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WHEN: 6.30 p.m. today
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WHEN: 6.30 p.m. today
WHERE: State Farm Center, Champaign
RADIO: Illini Radio Network
F/C Nnanna Egwu, Jr. 6-11 7.0 5.6
F Jon Ekey, Sr. 6-7 8.0 5.8
G Joseph Bertrand, Sr. 6-6 10.6 5.3
G Rayvonte Rice, Jr. 6-4 16.7 5.6
G Tracy Abrams, Jr. 6-2 12.1 3.6
C Adam Woodbury, So. 7-1 5.7 4.1
F Aaron White, Jr. 6-9 13.5 6.5
F Melsahn Basabe, Sr. 6-7 8.1 6.6
G Roy Devyn Marble, Sr. 6-6 16.3 3.7
G Mike Gesell, So. 6-1 7.0 3.6
ILLINI KEY: Find some consistency on offense and create easy baskets.
HAWKEYES KEY: Use depth to their advantage while controlling the boards.
NOTEWORTHY: Junior guard Tracy Abrams was limited during Sunday�s game against Indiana with back spams that have been bothering him all season. Sunday happened to be the first time it really started hindering him during a game. He is expected to play against Iowa. � Illinois has won 11 consecutive home games against Iowa. � Iowa is 4-0 following a loss this year. The Hawkeyes dropped Tuesday�s game against Michigan State in overtime. � Today is Autism Awareness Day in college basketball, so John Groce will join nearly 100 other coaches from across the country who will wear a blue �Autism Speaks� puzzle pin on his suit jacket during the game.
QUOTABLE: �When adversity hits you have to grind harder.� � Illinois coach John Groce
PREDICTION: Iowa 67, Illinois 58
� Jamal Collier
CHAMPAIGN � Illinois coach John Groce knew before the season began that the Big Ten Conference could be even better top to bottom than it was last year.
The evidence was there this week with teams near the bottom of the standings, Northwestern and Penn State, scoring upsets over No. 14 Wisconsin and No. 24 Ohio State, respectively.
That could bode well for Illinois (13-8 overall, 2-6 in the conference), which will try to snap a six-game losing streak tonight against No. 15 Iowa (16-5, 5-3) at State Farm Center.
�It�s one of those things where if those guys are doing it, why not us?� forward Jon Ekey said. �It�s our time to get a big win like that.�
Dangerous slide
The cliche goes that anything can happen in the Big Ten and no one is safe on any given night, especially on the road. That has been true, except when teams have faced Illinois as of late.
Impressive showings recently from some of the other teams near the bottom of the Big Ten have prompted some pundits to predict the Illini will finish last in the conference � seemingly unthinkable earlier this month when the Illini were ranked No. 23 in the AP poll. A six-game losing streak changes things quickly.
No Illinois team has lost seven consecutive games in the last 15 years, not even during the toughest times of the Bruce Weber era. The last time Illinois even dropped six in a row was two years ago, before they ended that streak with a victory over Iowa.
�When adversity hits you have to grind harder,� said Groce, who is in the midst of the longest losing streak in his career as a coach.
This will be the team�s first game since Sunday, so after taking Monday and Tuesday off from any physicality, Groce said the Illini came out refreshed in practice Wednesday.
The break in the schedule came at an opportune time for the Illini. Not only were they able to allow some nagging injuries to heal, but they also tried to deal with any mental blocks that can spawn from a six-game losing streak.
�This week because we�ve had a little bit more time we�ve been able to refresh our bodies a little bit physically and mentally and really examine and spend more time on us while also preparing for a really good Iowa team,� Groce said. �So the bye week came at a good time for us.�
The Illini must find some consistency on offense to come away with an upset. It is a difficult task for an Illini team with four freshmen gaining regular playing time; the Hawkeyes do not play a single freshman. Entering tonight�s game Illinois ranked 11th in the 12-team Big Ten in free throw attempts, 11th in field goal percentage, 11th in three-point field goal percentage and 12th in assists.
Page 2 of 2 - When one scorer seems to find a rhythm, the others disappear.
Such as last week, in one game Rayvonte Rice was held scoreless while Joseph Bertrand netted a season-high 19 points. During the next, Rice accounted for 20 points and Bertrand scored two.
�We�re fully aware that our offense needs to get better,� Groce said. �We�ve worked on that this week hard. We talk about being solutions based all the time, and I think we�ve seen some strides there for sure.�
Groce added the Illini will need every player to contribute for the team to be successful this year. In fact, he has been saying that too even before the season began.
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Prosecutors in the case against Casey Anthony revealed on Thursday a list of reasons why they'll seek the death penalty during trial.
Florida law requires that at least one aggravating factor must be proved to pursue capital punishment. Prosecutors in the Anthony case listed five of them.
Legal citations within the document provided by the prosecution showed they believe Caylee was killed as a result of aggravated child abuse.
Prosecutors also contend it was a particularly heinous, atrocious or cruel crime, and they said they contend Caylee's death was the result of a cold, calculated and premeditated crime.
Another listed factor was that Caylee was under the age of 12 when she died, and prosecutors said she was in familial custody, her mother's care, when she was killed.
The defense has claimed the medical examiner doesn't know exactly how Caylee died, so they wonder how the state could argue it was a cold, calculated and heinous crime.

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Welcome to a weird world of horror. Hope you're not hungry.
Hot Destiny 2 rumours point to PC release, major reboot
Destiny 2 will throw the baby out with the bathwater, according to rumours coming in from multiple directions.
Battlefield 1: The campaign story trailer is live. Watch it here
The wait is over.
There's at least one blockbuster game releasing every week from now until the end of 2016
This year's biggest releases have already started dropping, and it's not going to stop until we're about ready to log off for the holidays.
Wrath of the Machine monitors unlock a secret raid chest in Destiny: Rise of Iron, but nobody's opened it yet
Monitors are the latest mystery to crop up in Destiny: Rise of Iron's new raid, Wrath of the Machine.
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Watch Dogs finally has room to let its ideas breathe in its sequel, and it seems to be shaping up well as a result.
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Destiny: Rise of Iron players have, of course, found a way to avoid playing the actual game.
Dishonored 2 hands-on: brutal, ludicrous, fiendish, amazing
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Destiny: Rise of Iron includes a quest called Metal and Flesh, and we expect big things to come of it.
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Destiny: Rise of Iron spoilers follow, arguably. You have been warned.
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According to Andrew House, upscaled 4K resolutions don't make "4K gaming" a misleading term.
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Resident Evil 7 gets a new trailer and a demo update today
Resident Evil 7's excellent marketing campaign continues today with a new trailer and an update for the Beginning Hour demo.
Dead Rising's new PC, PS4 and Xbox One ports are the definitive version of a classic
Frank's charmed me all over again.
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A place full of effete snobs, located in the shithole of Ann Arbor, also known as A squared, which its residents are also call, known as arrogant assholes.
U of M is full of assholes
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Essentially the preppy assholes of the Big Ten, they have some of the laziest and most uninspired fans in all of college sports. One gets the sense that there would be no such thing as a Michigan fan if the state of Michigan wasn't so intensely boring. Their football stadium is atrocious, and literally stinks.
"But.. but.. but we've won 11, I mean 13, I mean 16 national championships!! By our count, anyways."
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quote: During the storm and it's immediate aftermath, when the rule of law collapsed, there was looting, mugging, and raping on a scale seldom seen in the US.
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Since I am a gear junky and live by the axiom that "If you take care of your gear, it will take care of you", I am always aware of where my gear is. Particularly when it comes to the Friday nights that we are departing on camp outs.
The Boy Scout Motto is BE PREPARED. The Shake down is a tool for preparedness and should be used each and every time you get ready for the next adventure.
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VIENNA, 4 July 2012 - The International Conference of Agricultural Engineering 2012 will be held in Valencia, Spain, from 8 to 12 July.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), is a co-organizer of the Conference. Together with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNIDO will also host a side event on mechanization and post-harvest technologies in developing countries.
This year's Conference under the theme "Agriculture and engineering for a healthier life" will allow participants to share research and latest engineering solutions in the food production sector.
The Conference is organized in cooperation with the European Society of Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng), the International Commis¬sion of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) and the Spanish Society of Agroingenieria (SEAgIng).
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I Volunteer...photo exhibit in Turkey
05 December 2005
by Basak Yalvac
Istanbul, Turkey: Volunteers throughout Turkey shared their silent commitment to the community in a childrens' photo show, in Istanbul, 5 December. Exhibits from this, the first volunteers' show were the work of 55 volunteers, hand-picked from over 400 entry snapshots of children in need, attending non-formal activities with the support of young Turkish volunteers in 27 locations across Turkey.
"These are not just children's photos but shots of the very special, plucky youngsters mentored by our young volunteers at the activity centres run by our foundation", explained Başak Yalvaç, who works for the Educational Volunteers Foundation (TEGV), and trains volunteers to deliver mentored educational activities to 7-16 year olds at 101 locations country-wide.
TEGV is one of the foremost educational volunteer foundations in Turkey, serving a burgeoning population of young people in urban migrant communities from eastern Europe to remote eastern locations bordering Iraq and Syria.
"We wanted to voice our feelings about what we were doing as volunteers and contribute actively to UN International Volunteer Daythis year" said Emin Önel, photographer, artist, teacher, long-time volunteer at TEGV and one of the nine volunteer organizers behind the exhibit.
The exhibit opened at CAPITOL, Istanbul's popular global-award candidate mall (daily circulation of 30,000). TEGV hosted the exhibit to raise awareness of the importance of volunteerism, and to thank all those volunteers contributing to the work of the foundation, which has supported volunteers and youth since its founding 10 years ago, and regularly acknowledges its debt to these inspiring young people. TEGV invited volunteers from all round Turkey to join celebrations on this day.
These little snapshots silently testify to the joys and trials of Turkey's young volunteers working to contribute, rising above the challenges faced by Turkey's youth. An Istanbul volunteer, Tuba Özer took the little black and white shot of two boys selected as the show's symbol, in Van, in Eastern Turkey. "We went there this summer on a volunteer exchange programme. The children are from a refugee family who had fled regional unrest. We taught them to play and to speak Turkish".
Tuba, Emin and others in the organizing team, as well as several of the volunteers participating in this exhibit are also active participants of the foundation's 'Dreams Workshop Programme', a lifeskills through art initiative for young volunteers and children. The exhibit – 0ver 97 shots of extraordinary candor and a testament to youth mentorship and children's trust, goes on tour after 8th December and will show in communities throughout Turkey at 83 TEGV centres in 2006.
"Volunteerism entails initiative, courage, dedication and social responsibility. Volunteers play a vital role in the quest for a better Turkey," said Sermin Kagan, TEGV's Volunteer Coordinator
The Educational Volunteers Foundation aims to support basic education nationwide by enhancing the competencies, attitudes and values of children and youth and to strengthen the transferable skills of volunteers delivering educational activities through mentorship. Since its founding in 1995, TEGV has reached more than 650.000 children and young people through non-formal activities carried out with the active support of over 15,000 volunteers at over 86 locations (11 Education Parks, 58 centres, 17 mobile learning units and Community centres) throughout Turkey.
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NORTH EAST -- Three people were taken to the hospital for treatment following a reported rollover crash in North East Township this morning.
The crash happened at about 7 a.m. on Route 89 at Route 5. Crews from North East, Fairfield Hose Co. and Ripley, N.Y., were sent to the scene.
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From 1950 to 1968, there was a comic called The Adventures of Bob Hope. And for 109 issues, every single adventure started the same way: Bob Hope runs up to a strange woman and molests her. In the 50s, there was no pepper spray in the consumer market. Bob Hope was legally allowed to lick a woman more than 15 feet from her husband, and her response was only, "No time for rape, sir! I need to find a boat captain! Or a bull fighter! Or the world's greatest expensive cake carrier!" Then, of course, Bob Hope would claim to be those things to trick her into sex. I own many truly insane things and this comic series ranks among the insanest of them.
If this comic was released today it would be called Sexual Assault and Cake Dropping and a prison warden would be locking his facility down, demanding to know who made it. That's why I've rewritten The Adventures of Bob Hope for a modern audience.
Oh, and out of respect for the comedy legend, all of Bob Hope's original dialog will be unaltered.
How is Bob Hope going to get out of this mess, Hope-Believers!? Find out on Page 2!


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The Signs of Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) Second Coming
Signs of Jesus' (pbuh) Second Coming
The Signs from the Islamic Resources 2
14. The Emergence of Widespread Slaughter
The Mahdi will only appear at a time when people are experiencing great fear and are afflicted by disturbances, civil war, and other disasters.(Narrated by Abu Ja`'far Muhammad ibn `Ali)
Most painful situations and grievous sights will be seen. Strife will go on and on… It will kill mothers, fathers, daughters, men, and everyone… Among these will be strife, violence, destruction, and looting. People will ask when it will end, but it will still go on. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 36)
Most hadiths about the Mahdi's advent focus on the prophecy that turmoil, insecurity, and disorder will rule the world before his coming. Massacre, war, and conflict are some of the major features of such a period. In addition, the hadith draws attention to the fact that massacres will occur all over the world.
During the two world wars of the twentieth century, an estimated 65 million people were killed. The number of civilians slaughtered for political reasons during the same century is estimated to be well over 180 million. This is an extraordinarily high figure when compared with those of previous centuries.
In fact, wars used to be fought at various fronts by soldiers until the twentieth century. However, the advancement of weapons technology and "improved" military strategies in the twentieth century introduced the concept of all-out war, one in which no distinctions were made between soldiers and civilians. Such concepts as bombing cities; chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; genocide; and concentration camps emerged in the twentieth century.
Such atrocities still continue, for bloody wars and battles are in full swing all over the world. Their common feature, as indicated in the hadith above, is massacre. The use of weapons of mass destruction on the one hand, and the ideological domination of views that encourage conflict and bloodshed on the other hand, have caused modern massacres to be very comprehensive in scope.
A look at recent history reveals many large-scale massacres. For instance, the Bosnian war went down in history as one that targeted the civilian population and thus resulted in the murder of thousands of civilians regardless of gender and age. The mass graves uncovered laterofferred striking evidence about just how large such massacres were.
Another "ethnic cleansing" campaign has been carried out against the Palestinian people since the 1940s. This is no more than a long-term policy of massacre. The exemplary massacres of Sabra and Shatilla, overseen by Ariel Sharon in 1982, as part of this policy fully expose the exact dimensions of the drama.
There are also frequent violent conflicts between Africans, in which thousands of people die. For example, in the spring of 1997, a large-scale ethnic war broke out between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes, which finally involved five countries: Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania. Nearly one million people lost their lives in this war, and tens of thousands of people had to fight poverty, misery, and contagious diseases in the jungles. Many of them died. Even children and babies were savagely murdered just because they were from the "wrong" tribe.
15. The Killing of the Rulers of Damascus and Egypt
Before he comes, the inhabitants of Egypt and Sham will kill their rulers and their commanders... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 49)
This hadith draws attention to the fact that the rulers of Damascus and Egypt will be killed before the Mahdi comes.
In 1981, Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat (1970-81) was assassinated during a military review. Other Egyptian leaders who have been killed include the prime ministers Boutros Ghali (1910) and Mahmoud Nukrashy Pasha (1948).
The word "Sham" is not only used for Damascus, for it also means "left" and has long been used to refer to those countries to the left of the Hijaz (where the cities of Makka and Madina stand).26 Many leaders have been killed in the region, among them former Syrian prime ministers Salah al-Din Bitar (1920), Droubi Pasha (1921), and Muhsin al-Barazi (1949); King Abdullah of Jordan (1951); and the Lebanese Phalange leader Bashir Gemayel (1982).27
16. The Killing of Abdullah, the Former King of Jordan
Another portent of the Mahdi's coming is the killing of a senior member of the Hashemites. (Risalat al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, p. 12)
Jordan, known as the Hashemite kingdom, was detached from the Ottoman Empire and came under British control for a period of time. Great Britain recognized Jordanian independence in 1946, as part of the Treaty of London. The monarchy was given to Abdullah, head of the principality of Jordan. King Abdullah was later killed by the British in 1951. Thus the incident indicated in the hadith came to pass.
17. The Enslavement of the Egyptians
The people of Sham will take prisoner the tribes of Egypt ... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar f' `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 49)
As stated earlier, Sham is the region located on the left part of Hijaz (where Mecca and Medina are located). Today, Israel is one of the countries located in this region. Consequently, this hadith may well hint at Israel's war with Egypt and its occupation of Egyptian lands.
On October 26, 1956, Israel, with British and French support, attacked Egypt and began to occupy the Sinai Peninsula. The fighting ended shortly afterwards, following intervention by the United States and the United Nations, and a UN peacekeeping force was stationed on the Israeli border.
During the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israel air force attacked some Egyptian air bases and inflicted severe damage upon the Egyptian air force. Due to this defeat, the Egyptian air force performed poorly during the battles that took place after June 5. The Egyptian forces in Sinai withdrew. On June 5, Israel attacked and occupied the Golan Heights and, by the end of the war, Israel had captured the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. Following a later agreement, Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula. However, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and Jerusalem remain under Israel occupation.
During these wars, many Egyptians were taken as prisoners of war and many others were killed.
18. The Destruction of Great Cities
Great cities will be ruined, and it will be as if they had not existed the day before. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 38)
When developed places are ruined, then Doomsday is no further away than the distance between your two fingers. (Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha`ah li Ashrat as-Sa`ah, p. 143)
There will be ruins all around the world. Ultimately, Egypt will also be ruined. But until Basra is destroyed, Egypt will remain secure. The ruin of Basra will be because of Iraq's destruction. Meanwhile, the downfall of Egypt will come with the drying up of the Nile ... (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 530)
The ruin of great cities spoken of in this hadith brings to mind the destruction that now arises from war and natural disasters. In addition to these, recently developed nuclear weapons, aircraft, bombs, missiles, and other weapons have caused untold destruction. These weapons have brought about a level of destruction heretofore unknown. Indeed, the great cities targeted are most affected by this destruction.
The incomparable destruction of the Second World War is an example of this. The atom bomb completely destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. As a result of heavy bombing, European capitals and other important cities were devastated. The Encyclopedia Britannica states that:
The resulting devastation had turned much of Europe into a Moonscape: cities laid waste or consumed by firestorms, the countryside charred and blackened, roads pitted with shell holes or bomb craters, railways out of action, bridges destroyed or truncated, harbors filled with sunken, listing ships. "Berlin," said General Lucius D. Clay, the deputy military governor in the U.S. zone of postwar Germany, "was like a city of the dead."28
In short, this unprecedented level of destruction conforms entirely to that described in the hadith of the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace).
19. The Rebuilding of Ruined Places
The rebuilding of the ruined places in the world, and the ruination of constructed places, are signs and portents of Doomsday. (Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li Ashrat as-Sa'ah, p. 138)
The reconstruction of these ruins is a further sign of the End Times. As we stated in the previous section, during the twentieth century, many cities were reduced to rubble and thus had to be rebuilt, among them Berlin, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and Dresden.
A similar example is the Kobe, a Japanese city devastated by a powerful earthquake in January 1995. For 30 years, the Japanese government and universities have invested 1 billion dollars in developing early warning systems for earthquakes. However, no model can distinguish all types of tremors. The region of Kobe and Osaka is one of Japan's most prominent industrial and commercial centers. Thus, the total economic impact of the Kobe earthquake was immense, amounting to billions of dollars.29 Yet, despite this loss, Japan reconstructed Kobe.
20. The Fourth Peace and Arab-Israel Peace Agreement
Abu Na`im narrated from Abu Umama': "Our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: There will be four [periods of] peace with you and people [in one copy, this is said to be the Greeks]. The fourth peace, which lasts for seven years, will be through a person from the people of Heraclius. They said: "O Prophet, who will be the imam [leader] of the people on that day?" He (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: "The Mahdi, a man aged forty from my lineage." (Osman Catakli, Kiyamet Alametleri [Signs of the Doomsday], 299/8)
This hadith mentions one of the signs of the Mahdi who will ally with Prophet Jesus (pbuh) during his tenure on Earth. According to this sign, a fourth peace agreement will be signed between the Muslims and the non-Muslims, and this agreement will last for seven years. At the end of this period, the Mahdi will appear. According to the general conviction, this "fourth peace-agreement" is the Camp David agreement signed by the U.S., Israel, and Egypt in 1979. (God knows best.)
21. The Loss of an Army
There are five portents of the Mahdi: a cry from Sufyani, Yemani, and Sama, the sinking of an army in Bayda, and the killing of the innocent. (Narrated by Nu`aym ibn Hammad)
... An army will be sent to him. This army will be leveled while it is somewhere in the desert. (Sahih Muslim)
An army comes to fight. Once they enter the desert, the one in the front and the back disappear, and the ones in the middle cannot save themselves. (Tirmidhi, Sunan Ibn Majah, Sunan Abu Dawud)
The almost sudden disappearance of a large part of the Iraqi army was one of the most striking features of the 2003 American-led war against Iraq. Many newspapers and television channels reported that a 60,000-man army from the Republican Guard, along with some 15,000 Iraqi militiamen from the Fedayeen, got lost. This account indicates that "the loss of an army," a portent of the Mahdi's coming, and hence of Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming, may already have taken place. (God knows best.)
In fact, the discovery of some war planes buried under the desert sands reinforces the possibility that the "leveling of an army" refers to the Iraqi army.
22. No Money Will Be Left to the Iraqis
The Iraqis will be left with no weighing equipment, and no money will be left to them with which to buy and sell. (Muntakhab Kanz al-`Ummaal, vol. 5, p. 45)
Another portent of the End Times, and thus of the second coming of Prophet Jesus (pbuh), is that the Iraqi currency will have no value.
This hadith may indicate two situations. One of them is Iraq's economic collapse after the Iran-Iraq and the Gulf wars. The Iraqi economy, faced with such crises, could not recover in the post-war period due to the embargos imposed by America and the UN. The Iraqi people grew even poorer, and poverty became a major problem.
Or, it might refer to abolishing the Iraqi currency (dinar) in the post-war era. With the last war, the rapid loss of the Iraqi currency's value and the possibility of its being withdrawn from circulation appeared in the newspapers during 2003.
23. Flames Destroy Homes in Baghdad
Baghdad is destroyed by fire in the End Times ... (Risalat al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, vol. 3, p. 177)
During the Second Gulf War in 2003, from the very first day Baghdad was the target of a very intensive bombing campaign. Under heavy bombardment, Baghdad burned in flames, just as the hadith said it would. Images of Baghdad, which appeared on TV and in newspapers, conveyed this reality to the world. Thus, this is a clear indication that we are living in the End Times.
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Bobby Ryan will not play for the wings. I heard he hates Detroit.... lol
This is not true. His family used to live in metro Detroit for a couple years. Ryan would definitely consider returning home. He has some friends here and visits at least once a summer.
Ryan said this about Anaheim, "Anaheim to me has been a team over the past year that really has shown me nothing to prove that they want me here, unfortunately. Obviously, it's not the ideal situation. When you get drafted, you want to win championships with that team and every time they look to add a piece to the puzzle, I'm the piece going the other way."
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Chicago Street in Geneseo will be closed between Ford Road and Main Street on Oct. 15 and 16. Traffic from the north will be able to turn left onto Main Street. Traffic from the south will be able to turn right onto Ford Road. The two-day closure is necessary in order for city crews to install a water main on the north side of Ford Road.
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DLS supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development using any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults, and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that impact development change including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. Additional priorities include research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying learning and development; includes participants from a range of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures; and integrates different processes (e.g., learning, memory, emotion), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales (e.g. infancy, middle childhood, adolescence).
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
A Goose Creek High student has signed with a local manufacturer as part of the Lowcountrys inaugural Youth Apprenticeship Program.
Coleman Padgett is one of 11 juniors and seniors from six Lowcountry high schools and the only from Berkeley County to become apprentices through the program.
Padgett joins three other students from Stall and West Ashley high schools to apprentice for IFA Rotorion of Ladson. The North America division is a direct supplier of propshafts for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
Local manufacturers, the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, high schools in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties, and Trident Technical College created the European-style apprenticeship program to grow the next generation of highly skilled workers for the resurgent manufacturing sector.
The students will work as paid industrial mechanic apprentices at Bosch, Detyens Shipyards, Hubner Manufacturing, IFA Rotorion and VTL Group starting this August.
Students will take high school classes in the morning and TTC industrial mechanics courses for dual credit in the afternoon twice a week. They will also receive paid on-the-job training through mentored employment throughout the year.
To ensure that all of the students who applied had an equal opportunity to participate in the program, the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce offered to provide scholarships for every apprentice student. The scholarships will cover the entire cost of tuition and books.
By the time the students complete their two-year apprenticeships, they will have earned a high school diploma, an Industrial Mechanics certificate from Trident Tech, a journeyman credential from the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and two years of paid work experience.
Trident Tech plans to expand the manufacturing apprenticeship program next year and add new apprenticeships in other sectors. The college is already working on new youth apprenticeship programs in machining and information technology. The college says it can create apprenticeships in any sector where there is a need.
Companies interested in creating apprenticeships should contact Mitchell Harp, Trident Techs director of apprenticeships, at 843-574-6979. Students interested in participating as an apprentice for the 2015-2016 school year should contact Melissa Stowasser, Trident Techs director of high school programs, at 843-574-6312.
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Few would argue the need for the U.S. government to protect itself and critical domestic infrastructure from foreign attacks. And fewer still would debate whether our country should use high-tech surveillance to monitor countries like China and Russia that have shown a propensity to attack unprotected U.S. systems when they have the chance.More controversial, however, is the domestic spying efforts closely tied to the terrorism. Namely the National Security Agency (NSA), under the Patriot Act of 2001, was given the right warrantless wiretaps of calls between U.S. and foreign citizens. That alone was controversial enough, but an expose in The New York Times showed that domestic calls between two U.S. citizens were also being intercepted, in what the NSA dubbed an "accident".A special Obama administration task force consisting of U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Commerce, NSA, Federal Bureau of Investigations, local law enforcement, and more is looking to reinforce warrantless wiretap. The move is perhaps unsurprising, considering that the council shares many of the same experts that mastermind President George W. Bush's original Patriot Act.The group is proposing new legislation designed at reinforcing the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act, a 1994 law published during the Clinton administration that demanded that telecommunications prepare to begin surveillance of suspects as soon as a court order is issued. Under the proposed changes, telecoms would be mandated to not only prepare for such instances, but also for warrantless wiretapping as spelled out under the Patriot Act. Those telecoms who complied fully would be rewarded with undisclosed incentives, while those who resist or were slow to comply would face fines or other penalties.Albert Gidari Jr., a lawyer who represents telecommunications firms, tells The New York Times that such legislation would be devastating to the civilian telecommunications industry. He states, "The government's answer is 'don't deploy the new services — wait until the government catches up. But that's not how it works. Too many services develop too quickly, and there are just too many players in this now."Previously detailed nuances of the plan call for the government also to gain new warrantless surveillance powers over other communications resources such as email (e.g. Gmail), text messages (including encrypted services, like RIM's), social networks (e.g. Facebook), and internet forums.Multiple issues surround the overarching proposal. One is in the potential economic damage it could cause the free market at a time when it is already struggling to recover.A second issue is perhaps the most critical one. Under current legal precedent, U.S. citizens can only have their Constitutional rights annulled if they are communicating with suspicious foreign citizens. However, to determine what users of foreign services are actually foreign citizens is almost impossible as foreign telecoms and internet firms have no real necessity to comply with U.S. requests for information. Thus U.S. citizens use foreign cell phones, operating on foreign web sites, or using foreign-based email services, may have their Constitutional rights violated even while communicating with other U.S. citizens.There is no clear solution to this problem.
quote: or we could simply expand the ideal of innocent until proven guilty to all on US soil. regardless of nationality.if our laws are good enough for us, then they should apply to anybody while on US soil.
quote: Additionally your idea does not solve the problem of foreign service users operating/travelling in OTHER countries. The U.S. gov't has no means of knowing whether they are U.S. citizens or not, and thus could violate U.S. citizens' rights illegally and unwittingly
quote: i have always been of the opinion that if i am traveling to another country then i am beholden to the laws of that country, regardless of where i was born. If the laws of the country i am in dont offer the same protections that some of out laws might offer, then thats MY problem.if the NSA asks the country i am in "hey can we monitor this person" and they agree, then it shouldnt matter if i am an american or not.
quote: Basically that logic boils down to that the U.S. Constitution is no longer the ultimate governmental mandate for the United States government and can be overridden via legislation, without amendment
quote: The Constitution guarantees U.S. citizens the right to due process and privacy and offers no qualifications for where those citizens reside spatially around the globe
quote: I believe that legislation should not remove Constitutional protections.
quote: no where have i stated that the government of the US is above its own laws. In fact i have suggested while a person is within our borders all of our laws in fact apply.
quote: on US soil, it sure does. but it is high arrogance to assume our laws trumps the laws of the land if a US citizen is in another country.how would you react to a saudi citizen stoning his wife for infidelity while here in the US, its a law of their land and within his right. should they trump ours? I think not.
quote: if a proper amendment is passed, like has happened before, then it is entirely possible. but this "law" is nothing of the sort and is in fact trying to circumvent the constitution because it is well known such an invasion of privacy as an amendment would never pass.
quote: Whether or not they are on U.S. soil the U.S. government should TRY to protect its citizens' freedoms as guaranteed under the Constitution. It may not always succeed, but unless the Constitution is rewritten to remove that freedom, they are legally required to try.
quote: Returning to the problem at hand, though, surveillance of foreign citizens has been necessary to national security since our nation's earliest days
quote: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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The boys trotted up the stairs with their too long legs in their too short pajama pants. We prayed together. For the first day of school, for kindness and gentleness and to be loving, and to make the right decisions. Father God, help us to sit right like Miss Brenda tells us on the bus. We were thankful for new beginnings. I even put new sheets on the beds.
We all are ready for a new beginning.
I'll surprise them with their favorite breakfast and treats in their lunchboxes. In a week the novelty will wear off and we'll just make do with what we have on hand that morning.
But this day.
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Jillian Montoux, of Plano, gets ready to make a turn while running the 5K course of the OutRun Homelessness 5K and Fun Run at LifePoint Church in Plano on Saturday morning, March 22, 2014.
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Six months ago, without much ado, a Party of Five alum became a party of two – Lacey Chabert married longtime boyfriend David Nehdar.
"I didn't want it to feel like an event," Chabert tells PEOPLE of her under-the-radar nuptials in late December of last year.
"I wanted it to be personal. He's not in the business and we like our privacy, and I just think relationships are hard enough without the opinion of strangers. So we try to keep it as personal and private as possible."
The Mean Girls star, 31, says although there were a few snafus, her big day was still just right.
"It was perfect chaos," Chabert said while attending the 11th Annual Inspiration Awards benefiting Step Up in Beverly Hills. "I was in the middle of shooting a movie, and we planned the entire thing in about six weeks. The caterer quit two days before, my sisters' dresses didn't arrive and one of my shoes broke – crazy stuff like that. It was just nuts, but it was perfect at the same time."
Despite the last-minute scrambling, the actress, who stars in the upcoming Hallmark movie The Color of Rain, says she won't look back on her wedding day and think of the things that went wrong.
"None of the stuff that you worried about mattering actually mattered in the end," Chabert said with a smile. "I think the highlight was having my dad walk me down the aisle. He's been really sick, and I just know that's a moment that I will treasure forever."
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After a season in which Kree Harrison and Candice Glover always appeared to be the frontrunners, on Wednesday's show it was Amber Holcomb and Angie Miller's turn to shine.
Amber – decked out in a flowy white pants suit – started off the night with a personal song choice, Celine Dion's "The Power of Love," and got a standing ovation from three of the judges (Mariah Carey remained in her seat but did blow a few kisses).
Keith Urban praised Amber's poise and confidence and thought her vocal range was "crazy and effortless." And Nicki Minaj, who said Amber looked like a "big sexy glass of milk," also thought she no longer seemed like a contestant anymore but rather a full-on star.
Randy Jackson echoed that sentiment: "You came in as a baby – you're now a pro," he said.
The judges also heaped on the praise after Amber's second performance (the theme this time was: one-hit wonders) of "MacArthur Park." They even felt that Amber had shined brighter during a duet of Adele's "Rumor Has It" with Kree. "Little shy Amber was almost dominating Kreedom on stage," Nicki said.
Angie Miller somehow managed to get even better reviews than Amber. Wheeling out a piano to perform Jessie J's "Who You Are," Angie's dramatic performance – which brought tears to the eyes of her grandmother, who was sitting in the audience – also blew the judges away. That was "10 out of 10 out of 10 for me," Randy said. "Sheer perfection. Best performance of the night."
She fared equally well in her duet of Rihanna's "Stay" with Candice. And then she closed out the show with a strong performance of "Cry Me A River."
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Candice Glover – who was suffering from a cold – misfired in her first performance by trying to put her own gospel-y spin on Drake's "Find Your Love." Nicki worried that people were starting to get the impression that Candice was an old-fashioned singer, while Randy had issues with the fact that she takes the same approach to every song. You "can't always sound like you're in church," he said.
Candice's second song – "Emotion" (made most famous by the Bee Gees) – brought the judges back in her corner. That was "super-duper-superstar quality girl," Mariah said. Nicki also called her a superhero.
Perhaps the most shocking turn of events during the show was the consistently middling reviews Kree received for all of her efforts. Her first song of the night – the bluesy number "It Hurt So Bad" – gave her a chance to show off her powerful pipes and her country twang but it didn't connect with the judges.
"You gotta pour your heart out," said Keith, who felt like Kree's vocal chops weren't enough to win her the title.
Nicki agreed: "That performance is not going to give you what you need," she said. "That was not a top four worthy performance."
Kree promised to bring more emotion to her second song, "A Whiter Shade of Pale," and Randy felt like she followed through on her promise, but it still didn't make either Keith or Nicki believers. In fact, Nicki predicted that Kree would wind up in the bottom two Thursday night.
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geekSpeak recording: All About Team Build 2008 with Steven Borg
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In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right.
Steven also spends a bit of time talking about why he loves Test-Driven Development (TDD) - but pragmatically rather than zealously. Nonetheless, things like work items, build reports, logs and changesets available with Team Foundation Server can help developers zero in on bugs that "break the build". Breaking the build is bad, and we have a good chuckle about some of the stiff "penalties" that various development teams (even some within Microsoft) come up with for that infraction.
Also in this geekSpeak, get the scoop on what's on the horizon for setup and deployment projects, and hear about a great tool called WIX which makes building projects into MSI files super easy. Steven goes so far as to say that WIX actually changed the way he works, listen to him explain why.
Steven also gives tips on how many of you already have access to Team Foundation Server (and therefore, Team Build) and don't even know it. So it's easy to incorporate these tools into your software build process and, through the Continuous Integration they afford, drive up quality and enhance team involvement. As Steven says, it's like "a little bit of magic."
This geekSpeak was hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.
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Steven Borg, a Northwest Cadence principal and the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) practice lead, works with corporations to improve their automated build process and overall software development process. In addition, Steven assists the Team System community as a Team System Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and was a founding member of the Seattle-based VSTS User Group. Northwest Cadence is a Microsoft Certified Partner and VSTS Inner Circle partner that focuses exclusively on helping companies improve their Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System.
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Plano, TX - Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), invites children of all ages to their annual Summer Movie Clubhouse, a ten-week series of kids films at a discounted price. Over 190 participating Cinemark and Century Theatres across the country will bring some of Hollywood's recent G and PG favorites to the theatre on selected mornings at a cost of only $1 per person. A Summer Movie Clubhouse series punch card is available for $5 and is good for all ten movies, one card per person.
"Our Summer Movie Clubhouse has been tremendously popular over the years for summer camps, church groups, and families on a budget," states James Meredith, Vice President of Marketing for Cinemark Theatres. "What can be better on a hot summer day than a great line up of movies, and a cool, comfortable theatre?"
The list of films being presented this year include "Shrek Forever After," "Rio," "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Despicable Me," "A Dolphin Tale," "Puss in Boots," "Winnie the Pooh" and others.
Each theatre will have ten movies for the "Clubhouse" series, although some participating theatres may have additional weeks of films. Start dates, days and times will vary. For a complete list of participating theatres and their start dates and showtimes, go to www.cinemark.com and click on the Summer Movie Clubhouse logo on the home page.
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I'm sitting here looking over the lines of a poem that I wrote a few years ago when Christmas was heavy on my heart. I was longing for Christmas like it used to be ... simple and unadorned.
A season of expectation - with results. A carefree time, with no problems, issues, concerns. A time when it was the one event we looked forward to throughout the entire year. Christmas ... at home.
The problem was, there was no home anymore. My parents had divorced, and the farm had been sold. And the more I considered that, the deeper my thoughts went about all the things that made Christmas at home what it was, all those many years ago.
The following lines came to me at bedtime on Nov. 30, 1994. I had already turned out the light and settled in when these lines of poetry just began to flow. I knew I had to get up and write them down. They bespoke what was on my heart late that night, and even still today.
I'm going home for Christmas
But only in my mind,
Because, you see, the home place
Is impossible to find.
The farm's still there where it's always been,
Though nothing looks the same,
So going home for Christmas
Is really just a game ...
I don't know why I keep playing it,
For it truly makes me sad
To think the times that used to be
Can never more be had.
It seems the snows were deeper then;
Snow cover was the purest white.
It served as the perfect mirror,
Reflecting the Christmas lights.
The smell of pine was in the house
From the tree we cut ourselves,
And pine was hung around the door,
Leaving need for little else.
I see my sister as we played
The year the bride dolls matched.
(We'd found them hidden in the closet
Where Santa had them stashed.)
Anticipation on Christmas Eve
Is almost forgotten now,
How we would whisper into the night,
Just couldn't go to sleep somehow!
I'd like to go back on Christmas
And walk once more through the house,
But nothing there would be the same;
The mem'ries have all been let out.
Our family is no longer living there;
Mother and Daddy have both gone on.
So, if I went back for Christmas,
I'd find that I didn't belong ...
No, I can't go home for Christmas,
From home I did long depart.
I must find a new Christmas
And kindle it in my heart.
After writing these lines, I came to realize that home, without those who tended things there, is no longer home. "Home" was not to ever be like it was.
I knew that I must let it all go, be ever so grateful for the store of memories, and make Christmas right where I am.


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FREEPORT — The mens basketball fans club at Highland Community College will hold Meet the Cougar Night at 5 p.m. Nov. 5 at Freeport Eagles Club, 1200 W. Galena Ave.
The event will begin with a social hour followed by a buffet dinner and player introductions.
Cost: $10. For tickets: 815-599-3415, 815-233-2536 or 815-233-1214. For information: Pete Norman at 815-599-3465.
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The University of Texas at Brownsville Department of Music prepares students for productive careers as teachers, performers, and scholars through engagement with diverse musical traditions, community outreach, technology, and intellectual and creative exploration. By promoting the interdependence of performance and research, relationships between music and other disciplines, and an appreciation of the heritage of our region, we strive to develop graduates with informed and inquiring minds who will become cultural leaders in our communities.
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Name: Macky Power
School: Hollidaysburg
Age: 17
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Grade: Senior
Sport: Ice hockey
Athlete of the week achievement: Power collected four goals and three assists in a win over Altoona, had seven goals and two assists in a victory over Carrick and scored two goals in leading his team to a 4-2 victory in the PIHL Open Class All-Star Game.
Season update: Power leads the PIHL Open Class with 50 goals and 84 points for the 11-4-1 Tigers.
Coach Brad Blair's quote: "He's been a great senior captain who leads by example. He's averaging more than five points per game. His speed at this level is out of this world.''
Favorite teacher: Mr. Klausman
Favorite subject: History
Favorite movie: "Never Back Down"
Favorite food: Tacos
Favorite song: "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore
Outside interests: Golf, baseball, skiing
Favorite professional team: San Diego Chargers
Favorite college team: Boston College
Pro athlete most admired: Alex Ovechkin
Best athlete I ever played with: Sam Lafferty
Best athlete I ever competed against: New Hampshire's Luke Bennett
Most influential person on my athletic career: My parents, Tim and Darlene
Proudest athletic achievement: "Winning a national championship in 2011 with the Mid-State Mustangs."
How I got my start in ice hockey: "My brother, David, played hockey when he was younger, and I went to the rink and asked to play."
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Scared to try lace knitting? Intimidated by charts? You'll be on your way to lace artistry with Laura's step-by-step instructions and two included patterns. The Skywalker shawl starts with easy stitch pattern and increases in difficulty. Then you'll be ready for the delicate Clarus! Laura will not only teach you how to knit triangular and semicircular lace shawls, but also will demonstrate how to fix your knitting mistakes. An active knitwear designer, blogger and workshop leader, Laura is the ideal guide for every stage of your lace knitting adventure, from learning to choose yarn and kniting borders and edges to reading multiple charts at once.
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Learn the fundamentals of yarn selection and working with gauge as you gear up to start your first shawl.
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Start the triangular Clarus shawl and learn to read two charts together as you knit the foundation row and first section.
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With world titles on the line and a high-profile match between C.M. Punk and Brock Lesnar headlining one of WWE's biggest shows of the year, it was an off-the-cuff remark made by a mid-card performer that captured mainstream media attention last week.
On Wednesday, just four days before Summer Slam, a videographer from the celebrity gossip website TMZ caught WWE's Darren Young (real name Fred Rosser) at Los Angeles International Airport and asked him if he thought a gay athlete could make it in WWE.
Without much hesitation or deliberation, Young delivered a statement that would, at least temporarily, overshadow the big event scheduled four days later in that city.
"Absolutely, look at me," Young said. "I'm a WWE superstar and, to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I'm gay. And I'm happy. I'm very happy."
The remark, which Young intended more as an honest statement than some bold declaration, sent ripples throughout the wrestling community and was picked up by major news outlets across the country.
WWE, in particular, latched on to the story and showered the "news" item with accolades from management and wrestlers alike.
"Oh, wonderful," commented 13-time world champion John Cena. "Good for him. That's fantastic ... I know Darren personally. Darren's a great guy. That's a very bold move for him. And congratulations for him for actually finally doing it."
Cena, whose older brother is gay, added that he expected this wouldn't have any effect on Young's job.
"It's all about being professional, and Darren Young is a consummate professional," Cena said. "For us, it's entertainment, and if you're entertaining you shouldn't be judged by race, creed, color or sexuality ... as long as you're entertaining."
Cena's right. Ultimately, Young's push (or lack of one) won't be determined by whether he is gay or straight, but by his ability to draw money for the company.
WWE also issued its own statement.
"WWE is proud of Darren Young for being open about his sexuality, and we will continue to support him as a WWE superstar. Today, in fact, Darren will be participating in one of our Be A Star anti-bullying rallies in Los Angeles to teach children how to create positive environments for everyone regardless of age, race, religion or sexual orientation."
"I respect Darren Young's decision to come out and am happy to see the support from the WWE Universe," tweeted WWE owner Vince McMahon.
Young, one half of the WWE tag team The Primetime Players, also got a call of support from fellow gay professional athlete Jason Collins.
Young's Twitter description, ironically, still offered no hint of his true sexual orientation:
"As comfortable in the VIP section as he is in the ring, Darren Young's life revolves around three things — money, women and wrestling."
Perhaps, to the rest of the world, Young's statement was some grand revelation.
But to WWE, which couldn't have been surprised, it comes under the category of "non-issue."
For the most part WWE has supported gay rights (although it hasn't always been above exploiting gay storylines, most notably in 2002 with the team of Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo, which initially earned support from advocacy groups, and later a rebuke when the angle was scrapped).
Pat Patterson, for years one of the major forces behind the company's creative success, has always been openly gay — as a wrestler and a front-office figure. Jane Geddes, a former U.S. Women's Open champion and LPGA executive who is now WWE's head of talent relations, is the longtime partner of tennis Hall of Famer Gigi Fernandez.
The late Jim Barnett, one of pro wrestling's most influential figures over a period that spanned the past half-century, was an avowed homosexual.
A number of performers who have worked for WWE have been gay, although this week's headlines trumpeted Young's proclamation as being the first active wrestler to actually come out.
In the year 2013, should it really even be an issue? It certainly wasn't ground-breaking.
As Jim Nabors/Gomer Pyle, another fellow entertainer who came out earlier this year, might (sarcastically) say: "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
Hulk turns 60
A major milestone in the world of wrestling occurred last weekend.
The iconic Hulk Hogan turned 60.
That's right. The Hulkster is now a member of the swelling sexagenarian ranks.
The man credited as helping kick-start Vince McMahon's national expansion of the wrestling profession, the individual who once claimed to be bigger than the sport itself, is 60.
No word, though, if he partied like it was 1985.
Those glory years are distant memories for many longtime fans. For more current fans, Hogan is a relic of the past, a reality TV figure who now works for a wrestling organization that runs a distant second to the company that Hogan helped transform nearly 30 years ago.
Years of wear and tear in the ring have necessitated numerous back, knee and hip surgeries that have rendered the Hulkster unable to perform even his most simple finishing hold, the kneedrop, while his once starring ring role has been relegated to that of a mere authority figure.
His successes and failures have been well documented, but Hulk Hogan remains a household name and one of the biggest stars to ever set foot in a wrestling ring.
The media-savvy Hogan marked the occasion by telling TMZ that a movie on his life was in the works, and that son Nick Bollea should be cast in the leading role.
Hogan backed off the claim later in the week when he explained to a Canadian newspaper that he merely gave a quick answer to an interviewer who was asking him "dumb questions."
"So now everybody's rambling like it's a feature film already," Hogan told the Cape Breton Post.
Hogan did go on to mention that a pair of writers were actually working on a script.
"The truth is ... two kids that are writers in L.A., hot young writers, they did a four-page treatment and I'm telling you they nailed it — they nailed it like they were living in my shoes — and I gave them the green light to go ahead and write the first pass. But that's all it is."
Hogan also backed off on the idea that son Nick would play him in a movie.
"I said he'd be perfect for it, but I think we need a serious, serious actor that knows what he's doing. You know who I thought would be good? That guy that did that action movie, 'Thor' (Chris Hemsworth)."
The art of exaggeration never has been lost on Hogan, though, whether he's boasting about being the first to slam an eight-foot-tall, 700-pound Andre The Giant, or selling out Wembley Stadium at Summer Slam '92 — despite not actually being there.
But that's what makes Hulk Hogan, well, Hulk Hogan.
Hogan says he's feeling "pretty good" for 60 and remains optimistic.
"I'm eternally youthful and I'm 60 years young. I'll take my shirt off in front of any 25-year-old, and I guarantee I'm built better than they are."
Oh yeah.
He still also talks about becoming the oldest world champion ever.
Four words of advice: Don't do it, Brother!
But best wishes to the The Immortal One on achieving No. 60.
It's a milestone that many of his former colleagues, sadly, never reached.
More TNA cuts
TNA continued its cost-cutting binge with a surprising release last week.
Brooke Hogan, who has served as the storyline authority figure for TNA's Knockouts division, reportedly parted ways with the company on amicable terms.
Brooke, who joined TNA in May 2012, most recently was involved in a high-profile romantic angle with TNA champion Bully Ray.
TNA hasn't ruled out the possibility of bringing back the daughter of Hulk Hogan for special appearances in the future.
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After months of shelling by Union troops on Morris Island and the blockade fleet, much of Fort Sumter was reduced to rubble. Still, the Confederates would not give up the fort.
A tropical storm blew through the Lowcountry on Monday night, Aug. 24, 1863, forcing a brief cease-fire in the siege of Charleston.
When the sun rose the next morning, locals finally had a chance to survey the damage from the weekend's bombardment -- and it was far worse than anyone imagined.
Fort Sumter had been severely damaged.
The Charleston Mercury reported that 4,000 shots had been fired at Sumter over the weekend, and estimated that three-quarters of them had been direct hits.
"It cannot be denied that the enemy fire with great accuracy," editor Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr. wrote. "The eastern face of the fort is now very seriously damaged, and almost every gun has been disabled."
Sumter had been subjected to a crossfire from Parrott guns on Morris Island and ironclads from the blockade. The fort had taken hundreds of hits from 15-inch shells alone. While the Swamp Angel battery had shelled the city, the Navy guns had focused on Wagner and Sumter.
It was clear from the damage that the men in blue had been busy.
"The south face is now but a heap of ruins," the paper reported, "and the west is cracked from top to bottom with supporting pillars shot away. Arches of the northwest face and terreplein have fallen in. The east face is cracked through and breached, the chief injury begin at the level of the arches and terreplein. Our magazine has been partially penetrated by shell, and a shell room has also been perforated."
The Union resumed the bombardment of Sumter on Tuesday, but could scarcely do any more damage than had already been done. As Wagner took its share of the shells, the casualties were beginning to mount. It might have been worse if the remnants of the storm hadn't kept most of the ironclads from joining in the shelling.
The damage reports from Sumter continued to trickle into the city all week, and The Mercury wrote what was nearly a premature obituary for the once-proud fort.
"Sumter is no longer a double-tiered battery," Rhett wrote. "As a great artillery fortress its proud proportions are reduced to ruins. But the ground is sacred to Southern independence. The site is negatively valuable, and, with even the rifle and bayonet only, it may be held still from the hands of our foes."
The Confederate troops had returned fire as best they could throughout the bombardment, working through exhaustion until they were relieved. But for the moment, there was no relief in sight.
At Battery Wagner, the men had much less defense from the constant firing than the troops at Sumter. When one shell fell in front of an eight-inch gun, it tore away the parapet and exploded in the gun chamber, killing two soldiers and wounding several others. Sgt. Welsh of the 1st S.C. Artillery noticed that the awning had caught on fire, and tore it down. But he quickly realized the flames had ignited an ammunition barrel that had just been filled. Before the barrel could explode, Welsh coolly grabbed a pot of coffee and extinguished the fire.
"Such an act of heroism should not be left unchronicled or unappreciated," The Mercury opined.
The intensity of the attacks grew until the end of the month. Then, on Sept. 1, it appeared the Union fleet was moving in for the kill. The North's batteries on Morris Island fired nearly 400 shots at Sumter, 166 of which struck the outside walls and another 95 fell inside the fort, killing three soldiers.
Sumter took the shelling in silence, but Battery Gregg, Fort Moultrie and the Sullivan's Island guns fought back "with great spirit." The battle raged on into the early hours of Sept. 2. At least 100 Confederate shots hit Union ironclads in a battle that lasted "for five long hours, during which the harbor was filled with one grand diapason of artillery."
But then, to the surprise of the Southerners, the North retreated shortly before 5 a.m., ending the first major bombardment of Sumter. Between Aug. 17 and Sept. 2, the Union had fired about 6,800 rounds at the fort.
The damage had been done, but it appeared Sumter would stand for another day.
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All those Yankee ships.
That was the difference in the fight, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard knew. With the New Ironsides and all the Monitor-class ironclads constantly shelling Sumter and Morris Island, the Confederates were outgunned. The Union had an excellent battle plan. The ships came in, unloaded a barrage of shells on the forts and then retreated beyond the range of Southern guns.
It was the Confederacy's greatest weakness. The South had gone to war without a Navy, and there was no realistic way to catch up. The Palmetto State and Chicora -- and a new sister ship, the Charleston -- were of little use against the U.S. fleet. They were cumbersome and slow, and the Palmetto State's used engine had proven unreliable on occasion.
Beauregard needed an edge and, earlier that summer, thought he'd found it.
A New Orleans engineer named James McClintock had been in Mobile for more than a year, where he was at work on a new kind of stealth boat. This machine could allegedly travel beneath the water and deliver a killing blow to ships without ever being seen. Beauregard knew he must have this weapon -- its talents were wasted in Mobile, which was too far up the bay to be in immediate danger.
He sent word to load the boat on a rail car and ship it to Charleston immediately, and ordered troops along the way to do nothing to slow its progress.
"It is much needed," Beauregard wrote.
The boat arrived in Charleston on Aug. 15 and it could not have inspired much confidence. It was a narrow iron tube, tapered at the ends, only 40 feet long and barely five feet tall. The most distinguishing features on this strange contraption was two hatches on its top and two fins on its side.
It was explained to the general that the boat could tow a contact mine behind it on a 100-foot rope. When it passed under a ship, the boat would pull the mine into its target's hull, where it would detonate -- creating a hole large enough to sink any ship within minutes.
McClintock, who had traveled with the boat, was told he would be paid $100,000 for sinking the New Ironsides with his privateer. But he claimed more testing was needed before it could be sent to sea. For more than a week, the little boat traveled back and forth across the harbor, between Forts Moultrie and Johnson.
At The Mercury, Rhett knew about the machine, but wrote nothing of it -- the newspaper was often complicit in war censorship. It was most helpful to the Confederate military, as Union soldiers sometimes managed to get copies of the paper. Beauregard meant for this new weapon to be a surprise, and certainly didn't want the blockade fleet reading about it in the Charleston papers.
After a week of tests, Beauregard grew weary of waiting. The New Ironsides and the rest of the fleet continued to bombard the harbor forts and, at the same time, he received word from Gen. T.L. Clingman on Sullivan's Island that the boat would not "render any service under its present management." McClintock was timid, Clingman said.
Within days, Beauregard seized the ship.
Lt. John Payne of the Chicora took over the fish-boat project. He recruited the crew from his own ironclad and the Palmetto State. The men were briefed on the fish-boat's operations and made plans to take it out on Saturday, Aug. 29.
The ship was moored at the Fort Johnson dock that evening when the men began to squeeze through the small hatches. Seven of them were onboard and Payne was about to climb into the forward hatch when the Etiwan steamed by. Later, witnesses would say that water from the ship's wake swamped the fish-boat's hatches, and that little bit of water was enough to set off a chain reaction that sent the submarine boat to the bottom of the harbor.
Payne managed to jump clear and the two men closest to each hatch somehow climbed out of the boat as it sank.
But five others were trapped inside. They would not survive.
The Mercury, careful not to release details of the secret weapon, made only scant mention of the incident on Monday, Aug. 31 under the headline "Lamentable Accident."
"On Saturday last, Lieutenants Payne and Hasker were proceeding to make some experiments in the harbor. The boat, which contained a crew of nine men, unfortunately parted from its moorings and sank. Five of the crew were drowned."
The little boat McClintock had called the Hunley was lost, and Beauregard was no closer to ridding himself of the troublesome New Ironsides.
It was an accident that would carry a great cost for Charleston.
Ordered to retreat
As bad as Fort Sumter had been damaged, Battery Wagner was in even worse shape.
The Morris Island fort had been shelled for weeks. Inside Battery Wagner, the men were running low on provisions and drinking water. What little freshwater Morris held had been contaminated by the decomposing bodies that littered the island.
The Confederates at Wagner realized they could not hold out much longer.
The first sign that the end was near came on Friday, Sept. 4. At dawn, sentries at Battery Wagner spotted a United States flag -- "the hated flag of stars and stripes," The Mercury called it -- flying from a new Union earthwork barely 150 yards from the fort. Within a few minutes, Union Parrott guns began shelling Wagner.
Fifteen minutes later the New Ironsides moved into position about 1,500 yards offshore and joined in the firing. For two and a half hours, the ship bombarded the fort, killing at least two-dozen men of the 25th S.C. Volunteers. By the end of the day, the land forces had moved even closer to Wagner's walls. On Saturday afternoon, the combined might of the Union's land and sea forces concentrated all their firepower on the battery, and they did not stop until the next morning.
It was, The Mercury reported, "beyond all doubt the most fierce and long continued which has taken place against Wagner since the beginning of the siege."
Several Confederate batteries on James Island tried to fend off the attacking Yankees, but they could not stop the onslaught.
"It is almost impossible to describe the terrible beauty of the scene in Charleston harbor as witnessed on Saturday night from the city," Rhett wrote. "From Moultrie almost to Secessionville, a whole semi-circle of the horizon was lit up by incessant flashes from cannon and shell. As peal on peal of artillery rolled across the waters, one could scarcely resist the belief that not less than a thousand great guns were in action.
"It was a grand chorus of hell," The Mercury editor said.
By Sunday, more than 150 Confederates on Morris Island were dead. And still the Union was not finished. The shelling resumed again that evening.
Around 6 p.m., Col. Keitt -- who commanded the Southern forces on the island -- received orders to abandon Battery Wagner and Gregg. While taking incoming fire, the remaining Confederates in the fort buried their dead. By nightfall, they were carrying the wounded to barges that would ferry them to Fort Johnson. It took 40 barge loads to evacuate all the casualties.
While those men were moved, the fort's guns were spiked, their carriages burned -- much as Maj. Robert Anderson had sabotaged Moultrie before his move to Sumter. By 1 a.m., Keitt and his officers boarded the last barge and abandoned Battery Wagner.
As they sailed away, ceding Morris Island to U.S. forces, they must have remembered the prediction made so long ago: If Wagner falls, Sumter falls. And if Sumter falls, Charleston falls.
Sumter strikes back
Emboldened by their capture of Battery Wagner, the Union quickly made plans to "take and hold" the beleaguered Fort Sumter.
For several nights, Union troops sent scout barges close to the fort on reconnaissance missions. They did not realize that the Confederates were watching their every move.
The Union had made a fatal mistake, allowing orders sent by Admiral John Dahlgren to fall into Southern hands. These notes, which were ultimately published in The Mercury, called for volunteers of 200 men for "special service" aboard barges that would sail inside the Charleston bar.
The men at Sumter only had to wait for them to come into range.
About 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 9, sentries at Sumter spotted a convoy of barges half a mile long, each boat carrying 50 or so men, speeding toward the fort. The barges were aiming for the rocks at the seaward face of the fort.
"As soon as the barges were seen by our vigilant sentries on the parapet, three rockets were thrown up to notify their comrades at the other batteries of the danger at hand," The Mercury later reported.
Fort Johnson, Battery Simkins, Fort Moultrie and the nearby Chicora immediately opened fire on the barges. The closest boats reached the rocks, however, and the troops aboard sprang ashore.
And there they were met by Maj. Blake's Charleston Battalion.
The Northern troops put up a brief fight but were quickly overpowered. The barges at the rear of the line had already turned to flee and escaped. But those closest to the fort were stopped. Within minutes, the Confederates took 115 prisoners. The battle was over.
Dahlgren had overplayed his hand and made a serious miscalculation.
Fort Sumter was not yet finished.
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Despite rumors that suggested heavy snow for this weekend, the National Weather Service predicts colder temperatures will arrive but with only a dusting of snow.
Joe Merchant, meteorologist with the Weather Service, spoke to the Inter-Mountain Friday about what local residents can expect for the next several days.
"There is a cold front that's currently heading through the eastern third of the state," he said.
Merchant said the cold front would develop in the area throughout Friday afternoon. Light rain and an increase in wind were expected to accompany the front.
He said cold air, which will arrive behind the cold front, will leave room for the system to produce light rain and a dusting of snow.
"We're not expecting much," Merchant said.
He said not much snow is expected because of a lack of moisture presently in the air, a necessary element for heavier rainfall and snow totals.
Due to the lack of moisture, today and Sunday will be relatively dry.
Residents of Elkins should feel lows in the upper teens and highs in the low 30s today, he said. On Sunday, highs will rise to the low 40s.
Merchant also mentioned that the first few days of next week should be warmer than today, with temperatures similar to that of Sunday's highs and lows.
However, he said, the temperatures, relative to season averages, will be slightly lower than normal.