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The San Diego-born boy who killed 4 men wants to return to the U.S.
A San Diego-born teenager convicted of beheading four young men on behalf of a drug cartel in central Mexico could be back in the United States by the end of the year or sooner.
Edgar Jimenez Lugo, who was 14 when the killings occurred, has asked to be transferred to the United States, according to juvenile court authorities in Mexico and a relative there. He is serving a three-year sentence at a juvenile detention center in Morelos state, just south of Mexico City, and is due to get out in December.
The president of the Morelos juvenile court system, which oversees Edgar's rehabilitation, said
"The corresponding studies are being done by the embassy and they have until July 31 to decide on his transfer," Ana Virinia Pérez told reporters in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on Friday. "It is assumed that the embassy is following through with all the requirements."
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It is unclear whether the request was initiated by the teenager or U.S. authorities, who have regularly visited Edgar at the detention center that currently holds 134 juveniles.
Judges and case workers from the Morelos juvenile courts are on summer recess until August and unavailable to comment.
Edgar, who turned 17 in May, has not been accused of crimes against Americans or U.S. institutions. Criminal justice experts, however, have said U.S. prosecutors could try to pursue conspiracy charges against the teen based on possible links to cross-border drug smuggling networks.
But former federal prosecutor John Kirby said an extradition-style transfer on drug conspiracy charges is unlikely given Edgar's age and situation.
"It's probably for humanitarian reasons — just to get him in a better spot up here rather than to prosecute him," said Kirby, who previously coordinated international issues at the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego.
A U.S. Embassy official contacted Edgar's family to see if they would consent to the transfer, said a relative of the teen, who asked not to be named out of safety concerns.
The relative received a description of a supervised environment where Edgar would be able to continue school studies and begin working.
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The killings Edgar committed occurred in August 2010. The bodies of his victims — a student, a cook at a university, a gas station attendant and a small-business owner — were mutilated and strung from a bridge in Cuernavaca, a tourist destination just south of Mexico City.
Mexican military authorities soon began searching for the teen after graphic online videos emerged that talked of a boy assassin named "El Ponchis."
Soldiers arrested him in December 2010 at an airport near Cuernavaca as he and an older sister waited for a flight to Tijuana. They were planning to reunite with their mother, Yolanda Lugo Jimenez, in San Diego. She was arrested days later in Barrio Logan on immigration violations.
Then in July 2011, Edgar was convicted following a juvenile court trial of homicide and organized crime charges and sentenced to three years in custody. Meanwhile, his mother served a federal prison sentence in California for violating a previous deportation order. She was deported from the U.S. in April.
Edgar's case confirmed fears that Mexican children had become not only victims but also perpetrators of violence orchestrated by feuding drug gangs, as they scrambled to survive a government offensive against them under former President Vicente Calderón.
The teen was born in 1996 to drug addicted parents who had illegally immigrated to San Diego. The parents lost custody of Edgar — and eventually his five siblings — when he had cocaine in his system at birth.
Edgar's parental grandmother adopted him and his siblings, taking them to live in Tejalpa, a working-class village on the outskirts of Cuernavaca, in August 1997.
After the grandmother's death in 2004, Edgar dropped out of elementary school and got by with limited family supervision.
Edgar's father, David Antonio Jimenez Solis, lives in Tejalpa, where Edgar spent most of his childhood. The father was ordered out of the United States more than a decade ago after an arrest on drug charges.
Under Mexican laws that aim to rehabilitate young offenders, Edgar's three-year sentence is the maximum allowed based on his age of 14 at the time of the crimes.
Two of Edgar's sisters who were arrested with him remain in jail on alleged links to organized crime. A cousin arrested when authorities were searching for Edgar also remains incarcerated.


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Staying the Course
I hope you love the people you work with as much as I do. I wish you could all be a fly on the wall around here sometimes. You'd get to know people that dedicate their lives to serve you and make our company an amazing place to excel.
We learn something new from each other every day. In fact, one of the guys here has spent some time in the Navy and said something the other day that made me smile. I'd never heard the expression before and so after laughing at him for a while we looked it up. The word he used was the "Doldrums". I learned that naval life was so mundane that a term was coined to describe the hours, days and weeks of just waiting. Apparently, it has been used for centuries to reference times when things are not going quite the way we'd like or at the speed we'd like them to or the direction we'd prefer to go. They called these times the Doldrums, which I am told, is named after an area close to the equator where the trade winds do not blow and ships get bogged down.
When a ship was traveling south towards the equator it was typically making great time riding the cool and refreshing trade winds. It was an exhilarating time for all on board. There was still plenty of fresh food and water. The wind kept everyone feeling buoyed and filled with excitement and hope that the voyage would be a success. Then, as you reached this latitude and longitude, in a matter of minutes the wind would die out and the ship would abruptly come to a standstill.
Gradually the temperature began to rise. The ship lulled back and forth in a nauseating pitch and roll. The discomfort, frustration and doubt that they called the Doldrums set in. Morale plummeted. What used to be a fun and exhilarating voyage became hot, stifling and confining. This condition could last for days or even weeks, and it was believed by the sufferers that respite lay in divine providence in the form of a breeze that would inch them back into the trade winds.
This lack of progress created a significant issue for the leadership on board. Discipline began to falter and the men became distracted by thoughts of home and a life far away. To combat this, the Captains had two options.
- Harsh discipline and murderous enforcement.
- Routine and an exact focus on getting the little things right.
Most experienced Captains chose the 2nd option and the ship's company was placed into a strict routine. Each crewmember was required to be "on watch" for twelve hours a day. Every deck was scrubbed, every sail and capstan mended. Every moving part oiled and kept in perfect working order. Good Captains even introduced a time of the week called "Make and Mend", when the crew were required to fix any minor rip or tear in their uniforms. The Captain knew that even the smallest of tears, if left untreated, would become a massive hole and render a whole garment scrap.
The idea of this routine was to keep the men focused and prepared for the arrival of the wind or even the enemy and to not allow the lack of external progress to hinder internal progress.
It appeared to the men they were stopped dead in the water, but the Master of the ship knew differently. He knew that the routine was teaching discipline, strength, unity and brotherhood. He also knew that deep below, a silent and invisible force was moving the ship through the Doldrums. See, it wasn't the breeze that got the ship through this dead zone; it was the ocean current that was silently pulling the ship to a happier place.
Hopefully, by now you will have realized that this is more than just a history lesson! Everyone one of you is the Captain of your business and you will recognize some of the emotions that these early sailors experienced. All of you have raced south with the trade winds when every thing you did worked, your presentations were powerful, your finding fruitful and your case credits amazing.
I am confident that you have also have sailed into the business Doldrums when it feels like your presentations are spiritless, your finding fruitless and your case credits suspect!
So as Captain of your business, what are you going to do when the wind of your business dies away temporarily? You can let your morale plummet and your progress languish in the rolling tide or, even jump ship. Or you could be just like those sailors and fall back on the routine and the exactness of getting to work and becoming experts at your trade. You should make sure that you are who you need to be. Are you learning, talking to people, sharing the product, sponsoring and constantly looking on the bright side? Are you working hard and smart? If the answer is "no" to any of these questions, then you may need to get back to the basics. What a perfect time of the year to reset!
But even in the quietest and toughest moments of your business, you are still making incredible progress. The current beneath you is moving you to a better place and more importantly to a better you.
Don't ever forget that we are always making progress in Forever. Sometimes it is harder to measure, but we are always moving forward.
Sail on!
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Kelly Wilson, 29, of Thrall Avenue, was arrested on July 3, after a nearly three-month investigation by Suffield Police and appeared in court on Thursday.
Police said she admitted to causing injuries to herself and trashing her home to make it look like an intruder.
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On April 13, police forced their way into Wilson's home shortly after midnight when she reported that a man with a handgun broke in through a back door, beat her and sexually assaulted her.
At the time, police said it was one of the most disturbing crime scenes and violent stories they have ever come upon.
Wilson told police that the masked man knocked twice on her door earlier in the evening and asked for help with his broken down car, police said.
Wilson, who was alone at the time, gave police a detailed description of the alleged intruder.
Property records show she and her fiancé purchased the house just weeks before the incident. At the time, police said her fiancé was away on military leave.
For days, police asked town residents to remain vigilant and report anyone suspicious matching the description of the alleged intruder.
Checkpoints were set up in the area of the Thrall Avenue address, with police asking drivers if they noticed a broken down car or a man matching the description given around the time of the alleged incident.
Suffield Police Chief Michael Manzi said investigators shortly after found discrepancies in Wilson's story.
"The investigation soon turned from finding a suspect to determining whether the story was fabricated," Manzi said.
An FBI profiler from Quantico, Va., was brought in to aide in the investigation, Manzi said.
On May 22, Wilson gave a written statement admitting she contrived the whole story, Manzi said.
Wilson admitted to causing the injuries to herself and trashing her home to make it look like an intruder, Manzi said.
As for the reason, Manzi would only say it was "emotional in nature."
Soon after the written confession, Suffield police turned the case over to the Office of the States' Attorney.
Manzi said an arrest warrant was signed and issued on July 2 and Wilson was arrested the following day.
She is charged with falsely reporting an incident, making false statements and misuse of the emergency 911 system.
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PHENOMENAL. Interesting. MMM I need time to "dissect it" lol well the sword can depict something that can have both favorable and unfavorable consequences but the light could mean Hebrews 4:12. The word of God. Soul and Spirit.
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"I think there will be yeah. Yeah, yeah, think they're working on it now. There you go."
You can watch his answer at the end of the video segment here!
Toy Story 3 was both a critical and box office hit, though many thought the story was wrapped up nicely. The movie topped the worldwide box office in 2010 with $1.06 billion, bringing in $415 million domestically and $648.2 million internationally.


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NRL's XFC UAS achieves flight endurance milestone
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has completed a successful flight test of the fuel cell powered XFC (eXperimental Fuel Cell) unmanned aerial system (UAS). During the June 2 flight test, the XFC UAS was airborne for more than six hours. NRL's Chemistry and Tactical Electronic Warfare Divisions are developing the XFC UAS as an expendable, long endurance platform for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR).
Compared to internal combustion powered vehicles, battery powered UAS are inherently stealthy in that they are relatively free of noise and thermal signature, and are easy to start, operate and maintain. However, they have poor payload capacity and endurance. The electrically powered UAS could have more tactical utility and be a platform for ISR if endurance could be increased.
NRL and its fuel cell development and manufacturing partner, Protonex Technology Corporation (Southborough, MA) have addressed these issues by developing a hydrogen fuel cell power plant system that greatly extends endurance and permits increased payload capacity. The technology has been successfully integrated into the XFC UAS, a folding wing, expendable UAS that has a small footprint with a standard lightweight rail launcher.
The non-hybridized power plant supports this fully autonomous aircraft and an EO/IR payload for a flight endurance that enables relatively low cost, low altitude, ISR missions of up to seven-plus hours in its current configuration. In its final form, the XFC will be capable of self-launching from a folded configuration with loiter speed of 30 knots and a dash speed of 52 knots.
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Sullivan on track after podium finish at Lake Louise
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BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Before the season, U.S. skier Marco Sullivan was dumped by his main sponsor and demoted by the team.
No hard feelings, though. Years of injuries and inconsistent performances put him in this bind.
To ski on the World Cup circuit this season will cost him roughly $22,000, most of which will be offset through fundraising.
Still, Sullivan considered getting a side job over the summer, just to have more cash flow.
The 32-year-old never considered this: Walking away from the slopes.
Last weekend, racing on new Atomic skis after Rossignol dropped him, Sullivan charged through the downhill course in Lake Louise, Alberta, and changed everything.
Third place. From the 42nd starting position, no less. His first podium finish in nearly four years.
With that, the pressure was beginning to lighten. A big sigh of relief.
Granted, sponsors have yet to call – probably won't for a little while – and he will still be on the "B" team all season, but at least he's headed in the right direction. And at least his confidence is surging again.
That's the power of a podium finish.
"It's hard to say all this was a good thing," Sullivan said in a phone interview as he made his way to Beaver Creek, Colo., for the Birds of Prey competition later this week. "But it gave me something to fight for. I had to prove to them that I felt I was worthy to be on the team. That was only going to happen with a good result.
"So, yeah, it lit a fire underneath me."
The phone calls were tough. Rossignol saying the company was parting ways with him.
And then the ski team telling him it was bumping him down.
He still had his starting spot on the World Cup tour, but only the "A" team is completely funded. He now had to foot the bill for travel costs to and from Europe, meals and lodging. He still had access to the coaching staff, though, free of charge.
It's a harsh world in this business of ski racing.
But the U.S. team hardly left him dangling and set him up with some powerful trustees, who assisted in defraying some of the costs.
"I reached out to key people and they rallied their friends, raising a lot of money," said Sullivan, who's from Squaw Valley, Calif. "I'm not done yet. Hopefully, not a lot of it will come out of my own pocket. But I didn't have to take on another job – not yet anyway."
Good thing, too, because this has been a full-time job in itself: Healing his balky back.
Ever since a 2009 crash, Sullivan has been dealing with herniated disks. He took off a portion of last summer, just to let the back settle down. He also found some stretching exercises that limbered up his back enough so he could work out and build up enough strength to finally ski.
Sullivan also missed the bulk of the 2010-11 World Cup season after suffering a concussion when he wiped out during a downhill training run in Italy. He landed awkwardly after a jump and was flipped around, smacking his head against the snow.
It took a while for the headaches to subside so he could return to the hill.
His back still remains a source of irritation.
"Back injuries are tough like that," said Sullivan, who competed in the South American Cup in September and finished fourth during a downhill race. "I'm managing it in a simple and yet aggressive way."
Simple and yet aggressive – that almost describes his way of skiing, a style that led to a downhill win in Chamonix, France, in 2008, along with two other top-three finishes.
"It doesn't seem all that long ago when I was the up-and-comer that everyone was excited about," Sullivan said.
That early success became harder and harder to match. He hasn't finished inside the top 15 since a super G race in Austria on Jan. 22, 2010.
And then came his electric run in Lake Louise over the weekend. From out of nowhere, really. He started in the 42nd spot, hardly a position favorable for a fast run.
He glided through the course, realizing about midway down that he had something special going.
For the first time in a while, Sullivan felt fast on his skis. Really fast.
When he crossed the finish line and glanced up at his time – tied with Austrian Klaus Kroell for third place – he was overwhelmed.
"I was just enjoying the run, enjoying the skiing. When I saw third place up there, it was kind of surreal," he said. "I don't really remember the next couple of minutes."
This was more like the Sullivan of old, before all the injuries.
"It's a step in the right direction – a bigger step than I expected," men's coach Sasha Rearick said. "He's doing the right things."
Now, people who haven't contacted him in years are reaching out through Facebook and Twitter.
"Coming out of the woodwork," laughed Sullivan, who has a fan club called "Marco Rocks" that shows up in full force for events such as Beaver Creek. "To hear from so many people you don't really know that are still watching you and saw your name in the news and wanted to reach out, that's really cool."
Did he think this – a podium finish – would ever happen again?
"I wouldn't still be racing if I didn't think I could still compete," Sullivan said. "It just makes it all that much sweeter, to have fought back from injuries. To get dropped by sponsors and people start questioning whether you're ever going to be back on top, it's definitely tough. Luckily, I was able to add that fuel to the fire and show people I was going to come back."
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England—The Harvard heavyweight four defeated Oxford Brookes University to win the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta while Radcliffe alumnae contributed to a pair of Henley wins Sunday on the River Thames.
For the second straight day, the Crimson four trailed through the Barrier and Fawley splits but came from behind to win. This time, Harvard came back and won by a wider margin of 1.75 lengths. Its time of 6:58 was just one second off its event-record mark from Saturday. Each of its splits was one second behind its Saturday pace as well.
The winning oarsmen were Peter Scholle, Justin Mundt, Benjamin French and JP Hogan, and the boat was coxed by David Fuller.
The win concluded another successful Henley trip for Harvard. The Crimson set event records in both the Temple Challenge Cup and Prince Albert Challenge Cup and reached the semifinals in both the Temple and Ladies' Challenge Plate events.
"I'm really proud of the way all of our crews raced over there," said Harry Parker, the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men's Crew. "I thought they did a terrific job. They've added another page to Harvard crew's very strong legacy of success at Henley."
Harvard has now won a trophy in each of its last three Henley appearances: in 2007, '10 and '11. The Crimson has won seven Henley titles since 2001.
Esther Lofgren '08-09 pulled off a Henley double by helping the United States win both the Remenham Challenge Cup and Princess Grace Challenge Cup. She joined the U.S. women's eight Saturday, when another rower could not compete due to injury, and helped that boat win for the second straight day Sunday. The eight defeated Great Britain's eight, racing as Leander Club and Gloucester Rowing Club, by 1.75 lengths in an event-record-tying time of 6:38.
Lofgren's original boat, a U.S. quad, was also victorious and counted among its scullers Caryn Davies '05. They beat an Australian national quad by 1.25 lengths in a time of 7:02, one day after the Aussies set an event record.


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Thomas Keller's Cornets – Savory and/or Sweet
Last Saturday's superb blogger party still has us pumped up and buzzing. Even with all the dishes cleaned and put away, we're still feeling the exciting aftershocks of the amazing gathering. Thanks to everyone who attended! All of you make us proud to be part of this passionate blogging community! Since we're still riding the waves of the fun gathering, we've decided to post a few of the recipes for the dishes that we made for the party. This is definitely a first for us because normally after any party, the last thing we want to do is to write about each of the individual dishes and the recipes. Although so many times we have asked for specific recipes for our party dishes, we're just too burnt out to write about each specific dish, or any of them for that matter. Plus, half of the time we are tweaking the recipes or shooting them from the hip, so there is no way to accurately post an honest recipe unless we spend the hours trying to recreate the recipe measuring and documenting the results. Normally we'll just write a long post with some pictures to share and that's pretty much it. Forget any followup posts or recipes folks! We'll usually make you just read the party post and weep! Bratty! We know! Or as we like to say "Turkeybuttish!"
But like we said, this party was jam packed with some phenomenal bloggers and their amazing spirit has pumped us up to write about at least one of the dishes, which were the cornets. For those who attended, do you all remember the cornets? Thomas Keller's opening salvo in his "The French Laundry Book" which was so beautifully captured through the talented hands, eyes, and minds of Susie Heller, Michael Ruhlman, and Deborah Jones. Thanks to all those who collaborated on this fabulous book! For Keller, his cornet, even though it was born out of sadness, has become a signature of his restaurant with it's simple ability to evoke childhood joy. In The French Laundry Cookbook he declares, "I decided that everyone who eats at the restaurant should begin the meal with this cornet. People always smile when they get it. It makes them happy."
It wasn't long into our menu planning discussions that the idea of serving Keller's cornets came up. We've played with the idea of serving them at many of our gatherings, but the timing has never seemed right. It's usually either too many people, or not the right crowd, or when we finally had some true culinary aficionados over, we would forget to add it to the menu. However this time we were having the perfect group over.
Making these precious tasties isn't exactly a day in the spa. The batter is simplicity, the forms we already have crafted from past use, but the oven work can be a bit daunting. Standing at the oven's open mouth, with it's breath threatening to scorch your hide, while you delicately flip and roll the cornets around their molds, isn't what some would describe as an enjoyable experience. Add that to the sizzling butter from the cornets and the high temp oils from the flax seeds (Keller uses black sesame seeds) singeing the tips of your fingers as you try to execute this seemingly simple task. Of course one doesn't have to bare-hand it, but no implement is as dexterous as the human hand and the toughening of the fingertips trumps the wasted time and frustration of using little helpers. Personally, it rekindles memories of bare-handed pulling pizzas and quesadillas in and out of a 500° oven at the restaurant that was my second home for nearly a decade. I can hear the the jazz or funk playing as me and my boys cranked through another crazy weekend rush, while the food threatens to ooze it's napalm of fillings onto your palm. Good times.
For the filling, we didn't want to copycat Keller's salmon tartare, even though the tartare is beautifully simple and delicious. We've made the cornets many times before with other savory fillings such as grilled salmon and an eggplant caviar. But being that one of us has a sweet jaw (sweet tooth²), our thoughts drifted towards a sweeter style filling. And when we remembered that there was some leftover filling from our goat cheese pillows which we had served the weekend before, it immediately appealed to our palates and to our frugal natures and we screamed "Yahtzee!" (Yes, dear guests, you were served leftovers. And I bet you never guessed. We are a set of Turkeybutts!) Add some fresh raspberries or blackberries and our reverent guests would have the perfect greeting.
For those of you wishing to recreate these, here's how we did it with some visual step by step instructions. But for the specific recipe, you must buy Mr. Keller's "The French Laundry Cookbook" and follow his instructions. We're firm believers that the lessons that Keller shares in this fantastic book will make you a better cook. Absolutely, a better cook! Besides, we already gave you our one freebie from the book last time with the Red Beet Ice Cream!
Steps before baking:
Steps during the mid & final bake:
For our sweet goat cheese/crème fraîche filling:
Mix approx. 2 parts goat cheese (room temp), 1/2 part sour cream or crème fraîche, 1/2 part cream cheese (room temp), a bit of vanilla extract and sugar to taste. When ready to serve, pipe the goat cheese mix into the top 1/2″ of the cornet, top with a berry and serve immediately. If they stand too long, the moisture from the filling will start to soften the cornet and you'll lose the delicate crispness.
Here's some tips we found while making the cornets:
- Don't cook them too much before you roll them around the mold. They should be just done enough to set the batter without browning at all yet. (The first pics in the second collage above were done just a little too much. They should have been rolled about 1 min. earlier)
- When rolling the cornet around the mold, use one hand to hold an edge of the batter against the mold and the other to roll the mold. The rolling motion of the mold creates the shape much easier than trying to fold the batter around the mold. Let the mold due all of the work.
- Not all of the cornets will finish at the same time. Use a chopstick inserted into the wide opening of the mold to lift out the hot molds.
- By using 3 baking sheets, and 2 silpats, you can create a continuous flow of cornet making. Spread 6 circles on a mat and bake. As they bake, start spreading 6 more on the second mat and baking sheet. When the first set is done, put the second set in oven. Put finished cornets on paper towels, wipe silpat clean and place mat on cool (3rd) baking sheet (the mat will cool fairly quickly). Spread next set of batter. Wipe original baking sheet clean (it should now be cool), and place back at your batter spreading station and you are ready to repeat cycle. (This cycle is recommended only after you are comfortable with spreading the batter and forming of the cornets. It may be too overwhelming the first time you try to make the cornets.)
- Inevitably, some cornets will break or come out funny. Plan to make more than you need.
Todd serving cornets at our blogger party
What?!? Still not enough for you? Ok, we just found this video, from Brightcove.tv, of Keller himself demonstrating making his cornets. It looks like the actual baking had to be staged for the show, so you may not find that part wholly accurate but he most likely had to make adjustments to accommodate the media presentation. But come on people, this is The Man giving away some of his secrets! Be grateful! You even get the recipe with a new twist of adding roasted garlic paste.
Watch Thomas Keller make his savory cornets:
Update: Sorry, this video is no longer available…..
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"The Armstrong Lie" Director on Being Caught in Lance Armstrong's Web of Lies
"The Armstrong Lie" director talks about revamping his Armstrong documentary.
Oct. 30, 2013 -- In 2009, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney and his studio were given access to Lance Armstrong that no outsider had ever had before for a film documenting the cycling champion's incredible Tour de France comeback after battling testicular cancer.
Despite spending a year inside Armstrong's normally private bubble, what Gibney and his team didn't know was that much of Armstrong's successful pro-cycling career, including his seven previous Tour wins, was all based on a lie, and Gibney and his team were being played.
"I think particularly at the beginning there was not a sense of vulnerability, a sense of 'hubris,' is what the Greeks call it, that 'nobody is ever going to discover my lie, so come along for the ride,'" Gibney said.
Gibney's film, "The Armstrong Lie," which premieres on Nov. 8, dissects what has been called the biggest fraud in all of sports, exploring how Armstrong lied for years about doping, how it became all-consuming and how he did almost anything to protect it.
"It was Lance's abuse of power that was really the most reprehensible thing, and that is how people really get offended by this story," Gibney said. "Part of it was the way he went after people, part of it was the way he actually wrapped himself in the mantle of the cancer survivor."
It is a film Gibney never intended to make. Initially, Gibney was directing a positive story about Armstrong, who returned to competitive cycling in 2009 after a four-year hiatus as he trained for his eighth Tour de France title. The studio finished the film, which was originally called "The Road Back," complete with narration by Matt Damon, but before the studio could release it, "Nightline" ran a tell-all piece in 2010 with Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis.
During the "Nightline" interview, Landis said he had used performance-enhancing drugs and received illicit blood transfusions for much of his cycling career. He made sweeping accusations against others, including Armstrong, saying he had seen the cycling giant receive illicit transfusions "multiple times."
"Look. At some point, people have to tell their kids that Santa Claus isn't real. I hate to be the guy to do it, but it's just not real," Landis told "Nightline" in 2010.
WATCH: Floyd Landis Accuses Armstrong of Doping
After the interview aired, Armstong publicly denied Landis' accusations, but Gibney shelved the film and went to work reshooting a completely different story. "The Armstrong Lie" ended up detailing Armstong's epic collapse.
"In terms of his ability to be a liar and to be a cover-up artist, he is at the tippy top. He is the very best," Gibney said.
Year after year, Armstrong repeatedly denied having ever doped, often lashing out at reporters in frustration for asking questions about it. Then, in an infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey last year, Armstrong came clean about his doping past, saying he had been "living a lie." He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and left his Livestrong Foundation.
WATCH: Lance Armstrong Admits to Doping
Using footage from "The Road Back," Gibney was left with moments he never imagined capturing. He had remarkable access and spoke to Armstrong hours after the Oprah interview in which the cycling star delved deeper into how he kept his doping a secret.
In the film, a shell-shocked Armstrong explains matter of factly how it all began -- his decision to cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs.
"There was a group of us primarily living in Italy and we just said we either have to play ball here or go home," Armstrong tells Gibney in the film.
"Were you pissed off you had to do it or you just did what you had to do?" Gibney asks him.
"The latter," Armstrong responds with a laugh. "Maybe I'd approach the decision differently today, but at the time I didn't lose sleep over it."
Armstrong also further explained how he got away with using the blood booster EPO during races.
"The half-life of EPO is four hours, so back it off from there and figure out when you're in trouble," Armstrong says in the film. "My defense was I have passed every control you've given me. That's true. The samples that were given were clean."
Gibney said "the great tragedy" of Armstrong is that he continually justified what he was doing.
"He couldn't see the difference. He couldn't see the borderline between where the sport ended and the where real life began," Gibney said.
Much of Armstrong's life today centers on trying to keep what he has left. Three major lawsuits, including a fraud case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, that seeks to strip him of more than $100 million.
"The last time I communicated with Lance was when I let him know that the film was going to be called 'The Armstrong Lie,'" Gibney said.
When asked how Armstrong took the news, Gibney said "not so well."
If Armstrong's reputation stands a chance at any kind of redemption, it will likely take a while.
"People don't like that truth as much as they liked the beautiful lie, and that's a hard thing for Lance to accept, because he found much more affection in telling the beautiful life than the ugly truth," Gibney said.


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This is a thread for the various fan-made digimon profiles I've written up for my various projects. Some I plan to use in stories, some I just write and conceptualize for the hell of it.
Level: Child
Attribute: Vaccine
Type: Cyborg
Family: Metal Empire, Virus Busters
Group: Imperial Guard - Mounted Division
Digimon Natural Ability: Holy, Machine/Mutant
Attacks: Wheel Slicer, Guard Shot, Lance Striker
Profile: A rookie member of the Imperial Guard's "Mounted Division." Though this digimon's upper body is humanoid, his lower body is structured like the front end of a motorcycle. Though he is just a Child digimon, Gendamon's evolution has been oversaw by the elite members of its organization and he is often given high level security duties. Thus, Gendamon has a great deal of pride in his duties and position. Gendamon has three key techniques: "Lance Striker", in which he thrusts the lance in its right arm forward while charging at top speed; "Guard Shot", where he fires the pistol in his left hand; and finally, "Wheel Slicer", whereupon Gendamon uses the wheel on its lower body as a weapon, cutting the enemy with it as if it were an energized disk. Because he is an inductee to an elite group, Gendamon's body has been outfitted with the lightweight but durable Blue Digizoid.
Name origin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarme_(historical) - Gendarme, a historical or modern cavalryman.
Note: The "Imperial Guard" is a group I'm working on developing; basically, they're conceptualized as underlings/soldiers for the Royal Knights. The "Mounted Division" is subservient to LordKnightmon and Sleipmon. Gendamon is basically the lowest ranking member of this group.
Level: Child
Attribute: Data
Type: Insect
Family: Jungle Troopers, Wind Guardians
Digimon Natural Ability: Insect/Plant
Attacks: Courage Catcher, Bug Buzzer
Profile: A descendent of ancient-species digimon that resembles Yanmamon. However, it lacks Yanmamon's ferocity, instead having a more docile personality. Though it is just a Child-level digimon, its wingspan is quite wide, and it can also carry off other creatures that are much larger than itself. A pattern resembling the Crest of Courage can be seen on its back. It can attack by releasing sparks from the buzz of its wings ("Bug Buzzer", or by throwing out a stone attached to a string tied to its forelegs, beating the enemy with it as if it were a flail.
Name Origin: Japanese. "Ko" meaning child, and "Yanma" meaning dragonfly.
Level: Child
Attribute: Data
Type: Fairy
Family: Metal Empire
Digimon Natural Ability: Machine/Mutant
Attacks: Dance Break, Audio Crash
Profile: A Fairy-type Digimon born from a audio playing device's data. Her appearance is like that of a young, female imp combined with a music player and speaker device. Since the rise in popularity of such devices, Audiomon have begun to appear in greater and greater numbers, and often form groups that function like musical bands. It is believed that Audiomon constantly has a melody ringing in its ears, and for that reason, it is constantly dancing and acting as if it were caught up in a memorable song. When threatened, Audiomon fight back by pummeling the opponent with hot dance steps (Dance Break); however, some have observed that Audiomon tend to appear oblivious while doing this, so it's possible that one may not actually be fighting back on purpose. When its attention is fully caught by the opponent, Audiomon will instead create a powerful blast of feedback from its speakers and use the resulting distraction to escape (Audio Crash).
Name Origin: Audio, as in pertaining to sound.
That's all for now. I'll try to update this regularly.


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Explainer: SETI: 50 years of searching for E.T.
Somewhere out there, alien civilizations might be communicating with each other. They might even be trying to contact us. In 1960, this reasoning compelled astronomer Frank Drake to point a radio telescope at the stars and listen for chatter. He didn't hear E.T. calling us, calling home, or calling anywhere else during his four-month-long experiment at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va., but the effort officially kicked off what is known as SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Click the "Next" label to check out highlights from the first 50 years of the search.
— By John Roach, msnbc.com contributor
1974: Earthlings send message to aliens
By 1974, Drake and his colleagues still hadn't heard anything from ET, but they hadn't given up hope. Instead, they sent a message out to the aliens with the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, the first deliberate message sent from Earth out to the stars. The message contained information about life-giving chemicals, DNA, a simple drawing of our solar system, and pictures of human beings and the Arecibo telescope. The string of 1's and 0's was sent to a group of about 300,000 stars in called the Great Cluster in Hercules, Messier 13, about 25,000 light years away.
1977: The Wow Signal
Did E.T. make a prank call to Earth on Aug. 15, 1977? We may never know for sure, but astronomer Jerry Ehman was struck enough by a string of letters and numbers on a printout of radio data from the Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University to scribble "Wow!" in the margin. The extraordinary signal might have been E.T., or something else. Whatever it was, astronomers have been unable to find it again despite dozens of searches, leaving open the possibility that E.T. called but hung up after the first ring.
1992-1993: NASA's brief search
Exactly 500 years after Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, NASA officially launched its SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey. Experts called it the most ambitious and technologically advanced alien-search effort ever conducted, but after just a year of operation the program was squashed. Sen. Richard Bryan, D-Nev., shown here, led the effort to kill the program, telling the Senate that "millions have been spent and we have yet to bag a single little green fellow. Not a single Martian has said take me to your leader, and not a single flying saucer has applied for FAA approval."
1995: Project Phoenix rises from ashes
When NASA funding for alien searches ran dry, private enterprise picked up the pieces - including some of NASA's equipment - and launched Project Phoenix. The targeted search focused on about 1,000 stars thought most likely to harbor alien civilizations and was conducted at various radio astronomy observatories around the world. In this image, SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak looks for E.T.'s call on a computer bank at the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico.
1999: SETI for the masses
Hundreds, then thousands, and ultimately millions of computer users around the world got in on the search for E.T. with the 1999 launch of SETI@home, a distributed computing project run at the University of California at Berkeley. The program enlists personal computers to sort through the mountains of SETI data, one chunk at a time, collected by the Arecibo radio telescope. The combined power of all the computers running the program essentially acts like a super duper supercomputer, but at a fraction of the cost.
2007: Telescope array turned on
For most of the past 50 years, SETI projects have required astronomers to wait in line for time on giant radio telescopes around the world. That changed in 2007 with the opening of the Allen Telescope Array, a constellation of 42 radio telescopes with 20-foot-wide dishes in the scrublands about 300 miles northeast of San Francisco. The array, privately financed by software billionaire Paul Allen and others, puts the search for E.T. front and center. The project is jointly run by the SETI Institute and the University of California at Berkley. In the coming decades the array may grow to 350 antennas, making it one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world.
The future of SETI
As of this writing, extraterrestrials remain elusive, assuming that they exist at all. Given that the search is only 50 years old, many astronomers see little reason to despair - things are just getting going. NASA recently lent a new hand to the search with its Kepler mission, a space telescope that is looking for Earthlike, habitable planets around thousands of stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Detection of these planets will help SETI scientists focus their efforts.
Other ideas include a push to expand the search beyond just radio signals. Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University and author of several popular science books, argues that messages from E.T. might even be floating around in the junk DNA of terrestrial organisms and that we should start searching decoded genomes for the biotech equivalent of a message in a bottle.


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Many kids are terrified of using the toilet especially for bowel movements. That's because it has become the trend to train them at an older age. They are simply too smart and resistant to change when they are older. Toilet training is meant to develop an automatic habit that "making" is for toilets, not diapers. Children wearing the new gel type disposable diapers do not feel wet when they urinate. They sometimes feel uncomfortable when they have a soiled diaper but many do not complain. They just remain accustomed to ignoring to the whole business as they go about the tasks of toddlerhood. Late training requires them to deal with it at a time that they are more likely to have other preferences. When the kids are trained younger they simply incorporate using the toilet with their routine before they have a "mind of their own".
The average age for toilet training children has been rising steadily in the United States since the invention of the washing machine, and recently, the availability of disposable diapers. In 1950 in the U. S., the average child was trained by 18 months. Now the average age is over 30 months. In most places in the world today where mothers have to wash their own diapers, children are still trained by 18 months of age.
Toilet training requires time and effort, usually for a few focused days. Because mothers are more likely to be working outside the home, it has become much more convenient to let the child remain in diapers. Most kids will train themselves eventually, even if it takes till 4 years of age or higher.
Many psychologists write that it is better for the parent to wait until the child is "ready." Some even claim that early training leads to psychological damage. Others say that waiting till the child is over two to start training is not a good idea. The older child is much more likely to feel afraid and become resistant to the whole concept. This leads to withholding bowel movements and painful experiences when he eventually does defecate.
When a baby is put on a potty seat at age 1–1 1/2 years whenever he shows the body language indicating he is "pushing," he is not very frightened at all. He just gets used to it and associates the activity with the potty. This kind of training requires watching the child and knowing his body habits. Most kids defecate after a meal, since the natural reflex is to empty the bowels when the stomach is full. This requires the parent become adept in observing the child before he is trained to go to the potty himself. Once the child is "clean," training him to be "dry" does not usually cause fear and resistance.
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Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Groff, June 2012 (Splash News)Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Groff have called it quits as a couple, several outlets report, although they apparently have been dunzo for a while now.
The "Star Trek Into Darkness" star and the "Glee" guest actor broke up last spring, according to Gossip Cop and Us Weekly. While both outlets report that they remain good friends, Perez Hilton claims that things did "not end well." The couple reportedly started dating in early 2012.
Us Weekly points out that it was distance that put a strain on the relationship. "Zach being away and filming was not easy on them," a source tells the mag. "Now he's going to be in New York with his new play ['The Glass Menagerie']. They really loved each other, so it wasn't an easy split."
As mentioned, the thespians are on friendly terms. According to JustJared.com, Quinto went to see Groff perform recently on stage (Groff appeared this spring in L.A. Theatre Works's production of the play "Red," as well as a one-night only benefit performance of "The Pirates of Penzance" in NYC on June 10).
But the couple hasn't been photographed together since back in February, when they were seen out walking their dogs together in Boston. Quinto was snapped walking the pups with a mystery man in NYC in early June.
It's been a tough week for Groff, who is best friends with "Glee" star Lea Michele. He reportedly flew immediately to be by her side in the wake of her boyfriend Cory Monteith's death on Saturday. Groff — who was also friends with Monteith — and Michele met when they co-starred on Broadway together in 2006's "Spring Awakenings." He was previously romantically linked to Broadway star Gavin Creel.
Groff is currently in production on "Glee" showrunner Ryan Murphy's film version of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart." Next, he'll be shooting a new series for HBO about the contemporary gay male experience living in San Francisco (which some have called "the gay 'Girls'"), in which he plays a video game designer who's looking for love on OKCupid. He recently gave an extended interview to the San Francisco Chronicle talking about his upcoming projects.
This was the first significant gay relationship for Quinto since he came out of the closet in October 2011. The actor acknowledged in a blog post on his personal website that he was motivated to do so by the suicide of teen Jamey Rodemeyer. "In light of jamey's death," he wrote, "It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it - is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality."
Omg! reached out to reps for both actors about their breakup. Groff's rep has "no comment" and Quinto's rep has not yet replied as of publication.


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Five Crimson earned all-conference accolades for the first time in their careers (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Five members of the Harvard men's lacrosse team were named to the All-Ivy League teams on Wednesday, marking the most all-conference nods for the Crimson in nearly two decades.
Highlighting the All-Ivy League selections are Harry Krieger, Peter Schwartz and Alex White, who were each named to the second team to earn their first career honors. Captain Jason Gonos also earned his first All-Ivy accolade with an honorable mention selection and was joined on the team by freshmen Devin Dwyer.
Krieger started every game for the Crimson and played all but 22 minutes in goal. The Timonium, Md., native ranked second in the conference in saves per game (11.21), third in save percentage (.536), and was sixth in goals against average (9.95). Krieger earned a pair of player of the week honors, most recently receiving the award from the Ivy League on March 25 for turning away 28 shots while allowing just 11 goals in wins over Bryant and Dartmouth. The senior also garnered NEILA Player of the Week honors March 11 after recording 12 saves in Harvard's 8-6 win over Georgetown. Krieger finishes his career ranked sixth in program history with 481 career saves to go with a .525 save percentage and a 9.72 goals against average.
Schwartz ranked second on the team in points, goals and assists, totaling 34 points on 18 goals and 16 assists. Each of those totals represented a new career-high for the junior who registered three hat tricks on the year. Schwartz notched a career-best four goals and five points against Holy Cross in just the second game of the season, and finished the year with six multiple-goal performances. He also turned in hat tricks against Cornell and Yale with three goals in each of those contests, and was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll April 8 after totaling four points against the Big Red.
White also set career-highs across the board with 31 points on 22 goals and nine assists, as his 22 goals represented a team high. The senior from Summit, N.J., opened the year with hat tricks against UMass and Holy Cross, and scored at least one goal in 13 of the Crimson's 14 contests. He set a single-game high with five total points against the Crusaders, and was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll February 25 following a four-point effort against the Minutemen. White scored multiple goals in seven contests and finished the season scoring multiple points 11 times, including a string of seven straight multiple-point outings to close his career.
Gonos, a four-year starter, anchored Harvard's defensive unit over the past four years. The Annapolis, Md., native collected 27 ground balls and caused 11 turnovers this season while helping the Crimson to a 9.97 goals against average. His seven ground balls against Bryant represented a new single-game high for the senior while his three caused turnovers against Albany matched his career best. Gonos was named a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award earlier this spring and was also tabbed an Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America honorable mention.
Dwyer became the first freshmen to lead the Crimson in scoring since Jeff Cohen '12 did so in 2009. Dwyer's 43 points ranked sixth overall in the Ivy League while his 27 assists were second best in the conference. The freshman also registered 16 goals on the campaign, including six multi-goal performances and one hat trick. Dwyer scored at least one point in 13 of 14 games this season and tallied multiple points on 11 occasions. He notched a season-high six points on two goals and four assists against both Holy Cross and Quinnipiac, and closed the year out with multiple-point performances in six straight games. Dwyer was named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Week twice and led the Crimson with three Ivy League Honor Roll selections.
Harvard's five all-conference honorees represent the most for the program since eight individuals were named to the teams in 1996. Chris Wojcik '96, The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, captained that year's team and was named to both the All-Ivy League first team and an All-America honorable mention.


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Hilsenrath: Summers Exit Not a Surprise
WSJ's Jon Hilsenrath looks at Larry Summers's decision to withdraw as a Fed chairman candidate as well as who becomes the favorites to replace current chair Ben Bernanke. Photo: AP
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... the ... Steph the sideline Larry Summers is the of the race for Fed chair and what that means for the Fed's Easy Money tilt ... this is your Monday morning is how I'm Sara Murray ... Larry Summers called present Sunday morning to drop out of them writing to become the next Fed chair ... saying his confirmation process would be acrimonious and would serve the interests of the fat ... our Fed reporter Jon Hilsenrath joins us now from Washington for more on what this means for monetary policy ... I can't ... they said ... you know it is certain to play the melodrama down here I was hella fun ... selling in European markets the U S Futures arty kind of surging on this news this morning did anybody see that coming ... well yes I mean that your pay attention on Friday that the writing was on the wall that as ... a senator who is considered to be is the center's record in the White House that that was assuming it would get ... up to Senator tester for Montana ... came and said he couldn't support ... it Larry Summers ... and when that happened it became clear that the two of the heart of the White House nominate him ... even the given that the Senate Banking Committee let alone get him confirmed by the full Senate ... so that set off a chain of events over the weekend ... that culminated Sunday with summer's not calling a prison in the morning and saying that that it now ... this was can happen wasn't a war and thus it made me now to be a huge embarrassment for the pricing to put up someone like Larry Summers the night out and get out of committee but one of the concert outfit the senators are expressing these lawmakers yelled out Larry Summers and Janet ... you know that there was a lot going on here ... a number of of winning the Senate ... I had to be a bad memories of some remarks that he made when he was president ... of Harvard ... that kind of question we visited mathematical and scientific ability of women ... you know if that was complicated for Summers by the fact that ... the lady in the other leading contender in the race was a woman Janet Yellen ... but the other big part of this was that you know there's a perception ... that Summers was part of the the regulatory crowd in the nineteen nineties that laid the groundwork for the financial crisis ... there was just all those a lot of baggage that he brought into this ... at it the ended the day is close relationship with Obama all wasn't enough ... to carry that heavy baggage ... I have a somewhat tell us about the Fed's path forward ... but still ... the important story are now is ... Summers was a bit of an unknown when it comes to monetary policies got his long record as an economist ... but the one area where he really hasn't done a lot of work is on monetary policy in central banking ... there was a perception in the markets right or wrong that he was skeptical of some of the Fed's easy money policies ... most notably their bond buying programs known as QE ... Yellen is an author of these policies you didn't very very forceful advocate of these policies ... so what is the decision to withdraw means is ... continuity and that's why the markets are rallying today because they're saying ... ok but many these policies are basically going to stay the course ... so ... you know whenever the Fed does over the next couple years as burn Anqi has been trying to lay that to lay out ... a ... debate wind down these policies is can be very slow gradual pollen ... process ... you know ... the easy money for a long time to come to the bottom line today ... so I sent Alan a shoo in for this jab are there other candidates are floating out there ... no she's not issue when ... I know a lot of people I've seen her as the obvious candidate for a long time but frankly ... she does not have a close relationship with the White House ... I head back to its probably gotten worse in the last few weeks because ... I think Obama a lot of people around him feel undermined by the fact that ... a lot of economists who like are a lot of senators to like or were still public ... in rallying against ... Larry Summers ... it might say you know what what I did he give our opponents on this issue what they want which is Janet Yellen ... then the president has to go look for an alternative ... and frankly this complications with all the alternatives ... you know a ... lot of that time ... of problem loans can get your to get her to say he doesn't want the job and this is former Treasury secretary ... there are other people out there but none of them are obvious candidates ... Yellen has always been the obvious the obvious candidate ... but you get drawn into this really public light which can ensure ... a great pal again thanks AmEx for being with this guy


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It costs $210 to rent a Bad Company 2 server for six months from Game Servers. Two months of that was wrangled from our gaming budget, I paid for a month out of my own pocket, and three months were paid for by other members of the ArsClan community. We chose Chicago as the location of our server, to try to keep the pings low for as many people as possible. The night the game went live I began experimenting with the server tools, and soon gave admin rights to a few other gamers to keep the server going when I wasn't around.
Bad Company 2 allows for dedicated servers, but you can't run them on your own hardware. Unlike the servers I've run for Left 4 Dead and Killing Floor, I wouldn't have access to the .ini file to adjust settings on my own; you need third-party admin tools to adjust your server and change the settings. This is a step down from what we're used to, but it's still worlds better than Modern Warfare 2's completely hands-off solution.
Still, why go to the trouble?
What having your own servers gets you
Our server is the official home for both Ars Technica and ArsClan players on Bad Company 2, and you can find us in the server browser by simply looking for those names. Ars Clan, the multiplayer community, has a long history of building communities around the Battlefield titles, and the beta of Bad Company 2 had ignited everyone's interest again. The idea of running our own server came naturally when we became tired of finding places to play.
That's why controlling your own server beats match-making so handily. When you leave, the server is still there. It feels as if it occupies a physical space, playing host to a virtual war that never ends. You begin to learn the schedule of the regular players. If you're on the Ventrillo server, you hear their kids and wives in the background. You pick up on what classes certain others enjoying playing, and learn to be afraid if someone who is good with vehicles jumps in a tank. Sometimes it's interesting to to put on a headset just to listen to the radio chatter between players to get a feel for the game being played before entering the server, listening to the complaints of the other players, hearing them suck air between their teeth after a particularly good kill and curse the other side after being shot themselves.
When you join the server as a regular, you can expect people to welcome you, to ask how you're doing, to give you some idea of how the game is going. "Stasis is on," someone said the last time I jumped on. "Why not spawn engineer and do something about that tank?" Someone else snorts. "Or maybe just TK me with the Carl Gustav a few more times." People on your regular server remember you, know what you can do well, and what you handle poorly. It's like wandering into a virtual bar, only on certain nights you might find more sobriety at the pub.
Accountability is king
The best defense against cheats and exploits isn't anything technical on the side of the publisher or server, but in playing with and against those you know. You're held accountable for how you act and what you say. Subscribing to Wheaton's law, you're allowed to not get along with someone, but you're not allowed to blow your top. Enforcement is rarely necessary; this is a self-correcting problem. The community around the game simply wants to play with others who like having a good time, and have a low tolerance for anything else.
The game is far from perfect; server stability has been a joke since launch. The in-game server browser is slow and mostly broken. The Carl Gustav needs to be dialed down a little in hardcore mode. In fact, one of the most popular topics of conversation while playing Bad Company 2 is grousing about Bad Company 2. Don't take the complaints too seriously, however, because the same people are going to be online the next day, playing just as hard.
A server allows a sense of community and belonging that can't be replicated by anything a game without real servers offers, although Xbox Live can come close with its cross-game chat and friend system. This is what people want from the PC gaming experience: the ability to tweak the game's settings, control the multiplayer, and play against others who feel the same way. There are no mods for Bad Company 2, but what is there has been enough to keep the community going strong since launch.
There will be other games that try to replicate the success of Modern Warfare 2, and many won't offer dedicated servers. That's fine, it just makes the decision about what to play a little easier. One of the few players on the server chimed up in chat one night and told us everything we need to know about the worth of what we were doing. "Great server!!" he typed. "Do you guys have a website?"
The server is paid off for the next five months or so, but what then? When the question was put to the community, enough people volunteered to pay for a month that the server could be kept running for the next two years. Once people move into a game, it can be hard to kick them out.


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The open source way is a way of thinking about how people collaborate within a community to achieve common goals and interests.
In the end, it is ...
Enabling people to further their own interests while contributing those interests back to a common good.
The open source way is a practice, and this is it's community of practice. In this community, we teach and learn the practice of collaborating in open community.
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The idea conveyed is having little or much can affect the character of a person . . . and a nation. The United States has seen both. In her early years she had little, while in modern times she has had much. Today, the U.S. is the leader in innovation, has the greatest university system, the world's most powerful military, the largest economy and provides unequaled human freedoms.
Since the late 1800's, which began the industrial age, America has seen incredible growth and I believe this success has changed America's character. Her pride has grown into arrogance. Her increased knowledge has questioned the need for God. Her advancements in technology have made her like a god and her hi-tech weapons have replaced God's protection.
The principle of abundance leading to a denial of God is a predictable pattern. When riches, power and success mount there is a quiet shifting of the heart and soul of a nation that when left unchecked leads to its downfall.
What is America's greatest enemy? Ourselves. The lure of money and power is becoming our Great Destroyer. Its deceptive appeal has caused us to think too highly of ourselves. It has created a false sense of security bringing us to believe we are a nation that is indestructible and indispensable to the world. We have been willingly seduced by prosperity giving birth to the illicit children of ease, complacency and immorality.
What shall we do? Let us examine our ways and not walk the paths of other nations. Let us learn from the downfall of Ancient Empires like Rome, Egypt, Greece and the once vast British Empire. America's future is up to its own citizens. Will we trust in ourselves or Almighty God? The answer determines our national destiny. Let us turn to Christ and may He be the hope of our nation.