl, ect. it until reaching extreme tiredness).

Eventually, Raulcules set out to find his real home. It was hard for Raul to leavehis bear clan, but he knew that he had to find his family. Raul travelled far and long, finally finding the village of Rellekka.

Raul's return excited the whole village. He met up with his mother and father, where he found out that his father just escaped the bear's lair. They thought little Raul was dead for good, but the Grizzly Man proved them wrong. Parties were thrown day and night, and a great happiness was set on Raul and his family.

Raul's Adventure

For the next five years, Raul lived in Rellekka peacefully. Getting into bar fights and making love to many women. But Raulcules grew tired of the somewhat civilized life he had, and decided he needed to leave his hometown.

Raul set out for the world, living in the


wild. He became connected to nature more than ever as he travelled the world. But by the time he was thirty years old, Raul stumbled upon a great building in the desert, known as the Sanctum of Heroes. This is where Raul battled a great warrior known as Gonad, and Raulcules was defeated. This made Raul's eyes open, and he realized that he had much to learn in his life.

Raul now resides at the Sanctum of Heroes, where he has befriended many people such as Katrina, Gonad, and Baldor.

Personality

Raul is a mighty man. He is jolly, and a bit slow in the head. With the courage of a bear, litterally, he is willing to go against anything that gets in his way of jolliness. He loves to drinkheavily, and his tolerence is through the roof. Raul loves to compete in drinking/eating contests all around Gielinor, and will participate even if theres no reward. His favour meal is extremely light simmered

Raulcules enjoying a hardy drink in his hometown, Rellekka.

meat and any sort of ale he can find. Raul also developed his own way of hunting. He calls it "The Way of The Grizzly". Raul developed this way by watching the bears hunt during his days living with them. Raul has also been training with a bow, expanding his ways of hunting, though he is not the best with ranged combat, he has been training at the Sanctum of Heroes for other types of combat besides mellee.

Raul's New Love

With most people, their love is for another person,


or gardening. This is not the same with Raul. After a long few days travelling along side his friend, Dr. Bolas, they came to an older looking cave. Bolas and Raul were on the hunt for some special gewels, unknown to the average person. Dr. Bolas didn't have a clue if they were real or not, but a guy on described as "shady" told Bolas about these gems, and where to find them.

Once they walked into the mouth of the cave, the two heroes walked a long dark path, luckily Bolas brought a latern. After crawling through one long hall, the cave opened up, where a rock-like bowl, the size of a small grizzly cub, sat at the end of the room. It seemed as if the bowlwas filled to the top with diamonds, or even better, the unknown gems. Once reaching the bowl, a red dragon, hardly an adult, flew/flopped onto the floor behind them. Raul, out of sheer luck and power,

Raul about to slay the Red Dragon, saving himself and Dr. Bolas.

dodged the dragon's firey breath, and jammed the whole blade of his steel shortsword up through the dragon's jaw, almost killing it instantly. Raul finished the dragon off, and skinned as much as he could of it.

Turns out, it was a plot to assassinate Dr. Bolas, although he only suffered a scare or two, the duo got not "special gems". The bowl was fill with rocks, hardly covering the top of the rocks were just small opals, and more rocks.

Raul never felt


something so frightening, and had wanted to do it again. Now investing most of his sanctum time researching all types of dragons, he's deciding to start slaying dragons. He also got some nifty looking pants from the dragon's hide.

Pictures

Raul's "Cloak of Victory". Showing a bear indicating his childhood, and a dragon for what he slays.

RAUL!

Raulcules at the Sanctum of Heroes.

Raul crushing a puny goblin with one of his various war hammers.

Raulcules wielding his legendary Yakbasher. Stories say, it has the power of a thousand yaks.down

Premier Ford has been adamant that illegal sellers of cannabis products must be shut down by police.

He faced questions in November after The Toronto Star reported that his chief of staff asked aides to direct police to raid illegal cannabis dispensaries on legalization day.

Dean French allegedly said that he wanted to see "people in handcuffs ... on CP24 by lunch."

When the premier was asked about this by Opposition MPPs and media, he defended French and reiterated that companies that break the law should not be in business.

"We need to shut down the illegal pot shops," he said during question period the day after The Star published its story.

"I will never apologize for protecting the people of this province."

Representatives for the premier did not respond to HuffPost Canada's request


She was born and had already passed, the cause of which we can only conclude was having suffered a cord accident in the last moments of birth. She received immediate emergency care but was unable to be revived.

The stories are sickeningly familiar. The blog detailing the mother’s commitment to unmedicated childbirth as “healthier”; the death that supposedly took place in the moments before birth; the clueless midwives who had no idea that the baby was dead; and the link to site where donations can be made to cover the cost of the funeral.

The mother is livid that someone chose to mention that it was her decision to have a homebirth that led to her daughter’s preventable death.

I received a comment on my blog yesterday. Completely, off the topicST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (October 19, 2018) — After six incredible seasons, Georgi Hristov’s time with the Tampa Bay Rowdies has come to an end.

Hristov is out of contract following the conclusion of the 2018 season and will not be offered a new one.

The Bulgarian forward departs the Rowdies as the club’s all-time leader in goals scored with 60 and Modern Era record holder in appearances with 173.

“Georgi has been a perfect role model on and off the field for the Rowdies and the word ‘legend’ perfectly describes his time at the club,” Rowdies head coach Neill Collins said. “Watching him break the all-time goal scoring record was one of few highlights this season. Playing beside Georgi and then coaching him has been a huge privilege."

Hristov came to the


Rowdies in 2013 and marked himself as a fan favorite almost immediately when he scored the game-winning goal in the Rowdies’ Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup upset of the Seattle Sounders in May of that year.

He went on to win the 2013 NASL Golden Ball award as league MVP with 12 goals and eight assists.

In 2014, Hristov he scored nine goals and added four assists.

On August 17, 2016, he made his 100th appearance for the Rowdies, becoming the fourth player in the Modern Era to reach the plateau, joining Takuya Yamada, Frankie Sanfilippo and Keith Savage. That group has since been joined by Matt Pickens.

Hristov remained with the Rowdies in 2017 and scored a career-high 15 goals in leading Tampa Bay to a third-place finish in the EasternConference and a conference semifinals appearance.

This year, Hristov led Tampa Bay with seven goals in 27 appearances. He became the Rowdies’ all-time leading goalscorer in July of this year, surpassing Derek Smethurst’s long-standing record of 57 goals.

Hristov was the Rowdies’ leading scorer in five of his six seasons with Tampa Bay, falling short only in 2015.

Apart from his on-field successes, Hristov has always been one of one of the most popular Rowdies players with his eye-catching tattoos and ever-changing hairstyles.

The Rowdies wish Hristov nothing but the best and thank him for all he achieved in his time with Tampa Bay.

The Rowdies will honor Hristov's service with the club in the 2019 season.


Even as the economic hurdles pile up, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists his pledge to balance the federal books in four years is "very" cast in stone.

On top of the balanced budget, Trudeau told The Canadian Press on Wednesday that the Liberal government will also live up to its other fiscal "anchor" to lower the debt-to-GDP ratio every year until the end of its mandate.

Trudeau's remarks follow several revelations that his new government is standing on significantly shakier fiscal footing than it had predicted.

For example, the Liberals have recently shied away from another election commitment: to keep annual deficits over the next two years under $10 billion.

Trudeau was asked Wednesday how cast in stone his pledge was to balance the budget in four years.

"Very," he said during ayear-end roundtable interview with Canadian Press journalists in Ottawa.

"I think one of the things that Canadians expect is a level of fiscal responsibility that we've been able to demonstrate in the past and we're certainly going to demonstrate it in the future."

Obstacles to budget goals

The Liberals, who made billions of dollars in campaign spending vows, are facing many obstacles that stand in the way of fulfilling their balanced-budget goal.

Pulling the books back into the black is a tougher target than lowering the debt-to-GDP ratio, which represents a government's capacity to pay back debt. The ratio — also known as the debt burden — is reached by dividing total federal debt by the overall size of the economy, as measured by nominal GDP.

Last month, the government said in its


Dunkirk and were fortified by this tableau on the wall. Vie and Amour.

It was raining, but the sea was relatively calm. And it was a nice ferry, with plenty of restaurants and bars. The ferry was loaded with hundreds of cars and trucks.

Driving on the left was not such a big problem. But my goodness the traffic on the M25, the ring road of London, was terrible. A real nightmare. Thousands and thousands of cars on the road, queues everywhere. It took us almost two hours to get on the M3 to Salisbury. I kept asking myself: what are all those people doing on the road, why are they here? But no answer of course.

Salisbury is a lovely town with a beautiful cathedral. It was quiet. There wasmiddle stands another hill with the ruins of an old fortress. It was here that in 1086 William The Conqueror called together the major land-holders of England so that they could swear allegiance to him. Now it is a very popular place for walking your dogs.

Then on to Stonehenge. It can be seen from the main road, the A303, and then it is already an impressive sight. But much has changed. When I went there in 1968, on my honeymoon, we could just walk up to the stones, no problem at all and touch them. Later, during my visits to Glastonbury between 2000 and 2005, there was a huge parking place close to the stones, with a tunnel under the road. But that has completely disappeared. This time


saints like Joseph of Arimathea, St Bridged and St Patrick. It is as if these two religions are converging, maybe even merging together into a completely new religion.

Next to the abbey. Where once the oldest christian church stood, the ‘wattle’ church, dedicated by Joseph of Arimathea to his mother the Virgin Mary or by Jesus II to his mother Mary Magdalene. We passed the chapel dedicated to Thomas Becket holding a painting of Mary Magdalene connected to the seven, or in this case, six major sins.

Then past this beautiful statue of a boy offering an apple to the knight on his horse to the Lady Chapel. The magnificent ruins of what once was one of the largest and wealthiest abbeys in England, are almost as impressive now asthe real abbey would have been. Look at Door ‘captured’ between the walls and look at me sitting near the presumed tomb of King Arthur. And Door touching one of the sacred round stones of the Tor.

Glastonbury, The Tor and the Springs

There are two famous springs in Glastonbury. The Red Spring and the White Spring. They say that the White Spring springs from the hills around the Tor and the Red Spring comes all the way from the Mendip Hills in the north. The white Spring, in previous years, had only an outlet at the outside, the street. It was, and still is, a wonderful meeting place for hippies. Now the house where the spring water comes to the surface is open for the public. It is a


magic place with several basins of water and tucked away in the corner a statue of a Black Madonna.

The Red Spring also has a small outlet on the same street as where the White Spring is located, but most of the water comes to the surface in the famous Chalice Well Gardens. The place where they say that Joseph of Arimathea buried the chalice, or the two cruets, with the blood and sweat of Jesus, later called the Holy Grail by the Church.

Look at the wonderful fountains, the waterfalls and the wellhead covered by an elaborate lid of wrought iron with a sculpture of the Vesica Pisces. The red water, full of iron, is deemed healthy to drink and also to bath your feet in it (located ofcourse downstream of the drinking station).

The visit to the Tor is an absolute must. The Tor is the name of the hill, and not of the tower standing on top of this 158 meter high hill. The tower was part of a church dedicated to St Michael, but that was destroyed on September 11th 1275. It is a wonderful pilgrimage. And there are always people on the Tor, and it is always blowing.

We made one other trip that day to one of my other favorite places, the church of Pilton. Pilton is famous for its incredible, huge rock festivals, but this church and especially this banner is my favorite. It shows Joseph of Arimathea taking Jesus II, the eldest son of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the Tor,


who in that time was surrounded by water and could be reached from the sea.

On the way back to our place near Wells we stopped at another pub and had a real fish and chips meal. Excellent!

The Marshes and Taunton

In the old days Glastonbury was surrounded by water. It could be reached from the sea, the Bridgewater Bay and it was a distinctive landmark for sailors. The land has been reclaimed from the sea, but it is low land, full of marshes and waterways and a special, lush flora and fauna. I love it.

First we went to a little church in Meare, an old place with a wonderful atmosphere. Then we went to the marshes were people are still delving peat. In earlier days the dried it andmolded it into bricks that were used as fuel, but nowadays peat is mostly used to improve the quality of the soil of the many gardens. Look at the waterways and the lush vegetation. We even found near our path through the marshes a statue with a sword, the sword of the rightful king of England.

On our way to Taunton we stopped at another strange hill, called Burrowbridge Mump. It is a smaller version of the Tor and is located exactly on the famous St Michaels Ley Line, also called the May Day line or the Dragon Line. running east from St Michaels Mount near Penzance across Burrowbridge Mump and the Tor, over Avebury all the way to Zagorsk in Russia, the center of orthodox Christianity. And if


Blossoming both in December and in May. Some crazy fanatics, first in the time of Cromwell and later in our time, just ten years ago, cut down the tree. Now it is covered in a blanket against the cold, and surrounded by colorful, good wishes. I so much hope that this tree will survive.

Finally in Glastonbury we stopped at the church of John the Baptist and admired the famous stained glass window of Joseph of Arimathea holding the two cruets with the blood and sweat of Jesus. And look at this beautiful stained glass window with Mother Mary and very clearly, at the other side of the cross, Mary Magdalene.

Back home in our B&B we very much enjoyed a pure, Englsh wine. It was excellent, not cheap, butvery good.

Tintagel

We are heading west, to the coast. First passing the church in Cheddar with this ‘inviting’ skeleton at the entrance and then driving through the wonderful Cheddar Gorge. It is not as spectacular as the Gorge de Galamus in the South of France, but still.

Then up to Tintagel on the west coast of Cornwall. A long drive, but through a beautiful landscape. Very ancient, very pure, full of flowers and rolling hills. It was crowded at Tintagel, the parking place was full of cars and busses and there are plenty of pubs, shops and restaurants in the village. We walked down to the coast and arrived at this lovely, shelterd bay. It was good to see the sea again and to smell and touch the water. Good


for this old Navy man. The colors were magnificent. It was low tide. We watched the waterfalls and entered the cave of Merlin. Then we went up along some narrow, steep pathways and across a small bridge to the peninsula itself. With its impressive ruins, its splendid views to the north and the south and its wild, wild waters. Then we walked back to the village. A wonderful trip, blessed with sunshine and a low tide.

Penzance and St Michaels Mount

We were staying in a typical British B&B. The front of the house is for guests, the back for the family. We had a drink in the Navy pub and dinner in an Indian restaurant. We both love spicy food and there are not so many good Indian restaurantsin the Netherlands. Then we took a walk to the harbor.

The next day we went to St. Michaels Mount. It is high tide and the isle is surrounded by water. The tide difference here is about 5 meters. At this place I made the connection with Mont St. Michel in France. We went in by boat.

St Michaels Mount was, hundreds of years ago, a monastery. And there are still a few reminders of that time especially in the chapel. But later it was taken over by noble families and made into a fortress.

The walk up to the castle is magic. Beautiful flowers and strange stones line the path. The castle itself is huge. And full of images of the families who lived there and who still live there.


and the fisherman is her servant and companion.

Then on to Lamorna with an incredibly long row of gravestones, with a seal and labyrinth in the garden and this woman playing violin in the church.

We ended our day at the lovely beach of Sennen, just north of Land’s End and, yes indeed, I did swim in the sea. Giving me every reason for another lovely, fishy dinner in Penzance.

Canterbury

Our final destination, a magic place and close to the ferry in Dover. It was a long drive all along the coast of Southern England, from Penzance to Canterbuty. But we did it and there were, fortunately, no queues around London. We even had time to visit Canterbury and look at its waterways and the wonderful cathedral dressed in this softevening light. Ending with one last Indian dinner, just one more for the road back to Holland.

The cathedral closed at 1700 hours but it would be open next morning. On the way to the cathedral we passed a small memory of St Mary Magdalene. It was the tower of the St Mary Magdalene Church in Burgate that was demolished in 1871. We payed a short visit to the church next to this monument, looking at the green woman and the wonderful woman dressed in blue.

Then on to the cathedral, now basking in the morning light. A huge cathedral, with a beautiful, high ceiling. And the only other place where I got Orb on my camera.

We visited the place where Thomas Becket was murdered, the place with the two


swords. There were many, many beautiful stained windows in the cathedral, like this one of the last supper.

There was also the tomb of the Black Prince, famous in England and hated in France. In the crypt was another statue of a Black Madonna. She gave Door, again, some wonderful insights.

Then, finally, up to Dover, to the ferry. Everything there was well organised and well indicated. We had to wait for about an hour and passed the time sitting in the sun and having a glass of wine and some cheese. Again a wonderful trip. With again, just as during our trips to Scotland and Ireland, good weather. All the time!

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As of today, June 27th, I am the official owner of three little houses, connected to each other,in Exmorra, in Friesland. Exmorra, meaning the shore of the marsh, is an old fishing place located between Makkum and Bolsward. One house is an old grocery museum and that will stay so. It is so lovely. The next house was a museum of a small, basic school, but the schoolmuseum has been transferred to the next village, Allingawier, a beautiful Frisian museum village. And the third house was for living, but it is too small for me.

So some extensive renovations will have to take place. Isolating the roofs, putting in central heating. Making a new kitchen, a new bathroom, a library and a new bedroom. The old box bed is really a bit too small for me.

Enjoy the pictures of this special place and please pay me


bravery likely saved the White House or the US Capitol. The last words of Todd Beamer, “Let’s roll!”, have become icons of American bravery, as much as “Remember Goliad, remember the Alamo!”, “If they mean to have a war, let it begin here!” and “Nuts!”

How things have changed in 10 years.

I’ve recently seen a couple of videos that make me hang my head in shame at the cowardice of the American Sheeple. Both involved bystanders, well…standing by while someone got the living crap beaten out of them. The fist took place at a pizza parlor, where a woman trying to break in line got mad at a guy who was describing the situation to someone on a cellphone. She went and got her boyfriend, an ex-drug convict, whoproceeded to beat the snot out of the guy, knocking him unconscious and breaking an orbital bone, while the rest of the customers watched and did nothing:

The second took place at a Baltimore McDonald’s, where a group of girls continually beat another girl, kicked her, and dragged her by the hair, while the (apparent) store manager puts up a weak-sister attempt to stop the attack. Finally, one brave folder lady attempted to intervene, but the attack continued. The McDonald’s staff merely stands by and watches, at one point, even urging the assailants to leave, because the police were on the way. Meanwhile, the young victim lay on the floor in convulsions -- she’d been beaten into a seizure:

What the hell has happened to us? Where’s the Spirit of


at 50-100 followed the couple out to the parking lot and attacked them, while the theater manager reportedly did nothing to intervene. The Marine and his wife were both punched and kicked, and could have been severely injured (or killed), had it not been for one brave CCW permit holder, who drew his pistol and held the mob at bay until the police arrived (remember: when seconds matter, the police are only minutes away). In the end, five of the thugs were arrested, the couple was slightly injured, and the Good Samaritan CCW holder faded back into obscurity. Whoever he is, I hope he realizes he possesses a quality that is apparently lacking in much of our countrymen these days: guts.

Notice I haven’t brought race into the storyThe trailer for the upcoming Netflix series "Dear White People" has prompted complaints and calls for a boycott of the streaming subscription service.

Based on the 2014 Justin Simien movie of the same name, the Netflix series stars Logan Browning as Samantha White, a black college student who hosts a radio show about being a minority at a predominantly white university. "Dear White People" focuses on blackface parties that ignite tensions on the Ivy League campus and prompt White to become more pointed in her critique of the white student body.

The trailer has sparked complaints on social media that Netflix and creator Justin Simien were prejudiced against white Americans and calls for a boycott.

Simien responded to the backlash on Facebook:

"When the first trailer for the film dropped, I'll admit


SEOUL, South Korea — The first United Nations panel of experts assigned to investigate North Korean human rights abuses urged the government in Pyongyang on Tuesday to allow them to visit, even as the North called their work slanderous.

The panel, a three-member Commission of Inquiry, was finishing five days of public hearings here in the South Korean capital, during which defectors from North Korea, many of them survivors of its labor or political prisoner camps, have provided harrowing accounts of hunger, torture, forced abortions and public executions.

Some women who testified told the commissioners how human traffickers lured them with promises of jobs and food and sold them in China, where they said they were forced into prostitution or a slavelike life in rural families. Relatives of South Koreanswho were taken to the North during the 1950-53 Korean War or whose fishing boats were seized by North Korean gunboats in postwar years also appealed for international attention to the fate of their missing fathers and siblings.

Michael Donald Kirby, head of the commission, said, “We are the eyes and ears of the international community.” Speaking during a news conference in Seoul on Tuesday, he appealed for access to North Korea. He said his panel would “have no preconceptions and act with complete independence” in its investigation.


us who
teach in Western Heritage programs spend a great deal of
time emphasizing the profound debt which contemporary
culture owes to Christian thought and practice. Certainly
Christian ideology and civic ideology collide with
earth-shattering force at times, but it still remains to be
seen precisely how and in what ways the Christian
university's core values are congruent or incongruent with
the values of the civitas.
10Robert Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart:
Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1985).
11Trueblood, op. cit.: 29.
15from China "becoming much less" in the last one year and said that China had withdrawn after they intruded on few occasions. "There have been a series of special representative level talks, 17 rounds of them — and they havn’t reached anywhere," Doval said on the issue of settling the boundary issue with China.Doval, who is now the special representative for talks with China, said all the advancements that India makes in its relationship with China get centered around settlement of the border and also maintenance of peace and tranquility on the border."We are particularly concerned about the Eastern sector where the claims have been made on Tawang, which is totally in contravention of the accepted principles, like they having accepted the MacMohan line by settling the border


The back and forth over a rally for Romney at an Ohio coal mine took a fresh twist. It's miner vs. miner in coal war ads

It’s an ad about an ad about an ad.

The back and forth over a rally for Mitt Romney at an Ohio coal mine took a fresh twist this week with the release of a new ad that seeks to clear the air on misunderstandings about the event.

Yes, the coal miners say in the ad, we were thrilled to attend the August campaign rally for the Republican presidential nominee — not forced to go.

The ad, released Monday, shows the employees at Murray Energy’s Century Mine at a news conference; there, a miner identified as Mitch Miracle says the chance to stand behind Romney wasScott 's second in the 200y breast, finished with a program-best 1481 points. Stanford took second (1344) and Cal, the defending Pac-12 champion, was third (1306). Arizona was fourth (1125) and was followed by UCLA (995), Utah (538.5), Washington State (477), Arizona State (472.5) and Oregon State (291).

When USC's 400y free relay of senior Kasia Wilk, freshman Kirsten Vose and juniors Chelsea Chenault and Anika Apostalon finished second with a school-record 3:11.87 in the final race, the celebration started for a team that hadn't won a conference title of any kind since 1985. That year, the Trojans won the Western Collegiate Athletic Association crown for the fourth time. Two seasons later, the Pac-10 began holding women's swimming and diving championships.

The win tonight comes a year after USC's men's


staff and the support from the athletic department."

(Highlights of USC's 1650y free and meet win)

Stinson set the tone for the final night with her victory in the 1650y free, winning in 15:59.13 and pulling away at the end, seven seconds ahead of Oregon State's Sammy Harrison. Freshman teammate Allie Wooden, like Stinson a finalist in the 500y free, took third in 16:08.42. Both times were PRs.

Scott, second in the 100y breast last night, equaled the result in the 200 with a 2:08.84 (PR), 1.15 back of Stanford's Sarah Haase. Vose, like Scott in her third A final of the meet, was seventh (2:10.07). Junior Kelsey Kafka took third in the B final in 2:12.18 (11th overall) while junior Riley Hayward was 15th (2:14.68). Senior Brianna Weinstein was 20th(2:14.56, PR).

Apostalon (47.77) and Wilk (47.93, PR) finished third and fourth, respectively, in the 100y free A final while junior Evan Swenson was 16th. It was Wilk's second straight trip to the final in that event, topping her fifth last year.

Senior Kendyl Stewart, in her first career 200y back final, took sixth (1:52.70) while sophomore Hannah Weiss, in her second, was eighth (1:54.86). Freshman Hanni Leach won the B final of the 200y back in 1:54.18 (PR) with senior Joanna Stenkvist behind her in 10th (1:54.73). Freshman Destiny Nelson was 14th (1:56.98).

Chenault led three A finalist in the 200y fly, finishing fourth with 1:55.16. Freshman Madison Wright, in her first career A final, was sixth (1:56.60) while senior Lucy Worrall, in her first A final of the event,


Michael Jackson videography

American entertainer Michael Jackson (1958–2009) debuted on the professional music scene at age five as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still part of the group. Jackson has been referred to as the "King of Pop" in subsequent years. Jackson had seven of his solo albums promoted with music videos, or as he would refer them as "short films". Some of his short films drew criticism for their violent and sexual elements; others were lauded by critics and awarded Guinness World Records for their length, success and expense.

In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular culture and the first African American entertainer to have a strong crossover fanbase on MTV. The popularity of his musichas announced.

The recordings were made in 1966 and 1967 and were intended to follow on the band’s critically acclaimed album “Pet Sounds.” But “Smile” was left unfinished and shelved after the group’s co-founder, Brian Wilson, suffered an emotional breakdown and the group’s legal dispute with Capitol Records over the formation of the band’s label.

Mr. Wilson was riding the crest of his creative peak during the sessions, and the zaniness surrounding the recordings has become part of the band’s legend. Some of the songs were said to have been written in a sandbox Mr. Wilson had installed in his living room to recreate the feeling of the beach. Mr. Wilson also was said to have set the studio on fire during the recording of another


Ramones - Loco Live

Loco Live is a second live album by American punk band the Ramones. There are two different versions of Loco Live available. The 1991 Chrysalis version contains 33 songs, including "Too Tough to Die", "Don't Bust My Chops", "Palisades Park", and "Love Kills". The 1992 Sire version has different cover art and track order, and replaced these four tracks with "I Just Wanna Have Something to Do", "Havana Affair", "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", and an unlisted "Carbona Not Glue". The original tracks were recorded digitally in Barcelona, Spain and overdubbed at Electric Lady Studios in NYC. This was C.J's first recording with the Ramones.the West challenging this status quo.”

Originally from Malaysia, Zonneveld moved to the United States in 1996 to attend college. Islam in the United States was starkly different from that in Malaysia, she said, where women were business owners and negotiators at the marketplace.

She became part of a local mosque when she moved to Los Angeles, but decided to stop going after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks prompted her to begin studying Islam on her own.

“What I found was that the Quran was so much more liberating and progressive than the actual practice of Islam,” she said. “I decided that going back to the traditional mosque was not an option because that would just be perpetuating the same misogynistic, patriarchal, and tribal practices.”

After reading the Quran and articles by


scholars of Islam, which she said are censored in the Muslim world, Zonneveld, who worked as a singer-songwriter in Malaysia, decided to try to educate non-Muslims about her faith through music.

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But none of the Muslim retail stores she pitched to agreed to sell her CD. Zonneveld attributes the rejection in part to the fact that her music contained her vocals, which she said was looked upon as a sexual entity regardless of the content for her lyrics.

“At that point I was just so pissed off that I decided that I want no part of this community and this mindset,” she said. “Then I decided there’s got to be other Muslims likewas killed in 2014.

At the upcoming Celebration of Life, MPV will present the inaugural Badshah Khan Beacon of Truth Award, which is named after a man who Zonneveld called the Pakistani equivalent of Ghandi. This year, it will go to Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian comedian who challenged dictatorship and is known as the "Jon Stewart of Egypt."

Also on the agenda for 2017 is increasing MPV’s visibility in Los Angeles, where its first chapter unofficially started, as well as to continue the work it’s been doing for the last decade by challenging human rights and abuses in the name of Islam, and advocating for and educating the Muslim community about what the organization stands for.

Throughout the last couple of years, Zonneveld says she’s seen some things begin to change,


R$200,000 ($53,100) for the upcoming series, which has yet to be given a release date.

With more than 40 million people enslaved worldwide, the entertainment industry has made a host of documentaries and films that explore life as a modern slave. But it is unorthodox for a government to commission content and detractors question the value of funding entertainment to educate.

Under Brazilian law, civil fines for labor violations and court convictions relating to public issues should be awarded to the victims or spent on helping the affected community.

Prosecutors and judges decide how to spend the funds, and have committed tens of thousands of dollars in recent years to anti-slavery screenplays.

A short cartoon on the dangers of child labor was screened last month at a fair in Juina, a smallattaches a Task that invokes the Dispose function to the Task being returned to the Iterate caller. Code passed to the ContinueWith method is called when the Task associated with ContinueWith function completes execution.

RecursiveBody is a block of code that is utilized in two places:

It's invoked when the nextTask completes execution. The ContinueWith on the nextTask sets this up.

The StartNew at the end of the function immediately invokes the code.

In the example above TrySetResult completes the Task from within RecursiveBody and unravels the recursion. Moving to the main portion of the Async sample I'll now explain the Enumerator.

The name of the function is a bit misleading. Wait does not block until a utensil is available. Instead it returns a Task that remains suspended until SetResult is called from


vault at tourist spots like Montmartre and the Pont des Arts across the River Seine.

A black square has been added to the footage to cover his private parts.

The video has succeeded in drawing attention to Mesnil’s plight, at least in France.

It was broadcast on primetime state television news bulletins.

Check out these videos of him running, hilarious. He surely won me over, I hope he gets the sponsors:Kell Brook v Gennady Golovkin Betting Preview

Someone’s 100 percent record has to go at London’s O2 on Saturday night, as Sheffield’s Kell Brook climbs two weight categories to take on Kazakh fighter Gennady Golovkin, with the unified WBA, WBC, IBF and IBO middleweight titles up for grabs. Brook has had to bulk up by 13lbs to take on the fight against one of the biggest punchers around. Here are the latest Kell Brook v Gennady Golovkin betting odds.

Form

Kell Brook is unbeaten in his 36 professional fights, with 25 of his victories coming by knockout. His last appearance in the ring came in March, when his match up with Kevin Bizier at the Sheffield Arena was ended as quickly as the second round. However, that win came at welterweight


and Saturday’s fight will be his first test at middleweight.

Gennady Golovkin is also unbeaten, with knockouts deciding 32 of his 35 fights. He finished off Dominic Wade in the second round of his last fight in April with a right hook after the American had hit the canvas twice previously in the six minute match.

Sports.net’s View

Kell Brook is a fantastic technical fighter and top names in the UK boxing fraternity like Ricky Hatton and Carl Froch think the bookies might have written him off too soon. It’s certainly the case that the Yorkshireman offers a challenge to Golovkin the like of which he will never have faced before, but the same could also be said in reverse.

Golovkin packs a mighty punch and the length and possible outcome ofentire residue of the estate. The bare-bones allegations of the complaint are supported by the great weight and clear preponderance of the evidence.
The Honorable ELTON J. MORRISON,
whom we appointed as referee, concluded, relying on previous pronouncements of this court, that the defendant's conduct warranted discipline. He recommended a suspension from the practice of law for a period of three months. Our perusal of the evidence indicates that such discipline ought not be imposed.
It appears that Collentine is forty-five years of age. He graduated from the Marquette Law School and was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in July of 1949. Although part of the time since his admission he was engaged in business other than the practice of law, he is presently a sole practitioner in the city of


Milwaukee.
The record contains a number of letters from lawyers, judges, and businessmen who highly commend his character to us. He has no history of any previous infraction of the standards of conduct for lawyers.
The facts on which this complaint is premised are these. Jane S. Skidmore, a resident of Ozaukee county, was the beneficiary of a large annual income from two trusts. Her interest was confined only to being the recipient of income from these trusts during her lifetime. No portion of the corpus of these trusts would inure to her estate. It is undisputed that Jane S. Skidmore was a spendthrift and an alcoholic. Despite the large income of these trusts, which ranged from $30,000 to $40,000 per year, she was deeply in debt, and the bankwhich served as her trustee was frequently subject to garnishment.
In the fall of 1962, with the approval of the trustee, John R. Collentine was appointed as the conservator of *329 Jane Skidmore's estate. There was evidence that his control of her financial affairs considerably improved her financial status, but, nevertheless, at the time of her death, her liabilities exceeded her assets by more than $10,000.
Sometime during the early part of 1964 Jane Skidmore asked Collentine to prepare a will which bequeathed her mother's portrait to a public library and the residue of her estate, both real and personal, to the defendant. The defendant admits that he prepared the will and presided over its execution. In extenuation of his action, he points out that, at the time of the


... she wanted to prove she had control over anybody she was dealing with." Miriam Wigderson and Mary Leader were present at the execution of the will. They agreed that she was rational and sober and there was testimony that, in the presence of these witnesses, Collentine, over her objections, insisted that she read the will before signing it. She read the will in the presence of these witnesses and then signed it.
Nathanael A. Lemke, who was the attorney for the trustee, stated that in the first part of 1964 Collentine called him and stated that, "Jane had asked him to draw *330 a will naming himself as executor and sole beneficiary." Lemke further testified:
"I laughed. I said, `John, you know she's never had any money and therefaulty judgment he exercised not only brought discredit to him, but to the entire legal profession. While technically defensible under the urged interpretation of Horan, we nevertheless consider that the defendant's conduct was so fraught with unfavorable consequences, which he should have foreseen, particularly in view of the warning that he had received from Attorney Lemke, that we conclude it is proper that he be admonished.
In order to prevent future misunderstandings, we conclude and establish as a rule for prospective application that a lawyer may be the scrivener of a will in which he is a beneficiary only when he stands in relationship to the testator as the natural object of the testator's bounty and where under the will he receives no more than would be received by


Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union

Australia fly-half Quade Cooper (right) has also donated a signed shirt to Owen Williams as he continues his recovery

Injured Cardiff Blues rugby player Owen Williams has been visited by Australia fly-half Quade Cooper.

Williams suffered a "significant injury" to his spine while playing in a tournament in Singapore in June.

The 23-year-old is progressing in his recovery and is sitting up and spending time out of hospital.

Quade Cooper has been thanked by Owen Williams' family for his kindness

Cooper tweeted: external-link "Great meeting @Owilliams91 today! Such an inspiration with his strength of character! #StayStrongForOws".

Williams' brother, Gavin, also revealed on Twitter external-link that Cooper, who was left out of Saturday's autumn international against Wales in Cardiff, had donated a Wallabies shirt.

"Massive thanks to @QuadeCooper fortaking the time to visit my brother this weekend and donating his jerseys! #legend", Gavin Williams tweeted.

Owen Williams, capped four times by Wales, was injured in the first half of the Blues' 26-17 defeat by Asia Pacific Dragons in the third-place play-off of the World Club 10s.

He was initially treated in Singapore before being transferred by air ambulance back to Wales and then onto the Welsh Spinal Injuries and Neurological Rehabilitation Unit in early July.

After the former Aberdare RFC player was injured, a social media campaign was launched using the hashtag StayStrongForOws, which received support from around the world.


strength and conditioning - nutrition - massage - coaching - sport psychology - sport science - athlete wellbeing and engagement services (formally known as personal excellence) - access to specialised equipment - support for athletes competing in national and international events

Selection:

The cycling program operates under a specific selection criteria for Track and Road guided by Cycling Australia. Following major National and International cycling events potential new scholarships will be considered.

Some examples include:

National Championships

Oceania Championships

UCI Events

To enquire, contact the Head Coach.

Program Year:

1 May to 30 April.

Other TIS Programs:

TIS Racing Team:

A partnership has been formed with Tas Pro Cycling, StLukes Health, Dulux, Giant, Petuna, and Spirit of Tasmania to provide a team structure for scholarship athletes to participate in National Road Series events (NRS).

Please follow the TIS Racing Team asturquoise and display the infinity symbol somewhere on the board, along with a link to `www.arduino.cc`. Some other companies also have their boards accepted as official boards, so you may find other company names printed on them, such as Adafruit Industries and SparkFun.

Because the schematics for the Arduino board are open source, unofficial Arduino boards have a lot of variation, which people have made for their own needs. These boards are usually based on the same microcontroller chips to remain compatible with the Arduino software, but they require extra consideration and reading to be sure that they will work as expected. The Seeeduino v4.2 (by Seeed Studio), for example, is based on the Arduino Uno and is 100 percent compatible but adds various extra connections, switches, and sockets,


5-10: The color bands on a resistor.

A standard resistor has four bands that represent the following:

  * First digit
  * Second digit
  * Multiplier
  * Tolerance

  Resistors are small and some colors can be difficult to distinguish unless you have extremely good vision. You can use a magnifying glass or smartphone camera to see the colors of the bands more clearly.

Table 5-2 lists the value in ohms, the multiplier, and the tolerance value that each color represents. First, you need to know the order in which to read the bands. Normally, you will see an equal-sized gap between the first three bands and a larger gap separating the fourth tolerance band.

TABLE 5-2 Resistor Color Chart

 **Color** |  **Value** |  **Multiplier** |excess heat. I cover needle-nosed pliers in more detail in Chapter 4.

### Multimeter

A multimeter is a great help for testing your circuits. When you're soldering connections, the continuity-testing function can be a great help for verifying that the solder joints are as they should be and are connected to the right places. See Chapter 4 for more about working with a multimeter.

  When testing the continuity, always unplug any power supplies connected to your circuit to avoid false bleeps.

### Solder sucker

Everyone makes mistakes, and they can be more difficult to undo when you're dealing with hot metal. One tool to keep handy for fixing mistakes is a solder sucker, shown in Figure 9-9, or a de-soldering gun. Each of these tools is a pneumatic pump that sucks


of finding a winning block hash to every ten minutes. In the big picture, Bitcoin mining secures transactions that are recorded in Bitcon's public ledger, the block chain. By conducting a random lottery where electricity and specialized equipment are the price of admission, the cost to disrupt the Bitcoin network scales with the amount of hashing power that is being spent by all mining participants.

Bitcoin is one of the first digital currencies to use peer-to-peer technology to facilitate instant payments. The independent individuals and companies who own the governing computing power and participate in the Bitcoin network, also known as "miners," are motivated by rewards (the release of new bitcoin) and transaction fees paid in bitcoin. These miners can be thought of as the decentralized authority enforcing thea chance of yielding bitcoins. The more hashes performed, the more chances of earning bitcoins. Most people join a mining pool to increase their chances of earning bitcoins. Mining pools pay for high value hashes known as shares. The default mining pool issues payouts weekly to accounts with at least 5000 Satoshis. If an account doesn't reach 5000 Satoshis during a week, the balance carries forward (it is never lost).

The best mining sites were the old fruit warehouses—the basin is as famous for its apples as for its megawatts—but those got snapped up early. So Miehe, a tall, gregarious 38-year-old who would go on to set up a string of mines here, learned to look for less obvious solutions. He would roam the side streets and back roads,


two runs to lead Stony Brook to a 12-5 win over Central Florida that forced a deciding game at 7 tonight. Both seek their first Super Region berth.

The Seawolves scored three in the second and three in the fourth to take a 7-1 lead.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Jackie Traina and Keilani Ricketts pitched and hit their teams into the World Series final. Traina homered and threw a two-hitter as Alabama beat California 5-2, and Ricketts struck out 13 and drove in a run as Oklahoma beat Arizona State 5-3.

The best-of-three series starts tonight.

The Tide was eliminated in the semifinals three of the past four years. The Sooners are in the final for the first time since winning their only national title in 2000, when it was decided by asingle game.

Football: Two Ohio State starters, tight end Jake Stoneburner and offensive lineman Jack Mewhort, were arrested in Delaware, Ohio, for what police called only obstructing official business, a misdemeanor. Details were not disclosed. The school said only it was aware of the situation and was trying to get more details.

Men's golf: Dylan Frittelli made a 20-foot birdie to give Texas the national title over Alabama in Pacific Palisades, Calif. The schools split the first four matches, and Frittelli and Cory Whitsett started 18 all square. It's Texas' first title since 1972, when they had future PGA Tour stars Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.


President Bashar Assad had used non-lethal chemicals in an attack against a rebel-held neighbourhood.

Though the type of poison gas used was not specified, the Assad regime is believed to be using toxic industrial substances, rather than weaponised chemicals, as a ploy to spread fear, but on a scale not quite large enough to trigger an international military reaction.

Last summer, the Assad regime agreed to give up its chemical weapons after a chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta killed over 1,000 people. The attack drew widespread condemnation and threats of military action by the US, Britain and France. A U.N. inquiry found in December that sarin gas had likely been used in that attack.

The Syrian government has so far failed to meet its deadlines to move allof its declared chemical substances and precursors, some 1,300 metric tons, out of the country.

Opposition activists also claimed that helicopters had dropped chlorine gas on the rebel-held village of Kfar Zeita on Friday and Saturday, though the U.S. called those claims “unsubstantiated.”

On Sunday, activists posted photographs and video they said showed an improvised chlorine bomb to back up claims that Assad’s forces used chemical weapons in Kfar Zeita, which the government blamed on rebels.

The Syrian government and the opposition have each accused the other of using chemical weapons during the three-year-old civil war. Both sides have denied it.

According to Israel, a non-lethal compound was used in attacks on Harasta in March which was not listed among the chemicals that Syria committed to dispose of when it signed an


agreement in September 2013 to give up its chemical weapons. Israel pays particularly close attention to Syrian use and transfer of chemical weapons to prevent any such weapons from landing in the hands of Hezbollah.

More than 150,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war, a third of them civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Millions more have fled the country.the angle from around the wicket to trap Abhinav lbw for 81.

Until then, the third-wicket pair had enjoyed a pleasant stay in the middle, with Sri Lanka in damage-control mode throughout, and with Rangana Herath off the field for the last hour, having hurt his finger while diving to stop a powerful Kohli drive. The moment, captain inflicting pain upon captain, perfectly encapsulated the match situation.

With India unlikely to stretch their second innings for too much longer, Sri Lanka face a gargantuan task on the last two days. The highest successful chase at this venue is 99. The highest score made in a fourth innings here - win, lose or draw - is 300. The weather could well be the only thing in the home side's favour.

Rain brought


an early end to the middle session after India had lost their two first-innings centurions. Shikhar Dhawan failied to keep a cut down off Dilruwan Perera, while Cheteshwar Pujara clipped Kumara straight to a strategically positioned leg gully. Rain arrived immediately after Pujara's dismissal, 30 minutes before the scheduled tea break.

Play resumed after a break of an hour and 24 minutes. Kohli, the only Indian batsman to not get into double figures in the first innings, made a typically domineering start full of drives through cover before settling into a more prosaic pattern of collecting the uncontested singles made available by Sri Lanka's defensive fields. Abhinav, who is likely to miss the next Test should KL Rahul return from illness, showed off the timing that has yet tofully assert itself in his so-far stop-start career, stepping out to clip Dilruwan Perera against the turn, hooking Lahiru Kumara between long leg and deep square leg, and using the pace adroitly when given width.

Dilruwan Perera's footwork and intent against spin were top class AFP

Ravindra Jadeja ended Sri Lanka's innings nine balls after lunch, beating Kumara's defensive bat with one that turned just enough to miss the outside edge and hit off stump. At the non-striker's end was Perera, stranded eight short of a maiden Test hundred. His proactive approach had led Sri Lanka's fight in the morning session, in which they scored 135 runs at just over four an over, while losing three wickets.

Perera, batting above No. 8 for only the sixth time in 31 Test innings,


did his best to make up for the absence of the injured Asela Gunaratne from Sri Lanka's line-up, showing not just the skills to survive but also an ability to take calculated risks and keep the scoreboard moving. He showed early intent against the spinners, stepping out to Jadeja in the second over of the day and hitting him flat, over the non-striker's head. Not long after, he went down on one knee and slog-swept the left-arm spinner over midwicket. That was to be the first of four sixes from Perera, two each off Jadeja and R Ashwin.

He took on the quicks too, most notably when he made room against Umesh Yadav to slap and ramp him for two fours, either side of third man, shortly after hehad brought up his fifth Test fifty. Umesh kept bowling short - intentionally, with two fielders back on the hook - but did not trouble Perera unduly. In his next over, he flat-batted a pull from outside off to the wide long-on boundary.

By that time, Sri Lanka had lost Angelo Mathews, who moved from 54 to 83 before driving too early at a flighted ball from Jadeja and picking out short cover. Jadeja then went on to remove Rangana Herath, who gloved a reverse-sweep to slip. Hardik Pandya took the only other wicket of the session, his first in Test cricket, Nuwan Pradeep bowled playing down the wrong line.

Herath and Pradeep only made 9 and 10, but with Perera scoring quickly at the other end, the seventh- and


Steven Bochco, a celebrated television writer and producer whose sophisticated prime-time portrayals of gritty courtrooms and police station houses redefined television dramas and pushed the boundaries of onscreen vulgarity and nudity, died on Sunday in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. He was 74.

The cause was complications of cancer, a family spokesman said. He had received a stem cell transplant in October 2014 for leukemia.

Over three decades starting in the early 1980s, Mr. Bochco, whose earlier shows “Hill Street Blues” and “L.A. Law” upended the traditional hourlong drama, was one of Hollywood’s most prolific and sought-after producers. He mixed elements of daytime soap operas — like story lines that stretch over multiple episodes and feature a rich ensemble of characters — with a true-to-life visual style andis engaged by the rim of the box when made up.
Many prior art riser or tubular member joint connectors use pin and box type connectors. These pin and box type connecters have a first tubular member with a larger diameter portion on an end, the box, and a second tubular member with a smaller diameter portion on an end, the pin. The pin inserts into the box end to join the two tubular members by any suitable means such as threading of the pin into the box, cammed engagement of grooves, or the like. Generally, the tubular members transition to the larger diameter connector portions across a fairly short distance, often having angles that are substantially close to right angles between the connector and the tubing. These right


angle transitions provide a substantially planar surface that is perpendicular to an axis of the tubular for engagement with a tubing elevator for manipulation of the tubular member. Unfortunately, these transition areas are often subject to high stress that may cause early failure of the connector. Attempts have been made to reduce this stress by increasing the length of the transition; however, a longer transition generally requires an increase in the clamping diameter of elevator as the thickness of the tubular at the engagement point of the elevator will increase by increasing the transition. A longer transition requires use of specialty elevators to accommodate the thicker tubing diameter.the settlement of New York City garbage strike, in which workers received pay increases.

Negotiations and talks between the city and the union leaders were heated and divisive from the very start, pitting the city and the Mayor against poorer African Americans. Mayor Henry Loeb called it an illegal work stoppage that directly affected the public health. In the first weeks of the strike he said that no discussion of money or other matters would be held until the workers returned to their jobs. The city maintained that the sanitation workers union was not to be recognized nor bargained with. The city’s newspapers echoed the city’s official stance that the strike was not a racial dispute, only a labor dispute. The papers also called it a “wildcat strike” where


front of the microphones, and the workers themselves, marching downtown streets in toe with supporters, accompanied by police officers and squad cars maintaining order.

But it was the local newspapers, The Commercial Appeal and the (now-extinct) Memphis Press-Scimitar, from which Memphians absorbed the in-depth coverage of the strike each day. And in an era long before FaceBook or the Internet or CNN, whether you got the Appeal in the mornings or the Press-Scimitar in the afternoons, the messages out of the daily Memphis papers shaped conversations, attitudes, and how Memphians viewed history unfolding.

Looking back, in absorbing the 1968 newspaper coverage in real time, each day – with the benefit of hindsight – is to witness coverage that was woefully inadequate, at times outright one-sided, and in a few cases,were un-American; that criticizing the War in Vietnam was un-American; that criticizing the President was un-American; that criticizing the Mayor was un-American.

The daily papers’ editorials and letter picks were dismissive of civil rights issues around the strike, and upheld the status quo in support of the Mayor and the city’s position on the strike.

This was of course the landmark year of 1968, when Americans endured seismic shifts in their sense of self and country. However in February and March, none of the watershed events that changed history had occurred yet. Dr. King had not even visited Memphis, yet. It was also before the sight of Senator Robert F. Kennedy dying on a kitchen floor of a Los Angeles hotel; before the American public had seen the horrific, bloody


images of women and babies on a roadside in the wake of the My Lai Massacre (ironically, 50 years ago to the day of this writing); before the Washington Post boldly released the Pentagon Papers; before the Kent State shootings; before celebrity tell-all books; before the Nixon White House and before Woodward and Bernstein uncovered Watergate.

In those days, the positions many our daily newspapers continued to sustain came packaged with a duty to law and order, especially during a time when order seemed to be at the brink of unraveling, when “law and order” was a platform and campaign slogan used by presidential candidates like the far-right George Wallace and the conservative Richard Nixon. Most of the subversive, radical, liberal-leaning publications like New York’s Village Voice were stillrelatively young, and Rolling Stone was barely months old. These publications fearlessly challenged authority and the status quo; such was not the job of establishment, daily mainstream papers like The CA and the Press-Scimitar.

In addition, the strike and ensuing violence between the city and Negro marchers – as is evident in the day-to-day reading of the papers’ coverage – caught the local papers and Memphis as a whole, by surprise. In a law and order city, with its harmonious image of itself, this kind of racial strife was not Memphis.

In At The River I Stand, Joan Turner Beifuss’ definitive account of the historic events of 1968, the author described Memphis through the 1960s as a city that “had gained the reputation of a city which had gone through


the difficult days of desegregation without trouble.” It had not been plagued with the same violence that was seen throughout the country during the struggles for civil rights. In the early days of 1968, there was still a sense of pride knowing that Memphis was not 1963 Birmingham, was not 1964 Harlem, was not 1965 Selma, and was no 1967 Detroit nor Newark. In the years before desegregation and forced busing, there was a belief among many white Memphians that theirs was city where black and white co-existed harmoniously.

“Memphis is proud of its record,” read one Press-Scimitar editorial, “achieved through years of hard work and with the full co-operation of the Negro leadership.”

And a letter from a Memphian on March 14 that summed up the feelings of many:“Up until now, Memphis has enjoyed a racial harmony to be proud of. There is no reason why both Negro and white citizens cannot continue to live and work together in harmony.”

And yet, despite white Memphis’ insistence otherwise, the city was still segregated in many walks of life. From the white perspective, city services, schools and libraries had desegregated without much incident. But in many neighborhoods and industries, “separate but equal” was still much the norm, and the black community had yet to knock down doors in many traditionally-white institutions.

The Memphis daily newspaper was one such institution: in the winter of 1968 not one reporter for either paper was an African American.

In the newspapers’ reporting, the lack of diversity showed. In a detailed review of every page of


Press-Scimitar.

The morning Appeal tended to be more conservative, and was more subdued in its format. The Press-Scimitar could be more splashy, usually published more photographs, and was generally more liberal.

Coverage by both papers of the same February 22 City Hall Sit-In: The Press-Scimitar to the left from the afternoon of Feb. 22; The Commercial Appeal to the right on the following morning, Feb. 23.

Ironically, and in circumstances unusual in the newspaper world, the Memphis Press-Scimitar and The Commercial Appeal were both owned by the same company – Scripps-Howard – and occupied the same building at 495 Union Avenue. Their newsrooms however were on different floors, and elevator rides with adversaries could be awkward tests of restraint. As journalist Jill Johnson Piper recalled in 2008, there was a healthyfrom TheRoot.com and its excellent Striking Voices video series, capture the disturbing drama of the Mace March in ways the daily papers could not.

A Newspaper Boycott

In the wake of the February 24 Mace March, the papers persisted in the view “that racial incitement was coming from an ‘organized group’ of blacks who wanted to create problems.” With their gross misreporting and the ongoing editorials that continued to side with the Mayor and the city, the animosity rose “among both union and black leaders toward the two daily newspapers.” (At The River I Stand)

“The noon union meetings and the night community meetings were now closed to reporters and photographers of The Commercial Appeal and the Memphis Press-Scimitar. Since neither newspaper had a working black reporter, there was little chance


of sneaking anyone into the meetings incognito. …Eventually there was no direct coverage of the mass meetings. Reporters did not catch the growing determination in the black community… and because they did not, white Memphis did not catch it either. Television news coverage tended to focus on moments of high drama such as city council confrontations.” (At The River I Stand)

Many journalists in the field made extra efforts for fair and complete coverage, but with communication gaps widening, newspaper coverage and their editorial content became more divisive and one-sided. Black leadership called for a newspaper boycott.

When the boycott came three weeks into the strike, “and blacks were urged to cancel their subscriptions to The CA and Press-Scimitar, the communications cutoff became more serious.” (At The River I Stand)

Mostperhaps next week…”

As racial tensions continued to rise thru the week of March 4, religious leaders around the city became more vocal, and discussions were suggested urging “a special meeting of white and Negro ministers to get down to basic problems.” The Press-Scimitar reported on the same day: “Ministers to Talk Racial Problems”

Out of these meetings came a historic invitation.

Buried at the end of a story on page 5 of The Commercial Appeal, March 6, was a brief mention from the Rev. James Lawson, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, who said that “Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., noted civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will come to Memphis perhaps next week to speak on behalf of the strike movement.”

A historic invitation, buried in the


last two paragraphs at the end of an article on page 5 (bottom right).

Rev. King would not arrive for almost two weeks, the week of March 19, for his first public appearance in Memphis in 1968.

And the worsts of the strike and it’s aftermath, unfortunately, were yet to come.

……………

Sources for this article include:

The Commercial Appeal and Memphis Press-Scimitar archives from the Memphis Room of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

The History of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, Ed Frank, University of Memphis Libraries, memphispressscimitar.com

At The River I Stand, by Joan Turner Beifuss, 1990

From Boss Crump to King Willie, by Otis Sanford, 2017

“Striking Voices,” video documentary series produced by Emily Yellin and theroot.com

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Had planned two bombs - one on side of the church in an initial attack and another to hit first-responders

Suspect Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, is said to have planned the attack on Legacy International Worship Center in Pittsburgh's north side as 'revenge' for his terrorist 'brothers'

A Syrian refugee who allegedly plotted to bomb a suburban church after pledging allegiance to Isis has been arrested.

Suspect Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, is said to have planned the attack on Legacy International Worship Center in Pittsburgh's north side as 'revenge' for his terrorist 'brothers'.

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and nails, according to the Justice Department.

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Legacy International Worship Center describes itself as a multicultural, 'Christ-centered' ministry on its website.

Alowemer then communicated with an individual he believed to be a fellow Isis supporter, who was in fact an undercover FBI operative.

He described the church as 'Nigerian' and 'mushrikeen', an Arabic term for those who commit idolatry,and called for using a bomb big enough to 'destroy it all', according to a criminal complaint.

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He also provided copies of detailed Google satellite maps, which included hand-written markings identifying the Church and escape routes.

The pair met four times in the lead up to the planned attack, which Alowemer told the informant would take place on a Sunday.

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in his plans.

Documents seen by the informant claim Alowemer was 'burning from inside' for 'Muslims in New Zealand' following the terror attacks in Christchurch in March.

He was arrested yesterday after allegedly telling the undercover officer he wanted to meet 'one more time' before carrying out the attack.

Alowemer has been charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive, destructive device in relation to the bomb plot.

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"American Idol" returns for its twelfth season tonight on FOX.

The long-running reality show has given us superstars like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, and also countless rejects. But not all of the rejects fall into obscurity. Below are seven "American Idol" contestants who found success after getting cut, some of whom are even bigger names than the winners (sorry Lee DeWyze).

1. Hillary Scott

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2. Amber Riley

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6. William Hung

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smaller difference than the year before, making the tax man happier with all the shopping trip tourists alighting in London.

European air travel passengers numbers were down as well in 2009, with 5.9% fewer trips taken in total. Freight went down even more, by 13.1%, meaning airlines of all sorts are really struggling with revenue.

Of course the US airlines are probably in the most trouble. According to Dallas News, the airlines have shed 25% of their workforce in the past decade, along with billions of dollars in revenue. The shining exception is Southwest Airlines, which grew by over 24% in the same time, and JetBlue went from launching in 2000, to more than 12,000 staff, and AirTran also grew a lot. This means that the march of budget airlinesvs. legacy carriers is still going strong in the U.S. market.

Apparently, times are tough for tourism to Cuba as well, with traveler numbers down 4.9% in January 2010 according to Reuters. Guess with Castro no longer available to give 10-hour speeches, people are staying away.

On the other hand, South Africa is counting on a massive increase in tourism during the 2010 World Cup, including business travelers looking to use the games as a business development opportunity.

Business travel bounces back. Well, a little. Figures from Marriott shows that occupancy rates are improving a bit from January 2010.

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infection that gravely compromised his digestive system. His fever ran so high that he shook with chills, as he had as a child when he suffered hypothermia.

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The doctors and nurses, for all their reassurances, did not mask the severity of his condition.

“It was very dangerous,’’ Ortiz said. “I got to the point that I started losing hope.’’

Ortiz grew more despondent when he learned he urgently needed another surgery. He remembered seeing fear on the faces of his loved ones.

“Everybody was like, ‘Oh [expletive],’ ’’ he said.

In his bleakest days after the surgery, Ortiz fought desperation, even in his sleep. Over seven weeks, he could swallow nothing but melted ice chips — except for a small cup of Jell-Odown food for the first time: a cup of soup. The fever was gone. The feeding tube had been removed.

“That was a big, big deal,’’ he said.

Ortiz was no stranger to Mass. General. Through his charity, the David Ortiz Children’s Fund, he has given millions to Mass. General and other medical facilities in the United States and the Dominican Republic to help critically ill children.

His stay at the hospital was long and grueling but also heartening. “They made me feel special there,” he said, “but when I noticed that they treated everybody like they treated me, that made me even happier.’’

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Nearly a month after his third surgery, Ortiz returned to his home outside Boston, beginning the next phase of


been his friend, Fernandez, who sat near him that night.

The bounty on Fernandez was closer to $30,000, authorities said, and his cousin, an alleged drug dealer, had wanted him killed because he allegedly had spoken to police about him more than eight years earlier.

This also made no sense to Ortiz. Now, there are questions about whether Cesar Peralta, a Dominican drug kingpin known as “The Abuser,’’ or his cartel may have been involved in the shooting, which to Ortiz also defies logic.

Ortiz also dismissed tabloid rumors that have emanated from social media in the Dominican Republic. One suggested a car he was driving had been chased and forced off the road by someone trying to harm him before the shooting.

“If that ever happened to me, the first personis the principal owner of the Sox and the owner and publisher of the Globe. Pizzuti Henry is the Globe’s managing director.

The Henrys recently flew David and Tiffany Ortiz to southern France, where they vacationed on the couple’s yacht, toured a vineyard, and sampled a bottle of wine so extravagant that Ortiz jokingly speculated it was drawn from “the fountain of youth.’’

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