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Cavaliers making late drive for playoff spot
CLEVELAND (AP) Although faint, the Cavaliers have a playoff pulse. And it's getting stronger.
Seemingly without hope weeks ago, along with other sub-.500 teams in the Eastern Conference, the Cavaliers still have some life left in them despite key injuries and internal upheaval.
With seven games left and a favorable schedule, Cleveland is in the mix to make the playoffs for the first time since 2010, when LeBron James was in his final year wearing wine and gold.
It's been a remarkable turnaround for the Cavs (30-45), who hit their low point Feb. 5 with a 119-108 loss to a Los Angeles Lakers team that finished their victory with just five players.
"We just kind of stayed the course," coach Mike Brown explained Sunday after the Cavs won a physical matchup with Indiana to pull within 2 1/2 games of Atlanta for the East's eighth playoff spot. "Our guys just keep fighting."
The Cavs have won four of five to climb back within reach of the Hawks, who snapped a six-game losing streak Monday night with a 103-95 win over the woeful Philadelphia 76ers. Cleveland, now three games behind Atlanta for the eighth spot, plays at Orlando on Wednesday before visiting Atlanta on Friday, a game that could determine whether they have anything to play for in the final five games.
They'll need help from others, but the Cavs can keep the pressure on Atlanta – and the New York Knicks, who are between them and the Hawks – by continuing to win.
"We're still coming out with that never-say-die mentality and attitude and we're just fighting as long as there's season left," said guard Jarrett Jack, who has been instrumental in Cleveland's recent rise. "We're going to keep clawing at it. I think what was best for us, I know me personally, I stopped looking at the standings and just started focusing on what was in this locker room.
"Once we did that, it seemed like the brand of basketball we were playing became more consistent and we gave ourselves an opportunity to be in the situation we're in now."
On Monday, the Cavs learned that All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving may be back on the floor for their final playoff push. Irving was cleared to resume full-contact practice after missing eight games with a strained left biceps tendon. The team did not say if he'll play against the Magic, but the Cavs were bracing for the possibility Irving's season could be over if he had not improved.
Irving's return, though, was tempered by the results of an MRI on forward Anderson Varejao's shoulder. Varejao, the club's leading rebounder, sustained a sprained shoulder joint on Sunday. He will miss Wednesday's game and probably a few more.
It's the latest medical setback for Varejao, who missed 15 games earlier this season with a sore back and has been limited to just 81 games over the previous three seasons by a variety of injuries.
That's how it's been for Cleveland all season – ups and downs, good and bad.
One game they outmuscle the powerful Pacers; the next they fall flat on their faces.
But recently, they've come together with Jack and second-year guard Dion Waiters leading the way in the absence of Irving, the club's best player and one of the league's rising stars.
"We're getting used to each other, that's been the key," said forward Luol Deng, acquired in an early January trade from Chicago. "We're starting to use our strengths, using what each player can do. Our defense has been great. It's just us maturing as a team. We just need to win. Nothing else matters. It's not going to be perfect and we're starting to play for the win, not think about anything else."
The Cavs have gone 14-12 since Feb. 6, when general manager Chris Grant was fired by owner Dan Gilbert, who at the time said "I take responsibility for where we're at."
Brown has managed to keep his young team working toward a goal despite the absence of Irving and Varejao, who missed 15 games with a sore back, for extended periods.
The addition of center Spencer Hawes has opened the floor and given Cleveland's offense more options, but Deng said the bottom line for the Cavs has been stringing wins together.
"Winning really makes you believe in each other," he said. "Guys are starting to realize that they can do it. There's no magic to it. It's really playing together and believing in each other, and I really think once we won a few in a row, we started to play better."
During Sunday's win, the Cavs matched the Pacers push for push, shove for shove.
At one point in the fourth quarter, Hawes came to the rescue of scrappy rookie guard Matthew Dellavedova, who was floored by an elbow from Indiana forward David West. Hawes stood up for the pesky and popular "Delly," a feisty Australian who perhaps best embodies the Cavs' grit.
Hawes will likely draw a fine by the league, but he got a reward from Dellavedova.
"I'll give him some Tim Tams to make up for it," Dellavedova said, referring to the chocolate dessert biscuits from Down Under.
If the Cavs can keep winning, they could be in line for something sweeter – the playoffs.


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It looks like there's going to be a competition for starting safety spots with the Redskins this summer and Brandon Meriweather says that he thinks his torn ACL will have recovered enough for him to be a full participant in it when camp gets underway.
Meriweather suffered through a lost season in 2011, hurting his knee in the preseason and then reinjuring it when he tried to make a return in Week Four. He finally made it back to the field in Week 11, but didn't even make it through the first half before the torn ligament that ended his season. Meriweather, who took a pay cut to stay with the team earlier in the offseason, told Mike Jones of the Washington Post that he'll work on the side during OTAs because he is focusing all of his efforts on being ready for training camp.
"I'm trying to look at the big picture, and the big picture is [training camp]," Meriweather said. "I try to keep my expectations to day-by-day. That's all I'm concerned with. The steps I take day-by-day. … Of course, I want to be back out there. I've got a bad taste in my mouth because I wasn't able to help my team."
The Redskins drafted Phillip Thomas and Baccari Rambo last week to go with Reed Doughty and DeJon Gomes at safety with Tanard Jackson possibly getting reinstated from suspension down the road. Ideally, Meriweather would nail down the strong safety spot with the others vying for snaps next to him. It sounds like he'll be healthy enough to give it his best shot, although his 2012 experience is a reminder not to count any unhatched chickens.


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- Tennessee town looks to change name to Rocky Top
- Investors have proposed multimillion-dollar project to transform town
- Copyright owners of the bluegrass song sue to block name change
- "We just want to see this happen for the community," county commissioner says
Two strangers came in with big promises and plans to save a dying town.
A multimillion-dollar water park. A 3-D interactive theater. A pirate-themed restaurant. A country music theater to draw singers. And that's not all: an athletic complex to host children's leagues and a sports museum honoring University of Tennessee athletics. A fancy hotel. And an amusement park.
Think Dollywood.
Branson, Missouri.
Disney World.
All of it can be yours, on one condition: Change your town's name.
To Rocky Top!
That coveted name in eastern Tennessee. The name of the famed bluegrass song that rises from Neyland Stadium in Knoxville on Saturday afternoons, when 100,000 Tennessee football fans join with the university band and sing out in jubilation, their raucous cheers winding down the Tennessee River and cascading over the Smoky Mountains.
Rocky top, you'll always be
Home sweet home to me.
Good ole Rocky top,
Rocky top Tennessee, Rocky top Tennessee.
Home sweet home to me.
Good ole Rocky top,
Rocky top Tennessee, Rocky top Tennessee.
This town of 1,800 nestled in the Appalachians mountains about 30 miles northwest of Knoxville changed its name once before, in 1936. The city leaders thought a name change would help draw tourists when the Tennessee Valley Authority put in a dam and a manmade lake several miles away. The proud mining town switched from Coal Creek to Lake City.
There is no lake in Lake City. If the tourists ever came, they left a long time ago. Like so much of small-town America, today there are few jobs, no industry and a cycle of poverty that engulfs the area. When the high school closed in the early 1980s, businesses soon followed.
Today, the median income sits around $14,000 a year. Methamphetamine abuse is so rampant, residents call their home the meth capital of Appalachia.
The downtown has two florists and a few other businesses, but most of the buildings are dilapidated. Chapman Restaurant was once a thriving place where locals came for supper. Now, its walls stand as a facade, a sign of what once was.
The best thing the tiny town has going for it is two exits off Interstate 75 -- a developer's dream. That's what got the attention of the developers of Rocky Top.
They had pitched their plan before. The people in Townsend sent them packing.
But in Lake City, they found many eager townspeople, wanting jobs and willing to call their home by a different name. More than 500 people packed Main Street Baptist Church last fall for a bean and cornbread social. Most were interested in the venture, but not everybody.
"Get rid of the drugs!" one woman hollered. "Stop the drugs!"
The plans were approved. The town grew excited.
Less excited were the owners of the song's copyright and property trademark. They filed suit to block the name change.
"Rocky Top is a world-famous and distinctive mark that popularly conjures notions of the copyrighted song owned by House of Bryant," says the suit, filed in U.S. District Court. "Lake City's attempt to change its name to Rocky Top represents an unlawful government taking and violation of House of Bryant's due process rights."
Judge Thomas A. Varlan heard legal arguments Monday in Knoxville on whether to issue a preliminary injunction that would put the plans on hold -- a decision that could, perhaps, decide the fate of the town. The judge took the case under advisement and will issue his ruling later, court clerk Julie Norwood said.
The fight here is very real. It pits those wanting what they feel is best for the town against those who cherish its storied history, when forebears in the coal mines fought a war against the Tennessee National Guard.
And the name change raises serious questions. At what lengths should a town go to try to save its economy? In an era when sports franchises sell the names of stadiums to the highest bidders, does the fight in Lake City foreshadow something greater in America? What if Microsoft threatened to leave the city of Redmond, Washington, if it didn't change its name?
And will changing the town name to Rocky Top lead to prosperity or broken promises?
A haven for 'poor man's cocaine'
George Robinson has clipped hair for 43 years at City Barber Shop. He points to a mud puddle out front that's been there ever since he opened. When cars go by, "it splashes plumb to the top."
If the puddle ain't been fixed all these years, pardon him for being a bit skeptical. Don't get him wrong. He's all for the project "if it materializes like it's supposed to."
"I'm waiting to see somebody exchange some money," the barber says.
A stuffed wild turkey with a 6-inch gobbler stares from the wall. His dog Buddy, a pit bull mix, ambles over, sniffs a stranger's knees and huffs before moseying back to his red canopy bed.
"I think it's a silly-ass name," says Ricky Seeber.
The others in the shop kick heels and laugh.
Seeber hails from a mining family; his dad and grandparents worked the mines. Seeber didn't like how the developers came in with their ultimatum: "No name change, no jobs. That's about what it amounted to."
"Just the name change: I don't like it," he says.
"Yeah, Rocky Top," another snorts.
"You too, George?"
The barber pauses with his clippers. He's seen the town go from a fine community 40 years ago to where it is now: a haven for "poor man's cocaine."
"If it can help young people get a job, it don't bother me," he says. "Used to be a booming place."
From what the barber sees and hears, he guesses about 75% of the town is ready to go all Rocky Top. "About everybody is for it, because they see that the town is continuously going down."
"But when it opens up," Seeber chimes in, "it might be more than what you wanted."
"Yeah, well, like everything else," the barber says, "you gotta take the good with the bad. As long as it brings in the work, everybody's for it."
The clippers buzz. Buddy sits largely oblivious, drifting in and out of sleep, glancing up only when an occasional truck drives by.
Rocky Top is the talk in town. The week CNN visited, the Tennessee state House and Senate approved the name change. Eighteen eighth-graders were bused to the state capitol in Nashville to witness the historic House vote.
The City Council now must ratify the legislature's approval, but it has said it won't act until the judge makes a decision on the lawsuit.
The House of Bryant, owned by the sons of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, who wrote "Rocky Top," said they felt that they had "no choice but to commence a lawsuit" after "their efforts to reach an understanding with Lake City" were unsuccessful.
"The Bryants," the family said in a written statement, "hope that this matter can be resolved quickly."
Two interstate exits and a huge opportunity
Anderson County Commissioner Tim Isbel shows off an array of impressive artistic renditions of the various phases of the Rocky Top plans, including a renovation of the entire downtown district that would transform it into one of the nicest-looking small towns in the South.
There are drawings of the water park, including an indoor pavilion that will bring in light and produce four rainbows at all times, and other big plans. The first phase is estimated to cost $20 million; all four phases, including the amusement park, could cost upward of $450 million, he says.
It's easy to see why a town that has so little is so eager. The development is projected to create 175 to 225 jobs and bring in $50 million in revenue, including $6 million in taxes for the town. Lake City's current annual budget is $3 million.
"We just see this as an opportunity to get this end of the county back to what it used to be. Give individuals places to work," Isbel says.
Does he have any nostalgia for the loss of the name Lake City?
"We just want to see this happen for the community," Isbel says. "There's just so much magic in the name. Not the song, the name Rocky Top."
The new name also speaks to the region's mining heritage, he says. "Where does any coal come from? It comes from a rocky top."
Isbel formed the Rocky Top Tennessee Marketing and Manufacturing Co. last year after the two original developers, Buddy Warren and Brad Coriell, proposed the idea. Warren was in a traumatic car crash late in the fall and is no longer part of the development, Isbel says.
Isbel has brought together eight prominent families -- "the dream team" -- as members of his board. The other original developer, Coriell, an artist based out of Nashville, also sits on the board.
Isbel emphasizes that this is not pie-in-the-sky stuff, that he believes this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save the town. Everyone on the board, aside from Coriell, lives in the area and has "a vested interest in making this community better."
"They want to give back and do what they can to get this venture started."
Isbel almost gets misty-eyed when he recalls an event at the middle school. He had come prepared to talk about the rides and other fun stuff that may eventually come to town. None of the kids asked about that. They wanted to know whether there would be jobs available when they graduate high school.
In 18 months, he told them, the water park will open (assuming the lawsuit doesn't block Rocky Top).
Winding down the roads of Lake City, Isbel points out the 300 acres where the water park would go and the eventual sites of the rest of the development.
"What other town do you see that has two exits and has all this available area?"
Lake City Vice Mayor Michael Lovely has longtime roots. His father was the mayor for decades and is the one who was instrumental in getting both exits off the interstate. Back then, his father was teased by locals: Why did this tiny town need two exits?
"They kinda gave him a hard time," Lovely says. "That's just what I'm saying. He seen the future."
'Embrace your heritage'
At the top of Militia Hill, Barry Thacker looks down upon the town. He can hardly contain his disdain for all that has transpired.
As the head of the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation, by accident Thacker helped bring about the whole Rocky Top thing. And he hates it.
Thacker and others had worked for years to get a building suitable for a state-of-the-art Coal Creek Miner's Museum, a place that would honor the region's mining past.
That building was finally secured last year, and officials celebrated the feat. It drew media attention -- and that's what caught the attention of the Rocky Top developers. They licked their chops at the two interstate exists and the vast land available.
To Thacker, it feels like the miner's museum -- which will still go ahead -- got lost amid the fray. Plus, changing the town name to Rocky Top is just stupid, he says.
"You embrace your heritage. You don't run away from it. They made the mistake once before; they changed the name from its heritage to Lake City. It didn't bring tourists. Now, they're doing it again."
You get the feeling Thacker wants to spit. It's left that bad of a taste in his mouth.
"Don't embrace the words of a song to try to make yourself into something you're not," he says. "And that's what I see it doing. The only way you get out of this poverty is to get an education and get the kids to college so they can qualify for high-paying jobs. But none of that seems to be the focus."
A renowned engineer based out of Knoxville, Thacker knows that when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. He fears land speculation and the possibility the development may never come to fruition. Already, one local has gone from a $500,000 asking price for his property to $3 million.
Fixing the schools and educating the area children, Thacker says, would be money better spent. But that's a much tougher fight.
"You're dang right," he says.
His foundation teamed up with the nearby community of Briceville to provide the local schoolchildren a way out. Over the past decade, the foundation sent 33 youths to college on nearly $300,000 in scholarships.
"It's a dedicated effort to get the kids to college that I'm afraid those in Lake City have convinced everybody you don't need to do that," he says. "Their message is, 'Rocky Top will do it for you.' I just think that's the wrong message."
Thacker helped preserve Militia Hill, where he now stands. It was here where miners fought the Tennessee National Guard in 1891 in what is known as the Coal Creek War.
The mining companies had brought in prisoners to work the mines for free. The miners took up arms, eventually capturing the convicts and the guards and putting them on a train back to Knoxville. They sent a telegram to the governor: Convicts aren't going to steal our jobs.
The governor dispatched the Tennessee National Guard. The war ensued. Battles and skirmishes lasted over a year. The miners lost the war but won the long-term battle. Mining companies were ordered to stop using convicts.
But tragedy struck on May 19, 1902, when a mine explosion killed 216 men -- leaving only three men alive in the community of Fraterville. It remains one of the largest mine disasters in U.S. history.
At 93, Louise Nelson is one of the closest descendants to that disaster. Her great-grandmother had five caskets in her home at one time, "because five of her boys were killed."
Nelson had wanted to go to the state legislature for years to propose changing the name of Lake City back to its Coal Creek origins. But she felt that she didn't have the political muscle.
She wishes she'd pushed harder. "This is the heritage of so many people and all those people killed in that mine. I just feel like it's desecrating their names and everything by changing the name to Rocky Top."
She chooses her words cautiously. She's too polite to let on how angry the name change makes her.
"I'm speaking up because there's not many of us left," says Nelson. "It's a sadness with me. A hurtfulness. I feel like I have to stand up for my grandparents and all these people and my heritage. I don't believe in staying in the past. You get nowhere with that, but I do want to preserve my heritage."
To her, Rocky Top will never be home sweet home.


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This doesn't mean it's a good idea for other games. But it also doesn't mean that is not a good idea for other games... Why not start on a small scale?
Most people won't, but with more than one story inside a game, you appeal to a broader audience, as long those stories are well developed, and I believe this is possible, even with a bigger budget game. If you are a publisher, that would sound profitable.
If people only expected the realistic scenarios for anything, great deeds would not be accomplished, 'cause people would be too settle for to try something new... Don't use a poor example of a game that did not made it to settle for what "can be done". That's my point of view, at least.
Yeah, people seem to forget that Gravity Rush came out AFTER All-Stars was likely already in an early beta state. How could they have predicted it would be a success and worthy of inclusion before it was even released
Without interactivity, you might as well be watching a cutscene. Surely you are not deluding yourself of being playing a game if all you do is watch...
Anyone else have abit of lag with this vid?
Anyways, did Yahtzee reveiw Steel Battlion or was it so disfunctional he couldn't say more then what he said here?
You know his rant on playstation all stars is what I felt about the game too, minus the part about Raiden. I don't play the metal gear solid games and thus don't care.
Now I have the game though and I think it's pretty good so I'm hesitant to say all that and ...
Oh christ I'm becoming a fanboy, somebody help me.
Oh and on an unrelated note, I think Yahtzee should do awards for most surprisingly good and most surprisingly bad game again.
I'm guessing Spec Ops would be the one for most surprisingly good, but I'm not sure what would be surprisingly bad.
Does ANYONE (aside from Sony fanboys) want to play Sony Smash Bros? Nintendo's version isn't that good to begin with and Sony's knockoff version with a far less interesting character roster is certainly not bound to be better.
Anyway, glad I already have Spec Ops The Line (thank you Steam sales!). Just have to set aside time to play it.
What? Really? They actually crowned Mass Effect 3 game of the year? It wasn't just an editing error and the list was supposed to be called most disappointing games of 2012? What the fuck? I guess the list must have been made by the same geniuses who think it's a good idea to make everyone prove they aren't a spambot daily, because after 3 years of membership I might just decide to randomly become a spambot.
Journey can't be game of the year because it isn't a game. I've watched blu-ray movies that had more interactivity involved with getting through the fucking menus, previews, and copyright warnings than Journey. Maybe Journey is a good "experience", but it's not a game so stop calling it one please and thank you.
Advertising made the community vote it as their game of the year?
Hello Captain Vocal Minority! How're you today?
For me, my top 5 is...
No, you can't choose to stay in one location or to leave. That isn't what happens. What does happen is that you get to voice your opinion on if you think you should stay or leave. It's not the game's fault you've incorrectly assumed that what Lee says goes in every situation. You are one person in a group offering an opinion, not the dictator of the group who decides what everyone else must do without any regard to what they want to do or not do.
Also if you're talking about the choice to stay or go someplace else that I'm thinking of, the place you left got overrun by zombies. What the fuck did you think was going to happen, a magical anti-zombie barrier would surround the place because YOU said you wanted to stay there? Or did you maybe think you could just live there peacefully with the zombies who had just moved in?
I'm not surprised to see Spec Ops: The Line topping his list. Well... maybe a little. I kind of thought Far Cry 3 was going to get it, but Spec Ops is the same kind of story, but more focused. Spec Ops was probably one of the most engaging (storywise) shooters I played this year and more people should definitely play it.
I haven't even TRIED Amy, but when there is absolutely not a single good thing said about it on the websites that I trust, you know the game has to be bad, and since it's a DLC, it's not like I can even rent it. The Walking Dead was a gamble for me, so I'm glad they made the first episode free for a little while - excellent game.
Huh. Surprising, I expected your list to piss me off for some reason but I actually agreed with most of it. To satisfy the curiosity of absolutely no one, here's my top five:
1. Kid Icarus: Uprising
Or, if you wanna disqualify RHF for technically being a game from last year in Japan, put Quantum Conundrum at #5 instead. There were a lot more games this year I was looking forward to, but I didn't play a lot of 'em so my 5 was the stuff I did play (hence I had to wrack my brain for the stuff lower than #3.) Still, even if I did play everything else I don't think anything could dethrone my top two.
FINALLY. Some list agrees spec ops is the game of the year, I can die happy.
"Facepalm" Do you control a character on the screen with a controler? Yes you do. Ergo, it's a video game.
Game or not, don't use the word "ergo." You sound like a tool.
Yes! Stop that 'use of language' thing! You might sound like a witch and be burned!
im suprised he's defended ssbb. doesnt he hate that? At least in Playstation all stars yahtzee could live out his dream of beating up nathan drake with kratos
solid episode ben,
but honestly un like jim sterling who spent the time truly warning us how shit steal battalion really was, you kinda glossed over it and didn't really warn people "This is bad!"
any more than you do with well.. any game LOL.
and it's a shame cause when jimmy showed the commercial about steal fuck all if it didn't look amazing.
unplayable crap that we would other wise buy.
Yahtzee agrees with me, he loves Spec Ops the line too! Huzzah!
Well I like his choices of "Top" games this time around, since it's so close to mine. Although he apparently missed the release of Dark Souls: The One True Version (PC), which makes it to the Top of my list :P
Games of the Year for me:
Games from last Year that I've played this year and liked a lot:
Still alright games that didn't make the list:
Disappointments of the Year:
Also, it's not called "SpunkGargleWeeWee" (that doesn't even make any sense), it's called "Popamole", certain people on the Internet have long since dubbed games that as a category: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?forums/made-for-console-popamole-rpgs.59/
Doesn't totally sway me, but it helps.
Wait a second Yahtzee, did you remember Rayman Origins? You seemed to love that game, more so than you seemed to love Dishonored or The Walking Dead.
Spoilers about Episode 1 of TWD below.
So boring, linear, repetitive shooter makes the worst list while boring, linear, repetitive shooter with pretentious moral high-grounding "you are bad and should feel bad" narrative is GOTY? I guess it says something about hos sick of MMS people are that a game that exists purely to say your shit for liking them makes multiple GOTY lists.
For me personally its hard to pick one so my top 5 in no particular order:
Diablo 3: I just realized no one is going to like me by the time I'm done with this list, but I really did love the new skill system and contrary to what some people have said I never needed to use the AH.
The Secret World: I don't remember if this launched in 2012 but I know that's when it dropped the sub fee and when I started playing because of that I felt two things I have never experienced from an MMO before: I cared about the narrative, and I was having fun.
Borderlands 2: everything I loved about the original with significantly less frustration and more humor.
Farcry 3: About my only major gripe is that I could stand to have more weapon variety.
most disappointing:
Torchlight 2: Just about fell asleep by the second act, being Diablo 1.5 just makes me want to go play the real Diablo 2
Halo 4: I don't really hate this one but it simply wasn't as fun as 3 or reach.
Sniper Elite V2: Showed so much potential and then wasted it with horrible level design and inconsistent AI.
Dishonored: I really wanted to love this game, but I just couldn't. being active penalized for killing people took the edge off my excitement and then many other small things conspired to put this one on my "buy when it is 75% off" list
I'm surprised he didn't say Half-Life was the best game of 2012, seeing as he reviewed it this year. I forgot about alot of these games, probably for good reason.
Well Warfighter was essentially the same thing but much much shitter, so it'd be redundant to put both on the list.
Did the video starts to lag towards the mid onwards for anyone else? De-synced the ending also.
Screw this shit, gonna buy Spec Ops The Line and yes Crowshaw has that much impact on me...
I'm surprised he remembered it exists. I'm gonna have to watch some of these games' reviews again. It sounded like he was a little endeared towards NeverDead, just because it tried to be different and new. Was he inspired by the fart sounds he made in the SpecOps review to make them again for this latest video? I think so. Spot on!
Because the 1st half-Life is, what , 14 years old, and most modern games are STILL trying to catch up to Valve.
I am glad that a game that gives a glimpse of the true storytelling potential for interactive entertainment is at number 1. Make no mistake: Spec Ops: The Line is the first AAA game that is truly engaging while specifically NOT being fun! There are several popular books and movies that do this and this game shows that games can also do this.
And am I the ONLY one that found it had a much better cover system than ANY other cover-based shooter to date! (You can actually aim behind you WITHOUT leaving cover! Which you WILL need to do! The AI actually FLANKS you!)
yes...obviously foul play is the only answer....
All I care about is the fact that Yahtzee mentioned the single reason why I burst out laughing and said "No, seriously, you've GOT to be shitting me!" when I heard they were coming out with Resident Evil 6:
Wesker's Fucking Dead.
How the fuck is the story supposed to continue now that the central villian through the entire series is fucking dead? That's how I knew RE6 was going to be absolute shit from the moment it was announced. And judging by fan reaction, reviewer reaction, and the reaction of friends who were genuinely looking forward to it for love of the series....I was not wrong in my assumption. :P
It was a retro review, he said games he played that were RELEASED in 2012.
As for people who listed out Journey on their top 5s, PC supremacists don't know that since Journey was only released in PS3.
Because it's obviously Sony trying to play catch up, but Sony can't say that so it's kind of funny to point it out.
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WhatsApp Gives BlackBerry a Bounce
Feb 20, 2014 9:43 AM PT
Facebook's US$19 billion purchase of mobile-messaging service WhatsApp appears to have buoyed the value of BlackBerry Messenger -- and by extension, BlackBerry.
BlackBerry shares went up nearly 10 percent in after-hours trading because, in the words of Reuters, Facebook's purchase "put a rough valuation metric around the smartphone maker's own BlackBerry Messaging service," also known as "BBM."
WhatsApp came to the party after BBM but flew past its predecessor, which had long refused to open itself up on other platforms. WhatsApp has an estimated user base of 450 million -- BBM is at about 80 million -- and is compatible with iOS and Android, as well as devices powered by Windows and BlackBerry.
Before the announcement of the WhatsApp deal, financial services outfit Raymond James on Tuesday valued BBM at $240 million, or $3 per user. WhatsApp, however, sold at an amount worth roughly $42 per user, thus making BBM more attractive. Ergo, BBM looks better now than it did Tuesday.
[Source: Reuters]
Europe to Hunt for Exoplanets
The European Space Agency has hatched plans to send a planet-finding satellite outside our solar system by 2024.
The mission, dubbed "PLATO," for "PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations" of stars -- will launch a satellite equipped with 34 telescopes and cameras that will be used to scour 1 million nearby stars for signs of orbiting planets.
The goal is to determine the mass and composition of what exoplanets -- that is, planets that are outside our solar system. The ESA said that the mission will target planets that are at least Earth-sized and where water could exist.
[Source: The Associated Press]
Apple's China Fortunes Looking Up a Tad
Apple's continued focus on China helped the U.S. tech giant claim a 7 percent share of the world's largest smartphone market in the fourth quarter, up from 6 percent in the third, according to research firm IDC.
The fourth quarter was the first full quarter during which Apple's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c were available in China. The cheaper 5c -- at least cheap for Apple -- was seen by some as a stab at the Chinese market, where Apple's prices are particularly prohibitive, given average salaries.
Despite the uptick, however, Apple is still but the fifth-largest smartphone vendor in China. Samsung is No. 1 (19 percent share), followed by Lenovo (13 percent), China-based Coolpad (11 percent) and Huawei (10 percent).
Apple could be in for another bump thanks to its deal with China Mobile, the nation's biggest carrier -- like, 760-million-subscribers big -- which recently began selling iPhones.
[Source: The Wall Street Journal]
Russian Search Giant Wants Slice of Google's Smartphone Dominance
Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, struck a deal with Microsoft to make Yandex's search engine the default app on Windows Phones sold in Russia.
Yandex announced that smartphone makers Huawei and Explay will pre-install Yandex's search, browsing, maps and music services on their devices.
Android phone sales surpassed 14 million units last year in Russia, so Yandex's maneuvering is thought to be an attempt to keep up with Google. Android currently controls about 80 percent of the country's smartphone markets, according to IDC, while for conventional Web searches, Yandex holds a 62 percent-to-27 percent edge over Google.
[Source: Bloomberg]
Kim Dotcom to Appeal Ruling
If there is an over/under on how long Kim Dotcom's legal drama will continue, just take the over.
The Megaupload founder said he will appeal a court ruling this week that deemed the raid on his home legal. A court previously had ruled the operation illegal because of invalid warrants, but those warrants, used in the January 2012 raid, are now apparently good enough.
Dotcom faces extradition to the U.S., where authorities consider him one of history's great copyright villains.
[Source: The Guardian]


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> Common variable immunodeficiency
Common variable immunodeficiency
Also listed as:
CVID, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Adult-onset hypogammaglobulinemia, Agammaglobulinemia
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Acquired agammaglobulinemia, acquired immunodeficiency, adult-onset hypogammaglobulinemia, antibody, B-cell, B-cell defect, Celontin®, CVI, genetic disorder, hypogammaglobulinemia, IgA, IgG, IgM, immune disease, immune disorder, immune system, immunodeficiency, immunoglobulin, immunoglobulin A, immunoglobulin G, immunoglobulin M, infection, late-onset hypogammaglobulinemia, Kapseals®, lymphocytes, lymphoma, primary immunodeficiency, primary immunodeficiency disease, Ridaura®, T-cell, T-cell defect, T lymphocytes, weakened immune system.
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), also called hypogammaglobulinemia or adult-onset hypogammaglobulinemia, is a relatively common primary immune deficiency. The disorder is characterized by a lack of antibody-producing B-cells or plasma cells, low levels of most or all immunoglobulin isotypes and recurrent bacterial infections.
CVID is considered the most prevalent type of primary immunodeficiency. Primary immunodeficiencies are disorders that occur because part of the body's immune system does not function properly. Unlike secondary immunodeficiencies, which are caused by factors (like viruses or chemotherapy) outside of the immune system, primary immunodeficiencies are caused by intrinsic or genetic defects in the immune system.
While the exact incidence rate of CVID is unknown, researchers estimate that about one out of 50,000 individuals develop the disorder. Most patients develop the disorder between the ages of 20 and 50. Only about 20% of patients are diagnosed during childhood. CVID affects an equal number of males and females.
CVID is diverse, both in its clinical presentation (signs and symptoms) and in the types of deficiency. Although decreased serum levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin A (IgA) are characteristic of the disorder, about half of CVID patients also have decreased immunoglobulin M (IgM) levels in the blood. In addition, about half of CVID patients experience some T-lymphocyte dysfunction.
The first signs of the deficiency are recurrent bacterial infections, which may occur as early as infancy or as late as the fourth decade of life.
Because of the variable manifestations of CVID, no clear pattern of inheritance has been established. In most cases, there is no family history of immunodeficiency. However, when more than one family member is diagnosed with CVID, researchers believe it is the result of autosomal recessive inheritance. Rheumatoid arthritis, vitiligo (autoimmune disorder that causes white patches on the skin), hemolytic anemia (type of anemia that occurs when blood cells are destroyed prematurely), thrombocytopenia (low levels of platelets) and neutropenia (low levels white blood cells called neutrophils) have all been associated with CVID.
Initially, the disorder was called acquired agammaglobulinemia. This name generally applied to patients who developed the immunodeficiency when they were 20-50 years old. However, today the use of the term is discouraged in order to avoid confusion with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Instead, CVID that develops later in life is now referred to as adult-onset hypogammaglobulinemia.
Prognosis depends on the extent of damage to the lungs and other organs, as well as how successfully infections are prevented. In general, the expected survival rate for male and female patients is 92% and 94%, respectively. Factors associated with fatality include low levels of IgG, poor T-cell responses to antigens and a low percentage of B cells. Fatalities related to CVID are usually the result of lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes). Other potential causes of death include cor pulmonale (right-sided heart failure) secondary to chronic pulmonary infection, liver failure (caused by viral or autoimmune hepatitis) and malnutrition (resulting from gastrointestinal tract disease).
While there is currently no cure for CVID, treatment can help alleviate symptoms and prevent infections that are associated with the disease. Since the cause of CVID is poorly understood, there is currently no known method of prevention.
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University of Virginia Health System. Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID). .
The primary cause of CVID remains unknown. Part of the problem is the heterogeneity (variation in physical manifestations) of the disease.
: In most cases, there is no family history of immunodeficiency. However, about 20% of patients who have CVID have a first-degree family member who has a selective IgA deficiency. This suggests that the genes may be linked. Studies have revealed specific localization to the C4A gene and, rarely, to the C2 gene in the class III region of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), located on chromosome 6.
No clear pattern of inheritance has been observed. Since most CVID cases are sporadic, with no family history of immunodeficiency, different modes of inheritance have been reported. For instance, when more than one family member is diagnosed with CVID, researchers believe it is the result of autosomal recessive inheritance. Autosomal dominant inheritance is also thought to play a role with variable penetrance and X-linked forms.
Antirheumatic or antiepileptic drugs
: CVID is associated with the use of antirheumatic drugs, such as auranofin (Ridaura®) or antiepileptic drugs, such as methsuximide (Celontin® or Kapseals®). If this type of association is later proven to be a causal relationship, the actual cause of the disorder may be a genetic predisposition to CVID.
: Common symptoms include, recurrent infections of the ears, bronchi, sinuses and lungs. Infections are usually caused by
Hemophilus influenzae
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
bacteria. Bronchiectasis (widening and scarring of the bronchial tubes) infections of the bronchi are severe. Patients with bronchiectasis may have a regular morning cough that produces yellow or green sputum. Many CVID patients have an enlarged spleen and lymph nodes.
: Other patients, who may not receive sufficient gammaglobulin replacement during treatment, may develop painful inflammation of the ankle, knee, elbow or wrist joints. These symptoms may disappear after gammaglobulin therapy (blood products containing human antibodies) is administered.
Gastrointestinal problems
: Gastrointestinal complaints occur frequently in CVID patients, and symptoms may include abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or weight loss. These symptoms may suggest malabsorption of certain sugars or fats, or they may indicate the presence of the
Giardia lamblia
parasite (protozoan parasite that infects the intestines). Serious gastrointestinal symptoms may include nodular lymphoid hyperplasia (excessive lymphatic tissue), giardiasis (protozoan disease), a sprue-like (gastrointestinal) disorder, pernicious anemia, atrophic (tissue wasting) gastritis, aphthous stomatitis (ulcerous mouth inflammation), inflammatory bowel disease and malignancy (cancerous tumor).
: Some patients develop autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly attack the body's tissues). Autoantibodies can destroy one or more types of body tissues, cause abnormal organ growth or impair organ function. Autoantibodies commonly affect blood components (like red blood cells, connective tissues and blood vessels), endocrine glands (like the thyroid or pancreas), as well as muscles, joints and the skin.
: Diagnostic criteria for CVID include significantly decreased IgG and IgA levels in the blood, which are sometimes associated with decreased IgM levels.
Blood test
: A blood test can be performed to determine whether there are significantly decreased levels of IgG and IgA in the patient's blood.
The number of T-lymphocytes and their function may be tested in samples of the patient's blood. Normally, about 60-70% of the blood lymphocytes are T-lymphocytes, and about 5-10% are B-lymphocytes. Patients who have cryoglobulinemia may have a low level of B-lymphocytes, which fail to develop into antibody-producing cells, or the B-lymphocytes may be normal in number, but fail to fully mature. T-lymphocytes that either suppress or fail to promote B-lymphocyte development may also be present.
Tissue culture
: A tissue culture can help determine if the B-lymphocytes produce antibodies, and if T-lymphocytes help the B-lymphocytes in this task.
While there is currently no cure for CVID, various treatments may help relieve symptoms and infections associated with the disease. Immunoglobulin concentrates are used most often to treat CVID patients.
Immunoglobulin concentrates
: Immunoglobulin concentrates (like Gamimune®, Gammar-P®, Sandoglobulin® or Gammagard S/D®) may be administered intravenously (injected into the vein) or subcutaneously (injected below the skin). Solutions of 3-12% intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) have been used on a regular basis to maintain a trough level of 400-500mg/dL in adults. A dose of 400-600mg/kg every two to four weeks is usually required. In patients with structural lung damage, a trough level of 700-800mg/dL is generally required.
Most patients respond well to immunoglobulin therapy, according to research. The therapy has been shown to reduce the recurrence of infections, arthritic symptoms, and the severity of CVID. However, gastrointestinal disease shows little improvement with immunoglobulin concentrates. In some patients who have a severe autoimmune disease, the concurrent use of steroids or other immunosuppressive drugs may be needed.
The patient should be monitored during therapy for side effects. The most common reactions include backache, nausea, vomiting, chills, low-grade fever, myalgia (muscle pain) and fatigue. Side effects typically occur 30 minutes after the infusion and usually last for several hours. Slowing the rate of infusion or interrupting the infusion for a few minutes may help prevent side effects. Antipyretics, diphenhydramine or corticosteroids are often used to treat side effects such as flushing (reddening of the cheeks), headache, chills, dizziness, increased sweating, leg cramps, pain and tenderness at the injection site. Although anaphylactic reactions to immunoglobulin concentrates are rare, patients who have IgA deficiency have an increased risk for these effects.
There have been reports in the past of transmitted infectious diseases through infusion. While no cases of HIV infection have been linked to immunoglobulin therapy, the transmission of hepatitis C virus has been reported with blood transfusions. However, current methods of viral inactivation help prevent transmission. These methods include treatment with organic solvents and detergents, pasteurization and storage at a low pH. In the United States, immunoglobulin products are derived from donated human plasma, which undergoes a manufacturing process that includes cold ethanol fractionation and viral inactivation steps.
: Patients who have chronic sinusitis or lung disease may need long-term treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics like tetracycline, cephalosporin, trimethoprim/sulfmethoxazole (Bactrim® or Septra®), ciprofloxacin (Cipro®) or others.
: Surgery may be required to treat the complications of CVID. For instance, chronic sinusitis may require endoscopic sinus surgery to drain the sinus cavities. Severe autoimmune thrombocytopenia or hemolytic anemia can be treated with splenectomy (surgical removal of the spleen). Biopsy should be considered to exclude infection or malignancy in enlarging lymph nodes.
Integrative therapies
: Antibiotics are the main treatment to eradicate
Helicobacter pylori
, the cause of most stomach ulcers. Side effects commonly include bloating, diarrhea and taste disturbances. Probiotics reduce these side effects and generally help people tolerate the treatment. They may also reduce levels of
H. pylori
in children and adults. Yogurt containing probiotics suppresses
H. pylori
infection and may lead to more complete eradication during antibiotic treatment.
Probiotics are generally considered safe and well tolerated. Avoid if allergic or hypersensitive to probiotics. Lactose-sensitive people may develop abdominal discomfort from dairy products containing probiotics.
: Limited evidence with daycare children suggests supplementation with
GG may reduce number of sick days, frequency of respiratory tract infections and frequency of related antibiotic treatments.
Fermented milk (with yogurt cultures and
L. casei
DN-114001) may reduce the duration of winter infections (gastrointestinal and respiratory), as well as average body temperature, in elderly people.
Probiotics are generally considered safe and well tolerated. Avoid if allergic or hypersensitive to probiotics. Lactose-sensitive people may develop abdominal discomfort from dairy products containing probiotics.
Blessed thistle
: Laboratory studies report that blessed thistle (and chemicals in blessed thistle such as cnicin and polyacetylene) has activity against several types of bacteria and no effects on some types. Reliable human study is lacking. Further evidence is necessary in this area before a firm conclusion can be drawn.
: Study results of cranberry as an antibacterial in other conditions show conflicting results. Further study is needed before a conclusion can be drawn.
: As a bacterial reservoir, the nose may harbor many varieties of potentially disease-causing bacteria. There is limited evidence that probiotic supplementation may reduce the presence of harmful bacteria in the upper respiratory tract. More studies are needed to establish this relationship and its implications for health.
Results are mixed regarding the ability of probiotics to reduce infective complications of medical treatment. Reduced incidence of infection has been seen in patients treated for brain injury, abdominal surgery and liver transplantation. Other studies have shown no such reduction in elective abdominal surgery and critical care patients.
: Animal and laboratory studies suggest activity of propolis in the treatment of various types of infections. Initial human studies suggest possible benefits against oral/dental bacteria, genital herpes, urine bacteria, intestinal giardia infections or
H. pylori
. Additional research is needed before a recommendation can be made.
Seaweed, kelp and bladderwrack
: Laboratory study suggests antifungal and antibacterial activity of bladderwrack. However, there are no reliable human studies to support use as an antibacterial or antifungal agent.
: Preliminary research reports that selenium can be beneficial in the prevention of several types of infection, including recurrence of erysipelas (bacterial skin infection associated with lymphedema) or
Mycoplasma pneumonia.
Further research is needed to confirm these results before a clear recommendation can be made.
: There are no well-conducted published studies that demonstrate sorrel to possess activity against viruses or bacteria that are important human pathogens. In an
in vitro
study, sorrel did not demonstrate activity against herpes simplex virus-1, herpes simplex virus-2, HIV,
subtilis, E. coli
Proteus morganii
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
P. vulgaris
Serratia marcescens
Staphylococcus aureus.
There is currently no known method of prevention.
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Kalamazoo, MI –
Kalamazoo Public Library's Alma Powell Branch will celebrate three special anniversaries with a party on April 29, 6-8 pm.
The Alma Powell Library first opened in a room at the Lincoln School in 1969 – 40 years ago – through a gift of $10,000 from Mrs. Dorothy Dalton. It was named in memory of Alma Harrod Powell, a KPL staff member from 1946 until 1967. She was a noted storyteller and enjoyed sharing her rich African heritage and love for books with children. The branch moved into the new Douglass Community Center 25 years ago to be closer to neighborhood homes and children.
Then, 20 years ago, in 1989, Powell launched the Barnabee Gallery. Dr. Walden Baskerville, a local sculptor and a psychologist at Western Michigan University, led the effort to create the gallery as a showcase for children's art. Doris Miller, the former art coordinator for Kalamazoo Public Schools, worked with Walden on the first show in the Barnabee. She reports that the show was well received and well attended. Ms. Miller writes, "Children learned about appreciation of other's work, gallery manners, discussions about art, etc. all of which were among the many goals that Mr. Walden had for this concept. I am happy to hear his vision lives on!"
The purpose of the Barnabee Gallery as stated in the opening program was to represent and encourage the work of young artists in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. To give students the opportunity to visit with, observe and learn from artists and authors in the community as well as learn to exhibit and discuss their own work.
Goals included increased commitment and understanding of:
The Barnabee Gallery, now a regular Art Hop site, exhibits work by a variety of artists of all ages with the help of the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.
The Dulcet Club, a social and community service club founded in 1958 by a group of prominent black women, helped with the opening reception in 1989 and will provide some of the refreshments at this reception. The party will feature food, music and a presentation to honor Dr. Baskerville for his vision and inspiration.
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DEKALB — The Huskie Stadium scoreboard showed Sacred Heart-Griffin High School trailing Lombard Montini 21-14 at halftime on Saturday. But the Cyclones believed they led in the immeasurable asset known as momentum.
Senior linebacker Chris Overton, whose sack of Montini quarterback Alexander Wills put an exclamation point on the Cyclones' defensive stand at the end of the first half, was among the believers.
"We were behind, but the whole team was fired up," Overton said after the Cyclones rallied for a 38-28 victory over the four-time defending champion Broncos.
"We were making a statement. We knew as soon as halftime was over, we were going to come out and hit them in the mouth. And that's what we did. We showed up and really played as a team."
That team, after giving up 21 first-quarter points to Montini, contained the Broncos the rest of the way.
SHG came up with several key defensive plays in the second quarter when Montini seemed poised to widen its lead.
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On fourth-and-6 at the Cyclones' 15-yard line, Wills threw a pass over the middle that was broken up by SHG junior John Morgan with 6 minutes left.
After having to punt on its next series, Montini drove inside the Cyclones' 5 with less than a minute left in the half. On third and goal from the 3, Overton broke through and sacked Willis. The Broncos hurriedly tried to kick a field goal, but time ran out.
"We had a stunt called on my side," Overton said. I went inside, and none of their linemen blocked me. They had a running back on me, but I made a move on him, and that's when I got to the quarterback and made that sack. It felt great."
The fired-up Cyclones headed to their locker room, which was located under the west stands occupied by Montini fans. Words were exchanged between opposing coaches, SHG players and Montini fans.
"I felt like I was about 35 again," joked SHG coach Ken Leonard. "It was a time for me, as head coach, to set the tone."
Montini had two turnovers to none for the Cyclones. Both of the Broncos' mistakes came in the second half, including a fumble recovered by SHG's Cameron Murphy at the Montini 31-yard line.
Eight plays later, Green scored his third touchdown of the day — this one on a 6-yard run — to open a 31-21 lead with 2:50 left in the third quarter. Midway through the fourth, Cyclones linebacker Chris Smith got an interception. SHG had several near-interceptions earlier in the game.
"My brother (Jake Smith) got an interception in the state championship in 2008," Smith said. "That was going through my head.
"I'd dropped a few balls in the playoffs, but when I finally caught one, I thought, 'Wow, this is awesome.'
"Montini had something to prove, but so did we. And I think we proved it."
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Andrew Breitbart claims that working for Media Matters for America means that we "by default disagree with everything" he says. This isn't necessarily true, but it's clear to us that no matter where you work, you should take everything Breitbart says with an entire lick of salt; he tweaks, twists and flat-out tramples the truth too often to maintain a semblance of reliability.
In an interview at the Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC), Breitbart told Media Matters for America's Joe Strupp that MSNBC blamed him (Breitbart) for Congress' failure to appropriate settlement funds for black farmers because Breitbart published his phony Shirley Sherrod scandal that same week. He said:
BREITBART: MSNBC twice that week blamed me for the black farmers not getting their settlement because it was supposed to be passed that week. They thought I was setting up a trap...MSNBC blamed me for that.
Breitbart was repeating a claim he published in a BigGovernment.com blog post on December 6, 2010:
Nation editor Chris Hayes was filling in for Rachel Maddow and reported that I was responsible for black farmers not getting their settlement money.
"Conservative con artist, 1; black farmers, 0," liberal Journolist Hayes said snarkily.
Breitbart's characterization is simply false. As the video Breitbart linked to makes clear, Hayes actually said the exact opposite:
HAYES: It doesn't appear that last week's fake [Sherrod] scandal was what caused the Senate to strip restitution for victims of actual, real-life, documented discrimination from the appropriations bill.
Breitbart's truth-twisting was accentuated by a repeated misquote, In his blog post above, he quotes Hayes saying "Conservative con artist, 1; black farmers, 0."
In fact, Hayes said in that segment: "It's just that as the dust clears from last week's collective frenzy, take a look at the score: conservative con artists, 1, victims of real-world racial discrimination, 0."
He repeats the imprecision later in his interview with Media Matters (and removes the "con artist" language while he's at it), saying: "MSNBC thought it was a compelling argument last week when they accused me in a segment that said 'conservative activist, 1; black farmers, 0.'"
But Hayes wasn't, as Breitbart alleges, claiming that Breitbart had defeated the black farmers and kept them from receiving Pigford funds. He was comparing two different stories -- the failure to pass Pigford funds and Breitbart's invitation to appear at a Republican National Committee event -- to point out that despite Breitbart's Sherrod smear, he was still being rewarded at the same time victims of discrimination were being punished.
The fact that Breitbart misquotes Hayes about whether he used the phrase "black farmers" or "victims of real-world racial discrimination" isn't a big deal in itself, but it's part of a larger pattern of lazy mistakes and general disregard for accuracy.
This disregard for the truth (and an accompanying persecution complex) couldn't be more apparent in his complete mischaracterization of MSNBC's reporting. When these little mistakes pepper so much of Breitbart's work, it makes you wonder what other corners he's cut.
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He kept thinking that there had been a mistake, that he'd be out in no time. That the system, set into motion by some misunderstanding or act of malice, would soon correct itself.
That was before the detective informed him of the charges, and before the article in the Ventura County Star. "Man held after woman found raped and tortured," read the headline, and there was his name, along with a quote from a police officer: "In 19 years of police work, this has to go down as one of the most brutal attacks I have ever seen."
The sky was beautiful that afternoon. Louis Gonzalez III remembered it felt like spring.
He was standing on the sidewalk outside the Simi Valley Montessori School, having just flown in from Las Vegas, hoping to get a look at his 5-year-old son's new kindergarten. Standing there, waiting for the door to open so he could scoop the boy up in his arms and fly him to Nevada for the weekend.
The first officer arrived on a motorcycle and headed straight for him. He did not explain the charges as he snapped on the handcuffs. As Gonzalez stood there stunned, he noticed little faces pressed against the schoolhouse glass, watching, and asked if he could be moved just a bit so his son didn't have to see.
Soon he'd surrendered all the items that tethered him reassuringly to the rational, workaday world. The BlackBerry he used a hundred times a day. His Dolce & Gabbana watch. His credit cards and photos of his son. His leather shoes and his socks, his pressed shirt and jacket, his belt and slacks and underwear. Naked in a holding cell, he watched his things disappear into plastic bags. He stepped into a set of black-and-white-striped jail scrubs, the kind his son might wear on Halloween.
A month passed in his single-bunk cell, and then another, and he had nothing but time to reckon all he'd lost. His freedom. His son. His job. His reputation. He had to wonder how much he could endure.
The other inmates in the solitary wing of the Ventura County Jail didn't talk about their cases, because anyone might be a snitch, but his charges were well-known on the cellblock. More than once, they warned him about what awaited if he were convicted and sent to state prison. With a sex crime on his jacket, he knew, he would be a target forever.
"Like you're waiting for death," he said. "Dying would probably be better."
A frantic 911 call
Minutes before Gonzalez's arrest around 2 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2008, Tim Geiges placed a frantic 911 call. By the account he would give consistently in years to come, he'd just returned from work and found his wife, Tracy West, naked and bound in an upstairs bedroom of their Simi Valley home in the 1900 block of Penngrove Street.
The dispatcher tried to calm him. "Sir, somebody beat your wife up?"
"Somebody tied her up, and I just got home — oh my God…" He was whimpering. "I just untied her head just now. She's crying. I need somebody, please!"
He managed to say that his wife's attacker would be at the Montessori School, a mile away.
"Who is this person?"
"Louis. Louis Gonzalez the Third."
When paramedics arrived at the house, they found West on the bed leaning forward, crying, with purple duct tape tangled in her hair.
A malicious attack
Det. David Del Marto was on the other side of town, working leads on a robbery, when he heard the radio chatter about the attack. He has level blue eyes, a graying mustache and the faultless posture of the Army MP he once was.
He found West, 33, in the emergency room of Simi Valley Hospital and followed her across the street to Safe Harbor, a forensic facility where sexual assault victims are examined and interviewed. Her appearance suggested an attack of concentrated malice. Her face was swollen, her lip gashed, her hair torn out in chunks. A cord, found tied around her neck with a slipknot, had left an angry red line, and there were burns on her stomach and ring finger.
Later, Del Marto would remember how she looked away and pulled herself into a fetal position as she talked. It was the body language he'd seen in dozens of sexual assault cases.
West was unequivocal about who had attacked her. It was Gonzalez, she said. He was her ex-boyfriend, the father of her son.
Del Marto made his voice gentle. "I need to find out what happened and what to charge him with, OK? You know he's in custody, right? You don't have to worry anymore about him for now."
In a small, fragile voice that kept trailing off and lapsing into silence, West explained that she and Gonzalez, 30, had been fighting over custody since their son's birth. She and Geiges were raising the boy, along with their younger daughter.
She said Gonzalez ambushed her in the garage, dragged her to an upstairs bedroom, hogtied her with her clothes, singed her with matches and assaulted her vaginally and anally with a wooden coat hanger. Then, she said, he forced a plastic bag over her head and held it tight, and she feigned unconsciousness until he left.
"He told me he was gonna kill me," she said. "He told me that. Seven or eight different times."
"Did he have anything with him in his hands?"
"He had a bag. Like a little mini-duffel bag."
During the attack, she said, she awoke from a blackout to find Gonzalez had placed mittens on her hands — she recalled drawstrings at the wrists — while he wore plastic gloves.
Del Marto thought this pointed to an uncommon level of sophistication — to a man who took extraordinary pains to avoid leaving fingerprints or traces of his DNA under his victim's raking fingernails. In his report, the detective noted another detail she gave: Her attacker had worn beige-colored overalls, as if to shield his clothes from evidence.
After the interview, West left with her husband. Del Marto followed them to their home on Penngrove Street for another examination of the scene. It was a placid residential block in one of California's safest cities. He watched for some time as she refused to leave the car and go inside.
Del Marto thought West was lucky to be alive. A 23-year veteran, he knew custody cases bred a special sort of derangement, and he was confident he understood the outlines of what happened here: extreme rage mingled with extreme calculation.
No confession
A few hours after the arrest, Del Marto pulled the accused out of his cell. He was known as a low-key investigator who didn't raise his voice — "the epitome of the poker face," his supervisor called him — and this was his chance to clinch the case with a confession.
He studied Gonzalez. He saw no scratches on his face or hands, and thought: the mittens.
"What is the accusation?" Gonzalez asked.
"That you assaulted Tracy at her house."
"That I assaulted? At what time did this take place?"
Del Marto stopped him. He had to read him his Miranda rights, a delicate business he knew could end the interview fast. Gonzalez agreed to talk anyway.
Maybe he believes he's smarter than me, Del Marto thought. In the detective's eyes, the guy came off as a little arrogant, a little nonchalant, considering the situation. Gonzalez had an impressive title: senior vice president for business banking at the Bank of Las Vegas. He arranged commercial real estate loans. Del Marto thought: a salesman.
This is about a custody fight, Gonzalez said. "I always just assumed that she would lie and do things to get the edge in court. I don't know that she would go to this extent to get me in trouble. This is absurd. I mean, how can I possibly have done that?"
Gonzalez insisted he'd never been to West's house. Didn't even know the address.
"You work for a financial institution," Del Marto replied. "It's not hard to get a property profile on somebody."
The attack could have taken as little as 15 or 20 minutes, he said, and it was just two or three minutes from West's house to the school where he was arrested.
"It's perfectly feasible for it to have occurred," Del Marto said. "Perfectly feasible."
What about evidence at the house? Gonzalez asked.
Del Marto thought of the gloves. "Somebody probably watches 'CSI' quite a lot."
"Who, me?"
"You did things that reminded people of, 'Hey, they do that on CSI' to try to prevent us from collecting evidence."
"I didn't do this," Gonzalez said. "I know you think I did it, but I didn't do it."
"I don't have a reason not to think you did it," the detective replied. "Yeah, I think you did it. I do."
Del Marto ended the interview after 23 minutes. He sensed he would not get a confession. He would have to build the case with other evidence. A forensics team was dusting doorknobs and plucking carpet fibers from the house. They were combing the black suit Gonzalez was arrested in, and the inside of the rented Dodge Avenger he had parked outside a hair salon near the school.
Super-criminals are fictitious, Del Marto thought. Even very careful ones leave traces.
Surviving lockup
If Gonzalez was presumed innocent under the law, the Ventura County Jail did not expect other inmates to honor that distinction. He was held in a segregated unit and received his meals through a slot in the heavy metal door. He wore a red-striped wristband denoting a violent offense. An hour a day, the doors opened so he could shower and make phone calls.
Now and then he could hear people going crazy in their cells, kicking their doors, screaming on and on until they had to be removed. He thought of himself as mentally sturdy, a survivor, but knew how easily anyone could crack. So he crammed every waking hour with routine. He read out-of-date newspapers and John Grisham novels and the Bible. He made a paper chess set and stood at the crack in his cell door, calling out moves to opponents down the corridor.
He listened to other inmates dwelling on the food they missed. One guy would say, "TGI Fridays, calamari," the others would groan, and it went on like that for hours.
He learned a rule about surviving lockup: Never take a daytime nap, no matter how tired you are. Because you might not sleep that night, and you'd be left for hours in the dark of a cold cell with only your thoughts and your fear.
He found himself replaying his whole life — every house he'd lived in, every deal he'd made, every girlfriend, including West.
They'd met in a finance-class study group at the University of Nevada in summer 2001. He was a high-school dropout from the Bronx who had become a confident, career-minded student who wore pinstriped suits to class. She was smart, with brown hair and pretty hazel eyes, a vegetarian in flower dresses who spoke softly. He liked her air of West Coast bohemianism.
Their relationship was brief. They had been apart for months when, by his account, she called during a sonogram appointment. Suddenly he was listening to the heartbeat of their son.
In her fourth month of pregnancy, West met Gonzalez at a Denny's in Vegas. According to a police report, she said he became upset because she wouldn't go back to him. She said he slapped her and punched her stomach.
Gonzalez's version: They had gotten back together, and argued because she was seeing another man and lying about it. He admitted to breaking her windshield, but only after she "went nuts hitting him," the police report said. He was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence. The charge was dropped.
The family-court battle began before the boy's first birthday — an interminable gantlet of judges, mediators and psychiatrists as the two argued over custody and visitation.
Gonzalez's custody attorney, Denise Placencio, said West tried relentlessly to curtail his time with his son, accusing Gonzalez of domestic abuse and claiming the boy suffered "separation anxiety" when he was away from his mother. The campaign continued, Placencio said, after West married Geiges and moved to California with the boy.
The courts allowed Gonzalez two weekends a month with his son. He would pick him up from the Vegas airport on Friday, and they would have an intense couple of days together. They might go to the mall or the shark reef at Mandalay Bay. And then back to the airport on Sunday, a knife twisting in his stomach as he watched his 5-year-old loping down the jetway, a gangly little guy with reddish hair, glancing back uncertainly.
In January 2008, Gonzalez sent an email to West explaining that he wanted to see the boy's new Montessori School in Simi Valley. He would pick him up there on Feb. 1 and fly him back to Nevada for the weekend. He planned to take him to a Super Bowl Sunday barbecue.
West pressed for specifics. "What time are you planning on being here? Are you going to drive or fly?"
He would arrive by plane around noon, he wrote, and expected to get to the school around 2 p.m.
The email exchange soon descended into acrimony. All these trips to Vegas were taking a toll on their son, West wrote. "Having to tell him that he has to go despite his obvious distress, is not what I want. Having to sit with a crying child when he comes back because he doesn't want me to leave his side, is not what I want," she wrote. "I want a happy, healthy child. I have worked 24/7/365+ from the moment I knew of him, to do the best for him — not me."
Gonzalez answered that he hadn't seen these signs of distress — his son seemed happy to see him. "My focus right now is to make the best of what little time I have with him," he wrote to West. "I'm going to be 31 this year. A lot has changed since you last knew me." His whole life was his son, he wrote. "When he isn't with me the only thing I do is wait for him."
West replied by attacking him as a father, writing that he had "proven time and time again" that he did not put their son's needs above his own whims. "You are just not capable," she wrote. He had "mentally tortured" their son, she claimed, by telling him once that his plane would crash in bad weather.
If she believed he'd say that, Gonzalez replied, "then you need help."
It was hardly the nastiest exchange Gonzalez could remember. But he found himself replaying it in his cell, his thoughts racing. His hope of a quick release now seemed remote, considering the charges. If convicted of all counts — residential burglary, kidnapping, torture, attempted murder, anal and genital penetration with a foreign object — he faced five back-to-back life sentences.
"His goal was to degrade and humiliate her as much as humanly possible before killing her" and fleeing with their son, Assistant Dist. Atty. Andrea Tischler wrote in court papers arguing that Gonzalez should be held without bail. He committed "some of the most extreme possible crimes against another human being," Tischler contended, crimes "so heinous that they defy the imagination."
The judge ruled: No bail.
Verifying his whereabouts
Looking at Gonzalez through the Plexiglas for the first time, three days after his arrest, his lead defense attorney, Debra S. White, was struck by his eyes, which she described as "these dark eyes, these piercing eyes." He looked distraught and tired and angry.
This is about the boy, Gonzalez insisted. She wants me out of his life. Nail down my alibi and get me out, he said. He recited a detailed list, mentally compiled over hours in his cell, of everybody who might have seen him around the time West said the attack occurred.
White called her sister, Leigh-Anne Salinas, her investigator on big cases. White has the clothes and looks of a lawyer in a prime-time drama. Salinas wears jeans and a T-shirt on the job. Her speech is salty and she's at ease both in gang neighborhoods and white-collar offices.
Salinas related to Gonzalez's businesslike, hard-edged manner — it reminded her of herself — but didn't think a jury would like him much. She is pessimistic about human nature, and on first meeting Gonzalez suspected he might be guilty. She thought: "Wow, this guy really thought this out."
If there was any chance of proving his innocence, she knew she would have to move quickly, before memories faded.
Her task: verify Gonzalez's whereabouts in the hours preceding his arrest. West had accused Gonzalez of attacking her between 12:30 and 12:45 p.m. She knew the time, she told police, because she was about to leave to pick up her daughter early from school.
Salinas began retracing Gonzalez's movements, starting with his arrival at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank around noon that day. She walked into Enterprise Rent-A-Car on Hollywood Way, where employees remembered Gonzalez. He was the guy who needed a child's car seat and stepped outside for a cigarette as the paperwork was being drawn up. His receipt said 12:09 p.m.
Next, Gonzalez would have driven northwest to Simi Valley, a 28-mile trip. Salinas verified that Gonzalez was on his cellphone with another Nevada banker during the drive. They were discussing a loan, the other banker said, and Gonzalez was complaining about traffic as he approached his son's school. Phone records confirmed this call lasted from 12:43 to 12:48 p.m.
At the Montessori School at 1776 Erringer Road, Salinas' job proved tougher. School employees knew West — she volunteered regularly there — and Salinas sensed their reluctance to help the man accused of brutalizing her.
Salinas was polite and persistent. School workers remembered Gonzalez arriving between 12:45 and 12:50 p.m. He greeted his son and briefly toured the school. One lady joked that she felt underdressed alongside his suit and tie. They told him to return in about an hour to pick up his boy.
After leaving the school, Gonzalez said he walked to a bagel shop at an adjacent strip mall. Salinas retraced his steps and found herself inside John's Bagel Deli. The manager, Jung Soon Shin, recalled Gonzalez coming in around 1 p.m. to order a tuna sandwich on a sesame bagel.
When Shin explained that she didn't take credit cards, he patted his pockets — no cash — and promised to be back.
At the Wells Fargo a few blocks away, Salinas discovered, an assistant manager named Mercedes Saunders remembered Gonzalez coming in to make a withdrawal. They chatted, and she found him calm and pleasant. Surveillance cameras confirmed he was there from 1:14 to 1:38 p.m. They showed him waiting in line, resting his head on his palm, a bored-looking man in a dark suit.
Back at the bagel shop, Shin saw him return sometime before 2 p.m. with cash to buy his sandwich. She remembered him because he wasn't a regular, and because after he left she had to fish his reusable red sandwich basket out of the trash. And because he was so nicely dressed.
Salinas called her sister. West's story didn't hold up, she said.
"Wow," White said. "He actually may be innocent."
He needed proof
Del Marto, who had been talking to many of the same witnesses, was watching a case unravel against a man he believed guilty. Had Gonzalez cunningly timed the attack between periods he knew he would be seen in public?
Del Marto thought there was one thing that might solve the case: the duffel bag West said Gonzalez had been carrying. Had all the items Del Marto couldn't find — the mittens, the gloves, the overalls —been stuffed in there and discarded?
He'd looked in storm drains and sewers around West's house. He'd searched roofs, Dumpsters, freeway shoulders, anywhere Gonzalez might have tossed it. He'd even inquired at Simi Valley mailbox companies, in case Gonzalez had been calculating enough to mail it to himself. No sign of the bag.
The detective needed proof that it had existed, something more than West's word. He needed a photo or video footage. He made a phone call. He made another. He waited.
About this story
This story is based on interviews with Louis Gonzalez III, his lawyers, Simi Valley Police Det. David Del Marto, and James Ellison, Ventura County's chief assistant district attorney, among others. Times reporter Christopher Goffard also listened to an audio recording of Gonzalez's police interrogation and reviewed hundreds of pages of court records, including the criminal complaint against Gonzalez, the prosecution's motion to deny bail, witness depositions, and emails and other investigatory materials filed in court. Quotations attributed to Tracy West are from an audio recording of her interview with police and from her videotaped testimony in a custody case involving the son she had with Gonzalez. Calls to West's lawyers, seeking comment from her, were not returned. In court testimony, West said she has declined all interview requests.


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