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(SportsNetwork.com) - There stands a good chance that the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers could meet in the first round of the playoffs.
Who would get home-ice advantage is still up for grabs and that could be the difference given the recent results between the two clubs.
The Flyers look to snap a seven-game skid at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night as they battle the Rangers for second place in the Metropolitan Division.
Under realignment, the top three teams of each division receive playoff berths, with the division winner taking on a wild card team. That currently is the Pittsburgh Penguins, who are 13 points ahead of the second-place Rangers.
If the playoffs started today, New York would play host to Philadelphia in the opening round as it is a point ahead of the Flyers for second place. However, Philly has two games in hand and both the Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets are lurking just three points back of third place.
Though the Flyers have won three of their past four versus the Rangers, all three of those wins came in Philadelphia. The Orange and Black lost a 4-1 decision in its most recent trip to MSG on Jan. 12 and have not beaten the Rangers on the road since Feb. 20, 2011.
Philly has been outscored 28-8 during its series road skid and has not scored more than two goals in any of the seven games.
Also not working in the Flyers' favor is the fact that the Rangers come in having matched their longest winning streak of the season, picking up a fourth victory in a row with Monday's 4-3 overtime decision against the Phoenix Coyotes.
New York took advantage of an injury to Phoenix goaltender Mike Smith, scoring the game-tying and winning goals against backup Thomas Greiss. Dan Girardi tied the game with 3:28 left in regulation and Ryan McDonagh, who had two assists, scored the winner on a rebound 1:56 into the bonus frame.
"That's a team I know really well and usually when they have a lead they keep the lead," said Rangers coach Alain Vigneault, former bench boss of the Vancouver Canucks.
Brad Richards and Derick Brassard also scored and Henrik Lundqvist made 18 saves to put New York in position to win five straight for the first time since Dec. 30-Jan. 10 of the 2011-12 season.
Vigneault hopes to have both Martin St. Louis and Derek Stepan back at full strength tonight. Both forwards attempted to play through illness on Monday, but saw limited ice time in the contest. Fellow forward Chris Kreider, however, will miss Wednesday's game with an unspecified injury that is reportedly a broken hand. Kreider has 17 goals and 20 assists in 66 games for the Rangers this season.
Lundqvist could draw the start for the Rangers and New York's all-time leader in wins is 26-13-3 with a 2.53 goals against average and four shutouts in 44 career meetings with the Flyers.
Philadelphia had won a season-best five games in a row before taking a 3-2 defeat to the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.
The Flyers had bested a number of playoff-contending teams during their win streak and battled back in the third period on Monday to tie the game off goals by Matt Read and Jakub Voracek, but Los Angeles got the winner from Dwight King midway through the third period.
Ray Emery made 38 saves in the finale of a four-game homestand for Philly.
"We knew we weren't playing well," said Flyers captain Claude Giroux. "So we told each other let's start picking it up a little bit. Obviously first shift we were able to get a goal to kind of get us back in the game. I thought when we tied it up I thought we were going to keep going but they were able to get the game winner."
The Flyers, without Steve Downie due to an upper-body injury, are likely to go back to Steve Mason in net tonight. He has solid career numbers versus the Rangers, going 4-0-1 with a 2.39 GAA in six meetings.


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Lawrence County Histories
The following county histories are located in the microfilms area on the second floor of the library. Please ask a librarian at the microforms desk or the reference desk if you need assistance with these materials.
Title: Lawrence County, Indiana, index of names of persons and of firms.
Author: U.S.--Works Progress Administration--Indiana.
Published: [Indianapolis] : n.p., n.d.
AGLL Reel 7
Title: An atlas of Lawrence county, Indiana.
Author: Griffing, B. N.
Published: Philadelphia : D.J. Lake & Co., 1879.
Reel 39 No. 140
Title: History of Lawrence and Monroe counties, Indiana; their people, industries and institutions.
Published: Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914.
Reel 39 No. 141
Title: History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington counties Indiana; from the earliest time to the present; together with interesting biographical sketches, reminiscences, notes, etc.
Published: Chicago : Goodspeed, 1884.
Title: History of Lawrence county, Indiana.
[Originally published in 1884 as History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties].
Published: Paoli, Ind. : Stout's print Shop, 1965.
Title: ... Leading industries of the principal places in Decatur, Bartholomew, Jackson and Lawrence counties, Indiana. With a review of their manufacturing, mercantile and general interests, advantageous location, & c.; including a brief historical and statistical sketch of their rise and progress.
Published: [n.p. : Historical & Statistical Publishing Co.], 1885.

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ConocoPhillips has submitted applications to regulatory agencies to expand the company's West Sak viscous oil production in the Kuparuk River field, the company announced Tuesday. The project is the third in series of new North Slope developments the company has announced in the last year.
The "1H NEWS" (North East West Sak) project would involve a nine-acre extension to the existing Drill Site 1H to support new wells and associated facilities, and would result in additional production of approximately 9,000 barrels of oil per day at peak, according to the company press release.
West Sak is a deposit of viscous oil within the Kuparuk River field that ConocoPhillips has been developing in increments. The oil is thicker and more difficult to develop than conventional oil.
Project approval for 1H NEWS is anticipated in late 2014, according to ConocoPhillips, with construction beginning in 2015. Construction would continue through 2016, with first oil in early 2017. Cost for the project is estimated at $450 million. The project will provide about 150 jobs during construction.
The 1H NEWS development is the third new project initiated by ConocoPhillips since the state Legislature passed an oil tax reform bill, the More Alaska Production Act, in April 2013.
The company also announced plans to pursue development of a project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the Greater Moose's Tooth 1 development, and Drill Site 2S in the Kuparuk River Unit.
"Combined with 1H NEWS, these three new projects would represent an investment of about $2 billion, significant new production, and jobs for hundreds of workers during construction," said Trond-Erik Johansen, president of ConocoPhillips Alaska.
"In addition to our plans for these new projects, we have also added two rigs to the Kuparuk (drilling) fleet. These rigs are already adding production and providing several hundred new jobs for Alaskans," Johansen said.
ConocoPhillips said it believes the improved business climate created by tax reform will add new revenue for the state and tens of thousands of barrels of new production from the North Slope. The company expects to have more North Slope production-adding investments to announce in the near future, the press release said.


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WILMINGTON - An unlucky year weather-wise has made planning difficult for a new race scheduled in Wilmington on Saturday, April 14, but the organizers of the Rites of Spring Pentathlon are still hoping to hold the first-time event.
Long-time endurance athlete Charlie Cowan of Lake Placid is race director of the Rites of Spring Pentathlon. He said a lack of snow won't hamper the five-leg competition, but a low number of racers could cause it to be canceled.
"We want to have this as an annual event. We want to have this as an annual event for perpetuity," said Cowan, who has competed in numerous Ironman races including the World Championships. "We are going to get this race going, whether it's this year or next."
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Charlie Cowan of Lake Placid paddles the Saranac River near Saranac Lake during a snowstorm last year on April 5. Cowan, who is the race director for the Rites of Spring Pentathlon, was training for the Inferno Pentathlon in New Hampshire.
LPN file photo by Mike Lynch
The registration deadline for the race, which includes skiing, running, paddling and biking, is this Saturday, and organizers need at least five teams competing to get it off the ground this year. Athletes can enter the event on teams or as individuals.
Cowan said the goal of the Rites of Spring Pentathlon is to get people back outdoors after the winter season while raising money for the Lake Placid Outing Club, which will receive 100 percent of the proceeds from entry fees, which have been lowered in an attempt to draw more competitors.
Cowan said his inspiration to establish this pentathlon arose from his visits to similar spring-time races including the popular Inferno held on New Hampshire's Mount Washington and the Mad River Quadathlon in Vermont.
The Rites of Spring Pentathlon legs will all be held in the town of Wilmington. Plans were to start the race at 7 a.m. with a 5-kilometer cross-ski on Whiteface Mountain ending at the mid-station lodge, but that has already been changed to a running leg because there is little or no snow on the course. The next stage could also be changed and that decision will be made later this week when Cowan and fellow organizers take a look at snow conditions on Whiteface's trails. The second leg is a planned boot pack up the mountain followed by an alpine ski descent, but that could become a mountain bike ride down the proposed course.
The third leg will be a 10k road/trail run to the dam in Wilmington, where competitors will then take to the AuSable River for a 6k paddle that features Class II waters. After paddling, athletes will then embark on a 32k bike ride to the finish line near the entrance to the Whiteface Mountain ski center.
Cowan said the Rites of Spring Pentathlon was scheduled to fit between the Vermont and Mount Washington races in an effort to draw competitors from those races. The Mad River event has traditionally been held on the first weekend in April, but the ski leg has been dropped, and next year, it will be contested in May. Cowan said that could pave the way for the Wilmington event to be held earlier when snow conditions will be better at Whiteface Mountain for both the cross-country and alpine legs.
"It's been a nightmare year for skiing," Cowan said. "I think the lack of snow has hurt registration, but you never know what the weather will bring this time of year. We could still have two feet of snow fall on Whiteface before the race. I think next year, we will hold the race earlier."
Lake Placid's Jen Ledger is also helping organize the race. She said the unpredictable weather conditions could actually add more interest to the event.
"At this time of year, you have to be ready for anything," Ledger said. "Depending on the snow, you might need to come with two bikes - a road bike or a mountain bike with fat tires and spikes. I think that adds a fun element to this race."
Setting the entry fee amount may have been one of the most challenging parts of establishing the Rites of Spring Pentathlon. Teams will consist of either five or six members, depending on whether the paddle leg is done in a one- or two-person canoe or kayak. The entry fee for each team member is $50, while individuals will pay $75 for the entire race. Along with paying to compete, participants will receive a T-shirt, maple syrup and some food.
Cowan said the Inferno on Mount Washington typically draws hundreds of competitions and has a $750 entry fee. He also noted that similar spring-time races also draw big crowds annually at sites out west including the states of Washington and Oregon.
"Entry fees were an issue," Cowan said. "We really wanted to find some middle ground. Our whole reason for establishing the Rites of Spring Pentathlon is to benefit the Lake Placid Outing Club. Basically, grants have dried up over the years, and we feel the outing club is very important for area youth.
"The entry fees probably are a little high, but we're not trying to gouge everybody," Cowan added. "We're just trying to raise some funds with a fun event. We could have held a golf tournament, but there are so many of those. The Rites of Spring is my idea of a benefit golf tournament."
Organizers of the race will make the determination whether or not the race will be held this year after registration closes on Saturday. For more information or to register, visit ritesofspring.net.


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Underground bunkers. Food stockpiles. Suicide pacts.
All of these are coming into play as people interpret the infamous "Mayan calendar" to mean that the world will end on Dec. 21. According to a Reuters survey of 16,000 people in 21 countries, at least 10 percent of the population is genuinely concerned that we'll all be annihilated on that date.
Yes, one in 10 people are really agitated by all the books, documentaries and bumper stickers ("How's my driving - as I dodge lava, meteors and stampeding wildlife?")
(Let's not forget the Incas and Aztecs who are agitated about missed opportunities - slapping their foreheads and declaring, "Calendars! And we wasted our promotional money on stupid ink pens!")
The diehard true believers, who've immersed themselves in occult tomes and survivalist manuals, inspire me to paraphrase my favorite line from "Monty Python's Life of Brian": "I know an end-of-the-world scenario when I see one. And I should know - I've been through a few."
Then there are the anxiety-plagued individuals who have overheard and retained just enough to be dangerous. ("Yeah, I remember this guy on this show said something or another about the end of the world and stuff. Something to do with trans fats - or was it adjustable rate mortgages...?")
Thank goodness there are still a few individuals who have remained mercifully oblivious to the whole business. ("2012? Man, I thought it was 1954. No wonder I've been waiting so long for my pipe and slippers.")
(Granted, some people are actually EMBRACING the apocalypse. Some of my co-workers are planning to take tequila shots every time someone screams, "Help! That indestructible building is collapsing on me! Aieeeeeee!")
It doesn't help when quasi-governmental agencies buy into the hysteria. The United States Postal Service recently petitioned Congress for the authority to raise the price of first-class postage to "a 5-gallon jug of water and a zombie-killing kit."
Archaeologists, astrophysicists and other mainstream types have made little headway in dispelling the panic. Perhaps they'll benefit from a recent proclamation from the Vatican: "If a calendar doesn't have puppies, daffodils, classic cars or Norman Rockwell, it's not worth diddly."
Some scholars admit that there's a grain of truth behind the far-fetched predictions but say that the "end of the world" is much more narrowly focused than the universal cataclysm usually pictured. Says one expert on the classical Mayan period: "The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar actually says that on Dec. 21 Jeremy Higgenbottom must take an after-school job and start paying for his own &%$# first car." ("Nooooooooooo!")
Of course not everyone who gives credence to the "2012 phenomenon" interprets the calendar as indicating doomsday. Various New Age types view Dec. 21 as the beginning of a touchy-feely "dawning of the age of Aquarius" sort of transformative spiritual event. Ere long, mankind will join hand in hand to declare something like "Please be kind...remember to rewind." (Hey, YOU have trouble remembering anniversaries. Cut the Mayas a little slack if a 5,125-year calendar cycle is a few decades late.)
Maybe we should all just ignore the hype, focus on cherishing our loved ones on Christmas, change our fire alarm batteries on New Year's Eve and make sincere resolutions for a bright 2013.
It wouldn't be the end of the world.
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Paris Saint-Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti will rest star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic for the Coupe de France clash with Arras.
The 31-year-old took a knock to his knee during training on Thursday and will not be risked. The Italian also revealed that Thiago Silva and new signing Lucas Moura, who joined from Sao Paulo this week, will also miss the game after being given the weekend off.
"Some players aren't ready to play. For example, Lucas has had only three days of preparation and is not ready," Ancelotti told reporters at a press conference.
"Alex, who's coming back from injury, Sylvain Armand and Gregory Van der Wiel are uncertain. Ibrahimovic suffered a knee knock in training. It's nothing serious but I don't want to take any risks."
Lucas, who has only had a few weeks off since the end of the Brazilian season in December, is expected to make his debut at home to Ajaccio on Friday and Ancelotti has already decided where the 20-year-old will fit into his team.
"He's fast, intelligent and plays it simple. This experience in Europe will permit him to become a fantastic player," he continued.
"He's used to playing wide but I think he can play in any of the attacking positions. To start with I will play him wide so as not to put him under too much pressure."
The former Chelsea coach then stressed the importance of the cup competition and remembered his side's struggles against Locmine at the same stage last season.
"The French Cup is an important objective. Everybody knows the importance of the competition. It's a beautiful competition and everybody wants to win it," Ancelotti insisted.
"Last season, the first match against Locmine was very difficult and it will be the same on Sunday."


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CNN's Wolf Blitzer once again aired Obama campaign propaganda by
playing a clip of Bill Clinton praising the President, from an Obama
campaign film to be released soon. Last Thursday Blitzer had aired
two whole minutes of footage from the film's trailer, and he referred
back to the film on Monday afternoon's The Situation Room.
Blitzer asked if Clinton stumping for Obama in swing states wouldn't "dramatically" aid the President. Of course, what also wouldn't hurt the President is the free advertising he receives by CNN airing his re-election message.
The CNN host thought that former President Clinton would pick up support from certain swing states, some of which would fall under the blue-collar category. Clinton's net worth, global travels, and lucrative speaking engagements might challenge the assumption of many that he is very much in touch with residents of states like Ohio and Michigan.
Blitzer hailed the campaign film as "very slick" and noted the "nice clip" of Clinton praising Obama.
[Video below.]
"I think it's fair, David – and I think you'll agree – that if Bill Clinton is actively out there campaigning on a day-to-day basis, or several times a week, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, in Michigan and Florida – a lot of these battleground states – that will dramatically help the President," Blitzer mused to faux-conservative David Frum, who agreed with him.
A transcript of the segment, which aired on March 12 on The Situation Room at 4:41 p.m. EST, is as follows:
WOLF BLITZER: You know, there's this new 15-minute documentary that the
Obama campaign is releasing. Very slick, James. In it, they've also got
a nice clip from the former President – your former boss – Bill
Clinton. Let me play it for you.
[HEADLINE: Bill Clinton: Ace Up Obama's Sleeve?]
(Video Clip)
(Music playing)
BILL CLINTON, former President of the United States: He took the harder and the more honorable path. When I saw what had happened, I thought to myself I hope that's the call I would have made.
(End Video Clip)
BLITZER: That's the title, "The Road We've Traveled." He's talking about the decision the President made to go ahead and kill bin Laden. (to James Carville) How important do you think President Clinton will be in the re-election process, in terms of how active will he be, how important will he be for President Obama's re-election campaign?
BLITZER: I think it's fair, David – and I think you'll agree – that if Bill Clinton is actively out there campaigning on a day-to-day basis, or several times a week, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in Florida – a lot of these battleground states – that will dramatically help the President.
DAVID FRUM, writer, Newsweek/Daily Beast: Clinton is pretty popular. And so it would.
-- Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center


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No. 2 TV show: Spartacus: Vengeance
After the untimely passing of star Andy Whitfield, the "Spartacus" franchise seemed destined to fail. How could anyone replace Whitfield's soulful, touching portrayal of slave-turned-gladiator-turned-rebel leader against Rome? Well, no one did. Rather than imitate Whitfield, Liam McIntyre put his own spin on Sparty, which fit perfectly into the show's new direction as the action moved out of the Ludus/gladiator arenas and into a world now at war. Steven S. DeKnight and his writing team expertly combined riveting action, graphic sexuality with character-driven drama, showing no wimpiness—much like the characters they wrote. They saved nothing for another season, serving only the story. And no matter how gory or disturbing or absolutely nuts that story got, it all made sense in the brutal world of Spartacus.


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|2012-04-13, 22:35
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Ha ha ha ha ha...
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Right behind you.
Age: 29
Not like there's major penalties for losing, your rewards just aren't as good. I only do it for the credits and exp, anyway. Once my merc hits level 50, I suspect I'll be on Ilum a lot.
|2012-04-13, 22:59
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Have not been following this game for a while,
Are they still intent on shackling the Legacy system to alts?
I just do not know where they are going with it anymore. I assumed that Bioware were going to try and make it a defining feature of TOR. Now, it appears like a puff of smoke. I assume they have not changed it by much and the the feature still only targets those that make alts. Why not include endgame PVE and PVP bonuses or unlocks? It is not like PVE gear is all that hard to attain.
At this point, I think they probably should have worked on endgame PVE and PVP more instead. Better yet, work on those goofy tier sets.
|2012-04-14, 03:56
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Hiding Under Your Bed
Join Date: May 2008
Though I admit, with the amount of servers, it's possible my server is not representative of Ilum. I can't even remember the last time I went there to pvp.
Had a few great battles in the first month of the game, but even then the majority of the time people were trying to get you to stop fighting so they could get their dailies/weeklies done (which I ignored, and always scrapped together a raid to kill all the people who thought it was great standing 10 feet away from each other trading nodes back and forth). Was always hilarious as I'd gank someone who stood there going 'stop, you're not supposed to fight on ilum, because Bioware is fail'. LoL. Enjoy your long speeder ride back, sissy.
Getting raids together to camp the opposing base and their speeder terminal was always fun for laughs as well. Too bad they nerfed that (though entirely understandable).
Also, I'm not sure why anyone would do warzones primarily for the credits and xp. :/ Even winning, the rewards in terms of credits/xp per hour are really bad. I mean, sure, my alts basically level via warzones, but that's because there's no xp off feature, so that's the only way I can really 'twink' them and get any benefit from doing so since leveling gets real slow via warzones.
As I wait for rated warzones, I spend most of my time on my Vanguard 'twink' who has 15000 hp, 60% damage reduction, and almost 700 base weapon damage, and 33% shield chance. As a tank. God, it's going to be boring doing all her story missions at once when I get to 50.
|2012-04-15, 05:48
|Link #1285
~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
Good lord... The Trooper really got the prot pally Vindication nerf treatment... So here's to not playing SWTOR until next expansion! lol
On a more serious note, why on earth did they nerf CM/BH heals so hard? We weren't crazy in that aspect before, it was all Gravspam iirc.
|2012-04-15, 06:57
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I think they went a bit overboard, but they did it because quite a few players were boasting about PvE content being too easy. So their response was do an across-the-board nerf to healing and make medpacs only usable once per fight.
|2012-04-15, 07:09
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Senior Member
|2012-04-15, 09:40
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|2012-04-15, 09:56
|Link #1292
~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
Ah well, I'm not giving EA any of my money for messing up ME3, and too bad that SWTOR takes the brunt of it.
|2012-04-15, 13:17
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 40
PVP doesn't concern me.
I sped through Beta at the end to level 25 on Tatooine. I've been playing much more slowly this time around. While I'm a slightly higer level now, I've not quite caught up with my Beta progress yet. I'm just getting out of Anchorhead now, while in Beta I was skipping quests and mobs into the Sand People areas to confront the local mad jedi (Jedi Sage path).
I also have a smuggler, but I've not played him much yet.
|2012-04-15, 13:17
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 33
So there's a hilarious Rakghoul Event occurring on Tatooine right now, which you can hear as a news feed on the Fleets. It's basically like the ghoul event before WotLK shipped.
Too bad I just get my ass beat if I head there.
|2012-04-15, 16:45
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blinded by blood
Bullshit... PvE content isn't "too easy" it's " too lazy." The 1-50 grind felt really well-tuned with healing where it was, it's endgame that sucks big slimy donkey balls. Hard modes are stupid. The tokens are stupid. Everything about SWTOR's endgame smacks of a company who stopped paying attention on how to make a good MMO since 2006.
I've said it many times and I'll never stop saying it: they used too much WoW and not enough KOTOR.
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WASHINGTON — Iran's new government has slowed expansion of its nuclear program almost to a halt since August, according to the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, in what experts view as a strong signal of Tehran's desire to resolve a decade-long diplomatic standoff.
A report released Thursday by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency provides the first independent evidence that President Hassan Rouhani, who was elected in June after promising to end the crisis, has essentially stopped new work at Iran's nuclear facilities, including enrichment of uranium and construction of the heavy-water reactor at Arak.
The previously unreported freeze may bolster the Obama administration and others in the six-nation diplomatic bloc hoping to persuade Tehran to give up its nuclear drive for good. The two sides are scheduled to resume negotiations Wednesday in Geneva.
Three days of talks in Geneva last week nearly produced an interim deal in which the West would suspend some economic sanctions and Iran would stop some nuclear work to buy time for negotiations aimed at forging a final deal. But the proposal drew heavy fire from hawks in Congress, Israel and parts of the Arab world who insisted the West should add more pressure, not less, to force concessions from Iran.
In a news conference Thursday at the White House, President Obama urged Congress not to impose more economic sanctions that could kill a diplomatic deal. Although he insisted a military option remains "on the table," Obama expressed clear reservations about attacking Iran, warning that no one could predict the outcome of another U.S. war in the Middle East.
"No matter how good our military is, military options are always messy, are always difficult, always have unintended consequences, and in this situation never complete in terms of making us certain that they don't then go out and pursue even more vigorously nuclear weapons in the future," Obama said.
With sanctions slowly strangling Iran's oil-based economy, Rouhani and his top aides have declared their eagerness to do a deal and thaw long-frozen relations with the West. The IAEA report, which reflects developments in Iran since Aug. 28, provides a measure of tangible reassurance that Rouhani is serious, analysts said.
"It's a signal that Iran's more willing to be flexible on the issue," said Alireza Nader, a Middle East specialist at Rand Corp. "It's a positive sign."
The report shows that Iran has installed none of the new advanced IR2M centrifuges, which can produce enriched uranium five times faster than earlier models, at its Natanz facility. Nor is Iran using any of the IR2Ms it had installed. It added only four of the older centrifuges to its arrays, bringing the total to 15,240.
Iran added 10 kilograms of medium-enriched uranium to its stockpile, the report says. The total, 196 kilograms, is well below the roughly 250 kilograms needed to create fissile fuel for a nuclear bomb.
At Arak, the inspectors found evidence that technicians had connected the reactor vessel to piping. But they said no other major components, such as control room equipment, the refueling machine and reactor cooling pumps, had been installed.
This week, Iran signed an agreement with the IAEA to allow inspectors expanded access to several nuclear sites that have not been fully monitored, including the Arak facility and a uranium mine.
But Iran continued to deny the IAEA full access to the Parchin military site near Tehran, where inspectors suspect Iran may have experimented with nuclear weapon triggers.
The dispute over Parchin is one reason many countries fear Iran is seeking a nuclear weapons capability. Iran insists its nuclear program is only for energy and other peaceful purposes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sharply criticized the proposed interim deal in Geneva last weekend, said Thursday that he is "not impressed" by the IAEA report. Iran has sufficient assets to reach a nuclear weapons capability even without new centrifuges or other equipment, he said.
The White House wants to dissuade Congress from adopting new sanctions that could drive Iran from the negotiating table, or unravel the coalition of nations that has agreed to cut trade with Iran. Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other top officials went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to make their case to lawmakers who have pushed for more penalties.
At his news conference, Obama said the trade-offs in the interim deal would provide a six-month window to test whether Iran was serious about curbing its nuclear program. If Iran failed that test, he said, the full range of sanctions "can be ramped back up."
Obama defended the effort to stop Iran in stages, saying, "It has never been realistic that we would resolve the entire program at once."
The deal under consideration in Geneva would "halt advances" in the nuclear program, neutralize some of the enriched uranium and impose more vigorous IAEA inspections. It also would buy "some additional months" in case Iran ultimately decided to seek a nuclear bomb, a goal Obama vowed to prevent.
"Let's test how willing they are to actually resolve this peacefully and diplomatically," he said. "We will have lost nothing at the end of the day if it turns out that they are not prepared to provide the international community the hard proof and assurances necessary for us to know that they're not pursuing a nuclear weapon."
[For the record, 6 p.m.: A previous version of this article said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was elected in July. He was elected in June.]


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The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East has been involved with ecumenical dialogue since the advent of the Faith and Order movement in the 1920's. In the United States of America the Federal Council of Churches of Christ approached Archbishop Antony (Bashir), Metropolitan of the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of New York and North America, to join them in 1936. Metropolitan Antony joined the council for two main reasons: 1) membership would provide the necessary authenticity and exposure for Orthodox Christianity in the US, and 2) reassurance from the council that it would ask for no money for the archdiocese's membership. This became the principle rule for our archdiocese's ecumenical participation for many years, including membership in the newly-formed National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCCC) in 1950.
In 1969, Metropolitan Philip (Saliba) led the change of the archdiocese's name to the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of New York and all North America. In 1975, Metropolitan Philip and Archbishop Michael (Shaheen) of the Archdiocese of Toledo and Dependencies effected the union of the two North American Antiochian Archdioceses. The unified Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America continues to be involved in inter-Orthodox activities and ecumenically in several areas: 1) The Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in America (SCOBA); 2) the newly-forming Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT); 3) Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation; 4) Orthodox-Lutheran Theological Consultation; 5) World Council of Churches (WCC) membership through the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East.
Since 1975, the archdiocese's active involvement in ecumenism is based on several principles, which were best expressed in a report of the "Special SCOBA Commission on Ecumenical Relations" regarding membership in the NCCC, 1992, and which follow:
The present involvement of the Orthodox Church in the ecumenical movement is regularly and faithfully reflected in the columns of our Orthodox publications. However, the movement today is a rapidly evolving and highly confused phenomenon. Orthodox Christians, especially those living in the West, simply cannot fail to face the problem. Some of them give, at the very start, an enthusiastic approval to any ecumenical enterprise. Some, on the contrary, react with a violent opposition to any ecumenism, which they identify with a betrayal of the faith. The vast majority, however, remains passive, expects guidance from the Church and feels uneasy when guidance fails to come or is given in a contradictory and inconsistent way.
It is well, therefore, to reiterate a few fundamental principles from which the Orthodox attitude to other Christians, and to ecumenism, stems.
First of all the Orthodox Church is neither a 'sect' nor a 'denomination,' but the true Church of God. This fact defines both the necessity and the limits of our involvement in ecumenism:
(1) The Church of God, because it is 'catholic' and 'apostolic,' is concerned with the whole of humanity, with the whole of Truth and with everything positive and good happening in the world; if we refuse to learn, to listen, to be concerned with the life and the beliefs of other Christians, we will not only miss much ourselves, but we will also be unfaithful to Christ's commandment of love and to our responsibility to witness to Orthodoxy everywhere. Inasmuch as the various ecumenical meetings, councils, and assemblies, provide us with these opportunities, it is our Christian and Orthodox duty to be there.
(2) However, since the Lord has established only One Church, since our being Orthodox implies that we are members of it, and since, therefore, the fullness of the Truth is accessible to us even if it is not entirely understood by each one of us individually, there cannot be, on our part, any compromise in matters of Faith. Our essential responsibility in the ecumenical movement is to affirm that the true Christian Unity is not unity on the basis of a 'common minimum' between denominations, but a unity in God. And God is never a 'minimum:' He is the Truth itself! The limit of our participation in the ecumenical movement is in our opposition to relativism.
These two principles must remain the primary focus for our continued ecumenical commitment, in spite of the fact that the ecumenical movement itself has gone through many historical phases–'Life and Work' principles, which meant that theological, doctrinal differences were to be disregarded, and Christians were to 'live' and 'work' together as if the differences did not exist; 'Faith and Order' movement, which placed theological discussion at the forefront so that Christian unity could be reached through doctrinal agreement; and the creation of the World Council of Churches.
It is on the assumption that these reasonable principles were accepted by all that the Orthodox Churches joined the ecumenical movement. And, in spite of the fact that in recent years many new factors have appeared which bear heavily on the situation, we must not shy away from our commitment based on our original principles for participation within that movement.


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Manchester City's Sergio Aguero believes foreign players have a tougher time with referees than their British counterparts.
The 24-year-old netted the leveller in Saturday's 2-1 victory at Fulham, which was decided by substitute Edin Dzeko's late strike. The Cottagers took an early lead through Mladen Petric's penalty, which Aguero claims should never have been given against Pablo Zabaleta for a trip on John Arne Riise.
"I try not to get involved with problems involving referees," the Argentina international said. "There will always be mistakes for any team and he got the decision [on the Fulham penalty] wrong, but that can happen in any game."
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Kevin Lager joined Iowa State University Extension and Outreach as an extension dairy specialist on Nov. 1. Lager will serve the western Iowa dairy region and have an office in the Sioux County Extension Office in Orange City.
Lager comes to Iowa State from Texas A&M University where he has served as an extension associate for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service since 2009. His extension experiences include nutrition and nutrient management support to dairy producers, dairy farm worker trainings and Texas dairy industry needs assessments. He has a master's degree in animal science from Kansas State University and is working towards a doctorate in agriculture from West Texas A&M University.
"Kevin is a good fit for the Iowa State dairy team and western Iowa," said Leo Timms, extension dairy specialist and animal science associate professor. "His nutrition and nutrient management expertise is exactly what producers are asking for. Iowa dairy producers are good business people and managing costs in this area is of great importance to them, especially this year."
With a third of Iowa's dairy herds and 40 percent of Iowa milk production in the western Iowa region, Lager will be able to apply his experiences working with all sizes of dairy herds. Lager grew up on a Kansas dairy farm, worked for a medium-sized operation and interned at a large Kansas dairy. Timms said there are all sizes of operations in western Iowa where the dairy industry has a significant economic impact.
"I look forward to getting to know and serving the dairy producers and the dairy industry in western Iowa," Lager said. "Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has excellent resources and knowledgeable staff. I look forward to collaborating with them to benefit the Iowa dairy industry."
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Between 30 and 40 former pro football players will be part of a fundraiser benefitting the Retired Professional Football Players of Chicago Scholarship Fund Wednesday night in McHenry.
The event will be held from 8-10 p.m. at Nicolino's Trackside and will include a meet and greet with former players. Among those scheduled to appear are Emery Moorehead, Rashied Davis, Jarrett Payton, Jerry Azumah and Matt Sinclair among others.
There is no charge to attend the event, but there is a $25 fee for photographs and autographs. The Retired Professional Football Players of Chicago provides scholarship funds for high school students that couldn't otherwise afford to attend college.
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I'm talking the real deal. As in fresh lemon meet my pepper mill.
With lemon that lingers in every bite and its zest adding an underlying sweetness, the sharp bite of fresh cracked black peppercorns offers a much needed savory balance. The pungent flavor livens everything up and helps to marry the flavors including those of the three cheeses.
It's a veritable cheese lover's hug on a plate with ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. The holy trinity of Italian American cheese. All of which my household is never without. Each and every time I use it, more appears, magically, in its place.
Yep, I have cheese elves. I kid you not.
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6-5 | 200 lbs | Grade: 79 | Position: 16
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5-9 | 156 lbs | Grade: 78 | Position: 41 | Regional: 75
ESPN.com scouting snippet: Austin is a smallish but dynamic prospect who has the skills to be a good change-of-pace or scatback runner at the next level. He lacks great size, but he runs harder and bigger than his measurables suggest ... His special teams ability adds to his upside. FULL REPORT
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ESPN.com scouting snippet: This dude catches everything thrown his way. Bailey is one of those receivers that you really begin to like because he shows versatility as a route runner, he can play inside or outside, he has good quickness and run after catch skills and he is tough ... He works at getting open and he is extremely reliable. Very good prospect. FULL REPORT
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ESPN.com scouting snippet: Not only does Kendricks have great size and overall strength, but he is one of the few big receivers in this class that possesses the speed to be a serious vertical threat on any given snap. He is big, strong and physical and you really like his ability to accelerate ... He is very strong and will run by and through defenders and he rarely goes down on first contact. FULL REPORT
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ESPN.com scouting snippet: Barksdale is a phenomenal looking prospect. He is well put together and is impressive on the hoof. He is the type of player you want to step off the bus first to intimidate the other team. Watching him play you see that this is a player where the key word is potential. They don't make a ton of players built like him ... He flashes the tools to be an excellent and productive presence in the trenches at the college level with some work and could move to OT in time. FULL REPORT
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6-4 | 245 lbs | Grade: 80 | Position: 11 | Regional: 95
ESPN.com scouting snippet: Quinn is a good-sized, versatile defensive end prospect. As a junior, he lined up opposite ultra-talented end prospect Carlos Dunlap but Quinn is talented enough to stand on his own ... With his size and ability, he can be a very solid and productive player at the college level. FULL REPORT
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5-10 | 167 lbs | Grade: 83 | Position: 4 | Regional: 17
31st overall in ESPN.com's Top 150
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6-2 | 170 lbs | Grade: 74 | Position: 130
ESPN.com scouting snippet: Johnson is a versatile athlete excelling in the run, pass and return game. He possesses a tall, rangy frame that should continue to physically develop and compliment his game. At receiver, he is very smooth and consistently comes up with the big grab ... We like his skill at safety as well; he can attack in the box or break up the deep pass. Good athlete and prospect that could gain more recruiting attention with a big senior season. FULL REPORT
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Bear with me, this is my first trip report!
I went with my mom and her friend out on some of the snowmobile trails in the area. The plan was to walk from her house to mine via the trail. We bit off a bit more than we could chew and instead of 14 miles, we made it 4!
The paths were solid enough to walk on without snow shoes but certainly slowed us down. We did get a little lost but crossed through a field and found the trails again.
We stopped along the way and set up two hammocks to cook our lunch and hot chocolate. I had a Black cat that worked wonderfully, my mom had an interesting combination of a fancy feast stove with another alcohol stove as an insulator and Josh had a Trangia, but he forgot a pot stand...and used to sticks instead...which caught fire so he had to use mine
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A family is cleaning up the damage after a car crashed into their Bent Bough Place home early Friday morning.
According to Lexington Police, a drunk driver lost control of his vehicle on Woodhill Drive, crashed through a fence and drove into the home. The vehicle entered the master bedroom of the home where the owner was sleeping.
"We were just in bed asleep and the next thing I know, I heard a big crash. I thought I was dreaming at first and I looked up and the entire wall was gone out of the bedroom, about three foot from my bed," said Billy Goens, the owner of the home.
Officials said they took two men into custody, including the driver 23-year-old Anton Williams. Police said he is charged with driving under the influence and wanton endangerment. The passenger in the car, 24-year-old Lamar Brazzle was also arrested and is charged with alcohol endangerment.
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Jessica Rae Brewer Fletcher, 39, of Reedy Creek, received her angel wings Friday April 5, 2013, at her home surrounded by her family.
Jessica Rae Brewer Fletcher, 39, of Reedy Creek, received her angel wings Friday April 5, 2013, at her home surrounded by her family.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Good Hope United Methodist Church by the Revs. Randy Foster and Chris Bennett.
The family will receive friends 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Davidson Funeral Home and other times at the home of her parents.
Jessica was born May 25, 1973, in Shelby County, Memphis, Tenn., to Ray Lenzie Brewer and Suzanne Wilson Brewer. She was diagnosed with LAM (Lymphangioleiomyomatosis) disease in 1998. In 2009 she was diagnosed with lung cancer, fought gracefully and was in remission for over two years. In April 2012 was again diagnosed with cancer and fought with dignity and grace. In late February of this year she gathered the strength to enjoy a cruise with friends that was truly a once in a lifetime experience. Jessica was ultimately the "I'll do it my way" kind of person, lived life to the fullest, was loved and her strength was admired by many. Jessica was a 1991 graduate of North Davidson High School, completed training for medical technologies at ECPI in Greensboro, and was employed with Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. in Winston-Salem. She enjoyed mud racing, drag racing, High Rock Lake, Myrtle Beach, anything outdoors and involvement with her parents with cattle and farming. She proudly and respectively lived in her Brewer grandparent's home and her life revolved around her niece and nephews. Jessica had been involved with Relay for Life of Davidson County since 2010. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Barnnie and Edith Brewer and D.W. "Dick" and Tola "Boots" Wilson.
Jessica is survived by her parents, Ray and Suzanne Brewer; sisters Robin Hudson and husband Johnny of Churchland, Wendy Brewer and Skip Briggs of Lexington, and Alicia Brenseke and husband Matt of Reedy Creek; niece Rebekah Hudson; three nephews, Zachary Hudson, Matthew Brenseke and Mark Brenseke; her "cherished" sister, Margaret Ann Wilson Snider; as well as her former husband, Mike Fletcher.
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It's a sad day when Sly, Arnie, Harrison and Mel gets their butts kicked by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Expendables 3 has crashed and burned on its opening weekend in what looks, more and more, like a case of killing the goose that laid the golden egg. The movie earned only about $16 million on opening weekend, about $10 million short of expectation.
So are the heroes doddering now? Is the story lousy? Did the PG-13 rating hurt the film?
There seem to be three main reasons for the shortfall: To start with, a high-quality copy of the movie was available for illegal viewing three weeks before the movie was in theatres. According to Variety and other sources, some 2.2 million people took advantage of that and watched the download, a problem that experts say could have dinged the box office for close to 20%.
There are arguments back and forth about downloading and damage, but Phil Contrino, honcho analyst at BoxOffice.com, says Expendables 3 got hurt for sure. He tells Variety, "It's hard to measure, but the ripple effect, not only of the downloads, but of the word-of-mouth that spread as a result, can be seen in the soft opening."
Contrino has, inadvertently or otherwise, brought us to problem #2, the quality of the movie. "Word-of- mouth" is only a problem when the word involved is "mediocre" or "tired" or "don't bother," which is two words, but you get the point. The critics weren't thrilled with Expendables 3 and people stayed away in droves — and that despite a cast that includes all the usual pumped-up suspects plus Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammar and Antonio Banderas.
The first two Expendable movies weren't exactly War & Peace, but they were a lot of macho fun, so what happened here to make Expendables 3 so expendable?
What happened is that some genius decided to get this thing a PG-13 rating in the U.S. — were they after father and son bonding audiences? That tactic failed to attract younger viewers and simultaneously annoyed the established fans looking forward to the action and goofy violence of the previous R-rated movies in the franchise. The whole Expendables schtick is self-deprecating spoofery of the actors and the action genre, and it's not for the faint-of-heart. Or your 12-year-old kid.
Watering down the action to get a more family-friendly rating is (a) stupid and (b) part of what's called franchise fatigue, or what we call 'greed' around these parts. Franchise fatigue, offered as the third main reason for Expendable 3's failure, really just means the filmmakers tried to fleece the public once too often. Yes, there's one born every minute, but you're supposed to offer something in return — entertainment or spectacle — when you empty a sucker's wallet. Expendables 3 might be too little too soon, but in all the what-the-hell-happened analysis, that PG-13 rating really stands out as the main culprit. Could PG stand for pretty greedy?
Please don't blame the actors. Some have suggested that Sly and Co. are too old for the gig, but if that were the case, nobody would pay to see Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis do anything, either. Or Meryl Streep or Helen Mirren, for that matter.
And FYI: Iron Man turns 50 next year.
This is about money-grubbing. Specifically, it's about the need to cater to the 15 to 25 year old male viewer to the exclusion of just about everybody else.
Everybody else, meanwhile, has stayed home to watch the superb grown-up fare available on HBO. In future it will be harder than ever to lure those viewers back into theatres.
Maybe even impossible.
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The writing is on the wall. Welfare epics are on the way out. With the new changes to the personal rating requirements -- which now includes gear purchasable by Honor -- it will no longer be possible to completely gear up through PvP without stepping into Arenas. The moment the announcement was made, everything changed for PvP and gear distribution to the player base. With the introduction of the new requirements, Arena and Honor-bought gear has become more restrictive than ever.
How does this change the playing field? In two words? A lot. The good will get better, the bad will get worse, and the mediocre won't be getting anywhere. It is no longer possible to participate in Arenas casually. In fact, World of Warcraft PvP as we know it has changed completely. Clearly meant to address point selling teams, the personal rating requirement affects legitimate contenders -- or at least challengers (no pun intended) -- who play Arenas.
There is no question that gear is a differentiator in Warcraft PvP. Certainly it's not the only differentiator, but the impact of gear disparity in Arenas is such that it creates an artificial barrier of entry for players who are only beginning to play it. Players who have been playing since Season 1 or 2 will have garnered enough Arena points for at least 4/5 Season 3 gear. Players who have just hit Level 70 or decided to do Arenas late are at a disadvantage. With the changes to the PvP gear system, the gear gap will grow even wider.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Nov 2009 16:13 UTC
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference is currently under way, and as usual, the technical fellows at Microsoft gave speeches about the deep architecture of Windows - in this case, Windows 7 of course. As it turns out, quite some seriously impressive changes have been made to the very core of Windows - all without breaking a single application. Thanks to BetaNews for summarising this technical talk so well.
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"An extreme and real example of a poster not having any clue what a kernel does but who nonetheless feels compelled to post meaningless crap.
There, fixed it for you. "
Tomcat the old osnews user, why do you get so angry? There is a point to what I am saying. I used a single sentence I guess that's why it wasn't addressed correctly. Sometimes summaries don't work.
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"The problem with the PFN lock is that the huge majority of all virtual memory operations were synchronized by a single, system-wide PFN lock
By PFN he is perhaps talking about the struct page lists of all physical pages. I know the stuff having written one myself.
Now, having a single lock for this? Up until 2009 Windows Vista? That doesn't sound right to me.
Projects have different priorities, and I understand that. Windows project is about customer-oriented usability and compatibility. It is not about performance or best technical architecture.
Linux kernel is there for technical superiority. People with high technical skills (not saying this isn't true for Windows kernel, but more true for Linux kernel) contribute to the project because of their technical interests. Also Linux has an evolutionary aspect to it that strengthens it, which is not true for many other kernels out there.
The result? In many ways the Linux kernel is technically superior. But Windows is used a lot more. Before Ubuntu I wasn't able to use Linux for everyday use myself. That's what I wanted to summarize in a single sentence.
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Facts didn't get in way of good S.A. Sex Pistols story
Updated 5:46 pm, Sunday, January 6, 2013
WARNING: Videos above contain profanity.
It's one of the great moments in San Antonio rock 'n' roll lore: Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious bashing an audience member on the head with his guitar at the British punk band's riotous Randy's Rodeo gig 35 years ago.
The only problem is, it never happened. At least, not the way most folks think it did.
The Sex Pistols played just seven shows on their only U.S. tour. Vicious, along with singer Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, made sure the S.A. stop — the third on the legendary tour — was the wildest.
A new exhibit at the South Texas Popular Culture Center, "We're So Pretty: The Sex Pistols in San Antonio 1978," celebrates the event.
Even if the show wasn't as raucous as popularly remembered, there was so much more to the night and the times than Vicious hitting a fan, looking like punk's answer to the Tin Man wielding his ax in "The Wizard of Oz."
In the mid-'70s, punk rock was a violent rejection of disco, prog-rock and the status quo. When the Sex Pistols rolled into town, the Bee Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love" topped the charts.
The Sex Pistols' sound wasn't entirely new. Not unlike the Ramones, the Sex Pistols were recycling the early '70s sounds of the New York Dolls and the Stooges' Iggy Pop but with a nihilistic attitude. Rock critic Dave Marsh dubbed it "punk rock."
New York's CBGB, a small bar in the Bowery, was punk's epicenter with bands such as Television, Talking Heads, Blondie, Patti Smith, the Dead Boys and the Ramones; in London, punk's elite included the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Buzzcocks, the Damned, the Stranglers, Generation X and Elvis Costello.
Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren purposely booked the band through the U.S. South to provoke confrontation. That's how they ended up at the Bandera Road dive.
Concerts were chaotic. Performers screamed and spit at fans (the Sex Pistols were notorious for drunken vomiting). Audiences were encouraged to act out, stage dive, pogo and slam dance. At Randy's Rodeo, many threw full and empty cans of beer, hamburgers, trash and at least one pie at the band.
The Sex Pistols, who broke up a few days after the S.A. gig, are best remembered for their sole album, 1977's "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" and songs "Anarchy in the U.K.," "God Save the Queen," "Holiday in the Sun" and "Pretty Vacant."
Their style — a fetish 'n' safety pins fashion sense with an outrageous, defiant attitude — was partly created by U.K. fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and influenced the Rolling Stones' "Some Girls" and the Who's Pete Townshend. It even was reflected in Madonna's earliest incarnation.
Some at the show sported torn T-shirts, punk hairdos and safety pins through their noses and ears (the majority purchased at the gig for $1; the pins were split in the middle).
At the time, San Antonio Express columnist Roddy Stinson couldn't resist a politically incorrect jab, calling them a Siamese twins freak show.
"They're a singing version of a freak show," Stinson wrote in a piece structured as a conversation between two old men. "Only they sell puking and safety pins through the ears instead of two-headed cows and Siamese twins."
Others came to feel differently.
"They only played seven cities in the U.S., and one of them was San Antonio," said Michael Ann Coker, co-curator of the Culture Center exhibit. "What is significant from our standpoint at the museum is that, once again, San Antonio had a place. Austin wasn't on that tour."
Anarchy in S.A.
Dodging flying beer cans and debris during the Jan. 8, 1978, show, Vicious looked like the male incarnation of Joan Jett, sneering at the front row all night, curling his lip. To his left, Rotten looked like a crazed marionette.
Then at one point in the show, Vicious quit playing his electric Fender bass after a song, grabbed it by the neck and swung it down like an Alamo defender, albeit half-heartedly.
A blurry snippet of archival video from that night captured a portion of the incident. (Search "Sex Pistols At Randy's Rodeo" on YouTube.)
Vicious completely missed his intended target on the front row: one taunting, pogo-dancing audience member named Brian Faltin of Comfort who came to the concert specifically to make "an anti-point."
Legend has it that the gangly Sex Pistols' heroin-addicted bad boy badly bloodied the unruly fan's head. Vicious' left arm was partly bandaged that night, and his torso and right arm revealed several scars and fresh, self-inflicted cuts.
It's part of the Sex Pistols' mythology.
What really happened is that the body of the guitar, most fortunately, glanced off the shoulder of a roadie holding back the crowd of about 1,800 who paid $3.50 a ticket to see the raucous show.
A solid-body Fender Precision Bass such as the one Vicious played weighs more than 10 pounds and, if swung like a weapon, might kill someone.
Faltin almost was arrested at the show for his taunting antics. Police briefly placed him in handcuffs, but he was never charged. Released backstage, he simply re-entered the building and finished watching the concert, which also included local bands the Vamps and Ultra.
That night, Faltin told an Express reporter why he was so agitated: "I don't like what they stand for. I don't like the way they look. They're just sewer rats with guitars," he said.
Thirty-five years later, Faltin barely has mellowed.
Vicious-ness debunked
"He did not hit me!" Faltin insists now. His slam-dancing presence at Randy's Rodeo that night was "a college boy dare."
Faltin was a student, avid record collector and aspiring actor-musician at Schreiner University. Self-described as "a little hippie-ish" and the black sheep of a Comfort ranching family, his musical tastes ran to the Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and the Who.
To him, punk was vulgar and offensive.
"The Sex Pistols just rubbed me the wrong way," he said. "I was there as a protestation."
But he was curious and had bragged to friends that he was going to "go and hassle the band." "I was gonna go start a fracas," Faltin explained.
"I really wanted to start it with Johnny Rotten. I really wanted to get to him and hassle him, but I couldn't. There was a lot of stuff being thrown at the stage."
Instead, he focused his anger at Vicious. He admits to throwing half a can of beer. For his part, Rotten glared, cursed out the crowd, hunched over and blew snot out of his nose.
Eventually, a roadie had enough of Faltin's antics. So had the bassist, who targeted the long-haired college kid. That's when Vicious swung his guitar, missing Faltin but grazing the roadie's shoulder.
"Thank goodness," Faltin recounted. "If it had hit him squarely, it could have really hurt him. We were face to face there, and I was always really thankful that he missed me. And thankfully, he didn't hit him squarely. It was a little scary."
But the legend persists. Even show organizer Joe Pugliese (who played in the opening band the Vamps with brother Frank) still vividly recounts "all the tussle-bustle started when Sid whacked that guy with his guitar."
"They were just pimply-faced kids," Pugliese added. "Sid was gregarious, talking to everybody."
In October 1978, Vicious, born John Simon Ritchie, was arrested and charged with murder in the death of girlfriend Nancy Spungen. She died of a single stab wound. Several days later he attempted suicide. He died of a heroin overdose Feb. 2, 1979.
Another myth is that Faltin was carrying a Bowie knife at Randy's Rodeo. Not true. And while never under arrest, he did mouth off to TV and print reporters.
Now in his mid-50s and a rancher, he's not particularly proud of the incident.
"In retrospect, I wish I'd never gone there that night," Faltin said. "I stooped to their level by going there and acting that way. I helped fan the flame. They spawned many bands I cannot stand. They were too extreme for me. But they probably did give music a kick in the pants."


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Dinner for 15! but i only invited you!
September 20, 2010, 09:36:12 AM »
Among my friends, when we go out for birthdays etc, we pay for our selves.
We do not give gifts and the person that is having the birthday usually arranges the celebration.
I am moving to Alien Land to live for a year with my husband for his work. I do not want to go. I am because I love my husband. he left on Tuesday, my birthday was the following Sunday. I will be joining him in a month.
I also had my last day at a job I loved on the day before my Birthday. I am only leaving job as i had to leave to go with DH. I just wanted a quite evening with a couple of friends as i was feeling delicate.
I also live in city O while all my our friends live in C and so was arranging an outing in City C
There is a large group of friends that get together and can number upwards of 20 depending on who is home. These are all people I am friendly with but not people I would seek out if it was just me and them.
It is not uncommon for small groups to do things without the group as a hole.
I love karaoke and that is what i wanted to do for my Birthday end BG
The arrangement was as follows. I had asked My BFF her DH, My BIL and his GF and two close friends who are a couple, K and L if they would like to join me for a meal and Karaoke.
This restaurant is one you have to book and they all know this.
On the Saturday afternoon, "4 hours before the meal" I am on my way home from work.
I needed to pick up my bag so I could get the train to C.
I get a text from another friend D. I had not invited him. However he is asking what time the meal is.
Now this is important: D lives 6 hours away by car and I had only found out he was coming down to C the week before.
D is also in a wheelchair and the restaurant is not Wheelchair friendly. The Karaoke is up stares.
some one had mentioned that I should ask him to come. I made the decision not to, as i had already booked the table.
I assumed he would be doing things with the larger group.
To be honest and selfishly I wanted to do Karaoke.
This is the only place that does it in C.
Had i known he was going to be around when i organized it, I would have worked with him and booked somewhere different. I then would have done singing with just my BFF.
So i ring BIL's GF who was the one that mentioned asking him. I wanted to know what D had been told about the night. if he had been told about the stares etc.
now at this point, I was a bit upset that i wouldn't get to do the singing, but was pleased D wanted to come out with me when i know how limited his time is.
Plus adding one more to a group of 7 wasn't going to hurt, even last minuet.
The restaurant its self had a few steps but we would haver managed as they only put groups of 10 plus on the balcony area "this is relevant later"
this is the conversation.
me:did you invite D. its not a problem, i need to know so i can let the restaurant know there will be one more and this has kind if stressed me a bit.
I was about to go in to "does he know about stares?"
BILGF: yes David is coming so is every one els.
every one who???
BILGF:J and T and other T and C. everyone who was out on Thursday.
N.B this has been upwards of 20 before.
me: Ok i don't have everyones number can you text who you can and find out who is coming as I will have to change the booking.
I will admit I started to babel at this point. I was trying crazily not to make BIL's GF feel bad, while totally freaking out.
Not five minuets later I get a text of L to the same effect of every one is coming.
so i call her.
Again its the same thing "at the pub they discussed it and they decided as D is down to make it a joint birthday and seeing D get together."
so I again say "OK who is coming?"
She can't say she dose not know.
from what I have gathered I am guessing 15ish people will be coming. This is just based on who was at the Pub, so I ring the restaurant "can I change my table to 15 please." by this point I am practically crying. by something miraculous they can get us in.
only 10 people show up, one of them was someone that was not at the pub where they decided to Hijacked my bday. Thats when i learned
they were texting everyone to tell them to come.
All i can say is I am glad iIfound out about that once I was at the restaurant.
There was no Karaoke
D was down for 2 weeks so they did not have to re organize my birthday.
We ended up on the balcony "like I said they only put groups of 10 plus up there and my booking was for 15" D was embarrassed that he needed help.
I got a few stony looks and comments about being inconsiderate.
They then decided to go clubbing "I am claustrophobic and Hate! clubbing and they know it."
I would have been much less angry had some one thought to let me know more than 4 hours before the event what was going on.
I'm just lucky some one did finally text me.
I don't know what would have happened when they all turned up at the restaurant expecting to be fed and there was no table.
i supose my question is could i have said "That wont be possible? or some variation.
Edited as I dropped my cup on the keyboard and it posted only 2 lines in to the account.
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Re: Dinner for 15! but i only invited you!
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September 20, 2010, 10:44:20 AM »
what more could i have done?
As it was, I just ended up rushing round trying to fix it.
P.S I will go back over again looking at Spelling etc what with having it partially posted wanted to get it out so as not to confuse and annoy people
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September 20, 2010, 12:05:01 PM »
What I would have probably done is texted D that ... You didn't know he was in town so you and (the names of the small original group) are going to a Karaoke place. Unfortunately this place has stairs.
I think when you ran around trying to fix things you took responsibility. To the second person's text I'd have replied that you'd made reservations for Karaoke at the Blah-Blah place for the X number you invited. Second-person-that-texted should make reservations for the people he/she invited.
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I agree with Sophia. I am so sorry that your birthday celebration was pretty much ruined.
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September 20, 2010, 12:18:32 PM »
Sooooo, in effect they hijacked your B/day farewell party and then you got the blame when events, tables and happenings didn't work.
And you did not get to do the One thing you really wanted to.... Karaoke
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September 20, 2010, 01:20:29 PM »
just to be clear both BIL'S GF and L both said lots of people were coming.
The problem was i don't know who told every one and invited them, not being out with them. It could have been BIL or K that said we are all going out. At one point the way L explained it, she was asked what she was doing and when she said, they all invited themselves to come out. the main reason i didn't just say " your mess you clean, was that as i was doing this over the phone and no one actually admitted to inviting the others. I didn't want to make some one have to deal with it when it wasn't there fault. i would have called every one and just said "sorry no can do" but i didn't have any of there contact details.
L did try and text them but no one got back to her.
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Re: Dinner for 15! but i only invited you!
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You need to talk to those who allowed others to invite themselves. Did they fully understand that you wanted a small group and karaoke? If they did, do they see they should have not allowed your wishes to be overridden by the group without your permission? I think they need to hear this because it will happen again. They need some phrases 'I'm sorry we have things set up a certain way.' 'I'm sorry I am not the host and will not change it without talking to her.' 'You guys can do that. I have other plans.' 'No, that won't work.'
Sorry your night messed up and you got the blame.
I would never have even showed up because I don't handle other's messes and I don't handle having my plans hijacked well (i.e. I can not go or I can go and be angry, so I usually chose not to go.)
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Coming up in the east in late April evenings is the constellation Bootes, the Herdsman. Its principal stars form what looks more like a kite than someone who herds animals. Its brightest star, Arcturus, shines a lovely yellow-orange hue. Over to the right this season is an even brighter, red-orange planet, Mars.
Coming up in the east in late April evenings is the constellation Bootes, the Herdsman. Its principal stars form what looks more like a kite than someone who herds animals. Its brightest star, Arcturus, shines a lovely yellow-orange hue. Over to the right this season is an even brighter, red-orange planet, Mars.
If you can find the Big Dipper, Bootes is a cinch, as the top of this "kite" lies immediately off the end star on the Big Dipper's handle (which, by the way, is known as Alkaid). At the lower end of the kite figure is Arcturus.
The ancient Greeks and other civilizations of eons ago who gave us most of our recognized constellations, imagined pictures in the heavens, with stories connected to each that was handed down generation to generation. Bootes is particularly ancient, and was referred to by Homer in "The Odyssey" almost 3,000 years ago. Numerous cultures have recognized Bootes, in slightly different forms. One story is that the Herdsman is continually keeping watch of the celestial bears that circle the Pole Star- Ursa Major the Great Bear (containing the Big Dipper) and Ursa Minor the Little Bear (otherwise known as the Little Dipper).
To help him in herding the bears, he has a pair of hunting dogs in the sky, which make up the small constellation Canes Venatici, basically two stars under the handle of the Big Dipper.
Another legend says that Bootes was the son of Zeus and Callisto. Hera changed Callisto into a bear who was almost killed by Bootes when he was out hunting. Fortunately, she was rescued by Zeus and he took her into the sky where she is now Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Another myth says that he was the son of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. He was said to have been given a place in the sky for inventing the plow.
The Big Dipper, which constantly circles a point next to the North Star in our northern sky, serves as a very handy pointer. In addition to the front stars of the bowl pointing right at the North Star, the handle of the Dipper points down to the bright star Arcturus. Continue your swing past Arcturus to another bright, blue-white star, known as Spica. In the spring of 2014, the planet Mars is shining bright, near Spica.
Arcturus is one of three bright stars that partition the northern sky into thirds, each one dominant in the evening at various times of year. The others are Vega, best seen in summer, and Capella, which parades high in the winter sky. Atcturus is the fourth brightest star in the night sky, after Sirius, Canopus and Alpha Centauri. Of this elite stellar club, only Sirius and Arcturus may be seen from mid-northern latitudes such as where Pennsylvania is found. It is rated at magnitude -0.04.
The lower the number, the brighter the star; for some odd reason, the magnitude scale does not begin with zero for classifying stars; these four mentioned are all brighter than 0.0. The faintest magnitude you can normally see with unaided eyes, on a good night, is +6.
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In 1933 the light of Arcturus was used to open the World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois. The star was chosen as it was thought that light from Arcturus had started its journey at about the time of the previous Chicago fair in 1893.
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Seems alright. It's not really that different from the old version from what I can tell. Other than it's head and tail, it seems the same.
That Antelope thing, looks pretty cool.
I predict that Fletchling and Helioptile will have awesome evolutions.
Does tabletop gaming count? I just played my first game of DnD and I got hooked. If you guys can get some friends, I'd check it out sometime.
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I'd say it does. D&D is really fun whether you're just looking to have fun or play a serious game. D&D can do it all. It's all in the imagination after all! I'm not super into it and I don't play that often but when I do play I enjoy it. I've never really played a fully legitimate game though, lol. More like a bunch of makeshift games.
One of my most interesting games was when I was dungeon master and I set up a sort of Zombie D&D. It was modern day, specifically starting at the exact time we were hanging out at my house. I set it up so I wasn't in the party, but more of a narrator sort of dungeon master, which was still really fun. I actually was able to freak one of the guys out! I took myself out of the story by going to get something and then returning without my car, bloodied and sick, saying that a homeless man attacked me. While they tried to nurse me back to health and gathered supplies the game hours ran by, night came, and before they knew it an ambulance had crashed through my front door revealing the first zombie! All the while, they didn't know much of what was going on since I didn't tell them it revolved around zombies. The game lasted a couple more hours but we still need to continue from there.
Anyway, have any of you guys tried out D&D? If not you should. Maybe try out my zombie style D&D sometime, lol.
I havent tried D&D but its pretty popular in the dorm i stay at. So i may give it a try once the fall semester starts up.
So, what do you guys think about the Xbox One reveal? How does it stack up against the PS4 specs so far? What do you think about all the DRM business going currently? Are you going to be purchasing an Xbox One or PS4 from the information they have released so far?
Personally, I thought it was a pretty bad reveal considering all that went into it. I know they were saving games for E3 or something but that's no escuse to ignore the gamer almost entirely. The specs of the PS4 so far seem to be superior to me so far, but with all the rumors I'm hearing about DRM, I may not get either console (until I break down and get them when the price drops). Microsoft is kinda turning into big brother, always watching, controlling your gaming experience, lol. Where I stand now is that I will get a PS4 but I will not get an Xbox One unless they release some killer exclusive titles. Instead, I will focus those assets to things like investing in PC gaming, purchasing other games, or getting more pony swag.
Also, I played Bioshock Infinite again today. I still can't get over how much of a great game it is! I should really get to playing the first one, after all, it came with Infinite on the PS3 version.
I am the same way Defeat. I don't know about the specs and I didn't watch the conference, just read what Gameinformer put out. From what I've seen it seems like Sony is focusing on what Microsoft only stated as a side note. Sony is selling a game console while Microsoft is selling a media box with a lot of stuff I don't give a crap about. So the order in which I buy new consoles is in the order as follows: PS4, Wii U, and maybe Xbox One.
For all the reasons already listed: I have a Wii U, I'm going to build a gaming rig, I will get a PS4, I will probably not waste time with XB1, but I'm not making any final decisions till after E3.
The reveal was lackluster to say the least.
PS4 is more powerful and from my experience with the PS3 and 360, I definitely prefer Sony. I'll probably eventually get a PS4 and skip the XBox 1, but I've got a PC so I don't really care much for either.
The PS4 is more powerful and easier to develop for (Meaning easily the best looking multiplats), it's focusing a lot on original indie games, can be played without ever connecting to the internet, can be played without a camera and make being plugged in and always on, is focused mainly on games instead of tv/media... yeah.
I'm definitely going to be getting the PS4. Microsoft is going for a different market than Sony is, and that market doesn't include me. E3 will probably show some amazing exclusives or the One (What a crappy name), but then again, so will the PS4. Maybe they'll at least inform all of their employees of their plans by then, so we don't have five different versions of each story.
Agreed, besides probably everything Microsoft will show will either be third party stuff that will also come to PS4, or media stuff.
@bopbop: Well they did say they would be showing off 15 exclusives. That said for all we know most of those could be Kinect only games. We just have to wait and see.
Unless they're coming out with 14 new IP's that aren't for Kinect, or a mix, or just Kinect with Halo 5... Oh ya and I guess a Gears game.
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