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SEATTLE - A Russian lawmaker's son accused of hacking computers at hundreds of U.S. businesses and stealing credit card information pleaded not guilty to 29 charges Friday.
U.S. District Judge John L. Weinberg ordered Roman Seleznev, of Vladivostok, Russia, held without bail until a hearing Aug. 16 to consider his custody status. His trial has been set to begin Oct. 6.
A 2011 grand jury indictment alleges Seleznev stole more than 200,000 credit card numbers and sold more than 140,000 of them, generating more than $2 million in profits. Some of the victims are in Seattle, where the investigation was centered and an indictment was filed.
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Valery Seleznev, a prominent Russian lawmaker and the father of Roman Seleznev who was arrested on bank fraud and other charges earlier this week in the United States, listens to a question during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, July 11. Family members of a Russian man charged with hacking in the United States insist he is innocent and fear incarceration will kill him.
Seleznev was arrested last month at an airport in the Maldives and flown to the U.S. territory of Guam, where another federal judge sent him to Seattle to face the charges.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused the U.S. government of kidnapping Seleznev.
At the hearing Friday, he spoke through an interpreter, mostly answering "yes" or "no" to the judge's questions. When asked if he understood the charges against him, Seleznev said, "I understand all of it, but all of it is untrue."
Court documents say the scheme involved hacking into computers that run point-of-sale terminals in businesses and installing malware to capture credit card numbers. Most of the companies affected between October 2009 and February 2011 were small businesses like pizza parlors.
In a statement issued after Friday's hearing, U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan said distance is not an effective strategy for avoiding prosecution.
"Cyber-criminals should take heed: Distance will not protect you from the reach of justice. We will investigate, we will locate, and we will bring foreign hackers to stand trial," Durkan said.
The 29 charges against Seleznev comprise five counts of bank fraud, eight counts of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer, eight counts of obtaining information from a protected computer without authorization, one count of possession of 15 or more stolen credit card numbers with intent to defraud, two counts of trafficking in those stolen numbers, and five counts of aggravated identify theft.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Train service is suspended in both directions from Pleasant Plains to Tottenville after a train derailed at the Staten Island Railway's Tottenville station Thursday morning.
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority official is directing commuters arriving at the station to shuttle bus service the SIR is running between the affected stations.
As an alternative, the MTA is advising commuters to use the S78 to St George Terminal or the X17J, X22 and X22A to New York City.
The MTA told the Associated Press that a car went off the tracks at 6:36 a.m. after hitting a "bumping block" at the station. The block prevents the train from going further out of the station.
The train engineer and conductor suffered minor injuries, according to the Associated Press. The workers were transported to Staten Island University Hospital, an FDNY spokesman said.
The train was headed in toward Tottenville to begin its morning run when the incident occurred. No passengers were on board.
As of 9:40 a.m., the station was closed and its entrances and exits were blocked with yellow caution tape.
A train could be seen stopped at the very end of the platform on the Tottenville-bound side of the station and a large number of MTA workers were on the tracks.
Neighbors were startled by the early-morning sound of helicopters buzzing over the scene of the incident, but reported hearing little else.
Meghan Sanchez and Lynn McCaffery, who live right across from the station, heard the choppers, but didn't hear anything as the train derailed.
"Nobody heard or saw anything," Ms. Sanchez said adding that she saw passengers leaving the station at about 6:30 around the time of the accident and heard the helicopters around 7:15.
A few passengers arrived from time to time only to find that the station was closed. They either took the shuttle or walked to Main Street or Amboy Road to catch other buses. A passenger named Miricela said she was surprised that the Tottenville station was closed. She said it would take her longer to get to her job in Old Town because she would have to ride the bus, which she said took longer than the train and she didn't know the schedule.

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Hi i want to change the screens of the windows mobile application. So that I do not have to use new CF framework to change the look and feel of the UI screens. I want such a application that can change the screens controls with a new look.
Some skinning tools are for Desktop application but I can't find any for WINDOWS mobile. help.


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IEEE Consumer Electronics Society - Dolby 3D Glasses Free TV
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PDT)
Event Details
The Holy Grail of 3D Glasses Free
What will it take for glasses-free 3D to become the pervasive viewing method for your video entertainment? How does one ensure that a vast ecosystem of service providers and devices can equally render a compelling and comfortable viewing experience free of restrictions in viewing positions and annoying artifacts? Join this talk to learn what it takes, how it manifests technically, how comfortable it is to view (see a demo), and find out what has to happen before it arrives at your local Best Buy.
Amit Gulati, Dolby - Sr. Product Manager, Image & Video Solutions, Broadcast Imaging
Sponsored by Dolby - Event is Free for IEEE members (non-IEEE members $10 at the door)
When & Where
Microsoft Silicon Valley
BizSpark Lab, Building 2 (building on right)
1085 La Avenida Street
Mountain View,
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PDT)
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This deal has ended.
These Aduro Touchscreen Gloves, listed at $29.99, are now $9 at Groupon Goods. Shipping adds $2, and returns are free. Or you can get 2 Pairs of Aduro Touchscreen Gloves for $15, with free shipping and free returns. There are 5 colors from which to choose if you order a single pair, and two colors from which to choose in the double packs. They are made from a soft, stretchy knit and three digits per hand have touchscreen capabilities. Note: most orders are delivered within 2.5 weeks. Sales tax is charged in some states.No longer available


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Taste the entire gamut of Diesel in mammoth-sized Salomon fashion. Great blends, great flavors, great price. There will be no regretting this purchase.
The Diesel Special Edition Salomon Sampler includes:
4 - Diesel Unholy Cocktail Salomon (7.1" x 58)
4 - Diesel Unlimited Salomon (7.1" x 58)
4 - Diesel Hair of the Dog Salomon (7.1" x 58)
Got a 3 pack free Solomon sampler with an order a while back, set them in my humidor and let them age. Now, 3 years later I'm finally smoking them. The Hair of the Dog wasn't that great to me. The Unholy Cocktail is making me wish I tried them sooner. Now they are out of stock. I'm smoking the Unholy as I write this. Luckily I still have one Unlimited Solomon in my humidor. I'll let it get some extra plume on it before I burn her.
The Diesel Special Edition Salomon Sampler contains 3 of my favorite blends in a size that takes them all to a new level of intensity. These gargantuan 7.1" X 58 monsters are bold, brash & beloved! I managed to go through about 50 before they did a Houdini. Imagine your Diesel blend of choice in a smoke that lasts well over 2 hours, pumps up the flavors you have come to adore & still remains reasonably priced. That's a slice of heaven if you ask me. With one caveat. They are limited edition & now that they are out of stock, I fear we may never see them again. Same for the incredibly delicious "Unholy Cocktail" Diesel Special Edition Corona Tin. They only made 4,000 of them. Or 120k total stogies. Now they are gone & I wish I had squirreled away 4 or 5 Tins, just in case they decide not to repeat the effort. Although, Lord knows why they wouldn't produce all of the odd sized Diesel offerings we have seen in the past & offer up several new sizes in the future. The 6 X 50 Toro that graces the CI's Kitchen Sink sampler is another one. Even the Six Pack Gift Set has a slightly longer version of the standard Unholy Cocktail. I love them all. Or should I say I love all things Diesel. All things Diesel & all things AJ "Abel" Fernandez. A recent inventory of my cigars revealed that out of 125 vitolas in the Tuscany humidor, 104 were AJ blends. Except for the fact that I have to have a good supply of Alan Rubin's amazingly outstanding cigars on hand at all times, damn near every spleef I own is a Fernandez! Why not? Take the Salomons that are the subject of this review. The Diesel Salomon garners a 92 rating, while Hair of the Dog Salomon grabs a 93. Last but not least is the incomparable, extraordinary Unlimited Salomon & its almost weird flavor profile that features hints of menthol. A 94. Hopefully they will be back at some point. I eagerly await that day.
You won't be disappointed with these sticks. You can easily get a 2 hour burn off these guys.
Awesome cigars! My new favorite!
I wanted to try some Diesel's before going in on a full box and I wasn't let down. I liked the Diesel Unlimited the best buy I'm a fan of full cigars, the kind that put hair on your chest and this was true with the Diesel Unlimited. It wasn't overbearing but just a pleasant smoke. The Unholy Cocktail was also great, and the Hair of the Dog was another great full flavor smoke. To me, it was not as strong as the Unlimited but still the perfect full flavor I search the ends of the earth for. If you're looking to try what Diesel has to offer, man up, less a couple shirt buttons down and order this.....then smoke them like a man.


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Most of the biggest names in WWE history are in their Hall of Fame. Hogan, Flair, HBK, Austin and Bret Hart read like a who's who of professional wrestling. Each man currently calls the Hall home.
Which current full-time WWE wrestlers are sure-fire entries? Who is building a strong case? Which superstars will be remembered for years to come? The answer isn't always as obvious as it seems.
Keep in mind, some people just might never get in. For various reasons, Savage and Sammartino are currently two examples of that.
A select few, though, are on their way. Just keep in mind it's not always about how much money you make or how many main events you've been a part of. A variety of reasons from longevity to political standing can get your ticket punched to the Hall.
This list leaves off some obvious part-timers like Taker, The Rock, and HHH to focus on the full-time squad. Others, like The Miz, Wade Barrett and Dolph Ziggler, have the potential, but without sustained pushes at the top and a lot of luck, it's hard to tell what side of history they may land on.
These are the 14 current wrestlers who look most likely to become enshrined and rub shoulders with the likes of Ricky Steamboat, Curt Henning, Koko B. Ware and Drew Carey.


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"I wasn't real sure what was going to happen," Girardi said before Tuesday night's game against the Toronto Blue Jays in which Matsui batted seventh as the designated hitter.
"He's tough. He's got a great work ethic. ... He just kept going. I think it says a lot about his character."
Nearly two months after he last played for the Yankees, due to a couple of setbacks with his left knee, Matsui hoped he could help spark the team down the stretch.
"There was some uncertainty around whether I was going to be able to come back," Matsui said through interpreter Roger Kahlon, "so to be able to be here, I'm definitely happy.
"I still wanted to help contribute and be a strength for this team. ... There was part of me that believed I could still make it back."
Matsui said he isn't at full strength, but he feels he can play every day. And Girardi expects the same.
"Our plan is to play him every day," Girardi said.
Matsui will be limited to DH duties -- "It'd have to be quite an emergency" for Matsui to play the outfield, Girardi said -- meaning Johnny Damon becomes the regular center fielder.
"We're not going to be able to move the DH around if (Matsui) is the DH every day," Girardi said. "Brett (Gardner) is going to be a role player off the bench right now."
And Matsui said he should be okay on the basepaths.
"In the rehab games that I played ... I was able to run normally, without any problems," Matsui said. "It's probably not 100 percent, but good enough to play."
In 69 games before going on the DL, Matsui hit .323 with 34 RBI in 251 at-bats and a .338 average with runners in scoring position (bringing his career mark up to .300).
"He's been a big part of the lineup over the years here," Girardi said. "His at-bats are always good, and he's a professional hitter. It makes your lineup deeper."
Matsui last played for the Yankees on June 22, against Cincinnati. His left knee began bothering him the week before, and he sat out the June 18-19 games, played three more and then sat out.
He attempted batting practice the following week in Pittsburgh, but the knee didn't respond well, and he went on the disabled list.
Just before the All-Star Game, Matsui suffered a setback while taking batting practice in Tampa, Fla. He returned for an examination in New York, and although doctors recommended surgery, Matsui wanted to attempt to come back.
Since recovery from the surgery will take about three months -- the same time frame as surgery on his right knee last November -- Matsui had nothing to lose by trying, since he would be ready for next year's spring training in either case.
"I wasn't sure whether I could really make it back at the time," Matsui said. "All I had to do was really believe in myself and do whatever I can to make it back."
He rested a little longer than he had in his previous comeback attempt. Then Matsui, wearing a knee brace at times, returned to Tampa and worked his way up to batting practice and baserunning and then into games on a minor-league rehabilitation assignment. In three games for Class-A Tampa, Matsui went 2-for-8 with a solo home run and two walks. Then he batted 15 times Sunday in a simulated game.
If Matsui makes it through the rest of the season without a setback, surgery still seems likely to get him ready for 2009.
For now, the Yankees are glad to have him back.
"Matsui brings consistency every day," Girardi said. "And he usually does very well in the big spots."


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Extra dry actually means slightly sweet, and this pick fits the profile perfectly. Judges loved the tiny, delicate bubbles. As one fan said, "There was a party in my glass." This winner contains four different types of grapes, including chardonnay and pinot noir, two of California's most famous.
TASTING NOTES: Editors tasted almonds, grass, and bread.
FUN FACT: Korbel bubbly was served at the past seven U.S. presidential inaugurations, from Reagan's to Obama's.


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PopTech Blog
With the recession lingering on, technology entrepreneur Lisa Gansky thinks it's the perfect reason to give experiences rather than more stuff this holiday season.
Gansky introduced the idea when she spoke at PopTech 2010 about her predictions for the future of business. She revealed how the interconnected relationships and information of the emerging "mesh" economy is making it far easier to share goods and services without the expense of ownership. Gansky recently published a book on the subject, called The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing.
A number of companies, among them Netflix and the car sharing service Zipcar, are taking advantage of the data-rich "mesh" to build richer experiences and stronger brands by providing people with what they need the moment they need it. [Other companies can be found in her book, and in the accompanying online directory.]
The "mesh" is not just good for business, says Gansky. It's also good for consumers. Web-enabled mobile devices and social networks are "taking the friction out of sharing," unleashing the true impact of peer-to-peer relationships by helping consumers buy less but use more.
Gansky's gift guide is a great way to join the experience marketplace, presenting an offbeat take on holiday giving where there are "no boxes, no gift wrap, no batteries required."
Talking trash and making monsters with Tierney Thys
On November 20th, marine biologist Dr. Tierney Thys met with students and artists/scientists from Monterey County and Fresno, California schools to talk trash as part of PopTech's Spark initiative. Thys explained how trash makes its way to the ocean, gathers in ocean gyres and endangers the lives of countless marine creatures. In fact, some forms of pollutants, like plastics, can become exponentially more dangerous as they transform from physical threats to chemical threats. In fleshing out ways to combat this growing problem, participants considered various solutions including the four Rs: Refuse single-serving plastic containers as well as Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Keeping those ideas in mind, the monster-making began. Drawing from five wheel barrels brimming with beach trash collected by the community days before the event, participants quickly transformed the mountains of plastic, Styrofoam, cigarette butts, juice boxes, wrappers and lids into sculptural masterpieces. Students wrote and recorded descriptions of their creations.
Emma Finch, a 12-year old participant, described the sculpture she titled "The Three UnWise Men":
This piece exemplifies three types of foolishness we see in the world today. On the far right is the Polluter, an "Average Joe" who is in denial about environmental concerns and continues living the "disposable" life. Front and center is the Pyromaniac, an unsavory individual whose incessant smoking harms himself and others. On the
far left is the insidious Perpetrator of Lies. This is the guy who will tell you that global warming is fake and smoking is good for you. He'll do anything to make a profit.
On December 15, all works of art will be exhibited at the Monterey Plaza Hotel as part of National Geographic's Marine Recreation Community Workshop. Thys hopes to continue her work with Trash Monsters by partnering with the Ocean Conservancy as well as making Trash Monster events an annual part of the International Coastal Cleanup.
Images: Tierney Thys
Alan Rabinowitz saves big cats and Brian Hare gets schooled by bonobos
Panthera CEO Alan Rabinowitz's debilitating stutter as a child led him to seek refuge amongst animals. He felt most comfortable during trips to the Bronx zoo where he hunkered down at the great cat house to watch powerful jaguars, lions, and cougars locked in a cage with no voice of their own. As a child, he vowed to be their voice. Since then, Rabinowitz has devoted his life to do whatever possible to conserve these animals and their habitats.
For years, he worked to set up safe havens for these animals including the world's only jaguar sanctuary in Belize and the largest tiger reserve in Myanmar. But for Rabinowitz, that wasn't enough. "No matter how fast I ran, no matter how many hours I stayed up in a day, no matter how many protected areas I set up, I was losing. And at this point in time, I had set up about eight protected areas over 15,000 square kilometers of pristine habitat for these animals to live and I could not keep pace with human kind. I couldn't keep pace with the way people were killing and mistreating these big cats."
Then Rabinowitz had an epiphany. He discovered that jaguars, without being cordoned off in their own sanctuaries, were surviving, thriving, and finding their way through the human landscape from Mexico to Argentina. So what if he could create a corridor in which these animals could move freely, a space still inhabited by humans, but safe for these animals? That idea has been set in motion with a corridor of private and public land established in Central and South America, the result of tireless collaboration between governments, local communities, and conservationists. Next up: Rabinowitz is working on developing a similar model for tigers throughout India, China and Southeast Asia.
From cats to chimps, Duke University Evolutionary Anthropology and Cognitive Neuroscience professor Brian Hare studies the origins of human nature as it relates to bonobos. Looking at the evolution of these primates' social skills has informed how he considers humans' abilities to problem solve and resolve conflict. His findings, which he shares with us on the PopTech stage, have left him doubting the generally held viewpoint that humans are the most highly evolved species.
The Economist dissects the meaning of failure
Shirley Tilghman from PopTech on Vimeo.
In exploring the theme of PopTech's 2010 conference, "Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs," we turned to our friends at The Economist, who conducted interviews on the subject at their Ideas Economy conference.
Ten presenters, including John Maeda, Shirley Tilghman, and Stephen Pinker, were asked to describe the role failure plays in their innovation process. Award-winning Economist correspondent Vijay Vaitheeswaran introduced the series from the stage at PopTech. Check out all the videos, and visit The Economist's new online ideas forum, the Ideas Economy, for more.
Imogen Heap and Yasser Ansari reconnect with nature
Imogen Heap had two objectives when she took the PopTech stage last month. She introduced the audience to her newest initiative, a collaboration with social entrepreneur Thomas Ermacora entitled Love The Earth. The film and sound project combines crowd-sourced videos of nature with music scored by Heap herself. Heap hopes that capturing these images of the natural world for this project will renew each participant's own sense of wonder about something we so often overlook.
Shifting gears, she then played a tune for the PopTech audience.
Yasser Ansari also thinks the key to reconnecting with the planet is reinvigorating that child-like wonder we used to have about the world around us. His organization, Project Noah (Networked Organisms and Habitats), is giving us the tools to make that happen. Through a mobile platform, users can upload images of their own encounters with nature, experience the wildlife around them with a location-based field guide, and participate in scientific research projects.
Ansari elaborates, "So whether it's an oil spill in the Gulf coast, rain forest deforestation in Central America, or an invasive species, like a beetle here in Maine, our users are going to be on the front lines documenting those encounters in nature. Maybe down the road they'll discover a new species or make a new discovery for science." A new generation of citizen scientists has just been given its toolkit.
Popular Science recognizes Pieter Hoff's Groasis waterboxx
If you attended or watched the PopTech 2010 conference, you might remember Pieter Hoff's Groasis waterboxx presentation. Well, the folks at Popular Science noticed his invention, and they gave him a couple of awards for it — the Grand Award of Green Tech and the Overall Award of Popular Science, to be exact.
If you missed the talk, here it is.
Or, read about it to get a quick idea.
And be sure to check out our short interview with Pieter during the conference.
Siddhartha Mukherjee and Nina Dudnik fill significant scientific gaps
On the heels of his PopTech talk on the history of cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee's book on the topic, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, has just been published. Already receiving rave reviews by The New Yorker and The New York Times, the concept behind the book was first developed when Mukherjee, a cancer physician and researcher, was treating a patient who pressed him for what seemed like pretty straightforward information about her disease.
He recalls, during his PopTech talk, the questions to which she was seeking answers: "What was it that she was fighting? How old was it? Since when has it begun to envelop our lives the way that it does today? Where are we going? What happens next and how did we get here in this moment of time with cancer being what it is?" Recognizing there was no resource he could direct his patients to for those answers, he took matters into his own hands to become "cancer's biographer" and close the gaps about what we don't know about cancer's storied past.
Nina Dudnik, a 2010 Social Innovation Fellow, is also working to fill in scientific gaps, but in a very different way. With Seeding Labs, the organization she launched in 2003, Dudnik matches labs in the U.S. that are discarding a surplus of up-to-date gently used supplies with their counterparts in developing countries that could benefit greatly from the reclaimed equipment. Furthermore, to address the sense of isolation that many scientists with whom she was working feel, she established a network to connect them with one another. As a result of Seeding Labs' facilitation, labs in 16 countries throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia have linked up with those in the United States to share skills, resources, and training as well as to cultivate the talent pool and strengthen the scientific community.
PopTech through your eyes
The dust from PopTech 2010 has settled and we've had a blast taking a peek at what the PopTech experience looked like through the lens of our community. Here are a few of our favorite PopTech 2010 shots that we've found on Flickr from and by you.
Get on the PopTech train with Aaron "tango" Tang.
Launching of PopStar during the Wednesday session with Colin Rich by participant Pete Foley. PopStar was a collaboration between Pacific Star and PopTech, hence the name and literal representation of a PopStar.
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Graham Hill and Brooke Betts Farrell get rid of stuff
At the PopTech conference, we had the opportunity to hear from two thoughtful speakers on their evolving relationship to stuff and the projects they're working on to reduce the consumption of more stuff. Have a look at their PopTech talks to learn more about what they're up to.
Treehugger founder Graham Hill announced a new project, Life Edited, a crowd-sourced challenge in which he's seeking help designing his new pint-sized, 420 square foot, ultra-low-impact apartment in NYC. With $70,000 in prizes, Life Edited is trying to show that it's possible "to save money, radically reduce environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life" by living in a smaller space.
Ideas can be submitted for the apartment's very specific design requirements through January 10. Voting and feedback, which are an integral part of this process, will be accepted through January 17. Winners will be announced shortly thereafter.
From living space to industrial space, Brooke Betts Farrell wants us to rethink the value of garbage produced by corporations that's not getting recycled. With RecycleMatch, the eBay of waste, she's working to match companies that are tossing tons of trash with companies that'll buy those materials and put them to good use. RecycleMatch repurposes previously landfill-destined goods (glass windows into counter tops, food waste into energy) and creates a more efficient eco-system, all while helping companies find new ways to generate income.
Watch the premiere of Imogen Heap's 'Love The Earth' today
Grammy-award songwriter and recent PopTech presenter Imogen Heap was struck by the exquisite nature of, well, nature. So much so that she started a film project with social entrepreneur Thomas Ermacora entitled Love The Earth to engender that same sense of excitement from all of us who may take the sun, snow, and sand for granted. Meshing crowd-sourced images of nature with sound produced by Heap, Love The Earth is a platform to experience nature in a refreshingly unexpected way.
First previewed on the PopTech stage a few weeks ago, the Love The Earth montage of user-submitted footage will be accompanied by a performance from Heap and a full orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall today, November 5th, in London from 7-11 pm GMT.
Catch a free HD webcast of the event live at http://www.resounde.com.
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The PlayJam games network will offer a rich and compelling casual gaming destination on LG Smart TV and Blu-ray players from April 2011. Highly visible within LG's own service platform Netcast™, PlayJam will use its existing world-wide billing, CRM and games servers to deliver thousands of social, casual and skill titles as well as tournaments, leader-boards, editorial, messaging and more.
LG Smart TV enables viewers instant access to the latest Hollywood releases, TV shows, games, news, weather and music. The PlayJam service will sit alongside notable entertainment offerings from Netflix, Roxio Cinema Now, Pandora and Vudu.
In addition to promoting their own titles, PlayJam is working with games developers worldwide to bring much loved and renowned titles to TV. PlayJam is a dedicated TV games publisher, delivering thousands of branded casual games to a global network spanning multiple connected TV vendors as well as digital TV operators Sky, Dish TV (US), Freeview and UPC. A pioneer in connected and Over The Top (OTT) TV games content with over 12 years' international operating experience, PlayJam has generated over 6 billion downloads during the last 5 years.
Says PlayJam's Business Development Director, Anthony Johnson, "As one of the largest consumer electronics manufacturers in the world, LG is at the forefront of innovation centered around the smart living room. This agreement will cement PlayJam's position as the de facto casual gaming destination for TV".
Said Young-jae Seo, Vice President of LG Electronics Smart TV Team" We're excited to be working with PlayJam to launch their games portal across our range of Smart TVs. Engaging content will form the core of our strategy to bring truly interactive devices into the heart of family life."
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For press enquiries, please contact:
Diane Mckaye, Schmedia
Tel: +44 7771 926726; Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
About PlayJam
PlayJam is the world's largest social games network for TV. We offer a huge selection of fun yet challenging casual games that include free, play-to-play and skill-based titles.
Our players love them too; having generated over 6 billion downloads during the last few years! With a conversion rate from free to pay of 50% and average dwell time of 23 minutes, PlayJammers cite an impressive 99.3% overall satisfaction rate with our service.
We originally emerged during the dawn of digital TV back in 1999 as one of the first-ever interactive broadcast channels. Following our initial debut on Canal Satellite and BSkyB, we have since built up a global footprint of over 50 million homes accessed via broadcast networks in the UK, mainland Europe, the US, Africa and Asia.
Re-acquired recently by our founder, Jasper Smith, PlayJam is now a global leader in both connected and Over The Top TV games content. We continue to create highly addictive titles to add to our 500-strong library as well as publish content from other recognized developers across platforms via Sky, Facebook, Sony, Samsung, Yahoo!, and Dish TV to name a few.
The smooth interoperability between platforms as well as a host of added-value features is made possible by Phoenix, our proprietary CRM platform that allows game developers to bring a rich layer of interactivity to their titles such as localized leader-boards, tournaments and the ability to monetize games via a centralized accounts and billing service.
We're now well on our way to creating the biggest ever games exchange– come and join us at http://www.playjam.com/corporate


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Asuntos de Dinero (Presupuesto) –en español
Entienda cómo manejar su dinero, preparando un plan de gastos personales, identificando maneras para reducir sus gastos e incrementar sus ingresos.
Tuesdays from 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Martes de 6:00 – 8:00 PM
English and Español
A light meal is provided. No childcare. A light meal is provided. No childcare.
Registration required: call 301-942-1790 ext. 100
No late admittance allowed after 6:10pm.
Para registrarse llame al 301-942-1790 ext. 100 No se permitirán personas después de las 6:10pm
This class is provided by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. For more than 80 years, families, children and adults in need of help and hope have been able to turn to Catholic Charities to find comprehensive, caring and competent support. With 63 programs working in 48 locations across the District of Columbia and the surrounding Maryland counties, Catholic Charities is uniquely positioned to help families overcome poverty and isolation and empower those they serve to live self-sufficient and independent lives.
In 1959, the organization's name was changed to Family Services Agency. To meet the needs of the ever-changing Montgomery County population, Family Services has expanded and now houses 14 different programs! Today, Family Services is still committed to making a long-lasting impact on families.Through its innovative early childhood, educational, and behavioral health programs, Family Services makes a difference in the community.


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Gene & Shelley Enlow Recital Hall at Kean University (Enlow Hall) concludes its third concert season with Joshua Bell in recital with Sam Haywood. This one-night-only concert will be performed in the intimate Enlow Hall on Sunday, April 28 at 3 p.m.
Often referred to as the "poet of the violin" Joshua Bell is one of the world's most celebrated violinists. His stunning virtuosity, beautiful tone and charismatic stage presence have brought him universal acclaim. Among numerous awards and honors, Bell is an Avery Fisher Prize recipient and Musical America's 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year.
Recently appointed music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, he is the first person to hold this title since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958.
An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Bell has recorded more than 40 CDs garnering Mercury, Grammy, Gramophone and Echo Klassik awards. Recent releases include French Impressions with pianist Jeremy Denk, the eclectic At Home With Friends, the Defiance soundtrack, Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. His discography encompasses critically-acclaimed performances of most of the major violin repertoire in addition to John Corigliano's Oscar-winning soundtrack, The Red Violin.
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Hi Carl, Well I was speaking about two different antennas in that post: - 1. the original trap vertical (don't recall who started this thread) - 2. my own vertical dipole Not sure which case you were referring to. For the original trap vertical, I believe you could use a balun, probably a 4:1 to raise the impedance closer to that of the feedline. Whether you place one at the matchbox or not depends on what kind of matchbox you have. With a symmetrical matchbox then you needn't bother. Somebody from this group told me long ago that he was doing just what you propose. It might have been K4TAX. I've thought about this solution too, but never tried it so I won't speculate on how well that would work. Sounds like a good idea when you have long runs to the antenna. As for my own vertical dipole, well it is a non-resonant doublet so I just connect openwire directly to the feedpoint. I usually use a symmetrical matchbox in the shack, so I don't use any balun at all. 73 Rick -----Original Message----- From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Carl Moreschi Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:59 PM To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re. [Ten Tec] --- and balanced fed verticals What's wrong with another Balun at the vertical. There would then be two baluns - one at each end of the open wire line. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Dr. Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com On 1/27/2012 12:19 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote: > I agree Jim, but are you implying that you cannot use openwire to feed an > unbalanced antenna? > What about the original Zepp? > It was 100% unbalanced. One of the two lines was left open at the antenna > end. > > The whole point (IMO) of using openwire these days is to reduce loss. > Otherwise we would just use coax. > > Another Example: Vertical dipole, non-resonant, base about 5 ft. off the > ground, center-fed with openwire. > This is an antenna I've used for some 20 years. > OBVIOUSLY, it is not 100% balanced because one side is so much closer to the > ground. > Running this antenna on 80m from Oklahoma, I was easily working any > continent in the world. > I'm not sure I would have had those results using coax. > (the dipole was only 9m per side). > > In my opinon, openwire is an excellent feedline to use, even when the > antenna is not perfectly balanced. > > 73 > Rick, DJ0IP > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] > On Behalf Of Jim Brown > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:09 PM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re. [Ten Tec] --- and balanced fed verticals > > On 1/26/2012 12:36 PM, Stuart Rohre wrote: >> I agree with you, but the original post defined a possibly balanced or >> near balanced vertical system, a quarter wave antenna with at least two >> radials. (This was the classic RCA design by Brown et al, when the >> ground plane antenna as it came to be called was invented.) (Later the >> marketing department wanted and added more radials >> "to look more symmetrical".) > > But this antenna is NOT balanced -- the radials have a MUCH MUCH LOWER > impedance to earth than the vertical element. It is a GOOD antenna, but > it is NOT a BALANCED antenna. > > 73, Jim Brown K9YC > _______________________________________________ > TenTec mailing list > firstname.lastname@example.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec > > _______________________________________________ > TenTec mailing list > email@example.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec > _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
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Bill Barry claims that he's not a politician — which is a little bit strange, considering he announced this week that he wants to be premier of the province.
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Bill Barry announced this week he is seeking the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative party.
Barry spoke to The Telegram after he formally launched his candidacy to replace Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the PC party.
"I wasn't a politician yesterday, and I won't be one tomorrow," he said. "I think that the province needs some business leadership.
"I think that the province needs somebody like me — now, whether it's me, the people will determine that — but the province needs somebody like me with a common sense view that grew up through the school of hard knocks."
And if it sounds like Barry is styling himself like another business-and-common-sense leader from recent political memory — former premier Danny Williams — well, Barry doesn't mind hearing that sort of comparison.
"Obviously there are certain commonalities that a lot of people are drawing between myself and Danny Williams," he said.
And similar to Williams' pitch back in 2003, Barry is promising capable governance and plenty of transparency.
"I'm offering myself, available to the people of the province of Newfoundland to be a good manager for them. And I believe in open government. I believe in accountability. I believe in transparency and I'm a straight shooter," he said.
Ever since Dunderdale resigned earlier this month, behind the scenes Tories have been testing support and eyeing the party leadership.
At least four members of cabinet are said to be considering the job, along with half a dozen people who don't currently hold a seat in the legislature.
But Barry is the first one to step forward and make it official.
He said he's got 61 years of experience in the fishery — he's 61-years-old, and he's been immersed in the family fish processing business right from the beginning.
Speaking to The Telegram, he didn't bring up fishery policy until he was asked about it, but he didn't shy away either.
He said government can help the industry by partnering with people who want to invest in it — either plant operators or harvesters — but there's no doubt that the size of the industry is shrinking and changing.
"Government doesn't have to size the industry right, it's already happening. Some fishermen are leaving the industry, some other guys are buddying up or buying them out," he said. "Ultimately, the fish operations that are going to exist in the future have to be more mechanized, with fewer, more technical people that are paid much better incomes."
Also, the provincial government really needs to take care of the seal situation.
"We can't be inundated with a massive predator herd of seven or eight million animals," Barry said.
When it comes to the current state of the PC party, Barry acknowledged that things aren't great; a majority of people disapprove of the way the government is running things, and when she resigned, Dunderdale was the least popular premier in the country.
Barry is promising to reverse the deeply unpopular Bill 29 amendments to the province's access to information legislation, something that interim-premier Tom Marshall has already said he's willing to look at.
Barry said it's time for Tories to just plainly admit that they were wrong on Bill 29.
"A lot of this stuff is out of sync with the vast majority of Newfoundlanders," he said. "It's really time for the party to belly up to the bar and realize that their discussion around this issue was not right."
But when it comes to Dunderdale specifically, Barry is reticent to criticize.
He said she did good work for the province.
"I really don't want to start saying, 'Well, Kathy Dunderdale should have done this or she shouldn't have done that,' " he said. "She's put 10 years of life in public service, and 99.999 per cent of those were yeoman's service and valiant effort."
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Phocus Mobile enables wireless camera control – and the latest 2.0 version includes a host of new elements plus added access control.
"Photographers can be wirelessly linked to a computer running Phocus – and now with the new 2.6.6 version, any number of Phocus Mobile clients can connect to the Phocus server simultaneously," says Peter Stig-Nielsen, Hasselblad Product Management Director.
Phocus Mobile 2.0 significantly improves options for photographers to show and tp share their work during a shoot and also includes a 100 percent zoom function of images in the file browser; new GPS tagging; folder access control and a Demo Mode functionality, the company says.
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I do not condone the beliefs of the Followers of Christ -- or the beliefs of most religious people, as a matter of fact -- but the plight of Shannon Hickman dwells on my mind. Is there no one to come forward and defend her? I think her attorney did not pursue her best interests, and that a mistrial should be declared in her case. She should never have been tried together with her husband, and she could be ably defended by thorough explication of the heavy-handed patriarchal beliefs which shaped her life. On the day her newborn baby died, she rested after giving birth. Is this a person who can rise up against her assembled family, strike out in an entirely new direction, and demand that -- against all of her previous mental indoctrination and steadfast belief -- a doctor be called to attend her ailing baby? Really? Just like that?
Where are the women's groups? Where are the religious women of Portland? Will this woman actually serve 6 years in prison for not rousing herself in the aftermath of a home birth to defy the wishes of her husband, whom she believes to be her lord and master on earth as her religious savior reigns over them both from heaven? Does it take a heathen like me to point out the injustice of this sentence to the Pharisees and the Sadducees of Portland (and their wives and their daughters)? Whatever, "Christians" -- it wouldn't be the first time that all of you turned a blind eye as injustice was done, nor will it be the last.
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DOTHAN, Ala. -- A woman convicted of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in connection with a June 2008 accident that killed her 11-year-old son received a 2-year suspended sentence Wednesday, the Dothan Eagle reports.
Crystal Finnegan, 39, was driving on Ross Clark Circle on June 29, 2008, when she apparently hydroplaned on wet pavement, lost control, crossed the median and slammed into a church van from Lexington, Ky. Son Rippen Upton was killed and another son, Brody, 10, was severely injured.
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ROBERTSDALE — After a year slowed by the economic impact of the BP PLC oil spill, many Gulf Coast employers said they anticipate a good 2011 tourist season and were out looking for workers Friday at the annual Baldwin County Job Fair.
More than 800 potential workers also showed up at the Baldwin County Coliseum seeking jobs.
Heidi O'Neal of Loxley had worked for a law office, but said she has not been able to find clerical work.
"It's time to get back to work," she said. "If I can't find any work in what I've been doing, I'll just do whatever it takes."
In recent weeks, employers have started looking for more workers as the economy improves and summer tourist season approaches, Kathy Shumate of the Alabama Career Center System, said at the fair.
"We've had a very significant increase in the number of job postings by employers and more postings by individual employers," she said. "We used to get one or two postings and now we're getting a lot more."
May bookings strong, says general manager
If current bookings are any indication, summer should be a busy season, Dawn Caldwell, general manager of housekeeping services for Kaiser Realty, said.
"Our May (reservation) numbers have been phenomenal," she said. "The Hangout Festival is part of that, but it's all looking up and we're looking forward to a fantastic summer."
At the Spectrum Resorts table, Vera Quaites said a variety of positions are open as employers prepare for the summer.
"We're looking for housekeeping, QA (quality assurance) people, maintenance, maintenance techs, licensed massage therapists, hostesses, servers," she said. "We're trying to get ready for what looks like a busy year."
Candace Mayo of Bay Minette said she was encouraged by the openings she found at the fair.
"I'm looking for whatever work I can find. I've got a 6-month-old at the house," she said. "I've gotten two different job offers today, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed."
About 30 employers from Baldwin and Mobile counties were taking applications at the fair, Robert Higgins, vice president of the Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance, said. Other companies were using the state website, JobLink.Alabama.gov, to reach potential employees.
"A lot of the restaurants down on the Gulf are already too busy to come up here," Higgins said. "They already need people."
A total of 830 applicants signed up to apply for positions at the event. The fair was sponsored by the alliance and Baldwin County's five chambers of commerce.


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Freedom High School's planetarium director and astronomy teacher, Bill Safranek, made good on a promise today.
His students helped to dye his beard pink after his students raised $10,000 toward the battle against pediatric cancer.
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Esko, MN (NNCNOW.com) --- Minnesota's emergency deer feeding continues as this severe winter continues to get even more severe with no end in sight. How many deer are getting this hand out and is it making a difference?
Widdes Feed Store in Esko has become a buzzing hive of activity since they became a distribution hub for Minnesota's emergency deer feeding program.
"Last Saturday, I believe they doled out 15 tons of feed in four hours," Widdes Farm And Feed, Josh Widdes, said.
Minnesota's Winter Severity Index has pushed into the severe category in parts of Itasca, St Louis, Carlton, Lake and Cook Counties.
Josh Widdes says his clients are coming back with physical evidence of that severity after putting out piles of state issued feed.
There are people walking through the woods going to their piles and finding dead deer and not killed by predators; they're just tipping over dead; starved to death.
"The government issued feed is only for public land but a lot of private citizens want to help the deer as well so places like Denny's Hardware in Duluth are selling a lot feed," Denny's Ace Hardware, Yvonne Pilcher, said.
"We get a lot of customers for the deer treat and we also have whole corn which a lot of people will buy to put out also," Widdes said.
But, the Minnesota DNR wants feeders to remember that whole corn is potentially fatal to deer. Commercial feeds are more nutritionally balanced and digestible.
"The product we sell here is a mixture of corn, oats, soy, molasses and mixed grains and sunflower seeds so it is very similar to the formula the state has put out," Widdes said.
The leader of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association in Grand Rapids tells us his group has a thousand volunteers putting out feed right now.
It's estimated that 12 to 16–thousand deer are being fed. Some will argue that's a drop in the bucket compared to the state deer herd size of a million.
Yvonne Pilcher of Denny's Hardware feeds deer herself and isn't worried a little food now will have the herd gobbling her garden come spring.
"We always have other products here to use come spring when you want to keep deer from coming in your yard and feeding but this winter, the deer feeding is a good way to go," Pilcher said.
Right now, it is planned to keep Minnesota's emergency deer feeding program going for another four weeks.
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> > >------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------ > >My point exactly. In English, the word "single" has a specific >meaning. If you have more than one ground point but you use the word >"single", you are confusing the issue. There is nothing wrong with >saying "Double Point Ground" or "Multiple Point Ground" or "Multiple >Ground Points". > >Please call it what it is. Bill-- That is WHAT it is -- a single-point ground. That doesn't mean that there cannot be other grounds or that there cannot be two single-point grounds, or even more, in a system. It is EASY to have a building with a single point ground that is connected to another building with its own single point ground and the connection cable between the buildings could have grounds all along the length of the cable. Not unlike a building with a single point ground that is connected to the electrical transmission line, which has grounds at every utility pole along the way, and that electrical transmission line is connected to another building which has its own single point ground. The meaning is well-defined AND IT IS ACCURATE. That does not mean that there cannot be other grounds in the system. Note that the word is NOT single-ground -- meaning only one ground. It is SINGLE-POINT ground meaning that all the equipment IN THAT SYSTEM is tied to a single grounding point. Other systems -- such as a tower system with control circuitry at the tower could have its own single point ground that is separate from the single point ground in the shack. You are really missing the point here. Again, the definition is clear, concise, AND ACCURATE. And it seems to be understood by almost everyone else. It is an internationally understood concept but it seems to be a concept that you fail to grasp -- or maybe you just have a desire to joust at your own windmills. --John W0UN _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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PHILADELPHIA -- As the Mets trot out Wilmer Flores and Matt den Dekker this season, they will not only be giving opportunities to two young players in their organization, they will also be running tryouts for 2015.
With 45 games remaining this season, the club will use them to see what the two players can produce and where they could fit in the future.
"It's a huge jump (from Triple-A) so what we've got to see is these guys have had successful minor league seasons consecutively," Terry Collins said. "OK, let's see how it's going to play here so we have a better judgment going into 2015 to where they're going to fit, how they're going to fit, or if they're going to fit. The only way to find out is to challenge them against the best of the best and see what comes out."
Flores is hitting .229 entering today's game and has gone 2-for-8 over the last two games since being put in the team's shortstop.
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This is a cool way to do the alpha for any child - personalize your own book. Any child would be delighted with a gift like this and it's great learning too.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- In his early days as a football coach, Phil Savage wound up on the staff of the Cleveland Browns, where he worked for an intense young defensive secondary coach named Nick Saban.
Savage has since enjoyed a circuitous - and fortuitous -- career that has brought a reunion of sorts with Saban. In what he calls "my day job," Savage is the executive director of the Senior Bowl. But on Alabama football Saturdays, he's the color analyst for the Crimson Tide Network, working alongside Eli Gold. Savage arrived just in time for the first of Alabama's three national championships in four seasons.
That could become four in five years, Savage hinted Wednesday night as he spoke at the annual "Summer Huddle" of the Huntsville Quarterback Club at The Ledges, coming to Huntsville while covering the ongoing SEC Media Days in Birmingham.
Savage said he is frequently asked, "What's your biggest concern about Alabama."
His standard answer: "The offensive line depth and defensive secondary depth. But larger than that, it's the same thing as last year: Keep AJ (McCarron, Tide quarterback) healthy all season," Savage said.
"Last year when he struggled it was after he got hurt against Mississippi State. There were a couple of games. He struggled against LSU except at the end, and Texas A&M at the end," he continued. "They've got to keep him upright and healthy because they've got the Backstreet Boys, like eight of quarterbacks behind him, but honestly I can't tell you if one of them can play. And I'm not sure the coaching staff can. And I'm not sure any of them can carry the luggage for long term. They've got to protect him and that's a tall order because there are three new starters on the line."
Alabama opens the season in Atlanta against Virginia Tech on Sept. 7, then has a bye week before going to Texas A&M on Sept. 21.
"For this year's team, I think within the first three weeks of the year we're going to know exactly where the Tide stands," Savage said. "The opener against Virginia Tech, they're coming off a 7-6 season. They've got a lot to prove. They've got a good coach in Frank Beamer. Virginia Tech is not a game for Alabama to sleep on.
"Then after a week off, they go to College Station. Johnny Football (quarterback Johnny Manziel). The Aggies. Revenge (from Alabama's 2012 loss). The game is going to be hyped as big as the Alabama-LSU regular-season game two years ago. I think the bigger question is not so much whether Alabama can contain Johnny Manziel. The bigger question is can the A&M defense stop the Alabama offense. We don't hear any discussion about that right now.
"If Alabama clears those hurdles," Savage continued, "you look at the rest of the schedule and, no disrespect to any opponents, they're going to be a double-digit favorite in every game other than maybe LSU. Injuries are always a key factor (but if they clear) those first two games, they're well on their way to an SEC title berth."
Savage, who played at Sewanee and who was joined by several former teammates at the Quarterback Club, was hired by Bill Belichick in 1991 after he spent time on the staff at Alabama, UCLA and in the World Football League.
Because of his relationship with Saban that goes back to those days, he was frequently asked about Saban when he initially took the Alabama job.
"I said then it's either going to be a tremendous success or a colossal failure," Savage said. "There would be no in-between. Either people will get on board and do things the way he does it or there will be a massive revolt. The marriage between Nick Saban and Alabama has been almost perfect. As much as Nick Saban feels the pressure of trying to win every single game, he wouldn't want it any other way.
"And the fans provide the impetus from outside of that building to the team, the players and the staff, to the point where 350 days out of the year, it's 4th-and-1 inside the Mal Moore Building. So when Alabama gets to a big game ... it's not that big a deal because they've lived under that pressure every single day."
Savage addressed a number of other points in his talk and in the ensuing question-and-answer session. Among them:
On Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, involved in a recent controversy in which he claimed to have overslept while serving as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy, which Savage visited: "By the time I got there at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon, Elvis had left the building. ... To him, the big thing to learn is he wasn't a camper. He was a counselor. There were 1,200 ninth- to 12-graders there he was supposed to be an example to and he failed that responsibility.
"Will it amount to a hill of beans when he hits the field Aug. 31 against Rice? Probably not. Where it will matter is next spring, or the following spring, when he comes to the NFL. Thirty-two teams are going to want to ask the same questions the media asked today and they'll try to pull the covers back and find out is your focus football? ... If you're going to draft a guy and make him a face of your franchise, the player has a responsibility to live up to that duty."
Savage visited with McCarron, who was Manziel's roommate. Savage laughed that he had a caller to his Sirius radio show who said, "I know this is a Saban conspiracy. He told AJ, 'Don't wake up Johnny Manziel.'"
On Auburn and the rest of the SEC West: "Today on Sirius we had Gus Malzhan on and for Auburn fans you have to believe this is a guy who recruited a lot of players that are on that team and he'll know their strengths and weaknesses. The big overriding question is who plays quarterback. He actually said today they'll have a four-way battle for quarterback. I do think they'll improve. The opener is against Washington State is going to be a big one. Then a couple of weeks later there's Mississippi State. That's going to be a huge sequence of games dictating how their season will go."
Savage said that Arkansas, with new coach Bret Bielema will "be trying to play big-boy football" against Alabama and LSU, the Big Ten style Bielema used at Wisconsin.
"Ole Miss went 7-6 and is getting more attention than Mississippi State that went 8-5. But Ole Miss finished on a rise and Mississippi State lost five games late in the year. Ole Miss, despite the score, gave the Tide their most difficult time all year. They made them more uncomfortable than anybody because of their style on offense and how hard they played on defense."
Savage said that LSU, despite losing a raft of players, "has got more than enough talent to be competitive in the SEC West."
On the SEC East: "It's the big three, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Florida always has a lot of ability and they've got a returning quarterback in Jeff Driskel. The question is do they have anybody for him to throw to.
"Georgia has to replace eight starters on defense, Florida is trying to revamp its offense. South Carolina has the best player, maybe, in the country in Jadeveon Clowney. He's a man amongst boys. He's going to be the first or second player picked in the draft. He's a freak of an athlete. Plays hard, plays mean, has a real desire to be a great player. If they can do some things on offense, the Ol' Ball Coach (Steve Spurrier) and Carolina could make some noise over ther.e
"At Tennessee, Butch Jones comes in and it's squeaky clean. (He has to) build from scratch. They've got a lot of work to do. Mark Stoops ... will give Kentucky an identity this year. They probably won't win a lot of games. But I think they'll be better.
"And I shouldn't mention these guys last because they may be the fourth-best team over there, and that's Vanderbilt. They won nine games. They have a lot of positive energy. They've made themselves relevant in the SEC."
On his alma mater, Sewanee: "Many of you don't realize Sewanee was a charter member of the SEC until they went 0-39 and opted to go academics. With the conference expansion and all the realignments, that's always my question. Will the league office in Birmingham extend an invitation to come into the league, now that Vanderbilt's winning nine games a year."
On the Senior Bowl: Savage said that the NFL's No. 1 draft pick, Eric Fisher of Central Michigan, was "basically discovered at the Senior Bowl." The bowl featured three of the top five picks and all 32 teams picked at least one player who participated in the game.
Savage said the bowl "is in Mobile to stay" and that a new title sponsor will be announced within a month.
Bill Battle, the director of athletics at the University of Alabama, will kick off the Quarterback Club's regular season on Tuesday, Aug. 27. Members are urged to RSVP with club captain Ed Groves. Non-members are welcomed as guests of Quarterback Club members, or prospective members may join that night or by filling out the application on huntsvilleqbclub.com.
Membership is $350 for the season, which also feature former Tide standout John Croyle, the founder of Big Oak Boys' Ranch; Titans' director of scouting Blake Beddingfield; former NFL and SEC official Ronnie Bayne; ex-Auburn and Titans' kicker Al Del Greco; former basketball coaches Wimp Sanderson and Sonny Smith. Other speakers will be announced prior to the first meeting.


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No Surgery Required For Lee
It is not a surprise, but Cliff Lee's season is finished.
Lee's locker inside the Phillies' clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park had been completely cleared out before today's game against the Astros. He is on the 15-day disabled list with a Grade 2 flexor pronator strain, and he is going to rest at home in Arkansas for about two weeks before rejoining the team early next month for a reevaluation.
Lee today visited orthopedist David Altchek at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. He confirmed the Phillies' diagnosis of Lee's injury, which said no surgery is required. Following Altchek's examination, Lee returned to Philadelphia to visit the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia for a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection in the elbow.
"We hope to get him into a throwing program in October or November," Ruben Amaro Jr. said in a telephone call late Wednesday night. "But right now he needs to rest."
Amaro is hopeful Lee, who suffered a recurrence of the injury last Thursday in Washington, will be ready to go by Spring Training 2015. Lee is owed at least $37.5 million following this season, which includes his $25 million salary for 2015, plus a $12.5 million buyout on a 2016 club option.
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Children's Defense Fund
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Factsheet
March 2009
The Children's Defense Fund Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Campaign is a national and community crusade to engage
families, youths, communities and policy makers in the development of healthy, safe and educated children. Poverty,
racial disparities and a culture of punishment rather than prevention and early intervention are key forces driving the
Poor children lag behind their peers in many ways beyond income; they are less healthy, trail in emotional and intellectual
development, and do not perform as well in school. The challenges that poor children face accumulate and interact,
casting long shadows throughout their lives. Every year that we keep children in poverty costs our nation half a trillion
dollars in lost productivity, poorer health and increased crime.
In Pennsylvania among all children, 1 in 6 (16.3 percent or 446,832) is poor.
For White, non-Latino children, 1 in 9 (11.1 percent or 235,275) is poor.
For Asian/Pacific Islander children, 1 in 7 (13.8 percent or 9,560) is poor.
For American Indian/Alaska Native children, 1 in 5 (19.0 percent or 720) is poor.
For Black children, 3 in 8 (36.4 percent or 131,784) are poor.
For Latino children, 2 in 5 (40.0 percent or 79,143) are poor.
In Pennsylvania, a baby is born poor every 19 minutes.
A White, non-Latino baby is born poor every 37 minutes.
A Black baby is born poor every 2 hours.
A Latino baby is born poor every 2 hours.
An Asian/Pacific Islander baby is born poor every 15 hours.
An American Indian/Alaska Native baby is born poor every 3 days.
Health Care
The United States is the wealthiest nation in the world, yet children's health status in our country is among the worst in the
industrialized world.
In 2007, an estimated 226,000 children (7.6 percent) were uninsured in Pennsylvania.
In 2006, 12,562 babies (8.5 percent) were born at low birthweight in Pennsylvania. This included:
7.4 percent of White, non-Latino babies.
8.7 percent of Latino babies.
14.0 percent of Black, non-Latino babies.
21.2 percent of two-year-olds in Pennsylvania did not receive all recommended immunizations in 2007.
Early Childhood Education
Studies reveal that those enrolled in high quality early childhood education programs are more likely to complete higher
levels of education, have higher earnings, be in better health and be in stable relationships, and are less likely to commit a
crime or be incarcerated. Yet many children are not enrolled in these programs.
In the 2006-2007 school year, 15.9 percent of 3-year-olds and 27.2 percent of 4-year-olds were enrolled in state-funded
preschool programs in Pennsylvania.
In 2005-2006, 35,362 children were enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start in Pennsylvania. Of these:
13.4 percent were Latino.
35.6 percent were Black, non Latino.
47.8 percent were White, non-Latino.
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Attainment of a high school diploma is the single most effective preventive strategy against adult poverty. Yet a significant
number of students do not graduate on time with a regular diploma.
In 2007, a disproportionate number of Black and Latino fourth graders could not read or do math at grade level. In
53 percent of White, non-Latino 4th graders cannot read at grade level.
85 percent of Latino 4th graders cannot read at grade level.
87 percent of Black, non-Latino 4th graders cannot read at grade level.
47 percent of White, non-Latino 4th graders cannot do math at grade level.
72 percent of Latino 4th graders cannot do math at grade level.
82 percent of Black, non-Latino 4th graders cannot do math at grade level.
Students who are suspended or expelled are more likely than their peers to drop out of school altogether. In
For every 100 Asian/Pacific Islander students enrolled in the public schools, there were 2.7 suspensions.
For every 100 American Indian/Alaska Native students enrolled in the public schools, there were 3.4 suspensions.
For every 100 White students enrolled in the public schools, there were 4.2 suspensions.
For every 100 Latino students enrolled in the public schools, there were 8.7 suspensions.
For every 100 Black students enrolled in the public schools, there were 18.9 suspensions.
In Pennsylvania, 5.5 percent of youths ages 16 to 19 were neither enrolled in school nor high school graduates.
Child Welfare
Children left with no permanent family connections or connection with a caring adult have no one to whom they can turn
for social, emotional or financial support and face numerous barriers as they struggle to become self-sufficient adults.
In 2006, there were 21,135 children in foster care in Pennsylvania.
In 2006, there were 4,177 victims of child maltreatment in Pennsylvania.
Juvenile Justice System and Incarceration
States spend about 2.8 times as much money per prisoner as per public school pupil. Unless we focus our efforts on early
intervention and prevention, rather than punishment, we are robbing thousands of youths each year of their futures and
our country of vital human resources.
In Pennsylvania, there were 106,572 juvenile arrests in 2007.
Of the 4,323 youths in residential placement in Pennsylvania in 2006:
447 (10.3 percent) were Latino.
1,419 (32.8 percent) were White, non-Latino.
2,328 (53.9 percent) were Black, non-Latino.
There were 60 youths under age 18 incarcerated in adult correctional facilities in Pennsylvania in 2007.
Pennsylvania spends 3.4 times as much per prisoner as per public school student.
Community Violence
The eight children and teens killed by gun violence each day in our nation is the equivalent of one Northern Illinois
University shooting every 15 hours or one Virginia Tech shooting every four days. Yet, unfortunately, it takes tragic
events like these to remind us that gun violence in America has reached an epidemic level.
In 2005, 138 children and teens in Pennsylvania died of firearm injuries.
At crucial points in these children's development, from birth through adulthood, more risks and disadvantages
cumulate and converge to make a successful transition to productive adulthood significantly less likely and
involvement in the criminal justice system more likely.
We have no time to waste. It is time to step up and take action. Together, we can and will make a difference.
For more information on the Cradle to Prison Pipeline, please visit www.childrensdefense.org
or contact Natacha Blain, Lead Strategic Advisor, at email@example.com or (202) 662-3544.
Something interesting to review and think about when electing new School Board Members
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Making Movie Magic
Meet Bruce Heller and Kevin Segalla—two college buddies reeling in the entertainment business and making Stamford into Hollywood East
Photograph by Kit Noble
So what's Robert DeNiro like? "He's famously reserved but likes Connecticut," says Kevin Segalla, founder and president of the Stamford-based Connecticut Film Center.
What about that Titanic-sized star, Leonardo DiCaprio? "Private, which makes sense if you've been chased since you were a kid." And John Travolta? "Fun. And good at the whole celebrity thing. He doesn't mind posing for a picture or signing an autograph."
Kevin indulges questions about the celebrities he's met while establishing a film and television industry here, but the whole tell-me-about-the-celebrities-you-know thing seems to bore him. Save for one star-struck moment: "When I met DeNiro and Bruce Willis together, that was kind of cool."
Otherwise he'd rather talk business about the movies and stars that are his clients with business partner and friend Bruce Heller. The former Syracuse University buddies have been around them most of their adult lives. Which may explain why ex–movie producer Kevin is more forthcoming and animated touring the massive soundstage the CFC has created on Stamford's Progress Drive than dropping the names of celebrity acquaintances. Actress Laura Linney just happens to be in the vicinity of this cavernous stage, making preparations for her new Showtime series The Big C, which is currently filming here. Yet Kevin is hoping to avoid her because he doesn't want the Oscar-nominated actress thinking he's showing her off to impress the media. "When we are around these people, we are working," he explains. "It is, 'Hi. Great to see you. Let's get down to business.' "
What Kevin is excited about is showing off a small room outfitted with thousands of dollars' worth of electrical upgrades to accommodate the adjacent sets. "Now the electrician who did this was local. He was from Stamford. And he made thousands of dollars doing this work. And to me, that's the cool thing about what we're doing here. We're giving jobs. We're making work."
Pumping dollars into the economy is kind of a mantra for Kevin and for Bruce, the CFC's managing director. Together they have spent the past four years trying to convince big studios, independent filmmakers and, most recently, television producers and gaming companies that Connecticut is the best place to set the scene for their coming attractions.
Never mind their glamorous résumés, Hollywood connections or the fact that Bruce, who used to run actor Billy Bob Thornton's production company, knows Angelina Jolie well enough to casually refer to her as "Ang" (and get teased by Kevin for the name-dropping).
It is Stamford, where Bruce and Kevin also live, that is the true star of the CFC show, and often the landscape for many of the film projects that ultimately come here.
The most outstanding supporting actor in this scenario is the inviting but sometimes controversial 30 percent tax credit Connecticut has offered since 2006 to productions based in the Nutmeg State. Tax credits are the primary reason that major television productions like The Big C or small independent films such as the BBC's What About Kevin? (which filmed here earlier this year with Oscar winner Tilda Swinton) chose Stamford— or anywhere else in Connecticut—to set up their cameras.
Kevin is largely credited for lobbying for the inception of tax credits here. "He was the guy who gave us this incredible insight into the film industry and what it could mean for the state," says State Representative Carlo Leone of Stamford, one of four state legislators who drafted the tax credit legislation.
"I told them, pass tax credits and I will bring you more movies than you know what do to with," Kevin says. And for a while, that's exactly what happened.
Getting the Pictures
Before there were tax credits, movies were made in Connecticut about once a decade: The Ice Storm (1997), Mystic Pizza (1988), The Stepford Wives (1975) and Valley of the Dolls (1967). Now there's a dry erase board in Kevin's office cluttered with the names of productions that have been active in Connecticut during the past few years: Revolutionary Road, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Righteous Kill, College Road Trip, What Just Happened, Old Dogs, Everybody's Fine....
Kevin relocated here from New York City in 2003 the way many urbanites do, a bit reluctantly and at his wife's behest. After settling into Shippan, he immediately got the appeal. Here was a place where he could live by the water, coach his son and daughter's weekend soccer games, and still feel an urban vibe. "For someone who loves cities and appreciates their diversity, Stamford has that," he says. "As much as we appreciate all of the surrounding towns, Stamford felt more right."
It was also a place where Kevin saw an untapped market for the movies. For a dozen years, he had been an independent film producer and president of Platonic Films Inc. His credits included music videos; commercials; projects for HBO, MTV and Nickelodeon; and feature-length independent movies. His most heralded project, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (aka Small Miracles), was also among his most frustrating ones. The 2002 film was nominated for five BAFTA Awards (the British equivalent of the Academy Awards) but got little attention stateside. "Which is the problem with the whole film industry," Kevin says with a sigh. "You can do great work and sometimes it doesn't get noticed."
In tax credits Kevin saw a new creative outlet and about as soon as these passed, he persuaded Bruce to move his young family from Los Angeles to Stamford.
The two had not worked together since they created a Jekyll & Hyde–themed film as their senior thesis project at Syracuse, but Bruce was also anxious to try something new after falling into a similar creative funk as filmmaker. He jokes that he is known for a couple of "not very important movies you've never seen." He produced the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, as well as Thornton's crudely amusing remake of the sandlot comedy Bad News Bears. Both were critical busts and Bruce admits they kind of deserved it. "A lot of things can go wrong with movies," he says. "Which is why the business can be so frustrating."
Although he was intrigued by Kevin's business plans, Bruce was not sure about Stamford. "I resisted it," he says. "But I was tired of the Hollywood scene and needed to slow down." After buying a house in Shippan ("I resisted that too") he quickly assimilated. "We love the neighborhood, we love the school (his children attend Rogers International School). We could not be happier."
In the City That Works
One of Stamford's greater selling points, says Kevin, is its location. "Actors can come here and take the train home. There are union crews in the area. It's convenient."
The state is also rich in scene-setting possibilities. "We don't have one look. You want inner city? We've got it. You want coastline? That's here too. Blue-collar towns? Got it. About the only thing we struggle with are deserts and big mountain ranges."
Their business functions as a sort of clearinghouse for the film and television industry. The CFC buys and sells tax credits, offers financial services and location scouting, and even functions as a kind of concierge service to visiting crews. "Once the credits were in place, these guys really hustled," says Frank Fedeli, the director of Stamford's Citizens Services Center. Frank also acts as the liaison between the city and film productions that come to town. "I think we had like nine major movies in play in Stamford at one time. It was like a turnstile; one would stop shooting, another would start."
Kevin and Bruce "seem to see Stamford as a kind of pearl they want to polish," says Jack Condlin, president of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce. "There is a real belief in the community and what it offers.
"There is a business synergy that happens whenever a movie comes to town. The impact is in the related businesses that support the industry. Movies need crews and performers. They need car services. They need meals. They need tradespeople. It's a domino effect."
Carlo Leone says studies of tax credits suggest a state gets back $1.20 for every $1 spent because of them. Perhaps the most significant symbol of the CFC's local impact is the sleek and modern interior of Stamford's Holiday Inn Select, which spent millions on renovations to accommodate visiting film crews. Kevin got to swing the sledgehammer at the wall breaking, thanks to the 60,000 room stays the film industry is credited with bringing to town. To hear him talk about it, that moment seems cooler than meeting Robert DeNiro and Bruce Willis at the same time.
The Next Scene
Movie making has gone the way of the economy. Projects have stalled as financing, even for big studios, is hard to come by.
Kevin, who registered as a lobbyist in Hartford to protect tax credits, says Connecticut has lost some projects because the financial incentives are perceived as vulnerable.
Leone and other local legislators, including Stamford-based State Representative Gerry Fox, say the credits will remain precarious as long as the state runs a budget deficit. "There's a vocal minority that perceives credits as bad just because they think all credits—for any industry—are bad," explains Fox, who is an enthusiastic supporter of keeping them intact. "It's not that they have a problem with this industry or what Kevin and Bruce are doing. It's just the idea that when times are tough we shouldn't be giving people breaks."
Adds Leone: "It's frustrating for all of us involved with the tax credits because we've seen the potential. But things are not happening at the pace we anticipated."
Stamford, where only one, low-budget movie shot this year, is emblematic of the slowed pace. Which is why the CFC has turned its sights to television and video gaming.
Laura Linney's The Big C is being filmed on the same stage used earlier this year to film the TBS series Are We There Yet? based on the 2005 movie starring rapper Ice Cube.
The filming of the Jerry Springer, Maury Povich and Steve Wilkos syndicated talk shows at the Rich Forum has helped the CFC convince other television productions of Stamford's appeal, says Bruce.
Condlin adds: "I see television as more stable for Stamford. Movies come for six months, set up shop and leave. It's great when they are here, but a series can go on for years."
Also intriguing are the CFC's still-in-development plans for the former Clairol property on Blachley Road, which it purchased for $16.75 million in March with two local real estate investment partners. Will the property eventually house more soundstages or become the permanent home of a series in development?
Are the partners positioning Stamford to be the next Hollywood? Kevin points out that Stamford's appeal is that it's not Hollywood. "But if we could be just a little Hollywood.... That would be great."


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Walled Lake Western's boys basketball team avenged its loss, with a 50-48 victory Friday night, over rivals Walled Lake Central in a Kensington North conference battle.
Walled Lake Western (9-5, 5-3) handed Walled Lake Central (11-3, 7-1) its first conference loss of the season in the Warriors for Warriors Pink Out Extravaganza to support cancer patients. Western's raucous student section was decked out in all pink, and the players wore long pink socks to support the cause.
The game started out as a battle between student sections as both sides traded off thunderous chants. While the student sections established themselves, the teams on the court struggled to gain momentum, causing another close finish.
"This is my fourth time playing Central and literally every game has been decided by one or two points," Walled Lake Western coach RaRedding Murray said. "I told the kids to come out make stops, get steals, and I have to give them credit because they came out and made that last play to win the game."
With 1.7 seconds left in the fourth quarter and down by two, Central got the ball after Western missed free-throw. They quickly called a timeout to call a play and try to send the game into overtime.
Central got a clean look from just beyond the three point arc, but T.J. Warren's shot was too strong giving Western the 50-48 point victory.
"We drew up the play to get (Warren) the look, and it was a good look, it just didn't go down," Walled Lake Central coach Chuck Spolsky said. "Credit Western. They were better than us tonight. We pride ourselves on our defense, rebounding, and hustling and I think they beat us here tonight."
Both teams struggled to gain momentum, with the largest lead for either team being four points.
Western led by two, 25-23, at halftime, but a 6-0 run put it down by four points midway through the third quarter. Both teams traded baskets for the remainder of the third and much of the fourth until 6'11" senior center Miroslav Jaksic and sophomore Marcus Bailey scored six points and put Western back in the lead.
"This game was real intense," Bailey said. "Last time they stole one from us so we had to get them back today."
Western had a very balanced attack with sophomore Jerald Booker leading the way with 11 points, while Jaksic and Bailey each scored 10.
Central's Phillip Nelson scored a game-high 21.
Western will look to carry this momentum at Waterford Mott next Tuesday at 7 p.m. Central will look to rebound against Mott next Friday at 7 p.m.


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I'm debating whether or not to sell my wii and this guy is interested and wants a price, i told him idk....what do you guys think i can get out of it? i have the wii console, all wires, sensor bar, original stand with circle piece under it, and gamestop lighted stand, 6 games GH3, LOZ TP, resident evil 4, madden 07, wiiplay, and wii sports, all have cases and booklets except madden 07 doesn't have book....i also have metroid prime and a gamecube memory card, 2 gamecube controllers, 2 wiimotes, 2 nunchucks, and the nyko charge station, andi also have the free silicone wiimote protectors. How much?
Wii Online Code: 7520-1748-8739-4891
360 Gamertag: IttyBittyNinja
330$ to 370$
Guitar hero 3= 283602180394
Strikers FC= 236458-134911
Guitar Hero WT: 000189824665
TvsC: 4082-6902-6467
need help with anything, pm me
I'm back....and bored
why sell it keep it instead the wii is well dam good fun for everyone and one thing i notice is now gaming companies are slowlly doing sumthing bout the games for the wii as they can see the wii isnt going away like the game cube did
well i'd rather get a 360, the games are more of my type with all the online shooters like COD4, graw 2, and halo 3.
If your wii is not scratched (which reflects that it wasn't taken care of) then I would take no less than 400 $US for all of that. I would try for more though. Itemize out all of the stuff at retail used prices and it should reflect that its worth at least $400 to your buyer. Remind them that if they are interested in all the stuff your offering, then their saving some cash.
EDIT: also you meant Guitar Hero 3 with guitar right?
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alright i'll print out all the used values from gamestop or somewhere and show them, and yea the guitar also comes with the GH3 game
Wii - 2 remotes - 2 nunchucks - classic controller - wii sports - wii play - resident evil 4 - Mario Strikers Charged - metroid prime 3 - Spyro: Eternal Night - Medal of Honour Heroes 2 - Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles - Super Mario Galaxy - Super Mario World (snes)
EA nation: ron1jon3
250-console with original all orignal stuff
230-games (not including wiimote from play)
40-cube stuff (rough estimate)
90-accessorys (including wiimote from play)
-20% for used condition.
take no less than 450 for it all, that should buy you a 360 and a couple games.
hope seeing everything priced out helped you. put it on ebay and you should get around that ammount, maybe a bit less.
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yea that really helped me out buddy, it got you a rep. i might call the guy tommorow and tell him 450 or nothing. that will get me the 360 pro version (with 2 free games that come with it now) and another game and another controller so this works out really good if he'll take it. thanks alot for that price outline thing


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The federal health care mandate is the target of a Metairie "freedom rally" planned Oct. 20, part of the national Stand Up for Religious Freedom movement. It will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Veterans Square, in the Veterans Memorial Boulevard median just west of Causeway Boulevard, organizer William Graham of Metairie said.
"The Obama administration's mandate ... forces all employers, regardless of religious or moral convictions, to provide abortion-inducing drugs through their health plans," Graham said.
"Religious freedom is essential to a free society. Institutions and private businesses should not violate their consciences by complying with Obamacare."


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