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Wilson's ugly stats (9-for-23, one pick) don't tell the story. There were five big drops, many on third down. Wilson did a better job hanging in the pocket and making plays on drop-back throws. He moved the ball on the San Francisco 49ers in the first half.
With all that said, Wilson only completed one pass in the second half. His decision making slowed down and the 49ers seemed to confuse him late in the game. Wilson was trending upwards before this game and we still saw a lot of positive moments in the Seahawks' 13-6 loss compared to early in the season.
Balcony hijinks seem to run in the royal family! Decades before the Queen's great-granddaughter, Savannah Phillips, clasped her hand over Prince George's mouth at the 2018 Trooping of the Colour, 5-year-old Prince Harry was the one shushing his cousins. See how Harry stole the show 28 years ago!
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, APRIL 18-19 In this Friday, April 3, 2009, photo, Riley Poor lifts weights at Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in the south Denver suburb of Englewood, Colo. Poor is a 26-year-old freeskier turned cinematographer who has worked with the biggest names in action sports, capturing award-winning images on peaks all over the world.
ENGLEWOOD — The bright orange stickers were plastered all over at the Winter X Games, affixed to helmets, buildings, tops of skis, even on the seat of a chairlift.
Emblazoned on the decals were two neon words: Riley Poor.
A new energy drink perhaps? Or the latest line of must-have skiing attire? Turns out Riley Poor is a 26-year-old skier-turned-cinema-tographer who has worked with the biggest names in action sports, capturing award-winning images on peaks all over the world. But he was conspicuously absent from January’s Winter X Games in Aspen, represented instead by the swarm of orange stickers — a show of affection by friends.
Poor could only watch the competition from a hospital bed as he recovers from a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the chest down. He did a backflip into an indoor pool after a night of celebrating with buddies following a Winter Dew Tour stop in mid-January at Mount Snow in Vermont, and slammed his head against the bottom.
Now, Poor is going through rehab at Craig Hospital, a Denver-area facility that specializes in spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries.
Poor’s strength has steadily returned. He can lift his hands and make a weak grip. He also can wiggle his toes — with concentration.
After attending a fundraiser in Boulder over the weekend, Poor is expected to leave Denver on Thursday to return to California. Then it’s on to broader ambitions — like filming again.
He has been part of more than 25 action-sports films, capturing Simon Dumont chasing X-Games gold, Tanner Hall’s first descents in the mountains of Alaska and freeskier Sammy Carlson pushing the boundaries in St. Anton, Austria, to name a few highlights.
The number of people who were homeless on the neighbor islands in January decreased 2% from the year before — meaning there were 1,995 homeless people on the neighbor islands compared to 2,035 in January 2018, according to the latest data released today.
>> Veteran homelessness decreased by 3%, and youth homelessness dropped by 11%.
The numbers were mixed island by island.
Hawaii island had the largest overall decrease by far: 21%.
At the same time, Maui saw a 1% decrease while Kauai’s homeless population shot up by 51%.
During the January count, 67 people stated their homelessness was caused by natural disasters, according to Bridging the Gap.
Today’s announcement on Hawaii island of the neighbor island data follows February’s release of preliminary numbers for Oahu’s Point in Time Count.
The Oahu data showed a 12% increase in unsheltered homeless people while the overall numbers were down 4%.
When added together, there were 4,311 people living on the street or in shelters on Oahu — or 184 fewer than last year’s count.
Hawaii currently has the highest per capita rate of homelessness in the nation. Federal officials are expected to make state-by-state comparisons later this year.
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The newest addition to the Tilley hat collection is made from raffia, a natural fiber hailing from a palm tree found in Madagascar. This smart and stylish accessory can be crushed into a suitcase or carry-on, worn in a light rain and has a certified ultraviolet protection factor of 50+ to protect you from sun damage. Smart and stylish, the three-inch brim can be turned up or down for two distinct looks -- and there's a secret compartment to stash valuables. Each hat comes with a two-year, all-perils insurance policy against loss! And how many hats do you know that come with an owner's manual?
One can see how an individual, who at one time had absolute power and is now in the political wilderness, has no control over what he says when under the influence of undesirable power hungry individuals whose survival depends on this one individual. This appears to be happening to the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Look at the people who have been around him when he said “Hand the Country over to me”. And for what reason... to rescue Sri Lanka from the current economic ‘crisis’ but refused to outline strategies to address the problem. What makes MR think the people of this country will give him another chance? MR’s desperate cry for another chance is not to rescue Sri Lanka from the current economic ‘crisis’ but to groom his son for the next Presidential election and give another chance for him, his family and his bag carriers to run riot feathering their own nests whilst increasing Sri Lanka’s debts to astronomical heights. These jokers still haven’t realised that we are today suffering because of their mismanagement of the country.
MR claims, as President he steered the country out of an economic crisis. If that was so would we be in this mess? Parliamentarians, who couldn’t afford even a push bicycle are travelling in luxury cars, built palatial houses, and filling their bellies with food served in star class luxury hotels. Anyone with a single blood-drop relationship is still living lavishly in 7-star comfort! The overall result is that the citizens of this country are paying for all this!!
Let’s put aside party affiliations and ask ourselves the pertinent question: If not Ranil who should it be? Can any single person in the Joker’s Pack stand up at any forum and cut an impressive figure about our country, in a dignified manner?
One of the biggest problems our country is facing is that our quality of Parliamentarians leaves much to be desired.
In the past it was quite an experience to witness from the visitor’s gallery how business was conducted in Parliament. Today, the behaviour of Parliamentarians is atrocious and this is the last place that any decent human being must visit.
If the country is to go forward we must have the educated from decent family backgrounds who can serve a meaningful purpose in occupying those seats, enjoying the benefits they are entitled to. If as in the private sector (1) Education (2) Family Background (3) Financial Stability and (4) Acceptance in the Community are all taken into account Parliament can worthily serve the purpose for which it stands committed. It is not too late to adhere to this system and create a Parliament which can serve a useful purpose the country can be proud of. This is a must.
There is also a request from Gota for added security. There is a limit to which a government can go. If he is a citizen of America why must we be bothered to give him these luxuries at the tax payers’ cost? People in this country do not have to protect another country’s individual. It’s about time the country did the right thing by its people.
Whatever, government is in power must ban priests of any religion from getting involved in politics and taking part in street demonstrations.
It is so ugly to see individuals in religious attire behaving like hooligans and using force to bring down barricades and promoting mob violence.
Take the example of the controversial Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera who has been notorious for fear-mongering and hate speech against minority communities, taking the law unto himself. Democracy is one thing but violence must be arrested and severely dealt with. It is a fact that minority religious communities have been at the receiving end of violence from Buddhists actively encouraged by the Buddhist clergy and yet in many instances the perpetrators have not been brought to book.
Think about the vast number of MR’s supporters who have robbed this country left, right and centre and cannot be even proved guilty. The fact that the present government has not been able to put these rogues behind bars is most unfortunate.
The inactive judiciary must be activated and told to speed up cases which are going on for years as a result of which even the litigants have died and the cases are in limbo. Imagine the amount of money spent on a case in one year.
Two Ministers who have to be congratulated for their stance in exposing the truth, are Ranjan Ramanayake and Sarath Fonseka. We salute such people who can act fast and not mince their words. Citizens of this country must have the freedom to criticize wherever there are lapses.... and none must be found guilty for voicing their opinions.
While the Munich agreement may be regarded as an appeasement of Hitler it did buy the U.K. valuable time to rearm and prepare for the epochal ‘Battle of Britain’ that was to come with the Royal Air Force’s Fighter Command, in particular, benefiting from the new Spitfire & Hurricane squadrons it was able to deploy to its battle order.
While the Munich Agreement was nothing for the French and the British leaders to be proud about, it is nowhere near as shameful and despicable as the vile and secret ‘Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 (‘German-Soviet Non Aggression Pact’) by which the two megalomaniac mass murderers Hitler and Stalin agreed to carve up poor Poland.
One of the first acts of the Soviet invaders was the terrible massacre of the Katyn Forest in which up to 22,000 Polish army officers, policemen, landowners and businessmen, Christian priests and intelligentsia were methodically murdered and secretly buried by the NKVD (as the KGB was then known).
It was only in 1989 that the now happily vanished Soviet Union’s last ruler acknowledged this terrible atrocity and asked for the Polish people’s forgiveness.
In the 1920s the Soviet Red Army systematically invaded all of the Central Asian former colonies of Imperial Tsarist Russia (they had declared their independence when the Tsar was deposed) and imposed totalitarian Communist rule on them.
In the 1930s and 1940s the former Tsarist protectorates, the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, and brave Finland also suffered Soviet invasion and occupation (not before the courageous Finns gave the Red Army a bloody nose in the ‘Winter War Of 1940).
Ironically, the German excuse for the invasion of both Czechoslovakia and Poland was the protection of the German ethnic minorities there, which is similar to modern Russia’s justification that the safety of Russians in the Crimea was the reason for its unilateral annexation of Ukraine.
Russia’s war with Georgia and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine stem from the same reason.
I hope and pray, modern democratic Russia will mark the 80th Anniversary of the Molotav-Ribbentrop Pact in 2019 with an honest reappraisal of its dark and brutal Soviet past.
Today, many communities in Sri Lanka live in peace and harmony, a democratic system of government prevails and the sovereign will of the people reigns supreme. There was a time when the country was looked down upon by most other nations due to the then Government turning a deaf-ear to the human-rights laws of the UN. Thanks to the President and the Government, today we are able to negotiate with all member countries of the UN.
As the spirit of democracy has taken deep roots in our soil since the arrival of Arahant Mahinda, we have reason to feel proud of our democratic tradition. Sri Lanka was under colonial rule for more than a century. We gained independence in 1948, and since then political freedom has imposed many responsibilities on us. The first task is to strive for ‘Economic Freedom’ without which all other freedom would be empty slogans. Economic freedom can be achieved through agricultural and industrial productions. Economic development coupled with spiritual and moral values will make any nation strong.
To achieve freedom in all aspects, unity and discipline are essential. The trends of disunity and indiscipline should be nipped in the bud whenever they raise their heads. It is not the responsibility of the government alone to maintain unity and discipline.
Today, the ethics of politics preserved by our ancestors have been lost. The sympathisers of the ‘Pohottuwa’ have launched a movement to villify the image of the Government.
A campaign of distortion and exaggeration of facts has been in progress by the power hungry. At the time the Government is at the peak of its invaluable service to the nation, none should disturb to curtail the progress, as we are yet a developing nation.
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Police have been out in force patrolling election counts across the country in the wake of recent deadly terror attacks in Manchester and London.
Do pre-election publicity stunts influence how people vote?
Do political publicity stunts influence public opinion in the run-up to elections? Michael Alexander sought the views of some experts.
Today’s headlines…Should there be a new BBC ‘Scottish Six’ news bulletin?
As pressure mounts for the BBC to bring in a so-called 'Scottish Six' news programme, Michael Alexander speaks to some of those for and against change.
Theresa May has said she is willing to listen to Nicola Sturgeon's options for Scotland to have a different relationship with the European Union.
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who nearly died after contracting the virus while treating patients in Sierra Leone, has not been given a £4,000 bonus many of her colleagues have received, Parliament has heard.
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Glasgow and Edinburgh to voice their anger over the EU referendum result.
Flags are flying at half mast in Scotland as a mark of respect to Labour MP Jo Cox.
Snookering the housing market \| City A.M.
DESPITE widespread scepticism around George Osborne’s Help to Buy scheme, the chancellor could be forgiven for not expecting his most recent critic’s comments.
In a break from training for his upcoming Chinese tournament, five-time and current snooker world champion Ronnie O’Sulllivan took to Twitter, voicing a strong criticism of the UK’s housing market.
He added: “Refuse debt refuse 90 per cent mortgages,” heavily implying that he is no fan of the rushed start to the government’s Help to Buy scheme of mortgage guarantees.
O’Sullivan also suggested that his 175,500 Twitter followers can look forward to more interventions on the subject: “Right no more talking snooker... Only gonna talk running and financial terrorism.” Osborne’s 63,200 Twitter followers are yet to hear his rebuttal.
Today Bangladesh’s military turned its guns and its boots against the very people who it is entrusted to protect. Today when the frustrations of the Bangladeshi people boiled over, the army responded with beatings and killings. They beat students. They beat reporters. They beat our brothers and they beat our sisters.
A government that mercilessly attacks its own people in the name of “public safety” is itself a danger to public safety. Bangladesh’s military government who came to power with a dubious mandate is fast losing any perceived legitimacy it claimed. Seven months of the suppression of fundamental rights and spiraling prices of essentials have brought misery to the people of the land. The flooding across the country added to the misery of the masses. While the military government pushed ahead with its “anti-corruption” drive and its political purges it neglected the deteriorating conditions in the country. Instead it blamed everyone from the politicians to the bankers to the NGOs for its own mismanagement of government functions. While the military government was looking for scapegoats, ordinary people — who barely get by on a good day — bore the brunt of the government’s neglect.
The military government created a climate of fear where the rule of the gun ruled the day. With freedom of expression and criticism of the government outlawed, perhaps it was inevitable that an act of humiliation by the military upon a student would be the spark that would unleash the frustrations of a nation. So what will be the punishment meted out by the military upon the Bangladeshi people? Will it be beatings? Will it be torture? Will it be murder?
What will the unelected rulers of Bangladesh do to the people? Already the Chief Advisor has pointed his finger at the “evil forces” for the unrest. The Chief Advisor needs to reassess the situation, his government is running out of scapegoats.
Today I stand with the brave people of Bangladesh. I stand against a government that would rather beat its own people then provide for their welfare. Today we must demand that this government restrain its forces from unleashing thuggery against its own people. To be silent is to be complicit.
Just now news is that DU Teachers Association Secretary Anwar Hussain has been arrested.
Say no to the army, say no to the rule of organized thuggery.
Even a close relative, a retired civil servant, a devout supporter of this so-called army-led CTG is now pissed off at what this government is doing to innocent people. How long can you suppress an entire population? Haven’t we learned from our past that the worst thing you do is piss off the student community.
Well, I am hopeful that this time we will get rid of this so-called “patriotic” armed forces! When I hear that on TV, I ask myself, “What about me, and the other Bengali civilians? Aren’t we patriots? We care and love our country but it sounds like the guys in uniform are MORE patriotic than us. Hey, we ALL fought for our liberation and are still struggling for our betterment, aren’t we? WE the people are the REAL patriots. We earn our living; we just don’t sit in the cantonments and gobble up the people’s money. I think we should downsize this so-called armed forces and create one like they have in Switzerland or maybe to avoid future incursions of this armed forces into our democratic lives, convert them into something like a Vatican-like force. I believe, a shabol, a kodal, lungi, sandal and gamcha will be the proper uniform for this force. Once we achieve this goal, we will have a true armed forces because that’s when these paid-for-nothing khaki’s will understand the real meaning of patriotism.
General Moeen and company, STOP hurting our students, STOP hurting our teachers, STOP hurting our journalists. Don’t DARE touch other civilians. Give our freedom back to us. Otherwise, Khakis beware!
People like Imran and Mashuqur are a threat to national security. We are already watching who enters our country. We have informed our counterparts in the US about Mr. Mashuqur Rahman.
Dear Admin: Please publish The Monitor’s DNS information. He is a threat to bloggers’ security.
Threat to national security or Moinul Hosein’s security? Truth hurts. Isn’t that true? Our comments are like adding salt to a wound. But the TRUTH is that is THE TRUTH. You can censor the media in Bangladesh by your threats BUT we will reveal the TRUTH, which will bring the downfall of authoritarian regimes. People’s support is waning. Repression will NOT stand. Down with the army. We want democratically elected representatives. We the people want freedom from dictators! It’s just a matter of time. Threats won’t silence us from telling the truth.
Hello, Mashuqur Rahman and Imran, well written.
Well its good to see that people with different perspectives are communicating with each other. But there are some “monitor” like posters who I think is always set for defocusing the whole issue with silly threats or arguments. And that reminds me when TK was arrested there was a propaganda in different blogs by these “monitor” like people that: “Say no to Army” is anti-state which was one of his forwarded group sms. Now when any sane citizen of Bangladesh will scream the same line after three months of that incident, I think “monitor” will run out of words to threat the whole nation and we will soon find them naked-bottom. So I think ” Monitor ” you can inform your counterpart in US as many times you want about as many bloggers you can think of, just remember history repeats itself. Whenever there was suppression, freedom hungry Bangladeshis fought to death.
And on topic : Excellent piece Mash. Let’s celebrate freedom of speech then.
Hey Monitor, your “counterparts” in the US already know about me. After all, I live here and pay taxes here. I hope your “counterparts” in the US fax you a copy of the Bill of Rights. If not you can find it here. Read them carefully. After that please read the Bangladesh Constitution, especially articles 26 to 47. Also read Article 11 very carefully.
Now, it is up to you whether you feel that you can live up to the spirit of those articles of the Bangladesh Constitution or not. But after reading those articles of the Constitution, you might want to give some thought to your understanding of “national security”.
There is no threat in my post what so ever.
Mashuqur Rahman, your bill of rights and our constitution does not matter in rendition to Guantanamo. You should think twice about your position. Our constitution is for law obeying people not for the enemies of our state.
Monitor, don’t live in confusion that people can’t track you. It is fact and there is no point in giving importance to a guy like you. You know what is your problem? Just correct if I am wrong. You are doing slavery of army/DGFI. Still you are scared to come with your original name. Because fanatic people like you are scared if you guys are tracked down in Europe or USA, you may get caught by police because of the relation ship with al-Qaeda or terrorist organization or you never got any platform to put your stupid words . so you need progressive sites like E-Bangladesh, Drishtipat, Salam Dhaka or Shada Kalo which has credibility.
. I am 100% sure if you open any blog, you guys will not get even 5% hit of those blogs. So you are begging here for attention. So don’t make yourself a joker in front of people.
What exactly is Bangladesh’s stance on Guantanamo? Did the “Monitor” just commit treason himself by going against government policy by advocating the use of Gitmo?
I can recall, quite recently, Rumi Ahmed’s blog had a character calling his/her self “ABC” who baselessly went on to accuse certain people of dodgy-dealings. Jonogoner shotru is alive and kicking, but for how long?
Wanda: To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I’ve known sheep who could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs, but you think you’re an intellectual, don’t you, ape?
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it.
Monitor, you might want to read the Bangladesh Constitution again. Also, reread my post, especially the second paragraph.
Monitoring the Monitor, be careful. Otherwise the Monitor will render you to Gitmo. Its sad when the Monitor has to outsource people to Gitmo – I guess all the space in the “black holes” in Bangladesh are filled up with students, teachers and journalists.
Muhamad, ABC paid my blog a visit too and left a nice threatening message. I guess he is the blogging liaison for the merry band of torturers.
Thanks Mash, I’ll watch my back!=) Frankly, I wouldn’t be shocked to see “the Monitor” there in a few days myself.

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