[FOX] Michigan State Police report at least two individuals were shot Friday morning at Central Michigan University.
The city of Mt. Pleasant has locked down all city buildings. The suspect is allegedly an armed, black male, reported WILX 10.
Central Michigan University police have initiated a campus "shelter in place." Shots were reportedly fired on the fourth floor of campus dorm Campbell Hall and the school has canceled classes for the remainder of the day.
"There has been a report of shots fired at Campbell Hall on campus," said the school on Twitter. "Suspect is still at large, police advise all to take shelter. If you see something suspicious, call 911."
At least two people have been killed in a shooting in a Central Michigan University dorm, according to troopers with the Michigan State Police post in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
The university, in a tweet, said those killed were not students and "police believe the situation started from a domestic situation."
According to the city of Mt. Pleasant Twitter account, the suspect is a 19-year-old black male standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and wearing yellow mustard jeans and a blue hoodie. He's considered armed and dangerous.
The shooting happened near the 4th floor of Campbell Hall, a co-ed residence building.
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Oppressed by a dreadful concurrence
And tested beyond all forebearance:
A mom's bad enough
When a brother gets tough,
And James Davis was cursed with two parents!
[TimesofSanDiego] A Tijuana man pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego Thursday to masquerading as a U.S. citizen for 37 years to illegally enter the country and steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal, state and local government benefits.
Andres Avelino Anduaga, 66, admitted during a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Schopler that he stole the identity of an American citizen in 1980, using the victim's birth certificate to apply for a Social Security number and, later, for disability benefits in his name.
From 1989 until 2016, Anduaga received almost $250,000 in Supplemental Security Income benefits and over $100,000 in health benefits in the name of his victim, according to prosecutors.
Anduaga also conceded that during an interview with federal agents in 2015, he falsely claimed to be living in the United States, as required for an individual receiving Supplemental Security Income benefits, when in fact he was residing in Baja California.
Anduaga also admitted to illegally seeking CalFresh/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance benefits from San Diego County by impersonating the same victim and thereafter fraudulently taking more than $12,000 in additional government benefits.
As a part of his plea, Anduaga admitted that he is not an American citizen and that he has been deported from the United States on at least two prior occasions under yet another name.
Anduaga admitted that despite being deported from the country, he was able to travel freely between the United States and Mexico using the U.S. passport he had applied for in the name of his victim, using the same birth certificate and fraudulently-obtained Social Security number he used to defraud the government for decades.
"The programs that this defendant stole from ‐ for decades ‐ provide benefits to America's most needy," U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman said.
As a part of his plea agreement, Anduaga agreed to pay full restitution to the Social Security Administration, the California Department of Health Care Services, and San Diego County for the roughly $360,000 in government benefits he fraudulently obtained by his crimes.
Anduaga faces up to 12 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $971,800 at his sentencing, scheduled for May 29.
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when in fact he was residing in Baja California.
Baja, Alta, its all pretty much the same anymore. If the Trunks had any brains, they'd fund the registry of PRI was a legit political party in CA, for diversity sake.
Anduaga faces up to 12 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $971,800 at his sentencing, scheduled for May 29
3 hots and a cot still from the American taxpayer. You think he has the means to repay? I got a bridge in San Francisco I want to sell you
[DAWN] A social studies teacher barricaded himself inside a classroom at a Georgia high school on Wednesday and fired a handgun, sending students running outside or hunkering down in darkened gym locker rooms, authorities said.
No Dalton High School students were in the classroom when the teacher fired the weapon, and despite the chaotic lockdown and evacuation, the only injury was a student who hurt her ankle running away.
It wasn't immediately clear why the teacher, 53-year-old Jesse Randal Davidson, had the gun. Under questioning by detectives, he refused to discuss what led to the shooting.
The gunfire erupted with a nation on edge two weeks after a Florida school shooting left 17 students and faculty dead and ignited a new debate over gun control in America.
Within minutes of the Dalton shooting, students there took to social media, calling for restricting gun rights.
In the afternoon, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , who has advocated for arming teachers, convened a bipartisan group of politicians at the White House to address gun violence.
The teacher was taken into custody without incident after a 30 to 45-minute standoff with officers, police front man Bruce Frazier said. A teacher since 2004, Davidson also serves as the play-by-play announcer for the high school's football team.
Police noted that Davidson didn't appear to want to hurt the students or faculty. He fired the gun at an exterior window when the principal tried to enter the classroom.
"I don't know whether he was just firing the gun off to let people know to back off or what," Frazier said.
The shooting happened about 11:30 am during Davidson's planning period. At first, students tried to get into the classroom, but they couldn't. The students told the principal, who tried to enter.
"I didn't get the door open very far, but he slammed the door and hollered 'Go away, don't come in here.' He had some nonsensical noises that were made as well," Principal Steve Bartoo said.
Bartoo returned a short time later and put his key in the door "and again he slammed the door before I could open it and he said, 'Don't come in here, I have a gun.'" That's when Davidson fired and the school was placed on lockdown, authorities said.
Davidson faces six charges, including aggravated assault involving a gun and terroristic threats and acts, jail records showed. Other charges include carrying a weapon in a school safety zone and reckless conduct. It's not clear if he has an attorney.
Chondi Chastain told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named she was supposed to have Davidson's class at 2:30 pm.
"My favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceeded to shoot. We had to run out the back of the school in the rain. Students were being trampled and screaming. I dare you to tell me arming teachers will make us safe," she tweeted in a post that was retweeted 15,000 times within hours.
She said Davidson himself had commented that arming teachers was a bad idea.
"I feel like there just shouldn't be guns at school at all," she said. "It's our basic student right to feel safe at school and if (teachers were armed), I wouldn't feel safe."
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Within minutes of the Dalton shooting, students there took to social media, calling for restricting gun rights
[WAPO] Fewer high school seniors in the District are expected to receive diplomas in June than in the year before, a sharp reversal for a school system that had celebrated a 20-point increase in its graduation rate since 2011.
Data released Thursday by D.C. Public Schools shows that 42 percent of seniors attending traditional public schools are on track to graduate, while 19 percent are considered "moderately off-track," meaning they could still earn enough credits for a diploma.
The likely drop in the graduation rate is the latest fallout from an investigation that cast doubt on the validity of diplomas awarded last year. The graduation rate in 2017 was 73 percent, but the probe revealed that one in three graduates received their diplomas in violation of city policy. Those students had walked across graduation stages despite missing too many classes or improperly taking makeup classes. Emphasis added.
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$19,396 per pupil. Why are democrat controlled cities such underperforming cesspools?
Contrast this to a private high school in DC.
St. John's College High School is an elite, private, Catholic school located in Washington, DC. It has 1,113 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 12 to 1. Tuition is $18,465 for the highest grade offered. After graduation, 99% of students from this school go on to attend a 4-year college.
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Could decades of Democrats ruling
And radical cultural "cooling"
Make graduates mulish
And ign'ant and ghoulish,
With useless degrees from more schooling?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Emirati singer Ahlam AlShamsi is causing online outrage after tweeting that fans in the Arab world should not ask for God’s mercy on the late Sridevi Kapoor as the Bollywood icon "is Buddhist".
Ahlam was responding to Emirati Author Abdullah Alneaimi’s tweet paying tribute to Sridevi, who recently passed away in Dubai, using the Islamic phrase "May God have mercy on her".
"May God have mercy on her [sic] May God forgive," Ahlam tweeted in reply to Alneaimi using an emoji to describe her shock.
Ahlam then used verses from the Koran as proof of why she thought so.
A forensic report from the Dubai Police showed that Sridevi died as a result of accidental drowning in her hotel room’s bathroom after losing consciousness.
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Tarantino has said he will stop directing films after his 10th movie – a declaration he reaffirmed in November 2016, at the Adobe Max creativity conference in San Diego.
One step closer--his 9th. Can we trust him to stop?
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The melanin-rich clientele at stateside dollar stores seem to have no problem with their condoms. It's possible Zimbabweans are getting condoms sized for local endowments. By which I mean the thickness of their wallets, of course.
[hbtvGhana.com] Zimbabwean farmer Robert Smart inspects irrigation pipes for a potato crop after returning to his family farm. Smart last year had been evicted at gunpoint under Robert Mugabe’s programme to force white farmers to hand over their land.
When the riot police arrived, Zimbabwean farmworker Mary Mhuriyengwe saw her life fall apart as her job and home disappeared in the ruthless land seizures that defined Robert Mugabe’s rule.
Mhuriyengwe, 35, watched as police carrying AK-47 rifles released teargas to force white farmer Robert Smart off his land in June 2017 ‐ perhaps the last of 18 years of evictions that helped to trigger the country’s economic collapse.
A widow and mother of two, Mhuriyengwe relied on her work as a general labourer at Smart’s Lesbury Estates farm in Headlands, 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of the capital Harare.
"It’s the only job I had and I had no husband to turn to," she said, her voice breaking with emotion. "I found myself with nothing."
To her shock and amazement, Mhuriyengwe is now back at work on the farm and back living in her modest house, after Mugabe was ousted in November and Emmerson Mnangagwa became president.
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I recommend the following book, the title says it all. “The Fate of Africa; The History of the Continent Since Independence.” Meridith, Martin. Zimbabwe was a food exporting country until the white farms were redistributed. South Africa has just declared that it’s white farms will be returned to the native populations without any compensation.
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"Get it back into shape, White Dwvil so we can reappropriate it"
/Farmin B. Hard
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I suggest we refer to Smart's farm as a 'Peace Farm.' Tours can be held. Media interviews conducted. The success of a modern, progressive, post-apartheid government heralded.
Hitler wanted to use the 1936 games to present a peaceful Germany to the world. The Olympic village was part of that plan and boldly called the "village of peace" - a name could not have been more misleading (graphic depicts a model of the Peace Village).
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What sort of damage did the new owners looters do to the property in the interim? Are there even faucets left on the water fixtures? Probably everything that can be carried off is already sold on the black market.
#9
Here's a local paper with a lot of back and forth among black and white Zimbabweans. Some of the ostensibly black commentators want whitey to come back. Others want whitey (i.e. the remaining 200 farms still owned by whites) completely expropriated.
Re getting expropriated whites back on 99 year leases, the problem, as might be expected, is regaining the trust of the people who have left. I think that trust is history. People who moved have probably set down roots. Why go through the whole wrenching experience again, without sizeable carrots? IMO, a 99-year lease is not a sizeable carrot. Compensation for their losses might be acceptable, but I suspect they'd need more on top of that. And the treasury isn't exactly flush with cash.
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Interestingly, one of the white-leaning black commentators was grousing about being ripped off by the Chinese. Of course, blacks have a tendency to feel they're being ripped off, regardless, so it's hard to know how seriously to take that claim. Still, having the Celestials serve as a foil for the eevvvillll murungu (the Shona expression for whitey) is kinda amusing.
[HERALD.CO.ZW] Formerly First-World South Africa took a step on Tuesday to hasten the transfer of land from white to black owners when parliament backed a motion seeking to change the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation. ... because it worked so well in Zim...
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has long promised reforms to redress racial disparities in land ownership and the subject remains highly emotive over two decades after the end of apartheid.
“We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land,” he said.
Whites still own most of South Africa’s land following centuries of brutal colonial dispossession.
Tuesday’s motion was brought by the radical left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, but was supported by the ANC, which controls almost two-thirds of the parliament compared with EFF’s 6 percent.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said after his inauguration two weeks ago that he would speed up the transfer of land to black people, although he stressed that food production and security must be preserved.
Launching a debate on the motion in parliament, EFF leader Julius Malema said "it was time for justice" on the land issue.
"We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land," he said.
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Well, they can always eat each other, I suppose.
[HERALD.CO.ZW] THE Zim-bob-wean nurse working in a South African hospital, who caused a stir when a picture of her posing next to the late MDC-T president Mr Morgan Tsvangirai during his final days went viral on social media, has died, amid fears she could have been murdered.
Ms Nomsa Ncube, who worked at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) in Johannesburg, South Africa, was reportedly found dead at her flat in Johannesburg on February 18, four days after the former Prime Minister succumbed to cancer of the colon.
Mr Tsvangirai, who was buried at his Buhera rural home last Tuesday, was diagnosed with the cancer in 2016. The opposition politician had been visiting the hospital for two years for what his aides called ’routine treatment’.
He died on February 14 after a month-long admission. Ms Ncube came under the spotlight when a picture of her posing next to the ailing politician during his final days went viral on social media. There are different versions on the cause of her death.
A family member who spoke on condition of anonymity said she may have been killed, while some online sources alleged that she did away with himself following public condemnation when her picture with the late politician started circulating.
Zim-bob-we’s consul general to South Africa Mr Batiraishe Mukonoweshuro confirmed that Ms Ncube had died. He said investigations were underway.
"I am told that the South African Police Service is still dealing with the case and ascertaining the circumstances around how she passed on," said Mr Mukonoweshuro. "No information has been available as to how she died, purportedly on Sunday 18 February in the evening."
Mr Mukonoweshuro said his office was yet to get details on the issue. WDGMC manager Ms Sue Tager told our Bulawayo Bureau that she was not in a position to comment on the incident.
"I am so sorry because we do not comment on media reports, hence I cannot say anything," she said. "I will not be able to help you."
A source in Ms Ncube’s family who spoke on condition of anonymity alleged that she was killed as she was found in a pool of blood.
"We suspect that she was killed because her body was found lying in a pool of blood," said the source. "At first we believed that she had did away with himself, but we are certain of foul play though we cannot really say why she was killed or who did it."
A Zim-bob-wean nurse registered with the South African Nursing Council (SANC) allegedly wrote to the professional body demanding action against the nurse after her picture with Mr Tsvangirai went viral. In the complaint, the nurse, identified only as S. Masawi, demanded that Ms Ncube be charged with misconduct.
"May I bring to your attention the attached image showing one of your nurses posing for a picture with a patient who is clearly on his final days," wrote Masawi.
"The patient is a well known Zim-bob-wean politician Mr Morgan Tsvangirai who passed away today (Wednesday) 14 Feb 2018 at the well-known hospital in Africa WDGMC (Wits Gordon, South African Hospital).
"I am a fellow registered nurse myself and, sadly, l find the actions of your staff member, a fellow professional colleague to be grossly inappropriate, unprofessional and in breach of the nursing profession’s code of conduct. I would like to assume a breach in the local hospital policies as well."
In response, a spokesperson for the hospital said disciplinary measures had been taken.
"It is with regret that we note recent posts on social media showing a photograph of Mr Tsvangirai with a nursing staff member," the official was quoted as saying. "We have investigated the matter and, according to the nursing staff member, the photograph was taken with the permission of Mr Tsvangirai.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Pentagon on Thursday brushed off Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... ’s boast of developing "invincible" missiles, claiming the United States was fully prepared for anything that might come its way.
In his state of the nation address, Putin described several advances in missile technology, including a hypersonic weapon that can fly at many times the speed of sound and evade existing missile defense systems.
"We are not surprised by (Putin’s) statement, and the American people should rest assured that we are fully prepared," Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said.
White said she was "very confident" in America’s ability to react to "anything that may come our way." "We are prepared and we are ready," she said.
Hypersonic weapons under development by Russia and China -- as well as by the United States -- can beat regular anti-missile defenses because they are designed to switch direction in flight and do not follow a predictable arc like conventional missiles, making them much harder to track and intercept.
But despite the Pentagon’s claims, America is far from capable of stopping any type of missile attack, a fact it has lived with since the Cold War.
While it has had some limited success in developing interceptors capable of stopping one or two missiles from a rogue regime like North Korea, a barrage of nukes from Russia or anywhere else would be unstoppable and trigger the "mutually assured destruction" of both nations.
Still, US officials increasingly are turning attention to trying to develop some sort of defense against hypersonic missiles.
In its proposed $9.9 billion requested budget for 2019, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is asking for $120 million to develop hypersonic missile defenses, a big increase from the $75 million in fiscal 2018.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The joint interrogation team (JIT) probing the murder of 19-year-old Intizar Ahmed in Defence has decided to record the statement of the father of a former class-fellow of the victim following new disclosures made by the lone witness to the incident in her video statement, it emerged on Wednesday.
Madiha Kayani ... four star general, Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani was the former Director General of ISI... , a TV show host and the only eyewitness to the Jan 13 murder, alleged that the killing was "planned" and now she also felt threatened for her life as she recognised one of the key characters of the deadly episode.
In a video statement, which went viral on social media platforms, a visibly nervous and shaken Kayani appealed to the Rangers and other law enforcement agencies to provide her security.
"It was a planned murder," she said of Intizar’s killing. "Since I am the only eyewitness to the incident and I reported that a man sporting moustache is the murderer, I am feeling insecure for my life," she added.
As the new video raised certain questions about the murder, the JIT on Wednesday invited the victim’s father, Ishtiaq Ahmed, his lawyer and Ms Kayani for investigation.
The JIT head, Counter-Terrorism Department chief Sanaullah Abbasi, told Dawn that they were invited since the video fuelled speculations about the murder.
The JIT advised the girl and the victim’s father not to indulge in "speculations", he said, adding: "A private investigation is prejudicial to the police investigation."
The CTD chief said all witnesses in the Intizar murder case would be given protection under the Witness Protection Act.
He said a formal meeting of the JIT would be held on Thursday (today).
Another member of the JIT, on the condition of anonymity, told Dawn that they decided to record the statement of Sohail Hameed, father of Mahrukh who was a former class-fellow of the victim, via a remote video link as he was in the United States.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... sources familiar with investigations said that Inspector Amir Hameed, brother of Sohail Hameed, recorded his statement before the JIT.
He told the JIT that his brother, Sohail Hameed, had once called Intizar’s father Ishtiaq over the phone complaining that his son was frequently calling his daughter Mahrukh in the US.
The sources said that the dear departed’s family had sent a marriage proposal to Mahrukh’s family which they turned down before moving to the US.
They said that Mr Ahmed had "apologised" to Mr Hameed and told him that he had sent his son to Malaysia for further studies.
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[DAWN] A report submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday regarding television anchor Dr Shahid Masood's claims about 6-year-old Zainab's killer states that all 18 of the revelations made by Masood were false and baseless.
The anchorperson had claimed during a late night show that Zainab's rapist and murderer, Imran Ali, was a member of a pornography gang, which also includes a Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... minister. During earlier hearings of the case, Masood had also told the court that the suspect has 37 foreign accounts.
His claims about the bank accounts, however, were rejected by the State Bank of Pakistain (SBP) in its report to the joint investigation team (JIT) that was formed earlier by the Punjab government to probe the rape and murder of Zainab.
A JIT, separately formed by the SC to investigate Masood's claims, said in the report submitted to court today that Masood was unable to support any of his claims with evidence.
The report said that Masood's allegations regarding the killer belonging to an international ring connected to child pornography are false and that there is no evidence regarding the existence of any international bank accounts in Ali's name.
"The convict is a poor man and there is no evidence of any international bank accounts in his name," the report said, also ruling out any influential politician backing Imran Ali.
The JIT report also said that Masood's claim that someone would try to prove Ali to be clinically insane during trial was also false.
"Shahid Masood has failed to substantiate his claims with proof," the JIT said.
While hearing the case earlier, the chief justice had warned Masood of dire consequences if his claims proved to be false.
"If your news turns out to be untrue, [then] you cannot even imagine what will happen," the chief justice had warned the TV anchor.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. military’s top research arm, is looking into whether it might be possible to exploit fish, shellfish, and other marine organisms as unwitting sensors to spot and track submarines and other underwater threats. The idea is create a low cost means of persistently monitoring naval activity beneath the waves across a wide area, but it could be hard to get the sea life to reliably perform their new jobs as discreet undersea spies.
DARPA first announced this project, which it calls the Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors, or PALS, earlier in February 2018. The month before it had unveiled a broader concept for an "Ocean of Things," which would also incorporate a large number of small, low cost, and environmentally friendly sensor nodes, either on the sea bed or floating up above, to monitor ship and submarine movements, as well as gather data about changing environmental conditions and other scientific information.
"The U.S. Navy’s current approach to detecting and monitoring underwater vehicles is hardware-centric and resource intensive," Lori Adornato, the PALS program manager, said in an official statement. "If we can tap into the innate sensing capabilities of living organisms that are ubiquitous in the oceans, we can extend our ability to track adversary activity and do so discreetly, on a persistent basis, and with enough precision to characterize the size and type of adversary vehicles."
At the most basic level, DARPA envisions developing a system that records marine animal activity, or the sounds they produce, and decodes that data to determine whether they’re just swimming along as normal or dodging an enemy submarine. This would not require actually implanting or otherwise "modifying" any fish or crustaceans.
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Dr. Evil in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: "You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!..."
[TheDrive] Russia and its lineup of thrust vectoring fighters‐namely modern Flanker derivatives like the Su-35‐have certainly stolen the show when it comes to displaying extreme slow-speed maneuverability and other post-stall aerobatic feats. But the F-22, with its high thrust-to-weight ratio, huge control surfaces, and especially its two-dimensional thrust vectoring, can holds its own in this regard as well.
Case in point, this pretty damn amazing clip of an F-22 executing a big belly-first somersault at altitude. The jet seems to defy physics as its nose quickly changes from pointing one direction to the other. Check out the vid. As someone who has done aerobatic flying, all I can say is "wow."
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My@#3: My take is that the plane of rotation is a little aft of the cockpit. ZG most of the way around, but the last few degrees appear to be 'roid squishers.
The timing of the vector/power must be amazing and done, in this vid, by a real pro! Makes my Split-S' appear rather pedestrian.
[FOX 5] WASHINGTON (AP) - Several NBA teams have played what is known as the "negro national anthem" at games during Black History Month thanks in part to the urging of a retired Howard University professor.
Eugene Williams, a 76-year-old retiree in Clinton, Maryland, has made it his goal to get professional and collegiate teams to play "Lift Every Voice and Sing" during February. He has been calling and writing teams for the past six months.
The Washington Wizards became the fourth NBA team to play the song at a game, doing so during a timeout midway through the first quarter against the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night. As the song played, a video was shown with on-court highlights and Wizards players engaging in community activities.
The Oklahoma City Thunder played it in January, Williams said. The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Warriors played "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in February.
Williams attended the Warriors-Wizards game on the last day of Black History Month to hear the song played.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WAPO] Fewer high school seniors in the District are expected to receive diplomas in June than in the year before, a sharp reversal for a school system that had celebrated a 20-point increase in its graduation rate since 2011.
[IMAGES.DAWN] Who is playing the notorious murderer? Find out here
I suggest we refer to Smart's farm as a 'Peace Farm.' Tours can be held. Media interviews conducted. The success of a modern, progressive, post-apartheid government heralded. 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
North Korea
[DAWN] KARACHI: The joint interrogation team (JIT) probing the murder of 19-year-old Intizar Ahmed in Defence has decided to record the statement of the father of a former class-fellow of the victim following new disclosures made by the lone witness to the incident in her video statement, it emerged on Wednesday.
[DAWN] A report submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday regarding television anchor Dr Shahid Masood's claims about 6-year-old Zainab's killer states that all 18 of the revelations made by Masood were false and baseless.
