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UNA Opera/Musical Theatre Program Follows Romantic Relationship Through Roberts' LAST FIVE YEARS
Nov. 3, 2013
By Terry Pace, Communications and Marketing
FLORENCE, Ala. – The University of North Alabama Opera/Musical Theatre program will present performances of Jason Roberts' Last Five Years at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, through Saturday, Nov. 9, in the George S. Lindsey Theatre on the UNA campus.
Dr. Terrance Brown – UNA's director of vocal studies and director of the UNA Opera/Musical Theatre program – says Roberts' work follows the five-year relationship of two contemporary characters, Cathy and Jamie, from their first date through their wedding and their eventual break-up.
"Last Five Years uses a unique form of storytelling," Brown explained. "Jamie tells his side of the story from the beginning of the relationship and goes forward. Meanwhile, Cathy starts at the end of the relationship and works backwards. The only time both characters 'meet' is at their wedding, which takes place in the middle of the show."
The music for Last Five Years – directed and conducted by Brown – was written by Jason Robert Brown, whose credits include the well-known musicals Parade and Songs for a New World. Brown believes the audience will identify with the characters of Jamie and Cathy because they are motivated by the fundamental pursuit of human happiness.
"I think that since the show has only two characters and speaks of real-life accounts, it reaches the basic fiber of human beings," noted Brown, an assistant professor of voice at UNA. "Some may consider the show a glorification of divorce; however, it speaks of the importance of maintaining a healthy relationship/marriage. If one party chooses to neglect the other or vice versa, there can be a serious decay in the integrity of the relationship, resulting in a dissolution."
A different pair of performers will play the central couple each night: Andrew Mills and Suzanne Reese on Thursday, Ethan Lolley and Gabrielle Fuqua on Friday and Charles Tanner King and Grace Ashley on Saturday.
"We wanted to present an intimate show that would benefit our singers as they continue as young professionals," Brown observed. "Each night will bring a new cast with a different outlook. The student performers are truly embodying the story and portraying it extremely well both musically and acting-wise. You may need to bring a handkerchief or tissue."
Dr. Tiffany Bostic-Brown, a visiting lecturer in the UNA Department of Music and Theatre, is stage director and production designer for Last Five Years. Since arriving at UNA, the Browns have collaborated on productions of the musical revue Reflections,
Henry Mallicone's The Face on the Barroom Floor, Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge, Dinner With Cole (a revue of Cole Porter songs), Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, Menotti's Telephone and Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti.
The production also combines the talents of pianist Karen Cantrell, with a musical ensemble featuring Roger Enloe (bass), Bryan Farris (guitar), Wen Zhao (violin) and Miika Weimann (cello). Bryan Hall serves as technical designer.
Advance to the show is $10 for adults and $8 for students with valid I.D. Tickets can be purchased at the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts in downtown Florence, or online at www.una.edu/music-theatre. Tickets at the door are $15 for adults and $10 for students. For details, call the UNA Department of Music and Theatre at 256-765-4375.


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Mount Union?s LeighAnn Rodd Interns with The Daily Show
April 27, 2010
LeighAnn Rodd, who graduated with summa cum laude honors on May 6, spent her last semester experiencing life in the Big Apple.
When searching for an internship, Rodd knew that she wanted to be in New York City doing something relevant to her education and learning something new. She knew that she wanted to apply to The Daily Show, but also applied to a few other organizations.
Rodd researched internships on her own and was looking for something unconventional and enjoyable. She applied to The Daily Show on a whim and did not expect them to contact her because she is not a communications or media studies major or minor. 'I've always been a fan, and thought it would be a great fit because of the show's heavy emphasis on political satire,' said Rodd.
Rodd, a political science major from Perry, started her internship with The Daily Show on January 8 and worked as a general productions intern until May 24. 'We were assigned to a different department each day we worked, so depending on the day I was logging tapes from a field shoot, running around the city to find props, or seating audience members in the studio. We are expected to do clerical tasks such as answering phone calls and emails, but were also asked to assist with field pieces, occasionally as on-air extras,' Rodd said. She was at the studio four days a week and worked 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
She also attended meetings with the correspondents where decisions about what worked and what needed to be cut were made. 'It was fascinating to observe the show's creative minds at work, and to know just how many hours of work went into the completion of a piece that lasted only a few minutes on air,' said Rodd.
Rodd has gained many skills and much knowledge about New York City through this internship. She has learned many administrative skills and worked in a setting with many different people and personalities. Rodd loved living in New York City and had to quickly familiarize herself with the subway, cab system and challenging situations. 'New York City is unlike anywhere else in the world, so you have to be open-minded and willing to adapt to your surroundings,' she said.

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Now that would make a statement...
Now that would make a statement...
Search the forum for "DePodesta" and you'll find that the guy has a large and vocal set of advocates here.
While his baseball acumen is substantial, he was alleged to have the abrasive personality of Brad Kullman. Others allege that he's wedded to the coasts and would never consider a gig in a landlocked market like Cincinnati. I think he'd definitely innovate in Cincinnati, but he's probably too avant-garde for Bob Castellini's taste.
It would be nice.
Interesting 2 cents from a Dodger fan friend of mine on DePodesta:
"Yeah, he got in a lot of trouble for trading Lo Duca but I am glad that we got Martin now. Of course, he thought that the future was Dioner Navarro and if he didn't get injured Martin would be blocked. He also refused to trade Edwin Jackson and Greg Miller. Getting Penny has been great and I'm not as enthusiastic about Lowe as the article. Lowe is very inconsistent. Hee Seop wasn't going to be good regardless of the injury. He also got Milton Bradley which caused a lot of internal problems. I am totally hating on him right now. Coletti blew it this past offseason but other than that has been solid."
Just interesting to see the other side of the argument.
Go BLUE!!!
The beat writers in this town would be 10 times worse then the ones that helped get him canned in LA
Go Gators!
If you really wanted to blow things up, that would be the way to go.
Uh yeah, this was the choice to make the past two failed selections and he has gotten virtually no interest from what I detected from this organization. I would like it, but the figureheads of ultimate opinions on the Reds would loathe him and thusly the majority of the fanbase would too.
I probably wouldn't mind too much. It would make for a very interesting summer in '08 regardless of how good the Reds were. Think of all the sub-plots:
--Watch Marty totally melt down in the booth by May 1.
--Will Thom come down on Daddy's side or decide to think for himself?
--Could Depodesta communicate with the 'Beer and Brat' fans or would there be a total disconnect. He'd have to change a whole culture.
--Would Depo and Hal become buddies that see things the same way?
--How would Gonzo feel about playing SS in Cincinnati now?
--How will Javy like Miami?
--Would Depo embrace Cincinnati fashion and take satorial tips from C. Trent?
There are so many possibilities here!
"I hate to advocate chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... But they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson
In my opinion, Paul DePodesta, like Billy Beane, achieved more fame from being in Moneyball than he possibly deserves. I have more faith in Krivsky who learned from Terry Ryan or anyone who has absorbed the philosophy of the Braves and can emulate the way John Schuerholz steers that franchise.
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Machinima: "Some of my fondest memories are rooted in games that are unforgiving and brutal. With unrelenting mechanics and a laissez-faire attitude toward player interaction, The War Z could set the stage for war stories that you recall fondly years after."
I have been reading a lot of stuff saying that this is just a cash-grab, pay-to-win game that is full of bugs and and poorly constructed.
This isn't my opinion, I haven't played it. It's just what i read. It has been on my radar for a couple months...but i won't be spending a penny til we see some real vids/reviews.
From the gameplay that has come out so far, it will be hands off for me lol...
Given that this is in ALPHA stage of dev, I find it rather incomprehensible that people are whining about the instability of the game. But that's what happens when stupid bitching kids dont know what they are buying into. But that's what gamer kids do...bitch.
If and when Hammerpoint actually get to the a point of a offering a 'playable' game, DayZ will be on the market and it will be without question, a better game overall right from the start. A far superior engine and a solid base from which to build upon, not to mention some real dedicated talent backing it up will ensure it will mop the floor with WarZ. My money is waiting on DayZ. Can't wait for November/December!


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WHEATON – After 10 years in downtown Wheaton, the owners of The Stork's Cradle are preparing to close their doors to focus on the store's chenille children's dolls, which they hope to sell at stores across the country.
"In an effort to find balance in our lives we have decided to close the retail portion of our business and focus on our special little doll," reads an email sent to customers and others in the community on Wednesday.
After Wednesday, the store will remain closed until it reopens Monday to sell its remaining merchandise at a reduced price, said Paula Barrington, executive director of the Downtown Wheaton Association (DWA). Once everything is sold, The Stork's Cradle will close.
"Their closing is a sad surprise, but we do wish them all the best," Barrington said.
The Stork's Cradle, 210 W. Wesley St., is owned by mother-daughter team Bonnie Rae and Julie Reinhardt. Both were honored for their volunteer work in Wheaton at the DWA's annual meeting April 24. The store also won the Spirit of Wheaton Award.


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- Bayern Munich boss becomes second man to reach 1,000 Bundesliga games
- Jupp Heynckes' celebrates with 6-1 victory over Werder Bremen in front of home fans
- Win puts Bayern 18 points clear at the top of the German league table with 11 games to go
- Heynckes rests key players ahead of cup clash with second-placed champions Dortmund
When Jupp Heynckes made his debut in the Bundesliga as a player back in 1965, the name of Bayern Munich was a new one for the nascent German soccer league.
Now as coach of the country's most successful team, he has reached a significant milestone in what will be his final season in charge.
On Saturday the 67-year-old became only the second man to rack up 1,000 Bundesliga appearances as both player and coach as Bayern took another step towards a 23rd national title with a 6-1 thrashing of Werder Bremen in front of 71,000 fans at Allianz Arena.
It was Heynckes' 631st Bundesliga game as a head coach, coming 48 years after he played his first match for hometown club Borussia Monchengladbach on the day that Bayern made a Bundesliga bow against city rival 1860 Munich.
"It's an imposing total," said Heynckes, who is behind only former Greece coach Otto Rehgal's 1,033 Bundesliga matches -- 201 of which were as a player.
Heynckes is on course for a treble of trophies, with Bayern poised to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League after the 3-1 midweek win at Arsenal, having suffered an agonizing penalty shootout defeat by Chelsea in last season's title match despite home advantage.
He rested six key players ahead of Wednesday's German Cup clash with two-time defending Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund, but still had too much firepower as Bremen had a man sent off at 2-0 down and never recovered.
Mario Gomez netted twice in the second half to reach his 100th goal in a red shirt, having earlier forced Czech international Gebre Selassie into diverting a cross into his own net.
Before that the Germany striker was brought down by Sebastian Prodl as Bremen went to the interval a man down.
Javi Martinez, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery were also on the scoresheet.
"After making those six changes, we needed 20 minutes to find our rhythm," said Heynckes, who will step down at the end of this season and be replaced by former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola.
"Those players who came in justified my confidence in them. The game on Wednesday will be a real cup battle."
However, he was annoyed that Bayern conceded in the league for the first time since the December 14 draw with Monchengladbach.
"We saw some nice goals out there, but we didn't reckon with conceding one."
Second-placed Dortmund will seek to cut the 18-point deficit at Gladbach on Sunday, when third-placed Bayer Leverkusen travel to bottom team Greuther Furth.
In Saturday's other games, sixth-placed Hamburg crashed 5-1 at fellow European hopefuls Hanover, while Schalke followed up the midweek Champions League draw against Galatasaray by beating Fortuna Dusseldorf as Cameroon defender Joel Matip scored twice.
Mainz drew 1-1 with fourth-bottom Wolfsburg, while Augsburg pushed Hoffenheim down to second from the foot of the table with a 2-1 win.


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- Harry Dresden's Chicago's preeminent wizard coping with his new roommate vampire half-brother soon has problems bigger than clutter to deal with. Marva, one of Harry's vampire foes, summons him with a threat to his police-lieutenant friend, Karrin Murphy. Marva demands Harry get the Word of Kemmler for her, or she'll frame Murphy for murder. Harry doesn't even know what the Word is, but while he's trying to find out, and also what damage Marva will be able to do with it, several necromancers descend on Chicago. When Harry learns that the newcomers are students of Kemmler, an evil wizard who mastered ancient spirits in a way no one has since, he discovers that they are seeking the Word, too, in hopes of seizing the powerful knowledge within it and calling forth a powerful creature known as the Erlking. Butcher's latest maintains the momentum of previous Dresden outings and builds the suspense right up to a rousing conclusion.
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NEW YORK — The shift from Jennifer Damiano's last workplace to her new one is striking.
The old one was the biggest theater in Times Square, with 2,000 or so seats. The new one is downtown and has room for just 275. The old stage, the setting for the most expensive musical on Broadway, had pyrotechnics and aerial stunts. Her new stage has just a bare scaffolding and a chair.
"It's such a shift but I'm happy for that," Damiano said during a recent interview at The Public Theater. "It feels very different, very intimate, which is what I needed."
Damiano is following up her role as Mary Jane Watson in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" with a darker, less cartoonish young woman in "Venice," a thrilling musical that debuts at the Public this month. It marks her return to the stage after taking time off after a five-year nonstop grind.
"This project just came up right at the perfect time. I had taken a little bit of time (off) and it just kind of happened," she said. "I honestly wasn't sure what the next thing would be at all, even if it would be theater. But I can't stay away from the new musicals."
"Venice," which has been incubating for five years, is a collaboration between Eric Rosen and Matt Sax and can best be described as an "Othello"-inspired futuristic hip-hop musical. The story centers on an attempt by a dynamic new leader to reunite his war-fractured city of Venice, still reeling from a terrorist attack.
Damiano, who grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., plays the leader's bride-to-be, Willow, who may or may not be lying about whom she really loves. The body count mounts as jealousy and ambition run rampant.
"It's so new and so its own thing," says Damiano, who celebrated her 22nd birthday last month during rehearsals. "It just felt like the perfect role for me at this age and this moment in my life."
Rosen wrote the book, Sax composed the songs and stars as the rapping narrator, and the two combined forces on the lyrics. They pursued Damiano and got her to say yes on the third attempt.
"We knew the purity of her voice, and the simplicity of her acting style was such a huge dream for us," said Rosen, who also directs. "It's a totally different vibe for her and I think she's really thriving in it. She grows more and more every day."
Sax said two songs in the show have even been written with Damiano in mind and with her input. "She has such a soulful spirit when she sings. I think we're really lucky that she's part of the team and also lucky that she's invested her heart in the show," he said.
Damiano may be young but she's a stage veteran. She made her Broadway debut as an understudy in 2006 in "Spring Awakening" at 15, so young that she almost got into legal trouble.
She had been rehearsing for parts that included simulating onstage sex but the creative team found out that New York City law prohibits actors under 17 from such acts. So she took over another part. "Thank God they didn't know this when they cast me," she said.
Damiano's next job was as an overachieving daughter in "Next to Normal," for which she earned a Tony Award nomination. She went from that to Spider-Man's love interest, riding that roller coaster until late 2011.
Despite all the bad press, the accidents and the internal fights, Damiano doesn't regret being part of the show. She was never herself injured, and she made lifelong friends.
"There was a big, big heart in the building. There was a lot of love and cast camaraderie. It was always a challenge, the way every kind of new work is," she said.
"When you're 19 or 20 and going through general growing pains of your own, that on top of that is overwhelming, but I wouldn't take it back for the world."
In total, she had just done five years of solid work for a young woman who had left high school after just one year and missed her prom. She finished her high school course work with a tutor in Washington, D.C., where "Next to Normal" was being worked on before it landed on Broadway.
That summer, her mother insisted she skip the musical on graduation day and walk with her class. "I didn't want to go and my mom made me call out of a show," she said. "My life is just different. It's some other beast."
After "Spider-Man," Damiano did some TV pilots and dabbled in film. She currently stars in the indie movie "B-Side" as a pop star who falls for a DJ played by Ryan Eggold. Damiano also took time to reconnect with her family and focus on her personal life after years of eight-show weeks.
She turned 22 on May 12 but made no fuss. "Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah. I didn't do much. It was so low-key. I even told my family, 'Don't get me anything, it's fine,"' she said with a laugh. "I'm old now."
These days, she is energized by working with young people on a musical she feels her generation will connect with. Plus, she gets to do it at the Public: "I get a summer-camp kind of theater vibe," she said with a laugh.
Rosen said that while Damiano can light up a room with her smile, she also radiates depth. "She brings a kind of darkness that I really wanted for Willow, not just ingenue, not just pretty-girl-saves-the-day but someone with a lot of gravitas."
There's another benefit of starring downtown in a cool new show: her friends can see her. That wasn't an option when she was on Broadway and tickets were more than $150.
Now to see her it only costs $15.
"Fifteen bucks!" she said. "My friends say, 'What? I'll be there every day."'


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I also noticed a lot of people talking about how the kids' labor helps the whole family. Given that this boy doesn't normally live with his grandparents, that changes that concept in a significant way, to the point where an example about helping mom in the family store doesn't parallel.
I think we also need to keep in mind the difference between growing up with that kind of labor and being tossed into it. Its one thing to have your little kids start off with small tasks and work up to larger ones and another to have a child who has never done labor near this level starting out out of nowhere. Personally, i as a child would have deeply deeply resented the grandparents and would avoid going to visit if this is what i had to look forward to. I'm sure he would have preferred to just skip the break altogether.
Work deserves money regardless of age.
I see kids fly by here on skate boards without protection. How can this be less dangerous than what the grandparents had him do?
I understand the Tween wasn't happy, but is it because he expected to lay on the couch and watch TV or play video games while there? I'm not trying to be rude, but I raised two kids, and they thought summer vacation from school meant VACATION from doing anything they didn't like to do.
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One thing to add is that these "punks" were 16 years old.
There is a reason why we don't try 16 year olds as adults. They lack the maturity to fully understand the morality and consequences of their actions. 16 year olds do lots of stupid things that they wouldn't do when they are adults and which they regret later. As a society, we choose not to hold them fully responsible for their actions.
This doesn't excuse these teenagers from armed robbery, but it does add a different perspective than if they had been adults, and I think it makes the actions of the owner even more heinous. He killed an injured, defenseless kid.
No matter how heinous the robber's actions, viglante justice leaves a lot of grey area that as a society we don't wan't to go down.
Had he shot the robber the first time, then called police, he would have been well within his rights.
I wouldn't have taken any joy in finding him guilty, but I'd find him guilty none the less.
No problem at all with him shooting the 1st guy or even chasing the other, getting the second gun and then finishing the already shot guy off is way over the line.
Go Gators!
It's a tough one and it's always hard to judge people in high pressure situations like this, but I think I would have found him guilty too. He didn't have to shoot the robber a second time.
If he had finished the kid off before he gave chase, he's probably fine.
Going back into the store, retrieving a 2nd gun, and THEN shooting the prone robber almost necessitates a finding of premeditation.
I'd be interested to see what sort of strategy his defense put forth... he very possibly/likely? could have been suffering shock... He was just in a gun battle after all.
And while I haven't watched the video, I am not sure that his age makes a difference in the heinousness of the act. If the "kid" had been 18 or 19, it wouldn't have changed much and I doubt the shooter asked. Plenty of 16 year olds could be confused for 18 or 19.
That being said....
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
I'm not a man of many words. Read my posts, and you'll see what I mean.
Some people are Optimists (They see the glass 1/2 full).
Others are Pessimists (They see the glass 1/2 empty).
Me, I'm a Realist. 1/2 empty IS 1/2 full.
However, at the discretion of court, anyone under 18 can be tried as an adult if it has been concluded that the suspect was mature enough to understand the consequences and morality of their actions. This happens with most homicides and violent crimes, especially for repeat offenders.
In neither case are the action of the suspect justified, they are just treated differently if the suspect is under 18.
So the answer to your question is, no, if you are under 18, you can't just commit any crime and expect to get away with it because you are underage.
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
I'm not a man of many words. Read my posts, and you'll see what I mean.
Some people are Optimists (They see the glass 1/2 full).
Others are Pessimists (They see the glass 1/2 empty).
Me, I'm a Realist. 1/2 empty IS 1/2 full.
If there's a case for temporary insanity, this would seem like the case for it.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
Seriously, this is completely irrelevant. If I'm looking down the barrel of a gun and that person is past puberty you better believe I'm pulling the trigger. If the "kid" were 7 or something you have a point, but 16? Really?
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WASHINGTON — Trevor Ariza scored 26 points, Bradley Beal added 22, and the Washington Wizards took an early lead and never lost it Wednesday night, shooting 54 percent in a 104-91 win over the Utah Jazz.
John Wall had 14 points and 10 assists, and Marcin Gortat had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Wizards, who have won seven of eight.
This one was noteworthy if only for substantial contributions from recent additions Drew Gooden and Andre Miller, two thirty-somethings who teamed up for a run that padded the lead in the first half.
Alec Burks scored 19 points, and Trey Burke added 14 to lead the Jazz, who have dropped the first four games of their six-game road trip. Their 7-24 road record is the worst in the Western Conference.
The Wizards led by as many as 15 in both the second and third quarters, but they never could put the Jazz away. Diante Garrett's 3-pointer cut the deficit to five early in the fourth, and it wasn't until Ariza made it 96-85 with a 3-pointer with 4:11 to play that the Wizards could start to feel somewhat comfortable.
Thirty-year-old Gooden and 37-year-old Miller made their marks early in the second quarter. Gooden, playing his fourth game of a 10-day contract after sitting idle since last summer, scored his first points of the season by rolling off eight quick points.
Three of the four baskets came on assists from Miller, who was acquired in a trade deadline deal two weeks ago from the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets shipped Miller after he had been excused from the team since his argument with the coach during a game on New Year's Day.
Gooden finished with 12 points, his first double-digit game since April 21, 2012. Miller finished with six assists, his most since Dec. 23.
In addition, the quiet Verizon Center crowd got to see some buzzer-beaters. Jeremy Evans banked in a 21-footer to wrap up the first quarter after each team committed a turnover in the final two seconds. Wall ended the first half with a fast-break reverse slam after poking the ball away from Burke. Evans struck again at the end of the third quarter with a baseline jumper with one-tenth of a second on the clock.
The Wizards improved to 4-1 since Nene was sidelined with a knee injury. Ariza and Gortat have noticeably stepped up in the Brazilian big man's absence. Ariza was 4 for 6 from 3-point range Wednesday and is 26 for 40 over his past six games.
Notes: Wizards F Kevin Seraphin missed his fifth consecutive game with a sore right knee, while F Martell Webster sat out his second straight with a sore back. … Gortat grabbed his 3,000th career rebound.
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A Coolville man was sentenced Monday in his part of beating up an elderly woman and burglarizing her home.
Colin Stout was sentenced 15 years in jail for 14 charges including burglary, attempted murder, and felonious assault.
His accomplices in the crimes, Christopher Flemming and Cody Stout were previously sentenced to nine years and nine months in jail.
Flemming and Cody Stout drove the other suspects to the home. The fourth suspect, Brandon Baker is also accused of entering the home. His trial is later this month.
Athens County Prosecutor, Keller Blackburn says he will oppose any attempts for early release for Colin Stout.
Colin Stout is accused breaking into Ota Vincents home in Athens County in January of 2012.
Police say she was stabbed in the neck and shoulders and spent months in the hospital.
Stout also stole items from her home.
Christopher Fleming, one of the men involved in the beating and stabbing of an elderly Coolville woman, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 9 years and 9 months in prison.
Guilty of aggravated robbery.
An Athens County man changes his plea.
Christopher Fleming pleaded guilty Tuesday to a list of charges including aggravated burglary, felonious assault and kidnapping.
An attempted murder charge was dismissed in the deal.
The Athens County Prosecutor says in January, Fleming drove three other men to an elderly Coolville woman's home.
Authorities tell us two of the men beat the woman, stabbed her in the neck and stole things from her home.
Fleming will spend nine years and nine months in prison.
He played a role in the beating and stabbing of an elderly Coolville woman.
Now Cody Stout is heading to jail.
In January 2012, 81-year old Ota Vincent was attacked inside her home.
She had to undergo months of rehabilitation.
Then, in September 2012, Deputies arrested Cody Stout along with Colin Stout, Christopher Fleming and Brandon Baker.
Tuesday, Cody pleaded guilty to 13 of his 14 charges including aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and felonious assault.
The court dismissed an attempted murder charge.
The Athens County Prosecutor says Cody admitted to being at the victim's home, but says he never went inside.
The judge sentenced him to nine years and nine months in prison.
Stout also agreed to testify against the three other men and to never have contact with the victim.
The three other suspects' trials were moved to early next year.
Breaking news out of Athens County Tuesday night.
Sheriff Patrick Kelly confirms four men are in custody in connection to the January 23rd stabbing of 81-year-old Ota Vincent.
Two of the suspects were arrested in Belpre.
Burglars broke into her Coolville home, stabbed her, and left her for dead.
Sheriff Kelly says deputies are currently interviewing the suspects, but no official charges have been filed.
We'll have more on this story as information becomes available. Stay tuned to WTAP for all the latest.
Stab victim Ota Vincent remains stable at a Columbus, OH hospital where she is again able to speak after being brutally attacked Monday night.
Sheriff Pat Kelly believes money was the motive and has a person of interest, though no arrests have yet been made. The attackers got away with Vincent's purse which was said to contain about $300.
Authorities have identified the victim as Ota Vincent, 81, of Coolville. She remains in stable but serious condition in Columbus.
The elderly victim in Tuesday's home invasion has been taken by helicopter to Grant Medical Center in Columbus, due to her stab wounds.
She remains in stable condition.
Authorities are continuing to withhold her name at this time.
The Athens Co. Sheriff's Office believes robbery and theft of drugs is the motive.
An 80 year old Coolville woman, who was beaten and stabbed and then left for dead, is now recovering in a Parkersburg hospital.
The Athens County Sheriff's office is investigating the home invasion that happened Monday night.
The woman, who's name is being withheld due to the investigation, called 911 around noon Tuesday and told dispatchers that someone entered her home and then beat and stabbed her Monday night.
She says she cannot remember much of anything, except for a light being shined in her face.
Sheriff Pat Kelly says that he believes the woman was unconscious through the night. She was found with cuts to her face and stab wounds to her chest.
Sheriff Kelly believes robbery is the motive for the crime.
The victim was taken to the St. Joseph's Campus of Camden Clark Medical Center.
We have a reporter in the scene and will have more information as it becomes available.


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1 stick unsalted butter, plus more for the pan
2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
2 1/2 cups root beer
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon salt, plus a pinch
3 large eggs, beaten
2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan; tap out the excess flour.
Heat 2 cups root beer, the cocoa powder, chocolate and 1 stick butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until the butter melts. Add the granulated and brown sugars and whisk until dissolved. Remove from the heat and let cool.
Combine 2 cups flour, the baking soda, allspice and 1 teaspoon salt in a bowl. Whisk the eggs into the root beer mixture, then gently fold in the dry ingredients (the batter will be slightly lumpy).
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, 55 minutes to 1 hour, rotating the pan halfway through. Transfer to a rack. Gently poke the cake all over with a skewer and pour 1/4 cup root beer over the cake; let cool in the pan for 20 minutes, then invert the cake onto a serving plate and let cool completely.
Meanwhile, make the glaze: Whisk the remaining 1/4 cup root beer, a pinch of salt, the confectioners' sugar and vanilla in a bowl until smooth. Drizzle over the cake.
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FOX RIVER GROVE – School District 3 is giving property taxpayers a little bit of a break.
The school board earlier this week approved a $100,000 tax levy abatement. In December, the district adopted a tax levy of $5.1 million, which included an $85,500 increase over the amount of property taxes it brought in 2013. The district had approved a 1.7 percent increase in the levy, which is the increase in the consumer price index.
Taxing bodies bound by the tax cap law can increase their annual levies by the increase in the CPI or by 5 percent, whichever is lower.
The district now expects to receive about $5,020,000 in property taxes this year, said Superintendent Tim Mahaffy.
Mahaffy has said levying for the full amount of taxes in December but abating them later allows the district to increase its levy in future years without the lost revenue being compounded in subsequent years by limiting the tax rate.
"The board wanted to be responsive to the economic hardship [in] our community," Mahaffy said.
How the abatement will affect the typical homeowner will depend on where a person's property value is set. The final tax rate won't be determined until the spring after property values are finalized.
Mahaffy said the district is abating projected revenue, and the board will consider the abatement process on an annual basis.
"It is really important, we took a long look at it, and the board had a thorough discussion about it," Mahaffy said.
He added the abatement won't have an effect on student programming.
"If it starts to affect the quality of programming, we'll probably put the brakes on it," Mahaffy said.
The district also plans to keep registration fees the same for the seventh consecutive year.
Fees will be $130 for kindergarten through seventh-graders, and $165 for eighth-graders. The extra cost for eighth-graders covers a cap and gown, and part of the costs of a dinner-dance and a field trip to Six Flags Great America, Mahaffy said.
Next year, the district expects to have one less class section in the seventh grade because of dropping enrollment.
With 25 fewer students expected districtwide next year, the district plans to have two sections of fifth-, sixth- and seventh-graders.
The district currently has two sections for the fifth and sixth grades. The other grades have three sections.
The district does have three teachers planning to retire, and will only replace two of them, Mahaffy said.
Declining enrollments and timely retirements have allowed the district to avoid laying off teachers through a reduction-in-force process.


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Nope, these threads have only depressed me this year. I'm boycotting until given a reason not to.
M Hockey vs #7 western Open Thread (Live on CBS Sports)
Don't give up on this team. They have good players and all they need to do is find their stride. See: 2010.
Maybe Adam Janecyk is the answer.
Free Dwyer!
I dont get cbs sports
Beat Western.
Silver lining, I'll be happy with the outcome either way, although UofM could use this game more at this point in the season.
Fuck, PPG them. 1-0.
Edit: oops, was not PP
They really needed a big first period. This has been sloppy and undisciplined.
SHIT, 2-0 them.
And they scored with 33s left. FML.
AARRGH! I guess we've been spoiled too long. This is what a mediocre hockey team looks like... : (
This is not mediocre hockey. Mediocre hockey isn't giving up 21 goals in 5 games not including this one.
Mediocrity would be an improvement; these guys are just bad. 4-1 and it didn't feel that close.
Why? Why is this team like this? It just doesn't make any sense.
Perhaps the leadership we've been hoping for has not yet materialized.
Half the penalties were trademark #gongshow
In other related news, Mike Babcock looks like William Dafoe, no?
Being in Michigan there's a lot of college hockey that Coach Babcock can get to easily. Wonder what southern NHL coaches are up to.
All you need to know about this team is that they got 74 seconds of 5-on-3; during that time they were soundly outworked, and the only scoring chance was a one-man breakaway by a defenseman... for Western. He hit the post.
In past years Michigan has struggled but at least looked good on the ice. The year they won the CCHA to keep the streak alive, most of the season was a confusing mess of losing games in which they outshot opponents, bad luck, and so on. This year they just plain look awful. I haven't seen Michigan look this incompetent in hockey since that UM-MSU game my parents took me to in the 80s when MSU fans filled half the arena and MIchigan was a hockey neophyte.
3-0 them. Yet another 3-goal deficit. FUCK!!!
Sad faces all around.
Give Adam Janecyk a chance. Both Racine & Ruthledge are struggling, put in a new goalie.
It's more than goaltending. This is just so very frustrating. This team will not get out of the first weekend of the ccha playoffs. Bring on B1G hockey
This is plainly just a bad team. I don't know why. I think there's talent, but who knows? They're terrible. There's no life in the arena or the team at all.
I have no experience with the team being this bad, I'm not even sure how to be a good fan.
I think Red should not let the guys wear Maize until they earn it. That jersey is an honor to wear, not a right. Do something, anything to motivate them.
Eh. No need for anything so dramatic; maize jerseys are for important games, and unless the team starts winning none of the game left on the schedule will have any meaning at all.
3-1, not a shutout!
Getting soundly outplayed at home by a superior team as your team plays out the string; scoring a cosmetic goal to reduce an uncatchable deficit to 2; chanting at the goalie: So THIS is what it feels like to be a Western fan.
Shoe sure is on the other foot this year.
Uncatchable? Michigan came back from down 3 in the third period at northern back in October?
Catching Northern is a lot different than catching WMU. Western has been playing great all season, and we played like Hot Garbage tonight. There was no way we were gonna catch them
I'm praying the Mayans were right about 2012 at this point. Just fucking awful.
F U, announcer all ready to send Trouba to the showers.
well that sucks.
A hockey team this bad is unacceptable at Michigan.
That was absolute ass. The team, the crowd, all ass. Yost is starting to become a library because all the rich a-holes are buying all the rest of the tickets. It wasn't only this way tonight, I noticed it back in October too when they played Sparty.
Oh and I sat in the section next to Brian. I was gonna say hi but I was pissed and he looked like he was too.
Yost isn't being quiet "because of all the rich a-holes". It's quiet because the team is getting beaten like 3-1, 4-2 every game they play. It's hard to be crazy for a team that's 5-4 at home and whose last win came against a BGSU team somehow more pathetic than ours
The crowd has had the life beat out of them. It's entirely natural to be less enthusiastic when your team stinks.
Seriously, it's not like there's much to cheer about here. There's some talent, but it's not playing to potential. It's not one of those underdog teams that lacks skill but plays its guts out. They're apparently not a great group of character guys you just want to get a chance to win. It's the hardest kind of team to cheer for.
This team just got thoroughly manhandled and deservedly beaten in its own arena, after two weeks of "thinking about it." There seems to be a full-on meltdown, and given that we have guys like Trouba who have other places to go, this could hurt us for years.
I don't blame the crowd. It's just a bad, bad hockey team.
It's bad hockey no doubt, but it's more than that. When the crowd isn't into it even for the Sparty game-- an this was back before things started getting out of control--something is wrong.
I don't ever sit outside of the heart of the student section, so I don't know what the experience is like for everyone else. Are you talking about the students or the entire crowd in general?
I'm talking outside of the student section. I don't remember it being this bad before. Thefour bronco fans in my section could be heard over the entire arena. I was also pissed that I had to sit by two Pioneer lax bros (no offense to lax bros) that showed up with 2 minutes left in the 1st and ended up leaving early.
I see you commenting often about Michigan hockey, which suggests to me that you know what you're talking about. I love hockey, but t I've only been following the team as long as I've been a student. Do you have any idea what could have happened to this team? How are we so bad? Why is our forecheck so weak and passing so sloppy? We had a legitimately good team last year, and not that many people left. I'm going to keep going to every game I can, but damn is it much less fun to do so this year.
Western's first goal was on an inexcusable turnover in our own zone. It seemed to me that receiving passes was a huge problem.
Mel Pearson joined the UM staff for the 88/89 season, after Red had been here four years. Two years later, UM made the NCAA for the first time under Red, for the 90/91 season. That season started our 22-year streak of appearances in the NCAA tournament.
Pearson departed for the head job at Michigan Tech for the 2011/12 season, and last year we made the tournament almost in spite of ourselves. It was hardly a season distinguished by great play, with the singular exception of Hunwick. Now, in the second season since Pearson's departure, the team appears rudderless. The injuries to key players have obviously been critical, but as many have noted here and elsewhere, the guys that are on the ice are playing uncharacteristically poorly. Unless there's a dramatic turnaround, our streak of making the NCAAs is going to end.
I asked Brian about the possible impact of Pearson's exit on the radio Thursday morning, and he figuratively threw up his hands and said "I dunno." Any opinions out there?
Partly because last year they ended up with a one-seed. Which yah, a lot due to Hunwick, but that's not really making the tournament "almost in spite of ourselves". They played good hockey for a decent part of that season. Partly because nobody that ever has any real contact with the program ever has ever entertained that as a possible reason when it's been thrown out. Parly becuase as good as Mel is, Red, Billy and Brian know what they're doing, too. Partly just because they're SO bad this year. I could maybe see the argument if it was a relatively slow decline, but this is just a complete and utter mess. That's a covergence of a whole ton of things, not entirely attributable to the leaving of one assistant coach.
When Mel left, I was most concerned over how Michigan was going to replace his recruiting. Looking at the classes for the next few years (which are considerably better than the classes from the last few years), I'm not really concerned about that anymore.
The coaching staff Michigan has now is not really shitty, that I promise.
I think the fact that it hasn't been a slow decline is actually more supportive of the notion that his departure has had an impact, since he's been gone about only about 1.5 seasons or so. If the decline had been over several years it would be an argument that his leaving isn't that big a deal.
As far as anyone with close contact with the program not mentioning Mel's departure as a factor, I wouldn't expect anybody in that situation to, since it can be interpreted as a criticism of the current staff. Regardless, by no means am I an expert on the team, and I'm just raising the question partially out of puzzlement with how things have fallen apart this season.
In a rough way it's analogous to the 1984 season in Michigan football. Harbaugh broke his arm in a loss to MSU, and the season seemed to go in the dumper after that. Going 6-6 was simply unheard of for Bo, and if the internet had been around we'd all be trying to figure out if he had lost his mojo. There is one difference, though: in '84, Bo was 55, whereas Red is now 73.
we'll have to disagree on the time frame. I don't think losing 1/4 of an immensely successful staff, replacing him with someone who is, on paper, very qualified, should result in an immediate and dramatic worsening.
By close contact to the program, I don't mean just coaches and players and AD staff and all that. I'm talking about Spath/Miller/media types who have been around forever, aren't at all afraid to criticize anything and everything and still have nothing but positive things to say about the staff and Red. And his age isn't a problem. If Red thought anybody, anywhere, could do a better job than him, Red would be out and somebody else would be in.
Honestly, my best shot at someone to pin it on, and it sounds just as crazy to me, is Hunwick. Michigan shouldn't have made the tournament a few years ago, running through the CCHA finals. They weren't good. The team rallied around Hunwick, he made some magic and kept alive a streak that should have died then. The next few years were a little better, but Hunwick masked a ton of mistakes. The defense was good, numerically, last year, but every game I saw in person, I saw a lot of good opportunities that Hunwick somehow managed to turn aside, along with keeping out everything he should keep out. He was incredible. The defense, I was less impressed with, for the most part. But everybody thought they were good, they thought they were good. Now, Hunwick is gone, both the heirs apparent are in the CHLand we have two average-at-best goalies who are NOT masking any defensive deficiencies like Hunwick did the last few seasons and letting in more than a few goals that are pretty weak. Now, nobody has any confidence in anyobdy, especially the team in the goalie. They're running around, pressing, everyone trying to be a hero instead playing together and trusting the other guy to do his job, so defensively, guys are left glaringly open, offensively there's no rhythym and everywhere passing is atrocious and the communication is non-existant. And it's only getting worse. They played well against Miami and the game at home against State, but since getting annhilated at Munn, it's been all downhill, rapidly.


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This test, led by the DLR Braunschweig, is dedicated to high lift noise and is related to the German national Lufo project FTEG as well as the EU-project OPENAIR.
For the first time, highly valuable flow and acoustic data is expected, which will not be biased by unrealistic Reynolds number effects and unavoidable artefacts due to small scale testing.
[1] The DNW, the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels, was established by the German Aerospace Center DLR and the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR.[2] The large low-speed facility (LLF) is an industrial wind tunnel located in Marknesse (The Netherland).


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Andrea Mantegna's Christ as the Suffering Redeemer, 1495-1500
The message of Easter - about suffering, resurrection, and redemption - constitutes the main theme of Icon. This painting is the museum's finest example of art from the early Italian Renaissance. Its realism and spatial depth and the vivid pain seen in the face of Christ broke new ground within the realm of painting. This was not just the time of the rebirth of Antiquity. It was also the time of the birth of art as we know it today.
One of the museum's finest works of art, Andrea Mantegna's Christ as the Suffering Redeemer, 1495-1500 has gone through a minor face lift in the Conservation Department. After almost two years of absence the painting is now back in the collection, hanging in room 269 C. Read more about the restoration and the painting technique and zoom to see all the incredible details.


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Maine election fairness panel holding Down East hearing
MACHIAS, Maine (AP) � A panel that's looking at Maine's election process to make sure it's fair and secure is going Down East to hold a public hearing.
The Commission to Study the Conduct of Elections in Maine is holding a hearing Wednesday evening at the University of Maine at Machias.
The five-member panel was appointed in May to study voter participation, Maine's voter registration system and the conduct of elections in Maine. The hearings are being held so the commission can better understand how Mainers view the state's voting process and how they think it can be improved.
The commission, which has already held several hearings, will report to the Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs by February.
The panel is chaired by former Superior Court justice John Atwood.


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I don't understand the angst and trepidation after the state game. take a look at who the mens bball team has played versus who they have left. Their remaining schedule looks like this:
At Nebraska
Home vs illini
Home vs ohio
At northwestern
Home vrs purdue
At Illinois
At penn state
At worst, I think, they will finish 5-2, with a slim chance to go 7-0 (more likely 6-1 with that one loss being ohio). That's anywhere from 22 wins – 24 wins overall, before the big ten tourney, and maybe a top three finish in the big 10.


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Forty one national federations attend CEV Management Seminar
"As you all know, volleyball is primarily a team sport and this seminar has been conceived exactly with this frame of mind. As we all work for the same goal, we need to join our forces, but before embarking on any action, we shall first take a moment to come together, discuss and share ideas" he continued. With this in mind CEV has turned to a Swiss-based company, TSE Consulting, which is known for its ability to deliver strategies generating success in order to help the national federations improve the management of their organization and especially take up the various challenges they are daily confronted by.
Lars Haue-Pedersen, Managing Director of TSE Consulting, followed up on the opening speech delivered by the CEV President by recalling the main goals of the Management Seminar and also the experience that his company has accumulated in most of the Olympic sports in Europe as well as overseas. "One of the things we found out is that sport is a people business" he said. "Because of its nature, in sport people get good ideas when they are together and this seminar can be very good quality time and I hope you will be going home with a couple of good ideas" he said. "We need to look for big things and that's why the main topic of this seminar will be the breakthrough, which means we want to help you discover something that can contribute a big improvement to the work of your federation" he added.
Sports management? What's that for a business? That's the very first question Mr. Haue-Pedersen submitted to the audience. "Sports organizations are not just something in between corporate businesses and NGOs. This is not enough as a definition as national federations aren't driven nor by profit neither by purpose. Sport is a very complex world and it is not driven exclusively by purpose as NGOs like the Red Cross or Amnesty International. Once they have accomplished their mission, they should – potentially – no longer exist. On the other hand, sport is a very special kind of business and will never disappear".
The seminar touched upon four methods to improve on the quality of the daily management of national federations and to achieve a disproportional internal breakthrough: 1) strategy which means think about how to get better results with the same or even with less resources, how to get ideas people did not come up with yet so that federations inspire each other; 2) change: what can people do differently to be able to deliver different – and better – results recognizing that there is not a one-size-fits-all strategy and that each federation is different; 3) measurements: federations need to find a way to measure their performance as accurately as possible; 4) service: federations have to see their members as customers, be service-oriented rather than institutional bodies whose task is purely to govern the sport by applying a series of rules.
Hanna Iiskola-Kesonen, who has been the General Secretary of the Finnish Volleyball Association for the past four years, summing up her feelings at the end of Friday's session says: "I really enjoyed every single moment of this seminar and I deem it very useful. It does fit to my way of thinking and I will bring back home a lot of information, especially when it comes to the way sports organizations have been discussed in their comparison with NGOs and corporate businesses".
The seminar will continue through Saturday all day long before the attendees join the gala coming up in the evening at Neumünster Abbey to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of CEV.
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ProFootballTalk: Ahmad Bradshaw's thinking about the Jets http://t.co/LkHvD7UI
Maybe I missed it, but when did players begin picking which team they want to go to? Who says the Jets want an injury prone RB who just was released for a reason?
The fact that every media member that covers the Jets is running with a story that means absolutely nothing shows just how quiet it is over at Florham Park.
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Means nothing really.
Of course he is open to coming to the Jets. He won't have to move. His family won't have to move. For him, signing with the Jets would only be second to re-signing with the Giants.
I want no part of his broken down ass. We are desperate for RBs but unless he is playing for vet minimum with a clause that protects the Jets if he gets hurt (a la Landry) he just isn't worth it.
Much rather draft someone like Stepfan Taylor or Montee Ball in the 2nd round.
Good player when healthy, although that's a big question mark given his injury woes.
Still, I wouldn't be opposed on a reasonable deal if he proves his health. He can run and catch - something we need in the new scheme.
An upgrade over Greene, but he's caught the injury bug. I'd rather focus on building our team up for 2014 and beyond than sign some ex-Giant who's had injury issues.
The Jets will go with Powell and a draft pick at rb. Idzik is going to do this the right way.
Hopefully the days of the Jets acting like the saying on the statue of liberty are over. "Give us your old, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free."
Personally, if Bradshaw would come here for cheap without much guaranteed to compete for a job, i would welcome him. If he sucks, then we can cut him. He is an immediate upgrade over Greene.
Obviously, would prefer to go with someone from the draft, as others have mentioned, but we need help at Guard/LB/safety and QB so its not like we can address all those concerns in this draft. At some point we have to bring in a couple of vets to compete at some positions.
You get to pick from the teams that offer you a contract, which the Jets have not.
Therefore his interest in going to the Jets is irrelevant at this point because unless the Jets want him, it doesn't matter what he wants.


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Earlier today, GameStop confirmed that it was opening new copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removing free codes for an OnLive version of the game. The company told us that the "competitor's coupon" was placed into boxes without the company's knowledge--a retail trojan horse, if you will.
While the company's action has been seen as drastic, some are questioning if there can be any legal ramifications for removing content from a sealed product and selling it as new. Mark Methenitis, attorney and industry analyst, said that "it's probably legal" because "GameStop isn't removing any essential element of the product."
"The only issue would be if the box advertised the promo and GameStop did nothing to change that, there might be a deceptive trade practice or false advertising kind of claim. But from the consumer angle, there's not much," Methenitis told IndustryGamers. Considering the last-minute discovery of the promotion, it's clear that many--consumers and retailers alike--were kept in the dark. There was pretty much zero advertising of OnLive's addition to retail copies.
While consumers can't do much against GameStop (other than not purchase products from them), OnLive and Square Enix may be able to threaten legal action. Wired explains: "Tortious interference litigation results when one party accuses another of intentionally damaging their business contracts or relationships. By removing OnLive's coupon from copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, GameStop might have violated United States economic tort law."
Unfortunately for all parties involved, heads are likely to clash again as OnLive CEO Steve Perlman told Joystiq that this promotion was just "the first of many." With a growing number of high-profile PC releases in the pipeline, it seems like GameStop will have many more boxes to open in the coming months.


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The woman is a lunatic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think you should contact your mutual friend. The reason being that she isn't much of a friend at all, and you really don't need to explain anything to her.
*snip* No wonder he's off with other women when you're so fat.' *snip*
Quote from: Nellop on November 17, 2010, 03:18:35 PM*snip* No wonder he's off with other women when you're so fat.' *snip*I've been reading this story and have been quite incredulous about this woman's behaviour...but where the heck did that come from?? What is she, 12 years old to resort to that kind of insult??Or perhaps a projection?Anyway, glad things turned out for you. What a horrible situation in which to find yourself.
he would contact my agency himself, to explain what had happened, and he would forward the 'minutes??' to the agency, and let them know how the situation had been dealt with.
OP, I waited until I was married to 'bump uglies' too - you're not alone in that. I got assumptions served left and right for marrying at 21 - I was too young or other *&^$#!... (Never saw the problem of nabbing Mr. Right when I met him and still together for 13+ years. But for some 'worldly' people...*sigh* )I agree with PP's what she's doing is sexual harassment and even bullying to a certain degree. Good grief, she made her decisions and lives with the consequences - she doesn't have any right attempting to force you to do the same. Part of me wonders if she's trying to soothe over some guilt by not being the only one that did that? Just got to stand firm with her and tell her with no uncertain terms the topic's closed like Toots have told others in similar circumstances.
Anyway, Evil!CW starts shouting 'I didn't realise that you valued your employers so little, I can't believe that this is a problem etc etc, it was just a joke, I've done nothing wrong. How can you do this to me yadda yadda yadda, I'd rather leave than have to work with people who treat me so unfairly and so on and so forth for quite some time.Boss said 'If that's how you feel, fine, I expect your resignation on my desk by the end of the day.'
I will never understand why those that dont always seem to think those that do are either guilty or jealous, and have no issue saying so.
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WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at the White House, offered a qualified endorsement Monday of a Russian plan for Syria to give up its chemical weapons stockpiles.
"If the regime immediately surrendered its stockpiles to international control," Clinton said, "that would be an important step." A move to give up its chemical weapons should be "immediate," she said, and should not be an excuse for "delay."
Her remarks, made after a meeting with President Obama, appeared to signal the White House response to the proposal, made earlier in the day by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, for Syria to give up its chemical weapons stockpiles.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, in a statement issued hours before Clinton spoke, said his country would "cooperate fully" with Russia on the plan.
In her statement, Clinton said the Russian plan only developed because of the U.S. threat of military action in response to what U.S. officials say was a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government that killed more than 1,400 people outside the capital last month.
Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons "demands a strong response from the international community, led by the United States," Clinton said. The Assad government's stockpiles of such weapons are an "ongoing threat" to U.S. allies in the region, she said.
The proposal for Syria to give up its weapons began with what had seemed to be an off-the-cuff remark by Secretary of State John F. Kerry during a news conference in London.
Asked if Syrian President Bashar Assad could do anything to avoid a U.S. military strike, Kerry said, "Turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community, in the next week – turn it over, all of it.
"But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously," Kerry added.
A State Department spokesperson subsequently sent an email to reporters saying that Kerry had spoken rhetorically.
But in the meantime, Lavrov, who was meeting in Moscow with Moallem, said the Russians were "calling on the Syrian authorities [to] not only agree on putting chemical weapons stockpiles under international control, but also for its further destruction."
Syria should also sign the international treaty banning chemical weapons, Lavrov said.
Obama administration officials initially seemed to dismiss the Russian proposal as merely a strategy to delay action. Verifying that Syria actually had given up all of its chemical weapons would be nearly impossible in the midst of a continuing civil war in that country, officials said.
But later remarks seemed to signal a shift in favor of the Russian idea, a move that solidified as Clinton spoke and referred to the proposal as one initiated by Kerry.
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New Pest Alert for Bagrada bug, a pest of cole crops
A new pest alert is at http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/. Check it out - Amanda
New Pest Alert for Bagrada bug, a pest of cole crops
—Tunyalee Martin, UC Statewide IPM Program
UC IPM's new Pest Alert helps you identify Bagrada bug, an invasive stink bug spreading through western Arizona and southern California causing severe crop, nursery, and landscape losses. In agriculture, Bagrada bug is a pest of cole crops and other mustard family plants. In home gardens it feeds on these same vegetables and on ornamental plants such as sweet alyssum and candytuft.
Bagrada bugs use their needlelike mouthparts to pierce and feed on plants and their seeds. Damage includes leaf spotting, wilting, stunting, multiple branches or crowns, and death of the whole plant.
The Pest Alert was produced by UCCE advisors Eric Natwick and Surendra Dara, John Palumbo from the University of Arizona, and the UC IPM team.
Repost: Asian Citrus Psyllid in Dinuba residential neighborhood
This is a repost from the Citrus Bugs blog and was written by Beth Grafton-Cardwell.
Following finds of several adults in yellow sticky cards in a residential area of Dinuba, young trees infested with all stages of psyllids were discovered nearby. The fact that all stages were found and the trees were young, suggests that the trees could have been infested when they were planted and the trees possibly came from outside the San Joaquin Valley or the infestation got started near these young trees a while ago (this is being investigated). This situation points out the need to educate everyone that they must never move plant material from ACP-infested areas that are under quarantine to areas such as the San Joaquin Valley where the pest has not yet established. Treatments of residences and commercial orchards in the area of the Dinuba finds have been initiated. See www.ucanr.edu/sites/acp for more information on where psyllids are found statewide and what to do to manage ACP from the grower and homeowner perspective.
Press Release from Tulare County Ag Commissioners office
TULARE, September 11, 2013 – The Tulare County Agricultural Commissioner, in cooperation with the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture are conducting an extensive survey and treatment program in response to new detections of Asian citrus psyllids (ACP) within the City of Dinuba in Tulare County.
Numerous ACP adults and nymphs (young ACPs) have been confirmed in the area. Treatment has begun and will be carried out on all citrus plants within 800 meters surrounding the site where the insects were trapped. Residents in the treatment area will be notified in advance.
The ACP is an invasive species of grave concern because it can carry the disease huanglongbing (HLB). All citrus and closely related species are susceptible hosts for both the insect and the disease. There is no cure once a tree becomes infected. The diseased tree will decline in health and produce bitter, misshaped fruit until it dies. To date, HLB has only been detected on one property in the Hacienda Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles County.
"We want to emphasize citrus fruit is safe to eat and the disease is not harmful to human health," said Tulare County Agricultural Commissioner Marilyn Kinoshita. "The Asian citrus psyllid is another example of the many invasive species that enter our state every year."
Residents in the area who think they may have seen the pest are urged to call the Pest Hotline at 1-800-491-1899 or the Tulare County Agricultural Commissioner. For more information on the Asian citrus psyllid and huanglongbing disease visit: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/acp/./span>
New UCANR Asian Citrus Psyllid website!
In California, the news has been buzzing about Asian Citrus Psyllid after 6 more were found in Tulare County.
All of us have to work together in this effort. University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) has put together a great website that highlights the distribution and management of Asian Citrus Psyllid. This includes a great map and interactive cost estimators for homeowners and commercial growers.
Find it here! http://ucanr.edu/sites/ACP/
Terrific example of communities and researchers uniting
Californians are surrounded by plants that were developed by researchers. If you are from Santa Rosa, you are probably familiar with Luther Burbank. Burbank developed many varieties that we enjoy today including the plumcot, the shasta daisy and hundreds of other fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals.
In addition to Burbank, researchers and California homeowners have brought new plants to our backyards. Right now, one of those plants is being threatened by the Asian Citrus Psyllid and the disease, Huanglongbing. A tree that was the original parent to the navel oranges we enjoy is located at the heart of the psyllid outbreak - in Riverside. Everyone is trying to save it.
Read how at http://plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov/wordpress/?p=4318
Listen to the California Report of this story at http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307051630/b
IPM - updated guidelines for citrus
If you don't already have the UC IPM website bookmarked, you should take time to do it now! The website is among the easiest to use to solve pest problems. You will see photos and practical, scientific advice for both farm and home garden.
The Citrus IPM guidelines are updated to include more information about Asian Citrus Pysllid control!


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Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has refused to reveal details of how her parliamentary office was used for a Liberal Party fundraising event.
Labor says a $2500 a head budget night function in the Speaker's Parliament House office - revealed in weekend newspaper reports and not denied by Ms Bishop - is unprecedented and breaches the independence of the role.
Ms Bishop told parliament on Monday that all members of parliament were entitled to use their suites "for their own purposes, but not for illegal purposes".
The opposition asked her to reflect on her ruling, but she stood by her statement.
Now Labor has written to the privileges committee asking for an investigation.
A motion asking the House to refer the same was voted down.
"This is a motion about smear and innuendo directed at the speaker's office," Leader of the House Christopher Pyne said, noting political fundraising events were held in Parliament House all the time.
As long as the costs were covered privately or by a political party there was no breach of the rules, he said.
Opposition frontbencher Tony Burke said the speaker's suite was a special case and the fundraiser represented "improper interference" in the independence of the office.
"This is not an ordinary venue," he told parliament.
"Your job is not owned by the Liberal Party."
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is understood to have attended the fundraiser, told parliament Labor was looking for distractions from its lack of policy.
"They worry about what might be in what room at what time in this parliament," he said.
Taking aim at Labor leader Bill Shorten the prime minister said: "Really and truly, this man is no Bob Hawke - he is no leader."
Labor has been critical of Ms Bishop's appointment from an early stage, especially in her handling of question time and biased language.
She has suspended 101 opposition MPs from parliament, but none from the government.
That image was reinforced when Ms Bishop said, after Mr Burke finished his speech: "I find it a bit rough to be lectured on morality from you."
Earlier, the secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services, Carol Mills, told a Senate estimates hearing she was unaware of any rule preventing such a use of the speaker's suite.
"It is up to the speaker, president or the other holders of special suites to decide how to use them," she said.
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon asked for a list of events held in Parliament House over the past three years to ascertain how many were party fundraisers.
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They will just bury such "consent" in the EULA, privacy policy, terms and conditions, legal notices, and other such crud that no one reads.
Data protection legislation in the EU requires that explicit consent is given. That means clear, unambiguous, and upfront consent. You can't hide it in a blizzard of tick boxes or EULAs. Defaulting options to give consent won't work either.
Big business might try tor rely on a "permissive environment" of weak national regulators but the EU commission takes these things seriously. After stunts like data loss and Phorm they're wise to the tricks. Any wiseguy is just going to get their ass handed to them.
Do you have to click yes to all 12 trackers to "authorize the page to load"?
"Sorry, you didn't agree to all 12 trackers, so therefore we can't afford to give you the page."
Fabulous. At least I now:
a) know you are wanting to load 12 trackers
b) can decide whether you site is soooo critical to me I'm willing to load them.
The answer to b is "unlikely" - great thing about the web, if you're doing it someone else probably is as well. I'll go there.
Surely the "remember me" tickbox next a login form just needs to be changed to "remember me with a cookie" and most sensible uses for cookies are covered (considering that the regulation has an exception for shopping cart contents).
Will the single checkbox apply to all twelve tracking sites which attached to the page?
They will just bury such "consent" in the EULA, privacy policy, terms and conditions, legal notices, and other such crud that no one reads.
Actually that's not even that important, because right now pretty much no member state cares for the fact that it should put this into local legislature.
Britain is the first state to actually implement the directive, all others are lagging hopelessly behind and still want further discussion with the EU about the details. With the ad-lobbyists heads firmly stuck to their backsides they will probably delay it until IP6 comes along or some other loophole (flashcookies...) is left in the directive/laws...
Some are arguing that allowing cookies in the browser is basically equivalent to giving your consent. Time will tell how this all plays out, but it's safe to say that people get bored of clicking "allow" really quickly.
Do browsers even ask if you want to allow cookies these days? I guess not? 10 years ago you did have to explicitly allow them (either globally or on a per-site basis) but I guess they are allowed by default these days? Can't remember seeing a cookie prompt in a long time.
Some are arguing that allowing cookies in the browser is basically equivalent to giving your consent.
That sounds to me like implicit consent, while the EU requires explicit consent. Though I suppose asking permission once per site is enough - not every single visit. And after receiving such explicit permission the site may store a cookie on your computer indicating that they have that permission already.
Some are arguing that allowing cookies in the browser is basically equivalent to giving your consent.
That sounds to me like implicit consent, while the EU requires explicit consent. Though I suppose asking permission once per site is enough - not every single visit. And after receiving such explicit permission the site may store a cookie on your computer indicating that they have that permission already.
Well, earlier today, I pasted this in my address bar:
javascript:void(document.cookie = "reminder=Don't forget:\n\tCover page for TPS report.");
Just now I pasted this in my address bar:
javascript: alert( document.cookie );
(Not a moment too soon -- I almost sent that report with the old cover sheet.)
That message was sent to every website I visited today. I know damn well they don't have my explicit permission to read the cookie headers that my browser sends them -- Especially not when they contain
I go with a whitelist approach. My browser is set to deny all cookies except those specifically allowed.
The way I identified which ones to allow is by turning cookies on to 'accept all except third party', using the web as normal for a few days, then observing which cookies had been written. After filtering out the obvious ones that I didn't need, I added the rest to the whitelist. These are all from sites that I have to log into obviously, so I have [*.]slashdot.org, mail.google.com, etc.
Only downside is i
I prefer to have cookies on but cleared when the browser is closed, with a whitelist of ones I want to keep. That way all sites work normally but their tracking cookies get deleted every time I close the browser, and I can stay logged in to sites I whitelist. It is a nice trade-off between privacy protection and ease of use, and as an added bonus it probably screws up a lot of tracking systems because they see me as a "new victim" every day.
You can set Mozilla to always ask, always accept, always reject, do one of those except for exceptions, accept for session only, remember your choices or not remember them, etc. At this point I don't know what the default it
The problem is that a lot of sites include cookies for third parties without permission or any explanation. I regularly get requests for facebook to set a cookie for me. I'm not sure why most of those sites would do such a thing.
The norwegian wording of it does not make any exceptions. Translated back to english, its:
Storage of information in the user's communication equipment or gaining access to such information data is not allowed.
Such storage or access can still happen if the user has been informed by the data controller under the norwegian Data Protection Act and has given his consent.
There have been some screaming about it in the technical press, but the rest of the country doesn't understand what the fuss is about (as usual)
The web browser, whichever one it is, that the user has decided to use should make the decision about whether or not to ask the users permission to set a cookie. Website are not doing anything malicious by setting cookies, they are simply asking the client browser to keep a bit of information and return it on subsequent visits. The web browser can ignore the request, ask the user for permission first, or silently accept it.
Many browsers can be configured to operate in either of those three modes. Effort would be better spent educating users... or better yet... just let it go already it isn't a big deal.
Some cookies are used to remember login details, others are used to track your behaviour. You can't tell your browser to allow one type and block the other because your browser can't tell which one is which. That's what this law is about.
The old Mozilla suit made it very easy to set cookies acceptance to "visited site only". No third-party cookies. So if I visit say slashdot.org I only accept cookies from slashdot.org and not from say adnetwork.com who happens to put an ad on that page. I like that option. Cookies have their use, keeping you logged in for example - often needed even within a single session - or storing certain personal preferences, yet ad networks have no business in tracking me.
Later Firefox only had an all-or-nothing opt
Find a FF extension called "Cookie Monster" and then revel in th granular control you have once again
Later Firefox only had an all-or-nothing option when it came to cookies: accept all, or block all (with option for exceptions).
Firefox may still have it but it's buried; now in FF 3.6.15 I can not even find a cookies setting in the preferences at all! The only way I can find to get to the cookies configuration is via about:config. I may miss something but it certainly is not very obvious.
Not true. Firefox 3.6.15 speaking here: Edit/Preferences/Privacy: Unset the checkbox on "accept third party cookies", and set "Keep Until" to "I close Firefox". No harder than it was before. Also it is not a setting I frequently change so from the UI point of view I do not want a button or two-click access to it.
The first time someone visits your website, you redirect them to a consent form and then if they opt out of being tracked, you just set a cookie showing that they've opted out so that you won't have to ask them again. See, problem solved.
(I say that tongue-in-cheek, but it would actually probably work if you set a "don't track" cookie which wasn't personal to them. Most grocery stores also offer non-tracking versions of their loyalty cards. My dad has one for Harris Teeter and his card number is all zero
I couldn't give a rat's arse how much it costs sites to comply. I'm glad somebody with sufficient authority is looking out for my privacy, because it's hard enough to do it by myself. Cookies have been a fundamental feature of the web for a long time as a way to make the web a better experience for users, but I certainly didn't ask advertisers et al to abuse this functionality for things that aren't in my interest.
I'm glad somebody with sufficient authority is looking out for my privacy, because it's hard enough to do it by myself.
Im going to assume you use internet explorer.
1) Tools --> Internet Options --> Privacy
2) Move the slider to "Block all cookies"
3) Click apply. Youre done! Cookies can never threaten your freedom again!
And that option has only been there for what....10 years now? I remember learning about that back in 2001 when people were getting all freaked out about cookies, when i was just a teenager with no technical skill. And I know that Firefox and Chrome and Opera and Lynx and Links (having used them on go
Do not set any cookies if person is not registered (here is your consent). Problem solved. Actually, that would be pretty nice.
Sure, cookies can be used for shady purposes but for heaven's sake - every useful website I can think of uses the hell out of cookies. It's the only practical way to maintain UI state. Browsers already have the ability to warn per cookies. They used to come with this turned on by default, but most have stopped that now. Ever tried turning those warnings on in the past ten years? You can't possibly browse the web like that. Even a once-off per site setup is absurd. This is the result of passionate but ignora
"Ever tried turning those warnings on in the past ten years? You can't possibly browse the web like that."
Yup, it's crazy the number of cookies now being set/read when you visit modern sites. This is a very strong positive for the legislation though.
Me, I use "Cookie Monster" in firefox. It allows me to deny all third party cookies outright, and default-deny the rest. It has a neat little menu to allow cookies from a specific site on temporary basis (Let it set cookies until the browser is restarted), allow
Browsers already have the ability to warn per cookies. You can't possibly browse the web like that. Even a once-off per site setup is absurd.
For you. For me, it's a vital functionality, and one of reasons I don't touch Chrome with a ten foot pole.
Of course, I use once-off, with Cookie Monster to be able to alter the decision later as the built-in UI takes a couple minutes (!) to alter it.
Most third-party bastards get onto my DNS-do-not-resolve list, too. Just blocking their cookie does hardly anything, they can use your IP and headers to get almost as much info. To the contrary, being warned about a new cookie is good since I know there's scu
How about a browser option of 'accept all cookies - but delete them once the session is over'?
The tracking companies get their cookies accepted and privacy is maintained. Everyone is happy. Kind of.
They should build the "Cookie Monster" addon into FF by default, with a sensible set of defaults (like auto-deny third party cookies).
That would cover it.
Cookie Monster is damn nice, it just lacks one thing: the ability to let permanent cookies stay if you allow the site to do so. Currently, you need to go to that site again and login/set up/etc once more.
I guess it's a problem in Firefox core -- if set to session cookies by default, it probably overwrites the cookie's expiration so Cookie Monster can't restore it
Already exists in Firefox ! Accept cookies from sites
You mean like Firefox's Private Browsing mode?
How about a browser option of 'accept all cookies - but delete them once the session is over'? The tracking companies get their cookies accepted and privacy is maintained. Everyone is happy. Kind of.
Done: Open Firefox > Tools > Start Private Browsing.
This is the "mode" which you seek.
The bullshit legislation won't matter. There are hundreds of hacks to store user state without cookies. All of the data can be stored server side, and if just one identifying piece of information correlates two user profiles (say, usage pattern, or time of day + IP address) then your data is being mined.
Stop private browsing, go to a different website, the ads on that website link the current time of day
Could you explain why cookies are 'absolutely needed'? Or provide a link? I can see how cookies are useful, but I don't see how they are vital.
The only reason web sites use cookies is because they have no other way to distinctly identify which computer is hitting their web site from the other side of a NAT (your firewall).
It's so they can tell it's the computer in the living room and not the computer in the bedroom. Or if you like an office analogy, it's so Sue in accounting doesn't get the same Facebook page as Ted in IT.
Technically speaking, the only information visible to the servers on the internet is the IP/MAC
Coolhand2120, you've hit the nail precisely on the head.
I remember back when anti-virus apps first started to whine about cookies, I was like, "what? do these guys have ANY CLUE how the web works?". I eventually came to the conclusion that they did, but that they were benefiting from the appearance that they were stopping all this "evil" stuff.
Cookies are an absolutely essential way to maintain state across multiple visits from a given user on a web site. As always, XKCD is on-the-ball
Well I agree with you that a cookie may not physically harm you; and that they are very useful tools for web site programming.
Yet the primary problem with cookies is the third-party cookies that ad networks place on your computer. So this ad network can track which web sites you visit. This has no use for you as end user; it only servers to give the ad network more information about you. They can see you visit slashdot, they can see you visit certain lolcat related sites, they see you visit amazon, they follow you whenever you hit a web site where their ads (and cookies) are served. And that is the problem they most likely want to tackle as that is where privacy is an issue.
NickstaDB writes
"From the CNN article: 'From 25 May, US laws dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies". These files are widely used to help users navigate faster around sites they visit regularly. Businesses are being urged to sort out how they get consent so they can keep on using cookies.'"
And then consider how different the reactions and comments would be.
I have a perfect solution! Rather than continuing to use magical cookies which can follow you around and tell everyone where you've been, I'm going to re-implement a cookie-like thing which cannot possibly do anything you don't want!
Here's how it will work: When you go to my website, I will send your browser a "brownie". The "brownie" will just be a short text string.
Then, if you want me to track you, simply inform your browser that you would like to send back the "brownie". whenever you connect to my serve
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"Earlier this year Dr. Vuokko Jarva, a futures scholar who works on consumer education to promote future consciousness and planetary responsibility and is developing new narrative approaches in futures studies, invited me to write an essay for the Finnish journal Futura (a publication of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies). The special edition of the journal was concerned with what in Finland is termed "close democracy". From what I understand from Vuokko, this is not quite what is termed in English "participatory democracy", it is more hands on, more involved, more peer to peer. I get the feeling that the Fins are way ahead of everyone else in pioneering democratic avenues of expression.
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