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BOULDER, CO - August 23, 2005
Refusing to be deterred from the potential for big profits, spyware purveyors are successfully developing and deploying new tactics to speed the proliferation of spyware, according to the latest State of Spyware report issued today by anti-spyware software developer, Webroot Software.
The report finds dramatic increases in the number of reported corporate spyware incidents as well as an alarming rise in the amount of spyware on corporate machines - a 19% increase during the last quarter alone - and in the sophistication with which spyware invades a PC, eludes detection and removal efforts, and then communicates information from its target to third parties.
Just as disturbing, Webroot's Threat Research Team discovered spyware writers are actively growing their distribution channels and entering new markets. Webroot reveals in the report that the number of websites distributing spyware has quadrupled since the beginning of 2005 to an astonishing 300,000 unique URLs. Webroot has also seen the number of spyware traces in its spyware definition database double in the same period to over 100,000.
"There is an underlying principle to spyware that often gets overlooked: it is a business like any other, " said C. David Moll, CEO of Webroot Software. "Unlike virus writers who are motivated by personal pride or a desire for notoriety, spyware purveyors are motivated by profit - whether it's a penny per pop-up or a keylogger that captures valuable account information. Our research shows that like any business, spyware developers are committed to increasing their profit margins by expanding their distribution channels, utilizing new products and entering new markets."
The business of spyware is threatened on several fronts, the report proffers. Legislation against spyware is now pending in 19 states and four bills affecting spyware are pending at the federal level. Consumers and enterprises alike are taking a more proactive stance against spyware, deploying a proven anti-spyware solution like Webroot Spy Sweeper or altering their online habits to better protect their assets. But the report contends spyware developers are fighting back and refusing to yield any of their market share - as evidenced by the fact that more than 80% of consumer and corporate PCs are infected with spyware and the massive increase in the number of spyware websites and traces of spyware. The report also finds that consumer PCs have an average of 25.4 instances of spyware per scan.
Also included in this edition of Webroot's State of Spyware Report are concise figures on the adware industry and insight into how the recent public outcry against adware has affected the industry's business model. The report also includes the results of Webroot's consumer and corporate SpyAudits, an updated list of the ten most significant spyware and adware threats, a detailed review of recent legislative action and a comprehensive compilation of recent spyware incidents. New to this edition of Webroot's State of Spyware Report is the first-ever analysis on the geographical origin of spyware and which countries are the worst offenders. According to report, the majority of spyware is coming from the U.S., with Poland coming in second and the Netherlands in third.
The State of Spyware report is issued quarterly as an in-depth review and analysis of the impact of spyware, adware and unwanted software on consumers and enterprises. The foundation for much of the analysis and trends reporting comes from Webroot's consumer and corporate SpyAudit tools and from online research culled by Phileas, Webroot's automated spyware research system. The SpyAudit tools invite both consumers and enterprises to scan specific PCs and determine spyware infection levels.


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Walking With Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft as Psychogeographer, New York City 1924-26
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"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, — who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering . . ." — Thoreau, "Walking"
"Psychogeography is the science fiction of urbanism." — Asger Jorn[2]

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Tim Wu and Zephyr Teachout discuss Wu's new book "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age."
We live in an "oligopoly age" where many industries are controlled by just a few firms — big banks, big pharma, big tech. Bigness has become too much of a drain on the nation's economy, and too far a deviation from the type of open capitalism that has, at times, created a broad-based wealth and promised a sense of opportunity to every generation. There is a good reason to believe that we once again face the "Curse of Bigness," in the phrase used by Justice Louis Brandeis, to describe the challenges confronting the United States a century ago. Columbia law professor Tim Wu tells the story of what went wrong, and calls for recovering the lost tenets of trustbusters as part of a broader revival of American progressive ideas in a new age of extreme economic inequality.
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|This is me with my Rat.
|This is me Whapping the Rat.
|This is me Tossing my Rat. This is an Olympic Sport, I think.
|I lent my rat to Target because I am a Furry Nice Generous Cat.
|This is me, looking for my next Rat.
|This is me with my Rat.
|This is me Whapping the Rat.
|This is me Tossing my Rat. This is an Olympic Sport, I think.
|I lent my rat to Target because I am a Furry Nice Generous Cat.
|This is me, looking for my next Rat.
Oh goodness Guido! Me and Charlie are about to log off the pc and go to bed (it's nearly midnight here) when your blog post pops up and we're like "WHOA!!!!"! LOL!
You are truly PAWSOME!! Yay! Take care
you are the rat's worst enemy. more combat war to come!!!
OMC, a rat! A real rat! That rat-toss definitely is Cat-O-Lympic material. Wow!!!
Master Hunter Guido! That has a nice ring to it!!!
WOW!! That is so pawsome!
You are a mighty hunter indeed! We could use you around here for catching the mice which are like little, delicate bite sized rats.
OMC!! You caught a rat, Guido? Wow - way to go, friend!! They are fun to toss around, aren't they? MOL!!
Your friends,
Buster, Rudy and Sam
Wow! You are indeed a great hunter!
Oh my Guido! You are the MAN! The Mancatliest ManCat of all! I has never even see a rela, life, fresh rat. I has the IMPRESSED!
A toy and a meal - that was a great catch! We're very impressed!
That is awesome, Guido! Paws up! And yes, rat tossing SHOULD be an Olympic sport.
OMC!! The only rats we have here are pink and green and you can't nom them!!
Hang on. That's a REAL rat?! Scary! How fortunate for your humans that you're such a ferocious hunter!
That's great rat-throwing! Well done Guido.
Mighty hunter Guido!
We gots one here. Little Ms Smokey, one of the outside kitties always finds a rat or mousie, well almost every day, and after she whaps it around and plays with it she will leave it on the door mat in front of the kitchen door for Small One and me. She's such a good kitty too.
Us beans are all proud of our mighty little hunters. Yes we are.
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and what ever greeting you are used to. Hope everyone has a great holiday week and weekend and all stay safe, keep warm and dry, and will come see us when you can.
Guido, excellent first post! Holy Moly, a real live rat, that's something else!
Guido, you are a very clever hunter! And for sure, rat tossing should definitely be added to the Olympic sports. Good luck finding your next one!
Guido, you are awesome! :)
Luna - WE LOVE LUNA
Well that's brilliant mate; well done! Mum used to have pet rats... ridiculous! Deccy x
Congratulations ! You are a good hunter, but please leave your rats and mice outside and don't put them besides your servants bed !
Declan, tell your mum that rat was dead when we saw it, otherwise i would have saved it. I had pet mice and I rather like rats. Although I don't want drain rats in the house...
You're such a big mancat now, Guido. Blogging and catching rats. Whatever next! We should get you your own TV show!
Wow, Guido, good job catching that rat. We like to whap them around too. How generous of you to share the rat. Hope you get another one. Take care.
Pawsome Catch Guido.... Excellent work.
pawhugs, Max
OH Concatulations Guido! My girl got to catch one about 6 weeks ago..I was SO PROUD of her!!! And you shared with Target!! You are a special boy!
xoxoxoxo Mom Carole
Great hunting, Guido!
What a great catch Guido and we hope you had lots of fun tossing him in the air and deading him again. What a great hunter you are.
League Table
Guido 1
Rat 0
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
oh, guido!! conRATulations!! good for you!!
Good job, my friend! I am certain my kitty brothers and sister would not have clue on what to do if they saw one of those!
You are our hero! Such technique in your rat tossing!
Cats of wildcat woods
Ugh...poor rat. But good job, Guido!
ConCATulation to your great catch !!!
I have only maneged to catch a little mousie :)
Impressive hunting by Guido!
Oh my, real rat! You sure are the greatest hunter, Guido!
And how nice of you to lend your rat to Target :-)
Concatulations Guido! you are a great hunter and now officially earning your keep ;)
I am very impressed with your Mighty Hunter skills Guido!
::clapping paws::
Bravo Guido!!
You are a very talented hunter.
Great job, Guido! You sure are a great hunter (and we liked our post, too)! :)


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Danny gets the second best shock of his life four months after he leaves Oahu for San Diego. He's been joking for months that he's going to wake up and Steve is going to be in his apartment to kidnap him back home. Garcia gets a good laugh out of it – Garcia now better understands Steve ever since the day Danny broke and started telling stories – but it's always been just a joke.
At least, it's a joke until one Wednesday morning he wakes up to light spilling in past the curtains and a solid presence in the bedside chair just watching him.
"Okay!" Danny spits out the word in a shocked shout, his heart already racing. "I'm armed!"
"You're armed while you sleep?" is Steve's incredulous retort. "Danny, I don't think that's safe."
Danny fumbles to lean over to the bedside drawer, grabbing a knife in its case and showing it pointedly to Steve before shoving it right back in the drawer, slamming it shut. Steve is just sitting there, like it hasn't been four months, like watching someone sleep isn't strange, like it's okay to just sit there and not even look like you need to breathe.
"McGarrett, you can call the Boy Scouts and tell them you earned your stalking badge," Danny says tiredly, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "You give those Twilight vampires something to aspire to."
Steve looks absolutely blank and clueless at once.
"Don't worry, Grace will explain it to you some day."
Danny tries to shake the fuzz out of his brain and works around to the real question.
"Steve, what the hell are you doing here?" he asks. Yeah, he'd always joked about this, but seeing it actually happening is a little bit terrifying. It makes him wonder if maybe something's gone wrong or if somebody's hurt. He can't even control his fear once it gets started. "Kono? Chin? Is it…"
"Danny, everyone is fine," Steve says. He sounds calm and casual. He sounds like he's going to start asking Danny about his day and it is too early for this.
Danny rubs at his forehead and tries to figure out what he's supposed to do in this situation. He pinches himself just to make sure it isn't a dream – it isn't and also, he's pretty sure there shouldn't be that much skin on his arm to pinch so maybe Mary's right about him needing to lose weight.
"Danny?" Steven asks again, sounding hopeful.
"Steve, I need you to…" He waves in the generic direction of the air. "I need for you to be…" It's so early and he still needs to go to work today. "I need for you to be not here right now. Just for a little. Okay?"
Steve doesn't answer. He just stays right where he's sitting and keeps staring at Danny.
"Okay," Danny answers for him, leaning over to grab his wallet. He digs out a couple of bills and presses them into Steve's hand. Danny sends Steve for breakfast to the bagel place down the street and when he's sure that Steve's gone, he fumbles for his cell and immediately calls Chin. "What the hell, you couldn't have warned me? Said, I don't know, 'Hey Danny, so guess what, you're probably going to wake up and Steve is going to be watching you sleep, like a maniac'. What is wrong with saying that! What is wrong with making that phone call!"
"Danny, calm down," Chin says. He can hear Kono in the background, chirping a bright, 'Hi Danny!' at him.
"No, no, no, no 'Hi Danny'," Danny warns, waving his finger at the phone and wishing that they could see him, that they could see how very not okay with this whole thing he is. "You two are in so much trouble. I could have had a heart attack! Poor heart health runs in the Williams family, waking up to Steve McGarrett watching you could very well be the leading cause of death in Hawaii! That deserves warning."
"If you're worried about your heart," Kono says, her voice just slightly distant, like she's leaning over Chin's shoulder, "maybe you should cut down on the sugary stuff. Mary told us that you put on a couple pounds."
"I hate you," Danny says, shaking his head. "I hate you so much. I am not visiting for your birthday anymore and you are not getting a nice new gun that I hand-picked for you."
"Love you too, Danny," Kono says, just as bright as ever. "Look," she continues, sobering up. "Steve made us promise not to tell you. And truth be told, we're both still trying to process the whole thing."
"Process, what process?" Danny says with a scowl. "Steve got on a plane, he flew away, and then he'll come back and sit in your bedrooms to wake you up and scare you half to death because it's like a sport to him. There, you're processed."
There's a very long span of silence.
"…what did the lunkhead do?" Danny asks with a sigh, brushing the curtains back from the window to make sure that Steve isn't back yet. He's a little bit scared, he won't lie. Steve has a habit of doing things, of saying 'I'll be back' and pulling grenades out of his car (which is Steve's car now, seeing as Danny didn't want to bring it with him to San Diego).
"Well," Kono draws out the word. "Chin is the new head of Five-O."
Danny can feel his heart clench and tighten, like the inevitable attack is coming now. "What did he do?" Danny growls.
"He quit," Chin says, finally speaking up. "He called the governor in order to transfer the task force to me, told us that we weren't to call you on threat of torture by extremely bad music, and gave the keys to his father's house to Mary."
"Mary, what are you talking about, Mary, she's still here, we had dinner just the other night!" Danny is starting to get ready to rant. By the time that Steve gets back, Danny's going to be in full explosion mode. "Okay, okay," he says, taking a deep breath and working towards a kind of calm. "I can handle this. I can handle Steve having a nervous breakdown and coming to my bedroom in the middle of the night. I am a professional with dealing with Steve's brand of crazy."
"Danny, if it's any consolation, he's probably not going to kill you," Chin says.
"You're so helpful. I can barely count the ways in which you are being helpful except that I can and they are numbered on one hand, one," Danny deadpans. "Okay, scram, shoo, get, he's coming back and you have bad guys to catch. Make sure you book 'em just for me."
"We wouldn't think of anything else," Kono promises. "Good luck, Danny."
"Thanks, guys," Danny says softly, hanging up and sliding his phone back on the dresser.
Steve is coming back up the walk and Danny is steeling himself for a knock-down drag-out conversation with no victor and a lot of spoils. At the last minute, he looks at what he's been wearing – a white tank top and a well-worn pair of blue pajama pants – and throws on a button-down to try and make himself look just a little more presentable.
He's left the door unlocked and it's mere minutes before Steve comes inside and all of Danny's well-thought plans go down the drain.
"You quit your job," is all Danny can get out when Steve gets back to the bedroom. He'd intended to start with something else. Maybe he'd grab the food or maybe he'd make small talk, but it's like the words have leapt out past his mouth before Danny could even do anything about it. "For me?" That's what Danny's not exactly clear of.
"Danny, listen…"
"Oh, this is gonna be good," Danny mutters under his breath.
"I got shot."
"You got what?" Danny explodes. "Are you kidding me? So not only did you quit your job, leave Hawaii, and practically scare the fuck out of me in the morning, you didn't call to tell me that you got shot! What's the matter with you!" Danny shouts, smacking Steve upside the back of his head. "I know it's been different without me there, but did you lose what's left of your mind? Is there that little sanity left that things like getting shot just slip away and get lost in the fabric of the universe like wayward socks and forgetting to call your grandmother on the weekend?"
Steve looks a bit hurt, actually, but Danny's not backing down.
"Where did you get shot! When!"
"I got shot a week ago, it was just a through and through," Steve protests, his eyes widening with every word, like he thinks that looking like a puppy is gonna do something about Danny's mood.
He is sorely mistaken. Sorely mistaken.
"Thing is, Danny, I was alone. I got shot and I was alone until the ambulance came and that's just not right. You were supposed to be there with me. You were supposed to use your stupid tie to try and stop the bleeding and then make a couple of jokes about how Superman can't die from a bullet, but I got sirens in the distance. I got a crushing and overwhelming blanket of silence," Steve says, putting the paper bag down on the table. "Things haven't been right since you left. I haven't been right."
"Steve, babe," Danny breaks in here, just to clarify. He waves a hand around, crossing his arms under his torso. "No offense, but I've always had this sneaking suspicion that you have never been right."
"Hawaii isn't right anymore and the last time that happened, I got on a plane and I left," Steve says, so full of calm and reason. Danny suspects that even in Steve's worst times, there is an ocean of calm just waiting to take over again. "So I made it right."
"Okay," Danny says, quietly. He nods his head like there's a private beat he's setting it to. "Okay."
"We are gonna have a discussion sometime about proper greeting protocol," Danny says, starting to button up his shirt. "But yes, okay." Steve grins and it's like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds, it's so bright and beautiful. He steps forward and takes hold of Danny's shirt for him, buttoning it up the rest of the way before smoothing his palm out over the front.
"Okay," Steve says, chipper as anything.
Okay, Danny breathes out one last time when Steve leaves the room and Danny is left to process this for himself.
Steve moves in that afternoon. There's no conversation about hotels. One minute Danny had a nice two-bedroom apartment and the next, Steve's moved his boxes into the storage space and made a groove for his ass in Danny's bed.
Danny should really have expected it, but he still feels a strangled sensation gripping him when he sees Steve walk into the precinct one day with two coffees in hand. He must go as pale as a sheet because Garcia is looking like he wants to get 911 on the phone to call an ambulance over. "Williams, you okay?"
"Yeah, but, Garcia, remember all that stuff I told you about McGarrett?"
"Yeah, the crazy ninja asshole with no regard for authority?"
Danny lets out a choked laugh. He's got about five seconds before Steve's within hearing distance. "Yeah, so I never told you any of that. And uh, I might have neglected to fill in a couple of blanks on that report that I'll tell you about later," he says, rushing the last words to get them out.
He plasters a bright grin on his face and tries to act like this is normal for Steve to just be dropping in on him at work. "Danno," Steve greets, handing him a coffee. "It's two milks and no sugar," he warns. Typically, Danny's coffee order runs closer to the lines of three creams, four sugars.
"Aw, come on," Danny gripes. "Steve."
"You've gained weight," Steve says sternly, setting Danny's coffee on his desk. "And you already had a couple of pounds to take off around your waistline. It's an indicator of possible health problems, Danny."
"Jesus, next thing you know, you'll be calling my mother to get her on my ass about…" Danny trails off when he sees the guilty look on Steve's face. "I swear to god, McGarrett, this is going to be the first exhibit in your murder trial."
He finally remembers Garcia, glancing back to see his new partner watching the back and forth with amusement.
"Williams, I think I got a read on those blanks," Garcia says with an apologetic shrug. He lifts himself out of his seat and leans forward, a hand extended to Steve. "I'm Anthony Garcia. I've been trying to corral this man ever since you cut him loose from Hawaii."
Steve smiles that half-crooked grin and shakes Garcia's hand and Danny can already sense that this is going to go poorly. It's like Rachel and Steve all over again. Steve has basic social problems right up until the minute that someone is important in Danny's life. Then he's all perfect charm and handsome gentleman.
It's just so irritating at the same time that it's kind of charming.
Danny somehow becomes a third wheel with two men who are his partners. They talk about his life and shop-talk and Danny somehow ends up doing the paperwork for the last collar while Steve and Garcia laugh long and hard about old war stories.
And if Danny's not mistaken, there's even a conversation going on over there about 'book 'em, Danno'. "Hey!" Danny says sharply, looking up from where he's jabbing dots on the page to make sure the paperwork is all done. "Both of you, you need time apart and I need my partner."
Steve's off the desk before you can say 'AK-47' and Danny waves his pen in the air like it's a magic wand. "Not you, idiot, my partner," he says again with only a heavy amount of inflection to make the difference.
There's a real pinched look to Steve's face, but Garcia just flashes an apologetic smile and Danny steals back his partner before Steve can do something Steve-like and convince Garcia to join a task-force or anything. "We're going to interrogate a suspect," Danny calls to Steve as they're leaving. "Don't you have that class thing on the base?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I do." Steve just sits there, perched on Danny's desk with his arms crossed. It tightens the polo shirt around his torso and makes Danny's gaze linger just a moment too long. "I'll see you at home?"
"Yeah," Danny confirms with a hand lifted in the air. He thanks Garcia for holding the door as he leaves and is so busy thinking about Steve in that shirt that he doesn't notice the unnatural silence between them for ten minutes. By then, he's all the way past wary. "What?"
"In all your stories, you didn't mention he was your person."
"My what?" Danny scoffs. "My person? Is that the new ridiculous California thing? My person? Steve is my pain in the ass, of course, sure, and occasionally he's good for a hostage situation seeing as he keeps a lot of weapons on him. And you know, the whole holding his breath thing can come in handy."
Garcia, fuck him, just smirks.
"You have a kid," Danny accuses. "You are going to hell for thinking what you just did!"
"Hey, man, you have no proof I'm thinking anything."
"Just like any other day," Danny says, feeling smug that at least he got that in. Garcia shoves at his shoulder and they get in the Mustang to go hunt down their latest suspects for an interrogation.
Danny feels a little looser after that. It's like someone took the heavy boulder of tension from off his shoulders and pitched it far, far away. His zennish calm does not last long because scumbags are scumbags regardless of where in the world they are and two of their suspects are really impolite in their trying to shoot him to death.
By the time he and Garcia are ready to call it quits for the night, Danny has bloodstains on his shirt from the suspect, his vest has got frayed threads from getting stuck on rusty nails at the pier, and he is exhausted – flat out exhausted. He keeps touching the area on his neck where the bullet went by, unconvinced that he hasn't been shot, and gives Garcia a pitiful look.
"Go home, man," Garcia says. "I got this one. But you owe me next time."
"I owe you everything in the world," Danny agrees, but he doesn't need anything more. "You can catch a ride?"
"I'll find a ride. Go home to your breathless wonder."
Danny reverses the Mustang expertly while flipping Garcia the finger. It's a talent no boy from New Jersey grows up without.
When Danny gets back to the apartment complex, he's a little surprised to see Steve is back from work earlier than usual. Danny's not sure if this is good news or if the world is about to end and Steve gets the night off as a result. He drops his keys in the bowl at the front hallway and wanders inside to find Steve setting the table for dinner. That, in and of itself, is a bit worrying. Steve doesn't tend to cook unless it's one of those 'fresh from the ocean' things, but here he is with plates and cooking and candles.
"…Steve? Is someone coming over that I don't know about?" Danny asks, sliding his palm up his torso until he comes to the knot of his tie, loosening it with steady fingers.
Steve closes the distance between them and takes hold of Danny's hands with his own, prying them away from the tie. He replaces them quickly with his own, his breath ghosting past Danny's neck and becoming incredibly distracting.
"It's just us, Danny," Steve says, sliding his fingers deftly through the knot of the tie and prying it loose. "You looked happy at work."
"Yeah, well, straight-up homicide cases put me in a groove," Danny says, standing his ground and not moving as Steve winds the fabric of the tie out from under the collar of his shirt, popping it up like he's some remnant of the eighties. "I tell you we got a hundred percent solve rate, Garcia and I?"
"You seem to work well together," Steve murmurs. The tie is wrapped around his palm, but he hasn't made a single move to step away.
Danny glances up and tries to read the temperature here. "Yeah, we do," he agrees, just a bit wary. "You jealous of that?" He's not even trying to get a rise out of Steve. He genuinely can't tell if that stoic look on Steve's face is 'I'm horrifyingly jealous of your new partnership' or 'I'm glad to see you do so well at work' or maybe just 'maybe I should have put more garlic on the bread'.
Steve smiles in such a calm way that Danny's thinking maybe somebody spiked his tea with drugs and that's why he's home so early. "It was weird to see at first," he says with a shrug. "But I'm not jealous. Because you come home to me," Steve continues, sliding the tie down Danny's neck and starting to unbutton his shirt. He gets one, then two buttons off. He ought to stop where it's appropriate, but he keeps going for the third. "I've been waiting for the right time to broach this, but it always seems to slip away. Now that I know you're happy here, I think it's time."
Danny's heart is making a run for it. It's going to leap out of his chest and leave him a bloody and yammering mess.
"You live with me," Danny says, his voice low and throaty. Somehow, Steve has managed to find a way to close the distance between them, even though Danny would swear on his life that they were out of distance to close. "Steve, you live with me and Grace is blocks away and she knows you're here. You make this into just a sex thing or you fly the coop when you get bored of me," Danny lectures in a patient and even tone. It's his 'I am so very serious about this that I can't even pretend to be angry' voice. "If you do that, I will have no problem calling the Governor of Hawaii and respectfully asking her to redact your ass."
Steve slides his palms down and unbuttons another of Danny's buttons, leaving only two between him and total shirtlessness.
"You're serious about this, huh?" Danny breathes out.
"I came here for you," is all Steve needs to say for Danny to get with the program.
Danny just shoves at Steve to get him going in the direction of the bedroom. "Dinner's gonna be cold, babe," he announces, another tense vice on his chest seemingly released just like that. "I got things I need to do to you. So many things, you have no idea."
Sometime over the last six months, Danny's life has been kidnapped all over again. He would've said it was impossible to happen twice, but impossible is not a word that Steve McGarrett knows.
They get in the habit of having weekly dinners with Mary on the deck of their little apartment. Steve barbecues while Danny fetches drinks and it's a little bit like having family again. Mary's as good as his sister, he won't deny that. They're having one of those barbecues when Mary comes inside to help cook the side dishes with Danny. Steve is busy drinking beer and doing his thing outside with the grill.
"I got this," Danny says with a look of confidence as he gestures to the spinach dip he's putting together. "Old Williams family secret, we are good with an oven and an apron."
"You'll have to show me pictures," Mary says with a slow smile. She casts a glance over her shoulder. "I wanted to ask you something about Steve."
"Is he a lost cause?" Danny jumps right in without actually waiting for her to ask anything. "Yes, I'm sorry, but your brother is always going to have an idiotically happy reaction to things going boom. We tried to find a cure, but he's too far gone."
Mary just rolls her eyes. "You're not as funny as you think you are."
"That is total bullshit, but go on," Danny encourages, a big grin on his face.
"Is my brother happy?" is what she has to ask.
And Danny, well, Danny's big goofy grin probably puts him in the doghouse of happiness more than it does Steve, but Danny likes to think that it does the trick of answering. It's enough for Mary, who comes around the kitchen island to nudge him with her hip and poke a finger into the dip before sucking it off.
"Not bad," she says with approval. "Maybe I'll tell Steve to keep you."
He nudges her right back and they spend the hour bake-time joking back and forth about her being taller than him, ties in California, and Steve's unfortunate hair in high school. No matter how the night varies, it always ends the same – the three of them tipsy, Danny and Steve sprawled out on the couch while Mary takes the chair, and with Steve's fingers absently stroking Danny's neck.
"You two are gross," she accuses, sticking out her tongue as she sprawls forward and puts an empty beer bottle on the table with eight others. Her hair falls messily over her shoulder as she levels a look at them.
Steve's fingers have progressed to stroking down Danny's back. Danny's exhausted from his day and the beer and his eyes aren't even staying open anymore.
"You're the one who wants me happy," Steve says, accusing her lazily.
"Yeah, but can't you wait til I go to bed?"
She takes the guest room like she always does and the minute she closes the door, Steve gets that Look on his face that he always gets when he has a couple of beers in him and he has an idea. Danny doesn't even put up a fight anymore and just shakes his head.
"Do what you're gonna do," Danny says.
Which is how he ends up pressed against the wall, legs wrapped around Steve's waist, gagged, and fucked by a man who has entirely too much strength in his body for his own good.
When they're not entertaining Mary, they sometimes have Garcia and some of the guys from the department over. Somehow, along the way, the wives and partners started to come over with them. It's all Garcia's fault because he got one glimpse of Danny and Steve bickering over whether a sauce had to be refrigerated or not and said, "Next time, I'll bring the wife."
It's a Friday when the kids come over with all the wives and their small apartment is so full of people that Danny's actually afraid he's going to step on someone's baby before he knows it. He escapes the wrath of his book club by getting back to the kitchen and clasping his hands together in prayer. "Steven, beer me," he begs. "I need a beer more than I have ever needed anything in my life, including that thing you did to me the other night."
Danny's learned that talking about sex in a public place makes Steve pull this really funny face that has a real effect on Danny's libido. It's both amusing and dangerous at once, but Danny knows he's gonna behave, what with fifteen people under their roof and most of them underage.
Steve has a quiet look of panic on his face, like all the noise and all people is leading them in a dangerous direction.
"Okay, Steve, I know this is hard to believe," Danny says as he bends over to fish out a new bag of chips to put out. "But the toddler playing on the coffee table is not an assassin from the 'Stan that's here for you," Danny says, nodding his head. He bends over a little further, muttering to himself about salsa, which is when he feels his ass being grabbed. "If that's your sister, we need to have words."
"Danny, downward dog is always gonna get you this kind of attention," says Steve, who is currently pressing the whole front of his torso to Danny's back and breathing the words out against his neck, lips pressed snugly just beneath his earlobe. "Bend with your knees."
"What and not get this kinda treatment?" Danny's pretty thrilled, to be perfectly honest. He straightens up, pressing a bottle of salsa into Steve's hands. "We got houseguests. You are disallowed from locking us in the bedroom."
When Steve opens his mouth, Danny flicks his forehead.
"I wasn't going to say anything," Steve says heatedly.
"I'm sure I owed you one," Danny promises, snatching the salsa back and pressing a kiss on Steve's cheek. Just before he goes back out to feed the hungry masses, Steve remembers to hand him a beer and Danny feels this momentary lapse of judgment where he thinks he could forgive Steve a lot of things just for that.
The entertaining is good for them. It keeps them in the loop of things happening at the precinct and it's not so much of a secret that Steve and Danny live together and in addition to being former partners are also current partners. Occasionally there's someone who'll put up a fuss, but Garcia's pretty aggressive when it comes to reminding those troublemakers that anyone who has a problem with Danny has a problem with the department.
The ugly rumor mill tends to die down for a while after Garcia gives his polite reminders.
It doesn't hurt that Steve has his own work that comes with a hefty amount of respect. Steve spends his days on the Naval Base. He's thrown his hat into the ring to teach some of the more insane courses they offer, but he also does his share of work for the country. Most of the time, Danny doesn't get more of an answer than, "It's classified," but Steve does things like let the papers slip slightly so that Danny can see the headings.
"Are you seriously doing cryptography for the government?" Danny finally breaks one night and asks when he finds Steve with a stack of papers in bed, glasses sitting low on his nose. "Steven, what is this, the Cold War?"
"Your lack of knowledge about current affairs, frankly, scares me some days, Danny," Steve says distractedly, reaching over to pull the covers back and let Danny into bed with him. Danny gets in with his case files, wearing a full set of pajamas and a pair of socks, and props himself up with the pillows. "Also, it's classified."
"I'm gonna start doing shots for every time you tell me that," Danny warns. "And then you're gonna pay for my liver transplant."
Danny shifts until he finds a spot that's comfortable, which mostly involves splaying out reports on Steve's hipbones and scribbling notes when he needs to. Every now and again Steve twitches and Danny has to hide a grin by ducking his head.
"I'm ticklish, okay?" Steve says defensively.
"I didn't say a word, Steve, I think it's adorable that your kryptonite is tickling. Good thing the bad guys in Honolulu didn't know that an overeager kitten could fell you," Danny says with a smirk, signing off on one more case file before stacking them on the dresser beside the bed. He steals Steve's work from him, prying his glasses off and putting those aside too. "Sleep," he insists, when Steve starts looking like he's expecting an amorous interruption. "We stayed up way too late last night when you found my old high school pictures…"
"I regret nothing."
"…and you have that thing in the morning, the deep-sea dive or whatever. Bed," Danny says again, a little sterner this time.
Steve looks like he's ready to launch one final protest and so Danny hauls out the big guns.
"Go to bed and tomorrow when you come home on your freakish adrenaline high, we'll have sex and you can get me so riled up that I make our perfectly nice neighbors think we're ungodly heathens," he says.
Steve seems to take that as good enough because he settles down under the covers and slings an arm around Danny's torso to haul him closer. "Promise?" he asks suspiciously as though Danny's done this kind of thing before – twice, yes, admittedly.
"Yeah, Steve, swear on my glorious locks of hair," Danny agrees.
He leans over to turn the lamp off and gets settled right back into the space that Steve's left open for him. Being held captive by a Navy SEAL isn't exactly so bad when their favorite method of torture seems to be really clingy sleeping.
Danny can deal with that kind of sleep deprivation provided that he gets to kick Steve in the shins when he starts snoring. There are some things that no amount of love can let you forgive, and a night spent listening to a lumberjack sawing away is so beyond the boundaries, as far as Danny's concerned.
Danny gets home from seeing Grace and finds Steve waiting for him with a beer and a gentle smile on his face. Danny takes the beer, chugs half of it down, and lets his attention drift away at least for just a second. He hates this feeling. He hates coming home and being away from Grace for another week. He's worked out new custody arrangements where he gets to see her one night a week in addition to every other weekend, but it still isn't enough.
"You know," Steve says, after the appropriate amount of time has passed and he knows that Danny is ready to talk. Danny wouldn't be surprised if somewhere hidden in their apartment, there is a half-started Danny Williams Manual that Steve pulls out to consult and contribute to on a constant basis. "I think maybe I get a little bit of what you were feeling in Hawaii."
"Yeah?" Danny's not even close to as drunk as he'd like to be, so his confusion is purely because Steve isn't making any damn sense. "How's that?"
"I kind of hate Rachel." Danny's eyes widen and he's practically laughing because Steve, the man who wanted to have tea the very first time he met Danny's ex-wife, that very same man, is now professing to hate the woman.
This is gonna be good. "Yeah?" Danny replies, bemused. "Why's that, babe?"
"I don't mean that I hate her. I don't. She's an incredible woman who raised a beautiful daughter." And there's the respectful Steve that Danny knows has just been lingering around the corner. "But I hate that she moved, because it means that she moved you with her."
Danny's starting to get it.
"And I had to come after you."
There's a heavy pause now as Danny tries to calculate what the next move is. He could roll with this and continue on a casual note. He could pull out a couple new beers and commiserate about just how much Rachel can make their lives hell because she's loyal to her new husband. The thing is, Danny thinks, the thing is that he has to stop and think about this for a minute because the issue is a lot deeper than just 'man, can Rachel suck and I'm not talking about the good way, although…'
Danny leans forward, pressing his palms on his thighs and splaying his fingers out. "Steve, you didn't have to follow me." Danny hadn't been anything more than a partner on the verge of something else. It's not exactly the same situation as Danny and Grace.
Steve didn't have to follow Danny across the ocean. But he did anyway and that says so much without even putting anything into words.
"Danny, ask Chin and Kono sometime," Steve says, so sober, so serious, so Steve that it practically places a pain in Danny's chest that he thinks he can only make go away by kissing Steve as hard as he can. "Ask them what happened when you left."
"I'm guessing," Danny says, his tone light in an attempt to keep the mood up, "I'm guessing maybe you were a pain in everyone's ass. I'm guessing you probably shot someone that you shouldn't have shot. And I'm guessing you tried to use my absence to put new policies into effect that everyone hates. People need coffee in the morning, Steve, you can't just ban coffee!"
"In the quantities that the rest of you drank in, yes I could," Steve says with that serious and determined look on his face. "You would have lived longer if I got my way."
"No coffee bans," Danny says sharply. "But yeah, Steve, I'm guessing you weren't a real peach to live with." He debates his next move here and in the end, he thinks that the only way this is going to work is if he goes with total honesty. "Listen, babe," Danny says, turning on the couch so he's facing Steve. "That feeling's not gonna go away, so I'm about to give you some advice. Be a normal human being and nod right now so I can pretend you're at least listening."
Steve nods -- good boy -- and Danny is at least slightly assuaged.
"One day, you're gonna wake up and realize that if you don't figure out what to do with all those, those feelings," he says, balling his hands up tight in a shadow mimicry of the anger he used to feel, "then it's just gonna devour you whole. So one day I realized that I'm the one who made the choice. I chose to come after Grace and yeah, it makes me a good dad, it makes me a great dad," he allows. "But it still means I chose. I chose it, Steve. Wasn't Rachel's fault for moving on. She just got there first."
So now, now comes the part that involves Steve.
"Look, Steve," Danny says. "I know your life was pretty shitty when I left, but you still chose to come out here. And I'm giving you the option to go back. I am not that kind of girl, Steve McGarrett, that's gonna cry if you go. I will not shed a single tear because, quite frankly, I am sure you've made a dozen girls cry in your lifetime because your special hunk-love wasn't bestowed upon them and I refuse to contribute to that."
Steve is getting a pinched look on his face and he mouths 'hunk-love' very slowly. Danny's going to lose the point if he doesn't hustle to get it back on track.
"What I am saying!" he says, using his hands, "is that you are not bound here by me. You get to choose now, McGarrett, just like I chose to accept that I'm the one who followed Grace to Hawaii. Your call."
Steve purses his lips and his attention veers sideways, away from Danny. He watches Steve warily, not sure what's going to happen next, and while he might have just given Steve an out, he is practically begging with the whole universe that Steve does not actually take it.
"Is trash day tomorrow?" is all Steve asks.
Danny's eyes bug-out, go wide, and he must have missed the rest of the conversation. He is sure that Steve hit him on the head and he's just gone unconscious and he has actually missed all the subjects that bridged the gap between Rachel and trash-day. "Come again?"
"Trash day," is all Steve says. "Tomorrow?"
"We are having a serious discussion!" Danny shouts, aware that they've had complaints from the neighbors already – Danny's been at fault twice with sex and arguing and Steve had accidentally blown the oven door off during an experiment. "You are supposed to make a decision now and then tell me because that is what people in relationships do!"
Unless you're Danny and Rachel and have effectively pioneered a system of glares. He doesn't know that it'll work with him and Steve. It's very hard to learn when not at a young age.
"Danny," Steve says in that way he has, that 'I got this,' tone that makes people trust him. "I decided. I decided a long time ago. Now, seriously, trash day. We've missed the last few weeks because you've forgotten…"
"Oh, I've forgotten, I've forgotten, I'm the one who's been doing stakeouts all night, not sleeping in our cushy bed and able to put the trash out leisurely in the…"
"Because it's going to start smelling, Danny! And that's how we'll get pests…"
"And let me tell you something, I am the one who took it out last time. I remember because I got a lot of comments from our nice elderly neighbor about how I need to wear more clothes out if I intend to meet people along the way. Did you know that apartment etiquette, Steve? Because I didn't, I did not know my house robe was not good enough for old Mrs. O'Leary next door."
"She bakes me cookies," Steve says smugly. "She says I'm a perfect example of a young gentleman and you can learn from me."
"Of course she does," Danny says with a sigh. He waits just a moment, just one, for the dust to settle and the teasing to fall by the wayside. He leans forward and nudges Steve's knee with his knuckles. "You're sure about this? You made your choice?"
"Yeah," Steve says with a nod. "Yeah, I did. Danno, it took me four months to make sure it was the right one, but I don't have a single doubt in my heart. I made my choice."
Danny doesn't need any more convincing than that.
This week, Danny gets Grace on a Tuesday night.
She's finished her homework and has eaten every last green from off her plate – Steve cooked, which means it's a salmon and broccoli kind of night. Danny's just finished putting her to bed in the guest room and sits beside her, his palm stroking her hair, unable to leave without lingering.
She's his baby girl and one day she's gonna grow up and he's barely going to recognize her anymore, but right now on this Tuesday night, she's his and that's all that matters. He closes the door gently behind himself and walks down the hall to see what Steve's up to – if Steve's up to anything dangerous or if he's decided today is when he reveals his plan to take over the western half of the states.
Steve looks relatively harmless. In that he's got Danny's cell phone in hand and is just talking away.
Danny arches a brow and mouths, 'Who is it?' and of all the people it could've been, Danny didn't expect for Steve to whisper, "Your mother," back at him. And they're off, Danny's heart rate accelerating into panic and beads of sweat forming on his upper lip. He hasn't exactly come around to mentioning to his mother that his live-in ex-partner has become something of a serious boyfriend to him.
He's been waiting for an opportune moment. Maybe Christmas when everyone has drank too much and his sisters are shouting at each other about what they want to do for New Years. Yeah, Danny's thinking that'd be the perfect time.
"Steven," Danny commands sharply. "Steven, give up the phone. Steven John McGarrett, you will not like the unholy retribution that will rain down on you if you don't…" Somehow, he ends up standing on the couch and smacking Steve on the back of his head, snatching the phone in the melee.
"…but Danny's been overprotective with his sisters since high school…"
"Ma, it's okay, you can stop lying to Steve, I'm here," Danny says, glaring right back at Steve – who has decided to turn his hurt puppy glare on Danny. It doesn't work, it doesn't work at all, and Danny is not going to feel so guilty later that he'll probably give Steve an Apology Blowjob. He swats at Steve to make him go away so he can at least have a decent conversation with his mother.
"Daniel, sometimes I worry about you," is the first thing his mother says to him.
As far as the Williams family goes, it's not even that hefty a guilt-inducer. There's just been so much worse.
"Steve tells me that you nearly got shot."
"Nearly! Nearly, Ma, focus on the nearly," Danny practically howls in his defense before he remembers just how close Grace is and the last thing he needs is to wake her up. "Steve worries too much, next thing you know he's going to start throwing salt over his shoulder just in case, just in case, and this is a Navy SEAL. If a Navy SEAL is throwing salt to ward away demons, I am not living with said SEAL anymore."
"So then things are going well?"
Danny pauses and watches as Steve finally gives up on getting the cell phone back. He roams around the apartment tidying up and putting away the cupcakes they'd had for dessert. He's wearing yoga pants that make his ass look, frankly, fantastic and a long-sleeved Naval Intelligence sweatshirt.
"Yeah, I mean, they're not half bad," Danny admits. "Me and Garcia busted a drug ring," he boasts proudly. "Even got my picture in the paper. I mailed a copy to you and Dad, and this time, no spelling mistakes," he goes on, something warm pooling in his chest as he watches Steve glance back over his shoulder and smile proudly in Danny's direction. "You okay there? Dad okay?"
"Your father needs something to occupy his time. He's bored."
"Ma, I think he's just enjoying his retirement. Let the man be! So what he's not working all the time anymore, it's good for him, it's good for the both of you. I mean, maybe, maybe you should start thinking about taking a trip out here," Danny suggests, looking down the hallway like he's already doing the math on where everyone will stay.
Now that he's said it, he wants it. He wants it more than he's wanted anything since he wanted Steve with him (and he got that). He wants his father to see the good work he's doing and he wants both his parents to see how big Grace has gotten. He wants Steve to be able to shake his father's hand and Danny wants to tell his mother that he thinks he's done and that second time's the charm.
"We'd love to come out and see you, Danny," his Mom says in that soft and hushed way that comes when Danny does something surprising. The last time he heard her sound like that, he'd bought her a dozen bouquets of roses for Mother's Day. "You wouldn't mind?"
Steve has finished unloading the dishwasher and comes back to the living room, standing in front of Danny – who has yet to move from his position, standing on the couch cushions. Steve just looks at him in that unyielding way that says he wants to know everything about the situation – the man is secretly a gossip whore who hides it behind Naval training, Danny is convinced.
"No, Ma," Danny says, soft as anything as he reaches his free hand out and cups Steve's cheek with it, brushing the line of his jaw once before letting that palm slide down Steve's neck. He presses it atop his heart and just lets it rest there. "Me and the family," he says, not taking his gaze away from Steve's for a single moment.
Get this, he wills. Understand this.
"Me and the family, we want you here."
He knows the conversation goes on past that. They talk about New Jersey and he gives them updates about Grace and they all say their 'I love you's, but Danny's pretty sure it all passes in a haze. Steve's only moved so far as to sit down beside Danny on the couch and when Danny finally says goodbye – for the third time, his Mom has a tendency to bring up cousins and their updates at the last minute – he pries the cell phone away.
"The family?" Steve says as he shifts their bodies, sliding until Danny is on his back and Steve is comfortably straddling him. "I didn't know you and Rachel were doing that well."
Danny just laughs.
He laughs. And then he laughs some more, and when Steve starts getting a hurt look on his face, Danny kisses him while the laughter bubbles past his lips. "God, Steve, you're so lucky that you're an attractive idiot," is all Danny has to say to him. "You're my family, too," he reminds him of what he once said in an airport so very far away.
Steve closes the distance between them and on a Tuesday night, Danny knows that whatever he might have done in his life, he did something very right to get him to this.
And he knows that second time's the charm.


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The Particulars
Harvard sends 12 fencers to compete at the 2012 NCAA Fencing Championships, hosted by Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio. The event will last four days, Thursday through Sunday, and will crown individual champions in each gender, as well as a coed team champion.
The women's championship will take place on Thursday and Friday while the men will start on Saturday and conclude Sunday. A full list of dates and times can be found on the link below.
Championship Schedule
ESPN 3 Mens Coverage
ESPN 3 Women's Coverage
Harvard's Participants
Men's Epee
Peregrine Badger
James Hawrot
Men's Foil
Lucas Lin
Brian Kaneshige
Men's Sabre
Eric Arzoian
Valentin Staller
Women's Epee
Nadia Eldieb
Emma Vaggo
Women's Foil
Alexandra Kiefer
Katherine Chou
Women's Sabre
Kara Lee
Caroline Vloka
The 2012 NCAA Championship
A total of 144 fencers will converge on Columbus, Ohio, for this year's NCAA fencing championship beginning Thursday. The men will fence a full round-robin (23 bouts, first to five touches) spanning the first two days, followed by the women, Friday and Saturday. Each individual win in the round-robin counts for one point towards the team score. The top four in each weapon will advance to the individual medal rounds, which are scored to 15 touches for a win. The men will go on Friday, with the women's medal rounds occurring Sunday. The medal rounds results will not count towards the team scores.
Lights, Camera, Action!
The semifinal rounds of both the men's and women's NCAA fencing championships will be aired on ESPN 3. Coverage will begin at 1:45 p.m., on Friday, March 23 for the women while the men's coverage will be aired at 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, March 25.
Host Ohio State
This year's NCAA championships will be hosted inside two facilities, Ohio State's French Field House and St. John's Arena. This will be the third time in five years the Buckeyes have hosted the national championship, holding hosting duties in 2008 and 2011 as well. Ohio State owns two combined national titles (2004, '08) and a men's championship in 1942.
Harvard's Championship History
Both the Crimson's men's and women's programs have a rich history of team and individual champions. The teams captured their first-ever title in 2006, taking home the NCAA combined championship over runner-up Penn State. Before then, the closest either team had gotten to a national championship was when the men's team finished second in 1969 behind Ivy League rival Penn.
The men have had four individual national champions. The first was in 1987 with Jim O'Neill '88 taking the men's epee title. In 1994, Kwame Van Leeuwen '94 took home the men's foil title. Harvard's 2006 title run was aided in a major way by the performance of eventual epee champion Benjamin Ungar '08-09. Most recently, Tim Hagamen '07 stood highest on the podium in winning the men's sabre.
The women sport three individual national champions in their history, including current junior co-captain Caroline Vloka, who captured the 2010 sabre title. Emily Cross, also a 2008 silver medalist for the US at the Bejing Olympics, won the 2005 individual foil championship. The most recent individual champion was Alexandra Keifer taking home the honor in the foil competition last season.
Last Time Out
Highlighted by gold medal wins from freshman Peregrine Badger and Eric Arzoian, the sixth-ranked Harvard men's fencing team took a total of three medals and seven top-10 finishes at the NCAA Northeast Regional event held at Boston College. With the epee Badger finished in the top-spot followed by teammate Michael Raynis who took second. Senior captain James Hawrot also had a solid showing coming in fifth in the epee field. In the saber grouping, Arzoian stood at the top spot on the podium while senior captain Valentine Staller and junior Thomas Kolasa finished sixth and eighth, respectively. Alexander Ryjik came in just outside of the top-10 pleateua in the field, placing 12th. Lucas Lin was Harvard's best entrant with the foil as the White Plains, N.Y. native finished in fifth place. Freshman Brian Kaneshige he placed 12th while junior Thomas Snell finished the day 23rd.
Highlighted by a gold medal by freshman Emma Vaggo, the ninth-ranked Harvard women's fencing team brought home a total of three medals and five top-10 finishes at the NCAA Northeast Region championship, at Boston College. Vaggo finished in the top-spot in the epee competition in front of Isis Washington and Zsofia Fath from St. John's, who took second and third, respectively. Junior Nadia Eldeib also had a solid showing coming in ninth in the epee field, while senior Felicia Sun just missed cracking the top-10, coming in 12th. In the saber group, Caroline Vloka took home bronze finishing behind Anna Limbach of St. John's and Essane Diedro of Columbia, who placed first and second, respectively. Teammates, freshman Kara Lee, and senior Hayley Levitt finished 14th and 18th. Freshman Alexandra Kiefer secured a silver medal with the foil, as she was the Crimson's top performer in the weapon. Junior Kathy Chou followed close behind as she finished in seventh to round out the field for Harvard.
National Recognition
A total of two Harvard fencers have received national recognition this season from collegefencing360.com. Freshman Brian Kanshige and senior Valentin Staller were named Primetime Performers of the week, announced on Feb. 13
Staller went a 12-3 at the 2012 Ivy League championships coming in second place in the saber field while Kaneshige also had a stellar day recording a 11-4 mark and tying for second place with Alex Pensler from Columbia and Barret Weiss from Brown.


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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
(Rain date: Thursday, June 12, 2014)
5:30pm – 8:30pm
Victorian Gardens, Central Park, NYC
Carnival Night for Kids is a magical summer evening packed with entertainment and fun for the whole family. Join us for amusement park rides, arcade games, a Gaga pit, arts and crafts, magicians, delicious BBQ and much more! Children's book authors Brian Floca, Oliver Jeffers and Tad Hills will be on hand signing complimentary copies of some of their favorite books.
Your support will benefit the Coalition for the Homeless' Camp Homeward Bound, the nation's first summer sleep-away camp for homeless children, and Bound for Success, our after-school program and summer day camp for boys and girls living in New York City shelters.


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BEIRUT - Anti-regime activists say a government airstrike on a town in north Syria has killed 14 people, including two women and eight children.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the 14 were killed in a strike Friday on the town of al-Safira, south of the northern city of Aleppo.
An activist who spoke anonymously because of security reasons gave the names of the dead and said the government often strikes the town because rebels are attacking a large military complex on its outskirts.
Rebels clashed with soldiers there on Friday, he said.
Activists say the regime often takes revenge for rebel advances by bombing residential areas. They say more than 40,000 have been killed in Syria since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Syrian rebels stepped up their siege of a military base in north of the country Friday as government warplanes bombed surrounding areas to support the defenders, activists said.
The fighting around Mannagh airbase near the Turkish border came as foreign ministry officials in Ankara said two Syrian air force generals had defected and crossed the border.
Rebels have been advancing in different areas in northern Syria, capturing several bases in and around the embattled city of Aleppo in recent weeks.
"The fighting did not stop all night around Mannagh airport," said Aleppo-based activist Mohammed Saeed. He added that Syrian military warplanes bombed rebel positions around the camp in an attempt to take the pressure off the base.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels reached the edge of the air base late Thursday and that heavy fighting continued into Friday.
The Observatory and Saeed also reported heavy clashes between troops and rebels in an around the Palestinian refugee camp of Handarat in Aleppo, Syria's largest city and commercial center, which opposition fighters have been trying for six months to capture.
Meanwhile, Russia's foreign minister said Moscow has proposed talks with the main Syrian opposition coalition, even though it had previously criticized Western countries for recognizing the group.
Sergey Lavrov told reporters that Russia has contacted the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces through the Russian Embassy in Egypt and "we expressed readiness to conduct a meeting" with coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib.
The opposition leader al-Khatib quickly delivered an apparent snub: "If we don't represent the Syrian people why is he inviting us?" He called on Russia to demand that President Bashar Assad step down, "a main condition in any negotiations."
"The Syrian people haven't heard one fair word from Russia to the Syrian people, especially to the children, innocent people and civilians who are killed every day with Russian weapons," al-Khatib said in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV.
Russia has been one of Assad's strongest supporters and used its veto right alongside China at the U.N. Security Council to protect its old ally from international sanctions.
It has increasingly sought to distance itself from the Syrian strongman with top Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, making comments that suggest Russia is resigned to Assad losing power.
However, Russia continues to oppose calls for Assad's ouster, and has criticized Western countries for recognizing the opposition coalition, formed in November, as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people. Moscow says this runs counter to agreements seeking to promote political transition in Syria.
In Beirut, airport officials said the U.N. envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi left Lebanon to Dubai on his way to Moscow where is expected to discuss the Syria civil war with Russian officials later this week.
In Turkey, foreign ministry officials said Friday that the two defecting generals were "regional Syrian Air Force commanders" and are now in a camp where army defectors stay in the country.
They refused to give the generals' identities or say how they escaped from Syria. They spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to talk to the press.
The defection comes days after the commander of Syria's military police Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal defected to Turkey. Al-Shallal is among the most senior members of Assad's military to defect.
Dozens of Syrian generals have defected since the country's crisis began in March 2011.
In other parts of the country, the Observatory reported fighting and shelling in areas including some neighborhoods of the capital Damascus, its suburbs, the central province of Hama and Homs and the region of Quneitra on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The Observatory reported heavy clashes in the southern province of Daraa, mostly in the town of Busra al-Harir, and the Tel Shehab area near the border with Jordan.
Syrian rebels are fighting a 21-month-old revolt against President Bashar Assad's regime. Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed in the crisis, which began with pro-democracy protests but has morphed into a civil war.
Associated Press Suzan Fraser contributed to this report from Ankara, Turkey.


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Do We Need Gun Control? Easy answer is NO! This election year has created many opinions on how to reduce gun related crimes. People need to realize that creating more laws isn't going to reduce anything. We already have background checks to prevent felons from legally purchasing guns, but they will always have access to purchase them on the black market. The easiest way to explain this is illegal drugs. Even though some drugs are illegal people still find ways to get them. Prohibition was in
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Why is racism manifesting again in America? Our communities are becoming over whelmed by racism and hatred. Why? I see many individuals that are afraid. Afraid of what our county has become. Take for example individuals in prison. Many people join gangs and groups of the same race for protection. It has been breed into our thoughts for many generations. Some individuals more than others. Our government and the media hasn't helped. They have made it worse! We, as American citizens, need to see
Welfare - Should we care?
How welfare is affecting our country? This is a hard topic. Welfare by definition is: "a government program for poor or unemployed people that helps pay for their food, housing, medical costs, etc." Pretty simple right? Wrong! This program has been established for many years to help out those in need. This is a good thing, but somewhere along the line people started taking advantage of it. Yes, there are legitimate cases where individual and family need help making ends meet, but what about the
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Why is it that we have been hearing more and more about the Bureau Of Land Management or B.L.M.? The B.L.M. is a Federal Agency that was set up to protect certain lands and animals for what they say is for the good of our country. From the B.L.M. website: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more.html This will give you information on what they say they manage and why. It is just very interesting that a land conservation program needs there own assault team with automatic weapons. Also, wouldn't
"The Wall" This Should Be Interesting
"The Wall" Many of you have heard about "The Wall" that Mexico "is" going to build. It "will" help keep out illegal immigrants and drugs that will divide our southern states and Mexico. Donald Trump keeps proposing that this will happen. Is he really talking about a physical wall, or does he just mean that he wants to strengthen our presence along the boarder? Who knows? I wouldn't mind fortifying a wall with actual guards. I say give our National Guard something better to do here, in the
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Do kids these days really respect our National Anthem? I recently read an article about a college basketball coach who got so upset about the disrespect that he has seen during the singing of our National Anthem, and I thought it would be appropriate to share this with you. The respect, or lack of respect that not just kids, but people in general these days just don't have anymore. Personally, and hearing from outside sources, people just don't treat others the way our parents taught us growing
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Is our government trying to provoke another civil war? I have seen some dramatic things happening in the past couple years. It's good to see people protesting their rights being infringed upon. But..... American citizens need to stop listening to groups that are trying to segregate into certain races, religions, etc.... Everything that has been happening has to do with every American Citizen. We need to publicly ban together to change our government. We are doing exactly what our government
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Does our government really believe in our "Constitution" anymore and do people even care? I am a 100% believer in our Constitution. Why is it that our "rights", as Americans, are being infringed upon daily? Some people say, "these infringements are to protect us, and I'm not doing anything wrong, so why should I care?" I tell them to look at what Stalin and Hitler did to their people. The problem was it was done slowly, and the citizens of those countries didn't realize what was happening
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Why are we letting other counties take advantage of America?
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Helping our citizens first.
Helping our citizens first. Why is it everytime I see a story of somebody in the streets, sleeping in a cardboard box, it just pisses me off? The same day I will see some kind of charity raising money to help some other country. I do not have a problem with helping anyone, but when it comes to Americans, we should always be first! My thoughts: 1. We see too many Americans homeless, hungry, and mentally ill. Our economy seems to be a major contributor. It pisses me off when I hear that we just


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BOULDER, CO - February 4, 2008
Webroot Software, Inc., a leading provider of security software for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the availability of Webroot® Parental Controls. This update to Webroot's best-of-breed online child safety software brings parents peace of mind with robust security tools to help keep children safe from online threats and manage their use of the PC.
"Webroot is deeply committed to protecting all online users – including children – from security threats. While there is no substitute for discussing online safety with children, leading child advocacy groups believe communication, in addition to using filtering software, ensures the best online protection for kids," said Peter Watkins, Webroot CEO. "Webroot Parental Controls is the most advanced and flexible software parents can add to their home computers to better manage how the computer is used and what content is acceptable."
Webroot Parental Controls helps parents protect their children from computer risks even when they cannot personally monitor their child's activity. The software blocks access to inappropriate or dangerous web content, and enforces rules for how much computer time is acceptable and which programs can be used. Additionally, Webroot Parental Controls is completely tamper-proof; prohibiting any attempt to bypass security settings or install programs without a parent's permission. The program is fully compatible with the Windows XP and Vista™ operating systems, and each subscription protects up to three personal computers within the household.
Webroot recognizes the use of parental control software in the home as part of a larger child safety solution. To encourage broader education and online safety practices, Webroot has partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, a network of more than 4,000 neighborhood-based clubs serving more than 4.8 million young people annually. Through the relationship, Webroot will donate a portion of the revenue from Webroot Parental Controls earned through April 2008 to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Webroot will also outfit more than 600 Clubs in the Southwest region with complimentary licenses of Webroot Parental Controls. The donation covers an eight state area with more than 7,000 computers used daily by young people.
"On behalf of all of Boys & Girls Clubs, we are grateful for Webroot's support to help protect our young people from predatory behavior and other online threats. With more than 2,000 technology centers and some 60,000 computers nationwide, the issues of information protection and Internet safety are a primary concern for us," said Boys & Girls Club of America Senior Vice President, Technology Bill Regehr.
Key features of Webroot Parental Controls include:
Customizable Profiles
Parents can manage Internet usage for multiple users through customizable profiles that monitor the Web sites their children can access based on any combination of over 60 content categories, specific Web site addresses or keywords.
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The Webroot Parental Controls solution is compatible with the Windows Vista operating system. Webroot Parental Controls offers additional safeguards to Windows Vista, to provide a layered security approach to managing children's computer and online activities.
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Webroot Parental Controls is priced at $39.95 for a three-user license, and can be purchased at major retail software outlets or online at www.webroot.com. All Webroot products are backed by free, U.S.-based online and telephone support.


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17 U.S. Code § 501. Infringement of copyright
The bill, unlike the present law, contains a general statement of what constitutes infringement of copyright. Section 501(a) identifies a copyright infringer as someone who "violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 118" of the bill, or who imports copies or phonorecords in violation of section 602. Under the latter section an unauthorized importation of copies or phonorecords acquired abroad is an infringement of the exclusive right of distribution under certain circumstances.
The principle of the divisibility of copyright ownership, established by section 201(d), carries with it the need in infringement actions to safeguard the rights of all copyright owners and to avoid a multiplicity of suits. Subsection (b) of section 501 enables the owner of a particular right to bring an infringement action in that owner's name alone, while at the same time insuring to the extent possible that the other owners whose rights may be affected are notified and given a chance to join the action.
The first sentence of subsection (b) empowers the "legal or beneficial owner of an exclusive right" to bring suit for "any infringement of that particular right committed while he or she is the owner of it." A "beneficial owner" for this purpose would include, for example, an author who had parted with legal title to the copyright in exchange for percentage royalties based on sales or license fees.
The second and third sentences of section 501(b), which supplement the provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure [Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure], give the courts discretion to require the plaintiff to serve notice of the plaintiff's suit on "any person shown, by the records of the Copyright Office or otherwise, to have or claim an interest in the copyright"; where a person's interest "is likely to be affected by a decision in the case" a court order requiring service of notice is mandatory. As under the Federal rules, the court has discretion to require joinder of "any person having or claiming an interest in the copyright"; but, if any such person wishes to become a party, the court must permit that person's intervention.
In addition to cases involving divisibility of ownership in the same version of a work, section 501(b) is intended to allow a court to permit or compel joinder of the owners of rights in works upon which a derivative work is based.
Section 501 contains two provisions conferring standing to sue under the statue upon broadcast stations in specific situations involving secondary transmissions by cable systems. Under subsection (c), a local television broadcaster licensed to transmit a work can sue a cable system importing the same version of the work into the broadcaster's local service area in violation of section 111(c). Subsection (d) deals with cases arising under section 111(c)(3), the provision dealing with substitution or alteration by a cable system of commercials or other programming; in such cases standing to sue is also conferred on: (1) the primary transmitter whose transmission has been altered by the cable system, and (2) any broadcast stations within whose local service area the secondary transmission occurs. These provisions are linked to section 509, a new provision on remedies for alteration of programming by cable systems, discussed below.
Section 119(a)(5) of this title, referred to in subsec. (e), was redesignated as section 119(a)(4) of this title by Pub. L. 111–175, title I, § 102(h)(1)(B), May 27, 2010, 124 Stat. 1224.
Section 338(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, referred to in subsec. (f)(2), is classified to section 338(a) of Title 47, Telecommunications.
2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–273 substituted "122" for "121".
1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–44 substituted "121" for "118".
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title I, § 1011(b)(3)], substituted "performance or display of a work embodied in a primary transmission" for "primary transmission embodying the performance or display of a work".
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title I, § 1002(b)], added subsec. (f).
1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–650 inserted "or of the author as provided in section 106A(a)" after "118" and substituted "copyright or right of the author, as the case may be. For purposes of this chapter (other than section 506), any reference to copyright shall be deemed to include the rights conferred by section 106A(a)." for "copyright."
Pub. L. 101–553 inserted sentences at end defining "anyone" and providing that any State and any instrumentality, officer, or employee be subject to the provisions of this title in the same manner and to the same extent as any nongovernmental entity.
1988—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–568 substituted "section 411" for "sections 205(d) and 411".
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 100–667 added subsec. (e).
Amendment by section 1000(a)(9) [title I, § 1002(b)] of Pub. L. 106–113 effective July 1, 1999, and amendment by section 1000(a)(9) [title I, § 1011(b)(3)] of Pub. L. 106–113 effective Nov. 29, 1999, see section 1000(a)(9) [title I, § 1012] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.
Amendment by Pub. L. 101–650 effective 6 months after Dec. 1, 1990, see section 610 of Pub. L. 101–650, set out as an Effective Date note under section 106A of this title.
Pub. L. 101–553, § 3, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2750, provided that:
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–667 effective Jan. 1, 1989, see section 206 of Pub. L. 100–667, set out as an Effective Date note under section 119 of this title.
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–568 effective Mar. 1, 1989, with any cause of action arising under this title before such date being governed by provisions in effect when cause of action arose, see section 13 of Pub. L. 100–568, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.
Pub. L. 94–553, title I, § 112, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2600, provided that:
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To be treated with respect, dignity, and consideration of the individual patient's cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, and personal values, beliefs, and preferences.
To be free from mental, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse, neglect, and exploitation while under the care of Student Health Services.
To receive the best care available for your problem, without regard to national origin, race, age, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, disability, or illness.
To know the identity and professional status of individuals providing your care.
To obtain from the provider, to the degree known, information concerning your diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
To be informed (along with your family when appropriate) about the outcomes of care, including unanticipated outcomes.
To have your pain assessed, treated and managed appropriately.
To participate in decisions involving your health care and in resolving conflicts about care decisions.
To refuse care, treatment, or services in accordance with law and regulation and to be informed of the medical consequences of such action.
To refuse participation in research studies.
To confidential treatment of disclosures and records, and to approve or refuse the release of such information, except where release is required by law.
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Patient Responsibilities:
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- To follow treatment plans recommended by your provider and to ask questions or discuss concerns with the provider when you do not understand or agree with the plan of treatment.
- To be respectful and considerate of other patients, Student Health Services staff and facility.
- To follow appropriate rules and regulations.
- To keep appointments reliably and promptly or to notify Student Health Service when you are unable to do so.
- To fulfill financial obligations for your care in a timely manner.
- To be familiar with your health insurance coverage and provide information necessary for appropriate provider referral, if needed.
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There's a lot of good family history information available on the Internet. Here are five places we've enjoyed visiting this week:
Return of family-history letters 'almost a miracle.' A cache of family letters dating to 1865 is lost, only to pop up several months later several states away. The finder, who bought the letters on eBay, recognized their family history value and began a quest to reunite them with their rightful owners.
A catalog of broken dreams. National Public Radio reviews Important Artifacts, a book by New York Times op-ed page art director Leanne Shapton: "Foregoing narrative entirely, Shapton tells the story of a couple's relationship in the form of a staggeringly precise ersatz auction catalog that annotates the common detritus of a love affair — notes, CD mixes, e-mails, photos, books— and places the objects up for sale."
Interview with an actual witness to a 1932 mob hit. The current film Public Enemies is Hollywood's version of mobster life in the 1930s, but Aunt Tootsie recently shared her own real-life observations of a mob hit that resulted in her testifying in court as a terrified teen.
Beginning family history research. This 10-minute video gives viewers an overview of some of the options for starting a family tree.
A cartoonist in the family. Victor Pazmino was a comic book artist whose career ran well into the 1940s. He wasn't well-known but apparently enjoyed some success in his chosen field. Thanks to the foresight of some relatives, we know a bit about this man who never married and died in 1970, still, I would love to know more.
Larry Lehmer is a professional personal historian who helps people preserve their family histories. To learn more, visit his web site, send him an e-mail or follow him on Twitter.
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In 2005 Gareth graduated from the University of Birmingham and in 2008 completed a Postgraduate Diploma having studied with Roberto Carrillo-Garcia of the Hallé. He joined the Philharmonia in December 2009 as a member of the double bass section.
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Gareth is from South Wales and began playing the double bass at the age of fifteen, studying with Mary Condliffe of the WNO.


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Sara Ramirez Gossip
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Grey's Anatomy Musical Event
Written by Duana I'm the type who finds a song lyric for every occasion. I would quite happily sing through my life, and though I haven't done it in years, I'm pretty sure I was that girl, circa high school or early university, who made people sit down and listen to a song because maybe the way the (lame) lyrics were played out just made so much sense to me. Full Story
Worst Dressed: Sara Ramirez
You know I love her. You know I adore Callie. But what I said earlier about Nikki Blonsky applies to Sara Ramirez…she needs a hook up with America Ferrera's stylist. Or Jennifer Hudson. Because curves are great. And curves need to be showcased more effectively. Curves need to be given their due. Full Story


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Scottish minister hits back at Trump in wind farm row
- Donald Trumps controversial golf course will open in Scotland next month
- Plans for an adjoining hotel have been shelved in a row over an offshore wind farm
- Trump has threatened to sue the Scottish government if the wind farm is not scrapped
- Scottish first minister Alex Salmond tells Trump to stay out of government matters
The Trump International Golf Links, which the tycoon hopes will become the world's best course, is due to open in Aberdeenshire on July 10, but plans for an adjoining hotel have been shelved due to a row over the development of a nearby offshore wind farm.
Trump claims he was misled by Salmond over the American's $1 billion project and has threatened to sue the Scottish government if the wind farm development is not abandoned.
But Salmond, who has welcomed the golf course's construction, told Trump not to interfere in Scotland's energy policy.
"Donald Trump is building a fantastic golf course in Scotland that I very much support and I've been a great supporter of it," Salmond told CNN at the TED Global conference in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.
"Unfortunately, recently, he has tried to tell the Scottish Government how to run our energy policy.
"So, I suppose the message I have to say is, yes to great golf courses, we have the greatest golf courses in the world in Scotland and one more won't do any harm, but let the democratically elected government of Scotland decide its own energy policy."
In April, Trump appeared in the Scottish parliament to express his opposition to the North Sea wind farm.
Salmond has questioned the strategy of Trump, who will open his new course with a ceremony including local golf stars such as Colin Montgomerie and Paul Lawrie, to potentially pursue legal action against the Scottish government.
"We are a free society in Scotland, people are free to do as they choose," he said.
"The track record of taking legal action against a democratically elected government, pursuing the policy on which it was elected, in the Scottish courts would not be a propitious one. But nonetheless people are free to do what they wish."
Designed by leading golf architec Martin Hawtree, the Menie course has been built on a site of special scientific interest after the Scottish government overruled Aberdeenshire council's decision to reject the American's project, arguing the economic benefits outweighed environmental concerns.
The course has been talked up as future British Open venue, while a bid for the 2022 Ryder Cup is also a possibility.


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