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The image depicts Katherine Cathey, the pregnant widow of U.S. Marine 2nd Lt. James “Jim” Cathey, lying on an air mattress on the floor in front of her husband’s flag-draped casket the night before his burial. A Marine honor guard stands vigil in the background. Jim Cathey was tragically killed in action in Iraq in August 2005. Overcome with grief, Katherine refused to leave her husband’s casket. She requested to spend one final night with him. Two Marines went to great lengths to provide her with a makeshift bed, using a mattress and pillows on the floor. One Marine stood guard over her and the casket throughout the night. This powerful and Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph was captured by Todd Heisler in 2005 as part of his series “Jim Comes Home” for the Rocky Mountain News.

Important: It is wise to remove videos of this what was perpetrated upon this man. A kind looking, gentle man. A father. Because it is actually only helping the culprits in the long run. Posting their faces can affect the investigation and affect trial. Once they were charged the case is subjudice. We know now who the perpetrators were, so it would be kind to the family to remove the video that will haunt them for eternity. It is adding to their anguish. Also please donate and share as the financial burden of a funeral can be removed from the family, even if their grief can not and never will be removed. gofundme.com/f/alex-coughlan

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@HendrickD82 He doesn't seem to realise he's the manager.

Been hearing this same shit since October. He has no clue how to fix any of this.

In Victorian Britain, more than half a million people stopped everything and made their way to Epsom... It was never just a race. It was Britain’s ORIGINAL day out. Be part of the story. Be part of history. Be at The @Betfred Derby Festival: bit.ly/4tR6WRL

Kel bir adam, kendine bedavaya futbolcu saçı yapıyor 😂

🇺🇸 SCOTT BESSENT: "If you're on public assistance, you can no longer wire money out of the country!"

@KarlMartinIrl @Concern @markhumphrys @TheMandyGall @MelMacDiarmuid @_QueenMeabh @john_mcguirk Nearly as bad as Trocaire looking to help the Rwandans while they're sponsoring Arsenal.

Currently @Concern is running ads on Irish radio appealing for funds to tackle “crisis levels of hunger” in Gaza. Yet today a marathon was run in Gaza in which thousands took part ! Make it make sense… @markhumphrys @TheMandyGall @MelMacDiarmuid @_QueenMeabh @john_mcguirk

This wasn’t merely a photo op. Gable flew real missions. Too old to be drafted, he joined and served in the Eighth Air Force stationed in East Anglia, England. His fellow B-17 Flying Fortress crewmen were initially skeptical of Gable’s service, thinking it a publicity stunt. But they soon realized it wasn’t. He (and fellow actor Jimmy Stewart) refused to stay on the glamorous sidelines as MGM, who held the rights to the Hollywood star, had urged. He flew no less than 5 combat missions and, according to those same crewmen, flew many more unofficially, eventually earning him the rank of major. Although he was at the peak of his post-“Gone with the Wind” fame, Gable tried to blend-in as much as he could and only leveraged his star power for the benefit of others. When Bob Hope came to London on a USO tour, he knew Gable was in the audience and called for “Rhett Butler” to stand up. Gable remained seated and servicemen around him refused to point him out. Generous to a fault, he treated them to nights out and took a keen interest in their lives. For their own part, they looked up to him and loved to follow in his wake on a weekend pass and a London pub crawl as British women flocked to be near him. Those he didn’t choose were fair game. He left the pretty ones to them. “They’re too much trouble,” he said. In his forties, Gable saw the young crewmen, who were mostly in their late teens or early twenties, as his own children. On one occasion, he went to visit the tail gunner of his B-17 who had been shot-up badly on a mission over Germany. The young man’s back was broken, his spinal cord severed, and a lung gone, he was bandaged like a mummy. Gable became emotional at the sight of him. The attending physician told him the boy didn’t feel anything due to morphine, said he wouldn’t live much longer, and began describing his injuries in detail on the spot. Gable, noticing tears welling in the boy’s eyes, grabbed the doctor, dragged him into the hall, and pushed him against a wall: “If you ever do anything like that again I’ll kill you!” Hitler, who liked Clark Gable’s movies — “It Happened One Night” was his favorite — offered a $5,000 reward for his capture. Fearing he’d be paraded around Berlin like a zoo animal if he ever parachuted from a wounded Flying Fortress, the actor said he’d “just go down with the sonovabitch.” Source: These stories and more are in Donald L. Miller’s excellent “Masters of the Air,” a book I finished just last week. Buy it.

@goob_the57373 @history_rev Personally, I think they were left at the quarrying stage so they would know where they were meant to go .

@history_rev The nubs are part of the finishing process! They are one of the lay features added after the blocks are in situ. Why? I have no idea, but it seems to be the case and this example very strongly supports that. Great find

🧐 Is that nub overlapping two blocks, or is that cut/joint some kind of subsequent modification? Delos 🇬🇷

@karldeeter And all the USAID money that's making everywhere a "Blue State"

The USA should remove all of its military from Europe, in its entirety, let Europe defend itself - as it should have been doing for the last 80 years.

@DaveD0106 Daniel Sturridge was one of the most talented footballers I've ever had the privilege to watch.

I adored Studge as a player. But he named a million things wrong that all fall at the feet of Slot #LFC

@HendrickD82 Useless bunch of shitebags. 1st pass should be looking for Wirtz.

Look at the platforms they're given. Look at what they're being asked to do off the ball as well. Cherki spends most of his game walking. Does nothing for long stretches other than stand and wait for the ball. Wirtz is being asked to carry his DM and his 9 off the ball.

@ruaconchobair @ServeOnlyGod @Washki2000 25 years

@ServeOnlyGod @Washki2000 All citizenships issued in the past 15 years need to be reviewed/ revoked.

And like clockwork the very next day. The Daily Mail reports, government plan to fast track Ukrainian citizenship in Ireland for anyone with six months of employment. This is not the temporary protection order we were told about. All they do is lie, when do we say ENOUGH 😡

Blocking ads and trackers helps in so many ways.

@itvracing @Sandownpark @harryskelton89 @DSkeltonRacing @GBRacing It would be a lot more in dollars.

A 5MILLION DOLLAR CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON FOR DAN SKELTON! 💰 DOYEN QUEST wins the Bet365 Oaksey Chase @sandownpark under @harryskelton89 @DSkeltonRacing | @GBRacing

A mathematician who shared an office with Claude Shannon at Bell Labs gave one lecture in 1986 that explains why some people win Nobel Prizes and other equally smart people spend their whole lives doing forgettable work. His name was Richard Hamming. He won the Turing Award. He invented error-correcting codes that made modern computing possible. And he spent 30 years at Bell Labs sitting in a cafeteria at lunch watching which scientists became legendary and which ones faded into nothing. In March 1986, he walked into a Bellcore auditorium in front of 200 researchers and told them exactly what he had seen. Here's the framework that has been quoted by every serious scientist for the last 40 years. His opening line landed like a punch. He said most scientists he worked with at Bell Labs were just as smart as the Nobel Prize winners. Just as hardworking. Just as credentialed. And yet at the end of a 40-year career, one group had changed entire fields and the other group was forgotten by the time they retired. He wanted to know what the difference actually was. And he said it wasn't luck. It wasn't IQ. It was a specific set of habits that almost nobody is willing to follow. The first habit was the one that hurts the most to hear. He said most scientists deliberately avoid the most important problem in their field because the odds of failure are too high. They pick a safe adjacent problem, solve it cleanly, publish it, and move on. And because they never swing at the hard problem, they never hit it. He said if you do not work on an important problem, it is unlikely you will do important work. That is not a motivational line. That is a logical one. The second habit was about doors. Literal doors. He noticed that the scientists at Bell Labs who kept their office doors closed got more done in the short term because they had no interruptions. But the scientists who kept their doors open got more done over a career. The open-door scientists were interrupted constantly. They also absorbed every new idea passing through the hallway. Ten years in, they were working on problems the closed-door scientists did not even know existed. The third habit was inversion. When Bell Labs refused to give him the team of programmers he wanted, Hamming sat with the rejection for weeks. Then he flipped the question. Instead of asking for programmers to write the programs, he asked why machines could not write the programs themselves. That single inversion pushed him into the frontier of computer science. He said the pattern repeats everywhere. What looks like a defect, if you flip it correctly, becomes the exact thing that pushes you ahead of everyone else. The fourth habit was the one that hit me the hardest. He said knowledge and productivity compound like interest. Someone who works 10 percent harder than you does not produce 10 percent more over a career. They produce twice as much. The gap doesn't add. It multiplies. And it compounds silently for years before anyone notices. He finished the lecture with a line I have never been able to shake. He said Pasteur's famous quote is right. Luck favors the prepared mind. But he meant it literally. You don't hope for luck. You engineer the conditions where luck can land on you. Open doors. Important problems. Inverted questions. Compounded hours. Those are not traits. Those are choices you make every single day. The transcript has been sitting on the University of Virginia's computer science website for almost 30 years. The video is free on YouTube. Stripe Press reprinted the full lectures as a book in 2020 and Bret Victor wrote the foreword. Hamming died in 1998. He gave his final lecture a few weeks before. He was 82. The lecture that explains why some careers become legendary and others disappear is still free. Most people who could benefit from it will never open it.

@RonDeSantis Likely published in the early 2000s in the UK edition.

Among many issues with this list, Metallica should be higher. Also, how can you not have Rush, Skynyrd or Van Halen?

@griptmedia Somewhere along the way they seem to have forgotten that it's our money and their job is to make sure that it get spent wisely.

"We do have to collect taxes to fund public services": Tánaiste Simon Harris has defended the fact that over half of motor fuel prices are pure Government tax, arguing that "we have to take in a certain amount of taxation to run the country":

@WatchdogIRL @NicAirtFiles @nwl88444048 *won't* pay!

@WatchdogIRL @NicAirtFiles @nwl88444048 EU citizens pay €800 a month to sleep in a bunk bed.

Lazy enterprise minister Peter Burke has published the non-EU work permit data for Nov & Dec 2025 together. Summary, 30% of pemits go to India, 25% are for health/social work