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Evolution, the world’s largest provider of live dealer games for online casinos, has announced that its already vast portfolio has further expanded with the launch of Extra Chilli Epic Spins, a brand new and innovative live game show.
The new game is quite unique as it manages to blend live casino entertainment with slot games in a game show that was created around the theme of Extra Chili, one of the most successful slot games produced by Big Time Gaming.
This studio was acquired by Evolution in 2021 in a deal believed to be worth around 450 million euros. Big Time Gaming is the company that created the renowned Megaways mechanic, which has later made its way into hundreds of video slots from the world’s biggest suppliers.
This mechanic is also present in Extra Chilli Epic Spins and Evolution describes the experience provided by the game as “real-time slots with friends” as slot game entertainment combines with the thrills of a live game show.
The slot game has six reels plus an additional horizontal reel at the bottom, which can contain “Wild” symbols that can substitute any of the other symbols in the game, boosting the player’s chances of forming winning combinations.
The game is set in a colorful Mexican market and the hosts are also dressed to match the theme. The action kicks off with a pretty straightforward base game, in which all players enjoy the same round which contains five consecutive spins.
Additional multipliers can be triggered in the game, along with 16 Free Spins whenever the “HOT” word is formed on the reels. That combination takes the game into the “Gamble Wheel” phase, which features two physical wheels that are spun by the game host, providing more multipliers that can take the potential rewards to high levels.

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This is the first set out of those I made in the past few days, the beads have bases in carnelian, topped with green enamel, "tentacles" in a handmixed/handpulled glass, raku dots (that came out very very purple!), and lots of aqua droplets. I love how the "iris" looking glass used for the tentacles and the aqua complement each other, bringing out greens as well!
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Behavioral and neuropsychological correlates of hyperactivity and inattention in Brazilian school children
Brito GN, Pereira CC, Santos-Morales TR
Dev Med Child Neurol 1999 Nov;41(11):732-9
Departamento de Pediatria, Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil.
Attempts at subtyping attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) along the hyperactivity dimension are considered controversial.
This study addresses this issue by dividing a non-clinical sample of Brazilian children (mean age, 9.4 years; SD, 2.9), who were attending a mainstream school in the Greater Rio de Janeiro area, into four behavioral domain groups (
- normal [NO, N=324],
- hyperactive/impulsive [HI, N=17],
- inattentive [IA, N=48],
- and combined [C, N=13])
on the basis of teacher ratings on an ADHD scale.
The groups did not differ in intellectual level as determined by the Human Figure Drawing test.
Comparisons were made between groups along the factorial dimensions extracted from the Composite Teacher Rating Scale, academic performance and neuropsychological measures were then performed.
Our data showed that IA and C children are less independent and more prone to socialization problems than NO children, and that HI and C children are less anxious and fearful than IA children.
Furthermore, the groups differed in academic and neuropsychological performance.
The results could be considered consistent with the hypothesis that ADD with hyperactivity (ADD/+) and ADD without hyperactivity (ADD/-) represent singular nosological entities.
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Get DigitALL - Supporting Diversity in the Digital Sector
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Get DigitALL is an 18-month programme of targeted opportunity
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Operational partners include the City of Edinburgh Council,
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Remember that aggressive praiseworthy designed motorcycle from TVS that we saw at the 2014 Indian Auto Expo last-year? It was called the TVS Draken Concept and word is that it previews the next-generation TVS Apache RTR, an important motorcycle for the Indian market.
Now the folks at IwanBanaran have managed to snap the rear and the rear three quarter view of the upcoming Apache motorcycle, which depicts a production version of the Draken Concept on Indonesian roads.
While the bike is heavily camouflaged, these new set of spy pictures reveal the entire tail-section featuring an LED tail-lamp cluster, clear-lens indicators, rear number plate mounts, rear fender and unique twin-port exhaust pipes. Other highlights include meatier tubless tyres, new black alloys, clip on raised handle bars and good pillion split grab rails.
The recent report states that the motorcycle will get 200cc 4-valve SOHC engine producing around 25 PS peak power and 20 Nm peak torque, the engine will be mated to a 6-speed transmission. Although the engine details are scarce for now, the report further reveal that the engine will be tuned for high torque and still it would be the fastest bike in its segment.
While it was rumoured to get liquid-cooled engine, the recent spy pictures suggest TVS has opted for an air-cooled engine along with an oil-coolers like the one on Bajaj Pulsar 220F, Hero Karizma ZMR and the upcoming Royal Enfield Himalayan.
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Your year-old son is dating a year-old female classmate — no big deal, right? Take, for example, the widely publicized case of Marcus Dwayne Dixon, an year-old high school honor student and star football player who had sex with a year-old female classmate. She claimed it was rape, he claimed it was consensual, and a jury acquitted him of the charges.
However, because of their age difference, the jury still found Dixon guilty of statutory rape and aggravated child molestation, and sentenced him to a mandatory 10 years in prison under Georgia law. He walked out of prison on May 3, , at age 19, a free man. Upon his release from prison, Dixon enrolled at Hampton University in Virginia with a football scholarship. The Dixon case is just one in a long line of similar legal battles teens have faced in the last decade.
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I have no desire to marry my first cousins so no worries, Sarah, Rachel, Molly or Julie — nor any recollection of why the idea for this list popped into my strange, strange brain. All I know is that I thought cousin marriages could make for an interesting list topic, I started digging around, and that brought us to now.
So here, my friends, are the 11 different state laws about first cousin marriage that exist across the 50 states. I’ve ranked the list from the places where it’s most difficult to marry your first cousin down to the places where anything goes. Maybe someone will find this list, realize that those taboo feelings they’ve been having every year at Thanksgiving aren’t that strange, and use the info gathered here to finally make true love happen.
Texas, as do many other states, recognizes 18 as the “age of majority,” at which point residents are legally considered adults (as opposed to “minors”). But Texas legal ages laws also govern a minor’s eligibility for emancipation, the legal capacity for signing a contract or consenting to medical treatment.
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Teens who experience dating violence are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, engage in unhealthy behaviors such as experimenting with tobacco, drugs and alcohol, and have thoughts about suicide, according to the CDC. The mental and physical health consequences can extend into adulthood, and unhealthy relationships in adolescence also can create a cycle of abusive relationships.
Prevention initiatives include early education about safe dating practices. Efforts that provide education and information about healthy relationships often include components that address problem-solving skills and avoidance of risky behaviors. Some require schools to develop policies related to dating violence and other school violence. Many states have also adopted teen dating violence awareness weeks or months, in an effort to draw the public’s attention to a national campaign that promotes prevention, healthy relationships, and offers information and resources.
State Description of Law Arizona Ariz. Requires education programs to include instruction regarding the prevention of sexual violence in dating and teaching young people how to recognize and respond safely and effectively in situations where sexual or physical violence may be occurring. The law also requires school districts and charter schools to add comprehensive healthy relationships programming as part of the student health classes.
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Laws on Underage Dating By Claire Gillespie – Updated March 13, If you’re concerned about breaking laws on underage dating, the first thing to know is that no such laws exist. However, you should be aware of statutory rape laws if you’re dating someone younger than the legal age of consent in your state. Such laws are there to punish adults who take sexual advantage of minors. If your date is below the legal age of consent, you could be charged with statutory rape, even if the sex is consensual.
Tip If underage dating involves sexual intercourse, state statutory rape laws apply. If you are charged with having sex with a person who is younger than the statutory age of consent and are found guilty, you face jail.
Texas Penal Code Section and Penal Code Section defines the legal Age of Consent in Texas. Penal Code Section prohibits sexual conduct with a child younger than the age of 17 and Penal Code Section defines sexual assault of a child and defines a .
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Rice in blackface , which first surfaced in and was used to satirize Andrew Jackson ‘s populist policies. As a result of Rice’s fame, “Jim Crow” by had become a pejorative expression meaning “Negro”. When southern legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed against blacks at the end of the 19th century, these statutes became known as Jim Crow laws. South for freedmen , the African Americans who had formerly been slaves, and the minority of blacks who had been free before the war.
In the s, Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures, having used insurgent paramilitary groups, such as the White League and the Red Shirts , to disrupt Republican organizing, run Republican officeholders out of town, and intimidate blacks to suppress their voting. Extensive voter fraud was also used.
Jul 05, · Best Answer: You have no business bringing a child into the world for the world to raise. He is already guilty of statutory rape. If you have his child you should be arrested and charged with statutory ignorance and : Resolved.
Share on Facebook What is Statutory Rape? It is illegal for an adult someone 18 or older to have sex with a minor someone younger than 17 , even if the sex is consensual. Those who break the law have committed statutory rape classified as sexual assault in Texas. Statutory rape laws are premised on the assumption that minors are incapable of giving informed consent to sexual activities.
The age of consent, which is 17 in Texas, can vary by jurisdiction. And some states, including Texas, differentiate between consensual sex between minors who are close in age for example, two teenagers of the same age , as opposed to sex between a minor and a much older adult. Though statutory rape does not require that the prosecutor prove force or violence, it is still rape.
Of course, rape that does involve force or an assault is illegal in Texas and prosecuted as forcible rape. Statutory Rape and Penalties In Texas, statutory rape includes sexual penetration and sexual contact between an adult and someone younger than The crime is broken into several categories: Aggravated sexual assault involves sexual penetration however slight between a minor who is younger than 14 years old and a defendant of any age. Sexual assault involves sexual penetration between a minor who is younger than 17 and a defendant who is three or more years older than the victim.
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WHEELING - A man who allegedly threatened to turn a gun on himself Wednesday prompted a lockdown at West Virginia Northern Community College and put other downtown businesses on high alert - including officials at WesBanco Arena, where nearly 2,000 school children gathered to watch a hockey game.
Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger said the department dedicated much of its resources to the case, but officers had not located that man as of late Thursday, and were no longer actively searching for him. He said only one person told police they may have spotted the man walking north on Chapline Street, but that witness did not see him carrying a gun.
According to Schwertfeger, a woman at Northwood Health Systems received a call Wednesday morning from a male acquaintance who threatened to "harm himself" with a gun. The police chief did not comment on the nature of the woman's visit or the specifics of her relationship to the man.
The call was initially believed to be placed from Ohio Valley Medical Center, which shares building space with Northwood. Staff subsequently notified two police officers who were on the scene due to an unrelated matter. From there, much misinformation began to spread and induce panic over thoughts of a man armed with a gun walking the streets, Schwertfeger said. At one point, the man was incorrectly reported to be inside the City-County Building on Chapline Street.
Around 2,800 people, including 1,800 children from schools around the Ohio Valley, attended the Wednesday Wheeling Nailers hockey game, which started at 11 a.m. at WesBanco Arena. General Manager Dennis Magruder said the building was not placed on lockdown, but all doors other than those at the front entrance were locked. A police officer was also posted outside of the building while another patrolled the interior.
Magruder said word spread quickly via social media and other digital communication, and arena staff received multiple calls from concerned parents checking for the latest information. Staff kept abreast of the situation through the city manager and mayor's offices, Magruder noted.
WVNCC initiated lockdown procedures around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday after law enforcement advised that a gunman may possibly have been in the area. Only school administrators occupied the campus, and the lockdown was lifted around 12:50 p.m. The school also employs an on-campus police officer through the Wheeling Police Department.
OVMC spokeswoman Laurie Labishak refuted the report that stated the man placed the call from the hospital. While the hospital was not placed on lockdown, managers were monitoring the situation closely, she said. She also acknowledged the sense of anxiety surrounding the incident in light of the Connecticut shooting rampage that killed 26 people Friday.
"I just think that everyone's on heightened alert since last week's events, and we definitely want to be cautious and diligent to protect patients and staff," Labishak commented.
Ohio County Schools did not initiate lockdown procedures either, but spokesman Gabe Wells said Ohio County sheriff's deputies and Wheeling police officers serving as resource officers in five of the school buildings were notified of the report. Wells also noted that doors to all of the school buildings remain locked.
The latest report on Wednesday placed the man across the Ohio River in Bridgeport. A dispatcher with the Bridgeport Police Department said officers had not made contact with the man.
Schwertfeger said the man used a cellphone to continue communicating with his female acquaintance on Wednesday, but he declined to speak with police. While police are not actively searching for him, they still want to contact the man.
"We're not talking about criminal conduct," Schwertfeger related. "This is a situation where we're concerned about his welfare. He's still communicating with the female acquaintance."

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The bill for this year's Royal Variety Performance included Leona Lewis, Take That, Jimmy Carr and gorgeous Josh Hartnett, and was filmed last night at the London Palladium. Before he headed out to Soho Josh appeared on stage in front of Prince Charles in the annual show which also included Rihanna, the Pussycat Dolls, Josh Groban and Duffy on the bill. The performance will be aired on December 17 on BBC1, but until then here's a sneak peek at gorgeous Josh and Mark Owen in their all-black suits as well as glimpses of some of the other performers from last night as they left the Palladium. I can't wait to see the show!
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In late 2012, Toronto even got its own spinoff of Trade School, a model that originated in New York in 2010. The Toronto Trade School holds classes—on anything from spoken word to origami flower–making to bicycle maintenance—and invites students to “pay” with an item or service from the teacher’s barter wish list. It has hosted more than 70 classes.
Consumer-based barter systems aren’t the only trade in town, either. In the GTA, there is a robust business-to-business barter system, similar to wir but on a smaller scale. Businesses sign up for a service—there are several available—and trade unbilled work hours or dust-covered inventory for goods and services they couldn’t otherwise afford, especially during recessionary times: often things that attract top talent and retain big clients, such as advertising, promotional gear or client perks.
To try a time bank, search online for one in your local area using TimeBanks.org. How time banks are managed varies according to the region, so it is important (and often mandatory) to attend an initial meeting that explains the general rules of your local chapter. Once you do this, you’re ready to start trading away. Your services and contacts are identified through the local time bank website.
Financial planners often recommend that people dedicate 30 per cent of their after-tax cash flow to fun spending—yet rising costs can now make that number seem unrealistic. To alleviate some of the squeeze, Simmons suggests evaluating what, out of that 30 per cent, can instead be attained through barter. By bartering for clothes, aesthetics and fitness, she’s able to eke out at least five per cent cash savings a month. Those unspent dollars go straight into her savings account.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers bartering a form of revenue and something that must be reported as taxable income. Under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, businesses are expected to estimate the fair market value of their bartered goods or services. This is done by referring to past cash transactions of similar goods or services and using that historical revenue as a reportable value. When it is not possible to accurately calculate the value, most bartered goods are reported based on their carrying value.
Still, Adam Smith really did seem to believe barter was real. He writes, “When the division of labour first began to take place, this power of exchanging must frequently have been very much clogged and embarrassed in its operations,” and then goes on to describe the inefficiencies of barter. And Beggs says that many textbooks sloppily seem to endorse this viewpoint. “They sort of use that fairy tale,” he explains.
Make the deal. After you've found a barter partner, get the agreement in writing. Make sure you detail what services or goods will be involved, the date of the exchange (or work to be done) and any recourse if either party reneges on their part of the deal. If you are working through a membership-based bartering association, they will likely provide all the structure and paperwork you need for the deal.
Bartering is the process of obtaining goods or services by direct exchange without the use of currency. In times of economic instability or currency devaluation, it can be a great way to ensure the flow of necessary items and services into your household without using precious funds. Historically, face-to-face exchanges between familiar parties were most common, but the Internet has opened up a new medium for bartering opportunities for both person-to-person exchanges and third-party facilitated transactions.
The whole point of barter is to satisfy a need. A valuable barter is whatever a barterer needs at that moment. Raj Dhiman, a 30-year-old chemist, joined Swapsity at the beginning of 2012. For his first barter, he traded a batch of home-baked gluten-free muffins in return for a full weekend first aid course. Unlike the course’s instructor, Dhiman relished the challenge of perfecting the recipe. Since then, he’s exchanged a lesson on how to create a website for an Indian cooking class. He’s also turned away barter offers that he didn’t find personal value in. “It’s perfectly fine to decline,” he says, “It wasn’t like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. What is this person thinking?’ I’d say, ‘I appreciate the offer, but that’s not what I need right now.’ All you have to do is ask for what you need.”
Trade did occur in non-monetary societies, but not among fellow villagers. Instead, it was used almost exclusively with strangers, or even enemies, where it was often accompanied by complex rituals involving trade, dance, feasting, mock fighting, or sex—and sometimes all of them intertwined. Take the indigenous Gunwinggu people of Australia, as observed by the anthropologist Ronald Berndt in the 1940s:
Whether or not one agrees with such broad claims, it’s worth noting that monetary debt, a byproduct of currency, has regularly been used to by some groups to manipulate others. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, suggested that the government encourage Native Americans to purchase goods on credit so they’d fall into debt and be forced to sell their lands. Today, black neighborhoods are disproportionately plagued by debt-collection lawsuits. Even after taking income into account, debt collection suits are twice as common in black neighborhoods as in white ones. $34 million was seized from residents of St. Louis’ mostly black neighborhoods in suits filed between 2008 and 2012, much of which was seized from debtors’ paychecks. In Jennings, a St. Louis suburb, there was one suit for every four residents during those years.
On paper, this sounds a bit like delayed barter, but it bears some significant differences. For one thing, it’s much more efficient than Smith’s idea of a barter system, since it doesn’t depend on each person simultaneously having what the other wants. It’s also not tit for tat: No one ever assigns a specific value to the meat or cake or house-building labor, meaning debts can’t be transferred.

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Malissa Borden teaches children of military families at Cape Fear Regional Theatre
There is little at Cape Fear Regional Theatre that Malissa Borden hasn’t been involved in.
“I’ve worked in the box office, I’ve worked spot (lights), I was the backstage manager for ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ a couple of years ago,” Borden said. “I’ve worked upstairs in the costume shop … I’ve helped with everything.”
These days, though, most of Borden’s efforts at the regional theater go toward bringing theater to the military community.
Borden is the theater’s military outreach coordinator. She administers a program funded through an N.C. Arts Council Healing Arts grant that teaches playwriting and acting to the children of military personnel.
Born and raised in San Diego, Borden, 43, got involved on stage through the Christian Youth Theater program.
The after-school arts program, founded by Paul and Sheryl Russell and Marjorie Blyth, brings the world of theater to young people. There are dozens of Christian Youth Theater affiliates throughout the country.
“(Paul Russell) trained all of us to be directors and stage managers and literally taught us every aspect of theater,” said Borden, who also has a degree in early childhood education. “Quite a few (students) ended up organizing their own CYT programs throughout the country.”
Borden got married at age 24; she and her husband, Brent, have a 13-year-old son, Huck. Brent is in the Navy, and the family began the military life, relocating to Nebraska, Japan and other locales.
About 11 years ago, the family came to Fayetteville and Borden began to check out the local theater scene. Borden remembers taking Huck to a 2010 production of “Peter Pan.” The family would also attend the annual productions of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.”
Like his mother, Huck was bitten by the theater bug. He is pursuing acting and has a role in Cape Fear Regional Theatre’s upcoming production of “Shrek.”
Borden also reignited her love of theater, both at CFRT and Gilbert Theater. She performed in a production of “Annie” last year and next year will play Mama Ogre in “Shrek,” acting alongside her son.
But much of Borden’s time now is spent teaching theater to the children of military families through CFRT’s “Passport Series” of classes.
Taught at Fort Bragg’s Throckmorton Library and at Rick’s Place in Fayetteville, the program teaches children to write their own play and then stage it.
“I give them a judgment-free zone to be able to express themselves and whatever comes out, comes out,” Borden said. “A lot of times it’s an outlet for them to put down on paper what they’re feeling.”
Sometimes the stories are simple fairy tales. Other times, the children dig deeper.
Borden said one play told the story of a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder who took his own life. Each of the actors in the play portrayed a different emotion the soldier was experiencing.
“It was a story about how he felt invisible,” Borden said. “I think it speaks volumes to what a lot of these kids are feeling.”
Borden also has taught theater to special needs adults at the Friendship House and teaches at The Studio, CFRT’s youth theater program.
While her life as a military spouse has taken her all over the world, Borden said she hopes Fayetteville remains her home for a while.
“We love it here now,” she said. “It’s community to us.”
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Kylian Mbappé’s Unprecedented Record-Breaking Football Transfer
- Kylian Mbappé secures historic football transfer
- Highest transfer fee ever paid for a football player
- A new era beckons for football with this groundbreaking deal
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has made history by signing Kylian Mbappé for an astronomical transfer fee. The French forward’s move from AS Monaco to PSG has shattered all previous transfer records, not only in France but worldwide. With this groundbreaking deal, Mbappé has become the most expensive player ever, surpassing the likes of Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The staggering fee paid by PSG for Kylian Mbappé is rumored to be around €180 million (€180,000,000), placing him at the pinnacle of the football transfer market. Mbappé’s incredible talent and potential have captivated club owners and fans alike, making him the hottest property in football.
This historic transfer signifies a new era for the sport, where financial boundaries are continuously pushed to new heights. It raises the question of whether football has become a playground for the super-rich, leaving smaller clubs struggling to compete. What are your thoughts on this unprecedented record-breaking football transfer?


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Desire LinesCamera Obscura
Camera Obscura release their fifth studio album, Desire Lines via 4AD after a four year breather. The album is mellower and dreamier but the songs just as instant and essential. They relocated to Portland, Oregon to record the album and the results are a more atmospheric style, with rolling grooves, clean guitar hooks and vintage synth washes. However it's still Tracyanne's yearning and aching vocals that sets them apart.


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The Hope Camp Trail heads east from the Camino Loma Alta Trailhead, offering breathtaking views of Tanque Verde Ridge and Rincon Peak
along the way. The Rincon Mountains are a spectacular backdrop to the views along the Hope Camp Trail with Tanque Verde Peak (7,049’), Mica Mountain (8,666’) and Rincon Peak (8,482’) outlined against the sky.
The first mile of the trail is gradual, with a slight uphill followed by a short downhill. At about one mile and just past the junction with the North Coyote Wash Trail
which you'll see on your right, you'll start a more steady climb. You'll also pass by the junction with the Ruiz Trail
on your right along the way. This uphill terminates with a final steep section to gain the top of a small hill. Take a minute to catch your breath and enjoy the views before heading down the other side.
From here, it is all downhill hiking for a little over a mile until the trail's end. For the more adventurous or those looking for a longer hike, you can pick up the Arizona Trail here for a longer outing, or you can retrace your steps back along the Hope Camp Trail to return to the trailhead.
This trail, which is wide and not technical, passes by two abandoned line camps with windmills, water towers, and storage tanks along the way.
The park is home to black bear, white-tailed deer, mountain lion, and coati, along with hundreds of birds, reptiles, insects, and amphibian species. You'll also be treated to a stand of giant saguaros, and other desert cacti and vegetation.


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- G15H8WQ: The G15H8WQ is a wheelbarrow, gas driven single stage reciprocating air compressor. It is run by a 5.5 HP Honda engine. This compressor delivers 11.1 cfm at 40 psi and 9.5 cfm at 90 psi. The splash lubricated pump features aluminum construction for heat dissipation and a cast-iron sleeve.
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When a heart catherization revealed that Mark was suffering from a condition nicknamed “The Widowmaker,” he was happy Nash Health Care was close by.
Back in 2008 Mark had chest pains, which prompted the insertion of a heart stent to open an obstructed vessel. But in order to have the procedure done, Mark had to travel to a facility 45 minutes away.
Three years later he was only a five-minute ambulance ride to the new Nash Heart Center when the symptoms reoccurred.
At Nash he received the cath that confirmed three blockages including the left anterior descending artery – a potentially deadly combination – thus, the Widowmaker moniker. Heart surgeons at Nash immediately inserted three stents, preventing a possible massive heart attack.
The next day, Mark was discharged from the hospital.
“I’m glad I went to Nash,” Mark said later. “To have surgery the night before and be discharged the next day was amazing. This is so important for residents of Nash and Edgecombe counties to realize, these capabilities are right here at our fingertips.”

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Help me from Brazil
Please I am needing urgent to know how many watts the motor that come with the spartan boat did by castle creations have.
My english is very poor and I don`t know where to find this information, I have sended one email from traxxas but they haven`t this information some one can help me with all information to know about the motor of the spartan boat.
Thank you very much, God bless USA.
Regards EDUARDO BRAZIL
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Try the Castle Creations website, but I don't think the motor for the Spartan is identified as "Spartan Motor" and I don't know what Castle model number the Spartan motor is.


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Red Cross To Help In Mena Disaster
By Wanda Freeman
Red Cross workers from five area offices were set to converge in and around Polk County in the wake of a deadly storm that killed three people in Mena, a Red Cross official said Friday.
Roger Elliot, disaster director for the American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas in Little Rock, said about 12 people were deployed to conduct damage assessments in Mena and another four were doing the same in De Queen.
Susan Krafft, director of the agency’s Western Arkansas Service Center in Fort Smith, said her office was sending two people in an emergency response vehicle loaded with water and tarps donated by Lowe’s as well as flashlights and other supplies.
“We’re encouraging people not to go there on their own,” Krafft said, citing reports of a possible gas leak and indications the area had “more volunteers than they can handle right now.”
Elliot said an ERV was set to leave Little Rock and swing through Hot Springs to pick up cots and deliver them to Mena by 6 p.m. for a shelter set up for victims and relief workers. Another ERV was standing by in Pine Bluff, and four workers were waiting to be deployed to nearby Crossett.
“We’re coordinating with the Salvation Army and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief to provide food,” he said.
The Southern Baptist group was cooking meals that would then be served by the Salvation Army at three fixed locations Friday night.
A mobile feeding operation would provide meals today in De Queen, where a trailer park was struck by the storm.
In addition to the Little Rock and Fort Smith offices of Red Cross, Elliot said other offices contributing relief work were the Ouachita Area office in Hot Springs, the North Central Arkansas office in White County and the Southeastern Arkansas office in Pine Bluff.
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Martin Kowalski (fourth year)
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Dalmatia is one the most beautiful region of Croatia and maybe of Europe. Well known for the Adriatic Sea that goes along side the region and overhung by a high chain of mountains, the Hiking Club is the best occasion to discover these fascinating landscapes.
Martin and Filip will be our guides during those trips. They have experience in the domain and know well the region.
By joining the group on Facebook you will be aware of the treks that are organised and will be able to be part of them!

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CCNA 3 v5 SN Chapter 5 Exam Answers 2014
A network administrator has just changed the router ID on a router that is working in an OSPFv2 environment. What should the administrator do to reset the adjacencies and use the new router ID?
Issue the clear ip ospf process privileged mode command.*
Configure the network statements.
Change the OSPFv2 process ID.
Change the interface priority.
Refer to the exhibit. What three conclusions can be drawn from the displayed output? (Choose three.)
The DR can be reached through the GigabitEthernet 0/0 interface.*
There have been 9 seconds since the last hello packet sent.*
The router ID on the DR router is 18.104.22.168
The BDR has three neighbors.
The router ID values were not the criteria used to select the DR and the BDR.*
This interface is using the default priority.
When checking a routing table, a network technician notices the following entry:
O*E2 0.0.0.0/0 [110/1] via 192.168.16.3, 00:20:22, Serial0/0/0
What information can be gathered from this output?
This route is a propagated default route.*
The edge of the OSPF area 0 is the interface that is addressed 192.168.16.3.
The route is located two hops away.
The metric for this route is 110.
Which command will a network engineer issue to verify the configured hello and dead timer intervals on a point-to-point WAN link between two routers that are running OSPFv2?
show ipv6 ospf interface serial 0/0/0
show ip ospf neighbor
show ip ospf interface serial 0/0/0*
show ip ospf interface fastethernet 0/1
A network engineer has manually configured the hello interval to 15 seconds on an interface of a router that is running OSPFv2. By default, how will the dead interval on the interface be affected?
The dead interval will not change from the default value.
The dead interval will now be 30 seconds.
The dead interval will now be 15 seconds.
The dead interval will now be 60 seconds.*
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is trying to configure R1 to run OSPFv3 but the neighbor adjacency is not forming with the router connected to Fa0/0. What is the cause of the problem?
FastEthernet0/0 has been configured as a passive interface.
No router ID has been configured.*
A link-local address has not been configured on interface FastEthernet0/0.
The OSPF process ID and area values are backwards in the interface configuration.
Refer to the exhibit. A network administrator has configured the OSPF timers to the values that are shown in the graphic. What is the result of having those manually configured timers?
The R1 dead timer expires between hello packets from R2.*
The neighbor adjacency has formed.
R1 automatically adjusts its own timers to match the R2 timers.
The hello timer on R2 expires every ten seconds.
When OSPFv2 neighbors are establishing adjacencies, in which state do they elect a DR and BDR router?
Refer to the exhibit. R1 and R2 are connected to the same LAN segment and are configured to run OSPFv3. They are not forming a neighbor adjacency. What is the cause of the problem?
The OSPFv3 process IDs of R1 and R2 are different.
The priority value of both R1 and R2 is 1.
The timer intervals of R1 and R2 do not match.*
The IPv6 addresses of R1 and R2 are not in the same subnet.
Refer to the exhibit. What kind of OSPF authentication has been configured on this interface?
Why is MD5 authentication more secure than simple authentication for OSPF updates?
MD5 does not send the password to the neighbor router.*
MD5 requires passwords that are at least 8 characters long.
MD5 uses both a username and a password to authenticate the neighbor.
MD5 employs IPsec to keep the updates from being intercepted.
Which two pieces of information are used by the OSPF MD5 algorithm to generate a signature? (Choose two.)
OSPF router ID
interface IP address
A network engineer is troubleshooting convergence and adjacency issues in an OSPFv2 network and has noted that some expected network route entries are not displayed in the routing table. Which two commands will provide additional information about the state of router adjacencies, timer intervals, and the area ID? (Choose two.)
show ip ospf neighbor*
show ip ospf interface*
show ip route ospf
show ip protocols
Why do OSPF serial interfaces usually require manual bandwidth configuration?
OSPF uses the bandwidth value to compute routes for its routing table.*
All serial interfaces default to a value of 1.544 Mb/s.
Each side of an OSPF serial link should be configured with a unique value.
Bandwidth value affects the actual speed of the link.
A network engineer is troubleshooting an OSPFv2 network and discovers that two routers connected by a point-to-point WAN serial link are not establishing an adjacency. The OSPF routing process, network commands and area ID are all confirmed as correct, and the interfaces are not passive. Testing shows that the cabling is correct, that the link is up, and pings between the interfaces are successful. What is most likely the problem?
A clock rate has not been set on the DCE interface of the serial link.
The OSPFv2 process IDs on each router do not match.
A DR election has not taken place.
The subnet masks on the two connected serial interfaces do not match.*
A network engineer is troubleshooting OSPFv2 routing issues on two connected routers. Which two requirements to form an adjacency need to be verified? (Choose two.)
Verify that the interfaces that connect the two routers are in the same area.*
Verify that one of the routers is the DR or BDR and the other router a DRother.
Verify that one of the interfaces that connects the two routers is active and the other passive.
Verify that the interfaces that connect the two routers are in the same subnet.*
Verify that both routers are using the same OSPFv2 process ID.
Which command is used to verify that OSPF is enabled and also provides a list of the networks that are being advertised by the network?
show ip protocols*
show ip ospf interface
show ip interface brief
show ip route ospf
Refer to the exhibit. Four routers are connected to an Ethernet LAN segment and are configured to run OSPFv3. However, none of the routers are receiving routing updates. What is the cause of the problem?
The routers are using IPv6 link local addresses to communicate.
The network type has been set to BROADCAST instead of NBMA.
The routers are using IPv4 addresses for router IDs.
All of the routers have an OSPFv3 interface priority of 0.*
Refer to the exhibit. These two routers are configured to run OSPFv3 but they are not forming a neighbor adjacency. What is the cause of the problem?
The routers do not have global IPv6 addresses that are configured on the Fa0/0 interfaces.
The routers have both been elected as the DR.
The routers are configured with the same router ID.*
The routers have the same priority.
A network engineer suspects that OSPFv3 routers are not forming neighbor adjacencies because there are interface timer mismatches. Which two commands can be issued on the interface of each OSFPv3 router to resolve all timer mismatches? (Choose two.)
no ipv6 ospf dead-interval*
no ipv6 router ospf 10
ip ospf dead-interval 40
no ipv6 ospf hello-interval*
no ipv6 ospf cost 10
ip ospf hello-interval 10
Refer to the exhibit. Fill in the blank. Do not use abbreviations.
The command ” show ipv6 route ” can be issued on router R2 to verify the propagation of a static default route from R1 to R2.
Fill in the blank. Do not use abbreviations.
When IPv4 and OSPFv2 are being used, the command “ show ip ospf neighbor ” is used to verify that a router has formed an adjacency with its neighboring routers.
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The Living Street Project
Photo Story, Literature, Aphorism
Living Streets Project was commenced in the early 2016 by Kadıköy Municipality in collaboration with the Urban Design Directorate. Living Streets is intended to raise the awareness about the streets in Kadıköy where the artists lived. The project was intended to generate the aphorisms by the famous writers on the pavements and to be placed on the sidewalks of their house. Also, the different medium was used on the project to represent the ideas.
The first step of this project was with Cemal Süreya, one of the favorite writers who lived in Caferaga, Kadıköy in 1980s. His five popular aphorism written there are “Hayat kısa kuşlar uçuyor.”, “Özgürlüğün geldiği gün, o gün ölmek yasak.”, “Umulmadık bir gün olabilir bugün, bir çay söyle yağmurların kokusunda.”, “Öyle sevdim ki seni, öylesine sensin ki, kuşlar gibi cıvıldar tattırdığın acılar.”, “Güzelsin sevgilim ama çok yakından!”. These comprise of his widely known and memorable poems chosen as aphorism for general attention.
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Cemal Süreya Street in Moda, Kadıköy / Project Works
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The Outlawz has announced what they claim will be their final album, Perfect Timing, due on September 13th – the anniversary of Tupac Shakur’s death. The LP, releasing via Krude/One Nation/Fontana/Universal Records, will feature guest appearances from Bun B, Scarface, Krayzie Bone, Lloyd, Trae Tha Truth, Z-Ro, Tech N9ne, Young Buck, Belly and more.
“Perfect Timing is our way of turning a negative day into a positive one,” said E.D.I Mean in a statement. “The industry and the streets are begging for something real so we here to deliver,” adds Noble. “It’s time for some real soldiers with a real message making real music with a real history to step to the front of this rap game, and the Outlawz is the epitome of just that…. Perfect Timing.”
Additionally, a DVD entitled Outlawz Worldwide Vol. 2 will accompany the album. Before the LP’s release, the group will release a mixtape titled Killuminati 2K11, hosted by DJ Kayslay and DJ Smallz, on July 14th. The tape will feature guest appearances from Chamillionaire, 8-Ball, Young Buck and Lowkey, and will feature a remix of Meek Mill’s “Tupac Back.”

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After a week which tragically witnessed a sudden uptick in refugee and migrant incidents and drowning deaths in the Mediterranean, a dramatic video has been published online showing the Turkish Coast Guard resorting to extreme measures while intercepting migrant boats.
The video, which first appeared via a Middle East Telegram or other social media channel, shows a small crowded motor boat full of Syrian refugees being rammed by a much larger Turkish patrol boat.
The video appeared online and went viral on Sunday; however, it's uncertain the precise date or location, but it likely took place in the Aegean Sea.
Women and children can be heard screaming in the video while trying to get away from the fast-approaching Turkish vessel, after which the larger coast guard boat rams into the migrants at high speed. It's unclear the extent of injuries suffered by those in the packed boat, and no one appears armed or to have been acting aggressively.
Turkey's coast guard has long been accused of taking harsh measures to prevent an estimated 60,000 to new refugees attempting to traverse the Mediterranean. It's hardly the first time migrant and refugee boats have been rammed during the dangerous trip; however, past incidents have involved human-trafficking boats or piracy-related groups and not state actors like in this case.
Video leaked on social media shows a #Turkish coast guard boat ramming into a boat carrying #Syrian refugees in #AegeanSea preventing them from being trafficked into #Greece. Through this harsh measure, #Turkish Coast Guard prevented 60,000 Syrian refugees to go to #EU in 2019. pic.twitter.com/u2xFXr77yE— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 19, 2020
Meanwhile, Europe has documented a significant rise in migrants attempting to enter the EU via the eastern Mediterranean throughout 2019:
More than 82,000 migrants attempted to enter the EU from the eastern Mediterranean route in 2019, driven by the situation in Syria, and instability in Afghanistan, the Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri said in Brussels.
In 2018, 55,900 unauthorised entries were detected from the same route, while three years ago, at the height of the migrant crisis, there were 885,386.
This after the peak of the migrant crisis in 2015 and 2016. Turkey's President Erdogan has recently warned a flood of refugees could impact Greece and other EU states if more is not done to help Turkey stave off the crisis, even lately voicing it as a "threat" if the EU doesn't support Ankara's Syria plans.
Many are predicting 2020 could mark a return to the worst of the past five year crisis, given the ongoing Turkish military incursion in northern Syria and a resumed Russia-Syria military offensive against jihadist militants in Idlib province.


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Colorectal cancer, the second most common cause of death from cancer in the United States, is associated with an abnormally high rate of increase in the number of cells lining the colon (colonic hyperproliferation). In mice, overexpression of the human protein progastrin has been shown to cause colonic hyperproliferation and promote colorectal cancer, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this have remained undetermined. In a new study, Timothy Wang and colleagues, at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, have revealed a key link between the protein CCKR2 and progastrin-related colonic hyperproliferation. Initial analysis indicated that the Cck2r gene was upregulated in mice that overexpressed human progastrin. Deletion of this gene in mice that overexpressed human progastrin abolished the colonic hyperproliferation induced by the high levels of human progastrin and markedly diminished the extent of experimentally induced colorectal cancer. As previously published data indicate that levels of progastrin might be elevated in individuals with colorectal cancer, the authors conclude that their study suggests that CCKR2 may be a viable target for the development of drugs to treat or prevent colorectal cancer.
TITLE: Inactivating cholecystokinin-2 receptor inhibits progastrin-dependent colonic crypt fission, proliferation, and colorectal cancer in mice
Timothy C. Wang
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A 1944 model of a Montana-class battleship on top of filing cabinets
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|Preceded by||Iowa class|
|General characteristics (Design BB67-4)|
|Length||921 ft 3 in (280.8 m) loa|
|Beam||121 ft 2 in (36.9 m)|
|Draft||36 ft (11 m)|
|Speed||28 knots (32 mph; 52 km/h) maximum|
|Range||15,000 nmi (17,300 mi; 27,800 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)|
|Aircraft carried||3 × floatplanes|
|Aviation facilities||2 × aft catapults for launch of seaplanes|
The Montana-class battleships were planned as successors of the Iowa class for the United States Navy, to be slower but larger, better armored, and with superior firepower. Five were approved for construction during World War II, but changes in wartime building priorities resulted in their cancellation in favor of continuing production of Essex-class aircraft carriers and Iowa-class battleships before any Montana-class keels were laid.
Their intended armament would have been twelve 16-inch (406 mm) Mark 7 guns in four 3-gun turrets, up from the nine Mark 7 guns in three turrets used by the Iowa class. Unlike the three preceding classes of battleships, the Montana class was designed without any restrictions from treaty limitations. With an increased anti-aircraft capability and substantially thicker armor in all areas, the Montanas would have been the largest, best-protected, and most heavily armed US battleships ever. They also would have been the only class to rival the Empire of Japan's Yamato-class battleships in terms of displacement.
Preliminary design work for the Montana class began before the US entry into World War II. The first two vessels were approved by Congress in 1939 following the passage of the Naval Act of 1938. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor delayed the construction of the Montana class. The success of carrier combat at the Battle of the Coral Sea and, to a greater extent, the Battle of Midway, diminished the perceived value of the battleship. Consequently, the US Navy chose to cancel the Montana class in favor of more urgently needed aircraft carriers as well as amphibious and anti-submarine vessels.
Because the Iowas were far enough along in construction and urgently needed to operate alongside the new Essex-class aircraft carriers, their orders were retained, making them the last US Navy battleships to be commissioned.
During the interwar period, the US Navy was primarily concerned with its rival in the Pacific Ocean, the Imperial Japanese Navy. The international naval arms limitation system initiated by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922 had accorded the US Navy superiority over Japan in terms of total tonnage. After the ten-year construction holiday that had been imposed by the Washington Treaty expired, the US Navy began building the North Carolina-class fast battleships in 1937 to replace old pre-World War I ships that were by then obsolescent. But by the late 1930s, the Washington system, which had been extended by the First and Second London Naval Treaties, had begun to break down after Japan refused to sign the Second London Treaty in 1936. This prompted the other major naval powers to begin rearmament programs, beginning in the United States with the South Dakota-class battleships in 1938. Funding for the first two new ships was provided in Fiscal Year 1937, though work would not commence until 1939.
The Second Vinson Act of 1938 added two more South Dakotas; it also authorized the construction of two more battleships yet to be designed. The US Navy had already begun design work on the successors to the South Dakotas in 1937, which was to become the Iowa class; the Navy sought larger, faster ships that would handily exceed the 35,000 long tons (36,000 t) limit on battleship displacement imposed under the Washington Treaty system. Because Japan had already refused to abide by the terms of the Second London Naval Treaty, the other major naval powers moved to loosen the restrictions on their own new battleship designs. On 31 March 1938, the US, Britain, and France exchanged notes indicating that they would accept increasing the displacement limit to 45,000 long tons (46,000 t).
As the US Navy's designers worked on proposals for the new ships, two distinct strains emerged: a comparatively slow, heavily armed and armored variant and a much faster, but lighter-armed and armored vessel that was primarily intended to catch Japanese cruisers and counter the fast Kongō-class battleships. The latter type, which eventually emerged essentially as an improved South Dakota, was capable of a speed of 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph), but work on the former proceeded at the same time. The General Board intended it to become the next generation of standard-type battleships, which was to be set at 45,000-ton ships armed with twelve 16 in (406 mm) guns, and capable of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph), the same speed as the South Dakotas.
By 1939, it had become apparent to the naval leadership that war was approaching, and so the need for new ships had become pressing. The start of World War II in Europe, and particularly the Fall of France in June 1940 only increased the pressure to speed construction of new warships. The first two ships ordered to the 33-knot improved South Dakota design—USS Iowa and New Jersey—were ordered under the 1939 fiscal year. The passage of the Two-Ocean Navy Act on 19 July 1940 provided significant increases to the Navy's strength, including an increase of some 385,000 long tons (391,000 t) for battleships alone, along with hundreds of thousands of tons for new aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers. Under the 1941 fiscal year program, the third and fourth Iowa-class battleships were authorized, but in May, two more ships were added to the program. These were to have been built to the next battleship design, but the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, decided that these should be additional Iowa-class ships to speed up production.
Initial design work
Though the 33-knot design had been chosen for Iowa, it was clear to naval leadership that these would be exceptions to normal Navy doctrine, and that a reversion to the 27-knot standard-type battleship would occur with the next design. The primary consideration for this new class was the development of the super-heavy 2,700-pound (1,200 kg) armor-piercing shell that had been developed during the construction of the North Carolina class. Standard design practice stated that battleships should be immune to guns of their own calibers at expected battle ranges, but the new super-heavy shell had significantly better penetrating power than older, lighter shells. None of the existing designs, from North Carolina to Iowa, were proof against the 2700-pound shell, and the General Board wanted the next design to be better protected. They requested proposals from the Bureau of Construction and Repair (C&R) that conformed to the 45,000-ton limit, armed with twelve 16-inch guns, and capable of 27-knots.
C&R initially responded with a design labeled "BB 65A", which used South Dakota as a baseline, but increased the length to accommodate the fourth main battery turret. Displacement was already over the limit at 45,435 long tons (46,164 t), and the ship was only protected against the earlier 2,250 lb (1,020 kg) AP shell. The design staff estimated that more than 2,000 long tons (2,032 t) would be needed to protect the ship against the heavier shells. A second variant, "BB 65B" substituted twelve new 6 in (152 mm) /47 guns in place of the existing twenty 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal guns for their secondary batteries, but this increased displacement even further. Another pair of designs, "BB 65C" and "65D", adopted three quadruple main battery turrets instead of four triple turrets, which accounted for some 1,600 long tons (1,626 t) of weight savings. This latter pair mirrored the first set in the use of 5-inch and 6-inch secondaries. All of these designs were only protected against the 2,250 lb shell, but since "C" and "D" were below the displacement limit, C&R attempted to use the free weight to strengthen their armor with design "BB 65E". They realized that though the deck could be improved to provide a relatively narrow zone of immunity against plunging fire, strengthening the belt armor to protect against the heavier shell would increase displacement to as much as 55,000 long tons (56,000 t).
None of the initial proposals was deemed acceptable, and there were concerns about the feasibility of the quadruple turrets. Other guns were suggested, ranging from 18 in (457 mm) guns to experimental 16-inch/56 caliber guns. C&R provided another series of studies beginning with "65F". Several of these proposals experimented with mixed quadruple, triple, and double turrets for either ten or eleven guns to save weight but still increase firepower over the nine-gun South Dakotas. One proposal, "65J", suggested adopting a twelve-gun 14 in (356 mm) ship that would be well-protected against the 2,700 lb AP shell. The 18-inch gun was ruled out after a design study demonstrated that only six of the guns could be mounted within the 45,000-ton displacement limit. By September 1939, one of the ten-gun variants had been selected, which carried two triple-turrets forward and a quadruple turret aft.
The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 radically altered the constraints imposed on C&R. The remaining limits imposed by the Washington and London treaties were now removed entirely; the new ship would only be limited by logistical restrictions of existing naval infrastructure, most significantly the Panama Canal and available dry docks. The Navy had been pushing for a third, wider set of locks for the Panama Canal since 1938, which was approved in 1940. Nevertheless, some limitations still existed; the length and height of the BB65 designs had to take into account one of the shipyards at which they were to be built: the New York Navy Yard slipways could not handle the construction of a ship more than 58,000 long tons (59,000 t), and vessels built there had to be low enough to clear the Brooklyn Bridge at low tide. Consequently, the yard's number 4 dry dock had to be enlarged and the ships would be floated out rather than conventionally launched. In October, the General Board asked for new twelve-gun designs that were sufficiently armored, which was estimated could be accomplished on a displacement of around 50,000 long tons (51,000 t). The Preliminary Design department at C&R responded with a design in mid-January 1940 that largely met the General Board's requirements, but displacement was set at 51,500 long tons (52,300 t). An option to replace the standard 5-inch/38 secondaries with longer-barrel 5-inch/54 guns would add about 2,000 long tons (2,032 t) to the ships.
During a meeting on 16 February 1940, the Board requested a new series of proposals. These included a modified version of the nine-gun Iowa design that was two knots slower but better protected, an enlarged Iowa variant that maintained the 33-knot speed but displaced 53,500 long tons (54,400 t), and several twelve-gun designs that had speeds ranging from 28 to 33 knots. These were given designations from "BB 65-1" to "BB 65-8". Displacement on these proposals increased to as much as 67,000 long tons (68,000 t). All of these designs were armed with the 16-inch/50 gun, and were well protected against the super-heavy shell. During discussions in March, the decision was made to revert to externally applied belt armor, since the internal armor belts of the South Dakota and Iowa classes was more difficult to install and repair in the event of battle damage, and the weight savings associated with it no longer mattered now that displacement limits were gone. Two additional designs were produced in June: 65-9 and 65-10, which were 28-knot ships.
By July, Navy's senior leadership still could not agree on design priorities, and disagreed sharply on points ranging from top speed to the cost and logistical challenges of the larger designs. The Board requested another round of design studies from Preliminary Design, which responded with nine-, ten-, and twelve-gun ships that, again, included slow and fast variants. The Board finally selected one of the designs, "BB 65-5A", which was armed with twelve guns on a displacement of 57,500 long tons (58,400 t), and capable of 28 knots. The Board submitted the design to Knox, which he approved on 19 August. The ships were not actually authorized at that point, and design work continued. Because the battleships that would have received the BB-65 and BB-66 hull numbers had been assigned to the Iowa class, the next design was labeled "BB 67-1". This design shortened the hull to 880 ft (270 m), likely to keep the length within the limits of the new slipways being built at the Norfolk Navy Yard and the Philadelphia Navy Yard. This variant displacement increased to 61,200 long tons (62,200 t). Further iterative improvements of the armor layout produced "BB 67-2", which had a slightly reduced displacement of 59,700 long tons (60,700 t). This version incorporated an internal lower belt that provided additional protection against underwater shell hits.
Detail work on the design continued well into 1941, which included replacing the original battery of light anti-aircraft guns, which were to be the ineffective 1.1 in (28 mm) guns with Bofors 40 mm (1.6 in) guns. The searchlights were rearranged, the navigational rangefinders were removed, and the hull length was increased slightly to 890 ft (270 m). Displacement was reduced slightly again, to 60,500 long tons (61,500 t), and the designers discovered that the propulsion system could be reduced in power, from 212,000 to 172,000 shaft horsepower (158,000 to 128,000 kW), which allowed smaller and lighter propulsion machinery. These changes provided further savings in weight that allowed the bomb deck to be extended further aft, and improvements to the light anti-aircraft battery. This design was immune to the super-heavy shells when fired at ranges between 18,000 and 31,000 yards (16,000 and 28,000 m); their resistance to standard 16-inch AP shells extended to 16,500 and 34,500 yards (15,100 and 31,500 m). The final version of the design, dated March 1941, was designated "BB 67-4".
Construction and cancellation
The General Board planned to build four ships to the new design, which would have constituted a single battleship division, but five were authorized by the Two-Ocean Navy Act on 19 July 1940. Work was intended to begin later that year, but shortages of the necessary steel caused delays. Work on the new locks for the Panama Canal was also halted in 1941, also owing to a shortage of steel due to the changing strategic and material priorities. The final contract design was issued in June 1942. Construction was authorized by the United States Congress and the projected date of completion was estimated to be somewhere between 1 July and 1 November 1945.
In October 1942, work on the ships was again delayed by the order of some eighty destroyers, which were badly needed for the Battle of the Atlantic against German U-boats that were raiding the supply convoys to Britain. Additional work on the design continued into 1942, including detail work on the anti-aircraft batteries to be carried. The Bureau of Ships suggested the armor decks could be increased in thickness, but these changes were not pursued. All five ships were ultimately cancelled on 21 July 1943, as production priorities had shifted decisively toward aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines. The time spent refining the Montana design was not entirely a waste, as the arrangement of the propulsion system was modified for the Midway-class aircraft carriers.
As authorized, the Montana-class ships would have been 890 ft (270 m) long at the waterline and 921 ft 3 in (280.80 m) long overall. At the waterline, their beam was to have been 115 ft (35 m), but their maximum beam increased to 121 ft 2 in (36.93 m). The ships were to have had a standard displacement of 60,500 long tons (61,500 t), with a designed trials displacement of 68,317 long tons (69,413 t). Full load displacement increased to 70,965 long tons (72,104 t), and emergency load grew further to 71,922 long tons (73,076 t). At their standard displacement, the ships would have had a draft of 35 ft (11 m), while at emergency load, the draft increased to 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m). The ships would have had a metacentric height of 8.2 feet (2.5 m). Their projected crew was to have amounted to 115 officers and 2,240 enlisted men; this grew to 189 officers and 2,789 enlisted men while serving as a flagship.
The Montana design shares many characteristics with the previous classes of American fast battleships starting from the North Carolina class, such as a bulbous bow, a triple bottom under the armored citadel, and twin skegs in which the inner shafts were housed. The Montanas' overall construction would have made extensive use of welding for joining structural plates and homogeneous armor, which saved weight compared to traditional riveting. Like all of the US interwar designs, the Montanas would have had a flush main deck that was steeply flared at the bow to reduce the amount of water taken on in heavy seas. The Montana class would have carried three aircraft for reconnaissance and gunnery spotting. They would have been operated from catapults on the ship's fantail, as was standard for US battleship designs of the period.
The propulsion plant of the Montanas would have consisted of eight oil-fired Babcock & Wilcox two-drum boilers with a steam pressure of 565 psi (3,900 kPa) and a steam temperature of 850 °F (454 °C). The boilers supplied steam to four geared steam turbines, each driving one screw propeller. The boilers were vented through a pair of funnels placed on the centerline amidships. To meet the high electrical loads anticipated for the ships, the design was to have ten 1,250 kW ship service turbogenerators (SSTG), providing a total of 12,500 kW of non-emergency electrical power at 450 volts alternating current. The ships were also to be equipped with two 500 kW emergency diesel generators.
The turbines were rated to produce 43,000 hp (32 MW) each, for a total propulsive power of 172,000 hp (128 MW). The propulsion system was intended to produce a design speed of 28 knots at 70,500 tons displacement. The Montanas were designed to carry 7,500 long tons (7,600 t) of fuel oil and had a nominal range of 15,000 nmi (27,800 km; 17,300 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph). Two semi-balanced rudders were placed behind the two inboard screws. The inboard shafts were housed in skegs, which, while increasing hydrodynamic drag, substantially strengthened the stern structure.
While less powerful than the 212,000 hp (158,000 kW) powerplant used by the Iowas, the Montana's plant enabled the machinery spaces to be considerably more subdivided, with extensive longitudinal and traverse subdivisions of the boiler and engine rooms. The machinery arrangement was reminiscent of that of the Lexington class, with the boiler rooms flanking the two central turbine rooms for the inboard shafts, while the turbine rooms for the wing shafts were placed at the after end of the machinery spaces. Montana's machinery arrangement combined with increased power would eventually be used on the Midway class.
The primary armament of a Montana-class battleship would have been twelve 16-inch (406 mm)/50 caliber Mark 7 guns, which were to be mounted in four three-gun turrets. The turrets were placed in two superfiring pairs, one forward and one aft. The guns fired two types of shells: a 2,700 lb (1,200 kg) armor-piercing shells and 1,900 lb (860 kg) high capacity (HC) shells that carried a larger high-explosive bursting charge. The shells had muzzle velocities of 2,500 ft/s (760 m/s) and 2,690 ft/s (820 m/s), respectively. Firing AP shells at the maximum elevation of 45 degrees, the guns could reach targets out to 42,345 yd (38,720 m), while the lighter HC shells had a slightly reduced range of 41,604 yd (38,043 m). The shells had a flight time in excess of eighty seconds at those distances. At a realistic engagement distance of 20,000 yd (18,000 m), the AP shells could penetrate 20 in (508 mm) of steel armor. The guns had a rate of fire of two shots per minute, and had a rate of train of four degrees per second. They had to be returned to 5 degrees elevation for reloading.
The secondary armament for the Montana-class ships was to be twenty 5 in (127 mm)/54 cal Mark 16 dual-purpose guns housed in ten two-gun turrets along the superstructure. These guns, designed for the Montana class, were intended to improve the effective range over the shorter-barreled Mark 12 guns then in service. They fired a 70 lb (32 kg) projectile at a muzzle velocity of 2,650 ft/s (810 m/s) and had a maximum range of 25,909 yd (23,691 m) against surface targets and a maximum ceiling of 51,600 ft (15,700 m) against aerial targets. The guns had a rate of fire of fifteen shots per minute.
Each ship would have carried a light anti-aircraft armament of thirty-two 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns and twenty 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon guns. The Bofors guns were to be carried in eight quadruple mounts, while the Oerlikons were to have been mounted individually. The Bofors guns fired 1.98 lb (0.90 kg) shells at a velocity of 2,890 ft/s (880 m/s), and they had a maximum ceiling of 22,800 ft (6,900 m). The Oerlikon guns were supplied with .27 lb (0.12 kg) shells, which they fired with a muzzle velocity of 2,740 to 2,770 ft/s (840 to 840 m/s).
As designed, the Montanas used the "all or nothing" armor philosophy, with most of the armor concentrated on the citadel that includes the machinery spaces, armament, magazines, and command and control facilities. The belt armor would be 16.1 in (409 mm) Class A face-hardened Krupp cemented (K.C.) armor mounted on 1 in (25 mm) Special Treatment Steel (STS), inclined at 19 degrees. Below the waterline, the belt tapered to 10.2 in (259 mm). To protect against potential underwater shell hits, the ships would have a separate Class B homogeneous Krupp-type armor lower belt, 8.5 in (216 mm) by the magazines and 7.2 in (183 mm) by the machinery, that would also have served as one of the torpedo bulkheads, inclined at 10 degrees; this lower belt would taper to 1 inch at the triple bottom and be mounted on 0.75 in (19 mm) STS. The ends of the armored citadel would be closed by Class A traverse bulkheads 18 in (457 mm) thick in the front and 15.25 in (387 mm) in the aft.
The deck armor would be in three layers: the first consisting of 0.75 in (19 mm) STS laminated on 1.5 in (38 mm) STS for a total of 2.25 in (57 mm) STS weather deck, the second consisting of 5.8 in (147 mm) Class B laminated on 1.25 in (32 mm) STS for a total of 7.05 in (179 mm), and a third 0.625 in (16 mm) splinter deck. Over the magazines, the splinter deck would be replaced by a 1 in (25 mm) STS third deck to protect from spalling. Total armor thickness on the centerline would therefore have been 9.925 in (252 mm) over the citadel and 10.3 in (262 mm) thick over the magazines. The outboard section would have had 6.1 in (155 mm) Class B laminated on 1.25 in (32 mm) STS for a total of 7.35 in (187 mm) second deck and a 0.75 in (19 mm) splinter deck. The total thickness for the outboard section of the deck would have been 8.1 in (206 mm).
The main batteries were designed to have very heavy protection, with turret faces having 18 in (457 mm) Class B mounted on 4.5 in (114 mm) STS, resulting in 22.5 in (572 mm) thick laminated plate. The turret sides were to have up to 10 in (254 mm) Class A and turret roofs would have 9.15 in (232 mm) Class B. The barbettes would have been protected by up to 21.3 in (541 mm) Class A forward and 18 in (457 mm) aft, while the conning tower sides would have 18 in (457 mm) Class A.
Montana's torpedo protection system design incorporated lessons learned from those of previous US fast battleships, and was to consist of four internal longitudinal torpedo bulkheads behind the outer hull shell plating that would form a multi-layered "bulge". Two of the compartments would be liquid loaded in order to disrupt the gas bubble of a torpedo warhead detonation while the bulkheads would elastically deform and absorb the energy. Due to the external armor belt, the geometry of the "bulge" was more similar to that of the North Carolina class rather than that of the South Dakota and Iowa classes. The design of the Montana's torpedo defense system addressed a potential vulnerability of the South Dakota-type system, where caisson tests in 1939 showed that extending the main armor belt that tapers to the keel to act as one of the torpedo bulkheads had detrimental flooding effects due to the belt's rigidity. South Dakota's and Iowa's systems were modified in light of these tests, and Iowa's system was also further reinforced. Like on the South Dakota and Iowa classes, the two outer compartments would be liquid loaded, while two inner ones be void with the lower Class B armor belt to form the holding bulkhead between them. The greater beam of the Montanas would allow a higher system depth of 20.5 ft (6.25 m) compared to 18.5 ft (5.64 m) of the North Carolinas.
|Ship name||Hull no.||Builder||Authorization||Suspension||Cancellation|
|Montana||BB-67||Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||19 July 1940||April 1942||21 July 1943|
|Maine||BB-69||New York Navy Yard, New York City, New York|
|Louisiana||BB-71||Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia|
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