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The Adams County Golf Tournament took place over the weekend with action starting Saturday at the Cross Creek Golf Club in Decatur, and finishing up Sunday, at The Golf Club of the Limberlost in Geneva and both the men's and women's divisions were won by defending champions.
Winning the Ladies division championship play was Brenda Shifferly shooting 86 on Saturday and 83 Sunday. Pleased with her play as well,Shifferly now has won 34 times in City, County and Club championships in her golfing career.
All four Decatur teams advanced in the quarter-final round of the Hoosier East Baseball Alliance Mays Tournament, held at three sites Thursday night.
In Decatur, Decatur Dental Service scored five runs in the second inning, but still had to come from behind to nip Box and Pallet of Monroeville 9-7, and Hull Lift Truck exploded for a 16-1 in over the Fleming Rays (Monmouth). At Monroeville, league champ Kintz Insurance downed the Monmouth Cubs, while at Monmouth, Bixler Insurance, the second seed, bounced Heyerly's Ice Angels 12-2.
The Decatur Dirty Birds baseball team downed the Warsaw Indians, 5-0, at South Bend recently to take over second place in their conference. The Birds bested the Indians 2-1 in a three-game series.
Ryan Leugers got the win, beating former minor league hurler Adam Augustine, who only lasted four innings. Leugers went seven innings, with two strikeouts and one walk. Ian Clay threw two innings of scoreless relief for the Birds.
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The United Steelworkers will open the H.E.B.A. Clemente tourney tonight versus the F.O.P. Cardinals at 6 p.m. at Monmouth. The winner will play top seed Bleeke Electric on Friday at 6 p.m. at Monmouth. The V.F.W. Orioles will meet Murphy USA in the second game at 7:15 at Monmouth Friday.
In Decatur games, slated for Field 4, Haggard, Sefton and Hirschy will meet SportForm at 6 p.m. Friday in a rematch of their extra-inning affair from Wednesday, and the Grover Co. Indians will meet Adams Memorial Hospital in the 7:15 p.m. game.
"It's going to be really tough," said Bellmont grad Dana Kaczmarek on letting go of the competitive athletic career.
"I cried more the last day at softball ... more than at graduation," said the 2011 Phyllis Hebble Award winner. The Hebble Award, named in honor of the first Bellmont girls coach in about every sport, goes to the outstanding female athlete at Bellmont.
Cordell Cornett struck out 14 and the Monmouth Fleming Marlins held off Decatur Dental 7-4 to earn the top seed in the Hoosier East Baseball Alliance Reese baseball tournament, which begins Friday.
Dental did sock 10 hits off Cornett.
Lucas Strickler took the loss, striking out 5 with 5 hits allowed in four-plus innings. Jordan Baker struck out 4 with 2 hits allowed in a strong relief appearance.
A total of 67 youngsters participated in the recent Cross Creek Golf Camp according to notes released today by camp director Mike Macke.
Macke said the five-day camp ended with a tournament last Friday and there also was a skills competition last Thursday based on various skills such as putting, chipping, and full swing.
The tournament was broken down into age groups and from different tees. The different ages also played a varying number of holes in their tournament.
Monroe Grain is ready to make a run at Monroe LL leaders Peterson Grain and the Farm Bureau Lifers as the regular season winds down. The tourney will be in full force Thursday, though the seeds have not been decided.
The tourney will open with two games Thursday and two other seeded teams will take on winners of the Thursday games on Friday night. The tourney will pick up Monday and run through June 29, a Thursday. It is a double-elimination tourney.
Ryley Hankenson won 11 varsity letters at Bellmont, made two trips to the IHSAA State Individual Wrestling Finals , placing fifth in 2011, and won 128 matches in his Braves' career and started at defensive back for a state championship football team, yet Bellmont assistant wrestling coach Tim Myers calls him a "diamond in the rough" and that the University of Chicago is getting some kind of talent.
The Monroe Little League posted two games last Friday with lots of runs scored and four homers in one game:
• Bank of Geneva beat Farm Bureau, 9-8.
• Decatur Dental Services topped Peterson Grain, 10-9.
In the BG-FB game, Bank of Geneva (5-9) had 10 hits, led by Joel Harvey's two triples, with his second one driving in the winning run in the bottom of the sixth inning. He also had a single. Teammates Corbin Becher, Hunter Lotter, and Drexel Canales each had two singles.


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I bought this last year, room size is 10feet/12 feet. Even after 1hr of turning on, there is very little cooling. This year wasn't cooling at all,after raising complaint the service guy said gas has leaked out and refilled the gas. Same performance as of today-little to no cooling even after running for 2 hrs. Regret my decision to buy this ac, got into the trap of getting a 1.25 ton ac for lower price.
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Due to the extreme summer and power cuts / fluctuation in my city i.e. Delhi, having a good, durable & robust AC is extremely important. I bought a Panasonic AC early year and since then I have not faced any problems. After the time taken for the installation and delivery, Panasonic has not upset me since. The after sales service is also very good compared to Hitachi. Panaasonic AC come with 3 Free Service. But yes it consumes more power if compared with Daikin FT 35M but normally if you spread the costing : Usage then Panasonic is a good deal (but if u wanna use AC 24 hrs then its nega... (Expand)
Bought this AC on flipkart. The delivery took 3 weeks. I am sure Flipkart can do better.
The AC cools my 190Sq Feet Room in less than 15 min. For the price Panasonic is giving, this it is definitely a good buy. Cooling is perfect. Noise level is little higher than the conventional split indoor units, but nothing to worry about.
Will update on the energy efficiency once I get my Electricity bill.
The indoor unit looks little huge, and will only look good if you choose the right place.
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The mother of one of the 19 Granite Mountain hotshots who died while battling the Yarnell Hill Fire wants his family to receive benefits that are given to loved ones of full-time firefighters. But the city of Prescott says he wasn't full-time and can't receive those benefits.
It is so tough to look at this in black and white with so much pain and emotion surrounding the deaths of the Prescott 19, but the city of Prescott says it has to do this by the numbers, as painful as that is.
Ashcraft and 12 others were seasonal part-time employees. They worked mostly during the fire season, and their pensions and benefits reflect that.
Andrew Ashcraft just re-signed in February of this year to be a temporary seasonal employee with the city of Prescott as a Granite Mountain hotshot.
He got a pay increase this year to $15.03 an hour.
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"The city has its hands tied. We're delivering everything we can to these families that is available. To equalize somebody's employment classification after the event is simply impossible and illegal," says Pete Wertheim, city of Prescott.
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Ashcraft's mother, Deborah Pfingston is planning a news conference at the Prescott Courthouse Tuesday. In an e-mail, she said she is upset that the city has chosen to deny her son Andrew his full -time benefits.
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"he also puts his life on the line just as much as anyone who is full time, it's not as if he can be 30 or 40 or 50 feet from the fire, his risk is just as intense as anybody else," says Ellen Woody, Prescott resident.
"They say they'd be breaking the law and the rules of pension say, you can't do it. Well laws were made by men and they're changed by men. If that's the law then change the law because these people sacrificed their life. You can't give any more than that," says resident Richard Maldonado.
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• Princeton and Fairleigh Dickinson have never met. NJIT, which has only played Division I since 2006, is the only other D-I team from New Jersey that Princeton has never faced.• Princeton has faced just one Northeast Conference team in the two-plus seasons under Mitch Henderson, as Wagner swept both ends of a home-and-home series in 2011 and 2012. The last time Princeton defeated an NEC team at the time of the game was on Dec. 8, 2010 at Monmouth, its most recent game vs. an NEC opponent prior to the recent Wagner series. Monmouth is now in the MAAC.• Knights coach Greg Herenda has an Ivy League connection, as he was an assistant coach under Dick Kuchen at Yale in Kuchen's last two seasons in 1997-98 and 1998-99. Princeton won three of the four meetings, including both during Mitch Henderson's senior year in '97-'98. • Princeton and FDU both like the 3-pointer, but Princeton has had a little more success with it than the Knights. Princeton is averaging 10-25 from distance while the Knights are averaging 7-22.• Princeton has scored 422 points so far this season, an average of 70.3 ppg. It's the most points Princeton has scored through six games since the 1971-72 season, when the team had 498 points through six games and gained a No. 18 ranking in the AP poll.• Princeton has more than doubled its opponents in the number of 3-pointers made this season, canning 58 to 26 for its foes. The Tigers have also tried significantly more than their opponents, though not quite twice as many, 150-85.• Of Princeton's 303 field goal attempts this season, 150, or 49.5 percent, have been from beyond the arc. Six players have more tries from beyond the arc than from inside, including Will Barrett (25 of 39), Ben Hazel (30-43), Spencer Weisz (17-24), T.J. Bray (16-26), Chris Clement (10-12) and Clay Wilson (2-2).• Princeton has tried more 3-pointers than its opponents in five of six games this season. The only game that the opponent tried more was at Butler, when the Bulldogs dialed long distance 24 times (making nine) to Princeton's 20 (eight made). • Princeton has held its opponent below .400 from beyond the arc in five of six games this season, with the Lafayette game as the exception. The Leopards made 6 of 11 (.545) from beyond the arc, pushing the game to overtime before losing 81-80.• When 6-5 senior T.J. Bray entered the starting lineup at Bucknell in place of 6-4 freshman Spencer Weisz, it was the first change to the starting five this season. 6-10 senior Will Barrett, 6-8 sophomore Hans Brase, 6-3 senior Jimmy Sherburne and 6-5 junior Ben Hazel have started all six games.• Through Wednesday's games, Princeton ranked first in the Ivy in assist-to-turnover ratio with 1.4 helpers per giveaway and in 3-pointers per game at 9.7. Ben Hazel was the top free throw shooter in the Ivy at .929, with 13 of 14 made. • Princeton returns nearly 75 percent of its scoring from a year ago despite graduating reigning Ivy Player of the Year Ian Hummer '13. The team also returns 71 percent of its starts and 67 percent of its minutes, with Denton Koon, T.J. Bray, Will Barrett and Hans Brase all having started at least 18 games last season.• 38.9 percent of Princeton's points this season have been scored by players who weren't on the 2012-13 roster, including Spencer Weisz (7.5 ppg), Ben Hazel (10.2 ppg), Jimmy Sherburne (7.2 ppg), Peter Miller (2.6 ppg) and Steven Cook (0.7 ppg). Hazel, a junior, and Sherburne, a senior, took the 2012-13 season off.• Seven players (Bray, Brase, Koon, Hazel, Barrett, Weisz, Sherburne) have played 89.5 percent of the minutes this season and have scored 92.2 percent of the points.• In a Princeton-offense staple, the Tigers have assists on 62 percent of their field goals compared to 41.5 percent of opponents' baskets. However, no player is averaging more than five assists per game (Bray) though three (Bray, Brase, Sherburne) are averaging at least 3.0 apg.• The Tigers have a six-member freshman class and five of them have seen game action, including Khyan Rayner, Hashim Moore, Steven Cook, Peter Miller and Spencer Weisz. Miller played in the first five games, and Weisz started the first five.
• The Knights are in the midst of a nine-day stretch of four games, all on the road at Seton Hall last Sunday, Stony Brook Wednesday, Princeton Saturday and then Iowa Monday.• FDU will face back-to-back teams coached by Ivy alumni, first with Princeton and Mitch Henderson and then at Iowa with Penn alum Fran McCaffery. • FDU didn't defeat a Division I team this season until it upset Rutgers at the RAC two days before Thanksgiving while the Tigers were holding off George Mason. FDU followed it up with a win over Seton Hall in Newark. FDU started the season with an 18-point win over Division II Caldwell College before a six-game skid that took the Knights to Hofstra, Hartford, Arizona for the Wildcats and Division II Metro State, then at Saint Peter's and Norfolk State at Rutgers.• FDU shot 42.9 percent and 43.5 percent against Rutgers and Seton Hall, respectively, but the Knights shot 55 percent against Hartford and Metro State and came away with defeats.• Against Rutgers and Seton Hall, the Knights benefited from poorer shooting by their opponent than FDU had seen against most other opponents. Both the Scarlet Knights and the Pirates shot below 39 percent, something only one other FDU opponent (Saint Peter's, .340) has done this season. In Wednesday's FDU defeat at Stony Brook, the Seawolves shot 44 percent.• Rebounding hasn't been a strength for the Knights this season, as FDU didn't win the rebounding battle in any game until the Seton Hall contest. On the campaign, opponents are outrebounding the Knights by 10 boards a game, something that continued Wednesday night at Stony Brook when the Seawolves outrebounded the Knights 38-26• The Knights were picked 10th in the Northeast Conference in the preseason poll, with Wagner as the predicted league champ.• The Knights have used the same lineup in all 10 games this season, with 5-11 senior Sidney Sanders Jr., 6-3 junior Mustafaa Jones, 6-5 freshman Matt MacDonald, 6-7 senior Mathias Seilund and 6-9 grad Scooter Gillette. • Sanders has scored in double figures in every game this season to lead the team at 18.5 ppg. He equaled his previous season high with 22 points at Rutgers (previous vs. Metro State) and topped it with 23 at Seton Hall before bettering it again in Wednesday night's game with 28 points. Sanders also got to the line much more often against Rutgers and SHU than he had in the other eight contests, going a combined 22 of 30 against the Rutgers and SHU while going 18 of 27 over the first seven games combined. Sanders also had nine boards against SHU and six at Stony Brook after having a combined 25 over the first eight games.• Through Wednesday's games, Mustafaa Jones was the top 3-point shooter in the NEC by percentage, hitting at a .492 clip (29-59).


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Merry Christmas.
Last night was the quietest Christmas eve I've had since my son was born. There were no toy trains to put together, no "kitchen suites" for my daughter that require detailed work and weird screwdrivers and Allen wrenches and Hex keys.
After years of bitching and moaning because it's 2AM and I still have things to do before bed, the sad truth is that I missed it. Every minute of it, from It's A Wonderful Life being on in the background (watched it again last night, what a great movie. Best line: "Aw, youth is wasted on all the wrong people!") to the traditional "I didn't have that many beer, did I?" and will now have to wait until grandchildren to buy the next train set.
It's electronics and calling friends and getting together and it's not quite the four of us cozy on Christmas morning like it used to be, but it's the way it should be since you can't keep your kids from growing up.
Right? I mean, someone didn't come up with some magic pill that you haven't told me about? Merry Christmas everyone, and if you have a small child in your life enjoy this day, drink it in.
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A multi-faceted guide unusually takes a 'work-life' balance.
The Site
The University of Porto provides detailed information about the practicalities of living in the city as well as about academic life and campus facilities.
Universidade do Porto's English-language home page has a link to Foreign Student Guide, an index page for background information on various aspects of university life. These are grouped under four main headings: Information on the Institution, Information on Degree Programmes, Description of Individual Course Units and General Information. The latter covers 15 topics including Cost of Living, Accommodation, Medical Facilities and Well Being, Facilities for Students with Special Needs, Language Courses, Sports Facilities, and Extra-mural and Leisure Activities.
In addition, a separate Options menu offers The City – Live in Porto and The Country – Portugal. Both have an overview page and more links to related aspects of the topic.
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The University of Porto provides something that surprisingly few large organisations – academic or commercial – do, at least on their external site, namely an orientation guide for newcomers which has a 'work-life' perspective. Two features are particularly noteworthy. First, the guide covers both the campus (office/plant) and the surrounding area, which will be of equal interest to people moving there. And it deals with aspects of personal life – health and leisure, for example – as well as study/work related-issues.
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Obesity: The next investment driver
As Americans get fatter, so might your wallet.
By James Brumley
If you're reading this, odds are you already know the FDA's advisory panel has ruled favorably on Arena Pharmaceuticals' (ARNA) Lorcaserin, one of the first weight-loss drugs in more than a decade that to have a real shot at winning the FDA's final approval.
Arena shares opened up about 75% Friday as a result, and the move not only legitimizes the company but also bodes favorably for other companies working on similar diet pills.
Frankly, though, the real story here is bigger than one drug -- or even two or three.
How big is the obesity issue? It's big enough that the FDA and the advisory panel are not only considering, but reconsidering, two obesity drugs that were previously vetoed by the body -- two drugs that just a few years ago would have been scoffed at after the fallout from Fen Phen and other diet pills. Fen Phen was an appetite suppressant that, after it had been marketed, was found to cause heart damage in some users.
Arena's Lorcaserin, of course, is one of those two obesity drugs that were sent packing the first time the company sought its approval back in 2010. The other one is Vivus' (VVUS) Qnexa. It also originally was rejected by the advisory panel back in 2010 but given the green light back in February of this year and sent to the FDA for the final say-so in July.
Not that it's impossible to get the nod of approval the second time around, but it's tough -- the panel generally doesn't care to reverse previous decisions. When the need is there, though, the FDA's gotta do what the FDA's gotta do.
The second chance being given to Arena and Vivus should verify that the need is indeed there.
Epidemic means opportunity
The estimates vary slightly, but all of them are staggering. One study suggests that approximately 150 million people in the United States are considered obese, or overweight. The CDC's figures say two-thirds of Americans are overweight, with one-third being obese (presumably there's overlap). The CDC further says more than 40% of us will be officially obese by 2030, at our current rate of progress.
It's not like these people aren't spending money to help solve their problem, though. They are. In fact, obese people likely will spend $222 million on weight-loss drugs alone this year, with the figure hitting (and this isn't a misprint) $2.6 billion by 2020. Global Industry Analysts is forecasting that the global market for weight-control products (all types) will reach $53 billion by 2017.
How does the fat-busting pill industry grow from a couple hundred million dollars to a couple billion in less than a decade when it has been dead in the water for so long?
A big part of the challenge so far has simply been the lack of a pill that was worth the risk.
There's a reason the FDA hasn't approved a true prescription diet pill since giving the thumbs-up to Roche's (RHHBY) Xenical back in 1999. All the others introduced to the FDA in the meantime were either ineffective, or dangerous, if not both -- and that's assuming they even made it that far. Merck & Co. (MRK) halted the development of its obesity pill taranabant in 2008, and it wasn't alone in pulling the plug on diet pill development.
A handful of over-the-counter choices have surfaced in the meantime too, but to tepid results. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), for example, introduced its Alli system as a potential weight-loss game-changer back in 2007. The product didn't get much traction sales-wise, possibly because users have said its weight-loss results were unimpressive. Being linked to liver damage in 2010 (another reason for the FDA and its advisory panel to be skeptical since then) might have been the death blow for Alli.
Point being, while the diet-pill market has been unimpressive to date, it's not because need and demand are weak. It's because no company has actually safely met that need yet. Vivus' Qnexa and Arena's Lorcaserin are the best bets yet in a string of diet-pill introductions that could get the industry over that hump.
Take the hint
While the recent focus has been two diet pill names, it's not like they're the only ways to play the accelerating anti-obesity trend. (They're good ways, but not the only ways.)
Weight Watchers International (WTW) is one of the other possibilities. It's the diametrical opposite of losing weight by taking a pill, but it's still a proven choice. The club/group-oriented organization posted record revenue and earnings in 2011, and is perfectly positioned as the alternative to dangerous pills in the brewing war on obesity.
Whereas Weight Watchers is the non-pill alternative, Orexigen Therapeutics (OREX) is smack-dab in the middle of the diet-pill race with Vivus and Arena. It's just well behind the two leaders. Orexigen is working on Contrave, which should get its second chance with the FDA advisory panel sometime in 2013 after the FDA shot it down in early 2011. As Arena and Vivus can both testify, never say never.
Last but not least, while diet pills and weight-loss food, like NutriSystem (NTRI) meals, are expected to garner the lion's share of what's on pace to be a $53 billion global business within five years, the fastest-growing segment in the obesity industry is actually going to be devices and equipment that help obese people lose weight.
EnteroMedics (ETRM) provides an example. Its implantable neuromodulation system sends electrical pulses to regulate signals of hunger and fullness between the brain and the vagus nerve. It's more than a little Star Trek-ish, but the field is proving more and more viable every year. The company could file for approval of the device in the U.S as early as next year.
Bottom line? No matter how you slice it, there's investment opportunity in obesity ... $53 billion worth within five years, to be exact. And odds are good there will be more than one way to win. Like dieting, though, it could take a little patience to reap the full reward.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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I've added a zip file with an STL of the Ironman helmet pieces for others to use. Please credit the Replica Prop Forum and I, if you use!
Step 1: Modeling
The first step, while the poly count was low, was to extrude the model inward to give the helmet thickness. Thickness is important, it provides stability to the final product which can be brittle when it is printed too thin. Because I planned on wearing this, (and probably walking into walls/doors/people) I wanted it to be thick enough the handle a bit of abuse. The final helmet varies in thickness because while the outside has grooves and ridges, I wanted the inside to be smooth. That way, the sides and bottoms of the grooves would have extra material around then to prevent fractures. The overall helmet averages between .125" and .25" thick.
When I was done adjusting the silhouette of the low poly helmet, I subdivided the model to provide a smoother finished surface. As you'll see later, I could have gone even further with this step.
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By Shelley Munro On Aug 12 2010, 12:39 pm
Writing is my dream occupation, so I thought I'd do a list about writing—the good and the bad.
Thirteen Things About Life as a Writer
1. There's nothing better than spending the day making up stuff.
2. There are incredible highs while the lows (rejection) can be very depressing and sap confidence.
3. Writing a book is plain hard work.
4. There's always something to learn about craft or the business.
5. Promotion is an increasingly larger part of writing a book and it takes away from writing time.
6. Research is fun.
7. Long hours spent at the keyboard lead to bottom spread.
8. Fellow authors are generous in sharing tips and expertise.
9. You're only as good as your last book.
10. Plot bunnies are slippery creatures and are forever teasing an unsuspecting writer. They taunt and tease and expect their poor author to put down everything and work with them!
11. Writing is a solitary business.
12. Leisure time for reading becomes in short supply.
13. There's nothing as magical as holding your own book in your hands.
What do you like or dislike about writing?
Shelley Munro lives in New Zealand and writes contemporary and paranormal romance. She loves writing and can't imagine a better job. Shelley's recent release, The Bottom Line is available in e-format. A print version is also available for preorder from Amazon and The Book Depository. You can visit Shelley at www.shelleymunro.com
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Being a huge fan of your work, I just have to comment on number 6 on your list. Research is fun….I'm sure it is!!! Waiting not so patiently for the Bottom Line sequels.
Thanks so much, Sharon. A sequel is coming, a little slower than I'd like, but it is underway. I promise!
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text: As five of us celebrated a quiet Thanksgiving down here in Virginia, the rest of my family journeyed north to Vermont to the shores of Lake Champlain for a wild gathering with my aunt and uncle. Upon returning, my mother gave me the full report: Of course, the turkey, which she had prepared, was over-cooked, gross and inedible but roasted Jerusalem artichokes saved the occasion as well as an orange-and-ricotta pound cake that her sister prepared twice during their five-day visit. Continue reading


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So much awesome right here. SO MUCH.
Also, Guardians of the Galaxy is a live action film. If you read or hear that it's animated, then they are wrong. Get ready.
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Guardians of the Galaxy is coming August 1, 2014, and we've got the first look at concept art from the film by Charlie Wen as well as the official logo!


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June 20, 2013
By Shonassee Shaver
New Orleans civil rights advocate, Rev. Samson "Skip" Alexander is a legend among the many leaders who have helped affect social change. Samson was a close friend of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and he is responsible for the treasured photo capturing Coretta Scott King, sitting front row with her children mourning her husband's death. Samson had taken and retains many historical images. It is no surprise that he is the owner of this momentous photograph.
Rev. Samson aka "Skip" recalls that day where the FBI was on patrol, lurking for misconduct and suspicious behavior.
"They were hurt about their father's passing. As we marched to Morehouse College for his memorial, I remember them looking somber as if they were sleep walking" said Rev. Samson. Legendary boxing champ Muhammad Ali, President Richard Nixon were among many of the influential people to flow from the balcony of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where Dr. King's funeral was held.
"There were dignitaries at his funeral," Samson recalled.
"Kings and queens from all around the world (Africa and India) came to show their respects for Dr. King."
Samson had a hand in the funeral's seating process, he said. He was also among the news press, accompanying Ebony Magazine, Pittsburg Courier, The Chicago Defender and Life and Times. "I was in charge of placing thousands people from around the world in the backyard of the church" he said.
"The FBI had told me I could not take any pictures because of the flash. The flash would spark concerns of gun firing at Dr. Kings memorial."
Not likely to abide by law officials, he went ahead and took the picture.
"I was able to use light that was available to me. I learned this technique in the air force," said Rev. Samson. Not wanting to get caught taking a picture. He gave the photo to someone unknown at the time, later to be someone from JET magazine.
Samson seems modest about his accomplishments, remaining humble and down to earth through all his triumphs.
"I was nobody special," he stated when asked about his triumphs.
"I did not think I was making history at the time. We were doing what was needed during that time. We knew that in order to be free, we had to fight for desegregation."
He candidly recalls the day when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot.
"I was stunned and dumb founded. The FBI told me not to leave. I remember blood coming down the 2nd floor. I was a young guy" said Rev. Samson.
King had been the president of the Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC). Rev. Samson worked for the International Representatives of the American Federation of the Sate County and Municipal employees AFI-CIO.
"SCLC had no money and we would help them raise money for the organization, while he spoke to unions" he said.
In Memphis, Rev. Samson conducted a strike with the sanitation workers. Coincidently this was done while staying at the Lorraine Hotel where King was staying when he was assassinated. His goal, to get sanitation cards signed, was short lived by the incident.
Many were uncertain if the Civil Rights Movement could go on. Rev. Samson had his doubts that the movement would not be as effective with King gone. "I thought so. No other man in the world was spontaneous as he was. He could rally up a crowd. He could bring together good men and bad men". Dr. King was a phenomenal man.
Sampson fondly remembers the police shouting at him to get out of the way.
"I had no identification or anything," he said.
"I 'boguarded' my way through. I had to take the picture, even if I was going to jail."
June 13, 2013
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News
Eritrean or Sudanese people, who have sought asylum in Israel.
Israel is reportedly in talks with two other countries to secure a similar agreement.
Few other details of the transfer were available. Israeli Army Radio reported that the unnamed country was in east Africa and did not suffer from any unrest that would harm the migrants. The Haaretz newspaper said that Israel had agreed to provide agricultural expertise as part of the deal.
The Supreme Court has ordered the government to provide details of the arrangement, including the name of the African country, within seven days.
Or Kashti, an analyst writing for Haaretz, condemned the deal. "As if it were an export company, the State of Israel is trying to ship tens of thousands of people from Eritrea and Sudan to other countries, out of sight and out of mind. The main thing is that they will fly away from here. Price isn't particularly important, nor is their fate in their new countries.
"Israeli imperviousness, the turning away from the distress of others, marks a new stage that is far from surprising. This is a natural progression from the systematic disregard for claims of asylum that were filed to the embarrassing legal amendment that enabled the detainment in prison facilities and incitement bordering on dehumanization. What is being discussed aren't humans, but objects.
June 13, 2013
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights leader Medgar Evers helped create a more inclusive and open Mississippi by increasing black voter registration, Gov. Phil Bryant said Wednesday during a service marking the 50th anniversary of Evers' assassination.
A racially diverse crowd of more than 150 people gathered outside the Mississippi Museum of Art in downtown Jackson for speeches, gospel singing and the ringing of bells to remember the NAACP leader who was killed outside his home just after midnight on June 12, 1963. Evers was 37.
The Republican governor stood by Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, just before going on stage to speak. Bryant said Evers "paid the ultimate sacrifice" in challenging segregation.
"The young people that I met, who were here reading today, live in a vastly different Mississippi than existed 50 years ago because of the hard work of men like Medgar Evers and women like Myrlie Evers," said Bryant, 58. "So, as we ring the bell today, we pay homage to them."
Evers, a World War II veteran from Newton, Miss., was hired in 1954 as the state's first field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In addition to working for black voter registration, he led a boycott of downtown Jackson's white-owned businesses, where black customers received shoddy service and few black clerks were hired.
Evers also investigated violence against African-Americans, including the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was said to have whistled at a white woman working in a grocery store in rural Money, Miss. Till was kidnapped from his uncle's home near Money and was beaten beyond recognition and shot in the head. His body was weighted down with a fan from a cotton gin and dumped into the Tallahatchie River.
Till's mother allowed photos of his brutalized body to be published in Jet magazine, and the images galvanized the civil rights movement.
Simeon Wright is one of Till's cousins and was in the home the night Till was taken. Wright said during the memorial service Wednesday that Evers was "a light in a dark place" during the investigation of the slaying — a crime for which two white men, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury.
Wright said Evers taught him how to give a sworn statement to law enforcement.
"He said, 'Whatever you do, tell the truth. Tell the truth,'" Wright said.
During the service Wednesday, four young adults read several quotes from religious leaders and civil-rights activists, including this 1961 statement from Evers, which was printed on a banner with a black-and-white photo of him: "Let men of good will and understanding change the old order, for this is a new day."
In 1967, Democrat Robert Clark of Ebenezer became the first black Mississippian since Reconstruction to win a seat in the state House of Representatives. Clark, who knew Evers, served 36 years. By the time he retired, black representation in the state House and Senate was almost equal to Mississippi's 38 percent black population — a change that was largely made possible by two federal laws, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
"I did not take a single vote during those 36 years that Medgar would not have taken himself," Clark said.
Hollis Watkins, 71, of Jackson, was a teenager when he became involved in civil rights work and met Evers, who was 15 years older. He said Evers was not afraid to speak truth to power.
"Medgar did his job," Watkins said. "The question becomes: How about us today? Are we doing our work?"
A white supremacist, Byron De La Beckwith, was tried twice for Evers' slaying in the 1960s, but all-white juries deadlocked without convicting or acquitting him. After a reopened investigation, Beckwith was convicted of murder in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison. He was 80 when he died in custody in 2001.
June 13, 2013
By JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former President Nelson Mandela began responding better to treatment Wednesday morning for a recurring lung infection following "a difficult last few days," South Africa's president said.
President Jacob Zuma told parliament that he is happy with the progress that the 94-year-old is making following his hospitalization on Saturday.
Mandela spent a fifth straight day Wednesday in a Pretoria hospital, where he was visited by one of his daughters and two granddaughters.
Zuma noted that Wednesday marked the 49th anniversary of the sentencing of Mandela to life in prison in 1964. He said "our thoughts" are with Mandela and his family "on this crucial historical anniversary."
"We are very happy with the progress that he is now making following a difficult last few days," Zuma said. "We appreciate the messages of support from all over the world."
Zuma on Wednesday applauded the legacy of Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists. South Africa's government disbanded its official policy of apartheid — racial segregation and discrimination — in 1994.
"Our country is a much better place to live in now than it was before 1994, even though we still have so much work to do," Zuma said.
Mandela, the leader of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990, and then embarked on peacemaking efforts during the tense transition that saw the demise of the apartheid system and his own election as South Africa's first black president in 1994.
His admission to a hospital in Pretoria, the capital, is Mandela's fourth time being admitted to a hospital for treatment since December. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama wished Mandela a "speedy recovery" on Tuesday.
Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, visited his grandfather on Wednesday and said the family has been deeply touched by the outpouring prayers and messages of goodwill from around the world. He said the family is satisfied with the care Mandela is receiving.
Zuma used Wednesday's budget address to parliament as an occasion to highlight the work carried out by the African National Congress, the party that Mandela led to South Africa's presidency, over the last 19 years.
South Africa's economy has expanded 83 percent since 1994 and per capita income increased by 40 percent, Zuma said. But the recession in Europe, South Africa's biggest trading partner, has hit Africa's biggest economy hard, and he said South Africa — which has experienced deadly labor strife in recent years — must move past labor violence.
The vestiges of apartheid, Zuma said, remain in South Africa: Black South Africans have less education and fewer skills than whites because of the apartheid era. As part of promoting national reconciliation, the implementation of black economic empowerment policies will continue, he said. Direct black ownership in Johannesburg's stock market is less than 5 percent.
"In addition, annual Employment Equity reports indicate that white males still own, control and manage the economy," Zuma said.
The government is amending the black economic empowerment law to address some of these challenges, he added.
Outside Mandela's Johannesburg home, well-wishers continued to leave tributes to the former president. A neighbor, Zaheerah Bham'Ismail, said it's an emotional time for South Africans because Mandela "portrays the entire legacy of what everybody has fought for and our ideals."
"But at the same time we know we have to say goodbye at some point because he needs ... his peace, as well. But I think in order to hold onto him, we've got to go back to fight for the ideals that he fought for," Bham'Ismail said.


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The Green Bay Packers officially released veteran center Jeff Saturday on Monday. The 14 year veteran had already announced his retirement the week of the Pro Bowl. Saturday played the first 13 years of his career with the Indianapolis Colts. The release will eliminate the 3.75 million dollars he was due to earn in 2013. The Packers are now approximately 20 million dollars under the salary cap following the retirement of Donald Driver and last week's release of Charles Woodson. That money will be needed to pay the draft picks selected in April, to send qualifying offers to the team's five restricted free agents, and most importantly, for selected veterans who will need lucrative contract extensions such as Aaron Rodgers, B.J. Raji and Clay Matthews. The restricted free agents include Evan Dietrich-Smith, Saturday's heir apparant at center, Sam Shields, Tom Crabtree, Robert Francois and Frank Zombo. Monday was also the first day NFL teams could exercise the franchise tag on unrestricted free agents. The Packers did not apply the tag to wide receiver Greg Jennings, or any of the other free agents who will have contracts expire next month. They include Ryan Grant, Cedric Benson, Brad Jones and Erik Walden.
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