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NEW YORK (Reuters) - One New York man was killed and another seriously injured in separate incidents just minutes apart at a Manhattan station during Tuesday's rush-hour, authorities said.
A 31-year-old Bronx man, whose name was being withheld, was pronounced dead after the late afternoon incident at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station, police said. He had been riding between two subway cars moments after the northbound train left the station when he lost his balance, fell onto the tracks and was struck.
Less than 20 minutes earlier, a 50-year-old homeless man was seen by witnesses climbing from the tracks back to the platform just as a northbound train arrived in the same Harlem station, police said. The man suffered leg injuries but appeared not to have been hit by a train.
The injured man told investigators he was intoxicated and did not recall how he wound up on the tracks, according to police.
The episode follows two recent incidents in which New York subway riders were killed after being pushed onto the tracks.
In a case last month, police arrested 31-year-old Erika Menendez and accused her of shoving a man onto the tracks. Earlier, she had been seen pacing the subway platform and muttering to herself.
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Protests in Iran have died down as the regime's violent tactics have allowed it to reassert control. In his sermon last night, the Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami called for execution of leading dissidents. The London Times reports:
A hardline cleric close to the Iranian regime demanded the execution of leading demonstrators yesterday as the opposition ended the week in disarray.
In a televised sermon at Friday prayers in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami called on the judiciary to "punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson". He said that those leaders were backed by the United States and Israel. They should be treated as mohareb — people who wage war against God — and deserved execution.
In a clear warning to all other dissenters, he declared: "Anybody who fights against the Islamic system or the leader of Islamic society, fight him until complete destruction."
The Ayatollah claimed that Neda Soltan, the woman shot during a demonstration last Saturday, had been killed by fellow protesters because "government forces do not shoot at a lady standing in a side street".
Khatami's lie is a testament to the outrage generated by the powerful video of the dying Soltan, which was seen around the world. More:
Regime operatives appeared to have sabotaged the main website through which Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated candidate, communicates with his supporters. The former Prime Minister has not appeared in public for nine days and his movements are said to have been curtailed by a large, unwanted security force.
The regime's ubiquitous security groups now break up even the smallest gatherings before they can gain critical mass. Its agents have become adept at spreading misinformation about when and where protests are taking place, and intimidating Tehranis with telephone calls warning them not to join rooftop protests at night. They have also shut opposition newspapers.
The regime seems to be locking down its friends as well as its enemies, in an effort to prevent information from leaking out of Iran. The Fars News Agency is privately owned but is generally a propaganda arm of the Ahmadinejad government. Nevertheless, its site has been shut down since around the time the anti-government rallies began.

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Girl Fight
The marginalized debate over female opinion writers.
Everyone here at Slate kept hoping that the dustup over the number of female opinion writers on the editorial pages of the nation's newspapers would just go away—none of us really wanted to dignify Susan Estrich's ad hominem attacks on Mike Kinsley, our former boss, with a response, for one thing, or felt that her charges would lead to a truly fruitful debate. But the controversy has mushroomed yet again this week, as the country's foremost female columnists began to speak out on the issue. What's emerged is hardly a consistent point of view or—in some cases—the dispassionate analysis for which these women are usually known: A surprisingly vulnerable Maureen Dowd made the very nice point last Sunday that women opinion journalists are often lambasted as emasculating bitches for savaging male subjects; and the wonderful Anne Applebaum is so utterly annoyed by others' claims that she is a "token" woman over at the Washington Post that she considers today's column on the subject to be both necessary and a waste of her time. Yesterday saw Deborah Tannen making the important observation that perhaps "attack journalism" shouldn't be the only mode of opinion-writing featured on editorial pages. (I don't believe she's correct in suggesting that all opinion writing is of the attack-dog variety, by the way; I take Slate as an alternate example of smart, non-vicious, opinion journalism.)
The fact that all these brilliant female opinion writers feel compelled to come forward whether or not they want to (Applebaum went so far as to tell us about the political column she didn't write today) speaks volumes about the real problem. And while both Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post and James Rainey at the Los Angeles Times have done fine reported pieces about the dearth of women opinion-writers, I can't seem to find—beyond a short blurb by Slate's Jack Shafer—a single opinion column by a single male columnist on the subject. (I don't count Jonathan Turley's scathing column on the personal nature of Estrich's attack, since he does not get to the merits of her claims.) In fact, the most rigorous and systematic thinking by men and women about the apparent underrepresentation of female voices on the editorial pages is taking place in the blogosphere. Really great posts by both sexes on the debate can be found here, and here, and here, and here, just for starters.
What do they conclude? Many bloggers point to the gender disparity among the nation's top political bloggers to illustrate the point that even where there are no barriers to entry—no consciously or unconsciously prejudiced gatekeepers barring the doors—women may simply choose to stay away from certain types of media. And just as women may not be producing opinion journalism at the same rates as men, they may not be consuming it all that much either. In short, there may be an interesting market problem at work here: I know an awful lot of smart, accomplished women who avoid both the op-ed pages and the Crossfire-style "screaming shows" because that is simply not the type of discourse they seek out or value.
I can also swear to the fact that as an editor, the number of pitches I receive from men outnumbers the pitches I see from women by several orders of magnitude. I can add, again purely anecdotally, that women largely send in pitches for reported pieces, and are far less inclined to frame a piece as an "argument"—which may prove Tannen's point that argument is not necessarily a comfortable or natural mode of communication for women (a phenomenon I observed in law school as well). This is, in short, an insanely interesting thought problem to which we are applying very little interesting thought.
There are at least a dozen ways to parse and think through the acknowledged underrepresentation of women opinion writers, and yet—to the extent that we are having a national conversation on the topic—it is a conversation so far almost wholly lacking the voices of men. (I insert here the obligatory disclaimer that but for Michael Kinsley I would probably not have a job in opinion writing today.) The smartest male columnists in the country—people willing to reconfigure the Social Security system in 800 words and able to dissect the Middle East peace process in a single afternoon with their laptops—are not willing to turn that massive store of their brainpower to the equally hard issue of what an opinion page is meant to represent; whether the gender discrepancy here is due to prejudice, socialization, or innate differences between men and women, or some combination thereof; and whether, beyond the crude tools of affirmative action, there is any useful remedy.
Perhaps male columnists are just not interested in this issue because it doesn't represent the sort of "hard news" they're used to commenting on. More likely, they are terrified to opine on the debate because the inquiry is so fraught with the possibility of career-terminating levels of politically correct blowback—à la Larry Summers—that they deem it better to hold their tongues and wait for the storm to pass. Imagine a man writing, as Dowd just did, that women want to be "liked" whereas men don't care. I can already smell their scorched Dockers. ... Imagine a man writing, as did Applebaum, that this is all a storm in a teacup; the sort of trivial bean-counting that is insulting and degrading to women. (Clarence Thomas is routinely characterized as beyond loathsome for making that argument against affirmative action.)
And so a clutch of women are left on the pink margins of the page, to wring our hands and, well, discuss among ourselves. The subtext will thus remain that anyone choosing to speak out on this is somehow hysterical or overemotional; that this is not a "serious" problem since serious people (i.e., men) aren't addressing it. All of which practically guarantees that nothing will be done about defining, measuring, or redressing the issue in the long term. Claims that no man wants to step on the landmine of political correctness, gender stereotyping, and identity politics should not justify bowing out of the conversation. Maureen Dowd, Deborah Tannen, and Anne Applebaum are smart, serious people. They have taken the time to initiate a conversation. They deserve serious responses from men and women alike.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge revoked bail Wednesday for two mob figures convicted in a racketeering case, and declined to release the nephew of reputed mob boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi to await a retrial.
A jury had returned a split verdict Tuesday against seven defendants in a racketeering case that involved sports betting, loansharking and video poker machines.
The jury deadlocked on the central racketeering charge against Ligambi, nephew George Borgesi and a third defendant. The government appears poised to retry them, and U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno declined to release Borgesi, citing safety concerns.
The 73-year-old Ligambi, who has been in custody since his 2011 arrest, has not yet petitioned for bail but is expected to do so. The jury deadlocked or acquitted him on eight lesser counts, while convicting underboss Joseph "Mousie" Massimino and two others of racketeering.
Prosecutors tried to prove at trial that Borgesi had been supervising mob activities from prison for the past 13 years, although the jury couldn't agree on the racketeering question.
"Imagine the harm he could do to witnesses who testified in this case, if he's released from prison," Assistant U.S. District John Han argued Wednesday.
Robreno will weigh a somewhat different bail equation at Ligambi's bail hearing, as his most serious conviction, for murder, was overturned in 1997 after he spent 10 years in prison.
Authorities believe Ligambi quietly took over the Philadelphia operation of La Cosa Nostra in 1999, when mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino went to prison.
Lawyer Edward Jacobs Jr. has also pointed out the lack of violence in the latest mob case, which consisted of years of wiretaps and FBI efforts to penetrate La Cosa Nostra. The defendants can be heard talking tough on the tapes, mostly over late payments, but the jury failed to convict anyone of making threats.
Jacobs, in remarks after the verdict Tuesday, called the 13-year government effort to tamp down the dwindling South Philadelphia mob "an enormous waste of precious taxpayer funds."
Yet an apparent mob hit the day the government rested its case in December raised eyebrows at the trial. A low-level gambling figure was charged with killing a suspected drug informant. The suspect's name had come up at the Ligambi trial, but there's been no alleged link to any of the trial defendants.
Reputed mob cap Anthony "Ant" Staino Jr. and associate Gary Battaglini, who were not in custody during the trial, were both convicted and had their bail revoked Wednesday.


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The Republican American Dream: Downward Mobility for the 99% [1]
After carefully reviewing the multiple comments from the various Republican candidates regarding education and immigration reform, it is clear that their intention is to close the opportunities for American citizens to move up by pressuring the middle class to become the working poor. These statements are also evident in the Wisconsin Republicans. Let's review three issues and see how they are interrelated.
First: Immigration. The Republicans are strong on sending undocumented immigrants back to their homelands. These undocumented workers are the ones who work at the lowest paying jobs in the country. One of the recurring arguments is that these undocumented workers are taking jobs from American citizens. These are the entry-to-the society jobs that immigrants have held continually throughout America's history. Many of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents held these positions as their first jobs in America. My own great-grandfather came to America as a teen and worked as a cook for the "Sooners" at the opening of the Oklahoma Territory.
In Wisconsin, just in case adults are not interested in working for low wages, our Republican legislators are in the process of revising child labor laws.
The modern-day Republicans want to keep the immigrants out so that Americans can take these lowest paying jobs.
Second: Education. At the World University President's Forum in Bangkok in 2006, the purpose of higher education was stated as twofold. First, to prepare citizens to work in an economy and second, to prepare citizens to live in a society. Careful review of the statements of Republicans and the actions of Republicans in Wisconsin regarding higher education makes it clear that they only consider higher education as a means to preparing citizens to work in an economy. In fact, the recurring message from Republicans is that too many people are actually going to college. The Republican lack of support for education at all levels is too extensive to address here.
The modern-day Republicans want to prepare citizens to be loyal workers rather than engaged citizens.
Third: Immigration Revisited: All of the Republicans, and especially Mitt Romney, support "stapling green cards to foreign students who have graduated in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) without worrying about them taking middle class jobs from American Citizens. These STEM graduates are most often from wealthy and influential families in their home countries. At the same time, the Republicans do not support investing in strengthening the STEM programs and creating incentives for Americans to major in STEM subjects. The National Defense Education Act of the 1950's and 1960's created a generation of mathematicians, scientists and math and science teachers that led this country in putting a man on the moon. The successful model is there and it can easily be replicated with federal investment. But, the Republicans refuse to support increased investment in education grants and scholarships, much less loans.
The modern-day Republicans would rather employ foreign graduates than invest in incentives to enable Americans to qualify for high paying jobs.
Summary: Move the undocumented workers out of the workforce so that American Citizens can have these low paying jobs. Spend less on higher education because a loyal workforce is more important than an engaged citizenry, and provide opportunities for foreign graduates to take high-paying American jobs rather than support American citizens in preparation for these high-paying jobs..
This continues America's race to the bottom for the 99% while the 1% who are funding the Republicans continue to accumulate more and more of America's wealth.
(disclaimer: these are very complex issues and this brief summary leaves out multiple nuances regarding issues and policies but the tone is appropriate and the conclusions are accurate)


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You can't beat a system you can't understand
Not for so much as a nanosecond do I consider myself an authority on economic matters, especially on a national or global scale. Nonetheless, the overall economic picture, even to a layman, appears to be somewhat on the bleak side - particularly in this country.
That isn't exactly news. However, considering that our economy is spiraling downward like a train wreck, and defense spending has escalated from $552 billion to more than $700 billion in less than a year, and gas prices at the pump have actually surpassed the price of bottled water in many cases, I believe we must ask ourselves a simple question. Why would anybody in their right mind want to be elected president of this mess?
When selecting our candidates, perhaps we should be questioning their mental stability more closely than their records of political accomplishment. Somehow, it doesn't make much sense to me why anybody would want to willingly sit in the driver's seat of a system that is destined to fail. I'm not convinced that anything short of a miracle could turn the economy around.
Consider being a candidate for a minute. First you're going to work yourself to near death in an electoral system that even the political parties don't understand, just to get nominated to run for office. When you really stop and think about it, the complex, unregulated system of nominating candidates makes about as much sense as sterilizing a needle for a lethal injection. The process is downright confusing.
Then, as a candidate, you're going to have to work even harder to keep your war chests filled so you can afford to run a campaign for a position that doesn't pay very well. Our president is one of the most poorly paid of all the world leaders. It's embarrassing. The CEOs of any Fortune 500 company make more than he does.
This isn't the first time the country has been an economic disaster zone at election time. And it certainly isn't the first time that management has changed hands in the middle of a war or some kind of conflict. During the great depression, both of the world wars, and during the threatening years of the Cold War, candidates were still fighting tooth and nail to get the top, although thankless, job.
If you believe the analysts, however, things are a bit different this time around. Time has run out. The buck can't be passed from one administration to the next any longer. Everything from social security to health care, and immigration to education must addressed, and problems must be resolved. Our thirst for affordable energy must be quenched. The budget at some point needs to be balanced. And I suppose it would be nice if the federal defi- cit were at least manageable.
These are just the problems that we common folk recognize because they are so blatantly obvious. Without a doubt there are many more. Like getting our troops home without leaving the world in a state of turmoil is one of the biggies. Another is to plug the dam and close the floodgates that are allowing all the jobs to leave this country by outsourcing to the Third World.
If trends stay consistent, the Third World is going to be a contender in the race for economic supremacy in the not too distant future. They will soon control the global labor market if they don't already do so. Manufacturing in this country is close to non-existent.
The intent of this column was not to paint a picture of obvious doom and gloom. Unfortunately, we're accustomed to living with the aforementioned scenarios. My point is that whoever wins this upcoming election is going to need the undivided support of the American people.
We have a history of being quick to blame and point fingers at the top when things go awry, whether it is the fault of the administration or not. The next president is taking over at a perilous time, and will need America to believe and not abandon ship- particularly corporate America. The bottom line mindset of big business has got to change if our country is to recover and regain its status as an economic leader.
If the political parties can actually succeed in pulling off an election with their smoke and mirrors process, I encourage all Americans to participate and support whoever emerges victorious. I'm going to continue to believe that the person who wants to fill that post is courageous, not crazy. Nonetheless, the next administration will need all the help it can get running a system that none of us really understand.


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THE HISTORY CHANNEL's "Men Who Built America". Where is DuPont in this mix?
THE HISTORY CHANNEL's "Men Who Built America". Where is DuPont in this mix?
I have viewed a few of the segments. YES, our state should produce our own DuPont segment for History Channel. Consider the amazing venues we have for scenes: Nemours, Winterthur, Hagley Mills and nearby Longwood Gardens.
Increased prospects for tourism to The First State as a result of the DuPont chapter on The History Channel? "Mais oui", would exclaim E.I. du Pont.
DuPONT is intimately intermingled in the existing men who have been featured on The History Channel series.
For example, Ford's production line ran faster than the ability for paint to dry. DuPont invented Duco lacquer. Duco dried on contact, thereby becoming an essential contributor to mass production. DuPont was declared a monopoly (yes, they were!), under TR's Sherman Anti-Trust Act, J.P.Morgan financed DuPont acquisitions. Should I go on? Oh, I will. DuPont's 200 + year legacy surpasses the others as well.
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Legions of fans at Gill for the last 100 yearsSpecial to the Union Leader
August 02. 2013 11:06PM
This is the seventh in a series of articles from the Gill Stadium Centennial Committee leading up to the ballpark's 100-year anniversary celebration on Sept. 8.
Six years after the American Legion held its first national tournament, "Little World Series" came to Manchester for the first time, with New Orleans defeating Springfield, Mass., for the national title. Athletic Field, later to become Gill Stadium, was such a popular venue that the series would return there on four more occasions.
Only once has a Manchester team played in a Legion World Series in the city, in 1942, the second time the national championship was determined here. In a three-game final, Sunrise Post 357 of Los Angeles swept Manchester's Sweeney Post 2, 6-2, 5-2 and 3-0.
Pitching before a crowd estimated at 5,000 the hard-luck loser in the deciding game was Chris Tonery, who would return to Sweeney Post as an assistant coach, a position he held for parts of five decades.
Sunrise Post's third baseman was Gene Mauch, who would go on to play for six major-league teams and manage four others. Mauch finished his playing career with the Red Sox and managed against them during one of the greatest comebacks in Boston history, the 1986 American League Championship Series run sparked by Dave Henderson's ninth-inning home run in Game 5.
The Legion World Series returned to newly renamed Gill Stadium in 1968, when Post 1 of Memphis, Tenn., captured the title before a crowd of 3,051 while extending its winning streak to 38 games. Memphis was led by Don Castle, who had been selected in the first round of the MLB Draft by the Washington Senators but would appear in only four big-league games, with the 1974 Texas Rangers, the Senators' successors.
Manchester had to wait only eight years for the Series' next appearance at Gill and even less time for the appearance after that. Back-to-back Series took place at the Valley Street ballpark in 1976 and '77, with Post 123 of Santa Monica, Calif., winning the '76 title and South Bend, Ind., winning the year after that. Crowds of more than 3,600 attended both deciding games.
No one was more responsible for the Legion World Series' last appearances at Gill Stadium than George Smith, who served as the tournaments' site director.
The grandson of 19th century major-league pitcher John "Phenomenal" Smith, George Smith was a standout local athlete in the 1940s and remained active in city athletics as a coach and administrator, including as Sweeney Post's director of athletics from 1977-2012. Smith, who died earlier this year, was a devoted city servant who spent eight years on the Board of Mayor and Alderman representing Ward 10, but he was synonymous with Gill Stadium and Sweeney Post, located just beyond the ballpark's right-field fence.
The same could be said of the post's longtime coach, John "Jumbo" Reilly, who won 14 state championships and three regional titles between the start of his coaching run with Sweeney in 1954 and his retirement in 1991.
Among those who played under Reilly at Gill were three who went on to successful big-league careers were 1979 AL Cy Young Award winner Mike Flanagan, 1987 NL Gold Glove catcher Mike Lavalliere and slugger Steve Balboni, whose 181 career home runs included 36 in 1985.
None got to play in an American Legion World Series at Gill Stadium, but all remain a part of the ballpark's rich history.


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"No money down" real estate scheme was promoted through investment seminars
Unmoved by Arthur Seaborne's age, his health concerns or the culture of corruption during the real estate boom, a federal judge sentenced the 70-year-old former mortgage broker to five years in prison.
It was the maximum sentence allowable under court guidelines.
U.S. District Court Judge Steven D. Merryday said he reached the decision because Seaborne's crimes against financial institutions and investors who attended his real estate seminars were "particularly cold-blooded."
"You are a person — like many others I have seen — who is well-regulated in many areas of your life," Merryday told Seaborne. "But in one area of your life you went terribly and unaccountably wrong, and you visited unconscionable injury on a quite a few of people."
Charged with luring investors into a "no money down" home buying scheme and lying to federally insured lenders on loan applications, Seaborne became choked with tears when it was his turn to address the court.
"I'm truly, truly sorry for my actions," he said.
Seaborne — one of the real estate professionals featured in 2009 Herald-Tribune investigation of property flipping — is one of nearly 30 real estate investors and professionals from Southwest Florida who have been sentenced to prison for crimes committed during the real estate boom.
His sentance was also one of the longest.
Only Rich Bobka — the chief lieutenant in a decade-long flipping fraud scheme masterminded by R. Craig Adams — and Bobka's brother, George Cavallo, have received longer sentences.
During Seaborne's Thursday morning hearing, his court-appointed attorney, Stephen Baer, tried to get his client's sentence reduced to three and a half years.
But federal prosecutors and two of Seaborne's victims objected to any reduction.
"I represent just one of the single, widowed and divorced women who were cheated and robbed of their nest eggs and led astray by Mr. Seaborne," said Martha Huie, a Sarasota resident who invested with Seaborne during the boom. "He was the beginning of many sleepless nights and eroded finances for these people. Three and a half years is absurd for what he has done."
Mark Winer, whose recently deceased mother also lost money investing with Seaborne, echoed Huie's sentiment.
"My mother suffered from a disease of the lower cortex of the brain — a semi-dementia," Winer said. "She invested $70,000 to $100,000 with him and passed away in April because of the lost income. What he did caused her to go on welfare and Medicaid. She lost her home and her car. She did not live a very good life after she lost her life's savings."
The Herald-Tribune's 2009 investigation found that Seaborne went out of his way to market his real estate investment program to women.
He told them he would buy houses in their names for no money down and take care of all the upkeep and expenses. They would get part of the rent money and share in the property's appreciation over time.
But when the economy turned, Seaborne stopped making the promised payments, forcing more than 30 of his investors to default on nearly $7 million in loans.
Seaborne's attorney tried to argue that a culture of corruption in the mortgage industry during the boom made it easy for his client to break the law.
Sales forces at banks "routinely used inflated and unverified borrower incomes and job titles to obtain approval of loans which borrowers actually did not qualify for and could not afford to repay," Baer said in his sentencing memorandum.
But Merryday said the environment surrounding Seaborne's actions was not a legitimate argument for reducing his sentence.
"Just because other people are doing it is not a mitigating factor," Merryday said. "If there was a misunderstanding about what the law said, that might be a mitigating factor. But the presence of others willing and able to commit fraud is just irrelevant. That sort of thing should cause us to question the health of our community."
Merryday also dismissed Baer's argument that Seaborne should get his sentence reduced because there is a low rate of recidivism among 70-year-olds.
Maybe for drug dealers and burglars, Merryday said. But not for people who commit fraud.
"I think you'll find if you plot the recidivism rate among people who commit fraud, the line is much flatter," Merryday said.


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Fast Start training is the first step for all new leaders and should be taken immediately after they register and before they meet with any youth members. New leaders choose the Fast Start they need to take: Cub Scout Leader, Boy Scout Leader, Varsity Scout Leader, or Venturing Crew Leader. All Fast Start courses are available on DVD, or they can be completed through the Online Learning Center. (If you are new to Scouting, you will be asked to create an account.)
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NEW YORK (AP) — A defense attorney says a casino bus driver had enough sleep before a New York City crash that killed 15 passengers.
Attorney Patrick Bruno made the comment Thursday while arriving for the start of Ophadell Williams' manslaughter trial.
Bruno says that on the day in question, Williams had "as much sleep as many other people routinely have."
The National Transportation Safety Board says the crash probably occurred because Williams had too little sleep and the bus company provided too little safety oversight.
Williams was driving from a Connecticut casino to New York's Chinatown when it crashed around 5:30 a.m. on March 12, 2011.
Authorities say the speeding bus ran off the highway, hit a guardrail, then toppled. A sign pole sheared off the roof.


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My Cyber-Reincarnation
RE: My Cyber-Reincarnation
I hope you keep your personal thoughts and work distant Egor.
I shudder to think of you looking after vulnerable people spouting this god shit at them
I feel so much, and yet I feel nothing.
I am a rock, I am the sky, the birds and the trees and everything beyond.
I am the wind, in the fields in which I roar. I am the water, in which I drown.
RE: My Cyber-Reincarnation
Good luck with destroying atheism. Especially when you think its ridiculous for people to demand proof outside of your own dubious interpretations and personal experiences. The "because I said so" approach worked when the church had power, but those days are long gone. You also have quite a few other religious views to debunk; you're not the only guy selling snake oil. All we've seen from you are insults and broad, baseless generalizations about what atheists are.
You're religion is still in the kiddie pool. Your ideas wouldn't make it past a Catholic debate team.
If Jesus died for our sins, why is there still sin? If man was created from dust, why is there still dust? If Americans came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?
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RE: My Cyber-Reincarnation
I didn't think that believers also believed in reincarnation...even the cyber kind.
See here they are, the bruises, some were self-inflicted and some showed up along the way. -JF
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(09-01-2013 07:29 AM)ideasonscribe Wrote:(09-01-2013 07:15 AM)Chas Wrote: RIED's 13 years old, kc isn't stupid.
"Legitimate atheist"? Really?
Atheist = lack of belief in God. This is not a difficult concept. Even a 13 year-old can not believe in God.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: My Cyber-Reincarnation
Egor calling someone an atheist!? dafuq.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
RE: My Cyber-Reincarnation
(09-01-2013 06:37 AM)FSM_scot Wrote: You know how homophobes are said to have gay tendencys, don't like it lash out at gays. Well that reminds me of egor I think he secretly has doubts about the existance of gods, but doesn't like it so lashes out about atheism making it out to be some kind of threat. To make himself feel happier with his doubts.
obvious explanation is obvious.
RE: My Cyber-Reincarnation
(09-01-2013 01:58 AM)Egor Wrote: My new forum is now open. It is a place to debate the existence of God, and more. For me, it is the acceptance, finally accepting that is, the calling God placed on my incarnation.I love a good discussion with a theist who fully understands his/her position, really knows the doctrine of the faith that he/she holds, is capable of intelligent and civil debate, and can really make some arguments that can be difficult to defend against. Those discussions help me grow.
That's exactly why I won't be joining your site because it's also exactly what you still need to learn to do and thus far haven't demonstrated you are even beginning to head in that direction. If you truly want to kick some atheist butt, you won't stand a chance unless you educate yourself and learn how to debate. (And still there are no guarantees. )
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(09-01-2013 07:29 AM)ideasonscribe Wrote:(09-01-2013 07:15 AM)Chas Wrote: RIED's 13 years old, kc isn't stupid.
Lol LEGITIMATE atheist? Are you fucking kidding me?
He doesn't believe in a magical sky daddy just like he doesn't believe in santa claus. What a hard concept. Major difference being that at least kids grow out of believing in santa claus. A lack of belief is all it requires. It doesn't require him to be a biblical scholar, it doesn't require him to be a cosmologist and it certainly doesn't require him to be a biologist. It simply requires one to look at something and go, "I don't believe that bullshit." and TADA! You've found someone who has a lack of belief in that thing. It's easy for those that were never indoctrinated in the first place, and if he wasn't, he's already a huge step ahead of me at his age because I was indoctrinated up to my eyeballs. But thankfully I still dropped the bullshit.
For the nonbeliever it's a simple simple concept and comes with no surprise. For the person who is already indoctrinated, letting go of it or even comprehending the concept is a huge mental hurdle. So for you, it might be an odd concept, but for his 13 year old self it was nothing new and easy as easycheese.
If he were entirely indoctrinated up to his eyeballs since he was 5 years old, and he were a 13 yr old christian, would you consider him a LEGITIMATE christian? A legitimate hindu? A legitimate muslim? A legitimate buddhist? A legitimate scientologist? A legitimate mormon?
Would you really think that someone at that age is of full age to FULLY comprehend the implications of all the dogma?
I would actually applaud a child for if nothing else, making the decision not to fall for a sales pitch for religion at that age, to doubt and think for themselves and come to a conclusion over the next many years as they grow up than fall trap to the classic "Get'em while they're young!" that we see so commonly. After all, what's the rush? Especially at that age.
KC also said that he doesn't think that there is any empirical evidence for a god. It is 100% faith. It wasn't that "KC destroyed him" but that he's 13 and has no debating experience. It's also hard to debate an empirical debate with someone who has no empirical base in their god (many of us would say "how convenient" but at least KC is honest about his beliefs) And I quote:
Quote:My evidence for God is anecdotal and based on faith. There is no empirical evidence for God. God cannot be empirically proved or disproved. God is metaphysical. Evidence is based on observable, objective claims; this is in direct contention with metaphysics.
I'm not going to shit on KC for that because at least he's honest about what he believes, he isn't trying to harm anyone over it and he's interested in at least learning about the world. At least he knows what he believes. The kid is vastly interested it seems in debates and is quite motivated to speak out. At least he's willing to learn about stuff and at least he's an open mind.
Give credit where credit is due.
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(09-01-2013 02:10 PM)Logisch Wrote:Maybe I've gotten used to the over-exaggerated responses some of you post to the simple wording mistakes I make, but I would normally blast at your for such a drama-filled response.(09-01-2013 07:29 AM)ideasonscribe Wrote: My goodness, that just doesn't even seem fair lol
Anyways, what I was saying by "legitimate" is along the lines of - I wouldn't even consider him a weak or implicit Atheist as opposed to a strong or explicit Atheist.
He isn't exactly implicit though gathering that he just proposed a debate against KC. So yeah, he's a legitimate Atheist.
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Review: Port of Barcelona Gin
Posted by Arctic Wolf on March 15, 2012
I was going to start this review by letting everyone know that the Port of Barcelona Gin is a Spanish gin distilled at the Esmeralda Distillery in the Catalan City of Lleida, Spain at the base of the Pyrenees Mountains (where in fact they are more well-known for their Obsello Absinthe Verte distillations than for their gin).
However, I have found out that changes are as they say, afoot, with respect to the Port Of Barcelona Gin. The producers have relocated from Spain to the US and are going to be producing their absinthe and gin in the USA rather than in Spain. The company is planning to begin production in the United States later this year. I do not know if the new gin will be called Port of Barcelona Gin anymore, or whether the new gin is even likely to be the similar. And, of course, means that whatever stocks of Port of Barcelona Gin which are in the retail stores now, are likely the last of the original Spanish Stocks.
The product is being brought into my home market of Alberta by the local Importer, PB Beverages, who arranged for me to receive a sample bottle of this unique gin to review here on my website, and who assure me that stocks of the original Port of Barcelona Gin will not run out in my locale any time soon.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
"… Initially, I smell a mild piny scent that has a different sort of flair than I am used to. I suspect I am sensing the anise-like imprint of absinthe upon the gin. I also notice a sort of penetrating sweetness which is rather firm and unrelenting, as well there is some mild citrus scents running through the breezes which remind me of an orange liqueur. The floral accents above the glass are reminiscent of fresh lilacs and there seems to be a little heather in the breeze as well …"
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In a news report released Tuesday, the League of California Cities' board of directors announced the adoption of a resolution passed on Nov. 16 that opposed looming automatic across-the-board cuts should Congress fail to avert the nation's fall off the so-called fiscal cliff.
In a news report released Tuesday, the League of California Cities' board of directors announced the adoption of a resolution passed on Nov. 16 that opposed looming automatic across-the-board cuts should Congress fail to avert the nation's fall off the so-called fiscal cliff.
The resolution urged Congress and President Barack Obama to "avert sequestration and craft a balanced approach to deficit elimination that shares the burden evenly, does not disproportionately harm national economic growth by shifting costs to local governments or harm national defense."
The potential cuts are the result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which was passed in part to raise the nation's debt ceiling in order to avoid defaulting on its obligations.
"The board resolution memorializes the views of over 482 cities in California who are responsible for providing the most direct services to residents," said Ridgecrest Mayor Pro Tem Chip Holloway, who sits on the LCC's board of directors. "The California congressional delegation has always been dysfunctional because they rarely unify for the benefit of California and still meddle in partisan politics."
If Congress fails to act by Dec. 31, broad, sweeping cuts will hit all sectors of nation, from military and defense spending to grant funding critical to many California state and local programs.
In addition, income taxes for nearly every American will raise, despite GOP's reluctance to impose new taxes on the nation in lieu of budget cuts.
"California cities face significant consequences should Congress fail to reach agreement on a plan that would stop automatic spending cuts called for in the Budget Control Act of 2011," the LCC news report stated.
At stake are programs that Ridgecrest receives funding from.
"(One of the) three most glaring problems for Ridgecrest would be obviously defense cuts," Holloway said. "Frankly I think the league numbers may be a tad conservative as defense spending in California exceeded $65 billion as recently as 2011, so we may be facing losses exceeding $2 billion statewide."
Holloway pointed out that one of more direct impacts would be to infrastructure and public safety.
"The other areas that affects Ridgecrest would be in streets and law enforcement funding, as a great many of our dollars while distributed by the state or KernCog originate at the federal level," Holloway said.
Ridgecrest receives law enforcement grants like the COPS Hiring Program Grant, which Ridgecrest Police Department secured in 2012 for three years to fund two police officer positions. The COPS program is a matching grants fund, requiring the city to put up the other half for the two officers positions and continue their employment for a fourth year. All new officers must be post-9/11 military veterans.
RPD recently hired one new officer with the grant.
The other programs at threat are funding programs such as those that slated to fund the Ridgecrest Boulevard retrofit in the 2013-2014 fiscal year, along with other federal programs funneled through state and county organizations like the Kern Council of Governments.
In addition to the LCC board's resolution, California's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office annual budget outlook, released last week, highlighted the potential ramifications should the nation teeter over the cliff.
"There is great uncertainty surrounding the federal 'fiscal cliff,' the combination of tax increases and spending cuts set to take place under current federal law in 2013," the LAO's budget report states. "These policies, if left unchanged, would have a significant effect on the economy and could result in economic conditions differing materially from our forecast."
The LAO's report stated that while it was based on only one of many assumptions, and that federal leaders would likely hammer out an agreement, state and national recession was likely if an agreement failed to materialize.
With it goes the hope that Proposition 30's brief hope to balance the state's budget and stave off educational and social cuts that Gov. Jerry Brown stressed would occur throughout the 2012 election cycle.
Among the potential looming program cuts include:
• Community Development Block Grants, allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, fund local developments like affordable housing and parks projects. Kern County's expansion of Leroy Jackson Park is a shining example of what CDBGs are utilized for.
• COPS Hiring Program Grants, funded by the U.S. Justice Department, helps cities partially fund law enforcement positions with the stipulation applicants are post-9/11 military veterans. Ridgecrest received $250,000 for two officer positions over three years, with the city matching that amount, and the city keeping the officer on for a fourth year.
• Many road and infrastructure grants that fund various local and regional road projects. Those programs are funneled through KernCOG and Caltrans and contribute heavily Ridgecrest road projects.
In addition, many tax breaks enjoyed by taxpayers and businesses enjoyed for years will elapse. The most prominent to end would be the Bush-era tax cuts, which would jack up income taxes for the majority of California's residents.
Holloway, like many others, are critical of the delay in an agreement to advert fiscal ramifications.
"I absolutely believe there are some in Congress who wish to see us go over the cliff for a specific agenda and as always those at the local level who are most accessible to the public will face the wrath of constituents who are tired declining services and excuses from all elected officials," Holloway said. "The top down one size fits all approach simply isn't working."


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The Japan Energy Association (JEA), the WEC's Japanese member committee, brought the highlights of the 22nd World Energy Congress in a special gathering in Tokyo last month (6 December 2013). This was the latest such gathering that the Japanese committee holds after every World Energy Congress to update its members about the global energy sector […]
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20th Century Fox has set a September 3 release date for Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis' Machete, starring Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson and Steven Seagal. Labor Day falls on Monday, Sept. 6, which gives the movie a four-day opening weekend.
The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Marin) his "holy" brother, and April (Lohan) a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.
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Narrator:Who had a beautiful baby girl named Sleeping Beauty...
(Baby doll thrown to Queen on stage.)
King and Queen:Aww...
(Witch steps out on stage.)
Witch:Ha ha ha ha ha!
King:What do you want?
Witch:I'm not sure yet. I just felt like stirring up some trouble.
Queen:What type of trouble, Witch?
(Queen and Witch get into a verbal fight.)
Witch:(Pointing finger at her.)
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Queen:Really, like what?
Witch:Well, I'm going to make sure that when your precious girl pricks her finger on a pineapple...
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Witch:Yes, a pineapple. She'll fall into a deep sleep...forever!
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Witch:Forever, aha, ha, ha, ha...
(Witch leaves the stage. King and Queen then exit and bring back a cut-up pineapple during Narrator's talk.)
Narrator:Years later Sleeping Beauty had become a very beautiful princess, but she was always hungry for pineapple. It was the strangest thing. But the King and Queen were very smart, they would cut up the pineapple for Sleeping Beauty, leaving no prickly points for her to prick her finger on.
(King and Queen offer Sleeping Beauty a pineapple.)
Sleeping Beauty:Thanks Mom. Thanks Dad!
Queen and King:You're welcome!
(King and Queen exit.)
Narrator:But one day, when the King and Queen were not in the castle, Sleeping Beauty got another craving, for a pineapple!
(Sleeping Beauty enters.)
Sleeping Beauty:Oh, I am so hungry, when are Mother and Father going to be home? Oh well, l guess I'll just have to cut up this pineapple myself.
(Sleeping Beauty takes out pineapple, but just when she is about to cut it, she cry's "Ow!" and falls to the floor and starts to snore.)
Witch:(Witch pops up into scene.)
Aha, ha, ha, ha!
(King and Queen enter.)
Queen and King:Oh no!
Narrator:All of a sudden, a handsome prince arrives on the scene.
(Prince enters)
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Queen and King:We do!
Queen:Our daughter has fallen into a deep sleep, and we can't awaken her.
King:Can you help us?
(King and Queen make sad faces at Prince.)
Prince:Of course, I'm a specialist at saving princesses. Lay out the plan Narrator.
Narrator:The plan is simple...just kiss her!
Prince:Kiss-her? Eeeeeeewww.
Queen and King:Please!
Prince:But I don't want to. Yucko, blah!
Narrator:If you don't, you're out of the story.
Prince:Well, that's not good, okay...I'll do it. After all, I am blessed with "royal charm" and perfect teeth.
(Prince goes up to Sleeping Beauty and makes loud smacking noises when Narrator addresses the audience.)
Narrator:I hope this works folks!
(In background, we hear Sleeping Beauty say:)
Sleeping Beauty:Eeeeewwww, gross.
(Narrator steps away from audience while Sleeping Beauty wipes off her lip.)
Sleeping Beauty:That was the worst kiss ever, blah! And P.U., what stinky, awful, terrible breath, yuck!
Prince:Humph!!!! I've never been so royally insulted!
Sleeping Beauty:Thanks for saving my life anyhow.
(Sleeping Beauty bats her eyes and makes a cute smile. Prince rolls his eyes.)
Queen:Prince, how would you like to marry my daughter?
Sleeping Beauty:MOM!! I like to know someone first before I consider marriage.
Prince:Me too your Majesty!
Narrator:In the meantime, may I suggest the handsome prince try some "Royal Breath Spray?"
Sleeping Beauty:Here you go Prince.
(Prince uses breath spray with a twinkle in his eyes.)
Prince:Why thank you one and all. UMM! Wintergreen. Care to try it?
(Witch enters.)
Witch:I'd love to! Ha ha ha.
(Witch exits.)
Narrator:What a charming guy!
(They all try the breath spray.)
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Nurse - Rebecca Ailstock
by – Patty Poor, Crittenden
If you are 24 years old, your life should be carefree and fun. But Rebecca Ailstock faces challenges that the majority of people her age would never think of. Rebecca faces the specter of cancer each day and is reminded of it each day when she looks in the mirror and sees her fluff of hair that is trying to grow back in after surgery to remove a brain tumor and a series of chemo treatments.
Fiance - Chester Alsip
by – Carol Gadd, Verona
The someone special in my life is my fiancé Chester Alsip. I've known him and his family of eight brothers and sisters, etc. for 60 years. He is the sweetest, most understanding, patient, friendly man I've ever known.
He always has a kind word for everyone and a sweet smile on his face. He is 80-years-old and we fell in love with each other. I'm 74-years-old.
Daughters - Victoria, Katherine, Charlotte
by – Chris Nicholson, Corinth
My special valentines are my three daughters. The youngest, 27-month-old Charlotte has had a rough start to life.
At only 5-weeks-old, she started having seizures. We took her to Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and after several days of testing they sent us home with no diagnosis.
Pastors - Tony and Kim McKinnon
by – Sandi Neace, Williamstown
What other way to appreciate two wonderful people, who came into our family life than Pastor Tony and Kim McKinnon for Valentine's Day.
What an awesome couple, pastors at the Family Worship Center in Grant County, have done so much for our community in so many ways.
Their ministry doesn't stop when the church doors close, it only just began, from volunteering in the community to getting our youth in the right places with the right people.
Aunt - Hazel Barnett Cammack
by – Jenna Pelfrey, Dry Ridge
I would like to nominate my aunt, Hazel Barnett Cammack, for your special valentine issue.
She has always been the one in the family that all her brother, sisters, nieces and nephews depend on when anything is needed. She has helped me on numerous times, but never more than in the last several weeks.
You see, I fell on Jan. 3 and broke both elbows. Needless to say, the first couple of weeks, I was pretty helpless. She was at my house every day the first two weeks.
Mother - Kendra Wheelington
by – Jessica Atha, Jonesville
My mother, Kendra Wheelington, is my special Valentine. She is my best friend in the whole world and never fails to be there for me, no matter the circumstances.
My mom has overcome a lot of obstacles in her life and faced a lot of hardship, but she never let that get her down.
Her mother (my grandmother) passed away in her forties after she lost the fight with brain cancer.
Husband - Philip Spegal
by – Beverly Spegal, Demossville
Parents – Mike and Brandy Breeden
by – Logan Breeden, 5, Dry Ridge
(written by grandmother Darlene Breeden)
My Mommy and Daddy loves me so much. They snuggle me up and tickle me so good that I don't have to laugh.
They play board games with me. They play Wii with me. They pay attention to me even when my little baby brother is crying for his bottle.
They take me to Chuck E. Cheeses and the mall.
When I go to Granny's to stay all night and I miss them and want to go home, they come and get me.
Brother – Don Johnson
by – Carolyn King, Dry Ridge
I think Don Johnson should be a special Valentine. He is my big brother. There may be 18 years between us in age, but we are very close.
My dad passed away when I was in high school. Don is the one who bought my wedding gown, and he is also the one who gave me away on my wedding day.
Nominations for the annual Grant County Chamber of Commerce awards are now being taken.
Categories include Grant Countian of the Year, Excellence in Business, Excellence in Education and Volunteer of the Year.
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All nominees must be a resident of Grant County or be employed in Grant County. The nominator does not have to be a member of the chamber of commerce.
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Tom Cruise & Olga Kurylenko: 'Oblivion' Japan Premiere!
Tom Cruise greets fans while attending the premiere of his new film Oblivion on Wednesday (May 8) at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Japan.
The 50-year-old actor was joined by his co-star Olga Kurylenko and the flick's writer/director Joseph Kosinksi.
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Racing, in any form, is brilliant insanity, riding a knife's edge lap after lap. Racing in the top prototype category for 24 hours at Le Mans is riding the edge of a knife that stretches from New York to Los Angeles—and then to Salt Lake City.
To call Audi dominant at Le Mans is to approach the zenith of understatement. In the last 16 installments of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, only three were won by any car other than an Audi. But as important as the record books are, racing is about what is now, not what once was—and right now, Audi is at Le Mans not as the reigning champion, but as the challenger. Perhaps, even, as underdog.
The 2015 race at Le Mans was a close fight, with Audi leading much of the event, but the win ultimately going to corporate-group mate Porsche and its 919 Hybrid. Porsche closed out the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship season in dominant fashion, winning all of the remaining races on the schedule. So far this season, Audi has seen better performance (if worse luck), despite making major changes to allow this year's R18 e-tron quattro to run a new lithium-ion battery hybrid system, in place of the flywheel-based kinetic energy hybrid system it used previously. Early season disappointment at Silverstone, where the winning Audi was disqualified for a too-thin skid plate, has been replaced by tentative optimism following a hard-won victory at Spa-Francorchamps in the second round of the WEC championship in May.
Entering the third round, the prestigious and strategically important 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend, Audi appears to be working harder than ever to hone its edge. At the same time, there's an air of uncertainty in the ultimate outcome—one that, in years past, wasn't present—or at least wasn't so obvious. Even in 2014, the first year of Porsche's renewed challenge at the top tier of Le Mans Prototype racing, walking the Audi garages and speaking with race-team leaders like Brad Kettler and Leena Gade, there was a sense of implacability in the face of the trials of a 24-hour race. This year, key figures are quick to talk about Audi's competitiveness, but equally quick to note the roles weather, fuel, and reliability will play in the ultimate outcome, regardless of absolute pace.
Tom Kristensen, known in racing circles as "Mr. Le Mans" for his record as the most successful driver in Le Mans history, has earned seven of his nine overall wins at Le Mans at the wheel of Audi race cars. Even he is cautious about the team's chances this year. Speaking with Kristensen trackside just before qualifying for this year's race, AUTOMOBILE asked if being a challenger, rather than a champion, has had an effect on the team's or drivers' preparation. Kristensen admitted that last year's loss is a backdrop of this year's effort, saying, "There's no doubt that we're coming here trying to win again. Last year didn't materialize."
Kristensen also pointed out that while Audi and Toyota have both moved to lithium-ion hybrid systems for 2016, Porsche has had three years of development with the technology, and as a result, has the advantage of experience—as well as what appears to be the best pace. "Porsche is the favorite for pole. But that's not the focus—the focus is not to be fastest," said Kristensen. "For the race, everything will be closer, and I think you can look forward to a very exciting race." Reading between the lines, it's not hard to see that Audi is focusing on its experience with strategy, survival, and race craft to make up for what may be a slight deficit in outright lap times.
As always, however, the 24 Hours of Le Mans will test each and every aspect of the drivers, engineers, and mechanics, as well as the cars. According to Kristensen, overcoming those tests, and keeping the whole team working together toward the checkered flag is about more than who has the fastest lap, the most trophies, or any other single attribute. "Every time you enter Le Mans, there is technology you have never seen before," said Kristensen, cautioning that "You cannot cheat 24 hours. You have not done it before you do it—you do your testing and your preparation, but with a big engineering team, mechanic team, and driver team … communication is, as ever, a key factor."
Those simple words of wisdom may give some insight into how, even as just a single member of teams often numbering into the hundreds, Kristensen has been a part of more Le Mans wins than any other driver in history. That lesson is certainly one Audi helped develop for Kristensen as it built its own winning record—but it's one that's also certainly well-known across the garages at Porsche, which added its 17th win last year after a 16-year gap.
Toyota, too, is not to be forgotten in the mix for LMP1 victory. Currently second in the WEC constructors' points-race behind Porsche—and just ahead of Audi—the drivers of the TS050 Hybrid have shown very good pace at the Circuit de la Sarthe, splitting the two German teams' lap times in sessions marked by changeable, often very wet weather.
Another factor that will influence this year's race is the number of cars each manufacturer fields. For a variety of reasons, each of the top three P1 teams have just two cars competing for the win, rather than the usual three. As Stephan Reil, head of technical development for Audi quattro GmbH told AUTOMOBILE, that reduces each teams' ability to withstand the attrition of 24 hours of flat-out racing.
Simply being the fastest at Le Mans has never been enough, and it's no different this year—not for Audi, nor for Porsche or Toyota. To win, every part of the team must work to near perfection, and each of those parts must work together—and on top of it all, there must be at least a little luck. Last year, the recipe didn't quite work for Audi. This year? Well, we'll all find out together when the checkered flag drops on the 84th 24 Hours of Le Mans this Sunday.


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The following biographical sketch was compiled at the time of induction into the Academy in 1979.
Walter Pettus Gewin served as a judge on the Fifth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals since October 5, 1961.
In 1977 Chief Justice Warren E. Burger appointed him to the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals of the United States.
Born December 9, 1908, in Nanafalia, Judge Gewin was educated at Birmingham-Southern College where he graduated cum laude, at Emory University, and at the University of Alabama where he received his bachelor of laws degree. Birmingham-Southern College conferred on him the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1966 and the Honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1973. He received the Dean's Award from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1973 and the Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Alabama in 1976.
He began the practice of law in 1935 in the Birmingham firm of Martin, Turner and McWhorter, and practiced alone in Greensboro from 1936 to 1951 when he became a member of the firm of LeMaistre, Clement and Gewin, and Clement, Gewin, Rosen, Hubbard, and Waldrop in Tuscaloosa.
In 1939 he was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives during which time he served on the 1940 Code Committee. He was also prosecuting attorney for Hale County from 1942 to 1951.
Judge Gewin was a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American, Alabama, and Tuscaloosa County Bar Association; Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity; the American Law Institute; and the Farrah Order of Jurisprudence. In 1948 he was elected president of the Bar Association of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Alabama and in 1955 of the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association. He served as vice president, 1957-58, and as president, 1958-59, of the Alabama Bar Association .
He was a Trustee of Birmingham-Southern College and of Jones Law School operated by the University of Alabama. He was also a member of the President's Cabinet, University of Alabama, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Alabama Law School Foundation.
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The renegade Islamist group known as ISIS now controls swaths of Syria and Iraq, and it's partly because the fighters are so rich. ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is known for having the biggest guns and paying the highest salaries.
While kidnapping, oil smuggling and donations from sympathizers have been well-known sources of money, the groups also run complex and brutal protection rackets, according to analysts.
Charles Lister of the Brookings Institution in Doha, Qatar, says Iraqi intelligence sources estimate that extremist militants take in more than $1 million a month in extortion from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
"Mosul seems to have acquired a very central role in terms of making money," Lister says. "Certainly since late 2012, early 2013, I've seen a number of reports to suggest that ISIS's activities in extortion and acquiring levies on transport and real estate having increased fairly dramatically."
Money has been important in helping extremist militants in Syria overtake more moderate and Western-backed rebels fighting against the Syrian government.
In Mosul, the extortionists prey on thousands with regular demands and threats. The story of one small business owner shows how it works.
Tawfik ran a computer shop in Mosul until last year. He was too afraid to give his full name even though he has fled Mosul for the safer city of Erbil. He says he left Mosul after an anonymous caller demanded about $114,000 for jihad, or holy war, an unthinkable amount for a shop owner who made perhaps $1,000 a month.
The extortionists "told us that everyone in the street who is working pays for them and that we should pay too," Tawfik says. "They killed three people because they had not paid or were actually late to pay. They were really serious."
He didn't know who the men were — they told him to leave the money for them in a bag.
"Those kinds of guys are like ghosts," he says. "You can't see them. You pay them but you cannot see them. You don't know who they are and where they live. You have no idea about them. They stay in the shadows and they take the money."
Several other people interviewed said the problem of extortion is entrenched and ongoing.
Abulraheem al Shammari, an official at the Mosul provincial council, says the phenomenon is crippling the city.
"They are extorting money from tradesmen, people with capital, shops, and pharmacy owners," he says. "I believe that all the state officials are aware of it."
And he agrees with residents who say the police and army, despite a heavy presence in the city, are powerless against this heavily armed mafia.
"I don't believe that a plan to tackle the issue exists," he says.
Alice Fordham is NPR's Beirut correspondent. Follow her @AliceFordham.
Al-Qaida-linked militants are surging in the Syrian civil war where they outmuscle Western-backed rebels for power. And they've also captured ground in next door Iraq. The militants are known locally as ISIS. They have the upper hand, in part, because of money. The group buys bigger guns and pays better salaries than its rivals. NPR's Alice Fordham went to northern Iraq and found the source of much of that money: an extortion network.
ALICE FORDHAM, BYLINE: This is a street of car mechanics on the outskirts of Mosul. Here, in a largely Christian suburb, business is pretty good and the situation is safe. But ask people about doing business in the center of the city and they describe a mafia run by terrorists.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: If anyone success in his work, in his business, come to him, need money from him.
FORDHAM: They come to him and need money from him. And that's how it goes, says this guy having his car fixed, who won't give his name out of fear. Over and over, people from Mosul say that the Islamists known as ISIS run the city like Al Capone ran Chicago. The garage owner, Louay, who's also scared to give his full name, says that, yeah, he made more money in the city center but the risks weren't worth it.
LOUAY: (Through Translator) Of course. OK. The business and working was better in Mosul, inside the city before. But now, working here may be less, but I'm secured, myself and my family.
FORDHAM: He fled a giant protection racket. Businesses, shops, doctors - they all have to pay or risk being killed.
CHARLES LISTER: I would say in Iraq, Mosul has taken the key role in terms of ISIS's making of money through illicit means.
FORDHAM: Charles Lister, an analyst with the Brookings Institution. He says Iraqi intelligence suggests ISIS makes at least $1 million a month in Mosul.
LISTER: Money is critical for any insurgent group's operations to sustain on the same level that they have been or potentially to escalate further.
FORDHAM: The group uses the cash for weapons and salaries for its extremist fighters. That's helped it marginalize more moderate factions across the border in Syria. And the practice is growing. For example, the group now taxes trucks on roads it controls. So what does this mean for the people who live there? This man asks to be identified only as Tawfik.
TAWFIK: Actually, I'm from Mosul. I grow there and I'm working as IT. I have a computer shop there for a long time.
FORDHAM: Tawfik made about $1,000 a month from his shop. Then, one day, he got the call from ISIS.
TAWFIK: They ask for some money and we stuck in this. And, you know, it was kind of a scary thing to deal with them.
FORDHAM: Their demands were incredible.
TAWFIK: Well, they asked for, I guess, 100,014.
FORDHAM: They asked for $114,000?
TAWFIK: Mm-hmm. Yes.
FORDHAM: So it was a huge amount of money for you.
TAWFIK: Yeah. Actually, it's not a reasonable number to pay for a small shop that cannot make more than 1,000 bucks per month.
FORDHAM: Not reasonable. But the man on the phone said they needed the money for jihad. He told Tawfik that everyone else with a shop on the street paid or was killed.
TAWFIK: OK, and you know, they killed three persons, yeah, because he haven't paid or actually late to pay. And, yeah, they were really serious.
FORDHAM: Tawfik fled to Erbil, a safer part of Iraq, where I meet him. Abdul-Rahim al-Shammari, an official with the Mosul provincial council, says the phenomenon is widespread.
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FORDHAM: Al-Shammari says that the police and army are either unwilling or unable to stop the extortion. And people in Mosul say that ISIS is now so rich, powerful, and brutal that no one can see a way to force these gangster extremists out of their city. Alice Fordham, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.