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Entwined is a new experiment in erotica, bringing together all-star authors and fans into a single immersive experience. In each volume, one award-winning author contributes the opening scenes to a new erotic adventure. But when the heroine reaches a decision point, the narrative fractures into wildly different pathways from hardcore BDSM to lighter, more romantic fare, and all of the shades in between, listeners can listen to and replay high-quality fractures, each written by an award-winning erotica author in her own genre.
Included are:"Eight Days In May", Chastity lands back in Ireland in ménage a trois with a husband and wife; "Hers" she finds herself in a sexy girl/girl BDSM adventure; "Wild Oats" has Chastity taking a paranormal romp through time with her own personal dream guardian; "Dear Girl" takes her deep into the world of BDSM with men, women and multiple partners.
©2012 Cecilia Tan, Lacey Michaels, Debra Hyde, Lissa Trevor (P)2012 Audio Realms Publishing Company
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"Hot, Innocent and Smart!"
Love tales that takes you to thoughts that may unspeakble sometimes and explores a juicy journey. The Book explores more than Eroticism but about the lives that arent afraid live in a rich way. It works! The couple not only invites the Woman but the reader too.
Of course, Meg!
Her pace and tone was innocent and confident at the same time; which made the Erotic sections even Hotter; as if you were watching. Great job at the accents. Thats when the Story comes alive...
When 3 makes a perfect Circle
"Tre Interesting."
I didn't really care for the reader. Her tone wasn't right for this book.
This was an interesting book. It tells somewhat of the same story multiple ways. You find the main character behaving differently based on the writer. Each story starts the same, but veers in new directions. Hince the titled Entwined. Each story has the same main character but each story is different. It's an okay listen. The reader kills it a little for me.
"Well written; liked the different storylines"
I would listen to my favorite story 'Wild Oats' over and over again, since straight sex is more my style. I liked the paranormal/dream factor about it :-) (and the thought of being able to go back in time and consummate my passion with several past love interests ;-))
Also, 'Eight Days in May' with Chastity and the Irish hubby and wife was also sexy, interesting and had an ending I didn't expect!
I liked the concept - Chapter 1 is the same beginning, but then each story takes the main character, Chastity into a different direction, a different choice and a completely different ending. I was very pleased that each author writes very well. I don't know a lot about bdsm, but I learned a lot listening to 'Hers' and 'Dear Girl'.
All very erotic, very sensual - and I like how all the characters are fleshed out. There is a background to each - and everyone is likeable, even with their...different tastes in sex.
Chastity, the main character. I also enjoyed how she portrayed Mr. Darcy in 'Wild Oats'.
I have no idea why one reviewer said the stories were all the same - they are all unique, stand-alone stories. The only constant in each story is the main character, Chastity with a couple of characters reappearing and 'entwined' with one another, BUT in a different mode and thought process. Each story is a different type of sexual encounter, sexual genre and relationship.
The whole concept is well though out - allowing customer participation for future storylines is very refreshing too.
"Way better than Fifty Shades of Grey!!!"
What a great concept! Get a bunch of great authors together of different romance/erotica genres, take the same beginning and write a different story in that author's genre on the same main character!
Not sure if this publisher will always offer this lower pricing structure on these stories on Audible, but if so, you definitely get more 'bang' for your buck buying and listening to the 'Entwined' stories ;-)
Can't wait for Volume 2 to 'come' out !
No, I could not listen to her voice any longer.
The narrator
Monotone, no spunk. She sounded like a robot.
"Seriously....... This was rubbish!!!"
I would try one, but only if it was free to try, it could have just been one bad one?!?!
I think it was the characters descriptions were pretty ugly and it's hard getting into it when the characters are unattractive
I couldn't get past the first 2 hours so not sure.
"Couldn't get past the narrator..."
I could not get past the monotone, robotic narrator to determine if the stories were worth listening to. I'm usually pretty forgiving but she was TERRIBLE!
Don't know. Gave it neutral 3 stars to try and be fair. Listened to 20 minutes and couldn't take anymore.
Get a different narator
Maybe, but no more collections.
Not sure.
This was literally the same story repeated 4 times.
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BERLIN – Two juveniles were injured Monday morning when their vehicle overturned on Route 589 at Gray's Corner Rd. and police inspecting the car after the crash found a bag of psychedelic mushrooms.
Around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, a Maryland State Police trooper was dispatched to the area of Route 589 and Gray's Corner Rd. for a reported accident. The trooper discovered a white 2004 Jeep Cherokee had overturned, injuring the two occupants including an unidentified juvenile and a local girl. Both were transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash.
The trooper conducted an inventory of items in the vehicle in an effort to identify the owner and found a clear plastic baggie containing suspected psilocybin, or psychedelic mushrooms, in the cargo area of the Jeep behind the rear seats. The driver was charged with possession of CDS-not marijuana and was released to his parents at PRMC.
Boat Accident Injures Teen
WEST OCEAN CITY – A teenager was flown to Shock Trauma in Baltimore with serious injuries last weekend after driving a boat under a dock on Herring Creek in West Ocean City and getting thrown into the water.
Around 5 p.m. last Sunday, Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) responded to Herring Creek for a reported boating accident. The investigation revealed a 13-year-old boy was operating a personal watercraft in violation of the law when he attempted to approach a dock. According to reports, the juvenile drove the watercraft under the dock and was knocked off into the water.
The juvenile sustained serious injuries in the accident and was flown by Maryland State Police helicopter to Shock Trauma in Baltimore with serious injuries. Brian Jay Dalamater was charged with knowingly allowing a person under 16 years of age to operate a personal watercraft and for failure to possess a valid registration for the vessel. The NRP Special Operation Division is investigating the accident.
Smashed Windows Lead
To Burglary Charges
OCEAN CITY – A Deale, Md. man faces burglary and malicious destruction of property charges this week after allegedly breaking into a pair of midtown condominiums last Sunday.
Around 8:30 p.m. last Sunday, Ocean City Police officers responded to La Mirage on 62nd Street for a reported breaking and entering in progress. Upon arrival, the officers observed the front window of Unit 603 was broken and that it had been opened. While waiting for a K-9 unit to arrive, the first officer heard the sound of glass breaking coming from the 6th floor.
The K-9 officer arrived and noticed the doorknob at 603 had been bent sideways, but the door was still locked and secure. The K-9 officer also tried the door at 604 and found it locked and secured. The K-9 officer announced his presence and warned whoever was inside 603 to come out or he would send the dog in. A short time later, a suspect, later identified as Phillip Kelly Woodell, 38, of Deale, Md., came out of 604 and was immediately taken into custody as police sorted out what was going on in the units.
Woodell asked police why he was being detained and the officer told him he was a suspect in a burglary. Woodell allegedly responded, "I work at the University of Maryland, why would I break into someone's room." When asked if he knew where he was right now, Woodell allegedly responded, "I have no idea," according to police reports. The officers noted in their reports Woodell appeared intoxicated and detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from his person. They also observed a cut on his finger with fresh blood.
A search of the two units revealed the rear sliding glass door of 603 was standing open and that the cabinets in the unit had been opened. A search of 604 revealed the rear sliding glass door had been shattered and the cabinets and refrigerator were standing open. Police observed a small table on the balcony of 604 had been overturned and they believe the table was used to smash the sliding door. They also discovered an overturned Coke can on the balcony as well as sunflower seeds, which would further connect Woodell to the break-ins later.
Prior to arriving on the scene, one of the officers was notified by dispatch that a yellow car pulled up to the rear of the building earlier. The officer looked and discovered a yellow Mitsubishi with Virginia tags with a University of Maryland parking sticker on the back windshield. The officer also discovered several sunflower seeds scattered on the driver's seat and in the center console. A background check on the vehicle discovered it was registered to a Phillis Ann Woodell of South Riding, Va. Phillip Woodell was arrested and charged with two counts of breaking and entering and three counts of malicious destruction of property.
Natty Boh And Resisting Arrest
OCEAN CITY – A Monkton man was charged with resisting arrest last Saturday after an OCPD officer questioned him about drinking an open beer on the Boardwalk.
Around 6:45 p.m. last Saturday, an OCPD officer on routine patrol on the Boardwalk near 1st Street observed a man later identified as Michael Degen Rueter, 18, drinking a can of National Bohemian beer. When the officer asked Rueter how old he was, the suspect responded 21, but when asked his date of birth, Rueter told the officer he was born on June 12, 1990, which only made him 18 years old.
The officer informed Rueter he was under arrest, but the suspect did not go quietly, according to police reports. He struggled with the arresting officers and had to be brought down to the ground before he could be restrained. Rueter was charged with public consumption and resisting arrest.
City Bus Fight
OCEAN CITY – Two individuals were charged with resisting arrest last weekend after an altercation on an Ocean City bus.
Around 12:35 a.m. last Sunday, OCPD officers were dispatched to assist with a reported fight on a Town of Ocean City bus. After officers arrived and separated the parties involved in the fight on the bus, several of the parties remained agitated and resisted police attempts to calm the disturbance. For example, a seasonal officer had to tell a female suspect, later identified as Hortencia Margareta Herrera, 23, of Bowie, several times to back away from the officers investigating the situation. Another suspect with a camera, identified as Leroy Francis Jones, 23, of Suitland, repeatedly walked within two feet of the officers conducting the investigation and was repeatedly told to back off.
Jones was instructed to go to a place several feet away, but repeatedly attempted to walk past the officers with his camera. According to police reports, Jones was told at least six times to wait on an area of the public sidewalk away from the investigation but continued to force the issue. When officers attempted to handcuff Jones, he resisted and it took several police to eventually get him handcuffed.
As police were struggling with Jones, Herrera grabbed Jones' arm in an attempt to prevent him from being cuffed. Eventually, she was pulled away and taken into custody. According to police reports, Herrera appeared intoxicated and an odor of alcohol emanated from her person. When she was handcuffed, she immediately began urinating, according to police reports.
After his arrest, Jones was seated on a curb to wait for a prisoner transport when he began hurling racial expletives toward the officers, causing several people in the area to come out on their balconies to witness the disturbance. Herrera was charged with obstructing and hindering and interfering with a lawful arrest. Jones was charged with obstructing and hindering and disorderly conduct.
No Ticket For Pot
OCEAN CITY – A Baltimore man was arrested on marijuana possession charges last weekend after asking police to just write him a ticket for the infraction.
Around 11:30 p.m. last Saturday, an OCPD officer on bike patrol in the downtown area observed a man, later identified as Kyle Vincent Brown, 23, of Baltimore, sitting in the grass near an alley in the area of Wilmington Ave. and 2nd Street. The officer observed Brown taking a drag from a marijuana cigarette. The officer approached Brown and ordered him to place the marijuana cigarette on the ground and the suspect complied. He was then handcuffed and placed under arrest for possession of marijuana.
Brown was read his rights and told police he understood them. The officer asked Brown if he had any other marijuana or drugs on him and he replied he did not. Brown then said "I'm leaving tomorrow, can't I just get a ticket for this? I'll pay the ticket," according to police reports. He was informed he could not get a ticket and was arrested and charged with possession.
Open Container Leads
To Weapons Charge
OCEAN CITY – A Westminster man was arrested on a weapons charge last weekend after resort police questioned him about an open container of beer.
Around 10:30 p.m. last Saturday, an OCPD officer on bicycle patrol observed a man later identified as Bryan Edward Roulette, 21, of Westminster, holding an open bottle of Corona while standing on a public street in the area of Wilmington Lane and 2nd Street. The officer informed Roulette it was illegal to be carrying an open container of alcohol on the street and had him sit on the curb while he checked the status of the driver's license.
When the officer returned with the identification, he asked Roulette if he had any drugs or weapons on him, to which Roulette responded he had a knife in his pocket. The officer searched Roulette and found a switchblade knife in his right front pocket where Roulette told him it would be. Roulette was arrested and charged with possession of a concealed dangerous weapon.
Sting Nets Two Pot Busts
OCEAN CITY – Two men were arrested on drug charges last weekend after selling pot to OCPD undercover narcotics agents on the Boardwalk.
Last Saturday, two OCPD undercover officers were working on the Boardwalk attempting to purchase controlled dangerous substances from individuals. While walking on the Boardwalk in the area of 4th Street at around 11:20 p.m., the officers heard a man, later identified as Ontavius White, 20, of Odenton, asking another man if he was looking for "trees," a widely known slang term for marijuana. At the time, White was sitting next to another man later identified as Cory Ridolfi, 19, of Glen Burnie.
The officer approached White and Ridolfi and asked them if they had any "tree." According to police reports, White looked at Ridolfi and said "Yeah, we can hook you up all day, everyday," and Ridolfi said "it's in the whip."
White told the two undercover officers to follow him to his car and they began to walk with him north on the Boardwalk toward 5th Street. During the walk, the officers engaged in a conversation with White about CDS. Ridolfi and White asked the officers how much pot they were looking to buy and the officers responded they would take a gram or whatever they could get. They ultimately agreed to purchase a gram for $15.
At that point, an unidentified man joined the group, and White and Ridolfi ran across Baltimore Ave. before the officers could safely cross. They headed north on Wilmington Ave. The officers followed and White and Ridoli emerged from Wilmington Lane a short time later. The deal was consummated with the officers handing over $15 in cash from the OCPD confidential funds, which had been photocopied earlier to record the serial numbers. Uniformed officers then arrived on the scene and arrested Ridolfi and White for conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
Fugitive Apprehended
BERLIN – A routine seat belt surveillance operation resulted in drug and traffic charges this week.
While monitoring traffic for seat belt violations during "Click It or Ticket" month, a Berlin Police officer observed a green Honda Accord traveling north on Route 113 with its operator not wearing his seatbelt. During the subsequent traffic stop, the operator, later found to be Terrance F. Collins, 45, of Berlin, gave the officer a false name and date of birth.
Police finally obtained his true identity and found his license to be suspended in two states and wanted in Maryland for the past two years for drug and traffic charges. Collins was taken into custody without incident and was being held at the Worcester County Jail on a $10,000 bond.
Handgun Seized
BERILN – A motor vehicle collision investigation early yesterday morning revealed one motorist was unlawfully carrying a loaded weapon.
At approximately 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, Maryland State Police responded to the area of Route 113 and Cropper Island Road for an accident. The investigation revealed a loaded 9 mm handgun inside the left saddle bag of a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle involved in the accident.
Deborah Drew of Mulberry, Fla. Claimed ownership of the handgun, according to police reports. Police said the Kel-Tec, semi-automatic pistol had a full magazine of seven rounds inside the weapon with a found chambered. She did not possess a valid permit to carry a handgun in Maryland.
Drew and her husband, David, were transported to PRMC for their injuries sustained in the accident. Further investigation found David Drew to be "at fault" in the collision. He was issued citations and released without further criminal charges stemming from the firearm possession.
Assault, Arson Threat
At WOC Campground
BERLIN – A Chestertown man with a history of violence and arson was arrested last week and charged with assault and threat of arson after attacking his parents at a West Ocean City campground.
Shortly after 4 p.m. last Saturday, Maryland State Police troopers responded to Frontier Town in reference to a reported fight in progress. Upon arrival, troopers made contact with the victims who advised their son, later identified as Brian Keith Neal, 32, of Chestertown, assaulted them and became violent after an argument occurred.
The female victim told police Neal grabbed her and threw her to the ground. Her husband, Neal's father, then intervened, but was punched in the face by his son, according to police reports. Neal continued to use profanities toward his parents in the presence of his wife and children. At one point, Neal threatened to burn his parents' house down, a statement that was made in the presence of police officers.
Neal was ultimately arrested and charged with threat of arson, two counts of second-degree assault on both of his parents and disorderly conduct. The investigation revealed Neal is currently on probation for a first-degree arson conviction in another state. Neal was taken before a District Court Commissioner and ordered held on a $75,000 bond.
Probation, Fine For
Pot Grow Operation
OCEAN CITY – An Ocean City teen arrested in April after a narcotics investigation revealed an indoor marijuana growing operation in his residence pleaded guilty last week to possession of pot and was fined and placed on probation.
On April 17, the OCPD narcotics unit concluded a one-month investigation with the arrest of Daniel Paul Schaefer, 19. The narcotics unit executed a search and seizure warrant at Schaefer's residence on Old Landing Rd. and found the suspect inside smoking marijuana. A search of Schaefer's room revealed marijuana, numerous items of paraphernalia, "owe" sheets, digital scales, packaging materials and a small, indoor marijuana growing operation.
The indoor grow operation included functioning high intensity light bulbs over marijuana plants, the largest of which was over two-feet tall and fully mature. Schaefer was arrested and charged with manufacturing marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana and crack cocaine and possession of paraphernalia.
Last week in District Court, Schaefer pleaded guilty to one count of possession of marijuana and the other charges against him were not prosecuted. He was fined $300 and placed on probation for one year.
Home Invasion Case
Headed to Circuit
SNOW HILL – A Snow Hill man arrested in April for an alleged armed home invasion in the county seat in March appeared in District Court for a preliminary hearing last week and had his case forwarded to Circuit Court.
Shortly after 2 a.m. on March 30, Snow Hill Police responded to a residence on Ross Street for a reported home invasion. The Worcester County Bureau of Investigation (WCBI) was called to the scene and conducted a forensic and criminal investigation. The investigation revealed two male suspects forcibly entered the victim's residence and attempted to rob the victim. The victim was assaulted and was later transported to PRMC in Salisbury with a severe laceration to the forehead.
The investigation identified two suspects including Kendall Garzette Norman, 24, of Snow Hill, who has been charged with first-degree burglary, assault, reckless endangerment and armed robbery. The second suspect has not been identified. Norman appeared in District Court last week and had his case forwarded to Circuit Court.
Probation For Drug Bust
OCEAN CITY – One of three local people arrested in March after a month-long investigation into drug distribution in the resort area pleaded guilty this week to possession of marijuana and was fined and placed on probation.
Sara Elizabeth Morells, 19, of Ocean City, appeared in District Court this week to face drug charges following her arrest in March. The OCPD narcotics unit concluded a month-long investigation into drug distribution in March with three arrests including Morells, Donnell Taylor, 27, and Patrice Shelton, 18, all of Ocean City.
Morells and Taylor were both charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, while Shelton was charged with possession of marijuana and hydrocodone.
During the arrests, OCPD officers seized roughly 182 grams of marijuana, four hydrocodone pills and a 1999 Jeep Cherokee. This week, Morells pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana and was fined $300 and placed on probation for one year. Taylor had his case forwarded to Circuit Court last month and has not yet appeared for trial, while Shelton is scheduled to appear in District Court on June 15.
Some Cruisin' Numbers In
OCEAN CITY – The Worcester County Sheriff's Office this week issued a report on its activity during the Cruisin' event two weeks ago in and around the resort area.
Thousands of classic cars arrived in the resort area for the annual spring event during the weekend of May 15-17 and most behaved themselves for the most part although there was a significant amount of police activity associated with the event. Multiple law enforcement agencies cooperate to police the annual event, one of the busiest of the spring season. This week, the Worcester County Sheriff's Department released its figures for Cruisin' week. The Sheriff's Office issued 192 traffic citations and 115 traffic warnings. Sheriff's deputies made 10 arrests and assisted the OCPD 90 times on various calls for service.

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I tried to find this mentioned somewhere but no luck so posting a new thread to see if this happens to anyone else.
I open my browser, go about my business. Then begin typing in a doman name and for no reason sometimes the 1st letter (always only the 1st letter) of the domain shows up TWICE in the URL bar in IE (or Firefox if using that).
I got suspicious because after having this for months, noticed that it often happened when that 1st letter happens to correspond with one of my banking or broker websites.
Got REALLY suspicious because EVERYTIME this happens I do not land on a 'can not find website' error, but end up at a parked site shoveling all manner of online shopping site links.
I realize a lot of squatters out there grab up mis-spelled versions of popular domain names (try www.gggoogle.com), so maybe a coincidence.
Just wonder if do I have some kind of keylogger that jumps in and doubles up the 1st letter when I'm typing something into a URL box of a search engine or web browser?
This sounds crazy, but I am positive my keyboard never double prints a letter when I'm typing in Word, Excel or even in this edit box right now. Never. Only when typing a URL in manually.
And I changed my keyboard to be sure, even went back to an old round plug version for a week. Keyboards tried are USB wired not wireless. Still same phenomenom.
In closing, Zonelarm extreme detects nothing, Spybot the same.
Will see if I get any hits on this thread to see if I'm crazy or not.
Hopefully I'm nuts and no one else has seen this issue.


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Sisters of Charity Hospital is Awarded Two Queen Size Bed Sets from Metro Mattress
Home » About Us » News » 2011 News » Sisters of Charity Hospital is Awarded Two Queen Size Bed Sets from Metro Mattress
July 26, 2011
Parents of babies in the Sisters of Charity Hospital NICU are sleeping a little easier thanks to a generous donation from Metro Mattress.
The local mattress company donated two queen-sized mattresses and frames to the hospital as part of its "50 Beds in 50 Days" charitable giveaway. Sisters Hospital will use the beds in its NICU Family Sleep Rooms. Metro Mattress will be delivering the bed sets on July 27.
The two Sleep Rooms are located across from the NICU and are available to families who are getting ready to take their infant home. The overnight suites provide a relaxing environment for new parents to stay with their infants prior to being discharged. It is important for new parents to learn how to care for their new bundle of joy especially if they are going to be sent home on oxygen or have other special needs. The suites give the parents the opportunity to gain confidence and knowledge about caring for their new baby.
Sisters Hospital NICU is a level III neonatal intensive care unit specifically designed for ill or premature babies.
Our Special Care Nursery is designed to comfort our new born babies in an environment that minimizes light and sound. This supports healthy growth while providing space for the babies and their families. Our highly trained doctors and nurses have the skill and expertise to treat a variety of neonatal medical conditions, so you can be confident that your baby is receiving the most advanced care available by our caring and compassionate medical team.


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Woosley has been the lottery's chief legal counsel since its start in 2009. Interim director Julie Baldridge confirmed his appointment in a release but declined comment when reached by phone, referring calls to Woosley.
Woosley, a former assistant attorney general for the state, was chosen from a field of seven finalists. His appointment is effectively immediately.
He will take over for Ernie Passailaigue (PASS'-uh-lay), who resigned in September after criticism over his management of the games and his $324,000 annual salary. Woosley will be paid $165,000 annually, according to Baldridge in her release.
State law sets the lottery director's maximum salary at $141,603, but the director can be paid up to $354,000 if approved by a legislative committee. The Lottery Commission on Monday capped the director's salary at $175,000 in response to the criticism over Passailaigue's pay.
The decision to pick Woosley as director followed a daylong meeting of the commissioners with all nine members present. Woosley and six other candidates were interviewed Saturday prior to the commissioners' deliberations and decision.
The others up for the job were: former Pennsylvania horse track and casino executive Richard Knight, New Hampshire Lottery Director Charles McIntyre, former Clinton administration aide Bob Nash, former Georgia Lottery Senior Vice President Joan Schoubert, state House of Representatives Chief of Staff Bill Stovall and former Kansas Lottery Director Edwin Van Petten.


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I made a program in Borland C++ Builder 6 and the program uses a ActiveX control (VTChart). The program works fine on computers with Borland installed, however; not on other machines. I receive the message, "Class not registered." I believe this is caused by the required DLL/OCX files not being installed.
I have looked through the help file for the VTChart and found a list of dependencies.
The help files says that the items in the first list need to be in the Windows System directory. The second list of files, the help doc claims, were installed and registered by Borland.
- List 1
- List 2
So here is my problem. I copied the files listed and brought them along with my exe to see if I could make it work. I thought that I would be able to put the first list of files in C:\Windows\system32 and then use regsvr32 on the second list of files.
However, when I try to register these files, only the first one will register. The other two give me the message, "[DLL Path & Name] was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found."
Am I doing something wrong? Anyone have any ideas.
Please let me know if I have been unclear or if there more I can post!
Thanks in advance.


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SDCC 09: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Swings to Digital Ongoing
Beginning Nov. 9, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited will begin to offer original, in-continuity stories that tie into the world of Amazing Spider-Man.
"The print comic is going to continue into the online comic and vice versa," said Spider-Man "brain trust" member Bob Gale, who will write the online Spider-Man stories. "If you're familiar with what we're doing in the print comics, it'll make this better. But if you're not, it's OK, because we're going to do footnotes, etc. So it's going to be a very reader friendly format in terms of what you do or don't know in terms of current continuity."
The comics, which were announced Friday at San Diego Comic-Con during the Cup O' Joe panel, will run every other Monday. This isn't the first time Marvel's online service offered original content. In fact, Marvel announced last October that original Amazing Spider-Man stories would be among the digital-only comics launched at the Digital Comics Unlimited portal.
However, the ongoing series of stories will be a first for Spider-Man, one of the company's premier characters.
"Spider-Man is one of the most fun and complex fictional characters who has ever existed," said John Cerilli, director of content for the Marvel Digital Media Group. "He's such a rich persona that there are countless great Spider-Man stories to tell. So if we have the opportunity to explore Spidey's universe even more by publishing this material digitally first, why not? We enhance and enrich what's going on inside the printed comics and that's got to make any Spider-Man fan happy."
Gale said the storytelling style in the first few issues is inspired by the way Marvels was told from the point of view of everyday people, showing how superheroes influenced others' lives. The writer is introducing some new characters to Spidey's supporting cast in the story, which is based on an idea he introduced at a recent Spider-Man summit.
"Steve asked me to think about doing some original content for the website way back last year, but we weren't really sure when it would happen or if it would happen or how we would do this thing," Gale said. "Then at our last retreat, I threw out an idea almost as a joke, and Steve got ahold of me afterwards and said there could be something to that. We thought maybe we could do this in the original online comics."
The writer thinks Spider-Man is the ideal character for this type of online tie-in because he's already so well-known, so newcomers can enjoy the stories as well as long-time readers.
The comics will start with a serialized story, with the first chapter being a little longer than the ones that follow, which will be the equivalent of six to nine pages, Gale said, although he's not writing the comic as "pages."
"We've all read comics on the internet and seen the CD-Rom collections, and it's not a good way to read comics if you have to scroll around the pages," Gale said. "But we're going to do this so nobody ever has to scroll off the screen to see a piece of artwork. We're just going to present the comic one panel at a time. So instead of thinking of one page as the form, I'm doing this as each panel. We can make the panels different sizes, depending on what the dramatic impact of each one is going to be. You know, an isolated Peter Parker might be a single panel in the lower right corner of your screen. But we're going to show one panel at a time."
Gale said he actually sees a benefit to both the creators and the readers in using a comic format that shows one panel at a time.
"It was appealing to me because we'll get to use the element of surprise, which you don't get to do so often in a comic, because you can thumb through it or you happen to look at a page ahead and you kind of didn't get the dramatic impact that the creators wanted you to have," Gale said. "But this is the chance to do that, plus a bunch of other original stuff. And that, to me, is what is exciting is the form. I'm really jazzed about doing something different with this."
Cerilli said that while the"digital first" comics are less than a year old, the program has been successful enough for Marvel to continue offering original content for online subscribers.
"We will continue offering a huge variety of titles and as the exclusives concept grows, we'll see where it makes sense to tie-in to current continuity," he said. "We just had great success with the Captain America Reborn: Prologue free digital exclusive, which tied directly into the first issue of the Reborn series, so we'll certainly be looking at more of these types of things.
"It's something we want to do because we see an opportunity to entertain both new and longtime fans alike," he said. "Ultimately, we see it as an opportunity to expose what's happening in our paper comics to people coming to us digitally. If they like it online, we know they'll seek out more of what they like in their local comic shops."Newsarama Note: Artwork in Header not from Digital Comic


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Best Nintendo Kids Games
Nintendo Gifts Fit For Little Gamers (and Their Parents)
Nintendo Gifts Fit For Little Gamers (and Their Parents)
Who are we kidding, these rated-E-for-everyone games really are fun to play at any age, and even serious adults can get down with Scribblenauts.
Nintendo's latest consoles — the Wii U, which just hit stores on Nov. 18, and the eye-popping Nintendo 3DS — have downright entertaining (and, beware, sometimes addicting) games available this holiday season, including offerings for kids. We've rounded up the Nintendo gifts for little gamers that will win over parents, and may even entice older siblings out of hiding (but no guarantees).
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Before we get to movies, thanks for all your feedback yesterday on Miranda Lambert. There's one celebrity newlywed with a truly devoted fanbase. Now, as we ease into the first weekend of November, there's a chill in the air (even in Southern California) and we're starting to see movies with a holiday bent. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas is just such an animal, and it's likely to be one of the weekend's most popular. Once again we get John Cho, Kal Penn, and Neil Patrick Harris; this one takes place a few years after the dudes have exited Guantanamo Bay. This movie will be fun, raucous, raunchy and it'll occupy an audience that's largely male, under 40, and probably high.
Meanwhile, possibly interchangeable with the aforementioned audience (only this one will appeal to an even larger crowd) we have Tower Heist. Which is all about a group of regular guys – trodden upon and manipulated by one rich businessman – who decide to take the law into their own hands. It's the ultimate revenge comedy and heist movie all in one. It's also one of the most star-laden big budget numbers to come along in a while: Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Alan Alda, Casey Affleck, Gabourey Sidibe, and Tea Leoni head up a huge cast. Plus Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, X Men) directed, so you know there will be effects galore. Ratner's also producing the Academy Awards so we know why Eddie Murphy's got the top job there this year, too. It's been a long time since Murphy appeared in human form and minus wigs or prosthetic devices – hence there's a lot ridng on Tower Heist but I suspect it'll do gangbusters. Besides, given the economic climate today, and all the people fed up and protesting corporate greed, how could it not?
So these two movies are made for very specific audiences and both are likely to do well. The next movie opening has three stars whose fan base(s) could not be more different. As in Channing Tatum. And Al Pacino. And Juliette Binoche. I cannot even imagine the casting process behind this one. But that's who stars in The Son of No One, which appears to be a gritty shoot 'em up about a young police officer who winds up on a beat in his old neighborhood. There, we learn, the ghosts of his past are more than ready to welcome him home with open arms (and more than a few dark secrets). I don't think this movie will have a huge fan base in theaters, but I do believe its post-cineplex shelf life will be impressive.
That's it – just three big movies in theaters this weekend, although there's certainly no shortage of flicks to catch out there (Moneyball, Ides of March come to mind as super worth it). My guess is that there would have been more movies opening this weekend until a few of the studios realized if they waited a week and opened on "11/11/11" that would be a much cooler way to go. As always, let us know what you see and what you thought.
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In the wake of at least five reported carbon monoxide deaths and 100 illnesses in the Northwest this week, public health officials in the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) are reminding people that it's never safe to burn alternative fuels inside their homes.
"In these recent cases, power outages and extreme cold caused people to seek ways to keep warm," said Mel Kohn, M.D., state epidemiologist in the DHS Public Health Division. "But you should not burn gasoline, propane, natural gas or charcoal inside your home. Even operating devices that burn these fuels inside a basement, garage or near an open window can be dangerous."
Kohn said the danger is that these devices produce carbon monoxide, a colorless, odorless and lethal gas that can build up in enclosed or semi-enclosed spaces. If people breathe too much of the gas, they are poisoned because red blood cells pick up carbon monoxide faster than they do oxygen. Thus, oxygen is prevented from getting into the body and the result is tissue damage and even death.
"Carbon monoxide can poison you to death while you sleep, but it's completely preventable," Kohn said.
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The most common symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are headache, dizziness, weakness, nausea, vomiting, chest pain and confusion. However, people who are sleeping or who have been drinking alcohol can die from poisoning before ever having symptoms, according to Kohn.
It is estimated that each year, more than 500 Americans needlessly die from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning, Kohn noted. DHS data for Oregon shows that in the past two years, 10 people died of unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning. Additional information is on the CDC Web site.


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Extreme Weather Delays Efforts to Regain Control of Run-aground Oil Rig
On Monday night, an oil drilling rig owned by Dutch Royal Shell ran aground on Sitkalidak Island in southern Alaska, prompting fears of an oil spill. As of yesterday no oil was seen leaking from the rig according to the Coast Guard, but efforts to secure the rig have floundered due to extreme weather. The rig, dubbed Kulluk, contains over 140,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
The incident occurred when harsh weather caused the rig to break free from a ship that was towing the Kulluk from the Arctic back to its winter headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Rescuers quickly evacuated.
Environmental groups were quick to point out that the stranded rig represented their long-expressed fears that drilling in the Arctic was too risky to be worthwhile.
"[Shell] claims to have a 'world class' Arctic programme in place to deal with any accidents, but the running aground of the Kulluk again shows how utterly incapable Shell is of operating safely in one of the planet's most remote and extreme environments," Ben Ayliffe with Greenpeace wrote on a blog today.
Shell has already suffered a number of setbacks and embarrassments this year in its attempt to drill off-shore in the Arctic. After finally gaining the permits to drill in the Arctic seabed by the Obama Administration, numerous problems meant Shell had to abandon any hope of drilling this summer, but the oil giant plans to return next summer.
Critics argue that the harsh weather, floating ice, and remoteness of Arctic waters means it should be off-limits to oil drilling. Shell's plans, and the Obama Administration's approval, has been opposed by environmentalists, indigenous people, and some locals.
Shell is only able to operate in the region during the short Arctic summer before winter ice sets in, but this also means if a spill occurs at the end of the season it could be impossible to clean up. This problem was recently reaffirmed by the U.S. Coast Guard after conducting its first test of oil recovery systems for cleaning up a potential Arctic spill.
"It does not work in icy waters but it does work in the open waters of the Arctic," Coast Guard Rear Admiral Thomas Ostebo said at the time.
Crews are now waiting for weather to clear before attempting to gain control of the rig again.
See more at MONGABAY.COM.
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Huck Finn's n-word: Preserving Artistic Integrity or Ethnic Property Rights?January 14, 2011 at 11:35 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Tags: huckleberry finn, local, mark twain, n-word, naacp, slavery
Guest Editorial by Rev. Irene Monroe
As Americans we have a hard time talking about race in this country when the n-word is not involved. And when this epithet is, predictably, we behave schizophrenically.
And much of the kerfuffle is about who's staking a claim on its use.
The now recent kerfuffle concerning the n-word is focused on Samuel Langhorne Clemens', known fondly to us as Mark Twain, New South Books edition of the 1885 controversial classic "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
In a combined effort to rekindle interest in this Twain classic and to tamp down the flame and fury the use of the n-word engenders both from society and readers alike, who come across the epithet 219 times in the book, Mark Twain Scholar, Alan Gribben, an English professor at Auburn University in Alabama, proposed the idea that the n-word be replaced with the word "slave."
"The n-word possessed, then as now, demeaning implications more vile than almost any insult that can be applied to other racial groups. There is no equivalent slur in the English language. As a result, with every passing decade this affront appears to gain rather than lose its impact. Even at the level of college and graduate school, students are capable of resenting textual encounters with this racial appellative," Gribben writes in the introduction of the new edition.
I think for grade and middle school students, the word should be removed. I remember reading the text as a sixth grader at a predominately white public school in Brooklyn and suffering mightily from both the teacher's inept ability to contextualize the text and from my classmates' insensitivity concerning the epithet. But several years later, unfortunately, I experienced "deja vu all over again" with this text. This time, I was a first year student at Wellesley College and suffering mightily, because of the professor's ineptitude in contextualizing the use of racist language.
Gribben's intent in substituting the epithet with the word "slave" is to make the book user-friendly for a certain school-age group so that a teachable moment on the inflammatory use of racial epithets can be civilly addressed and analyzed in a learning environment. However, because of an often volatile reaction to Twain's use of the n-word in"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," we miss not only the intended lesson but also the beauty of the story and the bonding that take place between Huck (the protagonist) and Jim (an adult enslaved African American who escaped from slavery) because both are runaways trying to reach freedom.
I am troubled, however, in this recent kerfuffle concerning the n-word how many of us African Americans, in particular, go back and forth on its politically correct use.
Let's do a walk down memory lane:
In December 2006 we blamed Michael Richards, who played the lovable and goofy character Kramer on the TV sit-com "Seinfeld" for using the n-word. The racist rant was heard nationwide and shocked not only his fans and audience that night at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood but it also shocked Americans back to an ugly era inU.S. history.
In July 2008 we heard the Rev. Jessie Jackson used the n-word referring to Obama. And Jackson using the word not only reminded us of its history but also how the n-word can slip so approvingly from the mouth of a man who was part of a cadre of African Americans leaders burying the n-word once and for all in mock funeral at the 98th annual NAACP's convention in Detroit in 2007.
And in 2009 Dr. Laura Schlessinger ending her radio show, a week after she broadcast a five-minute-long rant in which she used the N-word 11 times.
In 2003, the NAACP convinced Merriam-Webster lexicographers to change the definition of the n-word in the dictionary to no longer mean African Americans but instead to be defined as a racial slur. And, while the battle to change the n-word in the American lexicon was a long and arduous one, our culture's neo-revisionist use of the n-word makes it even harder to purge the sting of the word from the American psyche.
We must, as Americans, look at the systemic problem of what happens when an epithet like the n-word, which was once hurled at African Americans in this country and banned from polite conversation, now has a broad-based cultural acceptance in our society today.
Popularized by young African Americans' use of it in hip hop music, the bantering and bickering over this word today is no longer about who has been harmed or hurt by its use, but who has the right to use it, which is why some people are publicly pulverized and others are not.
Our culture's present-day cavalier use of the n-word speaks less about our rights to free speech and more about how we as Americans – both White and Black – have become anesthetized to the damaging and destructive use of this epithet.
Many African Americans, and not just the hip hop generation, state that reclaiming the n-word serves as an act of group agency and as a form of resistance against the dominant culture's use of it, and therefore the epithet gives only them a license to use it.
However, the notion that it is acceptable for African Americans to refer to each other using the n-word while considering it racist for others outside the race, unquestionably sets up a double standard. Also, the notion that one ethnic group has property rights to the term is a reductio ad absurdum argument, since language is a public enterprise.
African Americans' appropriation of the n-word as insiders neither obliterates the historical baggage with which the word is fraught nor obliterates its concomitant social relations among Blacks and between Whites and Blacks. Just because some African Americans use the term does not negate our long history of self-hatred.
The n-word is firmly embedded in the lexicon of racist language that was and still is used to disparage African Americans. However, today the meaning of the n-word is all in how one spells it. By dropping the "er" ending and replacing it with either an "a" or "ah" ending, the term morphs into one of endearment. But, many slaveholders pronounced the n-word with the "a" ending, and in the 1920s, many African Americans used the "a" ending as a pejorative term to denote class differences among themselves.
Language is a representation of culture. Language re-inscribes and perpetuates ideas and assumptions about race, gender and sexual orientation we consciously and unconsciously articulate in our everyday conversations about ourselves and the rest of the world, and consequently transmit generationally.
My enslaved ancestors knew that their liberation was not only rooted in their acts of social protests, but also in their use of language, which is why they used the liberation narrative of the Exodus story in the Old Testament as their talking-book. The Exodus story was used to rebuke systemic oppression, racist themes, and negative images of themselves.
However, too many of us keep the n-word alive, because reclaiming racist words like the n-word does not eradicate its historical baggage and its existing racial relations among us.
Instead, it dislodges the word from its historical context and makes us insensitive and arrogant to the historical injustice done to a specific group of Americans. It also allows Americans to become unconscious and numb in the use and abuse of the power and currency this racial epithet still has, thwarting the daily struggle many of us Americans work hard at in trying to ameliorate race relations.
I think Gribben's is trying to do that with his edition of Huck Finn.
Reverend Irene Monroe is a nationally-known writer, speaker and theologian. She has been profiled in O, Oprah Magazine and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. (The views expressed in this essay are solely those of the author.)
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Celebrating the release of the band's documentary "History of The Eagles," the band – Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit – will kick-off the tour on July 6th in Louisville, Kentucky. Currently, there are 11 stops scheduled through July 25th.
The Eagles plan to feature hits from band members' solo catalogs, along with Eagles classics like "Hotel California," "Take It To The Limit," "One Of These Nights" and "Lyin' Eyes," among others.
The documentary, History Of The Eagles, made its television broadcast debut on Showtime last month, after Part One premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January to great acclaim. Chronicling the band's legacy, the film gave an intimate look at the Eagles with never-before seen home movies, concert footage and rare archival material. It will see a public release on Tuesday, April 30th on Blu-ray and DVD.
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Homosexuality may be the political can of worms that, after being opened, will manifest itself in such a way that our society may never be the same. Politicians have succumbed to political pressure, and by doing so, have compromised our public schools and military.
Lawmakers have determined that it is more important to allow a whole new level of sexual provocativeness, for the sake of inclusiveness and equality, rather than maintaining a cohesive, well-disciplined military that builds men – no offense to the women serving within our military ranks. I am absolutely convinced that the gay rights issue is less about equality and more about political power. Now that our high-end politicians have tucked their tails and crawled under the table, gays have become more emboldened. Now they're at the gates of the Boy Scouts of America demanding their political power be recognized.
My message to any homosexual: It is not essential that everybody knows what your sexual preference is. Lawmakers in today's government have no courage and have an intrusive approach toward our personal and private lives; consequently, we end up with troubling circumstances. Our military – or the Boy Scouts, for
that matter – should not be the compromise zone for some men and women to further exploit their sexuality. In my mind, a man can never replace a woman, or vice-versa.
Sexual preference has nothing to do with skin color; one you choose, the other you don't. Homosexuals will not back down, and are acutely aware that people in high positions – i.e., politicians, preachers, administrators, radio/TV talk show hosts and others – are too terrified to speak against this same issue. I say it's all right to stand up for the natural and perfect union of male and female – the natural biological urge one has for the other. Stand up, I say to you heterosexual men, and teach against this provocative lifestyle before our society is compromised beyond repair.
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The question of whether or not Colorado should discontinue its present policy of constructing most of its major highways of concrete and lean more strongly to oil is causing much discussion in road building circles these days. Members of the highway advisory board are about evenly divided on the matter.
Noel Sitton and John Dunbar, of Dove Creek, have recently closed a deal for the purchase of the Floyd Johnson store at Cahone. It is said that Mr. Johnson will devote his time to farming operations near Cahone.
Fritz Brand, who for several years ran a butcher shop in Dolores, died Sunday in a Durango hospital. Brand was 74 years old and had been in poor health for some years.
In answer to the cry for a permanent game warden to be located here, Game and Fish Commissioner Parvin has assigned Jack Moss, of Bayfield, to this territory to remain here until a permanent appointment can be made. The report recently circulated that deer were being slain by the hundreds in the Dolores vicinity, has proven to have been about 99 percent exaggeration, says Mr. Moss. Mr. Moss believes that few deer are being killed. However he has been investigating all reports of violations made to him. He has made no arrests.
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In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a change in the way it communicates its view of the economic outlook: It increased the frequency of its forecasts from two to four times per year, and it increased the length of the forecasting horizon from two to three years. The FOMC does not release the individual members' forecasts or standard measures of consensus such as the mean or median. Rather, it continues to release the forecast information as a range of forecasts, both the full range between the high and the low and a central tendency that omits the extreme values. This paper uses individual forecaster data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) to mimic the FOMC's method for creating their central tendency. The authors show that the midpoint of the central tendency of the SPF is a reliable measure of the consensus, suggesting that the FOMC reporting method is also a reliable measure of consensus. For the dates when both are available, the authors also compare the relative forecast accuracy of the FOMC and SPF consensus forecasts for output growth and inflation. Overall, the differences in forecast accuracy are too small to be statistically significant.
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Reds stand pat during Jocketty's quietest Deadline
SAN DIEGO -- The non-waiver Trade Deadline came and went Wednesday for the Reds like it did for much of baseball, with no deals being made.
The primary need, a right-handed bat, was not added to Cincinnati's roster, nor was any pitching.Full Game Coverage
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The primary need, a right-handed bat, was not added to Cincinnati's roster, nor was any pitching.Full Game Coverage
"Today was completely dead -- nothing," Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said. "This was the quietest Trade Deadline day I've had. It started to pick up the last few days like it always does. [Tuesday] was very busy. But in the end, the guys we wanted weren't available and didn't get traded."
Jocketty would not identify the players the Reds targeted, but it appeared the club had at least inquired on outfielder Hunter Pence and lefty reliever Javier Lopez from the Giants, and Cubs lefty reliever James Russell.
The asking prices in return were prohibitive throughout.
Even though the offense has been in a major funk in recent days, Jocketty wasn't highly pressured to make a trade. That's because the Reds remain confident they will soon have Ryan Ludwick back. Ludwick, who has been out with a shoulder injury since Opening Day, is on a rehab assignment.
In the end, the club felt there was no one on the market that was better than the players currently on the disabled list -- Ludwick, Johnny Cueto, and relievers Jonathan Broxton and Sean Marshall.
"We were looking at trying to upgrade the offense any way we could," Jocketty said. "We're waiting to get Ludwick back. He'll be back in a week to 10 days, two weeks, whatever it is. We were just seeing who could help now. There weren't any significant pieces out there available.
"We looked at bullpen pieces in case -- through the whole process, not just the last few days -- not knowing until recently about Marshall and Broxton. Marshall will probably be back in a few weeks. We checked on a lot of guys who weren't traded."
Now that the non-waiver Trade Deadline has passed, deals involving players on the 40-man roster cannot be made unless the players already have cleared waivers. That means the player must be offered to the other teams in reverse order of the standings, and if he is claimed by one of the teams, he cannot be traded.
The club that placed the player on waivers can either withdraw the request and keep the player, or let the player go to the claiming team, which would then have the rights to the player.
"We'll see if things pick up after Aug. 1," Jocketty said.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.


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FedEx tries to bury scary IRS story
FedEx was hit with a $319 million tax bill over the job classification of FedEx ground employees. A number of lawsuits have been filed by FedEx ground drivers who believed the company was responsible for their taxes; FedEx maintained that they were independent contractors. That's not the interesting part, though. FedEx, in a tried and true public relations move, "took out the trash" and released the bad news late Friday on a holiday weekend. The earliest story we could find on the IRS charge was released at 6:34 pm Eastern, well beyond when most people were reading news stories. Very clever, FedEx. (Photo by Brosner)


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Seth MacFarlane Isn't Dating Charlize Theron Because She's Not His Type. Wait, What?
When Charlize Theron and Seth MacFarlane were spotted leaving Beverly Hills hot spot Matsuhisa on Sunday night, relationship rumors took flight. But a source says the two aren't an item — because the blonde beauty isn't Seth's "type."
Whatever that means.
E! News reports that the two "[definitely] aren't dating" because a source says Theron — named the sexiest woman alive by Esquire in 2007 — simply isn't the erstwhile Oscar host's proverbial cup of tea.
Last month the 'Family Guy' show runner split with 'Game of Thrones' cast member Emelia Clarke, who's no ugly duckling either. But come on. Have you seen Charlize Theron? If she wasn't shielding her face from paparazzi in the photo above, the camera would have shattered from her sheer magnificence.
So the two are just friends. Charlize is, however, starring in MacFarlane's next project, a comedic Western titled 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' — not to be confused with a million impossibly high standards.


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Today's guest post comes from Sarah Sentilles, author of the new memoir Breaking Up With God: A Love Story. Sentilles was on the way to becoming a priest when she ultimately faced the truth: she no longer believed. Her moving story examines the question of how you leave the most powerful being in the universe—and, if you do, where do you go? Breaking Up with God is an inspiring reflection no matter where you stand on the matter of faith.
Kelly Corrigan, author of the New York Times bestseller The Middle Place calls Breaking Up with God: "Honest, like down-to-the-core honest, beyond what most people are capable of, especially in public on the topic of faith."
Read on to hear about Sarah's experiences in her own words--I think this is a book that could generate quite a lot of discussion in book groups.
Almost everyone who wrote an early review of Breaking Up with God: A Love Story called my book "honest"—even "outrageously honest"—and at first being called honest made me laugh. I couldn't lie even if I wanted to because I'm the worst liar in the world. If I say anything vaguely untrue, my face gets red, my eyes cross slightly, and my voice gets squeaky, even if I'm just trying to keep a surprise party a surprise.
Then being called honest made me nervous. Is that always a compliment? Did I reveal too much in the book? Should I not have told the story about the first time I had sex?
But eventually being called honest felt just right. Breaking Up with God is about the courage it takes to tell the truth—and about how sometimes the person we deceive most is ourselves.
For a long time I couldn't tell anyone that it was over between me and God. It's a hard thing to admit when you happen to be in the ordination process to become an Episcopal priest. It was easier for me to blame other things—the sexism I experienced as a minister-in-training, the conservative theology at the church where I worked, the weird robe they insisted I wear over my clothes—than to face the fact that the real reason I wasn't going to church anymore was that my faith had changed: I could no longer believe in the God I had spent most of my life believing in.
I called the book Breaking Up with God because the metaphor of a breakup fits my experience. I didn't lose my faith. I left it. And isn't part of what makes breaking up so hard the fact that the other person continues to exist? That you can bump into him or her at a coffee shop or the gym? That you can see them holding hands with their new girlfriend or boyfriend?
I walked away from a belief system that no longer belonged to me. And leaving my faith meant changing everything. My vocation. My friends. My understanding of myself and my role in the world. It was terrifying.
But it was also liberating. It's healing to discover deep down what you believe, what you want, what you know is true and right. And it is liberating to tell the truth about that. There is a lightness that comes from shedding the expectations of others and finding your own desires. It feels good to let go of the old stories we've told ourselves about what is possible or what isn't. It's empowering to drop the script, to refuse to speak the lines we imagine everyone wants to hear. There's a freedom that comes with finding your own voice.
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text: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Guy Coates wrote: > > > > PCs, even "server class" motherboard PCs, alas, have never been designed > > to have a "real" serial console as video cards are viewed to be > > essential, not optional. > > > image. This is a BETTER solution than a serial interface for this > > purpose, as serial interfaces to my experience have a real problem > > interpreting e.g. three finger salutes in all possible runtime states > > Ok, I admit plain serial does have its limitations on PC hardware. Ya, and WOL isn't perfect or even all that great for this as well -- it isn't really designed to overcome post boot state from what I can tell from the original AMD white paper, and so while it can power a system on from off, it isn't clear that it can reboot a hung system. In a way, one would fear this as it would enable a truly evil DoS attack if one could force a system reboot by sending it an arbitrary packet. OTOH, it would be a powerful force for Good in the hands of the righteous. Like so many things. > >made something of an end run around the problem, what I'd REALLY like at > > this point is a true network-based console -- one where one can connect > > to a brand new box's bios and console via the network. > > That holy grail does just about exist. I was plesantly surprised with the > latest intel server offering from HP. As well as a serial port it comes > with an integrated management processor (ILO), basically just another rj45 > port which you plug into your LAN. You can talk to the ILO via telnet or a > web interface, and do remote power, hard reset etc by firing carefully > crafted bits of XML at it. Yes, this would do very nicely, although I don't really see why it needs to consume a SECOND network interface and switch port. > > The management processor is pretty clever; if it notices something on the > ILO or serial port it automatically changes the BIOS interface into its > command line version, and spits all its post stuff etc onto the ILO or > serial port. You can set user defined escape characters to send those > awkward CTRL-ALT-DELETE or magic SYSRQ sequences. > > You get the best of both worlds; command line driven, out of band > management, a real console, but going across the network rather than > through an expensive terminal server. > > Drawbacks; it is HP only, and I don't know if it is IPMI compliant. A > similar management interface that is the same on *all* pc hardware would > be even better, but it is at least a start. Absolutely. Even with our server/cluster room in the building, it is a pain to walk down there every time something needs to be bounced (like right now:-) and sometimes I work at home (like right now). WOL won't bounce them, at least as far as my experiment went today. I may have to meddle in the BIOS first. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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SKIDCAR System, Inc. was honored to be a part of the "Oregon DPSST Academy Tour" during the 2013 IADLEST Conference in Portland this month. Company President Dane Pitarresi was overwhelmed when three busses of IADLEST attendees arrived for the one hour stop at the EVOC pad on a beautiful and sunny day in central Willamette Valley. Academy Director Eriks Gabliks and his team did a stunning job giving SKIDCAR System, Inc. the opportunity to present their products and services to the law enforcement training professionals visiting from seven different countries.
With departments focused on the combined importance of offering vital driver training to their students while carefully staying within budgets, SKIDCAR™ is an obvious choice for advanced training in small areas. No other technologies available today can match the realism and flexibility of the SKIDCAR.
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Type: Defect
Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Completed
Affects Version/s: Release 1.5
Fix Version/s: Release 1.6
Component/s: None
Patch:Code and Test
clojure.repl/source is broken in Clojure 1.5.1 when *read-eval* is bound to :unknown, since source-fn reads without binding.
user> (alter-var-root #'*read-eval* (constantly :unknown))
user> (source drop-last)
RuntimeException Reading disallowed - *read-eval* bound to :unknown clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:219)
Approach: Throw explicit error stating the cause in this case.
Patch: clj-1176-source-read-eval-3.patch
Screened by: Stuart Sierra
The attached patch just binds *read-eval* to true inside source-fn.
Note: Allowing this implies that you trust the data on your classpath. If there are reasons somebody might not, we should reject this patch and people will have to be explicit when calling source.
Ugh, that's a fair point when it comes to sandboxing. I'll check with the owners of clojurebot and lazybot.
I haven't come up with any scenarios where this is problematic, and I haven't heard anything back from the bot owners. As for sandboxing, clojure.repl can easily be excluded.
Looks good
Would like to screen this one again. I think it has open questions and is worth a discussion somewhere.
To me, this seems like we would be opening a security hole and a cleverly concocted resource could exploit it.
Other alternatives:
1) do nothing (user can always bind read-eval around a call to source if they want to do this safely)
2) add a source-unsafe or other wrapper function that did this
3) change source-fn to use edn/read instead? This may introduce some cases where source using non-edn features could not be read. I'd be ok with that.
Maybe this is well known to everyone already, but in case not, doing a require or use on a namespace containing the following function on a Unix-like system to create and/or update the last modification time of the file bartleby.txt. If you remove that file, and then do (source badfn) while read-eval is bound to true, you can see that it will do the shell command again. Obviously much more dangerous side effects could be performed instead of that.
(ns bad.fn) (defn badfn [x] (let [y [#=(clojure.java.shell/sh "touch" "bartleby.txt")]] x))
Avoiding that behavior in source-fn, yet still showing the source code, would require a different implementation of read other than clojure.core/read and clojure.edn/read.
(ns bad.fn) (defn badfn [x] (let [y [#=(clojure.java.shell/sh "touch" "bartleby.txt")]] x))
Based on comments on the mailing list, most people are not concerned about this from a security point of view. I'm going to let this one through and Rich can decide further.
If you haven't set read-eval and you need to read-eval, then you'd better set it, right? We're not going to do that for you. The only patch that will be accepted for this is one that generates a better error message.
Updated with new patch that detects and throws an error if calling source with read-eval is false.
Screened OK.
Note that this only changes the error message when read-eval is bound to false, not when it is bound to :unknown.
Changed my mind: resetting to 'incomplete'.
This patch doesn't fix the situation in the original report. To improve the error message, it should handle the :unknown case.
If *read-eval* is false, then source still works as long as the source form doesn't contain #=
Stuart - totally good catch. Things did not work how I thought they worked! I have updated the patch.
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