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Back at E3, Modern Warfare 3 was everywhere. It opened the Microsoft press event, posters were everywhere and it was hard to ignore on the giant screen that dominated the back of the convention hall. But the focus was on the campaign, and the look at the world as it might be when war has been declared. It was big, wild and loud. But behind closed doors, Activision was showing off something different—the new Spec Ops modes. Those that played Modern Warfare 2—and there are a lot of you—are probably familiar with the two-player co-op Spec Ops missions. Those game modes return in the new Call of Duty, and they bring with it the Survival mode, a two-player co-op that puts you up against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. If you have played Horde mode, you will be familiar with the idea.
We played the Spec Ops mode at E3, and as the video below shows, you will begin with just a handgun. As with the Zombie modes in Treyarch's Call of Duty games, you earn points for defeating enemies, but unlike Zombies you can collect weapons off of foes. You can still buy weapons, as well as weapon enhancements like red dot scopes or dual mags, but you can also save up the points to purchase perks, like automatic turrets. You can also call in a Delta Force team to help you out, and you will need it. The difficult of each wave significantly increases. You will face more enemies with better weapons, better armor, and eventually even dogs strapped with explosives. But nothing will have you cursing quite as loudly as the juggernauts—enemies decked out head to toe in body armor. They will make you angry. Very, very angry.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will empty your wallets when it is released for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and a modified Wii version on November 8.


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Tanya has always dreamed of having a child of her own. "I've wanted to be a mom since I was a child," she told "20/20's" Elizabeth Vargas, "I just loved children my whole life."
Tanya's journey to motherhood began when she was just 19 and was forced to make the toughest decision of her life, one that still haunts her 21 years later. She became pregnant and gave her child up for adoption.
It was not a decision that came easily, but at the time, it felt like the right thing to do. She wanted her daughter to have a family that would love and provide for her while Tanya could focus on school and a career. But after the adoption, she became sidetracked and says the decision "changed me forever."
"I spent my twenties being a little bit lost… very sad that is a decision that I had to make," she said.
In her 30's, Tanya's life began to take shape. Her career in finance took off and she was in a serious relationship that she hoped would turn into marriage and a family…. until one day her boyfriend told her that he did not want to have children. That news came as a "huge shock" to Tanya and resulted in the end of their six-year relationship, leaving her single and childless at 39. That young girl who once gave up her child for adoption had become a woman who now found herself desperate for a second chance at motherhood.
"I have a hole in my heart," she said. "If I could have another biological child, that I could have the chance to be her mom, it would at least make me feel a little bit better."
After a visit to the doctor, she was encouraged to waste no time getting pregnant.
"I didn't want to take the chance of never being a mom," she said. So she turned to sperm banks where she would go on to spend between $60,000 and $70,000 on vials of sperm, doctors' visits and inseminations. "I didn't have any infertility insurance at all, so I had to pay for everything out of pocket."
Throughout the process, she became pregnant three times but each one resulted in a devastating miscarriage. At that point, she was out of work and had depleted her savings. Running out of options, she turned to the Internet, where she discovered a site called Free Sperm Donor Registry. There, she found hundreds of men looking to donate their sperm to women in need… and it was totally free. She created a profile for herself, and within no time, men were reaching out to her, interested in providing her with their sperm. One donor caught her interest.
"We spent weeks emailing and talking on the phone and really getting to know each other," she said.
Eventually, they agreed to meet and Tanya found herself conducting the interview of a lifetime—over dinner and wine.
"We were both shaking as we were lifting our wine glasses," she remembered.
They revealed a lot about themselves to each other and what started as an interview, ended as a date.
Soon, their relationship evolved into more than what she initially intended.
"I hit the jackpot," Tanya said of her donor. "I never imagined that I would have gone on this website and found someone so wonderful."
Though it was never her plan, Tanya and the donor started sleeping together. They exchanged STD results before consummating the relationship.
Tanya confesses that she thought it was "crazy" at first but says, "People have one-night stands and they have babies all the time. I made an adult choice and he and I have come together for a common reason to do this."
However, Tanya has made it clear to him that if she becomes pregnant, she is the only legal parent to the child.
"I wasn't on that website to find a boyfriend or husband or a father of my child," she firmly said. "I was on the website to find a wonderful person that was willing to provide me free sperm."
With motherhood her number one priority, Tanya has also begun working with an adoption lawyer and has even set up a website -- www.babyfortanya.info -- where people who have information on adoptions can contact her. She hopes her biological daughter, who is now 21-years old, might track her down through the site.
However it happens, Tanya is determined to have a baby. "I'm a fighter and I'm not ready to give up…. I just hope that the end result is me being a mom."
Watch the full story on the latest episode of "20/20" online.


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PvP in Guild Wars tends to be a bit of a sticky situation. People either love it, hate it, or have never gone near it. Guild vs. Guild and Heroes' Ascent are hard to get into unless you've got a group of friends to play with that are pretty decent, Codex is just odd, Random Arenas is, as the name suggests, a complete crapshoot, Alliance Battles combine the "we need a group" and random parts, and Jade Quarry and Fort Aspenwood are barely considered PvP and generally will have long, long waits trying to get into a match.
I'm generally part of the "nah, no thanks" camp when it comes to PvP. My guild is small and we're all primarily PvE players, so GvG is right out. HA doesn't really interest me much, and even if I wanted to try, I have no experience so no group would take me. Codex is interesting in theory but not really my thing. RA can be fun, but sometimes it can be utterly frustrating, and tends to be full of people trying to sync matches. AB isn't really something that interests me. FA and JQ I do rather enjoy, but as mentioned above, it can take absolutely forever to get into a match sometimes. There've been days where I've waited ten minutes for it to find enough people on the Luxon side to start a match (yes, I am Kurzick).
Well, today, ArenaNet released a PvP-oriented update. And while it doesn't fix all of the problems inherent in GW's PvP (mostly because a lot of them are because of the community and not the game itself), it does do a lot to make it more interesting for people who may not have tried it before.
The biggest change is to the Gladiator title. It used to be that you'd only start gaining points on that title track after five consecutive wins in RA. This is, understandably, not an easy feat, and RA being what it is, is really not up to skill at all, and rather is down to luck more than anything else. Now, you get a point for every consecutive win, starting with the second. If you win two or three matches? Those matches actually meant something, now, as opposed to before where it was basically nothing but wasted time. The title itself now requires five times as many points as before to get to each rank, but since you're earning points much faster, this makes the title much more accessible to everyone – particularly people who may have wanted to try out PvP before, but always found it too frustrating to bother with.
Codex Arena was always a neat idea from the start, but unfortunately it didn't turn out to be as popular as a lot of people had hoped originally. The nature of the format – you have a small pool of skills to choose from, and the pool changes daily – makes it difficult to get into, because you have to really know your chosen profession in order to really be any good with it. That, and the skill rotation happened so quickly (every 8 hours), that once you figured out a build that worked for you, the skill pool would change. Again, something that could be highly frustrating. The time for the rotation has changed, now, though – now you have a day before the skill pool will change. That'll give you a bit more playtime before you have to start from scratch again, making it a bit less annoying to play. The title for Codex has also been adjusted in the same manner as RA, making that title less irritating to try and progress in.
Ahh, Jade Quarry and Fort Aspenwood. They are my guilty pleasures – I can't remember why I originally decided to try them out, but I decided that I quite enjoy playing them. They're fairly easy, low-stress formats that any profession can play and while teams are random, so long as you can deal damage, you're golden. The problem is that most people play these on the Kurzick side, and hence it could take forever to get into a match. No joke, I have waited 10 minutes for a match to start before. Of course, the epic dance parties that happen in the outposts while waiting can be fun, but you know what's more fun? Obliterating Luxons and giant turtles. To try and encourage more people to join in and play, they made a few changes to the way rewards work for FA and JQ (and also AB). Now, instead of earning Kurzick/Luxon faction, you earn Imperial faction, which you can later exchange for K/L at a 1:1 ratio, or if you wish, Balthazar faction, at a 3:1 ratio. This way, if you're waiting for a match and it's taking too long? Just hop over to the other side! You won't be penalized for playing the other side at all, since you can decide what faction you want to change your Imperial faction for. This also allows you to hold much more faction than normal, since your Imperial faction cap is the sum of your Kurzick and Luxon caps. The faction reward for wins has also been increased, which is always nice.
There were some other things in this update – Zaishen coins are now tradeable, some of the coin costs on items have changed, there are new coin rewards (Envoy weapons which cost 100 gold coins…steep. I probably won't be saving for them myself), and there are new PvP quests aimed at giving a better introduction to the formats for people who might not have tried them before (awesome, those are), as well as some new items available. Basically, all sorts of nifty stuff.
This update was definitely aimed primarily at PvP players, but I would definitely say that it benefits PvE players quite a lot, too. Tonight I played RA and got a win-streak of 8 matches (according to my glad title track, I've only passed five wins once before), and I managed to play a dozen matches of JQ with the timer resetting only once. And I had fun, too. Of course there are people complaining about it – I came across a few determined whiners in Great Temple of Balthazar earlier tonight. And I certainly did some trolling of them, I'll admit. So sorry you can't sync RA with your guildies as easily because there's a ton more people trying it. Complain all you want, but that format never required skill. Me, I'm going to have fun playing and not feeling like I wasted my time if I lose before five wins, and enjoy the fact that I can play JQ and FA quicker.
So, if you've never given PvP a try in GW, or always hated it? Go take a look. Get your feet wet. You might find that you enjoy it more than you'd think!


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Seattle's Cave Singers will release their third album, No Witch early next year. It's their first for Jagjaguwar (Matador released their previous two records), and it was produced by Randall Dunn, who's worked with labelmates Black Mountain, as well as Sunn O)), Wolves In The Throne Room, Six Organs Of Admittance, etc. They promise a more lush album this time around, and "Swim Club" builds on the warm instrumental and vocal harmonies they developed on "Beach House." Singer Pete Quirk's voice is raspy as ever, and it has a brittle, vulnerable quality here too.
The Cave Singers – "Swim Club"
No Witch is out 2/22 via Jagjaguwar. Cave Singers will go on tour with Cold War Kids in early December:
12/02 – Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater
12/03 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre
12/04 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
12/06 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
12/07 – Charleston, SC @ Music Farm
12/08 – Jacksonville, FL @ Free Bird Live
12/10 – Birmingham, AL @ WorkPlay Theatre
12/11 – Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall


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In the past, pro sports has been considered somewhat recession-proof. Not this year, and perhaps not in 2010. Attendance is already sagging, despite the slashing of some seat prices, even in the affluent National Football League. Ailing sponsors, particularly in the auto and financial industries, are dropping out. Those sports promoters getting fat bailouts from the federal government are hearing from critics, some of whom are shareholders.
There's a bright side: fiscal woes of states and municipalities, along with the lending freeze, may put a crimp in the stadium-subsidy scam. The construction industry hopes that the Obama administration's big infrastructure stimulus package will help fund pro sports stadiums, but gnawing water, sewer, road, highway, bridge, dam, and maintenance needs around the nation may squelch such insane babblings.
Early this month, when he said he (along with a small and unidentified group of investors) had reached an agreement to buy the San Diego Padres, Jeff Moorad said that "sports teams will be challenged going forward as all businesses will be in the short run." John and Becky Moores, who own a reported 90 percent of the team, are getting a divorce and claim that is the reason for the sale, which is supposedly to be phased in over several years. However, Moores has shown a canny (and dubious) ability to jettison an investment before a calamity hits; for example, he dumped $650 million worth of Peregrine Systems stock, almost all he controlled, before the company collapsed in scandal. Padres attendance is already in decline, as is the team's performance. Moores, who promised he would bring in good players if the City would give him a fat subsidy, has pared the payroll to bare bones as the team founders in the field.
Taking the family to pro sports events used to be cheap entertainment. But that was before cities massively subsidized new stadiums and owners jacked up prices. In 1991, going to a Padres game cost $73.16, according to teammarketing.com. That included tickets for two adults and two children, four small soft drinks, two small beers, four hot dogs, two programs, two caps, and parking. By 2006, two years after the subsidized Petco Park opened, the cost was up to $180.32. It has risen since 2006: last season a premium-brand beer cost $9 and a hot dog $4.
Everyone is watching baseball's New York Yankees. The team moves into a $1.3 billion subsidized stadium this year. Tickets for seats behind the home dugout, which were $150 a game in 2007 and $250 in 2008, will go to $850 in the new stadium. The Yanks have had trouble selling the 51 luxury suites that go for $600,000 to $850,000 a season. Wall Street's collapse has caused stiff white-collar unemployment in New York.
Philip Porter, economist at the University of South Florida, has just done a study of ticket prices after a subsidized stadium is completed. "Owners keep prices low until they get referendums for stadiums, and then they raise the prices substantially," he says. "The bottom line is that professional sports is a luxury, not a necessity," thanks in large part to price escalations after subsidized stadiums are built.
"The nature of the person in the stadium is changing, especially in football and basketball," says Rodney Fort, professor of sports management at the University of Michigan. "The typical fan is upper-middle class, and in basketball, more than that." Baseball is not quite as expensive, and "hockey is still reasonable."
Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball, has warned owners that the current economic crunch could be severe. The National Football League has experienced a 1 percent drop in attendance this year, even though many tickets had been purchased prior to the economic mayhem. The league has slashed this year's playoff prices by 10 percent and dropped some Super Bowl tickets to $500 a seat from $800, according to Forbes.com. The league has trimmed employment, as have the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball.
It is no secret that pro football is driven by gambling. (Ever wonder why the sports pages give the line on games?) Gambling is down sharply this year. Casino stocks have cratered. Native American casinos are hurting coast-to-coast, including in San Diego. Less wagering on games could translate into lower attendance and lower TV ratings for football and other gambling-dependent pro sports such as basketball.
Other sports are cutting back. Take car racing. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), which depends heavily on support from Detroit-related companies, will cut back its season and the number of cars that compete. Ditto for Formula One, which features sleek racing cars. The Arena Football League, which had been growing in recent years, canceled its 2009 season, pending agreement with the players' union. The Professional Golfers' Association of America shouldn't lose any tournaments this year, but it is concerned about 2010, when contracts with bank and auto sponsors expire. The Ladies Professional Golf Association could have trouble with tournament sponsors this year.
Meanwhile, the banks taking big bailouts from government and the auto companies that have their hands out are getting justifiably sullied in the media. Baseball's New York Mets have a $20 million naming-rights deal with Citigroup, the huge, hapless bank being rescued by the U.S. government. Bank of America, another mendicant, is reported to be negotiating a similar deal with the Yankees. Wachovia Corporation, which Wells Fargo swallowed in an emergency measure, has its name on two pro facilities and sponsors a big golf tournament. It's not clear what will happen.
Owners' economic woes are affecting sports. Billionaire developer Sam Zell loaded media giant Tribune Company with debt; then the newspaper business tanked. The company went bankrupt. Zell has not yet been able to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team and its Wrigley Field. Newspaper megrims have also hit the New York Times; it's trying to unload its 17.5 percent stake in the Boston Red Sox baseball team. Jerry Moyes has piled excessive debt on both his trucking company, Swift Transportation, and his hockey team, the Phoenix Coyotes. Now the team wants to renegotiate its stadium lease, even though it gets most of the revenue from the facility. The Coyotes have a 30-year lease and have promised to stay in town that long, notes fieldofschemes.com, but could vamoose by declaring bankruptcy.
With states and cities broke and capital markets frozen, the stadium-subsidy scam seems to be in abeyance. The owner of football's Minnesota Vikings said if he could get a $635 million subsidy for a $954 million stadium, he could provide 5500 jobs and $500 million to local contractors. This is the state in which a bridge collapse became the national symbol of neglected infrastructure. Upon hearing the Vikings owner's pitch, state legislators erupted "in paroxysms of laughter," says the University of Michigan's Rodney Fort. The legislators responded, "It may create a few jobs for a short time, but we have a long term to think about." Fort notes that baseball's Oakland A's and football's San Francisco 49ers don't have their new stadiums and the Chargers haven't been able to wangle one, at least yet. The establishment is hoping that public frenzy over the current team's late-season success will lead politicians to give the team a billion dollars' worth of land, although team lawyer Mark Fabiani admits the City is at or near bankruptcy and financing is two or three years away. A builder in the City of Industry near Los Angeles claims he is still on schedule to construct a football stadium (an assertion that many question). The Chargers could use the threat of moving there as a poker chip. But the old "build me a stadium or I leave" ploy may not work so well now. "I don't know how other cities will be able to come up with the capital," says Fort.
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- Good weather, high cost of living make San Diego bad for pro sports — Feb. 21, 2018
- Ready to pay for the Raiders' Vegas stadium? — Dec. 5, 2017
- Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades? — March 9, 2016
- Qualcomm stadium is still in diapers — Dec. 9, 2015
- Build a stadium and Chargers will stay? Nope. — May 2, 2012
It pains me to read the truth here again... This year I cancelled my two season tickets... I just couldn't justify spending $8,100, for my "Founders" Club seats for 81 home games. As a season ticket holder for several years, I was forced to purchase a personal seat license if I wanted to have what I believe were great seats behind home plate. But now, since I have voluntarily surrendered my season ticket rights I have to forfeit value of the remaining 29 years on my seat license. In other words, money down the proverbial drain.
My wife, the optimistic one says, well you didn't spend another $8,100 to watch a triple "A" team play at Petco Park. And, if there is on consolation, there are plenty of season ticket holders who will sell their seats on the "Padres Ticket Marketplace" for less than face value this season. So if I get the yearning to see a live game I can go there and still buy good seats for less than the Padres.
Response to post #1: Perhaps as a lure to get people to buy season tickets, the Padres will throw in a condo in the ballpark district. If the team gets bad enough, and condo prices continue plummeting, you might be able to get a free condo for just one game ticket. That's sort of like buying a toaster and getting a bank free. Best, Don Bauder
How long do the "personal seat licenses" last???
That license is also such a scam. I remember when the NFL started that nonsense I couldn't believe people let themselves get shaken down like that!
Response to post #3: Oh, the personal seat license scam is going on in several cities and in more than one sport. Best, Don Bauder
I can't get over how San Diego tries to do business with billionaires with lawyers that can eat Mayors and city counsels for breakfast-- with taxpayers picking up the tab. I used to really like going to the "Murph" to see the Padres. Now the big money has ruined it for me. Nine dollar cup of beer--and they want US to pay for their new stadiums. Wow. The nerve. Now, amazingly, Moores got some stooges to BUY the Pads? No wonder Trevor bailed.
Response to post #5: The Padres pulled off a scam in getting the City's $300 million-plus for the ballpark. Predictably, ticket and concession prices zoomed; it always happens when owners wangle a new stadium out of duped taxpayers. The billionaire owners get rich and the middle class voters can't afford to go to games. The people of San Diego were warned this was going to happen, but few listened. Best, Don Bauder
Speaking of jumping out just in time, according to the VoSD and the UT recently:
(From the VoSD): "After 18 months of negotiations, Ballpark Village, the $1.4 billion proposal to build a large convention hotel adjacent to Petco Park, will start anew.
JMI Realty, Padres owner John Moores' development company, has terminated negotiations on the project to eliminate any threat of litigation stemming from the involvement of Nancy Graham, the former Centre City Development Corp. president who resigned in July."
How convenient is that? Financials have tanked and the building boom downtown has cratered, but the reason for scrapping the deal is Nancy Graham. Yeah, right. I wonder what obligations CCDC let JMI out of by scrapping this deal?
Riding the rail was a punishment of Colonial America in which a man was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two men, with other men on either side to keep him upright on the rail. The victim was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside. Injuries from the ride could, if the victim were stripped, result in a cut crotch that often made walking painful.
The punishment was usually imposed in connection with tarring and feathering.
Alternatively it can refer to tying a person's hands and feet around a rail so the person dangles under the rail.
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Response to post #7: Yes, I laughed out loud (LOL, Johnny?) upon seeing that excuse for backing out of further ballpark development. The media seemed to buy it, LOL, and not surprisingly for San Diego. (See, I am turning into a thoroughly modern Millie in my dotage.) Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #8: And all this time I thought riding the rails referred to hobos. Thanks for the enlightenment. Best, Don Bauder
Don, I think it is time for us to demand that all of our local, state and federal politicians and executive bureaucrats take at least an immediate 20% cut in pay and benefits.
The wealth of America will suffer at least a 20% decline due to this recession and it's time for politicians to share the pain, time to lead us out of the recession they aided and abetted with their gross negligence in leadership.
Giving away taxpayer monies to robber barons like Moores and Spanos is just one form of local government larceny that is a root cause of the current destruction of San Diego economy.
Response to post #11: Yes, corporate welfare, particularly sports welfare for billionaire team owners, has picked the pockets of San Diegans. Now the deep recession is picking those pockets, too. Will San Diegans wake up? Best, Don Bauder
The Chargers must be kicking themselves for trying to squeeze more blood out of the San Diego turnip instead of jumping ship before the financial mess hit. Ain't no way this city is going to be paying for a stadium any time soon, and given the economic crash, public subsidizin' is a lot less likely to happen elsewhere, too. So if a new stadium is still the goal for the next few years, the team likely would have to pick up its own tab. What a concept!
When it comes to the personal seat license deal, I don't have any objection. Owners of businesses should have the right to set prices as they wish. Of course, it does strike me as rather crass for teams to extend middle fingers to fans who supported the teams for years. I happened to be at this year's home opener of the New York Giants, who are going to a new PSL-heavy stadium next year...one of the team's owners took to the field at halftime to give a speech to the crowd over the PA...and his entire spiel was drowned out by boos.
And given the new zeal for thriftiness that seems to be sweeping America, this seems like a tough time to start catering exclusively to wealthy clients. For example, the New York Jets will be playing in the same new stadium as the Giants, and in October, the Jets held an online auction for a small slice of the PSLs. Management has spun the auction as a success, but it is telling that, just prior to the auction, the number of auctioned seats was scaled down by 2/3.
Time to check out high school sports. Price is right and more purity in regards to financial influence.
Response to post #13: I hope you are right that San Diego will not support pro sports welfare with the city on the brink of bankruptcy and the economy deep in recession. I wish I were sure you are right. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #14: Of course, you could go to local college games in which players perform like high schoolers. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #12: "--- Now the deep recession is picking those pockets, too. Will San Diegans wake up?"
The answer is most obviously "NO". San Diego republican voters have proven to be the stupidest people in America after electing three republicans in a row, Golding, Murphy and Sanders who have robbed the City treasury for over 16 years to increase their own personal wealth as their highest priority.
On top of this, during the last eight years Washington republicans have caused every major problem we have in America today from betrayals of our military and the U.S. Constitution to the Depression we are descending into that you and the 2008 Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman are warning us about daily.
As long as brain-dead republican voters exist to drive homo sapiens into extinction it is no wonder that republican politicians refuse to cut their royalty class pay and benefits to share the pain of the disasters they created.
It ain't just Republican politicians who are part of the problem. I like Barack Obama a lot, but it breaks my heart when, after being asked if Bush's numerous crimes should be investigated, he says this: "I don't believe that anybody is above the law, but we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards."
You know what they say about the more things change...
The biggest mistake any person can make is trying to lay blame on only one specific party.
I was a solid hardcore democrat my entire life, until I started seeing how they morally bankrupted the poor and middle class to fund their biggest donor-the public employee unions.
Broke my heart to see the democrats raise the sales taxes time after time and wanting to again today, a very regressive tax hitting the poor 100 times more then the wealthy, to fund the gold plated Cadillac pesnions and pay for our public employees.
I am a hardcore Independant now, and very happy. Both parties have destroyed the backbone of America, the working middle class.
Response to post #17: Golding and Murphy sure disappeared in a hurry. I suspect the same will happen to Sanders. It's premature now, however. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #18: Obama's appointments have been extremely disappointing. Summers and Geithner were major players in blocking the regulation of derivatives -- thus helping to set up the world for the calamity unfolding now. Mary Schapiro, named to head the SEC, has consistently let the big crooks off the hook, and only chased some of the small crooks. Obama is not producing change we can believe in. It appears it will be business as usual. I hope I am wrong. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #19: I know what you mean. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, both Democrats, have helped to produce the economic mess the world is in. Best, Don Bauder
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Well said shizzyfinn and JohnnyVegas.
Regardless of our initial concerns about Obama, let's at least give him 100 days to turn rhetoric into actions.
If he saves us from a GOP Depression I'll be very happy with that for openers.
And if he gets everyone that is unemployed back into good paying jobs and benefits for those who want to work hard to rebuild America I'll be overjoyed beyond my wildest dreams.
Unfortunately, it still appears that both the republican and democratic members of congress are still doing business as usual to perpetuate their aristocratic welfare state, and I can only hope that the voters will support Obama enough to force congressmen and women to accept responsibility and accountability for their failures at last.
We most certainly need a new beginning to prove that American Democracy really can overcome over 50 years of criminal negligence by our elected representatives.
San Diego republican voters have proven to be the stupidest people in America after electing three republicans in a row, Golding, Murphy and Sanders who have robbed the City treasury for over 16 years to increase their own personal wealth as their highest priority.
You forgot that San Diego's "best" mayor, Pete Wilson, is the one who caused SD to get back less of it's taxes from Sacramento than other cities.
He's also the one who started SPSP and the CCDC.
Great insight! You have to give Moores credit as a business man. Is he really getting divorced?
In any case, you mentioned BAILOUT money going to build infrastructure for sports teams. That scares me. Let's see. What's more important - Water, sewers, bridges, highways, railroads, manufacturing, energy or sport franchises?
Do you think they will attempt to use any of the bail out money to build stadiums and ball parks? If so, I hereby request that you devote an article to just this subject to help reduce the chance of this happening. Once the ball gets rolling, it's very hard to stop it.
Ron Harris
Do you think they will attempt to use any of the bail out money to build stadiums and ball parks? ===============================
This will never happen.
If it did you would see a second American Revolution. Seriously.
Looks like vested public pensions in Vallejo, including those already retired are going to be getting a haircut. JF, if I were you I would be getting the FF union lined up with a sustainable (as in cheaper) pension plan, because if BK comes you can kiss those 90% pensions goodbye;
Bankrupt Vallejo eyes CalPERS By Ed Mendel
"The city of Vallejo's groundbreaking attempt to use bankruptcy to overturn expensive labor contracts may include pension and retiree health contracts with CalPERS.
The list of creditors holding the "20 largest unsecured claims" issued by Vallejo when it declared bankruptcy last May was topped by the California Public Employees Retirement System — $135 million for retiree health care and $84 million for pensions.
The city has not formally proposed a change in retiree benefits. But Vallejo officials have said publicly that they want to negotiate a "long-term solution" with the public employee unions.
An attorney for the city's retirees, James Paul, said in a filing with the U.S. Banruptcy Court last month that the city "has indicated its intent" to modify retiree health benefits in talks with unions and the retirees committee."
Response to post #23: Achieving accountability in Congress would be a wondrous feat indeed. Ditto for making Congress members responsible. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post $24: Yes, CCDC was Pete Wilson's baby. The logic was transparent: he wanted to make sure the downtown establishment controlled development there and the people were kept out of the process. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #25: After the federal government looked into the gifts that Moores showered on then-Councilmember Valerie Stallings, Moores got a free pass. If you will remember, he supposedly separated from his wife during that period. I will tell you that there was a lot of cynicism over that: were they really separated, or was this a defense move? I was working for the U-T at the time and didn't dare express my skepticism. There is talk -- not just in San Diego -- that bailout money will be used to build stadiums for billionaire sports team owners. I don't believe there has been anything official on it. The idea is so repugnant that I can barely put it in words. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #26: Look, if we can't get revolutions going over the additional bailout money for B of A, and the $300 billion loan guarantee for Citigroup, and the massive gift to AIG without authorization, will we ever get Americans to storm the Bastille? We won't unless the recession really gets bad -- turns into a depression.Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #27: Remember, Vallejo had to go into BK. The unions wouldn't bend, even though the city was making the threat. Best, Don Bauder
It's funny just how much you learn about how much corruption there is, in the city council and local politics, if you go to the meetings and hang around afterwards to see who shakes who's hand. I was witness to such an event when I saw the city council members lining up to shake Steve South's (CEO of EDCO)hand while telling him they will see him later that night. Shortly thereafter the city land fill fees jumped creating a problem for local haulers to stay in business while the franchised trash companies fees are kept secret by having private agreements with the city. Then ch10 praised the move saying EDCO just opened a recycling plant in East County for Construction and Demolition materials to go, instead of the city land fill in Meramar. My point is whatever Moors is doing it was planed out with CCDC and all the other players involved months ago. Don is right we got screwed a long time ago when they first built the ballpark, and people need to wake up. These agreements are not made in public meetings but behind closed doors. The UT and local TV news channals are just propaganda machines for these people.
Response to post #33: You are right: the big corporate welfare decisions are made behind closed doors. The media twist the facts around so that it appears the welfare recipients are doing the City a favor. It's pathetic, really. It's propaganda, as you state. Best, Don Bauder
Don, I found this in Gerry Braun's desk drawer. Apparently, it was supposed to be at the end of the Mayor's big speech...
....Now before you head for the doors, I want to announce one more thing.
See, before I ever got here, there were a couple bad deals made behind closed-doors...and well, as a former cop I've just got to say they were against the law, and as Mayor, I have to say they're also against the public interest.
I know downtown boosters who fund my campaigns like to claim that John Moores has done a lot of good. But it's not true. In fact, John Moores has siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from the city right into his pocket. He bribed at least one member of the Council, and he's now preparing to skip town with the money he stole from us.
I'm not going to let that happen.
As Mayor, I'm requesting the City Attorney and District Attorney both initiate legal proceedings to get our money back, and charge John Moores for his crimes.
At the same time, we're going to be looking into charges for Alex and Dean Spanos. Again, previous councils and mayors gave them hundreds of millions of your tax dollars. They're skipping town when San Diego's broke, no matter what stories Fabiani might be spinning, and we better get our money back before they go.
Frankly, this is not only for financial reasons, but for moral reasons. I could not stand here as your Mayor and former police officer sworn to uphold the law, and turn a blind eye to the fact that while the rest of the city suffers, blatant crooks are laughing at how they robbed us blind.
San Diego deserves better.
What will we do with the money we get back? I'm committed to spending it solely on housing and care for the less fortunate in our midst. It never made sense to lavish cash on billionaires while ignoring the hungry and homeless.
We're going to right that wrong.
The era of delay, deny and deceive are over. We won't delay prosecution of Moores and Spanos, and Jack McGrory better hire himself some lawyers too. We won't deny that those deals were wrong and must be revoked. We won't deceive the citizens by claiming Moores and Spanos are in any way public-minded when they divert tax money to their pet projects.
My fellow San Diegans, we cannot go forward unless we right the wrongs of the past.
It's time. As your Mayor, I will do everything in my power to get our money back, and bring these civic criminals to justice.
Thank you, and God bless San Diego.
Response to post #35: Wonderful. However, the speech's logic falls apart in one place: Mayor Sanders doing something for moral reasons rather than for political expediency. All that administration knows is political expediency. Braun may be in charge of generating the propaganda. Best, Don Bauder
Has the financial situation gotten bad enough yet that we're going to ever attempt to get our money back from Moores and Spanos?
Apparently not.
Instead, we're cutting more services for the hungry and homeless while paying off the massive debet from Moores' ballpark fraud.
Moores should not only be ridden out of town on the rails (see above), he should first be shackled naked in Balboa Park for every San Diegan to spit on him, abuse him, and slap him around. Justice requires that he have his mouth wired open so everyone in town can evacuate their bowels into his gullet...the exact same thing he's done to San Diego and Peregrine investors.


text: Was on my to the exhibit and the mail lady stopped. I had talked to her previosly about my wrinkled mangled MOA News. She handed me March's copy. It was bent and mangled. But readable. She was embarressed to hand it to me. She had mentioned to her supervisors. Just the way it is. Well that's the new norm and I accept it for what it is. Went on to the exhibit and had a enjoyable look see. The exhibit is kinda small, but I think worth it to see. Back home waitin for a freight load for a new adventure on the road.


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Shares of Red Hat (RHT) today closed down $3.90, or almost 7%, at $52.23, after the company yesterday afternoon reported fiscal Q4 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' expectations, but forecast this quarter, and the full year's results below consensus.
In a phone call following the report, CEO Jim Whitehurst told me that his forecast for operating margin to decline this year to 23.5% from last year's 24.5% is the result of calculated investments the company is making in newer software offerings: Open Stack, the open source tool for deploying and managing virtual machines, and Open Shift, Red Hat's tool set for building cloud computing programs.
"We have never seen this level of interest in another product," said Whitehurst, defending the urgency of his company's investment. Both Open Stack and Open Shift are at early stages in Red Hat's product portfolio. Whitehurst anticipates that the two will show up first in bookings growth for Red Hat this fiscal year, before turning into real revenue in the fiscal year that follows.
The other issue for the Street, he notes, is that the company had much higher billings last quarter than expected, and "with strong billings, they [analysts] were surprised that it didn't turn into higher revenue guidance."
"Two quarters ago we had substantially lower billings and the stock was down double digits," notes Whitehurst, "But then in Q3 and Q4, we had much better billings than expected," his point being that billings and revenue can be inherently lumpy. Billings were probably helped last quarter by some Red Hat sales people moving to close deals with customers more promptly, said Whitehurst, though he insists it was not a company policy.
There were no ratings changes on the stock today, but one price target increase, from Stephens & Co.'s Jonathan Ruykhaver, who reiterated an Overweight rating, and raised his target to $68 from $65.
Keith Weiss, Morgan Stanley: Reiterates an Overweight rating, and a $69 price target. "The billings growth rebound seen in Q3 sustained well into Q4, as cc billings growth accelerated further to 26% YoY, with cc subscription billings growth of 28% YoY. Total billings 8% or $44M ahead of consensus drove operating cash flow of $185M in Q4, up 35% YoY and 18% ahead of consensus expectations. Management spoke to increased bundling of solutions across the product portfolio – 75% of the top 30 deals had a component beyond RHEL – contributing to a strong pick-up in large deals and driving the strength in Q4 [...] However, a conservative FY15 revenue guide and weaker FY14 bookings growth are likely to be near-term concerns for investors and may weigh on the shares. With the rebound in 2H14 billings matching well to the positive feedback we're hearing from the channel on increasing traction with newer technologies, we remain confident the 14% growth outlook for FY15 will prove conservative. The upcoming analyst day on April 16th, should give investors better visibility into these emerging businesses."
Gregg Moskowitz, Cowen & Co.: Reiterates an Outperform rating, and a $68 price target. "While the recently more cautious tech tape is not helping, we believe the market's lukewarm reaction to RHT's results is principally due to two factors: a slight y/y decline in off-balance sheet backlog and lower than expected FY15 revenue/EPS guidance. We view this concern as largely unfounded, and we strongly advise investors to consider the following 6 points: 1) RHT posted its strongest y/y billings growth in 8 quarters, including a record 70+ deals >$1m; 2) while we had expected the offbalance sheet backlog to be higher y/y (it came in at $270m+ vs. $280m+ a year ago), we believe it would have been up solidly if not for a shorter avg. term length this quarter; 3) RHT OpenStack is seeing 3,000 downloads a day and closed "dozens of new deals", including its first 7-figure contract; 4) RHEL 7 should be GA by mid-year, and we continue to believe a pricing uplift is more likely than not; 5) FY14 CFFO of $540m beat the high end of guidance by $20m, in turn driving FY15E CFFO over $20m above our prior ests.; and 6) we believe it's highly likely our FY15 billings est. for 12% growth is too low which, if true, would drive upside to revenue guidance."
Bhavan Suri, William Blair: Reiterates an Outperform rating. "In addition to the strong quarterly results, we were pleased with the company's backlog metrics (which are released once a year during the fourth quarter). Backlog for fiscal year 2014 was $1.56 billion, up 14% year-over-year, which was ahead of our expectation of low-double-digit growth. Still, the portion of the total backlog to be billed in the next 12 months was more than $190 million, compared with $180 million in 2013, and above our expectation of flat growth year-over-year; this, in our view, was very reasonable given the 50% growth in the metric in the prior year. Despite the solid quarter, management offered revenue guidance that was slightly below the Street and increased its spending on sales and marketing and R&D to reinvest in its emerging technologies (OpenStack, OpenShift, and Red Hat storage). While subscription revenue growth should be in the midteens, our sense is that some of the transaction business from cloud providers (which does not appear in billings or deferred revenue) is already built into the current guide; therefore, we were slightly disappointed by the level of potential upside. We remind investors that the company (as it has historically) has provided prudently conservative guidance, but we sense that upside on the subscription line will be somewhat limited and the company's previous goal of driving high-teens to 20% subscription growth has been somewhat reset in the near term."
Sitikantha Panigrahi, Credit Suisse: Reiterates an Outperform rating, and a $70 price target. "Red Hat reported strong February quarter results, with revenue, EPS, deferred revenue and billings above consensus, driven by continued momentum of RHEL coupled with strong adoption of JBoss and the infrastructure stack. Specifically, the company closed a record number of deals above $1 million (70) in Q4. While the company handily beat consensus billings expectations, Red Hat exited the quarter with $270 million in unbilled backlog, a 3.6% year over year decrease primarily due to the higher mix shift of one-year deals (76% of bookings versus 73% last year) and growing public cloud revenue (billed in arrears). Management provided fiscal 2015 guidance of $1.730-1.755 billion in revenue and EPS of $1.54-1.56, below consensus expectations of $1.757 billion and $1.63, respectively and intends to invest aggressively ahead of the emerging growth opportunities. In our view, the above guidance appears conservative given the large subscription base up for renewal in fiscal 2015."
Israel Hernandez, MKM Partners: Reiterates a Neutral rating, and a $60 price target. "We believe implied billings growth of 14% to 15% for FY15 is in-line with our/investor expectations, but we view down y/y operating margin guidance as a mild disappointment. With the stock trading at 17.8x and 15.6x our C14/C15 FCF estimates, respectively, we would look to get more constructive in lower $50s [...] We view off balance sheet backlog of $270mn vs. $280mn last year as a slight disappointment, though we believe it reflects the timing and number of large multi-year deals vs. a fundamental change in the business. Total FY14 backlog (on + off balance sheet) grew 14%, which was in line with our long-term expectations for the business."
Rob Owens, Pacific Crest: Reiterates a Sector Perform rating. "On the call, Red Hat lowered F2015 expectations for both revenue and profitability. Operating margin is expected to decline to 23.5% as the company aggressively ramps up spending on its OpenStack opportunity. The company did announce its first million-dollar OpenStack deal on the call, but OpenStack is unlikely to contribute meaningfully to revenue in F2015 [...] We believe figures still point to slowing in Red Hat's core Linux market, as evidenced by the company's total backlog, which is declining. In addition, optionality around new businesses remains intriguing but, in our view, they are unlikely to be material to a $1.5 billion run-rate business in the near term. Lacking a catalyst for RHT and profitability expectations reset, we would wait for a pullback to become more positive on shares."
Walter Pritchard, Citigroup:Reiterates a Neutral rating, and a $49 price target. "uality was good with current billings growing 22% in constant currency. Deals >$1M led with way with 70 deals, and the management team called out JBoss as the fastest growing product line with more detail here to come on Analyst Day [...] – Momentum has accelerated from where business was 6-12 months ago, however the company is investing more aggressively (OM down Y/Y in FY15) to drive growth that is below last three years' level. The Unix opportunity is "winding down a bit" (management's words) and we believe investor excitement around OpenStack is early. The stock continues to trade at 20x 2015E EV/FCF, a meaningful premium to VMware (VMW) (16x), with growth that is inline and requiring significant incremental investment to drive."


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The pop superstar has used online forums to boost her worldwide appeal and has become the first celebrity to register 18 million followers on Twitter.com.
Now the Poker Face hitmaker is utilising her technology skills by founding her very own networking site for her devotees, who the star has branded her 'little monsters'.
The site, called littlemonsters.com, is currently being set up, and the webpage invites fans to register with their email address.
A reply from the site reads, "Your invitation request has been received! We're excited to share the world of LittleMonsters with you very shortly, keep an eye out for an official invite sometime soon."
The site has been set up with the help of social media start-up company Backplane, in which Gaga is an investor.


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Last summer, there were several excellent summer schools in my field that I learned of only after the application date. The events I did attend were chosen without too much care. I'm planning for the coming summer, but don't really know how best to go about this. Relying solely on the posters that appear on bulletin boards at the local math department seems inadequate.
How do you learn about the exciting summer schools and conferences in your field? Do you rely on word of mouth? What listings do you turn to? I imagine answers will diverge based on position, so please state at what stage of your career you used this approach.
How do you decide which events to attend? What factors play into your choice? Obviously, speakers and location make a difference. How do you weight such factors?


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) San Francisco defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois made one of his greatest football memories to date in the Superdome, where he won a national championship with LSU against Ohio State in January 2008.
Jean Francois also was voted MVP of that game, an honor that disrupted his celebration after he had climbed into the stands to see his family.
``They had to get a lot of the guys to grab me out of the stands to bring me back down, but it was a good moment when I got a chance to hold that crystal ball and see that confetti,'' Jean Francois said.
As it turns out, the 49ers also are staying in the same hotel and using some of the same meeting rooms that LSU used leading up to the Tigers' BCS triumph.
The memories are not so fond for a couple other 49ers who were in that same title game, but playing for the Buckeyes.
``I don't want to hear it,'' linebacker Larry Grant said when asked whether the sight of the Superdome brings back bad memories. ``All I'm thinking about is hoisting that Lombardi Trophy in a few days.''
Grant said Jean Francois had not said a word to him about the game recently.
``He doesn't want to bring that up with me,'' Grant said. ``I might slap him in the face.''
Niners offensive lineman Alex Boone, also a Buckeye back in 2007-08, said he did have some painful memories come back to him when he walked on the field against the Saints earlier this season. The 49ers won that game, 31-21.
``It was a little weird coming back. I just remember thinking about the championship game and I was happy this (past game against New Orleans) went differently,'' Boone said. ``Hopefully we can have success this Sunday.''
Boone acknowledged he somehow gets drawn into conversations with Jean Francois about their college title matchup, even though he has no interest in discussing it.
``We talk about it all the time, surprisingly, because I hate talking about it, but we always end up talking about it once a week,'' Boone said. ``It's weird.''
FAREWELL, ALEX?: Alex Smith leaving the San Francisco 49ers after this season is a topic CEO Jed York isn't ready to address.
York made one thing clear Thursday: Smith hasn't requested his release after the 2005 No. 1 overall draft pick lost his starting job to Colin Kaepernick.
Smith certainly hopes to remain a starter somewhere, and that doesn't seem likely anymore with San Francisco, his only NFL team.
While the 49ers would love to have two winning QBs, York realizes that might not be a realistic luxury as far as Smith is concerned.
``Alex and I started with the 49ers the same year in 2005 and I've known Alex for a long time. And that's part of the overall analysis you do at the end of the season, not just for one player but for everybody,'' York said.
``And you figure out what's best for guys, what's best for the team, and you figure out. Is there a spot for him on the team from a cap standpoint? Yeah, absolutely there's a spot for him on the team. From a need standpoint, it's pretty nice to have two quarterbacks that you feel that you can win with. Is there going to be a demand for a quarterback who's played as well as he had the last couple years? Yeah.''
HALL OF FAME OWNERS? - An oddity for this Super Bowl has both teams' former owners as finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The late Art Modell, who owned the Cleveland Browns and then moved them to Baltimore to become the Ravens, and Ed DeBartolo Jr., of the San Francisco 49ers, could enter the hall on Saturday. They are among 15 modern-day finalists, of which as many as five can be elected.
Modell bought the Browns in 1961 and took them to Baltimore in 1996. He was president of the NFL under then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle from 1967-69 and played an instrumental role in negotiating television contracts for the league. Modell contributed to the creation of Monday night football, too.
``That is always one of those situations that you really try to stay out of, because you don't know how they vote,'' Ravens star linebacker Ray Lewis said. ``You can only tell them about the man who I knew myself: a true legend in his own way, a real visionary who changed thousands and thousands of lives. For the impact he's had on this business and what he's done for so many in this business, for me - I am a little biased - I would say, `Why wouldn't he be in the Hall of Fame?'''
DeBartolo purchased the 49ers in 1977. Soon, they were winning championships: five Super Bowls in as many tries.
During DeBartolo's tenure, the team made 16 playoff appearances, won 13 division titles and played in 10 conference championship games.
But he also was suspended the 1999 season by the NFL after being found guilty of failing to report a bribe by a government official, a felony. He divested ownership of the 49ers to family members.
``I'm hoping Eddie gets into the hall because any time you can accomplish winning five Super Bowls and what he brought to the game of football, he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame,'' said Jerry Rice, the most accomplished receiver in NFL history and a Canton enshrinee. ``I think this society's supposed to be about forgiveness and stuff like that. It's time for Eddie DeBartolo to get into the hall.''
ADRIAN'S AID: Adrian Peterson believes his quick recovery from major knee surgery is an inspiration not only to his teammates and other football players, but to all athletes. And, especially, to all kids.
Peterson always has prided himself on being in top shape, and attributes his conditioning to coming back less than nine months after the surgery, then nearly setting the NFL rushing record, gaining 2,097 yards in Minnesota's wild-card playoff season.
He wants to make sure the youth of America is in tune with staying fit.
``Me being an athlete, I know how important it is to be active and keep your body in shape, and it is hard to get a kid outside to do that,'' said Peterson, who was in New Orleans to promote Kinect for Xbox 360's affiliation with NFL Play 60 to help kids have fun while achieving healthy, active lifestyles. The program also is designed to fight childhood obesity.
``Get off the couch and get active.''
That's exactly what Peterson said he did during his rehab. He chose the Xbox golf game.
``I played the golf game and that got my body burning,'' he said. ``They have the more active games like the track and the NFL, but the golf, it's different. It's cool and I think kids will like it.''
Peterson also is eager to promote nutrition and a healthy diet. He had a sweet tooth as a child and said he was fortunate that he could simply go outdoors and play sports to work off the calories.
``Kids today definitely get a lot of fast foods in their body and that's not good for you,'' he said. ``And now that I am older, I understand. I want young people to understand they need to eat healthy and be active. They don't have to play football, but they need to do something.''
SUPER LEMONADE: Donald Driver is making a quick transition from the gridiron to the business world.
The Green Bay Packers' career leading receiver announced his retirement Thursday morning, then helped kids from Junior Achievement sell lemonade at a pop-up stand in the Super Bowl media center.
Not only did Driver help behind the counter, he loaded up four carrying cases and he and his three new friends set out to find customers. Their cases were empty when they returned.
``All the money they've raised will stay here in New Orleans,'' Driver said. ``What they're starting to do is learn how to run their own business, become entrepreneurs by themselves.
``I'm just here to raise as much money so maybe they can open up their own lemonade stand the next couple of years.''
MUM'S THE WORD: Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti says linebacker Ray Lewis decided to retire after this season several weeks before sharing the news with his team and the rest of the world.
Lewis was working to return from a torn right triceps when coach John Harbaugh told the owner that Lewis wanted to talk to him.
``He just said, `I talked to John and I talked to (general manager) Ozzie Newsome and I'm done after this,''' Bisciotti recalled Thursday. ``We spoke for a few minutes. I just said, mum's the word until you decide to announce it or tell the team. That lasted, I think, a month.''
The formal announcement from Lewis came on Jan. 2. He has resolved to make the Super Bowl his final game.
$100 MILLION FOR HARVARD: The NFL Players Association discussed the $100 million medical research fund it is establishing at Harvard, with the money coming out of the players' portion of league revenues from the collective bargaining agreement.
About 1,000 former players are expected to be involved in the research, which will focus on repetitive brain trauma, aging and cardiovascular disease, medical ethics and sports medicine.
``What we're going to do is transformative,'' NFLPA President Domonique Foxworth said at a news conference Thursday.
AP Sports Writers Nancy Armour, David Ginsburg, Howard Fendrich, Janie McCauley and Barry Wilner contributed to this report.


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Japanese director Takashi Miiki has been making films in his homeland since the late-80s and produced some absolutely amazing titles, including Audition, Ichi the Killer, and 13 Assassins. But after 22 years of directing his own features he is only now ready to make his English language debut. And the good news is that he has picked up one hell of a leading man for the project.
Deadline has learned from sources that Miike is now in talks to direct The Outsider, a project based on an original script developed by John Linson and written by Andrew Baldwin, and has Tom Hardy attached to star. The story is set in post-World War II Japan and will find the Dark Knight Rises star playing an American G.I. who becomes a member of the notorious Japanese Yakuza. Joel Silver, who is best known for producing classics like Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and The Matrix, is on-board as well.
Linson is best known as an executive producer on the long-running FX series Sons of Anarchy, while Baldwin worked on Nicolas Winding Refn's upcoming remake of Logan's Run.
After a rather crazy 2012, Hardy won't be appearing in theaters any any point this year, but has big plans for the future. In 2014 he has George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, Michaël R. Roskam's Animal Rescue, and (provided they start production on time) Daniel Espinosa's Child 44. Unfortunately none of those films has a release date at this present time, so as of now it's unknown when Hardy will be on the big screen again.


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SAN JOSE — The only real suspense was where Ryane Clowe would end up, and now he'll be calling Madison Square Garden home.
Tuesday, the Sharks traded the veteran power forward to the New York Rangers for three draft picks in a deal that he helped engineer rather than force San Jose to live with the no-trade clause in his about-to-expire, four-year, $14.5 million contract.
"Many teams were involved, but this was Ryane's call," Sharks general manager Doug Wilson said. "I included Ryane right from day one, and he had full say in the whole thing. This is typical Ryane. What in fact was best for us probably was best for him, and he enabled us to get a very strong return."
To get Clowe, the Rangers gave up their second-round pick in the 2013 draft, a third-round 2013 pick obtained from the Florida Panthers and a conditional pick in the 2014 draft. If New York wins two playoff rounds with Clowe or re-signs him for next season, San Jose gets the Rangers' second-round pick next summer. If neither happens, a fifth-round pick changes hands.
As many as six teams expressed interest in Clowe, but he said it was down to three as the time neared for a decision — the Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks. Getting into the playoffs was important, and that hurt the Flyers' chances, making it a choice between the Eastern and Western conferences.
Clowe, who grew up in Newfoundland, said geography "had a little bit to do with it," but it wasn't as big a factor as simply being ready for new hockey scenery and the excitement of playing in New York.
"It was just the opportunity to play in the East and see what happens there," Clowe said. "It'll be a change and probably what I needed."
Tuesday's trade was consistent with the game plan Wilson established in the weeks approaching the noon Wednesday NHL trade deadline.
With three of his team's older players set to become unrestricted free agents on July 1, Wilson opted to move them for draft picks rather than offer contract extensions now or take the chance they might walk away with no compensation this summer.
First Douglas Murray, 33, was sent to the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 25. Then Michal Handzus, 36, was shipped to the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. Tuesday, it was Clowe, 30, leaving.
Wilson called his approach "reset and refresh," a method he said would keep the Sharks competitive and fill the lineup with players more suited to the style of play his team is trying to adopt. Each of the moves has helped make the Sharks younger and faster.
The fact that Clowe still is without a goal this season after playing in 28 games may have made the decision to trade him a little easier, and Clowe said he understands that.
"Expectations are high for the team and me as a player," he said. "When that doesn't happen, it's 'what have you done for me lately?' That's just how it is."
Clowe, the Sharks' sixth-round pick in the 2001 draft, developed into a power forward who could score, play a physical game and drop the gloves. Over seven-plus seasons with San Jose, he had 101 goals, 271 points and 567 penalty minutes in 423 games.
Wilson has shrugged off the idea that he was trying to deliver a message to his team with the trades. But since the Murray deal, San Jose is on a five-game winning streak going into Wednesday night's game against the Minnesota Wild and has climbed to sixth place in the Western Conference.
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.
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Following the expansion of its Moto Maker service and a price drop for the Moto X earlier this week, Motorola today announced the Moto G, a new low-cost entry-level smartphone for global markets. The Moto G doesn't skimp on features, but Motorola is selling it for a rock-bottom price: $179 unlocked and without contract. The company says that its partners plan to offer it for even less.
Despite its bargain basement price tag, the Moto G has a 4.5-inch, 720p LCD TFT display, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8 or 16GB of storage, a 5-megapixel rear camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and a 2,070mAh battery. Aesthetically, the Moto G looks almost identical to the Moto X, with a very similar shape and feel. The biggest differences are the front-facing camera and rear speaker, which are on the left of the Moto G while they are on the right of the Moto X.
Motorola isn't offering a Moto Maker customization service for the Moto G, but the back plate is removable, letting customers swap it for different colors and styles. Motorola is selling blue, teal, red, yellow, purple, white, and black covers, as well as rugged versions and flip-style portfolio covers for the Moto G (the company says there are 19 options in total). Unfortunately, the removable cover is purely for cosmetic purposes: the battery is non-removeable and there isn't a microSD card slot on the G.
The Moto G is launching with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, though Motorola says that Android 4.4 will be available for it in a matter of weeks. Like the Moto X, the Moto G's software is very close to a "stock" Android experience, with very little in the way of modification by Motorola. Sadly, the Moto G doesn't have the Moto X's cool software tricks, such as Active Notifications, Quick Capture, and Touchless Control, since those require the special processor only found in the X.
It's striking how similar to the Moto X the Moto G looks and feels
We've spent a little bit of time with an early version of the Moto G, and it's striking just how similar it is to the Moto X when you handle it. Without comparing the two directly, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between them. Motorola tells us that this was intentional: the Moto X look is the company's design language and it isn't concerned with the Moto G distracting customers from its flagship. The build quality and construction of the G are quite impressive, and certainly better than any other phone in this price range.
Likewise, the display is impressive — it has good viewing angles, accurate color, and tight pixel density. In many respects, it's better than the AMOLED display used on the Moto X. The phone is snappy and responsive with Android 4.3, and while it won't give a Samsung Galaxy S4 or LG G2 a run for their money, it will likely be fast enough for the average user. The G doesn't have support for LTE, but for the markets that Motorola is targeting, that's likely to not be much of an issue.
Motorola built a surprisingly solid smartphone that belies its bargain price
Motorola is launching the Moto G in Brazil and parts of Europe today, with availability expected in the coming weeks for the rest of Latin America, Europe, and Canada. The phone will be sold direct from Motorola as well as other carriers in the US in early January, with the 8GB model going for $179 and the 16GB version for $199.
But the specs and features aren't really the main story with the Moto G. It will likely be overlooked and forgotten about in developed markets anyways. Rather, the G is Motorola's first real global play under Google's ownership and it is going up directly against the Nokia Asha's and Firefox OS phones of the world. It's clear that Motorola looking to capture a lot of the first-time smartphone buyers with this device. The company tells us that it does make a profit on the Moto G (it wouldn't elaborate how much) despite its aggressive price point.
The Moto G is going up against the Nokia Ashas and Firefox phones of the world
Though it is priced slightly higher than the average Asha or Firefox phone (most can be had for under $100), the Moto G's performance is so much better and the Android ecosystem so much stronger than Asha or Firefox that it makes quite a compelling option to first time smartphone buyers. The Firefox devices we've seen thus far have had middling performance and empty app stores, and it's hard to even call Nokia's Asha line smartphones at all. The G has the performance and the backing of a legitimate and developed smartphone platform, along with all of Google's support and apps. Motorola could easily upend the entry-level smartphone market with this device, provided it can get it out there.
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A week after Sun Pacific Marketing Cooperative Inc. announced its acquisition of the Cuties trademark and the end of its partnership with Paramount Citrus, Wawona Packing Co. and Moonlight Companies LLC have joined the Cuties Cooperative.
The two companies grow, pack and ship citrus and other fruit.
"Adding Moonlight and Wawona to the Cuties Cooperative was the next logical step in bolstering the supply, service and merchandising support to our growing customer base," Sun Pacific chief executive officer Berne Evans III said in a news release.
Moonlight Cos. is based in Reedley, Calif., and Wawona Packing is in Cutler, Calif.
The Cuties trademark on clementines and mandarins originated in 2001. It was owned equally by Sun Pacific and Paramount Citrus until about May 20, acquired for an undisclosed price.
Last fall, the American Arbitration Association declared Sun Pacific would have exclusive rights to the Cuties brand through the end of the 2013-14 season. Paramount"s owner, Stewart Resnick, had filed a trademark infringement suit against Sun Pacific subsidiary Califia Juice LP after it developed Cuties juice products.
In the 2012-13 season, 95 million boxes of clementines were shipped by Sun Pacific and Paramount Citrus.


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We find a free beach, after shopping at the farmer's market, and swim, rest, and kayak the just unbelievably beautiful Lake Tahoe.
My cell works here. No message from Tess.
Work 4 Peace,Hold All Life Sacred,Eliminate Violence! I am on my mobile version of the door-to-door, going town-to-town holding readings/gatherings/discussions of my book "But What Can I Do?" This is my often neglected blog mostly about my travels since 9/11 as I engage in dialogue and actions. It is steaming with my opinions, insights, analyses toward that end of holding all life sacred, dismantling the empire and eliminating violence while creating the society we want ALL to thrive in
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Invite me to come do a reading in your neck of the woods! I'm very mobile! I'm now a 68 yr old (still with a golden age pass to get into national parks FREE) jewish lesbian anti-racist mother - and grandmother 4 the past 10 years now! - striving radical womonist/feminist; daughter & granddaughter of survivors of the holocaust, mother of a young amazon healer & amazing human being, lover of wimmin & student of conscious living............even tho i am the one actually driving the truck, i could not even head out from home if it were not for the support of many, many, many wimmin (and several men as well). I am now on a national book tour for my "But What Can I Do? A Handbook for change: myself, my community, my country. I still continue to offer Racism Awareness workshops geared for white people, NO DRONES workshops, and any other that is needed. if you want to help support this journey, email me!


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CONMED Corporation Highlights New Products and Educational Offerings at the 2013 Annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting
UTICA, NEW YORK, Mar 19, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — CONMED Corporation CNMD +3.06% is proud to announce an exciting line of new products that will be showcased at this year's American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting in Chicago. The new products that will be available at exhibit booth #2029 include the recently launched Y-Knot(R) all suture anchors and the lithium battery system for Hall(R) battery operated power instruments as well as additional innovations in sports medicine and advanced visualization.
3D-HD Vision System – Our new 3D-HD system provides unparalleled visual acuity and precision for laparoscopic surgery. This new technology may ultimately be advantageous for arthroscopic surgery.
Image Recording DRSHD1080P – This is a premier solution for state-of-the art image capture, making bright and crisp images easily accessible wherever and whenever surgeons need them.
Dry Doc(R) Cannulae – Featuring revolutionary ribbed design, these instruments allow for a stronger hold in skin, muscle and the capsule with clinical benefits of control and patient safety. The Dry Doc is now available in a 7 X 95mm size. This product features double tri-cut seals and a ratcheting stopcock for precise fluid control.
SRS Mini-Open – Building off the success of our Shoulder Restoration System (Cross FT(TM), GENYSYS(TM) Cross FT(TM), Super Revo(R)FT, and ThRevo(R) FT), the new SRS Mini-Open system is a complete line of anchors with needles for surgeons who chose to perform repairs in a mini-open fashion.
Y-Knot(R) All-Suture Anchors from CONMED Linvatec is a new innovative line of instability suture anchors that preserve native bone and help restore the natural anatomy. Y-Knot anchors feature small size, soft construct, and secure 360 degrees FormFit(TM) fixation. The Y-Knot anchor is made entirely of high strength UHMWPE suture, eliminating the possibility of hard loose-bodies in the joint and its small footprint means more potential for tissue-to-bone contact and enables more points of fixation to be made where they are needed most.
Hall(R) Lithium Battery System – Represents the next generation in battery innovation for powered instruments and delivers a dependable, long-lasting source of power and is the only UL-approved autoclavable lithium battery available today. The Hall(R) Lithium Battery provides nearly twice the power of standard batteries and, based on its compact size and design, is 25% lighter than standard autoclavable batteries for a more balanced instrument. The Hall Charger provides fast charge time in just 30 minutes without the need to discharge first and allows for faster return to service.
In addition to our product innovations, CONMED offers innovative and informative surgeon educational programs throughout the year. We offer advanced courses in hip, shoulder and knee surgery taught by world renowned surgeons. An example is the upcoming unique program scheduled for April 2013 combining surgical techniques for knee arthroscopy and knee arthroplasty.
Throughout the AAOS meeting, CONMED will host presentations by surgical experts on important current topics in the field of arthroscopic repair.
In addition, CONMED Corporation will be officially launching our "Concept to CONMED" campaign. Celebrating our history of invention and collaboration with the surgical community, we will focus on the Company's history of leading edge innovation in the field of orthopaedic and arthroscopic surgery, including its history of firsts — from the first in disposable shaver blades, bendable blades and disposable cannulae, to the first in autoclavable 3-chip cameras, to the first in true HD, to the first 3D-HD camera which will be showcased at the meeting.
"This is an exciting time for our Company," said Joseph Darling, CONMED's Executive Vice President for Commercial Operations and President of CONMED Linvatec. "Fifty years ago, our founding pioneers, Dr. Terry Tanner who started Concept Inc. and Dr. Robert Hall who started Hall Power, changed the course of surgical medicine. Their work led to incredible advances that at the time made a significant contribution to surgeons and patient outcomes. We felt that the 50-year landmark is a great time to reflect on our past as we look toward the future of bringing additional new innovations to the market that will complement our entire portfolio."
CONMED profile
CONMED is a medical technology company with an emphasis on surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures. The Company's products are used by surgeons and physicians in a variety of specialties including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery and gastroenterology. Headquartered in Utica, New York, the Company's 3,600 employees distribute its products worldwide from several manufacturing locations. CONMED has a direct selling presence in 16 countries outside the United States and international sales constitute approximately 50% of the Company's total sales.
Forward Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements based on certain assumptions and contingencies that involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and relate to the Company's performance on a going-forward basis. The forward-looking statements in this press release involve risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results, performance or trends, to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements herein or in previous disclosures. The Company believes that all forward-looking statements made by it have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that management's expectations, beliefs or projections as expressed in the forward-looking statements will actually occur or prove to be correct. In addition to general industry and economic conditions, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to: (i) the failure of any one or more of the assumptions stated above, to prove to be correct; (ii) the risks relating to forward-looking statements discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012; (iii) cyclical purchasing patterns from customers, end-users and dealers; (iv) timely release of new products, and acceptance of such new products by the market; (v) the introduction of new products by competitors and other competitive responses; (vi) the possibility that any new acquisition or other transaction may require the Company to reconsider its financial assumptions and goals/targets; (vii) increasing costs for raw materials or transportation; (viii) the risk of a lack of allograft tissues due to reduced donations of such tissues or due to tissues not meeting the appropriate high standards for screening and/or processing of such tissues; and/or (ix) the Company's ability to devise and execute strategies to respond to market conditions.
CONMED Corporation
Robert Shallish
Chief Financial Officer
SOURCE: CONMED Corporation


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CTGal1011 wrote:Did all of the vicsims have private rooms? Did all of the vicsims have vicsim roommates? No giftshop purchases? No vicsims toting their IV poles going for a smoke? No vicsims toting their IV poles to the cafeteria? No visitors to see the vicsims? No sign ins? No calling of priests (other than the "dead one" Father Mychal) to give last rights?
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and also Lauren Manning, like Harry, another Cantor Fitzgerald employee, was also toasted by a fireball in the WTC...
article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/nyregion/10injured.html?pagewanted=all
nonhocapito wrote:I think the "wounded" side of the scam was deliberately and blatantly expunged from the psyop. They never even pretended there were civilians wounded anywhere, which, obviously, is an absurdity. Imagine all that debris raining down on manhattan in reality (in an environment not perfectly evacuated in advance, and with a demolition not perfectly under control) how many wounded would have created.
But no, the media immediately told us that there were "no wounded", and that all the people were donating blood for nothing. http://bu.academia.edu/DouglasStarr/Pap ... w_Republic
But it makes sense. I think this simplified the difficult work of controlling the staffs at the hospitals, on top of controlling firefighters and police. If it is true that firefighters and police are often in masonic groups, like I have been reading somewhere, it seems unlikely that all doctors or orderly staff are too. Better to keep em out of the loop. They probably busied themselves with real people in shock for the events, on top of a normal routine, on top of handling the thousands of citizens apparently donating unnecessary blood.
nonhocapito wrote:all they had were a few scenes filmed in studio showing the same few actors in hospital pajamas.
Well, to be fair, it is television, and news is always staged as entertainment, even in the case when its not total BS. Bellevue Hospital is an amusing choice.The name is synomous with mental instablity for many New Yorkers and Woody Allen fans. Maybe our perps have sense of humor. Or were the 'survivors' driven mad by the silliness of it all?nonhocapito wrote:This first of the videos below, from ABC, features "Marlene Cruz" interviewed "from Bellevue", of all New York hospitals (Bellevue is traditionally the New York hospital for mental patients, like every Woody Allen fan knows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue_Hospital):
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGZYP--wz0
Notice how they placed the "Bellevue" sign behind her in case we wanted to doubt she was really there. How would that ever happen in reality?
Indeed! The psy-op game plan clearly included many such little conspiracy nuggets built into the narratives of planted witness (different size planes,planes with no windows, bombs in the building, etc) and even sending forth a few 'truther'-oriented 'survivors' like William Rodriquez. (It sort of reminds me of how the collapse animations have mysterious flashes, horizontal ejections, smoke monsters, and other breadcrumb trails to endlessly distract truth-seekers and herd them away from the real conspiracy- The MEDIA HOAX -and into the '911 'Truth' offered by gatekeepers Alex Jones, Stephen Jones, Richard Gage, etc.)nonhocapito wrote:(Not surprising to note how all these videos were and are still largely used to fuel fake "truther" theories about the "inside job" and the "explosions", as if the accounts were authentic. This is understandable, since nothing is given for nothing: I am giving you a few crumbs of conspiracy, as long as you believe these people were really wounded and escaped from the collapsing WTC.
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The Toy Story franchise has long been a success, so it comes as no surprise that a Toy Story 3 game was introduced along-side the Toy Story 3 movie. I remember playing the original Toy Story game on my Nintendo, so I was excited to give a more modern Toy Story game a spin.
Toy Story 3 is a family friendly game with a few different ways to play. Check out story mode for a great way to play in between clips from the movie. Toybox mode puts you into a sandbox environment with missions, mini-games and the ability to make your own town. Is Toy Story 3 great for a family game or a trip down memory lane? Read on to find out!


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Today we have Steffani Burton's version of the Tokyo Subway Map quilt that Elizabeth designed and hosted a quilt along for on her blog.
What do you enjoy the most about quilt alongs?
I enjoy the process of fitting a quilt into my 'free sewing' time, as most of what I sew are samples to hang in our shop (my mother and I). Its nice to sew something for myself, something that doesn't live in the shop for months until I get to take it home. With quilt alongs I am able to fit personal sewing into my work sewing.
What do you think makes this quilt modern?
The clean lines made from bright, happy fabrics on a crisp white background. Its fun, and makes me smile. I just love it.
Tell us more about you as a quilter.
I grew up with quilting in my blood-my grandmother started one of the first quilt shops in 1970. After graduating from Arizona State University with a BA in Design, I've joined my mother in MN as the third generation of 'women who sew'. I want to change the stigma that goes along with "quilt shop" and show the next generation that modern quilting/sewing is where its at! I am surrounded by beautiful modern fabrics all day at the shop and I love it. In my free time, I design, create and sew in my home studio. I thrive on creativity, inspiration and all things colorful.
You can see more of Steffani's work on her blog and in her flickr stream.