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Cast as Jefferson Parish Coroner Dr. Loretta Wade in "NCIS: New Orleans," CCH Pounder started her homework before leaving home. The high-profile "NCIS" spinoff is currently in production in New Orleans headed for an 8 p.m. Sept. 23 regular-season premiere, but Pounder began her character-background research in Los Angeles by spending time with Craig Harvey, chief investigator for the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner.
What she learned during her time with Harvey helped her start finding Dr. Loretta Wade from the inside out.
"Regardless of how I felt as CCH Pounder walking into the morgue, it changed my humanity on a personal level. It's deeply personal," she said during a recent interview at the Summer TV Tour in Hollywood. "I was warned by another actor who had done a similar thing several years ago. They said, 'The smell was awful, and don't wear clothes that you love, because you want to wrap them all up and throw them away because the smell of death will be on you.' I experienced none of that. If there was a smell of death, I wasn't aware of it.
"But I was aware of the fact that what I recognize as a living human being was not there, that (the bodies were) just the shell. This was the casing, and that internal spirit that gives us life was indeed gone. So you could look at a body and realize, 'This was a receptacle, and now I can look into a receptacle and find organs and find bullets and find stray bits in a completely different way, with a completely different attitude.' I wanted to transfer to my character what I found in terms of solving a mystery in order to help the living.
"As opposed to just solving a new mystery for the police department, I wanted to be able to have that connection with the loss for that family, and to really understand what happened. So in that walk-through that day with Craig Harvey, I found something really solid about Loretta Wade that I can channel through myself and make as the base of her character."
Pounder, who continued her research after arriving in New Orleans to begin regular-season filming in late July, comes to "NCIS: New Orleans" with a long list of impressive prior TV credits. Her Det. Claudette Wyms in FX's "The Shield" won her a 2005 supporting-actress Emmy nomination. Prior Emmy nominations came for a guest role on "The X-Files" and a supporting role on "ER." More recent credits include Syfy's "Warehouse 13" and as a law-enforcement official in FX's brutal biker-family drama "Sons of Anarchy."
"NCIS: New Orleans," spinning off of a globally popular, billion-dollar franchise, is a different kind of platform.
"I'm coming from what would be considered a rebel place," Pounder said. "I've been in cable and on a much more adventurous path for some time.
"I think that the (broadcast) networks have discovered, simply because cable is blowing up, that they have to get on board, that the audience has shifted away from mediocrity quite a bit because it has so many choices. So even in something truly established, an actor like myself can perhaps find a place to show the world her ideas. And so I'll see if that works."
Linda Hunt, the distinguished character actor who plays Henrietta "Hetty" Lange in the prior spinoff "NCIS: Los Angeles," is a role model in that pursuit, Pounder said.
"She is my idol," Pounder said. "She's the logo in my head that makes me think things are possible."
The "NCIS: New Orleans" pilot episodes, which were shot in the spring and aired as regular-season episodes, came together quickly, Pounder said. Work is now underway on regular-season episodes that will get TV's best lead-in, the "NCIS" mothership itself. Regular crossover appearances by the popular "NCIS" cast will further the new show's chances for audience success.
"Regardless of the familiarity of the title," Pounder said, this new job is an unprecedented opportunity for everybody in the "NCIS: New Orleans" cast.
"I think for every one of us, once we go past 'NCIS,' I think there are going to be new stories, a new set of people, and a new game in town," she said.
And that town, in this case, is New Orleans, a place as enthusiastically invested in living as Pounder's Dr. Wade is in the mysteries of death. (Follow Pounder's local culinary discoveries at Twitter.com/CCHPounder, where she's already filed dispatches from Ruby Slippers, The Palace Cafe and Emeril's, among others.)
"I've got a little bit of history there, and it's all play," Pounder said. "To work in New Orleans is going to be a really interesting thing, because everything I've ever done there is play – dance, music, restaurants. It will be fascinating to see what kind of discipline I show up with in a city that's constantly tempting you to come eat, come dance, come sing, come play. It's going to be interesting to see that."
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Formed in 2012, Cashel Town Schoolgirls U/14's secured the clubs first ever schoolgirls title at Scoil Chormaic on Sunday, with a well-deserved win over reigning champions Clonmel Celtic.
After a winter of toiling in the wind and rain, the girls capped their season off in glorious sunshine in front of a vocal home crowd, and recorded their eleventh win of the season. That along with two draws meant they went through the whole year unbeaten, a league record for their age group. Right from the start the Cashel girls controlled the game, and after only five minutes Caitlin Beatty Green settled whatever nerves they might have had when she stole in and fired past the Celtic keeper from close range. Buoyed by this the home side drove on, and shortly afterwards Sarah Delaney played a captains role with a magnificent long range effort that gave the opposing keeper no chance to put her side two in front. Completely dominant in midfield, where Emily Mc Grath and Ellie Ryan were ably assisting Delaney, the Town girls were giving their illustrious opponents no chance to get a foothold for most of the rest of the first half.
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I've become a bit obsessed with my time management skillz since coming back to work from Christmas a week-and-a-half ago.
To be fair, as I'm not drinking in January, obsessed has become my middle name (JOKE!, it's Anne, FYI).
I obsessively go to the gym, obsessively tidy and re-organise my flat, and obsessively try and get a builder in to sort out all the broken things I've been putting off fixing for five years.
I'm also obsessively reading a book I never even got round to starting properly in 2012, and obsessively drinking 2 litres of water a day. In fact, it's possible that without the mellowing affect of a pint of cider/a massive hangover, I've become a little…. high maintenance.
But don't feel bad, dear reader; I'll be back to my usual sluttish, slovenly ways come February.
Anyway, my concentration levels have definitely improved from no booze, and because I've actually been getting up as soon as my alarm goes off, I've been getting in early enough to get admin out of the way and do a proper to do list before my working day starts.
I've also had the chance to take an objective look at my productivity throughout the week (i.e. not sullied with hangovers or late nights, and the corresponding guilty productivity the next day), I can definitely see how my concentration levels ebb and flow throughout the week. And to be honest, I think I could do with a bit more flow, and a bit less ebb.
This is how I work the week:
On a Monday, I'm a machine. I tend to have a catch up with Corynne (hi Corynne!) in the afternoon. So, as well as getting up that morning's content, editing stuff for the afternoon, checking the papers for any potential stories and doing a schedule for the week, I also try and do a run down of what's been working well on the UK site, plus any new ideas I'm working on for her to look at beforehand.
Because I'm not all that organised, I sometimes take this opportunity to….think of some new ideas.
Anyway, being really busy suits me – I'm faster, more efficient and less likely to get distracted by falling down the Daily Mail/Twitter/xoJane US hole (a bit like the K hole, but less foaming at the mouth, I find).
In summary, I get loads done on a Monday, have loads of energy and often find myself staying late to finish things.
I'm still pretty good on Tuesdays – this is Phoebe's day off, so, again, I'm pretty busy, but, this seems to work in my favour. However, I often find that this is when emails start to pile up and the bottom half of my to-do list starts to get left undone. I'm just getting that little bit more distracted.
Then suddenly, it's Wednesdays, and everything starts to go wrong. This is Phoebe's first day in the office all week, so we have a lot of work stuff* to catch up on – and I have the attention span of a gnat when I'm even the teensiest distracted.
Also, most days I don't bother with a lunch break, and so I think that by this point in the week, I'm just a bit…restless.
I try to make the effort on a Wednesday to go out of the office for a catch up with the fragrant Miss Frangoul at a coffee shop or something near by. Being out of the normal office environment for a couple of hours seems to be a better way to generate ideas.
Plus, if I know my attention span's going to be crap, I might as well run with it, and do something that doesn't involve me staring at a computer screen.
I normally pick it up again on a Thursday, mainly because the unread emails or increasingly lengthy to-do list are starting to freak me out. But unless things are super-urgent, I get into the bad habit of putting things off at this point in the week (on a Monday, no task is too big for me to tackle head on. By Thursday, forwarding someone an email with a brief explanation can seem like a gargantuan task).
Fridays are anyone's guess. Sometimes, buoyed by the fact it's the end of the week, I get obsessed with clearing everything out of my inbox or to-do list before the week is over. Other times, I'll push anything fiddly to one side, promising myself I'll 'do it over the weekend,' (cut to: Sunday night, me in a panic, doing my self-inflicted 'homework,' while Jolene-ing my top lip and watching Downton Abbey).
Aaaand, this is where I need your help. Can you tell me how your working week shapes up? Are you more productive some days than others? How do I avoid getting bogged down with admin so I can actually stop and think creatively about things? How do I get better at concentrating? I'm not a toddler, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS!
Rebecca is procrastinating. Probably. @Rebecca_hol.
*70% work, 30% the latest ridiculous personal problem I've created for myself that I need Phoebe to help me fix. She should probably get danger money for working here.


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Report NEP-SEA-2010-01-23This is the archive for NEP-SEA, a report on new working papers in the area of South East Asia. Kavita Iyengar issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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- Johansson, Anders C., 2010. "Financial Markets in East Asia and Europe during the Global Financial Crisis," Working Paper Series 2010-13, Stockholm School of Economics, China Economic Research Center.
- Raghav Gaiha & Katsushi S. Imai & Ganesh Thapa & Woojin Kang, 2010. "Savings, Investment and Current Account Surplus in Asia," The School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 1001, Economics, The University of Manchester.
- Nunberg, Barbara & Barma, Naazneen & Abdollahian, Mark & Green, Amanda & Perlman, Deborah, 2010. "At the frontier of practical political economy : operationalizing an agent-based stakeholder model in the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Region," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5176, The World Bank.
- Digdowiseiso, Kumba, 2010. "Measuring gini coefficient of education: the Indonesian cases," MPRA Paper 19865, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Bruno Coelho & Kevin Gallagher, 2010. "Capital Controls and 21st Century Financial Crises: Evidence from Colombia and Thailand," Working Papers wp213, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Gabriel J. Felbermayr & Benjamin Jung & Farid Toubal, 2009. "Ethnic Networks, Information, and International Trade: Revisiting the Evidence," Working Papers 2009-30, CEPII research center.
- Muliaman D. Hadad & Maximilian J. B. Hall & Wimboh Santoso & Karligash Kenjegalieva & Richard Simper, 2009. "A New Approach to Dealing With Negative Numbers in Efficiency Analysis: An Application to the Indonesian Banking Sector," Discussion Paper Series 2009_20, Department of Economics, Loughborough University, revised Dec 2009.
- Hooi Hooi Lean & Michael McAleer & Wing-Keung Wong, 2010. "Market Efficiency of Oil Spot and Futures: A Stochastic Dominance Approach," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-705, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
- Gulasekaran Rajaguru & Tilak Abeysinghe, 2009. "A Gaussian Test for Cointegration," SCAPE Policy Research Working Paper Series 0905, National University of Singapore, Department of Economics, SCAPE.


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Sony upsizes the sliding PC with the Vaio Duo 13The new Duo 13 takes a stab at rebooting the slider on the original Duo 11.
I'm Dan Ackerman. We are here taking a look at the Sony Vaio Duo 13. Now, this looks like a 13-inch slate style tablet, a little bit thick for a tablet but then it's because you take the Duo 13. You put it down on the table like this, take your finger just lift up with 1 finger right here and then look at that, you've got something that's kinda like a laptop or maybe like a little all-in-one PC. It's a concept that we've seen before even from Sony. When Windows 8 first launched, they had an 11-inch version called the Duo 11. Now, the hinge on that model was a little bit more complicated. It wasn't quite as over ergonomic and that was a-- it was a good idea but the execution did not quite nail it. This new 13-inch version improves on a lot of things about it. Obviously it has a bigger screen. I think the keyboard works better and instead of a tiny little tri-point they've actually managed to work a very small touch pad up in the front here that's better than not having any touch pad, although it is a very shallow one. It's kind of a long rectangle. So, that's super great for navigating but I definitely rather have that than nothing. Sony does manage to get one of Intel's new 4th generation core i-Series processors in here, otherwise known by the code name Haswell, which makes this one of the first Haswell generation systems that we've seen. Sony actually has a couple of really thin, really light 11 and 13-inch Ultrabook Style laptops that also have those. And its traditional laptops also a lot more useful, this has the bonus of being sort of a slate style tablet and something you can use on a desktop. I think the biggest flaw here is the screen. While you can move it up and down, sort of like this when you fold it into a tablet mode, it's not actually really adjustable. It doesn't stay at another angle and I can't tilt it up any further than this. You can see the fairly stream angle that it's at right here. So, this angle may not work for you. If that's the case then you're pretty much out of luck. It's a cool experimental laptop. I'd like to admit a lot of improvement over the last generation. It starts in about $1300 and up. That is a lot to ask people to pay for an experiment, especially for saying that may not be as universally useful as either a convertible tablet where you detach the screen or just a regular Ultrabook Style laptop. I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Sony Vaio Duo 13.


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since the mines were buried in the ground, we should not see it, therefore we were asked to blindfold ourselves.
A member will guide the blindfolded one to walk thru the base and try not to step on the plates.
We couldnt finish the task cos it was very hard for all of us to walk blindfolded, balancing ourselves and not to touch any of the plates.
It then started to rain.
the very last challenge, we have to assume we are 8 pieces of tiles in a puzzle, each with a number. We had to move around either up down left or right in order to arrange ourselves in an ascending order.
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Maze Runner Edges Out Johnny Depp and His Terrifying Bald Cap at the Box Office
And Tom Cruise is <em>finally </em>knocked out of the top five after eight weeks.
The second film in the popular dystopian YA series The Maze Runner won the weekend box office, taking in $30.3 million and just beating out Black Mass. The Johnny Depp vehicle, in which Depp portrays with chilling histrionics the infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, earned early buzz for Depp's "comeback" performance (whatever "comeback" even means anymore), though it earned bleh reviews this weekend. It made $23.3 million opening weekend, with an irregularly high 10 percent of the grosses coming from Boston, where the film is set. (Boston tends to account for 2.7 percent of movie grosses, on average.)
M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit, similarly touted as his "comeback," continues to perform well, adding $11.3 million to its now-$42.3 million cume, just edging out last week's box-office winner, The Perfect Guy, which made $9.6 million for a $41.3 million total. Everest rounds out the top five with a disappointing $7.5 million opening-weekend haul. Tom Cruise has finally been knocked out of the top five after clinging there for eight weeks. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation made $2.2 million. The Emily Blunt–starring crime thriller Sicario, which opened on six screens, made $390,000.


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Wives beware. A travel writer with itchy feet, a small child, a pregnant wife, a tiny flat and a meagre bank balance is a dangerous animal, prone to sudden whims and flights of fancy.
The Anglo-Afghan writer Tahir Shah had had enough of modest living in London. 'I wanted to escape to a house of serious dimensions,' he writes, 'a fantasy inspired by the pages of Arabian Nights, with arches and colonnades, towering doors fashioned from aromatic cedar, courtyards with gardens hidden inside, stables and fountains, orchards of fruit trees, and dozens and dozens of rooms.'
Shah's dreams, though they may be a little more extravagant than most of our own, are nothing unusual these days. Property pages and television programmes showing families moving to sunnier climes lure ever greater numbers of lemmings to their destruction. Sometimes you wonder whether there will be anyone left in Britain, such is the apparent exodus of those seeking to redress the dreaded work/life balance.
Shah buys one of the largest properties in Casablanca, the inevitably derelict rambling wreck rumoured to have been the sometime home of the Caliph. His plans for it are great, his experience minimal, his enthusiasm tireless, his methods naive. None of that matters, of course, because he is going to get a book out of the experience, come what may. The worse it is, the better.
Hence the preposterous range of characters he assembles, painted with a novelist's, rather than a reporter's eye. His descriptions are entertaining, his dialogue often hilarious, but you suspect that a good deal is made up for laughs. The Shahs inherit three guardians with the house, a trio bound by superstition, fearful of the jinn (evil spirits) that lurk in the house, and eager for a big dish of couscous every night. The meal is ostensibly to placate these spirits, in practice the guardians wolf it down themselves.
Within weeks Shah has an army of bickering retainers. His wife Rachana is long-suffering, only occasionally venting her frustration at being kept 'a prisoner here in this madhouse, in your madhouse, in your fantasy'. We sympathise with her, yet find ourselves willing Shah on as he immerses himself in getting the job done, one minute sourcing black-market cedar wood through his dodgy assistant Kamal, the next arranging a band of exorcists from Meknes.
He revels in the less frenetic pace of life in Morocco, whiling away hours reading books in cafes. 'In the West we are driven on by an extreme form of guilt - if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.' Strangely, for all his descriptions of his craftsmen's art - invariably not getting things done - we never really get a decent picture of what the house - or Casablanca - is like. One evening he notices flocks of white ibis flying out to sea, 'their wings tinged with gold', and admires their beauty. It is a rare moment of observation freed from Shah's fixation with the absurd.
His research into the elusive life of his Afghan grandfather, who once lived in Tangier, is a pleasant diversion from his difficulties inside the Caliph's house. Yet eventually, after innumerable scrapes and adventures, the house is transformed - it always is, isn't it? - the guardians mollified by the exorcism, the family united in domestic bliss.
Shah duly congratulates himself on a successful escape from Britain, which by now he dislikes with a fervour unique to expatriates. 'As a parent, I have escaped the sense of guilt that drowns all parents in Britain, where the Victorian conviction persists that children should be seen and not heard. I encourage Timur and Ariane to be loud, to shout, to dance in the streets, to be themselves.' We congratulate him, too, and only hope he doesn't think too little of those of us who have stayed behind.


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Kevin Cobb was born in Bowling Green, Ohio where he began trumpet studies at age ten with Martin Porter. He gave his first solo performance with the Naperville, Illinois Municipal Band at age thirteen playing Herbert Clarke's "Debutante". At age fifteen he performed solo with the Toledo Symphony as winner of their youth solo competition. From 1986-89 he attended the Interlochen Arts Academy where he studied trumpet with John Lindenau and graduated with honors. He received a bachelor of music degree in 1993 from the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Frank Kaderabek, and a master of music degree in 1995 from The Juilliard School as a student of Mark Gould. Mr. Cobb joined the American Brass Quintet in the fall of 1998 and with that appointment also became a faculty member of The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He also currently serves on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
When not touring with ABQ, Mr. Cobb enjoys an active teaching and performance career in New York City. As part of a widely diverse freelance life, he often plays with new music groups such as Speculum Musicae, and the New York New Music Ensemble, as well as with the Metropolitan Opera, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New York City Ballet, and the New York Philharmonic. From 1995-98, he spent his summers as principal trumpet for the Utah Festival Opera Company. He is also a member of the New York Big Brass, plays in Broadway shows, tours with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, and can frequently be heard in radio and television commercials. He has even played with the Orchestra of St. Luke's as they accompanied Mettalica at Madison Square Garden for a sold out audience.
Mr. Cobb has participated in chamber music at every stage of his development and is a former member of the Manhattan Brass Quintet and the Meridian Arts Ensemble. In addition to playing, he has also served as juror with Young Concert Artists and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. As a soloist, he toured the US with the Israel Camarata of Jerusalem playing the Shostakovich Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings. In 2003 he was a featured soloist with the Daejeon Philharmonic in South Korea playing the Haydn Concerto on national television.
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January 1, 2005
CJ Rehnquist sets notable themes for 2005
Thanks to the folks at SCOTUSBlog, we can all start the new year reading Chief Justice William Rehnquist's 2004 year-end report on the federal judiciary. As always, the report is an interesting and nuanced document. Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSBlog shares his views here, and Howard Bashman at How Appealing has already collected major news accounts of the report here.
The media focus, not surprisingly, is on CJ Rehnquist's discussion of "recently mounting criticism of judges for engaging in what is often referred to as 'judicial activism.'" But also of note in the report are comments about "the judicial budget crisis facing the country," "the critical need for additional judgeships," and "the relationship between the Judicial Branch and the Legislative Branch."
As is my wont, I read the Chief Justice's comments through the lens of Blakely. I suspect we may hear cries of "activism" if (when?) the Supreme Court declares aspects of the federal guidelines unconstitutional in Booker and Fanfan. And the fallout from Blakely could exacerbate the judicial budget crisis and the need for additional judgeships. Moreover, as detailed in CJ Rehnquist's 2003 year-end report on the federal judiciary, the development of federal sentencing law and policy has produced significant acrimony between Congress and the federal judiciary well before Blakely came along.
Indeed, as we all prepare for what could be a very eventful year in federal sentencing, CJ Rehnquist's comments in his 2003 report about judicial input on sentencing legislation merit close review. If (when?) Congress responds to a decision in Booker and Fanfan, I hope it will heed these astute points from the Chief Justice:
It is Congress's job to legislate; but each branch of our government has a unique perspective, and taking into account these diverse perspectives improves the process.... Judges have a perspective on the administration of justice that is not necessarily available to members of Congress and the people they represent. Judges have, again by Constitutional design, an institutional commitment to the independent administration of justice and are able to see the consequences of judicial reform proposals that legislative sponsors may not be in a position to see. Consultation with the Judiciary will improve both the process and the product.
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should in-gaming theft be treated as a real crime? the bbc has an interesting article discussing the possibility, and the fact that police in korea feel it should. apparently more than half of south korea's 40,000 cybercrimes reported in the first half of this year had something to do with online gaming. the crimes range from in-game gangs stealing entire digital homes to some timed item auction fraud. the article goes on to talk to some professors about the law and intangible property, society's view of online gaming, and a rising form of virtual vigilantism. it's an interesting subject, and something the law is going to have to deal with eventually. i remember years ago doing a story about a guy who converted real money into ultima gold. for other reasons his account was closed, and he started looking into suing origins because the closing of his account affected his livelihood. his argument was that after devoting the amount of time he had to the game, his character was no longer strictly origin's property. it's an interesting theory, and one that i'm sure will be played out through the courts eventually.
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|no (9:50am est thu oct 02 2003)
it's a game. get over yourself.
ok, great, you spent time on it to get a cool sword– hic for you. it is just a game and you are wasting people's time by debating it, you little rich white kid moron. – by bleck
|i think it is a criminal case in hk. (9:52am est thu oct 02 2003)
people kill themselves if someone stole their precious weapon which they fight very very hard for. in a sense, it is like hard earn money. to someone, it has great value. – by a. hitler
|you again ??? (10:26am est thu oct 02 2003)
damn it, adolf… you keep turning up…
you're like a bad penny !!!! it's always about you & weapons, isn't it ??? – by deaner
|why not? (11:15am est thu oct 02 2003)
our time is turned into paper and it is a legit form of trade around the world.
why not a file, no matter the object the code creates?
get your bloody hands off my desert. – by p. floyd
|virtual world…. (11:28am est thu oct 02 2003)
virtual world laws, leave the real world out of it. – by notnormal23224
|that's stupid (11:48am est thu oct 02 2003)
don't give someone criminal charges for something that happens in a game. if the people running the game network feel this is unacceptable conduct just ban the players who did this. this is not a criminal case. – by jz
|korean babys (11:50am est thu oct 02 2003)
keep gaming out of the lawbooks..ask them to come in on this stuff and pretty soon they'll be telling us what kind of games can/cannot be made.
some online gamers are weak crybabies. part of the thrill in some online gaming is the possibility that you'll get ganked and all your stuff taken. this happens because the games were designed this way…quit your crying you little whiny babies.
my characters get ganked all the time because i'm not a very good gamer but its fun anyways. evidently the only tough koreans live in the north. – by nadababy
|cybercrime (11:52am est thu oct 02 2003)
ok, so if its a crime in cyberspace, where do you do the time? cyberprisons? maybe your cyberpersona can be assigned to "housearrest," with limited access to cyberspace. – by doc3
|oh lovely (11:53am est thu oct 02 2003)
i�ll admit that i would not want my item�s stolen from me in a game but i have to lean to the side of reality screaming the obvious, �dude it�s a game��
this is just another p2p fight� you will have no chance on winning because just like p2p you have players from all over the world and contrary to riaa type belief�s, its not easy to enforce one country�s laws onto another� otherwise there would only be one nation and all would follow one gov�t, oh wait that�s another topic, lol.
i�d rather see no online gaming be available, than to permit yet another gross waste of the time of courts everywhere � or was that the point? to establish �internet court� where everyone brought to trial would hang outside the courthouse if their ip touched another in a way outside the laws of wherever you connect�shall we all run game rooms with prefaces of law stating:
by accessing this game server located in the (insert-name-of-fascist-country-her
*sighs* too many lamers in gov�t.
oh and btw, free lamo! – by _-jile-_
|sheesh! (12:03pm est thu oct 02 2003)
not being a hard core gamer, i do not understand the need for people to get so involved that it takes over their life. i'm not saying that's right, or wrong. i just think it's kinda sad. there was a story in playboy two or three months age, about a kid who killed himself after a group of "bad guys" ganged up on him and destroyed whatever is was that he had or had done.
it is just a game ! it's like the fastest gun in the west idea. no matter how long you play, or how good you get, there is always sombody faster and meaner. this is like a losing boxer charging the winner with assault. if yer gonna play, be prepared to lose! – by parttimegamer
|tangible twits! (12:24pm est thu oct 02 2003)
tell the nfl and the nba it's just a game.
games are what we play.
it's the only thing you can do until you take a big dirt nap.
i'm with p. floyd.
theft is theft. the value of something belongs only to the user. – by e.vedder
|game or no game (12:47pm est thu oct 02 2003)
game or no game, if a file is stolen it matters not what it is, it is a crime. of course stealing your neighbors football from his garage is not as serious as stealing his car or banking information but it is still a crime. if they enter where they do not belong without proper authority and take something, it is a crime. what that something is has only to do with how serious the crime is. – by cd
|power to the players (1:01pm est thu oct 02 2003)
well said, cd!
technology wasn't designed for the progression of anarchy and the creation of digital pirates.
tech is for social control. just ask ted.
– by e. vedder
|real world crimes (1:03pm est thu oct 02 2003)
how about law enforcers worry about real world crime and ppl instead of worrying about someone stealing some precrious sword in a game that can probly be duped anyways. how about they solve those unsolved murders. spend the money and man power on something that the world can benfit from instead of some kids haveing fun and stealing something from a game.
get over it ppl it is just a game. you guys should get back to real life and worry about all the problems there. – by getalife
|hey dork (1:17pm est thu oct 02 2003)
the real life problems are people like you.
lie. cheat. steal. kill. deny.
what link in the chain can you not see? – by gottalife
|isn't (1:19pm est thu oct 02 2003)
this basically solving a puzzle ? you obtain the 'tools', then you kill, escape, whatever the game calls for. that 'tool' does not really exist, except as part of the game as a whole. the lines of program which give you the 'tools' are no more yours than the lines which tell you to "submit your score", or "click here to exit.". from another angle, aren't the 'tools' the intellectual property of the company which created the game ? – by darwin
|bah, ignorance.. (1:22pm est thu oct 02 2003)
what some of you are apparantly unaware of, perhaps blissfully so, is the real-world value of online rpg characters and items..
high level eq, uo, ac1, etc characters fully decked out have raked in thousands of dollars..
think its stupid, lame, or just for rich white kids? fine, be an idiot, that's your right. the value of the most inane things is determined solely by the desire to own them and the supply available. eg coca cola merchandise, beanie babies, etc.
when an item has developed such a significant value, regardless of that item's original (esp given that in so many other ways the lines between virtual and physical property are being narrowed) it is a very valid question: how, if at all, are we going to protect that person's investment?
stealing is stealing is stealing. you are not just talking about some 'pretty sword that he could go get again.' you are talking, in the extreme, about property (items and characters) that =cannot= be duplicated, and are substantially valuable. – by gilgaretch
|how's this (1:27pm est thu oct 02 2003)
for a realistic game? two teams of lawyers battle it out, gaining points for having someone seduce a juror, bribing the judge, then for the coup-de-gras, literally burying the loser under tons of paper ( they fall out of the sky like giant snow flakes) causing first bankruptcy, then death by suicide.
– by toorealforme
|ok (1:34pm est thu oct 02 2003)
that sounds like fun if you work for network tv.
you live by the sword.
you die by the sword.
even if the damn thing is stolen from one of us geeks. – by nofeelmorefees
|ok (1:38pm est thu oct 02 2003)
someone smack these people. crap like this will ruin the gaming world thisis why i only play online games on free servers and only fps like battlefield. this kinda crap is just stupid plain and simple. its a damn game, nuff said – by supes
|well then… (1:41pm est thu oct 02 2003)
i'll be by later to "borrow" your computer, and your girlfriend. please leave the door unlocked. – by robbing hood
|real world crimes (1:46pm est thu oct 02 2003)
this is so retarted, this isn't up to the governments this is up to the company running these mmorpgs, these people pay fees to play the game, they should get service… and if some bad guys jack someone then how is that against the law if you can do it in the game??? if it was meant to be wrong in the game it wouldn't be possible!
– by this is so lame
|tw5wt (6:23pm est tue dec 13 2005)
u sux – by etet
|nothing (8:41pm est fri dec 23 2005)
i havent played it yet but ill bet it will be great – by luke


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The nDoo is a medical gadget of the future. Based on nano-technology the nDoo transfers data between the nDoo and a global databank that stores all the latest information on diseases and therapies. The nDoo communicates with injected nanobots that swarm in your bloodstream, destroying or marking cells, bacteria and viruses and can be a lifesaving "gadget" by detecting diseases at a very early stage. You only get one nDoo in your life which is matched with your DNA and it stays with you from birth to death. In an active state its airfoils hover at 60 degrees to display endogenous body data nanobot activity by way of an interactive 3D-Hologram.
The nDoo is still only hypothetical, designed by Patrick Günther and was presented as his diploma project at the University of Applied Sciences and Art in Hannover, Germany in January 2007.
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New research from CIAT – the International Center for Tropical Agriculture shows that well-managed "LivestockPlus" systems involving improved forage crops – plants grazed by livestock – have impressive environmental credentials. Published in chapter 11 of CIAT's new flagship publication 'Eco-Efficiency: From Vision to Reality' – the authors conclude that "well-managed tropical forage-based systems can contribute … Continue reading


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When Singapore Visits the White House
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong laughs next to President Obama while addressing his audience during a welcoming ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 in Washington DC. Loong's White House stay is a first for any Southeast Asian leader during Obama's two terms. Throughout the state visit, both leaders affirmed their support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. They also discussed further defense agreements aimed at combating terrorism in Southeast Asia and the tensions related to various countries' territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The podium sits unattended on stage as spectators wait for the two leaders.
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Dressed in full ceremonial garb, armed forces stand on the South Lawn.
President Obama guides Prime Minister Loong as they walk towards the podium.
For his takeover of the White House Instagram account, Prime Minister Loong snaps a photo of cheering fans as they wave flags.
President Obama greets spectators in the Singapore VIP section.
Prime Minister Loong laughs before getting on stage to deliver his speech.
Michelle Obama waits for the president behind the podium as he speaks.
President Obama laughs while waiting for Prime Minister Loong. "Come on Mr. Prime Minister. We gotta go. There will be plenty of babies to kiss later on," he said.
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Can you go totally paperless in your BIM life?
My wife sent this to me the other day and it totally reminds me of myself. I have 16,000 notes in Evernote, have 120GB of data backed up in my Sugarsync account and I take pictures of receipts and any other paper and sync them to Evernote so I can use their awesome OCR feature and not have to worry about finding paper.
Of course, I try to get my wife to be as organized. She swore she gave me our new car insurance card and I insisted she didn't because I would have taken a picture with FE Snap and it would have been in Evernote. Of course, she brought it home from the office the next day.
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12 Jan Meet Joe Lamp'l, Star of "Growing a Greener World"
Subaru Garden on the Skybridge
Friday at 2:15 pm
Saturday at 3:45 pm
The popular and energetic Joe Lamp'l travels all over the U.S. going to garden shows, but he confesses the Northwest Flower & Garden Show is his favorite show. "The people at the Northwest show are so friendly, the show gardens are incredible, and so many great speakers give seminars at the show – many of them are good friends. I just love to come to the Northwest show."
Last February Joe was on a mission – to film the garden show for his PBS television series, "Growing a Greener World," sponsored by Subaru. That involved coordinating and organizing a small team of talented professionals, including producers, writers, cameramen and Joe himself. A huge amount of footage was filmed, interviews were done, and B-roll was shot. There were a lot of tough decisions in the editing room afterwards. "There is so much to see and do at the Northwest Show, we actually had enough footage for two complete episodes." The special Northwest Flower & Garden Show episode (season 2, episode #205) aired in July, 2011 and can be found online on the GGW website.
This year Joe won't exactly be letting moss grow between his toes, but he will have a bit more relaxed schedule – the better for you to meet him and have a chance to chat. Joe loves to talk with fellow gardeners, and his easy-going, Southern charm comes through, along with his passion for helping people solve gardening dilemmas, and sharing ways to garden more sustainably.
Joe will be giving two seminars at the show, "Subaru Presents: Growing a Greener World – Gardening to Make a Difference," on Friday at 1:00 pm and on Saturday at 2:30 pm. After each lecture, Joe will be heading to the Subaru garden on the skybridge, where you can purchase his best-selling book, have a copy signed and meet Joe.
In addition to his television show, Joe is deeply committed to "growing a greener world" through his popular books, blog (the appropriately named "Compost Confidential") and podcast series, along with a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and regular contributions to popular magazines and social media networks.
Subaru sponsors "Growing a Greener World" TV, along with being a sponsor of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, because Subaru strongly supports gardeners' efforts to create a more sustainable, wildlife friendly environment. And they practice this in their own backyard: In 2003, Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. became the first automotive assembly facility to be designated as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. Over 800 acres serve as a home for birds and animals, including white-tail deer, red-tail hawks, blue heron, Canadian geese, mallard ducks, beavers, coyote, snapping turtles and the bald eagle. And in 2004, the Subaru of Indiana manufacturing plant became the first automotive assembly facility to be "zero landfill," meaning all waste is recycled or turned into electricity. In other words, a single-family home produces more waste in a day than the SIA plant does in a year! ~ Janet


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The American Cancer Society released the results of a new study this week indicating uninsured adolescents and young adults–particularly those who were male and Hispanic or African American–were more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage cancer compared to those in the same age group who had health coverage.
The finding is not surprising given the fact that cost and access to health care are two of the most common hurdles cited by Hispanics when it comes to seeking medical attention.
Overall, adolescents and young adults in general were more likely to have advanced stages of cancer if they were uninsured, and according to the study authors, individuals in these age groups have benefited the least in recent years when it comes to cancer therapy advancements.
Of the data obtained from nearly 260,000 cancer patients ages 15 to 39 in the National Cancer Database, experts found that adolescents and young adult patients without insurance were more likely to be male, Black or Hispanic, reside in the South and treated in teaching/research facilities. These same patients were also less likely to be treated in NCI-designated facilities.
While young adults and adolescents without insurance were more likely to be male, the effect of a lack of insurance was seen more often among females.
According to the report,uninsured males were 1.51 times more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of cancer when compared to those with insurance, but uninsured females were 1.86 times more likely to be diagnosed in an advanced disease stage when compared to other females with insurance.
While the results are as can be expected–individuals without insurance are less likely to visit the doctor and therefore less likely to be diagnosed in a timely manner–experts feel the data can be used to eventually prove the benefits of programs like the Affordable Care Act.
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Federal regulators will reportedly order safety checks of more than 400 Boeing 767 airplanes Monday, citing concerns over movable tail sections that could potentially jam and cause pilots to lose control of the aircraft.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the final Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) order for the checks will be published in Monday's Federal Register. It specifically calls for detailed inspections of the horizontal flight-control surfaces on the tail, called elevators, as well as the parts used to secure and control them. Elevators aid planes in taking off and descending.
The Journal reported that some carries have already replaced the parts in question to avoid the inspections.
The new order comes two months before the FAA is requiring U.S. carriers to swap out suspect parts of elevator mechanisms in favor of a permanent fix designed by Boeing. The changes must be made within the next six years.
The FAA first began identifying difficulties with the elevator mechanisms in 2000, when the first enhanced checks were ordered to identify issues with fasteners or other parts of the mechanism. Since then, Boeing has issued six service bulletins involving elevators and related parts.
The FAA has not identified damaged parts and non-working elevators as being the cause of any 767 accidents.
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Big Sky Travel Insurance policy review.
Everyone loves the adventure and excitement of a holiday, regardless of whether it's a short trip interstate or a big round-the-world getaway. However, one thing many of us don't enjoy thinking about when it comes to our holidays is how we would cope financially if something went wrong, such as if we suffered an overseas medical emergency or if all our luggage and personal effects were stolen.
Big Sky is an Australian financial services organisation. In addition to its banking products, it also offers travel insurance that is designed to offer peace of mind and protection for Australian travellers.
Who is Big Sky?
Big Sky is an Australian financial services organisation that has been helping Australians with their money for more than 40 years. Just like a lot of other similar companies in Australia, Big Sky was formed by several former credit unions and building societies.
Big Sky originally started out as the BHP Employees' Credit Co-operative in 1971. Today Big Sky is a subsidiary of the Australian Unity Group. Big Sky is a mutual organisation that works to benefit its members, offering an extensive range of products and services.
In terms of banking, Big Sky provides transaction accounts, savings accounts, home loans, investment loans, personal loans, credit cards Big Sky international money transfers. It also provides financial advice across a broad spectrum, including everything from personal financial planning to self-managed superannuation, corporate superannuation and corporate risk.
From an insurance perspective, Big Sky offers personal risk cover, home and contents insurance, landlord insurance, motor vehicle insurance, caravan insurance, boat insurance, health insurance and travel insurance. It partners with Allianz, a respected global insurer, to offer its travel insurance policies to customers.Back to top
Compare Big Sky Travel Insurance options
Comprehensive Plan
This broad-ranging policy provides cover for 19 travel and medical benefits across a single trip. Comprehensive Insurance offers:
- Unlimited cancellation fees and lost deposits
- Unlimited overseas emergency medical assistance
- Unlimited overseas emergency medical and hospital expenses
- $50,000 cover for additional expenses
- A hospital cash allowance
- Accidental death
- Permanent disability
- Lost and stolen travel documents and credit cards
- Theft of cash
- Lost and stolen luggage and personal effects
- Luggage delay
- Travel delay expenses
- Personal liability.
This plan from Big Sky is designed to provide travellers with the highest level of peace of mind. This policy is available for age of all travellers.
Domestic Plan
Designed for trips within Australia, this single trip policy provides 9 benefits to travellers. It is not a medical plan, but it includes:
- Unlimited cover for cancellation fees and lost deposits
- $10,00 of cover for luggage and personal effects
- Personal liability cover
- Rental vehicle excess cover
- Travel delay expenses
- Accidental death
This policy is available for age of all travellers
Essentials Plan
As the name implies, this policy is designed for those who don't want to spend too much on insurance but would still like to have cover in place against some essential risks. Offering significantly lower premiums than comprehensive cover, this is an international rescue and medical policy for overseas travel. Cover includes:
- Unlimited overseas emergency medical assistance
- Unlimited overseas emergency medical and hospital expenses
- $2.5 million of personal liability cover
- $1,000 of cover for emergency dental expenses.
This policy is not available to travellers aged 74 years or older.
Multi-Trip Plan
If you tend to travel a lot, taking out a separate travel insurance policy for each single trip can quickly become quite expensive. But the Multi-Trip plan is designed with you in mind. It allows you to save money by offering annual cover for all the trips you take over a 12-month period. It offers all the benefits of Comprehensive Insurance including cover for medical emergencies, cancellation, luggage and medical repatriation but it offers great value for money. However, you can choose from one of these maximum journey periods: 15 days, 30 days or 45 days. This policy is not available to travellers aged 74 years or older.Back to top
Important matters concerning your policy
When you enter into an agreement with an insurer, both parties in the agreement have certain rights and responsibilities. In order to apply for a policy, you will need to be an Australian resident and purchase your policy before starting your trip. Another requirement is that your journey begins and finishes here in Australia.
A 14-day cooling-off period applies to cover, meaning that you can cancel your cover within 14 days of receiving your certificate of insurance. If you do so, you'll be refunded any premiums you may have paid.
It's also important that you fulfil your duty of disclosure when applying for cover. This duty requires you to be completely honest and detailed when you answer questions relating to your insurance application. It's up to you to furnish your insurer with any information that may influence their decision of the type of cover they will offer you. Breaching your duty may result in your policy being cancelled or your claim amount being reduced.Back to top
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Big Sky's Travel Insurance is designed to offer financial protection and security for international and domestic travellers. However, it's important that you compare the benefits, features and limits of Big Sky's policies with other market offerings to find the best policy for your next holiday.Back to top


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Real-Estate Industry Pushes Fed to Lengthen TALF Terms
The real-estate industry is lobbying the Federal Reserve for modifications to a bailout program that the industry said may avert a wave of commercial-property defaults.
Real-estate owners and investors who have talked to the Fed predict the central bank will begin offering some five-year loans under the government's Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF. That is longer than the three-year loans being offered.
While it may be a small change, the length of loans is a critical matter to the Fed, which prefers to make short-term loans. Longer-dated loans could make it more difficult for the Fed to fight inflation, as the bank can't pull back the money injected into the economy.
Real-estate investors, however, said the longer-term debt is critical to saving the commercial real-estate business, which faces a record amount of debt coming due in the next three years. Industry observers are expecting the delinquency rate to double by the end of this year and go higher next year. Problems could be magnified if the credit drought continues and owners of even healthy properties are unable to refinance.
Fed officials declined to comment on details, and some people familiar with the talks said that no decisions have been made yet. Industry executives are hopeful that the Fed will announce the program modification and other details by the end of the month.
The Treasury Department also has said that the Fed is working to ensure that the duration of the TALF loans "take into account the duration of the underlying assets." TALF makes low-cost loans available to investors who buy securities backing everything from credit cards to auto loans.
Anticipating that TALF will be modified, a number of investment firms, including BlackRock Inc., Prudential Financial Inc. and ING Groep NV unit ING Clarion Partners LLC, are positioning themselves to use the TALF program to buy high-quality commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS. Some of them aim to raise billions of dollars for that purpose.
Commercial-property debt is expected to be one of the most attractive TALF-eligible assets, because it is collateralized by office buildings, malls, warehouses and other income-producing real estate. It is perceived as less risky than consumer credit such as credit-card debt and car loans.
"We're gearing up to raise funds" to tap into the leverage offered by TALF to buy highly rated CMBS bonds, said Steve Switzky, a managing director and portfolio manager at BlackRock.
Industry executives hope that the TALF effort will resurrect the CMBS market. In 2007, about $230 billion of securities were sold. That number dropped to zero by last summer. The dearth of financing has frozen sales and sent values plummeting, setting the stage for another wave of defaults that could cripple some banks and other lenders.
The first TALF-eligible deals, involving securitized car loans and credit-card cash flows, began in March, but investor response to the program has been anemic. Investors applied for just $1.71 billion in loans on Tuesday in the second round of TALF, according to the central bank. That follows applications for $4.71 billion last month.
Obama administration officials have been promising for weeks that the TALF would be expanded to include commercial real estate. But details have been sketchy and have been a subject of debate between policy makers and the private sector.
"We're continuing working with market participants," said a New York Fed spokeswoman, who declined to comment on any specifics.
The $700 billion market for existing CMBS, which is as big as the markets for securitized auto loans, credit cards and student loans combined, has rallied in the past two weeks on hopes for TALF. Yields on the highest-quality CMBS bonds have fallen to 12% from 14% one month ago, according to Trepp LLC, which tracks the commercial-property debt market.
Bringing down the yields on existing debt is critical to spark new lending, said market participants, because investors can buy top-rated CMBS bonds that offer yields close to that of junk bonds. Those higher yields crowd out the market for new issues.
"With triple-A CMBS currently yielding as much as 15%, this doesn't bode well for property values," said Jim Higgins, chief executive officer at Sorin Capital Management, a Stamford, Conn., hedge-fund firm that is interested in participating in the TALF program.
Policy makers believe it is critical to get credit flowing to the $6.5 trillion real-estate industry. Defaults likely would rise if borrowers were unable to refinance loans as they become due.
But commercial real estate also has presented a conundrum for the Fed, because most real-estate loans are made for more than five years. Fed officials are hesitant to getting locked into long-term obligations. Earlier this year, the Fed reluctantly stretched the TALF's duration to three years from one.
The possibility of extending it further has made some regulators uneasy.
But in meetings and phone calls with New York Fed officials, who are leading the TALF effort, commercial real-estate executives and CMBS investors have pressed them to extend the program's term.
"TALF is going to be the first step in freeing up the liquidity and breaking the logjam" in the commercial real-estate debt market, said Gayle P. Starr, head of capital markets at AMB Property Corp., one of the nation's largest owners of industrial properties.
—Jon Hilsenrath and Anusha Shrivastava contributed to this article.
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ATHENS - Georgia has suspended two defensive players, including one key starter, for the Gator Bowl.
Safety Josh Harvey-Clemons and cornerback Sheldon Dawson, both sophomores, will miss the Jan. 1 game due to a violation of "team regulations," according to an announcement by UGA on Monday evening.
There was no further information on why the players were suspended. Neither player is listed in the Athens-Clarke County arrest log, which covers the past week. The suspension is not believed to be related to the drug policy, per sources.
It's not the first suspension this year for Harvey-Clemons, who missed the first game due to a violation of UGA's student-athlete drug policy. Harvey-Clemons started the next 11 games, and ranks third on the team with 66 tackles. He also has 5.5 tackles-for-loss.
Harvey-Clemons alternated this season between a traditional strong safety spot and the star position, which is a hybrid of outside linebacker and safety. He was the team's first-team strong safety in the base (3-4) scheme, and in the star position in the nickel (4-2-5) package.
Dawson only started one game this season, but his playing time had gradually increased as the season went on. He was the first-team cornerback entering the preseason before being supplanted by freshmen, first Brendan Langley and then Shaq Wiggins. But as the regular season ended Dawson was often one of the team's three cornerbacks when they were in a nickel package.
Dawson has 13 tackles this season, including one for a loss. He was also on special teams, returning seven kickoffs for an average of 21.9 yards, and one punt for zero yards.


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Black Friday Preview 2015
Black Friday is an ever-evolving event and every year we can't get enough. This year, some stores are opening way earlier, others are skipping Black Friday altogether. If you're planning to wait in line, we wish you the best of luck. Just like prior years, the deals are as good as ever. Looking back, the deals we thought were unreal are totally inflated now. In 2008 the cheapest Blu-ray player was $128 and a 50-inch 720p plasma was going for $900. In 2009 the Blu-ray player price dropped to $78 and you could get a 50-inch 1080p plasma with a Blu-ray player for $1000. Not inflated, last year the lowest price for a tier one brand HDTV was a 50″ Panasonic 1080p LED for only $199.99
Our research came from our favorite goto sites for Black Friday circulars, including:www.bfads.net, www.blackfriday.com, and blackfriday.gottadeal.com.
WalletHub put together a pretty cool analysis of 2015's Best & Worst Retailers for Black Friday Deals.
The lowest price tier one brand HDTV is at Best Buy
The largest TVs are at Sears and h.h. gregg
The list has multiple 720p TVs 32 inches or larger, more than we expected to see. There were three last year.
The list has multiple 4K TVs as well, also more than we expected to see.
Deal lists:
Amazon announced in a press release that holiday deals start on Friday, November 20, with new deals added as often as every five minutes for eight straight days – so keep an eye on their Black Friday Landing Page in order to not miss anything! Customers will have access to 10 coveted Deals of the Day starting at midnight on Thanksgiving, and up to 10 more on Black Friday. They can also shop limited-time Lightning Deals on thousands of sought-after products per day throughout the eight days of deals.
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About The HT GuysThe HT Guys, Ara Derderian and Braden Russell, are Engineers who formerly worked for the Advanced Digital Systems Group (ADSG) of Sony Pictures Entertainment. ADSG was the R&D unit of the sound department producing products for movie theaters and movie studios.
Two of the products they worked on include the DCP-1000 and DADR-5000. The DCP is a digital cinema processor used in movie theaters around the world. The DADR-5000 is a disk-based audio dubber used on Hollywood sound stages.
ADSG was awarded a Technical Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2000 for the development of the DADR-5000. Ara holds three patents for his development work in Digital Cinema and Digital Audio Recording.
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Patrick Schwarzenegger: Haircut with Dad & Christopher!
Patrick Schwarzenegger goes to get a haircut at the Giuseppe Franco Salon on Saturday (November 26) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 18-year-old aspiring model was joined by his dad Arnold and his younger brother Christopher. The trio chatted with hairstylist Giuseppe after their cuts.
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Game of Thrones Actor Sean Bean Stabbed
Bad week for Sean Bean!
Not a good week for Sean Bean to be around sharp things! The Daily Mail reports that the Game of Thrones actor, who made a painful departure from the HBO series this past Sunday, was slashed in a bar fight that same night in London. Bean was reportedly attacked while defending the honor of the Playboy model he had brought to the bar; after his assailant punched him in the face and slashed his arm with a piece of broken glass, the actor submitted to some first aid and ordered another drink. That's how they do things in
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Introduction: The Philippines, off the mainland of South East Asia, consists of 7,100 islands of which 100 or more are inhabited.
Values: Amongst East Asians, the Filipino is a one-off. He (or she) is talkative in the Latin manner; he demonstrates warmth and emotion openly; he is cosmopolitan and travels the world; he is comfortable with Americans and with Westerners in general; he is committed to democratic institutions, including freedom of speech; he distrusts and rejects authoritarianism whenever he is able.
Cultural black holes: Filipinos do not harbour particular resentment against peoples who have colonised them; they are remarkably tolerant and easy-going. But the scattered geography of the nation hinders proper national unity and common goals.
Body language: The raising of eyebrows or jerking the head upwards both are affirmative. A jerk of the head downwards means "no". If they say "yes" while putting their head downward, you can be reasonably sure that they really feel negatively about the matter.
Manners and taboos: In restaurants men still hiss to attract waiters. Women often signal with their fans.
Leadership style: Filipino managers pay lip service to the democratic ideal, but are rather autocratic in their management style. They maintain a considerable power distance vis-à-vis subordinates.
Concept of time: A manaña tendency has also been inherited from the Spanish. When making appointments, it is advisable to ask if they are 'American time' or 'Filipino time'. In the case of the latter, one or two hours late is not unusual.
Communication patterns: Filipinos' dialogue-oriented, rather emotional communication somewhat resembles Spanish, but is less forceful and exuberant. Oratory is valued and speeches can be lengthy.
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I think the concept of this book was to big for the book or to big for the author, I'm not quite sure which. The book was rather short, but I just couldn't get into regardless. I tried, I got about half way through and that was it. I really wish I could have gotten into it. The premise and plot line of the book was good, it could have been expanded and made into a bigger book, most definitely. I think the author could retry this book and it would be wonderful. I truly wish I could have been able to get more into it.
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