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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Crews have been given the green light to continue work on the massive sinkhole in southeast Louisiana. There was a flyover of Bayou Corne on Thursday to obtain new pictures of the sinkhole from the air.
According to the Office of Conservation, lower levels of seismic activity at the sinkhole site have allowed work to resume. Work on the sinkhole and the containment berm had been put on hold over the last week or so because of concerns over a number of micro earthquakes.
According to the Assumption Parish Police Jury, a crack developed on the south berm, which is located south/southwest of pad three. Officials added there is also increased seismic activity happening at the site.
At last check, the sinkhole was 26 acres in size. The president of United Brine, a subsidiary of Texas Brine, has stated the surface could get to 50 acres but the good news is it is moving in a southwest pattern, which is away from homes and the community.
History of the sinkhole
The sinkhole opened up in August 2012 and was roughly 1/24 of the size it is now. The sinkhole formed when an underground salt cavern collapsed.
In the past, seismic activity is reported, then the sinkhole burps up debris and then a slough-in happens. Burps occur when air and gas from deep in the sinkhole bubbles up. It can cause debris and an oily substance to float to the top. A slough-in is when the sinkhole swallows trees and land that is on the edge of the sinkhole.
Berms were placed around the sinkhole shortly after it opened up to keep the oily, debris filled water contained to the sinkhole area so it would not contaminate the area bayous.
It has more than a year since hundreds living near the giant sinkhole were forced from their homes.
Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up and left what is now a 24-acre sinkhole. Residents were evacuated and the most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week. Texas Brine owns the salt cavern that collapsed, causing the sinkhole.
On August 2, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced the state will be suing Texas Brine for environmental damages caused by the failed Texas Brine cavern.
Parish and Texas Brine officials agree the situation is far from over. 3D seismic surveys show the sinkhole itself it beginning to slow and stabilize, but the recovery is focused on another danger; natural gas gathering underneath a nearby aquifer.
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If you're finally getting around to making your linux based AFP file server work with OSX lion… and you're having trouble… And all the google results tell you "add uams_dhx2.so to your uamslist… but that doesn't work… you might not have it compiled. And it might not be compiled because you dont have libgcrypt11-dev (or the equivalent package in your distribution) installed.
When libgcrypt is missing you get a super fast easy to miss notice in your ./configure output. and no dhx2.
Hopefully this sames someone as much time as figuring it out cost me.
Stumbling across this related problem someone was having using netatalk 2.2 on Solaris finally let me in the right direction: http://marcoschuh.de/wp/?p=839

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"Sigh", I sighed.
I find myself sighing a lot these days. Life, for some unfathomable reason, seems to have become so complicated. I am forever forgetting something or the other. Our watchman, who revels in being the harbinger of bad news, (had I been a medieval Mughal emperor he would long have been beheaded) had just called through to tell me I had a flat tyre. And I just realised I had given my spare tyre for fixing and forgotten to collect it.
"Sigh" I sighed again.
The missus, who was sitting on the sofa and reading her paper, chuckled.
"I am glad that you are able to derive mirth from my despondent demeanour" I said to her in my sourest voice, meaning it to sting.
"No, my sweet, I just remembered something the boys said"
"Why, what did they come up with now?" I asked her. I realized too late that I didnt want to know
"The younger one calls you Sigh Baba."
"Sai Baba?"
"No, Sigh Baba. Because you keep sighing all the time. Haha! Isn't that droll?"
It was the saddest joke I had heard from a source specializing in sad jokes but I kept mum. I had just remembered I had a certain confession to make and I needed lots, LOTS of good humour at this moment. I would have sighed again but I resisted the urge.
The problem was that I had answered our home phone on that fateful day. I normally don't, because the callers are usually random aunts who can speak for hours and ask uncomfortable personal questions when you least expect them to, and who want to speak to the missus anyway, but she was busy doing something in the kitchen and the phone kept ringing despite my best efforts to stare at it and make it stop.
"Pick up the phone, for gods sake!" she yelled from inside and I found myself talking to an uncle by marriage who told me a very complicated story about why he was in Bombay and embedded a "we're coming to your place on Friday" somewhere in it.
The missus normally debriefs me when I do something critical like answering the phone but that day there was a temperature related chemical composition change in the carbohydrate structure of the rice she was cooking and it took me many stressful minutes to pacify her. Finally, we decided to tell the boys we were having Smoked Rice Burmese Style for dinner, which, and this is why I adore children and their unquestioning innocence, they accepted without a murmur.
The upshot of all this was, as you guessed, I forgot to tell her that her uncle and his entire family were coming for dinner on Friday, which in a jolly little coincidence happened to be tonight.
"We have a few guests coming over for dinner....I forgot to tell you"
"WHAT! When?" asked the missus
"TONIGHT! And you're sighing instead of telling me! Are you out of your mind? What are we going to serve them? Oats?"
"I don't see why not, if that is what I have to eat" I didn't say that of course. I just sort of stared at my toes.
"I beg your pardon?"
"Who is coming?"
I told her. She appeared visibly relieved, said uncle being one of her jollier ones and the moment passed.
I further improved my standing by helping out in the kitchen. The missus makes a nice pudding which involves emptying one tin of Milkmaid condensed milk into two glasses of milk. I did this crucial step without so much as pilfering a spoonful of the condensed milk,excepting a little bit, to ensure the Milkmaid hadn't gone bad - and stirred it so competently that the pudding turned out delicious.
"I've heard you write a humour blog" said the uncle. Tell us a joke"
"Yes, yes, tell a joke" said the aunt.
Well, the uncle is an avid golfer so I told them the one about the lady golfer who complained to the greens committee that there were too many bees on the course and she had just been stung by one.
"Where were you stung, madam" asked the secretary of the greens committee
"Between the first and the second hole" answered the lady whereupn the secretary said "Ah! A difficult place to treat".
It fell flat. The uncle just sort of harrumphed and the aunt looked intently at the chair.
Well, that's that. My week that was. Hope y'all had a better.


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Kate Gosselin: Target Troops to the Rescue!
Kate Gosselin gets a personal escort from Target employees as she walks from the store back to her car in New York City on Thursday (August 27).
The 34-year-old mother of eight stopped by the UPS store (yet again) to get some errands done.
Kate has been landing significant gigs, with The View offering her a guest-hosting spot on their show. Jon, however, has been having issues. Randy Greenstein, part of Shrine club at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods said, "Jon is not really in demand because of his negative image. Who would want to advertise 'come hang with the world's biggest scumbag'?"
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HELP! Our vet is stumpped !
Our 6.5 yrs old siberian husky has been very ill the past month. What started out as a mild limp in one front leg has progressed to him losing 10lbs, having severe lameness in a back leg and an on and off fever. He gets a bit better on Metronidazone, starts eating again and gains some mobility back, but as soon as he's done he crashes and is worse than before. Our vet has tested him for Addison's, Myathenia Gravis and Lyme Disease. Everything has come back negative. There is no swelling of his joints and he's had exrays and blood work. The exrays were fine and the blood work showed higher white blood count and lower magnesium. He's taking prednisone and Amoxil right now too. My heart is breaking for him and I wish we could find out what we're fighting. Any ideas from anyone, vet or otherwise would be sincerely appreciated.
Mild lameness, occasional fever, lameness progressing and possibly rotating from limb to limb all sound very like one of the tick-borne diseases, sibermom14. Granted we have a lot more ticks here than are typical for Ontario, but I wonder if a course of doxycycline might not be in order? In addition to Lyme's disease, you also have to check for ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and possibly even babesiosis or Rocky Mtn Spotted fever--those last two are emergent here. Also, it's possible to test negative for Lyme's disease and still have it.
We've also seen similar symptoms when our dogs have had leptospirosis.
If your vet is stumped, would he be willing to give you a referral to a veterinary teaching hospital near you? VTHs tend to see a lot of cases of diseases/conditions that regular vets don't normally see at all. We've always had good luck with referrals--the staff at the VTH has always been able to find the correct diagnosis.
I hope you get some answers soon and your dog gets better soon! Please keep us updated on how your husky is doing
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The Cinemark Movies 10, which opened in 1995, was expanded with four more screens in 2010, including one of the company's large XD screens. The theater was then rechristened the Cinemark Redding 14.
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History as Theater class debuts student-written documentary
'When Rebellion Becomes Revolution: A Play of Protest, Murder, Denial and Atonement' to be read April 25
Professor Joyce Antler's History as Theater (American Studies 128b) has been busy this semester learning about documentary drama and writing its own. Using Brandeis archives and other historical materials, the class has probed student radicalism in an earlier generation, focusing on the famous case of Susan Saxe and Kathy Power (Brandeis, 1970).
Come out and see the students' work and join in contemplation of the changing meanings of social justice on the college campus. The play, "When Rebellion Becomes Revolution: A Play of Protest, Murder, Denial and Atonement," will be read in the International Lounge on Wednesday, April 25, at 7 p.m.
Seating is limited so please RSVP to Antler.
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - In the team's season-opener last Saturday, fourteen fencers represented the MIT's men's fencing program at The Big One Fencing Tournament at Smith College. The event featured individual competition in a field of participants from nearly twenty schools, including several Division I and Division II programs. The Engineers finished with three top-ten performances across the three events.
Sophomore Jackson Crane had the best finish for the Engineers, placing second in an epee field that consisted of 69 entrants. Joseph Rafidi was also in the top-ten in epee competition, with a seventh place finish. Neil Fitzgerald and Daniel Glover placed 63rd and 64th, respectively, with Tech's Gabe Karpman rounding out the field.
In foil, Daniel Levine grabbed the other top-ten finish of the meet for MIT with a sixth place showing, while Ben Nield was one spot out of the top-ten. Chris Perera grabbed the 21st spot overall and Siraj Ali (49) and Alex Wang (66) were also part of the 71-athlete field for MIT.
Max Brand led the sabre competitors by taking 11th place. Viniyak Ramesh took 29th place overall, while Isaac Businger was able to crack the top fifty, with a 49th place finish in the 71-entrant field. Nathan Arce and Alexis Hakimi also fenced sabre for the Engineers.
MIT squares off in its first team competition on Saturday, November 21, when it hosts a Northeast Fencing Conference meet against UMass, New Hampshire, Tufts, Boston University and Brandeis.


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We've entered a new era of digital-first manufacturing, where smart machines bring speed and accuracy to repetitive tasks, support hands-free work and provide real-time data access. Humans, for their part, bring discernment, abstract thinking and creative problem solving—skills machines simply do not have.1 As humans and machines come together on the factory floor in radically new ways, neither can succeed without the other.
By developing a connected industrial workforce (people and machines working together to reinvent production and service processes), manufacturers can improve productivity, operational efficiency, value chain visibility, safety and risk management.2 They also can address such issues as rising labor costs in some countries and labor shortages in others. In some cases, machines, by making local production more attractive and feasible, can even reduce the incentive to shift labor to low-cost countries.
Still, the path to these benefits isn't always obvious. To realize the full potential of the connected industrial workforce, manufacturers must create an environment where humans and machines can deliver outcomes together that neither could produce in isolation.
Machine technology has a come a long way since Unimate, the unwieldy 4,000-pound robotic arm that started welding die castings onto auto bodies in the early 1960s.3 Today's collaborative robots are safe, compact, and adaptable and can perform many functions without human supervision. Wearables literally connect machines to the human body. Humans and machines now work with each other, not just near each other.
This real-time, two-way collaboration is turning the traditional production environment upside down. Manufacturing will evolve from human- to human/machine-centric within the next five years. Thirty percent of executives expect a move to human augmenting machines by 2020, according to Accenture research. Only 11 percent see the shift happening today.4
Several things are certain about this workforce revolution. It is inevitable, it is happening fast and humans are driving this new approach to work. Critical to its success? Seamless human-machine bonding.
Although manufacturers recognize the importance of the connected industrial workforce, many are not ready to harness its benefits. While 94 percent of manufacturing executives say they are aware of this workforce evolution, only 22 percent have already implemented corresponding measures. Companies across the sector today are spending an average of 18 percent of their R&D budget on connecting their workforce. Five years from now, they expect, this allocation will rise to 24 percent.5 Will this investment be too little, too late for some companies? What's clear is the companies must begin reallocating their investments now.
The transformation has already begun among pioneers in this space such as global engineering leader Siemens. By automating some production lines to the point where they can run unsupervised for several weeks, Siemens's "lights out" manufacturing plant is bringing the company closer to realizing a fully self-organizing factory. The plant still requires 1,150 employees to support it, many of whom focus on programming, monitoring and machine maintenance.6
ASML, a leading manufacturer of chip-making equipment, has explored having clean room engineers receive instructions through smart glass technology so they get the right information and support when and where they need it. The technology displays step-by-step procedures and provides over-the-shoulder coaching and interactive updates such as error reporting, video uploads and instruction modifications in real time.
What's holding other companies back? The manufacturing executives Accenture surveyed say that data security concerns, implementation complexity and legacy equipment limitations are potential challenges to adopting the connected industrial workforce. But this is only part of the story; humans are the rest of it.
The majority (70 percent) of manufacturing executives we interviewed cite a lack of skilled workers as their biggest concern with the connected industrial workforce. A workforce that is not ready for the change and not equipped with adequate qualifications and skills to support connected machines could wipe out potential efficiency gains.
Yet workers with the right skills are increasingly difficult to find. For starters, the United States, parts of Europe and Asia could face significant labor shortages in the coming years due to demographic changes. Consider, for example, that the number of workers in Japan is expected to plummet from 64 million in 2014 to 56 million in 2030.7
The challenge is not just about filling spots on the production line. The human workforce needs cross-functional and interdisciplinary skills (see graphic) and a comfort level with machines on the shop floor as well as with digital tools. For many, this will require a 180-degree shift to a mindset that embraces the value of the human-machine partnership and the opportunity for more satisfying, high-value work. For a successful transformation, manufacturers should offer all of their workers, regardless of their current skill level, equal access to upskilling opportunities.
No one-size-fits-all blueprint will enable manufacturers to build the connected industrial workforce. However, companies can put some fundamentals in place to create and sustain an environment where humans and machines flourish.
Create champions in the boardroom. Executive ownership is key to driving people, process, technology and culture changes and to ensuring sufficient funding streams. C-suite leaders must be fully committed and avoid being distracted by competing interests. Leadership should seek insight from operations managers whose firsthand view of production efficiency as it is—and could be—should guide the transformation. This ground team can also help quantify and measure progress to strengthen the business case.
Pinpoint who should do what and how. Balancing human-machine collaboration is both an art and a science, and manufacturers need to become value architects. This means companies must analyze market trends while deconstructing their value chains to find the areas where the connected industrial workforce can provide benefits, from increased productivity to better safety to improved product or service offerings for the customer.
Acknowledge the elephant in the factory. The manufacturing workforce understandably has a love-hate relationship with machines. Although they can improve working conditions and offer new job opportunities, machine are often seen as a threat to job security. As manufacturers develop their collaboration strategy, they must account for workforce attitudes, assuring people that machines are friends, not foes, and that they can help them work more efficiently and focus on more interesting, even safer, tasks.
Challenge the talent strategy comfort zone. Manufacturers must create both a profile of their human capital today and a strategy to replenish the talent pipeline tomorrow. This will mean developing training programs that emphasize data analysis and management skills that organizations need to make sense of the rafts of data coming from machine sensors across the manufacturing lifecycle.
The separation between leaders and laggards will grow steadily over time. Five, 10 or 20 years from now, followers will find themselves playing a game of catch-up that is next to impossible to win. Leaders, on the other hand, will have analyzed and transformed their value chain, allowing them to reap the profitable outcomes of human-machine interaction.
The convergence of humans and intelligent machines might seem straight out of science fiction, but it is the new reality in manufacturing—one of the biggest transformative changes the sector has seen since the Industrial Revolution.
Accenture interviewed 512 respondents across all major industrial countries in North America, Western Europe and Asia. Our sample included factory directors, engineering and R&D heads, operations and HR managers, and C-suite executives. More than half were from the industrial equipment industry, with the rest split between automotive and construction equipment. All respondents were involved in setting their company's strategy for the Connected Industrial Workforce. The interviews were conducted online in December 2015.
1. Ray Shanks, Sunit Sinha and Robert J. Thomas, Judgment calls: Preparing leaders to thrive in the age of intelligent machines, 2016 https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-judgment-calls
2. Automation World, Building a Connected Industrial Workforce, July 20, 2016, retrieved on August 23 at http://www.automationworld.com/industrial-internet-things/building-connected-industrial-workforce
3. Carnegie Mellon University, The Robot Hall of Fame®, Unimate, http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/03inductees/unimate.html
4. Accenture, Machine Dreams: Making the most of the Connected Industrial Workforce, 2016 https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-connected-industrial-workforce-research
5. Peggy Hollinger, Meet the cobots: humans and robots together on the factory floor, May 5, 2016, retrieved on July 14, 2016 at https://www.ft.com/content/6d5d609e-02e2-11e6-af1d-c47326021344
6. Christopher Alessi, Germany develops 'smart factories' to keep an edge, October 27, 2014, retrieved on July 14, 2016 at http://www.marketwatch.com/story/germany-develops-smart-factories-to-keep-an-edge-2014-10-27
7. Keiko Ujikane, Katsuyo Kuwako and Jodi Schneider, Tightening workforce could compel healthy Japanese to toil to 80, July 11, 2016, retrieved on July 14, 2016 at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-11/tightening-workforce-could-compel-healthy-japanese-to-toil-to-80
As a showcase for the most innovative thinking on high-performance business, Outlook focuses on six core themes: Redefining Competitiveness, Digital Disruption, Global Operating Model, Open Innovation, Sustainability and Workforce of the Future. We feature original content devoted to these topics as well as a selection of unique insights offered by professionals throughout Accenture.
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New York: Putting a halt to medically unnecessary cesarean sections could save more than $2 billion a year worldwide, a new study estimates.
It has long been recognized that many countries have high C-section rates. In the U.S., C-sections now account for one-third of all deliveries -- an all-time high.
The reasons are various. The rising rate of multiple births has played a role, since twins or "higher-order" multiples often need to be delivered by C-section.
But experts generally agree that rates in the U.S. and many other countries are too high, since it`s unlikely that the rapid increase since the 1990s is due exclusively to medical need.
There is no agreement on what the "correct" C-section rate is. But the World Health Organization has suggested that rates above 15 percent are probably too high.
In the new study, researchers found that 69 countries worldwide top that 15 percent rate. On the other end of the spectrum, 54 countries had C-section rates lower than 10 percent -- which may be below what is medically needed.
Then the researchers calculated the costs. In countries with high C-section rates, they estimate, getting the figure down to 15 percent would save $2.3 billion globally each year. In countries with low rates, the cost of bringing them up to 10 percent would be $432 million, the researchers report in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The findings paint a picture of the global "inequities" in C-sections, according to Drs. Jose Belizan and Fernando Althabe, who worked on the study. One implication is that a "better distribution" of resources could allow more women in poorer countries to get medically needed C-sections, said Belizan and Althabe, of the Institute of Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Recruiting professionals from high-rate countries to perform C-sections in low-rate ones -- or to train local health providers to perform them -- is one possibility, the researchers said in an email.
Still, putting a dollar figure on the savings from reducing unnecessary C-sections is tricky.
One issue is that this study assumed that the correct C-section rate is no higher than 15 percent. "And that is a very debatable point," said Dr. George Macones, who heads obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis and chairs the Committee on Obstetric Practice for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
"While cost is one factor to consider," Macones wrote in an email, "I think that we should be most concerned about doing what is in the best interests of our patients."
There are other reasons to limit C-sections to only those cases where it`s the best course for the mother`s or baby`s health. Although the procedure is generally safe, it is still major abdominal surgery with inherent risks, like infection or too much blood loss.
C-sections also boost the odds of certain problems with later pregnancies, including abnormalities in the placenta that can lead to severe bleeding during labor.
According to Macones, a number a factors have likely driven the rise in the U.S. C-section rate. Some women request the procedure, for instance, so as to choose when they give birth or to avoid long labor.
And obstetricians may be quicker to do them now than in years past. Worry over being sued should something go wrong during natural labor and delivery is one factor, according to Macones.
But he said there are potential ways to bring the C-section rate to a more appropriate level.
"I think the most important is to try to avoid first cesareans, and do them only when indicated," Macones said. One way to do that, he added, is to limit labor inductions to only cases where they are necessary.
In inductions, doctors use medication or instruments to stimulate labor. But if labor fails to progress normally, a C-section may become necessary.
Another way to limit C-sections, Macones said, is to do more vaginal deliveries in women who`ve had a C-section in the past.
Repeat C-sections account for a large share of the U.S. total, even though experts say many women can successfully deliver vaginally after a past C-section. There is a chance the C-section scar will tear during labor, but it`s rare.
Still, many U.S. hospitals do not offer those women the option of a vaginal delivery because they cannot guarantee a team on hand to perform an emergency C-section if necessary. Just how to curb high C-section rates remains the "million dollar question," Belizan and Althabe said.
But Macones noted that last year, U.S. officials reported the first dip in the national C-section rate in more than a decade. In 2010, the rate was 32.8 percent, versus 32.9 percent the year before.
Not a dramatic difference, but experts were hopeful that it pointed to a leveling off.
As for poorer countries, Belizan and Althabe said there are numerous obstacles to women getting needed C-sections. High rates of home birth, too few hospitals and too few providers who can perform the surgery all remain barriers.
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A man who slit a Byron Bay businessman's throat and then blamed his own brother has been jailed for at least 21 years for the "inexplicable" murder.
The truth about the death of 60-year-old John Garda, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave at Broadwater on the far north coast in February 2010, may never be known, Justice Ian Harrison said in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.
Kevin Malcolm Purtill, 41, from Lennox Heads, was sentenced to a maximum term of 28 years' imprisonment for the murder, which the judge found occurred during a drug transaction at Purtill's home on February 8, 2010.
A jury found Purtill guilty despite his assertions that he was innocent and that his brother, Warren Purtill, was the killer.
The trial heard Mr Garda, a well-known Byron Bay convenience store owner, came to Kevin Purtill's home on the afternoon of the murder and a fight broke out.
Warren Purtill was downstairs watching a DVD with a neighbour and the court heard he ran upstairs when he heard the noise.
The neighbour told the court she fled the scene after she saw blood dripping through her ceiling from the unit above.
Testifying against his brother, Warren Purtill said there was "blood everywhere" when he entered the unit and Mr Garda was lying dead on the floor.
He said his brother had asserted Mr Garda was trying to kill him.
Warren Purtill said he agreed to dispose of the body and clean the unit, while Kevin Purtill left for Brisbane.
He pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the murder and was jailed for at least three years last May.
Kevin Purtill told the court that he left his home when Warren entered and that Warren then killed Mr Garda - an account Justice Harrison said was "frankly incredible".
"I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that (Kevin Purtill) cut (Mr Garda's) throat from behind using a kitchen knife," he said.
"He has never accepted, as far as the evidence before me reveals, any responsibility for a role in the death of (Mr Garda) whatsoever."
Mr Garda met "an unexpected and particularly violent death", Justice Harrison noted.
"The reason for the offender's attack on him remains unexplained and ... inexplicable."
The court heard Kevin Purtill was being held in protective custody as he fears a reprisal from his brother.
Taking into account time already served, he will be eligible for parole in February 2031.


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Pablo Genovés: Tides
Spanish artist Pablo Genovés' project Tides is on display in St Paul's Cathedral until 30 August as part of the international collaboration Just Water
100 Years of Roca | 100 Years of Design explores the dynamic connection between marketing communications and the evolution of Roca, from its origins in 1917 as a family workshop in Barcelona, to becoming a global bathroom company.
Viva! 2017 – Visual Art La Movida
The brand dedicated to Visual arts is focused on the artistic and socio-cultural movement La Movida of post - Franco Spain. The exhibition, curated by Sarah Perks, is going to show some of the representative aspects that characterised this period. Excess, clubbing, drugs, artistic freedom, gay rights, pornography …, will be at the core of an exhibition that represents the early 80s in Madrid.
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors, curated by Sir John Richardson examines the intersection of Picasso's bullfighting imagery with his mythological and biographical compositions of the 1930s.
FOTCIENCIA 13 – Exhibition
This exhibition is part of a set of cultural promotional activities of Spain carried out in Manchester during 2017 and it is a clear example of photography being used as a vehicle for science outreach.
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion
This exhibition examines the work and legacy of influential Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, with over 100 pieces crafted by 'the master' of couture, his protégées and contemporary fashion designers working in the same innovative tradition
Marco Godoy at Copperfield Gallery
Marco Godoy participates in the group show We have the weights, we have the measures, considering the relationship between the seemingly genteel pursuits of culture and learning and claims to geography
Rosana Antolí's solo show at The Ryder
In Rosana Antolí's upcoming solo exhibition 'My East Ballad: The One, The Teeth and the Circle' at The RYDER, the artist will present a site-specific installation and performance that will immerse the audience in the everyday activities and movements of the gallery's neighborhood, Bethnal Green.
A Tale on The Mile by David Guillén
A Tale on the Mile, the work of photographer David Guillén, is a harmony of original photography and text that explores the personalities and places on one of the most historically vibrant streets in Scotland: The Royal Mile.
FeSTeLon: Fifth Edition
FeSTeLón: Festival Spanish Theatre of London is back with an outstanding fifth annual season. Experience exceptional Spanish culture in London as FeSTeLón brings four top-ranking performances to the John Lyon's Theatre City Lit 12th – 25th June 2017 – with English Subtitles.
Juan delGado: Altered Landscapes
Through the use of video, photography, light and sound, Altered Landscapes aims to engage the viewer in a journey. For this exhibition delGado travelled to Greece, Macedonia and Calais to film, photograph and record the journeys taken by refugees.


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It is spring. Everyone is fucking hyped because it is arguably the best time of the year to go snowboarding. Brighton is still in full swing. Actually, its the best it has been all season. The only issue is that my camera recently shit the bed which is why we haven't put out any videos but fuck it. We are in the process of putting together a submission for this Yobeat crew clash video contest. I think the idea is pretty cool but it sucks because we have to use these gay un-copy-written bullshit music which resembles a group of lesbians that used to sing together at my high school.
Here is a video of Kevin Maples from this season. He is a crazy mother fucker
2010-2011 Shots from Kevin Maples on Vimeo.
This is a video of my roommate Billy Wandling and Graham Banks sending it on booters at Park City. They kill it!
Park City is chyll from Billy Wandling on Vimeo.


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Indians beat Adrian, fall short against Bedford
The Division 2 No. 3-ranked Tecumseh High School wrestling team finished 1-1 at Wednesday's Southeastern Conference quad at Adrian High School. The Indians defeated Adrian 64-14 before losing to Division 1 No. 4-ranked Bedford 45-21.
The Maples finished 0-2 on the day, losing to Tecumseh before falling to Saline 55-14.
"We really improved on our intensity and focus between our first and second matches," Tecumseh coach Tony Greathouse said. "While the end result wasn't what we wanted, I think that as a team we took a big step in the right direction."
Tecumseh (20-6) opened the day against cross-county rival Adrian. The Indians jumped out to a large lead and rolled to the win over the young Maples (5-20)
"We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores on the team, and we have to void weight classes," Adrian coach Brandon Chesher said. "I think that the guys who competed wrestled hard. I'm happy with our performance against Tecumseh."
Greathouse was happy with his team's win, but not satisfied with its overall effort.
"We try not to focus on the score as the match goes on," he said. "I think that a few guys could have wrestled a bit better than they did. I am always happy to get a win over a league rival, though."
The Indians then faced Bedford, while Adrian got ready for a match with Saline.
The Indians stuck right with Bedford in the beginning of the match, the two teams trading wins back and forth. The Kicking Mules took the lead after back-to-back wins put them up 22-10.
Tecumseh answered right back, winning two straight matches. The first win came from Joe Rebottaro (285 pounds) and the other came from Ricky Azelton (103), who pinned Bedford's Tyler Rogaliner to put the Indians within a point at 22-21.
Everything went downhill from there. Bedford got to the heart of its lineup and won six consecutive matches, scoring 23 unanswered points in the process.
"We talked a lot about controlling bonus points coming into this match," said Greathouse. "We needed to avoid pins, while scoring pins of our own. While we did get some pins, with a few of them being important ones, we gave up too many pins ourselves."
Tecumseh had three wrestlers finish 2-0 on the day. Rebottaro, Anthony Lesko (145) and Landon Pelham (189) were both 2-0 with Lesko earning a pin.
Adrian fell behind Saline 21-0 early and couldn't catch up.
"I thought we wrestled well; we were just a little outmatched," said Chesher. "JaQwun Stinson wrestled his butt off today. He's a freshmen wrestling at 171, so to even just hang in there is good to see. He's really been having a great year."
For the Maples, both Joe Garcia (103) and Anthony Garcia (125) went 2-0 on the day.
Tecumseh will host the Phil Jaimes Memorial Tournament on Saturday, while Adrian will attend the Super 16 tournament at Hudson the same day.


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
What defines Chestnut Hill? It all depends on who you ask.
For many it is the Belgian blocks of Germantown Avenue. For others, it's the old, grand homes tucked into the fingers of the Wissahickon park. For some it's the Water Tower, a Civil War-era structure that still looms over Ardleigh Street. For yet others, who went to school there, it's likely Springside and Chestnut Hill Academy (now Springside Chestnut Hill Academy).
And then for others, there's Kilians.
Kilians isn't the only venerable business in Chestnut Hill. There are many others, from The Cheese Shop and Carman's Shoe Repair to Robertson's and Angelo's Barber Shop.
What all these shops have in common is that they are honest-to-God throwback businesses. They are links to another era. In the case of Kilian's, that era is 1913. It was founded a full four years before the U.S. joined the Allies to fight in World War I.
But more than that, Kilians not only recalls the past. It recalls a working, blue-collar history of the Hill that isn't always so front and center in the narrative of the neighborhood.
Sure, it has changed with the times. It has a wind turbine on the roof. It has a well-shopped website. It's part of a national hardware store collective that helps it compete with big chains.
But it is still so much the same.
Step into Kilians now and, although it looks much different than it did in 1913, it still has a vitality about it that feels so much like a neighborhood store. It's not a Lowes store, a 30-foot tall warehouse of everything from lumber to reel lawn mowers, but in many ways it is better.
Kilians is where you can buy two nails, if that's all you want. Or grab one washer. Try doing that elsewhere. I bought a pair of Adirondack chairs at Kilians once because they were on sale for a great price. They're still on my front porch.
But Kilians is more than just the place to find the hard-to-find.
The first time I realized the value of Kilians was when a three-foot square screen on a door of my 1923 house needed to be replaced. It was not possible to buy that size of screen at Home Depot or Lowes, so I went to Kilians and asked about it. They asked me the measurements and cut me a new screen while I waited. The price was less than $5. That sealed the deal for me.
Kilians, I discovered, wasn't just an old hardware store that would do in a pinch. It was a valuable resource – a place where you could find items and services that did not exist in the big-box stores.
It wasn't just the place with all those cool old telephones in the window.
But even beyond that, there is something that really makes Kilians a remarkable part of Chestnut Hill. No matter who you are, what you do for a living, you'll buy things at Kilians. From house painters restocking a brush or a specialty paint to an investment banker looking for just the right replacement doorknob for his historic home, everyone shops at Kilians. It might just be the most common denominator in all of Chestnut Hill.
Kilians has been filling that role in the neighborhood for 100 years. Here's to another 100.
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Adam Lambert: Beach Brawl!
Adam Lambert gets into a scuffle with a photographer while hanging out with his friends on Thursday (September 16) in South Beach, Fla.
The 28-year-old singer, who's staying at The Raleigh, got annoyed with one particular photog who appeared to get a bit too close!
"Eeew paparazzi killed my peaceful afternoon on the beach!" Adam tweeted after the incident. "They're real good at provoking, but there ain't any pics or video of the b.s. they spew out… Haha well… I lost my temper for a sec but wow it felt great lol MIAMI!!!"
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Lincoln's Life, Stylized (And Somewhat Embellished)
Two films into his English-language directing career, and already Timur Bekmambetov is spinning his wheels. But at least when the Kazakh director does so, the wheels have glistening silver rims and spin in hyperdetailed, superslow motion, all while the car is spinning through the air in a graceful, arcing corkscrew.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has no cars, of course, but there are plenty of those post-Matrix action stylings the director likes so much. There's so little variation from his past work here, though, that the film seems cobbled together with spare parts from his Hollywood debut, the curving-bullet Angelina Jolie actioner Wanted, and the cult Russian vampire movie that put him on the U.S. radar, Night Watch. To say that it's an exercise in style over substance is perhaps an overstatement, in that it suggests there's any substance here at all.
But oh, what style. This Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) — sprung tall and lanky from Seth Grahame-Smith's best-selling novel, which he adapts here for the screen — wields a silver-plated ax with the baton-twirling expertise of a vigilante drum major, driven by a single-minded desire to exact vengeance on the vampire who killed his mother when he was a boy. When he puts that ax into action, time slows down, and Bekmambetov tracks his killing strokes in a ballet of digital blood and dismemberment.
Grahame-Smith's story takes the basic chronology and facts of Lincoln's life and reshapes them to fit around a secret identity as a vampire hunter, trained in his calling by a do-gooder vampire named Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper).
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The slave trade in America is explained as a vampire plot to create a captive food supply; Lincoln's time working in an Illinois general store — in reality he co-owned it, though in the film, he's just a clerk — sets up a solitary home base for his vampire assassinations. The Civil War itself becomes a war against vampires allied with the Confederacy, each of those factions with its own interest in keeping slavery intact.
Apparently, despite being adapted by the author, the film strays far from Grahame-Smith's original text, yet it still feels very much like a movie adapted from a novel — and poorly adapted, at that. The pacing is as disjointed and jumpy as Bekmambetov's action sequences are fluid and orderly, as if entire chunks of detailed, novelistic narrative were simply excised to make room for more action.
A couple of those set pieces do go a long way toward making the movie watchable, particularly a legitimately thrilling fight between Lincoln and the vampire leader, a wealthy plantation owner named Adam (Rufus Sewell), that takes place amid a massive stampede of horses. The special effects artists use the cloud of dust kicked up by the thundering hooves to obscure the artificiality of the CGI horses, giving it a dirty, visceral feel that much of the rest of the film, wrapped in a slick digital sheen, often lacks.
For all the attention paid to the meticulously constructed look of the film, it's remarkable how truly awful some of the production values are. Walker wears a prosthetic nose so obviously fake that one expects someone to walk up to him, rip it off and reveal him to be an impostor Lincoln.
The aging makeup used for Lincoln and Mary Todd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) during his presidency is so slipshod that Winstead in particular seems barely able to move her face to speak — as if she's injected some 19th-century Botox progenitor that causes skin to sag before it atrophies.
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And while that horse chase may be a highlight, the film's climactic train chase is so artificial-looking that one wonders if someone forgot to cut the last few checks to the usually reliable effects wizards at Weta Digital.
Add to that massive lapses in the plausibility of some sequences, and the whole thing collapses into an incoherent mess. Yes, I recognize the irony of making believability complaints in a film about Abraham Lincoln fighting vampires, but the logistics the filmmakers try to pass off as possible — particularly involving Lincoln's plan to turn the tide at the Battle of Gettysburg — are insults to basic common sense, even within this manufactured alternate universe. Whatever spark of originality caused Grahame-Smith's book to become a runaway success has burned out entirely here, snuffed by Bekmambetov's slavish dedication to looking cool. Copyright 2012 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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By Ed Harris
Changes could be in store for Bradley Memorial Hospital, depending on the findings of a report that is being put together by Philadelphia based Health Strategies and Solutions.
Clarence Silva, president and chief executive officer of the Hospital of Central Connecticut, said Health Strategies and Solutions began putting together the report late last year. He expected the evaluation to be completed by September.
Silva said the final report would cover several options, but said it was premature to list or discuss them at this time. However, Silva did note that one of the proposals included replacing the operating room at Bradley with an outpatient orthopedic surgery center.
"There are a whole host of reasons," Silva said when questioned on why Bradley might replace its operating room.
Silva said the operating room was not being used at its full capacity and noted that this was an opportunity to create an orthopedic center for the region.
In a release, hospital officials noted that its role would change as is it evaluates the community's needs. The orthopedic surgery center is the only proposal mentioned in the release.
"The Hospital of Central Connecticut (HOCC) is focused on improving the health and well-being of the communities we serve," the release read. "We have proudly served the residents in the Southington area and beyond since 1938, when Bradley Memorial Hospital first opened its doors. There is no doubt that this is a time of unprecedented change in health care, and to be responsible stewards of our community's health, both present and future, we must continually evaluate our services. The goal is always to deliver the best care at the lowest cost."
The Hospital of Central Connecticut, of which Bradley Memorial Hospital is a part, along with New Britain General Hospital, is part of Hartford Healthcare.
The release also noted that many steps would have to be taken before any of the proposals could be implemented, including the filing of a Certificate of Need.
Southington Town Manager Garry Brumback said he was just finding out about the possible changes and upcoming report at Bradley from the media. He said felt it was a loss to lose operating capabilities at the hospital, but ultimately noted that it was a decision for hospital officials.
"Bradley has to make those decisions," Brumback said.


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Roger Wright: BBC's man behind the Proms
LONDON (AP) — Some people go to the seashore during the summer. Some go to the countryside. Roger Wright goes to Royal Albert Hall.
As the BBC's man in charge of the Proms, which proudly bills itself as the world's largest classical music festival, Wright makes repeated trips to the hall on each of 57 consecutive days of concerts.
A typical schedule might include an early-morning logistics consult with members of his 25-person team, then a chat with concertgoers who have lined up overnight for cheap seats. He's likely to pop over for midday rehearsals, then back again to his box to entertain guests at the evening performance and visit backstage with the performers.
"People say, 'How do you do it?,'" Wright said in an interview in his office at the BBC Broadcasting House near Portland Place, three miles across London from the hall. "We all work amazingly hard and put in incredible hours, but it's the sort of thing where work and hobby and passion sort of overlap. So you wouldn't choose naturally to work 20 hours a day, nor should people, but some of those working hours are also about, my God, getting paid to have the privilege of hearing these wonderful concerts."
His eyes light up as he talks of the past weekend, when conductors Antonio Pappano, Valery Gergiev and Daniel Barenboim were "all overlapping and mixing backstage. The joy of the National Youth Orchestra of the U.S. (conducted by Gergiev) making its debut appearance and them being able to sit in on the rehearsal of 'Die Walkuere' (the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Barenboim) — that's really special."
The Royal Albert Hall, an enormous circular domed building in South Kensington facing onto Hyde Park, was built during Queen Victoria's reign and is named for her late husband. It originally could hold up to 9,000 people, but safety rules now limit the number to about 5,500.
For the Proms that figure includes up to 900 who stand in the "arena" — the main floor from which all seats are removed. In theory, that audience is free to stroll about, or "promenade" —hence the term. Tickets for the arena are sold the day of the concert and go for just £5 (about $7.60).
"That is what the Proms in the end is all about," Wright said. "There's something very simple about just taking out a £5 note and paying cash." Pricier seats can cost up to about $100.
The Proms — a London fixture since 1895 and held at the Royal Albert Hall since 1941 — cost about $14 million to put on. About $6 million of that is recouped in ticket sales, the rest coming out of the BBC's budget, which in turn is funded from a tax or "licensing fee" on every household with television. The current rate, set by the government, is about $220 annually for homes with a color TV.
One might think that the hall, given its vast dimensions, would be a poor venue for classical music and opera. But the surprising quality of the unamplified acoustics was evident during Tuesday night's performance of Wagner's "Walkuere," part of the first "Ring" cycle ever done in a single season at the Proms.
The orchestral climaxes thundered through the hall, yet the quiet moments stood out as well — the tender cello solo in Act 1, or bass-baritone Bryn Terfel whispering some of his lines as Wotan. Even more astonishing was the deafening roar of the audience erupting in cheers at the end of each act.
Wright recounts how Barenboim told the orchestra of his experience years ago accompanying baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Schubert's "Die Winterreise."
"I was concerned as a pianist how it would be," Wright quoted Barenboim as telling the musicians. "But you know, I learned you don't have to project to the 27th row. The 27th row can come to us."
Though the Proms last 57 days, there are actually more than 90 concerts, since many days there are lunchtime and late night events, and a few are held in different venues. Most are classical music, but new this summer are an appearance by a rock group (the Stranglers) and programs devoted entirely to gospel music and urban pop.
Wright plans his schedule three to four years in advance, fielding hundreds of pitches from composers, artists, orchestras, publishers and agents.
"Unfortunately I spend more of my time saying 'no' than 'yes,'" Wright said. "The only thing you can be certain of is that whether it's a piece for baroque flute or for 100 orchestras and 23 choirs, there will always be a line in their proposal which will say, 'And this would be perfect for the Proms.'"
Wright, 56, has run the festival since 2008, but it's not his only job. He's also controller of Radio 3, the live music and arts station that broadcasts every Proms concert. (Many are televised as well.) And he's responsible for the five BBC orchestras and full-time professional choir.
This year the gala "Last Night" concert is on Sept. 7. So how does Wright's life change on Sept. 8? For one thing, he'll get to reacquaint himself with his wife, Rosie, and their two children.
"I remind my family of my name and my presence," he said, "and I don't set the alarm. That's the most important thing."


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Took second at the Big West Challenge Cup with a hammer throw mark of 164'6" and places her seventh on the UCSB all-time list...Threw 11.29m in the shot put at the UW Invitational Indoor meet.
Took eighth in the hammer at the Big West Championships, with her best throw measuring 147'8" (45.02m)...Won the hammer at the Cal Poly dual meet with a heave of 145'3" (44.28m)...Achieved her best shot put mark of the season at the USC Invitational, where she threw 40'4" (12.29m).
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Competed in the Mission League of the CIF-SS Div. III...League champion in the shot put in 2008, and was also runner-up in the discus...Qualified for the Masters Meet in 2008...Achieved her best mark in the shot put of 41'4.5" at the 2008 Arcadia Invitational, and achieved her best mark in the discus of 118'6.5" at the 2007 Arcadia Invitational...Was a three-sport athlete, competing in track, volleyball and basketball, earning 11 varsity letters...All-league in volleyball in 2008...Was a scholar-athlete from 2005-2008 and a National Merit Commended Scholar...Graduated maxima cum laude.
Francis is a member of the UCSB slackline club...Almost Famous and The Shawkshank Redemption are her favorite movies...Her favorite bands are Thrice, John Mayer, Death Cab for Cutie, and Jimmy Eat World...Likes to knit.
Collegiate Career Bests Shot Put - 40-4 (12.29m) (USC Trojan Invitational, 3/21/2009) Hammer - 164-6 (50.15m) (Big West Challenge Cup, 4/9/2010)


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GALESBURG (AP) – School districts across Illinois are trying a variety of strategies to get truant students back in the classroom.
The Chicago Tribune reported Monday that a program in Galesburg is succeeding where Chicago has failed, reducing the number of chronically truant students. Truancy officers in Galesburg make home visits and can issue $75 tickets to parents whose children have repeated absences.
Outreach workers sometimes give a child an alarm clock or a pair of shoes. Other cases are harder to solve when there's domestic violence or mental illness involved. Galesburg outreach workers have walked into meth houses and been threatened in their efforts to get kids to school.
"I think I've seen most of Galesburg naked," said Lisa Zimmerman, an outreach worker for the western Illinois city's school district. "I've had families that frustrated me, but there's no giving up. Bottom line: I don't care if you like me, this is about the kid."
The program has paid for itself by drawing $234,000 in additional state money that's tied to attendance, Galesburg District 205 Assistant Superintendent Guy Cahill said. The district is facing a budget shortfall, but plans to keep the anti-truancy program.
The newspaper's report was part of a series of articles about absenteeism in Chicago elementary schools. The newspaper earlier reported that Chicago public school officials jettisoned truancy outreach officers two decades ago during budget troubles and a turnover in leadership. Nearly 32,000 elementary school students in Chicago Public Schools – roughly 1 in 8 – missed four weeks or more of class in the 2010-11 school year.
National experts told the newspaper that there is little research analyzing whether tough anti-truancy measures work for elementary school students.
"I lament the shortage of peer-reviewed research studies not only on official sanctions for truancy but on legal sanctions as applied to school conduct in general," Rutgers University sociologist Paul Hirschfield said.
At one Galesburg elementary school, outreach worker Joe Pilger hands out alarm clocks to students who tell him they can't wake up in time to catch the school bus. He sometimes buys shoes for students, using the school's "miscellaneous funds" account.
At the beginning of each school year, he said, "I'm looking down at the feet to see which shoes have dollar-size holes in them. It's alarming."
As director of truancy programs for the Regional Office of Education, Lorenzo Pugh works with 23 schools in Galesburg and four surrounding school districts. His office has issued 50 tickets, he said, including 30 to families of students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The $75 tickets frequently are waived after the students return to school.
Pugh said tickets work well for families with truant children in elementary school.
"It makes a difference," he said. "It gets the kid to school."
Information from: Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com


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First gameplay video of Batgirl in Injustice: Gods Among Us revealed
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25 years ago in the classic graphic novel The Killing Joke, The Joker shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon right in front of her father. Now its time for a little payback. Netherealm Studios has released the first gameplay video showing off Batgirl who will be coming to
Injustice: Gods Among Us
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Thankfully it appears that Batgirl plays differently from Batman. She appears to be faster than Batman and uses more dashing attacks such as an anti air shoulder tackle, batarang projectiles and a teleport grapple move that can be used at full screen. It appears also as if her super move can only be activated while in the air, which is interesting because I believe that would make it the only super move to do so out of all the characters.
Batgirl will be available free if you bought the seasons pass or $4.99 if you buy it individually. No release date has been announced yet.
We also got a glimpse of The Joker's Killing Joke skin which will be part of "The Killing Joke Skin Pack" which will be sold separately.
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