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No one deserves the treatment Jonathan Martin received from Richie Incognito and any others associated with the "bullying" that occurred in the Dolphins' locker room.
It's that simple.
NFL players have jumped in to hint that Martin could have and/or should have handled things differently…as if he's somehow a co-owner of the blame for the hideous situation in Miami.
They're saying that because their NFL players who absent-mindedly forget that what they do for a living and the environment they exist in for six months a year is a fantasy-land.
The rest of us — the great unwashed who don't make $1 million a year playing sports — live in the real world where harassing someone with racial taunts and threats to you and your family aren't part of "being one of the boys".
An existing angle to this saga has developed in the last 24 hours — that of the "code red" order from the Dolphins coaching staff, who might have suggested to Incognito and others to "toughen up" Martin after he failed to show for a voluntary work-out last spring. It's the same plot that played out in the movie, A Few Good Men. Two Marines were given an order — to "toughen up" a fellow Marine who wasn't cutting it. They accidentally killed him. But, were they guilty of murder if all they were doing was following an order?
If a coach told Incognito to toughen up Jonathan Martin and he followed that direction, how is Incognito responsible for the aftermath, which included Martin doing the opposite of "getting tough"…he left the club and said, "I'm not going to be treated like this."
To me, that angle is the one everyone is going to chase over the next day or two. Incognito was wrong, period, for the way he tried to "toughen up" Martin. That said, if a coach told him to run three miles or he wouldn't play on Sunday, what would Incognito do? He'd go run three miles.
Martin had every right to choose the way he would battle the taunts and bullying handed out by his teammates.
There's no textbook on what to do in the workplace when you're called a "half a n—– piece of s—". There's no blueprint for how you handle the offending party when he says, "I'm gonna f— your mother."
Fighting — literally getting in a fist fight — isn't the answer within that fantasy-land NFL locker room. You'd be looked upon as a disruptive force and not being "with the program". It could create racial tension in the locker room if the two players were of a different race. It could cause injury to you or the player you were fighting.
People who say, "Martin is to blame because he didn't handle this stuff" aren't getting it.
He did handle it.
He told his employer…"I'm not coming to work anymore because I don't appreciate the way I'm being treated by the people you're employing."
And, now, it appears as if the employer might have been a co-signer on the treatment he was facing.
Finally — anyone hear or see an apology from Incognito yet?
Me neither.


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I really love programming. To be specific, i like solving problems, using libraries to perform actions using desktop/console applications which goes into the internals of an operation system or communicates with a database. And i really hope that i can make a career out of it.
But here's a problem. Most of the career opportunities in my country is focused on Web development.
I'm not really into Web development (HTML & CSS part). I can live with Javascript since it's the programmatic part of client side web development.
The bottom line is, i don't like just plotting a markup with HTML or changing a page design using CSS or even dealing with cross-browser incompatibility issues of HTML5 & CSS3. It just not the thing that i'd love working with it (since i believe that i must love my work).
What do you advice me with ? should i stick with only ASP.net and Javascript and not to go so deep in HTML & CSS (I don't say i won't touch it, i'll learn about it. But not as much as i'll in ASP.net or JS) ? or just change course and learn system administration and desktop programming. Knowing that web development is the dominant in my country (which will be kinda risky) ?
I'm really confused and worried about my future so i'd be very grateful if you guys give me a piece of advice.
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WTF? That's the question. No. Not that one. WTF? As in, where's the focus?
As you head into the fourth quarter of 2013, what are the questions you hear being asked around your office, shop or business? Are they (and they most likely are): "Are you going to your in-laws for Thanksgiving?" "Are you ready for the holidays?" "What are you doing for New Year's?" "Who ya got in the Super Bowl?"
Like it or not, the holiday season starts with Halloween and does not end until the Super Bowl. The battle for your employees' attention and focus has already begun, and you may not be winning. Pursuing new accounts, creating year-end promotions and conducting client meetings, however, may not be at the top of everyone's wish list. The natural business questions at this time of the year may not be "How is your Q4 turning out?" but instead "What costume are you wearing to the Crystal Lake Chamber Foundation's Halloween Mixer Oct. 29?" (Please excuse the Chairwoman's shameless promotion of this event).
Attention is diverted. Dedication is diluted. Focus is lacking.
Right now there is a major conflict between your organization's necessity for a strong Q4 and a profitable year and the distractions that you, your employees and customers will be encountering during the national countdown to Dec. 31 and the run to the Super Bowl. (The Super Bowl phenomenon will be exacerbated by all of your employees whose alma maters are in the BCS national championship game). Not only that, but Q4 is shorter than any other quarter because there are fewer working days between now and the end of the year because of the events that are already distracting your employees in the first place.
Your focus has to be on doing more in less time without fully engaged employees. Your "Blueprint for Success" for finishing the year on a high note is a three-step process to increase the attention, dedication, focus and results you will achieve between now and the end of Q4.
• Step one: Engage your employees by involving them in creating plans for a successful year end. Realize that without a strong, positive and compelling focus on success, your employees' thoughts may drift into visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Conduct company meetings with a laser beam focus on a successful Q4, and begin with the end in mind. Transport yourself and your team to Tuesday, Dec. 31, at 5 p.m. and discuss, even marvel at, what you have accomplished with teamwork, outstanding customer service and commitment. Tactically, use the Pareto Principle's 80/20 Rule to identify and prioritize 20 percent of the activities that will produce 80 percent of your results.
Develop an inspirational year-end rally cry or theme to gather the collective energy and focus of your organization's best asset: your employee's dedication and creativity. Plan for how you can make it fun, and celebrate success along the way, as well as when you reach your ultimate goal. Set daily, weekly and monthly activity goals, monitor the milestones and results between now and Dec. 31 and create visual displays to track your organization's progress.
• Step two: Tweak the plan while en route. Keep a keen eye on the progress of your strategies, and make adjustments as needed. Do not be so rigid that you can't stop and modify your plans. Eagerly request feedback from your employees, customers and partners about the organization's progress and make the appropriate changes. Take everything you know about your business and apply it now. Frequently thank and express gratitude to your employees about their efforts and for going "the extra mile." Embody the leadership example you wish for your employees to model. Are there any distractions or activities that you, your management team and employees need to stop/start or continue to accomplish your Q4 plans? Success will be attained by taking small steps consistently every day, measuring your individual and organizational progress and managing accountability.
• Step 3: Slow down and appreciate the journey. Savor each moment between now and the end of the year. Take a professional and personal inventory of the things that really matter by being present, and assess how you really use your time. Track your days in 15- to 30-minute increments and analyze the results. What and who are contributing to a productive and successful day? Get in the habit of frequently asking yourself, "WTF? – Where's the focus?" as a personal practice to bring you back to the important priorities. During this period of intense concentration, take excellent care of your health and wellbeing by getting enough rest, exercise and proper nutrition. You need ample reserves of energy to maintain a steady push to the end of the year.
During this important and sacred time of the year, you may or may not achieve all of your goals for Q4 or 2013. By aiming high and staying focused, you and your employees can raise a toast on Dec. 31 to a job well done. And the good news is you will have another window of opportunity before spring break and the Final Four.
• Kathleen Caldwell is president of Caldwell Consulting Group and the founder of the Global WHEE Institute (Wealthy, Healthy, Energetic Edge) of Woodstock. She works with Leaders and Teams to produce record breaking results. A "Blueprint for Year-End Success" resource list is available at www.caldwellconsulting.biz, firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 815-206-4014.


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2010 Mock Draft Selections (picking for Rays)
Bryce Brentz
Brandon Workman
Kris Bryant
Matt Lipka
Rick Hague
Barry On Baseball Also blogging at Banished to the Pen.
...and this one belongs to the Reds.
Noel does benefit though as this is going to be an extremely weak draft class. His long term impact could outweigh the instant impact of the rest of the class. My biggest concern would be future injuries, especially with Greg Oden fresh in everyone's mind.
De'Sean Butler was a senior and you can say that his development in the college ranks was the reason why he was draftable in the first place. His knee injury probably was the reason he wasn't able to make a pro team, but without the previous 3 seasons he probably doesn't sniff the NBA. I think you can make the argument that it was more the timing so close to the draft and camp that was the primary reason he couldn't make an NBA team. I didn't follow him once he left WVU and am curious as to why he never tried the European route.
I am a proponent of everyone getting as much education as possible. You can probably point to the a player or two that were hurt because they went to college but I would imagine you can point to many many more who were hurt because they decided to jump from HS to the NBA.
To further that I read a story on Yahoo about Vince Young being broke. The gist was he has no money and last year secured a high interest loan to throw himself a $350K birthday party. Granted some people are just awful with money and will spend it if they have it, but furthering your education is never a bad thing. If you could tailor a course in college to athletes, how to succeed after sport, how to handle your money, etc. that would to a long way to helping each athlete as they end their playing days and enter the "real world." For every massively successful player both during their playing days and after there are countless players who are broke and down on their luck shortly after their playing days end.
FWIW I would support a baseball type system. Enter the league after HS or after 3 years in college. The one exception is MLB has a minor league system in which HS players are in an environment where they are surrounded by other same aged players. Its a little different being an 18 year old kid with a few hundred dollars a week to spend in Bakersfiled than it is being an 18 year old kid with millions to spend in NYC.
I tend to agree with the baseball style solution. Perhaps lower the threshold to two years. But for this to be a true equivalent, you'd have to see more players opting for the D-League as a workable path to the NBA.
This isn't Gillispie's second year at Kentucky where the overall direction of the program was trending south. This is a year where a defending champion has lost most if not all of their nucleus and is in the process of building it back. My expectations were low for this year, but I still think this team, even without Nerlens, has a run left in them. It's just going to take them buying in and playing as a team and not as individuals.
Anyway, my point is that there was no guarantee that Noel would have gone first even if the unfortunate injury hadn't occurred - not that I agree with it with my belief that you always draft the player with the highest ceiling if your team is that bad - so the unfortunate injury may well hurt his draft stock, though not catastrophically.
There are two types of people in this world:
1)Morning people
2)Normal people
Am I the only one who thinks that Kentucky will still be an NCAA team, capable of going fairly deep this season?
Wiltjer will have to play/ rebound/ defend more inside, but he's a mismatch problem for other power forwards-- or centers, if Cal decides to go small.
Cauley-Stein can play garbage man, has much better hands, and is more advanced offensively. He's not the defensive player Noel was, but who is?
Poythress will likely have the offense run through him, a la Mashburn as a freshman. He's also a match-up problem, for either power or small forwards.
The guards are a crapshoot still, but Kentucky would have lost without good guard play anyway. (I think starting the combination of Polson and Goodwin OR the combo of Harrow and Mays makes sense, as you can then "depend" on one smart guard at all times, but the talent disparity makes that hard to do.)
This hurts the bench, but Jon Hood may now get some minutes. He's at least a veteran-- perhaps he has something that can spark the team?
I realize the injuy will make it harder for UK, but, in the state college basketball is in this season, you really don't need much to make a run.
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
-- Christy Matthewson
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot."
-- Leo Durocher
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Our guard play is so poor, still at this point, I just don't see it, Scrap.
Wish I felt differently.
They may still limp in, but the committee will use Noel's absence against UK if they're on the bubble at all.
I know middle schoolers who could physically dominate Ryan Harrow. He'll be a good backup for Andrew Harrison next season I suppose.
I'll be glad when Archie Goodwin leaves UK. First UK player of the Cal era I've felt that way about. One of my least favorite UK players ever.
And don't even get me started on Poythress.
So, yes, I agree with Scrap here. But in any case, Wiltjer should continue to come of the bench. He's the sixth man of the year in NCAA B-Ball, for sure.
There are two types of people in this world:
1)Morning people
2)Normal people
I see two options with this team:
1. The players rally around Nerlens, Cal uses his injury as motivation for his players, and they start to play. For that to happen, Poythress stops being a teddy bear and starts to become the Mashburn player you described, and Archie stops being, well, Archie.
2. They can fold, winning only against the weakest of the SEC teams. They lose to Tennessee this weekend, Georgia and Arkansas on the road, and get embarrassed again by Florida at Rupp and against Missouri for College Gameday.
I'm not giving up on this team, but Saturday at Thomson-Boling Arena will tell how the rest of the season is going to be.
It's nothing anyone wanted to see, but it certainly will be interesting to observe how the team responds to this crisis. The unfortunate reality is that they weren't playing that well before and I don't see a loss of the heart and soul of this team doing much to make things any better.
Probably see Goodwin go even more insane on the court trying to be "The Man." :facepalm:
Missouri has been ranked all year. They'll make it, no doubt.
Same with Ole Miss.
At least one of Kentucky and Alabama will make it, most likely both. Even Tennessee and Arkansas have outside shots of making the NCAAs.
I suspect Kentucky will make the big tourney assuming they win out against lower echelon teams and win at least one more big game against an upper division team.
Now, they might be a 12 seed, but they'll make it.
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
-- Christy Matthewson
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot."
-- Leo Durocher
I would love a play-in game. We need to do everything we can to keep our win total over KU as high as possible. Hopefully we can stretch the lead out again next season.
That's why I scoff at people who talk about declining an NIT bid. Those Ws count on your all-time total.
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Discounts on Theme Park Tickets
In a recession, what's better than a deal? I'll be using this post to share any deals that I come across. And I invite the readers to share any coupons, discounts, or promotions that they find too. In past years, I've scanned and posted coupons to parks in my area of the country including Hershey Park, Busch Gardens Europe, & Kings Dominion.
Cedar Fair Parks
Quite a few of the Cedar Fair parks are doing discounts for 4 tickets or more. Availability and prices vary.
4 or more for $24.99 each until July 31st
California's Great America
4 or more for $24.99 each, until November 1st
Dorney Park
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Knott's Berry Farm
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Kings Dominion
Everyone pays kids price, until September 12th
Six Flags Parks
Six Flags America
Buy one get one free at $49.99
Six Flags Great Adventure
Big Six Pack, Visit six times for $49.99
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Buy tickets for $26.99 online. ($53.99 at the park!)
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Everyone pays kids price of $29.99
Universal Orlando
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Save $30 per ticket when you purchase online in advance compared to the front gate!
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General Discount Ticket & Coupon Tips
Check local grocery stores, pharmacies, and fast food restaurants for discount tickets. Even if you don't live in the area you're visiting, with a little internet research you can found out where tickets may be cheaper or what stores offer coupons. I bought my Cedar Point ticket at a Meijer in Sandusky and picked a coupon to Lake Compounce at a Burger King in Connecticut.
When I don't go the coupon route I head online to save some money. Tickets are always a few dollars cheaper online. (Even 50% cheaper in the case of Magic Mountain above!) So I always buy tickets and season passes through the park's websites. Just print your tickets out at home and skip the lines at the ticket booth. And, if you forget a ticket or loose them, parks can reprint them at the guest relations desk.
What's Your Take?
How do you save on theme park tickets? Do you know of any other current promotions? Leave them below or submit them via the contact form and I'll add them to the post. Also, check out my other Theme Park Tips posts.


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Cornerback Tracy Porter (hip flexor) is well enough to play against Denver Sunday, but starter Mike Jenkins (hamstring) is inactive.
That leaves Chimdi Chekwa as the starter alongside Porter, with Chance Casey possibly playing in the nickel against the NFL's most dynamic passing offense.
Other inactives for the Raiders included defensive tackle Ricky Lumpkin, tackle Menelik Watson, wide receiver Jacoby Ford, wide receiver Brice Butler and guards Lamar Mady and Andre Gurode.


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First bake of the year: Semolina bread and Sesame tartine bread
Hello everybody:),
It was a cold weekend here in Timisoara, Romania, just good for baking:). In this case, the oven is a good friend who offers both baking and warming. I've decided to take my chance with two breads: a semolina bread, that I've tried two times before and I failed every one of them and a sesame tartine bread, that I've never made.
First about the semolina bread. I've read about it on Codruta's blog (http://codrudepaine.ro/2011/11/paine-cu-faina-de-grau-durum/ [1]) , I've liked the looks of it and what she said about the taste. Unfortunatelly we don't have durum flour in Timisoara and that kind of specific flour Codruta used is made and can be found in Italy. I've tried some other type of semolina flour but it was not good. It was a little adventure to get a batch of semolina rimacinata De Cecco, but finally I've got one. The result was as you can see below:
I retarded the dough in the fridge overnight for 11 hours, I baked it directly from the fridge but it seems to me like the dough was a bit under proofed. I would appreciate a piece of advice :). The taste is good, but I have a hunch that it could be better if the baker has all the knowledge and abilities to do it right :).
Secondly, about the sesame tartine bread: I've seen this bread also on Codruta's blog that has been my first source of inspiration for almost one year. I don't have Chad Robertson's book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tartine-Bread-Chad-Robertson/dp/0811870413/ref=pd_sim_b_7 [2]), but it's on my shopping list for the next months. I've tried the recipe in September from Codruta's blog and the results were great:
But this week I found Pip's Tartine sesame bread (http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/30635/tartine%E2%80%99s-sesame-bread-tempered-high-extraction-miche [3] ) and I started to think more about it.
Note: In the last two months I must admit that I've had two little "obsessions", borrowed from txfarmer blog: 1. croissants, where I think I'm heading in the right direction and 2. baguettes, where I am a total disaster, despite the fact that I've had at least a dozen tries (seems to me like I am not able to master the final fermentation yet:( )...As a result, my bread baking had been limited to some Vermont breads and their variations , as there were easier to make and the results were great. Considering all mentioned above, tartine bread seemed to me like a good way of reentering the universal bread world :).
Finally, I've decided to make Tartine bread with black sesame and raisins inside and white sesame seeds on the crust. The result can be seen below:
Not so good looking, from my point of view, but extremely good taste:). My husband loves its taste also. But I feel the need to make a few notes:
- In addition to the basic recipe of tartine bread, I used oatmeal (10% of the overall flour), black sesame (6% of the overall flour) and raisin (5% of the overall flour). The addition of seeds and raisin made me belief that I should use more water. After the autolyse of sourdough, flour, water and oatmeal, I put the salt, more water and mixed the dough until medium gluten development . Then I put the sesame seeds and raisin. As a result the hydration of the dough was ~81%, some of the highest I've ever worked with. Frankly, I though the seeds would call for more water than they actually did. The dough was a bit difficult to handle.
- Codruta's recipe was for two breads of ~ 750 gr each. I've made one bread of ~ 1.000 gr. It was too much dough for me to handle correctly in shaping as I have small hands. Moreover, it was my first time to put sesame seeds in the crust. I've done it using the method Hamelman suggests in his book, with a wet towel, but I think I handled the dough too much. For a beginner in putting seeds on the crust, I would recommend to work with a smaller amount of dough and a smaller degree of the dough hydration than I did.
This is my first bake of this year :). Hope the next one would be more successful. I would very much appreciate any piece of advice you could offer.
Happy baking everyone! See you soon!
Happy baker Andra:).
Ps: Please excuse my English. It's my first time writing in "bread English language". Some of the word associations may sound odd for you, as I might translate them from Romanian :|.


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What happens next now that Heather Peters has won her case? She's the California woman who took Honda to small claims court because her hybrid Civic wasn't getting as the 50 miles per gallon she'd been promised.
Well, she may never collect the $9,867 she was awarded. Honda has said it will appeal the decision — meaning, as we've said before, that the case will move to a higher court where Honda can bring in its high-priced attorneys (in California, lawyers aren't allowed to represent clients in small claims court).
But, as Los Angeles Times reporter Jerry Hirsch explained to All Things Considered co-host Melissa Block earlier this afternoon, Peters' strategy of taking a big corporation to small claims court rather than taking part in a class action suit "could catch on with other people who have complaints about big companies and their products. About a third of the states have rules where you're not allowed to bring an attorney into small claims court and that really evens the playing field."
Just the chance to drag a corporate Goliath into court may inspire other Davids. Hirsch says he knows of several Honda owners in California who may follow Peters' example.
There's also the possibility, Hirsch says, that down the road cases such as Peters' might force automakers to acknowledge that the Environmental Protection Agency's official vehicle mileage estimates don't always make sense. Los Angeles' traffic, he points out, is much different than other cities.'
Much more from his conversation with Melissa is due on today's All Things Considered. Click here to find an NPR station that broadcasts or streams the show.
So, how to follow Peters' example? Jalopnik.com offers a guide to "how you can sue an automaker in small claims court and win," with Peters as its source. It includes a link to key documents, a sample letter to send to the corporation you have a problem with, a map showing "maximum small claims dollar amounts by state" and this wonderful advice:
"Watch Several Episodes of Judge Judy (or similar): Seriously. The experience of going through small claims is pretty much exactly that, except the judges aren't as sassy. Watch a few of those and you will have a good idea of what to expect on your court day."
A follow-up now on a story we told you about last month, a lawsuit against Honda over hybrid mileage. That suit was filed in an unusual venue, small claims court. Well, now, plaintiff Heather Peters has won her suit against the automaker. She's been awarded just under $10,000 in damages. Her claim? That her Civic Hybrid never got the 50 miles per gallon that Honda promised in its ads.
Jerry Hirsch has been following the case for the Los Angeles Times. Jerry, thanks for being with us.
JERRY HIRSCH: I'm glad to be here.
BLOCK: There was a class action settlement with Honda that the plaintiff Heather Peters refused to sign on to. She thought the payout to owners was too small. And now she's won a whole lot more in small claims court. What does she say?
HIRSCH: She is very happy. She's interested in what Honda's next move is. This is quite a chess game that's going on between Peters, Honda and the class action bar over the problems with the Civic Hybrid. But she's happy that she won. She's looking forward to the next step. And she thinks she's going to get a lot of support from other hybrid owners.
BLOCK: Well, let's talk about the next step. Honda has said it will appeal. And the next venue really could change things a lot, right?
HIRSCH: Yeah. This is a big change for her. This is - will go to Los Angeles Superior Court, and then all the things that happen in a regular courtroom get to happen. There's discovering a Honda can ask to see her car. They can try to see if there was some way that she was maintaining it incorrectly that might have caused the mileage to be less than advertised. There's depositions. They bring their attorneys in. She has to cite whether she wants to hire attorney or continue to represent herself. I believe she will represent herself.
It ups the stakes considerably. It's interesting that Honda would pursue this, because looking at a company that sells a million cars a year, this is a $10,000 damages award, but yet they must see this as a very important case that they're going to keep at it.
BLOCK: Mm. And one key thing. Next time, you mentioned, they can bring their lawyers in to appeals court. In small claims court, Honda couldn't be represented by its attorneys, right? And Heather Peters, representing herself, is a former attorney.
HIRSCH: Right. So she's pretty savvy about this stuff. This isn't the average Joe going in and taking on the big corporation. In California, companies are not allowed to be represented by attorneys in small claims lawsuits. That's also correct in, I think, about a third of the other states. The state laws vary. But what it's designed to do is to kind of even the odds for people to simplify the process and make it more digestible for the common man to take on a case like this.
BLOCK: Now, Heather Peters has also launched a Web campaign to get other owners of Civic Hybrids who were planning to settle with Honda in that class action settlement to do what she's done. Is that catching on, do you think?
HIRSCH: Well, she said she's been contacted prior to her win yesterday by more than 500 other Civic owners. Her website crashed last night. She had something like 6,000 visitors to the website. So we'll see what happens. I've personally met owners from Sacramento, in San Diego and other parts of Southern California who all say that if Heather won, they were going to try the same strategy. It presents an interesting problem for Honda, because all of sudden they could have this distributed litigation in small claims courts all over the state. It looks like it would be a big hassle for a big corporation, especially if it spread to other states where the laws were similar.
BLOCK: And conceivably other carmakers might be facing similar suits or no?
HIRSCH: It has implications for all sorts of consumer lawsuits that we now see wind up in class action litigation. People might decide, oh, if I go with the class action litigation, I'm going to get a coupon or $100. But if I go and do this on my own, I might get thousands of dollars in damages from the company.
BLOCK: Or I might get nothing.
HIRSCH: Litigation is always a gamble. You're going to win or you're going to lose. And you don't know what's going to happen until you go into it.
BLOCK: OK. Jerry Hirsch, automotive writer for the Los Angeles Times. Thanks so much.
HIRSCH: Thank you.
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SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) — Swarthmore College has received a $20 million gift to increase financial aid and help renovate campus facilities, school officials announced Saturday.
The donation from philanthropist Giles "Gil" Kemp and his wife, Barbara, comes as the elite liberal arts school prepares to celebrate its 150th anniversary next year.
"Gil is among our most passionate, articulate, and loyal ambassadors and understands well where Swarthmore's core values lie and how we can best support them," college President Rebecca Chopp said in a statement.
Most of the gift — $8 million — will be used to create a need-based scholarship program for students interested in global leadership. Swarthmore costs about $56,000 a year.
Another $7 million will go to improve community space by renovating 83-year-old Clothier Hall. The remaining $5 million is pledged for general college support.
Kemp, an alumnus whose business interests have included direct marketing and home furnishings, also serves as chairman of Swarthmore's board of managers.
"The education I received and the experiences I had at Swarthmore literally changed my life and launched my career," Kemp said in a statement.
The Kemps' donation comes less than three months after alumnus Eugene Lang gave the school $50 million, the largest gift ever received by the college.
About 1,500 students attend Swarthmore, in suburban Philadelphia. It was co-founded in 1864 by Lucretia Mott, a prominent Quaker abolitionist and activist for women's rights.
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Q: How can I find a user's last logon time in a Windows domain? Where is a user's last logon time stored in Active Directory (AD)?
A: AD stores a user's last logon time in the Last-Logon AD user object attribute. As with the logging of account logon events, the last logon time is updated only in the AD instance of the domain controller (DC) that actually authenticated the user, meaning you must query all the DCs in the domain in which the user's account is defined to find his last logon time. (See also, "How can I generate a list of last user logon times for a domain?" and "Q: Does Windows include a mechanism to show failed logon information to the user at logon time?").
Microsoft included a new AD user object attribute called Last-Logon- TimeStamp in Windows Server 2003. The Last-Logon-TimeStamp attribute stores the approximate value of the last logon time of a user. The value is approximate because AD replicates the Last-Logon-TimeStamp attribute only once every 14 days to avoid replication overhead. Although the Last-Logon- TimeStamp doesn't resolve the problem that you must query all DCs in the user's domain if you want to know the exact last logon time, it does give administrators a way to discover inactive or stale accounts. The Last-Logon-TimeStamp attribute is activated only when the domain is switched to the Windows 2003 domain functional level. For more information about Last-Logon-TimeStamp and to download sample scripts to query the value of the Last-Logon-TimeStamp attribute of a given user, go to www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/win2003/lastlogon.mspx.
You can also view the value of Last- Logon-TimeStamp for a given user from the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in if you install a special DLL called acctinfo.dll. This DLL is included in the Account Lockout and Management Tools, which can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7AF2E69C-91F3-4E63-8629-B999ADDE0B9E&displaylang=en. Acctinfo.dll adds the Additional Account Info tab to an AD user account's properties, as shown in Figure 1. The Additional Account Info tab contains different types of account logon and logoff information, including the value of the Last-Logon- TimeStamp attribute.
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Dragon City Complete Dragon Breeding Guide
Dragon breeding is a unique part of the game play in Dragon City. However, it is hard to figure out how to breed what without the formula. In this guide, we will provide some formulas and tutorials on how to breed the dragons that you love and use in Dragon City. Please share this guide with your Dragon City and facebook friends if you have found it helpful. Lastly please check out the rest of our Dragon City guides.
Basic Dragon Breeding Information
The basic of Dragon City breeding is taught during tutorial. You will first have to level up your dragon via feeding to at least level 4. Build a building ground such as Breeding Mountain or Breeding Tree, then you can select which of the dragon that you would like to breed. It will take some time for the dragons to create the eggs and even more time for the eggs to hatch. The types of offspring is dependent on the parents. In addition, there is some sort of luck involved in breeding that you may not get the dragon you are looking for 100% of the time.
When you first start the game, we recommend you to start from generation 1 and breed a couple high generation dragons. However, slow down on the Pure Dragon breeding (We label it generation 4 and 4.5) because the long breeding time can hinder your game play.
Basic Breeding Dragons
To start breeding the dragons, you must first have these basic building blocks. You must purchase these dragons from eggs because you do not have the parents to generate and mate for these basic dragons.
Plant Dragon
Fire Dragon
Earth Dragon
Water Dragon
Electric Dragon
Ice Dragon
Metal Dragon
Dark Dragon
Generation 1 Breeding Dragons
Below is a complete list of "Rank 1″ dragons that you can build by using single step from the basic dragons in Dragon City. The dragons may be repeated in each of the subsection simply for your own convenience. The order at which you input the dragons for breeding does not affect the egg outcome. It is all pretty much based on luck and luck only.
Earth Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Earth + Fire = Flaming Rock or Volcano.
Earth + Plant = Tropical or Cactus.
Earth + Water = Mud or Waterfall.
Earth + Electric = Star or Chameleon.
Earth + Ice = Alpine or Snow Flake.
Earth + Metal = Armadillo.
Earth + Dark = Hedgehog or Venom.
Fire Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Fire + Earth = Flaming Rock or Volcano.
Fire + Water = Cloud or Blizzard.
Fire + Plant = Firebird or Spicy.
Fire + Electric = Laser or Hot Metal.
Fire + Metal = Medieval or Steampunk.
Fire + Dark = Vampire or Dark Fire.
Water Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Water + Earth = Mud.
Water + Fire = Cloud or Blizzard.
Water + Plant = Nenufar or Coral.
Water + Electric = Lantern Fish or Storm.
Water + Ice = Icecube or Ice Cream.
Water + Metal = Mercury or Seashell.
Plant Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Plant + Earth = Tropical.
Plant + Fire = Firebird or Spicy.
Plant + Water = Nenufar or Coral.
Plant + Ice = Dandelion or Mojito.
Plant + Metal = Jade or Dragonfly.
Plant + Dark = Carnivore Plant or Rattle Snake.
Electric Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Electric + Earth = Star or Chameleon.
Electric + Fire = Laser or Hot Metal.
Electric + Water = Lantern Fish or Storm.
Electric + Metal = Golden Or Battery.
Electric + Dark = Neon.
Electric + Ice = Moose.
Ice Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Ice + Earth = Alpine or Snow Flake.
Ice + Water = Icecube or Ice Cream.
Ice + Plant = Dandelion or Mojito.
Ice + Medal = Platinum.
Ice + Electric = Moose.
Metal Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Metal + Fire = Medieval or Steampunk.
Metal + Water = Mercury or Seashell.
Metal + Ice = Platinum.
Metal + Plant = Jade or Dragonfly.
Metal + Electric = Golden or Battery.
Metal + Dark = Zombie.
Dark Dragon Hybrid Generation 1
Dark + Earth = Hedgehog or Venom.
Dark + Fire = Vampire or Dark Fire.
Dark + Plant = Carnivore Plant Or Rattle Snake.
Dark + Electric = Neon.
Dark + Ice = Penguin.
Dark + Metal = Zombie.
Dark + Mud = Poo.
Generation 2 Dragon Breeding – Hybrid Rare
Below list we will include generation 2 dragon breds that are possible from generation 1. Please note that some of these chances are not 100%, and there may be other ways that you can successfully breed the Dragon City dragon that you are looking for. We have used () to note the basic building block for the specific Generation 1 dragons for your convenience.
Mud (Earth + Water) + Dark = Poo.
Medieval (Fire + Metal) + Alpine (Ice + Earth) = Cool Fire Or Soccer Or Pearl Or Armadillo Or Flaming Rock
Neon (Dark + Electric) + Nenufar (Water + Plant) = Pirate.
Zombie + Mud (Earth + Water) = Petroleum.
Laser (Fire + Electric) + Dandelion (Plant + Ice) = Gummy or Fluorescent or Laser.
Special Notes:
Cool Fire can also be obtained through Laser (Fire + Electric) and Dandelion (Plant + Ice), Firebird and Ice.
Armadillo can also obtained through: medieval + alpine, pearl + alpine, jade+star, Zombie + Mud, and Pearl + flaming rock dragon
Gummy can also be obtained through: Firebird + fluorecent, firebird + star, Jade + star, and neon + nenufar
Pirate can also be bred from: Rattlesnake + lanternfish and neon + cloud
It should be additionally noted that Medieval + Alpine dragon is one of the best dragon breeding formula in Dragon City because of its ability to bred different types of hybrid rares.
Generation 3 Dragon Breeding – Legendary
The dragon breeding list for the legendary rank is well, pretty rare. You really have to rely heavily on your luck to get a shot at landing these dragons. Because the type of elements associated with these rare breeds are quite complex, we do not have the exact formula for these Dragon City breeds yet.
Legendary Dragon – Cool Fire Dragon + Soccer Dragon
Crystal Dragon – Coolfire + Soccer
Mirror Dragon – Gummi Dragon + Cool Fire Dragon
Wind Dragon – Gummi Dragon + Cool Fire Dragon, Soccer + CoolFire
Generation 4 and 5 Pure Dragon Breeding – The Pure Dragons
The pure dragon in Dragon City is the latest update that uses all the legendary dragons that you have gotten. Some people also call the Pure dragon the "Unicorn" dragon, because it looks like a unicorn. However, the actual name on Dragon City is the Pure Dragon. This category of dragon has its own habitat of the Pure and Pure elements. Below is how you can obtain these pure dragons in Dragon City.
We have intentionally separated the ranking generation of Pure and Pure Element. You will need Pure Dragon before you can start breeding the Pure Elements, thus effectively make the Pure Elements one generation after the Dragon City Pure Dragon.
It should be noted again that the breeding chance of Pure Dragon is not 100%. Based on our brief tests, we estimate the chance of breeding the Pure Dragon to be roughly 30~50% or even lower. There is a chance to have a result of any possible dragon combination when you breed two legendary dragon together.
Generation 4 – The Pure Dragon
Pure Dragon – Any breeding combination from legendary status dragons – Legendary, Crystal, Mirror, Wind. For example, Legendary + Crystal, Crystal + Mirror, and …
Generation 5 – The Pure Element Dragons
After you have obtained the Pure dragons, you can use the Dragon City pure dragon to breed the Pure element dragons with their elemental counterparts. Below is a list of all these pure elemental dragons.
Pure Plant = Pure Dragon + Plant Dragon
Pure Fire = Pure Dragon + Fire Dragon
Pure Earth = Pure Dragon + Earth Dragon
Pure Water = Pure Dragon + Water Dragon
Pure Electric = Pure Dragon + Electric Dragon
Pure Ice = Pure Dragon + Ice Dragon
Pure Metal = Pure Dragon + Metal Dragon
Pure Dark = Pure Dragon + Dark Dragon
Special Advice on Pure Dragon Breeding and Hatching Time:
The pure dragons breeding combination takes a whopping 48 hours to complete. The hatching of any "pure" dragon City dragons also takes 48 hours. Together the pure dragon breeding and hatching time adds up to 96 hours which is 4 days. Before you start breeding these, make sure that you have enough dragons as backup because they will take up your breeding and hatching queue. Putting your available legendary dragons into breeding places will make them unable to battle for that initial 2 days.
Notes: Dragon City Opposing Element Breeding
In this list that we have provided, there are some breeds that include elements that are opposed to each other. This means that you cannot normally breed them directly. However, you can use hybrid dragons that contain the opposing elements to breed the hybrid dragons. Because hybrid is used in the breeding process, this means that you will not be able to get the dragon that you want 100% of the time, so just keep on trying until you breed the Dragon City dragons that you need!
Notes: Dragon City Breeding Rarity Booster
Just in the past week of October, the Dragon City developer has opened a new feature named the Breeding Rarity Booster which can be used to boost your breeding chances. Based on some preliminary testing on our part, we have determined the rate to be roughly "twice" of its original breeding chance.
This means that "if" you have roughly 30% chance at getting legendary ranked dragons, with the rarity booster you will have doubled that amount at 60%. However, with the same reasoning, the effect of rarity booster is really limited when it comes to Pure and Pure Element combinations. We estimate the chance of breeding the Pure ranked dragons at about 5~10%. Which means that the Rarity booster really only effectively gives you 5%~10% more (nevertheless it still doubles the chance which helps you get them twice as fast, or even faster). Please note that we do not have the exact % of breeding chances, we simply observe that the Rarity booster is dependent on the original "rare" chance.
Gamelytic's verdict on Dragon Breed Rarity Booster: It will be a better investment into breeding trees if you have not done so. Save your precious gems for the special event dragons instead of pushing for higher breeding success chance via the Rarity booster. When you get to a later level, there is much left to do except to collect the event dragons while letting your Dragon breeding schedule run.
Notes: Update for Dragon Breeding Times
In the past week or so, Social Point seems to be running some testing by assigning different breeding times for the dragons. This test now seems to have been rolled out to the majority of the players which we now call it a breeding time update.
Before the update, the breeding time is purely based upon the parents of the dragon pair. With this update, the Dragon City breeding time is now directly related to how rare the egg hybrid offspring is. For example, legendary and pure level eggs can take up to 24~48 hours for breeding. For the generation 1~2 hybrids can generally take 4~16 hours. This update is good in a way that you can get more breeding tries within shorter period of time. This means that if you play consistently throughout the day, you can get your rares faster within shorter time frame. Failed non-rare eggs will simply take shorter breeding time.
Special Promotional Dragons
These dragons are listed because they cannot be made via breeding. However, we have included these to make our Dragon City breeding guide complete:
Paladin Dragon: Electric/Earth – Level 10 in Social Empires
Robot Dragon: Fire/Metal – Level 10 in Social Wars
Dragon Spell Dragons:
This is a special promotion that Dragon City is doing that encourages you to use gems to get unique dragons. Some of the offerings cannot be obtained via Breeding. In addition, players have reported different reward dragons. Therefore you may receive different offerings at different times compared to other players.
Dragons that are obtained via the Dragon City Dragon Spells:
Butterfly Dragon
Fossil Dragon: Ice / Dark Element (available 8/23/12)
Seahorse Dragon: (available 8/30/12)
Sky Dragon: (Available 9/6/12)
Friend Request Specials
Uncle Sam Dragon: (available 10/23/12)
Wheel of Fortune Event
Bat Dragon (available 10/23/12)
Viking Dragon (available 11/1/12)
Jelly Dragon (available 11/8/12)
Queen Dragon (available 11/23/12)
Ghost Dragon (Dark / Earth) (available 11/29/12).
Carnival Games for Dragons
King and Wizard Dragon
Plankton Dragon Added (Available 10/24/12)
Special Events
2012 Hallowheel Spin – Pumpkin Dragon (Available 10/28/12)
2012 Santa Dragon Christmas Tree Event – Santa Dragon (Plant/Ice) Available Through 12/24/12
Dragon Wheel
Quetzal Dragon (Available 11/16/12)
Gamelytic Dragon City Breeding List Update Log
Because more dragons combinations are being constantly added to the total roster. We have created this section to keep track of our edits and breeding additions for our readers. Remember to share our list with your fellow Facebook and Dragon City friends!
6/28: Added Seashell Dragon and Moose Dragon breeding formula.
7/5: Added Venom Dragon and Dragonfly Dragon breeding combination.
7/14: Added Dark Fire (Dark Flame) Dragon and Steampunk Dragon breeding information.
8/1: Added Paladin Dragon and Robot Dragon Promotional Dragons
8/3: Butterfly Dragon becomes available via Dragon Spell. The Butterfly Dragon cannot be obtained via breeding at this stage.
8/12: Added Pure Dragon breeding guide section in Dragon City, as well as the Pure element dragons. Added Dragon Spell Game notes under Promotional Dragons.
8/23: Fossil Dragon becomes available via Dragon Spell. The Fossile Dragon cannot be produced via Dragon City breeding right now.
8/30: Seahorse Dragon becomes available via Dragon Spell. The Seahorse Dragon cannot be produced via Dragon City breeding right now.
9/6: Sky Dragon the Dragon Spell Unique dragon released. This Sky Dragon cannot be obtained using Breeding method.
10/14: King and Wizard Dragon is available via the Carnival games.
10/23: Bat Dragon is available via the Wheel of Fortune game. Uncle Sam Dragon can be obtained through friend requests.
10/23: Notes and Observations made regarding the new Dragon City Breeding Rarity Booster – Our verdict says no.
10/24: Plankton Dragon available via the Carnival game.
10/28: Pumpkin dragon available via Hallowheel.
11/1: Viking dragon available via Wheel of Fortune.
11/6: Note written about the Dragon City breeding time update.
11/8: Jelly dragon available via Wheel of Fortune.
11/16: Quetzal Dragon available via Dragon Wheel.
11/23: Queen Dragon available via Wheel of Fortune.
11/29: Ghost Dragon available via Wheel of Fortune.
11/29: Santa Dragon Available via Dragon City 2012 Special Christmas Tree Event.


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Do I reply with "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" or "It's a TRAP!". Decisions, decisions...
Decisions, decisions, decisions, decisions, decisions [
you work for yahoo?
I thought about that when they announced they'd support linux running in emulation. They could maybe supply a sort of buggy half crippled userspace linux with a view to discrediting linux.
I can't see it working. It might win some points with the PHB brigade, but most linux users are more interested in freedom than cost. If that is the plan, I can see it reboundin
This is not correct. It's not necessarily true that Microsoft products would be purchased instead, nor is it true that any time a server or workstation running Linux is switched to Windows that a new license for Windows has to be purchased.Every linux box sold represents money ripped from their pocket.
Section 2B - Contractee will also instruct Microsoft Corporation (C)(TM) on the use and operation of the computer program known as 'cvs'.
"helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects"
Do they ship cluebats freight? I guess they do now.
They're not even giving him a ticket in coach to get out to Redmond? Well, how about that for a warm welcome...
I hope he is successful! I'd sure like to see Windows users have to emerge msoffice2k3 and wait for six days.
I think Microsoft already understand Open Source projects - and, quite obviously and unsurprisingly, they don't like them. Justifiable from a business perspective, crap from (almost) everyone else's perspective, and I have trouble seeing what change he could bring in Microsoft.
Unless of course he's got several kilograms of TNT strapped to his chest when he has his first meeting with Bill
"Today, class, we're going to learn about kde..."
"Err, Mr Robbins sir, is this going to take much longer? I gotta go pee"
The good news was that I got paid more than it was worth!
I hope it is not applicable here.
(As it turned out, it wasn't so bad to be a consultant doing Windows. I didn't even have to lie. The main problem was my health... which I'm certain was a totally unrelated problem. Very certain. I think.)
Anyone else notice that this isn't the first ABQ->Redmond migration for a "distribution" founder?
I like the code more. It is certainly more beautiful, and perhaps more useful too....
you can't *quite* get away with that in corporate america just yet, but the next best thing, when you have X*10 billion dollars in the bank getting moldy, is just to hire them away.
sorry to interrupt all the guffawin' and shuckin' and jivin'. carry on with the lame star wars references and other assorted jokery.
To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. -- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire


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Fervent: Stauntonians talk religion in schools
Taking elementary children out of school for Bible study, the subject of the Hook's May 27 cover story, is both a time-honored and controversial tradition in the Shenandoah Valley. That's why when the Staunton School Board decided to hold a public hearing, it soon became standing room only.
In April, Waynesboro author and newspaper columnist Mollie Bryan ignited the discussion about the future of WRE– Weekday Religious Education– with a piece in The News Leader expressing her concerns about the long-running program in which students are exposed to Christian-based teachings based on Bible stories.
Bryan, the mother of a student in the Waynesboro public-school system, focused her column on the role that religion should play in modern public education– which is to say, not much of one, in her opinion.
"I'd like to think that maybe I helped get this going," said Bryan. "I'd like to think that maybe people didn't realize the pressures that students and teachers are facing in the classroom. Maybe I helped create a lens through which we could see these issues and let people know that we can do something to effect a change.
"I'd hate for what I went through after my column was published to have all been for naught," said Bryan, who received a slew of negative mail calling her an anti-Christian bigot and worse.
Fast forward eight months, to the Staunton School Board hearing December 13 about the future of WRE in the Queen City.
"There are people who feel very strongly that this is a good thing for the community on the one side, and there are people on the other side who feel otherwise," said School Board Chairman Jim Harrington. "That is to be expected with an issue like this."
The Board decided to set the public hearing, Harrington said, after hearing from residents with concerns about the WRE program, which offers students in grades 1-3 access to a half-hour of off-campus religious instruction each week.
"It's something that board members have been hearing more about over the course of the past several months," Harrington said. "I'm not sure what might have generated the discussions. I suspect that the recent decision of the school board in Harrisonburg to discontinue the WRE program there might have had something to do with it."
"This whole thing is the effort of a small but vocal group of people who for various and sundry reasons are against the WRE program," said Staunton-Beverley Manor WRE president Jack Hinton.
"One thing that we're hearing from them now is that they're supposedly very concerned about making sure that the children are prepared for the Standards of Learning," Hinton said. "We're talking about students in grades 1-3, first of all. Only students in the third grade take the SOLs. That needs to be pointed out."
But Staunton resident Beverly Riddell doesn't believe the goal of educating all of the children in the school system is being met by WRE.
"It's Christian outreach," said Riddell. "It's not about improving the quality of education."
Queen City denizen Cathy Sliwoski was among those who offered the other side of the WRE story.
"Life lessons are not found on any SOL test," Sliwoski said. "No one coerced us into putting our children into WRE. Nor is anyone ostracized for not participating.
"Isn't it ironic that if we want our children to learn about the Bible, we have to opt in?" she asked. "But if we don't want our children to learn about condoms, we have to opt out? Something is wrong with this picture."
And thus went the give and take among the overflow crowd– which spilled out of the auditorium at A.R. Ware Elementary into an adjoining hallway.
The board took no action. Chair Jim Harrington said beforehand that the objective was to simply "hear from the community about what people are thinking about this."


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Someone needs to learn about BitTorrent. If he's hoping to make money off of it, he could just burn games and movies onto DVDs and sell them to other people who are ignorant of BitTorrent.
I don't approve of illegal downloads, but this is just stupid. Which is even worse than "slightly immoral".
In a manner of speaking [emulator-zone.com]
You still can't download game consoles. The article pokes fun at the thief's stone-age method used to steal games. OK, but I would imagine that he would be after the highest ticket items in the store - consoles of every flavor. Seems like he had access to a shared, perhaps basement, wall and basically tired to knock a hole in it. Hardly a tunnel. When I think of a tunnel I think border crossing feats of rogue engineering like this.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/07/14/bc-pot-tunnel
Afaict most gift cards in shops at least in the UK are only assigned their value when the purchaser checks out, the ones sitting on the shelves are worthless. I wonder if they do the same for game cards.
They do the same for game and gift cards. Nobody leaves stacks of easy-to-pocket cash laying around on the store floor. It's all just bits of plastic and paper until scanned and activated at the register.
If you have a PC you shouldn't need a game console.
OK, but I would imagine that he would be after the highest ticket items in the store - consoles of every flavor.
That just seems foolish to me, after thinking about it for five seconds. Sure, the consoles are going to bring the most value per item, so it makes sense at face value. It would also be harder to move stolen consoles without raising suspicion. It really makes sense to go for games and accessories. Nobody is going to question a bunch of new games being sold, especially this time of year ("I got them for Christmas but they didn't interest me"), and a small handful of games - five or so - is going to easily me
I can.
I downloaded a SNES a Nintendo 64, a PS1, and a Sega Genesis.
Honestly, some of the newer consoles emulators are coming along as well. I saw news of a Wii emulator being worked on.
You get a lot more for a game in original packaging with unused serial number than you do for a CD-R labelled with a marker pen and crack instructions in a text file somewhere.
Sure, but you also have much more chance of getting caught if you physically break into a store.
Yeah, whoever tagged this as piracy is a dumbass, since this particular case really *IS* theft but it's NOT piracy. Unless of course boats, parrots and wooden legs were involved.
But lightscribing the DVDs and printing you own DVD covers with fake serial numbers is easier and safer than opening a hole to a shop.
Strangely enough, Gamestop opens most of the games and breaks the seal on the original packaging.
I think the major problem with that is that you often don't have multiplayer for a lot of those BitTorrented games.
I see.
This story just reminded me of a friend ~2 years ago talking about buying dodgy DVDs. I didn't get why if she was going to being going the illegal route that she wouldn't just download them. She had a computer with a DVD burner and decent internet access. I suppose it does somewhat reduce the chance of the RIAA and their ilk catching up to you.
I see.
This story just reminded me of a friend ~2 years ago talking about buying dodgy DVDs. I didn't get why if she was going to being going the illegal route that she wouldn't just download them. She had a computer with a DVD burner and decent internet access. I suppose it does somewhat reduce the chance of the RIAA and their ilk catching up to you.
I think you answered your own question.
You're never realistically going to get caught buying dodgy DVDs.
Felony burglarly: State offense, 2-12 years in state prison, plus a $5000 fine. Likely at least two counts because two buildings were involved, but I'd expect the sentences to be served concurrently. Quite likely to be plea-bargained, and parole is available.
Criminal copyright infringement under the No Electronic Theft Act: 5 years imprisonment in pound-me-in-the-ass Federal Prison (plea bargain unlikely and parole unavailable), a fine of up to $250,000, plus civil penalties of up to $100,000 per work infringed.
Neither is likely to be much fun, but it looks like criminal copyright infringement still carries higher penalties. Note that if this is a second offense it goes up to 10 years imprisonment in PMITA Federal Prison.
Castle Doctrine *IS* the enhanced risk/penalty for committing crimes in person.
Burglary of a residence (where the Castle law might apply) in TN is Aggravated Burglary and carries a higher penalty. If anyone is injured (whether in a residence or not) it immediately escalates to Epecially Aggravated Burglary.
If committing an act that could lead to violence
As a general rule, to make that evaluation you have to determine the social damage of the violence vs. the economics. I'd definitely want Ber
pound-me-in-the-ass Federal Prison
do you do it for enjoyment or are you paid ?
But the risk of being caught for the first is much higher. So the average penalty per crime would be lower for the second.
it looks like criminal copyright infringement still carries higher penalties
No, it doesn't. The penalty for infringement is up to 3 years in jail. That's less than "2-12" years. I couldn't figure out the fines from the title; that's one effed-up piece of legislative writing, there.
And to get that 3 years you have to infringe 10 times in 6 months. Up to 3 years for 10 charges? that's up to 3.6 months per crime, if they throw the book at you. 1 burglary can get you at least 2 years. Which is a lot harsher all the way around.
No, it doesn't. The penalty for infringement is up to 3 years in jail. That's less than "2-12" years.
Up to 5 years for a first offense, up to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense, for willful copyright violation for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain. Burning torrents to DVDs and selling them would come under this categorization.
The fines are hard to find, they're actually hidden in 18 USC 3571.
To get the (up to) 5 years it's 10 instances or more with total value of $2500, which for games would take a few dozen instances and for songs would take hundreds. Do that many burglaries and the upper limit is centuries.
However, for copyright infringement it would likely be treated as one instance per game while for burglary it would be one instance per break in.
Here the law explicitly aggregates both muliple copies and multiple works into one count. Do a total of 10 or more in a 6-month period and it's one count.
Which brings up the obvious legal questions of is it 2 counts if you do 11? 20? 10 per 6 months for 1 year?
For burglary it's 1 count per act, which comes with other charges. Break into an empty store, that's 1 B&E. Break into the store next door through the wall, that's a second B&E. Take stuff away with you, that's 1 Burglary, which may obviat
I had a conversation with an avowed American "patriot" railing against the draconian laws of countries like Iran where infidelity can get you stoned to death. My counter was similar to this example. You Westerners have even more draconian laws that don't even make sense. In the Western world, copying and idea will get you thrown into prison and bankrupted. And in a capitalistic society, being bankrupted is equivalent to an amputation of the limbs or even death. It seems, copyright infringements is the equivalent of religious heresy in secular capitalist countries.
And in a capitalistic society, being bankrupted is equivalent to an amputation of the limbs or even death.
I'm sorry but are you and everyone who modded this up insane in the mind?
I don't think there is anybody in this capitalist society who would even pause for thought if given the choice between being bankrupted, amputated or killed.
this is just stupid. Which is even worse than "slightly immoral".
You can't help being stupid; morality is a matter of choice.
morality is a matter of choice
Unless you're stupid.
It also looks that there is further evidence on another post;
New Study Links Video Games and Mental Problems [slashdot.org]
Maybe the defence strategy should be along the lines of 'mental illness'?
Don't most bank heist movies incorporate a bloody third act? Frankly, the sandblaster scene in the Bank Job discouraged me from a life of crime.
Note that the link is thin, and the sources are behind logins and subscription links, so please post better URLs if you can find them.
Isn't that your job?
You must be new here if you think Taco and his so called 'editors' do anything other than sit around playing video games and collecting paychecks while posting a link once in awhile.
"Note that the link is thin, and the sources are behind logins and subscription links, so please post better URLs if you can find them."
Er, no? That's what I expect a story-poster to do for me? Or the editors? You know, those *paid* people?
Might as well say "Vague story happens but you can only read about it on other sites - help us do our job and find other people's coverage so we can post the link here!"
Seriously, as the days go buy, there's less and less reason to come to this site, and less and less reason to pay for a subscription.
It would appear that Slashdot is open sourcing its editing, and is now in perpetual Beta.
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Google is a news aggregator, and all decisions are primarily based on code, not by humans. Slashdot is a technology news portal where the submissions are selected by, and then EDITED by the EDITORS, to filter out the debris and only allow the best to hit the front
/. automated the process a long time ago. The "editors" now just select what bubbles up to the top of the +/- ratings on the "recent stories" list (aka "the firehose"), make up a snarky department-of-taglines-department-tagline for the box on the form, then go back to pwning each other in MOH:AA. That Taco took the time to click on the links and realize it's probably link-spam actually puts him in the running for their annual "works too fscking hard" award.
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He was just playing Dig Dug
I'm guessing he did this with the intention of selling the games on and profiting. It certainly can't have been for his own enjoyment.
Unless, of course, there's some strange pleasure that he gets from owning 500 used copies of Madden and 500 used copies of Black Ops (plus maybe, if he's really lucky, a single new copy of Madden as well).
I'm imagining a 20-something in a hoodie with a room piled full of video games swimming around like Scrooge McDuck.
Perhaps Caesar from History of the World Part One, "TREASURE BATH!!!!".
I had to read the post twice to get that the OP was referring to a real, not a virtual, tunnel.
they are to cheap to sell out for that why not have a security guard mini wage BYOG.
The same reason you generally don't pay staff minimum wage. Minimum wage = minimum work and minimum trust.
Or, maybe Minecraft imitated life to begin with. It's not like the concept of sappers and tunneling was invented by Minecraft.
Now, that doesn't mean that tunneling into a video game store isn't just plain bizarre.
At the current state of copyright law, it's probably better to be caught tunneling into a game shop and stealing physical copies than downloading the same amount of copies on bittorrent.
At the current state of copyright law, it's probably better to be caught tunneling into a game shop and stealing physical copies than downloading the same amount of copies on bittorrent.
Sadly, you are probably correct.
Pay attention people: This is what actual theft looks like.
This doesn't make him a hacker?
Just last week in that vacant store front there used to be a chapter of the "Red Headed League". They organized events for the fiery headed, like myself. Shame that it has come to this.
You do realize that Minecraft was the most popular indie game of 2010, with well over a milion copies sold? A few slashdotters probaly aren't the problem. "Dorf fortress with graphics" might even be a new genre, much like "MUD with pictures" was.
I can't see any reason why this was posted under YRO instead of, say Idle...whose online rights were threatened / supported / affected here? The thief? The store owner? The potential purchasers of the physical game copies?
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.


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UH Board of Regents approves selection of private developer for UH Manoa student housing projectUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) approved the selection of American Campus Communities (ACC) for the purpose of entering into exclusive negotiations for a comprehensive real estate development agreement to develop on-campus student housing at UH Mānoa.
Founded in 1993 and based in Austin, Texas, ACC has developed more than 22,000 student housing beds and acquired more than 7,700 student housing beds. ACC currently manages 43 student housing communities with more than 26,000 beds. ACC is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ACC) and has a market value of more than $270 million.
ACC has developed and/or managed student housing projects for numerous university systems around the country, including the University of California System, State University of New York System, Arizona State University System, University of Colorado System, and Texas A&M University System.
ACC is joined on its development team by Sheldon Zane, a local development consultant who has been involved with all aspects of real estate development over the past 30 years. In 1977, he formed his own development company which continues today as Zane Development Company, LLC. The company has developed thousands of single family homes and numerous multi-family projects, including West Loch Estates and Fairways, which was developed under a privatization program with the City and County of Honolulu.
The architectural services will be a collaborative effort between CDS International and Craycroft-Price Architects, with CDS being the lead architect and Craycroft-Price being the consulting architect.
CDS has extensive experience in designing residential, hotel and military projects in Hawaiʻi and in locations throughout the Pacific and Far East. Their portfolio is composed of a range of project types, including hotels and resorts, office buildings, housing, shopping centers, athletic facilities, hospitals, retail shops and tenant improvements. Craycroft-Price's portfolio includes numerous hotels, country clubs, and office and retail developments. Most recently, the firm has expanded its expertise to student housing and has been involved in projects at University of California-Irvine, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Texas-Austin, Fresno State University, Oklahoma State University, Towson University and Texas A&M University.
ACC's general contractor is Swinerton/Pacific, a joint venture of Swinerton Builders and US Pacific. Among the projects completed or in progress by the joint venture in the past 10 years are the Aloha Tower Marketplace and renovations to the Renaissance Ilikai Waikīkī Hotel and the W Wailea Beach Resort.
The first phase of the university's efforts to address student housing needs is the development of at least 800 beds on the current site of Frear and Johnson Halls and the International Gateway House.
Selection and approval of the developer is the first in a series of forthcoming steps toward the development of the UH Mānoa student housing project.


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A man's man and a hep cat who projected a natural-born charisma entirely his own, Robert Mitchum was, and still is an American original. There is no actor or man quite like Robert Mitchum. Brimming with understated talent (the kind that's always underrated), the actor could run the spectrum from gorgeous leading man (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison) to light comedian (What a Way to Go!) to war hero (The Story of G.I. Joe) to Western existentialist (Pursued) to flawed noir antihero (Out of the Past, Angel Face, Where Danger Lives) to aged gumshoe (Farewell My Lovely) to sexy psycho (Cape Fear) to hillbilly moonshiner (Thunder Road) with nary a trace of effort. Though he was quoted as saying he sleepwalked through many of his roles (and that heavy-lidded, laconic demeanor was a large part of his barrel-chested appeal), he did work at some (or many) of his big-screen characters. Nowhere is this more evident than in one of the actor's greatest and most terrifying roles -- as the demented preacher and scariest stepfather who ever lived, Harry Powell in Charles Laughton's masterpiece, The Night of the Hunter.
Adapting Davis Grubb's novel (with film critic James Agee as screenwriter) into an expressionistic children's fairy tale/nightmare, Laughton not only directed a movie, but cast an elegiac spell over the audience with dreamlike, angled compositions (by cinematographer Stanley Cortez), chilling religious motifs, dark humor, disturbed perversity and pure horror. And casting the frequently flawed but lovable, romantic Robert Mitchum was just another of Laughton's ingenious moves -- the actor took viewers aback with his inspired, demonic weirdness, creating an unease that's still palpable today.
From his first moment on-screen, there's something off about Mitchum's preacher -- and that creepiness grows and expands with each succeeding scene (the switchblade popping from the pocket while watching a dancer is a terrific moment of phallic sex and death). He's a handsome hunk of man (which makes him even more frightening), he can sing hymns, he can preach the Good Book and he can seduce -- particularly the weaker of the fairer sex.
The weaker one here is an easy catch and he quickly ensnares lonely, vulnerable Shelley Winters (poor, sick Shelley) with the intent of stealing the money her late husband recently lifted (the money is hidden in her daughter's doll). After disposing of Winters (her underwater death scene is one of cinema's most startling, yet beautiful, moments), Mitchum's faux reverend hunts down her two children (wonderfully played by Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) with big talk, questioning threats ("Where'd you hide the money, Pearl?") and finally just plain murderous intentions.
From the picture's famous scene involving Mitchum's love-and-hate speech using tattooed knuckles, to the poetic shots of the children fleeing their pursuer down a dreamlike river, to the frightfully gorgeous way Mitchum sings "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms," especially with pure-hearted Lillian Gish -- every moment of this picture and especiallly Mitchum's performance is scary, stunning and paternally demented. What's so powerful here is that, even as he loses himself in the role, you constantly fight a bizarre attraction to this animal (think of Lillian Gish's teenage orphan who can't resist) and then recoil from his unadulterated evil (it is a hard world for little things, dammit). Mitchum is a monster, a beast of a daddy, but one of bad, beautiful brilliance.


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STERLING – The Newman Comets matched up with the Aquin Bulldogs for the second time this season Saturday night. The result was similar as the Comets defeated the Bulldogs 70-63 to capture the KSB Newman Christmas Classic.
Right off the bat, Newman (12-0) came out swinging. Senior John Payan, who scored 33-points Friday night, hit back-to-back 3s to give the Comets an early 8-2 lead.
Aquin (10-3) junior Aiden Chang, who was the Tournament MVP, rallied for eight straight points to help the Bulldogs secure a 16-11 lead after the first quarter. Chang finished with 28 points.
"I thought we did a nice job of keeping our composure," Newman coach Ray Sharp said. "We started out pretty good, and then they went on a nice run and took the lead on us. After that I think we settled down. We were rushing and weren't executing our offense, but once we started executing it really helped us."
In the second quarter a balanced Newman attack brought the Comets back into the game.
In a 5-minute stretch in the middle of the quarter, senior A.J. Sharp and sophomore Noah McCarty combined to score 11 points.Payan also chipped in a pair of 3s to add to the Comets' cause.
WIth time winding down before halftime, Aquin dialed up a man-to-man press.
Sharp received the ball and proceeded to wave everyone so he could go one-on-one to bring the ball up.
At half court, he dribbled behind his back to get around one defender, just in time to see another Bulldog flying at him. Once again, a smooth behind the back dribble got him around that defender. Finally, a spin move to get around a third defender led him to find an open man in the corner.
Payan was the open man, who hit nothing but net on the 3. Payan finished with 21 points. He made seven of his nine 3-point attempts.
"That was just an awesome play all-around," said Payan. "A.J. made a couple of great moves to the bucket. They helped off me to stop him like they have all tournament. I just caught it and shot it. When the crowd exploded, it was really awesome to hear."
The shot extended the Comet lead to 33-26 heading into the half.
The Bulldogs once again showed fight. A jumper by Chang pulled Aquin within two at 42-40 with 3 minutes left in the third.
Newman answered with a basket from junior Trevor Bolin.
McCarty then made two backdoor cuts, and this resulted in a basket the first time, and a pair of made free throws the second time.
To close out the quarter, McCarty poked the ball from his man at half court, which resulted in a basket for Bolin as time expired, extending the lead to 52-44.
"That's all our guards," McCarty said. "Micah, Nate, A.J. were always trying to penetrate and then looking up to find me on the open cut. All the credit goes to them on that one. Aquin put on some runs that were hard to stop in spurts. We had to be a really strong team to comeback and play like we did after those spurts"
The dagger strike for Newman came with 2:30 left.
Using a stall offense, the Comets took off about 30 seconds as they clung to a 57-52 lead.
As they stalled, the Bulldogs lost sight of Newman's sharpshooter.
Payan shot another 3-pointer.
It found the bottom of the net for his sixth three of the game.
"It probably wasn't the best shot to be taken," said Payan. "But I caught it in rhythm, and I'm always told to shoot if I'm open. I had a lot of confidence and it felt like a heat check at the end."
Down the stretch, Sharp once again sealed the deal from the free throw line as the Bulldogs tried to foul their way back into the game. He went 7 of 8 from the free throw line in the fourth, as he finished with 17 points and put the game on ice for the Comets.
"When we shot the ball well outside," Ray Sharp said, "it makes it hard for them to double the inside with Noah.
"Noah is normally going to have an advantage, especially against them. They're going to have to double him, and that leaves people open on the outside. John's really been shooting it well. John's got the green light, if he catches and he's open, he's going to shoot. We'll go rebound, because he's knocking them down. Teams can't key in on one guy, and that's whats really important for us."
Star of the game: John Payan, Newman, 21 points, 7-9 from 3.
Key performers: AJ Sharp, Newman, 17 points, 7-8 from free throw in 4th. Aiden Chang, Aquin 28 points. Noach McCarty, Newman, 14 points, 11 rebounds.


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CDAE 127 Consumer, Markets, and Public Policy
CDAE 128 The Consumer & Advertising
CDAE 159 Consumer Assistance Program
CDAE 157 Consumer Law & Policy
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CDAE 102 Sustainable Community Development, or
CDAE 250 Research Methods, or
CDAE 255 Applied Consumption Economics
|Sophomore standing required for CDAE 127,
CDAE 157, and CDAE 159;
Junior standing required for CDAE 128.
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Diaries of Mabel S. Laidlaw and her daughter Helena Laidlaw Livermore of Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Collection consists of diaries kept by a wife and a daughter of a Doctor in Canton, N.Y., and provides a daily log of domestic life in the first part of the century. Other items include automobile records, autograph books, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, correspondence and microfilm of diaries.
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Broadband connectivity is transforming America's health care system, creating better, faster, and more cost-effective health care across the country. The sector represents almost 18 percent of the nation's GDP, and increased efficiency has the power to lower costs, create better results for patients, and trigger economic growth.
At the January 31 Open Commission Meeting, Julius Knapp, Chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology and Linda Oliver from the Wireline Competition Bureau delivered an update on the Commission's work to support wireless and wireline connectivity for health, including the new Healthcare Connect Fund and the FCC's ongoing work to expand spectrum access for wireless medical devices.
The FCC also hosted a telemedicine demonstration by the Georgia Partnership for Telehealth (GPT), which focuses on increasing access to health care through innovative use of technology. During the live demo, Dr. Debra Lister from Coffee Regional Medical Center, an FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program participant, conducted a simulated patient exam – allowing the audience in Washington, D.C. to hear the heartbeat of a patient in rural Bacon County, Georgia. Innovations like these mean that soon, geography won't have to impede the delivery of quality health services.
Pictured Above: Les Evans of Georgia Partnership for Telehealth (GPT),shows Chin Yoo from the FCC's Rural Health Care team, how a specialist in DC could hear a patient's heartbeat in rural Georgia.
Paula Guy, Dr. Jeffrey Kesler, Les Evans, and Mike Porter from GPT explained how they have seen telemedicine change the lives of physicians and patients alike. Using GPT's telemedicine technology, students in rural areas can receive a remote checkup at their schools, eliminating the need for their parents to take time off work to drive them long distances to see a physician. Stroke victims can be diagnosed by a remote specialist much faster, allowing for quicker treatment and often making the difference that saves a patient's life. A distant dermatologist can receive a high-resolution image of a skin lesion and make a remote diagnosis. Communications technology makes all this possible, providing not only better service to patients, but also reduced costs.
The FCC is committed to spurring innovation in the health technology sector, and ensuring that all health care providers have the connectivity they need to take advantage of these technologies, wherever they are located. Working across the agency and with our federal partners, we have already taken action on 85 percent of the mHealth Task Force's recommendations from September, including today's order to reform and streamline our experimental licensing program, which will enable wireless medical device test beds.
Please see today's presentation for a more detailed update on the progress we've made.
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LONGMONT -- It's about time for Longmont to start raising a Dickens.
Next month, the City Council will get its look at designs for the estimate $4.7 million Dickens Farm Park, a 52-acre "river park" that will go along the St. Vrain between Main and Martin streets. The property was once a homestead of the Dickens family, one of Longmont's most prominent early names.
"I think this will be a key park in the lower downtown that could very well be a catalyst for development," said Paula Fitzgerald, the city's parks and open space project manager.
The city has owned the site as the Pavlakis open space since 2002.
Under the current plans, the park would add a meandering "bypass channel" to the river for kayaking or tubing. That sort of activity has been regularly requested to the city since at least 2001.
But, Fitzgerald said, this wouldn't be a "whitewater park." For starters, there simply isn't enough water.
"We don't want to be disingenuous to the citizens of Longmont," she said. "We don't have the volume of flow on a normal basis that you have in Lyons or Clear Creek in Golden. Ours is more of a plains setting -- low flow, a slow channel. But that may make it family friendly, too. "
Work will also be done on three ponds in the area, two of which will shrink slightly, to make them a better habitat. One of the ponds is planned to be a native fish hatchery and preservation area.
A "bike skills" park and natural playground for children are also part of the design. Dickens Farm will be a trailhead to the St. Vrain Greenway, and is considered phase 11 of the Greenway plans.
A draft master plan was first put up for public comment in early May.
About $3 million has already been set aside for the project from Conservation Trust Fund lottery money. The project grew beyond that in part because of the "bypass" and because some planned St. Vrain flood control work was folded in.
"We're likely to need a significant appropriation," Fitzgerald said. "But we'll look at that after bidding. ... Projections (for the Conservation Trust Fund) are pretty healthy this year. There's likely going to be some additional funds available, so that's good news."
The council will review the plans July 9 and decide whether to proceed. If given the go-ahead, construction could begin in early 2014.
Residents put in a number of suggestions for naming the new park, with Dickens proving the most popular. A close runner-up, Fitzgerald said, was to name it for Allen Dale June, a Longmont resident who was one of the Navajo "code talkers" of World War II. June died in 2010.
Details of the project's progress to date can be found online here.
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LEWISTON Needing to play their 'A' game to challenge another of the classification's top teams, Prairie looked a little out of sorts last Monday night, Feb. 10, at the Lewis-Clark State College Activity Center.
Needing a win to claim the district's title — and with it, a better seed for the state tournament — the Pirates were afflicted by Lapwai's feverish defense at several stages of a 51-44 loss.
Lapwai adapted as quickly as the PHS offense could adjust, swinging what had been a close contest to the brink of a blowout by way of a 14-2 run during the second quarter.
Trailing by 16, 35-19, midway through the third quarter, Prairie proved resilient.
A couple of makes by guard Sky Wilson powered a 9-2 run that also featured a traditional three-point play by Kayla Schumacher and a couple of foul shots by Kyndahl Ulmer.
Ulmer scored the last basket of the third quarter and Hailey Danly knocked down a long jumper starting the fourth, slicing Lapwai's lead to seven.
Another layup by Wilson narrowed it to six, and a foul shot by Danly — Prairie's 15th made free throw — cut it to five.
But amid a flurry of turnovers, Lapwai scored nine points during the final stretch to run the lead back up to as many as 10.
The Wildcats blitzed Prairie's ballhandlers, forcing Wilson out of the game in lieu of Keely Schmidt, who immediately scored a layup to keep it within seven at 46-39, but was whistled for a charge on an aggressive dribble-drive the next time down.
Lapwai's Iris Domebo hit two treys during the decisive early run and finished with 13 points. Cyra Cunningham — a crucial post player against Ulmer and Schumacher — got into foul trouble early but wound up being the only other Wildcat to score double-digits.
The Wildcats whacked Ulmer early and often shot 14 free throws and hit 12 for a game high 22 points; Schumacher and Wilson finished with seven points apiece.
Up next, Prairie will play at the 1AD1 state tournament.
Summit 54, Highland 30
LEWISTON — When Megan Rehder started heating up during the second quarter last Monday night, Feb. 3, Highland's chance to advance evaporated quickly.
Highland led 6-0 quickly and 9-5 after one quarter, but Megan Rehder notched seven points during the second quarter, which sparked a Patriots rally, which came to include a 20-point third frame, which began with a Rehder trey.
While Highland remained stuck on 19, Summit raised its lead to nine. Highland rediscovered the hoop, but the Patriots advantage grew to 10 on a triple by Rachel Frei and 12 on a basket by Megan Seubert.
Sarah Chmelik raised it to 14 with a fast break layup, then 15 with a free throw. Then Seubert completed a layup-and-one to make it 45-27.
Two more breakaway baskets by Chmelik increased the lead to 22, and Rehder knocked down a jumper off a feed from Chmelik for the final score.
Rehder finished with 17 points, Chmelik had 16 and Seubert totaled 13 in the contest.
Katy Haight paced Highland with 14.
With the victory, Summit will have the privilege of playing Kendrick on Thursday; Kendrick fell to Nezperce in the lower division district title game.
Nezperce 47, Kendrick 43
LEWISTON — Kamas Carpenter tallied 21 for 1AD2 District II champion Nezperce, which also won a state berth on Feb. 10.
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Lookout Mobile Security on Tuesday unveiled its Lookout Premium for Android for enhanced smartphone protection. The cloud-based Lookout Premium's new Privacy Advisor feature gives users visibility into and control of their personal information when they access smartphone apps.
Privacy Advisor will let users scan every app they download and discover which can access their private data, including identity information, location, and messages. Detailed reports on the apps' capabilities on their phones are also available for users to view, Lookout said. The smartphone security provider said it has gained more than three million users in less than a year.
"Lookout Premium provides smartphone owners the peace of mind to explore everything that the new mobile world offers safely by providing added security, data protection, and visibility into personal information being accessed by the apps on their phones," said John Hering, CEO and founder of Lookout Mobile Security, in a statement.
Security and data privacy concerns are increasing with the rapid adoption of smartphones and the amount of data and proprietary information users have on their devices. On average, users have 31 apps on their phones that can access their identity information, according to Lookout, along with 19 apps that access their location, and five apps that access their SMS and MMS messages.
More than 91% of consumers have some level of concern about the privacy of information on their phone and only 7% said they feel very confident they understand what private information is being accessed on their phone, according to a recent study, Lookout said.


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Chicken Ham Supreme Recipe
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Chicken Ham Supreme is an easy yet impressive main dish. The recipe comes from Ki Humphreville of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who reports,"This recipe never fails to generate recipe requests."
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- 4 cups (32 ounces) sour cream
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 4 teaspoons each celery salt, garlic salt and paprika
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 24 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (3/4 to 1 inch thick)
- 24 thin slices fully cooked ham
- 4-1/2 cups dry bread crumbs
- 1-1/2 cups butter melted, divided
- In a several large resealable plastic bags, combine the sour cream, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and seasonings; add chicken. Seal and turn to coat. Refrigerate overnight.
- Remove chicken and discard marinade. Place 1 ham slice down center of each chicken breast. Fold chicken over ham; secure with toothpicks.
- Place bread crumbs in a large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat. Place in three greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dishes. Pour about 1/4 cup of butter over each dish.
- Cover and bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover; baste with remaining butter. Bake 15-20 minutes longer or until juices run clear. Remove toothpicks. Yield: 24 servings.
Originally published as Chicken Ham Supreme in Taste of Home August/September 1997, p54
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