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Scania Press Release / August 11, 2015 From cow udders to your breakfast table. Yes, we’re talking milk. But how does it end up at your place? One thing’s for sure. Meticulous logistics are involved. “Our ten vehicles pick up milk and milk products from farms and factories both in South Australia and other Australian states, and transport the produce within South Australia and around the country. Each truck runs 23 hours per day and can carry up to 41,000 litres (10,831 U.S. gallons) of milk,” says Mathew Williamson, Fleet Manager at Milkflow. Mathew is a guy with many strings to his bow. He’s a dad, a self-confessed car and truck fan and has two challenging jobs that he couldn’t live without. And aside from heading up the fleet operation of one of South Australia’s largest and ‘greenest’ raw milk logistic service providers, he also fights fires at SA Metropolitan Fire Service. In 2009 Mathew and his colleagues at Milkflow decided to take another step in the green direction and introduced Scania Fleet Management. “The system tells us where our vehicles are at any time and can monitor driver behavior, such as speeding and fuel consumption. We can also do vehicle odometer readings for servicing or operational requirements and see if the vehicles are on or off legitimate routes.” Based on this information, the drivers are coached in how to improve their driving to achieve better fuel economy and reduced environmental impact. Mathew, who’s no technophobe, was keen to implement the new system. The drivers, though, were a bit skeptical about being so closely monitored. “When it was first installed they weren’t keen. Now they see the system as an incentive to excel at driving. And when we published the fuel consumption for each driver, they started competing with each other to get better results,” says Mathew. Facts at a glance - Scania Fleet Management helps you identify key data for increasing your fleet productivity - The system provides options for monitoring, analyzing and controlling the fleet with the aid of a number of customized services, all aimed at maximized uptime and improved safety. - You can monitor where your vehicles are, their fuel consumption, how they are driven and when servicing will be needed. - You can also use the information to analyze driver performance and thereby improve traffic safety and reduce the environmental impact of your operations. Read more about Scania Fleet Management here. .

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As the truckmaker has already done with its vocational truck range, GAZ designer Sergei Barinov is purportedly making use of the company's new corporate cab first seen on the GAZelle Next and GAZon Next to create an all-new North American style long haul Ural brand truck. The cab architecture originates from the LDV Maxus commercial van. GAZ purchased the assets of troubled LDV in 2006, a UK-based commercial van manufacturer. The new conventional heavy truck is born of the believe that the market is demanding fresh new designs, according to Ural, the heavy truck subsidiary of GAZ Group. At a press conference, GAZ Group Trucks director Victor Kadylkin said the new truck is expected to launch in 2017 or 2018. Like Australia, Russia has long distance North American driving conditions, and a sizable customer base that likes conventional cab trucks. Related reading: http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/40317-gaz-introduces-next-generation-ural-truck-range/?hl=gaz http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/37160-russian-vehicle-maker-gaz-launches-new-gazon-next-medium-truck/?hl=gaz .

Australasian Transport News / August 11, 2015 KordaMentha Restructuring has been appointed the administrator of trailer manufacturer Tieman Industries (http://www.tieman.com.au/) as the 60-year-old family business seeks a buyer. Tieman, which designs and manufacturers bulk road tankers in Campbellfield in Victoria, is presently under the full control of its administrators but will continue to trade as expressions of interest are received. The other two arms of the company, its tail lift business and its repairs and maintenance business, are also up for sale and seeking interested parties. KordaMentha spokesman Michael Smith says the first step of the administrative process has been completed, with the company and KordaMentha formalising a strategy for the business, and a creditors meeting has been organised for Thursday August 20 in Melbourne. Though the company directed inquiries to administrators today, joint-managing director Dale Tieman has told the Herald-Sun his firm hoped to recapitalise around the profitable tanker division. One of three KordaMentha Restructuring executives overseeing the changes, Rahul Goyal, says current schedules will be adhered to across all three businesses and customers will receive their products on time and to the same standards. Tieman suffered a significant loss in 2014 as a result of market conditions, very large overheads and overstaffing, Smith says. "The company has been on a restructure plan but was unable to execute due to lack of funds," he says. "They need to reduce costs which included consolidating sites and reducing labour." The high-cost subsidiary businesses yielded low margins for Tieman, he says, but may be more profitable for larger companies. "Repairs and maintenance has more than 20,000 customers and provided service to anyone who has material handling equipment including both large supermarket chains." The company’s approximate 250 employees are being advised of developments as the business is assessed. In the wake of the August 20 meeting, a second meeting will be held where the administrators will hand over a report on the state of affairs.

Transport Topics / August 11, 2015 Peterbilt is now offering Maxwell Technologies’ ultracapacitor-powered engine start module (http://www.maxwell.com/esm/) as a factory-installed option on its Model 579 and 567 trucks. The module replaces a traditional battery and is dedicated to starting the truck. It reduces weight by 60 pounds, according to Maxwell Technologies. The engine start module is not affected by hotel loads, lights, television and other in-cab or sleeper-powered devices, which can drain power during extended use. "Superior uptime and reliability are two advantages our customers expect from Peterbilt, and this new technology is one way to help bring those to even greater levels," says Anthony Gansle, Peterbilt marketing manager of on-highway products. "Our aerodynamic Model 579 and vocational Model 567 equipped with the Maxwell ESM will provide customers with greater confidence that their vehicles will be ready to move when they need to move," Gansle said. The engine start module helps heavy-duty engines start in temperatures from minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit to almost 150 degrees. "Expanding our Engine Start Module's availability in North America is an ongoing goal, and our relationship with Peterbilt is the next step in meeting the demands of our customers in the United States and Canada," says Maxwell CEO Franz Fink. "Now, more fleet owners and operators will be able to benefit from the reliable performance of the ESM in providing starting assurance for on-time deliveries and improved uptime." Related reading - http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/41308-ultracapacitors-on-the-way/

My understanding is they will share a common Volvo global cab platform with differentiating trim. Mack salesmen across the country have been frustrated for a long time now over Volvo's foot-dragging the introduction of the new Mack-brand cab. (Volvo dragged their feet for years on the LE upgrade as well - http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/40316-mack-introduces-new-lr-refuse-chassis/) In long-haul, a vast swathe of customers are turned off by the 27-year-old CH cab's lack of integration with the sleeper area. The dual-brand Volvo/Mack dealers are, as a result, becoming accustomed to putting these operators behind the wheel of a Volvo. And there's a very good possibility that this is a Volvo strategy, a between-the-lines way of migrating Mack customers over to the Volvo brand. Crunching the numbers, Volvo Group doesn't subscribe to the General Motors method of building duplicate truck products under two brands (ie. Chevrolet/GMC). Why compete with yourself? The unnecessary added expense of two plants producing overlapping products........... As you can see from the sales numbers, Volvo Group is successfully making its self-named brand their long-haul product for the North American market. The Mack brand will in all likelihood be reduced to being their vocational brand.

The intention of the Oath of Enlistment is for armed forces members to adhere to it during the contractual period of their enlistment. After one is discharged, one's obligation to the Oath of Enlistment ends, and one rejoins civilian life.

This woman should be escorted to our border with Mexico, and her United States citizenship cancelled. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3194101/A-brother-carried-attack-against-marines-TN-Thanks-God-teen-girl-ISIS-wannabe-Mississippi-praised-Chattanooga-shooting.html

Today, we learn that the police officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old black criminal has been fired. The criminal refused to surrender when asked, and instead decided to try and run away. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3194328/Texas-cop-killed-unarmed-college-football-player-fired.html) Christian Taylor was caught in the act of robbing a car dealership. (The media keeps mentioning that he was a college football player........why? It has no connection with his criminal acts) Did the officer use excessive force? Only the officer knows. But I've long wondered why effective stun guns are not utilized.............we have that technology. What irks me is the family portraying the man as a "fine young man", when he obviously was not. Clearly, his parents did not instill in him the universally accepted good morals and ethics, and the correct sense of right and wrong, that create "a fine young man". A "fine young man" ??? Sorry, I'm just not seeing that here..........are I observe is a destructive individual committing blatant criminal acts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mP_kJE4D9U

Circus or crisis, you be the judge.............. A group of five heavily armed white men calling themselves the Oath Keepers wearing bulletproof vests, camouflage gear and carrying AR15 assault rifles arrived in Ferguson just before midnight and began wandering around amongst the black protesters (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3193440/Heavily-armed-Oath-Keepers-inject-new-unease-riot-hit-Ferguson.html). St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar aptly told the media, “Their presence is both unnecessary and inflammatory,”............which it is. These fellows need to get a life and leave law enforcement to the authorities. Missouri’s gun laws permit licensed gun owners to openly carry unless their weapons are “displayed in an angry or threatening manner.” One protester said, “If those were black men walking around with rifles, they probably wouldn’t be living today.” And he’s right, black protesters walking down the street with assault rifles would be immediately arrested. Ironically, a group of black men were arrested on suspicion of firearm possession, but the group of white body camouflage-clothed armor-wearing Oath Keepers (they really should ponder a better name) armed with assault rifles were granted permission to walk through the protests by police officers.............go figure. The point is, NOBODY needs to be walking around America with an assault rifle, and the fact that some people can and do in Missouri is a black eye embarrassment for that state. Meanwhile, stepping outside of the box and standing amongst the world audience, onlookers around the world are shaking their heads if not laughing at us. The once respected United States that still wants to dictate how the rest of the world lives is itself falling apart from within. We’re losing reputation and integrity points faster than a PEZ dispenser.

Do NOT buy a Mack brand truck until they introduce common rail. Also, you may have noticed on most tractors now that you can stand up right out of the drivers seat........the cab front area and the sleeper area are one big open space. That's not the case with Mack-branded trucks. The upcoming new cab will address that issue.........relevant if that matters to you.

Scania introduced XPI common rail fuel injection in 2007 for Euro-5, and of course it helps to allow Scania to offer its superb SCR-only Euro-6 (EPA2010) engines which do NOT require a costly VGT or EGR cooler (http://www.scania.com/media/pressreleases/P14402EN.aspx). Daimler also introduced (Bosch) X-Pulse (ACRS) common rail fuel injection in 2007 with the DD13. Now, eight years later, Volvo still hasn't begun fitting common rail on US market engines. In the global market, Volvo finally did begin using common rail for Euro-6 in 2013, six years after everyone else. Apparently, Volvo has a problem switching its older engine platforms over from unit pump to common rail for the U.S. market (EPA2010). As cheap as Volvo is, and having a strong idea of the warranty bills they're paying Mack brand distributors for unit pump injection issues, they'd be saving a lot of money if they were fitting (could fit) common rail injection.

Your local Mack brand dealer no longer stocks them? What did the good folks at Watts Mack tell you on availability? (Watts Mack is responsible for BigMackTrucks, the world's finest Mack website)

For starters, they have trouble-free Bosch ultra-high pressure (2700 bar) common rail fuel injection. Volvo's injector cup issue has been a nightmare for customers, and a loss of face for both Mack sales and service people to contend with. For example: http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/32750-mp8-injector-cupsagain/ Please take a moment to read through this: http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/40752-mercedes-benz-launches-2nd-generation-om471-dd13/?hl=om471 If you compare a Volvo FH to a Mercedes-Benz Actros, there really is no comparison..........while the FH is a solid truck, the Actros is clearly superior throughout.

Transport Engineer / August 10, 2015 Dudley, North Tyneside based civil engineering firm Owen Pugh has taken delivery of the first of 34 Mercedes-Benz eight-wheelers ordered from Mercedes-Benz under a £3.4 million deal. Paul Cockburn, general manager of Owen Pugh & Co, which is responsible for its plant hire and haulage businesses, says this is the company's biggest single investment in its commercial vehicle fleet. "We were only running three Mercedes-Benz trucks, so we had no special loyalty to the brand," states Cockburn, explain that the firm instigated a comprehensive evaluation exercise involving five other manufacturers. "But [Mercedes dealer] Bell Truck and Van's Arocs demonstrator performed particularly strongly, outshining the competition by a margin," he explains. "It was half a mile per gallon more fuel-efficient than anything else we tried, and was well received by our drivers, who liked the cab layout and high seating position, and preferred the Mercedes-Benz auto transmission to others," he adds. Cockburn also says the Arocs delivers a "highly competitive payload" at "a whisker over 18 and a half tonnes", which, he points out is good given their heavy-duty steel bodies. "No less importantly," he continues, "we were also highly impressed by the professionalism of the Bell Truck and Van sales team. They took the time to gain a full understanding of our operation, and have delivered a product that meet our needs perfectly." Most of Owen Pugh's new Arocs 3240Ks are being fitted with steel tipping bodies by Lancashire Tippers, of Bolton. However, the company has also ordered three alloy-bodied tippers for delivery towards the end of this year, and will be taking a hook-loader and a tipper-grab, as well as two trucks with 'cheese wedge' plant bodies. Owen Pugh's Mercedes-Benz Arocs trucks have M ClassicSpace cabs and were specified with 394bhp straight-six engines mated to Mercedes PowerShift AMTs (automated manual transmissions). The Arocs replace older vehicles which are being stood down from the operator's 75-strong truck fleet, and are the subject of a flexible Agility finance agreement from Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. Related reading - http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/truck/home/new_trucks/model_range/arocs/arocs.html .

Times Union / August 5, 2015 Lawsuit asks end of $100 million Thruway payment to state Canal System A national trade group's lawsuit against the state Thruway Authority is on the road again. The American Trucking Associations' 2013 legal action had been dismissed on a technicality, but a federal appellate court has restored the suit. The plaintiffs contend the Thruway shouldn't be subsidizing the state canal system with toll money. "We want to stop the Thruway from using a significant portion of its toll revenues from motorists who use the system and spending it on things other than the Thruway,'' said Rich Pianka, deputy general counsel for the trade group. The organization said $100 million per year as of 2012 went toward the canal system, which has evolved over the years from a transportation route to a recreational venue. The canal system generates about $2 million annually in user fees. The latest court decision, released this week, recapped part of the associations' argument. While the 524-mile canal system, which stretches from Albany to Buffalo, was a major shipping route in the19th century, its commercial use has "faded into obsolescence," according to the decision from the federal 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Now, the canal is lined with bikeways, hiking paths and parks. The lawsuit argues that while these improvements benefit the local communities along the canal, truckers — including many from out of state — shouldn't have to subsidize them. "We don't care about the canals," Pianka said. Specifically, the suit alleges that using tolls to support the canal system violates the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. That's because the toll, considered a user fee, isn't going strictly for the purposes of roadway maintenance. The association is seeking a refund on the percentage of truck tolls that has gone to the canal system dating back to 2010. Thruway Authority has spent $1.1 billion on the canal system since the state Legislature placed it under the authority's control in 1992, the lawsuit said. "Maintaining the Canal System comes at a steep price," reads part of the complaint. "The New York State Thruway Authority ... drastically overcharges commercial truckers for the use of the roads that it administers." Thruway officials declined to comment, citing pending litigation. The state Legislature originally approved putting canal operations under Thruway control, but some lawmakers have from time to time urged ending the relationship. Talk of a change frequently come ups when there is discussion of a possible Thruway toll hike. The Thruway Authority floated the idea of a truck toll hike in 2012, but that drew harsh outcry from upstate lawmakers and business operators, including truckers, who said it would amount to a tax on the entire region. Higher tolls, they said, would simply be passed along to consumers. The protest prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who appoints the Thruway Authority's board members, to drop the plan for increased tolls. To save money, the Thruway Authority cut staff and eliminated what had been a $60 million contract with the State Police to patrol the highway. Police are still on the Thruway, but the funding comes from the public safety budget rather than the Thruway Authority budget. Tolls remain an issue, especially when it comes to talk about paying for the replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge, which spans the Hudson River between Rockland and Westchester counties. Transportation experts have said some kind of toll hike will be needed to pay for the new bridge, a $4 billion addition to the Thruway system. Despite catcalls from lawmakers and other critics, the Thruway Authority and the Cuomo administration have insisted it's impossible to determine what the eventual bridge toll will be until the bridge's costs are more fully known. Crossing the bridge is already costlier for trucks than it is for cars: While passenger cars pay $5, large trucks can pay up to $49.25 to make the crossing. (The toll is charged one way — for those heading east and south into Westchester County or New York City.) The American Trucking Associations represents trucking companies and suppliers to the industry nationwide, including New York.

Knock the brand if you want, but the Mercedes-Benz/Detroit Diesel engines in these trucks are far superior to the Volvo powerplants.

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Mother throws 3-week-old infant out 4th floor window to its death Daily News / August 9, 2015 A 19-day-old boy was found dead in the courtyard of a Queens building Friday morning after its mother threw the infant from a fourth-floor window. The mother, Rashida Chowdhury, told police that an evil spirit had taken over her baby’s body. The infant, identified as Rizwan Ahmad, was found by a neighbor at 85-55 115th street in Richmond Hill around 4:10 a.m. Chowdhury, age 21, confessed to throwing tiny Rizwan Ahmad out the window of her Richmond Hill Apartment in a crazed bid to save him from an evil spirit. The child, who authorities pronounced dead at the scene, had just been born on July 18. Neighbor Mazol Ilyayeva, 20, said that she heard a loud noise in the middle of the night and then discovered the boy’s lifeless body dressed in a white and blue onesie. “I heard a little thud like a book thrown through the window and for some reason something told me to go downstairs,” said Ilyayeva, a mother who also lives on the fourth floor. “That’s when I saw the baby laying there with blood all over,” she said. “It was like seeing a dead puppy lying on the street, just dead carelessly. I didn’t have the power to scream. I just called 911.” When police arrived on the scene they found a baby bassinet and other baby items inside the apartment, but occupants of the apartment initially denied knowing anything about a baby. Officers also found a white sheet hanging outside of the bathroom window and the bathroom rug was covering the window. State Assemblyman David Weprin, who showed up at the scene Friday, called the tragic incident a “criminal act by a family member.” “I was told there was a matter of a few week-old baby, so that’s clearly not someone that could crawl out the window so, you know, there was somebody that threw him out the window, that pushed him out the window and that’s a criminal act,” he said. “This a truly horrific and disturbing case of a mother accused of killing her helpless infant son,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. “He fell more than 40 feet to the pavement and died. The actions of the defendant are totally incomprehensible.” The child was killed by “blunt impact of head and torso with skull fractures and lacerations of (the) liver, brain and spleen,” the medical examiner said late Friday.

12-year-olds stab friend to death......19 times ABC News / August 10, 2015 Two Wisconsin teenagers will go to trial in adult court, a judge ruled today, in a case charging them with stabbing their friend 19 times to please a fictional character named Slender Man. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, now both 13, were 12 years old at the time of the crime. If the girls are convicted in the adult court system, they could each face up to 65 years in prison. Morgan and Anissa were arrested on May, 31, 2014, after allegedly stabbing their then-12-year-old friend Payton Leutner 19 times and leaving her in the woods in their hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Payton was rushed to the hospital with life threatening injuries and survived. Prosecutors have said that both Morgan and Anissa were obsessed with the fictional character Slender Man, who is often depicted in fan fiction stories online as a horror figure who stalks children. In court in February, disturbing drawings depicting Slender Man and dismembered Barbie dolls recovered from Morgan’s bedroom were shown. When asked to describe "Slender Man," Morgan told the detective during an interrogation that he was "a tall, faceless man who preys on children," according to an audio recording of the interrogation made public. "He watches you," she added. "I've never seen him. He's everywhere." Authorities said Morgan repeatedly told detectives it was "necessary" to kill Payton to become "proxies" of Slender Man and live with him in his mansion in the woods. They believed his mansion was in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin, authorities said. Morgan told police their plan to kill their friend began as early as December 2013, authorities said.

Father beats 4-month-old son to death Associated Press / August 11, 2015 As police searched for a man seen driving down a Kentucky highway beating an infant in a car seat, Daniel Cox pulled up to Kimberly Chrystie's home, handed her their 4-month-old son and sped away, police say. Jayceon Chrystie was black and blue and unresponsive; he had no pulse and his eye was swollen shut. The baby died two days later, and Cox has been charged with his murder. Cox, who did not live with his son, had asked the baby's mother, Kimberly Chrystie, if he could take the boy out for a visit Thursday, according to court records. They were gone for two hours. Just before 7 p.m., a family called 911 to say they saw a man in a gold Mercury Grand Marquis repeatedly hitting a child in a car seat as he drove along a highway in Radcliff, about 45 miles south of Louisville, according to court records. Dena Stevenson told WLKY-TV that she and her family drove behind the Grand Marquis for miles, and it looked like the man was beating the child in the head and the chest. Fifteen minutes later, Cox arrived at the infant's mother's home. She frantically called police. "He dropped my child off almost two hours later, beat up all black and blue," she wrote in a request for a protective order she filed against Cox Friday. "I called 911 as soon as I seen my son." Jayceon was not breathing and had no pulse, court documents show. Police wrote that Jayceon's left eye was swollen shut, his right cheek was swollen and he had "major bruising on his back and buttocks." His injuries were "consistent with a child being assaulted and abused," police wrote in the arrest warrant." As emergency medics tried to resuscitate the baby, officers tracked Cox to Louisville, said Radcliff Police Capt. Willie Wells. He was arrested on an assault charge. The baby, taken to a hospital in Louisville, was removed from life support Saturday night. Cox was charged with murder. Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Robert Fraction said on Sunday that Jayceon died of an "inflicted traumatic injury to the head." A judge set Cox's bond at $500,000 Monday, appointed a public defender for him and ordered him to return to court on Friday. .

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says will not limit Vegemite sales in remote areas BBC / August 10, 2015 Vegemite sales will not be limited in remote Australian communities, amid reports the spread was being used in home-brewed alcohol, says the PM. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he did not want a "Vegemite watch". Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion had earlier described the salty spread as a "precursor to misery", according to local media. But Mr Abbott said for most people Vegemite, made from brewers' yeast extract, was "reasonably nutritious". "This is a deregulatory government and the last thing I want to do is to have a Vegemite watch," Mr Abbott on Sunday told local media . Moonshine A Queensland newspaper had reported that Vegemite was being made into alcohol in large quantities in some remote Indigenous communities. Mr Scullion was quoted saying the spread was being bought in bulk to make moonshine. "Businesses in these communities... have a responsibility to report any purchase that may raise their own suspicions," he said. The minister added that in some cases, children were failing to turn up to school because they were too hung-over, and that Vegemite was an increasingly common factor in domestic violence cases. But Dr John Boffa of the People's Alcohol Action Coalition, who is based in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, said the problem was not widespread. "We're talking about an isolated problem in a couple of communities around a very large nation, and a nation where there is a very large number of Aboriginal communities, and every community is different," he told the BBC.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/state-of-emergency-called-in-ferguson-after-gunfire-mars-protests/ar-BBlC4zu Now, their violence has forced the authorities to declare a state of emergency. Unless something changes, these people are going to cost the law-abiding taxpayers several million dollars when all is said and done. The government should devise a way to tax this group for the total cost of the crisis they have created. The so-called protesters hung a banner from two balloons which read, "Racism still lives here #fightback." What am I missing here? They shoot at police who were handling them with white gloves so that no one could possibly point a finger at Ferguson authorities, and they're looting stores again. Peace-loving folks?.............I'm just not seeing evidence of that.

The only accurate way for you to confirm the right king pin set for your B-81 is to get the 1QHA number that's stamped on the front of your steer axle, plus the "P" number, and have your Mack dealer view that front axle arrangement. "If" it's the same 1QH arrangement as your parts book, then you're okay. And again, most of those old set numbers have been superceded to multiple items (you have to order the set items individually).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3191882/Looting-breaks-Ferguson-day-protest-mark-one-year-anniversary-Michael-Brown-s-death.html When black individuals are shooting guns at police, I don't see the "black lives matter" movement acting to prevent any loss of life (i.e. that's okay...........as white lives don't appear to be high on their list of concerns). However, when the police shoot back in self defense, then the "black lives matter" movement is up in arms (ie. that's not okay). (When "black lives matter" representatives pushed Bernie Sanders off the stage, a nice old guy without a hurtful bone in his body, that act showed how ill-mannered and uncultured this bunch is..........and they're going to set people straight on right and wrong????) In Baltimore, they were given a LOT of leeway by the mayor, and it showed that they will take full advantage of the hand's off policy. I'm lost over the whole Ferguson affair anyway. Based on CCTV footage of showing Michael Brown robbing a convenience store, I see a criminal, bully and troublemaker. As for this other boy, Tyrone Harris Jr., when he decided to steal a gun (criminal act) and go shoot a group of police officers (murder), what kind of response did he expect? If these lads would cease being criminals (their choice) and become law-abiding, contributing members of their community, that would be a win-win for all.