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Will Vijay Sing for Ar Rahman This Time?
Vijay has sung many hit numbers in his career. After a brief break, he started his second innings in Thuppakki and then, it continued in films like Thalaivaa, Jilla, Kaththi, and Bairavaa. Fans expected him to sing in Mersal but unfortunately, it didn't happen.
Sources say that Murgadoss who is director Vijay's new film insisting AR Rahman to compose a tune and make Vijay to sing in at least one song in the film. Murugadoss and Sun Pictures feel that Vijay's presence in the album will increase the sale and also attract the crowd to theaters just because he has sung a song in the film.
Keerthy Suresh plays Vijay's pair in this untitled film.


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Top 5 Racing Games Which You Should Play
Top 5 Racing Games of All Time
1. Wreckfest
2. Wave Race 64
3. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4. Need for Speed: Most Wanted
5. Driver: San Francisco
The Greatest Racing Games You Need to Know About
Racing games bring absolute joy to those who love sports cars and speed. After all, such video games give a chance to thrill-seekers to take the wheels and experience what's it like to race.
Racing games have been around for decades. Their history dates all the way back to the earliest origins of video games. The developers of such games always want to stay one step ahead of the curve, which is why they always include cool features while trying to outdo one another.
This has resulted in many great titles like Forza Motorsport 7 and Need for Speed: Heat.
When it comes to choosing the best racing video games, one can simply become overwhelmed. This is because there are just too many awesome titles that have come out over the years. However, let's pick a few from the lot and find out what makes them so special. Do note that this list is not going to be in any particular order.
Also Read: What Is The Easiest Racing Game?
This is not your usual racing game. Wreckfest is anything but far from it! Sure, you get to race against your competitors in this game, but it involves mayhem and destruction.
Do you remember titles like Destruction Derby and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage? Wreckfest is a fusion of those games. This is without a doubt one of the best demolition derby games ever made.
Plus, it has a multiplayer mode as well, which allows you to play online. However, for that, you will need to be subscribed to a decent internet deal. There are many ISPs that offer good plans and discounts like Spectrum promotion offers which you can opt for to enjoy this game.
If you are a Nintendo fan, then you would have probably heard about this game. Created by some of the console's most distinguished developers Shigeru Miyamoto, Katsuya Eguchi, and Shinya Takahashi, Wave Race 64 came out in 1996.
It was Nintendo's first-ever racing game. The title had great water physics – some say the best of that time! In addition, the racecourses in this game were quite dynamic which made an excellent gaming experience for the players.
All gamers would have to do in Wave Race 64 is to read the waves and then decide if they would like to ride or launch off them.
If you like racing games and haven't played this title, then you have surely missed out on a lot! In this game of the Midnight series, the creators included licensed cars for the first time.
Moreover, the soundtrack of this game was simply epic! And the gameplay was incredible. It was definitely a game that singlehandedly changed the way how racing games would be made. Furthermore, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition had so many fun features.
For instance, you can customize your cars, create your own race, and can also change the racing conditions.
Need for Speed is an insanely popular racing game franchise that doesn't need any introduction. And if you are a fan of such games, then you must have played one or two titles from the series – hopefully, one of them is Most Wanted.
This was an extremely important title for the NFS series, and it consistently remained the barometer against which other games of the franchise are judged. The reason why it became so famous is that it included elements of both Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
The game included stylish sports cars and high-speed cop chases which allowed the players to experience the fun side of racing games.
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Ubisoft Reflection holds a solid reputation for developing mind-blowing games, and Driver: San Francisco is easily one of them. This game is a bit weird and goofy, but it is exactly what makes the title so much interesting and exciting.
The title puts the main character of the game in a coma. And most of the racing action happens in his dream state. You will have some supernatural abilities in this game. For instance, you can possess random drivers on the road.
You can even teleport onto incoming traffic to cause destruction. Driver: San Francisco featured some licensed vehicles alongside a great selection of soundtracks.
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Racing games are always fun and exciting. They give players a chance to be in the center of the action. And guess what? They gave the same level of adrenaline rush as if you would have been racing in real life.
But don't do that ever! And if you are ever in the mood to experience the thrill, just play the aforementioned games. All of them will keep you entertained.
There are many more titles that aren't included in the list but certainly deserve mention, and they include Burnout 3: Takedown, Gran Turismo 3: A-spec, and Forza Horizon 3. So, which one of these games have you already played or plan to try?
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Sally Ride Revealed: New Book Shares Secret Life of America's 1st Woman in Space
By Robert Z. Pearlman 2014-06-03T14:52:09Z Human Spaceflight
Sally Ride, as seen on the cover of author Lynn Sherr's new book about her life, "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space."
(Image: © Simon & Schuster)
Lynn Sherr knew Sally Ride.
As a veteran journalist for ABC News, Sherr had helped to introduce Sally Ride to the world as the teen tennis player-turned-physicist who in 1978 was selected among NASA's first female astronauts. Sherr then covered Ride becoming the first American woman to fly in space six years later.
Along the way, the two became friends.
Nor did Sherr know that Tam O'Shaughnessy, Ride's long-time business partner, was also Ride's life partner of more than 25 years. [Sally Ride: 1st American Woman in Space (Photos)]
Sherr was not alone. Sally K. Ride, one of history's most famous astronauts, had kept her personal life secret, even from many of her friends.
But within days of her passing, O'Shaughnessy and Ride's family members decided it was time to share more about the Sally Ride they knew and loved. The job fell to Sherr once again to introduce Ride to the world.
In "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space," released Tuesday (June 3) by Simon & Schuster, Sherr reveals the woman behind the trailblazing astronaut.
Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, looks out the forward windows of the space shuttle Challenger in June 1983.
(Image credit: NASA)
Sherr spoke with collectSPACE.com about the life and legacy of Sally Ride:
collectSPACE.com: The book is titled simply, "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space," but in the book you mention that if Ride had to put a subtitle to her name – at least at one point in her life – it would have been physicist. Do you think that was true throughout the extent of her life?
Sherr: I think there probably may have been a couple of weeks in her teen years when, if you woke her up in the middle of the night, she might have said tennis player. I think during the NASA years, she might have said astronaut.
But overall, overarching, it was physicist. It was scientist. This was what she really cared about and that is why she went back to the life she went back to [after NASA].
When she left NASA — and I had no premonition of this, she did not pre-warn me or pre-tell me this — my reaction was right, this is a woman who really liked being in the stacks — if you're old enough to remember being in library stacks. This is a woman who liked curling up with a book or research or with a stack of books and figuring out the solution to something.
I think [being a] scientist is what definitely made her tick. That is the overall piece of her and that is why I think she was exactly the person for the job [of the first American woman in space]. She was this extraordinary combination of the team tennis player, of the bold adventurous, love-to-fly, love-to-pilot astronaut, and of the scientist who wanted to figure things out. Plus she was funny. She just was the perfect choice as far as I could tell.
collectSPACE.com: You write about the social history that changed as part of Sally Ride's life, and that plays a role in telling her story. Is it possible to tell Ride's story without delving into women's rights, the space race, and gay rights, or is that as much a part of her story as the details of her personal life?
Sherr: I don't think you can tell the story of her life without telling those details.
I am sorry that gay rights, the LGBT movement, was not further along earlier so that she might have benefited from being able to be more open than she ever felt she could be. But, surely the fact that the movement was not there, that our society was not further along, is very much part of her story because it certainly affected how she lived her personal life.
In terms of the women's movement, there is absolutely no question that it's a critical part of Sally's life.
If the women's movement hadn't come along and did what it did, by the time that Sally got to Stanford [University] and opened the newspaper that morning in January 1977, the article stating NASA was recruiting women would not have been there. And she knew that perfectly well.
The other thing that is very much part of her story in terms of social movements and history is Sputnik. The very fact the Cold War was raging, that the Russians got a satellite up there first and launched us into a race to the moon very much affected her life. Because that was when the United States said that we have got to put a lot more of a push on science.
I think the critical part of this to Sally's life, and I say this in the book, is that she was the lucky benefactor of all of these things coming together, but she was smart enough and quick enough and agile enough to seize the moment and turn them to her own use, which is what made history.
Continue reading at collectSPACE.com to learn what surprised Lynn Sherr the most about Sally Ride's secret life and what she feels is the astronaut's greatest legacy.
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This easy sun tea recipe will make your summer complete.
If you step foot into the Midwest during summertime, you'll be hard-pressed to find a front yard or porch without a big ol' pot of sun tea brewing in a spot of sunshine. This regional beverage is exactly what it sounds like: a slow-brewed pitcher of tea that was steeped and brewed by using natural sunlight. As the days get longer and the sun stronger, you may be feeling nostalgic for this particular beverage. But how do you make sun tea?
Brewing a pot of tea on the stove or in an electric kettle takes only a matter of minutes. But brewing tea by using the natural warmth of the sun takes hours and hours. However, it is simple!
Then, place the pitcher directly into the fridge, where it can stay for up to three days. We recommend drinking it with plenty of ice and a wedge of lemon. But no matter how you take your tea, sun tea is the perfect way to easily get in the summer mood, but if you feel like drinking something with a little more kick, consider these summertime cocktails.


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Q: How to discretize the boundary of two regions? Problem
How to discretize a surface constructed with multiple components?
Unsuccessful attempts include combining the objects top and hull using the Mathematica commands Graphics3D, Union, and RegionUnion.
Other posts investigated
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Example
Combine and mesh the surface defined by these two blocks:

{length, beam, draft} = {50, 3, 4}
pmin={0, 0, 0};
pmax={length, beam, draft};
hull = Cuboid[pmin, pmax];
{topLength, height} = {30, 3};
pmin = {10, 0, draft};
pmax = pmin + {topLength, beam, height};
top = Cuboid[pmin, pmax];
ohp = RegionUnion[top, hull]

Fails to discretize:
BoundaryDiscretizeRegion[ohp, MaxCellMeasure -> {"Length" -> 5}]
BoundaryDiscretizeRegion: A non-degenerate region is expected at position 1

A: Here is an option using OpenCascadeLink.  OpenCascade is an open source 3D CAD package that often does a better job retaining sharp features with boolean operations and seems to be fairly robust.
Needs["OpenCascadeLink`"]
Needs["NDSolve`FEM`"]
{length, beam, draft} = {50, 3, 4};
pmin = {0, 0, 0};
pmax = {length, beam, draft};
hull = Cuboid[pmin, pmax];
{topLength, height} = {30, 3};
pmin = {10, 0, draft};
pmax = pmin + {topLength, beam, height};
top = Cuboid[pmin, pmax];
shape1 = OpenCascadeShape[hull];
shape2 = OpenCascadeShape[top];
union = OpenCascadeShapeUnion[shape1, shape2];
bmesh = OpenCascadeShapeSurfaceMeshToBoundaryMesh[union];
groups = bmesh["BoundaryElementMarkerUnion"];
temp = Most[Range[0, 1, 1/(Length[groups])]];
colors = ColorData["BrightBands"][#] & /@ temp
bmesh["Wireframe"["MeshElementStyle" -> FaceForm /@ colors]]
BoundaryDiscretizeRegion[
 MeshRegion[
  MeshOrderAlteration[
   ToElementMesh[bmesh, MaxCellMeasure -> {"Length" -> 5}], 1]]]

A: Here is a slightly different approach also using OpenCascadeLink
Needs["NDSolve`FEM`"]
bmesh = ToBoundaryMesh[ohp, "BoundaryMeshGenerator" -> "OpenCasdade"]
MeshRegion[bmesh]

Note, however, there is a slight difference in the result compared to Tim's answer. In this case the union is created. I.e. no subdivision between the two cuboids. Tim's answer is a more general approach.

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President Higgins addresses conference in Dublin Castle for Irish overseas prisoners and their families
New research published on the resettlement needs of Irish people returning from prison overseas
The Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas (ICPO), a pastoral outreach of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference, today hosts its 30th anniversary conference 'Reaching Out – Supporting Irish Prisoners Overseas and their Families'. President Michael D Higgins, Uachtarán na hÉireann, will address the conference which takes place in Dublin Castle.
Bishop John Kirby, Bishop of Clonfert and chair of the Bishops' Council for Emigrants, will open the conference which will be chaired by Mr Mark Hennessy, news editor of The Irish Times. Mr Charlie Flanagan TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade will deliver the closing address. The conference will explore the practical, policy and pastoral issues which apply to this uniquely vulnerable category of Irish emigrant.
Today's conference will see the publication of new research entitled A Step At A Time – The Resettlement Needs of Irish People Returning From Prison Overseas. Amongst the report's findings include the following:
– Access to suitable accommodation and pre-existing family support are of primary import in terms of resettlement of ex-prisoners. Stable and secure accommodation upon release from prison was viewed by all participants as the most important factor in moving away from criminality;
– Family support is important in aiding resettlement and family contact and family prison visits should be encouraged and supported, in order to allow the prisoner and their family to maintain a relationship with one another, not just in order to cope with prison but also with a view to release. These benefits will be shared by the prisoner, their family and society at large in terms of pro-social resettlement;
– Irish prisoners overseas seeking or being compelled to resettle in Ireland face additional challenges when compared to prisoners being released from an Irish prison;
– Amendments to current practise regarding the dispensation of statutory benefits are needed to better assist this group on their return from prison overseas;
– The means by which a former overseas prisoner returns to Ireland (i.e. deportation, voluntary return, prisoner transfer, under probation supervision) will impact on their resettlement needs;
– On their return, many prisoners possess significant mental and physical health problems associated with their imprisonment overseas. Irish Foreign National Prisoners should be included in any national scheme relating to the provision of medical cards prior to release. Increased facilitation should be provided to returning ex-prisoners to access health care supports promptly upon their release and return to Ireland. Additional work is required to identify suitable counselling and related support services for those FNPs who require it, including around addiction;
– Access to relevant education, training and employment opportunities can be difficult for some ex-prisoners on their return due to their poor literacy skills, distance from education and training facilities, and a lack of employment prospects in their catchment area.
The research report A Step At A Time – The Resettlement Needs of Irish People Returning From Prison Overseas, and available speeches from today's conference, are on icpo.ie and www.catholicbishops.ie. The research was commissioned by the ICPO and was conducted in two stages. The first was to engage in a general review of the literature on resettlement and of Foreign National Prisoners. The second stage involved conducting a series of semi-structured interviews with ex-prisoners who returned to Ireland, and with resettlement service providers and with ICPO staff
For pictures for use by media, please contact the conference photographer John McElroy for pictures on +353 (0) 87 241 6985 and on [email protected]
About the Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas: It is estimated that, at any one time, there are up to 1,200 Irish people in prison overseas. The ICPO was established in 1985 and it works for Irish prisoners overseas wherever they are: and makes no distinction in terms of religious faith; the nature of a prison conviction or of a prisoner's status. ICPO has contact with Irish people in prison in more than 30 countries around the world. The ICPO offers a comprehensive service to prisoners and to prisoner families which includes: provision of information on repatriation and deportation, assists in making referrals to post release support agencies for those returning to Ireland, a hardship fund for prisoners where access to food, water and medical treatment are very real concerns. Loneliness and isolation is common amongst Irish people imprisoned overseas. The ICPO operates an extensive prison visiting programme in Britain and elsewhere and provides a newsletter twice yearly to its clients. ICPO provides a pen friend scheme, language books and dictionaries where needed. In recognition of the hardship endured by prisoner's families, ICPO offers assistance with prison visits, information about the different issues affecting their loved one in prison and holds a Family Day each year.
ICPO 30th anniversary conference, 'Reaching Out – Supporting Irish Prisoners Overseas and their Families' programme:
Chair: Mark Hennessy, News Editor, The Irish Times
09:45 Opening Address
Bishop John Kirby, Bishop of Clonfert, Chair, Irish Episcopal Council for Emigrants
10:00 The early days of ICPO
Nuala Kelly, First Coordinator of ICPO
10:30 President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins
10:55 BREAK (President Higgins will depart at 11.15)
11.20 Resettlement Needs of Returning Ex-Prisoners to Ireland
Paul Gavin, Researcher, ICPO commissioned report
11.55 Current Trends and Contemporary Challenges Facing Prisoners Overseas and the Organisations That Support Them
Pauline Crowe, OBE, Chief Executive, Prisoners Abroad
12:30 Questions & Answers
14:00 The Right Type of Education – A Briefing on Education and Training Provision for Gypsy and Irish Traveller Prisoners in England and Wales
Ellena Costello, Policy Officer, Traveller Equality Project, Irish Chaplaincy
14:20 The importance of a Pastoral Outreach to Prisoners Overseas
Father Gerry McFlynn, Manager, ICPO London office
14:40 Family Matters – The Impact of Overseas Imprisonment on Families
Claire O'Connell, ICPO Caseworker and Family Support Worker
A mother with a son imprisoned overseas will speak about her experiences
15:15 Looking to the future
Brian Hanley, Coordinator, ICPO Maynooth office
15.30 Closing Address
Mr Charles Flanagan TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
15.40 Concluding remarks by Conference Chair, Mark Hennessy.
For media contact: Catholic Communications Office attending in Dublin Castle, Brenda Drumm 00 353 87 310 4444
A Step At A Time – The Resettlement Needs of Irish People Returning From Prison Overseas
Minister Flanagan highlights Government Partnership with Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas at 30th Anniversary Conference


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Veterans, working parents, and low-wage workers fall into the coverage gap between current medicaid coverage and insurance marketplace coverage
Since 2013, hundreds of thousands of Georgians have signed up for low-cost health coverage. Being covered means they are less stressed, more financially secure, and healthier. This is exciting progress, yet there is still a missing piece.
About 240,000 Georgians remain unable to get coverage. These Georgians are veterans, working parents, and low-wage workers. They are our friends, family members, and neighbors. They do not qualify for Medicaid and do not make enough money to get financial help through the health insurance Marketplace (also called healthcare.gov). They are stuck in the coverage gap.
Our elected officials have the power to solve this problem. The health care law was designed so that all Americans could access quality, affordable health insurance, but our state government still has work to do. Governor Kemp and the state legislature can choose to use federal tax dollars that have been already set aside to provide coverage to those in the gap.
On this page you will find resources and information about our campaign to close the gap in Georgia. To learn more about the Cover Georgia coalition (or if you are an existing coalition partner and want to access additional advocacy tools and resources), visit our Cover Georgia coalition page.
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Department of Justice Aims at Protecting Communities with Recent Violent Crimes
Jeremy Newman
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today announced a new Department of Justice effort to help protect our communities from the recent increase in major violent crimes.
"Today, we renew our commitment to reducing violent crime and building strong communities where all Americans are safe," said Attorney General Garland. "The Deputy Attorney General is issuing a comprehensive strategy to deploy our federal resources in the most effective way, disrupting the most dangerous threats and supporting the ground-level efforts of local law enforcement. In this endeavor, we will engage our communities as critical partners. And through our grantmaking, we will support programming at all stages – from the earliest violence interruption strategies to post-conviction reentry services."
The strategy announced today is three-pronged. First, it establishes a set of four fundamental principles to be applied Department-wide to guide violent crime reduction:
Build trust and earn legitimacy. Meaningful law enforcement engagement with, and accountability to, the community are essential underpinnings of any effective strategy to address violent crime, as well as important ends in themselves. Accordingly, building trust and earning legitimacy within our communities is the foundation on which the strategy is built.
Invest in prevention and intervention programs. Violent crime is not a problem that can be solved by law enforcement alone. Accordingly, the Department must invest in community-based violence prevention and intervention programs that work to keep violence from happening before it occurs.
Target enforcement efforts and priorities. The Department is most effective when it focuses its limited enforcement resources on identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the most significant drivers of gun violence and other violent crime.
Measure results. Because the fundamental goal of this work is to reduce the level of violence in our communities, not to increase the number of arrests or prosecutions as if they were ends in themselves—we must measure the results of our efforts on these grounds.
The whole-of-Department approach means that these four fundamental principles will guide not only the Department's 94 U.S. Attorneys' offices, but also its law enforcement components (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United States Marshals Service (USMS)), its grant-making components (the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), and the Office of Victims of Crime (OVC)), and litigating divisions, such as the Criminal Division.
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Second, the strategy enhances the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program by directing all U.S. Attorneys across the country to update their PSN programs to be aligned with the Department's guiding principles to improve community engagement, support proven community-violence intervention programs, develop strategic enforcement plans in coordination with state, local, and Tribal law enforcement partners as well as community groups, and measure the effectiveness of these collective efforts to reduce violence. By drawing on lessons learned from research and experience over the past two decades, the Department will help ensure that PSN remains the leading initiative bringing together law enforcement partners at all levels and a broad array of community stakeholders to develop comprehensive solutions to the more pressing violent crime problems in our communities.
Third, the strategy directs each U.S. Attorney's Office to work with its state, local, federal, Tribal, and community partners to establish an immediate plan to address spikes in violent crime that are typically seen during the summer.
The Department recognizes that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and that the needs of each jurisdiction will vary based on the nature of violent crimes and the ability of local criminal justice systems to respond. Thus, the Department has committed to providing the following additional support where it is needed and appropriate:
The FBI will make available cutting-edge analytical resources to support state and local law enforcement efforts to identify the most violent offenders and most dangerous criminal organizations in communities. The FBI will then deploy agents to assist with enforcement operations targeting these entities.
Where feasible, the ATF will embed with local homicide units and expand the availability of its NIBIN Correlation Center, which matches ballistics from crime scenes to other ballistic evidence nationwide.
The DEA will focus its efforts, in coordination with state, local and Tribal law enforcement, to disrupt the activities of the most violent drug trafficking gangs and egregious drug-trafficking organizations operating in the highest-crime areas.
The United States Marshals Service, in coordination with state and local authorities, will conduct fugitive sweeps throughout the country focused on individuals subject to state or local warrants for homicide, aggravated assault with a firearm, aggravated robbery, robbery with a firearm, rape or aggravated sexual assault.
The Department's grantmaking components will highlight funding opportunities for community programs focused on reducing gun violence and other violent crime, share information about effective community-violence intervention programs, and provide training and technical assistance to support the violent crime reduction work of state, local, tribal and community partners.
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Christopher C. De Santis, ed., Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995).
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, rev. and enl. ed. (1945; reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Roi Ottley, The Lonely Warrior: The Life and Times of Robert S. Abbott (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1955).
Patrick S. Washburn, A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government's Investigation of the Black Press during World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
"Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1868-1940)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3196&sug=y
The Chicago Defender: http://www.chicagodefender.com/ African-American Registry: http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/robert-abbott-founder-chicago-defender
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Comic-Con 2013: James O'Barr and F. Javier Gutierez Talk "The Crow" Reimagining
by Fred Topel Jul 18th, 2013
James O'Barr, creator of The Crow, and F. Javier Gutierez, the director of the upcoming reimagining of The Crow starring Luke Evans, were signing posters at the IDW booth at San Diego Comic-Con. They literally only did three interviews, and I got one of them largely because of my pitch as a 20 year fan of the series. The Crow became important to me as a memorial to Brandon Lee, a rising star I admired who was killed in an on set accident. Reading O'Barr's book and seeing the movie that was ultimately released helped me deal with a phenomenon of a celebrity passing, who touched my life but I didn't know personally, yet was feeling his absence.
A part of me was always conflicted about continuing the series. Even a young Franchise Fred thought maybe when the star of your movie dies on the set, that's the one series you should wrap up in one film. Of course I continued to support the films, hoping to see another entry that honored Lee's legacy. Now it's been 20 years and O'Barr is consulting on Guittierez's film. Evans would play Eric, the character Lee played and the character in O'Barr's first Crow graphic novel, In the book, and films, Eric and Shelly are murdered by a gang, and a crow brings Eric's spirit back to avenge her. By doing so, he will be reunited with her in the afterlife. O'Barr was inspired by the death of his own fiancée.
Now this interview with O'Barr and Gutierez on the Comic-Con floor is all preliminary. The Crow movie is still in development and many decisions are still in play. Still, it's good to get the conversation started with the Crow caretakers because we're thinking about these things. They are too, and wherever they stand today, they may still reconsider as the film develops. We hope to continue following The Crow after this conversation on the Comic-Con floor.
CraveOnline: The first series of movies unfortunately had to have a different character because of the tragic death of Brandon Lee. Since you're retelling the Eric Draven story, is the hope that if all goes well, this can be the origin story for Eric Draven to return in subsequent movies?
James O'Barr: No, and Draven, in the book the characters' last names are never revealed. It's just Eric and Shelly. Hopefully the Draven will be dropped for something [less obvious]. Eric D. Raven is, you know…
But is the hope that Luke Evans would continue in multiple movies as Eric?
James O'Barr: That story has a definite ending. That being said, those same themes that make The Crow so special can be applied to any kind of genre. It could be a western. The idea of true love, injustice and revenge are universal themes. At the end of the film and the book, Eric has met all of his tasks. The whole point was so that he could be with Shelly at the end. I would rather explore different characters using the same themes. In fact, I'm doing a comic book right now for IDW that the main character is a woman this time.
I always thought that in the original series. All these men come back to avenge women. Why not have a woman come back to avenge a man's death?
James O'Barr: I kept suggesting it for the sequels and they rejected them across the board as "Women don't go for female heroes." They considered them action films. I consider them romance films that are kind of bookended by violence. I don't want to get into a bunch of gossip or nonsense like that but when it was obvious they were going to make a sequel to The Crow because it had made so much money, because I was such close friends with Brandon I wanted to take it in a completely different direction. So I wrote a draft about a woman that gets killed at her wedding. They immediately jettisoned the idea. They said, "No one's going to buy a female as The Crow." Now I'm exploring it as a comic book with IDW.
Good, I want to see that story. Javier, when Alex Proyas made The Crow, it was before comic book movies were so common so the visual style was a very important way to get people in. Does that mean there's more pressure to make this Crow distinct from the Alex Proyas version, or freer that you don't have to explain the comic book world anymore?
F. Javier Gutierez: Well, my point of view is going back to the comic books. I love Alex Proyas. I loved his visual style. I grew up with him. I'm going to try just to do my own style and my own version of that comic book, and I think actually the drawings and the paintings of James have a lot of personality to them.
James O'Barr: They're almost storyboards. When I was doing it, I was thinking of a film rather than comics. I wanted to tell a very cinematic story. You write down the insert shots and just very filmatic elements that you don't normally see in comic books. Long, long sequences of silence which you never see in comics. There's a 12 page sequence in The Crow that doesn't have a single word of dialogue on it. You would never see that in a Marvel or DC book.
F. Javier Gutierez: The comic book has a very strong personality. Going back to the source material for a little bit of the movie, the previous movie, the comic book has a very, very strong personality and that's the thing that we're going to try to capture in this movie. We're going to try to portray some of the amazing sequences that James made in the comic book but were not in the other movies. We're forgetting completely about other movies. Me, the director, I'm not thinking about remakes. I'm just thinking, "Oh, I love this comic book. There's a lot of heart and emotion in this one. I really, really wanted to try as much as we can to portray those elements for the new generation and for the fans that are going to appreciate that. They're going to see glimpses of the original comic book in there.
Do you think you'll be able to use real birds?
F. Javier Gutierez: Yeah, obviously there must be some birds.
But now would you use a lot of CGI birds?
F. Javier Gutierez: Oh yeah, I'm not a big fan of CGI if we can avoid it. Sometimes it feels more real when it's real. So we'll do a combination of both for certain sequences and for certain moments.
Luke Evans is not a martial artist like Brandon Lee was. Is the idea to have a different sort of action, or do you have a lot of fight scenes planned?
F. Javier Gutierez: We haven't worked yet on the fight scenes. They're going to have a lot of personality too. I'm not thinking of martial arts. In the comic book there is no such thing. It is more gritty and real but it's still gritty and fun, but that's the part we are still working out.
The soundtrack was very important to the Alex Proyas movie. Will music be as big a part of your film?
F. Javier Gutierez: Yeah, it's going to be. Actually, we are going to start to have meetings about the soundtrack because it's something that the studio will want to take care about. But we are still exploring that, to give the touch of the darkness that we are looking for in The Crow so everybody's going to be happy with it, but at the same time to explore different options. So we are working right now.
Will you be going for another R-rated film? Have they okayed that?
F. Javier Gutierez: I think we we are going to try to do the best movie we can, then later deal with the rating. We are going to go dark. We're going to try to be violent and hardcore because it's a very strong story. Then we'll deal later with the politics of the PG vs…
The Skull Cowboy had to be removed from the '94 film. Could that subplot be included in this version?
James O'Barr: Yeah, that character will definitely be back. He's just a visual metaphor for death. It's not a particular character. It's not a cowboy.
F. Javier Gutierez: Everything has more of a symbolism and that's the coolest about this work. Everything has a meaning.
James O'Barr: I mean, In one sequence he's a train conductor. In another sequence he comes in in a tuxedo but really it just is a visual metaphor for death that prompts Eric to not give up his tasks.
Skull Cowboy is probably the name it got once there was talk about the scenes being deleted, and some were never shot.
James O'Barr: And I did talk to Michael Berryman and he said he would love to play Death. He was the original Skull Cowboy.
There's so much tragedy connected to The Crow. Your original was inspired by tragedy. There were many tragedies, including the ultimate tragedy on the set of the first film. Has there ever been a point where you thought maybe this is something that should be let go?
James O'Barr: Oh yeah, for the longest time. I never thought it was cursed but it seemed to have this black balloon of misery that followed it around. It's only been recently, maybe within the last 10 years that I've kind of re-examined it and realized it's more of a celebration of a love story than about the loss. It's more about Eric and Shelly, for me anyhow, when they were happy because those are literally moments right from my life. I've learned to appreciate and celebrate those moments. Unfortunately we only recognize them in retrospect after they've already occurred. The real trick is to know a perfect moment when it's happening. So yeah, for a long time I did feel like there were black clouds tethered to it. I mean, how could I not? It was born out of tragedy and that just seemed to be its legacy.
Has it ultimately been a helpful way for you to come to terms with that tragedy?
James O'Barr: Yeah, yeah. I don't know how much I would say it was the book or just part of maturing. Getting older and understanding life's complexities a little bit more, and realized how fortunate I was to be loved like that. To be loved to that degree, because very few people get that, that one, true, honest love that just has a purity to it is very spiritual, if not God-like itself. The total acceptance of another human being of who you actually are and not their idea of who you are. Now I'm getting all poetic…
It has been over 20 years. Have you had a comparable love since that loss?
James O'Barr: I have had relationships that were just as extreme but just like every Beatles record, it's still The Beatles but every one is different. The definitions of them change from woman to woman, not that there were a lot of them but I've had that. Probably more than I deserve.
Well, it's helpful to know that you can have more experience after overcoming a tragedy like that.
James O'Barr: Absolutely, and fans thank me all the time for helping them through whatever the most miserable part of their life had been, and to realize that there is hope. Things will not always be this way.
It can't rain all the time. And were you gratified to see a lot of people dress up as The Crow for Halloweens in the '90s?
James O'Barr: Obviously I was very flattered but I try to separate that from who I am. When I see references to The Crow on "L.A. Law," "The Office," even "South Park," that's something separate from me. That's something I just feel like I was vaguely involved in. I'm the same humble artist I was 30 years ago. Success hasn't changed me. It's just made things a little easier.
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US Coast Guard intercepts another narco-submarine
Posted on August 3rd, 2011 by Global Ganja Report and tagged cartels, Central America, cocaine, Honduras.
The US Coast Guard announced the interception of a so-called "narco submarine," while in a joint patrol of Caribbean waters with the Honduran armed forces. On July 13, the crew of the Coast cutter Seneca, interdicted the craft, called a self-propelled semi-submersible or SPSS, off the coast of Honduras near the Nicaraguan border. The Coast Guard says the vessel sank during the interdiction, but that nearly 7.5 tons of cocaine was later recovered. Four crew members—three Colombians and a Honduran—were detained and brought by the Coast Guard to Miami to face federal charges. (La Tribuna, El Heraldo, Tegucigalpa, Aug. 2; CBS Miami, Aug. 1; Notimex, July 30)
The US Coast Guard seized 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $180 million when it intercepted a semi-submersible vessel in the eastern Pacific last month. The 40-foot long homemade craft was spotted July 18 by a US Navy aircraft, which called the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Stratton to a spot 200 miles south of Mexico. Four men were taken into custody and the Coast Guard discovered 16,000 pounds of cocaine aboard. (CNN, Aug. 7)
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Russia's Biggest Companies Score Low in Transparency International Assessment
Transparency International Russia today published a study that gives low scores on anti-corruption and financial transparency to most of the 200 top companies studied.
The report titled Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing Russia's Largest Companies assesses the financial disclosure practices of 200 companies in Russia with respect to their anti-corruption programs as well as the availability of information on their subsidiaries and foreign branches and payments to the government.
This is the first ever full-scale assessment of Russian companies based on the Transparency in Corporate Reporting (TRAC) methodology developed by Transparency International.
Profits from these companies comprise more than 70% of Russia's national income and their taxes are crucial to the Russian state budget. The companies have significant economic and political influence, yet 84% of them rate low in terms of transparency. Their median assessment is just 2.6 out of 10 and only 32 companies received more than five points out of 10.
The five highest-ranking companies are Magnit (7.9), Sberbank (7.9), Kazanorgsintez (7.8), Rosseti (7.5) and Nizhnekamskneftekhim (6.8).
Forty-one companies scored zero on all three of the criteria assessed: the availability of information about their anti-corruption programmes, transparency on the company's holdings, and the disclosure of key financial information on a country-by-country basis.
"Even though companies are driven to be more open in order to meet the demand of investors, public and regulators, there is still lack of commitment to openness from the companies' owners and top management. Most of the largest players underestimate how crucial transparency on political party and candidate financing, explicit zero tolerance for corruption and support for special anti-corruption programmes are to their customers, investors and partners," Anton Pominov, general director of Transparency International Russia said, commenting on the report's findings.
"On the other hand, there are a number of examples of best practice that originate from either the goodwill of management or the negative consequences of past mistakes," Pominov said. "In either case, we welcome any steps taken to achieve a more transparent, responsible and sustainable business model," Pominov added.
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The newly recruited soldiers were lucky. Their training time was short but Xiao Yu had bestowed best armor and weapons to them. The equipment produced by the human blacksmith shop from the base was much more better in terms of defense and flexible in comparison to equipment that could be bought in this world. Moreover, Uther had already blessed them which increased their strength. They could be considered elites in terms of strength alone. However, they lacked the main thing which was the bloodshed of the real wars.
The bandit leaders weren't like Xiao Yu. Some smart ones would always focus on getting better equipment for their underlings. But most of them relied on the number of their underlings to steal and plunder. Equipment meant money. Xiao Yu had spent millions of gold coins to purchase those. Actually, war was all about money.
Xiao Yu was more than aware that the number of his troops was low. But it didn't mean that he could recruit more soldiers just like that as there was no one to command the soldiers. He didn't want to have a messy army. All he wanted was an elite army.
Countless bandits rushed towards the town to collect the heads of Xiao Yu's soldiers. A head meant golden coins for them. However, they were met with sharp swords and tough armors. The bandits couldn't withstand the attacks of the soldiers that had 60% increase in strength.
In addition, orcs were blessed by Thrall too. How could bandits could climb up? The tragic battle continued. The bandits died but Xiao Yu's army had casualties too. Nevertheless, the long-range weapons still continued to kill countless bandits. The bandits were too much in quantity and their eyes were covered with the rewards so they just kept charging on.
Xiao Yu sighed as he stood on top of the walls and observed the battle. It was shocking to see tens of thousands of people charge and fight just like that.
He thought that the war would take a lot of time unless they had automatic machine guns. The enemy had almost 100,000 bandits. It would take almost a day to cut their heads off if the bandits stood still without moving. How long it would take to kill so many people without having intense fire? The number of soldiers was a great factor in victory or defeat. Clausewitz had mentioned that the most important condition for the war was the advantage in terms of quantity. Nevertheless, it was a superficial advantage which was used to demoralize the enemy. Therefore, Xiao Yu needed elite soldiers. He needed talented commanders and leaders.
The casualties from Xiao Yu's side occurred because the recruits were newbies and made a lot of mistakes. They had best equipment and higher terrain which meant that normally it would be hard to be injured in such case.
The losses from the side of bandits was much more.
There were more than 6,000 bandits who were killed up to now. The main force that killed the bandits were grunts and elf archers.
Footmen, riflemen, the newly recruited soldiers, ballistas, Demolishers and Glaive Throwers didn't kill as much as grunts and elves.
Xiao Yu didn't have many Demolishers and Glaive Throwers. If he had hundred of them then the firepower would be more intense and violent. He had just 10 Demolishers which had small scope of fire.
"I have to get merit points to upgrade my bases to second level…" Xiao Yu looked forward to the occasion. If he had 100 Demolishers then then situation would be completely different.
The war continued on. The bandits continued to charge on while damages occurred from Xiao Yu's side too. Xiao Yu ordered the seriously injured soldiers to be taken down for immediate treatment. He was using healing potions to save them as long as they had a breath of life. Moreover, injured veterans meant that they would cherish their lives and user their brains in the next battles.
Subaru's eyes narrowed as he nodded while observing the battle. Everyone was going on as he expected except the strength of the Lion town. The bandits were constantly killed and he was waiting for the number to reduce to a certain level. Afterwards he would go to second phase of the plan. He would integrate all the bandits and destroy the Lion town. Nevertheless, he was surprised and a bit annoyed by the strength of the Lion town. According to the intelligence reports Lion town shouldn't have so many soldiers. Moreover, it seemed as if all of them were elite soldiers but not newly recruited ones.
Subaru had decades of experience and knew how difficult it was to build an army of 10,000 elite soldiers. According to Subaru it should have taken at least five or six years for a declining territory such as Lion territory to build such an army!
Moreover, he knew that it wouldn't be an elite army but a regular one. The army would have to be baptized in wars to reach this level. It meant that the territory had to spend a lot of money on equipment and training. It was a complicated matter! So how did Lion town get millions of gold coins to get such an army? Where did Xiao Yu got them? Did he really robbed medium-sized bandit groups and got so much? Moreover, it was impossible to get such elite soldiers within a time-frame of one year. Did he hired mercenaries?
Subaru believed that it would be easy to kill Xiao Yu after he swallowed all the bandit camps. However, it seemed that he had to re-thing about the threat of Xiao Yu.
Subaru didn't know that Xiao Yu earned that money through gambling and relied on bases to buy the equipment. Moreover, Xiao Yu was using a Paladin to bless the army. Otherwise, the newly recruited soldiers would suffer in this war a lot.
In this era, the real blessing made by the Paladins was extinct. Right now the best Paladin's could do was bless few persons to heal them at best.
Xiao Yu was able to create this situation by using strong heroes. He wouldn't be able to achieve such success without bases.
"Attack! Attack!" Bandits shouted as they charged forward. Few bandits and warriors occupied a corned of the wall as they formed a bridgehead. It was a temporary stronghold for them. The newly recruited soldiers couldn't withstand dozens of warriors that attacked them. The bandits rushed up when they saw a glimpse of chance.
At the same time Qin Che shouted: "First riflemen team! 2 o'clock! SET! FIRE!"
Bang~ Bang~ Bang~
The gun shots echoed as the corner occupied by the bandits was cleaned of them in a moment.
The soldiers backed down the instant when the warriors shot up the wall. Immediately, the riflemen shot according to Qin Che's order.
"Second riflemen Team! 2 O'clock! SET! FIRE!" Qin Che commanded once again and gunshots echoed.
Bandits had never seen the rifles. They didn't even know what occurred and how so many bandits died. The boarding to the wall was delayed by panic and death. At the same time. Grom and Xiao Yu used Heroic Leap to jump over to slaughter the ones that were still alive.
Xiao Yu and Grom relieved the pressure on the newly recruited soldiers. Qin Che's attack suppressed the bandits temporarily from boarding the top of the wall. At the same time, the recruits began to encircle the warriors too.
Tyrande was also backing them up with her bows.
The bandits saw that they couldn't occupy a foothold on the bridge. But they believed that the balance of the war would sway towards them as soon as they got a firm foothold on the bridge. They saw that it was possible to get on top of the walls so they believed that there would be more opportunities. As a result, they continued with their madness.
The bandits were able to get to top of the walls two times more but on both occasions they were beaten back. Subaru made the charge stop by the afternoon.
The bandits were tired and their moral was low. More than 14,000 bandits died while Xiao yu lost more than 1,000 newly recruited soldiers.
The first battle was proof of the strength of the recruits but their lack of experience. They had the best equipment and blessing from Paladin but they didn't have experience to use their swords and spears the right way.
Nevertheless, Xiao Yu was ecstatic as he was able to reach Major Sergeant level by the end of the battle. Now, he could upgrade his base to level two.
This chapter was co-produced by Van Tu
agila0212 says:
N0xiety says:
Does he even have money left after buying so much? He really shouldn't…
Finally he got some loses. … ty for the chp. . .
novel casanova says:
Time to be nitpicky:
If the setting is true, that it's a medieval type era and this is the first time rifles or muskets are introduced, "Fire" would not make sense. They would use words like "Loose" or "Shoot" , loose as in let loose the bowstring so that it shoots the arrow forward.
"Fire" would make much more sense in the gunpowder/ muskets era since they literally put fire in the gunpowder thus making it explode.
WirlWind says:
You're forgetting that he was trained by the MC…
It makes sense they would shout fire, since MC is from the modern era and was training him with modern concepts. Also, it's not the first time rifles have been introduced to the world; they existed ages ago and might even still exist in the current era, we just haven't seen them yet.


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Йохан Георг фон Шьонбург-Роксбург (; * 13 юни 1584; † 24 март 1636/1637) е фрайхер на Шьонбург и господар на Роксбург в Лунценау в Саксония.

Той е вторият син (от 16 деца) на фрайхер Волф III фон Шьонбург-Глаухау-Пениг (1605 – 1657) и първата му съпруга Елизабет Чернембл (1563 – 1601), дъщеря на Йохан (Ханс) Чернембл (1536 – 1595) и Барбара фон Щархемберг (1542 – 1584). Баща му се жени втори път на 16 ноември 1601 г. в Пениг за графиня Анна Барбара Ройс-Плауен-Унтерграйц (1585 – 1629).

Братята получават различни територии. Йохан Георг получава Роксбург. Той умира на 24 март 1636/1637 г.

Роксбург остава от 1548 до 1945 г. почти 400 години собственост на род фон Шьонбург. На 7 август 1700 г. цялата фамилия е издигната от император Леополд I на имперски графове.

Фамилия
Йохан Георг фон Шьонбург-Роксбург се жени за графиня Сузана Шлик (* 1615; † 31 май 1639), дъщеря на Йохан Албинус Шлик (1579 – 1640) и Йохана фон Вилденфелс. Те нямат деца.
Нейният брат граф Йоахим Андреас Шлик фон Пасаун и Вайскирхен (1618 – 1666) се жени на 16 ноември 1658 г. за графиня Кристиана Мария фон Шьонбург-Цшилен (1638 – 1678), дъщеря на брат му Кристиан фон Шьонбург-Цшилен (1598 – 1664).

Литература
 Constantin von Wurzbach: Schönburg, die Fürsten, Genealogie. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 31. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof– und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1876, S. 144 – 146.

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Родени през 1584 година
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RR Auction is selling the letter, dated September 1, 1543, and written in German to fellow German theologian Georg Buchholzer.
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Buzz Stocks: BlackBerry Ltd, Tempur Sealy International Inc, and Galectin Therapeutics Inc
Today's stocks to watch in the news include BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), Tempur Sealy International Inc (NYSE:TPX), and Galectin Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:GALT)
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U.S. stocks are higher, as traders await to hear from a number of central bankers, including Fed Chair Janet Yellen. Among specific equities in focus are smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), mattress name Tempur Sealy International Inc (NYSE:TPX), and biotech stock Galectin Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:GALT).
BBRY is 4.7% higher at $8.25, thanks to the company's better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results and upwardly revised full-year outlook -- with CEO John Chen saying BBRY has reached "an inflection point." BlackBerry Ltd also announced the departure of its chief financial officer, James Yersh -- who will be replaced by Steven Capelli -- and that it will outsource production of its hardware, including its the iconic smartphones. Turning back to the charts, today's move has put BBRY back in the low $8 range, an area that contained a number of breakout attempts this year. Short sellers are hoping this is the case once again, considering 11% of the stock's volume is sold short -- or 19.8 times the security's average daily volume.
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Abdulla Al Khelaifi clinched his third straight Qatar Touring Car Championship (QTCC) title by winning both races in the final round of the series at the Losail International Circuit yesterday.
Al Khelaifi had already secured the title in the penultimate round, therefore, his goal was to win both races to have perfect score. He managed to finish the season with 160 points in the final standings.
However, the battle for the second position continued between Mohamad Al Khaiat, Ghanim Al Maadheed, Hamad Al Sulaiti and Hamad Al Asam.
During the first race, Al Khelaifi took the lead from the beginning and crossed the checkered flag followed by Ghanim Al Maadheed and Hamad Al Asam.
"It was a really good round for me. I had some small issues but I managed to solve them really quickly, not major issues and I finished first in the first race with that technical issue" said Al Khalaifi after the first race.
With the reverse grid in the second race, Hamad Al Asam took the lead during the first four laps but in the middle of the race, Al Khelaifi took again the first position and another victory in the championship.
Al Asam secured second position and Al Maadheed third in the podium of the second race.
"Second race was smooth, I tried not to push in the beginning to stay out of trouble and leave the guys having their fight for the second place. Once the fight in front was almost over and it was safe for me to pass them I overtook them one by one until I managed the lead until the end of the race" added Al Khelaifi.
With the two podiums of Ghanim Al Maadeed, he secured the second place in the standings with 89 points and the third place was secured by Mohamad Al Khaiat with 77 points.
"This season was a very competitive and winning all the races doesn't mean that it was easy for me. I had a really good fight with many drivers but the issue with them was the lack of consistency so I encourage them to participate throughout all the season to get better results and try to be more reliable with the cars as this is the key for winning championships", says Al Khelaifi.
The runner up of this season, Al Maadeed says "This is my first season in the championship. It was a great and I had a good competition with all the driver. I hope it will be better next year for me, we can be more prepared for the next season but overall this season was fantastic. I want to thank Mansour Al Hajri for his support during all the season, he was with me all the time, giving me advice and working with the car and without him, I wouldn't be here today".
Al Khaiat also took part in the championship for the first time and finished third overall. He commented "Out of 10 races we missed 3, once disqualified and 2 mechanical issues. Even so facing these issues we won 3rd place overall in the 2018-2019 QTCC Season. It was a great experience. Be ready for the next season, the game has just started".
The fourth place in the standings was for Hamad Al Asam, who ended with 68 points. "I was not very lucky this season but I am really happy to finish the last round with two podiums. I had a lot of problems with the car, it is a new project, I risked a lot and hopefully now the car is perfect for the next season. I finished fourth in the championship and this is amazing as I was back to sixth before this last round" said Al Asam.
Trophies were handed out to champions by Abdulrahman Al Mannai (QMMF President) and Khalid Al Remaihi (LCSC Vice President and General Manager).


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