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Defar sets new two-mile record
By ATAF Editor, 27 January, 2008
Ethiopia's Olympic champion Meseret Defar added another record to her kitty with a World best of 9:10.50 for Two Miles at the 2008 Reebok Boston Indoor Games at the Boston's Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center.
Defar, who also holds the indoor 3000m World record of 8:23.72 and the outdoor World best at Two Miles, said afterwards she could have ran faster as she wasn't even running today at 100 percent yet.
Last year, Defar came very close to breaking the women's 3000m World Indoor record which she narrowly missed in 2006 running 8:30.94 to post the third-fastest time in history at the 2006 Reebok Boston Indoor Games in January.
Her time was bested only by Berhane Adere's four-year-old world record of 8:29.15 and Defar's own 8:30.05, also run at the same meet in 2005.
Dibaba sisters
Compatriot and World 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba also posted a World season leading time of 8:33.37 for the women's 3000m, with her sister Ejegayehu Dibaba a distant second in 8:36.59.
Still just 22 years old, Dibaba, a three-time World Cross Country Champion, has been one of the brightest track-and-field stars in the world for the past four years.
In 2007, she defended her title as 10,000-meter World Champion with a dramatic come-from-behind victory while battling an injury. She is also the 2003 and 2005 World Champion and 2004 Olympic bronze medalist at 5000 meters.
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Cheesemaker Harvests the Data Cream of the Crop
The MWC cheese and whey facility, ProFood World's 2021 Manufacturing Innovation Award winner, continues to layer on SCADA functionality to get more information from the data it gathers.
Aaron HandEditor-in-Chief, ProFood World
The Ignition SCADA system provides alarms for MWC operators, and also provides layers of data capabilities for track and trace, OEE, and more.
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With the sheer size of its operations, and an on-site server system large enough to store three or four months of data, MWC is up to its eyeballs in data. This could be overwhelming, so it's important to know how to turn that data into information, notes George Chappell, vice president of dairy operations for Glanbia Nutritionals. But in much the same way it has added other bells and whistles into its operations, MWC is building out analytical capabilities in layers, bit by bit.
In this Take 5 video, ProFood World's Joyce Fassl is on location at MWC in St. Johns, Mich., to profile the 2021 Manufacturing Innovation Award winner.
According to Chappell's "effective-before-efficient" principle, when all the equipment is running, MWC gathers data on its servers that create a baseline of information. "Once we have that, then we layer on our management information systems that will generate reports," he says. "These are automated reports that come to specific leaders in the facility that allow them to start making decisions based on the information, not just the data."
Now that MWC has come to the end of its commissioning phase, it's beginning to layer on more reporting to drive further efficiencies, Chappell adds. The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system provides automation control for the facility and is also used for information and reporting. "It gives you a lot of ways to layer on additional capabilities—whether it's around reporting systems, whether it is linking into other software, where you can pull and send data to business systems and start to link them together," he says.
Read the full June cover story detailing MWC's award-winning cheese and whey operations.
MWC uses an Ignition SCADA system from Inductive Automation, configured and integrated by Tamaki Control, which specializes in industrial automation. "We proved it out at Southwest Cheese, and so we just dropped it in here and it's a really useful system," says David North, senior site director for MWC.
"It gives you an opportunity to just layer on things like track and trace, OEE [overall equipment effectiveness], and automated report generation," Chappell says. "It has a lot of additional add-ons that are easily pulled forward once you get the plant started up."
Ignition's playback capabilities particularly attracted MWC to the SCADA system, according to North. "Literally, we can turn back time. Something happens during the night and we come the next day and we can't work out what it was, we can go into replay and we can see every action that was taken during that period of time," he explains. "It is the single most delightful thing to have when you're trying to fault-find where something went wrong or went right."
The system's ability to compress data also initially attracted MWC (and SWC before it) to Ignition, Chappell says, enabling them to reduce server space by about 80%. "It saved us close to a quarter of a million dollars at our other facility, just in those reductions," he says. "It was compelling just from that front, but the more that we use the Ignition system and understand its capabilities and its flexibility, that's just that much more incentive to continue moving forward with it."
Predicting failures
MWC uses the data from the SCADA system to better manage maintenance on an ongoing basis, based on how many operations are being made every minute, every day, etc., North says. An alarm system also alerts operators and maintenance personnel about any potential situations.
See the announcement of all three of ProFood World's 2021 Manufacturing Innovation Award winners.
"Anything that the system is picking up that seems abnormal will send an alarm and a flag back to whoever needs to see it," Chappell says. "If you see a valve fault X amount of times, it triggers a signal for people who are our maintenance or operators to go and have a look, see what's going on with valve X. In a plant of this size, where we literally have thousands of valves that can fail, it's impossible for an operator to see those without some type of automation intervention."
The SCADA system enables managers to log in from home to monitor operations. MWC also uses the system to allow its vendors to support the plant remotely. "They can come in through a protected firewall system that we provide them in short intervals that will allow them to come in, access the system, do what they need to do, and then it shuts them back off again," Chappell explains. "It allows us to receive support, and we have done in the past support from Australia, Europe, anywhere in the world."
It's important that, while layering on capabilities, it's done cautiously, Chappell adds. "I would say we're heavy into Ignition, and we're moving forward with it but moving cautiously to make sure that we do it correctly," he says.
MWC has a fully fenced site with swipe card access, but the security doesn't stop there. "With the amount of automation that we have and the technology that we have, it's important we protect the site from a cybersecurity standpoint as well," Chappell says. "That's an ever-increasing threat that we have to be aware of and that we continue to build the securities around."
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Vision Inspection Maximizes Label Accuracy
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Festo Explores How Digitization Affects Energy, Education
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Bosch Rexroth Reinvents Its Automation Approach
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World's First Outer Loop Control IC Released For Brushless DC and DC Brush Motors
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The jury is still out on the exact number of hours an adult needs to sleep to feel fully rested in the morning. However, the National Sleep Foundation recommends between 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night, as a "rule of thumb." The younger you are the more sleep you need because your body is still growing and requires more energy during development.
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HISTORY & WHITE CANE DAY
Houston Council Of the Blind (HCB) was organized January 27, 1978 in Houston Texas. There were 18 members who were very involved in the growth of the organization. The organization was chartered by the State of Texas on June 2, 1978 as a non-profit corporation. The first officers were:
Jim Beeson, President
Truett Childres, Vice President
Gail Beeson, Secretary
Nellie Webb, Treasurer
The meeting place was the Lighthouse of Houston to which the HCB donated $25.00 to use the building.
In 1982 there were 110 members.
LANDMARKS OF ADVOCACY
1. HCB advocated for H.R. 4642--S. 2775 The Fair Insurance Coverage Act This bill would prohibit discrimination in insurance coverage on the basis of blindness or degree of blindness. Bill passed.
2.Instrumental in establishing The Texas Health and Human Services Coordinating Council in Senate Bill 711 to have a voice in state law.
3. Multi Service Center, 1982, the Council advocated for inclusion in input from the blind community in designing the MSC for disabled people.
4.The Rehab Act of 1973, (504) This established that blind people have the right to work and to promote their opportunities for employment and Independent Living.
5.WHITE CANE DAY was first observed on October 15, 1981 and recognized by the State Governor Clements on October 15, 1982. It was for public awareness about blind cane travel to promote independent travel and safety.
In the photo from left to right: Randy Green, President GHR Group; BVA Jim Beeson, President of Houston Chapter -ACBT; Mayor Jim McConn; Harvey Haegy, President of Houston Chapter of the NFB; Mamie Lopez, President of TFB-Houston Chapter.
6.Resolution was created to urge the Texas Commission for the Blind to improve the number of qualified blind employees in the state.
7.Support the project to initiate Recreational programs for handicapped individuals. Promoted and supported Beep Ball in 1982 so that blind people could have an opportunity to play base ball.
8.Supported the Radio Reading Service Docket 82-law in opposing the commercialization of sub-carriers 67 kHz on public radio stations.
9.Organized a Consumer Advisory Committee in 1982 with the Texas Commission for the Blind to voice our concerns.
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There are plenty of ways to prepare for the warmer months and its impact on your business. Here is a checklist of the most critical steps that you should be taking to be sure your budiling is summer ready.
Don't just assume that because you performed inspections prior to the onset of winter that you're fine until next fall! Issues could develop from something minor, like a moldy run, into something major, like indoor air quality that is severely compromised by the presence of mold spores.
Look for any obvious signs of water damage from snow/ice or heavy spring rains to the building's exterior and make any necessary repairs now.
Inspect indoor spaces, particularly basements and areas closest to the roof, for mold or wear and damage.
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Your roof and its interior component, the ceiling, are critical to employee and equipment safety and longevity. When your roof fails, it can damage the ceiling inside and everything that was being protected by it. Even the sturdiest of roofs can experience compromising damage from ice dams (the build-up of heavy and thick ice) during the winter, which can become problematic when the ice melts and there's a leak!
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
OFFICE OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS,
Columbia, S. C., January 1, 1908. To His Excellency M. F. Ansel, Governor of South Carolina.
Sir: We have the honor to transmit the twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of South Carolina for the year ending June 30, 1907. Yours respectfully,
B. L. CAUGHMAN, Chairman,
JOHN H. EARLE,
J. M. SULLIVAN,
E. P. WARING, JR., Secretary.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RAILROAD COM
MISSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
To the General Assembly of South Caroina:
We respectfully submit the twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of South Carolina :
Returns for the year ending June 30th, 1907, have been received from all railroad companies operating in this State, twenty-five in number.
During the past year there has been a net increase of 21.63 miles in the length of railroad lines in South Carolina, not including spurs, sidings and yard track; 232.24 miles of new spur, yard and side tracks have been laid since our last report. The total length of railroad track within the State, including main tracks, branches, spurs, siding, and yard tracks, is 3,440.45 miles. For detailed statements as to these matters see tables accompanying this report.
DEPOTS,
Since June 30, 1906, 236 new depots have been erected, repaired or construction begun. The Commission expects to continue its efforts toward securing improved facilities and comfort at the various stations where needed. One of the main sources of complaint at railway stations is the want of proper attention on the part of the railroad companies, or their agents, to the matter of lights, heat, water and cleanliness. The Commission has recently adopted and promulgated certain rules and regulations, very reasonable in their requirements, published elsewhere in this report, which it is intended shall be rigidly enforced, with the view of obtaining that degree of comfort and convenience to which the public is entitled. In many instances traffic has outgrown the capacity of the old depots, and it has been found necessary to insist upon the enlargement of these warehouses.
We have, on the whole, met with no very serious opposition to these necessary improvements, though at times the railroad companies have failed to respond to our demands as promptly as desired. SCHEDULES.
The problem of arranging and maintaining such schedules for passenger trains as to satisfactorily serve the public, without neglect to any community, is one of difficult solution. Since our last report we are prepared to say that there has been a decided improvement in regard to schedules on about all the lines in this State. It is true improvement has been accomplished in a measure by "slowing up" some of the trains, but the fact remains that additional passenger trains put into service, and certain changes made in the time tables of various roads, have contributed very decidedly to the previously existing conditions in respect to this feature of our transportation service.
This Commission desires to bring to your attention a matter of great importance to the traveling public, and one subjecting the patrons of the railroads in this State to great inconvenience and loss of time In numerous cases of railroad wrecks or derailments, passengers have been kept at way stations at great inconvenience and discomfort, for from one to eighteen hours, on account of the negligence of the road in not furnishing proper equipment to meet such emergencies. In many instances it has come to the attention of this Commission that ladies and children, as well as male passengers, have been kept in day coaches all night, and that they were obliged to miss their connections and lay over at junction points for half a day or more. The roads have given, in some instances, as their excuse, that they could not transfer passengers for lack of equipment. We would respectfully urge proper legislation along this line. This is especially necessary, as the agents at small stations are negligent in posting trains and giving passengers, waiting for late trains, proper information. In case of wrecks it is often the case that trains have to be delayed, but there is little or no excuse for not transferring passengers with reasonable promptness. In some instances which have come under our notice, passengers could have been transferred by using the equipment of another division of the same road, yet we receive excuse from the Superintendent that he did not have the necessary equipment. We would recommend additional legislation as to posting trains and running local trains in case the regular train is over three hours off of its published schedule, and in case of wrecks some law be passed as to transferring and protecting passengers.
FREIGHT SERVICE.
Since last May the Commission has received few complaints in regard to delays in the delivery of freight to consignees. Previous to that time, and during the winter months of 1906-'07, especially, complaints, to an alarming extent, came to our office from all parts of the State, developing a state of traffic congestion which the transportation companies seemed powerless to remove promptly. This congestion was not removed until the tonnage decreased. Less than twelve months ago shippers were complaining of "car shortage." The Commission has not during the past six months received any such complaints, and possibly the complaints as to "car shortage" and slow deliveries would not have been so common a year ago had the carriers been equipped with sufficient motive power, trackage and terminal facilities to handle cars and freight trains with reasonable despatch.
It is claimed that the unexampled growth of the commerce of the country at large during the past few years, resulted in an unprecedented increase in tonnage last winter, beyond what was expected, and beyond the ability of the transportation companies to provide for. Conditions within the last few months have materially changed, and now, on January 1, 1908, we witness a general decrease in the volume of traffic as compared with the previous year. We regard this situation as abnormal, attributable largely to the adverse financial conditions prevailing throughout the United States. It is reasonable to expect soon, a restoration of normal trade conditions, which will require facilities not heretofore provided for by our common carriers. It may
be well to consider the fact that the railroads of this country were originally, in a general way, cheaply constructed and cheaply equipped to meet the limited demands then made upon them. Improvements have been slow and imperfect; stability is still wanting. Roadbeds, tracks, depot accommodations and terminals, require constant reconstruction, and necessarily call for the expenditure of large sums of money if the commerce of the country is to be properly accommodated.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER RATES.
The question of reducing passenger rates was considered at the last session of your body and the Commission has taken no action since affecting the matter.


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Malnourished five-month old Tiere Pascol, whose mother can't afford food and has trouble breastfeeding, lies in his mother's arms at a feeding center in Al Sabah Children's Hospital in the capital Juba, South Sudan Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. One county in South Sudan is likely in famine and tens of thousands of people in five other counties are on the brink of starvation, according to a new report released Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 by international food security experts. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — One county in South Sudan is likely in famine and tens of thousands of people in five other counties are on the brink of starvation, according to a new report by international food security experts.
Nowhere in the world has been in famine since one was declared nearly four years ago in South Sudan's Unity state as civil war raged. Now western Pibor county is feared to have reached that crisis level, the result of massive flooding and deadly violence that has prevented access to aid.
The new report stops short of declaring famine, which would kick aid efforts into higher gear, because of insufficient data. But based on available information, famine is thought to be occurring, according to the Famine Review Committee report released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. That means at least 20% of households are facing extreme food gaps and at least 30% of children are acutely malnourished.
"Considering all the evidence available, famine is most likely ongoing, and we expect a high rate of death in that area," said Chris Newton, a former U.N. World Food Program staffer with years of experience in South Sudan.
"The condition is catastrophic, and the humanitarian community and the government will have to scale up our assistance," said Meshack Malo, country representative for the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.
The report says catastrophe conditions are also occurring in five counties across South Sudan in Jonglei, Warrap and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states, where 5% to 10% of the population is facing starvation.
South Sudan's government did not endorse the report. In a statement earlier this week, it urged caution in claiming famine conditions and said any famine occurring on the government and aid community's watch is a "testament of failure by both parties."
Aid workers worry that already challenging humanitarian access will become more difficult in these hungry areas. The report says there is less than a 50% chance that planned food assistance will be delivered to the affected areas in the months ahead.
South Sudan has been struggling to recover from five years of war that killed almost 400,000 people, according to a past study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A coalition government formed this year between President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar is implementing a peace deal behind schedule, while deadly violence continues in parts of the country.
The violence is the worst in Jonglei state and the Greater Pibor Administrative Area, where hunger is the most severe.
"This famine is a result of the broader impact of violence on human lives," said Edmund Yakani, executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, a civil society group. He blamed "politicians who tend to use violence as an option for controlling power."
Between January and May there was a 220% increase in incidents of intercommunal violence compared with the same period two years ago, the U.N. has said, with the government and opposition often providing arms.
A U.N. panel of experts has said the fighting prevented people from cultivating, blocked supply routes and burned down markets while humanitarian warehouses were looted and several humanitarian workers were killed.
Acting army spokesman Santo Domic Chol said the army has never denied civilians access to aid.
The problems have been compounded by the worst local flooding in decades, which has displaced more than 1 million people since July. Most of them are in Jonglei and the Greater Pibor Administrative Area, according to the U.N.
On a visit to the community of Old Fangak in Jonglei last month, displaced residents said the floods had wiped out their crops and cattle.
"It is difficult to get food unless we get it from the humanitarian organizations," said a dispirited Regina Nyakul. Since her home was destroyed by the floods, the mother of nine shelters in a school with her children.
Sometimes they fall ill due to a lack of food, she said.
At the market, trader Gatluak Billiew said the floods had spoiled food commodities and made it difficult to restock.
"We are very worried about the upcoming dry season that will lead to more violence" bringing yet another crisis, said Jose Mas Campos, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan.
But the hunger is a countrywide problem. A recent World Bank phone survey of more than 1,200 people in South Sudan found that nearly 73% reported going without eating for a whole day due to a lack of money. A drop in oil prices, the country's main source of revenue, along with inflation and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have worsened an economic crisis.
At the Al-Sabah Children's hospital in the capital, Juba, doctors say they have seen an increase in children dying from malnutrition.
Eighty-five died between January and December, compared with 62 over the same period last year, even though the hospital has received less patients, said James Mawien Tong, head doctor at the hospital's feeding center.
Many children die within 24 hours of arrival because their parents wait too long to bring them, he said. The families are largely from Juba and the surrounding area.
Seated on the floor, Angelina Ater soothed her sobbing 2-year-old daughter as she was fed through a tube in her nose.
The 20-year-old said that since August, the economic crisis has forced her family to eat just once a day because they can't afford food.
"The situation is not good," she said. "We really need help."
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by SANDRA SEBASTIAN, Associated Press / Jan 18, 2021
VADO HONDO, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan police and soldiers on Monday broke up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural highway.
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Mr Justice Finnegan, Royal Dutch Shell & the "Rossport Five"
Alfred Donovan | 11.04.2006 15:01 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World
On Friday 7th April the "Rossport 5" were back in court before the President of the Irish High Court, Mr Justice Finnegan.
The "Rossport Five" - brothers Philip and Vincent McGrath, Willie Corduff, Michael O Seighin and Brendan Philbin became national heroes in Ireland after being jailed for contempt of court in June 2005 at the behest of Shell, which obtained compulsory purchase orders for land in relation to the laying of the Corrib gas pipeline.
This was the first time in Irish history that such an order was granted to a private company. It was intended that the five landowners/protestors would remain in jail until they undertook not to interfere with construction of the pipeline.
The men were however released at the end of September 2005 after Shell management made a spectacular u-turn and applied to have the temporary injunction lifted. Shell acted in the face of what had become a major public relations disaster with thousands of Irish citizens participating in street protests.
Protests against the jailing were also mounted in the UK and the Netherlands.
Although Shell had not asked for costs, Mr Justice Finnegan insisted on making an order that the Rossport Five should pay all legal costs. Comments made by the Judge in previous hearings relating to the same case seemed to display a degree of bias in favour of Shell. This decision in my view confirms suspicions about his lack of impartiality.
On the one hand we have five courageous ordinary Irish citizens and on the other, the Irish Establishment (including the judiciary) and a multinational oil giant making obscene profits of almost £1.5 million an hour. The Rossport Five are understandably short of funds after being imprisoned for three months while Shell is awash with billions due to record high oil prices.
The appallingly unfair decision in view of these background circumstances gives Shell extra leverage at a time when independent mediation is supposedly underway between the company and the Rossport Five.
It has happened at a time when The Centre for Public Inquiry has been forced to cease operations (just a few days ago) after probing the Irish governments' role in granting permission for the Corrib pipeline on terms overly favourable to the consortium led by Shell i.e. terms contrary to the interests of ordinary Irish citizens. One of the objectives of the non-profit making organisation was to expose corruption.
It is a murky tale but my money is still on the opponents of the pipeline who are well organised and absolutely determined to fight for a cause they believe in – right over might.
It is salient to note that Shell is acquiring a reputation for having its opponents jailed.
It is understood that Shell lawyers have confirmed that the EIGHT Royal Dutch Shell companies which are collectively suing a Shell whistleblower, Dr John Huong, for defamation, are pressing forward with contempt proceedings against him seeking that he be jailed or fined.
Since Dr Huong has no funds, it seems inevitable that he too will end up in jail. At least he would have time to write a revealing book about Shell. As a former employee (a geologist) for 29 years, Dr Huong knows a great deal about Shell senior management misdeeds, including the reserves scandal which destroyed Shell's reputation. It should be an interesting read.
The defamation action is related to articles about Shell published on RoyalDutchShellplc.com and an associated website in accordance with Dr Huong's basic right to freedom of expression.
By Alfred Donovan: email: Alfred@ShellNews.net
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Resident Evil 6 - PS3 - 37 reviews
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Resident Evil 6 had one of the most controversial development cycles of the series. Capcom expressed an interest in getting more casual fans to gravitate towards the series, and this acknowledgment caused an uproar among long standing fans of the series. Capcom's attempt to reach out to a wider audience does not go unnoticed, in Resident Evil 6, nor does it help make the game better. Only the strong points of the game, the ones that more often than not come from past entries into the series, pull Resident Evil 6 from out of the dregs on mediocrity and make it a game worth playing, just not one that is must play.
Instead of simply making one game that appeals to a certain niche, Capcom decided instead to combine four separate games and smash them into one game under the same engine. The result is the largest, most epic and most varied entry into the series, but it is also the most muddled. Rather than having one campaign Resident Evil 6 has four. Each campaign follows one or two different character from the Resident Evil series. The game's storylines intersect and overlap but each one can be played individually and has its own beginning, middle and end. The Tarantino-ish take on story telling is very effective and when they intersect it can be very satisfying. It is encouraging to see Capcom take this approach with Resident Evil, and it provides hope for where the series might go in the future.
The issues with Resident Evil 6 become apparent when the player realizes that some of the campaigns are simply not fun to play. Each campaign has its own feel and pace to it, Leon Kennedy's is a fantastic journey not unlike previous entries into the series, and is full of suspense and legitimate fear. On the other hand Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin's action-packed campaign seems like a generic pop and shoot game with a broken cover mechanic.
Extended fire fights and car chases are not the things fans remember when they think about the Resident Evil series, and Capcom's attempt to grab some gamers from Gears of War and Call of Duty by adding these elements did not work in Resident Evil 6's favor. Ada Wong's campaign is similar to Leon's, only with more stealth elements and it too is a great testament to the Resident Evil series. Chris Redfield's campaign meanwhile, falls somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.
Fortunately, regardless of the campaign, the graphics are top notch. With a greater emphasis on dark environments than in Resident Evil 5, the atmosphere is incredibly creepy, when it isn't being interrupted with gun fights and car chases. The controls are mostly solid, except for the cover mechanic, which is border-line broken, but most of the game can be played without it.
The good parts of Resident Evil 6 are some of the best in the series, and are a real testament to how good Capcom can do the survival horror genre.
Unfortunately the campaigns that put an over emphasis on action bring down the experience quite a bit. If those shortcomings can be overcome there is a great storyline and some terrific game play to be had here.
Homeworld 2 - PC - 37 reviews
Do you wonder what you will face when you play Homeworld 2? The answer is that you will get to witness a grand space opera in truly epic proportions. This is because Homeworld 2 is indeed a very impressive follow up to another hit game that focused on strategy that also managed to incorporate three dimensional combat set in deep space.
This is one thing that no game has ever come close to achieving save perhaps for Homeworld: Cataclysm, which was released as the follow up to the original game. However, Homeworld: 2 is indeed a full fledged follow up to the original game; however, it bears a lot of similarities to the game that preceded it. Think of it as a sort of remake that reintroduces the unique gameplay and retells the story of the first Homeworld game; only this time, it comes with stellar graphics and sounds that is truly remarkable.
As any true fan of the original game can look forward to, its gameplay once again involves some dramatic and intense ship versus ship battles among several kinds of fighter craft that can be found in the future. These battles will keep you at the edge of your seat and have you cheering loudly when and if you do win a battle. One thing that may prove distracting, even to more experienced players is that the battles that you will get to witness are so spectacular that you may find yourself gaping in awe instead of actually playing the game. That is just a testament to how intense and beautiful the graphics are in this game. But remember that you have to direct the battles in order to win and simply staring at the screen will not help you win any battles.
Homeworld 2 has a basic structure that is a lot if not completely like the original game's. As a matter if fact, this is a very straightforward strategy game that is played in real time wherein the mother ship is the base and also the factory wherein you will have to utilize every single supply that you can get your hands on so that you can have enough fuel for the war machine. One task that you have to do is to provide enough protection to your collectors as they go about doing their tasks; all this while you build fleets to duel with the warships that belong to your enemies.
Speaking of ships, you will notice that the ships you do have are more well balanced as compared to the ones that can be found on the original game. Ships from different classes can all be upgraded so that makes things a lot more exciting for the player.
If you were a fan of the original game then do not hesitate to give this new and improved version a try and see if it blows your mind. Those who are new to the game will certainly fall in love with the game and may even venture to try out the older version.
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile - PC - 37 reviews
As far as promising starts go, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile in indeed a very promising start for its developer, the same people who founded the earlier games that were centered on building cities.
These games may seem familiar to you; they went by the names Pharaoh and Caesar. If you just happen to be someone who is a veteran of those two games it is best to keep in mind that this game is brand new start for that genre. With this game, the people who developed it made sure that they built it fresh, that is to say, they made sure that they built it from the ground up instead of just recycling older ideas that were used before in older games. The end result of their efforts is a game that shows loads of personality and a number of very interesting city building type gameplay. As charming as it is, it does get weighed down by several problems that were not present in the older games of the same type.
In this particular game, you will be tasked to play in the role of a group of pharaohs living in the old, middle and new kingdom's of Egypt which were back then, the height of its power and as well as the influence being a civilisation. Your main goal here is to raise the prestige that you have and that is by increasing the power of your cities and its size as well. This game has a big campaign that will let you take a series of challenges that increase in difficulty as well as several scenarios that will enable you to visit cities from virtually nothing. You will also be treated to several top quality tutorials which will give you all the knowledge that you need in order to play the game.
But what really makes this game stand out from other games that were released previously in its genre is that there is an emphasis on the populace of the city; which is totally different from the previous city building games wherein the citizens were reduced to mere statistics. In this game, you can actually see what your citizens are up to in their everyday lives. The end result is that each character then has needs that you will need to address; these include needs like food, and health and even religion. This adds to the beauty of the game since you will really see what is working in your city and add to that, you will also see what is not working.
You will notice that your economic backbone is the farmers that plant the crops whenever the Nile river overflows. Then as a support to the farmers, you will also have a small group of shopkeepers who manufacture goods that are to be used in the city.
This is a fun game that will also give you a lesson in economics that you can really learn from although you may not necessarily be an economist.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit - PC - 37 reviews
This time Electronic Arts partners with developers Criterion Games after their epic mishap with their previous Need for Speed installment, they probably felt like a change was needed and partnering up with Criterion could be something they should have done earlier.
Criterion, known for its extreme style of open-world racing games such as the Burnout series has made its mark in the gaming industry with insane concepts of car racing. This time around with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, they ramped up the ante by taking one of the coolest city's ever to be made in the video game world and super cars that would make even the most experienced racing gamer drool. The city is named Seacrest County and what makes it cool is simple one thing; they have Lamborghini cop cars. Now, even the in your craziest dreams did you ever see a Lamborghini cop car? How about a city with that have cars racing around its perfectly woven streets? Not to mention those cars are comes from a billionaire's Christmas list.
In that list you'll find Lamborghinis, Audi R8s, Aston Martin DBSs, Porsche 911s and if those still won't tickle your fancy how about the ultimate Pagani Zonda or world's most expensive car; The Bugatti Veyron. If that didn't get racing gamers aroused then probably nothing will. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit simplifies the concept of racing games ever so easily. By thoroughly embracing the idea of racing your million-dollar super car in city streets against other million-dollar super cars or more interestingly; million-dollar cop cars.
In this game, you get into action by simply driving into a specific marker in the city, take your pick at which even you want to participate choose your side and off you go. Racing your car into the busy streets against other cars or cops depending on the racing event you have chosen. You can either play as the cop or the hard headed racer, race your rank, reputation or wanted levels as you weave through traffic, smashing on other innocent cars (Yes, million-dollar super cars too) running people off, drifting on corners and just simply acting like an insane racer felon. Funny thing is the more you really do drive like an insane felon; the more points you get, more new cars you can unlock and open new areas of Seacrest County.
One of the best aspects about this game; as much as racing physics itself, is probably the landscape and graphics that certainly feels like it's alive. That's what you would expect from Criterion Games but Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit certainly looks a thousand fold better than any other racing game out there in the market.
Marvel Super Hero Squad - Wii - 37 reviews
Marvel Super Hero Squad for the Wii, developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment, features miniature versions of everyone's favorite Marvel super heroes, and was published by THQ. The characters featured are Iron Man, Wolverine, Storm, Captain America and the rest of the super hero squad cast, from the toy line and television show. As a result the graphics for the game are, understandably, a bit cartoon like, and the music is suited to a younger audience. This is a beat 'em up game where players use the powers from their favorite Marvel super heroes to fight off all the villains that get in the way of the saving the world.
The comic storyline of the game has been simplified so that children can understand the story from a their perspective. You get to venture into places such as Asteroid M, Asgard, The Vault, Villainville and Super Hero City. The plot develops as Doctor Doom aims to collect enough fractals to create a complete Infinity Sword, in order to become one of the most powerful villains in the universe.
The game starts in a S.H.I.E.L.D missile base where MODOK and A.I.M. appear, and take an Infinity Sword fractal to Doctor Doom. This is the beginning of the serious plot that develops which involves Doctor Doom working in coordination with some of the most powerful and menacing villains. Some of the undesirables which you must face are The Juggernaut, Magneto, Mystique, Loki and The Abomination. This makes it hard for the super hero squad to thwart Doctor Doom's evil plot to take over the world. Luckily, the Super Hero Squad, team up with your favorite friends in order to take on the evil Doctor Doom and all of his colleagues as they try to make the world their own.
The game received decent reviews and will probably be seen as an average game by experienced gamers, but is the perfect game for kids, who are its target audience. The multiplayer aspect of the game is another feature that makes it good for children as it encourages teamwork.
There is also battle mode to the game where players can choose to play their favorite Marvel characters to fight in an arena. The battle mode is a simple fighting game mode where people have life bars and use their powers to battle it out until there is only one person standing.
Note that the game has a sequel which gives this game added play value. Marvel Super Hero Squad, The Infinity Gauntlet was released in 2010 and expands on the story presented in Marvel Super Hero Squad. .
Super Mario Galaxy - Wii - 37 reviews
No matter what else comes out for a Nintendo, each of them is always remembered by the Mario game or games that came out for that system. For most systems this was a great thing, but the GameCube's Mario game, Super Mario Sunshine, has been dismissed by both critics and consumers as one of the worst 3D Mario games ever made. Can Super Mario Galaxy show the world that Sunshine was just a hiccup in an otherwise stellar franchise?
The short answer to this question is a resounding yes, but lets look at the reasons why. By setting Super Mario Galaxy in space, the game designers found it much easier to each world (level) from each other visually and stylistically. That said, the best thing about this clear separation between each world is that they can each have their own distinct rules. Past games have done this to some extent, but every level in Super Mario Galaxy looks one hundred percent unique and interesting.
Super Mario Galaxy also ditches the extremely gimmicky water backpack from Super Mario Sunshine in favor of a much more tradition 3D platforming style of gameplay. However, the game adds a new kind of collectible called star bits that requires you to point at them on the screen to collect them. I'm sure that Nintendo felt obligated to make use of the system's motion controls, but for games like this, they often just detract from the overall experience.
Thankfully, the sometimes odd motion controls don't take away from the gameplay as a whole. Like most 3D Mario games, Super Mario Galaxy manages to walk the line between being too easy and being too hard. I never felt like I was just breezing through the worlds, but I also never felt like I was being unjustly punished by unforgiving level design, at least for required levels. Some optional levels are certainly crazy hard, but that's the point.
Of course, Super Mario Galaxy is not without its weak spots. Practically every new suit that the game introduces handles terribly, particularly the spring suit. Like any Mario game, the story seems silly and tacked on to the point where you wonder why Nintendo even bothers to write a story for any of their games in the first place. But to be honest, these are minor nitpicks when we're talking about the best game available for the Wii right now.
Super Mario Galaxy sets an incredibly high bar for other games that come out on the Wii, and I certainly hope that they are able to match it, because if they can, the Wii will be able to truly give the Xbox 360 and the PS3 a run for their money when it comes to software. Moreover, Super Mario Galaxy picks the Mario series of 3D platformers back up after they fell so hard in Sunshine, and now I am once again looking forward to whatever Nintendo comes up with for Mario during their next time up at bat.
Crysis 2 - PS3 - 37 reviews
The story starts with New York City being overwhelmed by an alien virus from invading aliens, known as the Ceph. In addition to the Ceph trying to conquer humanity, and kill you, is a group known as the CELL who are mercenaries for the company that built your suit, Crynet. These forces are fighting with marines, preventing them from fighting off the Ceph, though why they're doing that isn't ever explained. Either way, it's just more enemies for you to kill in your supersuit.
The first, most important thing about Crysis 2, is that you get armor, called the Nanosuit, that you will be wearing all game. This armor does more than just protect your character, however. It is the key to the super powers that make this game so much different than its current competitors. You have a ton of different capabilities available to you with the Nanosuit on, and the game forces you to make use of every one of them over the course of proceeding through it.
The way it makes you use these different skills is through enormous set-pieces that you'll come across, over and over. You'll usually enter an area from above, allowing you to sit cloaked and strategize on the best way to defeat patrolling, emplaced, apparently-aware enemies before trying out some tactic that puts all the best items of a situation at your advantage. Being able to strategize attacks like this before you go in is something that has been missing from a lot of first-person shooters, and being able to do it here is an enormously satisfying experience, whether you actually pull it off or not.
Another feature that makes this game great is the multiplayer. What you'll find when you step online is a leveling and reward system that pays a player for playing, much like the Call of Duty series of games. The essential difference between the two is that every player gets a Nanosuit. This allows for players to engage in the same sort of tactical battles that the single-player game offers. Playing against enemies that have the capability to cloak and power up their armor throws enormous changes into the game, and upgrading all those different skills along with your weapons will keep players coming back.
The sheer volume of gameplay elements that Crysis 2 does so well makes it a must-have for fans of first-person shooters. From a single-player game that will have you playing through again and again, to a multiplayer experience filled with more adrenaline than you can shake a stick at, to graphics that will make you buy a drool cup, Crysis 2 takes the FPS to a whole new level.
Brave - PS3 - 37 reviews
The Pixar movie Brave opened to somewhat mixed reviews. The film, while decent, had the Pixar name to live up to and there were some that didn't feel it met the bill. So what to make of the Pixar backed game of the same name? It's a lot like its movie counterpart from which it draws inspiration. It's not half bad, but it lacks the polish that you would expect from a high end video game. The game's graphics are great and you feel like you are playing within the movie at times. The gameplay is rather basic and bland and a co op mode never really takes off like it could. Brave feels like a game made for children with certain adult elements tossed into it to keep things interesting. I guess you could say that about most Pixar movies though too.
Perhaps the biggest curveball the game tosses at you is the fact that the game presents a slightly different story than what you saw in the movie theater. All of the main characters are still there, but it's just told from a different perspective. We won't spoil it for you, but let's just say that the story is actually one of the game's high points. Perhaps a bit damning to Pixar, we actually liked it better than the plot of the main movie. It should be noted though that the game doesn't last much longer than that of a movie, you can beat the main storyline in about 4 hours. That's fine if you paid $10 to see it in the theater. It's not so fine if you just dropped $50 at the local game store.
The game does offer collectibles and other unlockables to add replay value but it's really not enough to make up for the short campaign. Perhaps this will be a better purchase for your child if you happen to find the game in the bargain bin someday.
Graphics are themed after the movie and it does at times make it easy to get lost in the animation. If you take a closer look though, you'll see that the textures don't really stand up to the best titles of this generation. Some clipping issues exist, and some textures are just muddy.
The game does offer a co op mode for a friend to play along but it's here where you can see that the game was designed with a younger audience in mind. The 2nd player has infinite lives, you'll just keep coming back from the dead. Playing Co op makes a very easy game even easier. The gameplay, co op or solo, is extremely linear, moving from one environment to the next. There's not much skill to combat, it's more of a button mashing affair than anything.
Brave is a video game designed to let your child play through an alternate version of the movie storyline. It shows Pixar charm occasionally, but it's mostly just another poor movie adaption.
Spellforce Universe - PC - 37 reviews
For all of you who do not yet have a clue, Spellforce Universe just happens to be one of those titles that just seemed to come out of nowhere and yet managed to offer something different to people. It was indeed a case where there was a perfect blend of RPG and also some real time strategic game play.
As it so happens, this game was very popular and in fact, was popular enough to spawn a couple of expansion packs both of which added a couple of new stories as well as play modes along with an array of new items and some new spells. This new game offers the usual game play with some extra trimmings that prove to be really delightful.
One great thing about this is that you will get all of the games mentioned above that come with the package but will cost you half of what you would normally have to pay for the lot of them. But that is all that you will get. You should not expect anything grand or anything that truly celebrates all things Spellforce. Once you open the box, you may think that it looks a bit cheap and somewhat tacky because you know, they didn't even bother to put in a manual that talks about the original game.
Spellforce and its ilk just happen to take place in a land called Eo. But instead of a theme park ride like the one you will see that stars a young Michael Jackson, this land of Eo is called home by your usual cast of fantasy creatures that existed in the middle ages. You will see dwarfs that love to do mining, you will spot some magical elves and people that love to hack things to little bits and pieces. But what sets this world apart from the usual Tolkien-like world are the Rune Warriors; these guys are all powerful and are bound with the use of magic to a certain special stone. These guys were made by the rulers of Eo to help maintain peace and tranquillity in the land by killing everyone.
However, once their duty was done, the creators of these rune warriors transferred their combined powers to just one member and as you can guess, this wasn't a very good idea and things went all awry and the world as they knew it got split into thousands of little islands. One of the creators of the rune warriors managed to make portals that bound Eo together of course and you will then take the place of the last remaining Rune Warrior. Of course, you may wonder how there could be one left when they were all supposed to have been disposed of but it's like a case of video game amnesia. But in the start of the game, you will spend most of your time trying to fix the problems of your world and also to piece it together again. It is interesting but there are some things that are just off with it.
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A 12 year-old boy is in the hospital after he was hit by a motorcycle in Manchester, N.H. on Saturday.According to police, Hickory Murray, 25, was riding his motorcycle down East Spruce Street when he struck the boy on his bicycle near Old Falls Road.The child was sent to Boston Children's Hospital as a precaution for serious but non-life-threatening injuries.Murray was also taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
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I installed the Tahu! font. But Still it ain't showing in the Font Choose.

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Maya Angelou recently expressed her sentiments about President Obama who she said had 'delivered.' She commended the president who she says has had a positive impact on the black community.
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Maya Angelou recently expressed her sentiments about President Obama's re-election, and she gave her accolades to the president who she says has 'delivered.' She said that she does not care about the president's critics – bearing in mind that Martin Luther King and Angelou had actually discussed the likelihood of an African-American president. She labored with Martin Luther king in the 60's where she was an organizer for leadership conferences.
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Bare minimum KDE support for K3B?
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:01 pm Post subject: Bare minimum KDE support for K3B?
I'm not a KDE user. I'm not an any-packaged-desktop-environment user. I have my own very lightweight minimalist desktop implemented using fvwm.
However, I do like K3B. There is not to my knowledge another optical-media burner front end that is even half as good. But it's the ONLY KDE app I use. Absolutely the only one.
What is the absolute minimum KDE installation I can get away with to support K3B, and how do I make it happen? My KDE footprint had grown to over 100 packages before I went through this morning and cleared it out. I've got it stripped back again to kde-base/kdelibs, kde-base/kde-env, and it's quite reasonable that kde-apps/libkcddb would get pulled in; it's a mystery to me why kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools or kde-base/katepart are being pulled in (as far as I can see, nothing is installed that depends on either one), but OK, that's only two packages, I can live with them. And I suppose I can see why kde-apps/khelpcenter would get pulled in. But I'm getting about fifty packages worth of kde-frameworks pulled in as well. Are those unavoidable?
Believe me, I would love a KDE-free port of K3B.
Of course, I'd also like to see a bugfix update to media-sound/grip. But the author has abandoned it, and while I maintain a package for it in my unofficial overlay, I haven't yet managed to figure out what's causing the editor-pane glitch, and Gentoo dropped the package several years ago.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Bare minimum KDE support for K3B?
`equery depends` is your friend.
And I suppose I can see why kde-apps/khelpcenter would get pulled in.
But I'm getting about fifty packages worth of kde-frameworks pulled in as well. Are those unavoidable?
No, certainly not required for k3b:4 but pulled in by kde-cli-tools (that is being pulled in for some other unknown reason, see also quote 1).
You could also try your chances with the kf5 based k3b-9999. Should pull in less cruft.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Bare minimum KDE support for K3B?
Indeed, I am on good terms with 'equery depends'. It already told me that nothing depends on kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools except sys-block/gparted IF built with USE=kde, and I have it built with USE=—kde. So whatever is pulling in kde-cli-tools should not be gparted, and there are no other candidates listed by 'equery depends'.
However, according to gparted-0.26.1.ebuild, kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools[kdesu] should be a dependency ONLY if both !policykit AND kde. So I tried recompiling gparted with not only —kde but with policykit. And something unknown is still pulling in kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools. Also, after setting USE=—handbook for app-cdr/k3b, something is still pulling in kde-apps/khelpcenter. But it is still not shown as a dependency for anything.
Finally by resorting to masking kde-apps/khelpcenter and kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools to see what screamed, I was able to get Portage to tell me that kde-base/katepart also has a handbook USE (which 'equery hasuse handbook' apparently didn't think I needed to know). By setting kde-base/katepart -handbook and kde-base/kdelibs -upower -handbook, then emerging -avDN kde-base/kdelibs, I was able to get the kde-frameworks overhead down to two packages, kde-frameworks/extra-cmake-modules and kde-frameworks/oxygen-icons. I can live with that. Emerge -pvDN app-cdr/k3b then turned up another 'stealth' USE=handbook in kde-apps/libkcddb.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't see a k3b-9999. Is there an overlay I need to add to have it as an option?
@Unix Ronin: handbook is a global USE flag. Most KDE packages have it.
k3b-9999 is in KDE overlay, but there soon should be a KF5-based release happening, that will make it to tree.
equery depends tells you what _installed_ packages are pulling in a package, it can not sense which _would-be_ packages are in your emerge command.
Point. It can't read the future to know what I'm about to try to install.
And, note taken about handbook; now disabled globally.
I'll wait for k3b-9999 to make it to the tree, and clean up again then.
that will give you the dependency graph of k3b [to depth N].


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Court Declares Stop and Frisk Policy of Fuhrer Bloomberg and NYPD Unconstitutional
(JUDY MORRIS REPORT) A federal court declared the Stop and Frisk policies of NYPD and Fuhrer Bloomberg unconstitutional, here.
While it's a rare civil liberties victory from a court system that generally upholds the hideous and humiliating police powers of the state, Stop and Frisk also exposed the truly racist nature of the program. In the Nazified Big Apple, Fuhrer Bloomberg's policy to "stop and frisk" anybody for any reason came under fire from civil rights activists for justifiable reasons because the policy was blatantly racist and 90% of those who were stopped and frisked were folks of color according to CNN, here.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people in New York are stopped, questioned, frisked and searched, often without justification, under the "stop and frisk" policy. The vast majority of these people live in communities of color, and almost 90% are immediately released without arrest or even a summons.
Even if the courts slow down the 'stop and frisk' policies, it still won't help those who are subjected to cavity searches and sexual assaults for routine traffic stops and it won't decrease the reach of the TSA's army of sexual predators that is expanding its operations beyond airports and to train stations and bus stations.
Even more horrifying, the Supreme Court upheld the right of law enforcement to perform cavity searches on everyone taken into custody and many folks are routinely taken into custody for traffic violations and other minor infractions. When it comes to human humiliation and degradation, Police State USA knows no boundaries, ethics or morality. The state exists to inspire absolute fear because fear breeds compliance as folks sacrifice their natural rights, dignity and cowardly capitulate to government and its goons. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld cavity searches.
Bend Over and Spread Em says the Supreme Court
Regarding the recent 5-4 SCOTUS decision to uphold strip searches, Supreme Court Justice Breyer describes a strip search in his dissent (joined by Kagan, Gingsberg and Sotomayor) as follows:
"'..a visual inspection of the inmate's naked body. This should include the inmate opening his mouth and moving his tongue up and down and from side to side, removing any dentures, running his hands through his hair, allowing his ears to be visually examined, lifting his arms to expose his arm pits, lifting his feet to examine the sole, spreading and/or lifting his testicles to expose the area behind them and bending over and/or spreading the cheeks of his buttocks to expose his anus. For females, the procedures are similar except females must in addition, squat to expose the vagina.'"
The Supreme Court has upheld the right of the police to do this to anybody for any reason who has the misfortune of ending up in police custody for any reason, including minor traffic violations. For obviously justifiable reasons, this outrageously insane Supreme Court decision has fired up anger among civil libertarians on all sides of the political ideological spectrum. Pure and simple, it's a rape, it's a sexual assault and it's designed to be as humiliating and degrading as possible. A nation where state sanctioned sexual assault is codified into the law of the land has debauched itself to a level reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the most ruthlessly oppressive totalitarian regimes ever to exist.
America, land of the free. BARF…. America is now more like Dr. StrangeGlove probing your every body orafice for maximum human degradation because that's what government does best.
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Kristin Cavallari marries Jay Cutler
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Kristin Cavallari married her long-term boyfriend Jay Cutler last weekend in Tennessee. According to US Weekly, the former reality TV star tied the knot with her 30-year-old Chicago Bears quarterback beau on Saturday 8 June, in front of 150 guests at the Woodmont Christian Church in Nashville. According to a source, Cavallari walked down the aisle wearing a white strapless dress, complete with a high belt and a bustled skirt. The mole also revealed that the 26-year-old bride wore a veil with her hair half up and carried a bouquet of white peonies. Meanwhile, the couple's 10-month-old son Camden followed his father and reportedly wore a grey suit as well. Speaking about the nuptials, an eyewitness revealed: "They looked incredibly happy and like they were having a great time... It was a fun, laid back wedding with lots of music and dancing." News of the couple's marriage comes after they were first engaged in April 2011, before briefly calling it off in July 2011 and then reconciling again.
In April, Cavallari opened up about her excitement at marrying Cutler, saying: "I like having that extra sense of security that you're with your buddy for the rest of your life... You know they're not going anywhere."
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On 1 December 2011, we wrote... Former star of The Hills Kristin Cavallari has rekindled her love with NFL boyfriend Jay Cutler and the couple are now engaged - for the second time.
The reality TV star and quarterback were engaged the first time round in April, but just one month later - and after Cavallari's friends had even thrown her an engagement party, we might add - it was off, and Cavallari was described as "devastated".
A source at the time said: "She got dumped... She can't believe this is happening... She was planning her dream wedding, the date was set, the location - everything was set. She's in shock."
However, it seems that Cavallari was willing to forgive and forget being publicly dumped, as she tweeted yesterday: "This time it's official. Jay and I are engaged again :)."
The couple were said to be "working it out" in October, when Cutler was seen in the audience of Dancing with the Stars in support of his ex who had a stint on the show.
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis
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The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth and companion to Vice President Al Gore's new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action. It exposes the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and delivers hope through groundbreaking information on what you can do now.
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