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PHOTOS: Thousands Protest Against U.S. Military Presence In Okinawa, Japan
Published June 19, 2016 at 7:16 AM PDT
Demonstrators hold placards that read "Withdraw Marine Corps" during a rally against the US military presence in Naha, Okinawa prefecture on Sunday, following the alleged rape and murder of a local woman by a former U.S. marine employed on the U.S. military base.
Tens of thousands of people are demonstrating against the heavy U.S. military presence on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
It's "one of the biggest demonstrations in two decades" against the U.S. military bases on the island, Reuters reports, and comes after an American allegedly raped and killed a local woman named Rina Shimabukuro.
The crowds of demonstrators weathered sweltering heat, brandishing signs with slogans like "Marines, Withdraw" and "Our anger has reached the limit."
"I'm filled with sadness and I really don't want any more victims," protester Chihiro Uchimura, 71, told The Japan Times. "As long as there are U.S. military bases, this kind of incident will continue to happen."
Some 26,000 U.S. troops are stationed on Okinawa, the BBC reported, and there have long been tensions with the local community.
As NPR's Elise Hu explained, the case at the center of today's protest "involves a former U.S. Marine who worked on an Okinawa military base. Investigators say the 32-year-old man strangled his victim before stuffing her body in a suitcase."
When President Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his visit to the country last month, Abe told reporters that he "firmly lodged a protest" with Obama. The two leaders spent the entire time talking about Shimabukuro's killing, Abe said.
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Anti-U.S. base protesters shouts slogans at Sunday's rally.
This isn't the first incident of its kind. "It really started back in 1995, when there was a gang rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl," Jeff Kingston, head of the Asian Studies department at Tokyo's Temple University, told Elise. "And that ignited massive demonstrations all over Okinawa. Since then, there have been a number of other similar type of crimes." He added:
"Okinawans have had enough. They're fed up and they want Tokyo and Washington to do more to protect the local people against the over-presence of American military in what's often called a 'Cold War island.' "
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Beyond the barbed-wire fence at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawans live in the dense building construction of Ginowan, where the city has grown around the military installation.
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is located in a crowded residential area. After the 1995 gang rape, the U.S. and Japan reached an agreement to close it, as The Associated Press reported. However, "that plan has been put on hold because residents near the proposed relocation site oppose the move, worrying about noise, pollution and crime," the wire service said.
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Police officers block the road as people stage a rally against the U.S. military presence on Okinawa.
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga wants to see that base relocated off the island, which has a land mass less than 1 percent of Japan's. As Elise reported, it is home to 70 percent of all U.S. bases in the country – a fact that some Okinawans argue is an oversized burden for the small island.
The military has tried to tackle the issue over the years by imposing "a number of measures, such as curfews, sensitivity training and limits to off-base drinking that have significantly reduced the rate of crime," as the Stars and Stripes reported last month.
However, the paper reported that the military "may be facing a no-win situation." It added: "For many Okinawans, every crime is an affront that symbolizes resentment over the disproportionately large U.S. military presence on Okinawa and the prefecture's complicated relationship with the rest of the country."
First Lt. George McArthur, a Marine Corps spokesman on Okinawa, told Stripes that "it is important to note that the overwhelming majority of American servicemembers, dependents and civilian employees are law abiding, honorable and respectful."
As Elise reported, military personnel stationed on Okinawa can deploy anywhere in the Pacific in under six hours. "This is very, very stable, peaceful region," Col. Peter Lee, the U.S. commander, told Elise. "And our 70 years of presence here has undergirded that."

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I suggest to play this game rising the convergence up untill the cursor aligns with characters.
extract "DiabloIII_fix.zip" archive in the "./Diablo III" directory of the game, required d3d9.dll is already included in the archive.
2) Load up the new profile. (overwriting the current one).
Works great, here is a higer res. picture of it working in game.
Nice job. I found the best way to adjust the convergence is to take off your glasses and turn it up there until your character looks 2D (count the taps between two images on one side of convergence until two images on the other and then go back half that amount). If you don't adjust convergence to your character, you'll see shadow separation on the ground.
Convergence Adjustment: Open nVidia Control Panel; Set up Stereoscopic 3D; Set Keyboard Shortcuts; Show Advanced In-Game Settings; Check Enable Advanced In-Game Settings. Start game and use CTRL-F5 & CTRL-F6 to adjust. CTRL-F7 to save the settings for Diablo III.
It works, just create a d3dsetting.ini file and just rename the Dark3d d3d9.dll to something else.
Thanks for the fix! Shadows and water are much improved.
Was wondering if it would be possible to adjust the convergence for the text, map, and HUD? When I set the convergence as Ron describes I find that some of the scene slightly pops-out beyond the HUD. And, was thinking that if the HUD slightly popped out as well it might be easier on my eyes.
@Anonymous: I'm sorry but presets don't work even for me with this game.
I've tried to make the hud to pops out, but there was a bug with bar's icons.. I'll retry and update the post if I can make this work.
When you finish that update, we'll be happy to post it.
... ok ... so did anyone manage to run both helixmod and darkd3 together? ... i've been reading as well that some d3dsettings.ini file is required but not sure how to rename things exactly or what to put inside it.
I put your ME2 video on 3dvisionlive.com .People have given it lot of positive feedback. Just letting you know.
If you ever do another video for any game on site please let me know. I would love to add it.
Happy to hear that ... as for new videos i am on a second playthrough on ME3 and Mirrors Edge is on the list too ... i usually do a lot of footage capture during gameplay and if i will have the time afterwards will do some edits.
Thanks again for the great work you guys are putting into this.
I spent quite some time trying to marry them both up with no luck. This is the first game that I haven't been able to get HeliXmod working with injectFXAA.
That's all and it works for me. Make sure to rename your DarkD3 d3d9.dll file (mine is d3d9dark).
Can anyone else confirm this so I can put it on the page?
Generally the Game makes in 2D 60 FPS and with 3D 30 FPS... a kind of frame limiter by Blizzard.. its Possible Blizzard Fixes this with a Patch ... or the Comminity with a Mod.
Steady 60 FPS in 3D Here. I have 2 x 680's though. Maybe your video card is capping out.
But Skyrim runs @70 - 90 FPS by 2D with Texture Mods ... Diablo 3 is running in 2D by 60 FPS .. thats Something Wrong with Diablo 3 , i think its a Frame Limiter .. i never over 60 FPS but also never under 60 FPS ... Diablo is sure not so Hardware hungry as Skyrim with HD MOD´s or ?
I have a 570 too, but I'm not capped at 30 fps with 3d on. Have you tried setting power management to Max form adaptive?
Now i have 30 - 60 FPS .. but my PC hase strong to fight with D3 in 3D , maybe i must upgrade my Graphic Card ;-) in the average i have 40 - 45 FPS .. to small for smooth gameplay for me.
Vsync In the Game Menu Off .. in the Nvidia Controll Panel Force VSync and in the Game Menu FPS Options full Throttle and i Have now 120 FPS @ 2D .. The 60 FPS Limiter is the In Game VSync Option.
For me, this makes the water flicker. Looks right in 3d now, but flickers. Shadows look great! Thanks for all your hard work!
I have GTX 680 sli btw. SLI may be causing the flicker.
I looked at it on a single GTX 580, same thing, occasional flicker to fullbright on the water. Seems to happen more in the sewers. Nothing major really, I didn't turn off the override.
I have newest drivers, I updated to 1.0.2.
Standard shadows are broken after new patch or after new beta drivers - updated in the same time so i don`t know actually which one did it.
Does this still work out of curiosity? I know diablo 3 died down alot but strange ive heard nothing.
Still working for me, although I'm in the same boat as others where I can't get DarkD3 working with this... then again, I couldn't get the SMAA injector working with Borderlands 2, neither, so the problem may lie between the chair & the keyboard ;) (although I'm generally pretty good at tweaking things).
Borderlands 2 instructions on AA is in comments in dishonored. Im too lazy to download diablo 3 and see if I can get it to work.
Shadows are broken for me.
New beta drivers with patch 1.0.3.
Not sure to be honest, dont have game installed but to be honest I had 3 people say same thing since release. Reinstall driver then let me know.
OK. So the shaodws work, but certain shadows that pop in and out of the players view are broken. You can notice this in the town where you can walk by a lamp post near an inn. The sign of the inn casts a shadow on the ground but the fog is overlayed over it.. This causes the shadow to be rendered improperly. The character shadows are all fine.
since newest patch Helix Mod isnt working anymore. Shadows and a few objects are broken.
First off... THANKS! Works perfectly for me in 1920x1080. However, when I switch to multi-monitor 3D Surround (Nvidia GTX 690), some of the shadows are broken.
Any idea why the change in resolution would make this happen?
Did you exit out of game then reboot at that resolution?
I tried multiple combinations of alt-tabbing out, restarting, etc. I even switch back to 1920x1080 and it works perfectly. But if running either WideScreen Fixer or Flawless Widescreen and running at multi-monitor res, the problem returns.
Do you know of anyone who has successfully run on multi-monitor with shadows enabled? My best hope is that it is something with my setup or options that is fixable.
Best option is to ask on nvidia 3d forum. I have no idea how the multi monitor stuff works.
Hi. It cannot download the file.
Hey there. Is it normal I can't get a good convergence value that works both ingame and in the menus? Once set to my liking in game and I come back to the menu, it looks distorted and I have to readjust the convergence. (i need 1 setting for the menu and 1 for in game).
Thanks for the new update - the new loot system makes the game a lot funner now! Do we still need to import the profile as suggested above?
*shrug* I did it because I was in a rush to fix it + i=t has msaa on it. It doesnt hurt anywayz.
Thanks for the update but I cant download the D3 inspector profile - link doesn't seem to work??
sc2 has its own 3d built in. I've even played the expansion in 3d.
Yes it does, and since the expansion was released it has errors.
Go here if you have any further issues.
ok, with the newest drivers 3D wont start on my Gtx 660, but the simple fix is just delete the profile using NvInspector, and the shadows will be fixed too, its amazing.
screenshot of working shadows without profile and without "shaderoverride helix fix files"
Confirmed. Removing profile makes game look and work flawlessly with 3D Vision! Also, my FPS increased drastically!
How do you actually remove the profile?
When I remove the Diablo III profile via Nvidia Inspector 3D doesn't work at all anymore in the game? Do I miss something?
"Confirmed. Removing profile makes game look and work flawlessly with 3D Vision! Also, my FPS increased drastically!"
Step by step with pictures on using NVidia Inspector.
So how exactly do you install this mod? im a little confused. Please help me out.
You shouldn't need the helix mod to play d3 in 3d have you tried without?
Also with the last update being so old is it even good anymore?
Hey guys, im sorry im going to need a little help i am new to this. i know how to get doom working in 3d, installing the open gl files into the game directory in 3d surround gameing URL, and then extracting the files in the fix into the game folder. i want to try to get diablo 3 working in 3d, can someone give me the files i need to extract into the game folder, or a simple explanation what files i need. i extracted the FIX FILE into the diablo 3 folder, what else do i need now?
Just in case anybody still wants to play this (why not?), it seems to work just fine in 3D Vision even without the fix. You just have to remove the profile in Inspector. Crank up the convergence for a great experience!
Did the latest patch (3/21/17) break Diablo 3 or is this something on my end? Character is now divided into two parts (helmet, weapon etc on one, the rest on other other). Not sure if this is easily fixed but just wanted to let everyone know.
I still had the profile removed with inspector, need to test without removing it next time.
I can't even get 3D vision to turn on.
I have that too since some recent update to drivers or game.
Im having the exact same issue, character is split into two, mainly the armor getting divided from the character and also followers. Also very weird effects going on with f.ex the bodies in A3 town "floating" weirdly when moving. Anyone figured out anything? Is anyone NOT having these issues? Ohh, and i cant start in 3d unless i use 32bit client, anyone gotten this to work in 3d under 64bit?
please help. I activated the advanced settings in the control panel which should allow me to set the convergence. When I try to change it in-game with ctrl+F5 and ctrl+F6 nothing happens with the image. (I get response for ctrl+F7 which saves my changes. This assures that I have activated the advanced settings.) Can someone help me? I already installed the FIX from this site and loaded up the new nvidia profile for the game that I have downloaded from here (see "Editor Note").
The WARNING page link does not work. What did it say? Is it just a warning that you may get banned by blizzard?


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"We will talk about it…border crossing and maybe joint military and police operations," Duterte added.
The President admitted that the recent kidnappings of sailors committed by the Abu Sayyaf group have embarrassed his government. "What is really embarrassing to me was ang sanctuary ng mga rebelde, nandiyan sa Jolo, sa ating jurisdiction so that makes it doubly worrisome. Pangit kasi 'yung aming mga kababayan diyan dinadala," he said.
Duterte said he already talked to Indonesian President Joko Widodo who has agreed to the maritime security cooperation to secure their common borders.
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Q: Error: The getter 'context' isn't defined for the class 'OtpPage' I am trying to get the UI of an OTP screen using flutter, but I am having errors on the FocusScope.of(context) lines. I thought the 'BuildContext context' defined for the class 'OtpPage' should have made this not an issue.
Here is the code;
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:google_fonts/google_fonts.dart';
import '/routes/route.dart' as route;

class OtpPage extends StatelessWidget {
  const OtpPage({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: PreferredSize(
        preferredSize: Size.fromHeight(15.0),
        child: AppBar(
          elevation: 0,
          flexibleSpace: Container(
            decoration: BoxDecoration(
              image: DecorationImage(image: AssetImage('assets/pattern.png'), fit: BoxFit.fill),
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
      body: Container(
        child: SingleChildScrollView(
          padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(47, 26, 47, 75),
          child: Column(
            children: [
              Row(
                mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
                children: [
                  Image.asset(
                    'assets/logo4.png',
                    height: 50,
                  ),
                ],
              ),
              SizedBox(height: 26),
              Row(
                children: [
                  Text(
                    'Enter OTP',
                    style: GoogleFonts.inter(
                      textStyle: TextStyle(
                        fontWeight: FontWeight.w700,
                        fontSize: 24,
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ],
              ),
              SizedBox(height: 28),
              Form(
                child: Column(
                  crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                  children: [
                    Row(
                      mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween,
                      children: [
                        _textFieldOTP(first: true, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(first: false, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(first: false, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(first: false, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(first: false, last: true),
                      ],
                    ),
                    SizedBox(height: 34),
                    Container(
                      height: 45,
                      width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width,
                      child: ElevatedButton(
                        onPressed: () => Navigator.pushNamed(context, route.resetPassword),
                        style: ElevatedButton.styleFrom(primary: Color(0xFFFF2957), elevation: 0.0, shape: new RoundedRectangleBorder(borderRadius: new BorderRadius.circular(8.0))),
                        child: Text(
                          'Verify',
                          style: GoogleFonts.inter(
                            textStyle: TextStyle(
                              fontWeight: FontWeight.w700,
                              fontSize: 15,
                            ),
                          ),
                        ),
                      ),
                    ),
                  ],
                ),
              ),
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

  Widget _textFieldOTP({required bool first, last}) {
    return Container(
      height: 60,
      width: 52,
      child: AspectRatio(
        aspectRatio: 1.0,
        child: TextField(
          autofocus: true,
          onChanged: (value) {
            if(value.length == 1 && last == false){
              FocusScope.of(context).nextFocus();
            }
            if(value.length == 1 && first == false){
              FocusScope.of(context).previousFocus();
            }
          },
          showCursor: false,
          readOnly: false,
          textAlign: TextAlign.center,
          keyboardType: TextInputType.number,
          maxLength: 1,
          decoration: InputDecoration(
            counter: Offstage(),
            enabledBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
              borderSide: BorderSide(width: 2, color: Colors.black),
              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
            ),
            focusedBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
              borderSide: BorderSide(width: 2, color: Colors.purple),
              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

I keep getting this error at the console;
lib/views/otp.dart:103:29: Error: The getter 'context' isn't defined for the class 'OtpPage'.

*

*'OtpPage' is from 'package:untitled/views/otp.dart' ('lib/views/otp.dart').
Try correcting the name to the name of an existing getter, or defining a getter or field named 'context'.
FocusScope.of(context).nextFocus();

Same error too for the line FocusScope.of(context).previousFocus();

A: Pass the context object as an argument to you _textFieldOTP method. If not, the context object to refer to in the function will not be found. See below:
Widget _textFieldOTP(BuildContext context, {required bool first, last}) {
return Container(
  height: 60,
  width: 52,
  child: AspectRatio(
    aspectRatio: 1.0,
    child: TextField(
      autofocus: true,
      onChanged: (value) {
        if(value.length == 1 && last == false){
          FocusScope.of(context).nextFocus();
        }
        if(value.length == 1 && first == false){
          FocusScope.of(context).previousFocus();
        }
      },
      showCursor: false,
      readOnly: false,
      textAlign: TextAlign.center,
      keyboardType: TextInputType.number,
      maxLength: 1,
      decoration: InputDecoration(
        counter: Offstage(),
        enabledBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
          borderSide: BorderSide(width: 2, color: Colors.black),
          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
        ),
        focusedBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
          borderSide: BorderSide(width: 2, color: Colors.purple),
          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
        ),
      ),
    ),
  ),
);
}
}

Then you pass the context object from the build method when calling the function _textFieldOTP as shown below:
Row(
                  mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween,
                  children: [
                    _textFieldOTP(context, first: true, last: false),
                    _textFieldOTP(context, first: false, last: false),
                    _textFieldOTP(context, first: false, last: false),
                    _textFieldOTP(context, first: false, last: false),
                    _textFieldOTP(context, first: false, last: true),
                  ],
                )

A: you have to pass the context to the widget.Try below code,
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:google_fonts/google_fonts.dart';
import '/routes/route.dart' as route;

class OtpPage extends StatelessWidget {
  const OtpPage({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: PreferredSize(
        preferredSize: Size.fromHeight(15.0),
        child: AppBar(
          elevation: 0,
          flexibleSpace: Container(
            decoration: BoxDecoration(
              image: DecorationImage(image: AssetImage('assets/pattern.png'), fit: BoxFit.fill),
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
      body: Container(
        child: SingleChildScrollView(
          padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(47, 26, 47, 75),
          child: Column(
            children: [
              Row(
                mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
                children: [
                  Image.asset(
                    'assets/logo4.png',
                    height: 50,
                  ),
                ],
              ),
              SizedBox(height: 26),
              Row(
                children: [
                  Text(
                    'Enter OTP',
                    style: GoogleFonts.inter(
                      textStyle: TextStyle(
                        fontWeight: FontWeight.w700,
                        fontSize: 24,
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ],
              ),
              SizedBox(height: 28),
              Form(
                child: Column(
                  crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                  children: [
                    Row(
                      mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween,
                      children: [
                        _textFieldOTP(context:context,first: true, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(context:context,first: false, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(context:context,first: false, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(context:context,first: false, last: false),
                        _textFieldOTP(context:context,first: false, last: true),
                      ],
                    ),
                    SizedBox(height: 34),
                    Container(
                      height: 45,
                      width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width,
                      child: ElevatedButton(
                        onPressed: () => Navigator.pushNamed(context, route.resetPassword),
                        style: ElevatedButton.styleFrom(primary: Color(0xFFFF2957), elevation: 0.0, shape: new RoundedRectangleBorder(borderRadius: new BorderRadius.circular(8.0))),
                        child: Text(
                          'Verify',
                          style: GoogleFonts.inter(
                            textStyle: TextStyle(
                              fontWeight: FontWeight.w700,
                              fontSize: 15,
                            ),
                          ),
                        ),
                      ),
                    ),
                  ],
                ),
              ),
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

  Widget _textFieldOTP({required BuildContext context,required bool first, last}) {
    return Container(
      height: 60,
      width: 52,
      child: AspectRatio(
        aspectRatio: 1.0,
        child: TextField(
          autofocus: true,
          onChanged: (value) {
            if(value.length == 1 && last == false){
              FocusScope.of(context).nextFocus();
            }
            if(value.length == 1 && first == false){
              FocusScope.of(context).previousFocus();
            }
          },
          showCursor: false,
          readOnly: false,
          textAlign: TextAlign.center,
          keyboardType: TextInputType.number,
          maxLength: 1,
          decoration: InputDecoration(
            counter: Offstage(),
            enabledBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
              borderSide: BorderSide(width: 2, color: Colors.black),
              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
            ),
            focusedBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
              borderSide: BorderSide(width: 2, color: Colors.purple),
              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

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The team first emerged as GLAS in early 1990. It was to be financed by wealthy Mexican businessman Fernando González Luna, who was reported to be investing around $20 million in the team, and it was to be run by former Italian journalist Leopoldo Canettoli. The young team had approached Italian sportscar manufacturer Lamborghini, to not only supply them with their latest V12 Formula One engines, but to also design and build the chassis. Lamborghini had established a Formula One specific division in 1988, — Lamborghini Engineering — to oversee their burgeoning Formula One programme and they entered the sport in 1989 as an engine supplier. 1991 would be the firm's first attempt at designing and building a Formula One car. Former Alfa Romeo and Spirit driver Mauro Baldi was proposed as a part-backer and driver for the team.
Lamborghini Engineering had tasked Mauro Forghieri, with the assistance of Mario Tolentino, to design and build a Formula One car. By the summer of 1990 they had completed the process and had a rolling chassis ready for testing, only for González Luna to disappear, taking all his money with him. This left a huge hole in the team's finances and effectively put its future in doubt. However, Lamborghini were determined to keep the project going as they already had the engines and now they had a Formula One car. So, the Italian firm injected a sum of money into the team to keep it running, they relocated it to Modena in Italy, which resulted in a subsequent name change taken from the team's new home, installed Italian industrialist and former Fila boss Carlo Patrucco as Team Principal, and entered the 1991 Formula One season. Lamborghini were reluctant to have the team viewed as a "works" team though, as this might reflect badly on the marque, so it was entered as Modena Team SpA. Most media sources and fans ignored this, referring to the team as Lamborghini, or more colloquially as, "Lambo". However, it was noted that after an initial lump sum from Lamborghini, Modena Team were an entirely independent business entity and received no further investment or financial assistance from Lamborghini.
The change of name would cause confusion throughout the season. It was essentially a Lamborghini Engineering team, as they had designed and built the chassis, the chassis carried the firm's name and it was powered by a Lamborghini engine, but they were adamant on having it named differently and went about registering it under a different name, resulting in the team known as Modena but the cars as Lambo 291's on the official entry list.
The Lambo 291 was a rather eye-catching and sleek looking chassis, with its distinctive blue colour scheme, triangular sidepods and slanting radiators. Slanting radiators would actually become a key Formula One design trend some years later, continuing to this day. Mauro Baldi was the first driver to test-drive the new car, testing it in late 1990. The team then hired former Minardi man Jaime Manca Graziadei as Team Manager, who resigned before the first GP of the season. Former Italian Formula 3 champion, Coloni and Osella driver Nicola Larini, and 1990 International F3000 runner-up Eric van de Poele were signed as the team's drivers. Mario Tolentino would be Larini's race engineer while former Formula One driver Dave Morgan was hired as van de Poele's engineer.
Both cars had to face pre-qualifying for the first half of the season and each driver only made it through into the race on one occasion - Larini eventually coming 7th at the opening United States Grand Prix, and van de Poele running 5th at the San Marino Grand Prix, and on course for 2 world championship points, before a problem with the fuel system brought him to a halt on the last lap, literally within sight of the flag, resulting in van de Poele being classified as 9th.
It competed in 16 World Championship Grands Prix (6 starts) but scored no Championship points. Its best result was seventh in the 1991 United States Grand Prix.
Grand Prix: 16
Best Result: 7th - N. Larini (United States 1991)
Best Grid Position: 17th - N. Larini (United States 1991)
Fastest Laps: 0
Championship Points: 0
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Q: How to show data from (multidimensional?) arrays with Laravel 5.3 blade Ok, so this is a question I hope can help other newbies as I'm running into errors pulling information from arrays in Blade and I'm unfamiliar with it's syntax to properly debug.
I understand how to send array data to the view normally, for instance:
public function index() {
   $variable = DB::table('tablename')->where('ID', '535');
   return view('viewname', compact('variable'));
}

This will send everything attached to the ID of 535 to the view. The title can then be printed out like so:
@foreach ($variable as $foo)
  {{ $foo->title }}
@endforeach

Or if you want to print everything (I Think this is right?):
@foreach ($variable as $foo)
  @foreach ($foo as $name)
    {{ $name }}
  @endforeach
@endforeach

That process I kind of understand.
But where I'm getting stuck is with models.
Let's say I set up some routes:
Route::get('User', 'UserEntryController@index');
route::get('User/{id}', 'UserEntryController@show');

And in the controller one that grabs the show route:
   <?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\UserEdit;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;

class UserEntryController extends Controller
{

   public function show(UserEdit $id) {

       return $id;
   }

}

This will return everything attached to the model:
<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class UserEdit extends Model  {

    protected $table = 'users';

    protected $fillable = ['ID', various', 'pieces', 'of', 'table', 'data'];

    protected $hidden = [];

    protected $casts = [];

    protected $dates = [];

}

However if I change a line on the controller:
<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\UserEdit;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;

class UserEntryController extends Controller
{

   public function show(UserEdit $id) {

       return view('UserEdit', compact('id'));
       //return $id;

   }

}

The aforementioned Blade code will not run. In fact, I can't parse the array sent out to the the view at all. Of course a straight {{ id }} will give me the actual contents of the array.
{"ID":535,"various":"Del","pieces":"22","of":"32","table":"54","data":"John"}
So I guess my question is. If I'm getting data that's in the form of an array like this. How do iterate through it to apply formatting, put it in tables, or put it in a form, etc?

A: You're naming convention actually confuses you.
As long as you're returning and using a Object, rename that $id variable to something more obvious.
like:
class UserEntryController extends Controller
{
    ...
    public function show(UserEdit $object) {
        return view('UserEdit', compact('object'));
    }
    ...
}

For the case when your framework is not set to bind directly to the object and your show method receives the $id, than you should return the object by querying the DB.
class UserEntryController extends Controller
{
    ...
    public function show($id) {
        $object = UserEdit::findOrFail($id);
        return view('UserEdit', compact('object'));
    }
    ...
}

... and nou in your view blade file you can use it like in your above examples.
@foreach ($object as $foo)
    @foreach ($foo as $name)
        {{ $name }}
    @endforeach
@endforeach`


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First Hand Films inks deals with Australia, Mexico
The Swiss distributor has inked deals with Australia's Foxtel and Mexico's Canal Once for a slate of titles, including America in Primetime and Five Days to Dance (pictured).
By Manori Ravindran
Swiss distributor First Hand Films has inked deals with Australia's Foxtel and Mexico's Canal Once for a slate of programs including America in Primetime and Five Days to Dance (pictured).
Foxtel picked up a package of titles for their history and biography slots, including America In Primetime (4 x 52′), as well as three titles from the My Life series, featuring Gore Vidal (1 x 45 minutes), Helmut Newton (1 x 52 minutes) and Isabella Rossellini (1 x 52 minutes).
Additional titles acquired by the broadcaster are Harry Dean Stanton – Partly Fiction (1 x 54 minutes), Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (1 x 54 minutes), Love Hate Love (1 x 52 minutes), Radical Evil (1 x 52 minutes) and Jerusalem Cuts (1 x 52 minutes).
Elsewhere, Mexico's Canal Once took Five Days To Dance (1 x 79 minutes), which was shopped by First Hand Films at last week's MIPTV market in Cannes.
America In Primetime, Canal Once, First Hand Films, Foxtel, Harry Dean Stanton - Partly Fiction, Jerusalem Cuts, Love Hate Love, My Life, Radical Evil, Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
First Hand Films taking "America in Primetime" to the world
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Gabe Newell delivering Steam Deck himself while reminiscing about his days as telegram delivery boy
Gabe Newell,
Steam Deck,
Valve has shared a video of its CEO Gabe Newell delivering Steam Deck to customers in Seattle. The company informed some clients about the visit, but not everyone believed that Gaben himself will appear on their doorsteps.
"We hired a new delivery guy to help with the Steam Deck launch, not sure he's going to work out," the company wrote on Twitter.
It looks like Gaben did great, moving from house to house and delivering Steam Deck in hands of the first buyers. Some of them were surprised to see Newell who gave them the portable PC with his autograph.
The Valve co-founder also chatted with people about Final Fantasy and asked them to send their feedback to his email.
Newell got nostalgic at some point, saying that this event reminded him of his younger days.
"So the first job I ever had was delivering newspapers but then the next job I had was delivering telegrams for Western Union," he said. "Overall, it's sort of bringing me back to my days as a Western Union telegram delivery boy."
Steam Deck was officially launched on February 25, which means that the first customers can finally get their devices. The portable PC received positive reviews from most critics, with some of them calling it an ambitious device that suits great both for running AAA games and emulating titles from retro consoles.


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New Cayman Islands Port Expected To Begin Construction October 2015
by Spencer Aronfeld | Oct 6, 2015 | Cruise Ship Accidents | 0 comments
The Cayman Islands will owe a huge debt to the world's largest cruise line, Carnival, as its government finally announced that the country will go forward with a very controversial plan to build cruise ship piers in George Town harbor. The move will unquestionably help secure the Caymans as a major player in the cruise ship industry and probably rescue the Islands' struggling economy.
As I reported earlier this summer, the Caymans have been trying for decades to balance maintaining their pristine marine life with meeting the growing competition from neighboring Caribbean ports, like Jamaica and Cuba, by forcing large cruise ships to ferry passengers on tenders in and out of Georgetown. Tendering passengers is time-consuming, expensive, and on occasion dangerous. We have represented a number of passengers who have been injured trying to get on and off tender boats in various ports around the world, including Grand Cayman.
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Cayman's Premier Alden McLaughlin announced Wednesday that Carnival will play a substantial role in the development of the new piers that are expected to cost at least $150 million to build. Having Carnival's "skin in the game" will surely guarantee that future Carnival ships and their passengers will continue to dock in Grand Cayman. Currently, Carnival accounts for roughly 60% of cruise ships visiting Cayman.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is the other major player in Cayman's cruise industry, but has not released any official statement regarding the announcement or its plans to participate in the costs of building the ports.
The Caymanian Cabinet has yet to formally ratify the decision to proceed with the port project, but this is anticipated to occur sometime in October 2015. The Caymans intend to charge around $5 per passenger, and a share of the $14 "head tax" collected by the Port Authority on every cruise passenger who comes through the new terminal.
As a cruise ship passenger injury attorney, I applaud the Cayman Islands' decision finally to approve the building of the ports, primarily because I believe the ports will provide a much needed safer way to transport passengers to and from the ships. The concept of loading and unloading passengers on bobbing and bumpy small tender boats was a recipe for disaster that often prevented elderly and incapacitated passengers from even attempting to disembark in ports such as George Town.
Typically when we investigated a claim for an injury that occurred on a tender boat, the cruise lines would try to defend the claim by stating that the tenders were operated by local independent contractors over which the cruise line did not have control.
We have also heard horror stories of elderly terrified passengers left behind by their cruise ships in foreign countries, in various hospitals, or in emergency rooms seeking medical care. We have received many calls from passengers who have found themselves alone with no means of returning home, their possessions gone, and no help offered by the cruise line in terms of booking flights or transportation. I think this move at a minimum will help minimize tender boat accidents as well as allow more people to get on and off the ship safely and comfortably.
I suggest that the new Grand Cayman Islands port, as well as George Town, be made compliant with all ADA requirements so that passengers in wheelchairs and with other assistive devices, like motorized scooters, can explore the Island safely.
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The first in the DPR system of payment for services via the Internet Sprut has begun working in the Republic, DPR Central Bank, Press-Service reports.
"The decision of the Central Republican Bank board registered the first payment system Sprut in the Donetsk People's Republic. The operator of this payment system is the financial company "Rost," noted a representative of the press-service.
It is noted that with the help of the system it is possible to pay for the services of the cellular operator Phoenix, the Internet, television, taxi, etc., by payment cards of the Central Republican Bank and financial company Rost.
As the press service specified, it is possible to connect the service "payments on the Internet" both in the branches of the bank and in the branches of the financial company.


Google and Android announced Wednesday that they started distributing a fix for the critical vulnerability that could have caused millions of phones to be infected by malware through a malformed text message.
The flaw resides in Android's code library known as Stagefright, and was disclosed earlier last week, several months after security researchers privately disclosed the flaw to security engineers responsible for maintaining Google's Android mobile operating system. Following the unscheduled public release, Google engineers have rushed to introduce new changes to the Android text message app. Engineers were able to mitigate the glaring threat by requiring users to click on videos before playing them.
Google began pushing out the updated text app among other security enhancements to Nexus devices first, and will be releasing them open-source later in the day, once full details on the vulnerability are disclosed.
The company already sent their patch to hardware partners, while both Sprint and Samsung have begun pushing the update to their affected handsets, according to Android Police. Mobile devices that are no longer affected by the Stagefright vulnerability include the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6, the Galaxy S5, S6, S6 Edge, and Note Edge, the HTC One M7, One M8, One M9; LG Electronics G2, G3, G4; Sony Xperia Z2, Xperia Z3, Xperia Z4, Xperia Z3 Compact; and the Android One.
Starting Wednesday, Nexus devices will receive regular monthly security updates, Google announced yesterday, speaking on how they distribute Nexus security patches. Monthly security patches will be active on the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 9, Nexus 10 and Nexus Player. As well, Samsung has begun to introduce a new update process for Android phones they sell.
During the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Adrian Ludwig, Google's lead engineer for Android security said the researchers who discovered the Stagefright bug exaggerated the threat and how it could affect real world users. More than 90 percent of Android phones on the market have security measures known as address space layout randomization in place, which are designed to significantly lessen the damage an attacker can do when exploiting vulnerabilities. Ludwig also said less than 0.15 percent of Android users who install apps exclusively from the Google Play store have any type of potentially harmful apps installed.
The severity of the vulnerability and sheer number of vulnerable phones on the market spawned for Google to improve the way they distribute security updates to their handsets. It's too early to know if Google's security update released Wednesday will help solve the glaring vulnerability, however the number of manufacturers pushing Wednesday's Stagefright patch are a good sign.


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Project Title: Monitoring of thrips/Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in California peppers and the development of a regional IPM strategy for reducing the incidence andseverity of TSWV.
Monitor and understand thrips population dynamics and incidence and development of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in San Joaquin Valley pepper fields and develop a regional thrips/TSWV IPM strategy to reduce the incidence and severity of TSWV. This will also involve the assessing of a thrips degree-day model and TSWV risk index for predicting thrips and TSWV in pepper fields in San Joaquin Valley. Our long term objectives are to reduce the impact of thrips and thrips-vectored viruses on susceptible crops (i.e., tomato, pepper and lettuce) in California. We hope that by reducing thrips population levels within each crop, we can achieve a long term reduction in the incidences of thrips-vectored viruses.
Thrips impact the pepper industry by (1) causing direct damage to pepper fruit through feeding damage and (2) spreading viruses (particularly Tomato spotted wilt virus [TSWV]) that cause significant yield losses. In conventional production, thrips are managed with insecticides. However, effective use of insecticides for thrips management requires accurate timing of sprays, usually in advance of population peaks, to limit feeding damage and virus transmission.
In the San Joaquin Valley, the source(s) of thrips migrating into pepper crops in the spring, both in terms of absolute numbers and the risk of vectoring TSWV, is not known. Pepper crops are thought to increase thrips and TSWV early in season, resulting in subsequent build-up in other crops (e.g., tomato). For this reason it is important to understand thrips population dynamics in pepper crops in order to reduce the impact of thrips and TSWV early in the season and develop more effective control programs. Better control of thrips in pepper and processing tomato will be mutually beneficial. Our overall goal is to determine whether the approach developed for processing tomato, which has shown some success, can be extended to peppers.
We propose to survey 3-5 pepper fields in the San Joaquin Valley with yellow sticky cards to determine thrips population dynamics and conduct regular inspections for TSWV development. We will also use our thrips degree-day model to see if we can predict peak thrips populations, and develop a risk index for pepper to predict TSWV threat in pepper fields. Because we are monitoring processing tomatoes in the area, data obtained from both crops will be useful for developing an IPM strategy. We are hopeful that the IPM strategy we have developed for processing tomatoes, which has helped reduce the incidence and severity of TSWV in Central Valley, will also work for peppers. All of the participants (Gilbertson, McRoberts, Batuman and Aegerter) are currently involved in a project funded by the California Tomato Research Institute (CTRI) to improve management of thrips-vectored TSWV in processing tomatoes in the Central Valley of California.
Tomato spotted wilt disease has the potential to cause serious losses in pepper production in California. In California, TSWV can be a very serious problem in pepper and the incidence of the disease has been increasing. It is now a serious disease of processing tomato and pepper production in many areas of the Central Valley. TSWV and possibly other tospoviruses cause spotted wilt in peppers. The virus is spread by at least 10 different species of thrips, but the Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) is most important in California. The symptoms of the disease can vary, but young leaves develop extensive necrotic spots and streaks; eventually, young shoots may dieback and entire parts of the plant may collapse. One of the most diagnostic symptoms is chlorotic or yellow ringspots in fruit.
Tomato spotted wilt virus and the thrips vectors have a very wide host range. Tomato spotted wilt has been a difficult disease to predict and manage. One of the main reasons is that both the virus and the thrips vectors have very broad host ranges. Economic hosts include tomatoes, peppers, celery, legumes, lettuce, radicchio and many ornamentals; whereas weed hosts include nightshade, tree tobacco, sowthistle, prickly lettuce and jimson weed.
Understanding the biology of the thrips vector in critical to understanding the dynamics of tomato spotted wilt disease. TSWV is not-seed transmitted nor does it persist in debris; thus, the main means by which the virus spreads into and within pepper fields is by the thrips vector. The virus is acquired by larvae, but it is mainly spread by adults that have acquired the virus as larvae. Thus, adults can not acquire the virus, they can only transmit it.


Repurposing furniture to create something special is always a great idea. Taking something no longer useful and giving it a new purpose just makes sense. So why not convert a bed into a beautiful bench!
Jenny Lind, a Swedish singer, made this bed style popular in the 19th century. A 'Jenny Lind' bed was an early example of a celebrity fashion trend. The 'it' girl of 1850 apparently slept in a spool bed during her American tour in 1851. These beds, also known as 'spool beds', were named for their resemblance to sewing spools.
Our client brought in a 'Jenny Lind' bed and asked us to transform it. The bed was cut, stripped and re-assembled into its new form, a hallway bench. A grey-blue paint color was carefully selected to match our client's decor and finally a distressed finish added for an aged look.
If you have any ideas you would like to discuss about converting a piece of furniture and giving it a new life, please contact us.
Right Top: 'Jenny Lind' bed.


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The assortment we offer makes it easy for you to find the things you need, and you have the option of buying them in a durable container that makes them easy to transport between sites. This information might proof useful in choosing a harness kit.
What Does A Harness Kit Consist Of?
Our harness kits include various types of gear, so we recommend you take the time to find the one that best suits your needs. All include a basic harness and fall arrest block, but some also include rope and tool lanyards.
Some of these kits are designed simply to protect workers who may fall when working at height, with the fall arrest block slowing them to a stop to protect them from harm. Others are designed to support workers in a suspended position while they carry out tasks. Some are for specific professions such as our roofer kit. The latter type of harness is more comfortable when worn over prolonged periods and often incorporates padding, as well as making it easier for the wearer to move around.
These harnesses vary in terms of the number of attachment points they offer. Having multiple attachment points can give a suspended worker more control over position and is also helpful when it comes to attaching tools, making it easier to carry everything that is needed for a complex job. It is important not to attach multiple items to a single attachment point, as this can unbalance the harness and potentially injure the wearer if something goes wrong.
Nobody should be using equipment like this without appropriate safety training, and we stock warning signs you can use to remind employees of the rules. It is nevertheless worth choosing the simplest harness kit for the job, because simplicity encourages workers to use it properly and reduces the temptation to cut corners.
This is particularly significant when it comes to putting the harness on, taking it off and attaching and detaching ropes. Harnesses which are comfortable enough to be kept on when the employee is on the ground can be useful in saving time, as a full safety check should be done each time the harness is put on and the kit reassembled.
The harness kits we stock offer differing degrees of adjustability, both on the ground and in the air. A good fit is important to ensure the wearer enjoys maximum protection, as well as comfort, which affects how long they can remain suspended. Where parts of the harness can be safely adjusted when the wearer is suspended, manoeuvrability can be increased, making some types of tasks easier to complete. Certain kits like the Miller® R1 Revolution Duraflex Harness have special technology designed to improve comfort while the user is moving.
All the harness kits in our selection are made from high-quality materials and are compliant with current health and safety standards. You will, however, need to use them carefully in accordance with the instructions for your employees to be fully protected, and you will need to replace them when they reach their expiry date, because old fall protection gear cannot be relied upon, which is another reason to examine and consider replacing your existing gear.


dc.identifier.citation Cluver, L. and Boyes, M. and Orkin, M. and Sherr, L. 2013. Poverty, AIDS and child health: Identifying highest-risk children in South Africa. South African Medical Journal. 103 (12): pp. 910-915.
Background: Identifying children at the highest risk of negative health effects is a prerequisite to effective public health policies in Southern Africa. A central ongoing debate is whether poverty, orphanhood or parental AIDS most reliably indicates child health risks. Attempts to address this key question have been constrained by a lack of data allowing distinction of AIDS-specific parental death or morbidity from other causes of orphanhood and chronic illness. Objectives: To examine whether household poverty, orphanhood and parental illness (by AIDS or other causes) independently or interactively predict child health, developmental and HIV-infection risks. Methods: We interviewed 6 002 children aged 10 - 17 years in 2009 - 2011, using stratified random sampling in six urban and rural sites across three South African provinces. Outcomes were child mental health risks, educational risks and HIV-infection risks. Regression models that controlled for socio-demographic co-factors tested potential impacts and interactions of poverty, AIDS-specific and other orphanhood and parental illness status. Results: Household poverty independently predicted child mental health and educational risks, AIDS orphanhood independently predicted mental health risks and parental AIDS illness independently predicted mental health, educational and HIV-infection risks. Interaction effects of poverty with AIDS orphanhood and parental AIDS illness were found across all outcomes. No effects, or interactions with poverty, were shown by AIDS-unrelated orphanhood or parental illness.Conclusions: The identification of children at highest risk requires recognition and measurement of both poverty and parental AIDS. This study shows negative impacts of poverty and AIDS-specific vulnerabilities distinct from orphanhood and adult illness more generally. Additionally, effects of interaction between family AIDS and poverty suggest that, where these co-exist, children are at highest risk of all.


Tirumala, 17 November 2015: With an aim to enable comfortable darshan on the same day, TTD has made yet another initiative and commenced a quota to book Rs.300 on-line tickets and have darshan of Lord on the same day within three hours of booking the ticket for the sake of the pilgrims who plan Darshan of Lord in emergency or who pilgrims who come to the temple town without prior planning.
TTD has commenced this system from Monday evening itself with a limited quota of tickets. The tickets in this t+3hours darshan system is at the dispense of the pilgrims subjected to their availability only.


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The City Guide
Grace Baptist Church ~ Community Day August 17
Railroad Museum offers 3 Train Experiences ~
Hayes Addresses College Food Insecurity
NVCC President Elected NECHE Commissioner
Hayes Applauds Passage of 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Bill
Post University's Inaugural Class of Malcolm Baldrige Scholars
Palace Theater Tour June 1st
Chambers USA Honors Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey
NVCC President gets "Wonder Woman" Award
Acts 4 Ministry to Present Awards at "Inspiration" Event
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Albania; An Exquisite Contradiction
Baguettes And A Broken Heart
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Shattered - The Seven Year Search For Billy Smolinski Jr.
Billy Smolinski Was Murdered Six Years Ago. Where Is His Body?
What Happened To Billy Smolinski?
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Tibetan Monk Vows To Build A School In One Of The Most Isolated Spots On Earth
Submitted by johnmurray on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 18:47
Tibetan monk Geshe Lobsang Yonten was raised in Zanskar Valley in the Himalayan Mountains of North India. Zanskar is one of the most isolated and desolate valleys on Earth, and Yonten has vowed to build a school there to help keep the endangered Tibetan culture alive. Yonten will be in Waterbury on Wednesday, October 5th, at the Mattatuck Museum, showing a documentary film about his project. The event begins at 6 pm with light refreshments and a short talk. Then the film, "Journey From Zanskar", will be aired. The suggested donation is $10. Photograph by John Murray
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"Stone Of Hope" Will Be Dedicated To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On October 16th
On a recent trip down to North Carolina to cover the World's Strongest Man competition, the Observer swept into the nation's capital to check out the new monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. The monument dedication was originally scheduled for late August, on the same day Hurricane Irene battered the East Coast. Wisely, the event was re-scheduled to Sunday, October 16th, 2011. The photographs were taken by John Murray, the publisher of The Waterbury Observer. The following information was taken directly off mlkmemorial.org, the official website for the monument.
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King Bhumibol of Thailand is the longest reigning monarch in the world.
Column By Don Coppock
I recall my first visit to Bangkok . I was taking a tour of the city, we were bogged down in one of the city's usual traffic jams, and the tour guide was talking about all things Thailand.
We were about to enter the King's Grand Palace, so I asked him his thoughts on the King. He smiled and his eyes got a glassy look as he began, 'I love my King...'
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Palace Theater's November Line Up
IN THE HEIGHTS
Friday, November 4 -- 8:00pm; Saturday, November 5 – 2:00pm and 8:00pm
The 2008 Tony Award-winner for "Best Musical," IN THE HEIGHTS takes audiences on an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community where they'll discover what it takes to make a living, what it costs to have a dream, and what it means to be home. Sponsored by Webster Bank and WTNH/MyTV9. Tickets: $48/ $58/ $68
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Former Torrington Mayor Owen Quinn Appointed Leader Of Neighborhood Housing In Waterbury
Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury, Inc. (NHS of Waterbury) has appointed a new Executive Director, Owen J. Quinn of Torrington. Quinn was hired by the NHS of Waterbury Board of Directors in September following an extensive candidate search.
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Mayor Jarjura's Giant Pencil Swiped From Headquarters On Scott Road
The symbol of Mike Jarjura's stunning 2006 write-in campaign victory was stolen from outside his campaign headquarters on Scott Road in Waterbury. Jarjura lost in a stunning primary upset to Democrat challenger Karen Mulcahy, but stormed back in November 2005 to become just the fifth politician in American history to win a major political office by having th electorate pencil in his name on the ballot. The mayor's father, J.P. Jarjura, had a six-foot replica pencil made to honor the historic win, and presented to him at his third inauguration. Jarjura told the Observer today that, "I want it back. There will be no questions asked and no consequences. Just leave it outside the door of my campaign headquarters at night and we'll find it in the morning The pencil has great sentimental value to me."
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Wide Range Of Acts Coming To Palace Theater In October; Pixies, Anthony Bourdain
Submitted by johnmurray on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 06:35
The Charlie Daniels Band is playing in Waterbury October 15th.
Fall into fun this October at the Palace Theater. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by phone at 203-346-2000, online at www.palacetheaterct.org or in person at the Box Office at 100 East Main Street. Groups of 15 or more qualify for discounted rates and should call the Group Sales hotline at 203-346-2002.
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An Oversized Visitor Frequents Riverside Cemetery
Submitted by johnmurray on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 08:24
A Great Blue Heron flies in for a landing at the Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury. According to the Cornell University of Ornithology, "The largest and most widespread heron in North America, the Great Blue Heron can be found along the ocean shore or the edge of a small inland pond. An all white form is found from southern Florida into the Caribbean, and used to be considered a separate species, the Great White Heron.
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Waterbury's Derek Poundstone Battling For World's Strongest Man Title
Waterbury's Derek Poundstone is in North Carolina this week competing in the World's Strongest Man competition. Poundstone came in 2nd place three years ago, and 4th place two years ago. In the 2010 competition in South Africa, Poundstone was severely injured and didn't place. This year Poundstone is healthy and looking to re-establish himself as a one of the top strongmen in the world. Derek, a three-time winner of America's Strongest Man, has won every prestigious strongman title except the world championship. Poundstone is a police officer in Naugatuck, and is looking to open an old fashioned gym on Baldwin Street in the south end of Waterbury in October. Photograph by John Murray
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Lebanese Festival In Waterbury's East End Continues Sunday. Music, Dancing And Great Food
Members of the Mariot Youth Organization from Our Lady of Lebanon Church performed Lebanese folk dances during the annual Taste Of Lebanon Saturday afternoon in Waterbury. The festival is open tonight (Saturday) until midnight, and continues Sunday after the 10 AM Mass until 7 pm. Our Lady of Lebanon Church is located on the corner of Prospect Road (Rte 69 South) and East Mountain Rd., Waterbury, CT. Photographs by John Murray
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E-Waste Collection At Kennedy High School In Waterbury, September 17th, 8am -2pm
Submitted by johnmurray on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 14:45
The Waterbury Public Works Department is staging the first city wide "e-waste" collection event, Saturday, September 17th. from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Kennedy High School.
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Jarjura and O'Leary Campaigns Spar Over Print Ads
The Chase Building in downtown Waterbury. Photo by John Murray
After the last issue of the Waterbury Observer was published our newspaper received a phone call from Steve Gambini, an aide to Mayor Mike Jarjura. Gambini wanted to know if the Observer had fact checked the most recent full page ad in the Observer purchased by Democrat nominee for mayor, Neil O'Leary. Observer publisher, John Murray, told Gambini that the Observer does not fact check political ads, and that the space was purchased by the O'Leary campaign, and they provided the content.
Two days later the Observer received a press release from the Jarjura campaign that disputed the facts in the O'Leary ad. The following is the release from the Jarjura campaign, and a response from the O'Leary campaign.
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Q Poll Indicates It Will Be Murphy Versus McMahon In 2012 U.S. Senate Showdown
Congressman Chris Murphy attends a lot of events in Waterbury and is pictured here receiving an endorsement for the U.S. Senate from the Connecticut firefighters. Photographs by John Murray
Linda McMahon recently paid a visit to a youth blogging program at Waterbury Youth Services.
Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon thumps former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays 50 - 35 percent in an early look at the 2012 Republican primary for the Connecticut U.S. Senate seat, but she trails either of two possible Democratic candidates, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. McMahon leads 54 - 37 percent among Republican men and 47 - 32 percent among women.
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Waterbury Police Looking For Shooter In Hillside Incident
The investigation into a shooting Tuesday night on Hillside Avenue in Waterbury has hit a roadblock because the victim has refused to cooperate with the police. A 25-year-old man was shot in the leg around 8 PM, but the shooter fled the scene before the police arrived. The victim was taken to Waterbury Hospital and his injury was not considered life-threatening.
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Farmers' Market On The Green In Downtown Waterbury Every Thursday Afternoon
Native peaches are ripe and ready to savour. The Farmers' Market continues every Thursday from 11 AM to 3 PM through October 29th.
(editor's note - the following description is from the website buyctgrown.com)
Farmers' Market on the Green is one of the gems of downtown Waterbury. Situated in the city's historic public green space, the market creates a community center for shoppers and visitors alike. The shady trees and park benches invite market goers to sit and enjoy the colorful activity of the market. Walking paths and green grass let picnickers lounge nearby and enjoy a fresh, delicious lunch courtesy of the local farms that offer their just-picked produce. The market itself is made up of a wide variety of goods, including organic produce, wool and fiber crafts, and flower arrangements. The market even features a regular cooking demonstration and tasting performed by a local chef. Come downtown for lunch or make an afternoon of it. The market is WIC certified and gladly accepts food stamps, so everyone is welcome to enjoy the bounty of fresh, local food.
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Respect The Dangers Of The Naugatuck River
A kayaker in the annual Naugatuck River Canoe and Kayak Race shows excellent form in navigating through a tricky stretch of whitewater this past May. Not all boaters on the Naugatuck are as skilled, or prepared.
Column By Kevin Zak and Photographs By John Murray
Four young adults from a local church group went looking for adventure on the Naugatuck River, and on a bright day in June, they found it. They borrowed four colorful kayaks and headed to the river. None of the four had ever been in a kayak before. They would make no scouting attempts to examine what trouble spots they might encounter. They had no knowledge of the river. No one was wearing a life preserver. No helmets. The only knowledge they had was that there was a way to enter the river in the Platts Mills section above a breached dam. Below the dam were rapids.
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Police Confirm Shooting On Hillside Avenue in Waterbury, Victim Shot Once In the Leg
Lt. Chris Corbett from the Waterbury Police Department has confirmed that a 25-year-old male was shot once in the leg last night near the corner of Willow Street and Hillside Avenue in Waterbury. Corbett said the victim was not injured seriously. Photographs by John Murray
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Incident On Hillside Avenue In Waterbury
More than a dozen Waterbury police officers descended on Hillside Avenue in Waterbury Tuesday around 8pm. One Waterbury police officer questioned two young women as four officers scoured a lawn with high-powered flashlights. Neighbors told the Observer they hadn't heard any gunshots, and moments after this image was taken, the Observer was ordered back as the police extended the crime scene an additional 50 yards. Photograph by John Murray
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Paper Dresses and Motorcycles on View at the Mattatuck Museum, October 1st
Join the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury for a provocative and cutting edge cocktail party and exhibit on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 6:00-8:00pm. This one night only party, "Chrome & Couture, Say Yes to the Paper Dress," will feature an exhibit of custom, vintage and exceptional motorcycles with an outrageous collection of paper dresses. This festive, interactive event will be enjoyed on all three floors of the museum and includes food sculptures, tattoo models, body art demonstrations, psychic readings and strolling tables. Yes, strolling tables.
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Role Of Black Soldiers In The Civil War Discussed At Mattatuck Museum, September 14th
One of the most profound aspects of the Civil War was the freeing of some 4 million enslaved people in the southern states. The road to freedom was rough, but for none more so than the African-Americans who enlisted in the Union army to help the cause of emancipation. This talk will address the rocky path to the Emancipation Proclamation, which allowed African-Americans to enlist in the army. The experiences of the Connecticut 29th and 30th Regiments will be discussed.
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Book Discussion with Clyde Prestowitz: "The Betrayal of American Prosperity"
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
1101 K Street NW 610a
In this event, Clyde Prestowitz, President of the Economic Strategy Institute, discusses his latest book, "The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era."
Prestowitz argues that between 1800 and 1950 America became the richest country the world had ever seen by adopting an economic strategy similar to that of China today. The United States rejected Adam Smith's call for it to be primarily a supplier of raw materials and agricultural commodities and set out consciously to build a business-government partnership to overtake the industrial leadership of Great Britain by promoting technology development, investment in American production in key industries, and massive infrastructure projects like the transcontinental railroad. But Prestowitz holds that, in the past fifty years, the United States has largely turned its back on this approach while our "best and brightest" have subordinated our economic development to geo-political priorities and embraced false doctrines like consumerism, efficient markets, Ricardian free trade, and shareholder value that, in an era of companies without countries, are rapidly eroding the bases of our prosperity and national security.
Prestowitz will discuss the current competitive position of the United States in global economic activity, which he views as "a massive economic defeat we are now absorbing," explain how the U.S. economy got to where it is, and propose recommendations and policies he believes the United States should undertake to revitalize its productive base and competitive position.
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Welcome to the trophy guide on Daggerhood. You will need to complete a total of 12 levels to obtain all trophies. In the first 10 levels, you will need to collect all treasures and find all fairies. You will also need to complete the first 10 levels within the time limit to obtain the 3-star rating.
Complete 3 levels and this trophy will pop.
I'm sure I can escape now!
Complete 6 levels and this trophy will pop.
Complete 12 levels and this trophy will pop.
You will need to collect 3 fairies. See " It's funny to destroy little Fairy families" for more information.
You will need to collect a total of 10 fairies. A fairy will only remain obtainable for a short duration of time, so you will need to speedrun to its location in order to obtain it.
In the video below you will see how to get all 10 fairies within the first 10 levels.
Get all treasures on 1 level.
See "It's worth nothing down here" for more information.
Get all treasures on 3 levels.
See " It's worth nothing down here" for more information.
Get all treasures on 10 levels.
Each level has 5 treasures. You will need to collect all treasures on a total of 10 levels. You can see what they look like in the image below.
The game provides you with an overview on how many gems you collected in each level, in case you should forget. The gems are hardly missable and not hidden at all.
Get 3 stars on 1 level.
See " This is not going to end well " for more information.
Get 3 stars on 3 levels.
See "This is not going to end well" for more information.
Get 3 stars on 10 levels.
You will need to complete a total of 10 levels within the time limit. This is most-likely not possible to do while you are collecting all the gems, so it's recommended to replay a level if you miss out on the 3 stars the first time.
After you complete a level you will see how many stars you have obtained. In case you did not earn those 3 stars, the game will show you what time you should achieve to obtain those 3 stars.
This trophy is trivial if you skip all the collectibles and the fairy.
You will need to kill 1 single enemy. Simply throw a dagger(by pressing Square) at an enemy and you will kill it.
Just die once. You can die by jumping into spikes or by letting an enemy touch you.
See "It's funny to destroy little Fairy families" for more information.
Complete 1 level and this trophy will pop.


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Somali forces kill attackers to end siege at popular Mogadishu hotel
By Omar Nor, CNN
Updated 2142 GMT (0542 HKT) August 16, 2020
The Elite Hotel is regularly frequented by locals and foreigners.
Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) Somali forces have killed the last of four Al-Shabaab attackers who fought their way into the beachfront Elite Hotel in Mogadishu after a car bombing Sunday, a government spokesman says.
"#Somali special forces end a 4 hours-long deadly siege at Elite hotel in #Mogadushu after killing the last attacker," Ismail Mukhtar said on Twitter late Sunday.
Mukhtar and police said four attackers were involved in the assault. He put the death toll at 10, including a solider and two officials with the information and defense ministries. Dozens of others have been wounded, hospital sources said.
Mukhtar said 205 people had been rescued after troops ended the siege at 10 p.m. local time.
What's happening inside Somalia?
The attack began when a car bomb detonated at the gates of the Elite Hotel and gunmen then launched an assault inside.
Somali terror group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on its mouthpiece channel, Radio Andalus.
"The mujahideen carried out an assault involving car bomb[s] and [a] gun raid targeting [the] Elite hotel owned by [a] Somali lawmaker," the al Qaeda affiliated group said. The owner of the hotel, lawmaker Abdullahi Mohamed Nur, said after the siege ended that he was among those freed.
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo issued a statement condemning the "heinous and cowardly" terrorist attack.
"The main purpose of the ambush attacks by the terrorists is to discourage the Somali people who are recovering from difficult circumstances," he said. "It is a fact that their plan is to harm every Somali through some misguided Somali youth."
The president issued his condolences over the victims of the attack and wished a speedy recovery to the wounded.
Somalia's Ministry of Information confirmed the death of Abdirisak Abdi, a ministry official.
The beachfront Elite Hotel is regularly frequented by locals and foreigners since it is based in a heavily protected area in the city. But it is unclear if there are any foreign nationals currently staying at the hotel.
Al-Shabaab targeted the SYL hotel last year, resulting in a seven-hour battle. The group frequently targets Mogadishu in bombing and gun raids.
CNN's Hira Humayun, Samantha Beech and Susannah Cullinane contributed tot his report.


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