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Then, as Al-Amin sat in a black Mercedes outside his store last Thursday night, Fulton County deputies Ricky Kinchen and Aldranon English approached with a warrant for his arrest. Directing him to leave the car, one of the officers ordered, “Show your right hand.” According to police, Al-Amin answered, “OK, here it is,” then, producing a .223 assault rifle, fired at least 20 shots, wounding both officers, Kinchen fatally. Al-Amin, who was apparently also wounded, escaped, leaving a trail of blood toward a nearby building....

George W. Bush’s reputation may be at stake nationally as voters decide whether to support those candidates the president embraces, but it is here, where Bush served one and a half terms as governor, that his presence looms largest. “He has spent the last two weeks going through 15 states and staking his own political prestige and capital,” says Cal Jillson, political science professor at Southern Methodist University. “It is important to him that the Republicans do well nationally, and it is even more so here in Texas....

But surely this blog will give you some facts as some basics about LIDAR Technology and some present applications of this technology. What is LIDAR Technology? LIDAR, stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges (variable distances) to the Earth. These light pulses – combined with other data recorded by the airborne system – generate precise, three-dimensional information about the shape of the target object and its surface characteristics....

OFFICIAL: Gerrard to coach U18s While great players do not automatically evolve into exceptional tacticians, the 36-year-old possesses the traits to do well in the dugout. Goal looks at three facets that will help the club legend command this phase of his career as he did games at the peak of his playing days. HIS HUMILITY Whether speaking to Dave Shannon, Steve Heighway and Hughie McAuley - Gerrard’s first coaches at Liverpool - or teenager Trent Alexander-Arnold, whom he trained while undertaking his Uefa B license, the humility of the former Reds captain is always highlighted....

One thing Rockstar did with its signature series during the transition from the fifth generation of consoles to the sixth was adding voice actors. Voice acting in video games, no matter how hammy or cheesy. Considering the open-world nature of GTA games and their semi-realistic human characters, having an extensive cast of actors was the way to go. One innovative part of Grand Theft Auto 3 is how it also utilized celebrity voice actors....

The whole thing got strange when the two large men found themselves in a Twitter beef that wound up drawing in the Warriors, forward Kevin Durant and even McGee’s mother. This is not exactly new for O’Neal. He has a long history of criticizing the big men who followed in his late-90s/early-2000s wake, most notably Dwight Howard. In a 2009 interview with Sporting News, O’Neal ripped Howard — then with Orlando, the same team Shaq played for to start his career — for essentially following in his footsteps, right down to assuming his “Superman” identity....

Kim, along with many other students, returned to Philadelphia to live off-campus for the year. These students filled out a symptom tracker every day, but no testing was required unless they reported symptoms. It wasn’t until the start of the spring semester, that students were allowed back on campus and the school started administering saliva tests twice per week. “Now, it’s definitely like we’re on their radar—we get tested regularly and followed up on,” Kim tells Verywell....

In an announcement last week that impressed people in and out of Hollywood, Creative Artists Agency head Michael Ovitz said he had hired Robert Kavner, an executive vice president of AT&T, to help him chart the voyage into the multimedia universe. Like many a move by Ovitz, this one should set Hollywood scrambling to catch up. Kavner, 50, is a former chief financial officer for AT&T who’s spent the last three years heading its new-business ventures....

Several months earlier Gehry got so anxious about how the place would sound that he called Salonen at home one evening and asked to meet him at the unfinished hall right away. (Gehry worked closely with the Japanese acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, who also collaborated with him on the much-praised concert hall at Bard College in New York, which opened this spring.) Salonen asked the concertmaster to come with his violin, and the man played a little Bach for them in the dim and dusty hall....

This tale of alligator aura begins in 1978, when the Visalia Oaks had one of the best teams in minor league history, posting a 100-44 record on their way to the California League championship. Eccentric future AL Rookie of the Year Joe Charboneau was on that team and owned a pet alligator named Chopper, who lived in his bathtub. MORE: Sports mascots: The good, the bad, the ridiculous “Chopper, by all accounts, was a good-natured, even-tempered young reptile....

I am not a Liverpool fan. But Liverpool is a club which is hard to dislike. The history, the Kop, the triumph of Istanbul, the tragedy of Hillsborough; it is all indubitably romantic. More so since Jurgen Klopp has taken over. How do you dislike this man? Even the most cutthroat misanthrope would melt in front of Herr Klopp’s charm. His passion for the game is infectious. His attitude is outstanding....

Schmid, 47, is not only wealthy. He’ll also look you in the eye and say so. “I always wanted to be free and independent,” he explains. “That’s what being rich means to me.” In Germany, such talk is as new as the idea of a former hockey coach becoming a tycoon. And it marks a psychological shift that may be even more significant in the long run than such vaunted reforms as telecom deregulation or the coming of the euro....

The experiment, published in the journal Science, quickly accentuated the divide between those who believe cloning should be outlawed entirely and those, including most scientists, who support banning it for reproductive purposes but not for medical research. Hwang emphasized that he undertook his work solely to advance therapeutic cloning. Proponents say the procedure is markedly different from making carbon copies of human beings. “There is no implantation; there is no pregnancy,” says Daniel Perry, head of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research....

With Deng on his deathbed, Jiang is pulling his own strings –and shedding light on China’s mysterious process of transferring power. Once dismissed as a political lightweight, the 68-year-old former Shanghai mayor has pushed aside cagey rivals and elevated members of his so-called Shanghai faction. Jiang is poised to become China’s next paramount leader – despite his lack of revolutionary credentials and a reputation as a pliant bureaucrat. Already he is China’s top diplomat, confidently attending international forums like last week’s VE Day celebrations in Moscow....

Start with the obvious: the gifts from the Clinton administration that just keep on giving. Every day seems to bring a new disclosure of some tawdry, diminishing fund raising or other political practice the White House has to explain and justify and bring up to date in relation to whatever contradictory thing it said on the subject only days before. Yes, the Republicans have not exactly been Camp Fire Girls themselves on campaign financing....

CCP Games and Sony unveiled the upcoming DUST 514 to the public last week via a PlayStation Home exclusive event. It was here that the trailer was shown, questions were answered and potential players could meet up digitally. Followed up by a series of interesting announcements (eSports!) at EVE Fanfest in Iceland over the weekend, along with a new cinematic DUST 514 trailer, and the hype machine is officially rolling for the PS3 exclusive EVE Online spinoff....

The First Birth Control Pill The first birth control was called Enovid and was manufactured by Searle. The 1960s woman, as well as women today, liked the pill because it provided a reversible method of birth control that was, and still is today, almost 100% effective when taken as directed. Birth Control and Women’s Liberation The approval of the birth control played a major role in the sexual liberation of women that took place during the 1960s....

Even more shocking is that “Hercules” is actually good. Two guys see to that: executive producer Sam Raimi and star Kevin Sorbo. Raimi is a movie director with a talent for genre pop (from “The Evil Dead” to “The Quick and the Dead”). Sorbo is a supremely relaxed Minnesotan whose primary acting credits have been hunk-for-hire spots selling Diet Coke and Budweiser. At 6 feet 3, Sorbo is buff without being steroidal....

What makes Primal so unique is its lack of dialogue, meaning anything the story needs to convey is done purely through imagery and sound design. Primal tells the story of a caveman named Spear and a tyrannosaurus named Fang who bond over some unfortunate events. When Spear’s family is devoured by a pack of dinosaurs, he becomes suicidal. Spear has trouble getting out of his depression, but he learns to lean on an unlikely friend....