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Oblong is a weird fiction and film fanzine by Bruce Townley.
Oblong was published in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. It began in the mid 1990s, with #3 released in April 1996, #4 in November 1996, #5 in February 1997, #6 in June 1997 and #7 in 1998.
It featured strange, absurd, and sometimes humourous articles, and reviews of weird books and movies. There were articles about the Winchester Mystery House, Big Daddy Roth graphic software, and Film Noir. As well there are fanzine reviews and a letter column. The cover of issue #5 featured the actor Jack Nance as he appeared in the film Eraserhead.
Contributors include William Breiding (Star Fire), and Candi Strecker (Sidney Suppey's Quarterly & Confused Pet Monthly). Al Hoff (Thrift Score) had a column entitled "Pittsburgh: Don't Park Where You See a Chair".
Bruce Townley previously published the fanzines Le Viol: The Fanzine With Taste and Phiz in the 1970s.


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The San Diego Chargers locked up their top offseason priority.
Linebacker Donald Butler announced Friday via his Twitter account that he has agreed to re-sign with the Chargers.
Feeling blessed! Y'all heard it here first! Deal is done!! SD I aint going no where!! Too excited!!â
Donald Butler (@DAButler56)
February 28, 2014
The team later confirmed the deal.
The 25-year-old inside linebacker started in 12 games in 2013 and came on strong down the stretch. He finished the season with 84 tackles, four passes defensed and an interception.
At last week's NFL Scouting Combine, head coach Mike McCoy spoke glowingly of Butler and the importance of the Chargers keeping their young player.
"He was the one who was calling the defense over there," McCoy told U-T San Diego. "He was the voice of the defense on game day. He did a great job, finished strong. Unfortunately, he got the (groin) injury earlier in the season, but I think he did a great job with his leadership."
Butler is ranked No. 29 overall on Around The League's 101 free-agents list. His signing will leave a pool full of older inside linebackers on the open market.
Butler still has room to improve in coordinator John Pagano's defense. Locking him up gives the Chargers the chance to develop their former third-round pick.
The latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast" discusses the top 101 free agents and forecasts the offseasons of the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs.

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Scarification can be created by using many different methods. Branding is one of the most common methods used in creating a scarification body modification. There are different ways branding can be done by a professional.
Strike branding is commonly used in livestock branding but practitioners of scarification sometimes use strike branding to create the body art scar. Heating a piece of metal up to the point that it burns the skin with generally second degree burns is how strike branding is done. Although it is easier to have the design made out of a single piece of metal then heated and pressed on at once, the scar appears better in custom designs done using smaller metal sections with multiple burns. Strike branding does not leave the best scarring because sometimes the scar can be inconstant and the outside tissues surrounding the body modification are damaged causing a "spread" look when healed.
Far less used and known then strike branding, cold branding or freeze branding has been done in the world of body modifications. Liquid nitrogen is the key element used in cold branding; it freezes the metal instead of heating it up to cause a burn. The outcome of cold branding is much like strike branding, except that when the hair grows back it will be white.
Cautery branding uses cautery iron equipment to burn the skin to create the body art modification. This is the least used of all the branding methods.
Most commonly used for scarification is laser branding. Laser branding or electrosurgical branding uses electricity to cut and burn the skin. This type of branding gives the professional more control over the overall design of the body modification. The professional can use laser branding to control somewhat how the modification scars over by changing the depth and damage done to the tissues. The electrosurgical device that is used for this type of branding not just burns the skin, it vaporizes it. With the skin being vaporized at a quick rate it causes less damage to the surrounding tissues which in turn makes the overall healing process less painful and much quicker than with strike branding. There are lasers that are used to remove tattoos or body hair; these types of lasers are not the same as an electrosurgical laser. The tool used in laser branding is much like the tool used by arc welders. An electric current flowing through electrodes to the "pen" type device creates the burn on the skin. Laser branding is a much better method for very detailed art work then strike branding.
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ESPN and NFL need to stick to their "guns"
Lately it seems that the National Football League (NFL) and the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) have ventured outside the normal realm of investigative journalism into a new branch of judiciary persuasion.
One ESPN show, Outside the Lines (OTL), which investigates sports and athletes' lives outside of their normal setting, has aired since May 1990 and usually, the program shows things like volunteers helping children learn baseball in Pakistan or a professional sports hero making kids' dreams come true by hanging out with them for a day.
But slowly over the last few seasons, ESPN and OTL have taken bold steps into the world of investigating crimes that haven't been heard in the court of law and reporting on them before a judgment has been reached and clearly delivering its own judgment, which is often reported in a light that makes it seem as the omniscient truth in its newscasts, prior to a conviction. The NFL has also been in the same boat since Commissioner Roger Goodell was hired three years ago and incorporated his "Player/Personnel Policy," which allows the NFL to punish players based on off-the-field incidents at their own discretion, even if that player has been vindicated in the court of law.
This dangerously treads waters that most businesses would never dare to venture. If an intern told a CEO that a high-ranking member of a corporation was an alcoholic and caught drunk driving in possession of drugs, that CEO would investigate before putting out an office memo spreading the word about that employee's moral makeup. But ESPN and the NFL are two of the most popular businesses in America and must now believe they're above it all.
What many people don't realize about these reports by OTL and punishments by the NFL is the persuasion it creates and the effect it has on the public. Furthermore, the points and investigations made by these companies regarding troubled matters is mostly based on hearsay, which would be dismissed in a court of law.
These deeply under-investigated stories and reports by the two have tarnished and all but ruined the reputations of **any player it reports on.
Adam Jones, formerly of the Dallas Cowboys and the Tennessee Titans, has had his name drug through the dirt by numerous unfair judgments by ESPN and the NFL. Although Jones has admitted to an alcohol problem that has led to several run-ins with the law, he has only been convicted of ONE, count 'em ONE, misdemeanor offense. While some cases may possibly return to an open status and Jones' attitude hasn't helped his case, he has not been convicted of any real hard crimes. And unfortunately, Jones has been suspended from the NFL for 24 games over his career, thus far. Meanwhile, the NFL has had a player kill a person in a drunken driving case proved in court, and, just recently a player was found in the possession of cocaine, actually using the drug when the cops found him, and convicted in drug court just before the start of the regular season. Yet, neither of these players has served a game suspension as of this point.
Investigative journalism is one thing, but to divulge information based clearly and solely on hearsay is reckless and contradicts the old American adage "innocent until proven guilty." These two corporations need to further research these matters if they are going to report on them before a verdict is found in a court of law. Only rock solid information should be reported on these matters, unlike the Marvin Harrison gun case in which one witness crossed-up his story more than three times and none of those times were the accounts even faintly similar, but ESPN rarely ever describes instances like these, instead focusing on the allegations against the player even after proof, like in Harrison's case, appears to show them as innocent.
When a report is released and the authors or coworkers of the author lobby to the employer of the accused to have his career terminated, that falls under a morally dark category of injustice and wrongdoing, especially since many of the cases are overblown and over-publicized by the authors and their coworkers. This behavior needs to stop and ESPN should remember that its fan base wants uplifting sports news and highlights, not speculated stories created by the network that continually saturate broadcasts and frustrate viewers. ESPN and the NFL should just stick to their "guns," so to speak.
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Long-awaited spring season has come to Tokyo. Usually we see the plum flowers from around the middle of February to the beginning of March, but in this year we at last can see the flowers in the end of March. This park is famous for the plum plant, and many people come here to see the colorful flowers and to enjoy sweet smell of them.
Tama area is the name of the western part of Tokyo Metropolis. It consists of 26 cities, 3 towns and a village. A lot of people (about 4 milion) live in a eastern half part of the area. However, there are many mountains in the western part of Tama area, and there are very little flat land. Many hiking spots are in the western area, so you can enjoy walking on the trail, camping, and so on. If you see the beautiful mountain scene, you may not believe this is also in Tokyo.


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Just a real quick video on how I clean my beauty blender sponge in case any of you are wondering...I used Dr. Bronner's Pure Castille Soap (also from PurelyCosmetics.com) but you can find it at CVS also. I like it better than the cleaner it comes with, I mean you can use whatever you prefer as long as it gets the job done right?!
Someone on YouTube pointed out that I was wasting water, but I don't drink water at all (I hate the taste) if that helps LOL, AND it's rather hard to do a video (hold the camera), hold the sponge, add soap, then turn on the water ALL at the same time...so yeah, me "wasting" water wasn't on purpose, but I only have 2 hands; besides it was a super quick video. :)
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Video: How I clean the Beauty Blender Sponge
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- A Gal On A Budget said...
Youtube is just full of opinionated people, isn't it? In theory, it can be argued that washing brushes/cosmetic applicators is always wasting water but that doesn't mean that we should breed bacteria farms, does it?
Thanks for the tut. I've avoided buying a Beauty Blender because it seemed like it would be difficult to clean.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM
- Ruby said...
I love your blog and everything you write about...and I'm not trying to be nit-picky. But it's one of those things that really makes me cringe...I think you should turn off the faucet whenever you don't need it to conserve water instead of letting it run like that.
- September 16, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- Vanessa said...
Hi Ruby, I explained my reasons on my post, I did it unconsciously and there are just certain people that do things by habit, I am sure not everything we do is entirely "green" or "eco-friendly" and yet we don't intentionally do it. In short, it was a short video and was done for the mere purpose of the tutorial, I think id rather avoid having my camera fall into the sink. :)
- September 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- Ruby said...
Lolz, I competely skipped over that last paragraph. xD
I can't imagine not drinking water! It's like the only thing I drink ever.
- September 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM
- Witty said...
we can't all be perfect, can we nessa? geez, people will get on you for everything...it takes a lot of guts to have a public blog such as yours. Thank you!
- September 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM
- Tracy said...
I'm sure you don't regularly waste water like that, and your video was only like a minute! Haha. Anyway, thanks for sharing. I'll have to try using that soap to clean my blending sponge.
- September 16, 2008 at 5:17 PM
- ainstein said...
i was watching E and they were covering NY fashion week and I saw one of the MA use the beauty blender!
- September 16, 2008 at 6:15 PM
- Askmewhats said...
Hi nessa, you are funny! I was laughing when you said you drink less water! ME TOO!!!! lol and it is a helpful video..people can watch and incorporate their own styles
- September 16, 2008 at 6:33 PM
- jomama said...
Jeez, you hardly wasted any water! Plus how are you supposed to film it? And I think it's great that you're teaching people how to properly clean their sponges...it means they'll keep reusing them instead of tossing them once they get dirty. That's environmentally-friendly!
- September 16, 2008 at 6:50 PM
- ilurvemakeup said...
I have a pet peeve about water wasting, but I wouldn't lecture someone for it though. It's clear why it happened to you while filming the vid, when filming we end up explaining and tend to forget our surroundings. People in general, not just YouTube tend to just blurt shit out of their asses. I had to disable comments on one of my vids cuz perverted people kept saying sexual comments. Ugh.
- September 16, 2008 at 7:29 PM
- Robyn @ Purely Cosmetics said...
Dr Bronner's is great for your brushes as well as sponges. It's inexpensive, you don't need much, and it just sucks makeup out of things. For the naturalists, it's 100% organic. It's quick, easy, and cheap, but more importantly, it cleans better than any other brush cleaner I've used!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
This is kind of a weird question, but does the sponge ever go back to its original size? I bought the Sonia Kashuk knock off, and after cleaning it, it retained a lot of water. While it still fits in the container, it definitely expanded a lot. LOL... obviously it's a sponge and that's what sponges do... I was just curious.
- September 17, 2008 at 3:22 PM
- Robyn @ Purely Cosmetics said...
The Beauty Blender (don't know if the knockoff works the same or not) doubles in size wet. Squeeze it out, stick it back on it's pedestal to dry - under an hour - & it's back to the same as the day you bought it!
- September 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM
- Siobhan said...
Hello :), i have just got my beauty blender sponge and one of the Dr. Bronner's magic soap (lavender) sent from Australia as both products are not available here in New Zealand. I have herd/it says on the bottle that you are meant to dilute the soap before using it?? Do you know how much it is suppose to be diluted to use to clean a beauty blender sponge?? Thanks Siobhan. email@example.com
- June 7, 2009 at 7:30 PM
- Robyn @ Purely Cosmetics said...
Hi Siobhan,
I'm not Nessa, but I can answer this for you since I sell both products. You do not need to dilute Dr. Bronner's - I use it straight up all the time on both my Beauty Blender and my brushes. It is concentrated, so just a dab will do you. Wet your blender and just add a drop or two where it's dirtiest, rub it in a bit, rewet, and squeeze to lather it up. Then rinse clean.
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Pavel Bure wrote:So uhhhhh taking flask into CEC, easy or no?
Botchamania wrote:Stuff found on twitter during last night's #RAW:
•"Everybody download an app with your iPhone" **** off, I'm poor.
•MOST SHOCKING MOMENT SLAMMY 2012: Abraham Washington's Kobe moment.
•And the Slammy goes to a BOOGEYMAN RUN-IN
•New Age Outlaws present the COMEBACK OF THE YEAR. Which means Dogg isn't winning it
•-Footage of a man suffering a heart attack and nearly dying to get reactions/ratings- YUP, IT'S WRESTLING
•Jerry Lawler wins, which isn't fair. Billy Gunn's died way more times on TV than he has.
•HEY KIDS, REMEMBER THE ATTITUDE ERA IT WAS AWESOME apart from albert ignore that shut up.
•So does everybody America have a Smartphone or something? My phone has Snake on it and the Battletoads pause theme for a ring-tone.
•THE AJ AWARD FOR BEING AJ is next. Tune in after the break to see who wins!
•AJ The Carpenter's Dream: Flat as a board and easy to screw.
•Ziggler x AJ just happened. Ziggler took a back-bump from AJ's tonsils.
•Lord ZigglerHeart: "She's got a tongue like an electric eel, and she likes the taste of a man's tonsils!" #WOOF
•"Lets give Khali credit, he's a former World Champion" Michael Cole after three minutes of laughing at Khali.
•When I used to live with people who didn't like wrestling, they'd ask me to tell them when he was on TNA so they could watch.
•John Cena wins the Slammy for Superstar of the Year. CASH IT IN ZIGGLER, CASH IT IN.
•Shane Douglas just got kicked out of the audience again if he was in attendance. -timexiled
•Hey look, two guys that got divorced in 2012. Fun year -thehistoryofwwe
•CM Punk has never been more justified.
•Instant Anti-Drug PSA: screenshot CM Punk next to Ric Flair.
•One-legged CM Punk takes on Ric Flair. Which one's the broomstick?
•That Rolox line wasn't a mistake – it's all he can get his hands on these days -necrobucther187
•Camera catches a I JUST MIZZED MY PANTS sign next to The Shield.
•Flair's reaction to seeing The Shield: "what I do this time, officers?". -thrill
•Looks slightly silly having all three members of The Shield looking to take out Flair…and Flair's all SMILING AND PROFILING
•John Cena Superstar of the Year and a big Flair fan…stays in the back while Flair is triple-teamed.
•The Shield vs. Team AJ booked for the Rumble. Shield adds a dozen more members to even the field.
•Seth Rollins realised it was Christmas so he decided to Die Hard.
•After the Mayan Apocalypse, Ron Simmons will be there to say "Damn" to a cameraman only he can see.
•Lord Tensai attempts to shrug off being reminded of his previous gimmicks by turning into The Shockmaster.
•WWE obviously wants to cash in that lucrative Botchamania market.
•They show Orton humiliating Ricardo a day after he turns face. I'm getting mixed-signals.
•You know you're watching the longest running sports entertainment episodic show when the adverts are longer than the matches.
•Looks like Flair's last divorce got his hair – Bundy
•Rock wins award. He's not here. WWE!
•Production ****s up, right after Albert falls on his face. Sin Cara is in vicinity. ****, he's contagious!
•Jerry Lawler: I've seen better hair in a shower drain!
•Cody wins with the AMMA REVERSE DDT MYSELF move.
•HERE COMES RYDER…and there goes his pop. Uh-Oh.
•I hope this Smartphone guy debuts at Rumble, WWE is pushing the hell out of him.
•I'm watching Raw to find out who wins an award for tweeting. Nathan Barley was right.
•Remember every time you vote for Jericho, Hogan gets five more votes.
•Big Show's giant chair gives La Parka an erection.
•Ryder didn't win the Twitter award and didn't get a pop. But people tell me Ryder is really popular…
•I hope Big Show Chair's theme music is American Made.
•I love Show on the mic, he can make even the most tedious insults sound soul-destroying.
•…Ziggler tried to cash in MITB but Cena attacked him so nothing happened. This show in a nut-shell.
•Now I get why this show moves so fast despite being three hours long..if they let you pause for thought you'll realise **** DON'T MAKE SENSE
•FLAIR'S WRESTLING! No he isn't. THE ROCK WINS! He's not here. ZIGGLER'S CASHING IN! Sorry, no.
•This show's been such a ****-tease so far that AJ is getting envious.
•Tommy Dreamer is as tanned as Alberto Del Rio.
•Calm down CZW, the crowd is chanting ECW.
•Nice to see those months of losing to legends has lead Heath Slater to…losing to legends.
•Jerry Lawler: "I was in a band called T-Mobile but we kept on breaking up."
•"Hard camera!" someone in the ring as Jinder Mahal turns his rest-hold around to face the cameramen.
•The Three Guys They Don't Know What To Do With take on The Two Guys They Don't Know What To Do With + Guest
•"When Andy Murray wins they call him British but when he loses they call him Scottish" JBL gets us.
•They're plugging a commercial-free SmackDown tomorrow night. If it's anything like this show it'll only be 10 minutes long.
•I hope Brodus gets sad backstage again when he doesn't win this Slammy.
•The back of Dreamer's t-shirt says "no politics, no bs, just wrestling", which I find hysterical to see on WWE television – victoria
•cesaro is the only actual newcomer.
•"You can't argue with this guys!" WATCH US COLE
•Watching Ryback quote Owen Hart was like watching that Husky that can say "I Love You" on YouTube.
•I'd have loved to have seen this match built up on PPV and delivered properly.
•It's 2012 and Mean Gene has finally aged.
•Real Talk: Lesnar vs. Cena is my MOTY. Watching that with a room-full of people was insane.
•THIS BUSINESS Slammy 2012 goes to Triple H.
•I wonder how HHH feels about being the X-Pac of the HBK/Undertaker/HHH clique.
•THIS BUSINESS count: 2
•Gotta love Ricardo being fearless against gangs. He's so used to being beat up by ADR he doesn't care.
•i hope sheamus comes out and pushes her off
•Kevin Bacon doing the 'Six degrees of Kevin Bacon' thing. At her current rate, we'll soon be able to play 'Two degrees of AJ'.
•3 Hour Raws are like those supermarket Deluxe Pizzas: Seem like a really good idea but when you finish it you never want to do it again.
•So is Vickie a face now? There's been so many inexplicable turns tonight you'd think George Michael was driving again.
•Tommy Dreamer comes out from the back, grabs Vickie & AJ and shouts "I'LL TAKE 'EM BOTH…I'M HARDCORE"
•AJ goes to the back and brings back…some guy!
•Everyone on Twitter is telling me the individual's name is "Ryblack."
•I'm guessing Generic Big Black Guy Whose Gimmick Is Being Big came free with The Shield's Generic Heel Jim Johnston Theme?
•People are saying "Dude, it's Big E. from NXT! Don't you watch NXT?" ****ING NO.
•Vince McMahon's secret emergency plans when ratings drop: 1. Turn AJ 2. Big Black Guy 3. Humiliate J.R. 4. Fire J.R. 5. Big White Guy
•I should probably watch NXT, people are telling me it's good but I just don't have the time-WAIT I JUST WATCHED 3 HOURS OF RAW #Bed
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Froggy wrote:hey pavel... you're at the arena, right? what time did the "live" event start for you? because what's on TV isn't matching what you're posting.
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IMS Global Learning Consortium has launched the Connected Learning Innovation Challenge in an effort to encourage plug and play integration of learning apps, tools, and content.
The organization is also "launching a collaboration with partners InCommon and the Educause Learning Initiative designed to engage the education community in developing a shared vision to define and build a new IT architecture that allows applications to be easily integrated in support of connected learning," according to a news release.
As part of the launch, IMS Global Learning Consortium will kick off the first in a series of app challenges designed to encourage participants to develop innovative open educational apps, platforms, and tools for connected education.
Participation in the inaugural app challenge is open to any institution or vendor. The entry deadline is February 1, 2014, and winners will be selected April 1. Winners will receive a Learning Impact medal and $1,000 at the 2014 Learning Impact Leadership Institute.
"Educational technology is becoming a more universal aspect of the learning experience, but the ed-tech ecosystem has a long way to go before the experience is truly seamless," said Brian Whitmer, co-founder and chief learning officer at Instructure, a challenge sponsor, in a prepared statement. "By encouraging open app development on a common standard, we can help students focus on learning instead of jumping through hoops from app to app. We'll keep pushing from the Canvas side, but it's great to see support from so many other groups in this endeavor."
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Apollo 13: Mission Control
A new and entirely interactive viewing experience by the creator of Walking with Dinosaurs. Taking the audience back in time, Mactaggart recreates one of America's, and indeed, history's greatest survival stories with Apollo 13: Mission Control. Transforming the Exhibit Hall C into a replica of NASA's 1970 Mission Control Room, the audience is placed in the middle of the action. A true feast for the senses, the fate of the three Apollo 13 astronauts will be in the hands of the audience, begging the question,"can you bring them home?" Shows are nightly at 7 p.m. on Jan. 9-12 and Jan. 15-19, with Saturday matinees Jan. 12 and 19 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and Sunday shows on Jan. 13 and 20 at 2 and 5 p.m. Tickets on sale Dec. 14 at 10 a.m.
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Cedar Fair Announces Offering Of $500 Million Senior Unsecured Notes
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SANDUSKY, Ohio, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedar Fair, L.P. (NYSE: FUN) (the "Company" or "Cedar Fair") today announced that it, together with its wholly owned subsidiaries Magnum Management Corporation ("Magnum") and Canada's Wonderland Company (together with Magnum, the "Co-Issuers"), intends to commence a private offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2021 (the "Notes"). Obligations under the Notes will be guaranteed by the Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries (other than the Co-Issuers). The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering, together with borrowings under its new senior secured credit facilities and cash on hand, to repay in full all amounts outstanding under its existing bank credit facilities. Completion of the offering is subject to, among other things, pricing and market conditions.
The Notes will be offered only to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and to certain non-U.S. persons in transactions outside the United States under Regulation S of the Securities Act. The initial issuance and sale of the Notes will not be registered under the Securities Act, and, the Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other applicable securities laws.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the Notes, in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
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Cedar Fair is a publicly traded partnership headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio, and one of the largest regional amusement-resort operators in the world. The Company owns and operates 11 amusement parks, four outdoor water parks, one indoor water park and five hotels. Its parks are located in Ohio, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, and Toronto, Ontario. Cedar Fair also operates the Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park in California under a management contract. Cedar Fair's flagship park, Cedar Point, has been consistently voted the "Best Amusement Park in the World" in a prestigious annual poll conducted by Amusement Today newspaper.
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The two men sit in a car on the edge of the Burger King parking lot. Soon they will go inside, where one will eat fries – he calls them his biggest vice – while the other, who wants to lose weight, drinks a diet Coke. Now they point out the apartment building in front of them: yellow brick, with cherry trees in bloom.
"That's where my son was murdered," says one of the men. His face barely registers emotion as he speaks, not because there's no pain but because this is a story Michael Person has told innumerable times. His son, Michael Greene, had done good and bad in his short life. At 26, having just signed a record deal, Greene seemed poised to turn a corner before he was shot to death during a 2001 dispute over drug turf.
The story is wrenching in itself but cuts deeper when Mr. Person explains that he also lost his sister, brother, nephew, and niece to homicide. And this particular spot, an unremarkable corner of Columbia Road and Washington Street, has a terrible history of its own: two murders since Greene's as well as the homicide of Person's nephew a block away.
Person turns to the other man, who wears tweed casuals and a baseball cap. "Your nephew, he was killed a couple of miles away, right?"
William Dickerson shakes his head. "Mile and a half," he says. "Upham's Corner."
At first glance Person and Mr. Dickerson – who together lead the First Response Ministry of the Greater Love Tabernacle Church (GLT), which seeks to both curb violence and support those victimized by it – seem not to have much in common. Although both grew up here in large African-American families, their lives followed different trajectories.
By any measure, Dickerson was headed for success from the start: Boston Latin School, Cambridge College, a master's degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He served as Protestant chaplain for the Boston Police Department and in 1989 founded GLT, which draws hundreds to its Sunday services.
Person took a more circuitous path to the point of intersection the two men now share. A self-described former player in the street scene, Person dropped out of high school, and, after becoming a father at 18, turned to hustling before joining the Army in 1978 and slowly, over a period of decades, righting his life.
Despite the differences, Person and Dickerson are now close friends bound by the urgency of their mission. Together they offer GLT's complex mix of comfort to homicide victims' families, tough love to those who witnessed or participated in a crime, and preventive education for those not yet caught in the street.
Others involved in the fight against urban violence hold First Response in high regard. "To know that there are supports in place by fellow community members is hugely important," says Janet Connolly, deputy chief of staff for the Boston Police Department. "It's exactly what the city needs."
The help received from Person and Dickerson is "invaluable," according to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley. "An important part of [their] credibility is that they've never compromised their independence even as they've worked toward the same goals that we in law enforcement have."
When a homicide occurs, Person may go to the scene and escort the family to the hospital while Dickerson remains in the neighborhood trying to defuse tensions. During the ensuing days, they continue to support the community and help plan a funeral for the victim. They also work to get witnesses to come forward and perpetrators to turn themselves in, typically accompanying them to the police station.
The two men have a close and mutually respectful relationship. "He has a heart for the people," Person says of Dickerson. "He can find goodness in the worst person in the world." Person pauses, blinks. "He is more than a brother."
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By the 1990s, Person had turned his own life around after years of street life. While working as a cook at various city programs for youth offenders, he discovered an interest in outreach. He also remarried, became a born-again Christian, and got involved in the ministry.
At their home, Person and his wife instituted "family night." Every Wednesday, the couple and their four children – three grown – gathered to share a meal chosen by the kids and cooked by Person. The rule during dinner was that the kids got to talk, while the parents just listened.
It was on one of those Wednesdays that Greene, who attended regularly, failed to show up. A full day passed before anyone could bear to tell Person what had happened, and 13 more before his son's body was returned to him.
After the death, Person turned to his youth work with greater urgency. He was appointed the city's TenPoint Coalition liaison to the victim/witness program at the D.A.'s office. After he was ordained a reverend in 2001 at Christ Temple Church, he founded the First Response Ministry. Last October he became a member of GLT and transferred the program there.
As director, his role, while unpaid, is more hands-on than Dickerson's. Inside his many files is a master sheet simply titled "Homicides." On it he lists each victim's name, the location and date of the crime, and the cause of death. Pink highlighter indicates the active cases – currently more than 20.
If there's an edge of desperation to the First Response mission, it is because the city's murder rate has not shown a substantive decrease in more than a decade. As a result, although Dickerson and Person are both trained grief counselors and know much about consoling families, they also aim a pointed message of accountability and restraint at those who may have witnessed (or participated in) the crime.
Funerals are often the place where that message is delivered. Dickerson gave the eulogy at a 2006 memorial service for 20-year-old Analicia Perry, shot while kneeling to light a candle at the makeshift shrine of her brother, who had been killed at the same location.
"If you know who did this, give him up," Dickerson shouted that day from the pulpit. He told the mourners to go ahead and cry, but less for Perry than for themselves. She was in heaven, he said, while everyone else was still "here in this cold-blooded world."
Although both men are Evangelicals who freely cite the Bible, their work crosses boundaries of faith and culture. Often they sit in court with witnesses who speak little English, advocating for them amidst intimidating circumstances. They have attended memorial services inside a mosque and a Buddhist temple, and no matter who calls, no matter when, they rush to the scene – sometimes arriving before the crime scene has been secured.
Both men see the African-American church as playing a key role in stemming urban violence, through direct action and partnerships with schools and police agencies. Dickerson is particularly quick to acknowledge the value of religion of any kind in the lives of youths. "It's been shown that young people who have faith are less likely to be involved in criminality," he says.
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With his natural grace and oratory skills, Dickerson likely would have succeeded in the ministry almost anywhere. Instead, he chose to return to where he was raised. Dorchester is a proud place, one that over the decades has absorbed successive waves of immigrants and struggled to rid itself of poverty and violence.
Dickerson won't reveal exactly where he lives, out of concern for his family's privacy, but he and his wife have raised three children here. He is a thoughtful man who does not smoke, drink alcohol (or coffee), or eat red meat. That's not to say he stands apart from the world: He texts from his cellphone and dresses elegantly. When he laughs, his eyes light up.
Yet the work is taxing. Person has had serious health challenges, while Dickerson's face in repose holds a certain weariness. "He feels all of it," Person says of Dickerson. "I know him. I can see the pain."
Both men are mindful that their cellphones may ring at any moment. Recently Dickerson eulogized a young murder victim. After the service a boy approached. The service was impressive, he told Dickerson: "I want you to do my funeral." Person's eyes take on a haunted look as he recounts the story. "That's what this kid was thinking about. His funeral," he says. "That's what he saw in his future."


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"Matt Costa"
By Matt Costa
Brushfire Records
I'm not going to lie: A part of me was expecting to hear bagpipes in at least one song from Matt Costa's self-titled album after reading on his website that he recorded most of it in Glasgow, Scotland.
But Costa's fourth and latest album with Brushfire Records put me in my place and presented me with 10 songs that showcased the Huntington Beach native's range when it comes to folk-pop.
Coming in at 33 minutes long, the album takes you on an interesting journey. There are stretches where the songs match and complement one another.
Opening the record is "Loving You," which starts with string instruments elegantly playing and then suddenly jumps up to a pleasant, upbeat tempo of a piano and backing band. Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" popped into my head when Costa sang, "As long as your heart beats, you were made for me / Where the lights are low and the smoke is thick / Let's go back to how it felt then so I can say...."
After that peppery track, "Early November" lulls you into a cozy state, with simple beats and warm lyrics. It made me feel like I was cruising down Pacific Coast Highway with my windows down on a warm summer morning. Or it could easily be an early November morning, it being Southern California and all.
Another good pairing is "Good Times," which has a catchy chorus line — "Those good times are coming to an end" — and the following track, "Shotgun," which will have you subconsciously clapping along.
But there comes a point in the album where it takes a strange, but somewhat welcome, turn. "Silver Sea" is the only song that sounds like it had some Gaelic influence. Though most of the album was recorded at Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow, ironically, this was the only track recorded in Los Angeles at the Solar Powered Plastic Plant.
It's a strong song that makes you feel as if you were a medieval Scotsman traveling through a foggy lake, but like the chorus in this song suggests, I, too, think this song was "lost" in the album.
Things get a little cheesy, but sweet, with "Ophelia." Though it's carried with a warm, sweet melody, the lyrics come off as desperate, begging almost. With lines like, "The night was like a deck of cards / You hit me with the ace of clubs / I'm placing all my bets / Begging you to deal me some love," it's either a hit or miss with the significant other in your life.
"Matt Costa" isn't as cohesive as some of Costa's earlier albums, but he still delivers good songs that will complement any mood you're in.
Costa is nominated for best folk artist in the 2013 OC Music Awards. He's up against Huntington Beach natives Honeypie, Micah Brown, the Ultimate Bearhug and Yellow Red Sparks.
This latest album didn't meet the deadline to be entered into this year's "best album" category, but don't be surprised to see it on next year's list.
—Anthony Clark Carpio
"I Just See You"
By Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements
Kabeauty Music
"I Just See You" is nothing if not relatable.
A mother spends hours ferrying her daughter to and from school, only to be snarled at for being weird.
A girl makes a valiant effort to move on, but upon the unexpected discovery of her ex's gray and blue tennis shoes, finds herself on memory lane.
A dysfunctional couple fills the silence between them with a potent mix of alcohol and drugs.
Like I said, real.
Admit it or not, we've all been there — from wanting to protect a loved one from sadness to lamenting the loss of love.
This 11-song CD takes the listener on a voyeuristic journey through life, as seen through Tracy Newman's eyes.
Emmy award-winning TV writer Newman and the rest of her Reinforcements came together in 2004. Unveiled in September last year, "I Just See You" is the singer-songwriter's second album — a modern-folk creation that took five years to release.
The album is laced with a refreshing country flavor, with hints of jazz lilts in "If It Were Up To Me." Mostly upbeat, with pensive undertones, the album showcases Pat McGrath on acoustic guitar, Dave Francis on upright bass, Robbie Turner on steel guitar and pedal steel, and Russ Pahl on dobro, banjo and pedal steel. Some songs also features Gene Lippmann on the guitar and John Cartwright on upright bass.
Newman, with an airy subtle twang, and fellow singers Lippmann and Rebecca Leigh breathe life into the album with clear voices and effortless singing.
The album flaunts an acoustic sound, with mellow harmonies that complement, but never steal, the spotlight from Los Angeles-based Newman's poignant lyrics.
She uses every song to tell stories starring married couples, lovers and even parents. Relationships provide fodder for this album, which is alternately, and often simultaneously, humorous, honest and moving — all conveyed with simple and dulcet verses.
The album's songs, a sampling of Newman's creative prowess, don't require concentration to follow. Pop it in your car's player and the toe-tapping music will be sure to elicit a nod, sigh or chuckle, and leave you humming when it's over.
Newman seems like an approachable and down-to-earth person who would leave the recording studio and be game to grab a drink with you, which adds to the overall charm.
"Fire up the Weed" took first place in the Great American Song Contest in 2011 with its ironical tale — "This must be the way we want it/ This must be what we need/ I'll make the martinis/ And your fire up the weed."
"Table Nine," a tipping of the hat to Newman's idol, Merle Haggard, won third place in the American Songwriter Lyric Contest in 2011 for verses such as, "He asks my age, I'm 21/ He smiles and says, "How'd you get to be so young?"/ I call him a flirt, he calls me sunshine/ The man at table nine."
"I Just See You" was the result of a group writing class in which Newman was asked to write about looking into a mirror. A personal favorite with which the album shares its name, this song makes the listener privy to a long-term relationship with, "Let me be your looking glass/ Look at me when you walk past/ And see yourself the way that I do/ I don't see young, I don't see old — I just see you."
For those who'd like to see Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements live, the group is slated to take the stage at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Marine Room Tavern, at 214 Ocean Ave., Laguna Beach. The band will perform at various venues across Southern California through March, before heading north for a six-day tour in April.
For more information, visit http://www.tracynewman.com/gigs.html.
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A Wall Street Journal article by Corey Boles describes the tough work cut out for the President's fiscal commission, meeting on Tuesday for the first time:
The commission must report back by Dec. 1 with suggestions about how to bring into line the federal government's deteriorating finances. Groups representing both ends of the political spectrum are already decrying the panel as unlikely to succeed.
"We're afraid the solutions they focus on will be entitlement cuts which are completely unwarranted," Roger Hickey, co-director for the Campaign for America's Future, an umbrella organization of liberal groups.
Brian Darling, director of Senate relations at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said he feared the Obama administration would use the panel to justify tax increases.
"The bottom line is if you give politicians an easy way out they will take it," Mr. Darling said. "And the easy way out in this case is tax increases and not cutting spending programs."
The comments from both men illustrate the difficulties the panel's members will face in trying to cobble together a bipartisan agreement…
Well, tax increases are certainly not the "easy way out." Just ask the Democrats in Congress why they weren't lining up to sign onto Senator Conrad's budget resolution. I was told by a prominent aide to the Democratic leadership that this AP story by Andrew Taylor was "the article that killed the budget resolution."
The WSJ story on the commission goes on to quote Concord's Bob Bixby (based on this Concord blog post):
According to Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a non-partisan fiscal watchdog, the panel should narrow its focus if its members want to succeed.
He said they should drop the goal set by Mr. Obama of seeking to bring the budget deficit down to around 3% of U.S. gross domestic product by 2015, something Mr. Bixby said was overly focused on short-termism.
"They might have the greatest success with social security," Mr. Bixby said. "That would be wildly successful by modern standards."
…but it left out the best part of the Concord statement (via blog) regarding Social Security (emphasis added):
They could begin with Social Security, which oddly enough has gone from being the "third rail of American politics" to the low-hanging fruit. Everyone knows what needs to be done but no one wants to do it. The commission could have a powerful effect by making an obvious recommendation to phase-in benefit reductions and increase dedicated revenues.
Let's face it: the President's commission isn't going to find "easy choices." (If there were such truly "low-hanging fruit", it would have already been picked.) Nope, they're going to have to settle for the "relatively easy" among a universe of sufficient choices, all of which are pretty hard.
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LeMicah Harris scorched the twine for 25 points and Bastrop survived a late West Ouachita surge for a 64-60 District 2-4A road victory on Friday night.
Leading 23-19 at halftime, the Rams (10-17, 2-3) stretched the difference to 44-29 after three. The Chiefs (12-13, 1-5) outscored the Rams 31-20 in the fourth quarter.
Harris hit four 3-pointers en route to reaching the 20-point mark for the sixth time this season. The 5-11 junior guard scored a career-high 32 points vs. Oak Grove on Dec. 15. Jay Wilson joined Harris in double digits with 12 points. Rounding out the scoring were Lester Lee with eight points and eight rebounds, Quan Washington with six points and seven boards, Demarkiyo Devoil with four points and four blocks, Travion Burks with four points, Alontae Alford with three points and Juwan Norris with two.
Bastrop shot 22-of-56 from the floor (39 percent), 6-of-21 from 3-point range (29 percent) and 14-of-30 (47 percent) from the line.
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The Sumter County Chamber of Commerce is a business organization in Florida. It is our mission to serve as "The Gateway to Sumter County" with the goal of connecting business and community. The logo will be used on every marketing piece including billboards, brochures, letterhead and website. The design should be in color but easily convertible to black and white (grayscale)
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The Sumter County Chamber of Commerce is a business organization in Florida representing a large (574 square mile) and diverse county. Half of the County is rural in nature and heavy in agri-industry, while the other half is made up of rapidly growing communities offering shopping, dining and other opportunities. We anticipate rapid growth over the next ten years. It is our goal to serve as "your gateway to Sumter County" . We also administer tourism in the County. We want to retain our "sense of place" as a historic Florida community while creating a positive image of a modern community. Sumter County is known for it's easy access to transportation throughout Florida.
Our Mission Statement: The Sumter County Chamber of Commerce is the gateway to the Sumter Community, providing an environment of increased visibility for our members while offering advocacy, networking and advertising opportunities and providing a continuous flow of information on all aspects of the county through established relationships with the governement and education bodies throughout Sumter County.
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The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress released at a report by the Office of the Surgeon General. According to the report, 151,000 Indiana youth will become smokers and die prematurely. This is 9.5 percent of teens ages 17 and younger, almost one of every 10 Hoosier kids. The new report calls on Americans to make the next generation tobacco free.
"We will continue to work to support policies that protect our community members from the dangers of tobacco use and secondhand smoke," said Dan Gray, director of the Wabash County Tobacco Free Coalition. "This report is a call to action that we must act now to prevent our children from becoming addicted to tobacco."
The new report updates estimates on the human and financial tolls of the cigarette smoking epidemic, finding that it kills close to half a million Americans a year and costs more than $289 billion a year in direct medical care and economic loss. In just the last 50 years, 20 million Americans have died because of smoking.
Since that 1964 report, evidence has linked smoking to diseases of nearly all the body's organs. And today's report establishes more new links, finding that cigarette smoking causes diabetes, colorectal cancer and liver cancer. Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in Indiana and the U.S.
Indiana continually ranks high among all states for smoking prevalence, with a smoking rate of 24 percent. That is higher than the national average of 19.6 percent. Nearly 30 percent (29.6 percent) of Hoosier adults between the ages of 18 and 30 are current smokers, according to the report. Tobacco use kills more than 9,700 Hoosiers each year and costs the state over $2 billion in healthcare costs annually, including more than $487 million in Medicaid costs.
"This report calls on public health leaders to use all the tools we have to lower tobacco use rates," said Miranda Spitznagle, director of Tobacco Prevention and Cessation at the Indiana State Department of Health. "We need partners in health care, business, education, faith-in all sectors of our society--to work at the state and local levels to help in building a tobacco free generation."
"The Wabash Coalition," stated Gray, "is diligently working to reduce the use of tobacco by continuing the efforts to introduce cessation programs to Wabash County residents. When someone is ready to stop smoking or use chew, we want to help with the 1-800- QUIT-NOW free counseling or with cessation classes that are offered through the YMCA. Gray added that prevention is the key to keep Hoosiers healthy. There are youth prevention programs that warn and encourage youth to never experiment and start using tobacco. It can take one cigarette for a young person to become addicted. Ninety per cent of tobacco users start before the age of 18, with the average age being 13. Each day, an estimated 3,500 people under the age of 18 begin smoking. Many young people begin smoking without considering the possibility they may become addicted, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. However, by the time young people reach age 18, they may find themselves addicted and difficult to quit."
New findings in this report conclude that smoking causes rheumatoid arthritis and immune system weakness, increased risk for tuberculosis disease and death from TB, ectopic pregnancy and impaired fertility, cleft lip and cleft palates in babies of women who smoke during early pregnancy, erectile dysfunction in men, age-related macular degeneration, and increases the failure rate of cancer treatment. The report concludes that secondhand smoke exposure is now known to cause strokes in nonsmokers.
Smoking also negatively affects the health of babies. More than 100,000 babies have died in the U.S. during the last 50 years from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), complications from prematurity and low birth weight, and other problems resulting from parental smoking. In Indiana, 77 infants out of every 10,000 born die before their first birthday.
Those who stop smoking dramatically reduce their risk for heart attacks, asthma attacks, cancers and other diseases. The Indiana Tobacco Quitline is a free service to help Hoosiers quit tobacco for good. Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW to learn more or visit www.QuitNowIndiana.com or www.EQuitNow.com
For more information about Surgeon General's Report, visit http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/50-years-of-progress/index.html.
To learn more about the Wabash County Tobacco Free Coalition, contact Dan at 41 W. Canal Street, Wabash, 260-274-2920, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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1980 and 1990 Industrial Structure Measures (ICPSR 1225)
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The major objective of this research project was to analyze differences among race-sex groups in their distribution across industrial and occupational segments and in the rewards that they receive from these positions. Two sets of analyses of the causes and results of the differential distribution among Black women, Black men, white women, and white men are provided, and the redistribution of these groups across labor market positions is also examined.
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I wouldn't touch a Ouija board with a bloody barge pole! Have heard too many bad experiences about these hellish things.
Those who are contemplating dabbling in these sinister contraptions, a word of advice: stay well away.
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Posted 08 August 2018 - 05:19 PM
I wouldn't touch a Ouija board with a bloody barge pole! Have heard too many bad experiences about these hellish things.
Those who are contemplating dabbling in these sinister contraptions, a word of advice: stay well away.
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Posted 10 August 2018 - 08:34 PM
There have been several posts/threads warning against these - but somehow, people still think - oh, how could this be real? Surely it's just a game. And then either absolutely nothing happens (thank goodness) or dark things ensue.
Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown
Posted 11 August 2018 - 08:57 PM
There have been several posts/threads warning against these - but somehow, people still think - oh, how could this be real? Surely it's just a game. And then either absolutely nothing happens (thank goodness) or dark things ensue.
I can imagine. As I say, these things are not to be tampered with willy nilly. My mum and her workmates used to mess around with one (using a tumbler and a circle of cutout letters) way back in the 60s, after she had clocked off in the winter nights, and the canteen was all dark and quiet. Needless to say, she experienced enough creepy things to put her off messing with "Willy The Weejie" (as she and her workmates christened it) for life..
The Exorcist is enough to put one off messing around with a Ouija board too!
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Posted 20 August 2018 - 02:12 PM
Like I mentioned in other threads, you are inviting an unknown entity.
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
Posted 24 August 2018 - 12:57 AM
Like I mentioned in other threads, you are inviting an unknown entity.
Yes, you are basically leaving your front door open with a big flashing neon sign over it that says "Come on In!".
You get all the low vibration entities coming through like you would in real life.
Not something you would ever want to do if you are of sound mind and body.
The only difference between Socialism and National Socialism is the snappy uniforms. - Logan "Aside from ending Slavery, Fascism and Communist World Domination, War has never solved anything! ""For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute! But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot." - Rudyard Kipling "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."---George Orwell "Always Remember-All Lessons in Life are Expensive.....and the last one costs you everything you have." - Logan" Socialism is just Communism without a Dictator....and you can always find a Dictator!" - Logan "An Armed Man is a Citizen. An Unarmed Man is a Subject. Subject to anything anyone wants to do to him." - Logan "Without the Second Amendment there is no First Amendment...or Third or Fourth or Fifth....or 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th or 27th!" - Logan Peace is not the Absence of War. Peace is the Absence of the Opportunity for War. True Peace comes through Superior Firepower. - Logan
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I take the other view; I do not fear them nor do I use them. Not because of any concern about anything happening; instead it is my non-belief that keeps anything from happening. If that seems a bit confusing, consider it is not the board that has any power but one's own belief that gives it its power over the one using it. Since I don't believe that a piece of wood and plastic has any power I don't worry about them. I would use one as a game if someone wanted, but as for something to actually accomplish communication I don't see evidence they work. Thus as a tool they are useless.
In fact, a few years ago I was contacted by a lady who was very concerned about one she had. She asked how to get rid of it and was told so many different things she had no clue what to do or where to turn. All she knew was she had to do it just right or spirits or demons might linger behind. She asked a family member if they would get rid of it and they told her not to throw it away without the proper protection. She asked what I would charge to get rid of it for her. I told her just toss it out, but she said she could not do that. I finally relented and told her send it to me and I would get rid of it, no charge. She sent it and I saw it was well worn and not worth anything as a collectable. So I just threw it out in my trash. Can you guess what happened after that???? Nothing. Garbage man picked up my trash that week and that was it. End of story.
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Tbh, I wouldn't use one without a buttload of protective measures and making sure to close the portal it opens. And definitely wouldn't use it at home. I don't want whatever would come through lingering where I live. I already have enough ish going on this side of the veil without whatever came through amping it up.
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Built in the late 1930s, the Cliff May-designed low-slung house was innovative for its time and today is considered typical of his trademark designs. Rooms flow easily from one to another or onto patios, allowing for the passage from indoors to outdoors without stepping down. Large picture windows take in the views.
Peck, who lived in the one-story home until 1952 with his first wife, Greta, favored the den as his retreat. A Life advertisement for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer shows the couple at the room's bar.
After a series of owners, the home was brought back to life by Grazer in the mid-'90s -- updated, expanded and rebuilt to keep the structure intact and maximize the canyon, city and ocean views. In addition to the five-bedroom, eight-bathroom main house, there is a swimming pool, a guesthouse and an office/gym/art studio, according to the Multiple Listing Service description.
The 3-acre, cliffside compound had been listed at $27.5 million.
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Grazer, 55, shared a best picture Oscar with Ron Howard, his partner at Imagine Entertainment, for "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). The prolific television and film producer also worked with Howard on "The Da Vinci Code" (2006) and "Angels & Demons," in release May 15.
State's priciest home sale for '09
The high-water mark for California home deals on the public record so far this year has been set with the sale of a Beverly Hills mansion for $31.5 million.
The 27,000-square-foot French Normandy on 2 acres has 10 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms and 7 fireplaces. The newly built Richard Landry-designed home had been on the market for 255 days, according to the MLS, and had originally been listed at $45 million.
What does one get in this price range? For starters, a waterfall running down the side of the three-story mansion, a circular library with a glass floor revealing a 2,500-bottle wine cellar below and an indoor swimming pool with a gym. There's also an outdoor pool with spa and outdoor living and dining areas. Bearing some resemblance to a castle, the house even has a plank "bridge" over a water element that gives the appearance of a moat.
Mauricio Umansky of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, had the listing, and Simon Darvish of Audrey Max Estates, Beverly Hills, represented the buyer, according to the MLS.
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Having taken a look at what else is available, Phoenix Pictures chairman and co-founder Mike Medavoy is pulling his custom-built Beverly Park mansion off the market.
"We can't find anything we like out there more than where we are now," he said of his six-bedroom, 10-bathroom East Coast Traditional, which had been listed at $19,995,000.
In addition to being the Medavoys' family home for the last decade, the 11,769-square-foot residence on 2 acres has been extensively used for entertaining, including hosting Golden Globe parties. "Nine hundred people can come to this house for a party."
Medavoy, 68, has a book out this month on how the media affect foreign policy -- "American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age" co-written by Nathan Gardels -- and movies later this year including "Shutter Island," directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and "Shanghai," with John Cusack, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Chow Yun-Fat.
Buying and selling a house just wasn't fitting into the picture as well as staying put.
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Yes, there's a pool. Backstroker Lenny Krayzelburg had perfect timing setting world records, but he has been slow off the block selling his Sunset Strip area home.
The 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist listed the three-bedroom, 3 1/2 -bathroom contemporary last September for $5,675,000. In keeping with the realities of today's market, however, he now has relisted the newly staged 3,750-square-foot residence for $3,995,000.
Krayzelburg, 33, bought the Doheny Estates house in March 2007. He hired Beverly Hills architect Roy Sklarin to design it and discussed his views on modern architecture.
"Once he came up with the plans," Krayzelburg said, "it was a perfect match of his vision on my love for modern architecture."
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Wabash Claims NCAC Baseball Titleby Brent Harris • April 30, 2011 Share:
Wabash claimed its first-ever North Coast Athletic Conference baseball title Saturday with a 5-2 victory over Ohio Wesleyan.
View photos from the team's win and the post-game celebration here.
Chris Widup worked 8-1/3 strong innings on the mound while the Little Giant offense scored five first-inning runs in the win. Luke Zinsmaster came on in the ninth inning in relief of Widup, closing out the game with a strikeout to give the Wabash the title.
The conference title is the first for the Wabash baseball team since joining the NCAC in 2000 and is the first overall conference tournament title since the Little Giants won the 1998 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament. With the victory, Wabash earns the conference's automatic bid to the upcoming NCAA Division III baseball tournament. The Little Giants will be appearing in the tournament for the first time in school history.
"This is really exciting," Head Coach Cory Stevens said. "We've got a great group of guys who have battled throughout the season. Everything came together at the right time. We've peaked at the right time. We've tried to stack our schedule with great competition from the beginning of our schedule to the end, and it's really paid off.
"This is such a great step for this program. Everyone who has played baseball is a part of this, not just the guys on our roster right now. Wabash baseball has taken this one step at a time over the years, and now to break through with this NCAC championship and to earn the school's first NCAA tournament berth is gratifying."
The Little Giants are the first team other than Wooster or Ohio Wesleyan — two of the four teams, along with Wittenberg, to play in this year's Tournament — to win the NCAC baseball championship. Wooster had claimed back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010 as part of 13 total championships. Ohio Wesleyan has won the baseball title 10 times, most recently in 2007 and 2008. Allegheny is the only school to win an NCAC baseball championship. The Gators claimed outright titles in 1993, 1997, and 1999 in addition to tying Wooster for the first conference championship in 1985.
Wabash will find out what team it will play and which regional the Little Giants will be sent to on Monday, May 16. The first games of regional play will take place on Wednesday, May 18. Wabash could be sent to regionals at Illinois Wesleyan, Wisconsin-Whitewater, or Marietta, Ohio.
Widup retired all three Ohio Wesleyan batters with strikeouts in the first inning, part of eight total strikeouts in the game for the sophomore righthander. The Battling Bishops hit a solo homer in the third inning and another in the eighth inning for their only runs of the game. Widup scattered five other OWU hits in the game. The only other threat he faced in the game came with two outs in the second inning when a single to left by Nathan Strome brough Tim Knezovich to the plate. However, Wabash leftfielder Montana Timmons threw out Knezovich trying to score to end the inning.
The Little Giants opened the first inning with an infield single by Chris Deig. An error on a ground ball by John Pennington put runners on first second, leading to two runs on a Timmons double down the left field line. Tanner Coggins followed with the third hit of the inning to put runners on the corners. PJ Tyson's RBI single scored Timmons and set up a two-run double by Joe Johnson when the senior blasted a pitch to the left-center field wall.
The five runs would prove to be all Widup needed to record his fifth victory of the season.
Wabash advanced to the tournament championship game as the number three seed. The Little Giants opened with a 17-9 victory against Ohio Wesleyan on Thursday night, followed by a 3-2 win Friday against top-seeded Wooster to earn the berth in the championship game.
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The Bulldogs hope to rectify loses to the Crimson in cross country and indoor track suffered this season. If the Bulldogs are to beat Harvard, then an outdoor track competition held in Yale's own backyard is the best possible venue to do so. The Bulldogs stand to benefit greatly from events available in outdoor track and field without indoor equivalents (400-meter hurdles, 3,000-meter steeplechase, javelin, discus, hammer).
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This is the first I've heard of it. Any updates?
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- "Developed by series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto V heads to the city of Los Santos and surrounding hills, countryside and beaches in the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar has yet created."
- ―Rockstar Games[1]
Grand Theft Auto V evolves nearly every mechanic that was in the previous Grand Theft Auto games. As far as driving goes, the cars have been greatly improved, with Rockstar running more physics on them. The cars even hold to the ground a bit better and the mechanics feel more like a racing game, compared to Grand Theft Auto IV's rocky, boat-like handling system. The shooting mechanics are better in terms of the feel of the mechanics and bigger compared to the melee mechanics in the game, but that doesn't mean that the melee combat won't be fun, as it as been improved over the previous titles as well. Weapon selection has now also been changed. Instead of the old way of selecting through all the weapons, there is now a weapon wheel, just like the one in Red Dead Redemption. Edit There are many unique features in the game, one of those features is that when the players are playing as one of three protagonists in the game, the other two are living out their daily lives, and you will be surprised by what you find the characters doing when you switch back into them. Another unique feature is the swapping characters feature happens in a Google Earth styled manner and was displayed during a Game Informer demo, which it showed to have ran smoothly and without lag.
New activities have also been added, such as yoga, triathlons, jet skiing, base-jumping, tennis, a full-fledged golf, and scuba diving. The mobile phone has also returned but is only used for calling your friends and using the internet. Flipping off people is another new feature the player can use (which Rockstar recommended you do in various locations around Los Santos to see the outcome of this effect, depending on where the player is at they will get different reactions from pedestrians).
Rockstar has also made changes to the pedestrian mechanics; some pedestrians you see at the bus stops in South Los Santos reappear in Rockford Hills working on rich peoples' lawns and gardens. Some minor mechanics that help out the environment and looks of Los Santos come on at certain times, such as a sprinklers system coming on in the morning in rich areas like Rockford Hills.
The map is said to be larger than GTA San Andreas, GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption put together. After some calculations by members of GawdAlmighty.com, that would equal to around 27.5 square miles when land and sea are put together. [3]
- Main Article: Vehicles in GTA V
Grand Theft Auto V promises to have more vehicles than in any other Grand Theft Auto game to date, with a variety of vehicles, including airplanes, helicopters, convertible cars, utility vehicles, emergency service cars, motorcycles, and jet skis. Players are able to fly planes, which was not possible in Grand Theft Auto IV because of the size of the map, but is in Grand Theft Auto V because the map is larger. In a brief scene in the first trailer, overhead wires are visible on a banking next to the road, which are probably wires for a railway track. There are also submarines that players are able to use.
Businesses EditEdit
- Main Article: Businesses in GTA V
According to the trailer, businesses in Grand Theft Auto IV are set to appear in the upcoming game. New businesses also appear, as seen in the trailer, such as the Bugstars fumigation company and Up-n-Atom Burgerfast food restaurant.
Weaponry EditEdit
- Main article: Weapons in GTA V
Weaponry is not currently revealed in full. As seen in the trailer, there are Norinco Type 56-2 assault rifles with sound suppressors, mounted lasers, olive drab polymer furniture, and side-folding stocks. This leads to the return of suppressed weapons and the possibility of attaching suppressors to most firearms or having an individual variant of the weapon that has a suppressor while the other remains without any attachments. During the trailer a man playing Golf with a Golf club is seen but is unknown if the Golf Club is going to be a melee weapon. No other weapons were revealed in the trailer for the game.
Multiplayer EditEdit
- Main article: Grand Theft Auto Online
According to the Rockstar Games Social Club, multiplayer crews in Max Payne 3 will be carried over to Grand Theft Auto V[4]. Grand Theft Auto V will have multiplayer features linked to Rockstar's Social Club. If the player created a crew in Max Payne 3, it can be imported to Grand Theft Auto V through the Social Club.
Multiplayer will hold 16 people on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
Multiplayer was confirmed in the Grand Theft Auto V official release statement, as it mentions "online multiplayer". Apart from the fact that Crews from Max Payne 3 will carry over to Grand Theft Auto V, and therefore crews will be present in Grand Theft Auto V, no information about multiplayer has been released. It has also been confirmed that a separate team is developing the single player while another team is working on the multiplayer.
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Setting EditEdit
- Main article: Los Santos in HD Era
On November 3, 2011, Rockstar Games confirmed that the game will take place in Los Santos and the surrounding countryside - and will not feature a recreated rendition of an entire State of San Andreas - in a statement on their Newswire:
- "We are very proud to officially announce that Grand Theft Auto V is in full development."
Developed by series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto V heads to the city of Los Santos and surrounding hills, countryside and beaches in the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar has yet created.
- "A bold new direction in open-world freedom, storytelling, mission-based gameplay and online multiplayer, Grand Theft Auto V focuses on the pursuit of the almighty dollar in a re-imagined, present day Southern California."
During the Game Informer Grand Theft Auto V Cover Story, the vice president of creativity for Rockstar Games, Dan Houser, has stated that Los Santos this time around is different and a lot more developed (having cities, wilderness, deserts, farmlands, villages, a Mount Chiliad, a military base, and a fully detailed ocean floor including coral beds). Los Santos is also five times larger than Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Red Dead Redemption all combined, along with interior spaces in each building, house, apartment and more. After some calculations by members of GawdAlmighty.com, that would equal to around 27.5 square miles when land and sea are put together. [5]
Characters and PremiseEditEdit
Main article: Characters in GTA V [1]A screenshot featuring the game's playable characters. From left to right: Franklin, Trevor and Michael.Added by Dodo8Grand Theft Auto V features three playable protagonists;Michael, Trevor and Franklin.
Michael is a retired professional bank robber, who after making a sweetheart deal with FIB, returned to the life of crime. Trevor is the loose cannon in this story, who is also a long time best friend of Michael's and a hot-head psychopath as well. Last but certainly not least, we have Franklin, a young and grim repo man who has a large amount of experience behind the wheel, but no real experience to crime until he meets Michael while he was trying to get a hustle.
Other main characters include Amanda De Santa, Michael's wife; Jimmy De Santa and Tracey De Santa, Michael's children; Lamar, Franklin's friend; Ron, Trevor's paranoid friend; and Simeon Yetarian, Franklin's employer.
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Editions comparisonEditEdit
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|Standard Edition
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Hobbies and PastimesEditEdit
There are 42 hobbies and pastimes times in GTA V which contribute to 10% of the 100% game completion.
- Arms Trafficking Air
- Arms Trafficking Ground
- Assasinations
- Bail Bonds
- Endless Summer
- Flight School
- Hunting
- Off-Road Races
- Parachuting
- Property Management
- Sea Races
- Shooting Range
- Sports
- Golf There is only 1 Golf course in GTA V and it is called the Los Santos Golf Club, located near Richman. A full tutorial is given on entry and the entry cost is $100. There is 9 holes ranging from par 3's to par 5's. You can also play different members ranging in difficulty. Before you can play Golf you must first complete Franklin's Mission "Complications".
- Darts becomes available after the completion of the "Crystal Maze" mission and its located in the Yellow Jack Inn near Route 66 and the Grand Sanora Desert. 301 is the only mode available.
- Tennis becomes available after the completion of Franklin's mission "Complications". There is a number of settings available before the start of the game such as difficulty and matches. There are 8 court locations in Los Santos.
- Triathlon #1 or Vespucci Triathlon is located on Vespucci Beach. It is a three dicipline event made up of swimming, cycling and running and is very useful for increasing player stamina.
- Triathlon #2 or the Alamo Sea Triathlon is located in Grapeseed. It is longer and more difficult than the first triathlon but can only be unlocked after the completion of the Vespucci Triathlon.
- Triathlon #3 or Coyote Cross Contry Traithlon is a gruelling ordeal located in Sandy Shores. This is a 30 minute triathlon and 100% stamina is advisible.
14. Street Races
15. Strip Clubs
16. Towing
17. Yoga can be unlocked after the completion of Michael's mission "Did Someone Say Yoga?". This activity is ideal to increasing Michael's special ability boost bar, meaning he can slow down time in gun fights for longer.
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- On April 8, 2012, The Electric Playground (programmed show on WABC) stated that the next Grand Theft Auto blockbuster will hit streets in 2013, months before Rockstar's official announcement.
- The vehicles in the trailer all have plates reading "San Andreas". Some of the license plates in the trailer are stylized as modern California license plates, while some are stylized after the 1980's style California plate, oddly out of place on new cars.
- A stationary airship is repetitively visible amongst the skyline of Los Santos. It is believed to be the Atomic Blimp
- For the first time the cars can retract and deploy their soft top/hard top covers. In previous games convertibles were stuck with the roof they had or didn't have (with the exception of being able to install a permanent cover on lowriders in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas).
- In the background of the first trailer, a certain building is about half completed. However, later in the video, the same building is nearing completion. This could be either be because the game was still in development, or an indication of time passing by, affecting the environment throughout the game's storyline.
- The registration plates have orange stickers on the top right. The same plates are used for 2013 California registration plates. The same was also used in California in 2008.
- Toward the end of the musical theme, someone can be heard talking.